Chapter 160

When Chen Yang and Xiao Yao entered the training hall of the National Men's basketball team, the men's basketball players were doing shooting training.

Seeing that the players are training, Chen Yang doesn't interrupt. Instead, he takes Xiao Yao to the empty auditorium and talks with Xiao Yao while watching the training.

"I met your father on challenge champion before," Chen Yang said with a smile. "Listen to your father say you can play basketball, too?"

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

"Junior high school? Later than I expected. " Chen Yang shook his head and said, "I remember when I recorded" where's dad going? "You were just over five years old. You had already stood on the sideline to guide your dad outside the court, and even started playing basketball in junior high school?"

"You're not going to talk about my refusal to recommend me to basketball school, are you?" Xiao Yao looks at Chen Yangdao with a bitter smile.

"Yes," Chen Yang nodded, "I heard you were selected by the National Olympic mathematics training team to train? As far as your brain is concerned, the players should be very good. At the beginning, when you were only five years old, you could already understand the inside and outside lines and vacancies in basketball. If you really practiced in basketball school for more than ten years, even if you only practiced basic skills at an average level, it's too early to join these people, but I think you should be able to join U16 and U17 of the youth team of a professional club. "

With that, Chen Yang pointed to the men's basketball players who were training off the court and said with regret, "it's not impossible to appear among them in a few years."

"You expect so much of me?" Xiao Yao some surprised way.

"Of course, children over five years old can guide a group of adults to play basketball on the sidelines, and they also have a good command. This kind of person is clearly a basketball genius in my eyes." Chen Yang said, "although these years show that you are a genius, not only in basketball, but in the eyes of people who take basketball as their profession, I can only see that you are a basketball genius."

Xiao Yao can't tell Chen Yang that I'm from across the country. When he was five years old, what he had in his mind was the experience he had gained from playing and watching football for more than ten years in his previous life. He had no choice but to continue to smile bitterly.

"Forget it. Anyway, with your age and situation, it's impossible to practice basketball in basketball school system again." Chen Yang shrugged and asked Xiao Yao another question: "do you watch basketball much?"

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

"As a basketball fan, do you have any opinions on the prospect of the national team in the world championships this year?" Chen Yang asked Xiao Yaodao.

"To tell you the truth," Xiao Yao said without showing any diffidence, "after you retired, the internal line of our national team dropped a grade directly. Although this year's outside players are better than those in the last World Championships, without you, I think the overall strength has dropped a lot, not to mention reaching or even surpassing the eighth best result in the last World Championships. I think the group qualification is the most realistic goal. "

The men's Basketball World Championships in recent years are all participated by 24 teams. These teams will be divided into a, B, C, D four groups, first group round robin, after the end of the group, each group of six teams in the top four qualified, into the last 16, and then two to two fight for elimination.

"It seems that there is no lack of watching football these years, but the game is not a mathematical problem, it depends on the on-the-spot play. Last time, who would have thought we could win Germany and Spain? In any case, our level and results are still good, it is worth the fans to look forward to Chen Yang nodded. As a former national player and current technical director of the national team, Chen Yang only knows a lot more about his national team and the teams participating in the world championships than Xiao Yao. Naturally, we can hear that Xiao Yao's evaluation is quite pertinent. However, he is not willing to be underestimated by Xiao Yao, so he can't help adding a few words.

"That's right," Xiao Yao nodded and said with a smile, "no matter whether our basketball in China is high or low, at least it has always been the top in Asia. We are soft handed in winning the Asian championship. Winning the championship is not news. Not winning the championship is news. Among the three big men's balls, basketball is the one that gives us the appearance of Huaxia. "

"Well said!" Chen Yang pats Xiao Yao on the shoulder, caresses his palm and laughs.

When they were chatting happily in the audience, there was a long whistle on the training ground. Chen Yang a listen, quickly a pull Xiao Yao way: "shooting training is over, there are 15 minutes of rest, let's go down."

They walked from the audience to the training ground. Chen Yangxian took Xiao Yao to say hello to the head coach beside the stadium.

The head coach of Huaxia men's basketball team is Alex Jefferson from the United States, who used to be the head coach in the team of American professional basketball team. Because he was the head coach of Chen Yang's professional club when he played in the United States, he had a very good personal relationship with Chen Yang. The reason why he can become the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team is also inseparable from Chen Yang's strong recommendation.

