Chapter 429 Nike 4th Generation, DF-9

"Good signing, Manchester United has hope of advancing to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Mancini's Inter Milan has suffered a serious decline in form, and they may not be Manchester United's opponents."

After a moment of silence for Chelsea and Liverpool, the English media focused on Manchester United and Arsenal. Premier League vs Serie A. This is the main theme of the Champions League quarter-finals. Will the Premier League be the winner, or will Serie A be stronger?

"The Times" wrote an article saying: "Although Inter Milan has reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League this season, they have never shown a convincing performance from the group stage to the knockout stage. Their defensive performance is quite poor, and Milan City's This team is nothing compared to another team... the Manchester United trident can beat them."

From the tone of "The Times", we can know that they are completely dismissive of Inter Milan. Because Inter Milan has never played a record worthy of the name.

However, one person feels that this Inter Milan is not as bad as the media said, because most of the players on this team followed Mourinho and won the 2010 Champions League championship.

Of course, even if it is not the winning team, the current team is still quite star-studded - Toldo, Zanetti, Cordoba, Samuel, Stankovic, Kili Gonzalez Si, Veron, Cambiaso, Materazzi, Adriano, Recoba Martins, Cesar, Pizarro, Cruz...

From the perspective of player composition, this Inter Milan team is as bright as any other team!

In Dong Fangzhuo's view, what this team lacks is not players, but a suitable head coach. That head coach can only be Mourinho, who claims that God is first and he is second. As long as Mourinho leaves Chelsea, then he will go to Inter Milan...

"The Times" also analyzed Arsenal's prospects, "Although they have passed Real Madrid, Arsenal will face the more powerful Juventus, and Vieira is about to face the savior, Arsenal." Whether he can advance depends on whether Henry can shine again..."

At the same time, Manchester United's odds of winning the Champions League have also changed, 10 to 1. Although the odds have changed, the number of teams has also been reduced to 8. Manchester United is still ranked 7th among the eight teams. Not favored, just below Villarreal, even Arsenal is favored...

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On the second day after returning to Manchester, Dong Fangzhuo was invited to the Nike store in Manchester, where he made a detailed customization of the foot mold.

When it comes to foot mold customization, Dong Fangzhuo initially thought that Nike was just making him a pair of his own sneakers, but he didn't know that there would be more awesome moves in the future.

After difficult negotiations between Mendes and Nike,

Mendes secured a world-famous contract for Dong Fangzhuo.

Nike decided to create a combat boot called DF-9 for Dong Fangzhuo, the fourth generation of the Assassin!

Assassin boots have been famous for a long time.

In 1996, Nike became a partner of the Brazilian national team and set out to create a pair of football boots worthy of the level of football's most prestigious national team.

As a young striker in the team at the time, Ronaldo was chosen as the design inspiration for this shoe. On the court, he always roams patiently, waiting for the right opportunity. Once the opportunity comes, he will rush towards the football and complete the fatal blow. When the possibility of scoring a goal appeared before him, Ronaldo was the same as before. In short, he is an assassin.

To design a shoe that matched Ronaldo's explosive style of play, Nike set its sights on the runway. Early concepts included adding running-shoe-like studs to the bottom of Nike's tiempo football boots, aiming to significantly reduce the weight of the boots.

Faced with this challenge, the design team abandoned the inherent tradition of using kangaroo leather and replaced it with a new synthetic material, which is kng-100. The second major breakthrough was to compress the thickness of the sole from 3 mm, which was commonly used in the industry at the time, to a revolutionary 175 mm.

On June 16, 1998, Ronaldo scored a wonderful volley on his debut with the Mercurial series of football boots. In the nearly two decades since then, thousands of goals have been scored with the Mercurial boots, from casual goals in amateur five-a-side matches to winning penalties in major championships. At the same time, the Mercurial series of sneakers are constantly evolving to meet the needs of athletes of all eras, and continue to make breakthroughs in technological innovation and design aesthetics.

By 2006, Assassin had developed to the third generation.

Then, Dong Fangzhuo's DF-9 suddenly jumped out and became the fourth generation.

As soon as the news came out, the global football world went crazy!

No one had ever thought that Nike would one day find a Chinese to endorse its fourth-generation Mercurial boots.

df-9 actually has two meanings. df is Dong Fangzhuo's name, and 9 is his jersey number. Another meaning is that DF is like China's Dongfeng series missiles, which are extremely powerful. Nike obviously spent a lot of thought on choosing such a realistic name.

In the history of football, it seems that there are no more than five players who can name football boots after themselves?

Dong Fangzhuo knows what this means. Just like Ronaldo later had his own CR7 assassin boots, he now got his own DF-9 assassin boots first. This is a huge honor. Most players would never be able to do it in their lifetime, but he got it at the age of 21...

"Dongfeng Missile, haha, that's awesome. Xiao Dong is now Nike's most popular player. Dongfeng Express..." Chinese fans were equally ecstatic.

"Nike has a unique vision and signed this contract with Xiao Dong when he was so young."

"Assassin Dong Fangzhuo = a model of the perfect combination of career and business."

"Special edition assassin—superfly 4, nike df9 mercurial campees"

"It is said that Nike will give him a sponsorship of 5 million pounds a year starting from this year. Oh my god, 5 million pounds..."

"This is nothing. In addition to Nike, Mendes has also found nearly 30 contracts for him. Domestic Seven Wolves and Golden Throat are the tip of the business iceberg. The merchants that appear on the list are too scary. Shenma KFC, Castrol, Armani, Abbott, Emirates Airlines, Toyota, Egyptian Steel, Jager Watches, Qingyang Shampoo and other brands are also seeking to have Ronaldo as a spokesperson, and now domestic mobile phone manufacturers are going crazy."

For a time, Dong Fangzhuo became the biggest darling of advertisers. It must be said that after signing with Mendes, Dong Fangzhuo's world changed...