Chapter Seventy-Three: Spring Festival Gala

After winning the award, Ling Feng became the first player in history to win a Grand Slam, and he won all the awards of the player in this year - World Footballer of the Year, Ballon d'Or (European Footballer of the Year), Most Valuable Player, Asian Footballer of the Year and Chinese Footballer of the Year!

The Asian Footballer of the Year award was presented in Kuala Lumpur, and Ling Feng didn't have time to go for a trip, but as for the Chinese Footballer Award, a strange model was set up - it was awarded at the Spring Festival Gala!

Regardless of whether this practice is considered a commercial hype, at least awarding this substantially deserved award to Ling Feng at the Spring Festival Gala, which almost all Chinese are paying attention to, can also be regarded as a kind of creativity, or for Ling Feng, it is a kind of pressure.

Regardless of whether the Spring Festival Gala has become worse and worse in recent years, but his influence is still large enough, on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, when the influence of literary and artistic programs on various local stations is not as good as the Spring Festival Gala, the Spring Festival Gala has become the most watched Chinese New Year's Eve program.

Especially overseas, people like Ling Feng, even if they don't like literary and artistic programs very much, will sit in front of the TV on Chinese New Year's Eve to watch the Spring Festival Gala broadcast live on the National Land Channel to represent a wave of homesickness.

As for the ordinary Chinese Footballer selection, it is expected that not too many fans like to watch it, but in the Spring Festival Gala, it is to announce this matter to the people of all China, and to pick up the trophy in front of more than a billion people, for Ling Feng, it has to be regarded as a kind of pressure, a kind of motivation that spurs him to continue to work hard and not slack off.

The movie finally comes to an end on Easter Island. Ling Fengdi's performance can be said to have improved a lot - no way. As soon as something went wrong, the gangs of hooligans burst into earth-shattering laughter, even Ling Feng's thick skin couldn't stand it.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest, this is probably a kind of evolution.

Europe's top five leagues are back in flames, and due to the World Cup, the schedule of the major leagues has been drastically reduced. The winter break, which originally started at the end of January, was brought forward by two months, and it is expected that in April this year, all European competitions will be over, leaving two months for the players to recuperate and prepare for the World Cup in France - in fact, Lao Bing made a mistake in my arrangement, sorry everyone, find a noodle and hang it......

Not surprisingly, a month and a half before the start of the second half of the season, Fiorentina played four Serie A matches. Winning both the Coppa Italia and the Champions League group stage at home and away continued their winning streak and extended their Serie A winning streak to a staggering 21 wins.

Horribly Florentine. Neither Atalanta nor AC Milan, who are currently in a slump, have been able to hinder Fiorentina in the slightest, but against AC Milan, Fiorentina did not hurt in their once glorious history, scoring only two goals for the Rossoneri while occupying most of the possession time on the field......

Such a generous approach made the Milan fans very satisfied, because with the situation of the game, Fiorentina should not be too difficult to play 5:0.

At the end of the group stage of the Champions League, Fiorentina and Real Madrid unsurprisingly both advanced to the quarter-finals – at a time when the Champions League had not yet been expanded, with only 16 teams participating.

And the opponent of the Champions Cup quarter. It was the Red Devils of the Premier League who did not perform well in the group stage and was squeezed into second place by Juventus - Manchester United!

Although there are still more than three weeks to go before the two teams match, at this time the European media has started a new round of clamour, and the topic of discussion is whether the Red Devils led by Eric Cantona can cut Fiorentina under the horse?!

The Serie A team handed in this failed answer with a total defeat record, which made many people depressed. Whether it is AC Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan, Parma and other teams, they all fell in front of Fiorentina, and Real Madrid also lost to Fiorentina twice, and the European media are always paying attention, which team will break Fiorentina's unbeaten golden body next - or can barely draw Fiorentina?!

In fact, the winning streak is not good news for the Fiorentina players, although they have set a record, but even if they want to continue to expand this record to the point that they play at their full level in every game, if this continues, the players are human beings, and sooner or later they will not be able to bear it.

What's more, the World Cup is imminent, and it is not a wise choice to waste too much physical strength in the league, so in the second half of the season, Maradona is adjusting the team's camp in a relocation, so that the opportunities for substitutes to play are increased, and the chances of the main players getting rest are also greatly enhanced.

The league game can be put on a loose footing, with Fiorentina scoring ten goals and conceding two in their first Serie A match, not as many as they scored in their first Coppa d'Italia game against Brescia at the start of the season.

In those games, Fiorentina's main players were on the bench in all but when they started against AC Milan – with the exceptions of Effenberg, Rui Costa and Shepchenko, who were unable to play in the World Cup.

Portugal and Ukraine are because they didn't make it to the finals, and Effenberg is a bit of an exception - this guy was hit and never made it to the national team again!

When the World Cup group draw results came down, China and Germany were divided into a group, and Beckenbauer immediately called Effenberg, hoping that he could return to the national team again, because now in the whole of Germany, the person who knows Ling Feng the most is Effenberg!

It's just that the stubborn tiger was hit too hard last time, and before Beckenbauer's words were finished, Effenberg hung up the phone, and then called Ling Feng, and only said one sentence: "When the World Cup meets the German team led by Vogts, I will slaughter Lao Tzu fiercely!" Tell him not to give me the main position!"

………… What a terrible resentment!

And then there's Baggio. Although old Maldini had already calculated in his mind. will definitely take him to France, but this news is only known to the old Maldini and goalkeeper coach Bolden, in order to ensure that he goes to France and ensure his main position, Baggio has always insisted on starting and has a good performance, and now the whole Italy is calling for Baggio to get higher and higher, and there is a momentum that your old Maldini will not come back if he does not take Baggio to France.

