Chapter 761: The Red Milan Empire

No one objected! Baresi surveyed everyone in the room with his gaze. So, now please welcome Zhuo Yang to join us with applause. ”

"Welcome, Zhuo Yang, you are the twenty-eighth knight of the Round Table. Glory to Milan! The room erupted in thunderous applause.

This past season, Franco Baresi, who was standing in the distance, saw all the shortcomings of the round table.

The Cavaliers' obsession with status has hindered the team's succession, and many of their own top academy players have no choice but to leave their home country because they never get the opportunity. No Veesmara academy player has established himself in Milan's first team since Ambrosini, and Ambu is 32 years old.

In the name of unity, there is a serious cohesion among the Italian players, so that the outstanding international players can never return to their hearts, and they cannot form a sense of belonging to Milanello. From Georges Weah, Bierhoff, Boban and Savčevic, to Shevchenko and Rui Costa, to Kaka and Zojan, the Round Table failed to make them loyal to Milan.

Under the banner of glory, but involuntarily suppressed and excluded, forcibly suppressed all objections, the round table lost its open-mindedness, and the pattern gradually became narrow.

The subconscious desire to maintain his position in Milanello has been exploited by the higher-ups, many people have become 'undercover agents' consciously or unconsciously, and the round table has lost its secrets and is no longer monolithic.

Under the continuous suppression of the club's top management, the voice of the round table has been at an all-time low, its influence in the team is declining, and the deterrent power of the entire Italian football is also declining.

Of course, the Round Table is still great and flawed, but the appearance of these shortcomings means that the Round Table has deviated from its original intention, violated its original intention, and gradually became narrow and out of place. All of these drawbacks have their causal roots planted in the formulation of a narrow access system.

In the context of world globalization and the trend of open business and prosperity in football, the system of only allowing Italian players to participate in the round table is very contrary to reality, going against the trend, and the road can only get narrower and narrower, and all the drawbacks have arisen.

The old knights who retired but did not leave Milanello have withdrawn from the round table one after another, Rossi, Massaro, Gali, Nava, Evani, Fiori and others, as well as Ancelotti and Costacuta, who chose to leave the round table precisely because they recognized these shortcomings. Now, Baresi, the greatest standard-bearer of the Round Table, has finally realized this.

As a result, Baresi began to revisit Maldini's suggestion and re-examine Zhuo Yang.

Since the summer of 2006, Zhuo Yang has been in Milan for three years, and in these three years, AC Milan has won two Champions Cups, a League Cup, a Serie A, an Italian FA Cup, two UEFA Super Cups, and an Intercontinental Cup (Toyota Cup).

AC Milan became a Grand Slam club in these three years, becoming treble-winners. It has set a new record for unbeaten in the five major leagues, a new record for goals in a single season in Serie A, and a record for assists in a single season in Serie A.

In terms of individual honors, AC Milan has had two Ballon d'Or awards and two world footballers in three years, monopolized the best player and top scorer in Serie A in three years, and monopolized the European Golden Boot and assist king.

Even in the heyday of the Milanese dynasty, victories and honors were never so intensive. Nowadays, the outside world is already calling it the 'Milan Empire', and some media simply call it the 'Red Milan Empire'. 'Red' is both an explicit reference to AC Milan's red and black striped shirt, as well as an allusion to Zhuo Yang from China. It is self-evident who is the greatest hero of the empire and who is the king of the empire.

In the past three years, Zhuo Yang has repeatedly saved the team at critical moments, and in the 07 Champions Cup final and the 08 League Cup final, Zhuo Yang stepped forward to lead the team out of the crisis. Without Zhuo Yang, there would be no two champions.

Needless to say, Zhuo Yang supported the rise of the Milan Empire in terms of spirit and willpower. In the penultimate round of the past Serie A against Roma, captain Maldini almost collapsed because of the pickling of fans, and Ambrosini, the captain's successor who had high hopes, also collapsed and left the field with a red card. If Zhuo Yang hadn't taken the lead in regaining his courage and sanity, the team's efforts for a season would have been in vain.

In the past season, in the midst of turmoil at the top and internal sordid contention, Zhuo Yang and Maldini have united the team to heights never reached by the Round Table. Zhuo Yang did not suppress anyone in Milanello, did not exclude dissidents, and did not deliberately emphasize his right to speak, which is the biggest difference between him and the round table group.

Zhuo Yang accepts and unites every player with an open and inclusive mind, selflessly helps his teammates on the pitch, actively promotes young players, and uses his superb on-pitch strength and personality to unite the team tightly, and the treble is the supreme achievement he has established for AC Milan after three years of hard work. The Milan Empire did not crown Zhuo Yang, but he consolidated the foundations of the empire.

After seeing all this, Baresi was relieved, he finally understood Maldini's good intentions, and Maldini's approach was really thinking about AC Milan for the long term, rather than just making the Knights of the Round Table a little rich.

The acceptance of Zhuo Yang by the round table represents advancing with the times, facing the future with an open attitude, and returning to the original intention of the round table group at the beginning of its founding.

Baresi agreed to Maldini's suggestion and split up with Maldini to do the work of the other knights, as the Order's admission was denied by one vote. At this time, it has reached the end of the season, and the 27 new and old knights already know the situation faced by the round table group, and Zhuo Yang becoming a new knight is more of a symbolic meaning, a positive symbol.

There is no need for the old and departed Knights of the Round Table to object, otherwise it will be embarrassing for Baresi and Maldini not to invite you to attend. The current knights will not object, they know Zhuo Yang's exploits better than anyone else, and they also want Zhuo Yang to enter the round table more than anyone else.

So, the matter was settled. However, Maldini ignored a crucial question: whether Zhuo Yang himself was willing to become a Knight of the Round Table.

Perhaps because he is not a native of Milanello's academy, nor is he an old ball oil who has been in the Apennines for many years, or a local Italian player, Zhuo Yang does not have the feeling of worshipping the round table. After coming to Milan for three years, he learned a lot about the history of the round table group, and Zhuo Yang respected them, but to be honest, he didn't think that the round table was so noble and sacred, it was nothing more than a group of old qualifications trying their best to control the right to speak.

And whether joining the round table group by himself will cause estrangement and disgust among the international players in the team, these Zhuo Yang have to consider. So, at first he was hesitant about Maldini's proposal.

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