Chapter 171: Golden Finger! (Please subscribe)

"Hahaha, this player is truly hilarious!"

In front of the television, Zhang Xinjie was laughing so hard he was slapping his thigh.

He never expected that an amateur football match could have so much entertainment value.

Just now on the screen, the Red team's forward made a flying header, but ended up missing the ball and instead knocking the defensive player over.

There were quite a few such blunders!

Just a moment ago, a Blue team player was charging with the ball at high speed, only to accidentally step on the rapidly rolling ball and tumble a full two meters away.

Fortunately, the quality of the artificial turf was decent, otherwise that fall definitely wouldn't have been light.

The high-speed nature of the match laid the players' amateur level bare for all to see.

There were endless mistakes: missed passes, head-on collisions, and air-kicks.

Yet the match wasn't boring at all; on the contrary, it was extremely exciting.

In the forty-five minutes of the first half, both sides played an attacking game and scored two goals each!

He had been sitting on the sofa watching the TV intently, without a single sign of distraction.

Only when halftime arrived did he finally let out a breath and relax his mind.

He didn't know what was going on with Asia Television (ATV), but it had become very strange lately.

Other programs remained the same as before, firmly suppressed by Wireless (TVB).

But whenever it came to sports matches, the style changed immediately, filled to the brim with joy.

Occasionally, they would broadcast highlights of fancy billiards matches, where some players could actually clear the table in one turn!

He found it incredible when he first saw it, and even felt an itch to play after work, going to a pool hall with colleagues to play a few rounds, though his performance was as terrible as ever.

What surprised him most was that there were even arcade game competitions.

The beautiful girl groups that appeared in them made him want to drool.

Even more exaggerated was that the beautiful girl groups had incredibly high gaming skills, completely holding their own against the experts in the game halls, and occasionally even achieving crushing victories.

Whenever this happened and he was free at home, he would watch the programs to the end.

It was truly very interesting!

He didn't expect that on the second day of the Lunar New Year, ATV would broadcast an amateur football match live; this was a very rare occurrence.

As it turned out, this amateur football match was exceptionally good to watch!

If it weren't for the late hour, he would have been so stirred up by the football fever that he would have wanted to find colleagues and friends to go to a pitch and play a proper match.

Surprisingly, there were quite a few viewers who shared his thoughts.

The amateur football match, which was originally expected to have dismal ratings, turned out to be surprisingly good.

It was indeed rubbish at the start, but as time went on, the ratings got higher and higher.

The senior management at ATV was stirred into action and finally decided to broadcast two matches a day.

Ahem, Wu Feng only had four matches a day here!

If it weren't for other programs and dramas that needed to be aired, ATV might have actually planned to broadcast all the matches live, banking entirely on being shameless.

There was no help for it; when the station broadcast these joy-filled football matches, the ratings could steadily suppress the Wireless programs in the same time slot.

If they hadn't known it was truly inappropriate, the ATV management would have wanted to open a dedicated sports channel!

They had finally discovered that viewers really loved exciting and interesting sports matches.

Unfortunately, Hong Kong was just a city!

At this time, the population was only a little over five million, which simply couldn't support the development of a comprehensive television station.

But even so, Wu Feng was already quite satisfied.

He really hadn't expected that the amateur football match, which he had thrown together in a rush just to have some fun during the New Year, would become popular so quickly.

Sure enough, the decision to strongly demand that all participating teams play an attacking game was extremely correct.

Starting from the second day of the ATV live broadcast, newspaper reporters had already appeared around the football pitches.

This made the participating society members and the society Big Brothers incredibly happy.

Their original idea was similar to Wu Feng's: just to have some fun during the New Year.

Who knew that appearing on TV could make them popular, and even attract newspapers to come and interview them?

The society Big Brothers, who had previously looked like loafers, along with the substitute players, all became incredibly serious, as if they were truly professional footballers and coaches.

That's right, every society Big Brother was the head coach of their respective team.

In any case, everyone's goal was just to have fun; if they didn't stand on the sidelines and bark random orders, would it be worth the effort of coming out to mess around on the second day of the New Year?

Now that newspapers were actively interviewing them, they couldn't be too casual, or who would lose face?

If one had to say who was most satisfied, it would be Jiang Tiansheng.

Just based on the stir this amateur football match had caused, he had already firmed up his idea of entering the football circle.

Because the audience loved watching it, not only were TV stations and newspapers interviewing them, but even the Hong Kong Football Association was shaken, and Big Brothers immediately came over wanting to ride the wave of popularity.

Again, there were very few high-profile sports events in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong football league had a history of many years, but unfortunately, it had always been in a lukewarm state.

There was no need to go into the ins and outs of that; it didn't even have as much popularity as the amateur match Wu Feng had casually thrown together.

Then, Wu Feng received a phone call, and the scale of the amateur league expanded rapidly.

There were university football teams and teams formed by Sai Kung police who wanted to participate.

