Chapter 376: The goalkeeper representing Milan
"You're a Euspo's glove? It's been a long time since I've seen a goalkeeper wearing Eusbao's gloves. Totti came to Acchulian and extended his hand in a friendly way.
After the game, I have seen hugging, I have seen exchanging jerseys, and Ou Chuliang has really never seen such a formality.
Out of politeness, Ou Chuliang stretched out his hand and shook it with the other party, "If one day you also want to switch to playing goalkeeper, I can give you a few pairs." โ
Hearing Ou Chuliang's joke, the corners of Totti's mouth raised, and he saw Ou Chuliang's hand clearly.
Ou Chuliang's knuckles are very thick, and there are many bursts on his skin, but there are no knives and spears on his fingers, and his fingertips are full of crumpled calluses. Even so, Ou Chuliang's nails were trimmed cleanly, not only did there not a trace of sludge, but they were even a little too bald.
This is the standard for goalkeepers, and in the world of goalkeepers, no one dares to have long nails. Even if you retire from service, this habit will be retained for life.
In general, Ou Chuliang's hands are not big, and compared with those goalkeepers who are more than 1.95 meters tall, they are almost a circle smaller. But even so, Ou Chuliang's hands gave people a very powerful feeling. The most important thing is that Ou Chuliang's palm is not thick. If you don't look at those wide joints, but in terms of proportions, this is a pair of slender hands, and even playing the piano is no problem.
The simple handshake made Totti clear at a glance, and the original disdain turned into admiration.
Diligent and hard-working people are always worthy of admiration, not to mention that Ou Chuliang is different from him.
He is a well-established Italian, who has been trained in the best football in Italy since he was a child, and with his talent and hard work, it is no surprise that he is the captain of Serie A Roma today.
Coming from a country known as the "Football Desert", he is said to have been displaced from an early age and sent to Brazil for training. When he grew up, he returned to China for various competitions, and then tossed and turned, becoming the first Chinese football player to stay abroad.
Now, two people with completely different growth journeys have crossed paths in the same game. "The Exemplar of Genius" and "The Representative of Effort" went head-to-head in the tournament for the second time, with the young wolf king paying the price for his superiority.
Last season, Acchulian was beaten 2-0 by Napoli and Roma. After the game, no one noticed the little man Ou Chuliang, and no one even noticed Napoli, a giant who was about to be relegated.
But just a year later, Acchulian has become the starting goalkeeper for one of Italy's top giants, and is qualified enough to stand opposite Totti and make him look directly at him.
The two let go of their hands and smiled slightly, like friends they hadn't seen in a long time.
"Oh, I'll be waiting for you at the Olympic Stadium, don't expect the goalpost to save you then."
"The Roma goalposts may not help me, but the Lazio goalposts are not!" Ou Chuliang replied.
"Hahaha!" Totti laughed, waved to Ochulian, and returned to his ranks.
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At the post-match press conference, Zaccheroni finally raised his eyebrows. It wasn't Milan's first win, but it was one of the most noteworthy games.
After watching these five goals, all fans will feel relieved and unable to help themselves.
This victory belongs to Milan, to the players, and even more to him Zaccheroni!
'It was a team effort and we deserved it. Roma played very tenaciously and with a lot of quality, and even overwhelmed us a little bit for a while. โ
'But our players are more resilient and can tie and overtake when they are behind; In the re-tie, it is even possible to take the lead again. This kind of unremitting attitude and hard work is exactly what Milan advocates..."
Zaccheroni used the word "resilience", and he didn't talk about luck or strength. Judging from the results of today's game alone, the Milan players are enough to call these two words.
"Ou's performance was outstanding, and his presence brought a difference to the whole Milan team!"
Zaccheroni took the lead, not mentioning Bierhoff, who scored the equaliser for the team, George Weah, who contributed one assist and one goal, or even Maldini, the meritorious captain, but directly named the goalkeeper.
"Ou's performance today is world-class."
"In slow motion, we can see that it was O's finger that blocked Roma's shots again and again. In my opinion, neither the 3 goalposts nor a beam in Rome are accidental. โ
"In a game, a goalkeeper saves a shot with the most extreme save is a classic, and Ou did that three times today!"
