Entertaining Children

  Chapter 160 Singles against the national players

  When Chen Yang took Xiao Yao into the training arena of the National Men’s Basketball Team, the men’s basketball players were doing shooting training.

  Seeing that the players are training, Chen Yang did not interrupt, but took Xiao Yao to the empty auditorium, and chatted with Xiao Yao while watching the players training.

   "I met your dad on the "Challenge the Championship" show before," Chen Yang smiled and said, "I heard your dad say you can also play basketball?"

   "Well, I started playing in junior high school." Xiao Yao nodded.

"Junior high school just started? It's later than I thought." Chen Yang shook his head, "I remember when you were recording "Where is Dad?", you were just over five years old. You were already standing on the sidelines for your dad and the others. I've been instructed, but I didn't even start playing basketball in junior high school?"

   "You won't want to mention again that I rejected your recommendation to go to the basketball school?" Xiao Yao smiled bitterly at Chen Yang and said.

"Yes," Chen Yang nodded, "I heard that you were selected by the National Olympics Training Team for training? Just your mind, the ball quotient should also be very good. At the beginning, you were only five years old and could already understand basketball inside and outside. Lines and vacancies, if you really practice in basketball school for more than ten years, even if you only practice an average level of basic skills, based on your mind, it is too early to say that you can join the following people, but I think you should be able to It’s a U16, U17 or something like a professional club youth team."

  Speaking, Chen Yang pointed to the men's basketball players who were training off the court, and said with pity: "In the next few years, it is not impossible to appear among them."

   "Do you have such high expectations for me?" Xiao Yao said in a little surprised.

"Of course, five-year-old children can instruct a group of adults to play basketball on the sidelines and they are commanding them in a decent manner. This kind of person is clearly a basketball genius in my eyes." Chen Yang said, "Although the events of these years have shown. You are a genius, not only in basketball, but in the eyes of people like me who take basketball as a professional, I only see you as a basketball genius."

  Xiao Yao couldn’t tell Chen Yang that I came here. When he was five years old, he was filled with the experience gained from playing and watching football in the previous life for more than ten years, so he could only helplessly continue to laugh bitterly.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, anyway, given your current age and situation, it is unlikely that you will enter the basketball school system to practice basketball." Chen Yang shrugged, changed the question and asked Xiao Yao: "Then. Do you watch basketball a lot?"

   "Well, basketball games are still often watched." Xiao Yao nodded.

   "Then, as a basketball fan, do you have any views on the prospects of the national team in the World Championships this year?" Chen Yang asked Xiao Yao.

"To be honest," Xiao Yao said without showing any timidity. "After you retired, our national team's internal line has dropped by one level. Although the perimeter players in this session are better than those in the previous World Championships. Last but without you, I think the overall strength has dropped a lot, not to mention reaching or even surpassing the best eighth place of the previous session. I think qualifying in the group is the most realistic goal."

  In these few World Basketball Championships, 24 teams participated. These teams will be divided into four groups, A, B, C, and D. The first four groups will be round-robin. After the group stage, the top four of the six teams in each group will qualify and enter the top sixteen, and then fight in pairs for elimination.

"It seems that I haven't watched football less in recent years, but the game is not a math problem, but depends on the performance. In the last year, who would have thought that we could win Germany and Spain? Anyway, ours The level and results are still good, and it is worth the fans to look forward to." Chen Yang nodded. As the former national team player and current technical coach, Chen Yang has a better understanding of his national team and the teams participating in the World Championships. There are only a lot of Xiao Yao, and it is natural to hear that Xiao Yao's evaluation is quite pertinent, but he is not reconciled to the national team being underestimated by Xiao Yao, so he can't help but add a few words.

"That is," Xiao Yao also nodded and laughed, "No matter whether our basketball is at the peak or the trough, at least it has always been the top in Asia. We are soft in winning the Asian Championships. Winning the championship is not news. We don't win the championship. It’s news. Among the men’s three major balls, basketball is what supports China."

   "Good point!" Chen Yang patted Xiao Yao on the shoulder, and laughed with his palm.

  When the two were chatting happily in the audience, a long whistle sounded on the training ground. When Chen Yang heard this, he quickly pulled Xiaoyao and said: "The shooting training is over. There is a 15-minute break. Let's go down."

  The two walked from the auditorium to the training field. Chen Yang first took Xiao Yao to say hello to the coach on the side of the stadium.

  The head coach of China Men’s Basketball Team is Alex Jefferson from the United States. He used to be the head coach of the NBA team. He has a very good personal relationship with Chen Yang because he was the head coach of the professional club where Chen Yang played in the United States. The reason why he was able to become the head coach of the China National Men's Basketball Team is also inseparable from Chen Yang's strong recommendation.

   "Hey, AJ!" Chen Yang smiled and greeted head coach Alex Jefferson in English: "This is Xiao Yao, the promotional photo photographer I recommend to the team."