Wu Feng turned no one away; in any case, it was just a matter of everyone having fun together, so naturally, the more teams, the better.

Jiang Tiansheng, however, became serious and really started to participate in the organization and operation of the amateur league.

With the popularity of the matches, this was a great opportunity to show his face.

Intent on washing his hands of the underworld and going ashore, how could he not firmly grasp such a great opportunity when it appeared?

Not to mention Jiang Tiansheng, a group of Hong Hing district spokespersons were also incredibly excited, while simultaneously suffering from headaches caused by their subordinates, falling into a state of happy trouble.

The Big Brothers didn't have much else, but they had a lot of energetic young subordinates.

They could easily pull together a dozen football teams and organize an amateur league internally.

Seeing the Big Brothers showing their faces on TV and in newspapers, they were also green with envy.

In any case, they had many underlings, so they could pull together a few football teams themselves; how could the Big Brothers take all the limelight? They wanted a share of it too.

Just like that, amidst the noise and clamor, the twelve amateur teams expanded to sixteen in one go.

And then, there were the attacking scenes that the TV audience and the spectators on the sidelines loved to see.

The more accidents that occurred, the more fun it was; the more clumsy the performance, the louder the laughter.

With the active participation of professionals from the football association and Jiang Tiansheng's efforts to coordinate and run around, the momentum of this Sai Kung District amateur league was growing larger and larger.

It was said that the other districts in Hong Kong were very jealous!

Why should such a great exposure opportunity be taken by the remote and backward Sai Kung District?

Later, upon inquiring, they found out it was the Hong Hing Sai Kung Hall Master holding a team-building event in his home base, combined with the Dragon Head to create the amateur league, so they gloomily gave up the idea of fighting for the right to host.

But continuing to inquire, they learned that Wu Feng was a Sai Kung District Councilor and also the boss of ATV, and that the "Unlimited Fighting Tournament," which had been popular in Hong Kong at the end of last year and was quite famous throughout Asia, was planned and organized by him, and suddenly their eyes lit up.

If he were just a pure society Big Brother, many people wouldn't be willing to have contact with him.

But Wu Feng was also a councilor and held a powerful television public opinion platform like ATV, so there was a basis and motivation for cooperation.

If not this year, surely it could be Mong Kok's turn next year?

After all, Mong Kok had a professional "Mong Kok Stadium," which was much better than some middle school football pitch, and it would look more pleasing to the eye, wouldn't it?

Wu Feng had already hidden his merit and fame at this time, and was no longer actively participating in the amateur football match affairs.

As long as ATV could broadcast the matches on time every day, that was the best support for this amateur football match; there was no need to gild the lily.

At this time, he was sitting in the office in the Sai Kung home base with Han Bin, discussing the matter of expanding the scope of their business.

"A-Feng, I've already found out clearly on my end!"

When saying this, Han Bin's face was full of excitement: "According to your requirements, I went deep into the interior regions of those few countries, and the situation is just as you said!"

"The economic situation in the interior regions of those countries is very average, and the residents don't have much cash in their hands!"

"Never mind televisions, even buying a radio is a bit of a struggle!"

"Oh, so do they have the ability to buy radios made in the Mainland?"

Wu Feng raised an eyebrow and asked curiously: "They shouldn't be unable to afford them, right?"

"If they bought them at the normal exchange rate, they definitely wouldn't be able to afford them!"

Han Bin chuckled, everything understood without being said.

"Alright then, how many can you order in one go?"

Wu Feng didn't beat around the bush and said directly: "Still follow the old rules, money and goods exchanged on the spot!"

"That goes without saying!"

Han Bin said boldly: "For the first batch, let's go with 100,000 units; the quality must be guaranteed!"

"You can rest assured about that!"

Wu Feng chuckled: "The radios purchased from the Mainland will all pass through my factory here; there definitely won't be any major problems with the quality, but I can't guarantee small issues!"

"That doesn't matter!"

Han Bin waved his hand: "As long as they can receive programs normally, that's enough. I didn't expect it to be this kind of situation before; if I had known, I would have made a fortune long ago!"

"It's not too late to realize it now!"

Wu Feng said nonchalantly: "What about electric fans? I reckon the demand will only be greater, right?"

"Indeed, it's greater!"

Han Bin nodded in agreement, but the next moment he shook his head and said: "However, I don't plan to purchase electric fans for the time being; let's lay the channels through radios first."

Speaking of this, he didn't know what he thought of, gritted his teeth and said: "The partners in those few countries are very dark; if I can't master some channels myself, they really dare to treat me as someone who just transports goods!"

Looking at his appearance, it was clear he had suffered quite a few losses in this regard.

Wu Feng was too lazy to ask more and chuckled: "Brother Binny, is your manpower enough?"

"Do you want me to support you with a thousand capable men? I guarantee they are all guys with good discipline!"

"No need for that many, three hundred is enough!"

Han Bin was speechless, thinking to himself that the helpers you find are all too fierce, I'm afraid something will go wrong.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 172 =====