"Especially the Roma team's final lob shot, I think any other goalkeeper will watch the ball fall into his own goal after rushing out of the box so far to clear the ball, right?"
"But Ou is different, his motto has always been 'never give up until the last minute'! And he did it well. โ
'Admittedly we scored three goals up front today and one for each of the starting strikers.
'But I don't want to talk about them, I think that's what a striker should do.'
"On the contrary, if you don't have a solid defence, no matter how many goals a team scores, it's useless..."
Anyone could tell that Zaccheroni was not very happy with the performance of his midfield players today. Several mistakes of the accompanying defenders were also offset by "hard work" in his heart. Ou Chuliang is the only one who really gets Zaccheroni's praise, because Ou Chuliang's performance today is really eye-catching.
Just looking at Ou Chuliang's previous attacks and saves, in the eyes of professionals, they may think that Milan would get better results if they changed a long-term goalkeeper. For example, Totti's first volley will not go over the goalkeeper's finger so easily, the second Totti will directly block the bottom line with a single knife, and the third Totti's free kick will be completely saved.
But when Ou Chuliang rushed out of the penalty area at the last moment of the game and cleared it with his head, everyone saw that Ou Chuliang was different!
In Serie A, there are very few goalkeepers standing so far forward; And if you don't stand forward, how can you have the ability to break out of the restricted area?
Then, it is Ou Chuliang's fighting spirit after the siege is lifted.
When everyone thought that the Roman attack was defused, only Ouchulian remembered his mission and rushed back to the door desperately. It was precisely because of such a highly tense mental state that he had maintained for 90 minutes that Ou Chuliang struggled to pounce at the last moment of the game, and pushed the hanging shot that could have grazed the crossbar and fell into the net with his fingertips onto the crossbar.
Seeing this, the fans realized that instead of replacing Ou Chuliang with a taller goalkeeper, it was better to consider how to make those clumsy elders more sensitive, alert, and persevering.
Even Roma coach Zeman mentioned Acchulian when the camera turned to him.
'This Milan team is completely different from last season's Milan and the fact that we prepared well before the game, even if it was away from home, it was not a problem to win the game.
'We weren't arrogant, but we did underestimate the Milan defence and didn't expect them to send a goalkeeper who worked so hard.
"You can't imagine a young man who is only 21 years old running around in front of the Milan goal, directing players like Costacuta and Maldini. This is an exaggeration! โ
'But it turned out that he was in good command and if it wasn't for him, Milan's back three alone wouldn't have stopped us and we wouldn't have scored just two goals.'
"I have to admit that Milan has bought a good goalkeeper this season!"
That evening, the newspaper "Milan Sport" gave a rating to the players of both sides of the team.
Acchulian scored a high score of 7.5, which is as high as Totti and Del Vecchio, and even surpassed Bierhoff and Leonardo, and was second only to George Weah's 8.0.
It's not often that a goalkeeper can score so many points, and even in the space below Ouchulian's name, the editor wrote a small comment: 11 good saves in the game, four to keep Roma's must-score goal out. An excellent Chinese goalkeeper, his performance in Milan even exceeded that of last season in Naples. Milan found a treasure in the competition with the city's sworn enemies...
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"What? AC Milan actually won? Oh my God, this can't be! โ
Early in the morning, Xiao Liang's exclamation woke up even the upstairs and downstairs neighbors.
"What's impossible!" Lao Liang's two eye circles are sunken, and there is an unfaded palm print on the left side of his face. 'It didn't take long for Milan to score and Bierhoff equalised with his foot in first-half stoppage time.
'Then in the second half Milan scored two more and Roma scored one.
'Acchulian saved Totti's lob from 50 yards out in the final minute and Milan won.
Lao Liang took a mouthful of pickles and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing them with his right cheek, without saying how the palm print on the left side of his face came from.
Liang was accustomed to this, and his attention was focused on the surprise of Milan's victory.
"Dad, tell me again, what was the first goal? What's going on with Ou Chuliang's save? โ
At noon on Monday, most Chinese fans learned about the result of the match through a CCAV5 news report.
