“I love Owen! I love Owen! I love Owen !”
This is the scene of the “legendary return” World All-Star football carnival held by Ramada Hotel in East West Lake, Wuhan. A fan who made a special trip to return home from Africa to attend the Michael Owen meeting shouted to express his idol. “We middle-aged people also have their own love! I just want to tell Michael Owen: There are many old fans in China who have liked him for 25 years!”
In the 1998 World Cup in France, 18-year-old Michael Owen was born, making the world know him and Chinese fans fall in love with him. He is a ROYAL WIND teenager. He is an English Golden Boy. He represents the symbol of youth and is the first love of football for many Chinese fans.
World All-Star football carnival launch
On August 17, the “return of legend” World All-Star football carnival was launched in Ramada Hotel, Wuhan East West Lake. After the opening dance performance of “wakawaka”, which represented the passion of football, the founder of Sike sports, yan Qiang, a famous football commentator, stepped onto the stage and led the fans on the scene to review the wonderful moment of “legendary return”. This was the “legendary return” World All-Star football match restarted again after four years. It used to be in Taiyuan, shenzhen and other cities have brought nearly 100 legendary stars to Chinese fans, including maltini, batistata, Totti, shevchinko, Owen and other superstars.
In 2023, the “return of legend” World All-Star Football Carnival chose Wuhan as its home court. This is a “City of Heroes”, a “city of legend” and a city belonging to football business cards. Lei rain Sun, the head of the organizing committee of the competition, said, “the 2023 legendary return world all-star football carnival is the first year to add bricks to Wuhan’s cultural industry, it is also the legendary return to the World All-Star football match, which was successfully held in Taiyuan and Shenzhen in 2017 and 2018, and helped Wuhan again after its recovery, it is a great honor to carry out this cultural activity in Wuhan, a legendary city.”
This activity was hosted by Huayi (Beijing) International Cultural Industry Co., Ltd.; Yunik (Beijing) film and television media Co., Ltd., Wuhan shizhi ruique Cultural Media Co., Ltd, wuhan United CX Culture Media Co., Ltd., co-organized by Wuhan East West Lake Ramada hotel. The guests present included Liu Jie, Lei rain Sun, Zhou inxuan, Liu Daijun, representatives of the organizing committee of the event, Xu Ke, professional category marketing department of Li Ning Company, Zhan Zhan, general manager of jieteng sports, huang Tengda, general manager of Wuhan Jing microphone Culture Communication Co., Ltd, etc.
Under the “boosting” of the guests on the scene, the golden slogan of “World All-Star football carnival” appeared on the startup screen, and the “legendary return” World All-Star football carnival was launched in 2023. At the beginning of October, the “legendary return” World All-Star football match will officially start in Wuhan in 2023, when as many as 30 World legendary stars will come to Jiangcheng.
Owen fans meeting Hot
However, Michael Owen, the protagonist of this activity, “came late” because of the flight. Two die-hard fans who came from other places came on stage one after another to express the story with idols, “Versailles”, a female fan from Nanjing, showed all her signed jerseys, which made the fans in the audience envy.
On the big screen of the event, Michael Owen’s picture flashed, triggering a burst of cheers. Owen made a real-time video connection with the event site on his way to the airport, “I’m very sorry, Chinese fans. Because of a small situation, I can’t appear in front of you in time. I am trying to speed up and hope to see you tomorrow.”
At 2 a.m. on August 18, with the joint efforts of the organizing committee and the Owen team, the legendary star landed at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. At 10 o’clock in the morning, the fans’ meeting at the Ramada hotel in Wuhan East West Lake was at the scene. In a burst of cheers, the main character appeared and Michael Owen came!
Owen walked into the venue, with the iconic smile hanging on his face, warmly greeted the surrounding fans, and the fans waiting in line entered one by one to complete the signed photo with the idol. During this period, some small fans shouted excitedly “Michael ,Michael”. Some fans saw excited tears in their eyes after getting the signature, while Owen carefully adjusted the direction of the jersey after signing the signature, the photo effect is better.
The one-hour meeting ended in the eyes of the fans who were reluctant. More than 100 fans were satisfied to get Owen’s signature and get a photo. Many people were sharing with each other, “I want to send it to my friends quickly!”
In the subsequent media interview, Michael Owen talked about the situation of the Premier League championship in the new season, and the speed comparison between him and mbape. Before the Chinese traditional festival “Tanabata Festival” came, wish the majority of fans and friends in Chinese: Take off the order as soon as possible.