Chapter 68: It's finally time to rest
It has been several days since he won the championship, and Yan Feng still feels like he is in a dream, and he always doesn't want to wake up. I'm afraid to wake up and find out that everything is just my own dream.
It's not the first time Yan Feng has won the championship. In the season before going abroad, he led R&F to win the Chinese Super League championship and even the AFC Champions League. But none of those champions can compare with the La Liga champions, even if they are two champions combined.
The champions of the five major leagues! How many people have not been able to touch the slightest in their entire careers! And as an Asian player, there have only been ten Asian players who have won the championship of the five major leagues before this. These people are all some of the best players in Asia, such as Ali Dayi and Park Ji-sung.
And the highest status of these ten players in their respective teams is just the main player. Among them, Park Ji-sung is undoubtedly the most successful and influential one.
Today, Yan Feng has become the eleventh player in Asia to win the championship of the five major leagues. Compared with the previous ten players, Yan Feng's weight is higher. And it also makes the most sense.
Even Park Ji-sung, who has always been praised as the most successful Asian player in Europe, cannot be compared with Yan Feng. Park Ji-sung won the Premier League title with the team as a main player of Manchester United. But Yan Feng is the core of the team and won the championship of one of the five major leagues. The meaning is completely different.
In Yan Feng's arrival as one of the teams, the Granada team is a team that only deserves to struggle in the relegation zone. In just three seasons, the Granada team has been reborn. And Yan Feng has always been one of the cores of it. This is different from Manchester United and other teams that are originally giants.
After the Granada team lifted the La Liga championship trophy as the captain of Yan Feng, the whole of Asia was shaken. And Yan Feng has since been known as the 'Asian Champion' by Asian football, and he is recognized.
There has never been an Asian player who has been at the heart of the team, captaining a team that is not a big club to win the top five league titles. Yan Feng deservedly called the king of Asia. Even proud Japanese and Koreans sent congratulatory messages. And said that this is the glory of Asian football. It is the pride of East Asians!
This is the supreme honor that Yan Feng won when he led the team to win the La Liga championship.
And in Europe, Yan Feng didn't get nothing. In La Liga this season, he was once again awarded the Defensive Player of the Year.
In fact, since Modric came to the Granada team, Yan Feng has been robbed of the limelight in all aspects. For a long time, Yan Feng has been silently dedicated to the back. This has made many fans, especially Chinese fans, regret that his contribution to the attack has dropped significantly.
And when the whole season was over, when all of Yan Feng's data came out, everyone was shocked.
Defensively, all of Yan Feng's stats have unsurprisingly risen sharply. In all kinds of defensive statistics, he is the most prominent one in the entire La Liga. The best defensive player deserves it.
And the most surprising thing is not that, but his contribution to the offensive side has also increased slightly compared to last season. Yan Feng, who occasionally stood up in difficult times for the team, actually scored more than ten goals. There are also more than ten assists.
Such a report card is really dazzling, and many people can't believe it. There are many Chinese fans who say that if Yan Feng had not handed over the position of offensive organization to Modric, his statistics would definitely be more perfect.
Yan Feng, who has extremely amazing statistics at both offensive and defensive ends, has become the most versatile player.
However, it was not he who won this season's La Liga MVP, but his friend Luka Modric.
With 20 assists and 10 attacks throughout the season, Modric became the best player in La Liga after winning the title of assist king. Even Messi and Ronaldo were pressed underneath.
Yan Feng's defensive statistics are far more than Modric's, but in the football world, the offense is always more brilliant and more favorable. His offensive stats weren't as good as Modric's, which prevented him from being the MVP.
failed to become the MVP, Yan Feng felt a little regretful in his heart. However, Yan Feng is not jealous of Modric, who has become the new MVP. For him, winning the La Liga title is expensive enough. He was already satisfied.
This is how La Liga came to an end.
And after a few years, the two giants who missed the championship again have become the most disappointed teams in La Liga.
One of the most disappointing was Real Madrid, who later lost to newcomers Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semi-finals. Fortunately, in the Copa del Rey later, they beat Barcelona. Finally got a championship. If it weren't for this Copa del Rey title, they would have nothing to gain this season except to make a lot of money from the Granada team.
And Barcelona put all their hopes on the Champions League after the La Liga title was snatched away by Granada and the Copa del Rey was snatched by Real Madrid. The Barcelona team, which was devastated, led Messi in the Champions League final as if it were a miracle, and finally stubbornly reached the top of Europe.
When all the tournaments in Europe are over, the annual Ballon d'Or ceremony arrives. Rao is Yan Feng's performance is so outstanding, but he still failed to be nominated.
It was his teammate Luka Modric who was nominated and finished in the top three. However, the weight of the La Liga title is far from enough to compare with the Champions League. In the end, this time the Ballon d'Or was won by Messi. Modric and Ronaldo can only weigh the green leaves that set off.
Although he failed to win the Ballon d'Or, this is the first time Modric has finished in the top three. This was enough to make him happy and make him feel that he had made the right choice to come to Granada.
After the Ballon d'Or competition, Modric said to Yan Feng: "I am only one Champions League champion away from the Ballon d'Or now!"
This made Yan Feng extremely envious. He didn't even have a nomination, otherwise he would have been the first Asian player to be nominated. However, defensive players are not favored, and as an Asian player, it is not easy to fall into the eyes of Europeans.
All of Yan Feng's affairs in Europe have finally come to an end temporarily. Throughout the season, all competitions combined, Yan Feng found that he had played more than 50 games. This made Yan Feng feel physically and mentally exhausted for the first time.
After so many kicks, Rao is Yan Feng has an iron-like body, and he feels a little unbearable. Although he was lucky not to suffer any injuries, some minor illnesses and pains could not be avoided. The body is about to accumulate into a disease, and I can finally take a breath.
"It's finally time to rest!"