What if you just take it with you? Looking at Robert Baggio, who was working the training ground, Ling Feng sighed in his heart. Italy will lose again on penalties, who can blame for that?!

Ling Feng, Carlos and Barty were on the bench to give non-EU players a big chance, Shepchenko started several games except for the game against AC Milan and had a good performance, while the other two non-EU players had to be wasted, because Serie Methyl rules are that each team can only have five non-EU players when registering players, and no more than three can play at the same time.

Ling Feng didn't plan to let those Chinese boys set foot in the Serie A so early, so none of them registered - on the contrary, the Champions Cup system is very funny, and players under the age of 19 can participate in the Champions Cup without registration. Therefore, these young players can play in the Champions League and not represent Fiorentina in Serie A.

What a waste of talent, these lads have played in the last two Champions League games, and the other leagues have not played any games.

Just their performance in the Champions Cup. A large number of wealthy clubs have extended an olive branch to them!

Real Madrid, Bayern, Juventus and other clubs have approached Siyue, hoping to bring in these young players, while the Premier League teams have no way to throw olive branches to these young players because of labor license problems.

This is the most depressing thing in the Premier League!

In order to protect the interests and opportunities of British players, the FA has imposed strict restrictions on non-EU players, and they must represent the national team within two years with a probability of more than 75% in order to obtain a labor permit to participate in the Premier League and even League One.

This problem is negligible for Ling Feng, but for these young players who have not played for the national team. This is a particularly big problem.

But fortunately, the current Chinese players are not like before, praying to God and Buddha to go abroad to various clubs, even giants like Real Madrid and Bayern are interested in introducing better players, as for the little guys who have good potential at other levels. There are so many places to go!

But Ling Feng didn't plan to let them enter the giants in advance, because the heavy game was a kind of physical and mental destruction for the young players - not everyone was as perverted as Ling Feng, so some second-rate teams in Ligue 1, La Liga and Eredivisie became Ling Feng's first choice.

And Ling Feng has planned to take a few of these particularly outstanding young players to France, although there are not many opportunities for them to play, but after all, the atmosphere of the game environment will be the wealth of these young players for a lifetime.

And imagine that when the 02 World Cup began, the main lineup of the Chinese team at that time was probably these little guys!

January 27, 1998, the evening, December 29 of the lunar calendar, that is, the night of Chinese New Year's Eve.

"Ah Feng, don't be so nervous," a middle-aged man in a white Tang suit said with a smile on his face, "You're not like this on the court." ”

"The profession is different!" Ling Feng loosened the tie that was too tight, and said with a wry smile: "You are only in this line on the stage, and I am in the field in that industry, how can it be compared?" Big Brother Jackie Chan!"

That's right, this middle-aged man is the famous Chinese martial arts superstar Jackie Chan, who was also invited to participate in the Spring Festival Gala this time, and his show is a chorus with Ling Feng - True Hero.

One is a world-famous superstar in football, and the other is a film and television superstar who has successfully established himself in Hollywood, the common feature of the two is patriotism, and the meaning of the Spring Festival Gala is also obvious, with the help of the chorus of these two Chinese brands in the world, the atmosphere of the party will be adjusted to the highest peak.

In fact, the original arrangement was to let Ling Feng and Han Jing, the most popular young people now, sing, but Ling Feng didn't agree to die, and refused because Han Jing couldn't sing the masculinity in "True Hero" - in fact, he didn't want to appear with Han Jing again, otherwise the two of them would always give people a feeling of a couple when they walked on stage hand in hand.

"The next show is very exciting," the party entered the middle of the party, and the host's mysterious words made the audience's interest suddenly raise a step: "Do you see this trophy in my hand, by the way, this is the trophy of the Chinese Footballer, and now, as the winner of the 4th Chinese Footballer, he also came to our party in person to prepare to receive the award, let's talk about who he is!"

"Ling Feng!" Not only the party scene, almost all of China shouted this name at this moment, the Chinese Footballer Selection is now the fourth, the winners of the first two sessions were Li Bing and Fan Zhiyi, and last year, when Ling Feng personally picked up and threw the Asian Cup, and pointed to the nose of the Football Association and began to scold, the Chinese Footballer was awarded to Liu Wei, who everyone shouted!

This is a shame for Chinese football! The fans replied like this, and now, this honor has finally returned to Ling Feng's hands, although a mere Chinese footballer may not necessarily be placed in Ling Feng's eyes, but he represents the first person who is now the real name of Chinese football!

"Thank you, thank you friends," Ling Feng's performance at this time was like a primary school student, where was there a half-point on the court: "I won't say much nonsense, in the World Cup in France four months later, I will lead the Chinese team to a good ranking, I didn't give myself any indicators, not that I must enter the quarterfinals, or the semi-finals or anything like that, but I will do my best in every game to satisfy all the fans, and let all the people who support Chinese football see the day when Chinese football takes off." !”

There was a wave of applause......

"The '98 World Cup is the first time that China has entered the finals of the World Cup," Ling Feng continued: "I hope that this promotion will bring us more experience in the competition, and in four years, I will go with all the players of the Chinese team to win the golden Hercules Cup at home!"

"This is, my Ling Feng's oath!"

The audience was boiling, Ling Feng once again affirmed his determination to compete for the 02 World Cup, this sentence spread to all corners of the world through the airwaves, saying such a thing in such a high-rated program, the shock to people on the scene is far greater than reading the newspapers and news Ling Feng said that he would use the Hercules Cup as a wedding gift with Siyue.

It's just that the fans still don't understand what Ling Feng means, Ling Feng said that it was at the door of the house, because South Korea and Japan are very close to China, so there is nothing wrong with saying this, but what Ling Feng really means is that the 2002 World Cup is not the South Korea-Japan World Cup, but the China World Cup!