Jianghu-Football Network also worked overtime overnight, throwing the results of the game, the whole text live broadcast, wonderful shots, GIF pictures and famous comments and media news reprints on the Internet. Let those rich people who turn on the computer early in the morning know the latest report of Serie A for the first time, as well as the evaluation of this game by foreign media.
Websites such as Old Waves, Whooshing Monkeys and other websites have also begun to learn the model of Jianghu.com, not only text live broadcast, but also reprint pictures, self-made P pictures and GIFs, etc., with competition in the industry, promise that these programmers are beginning to think about the production of FLASH animation, through the form of cartoons, the Serie A with Ou Chuliang games will be shown to all Internet fans.
The La Repubblica Roma commented on the match: "Roma lost to luck. โ
Indeed, 3 goalposts and 1 crossbar are enough to indicate that the visitors are out of luck. Whenever a ball hits the inside of the goal frame, it is the result of the goal, and Milan has also changed from three points to one point.
But the problem is that there are no ifs in football, only results.
As a result, none of the four goals bounced into the Milan net, and Milan eventually won an important battle.
There is a saying in Italian football: the last thing Italy needs is a goalkeeper.
This sentence is a joke from fans that Italian defense has risen to the level of art, and Italian football, which integrates defense in Dacheng, has fully played defense to the extreme.
But the truth is not that there is a team that does not aspire to have a world-class goalkeeper in the squad.
Although each team can only send one goalkeeper on the field at a time, this is still too few for the team.
They want to have all the good goalkeepers under their command and protect the goal.
But there are too few good goalkeepers, and they are all controlled by giants. And a team with top goalkeepers will also qualify for the championship.
In Italy, the first thing fans think of a good goalkeeper is Zoff, and then there are those people in today's football, such as Pagliuca, Peruzzi, Toldo, Rossi and Parma's youngster Gianluigi Buffon. These "famous doors" correspond to a giant team one by one, and when it comes to this team, it is inevitable to think of this goalkeeper, and the opposite is the same.
Now, when it comes to AC Milan, fans have their first reaction.
That person is no longer the meritorious veteran Rossi, but the new team favorite Ou Chuliang!
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While fans are talking about Serie A, they are also watching the journey of Chinese players in other European stadiums.
Like Yang Chen of the Bundesliga, this guy couldn't play in Beijing Guoan, so he came to the Bundesliga under the introduction of Schlapner, and was finally hit by Frankfurt. And he also scored his first goal in the Bundesliga after his transfer. It was the third round of the Bundesliga against Borussia Mรถnchenchen, Yang Chen went all the way to the front of the penalty area after winning the ball in the front court, and shot a powerful shot 25 meters away from the fans, which made the goalkeeper of Borussia Mรถnchen stunned and froze in place.
In the Premier League, Son Jihai, who returned to Manchester City, has gradually played the main role, but has not scored so far. General Fan, who signed with Crystal Palace in League One this summer, has also secured the main force with solid basic skills.
In other words, China's four foreign players have basically gained a foothold in the new team and emerged on the European stage.
The Asahi Shimbun on the Japanese side also reported: "Chinese football is on the rise, and Hidetoshi Nakata is under a lot of pressure. โ
For Hidetoshi Nakata, who landed in Perugia, although he can compete with Ouchuliang in Serie A. But everyone knows that Perugia is not a grade or two worse than a team like AC Milan!
Nakata also admitted that his goal this season is to try to help Perugia relegation. And if you can score a goal against Milan, you will be more than you can do!
After the big battle with Rome, Ouchulian soon "went to the appointment" to play away at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
However, the opponent of this battle was not Rome, but Lazio, Rome's sworn enemy in the same city.
Facing the Blue Eagles of the new season, Milan just started quite smoothly.
Bierhoff's header gave hope to the Milanese, but then Costacuta's two yellows turned red, and relying on the Milan intelligence gathered in the previous game, Lazio launched a desperate counterattack at home.
First, Mihajlovic used a free kick to bypass the human wall and directly penetrate the gate guarded by Ochulian; Mancini then scored a brace to kill the match.
1-3, Milan won 1 and drew 1 in a week against the Roma duo.