  Chen Yang asked the photographers to take promotional photos for the team members. He had already greeted the team members. Head coach Alex Jefferson from the United States has no problem with taking fashion photos of his players. He has seen a lot of this kind of things in professional club teams in the United States. As long as taking photos does not take up training time, he still supports this approach to improve the image and popularity of players and teams. Only when I saw Xiao Yao next to Chen Yang, I was a little surprised at Xiao Yao's age.

  "Mr. Jefferson, hello." Xiao Yao greeted him in English. He and Alex Jefferson are not as familiar as Chen Yang, so naturally they would not be called AJ for short.

   "Hello," Jefferson shook hands with Xiao Yao, smiled and praised: "I didn't expect that the photographer Yang looked for was so young."

   Immediately, Jefferson, who knew the purpose of the two, waved to the two of them and said, "The taking pictures has nothing to do with me. Go and talk to the players yourself."

  Chen Yang and Xiao Yao smiled and gestured to Jefferson, and then walked to the side of the court where the players were resting after training.

  Chen Yang has only retired for two years and is now the team’s technical coach. He is still like a big brother in this national team. The players are more affectionate to him than to the coach. Therefore, watching Chen Yang and Xiao Yao walk over, the team members stood up to meet the two of them and surrounded them.

   "Brother Yang, this is the photographer you found for us? Isn't this too young? It seems to be younger than me?" Guo Qi, the youngest member of the team, asked curiously.

   "Yeah, so young, okay?" Many other players beside him echoed in confusion.

   "Hey, how do you speak, don't you know how to be polite?" Chen Yang glared at some of the guys who were speaking, then nodded and said, "This is Xiao Yao, it is indeed the photographer I found for everyone."

   "Hello everyone, this is Xiao Yao. I hope I can cooperate with you happily." Xiao Yao is also mentally prepared for the players' doubts, and greets the players without any dissatisfaction.

  The team members politely nodded with Xiao Yao, and then the outspoken Guo Qi said to Chen Yang: "Brother Yang, I don't believe you, but...this photographer is too young, right?"

   "Why? Look down on young people?" Chen Yang said to Guo Qi angrily, "Guo Zi, you are the youngest in the team in terms of age. Did everyone look down on you after you joined the team?"

  Guo Qi is 23 years old and is a newly recruited young national player in this year's men's basketball training camp. Because he is the youngest, the old players take good care of him, and because they are the youngest, they just say whatever they think of.

"It's different. I played all the way from the U17, U19, and U22 of the national team. I also started in the professional league. Everyone knows me. But he is different. I have never heard of him. "Guo Qi argued.

"Oh, you seem to know a lot of fashion photographers. How many names can I listen to?" Chen Yang smiled, "I am a photographer, not a professional basketball player. You have never heard of anything strange. of?"

"I know!" Suddenly another player standing next to Guo Qi said: "Xiao Yao, Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying's son, he played with Xiao Siqi when he went to a variety show last time, but his son is not acting. Are you singing with you? How come you become a photographer again?"

   "Xu Li, you deserve to have participated in variety shows, and you know more about the entertainment industry than others." Chen Yang looked at the players who spoke, "But can't the actors and singers also be photographers?"

  Chen Yang said to everyone: “He is a young and talented photographer. His photographs have been published in foreign professional photography magazines, and he has also taken advertising photos for famous foreign brands.”

   "So amazing?" Guo Qi was surprised and asked Chen Yang, "Brother Yang, did he take pictures of you? Didn't you have a lot of endorsements and advertising contracts? Did he take pictures for you?"

   "Uh... this is really not there." Chen Yang was a little embarrassed.

"Then such a powerful photographer, how come to take pictures for us for free?" Another team member also asked in confusion, "I heard that the photographer not only took pictures for free this time, but also the venue and equipment. The clothes are all provided by him."

"You have been intensively training recently, and you know less about the news from the outside world," Chen Yang explained, "because Xiao Yao's previous photographs were taken abroad, and few people know about it in China. There are some doubts about his identity as a photographer, so he helped everyone to take pictures for free this time. In addition to cheering for our team’s participation in the World Championships, it is also a way for him to respond to doubts. In fact, let’s pick up this time. It’s a bargain. Usually, photographers like Xiao Yao don’t necessarily get it if we spend money."

   "Since there are doubts, why do you believe in Brother Yang so much? You have known him before?" Guo Qi asked again.

"Of course," Chen Yang nodded, "I knew this little guy when he was five years old. At that time, he was only five years old and he already knew a lot about basketball. I also wanted to recommend him to my master. He’s here at his basketball school. In my eyes this guy is a genius, he said he is a photographer, I believe it!

   And he knows basketball just because he is more than five years old. I think he is not the best fashion photographer, but he must be a fashion photographer who knows basketball very well, so I would recommend him to take promotional photos for you. "

   "Really?" Guo Qi was still a little skeptical, so she proposed: "Why don't you come and play with me, let us see if he really understands basketball."

  (End of this chapter)