"Hey, AJ!" "This is Xiao Yao, the publicity photographer I recommend to the team," Chen Yang said in English with a smile

Chen Yang asked photographers to take publicity photos for the team members. He had already said hello to the whole team. Alex Jefferson, head coach from the United States, has no problem with taking fashion photos of his players. He has seen a lot of such things in professional clubs in the United States. Taking photos does not take up training time. He is very supportive of this method of improving the image and popularity of players and teams. When I saw Xiao Yao beside Chen Yang, I was surprised at his age."Hello, Mr. Jefferson." Xiao Yao took the initiative to say hello in English. He doesn't know Alex Jefferson as well as Chen Yang, so he won't call them AJ for short.

"Hello," Jefferson shook hands with Xiao Yao and said with a smile, "I didn't expect that the photographer Yang was looking for was so young."

Immediately, knowing the purpose of the two, Jefferson waved his hand to them and said, "the photo has nothing to do with me. Go and have a chat with the team members yourself."

Chen Yang and Xiao Yao smile and give a sign to Jefferson, and then walk to the players who are resting after the training.

Chen Yang retired only two years ago, and now he is the technical director of the team. He is still like a big brother in this national team. The players are more intimate with him than the head coach. So watching Chen Yang and Xiao Yao come, the team members get up one after another to meet them.

"Brother Yang, is this the photographer you found for us? It's too young, isn't it? Isn't it as old as me? " Guo Qi, the youngest in the team, asked curiously.

"Yes, so young, is that ok?" A lot of other players nearby also doubtfully agreed.

"Hey, how do you talk? Do you know some manners?" Chen Yang stares at several talkers and nods: "this is Xiao Yao. It's really the photographer I got for you."

"Hello, I'm Xiao Yao. Hope to cooperate with you happily. " Xiao Yao also had psychological preparation for the doubts of the team members in advance, and said hello to the team members without any dissatisfaction.

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

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

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

"It's different. I played all the way from U17, U19 and u22 of the national team. I started in the professional league. Everyone knows me. But he's different. I've never heard of him. " Guo Qi argued.

"Oh, you seem to know a lot of fashion photographers. Let me hear some names?" Chen Yang laughed. "They are photographers, not professional basketball players. What's so strange about that?"

"I know!" Suddenly another player standing next to Guo Qi said, "Xiao Yao, the son of Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying, played ball with Xiao Siqi when they went to the variety show last time, but didn't his son act and sing? How did you become a photographer again? "

"Xu Li, who has participated in variety shows, knows more about the entertainment circle than others." Chen Yang looked at the team members and said, "but can't actors and singers also be photographers?"

Chen Yang said to the public: "he is a young talented photographer. His photography works have been published in foreign professional photography magazines, and he has also taken advertising photos for foreign famous brands."

"So powerful?" Guo Qi was surprised and asked Chen Yang, "brother Yang, did he take a picture for you? Don't you have a lot of endorsements and advertising contracts? Do you have any that he shot for you? "

"Well, it's not." Chen Yang was a little embarrassed.

"How could such a powerful photographer come to take pictures for free?" Another member of the team was also puzzled and asked, "I heard that the photographer not only took photos for free, but also provided the venue, equipment and clothing."

"You've been training intensively recently, and you don't know much about the outside world," Chen Yang explained. "Because Xiao Yao's previous photos were taken abroad, and few people know about them in China. Now the media have some doubts about Xiao Yao's identity as a photographer, so he's taking pictures for free, except to cheer our team for the world championships Besides, it is also a way for him to respond to queries. As a matter of fact, we've picked up a bargain this time. We don't have to pay for a photographer like Xiao Yao. "

"Since you have doubts, why do you believe him so much? You've known each other before? " Guo Qi asked again.

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

And because he knows basketball when he is more than five years old, I think he must be a fashion photographer who knows basketball very well even if he is not the best fashion photographer. That's why I recommend him to take promotional photos for you. "

"Really?" Guo Qi was still a little suspicious, so he proposed: "if you don't want to fight with me, let's see if he really knows basketball."