The defeat in the Coppa Italia forced Zaccheroni to consider whether to continue to devote energy in this cup competition.
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At the end of October, Ou Chuliang received another call from China.
"Hey, is it Brother Ou?" On the other end of the phone, a familiar, nervous, and crisp voice came.
"I'm Ou Chuliang, you are..."
"Ahh Brother Ou, I'm a little talker! Hearing Ou Chuliang's affirmative answer, the discussion on the other end of the phone immediately jumped into joy.
"Discussion?" Hearing that it was a call from the discussion, the bad mood just now due to the defeat was also diluted a lot. "Xiao Yi, is there anything wrong with calling Brother Ou so early?"
"Hey, it's not early, it's not early!" Shi Yi looked out the window and said, "It's almost six o'clock on my side, and it's almost midnight on Brother Ou's side, right?" Brother Ou, you've been sleeping late lately, which isn't a good habit! โ
"Hahahaha, didn't I have a hunch to call me, I waited for it!" Ou Chuliang made a joke.
"Hey, hey, I know that Brother Ou and I are good, we always have a good heart!" He laughed and continued to ask: "Brother Ou, I heard Coach Zhu say that you won't come back for the Asian Games?" โ
"Well, not going back. Forget about the Asian Games, go back to the Olympics! Ou Chuliang nodded.
"Haha, that's right, Brother Ou is a big star! It's normal not to participate in a small competition like the Asian Games! โ
Discussing and pouting, he called Ou Chuliang this time, in fact, he wanted to say that he was selected for the final Asian Games squad as the main international player. I wanted to say hello to Ou Chuliang and let Ou Chuliang praise him. As a result, in Ou Chuliang's eyes, an event of this level in the Asian Games has become a dispensable thing, and he was annoyed for a while, he didn't know how long he had to work hard to catch up with Ou Chuliang's pace.
Hearing the sourness in the discussion words, Ou Chuliang said with a smile: "Xiao Yi, since you have been selected, you have to work hard, the fans all over the country are looking at you!" โ
"When the time comes, you can be in the limelight at the Asian Games, and you can completely secure the position of the international team!"
"If you can score a goal and win a medal back, Brother Ou will be rewarded!"
"Really, Brother Ou? What rewards? "As soon as I heard the reward, my eyes lit up when I discussed it.
From grilled fish to small biscuits, from small to big discussions, he has received countless "small rewards" from Ou Chuliang. It's like a child getting safflower in kindergarten, the more addicted they become.
"Don't speak!" Ou Chuliang snorted, "Wait until you really win the honor!" โ
"And it's not that Brother Ou doesn't want to go back, but he has to be considerate of the others! There is only one goalkeeper position, and you can't get on this or that! You can't give young people a chance? โ
"Young people? Hum! We are young people! The discussion boss was dissatisfied, "How old are Han Wenhai and them, and they have to rely on Brother Ou to give them their places, are they ashamed?" If you want me to say Brother Ou, you can participate in any sports meeting, and when the time comes, your home will be full of gold medals, how majestic! โ
In this era, the Chinese love gold medals, not trophies. Therefore, in the opinion of the discussion, only when the neck is full of gold medals can it be called the glory of the ancestors.
"Xiao Yi, the gold medal also depends on the gold content!" Ou Chuliang patiently explained.
"Woo woo, Brother Ou is so old-fashioned every time he speaks, as if you are an old man!" The discussion pouted on the other end of the phone, pouting his lips with a dissatisfied face. But then he remembered something, and cried while holding the microphone: "Brother Ou, we didn't even have a plating this time!" Woooooo
"What plating? What doesn't? Which time? "Ou Chuliang didn't understand for a while!
"Asian Youth Championships!" Deliberation muttered.
"Asian Youth Championships?" After hearing this name, Ou Chuliang was a little confused.
You are all people who have participated in the World Junior Championships and won the World Youth Championships, why do you live more and more backwards?
However, if you think about it carefully, if you look at your age alone, it seems that there is no problem in participating in this World Youth Championships.
But every time he thinks of the words "Asian Youth Championships", Ou Chuliang feels very awkward.
"That's right, we lost again, we lost so badly, woo woo woo..." โ