February 14, 2010

Valentine’s Day.

This day is also the Chinese New Year.

On this day's CCTV sports news, a short video of the entire Aston Villa team congratulating the Chinese New Year was played.

Aston Villa manager Fang Jue is in the C position.

To his left are Deisler, Clement, Gareth. Bale, Sadio. Mane, James. Milner, Senderos, Abonlaho and others.

To his right are Petrov, Ronaldo, Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Quaresma, Cuellar, Diego. Costa et al.

All of them were dressed in red Tang costumes, which was very festive.

Fang Jue spoke first, "On the occasion of the Spring Festival, I, Fang Jue-"

"Deisler."

"Ronaldo."

"David Beckham."

The players followed, saying their names in turn, and the camera also gave close-ups to everyone in turn.

"I wish you all a happy holiday and a happy family." Fang Jue said, raising his voice, "Happy Spring Festival!" ”

Beside him, many stars followed him with their hands in fists and said:

Happy Chinese New Year!

Although the pronunciation is not standard, everyone is beaming with joy and a happy smile on their faces.

This Spring Festival blessing video was also broadcast on the advertising screen of more than 20 cities across the country, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Chongqing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Shenyang, and Shenzhen, in the following seven days.

At the same time, Aston Villa's 'Vera House' franchise stores in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou also opened on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Aston Villa Club also officially announced that the club will successively select 100 lucky fans who have reached a certain amount of spending to arrange a week-long visit to Birmingham.

Fans will be able to visit the club's Hall of Fame.

Visit Villa's training base and interact with the rest of the players, including Ronaldo and David Beckham.

Finally, the club would like to invite everyone to the Villa Park Stadium to watch the 38th round of the league and the final round of the league home game.

The cost of accommodation, food and transportation for all the lucky fans who were selected will be covered by Aston Villa FC.

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This was reported by the British news agency Reuters.

Reuters commented that Aston Villa, which has a Chinese background and the team's head coach is also Chinese, has unique conditions, and now, this traditional Premier League powerhouse, the biggest dark horse in the Premier League this season, has begun to develop the huge Chinese market.

The British newspaper The Times even predicted that 'the most optimistic estimates are that with the opening of 'Vera House' franchises in three of China's most modern cities, as well as advertising, Aston Villa may be able to have millions of new fans in China by the end of the season.' ’

"The Times underestimated the influence of Fang Jue and Aston Villa in China." Sports Weekend, China's largest domestic sports print media, commented.

"There are also stars like Ronaldo, David Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Deisler, they represent the youth of a generation."

"And Gareth. Young stars like Bale and Abang Laho. ”

"There are veterans like Ronaldo and David Beckham."

"There are young rising stars."

"The most important thing is to have a sense of well-being."

"Now, a lot of fans continue to like their home team and make Aston Villa their second home team."

"Even a lot of spectators who are not fans have joined in - Fang Jue's handsome appearance is not inferior to that of a star, and directing the game on the sidelines adds to the handsome temperament, which attracts many female fans."

This issue of Sports Weekly used a few photos of long queues in front of three Vera Casa franchises in China.

One of the most conspicuous is that there are many female customers.

They bought a special jersey from Aston Villa.

The jersey number is 1231, and the name behind the jersey is the Chinese character: Fang Jue!

1231 is Fang Jue's birthday.

In the store of the franchise store, there is also a huge poster, Fang Jue wearing this special jersey, smiling and sunny...... Charming.

This special jersey is the hottest to sell, even more so than David Beckham's No. 7 jersey.

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In fact, Fang Jue is shy and easily shy.

He initially did not agree with the club's plans for a 'special' jersey.

However, in the end, he reluctantly chose to accept it.

Because, Byron, the general manager of the club, said very bluntly, coach, you alone can influence the whole team!

On February 21, the 27th round of the league.

Aston Villa play Burnley at home.

This game is not the focus of this round.

For Aston Villa, though, there is something special about this game.

Aston Villa's last defeat in all competitions was away to Burnley in the 13th round of the league.

In this game, the media is also curious, what kind of performance can Aston Villa show in the face of the 'bitter master'?

In the end, Ronaldo opened the scoring, Abang Lajo scored twice, Garethbel and Quaresma and Petrov also scored a goal each.

Aston Villa avenged a first-leg away defeat with a 6-2 win at home to Burnley.

In the other game, league leaders Chelsea won 2-0 away at Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Despite the win, it wasn't an easy win for Chelsea.

They scored twice in the final 10 minutes of the game to seal the win.

The team's midfielder Frank Lampard also left the pitch with an injury.

Anelka was also substituted with a muscle strain.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, everyone could see the tiredness of the whole Chelsea squad.

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Fang Jue showed a smug smile, he dug the hole for Chelsea in the FA Cup, and this game paid off.

The biggest surprise came in three hours.

Manchester United faced Everton away and lost a surprising 3-1.

After the game, some Everton fans also went to Chelsea's fan forum to leave a message: Che boss, now, we don't owe you anything.

In the last round of the league, it was Everton who defeated Chelsea 2-1 and broke out a big upset.

In this round of the league, they overturned Manchester United again.

There was a lot of buzz at the bottom of this post from this Everton fan, not only Chelsea fans were replying to him, but also Manchester United fans were coming to 'complain'.

Blues and Red Devils fans even lined up to leave messages: Don't forget, there's Aston Villa!

The 27th round of the league is over, and the situation in the Premier League standings:

Chelsea are top of the table with 61 points;

Aston Villa are second with 61 points;

After losing this round, Manchester United has 56 points and is in third place;

Arsenal have 51 points and are in fourth place.

The prevailing view in the media is that the defeat is a big blow to Manchester United, who are now five points behind Chelsea and Aston Villa, and it will be too late to catch up.