In the final of the 2007-08 UEFA Cup, in the 70th minute of the game, Zhuo Yang, who was wearing jeans and sneakers, and his naked upper body was wet, ran directly through the players' tunnel at the City Stadium and appeared next to the bench of AC Milan.

The whole world cheered!

After careful calculation and analysis by the media after the game, Zhuo Yang ran a distance of 8,764 meters from getting off the car to the stadium and took 24 minutes and 32 seconds. This is an international professional middle-distance running result, and he did not finish it on a wide and flat track, Zhuo Yang completed a nearly 9km obstacle course with a track runner level. If there were similar events at the Olympics, there would be no doubt that he would have won a medal.

In front of everyone's eyes, except for the boxer briefs, Zhuo Yang stripped himself naked, took the competition equipment handed over by Tasotti, and Zhuo Yang put on a neat helmet and armor.

"Sir, I'm ready to play."

Ancelotti looked at Zhuo Yang with satisfaction and nodded: "Have you warmed up?" ”

Zhuo Yang: "......"

In the 73rd minute of the second half, AC Milan made a substitution, No. 18 up, No. 13 Ambrosini. The score is 2:0 for Zenit St. Petersburg.

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Dutch coach Dick Advocaat saw Zhuo Yang finally appear on the court, and his heart that had been worried hit him twice.

Advocaat, who is 61 years old, has been coaching for half his life, and his figure haunts the skies over Asia, Africa and Europe, and he has traveled to several national teams alone. However, Advocaat has not had any outstanding achievements and always feels that he is very capable, but his players have never been able to fully grasp his tactical intentions. So, in fact, his reputation is higher than his coaching achievements.

But Zenit under Advocaat has been impressive this season, not only winning the Russian Premier League title this season, but also becoming a shining dark horse in the UEFA Cup.

At the beginning, all teams regarded Zenit as a scoring machine, but they didn't think that along the way, Zenit would never die without a name. Villarreal and Marseille were beheaded by Zenit in a single photo, while the Bundesliga was collectively wiped out by Zenit. From Nuremberg in the group stage to Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen in the knockout stage, they have become the ghosts of the Russians.

By the time European football was exclaiming, 'The wolf is coming', AC Milan has become the only team that can maintain the traditional dignity of European football.

Zenit's rapid rise is also closely related to Russia's domestic political scene, and the consortium behind him is Gazprom. The former president and chairman of the gas company was Zenit's chief fan and even the godfather of the team, who single-handedly built the upstart of Russian football.

The 'godfather' had already ceased to hold any position in the gas company a few years ago, because he had a new post two weeks ago - the president of Russia. The Zenit godfather was named Medvedev.

When Medvedev was still prime minister, he set up a small Zenit fan club in the top echelons of the government, whose members included Patrushev, head of the Federal Security Service, Gryzlov, speaker of the lower house of parliament, and Serdyukov, defense minister.

With these land lords behind him to escort them, and asking people to give money to people, it is difficult for Zenit to get bad grades. As a result, Zenit, who have never won any championship in the team's 83-year history, finally achieved positive results this season, and the Russian Premier League title made them an upstart.

In 2004, Zhuo Yang led the Madiburg team away to a 0:0 draw with this Zenit team in the group stage of the League Cup.

With a well-known Russian player and a Dutch coach, Zenit has added an attacking passion to the fast, simple and powerful style of traditional Russian football, and they are desperate to try their hand at the Champions Cup next season after a draw in this year's UEFA Cup.

But even so, head coach Advocaat is worried.

He has carefully studied the core attacker of opponents AC Milan, Zhuo Yang, and he is very surprised that Zhuo Yang has maintained the same high goal rate against different styles of teams this season. Scored 47 goals in 33 Serie A games and 16 goals in 12 UEFA Cup games, both averaging more than one goal per game. What does this mean? It shows that Zhuo Yang has a 2:0 attribute when he steps on the court.

In Advocaat's opinion, this is the biggest injustice on the football field.

Before the game, he got the news that Zhuo Yang couldn't rush to the game in time, and Advocaat was really relieved, Zhuo Yang, the biggest X factor, must not come to disturb his own good things. The strong financial and power support undoubtedly made Advocaat coaching Zenit more powerful, but it also gave him extremely great pressure, because he was only allowed to win and not lose.

In the first half, the aging AC Milan had everything in their calculations, and Kaka was successfully converted, and the team used the wanton assists of the wing-backs on either side of AC Milan to play a sharp counter-attack. The full-back and the two midfielders Andrea Pirlo and Ambrosini faced pressing high posts, which was the biggest weakness of AC Milan's squad, Milan themselves and other teams knew it, but only Zenit under the combination of bears and muskets could do it.

With no last resort, Zenit took a 2-0 lead in the first half.

At the start of the second half, the big screen in the City Stadium showed a picture-in-picture of Zhuo Yang running through the streets, and he got closer and closer to the field. Advocaat commanded the team to continue to attack, press and press, because the man with the 2:0 attribute was coming.

But until the long-awaited runner really appeared on the sidelines, the score was still 2:0.

The City Stadium has a capacity of 55,000 spectators, with 15,000 tickets allocated to each of the two fans, with the rest going to local Manchester fans, according to UEFA regulations. The City Stadium is the home stadium of Manchester City, and the main color here is blue, and the jersey of Zenit is also blue, but today the stands of the City Stadium have a drunken red in full bloom.

About 9,000 fans came from Russia, and more than 40,000 from Milan. These Rossoneri not only instantly divided the 15,000 tickets allocated to them, but also bought more than 10,000 tickets from local scalpers in Manchester at a high price. What's even more excessive is that they turned all the tickets that the Russian fans were too numerous to buy, and they didn't know what means they used.

Forty thousand Roseneri screamed Zhuo Yang's name feverishly, they didn't care about falling behind by two goals at all, and the Milanese had been so frightened by Zhuo Yang's savior that they couldn't help themselves. In the 24 minutes of running hard, I don't know how many Milanese people were hazy.

Nine thousand Russians looked with envy at the hysterical screaming Italians, their team is younger than AC Milan, but there is no such superstar who can make people crazy. They have never looked down on cowardly Italians, but they don't have Zhuo Yang on their team.

The Manchester people were deeply impressed by Zhuo Yang, and they decisively became fans of AC Milan when they should eat melons neutrally. They even thanked the damned bus drivers they had cursed for a day, and without their strike, how could the streets of Manchester go down in football history like this.

At this moment, Zhuo Yang only needs to step on the turf, which is enough to make the city stadium crazy. Before he had his first touch of the ball, the Milanese were convinced that victory was on the way.