Chapter 30: New Season Goal: Five Crowns!
When Wen Zhihao's flight arrived at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, Liu Yongzhuo, chairman of Evergrande Club, personally went to pick him up. Patting Wen Zhihao on the shoulder, Liu Yongzhuo said happily: "Zhihao, I've finally waited for you!" ”
Looking at Wen Zhihao, who had returned to normal, Liu Yongzhuo was relieved, and his eyes were full of expectation.
Avoiding the frenzied media and fans at the airport, Wen Zhihao came to the Evergrande Hotel, where the club prepared a welcome party for Wen Zhihao, which was attended by Xu Jiayin, chairman of the board of directors of Evergrande Group, Cannavaro, the team's head coach and all the members of the Evergrande first team.
As Wen Zhihao walked past Cannavaro, the two met their eyes, then high-fived each other and smiled at the same time.
At last year's Serie A U15 award ceremony, Cannavaro also expressed high expectations for Wen Zhihao. Unexpectedly, a year later, the two actually started a cooperation in China, thousands of miles away, with a new identity.
Fate is sometimes so wonderful.
Both Xu Jiayin and Cannavaro warmly welcomed Wen Zhihao's arrival and took the opportunity to set the goal of returning to the top of Asia in the new season. Wen Zhihao has no objection to this, in his opinion, a big club should have such ambitions.
In fact, Wen Zhihao's goal is much more than that.
After the welcome meeting, Wen Zhihao must attend the press conference for him to join Evergrande. Although Evergrande has made an official announcement a few months ago, Wen Zhihao has not yet made an official appearance on behalf of Evergrande.
At the press conference, dozens of media were ready to move. The first rising star Wen Zhihao joins Asia's No. 1 giant, Guangzhou Evergrande, and when these two highly concerned elements are combined, the eyeball effect produced is immeasurable.
What is even more interesting to the media is that Wen Zhihao will wear the No. 15 jersey for Evergrande in the new season. This number is the core of Evergrande's previous generation, the "King of Celestial Bodies" Damio? Conca's jersey number. Now that Wen Zhihao has taken over this robe, does it have a deeper meaning?
Entering the reporter's question session, the reporter of *Lang.com took the lead in asking: "Zhihao, you won the double champion of the youth league in Europe last year, why did you choose to return to China to join Evergrande after your comeback?" What are your considerations? ”
Wen Zhihao frowned slightly, he remembered that the "bangate" incident some time ago was the first caused by this media, and now he asked such a sharp question again, this is deliberately giving himself eye medicine. Wen Zhihao was also not polite, and directly scolded back: "I have to admit that the sincerity of the Evergrande Club makes me unable to refuse." Moreover, Evergrande is a team full of vitality, and I believe that I can realize my value in such a team. ”
As soon as the words fell, Wen Zhihao suddenly turned his head to the reporter and said: "Miss reporter, if you are interested in why I chose to join Evergrande, I very much welcome your juniors to become teammates with me in the future." ”
There was a commotion in the media. This is true, euphemistic but domineering!
Think I join Evergrande because I don't want to forge ahead? At least I can! What about you? Hehe!
Another media asked head coach Cannavaro what he thought of Wen Zhihao's joining the team, Cannavaro glanced at Wen Zhihao and said: "When a player has been able to stand on the podium of the Europa League and win two individual honors at the same time, there is no doubt that this player is already very good. The ability that Zhihao has shown at his age is very rare among the players I've seen. Getting a player with such immeasurable potential is probably my greatest luck as a manager. ”
As the press conference drew to a close, a reporter from an online TV asked Cannavaro: "Next year is the first season of your coaching career, can you reveal what your goals are for the new season?" ”
Before Cannavaro could speak, Wen Zhihao next to him took the microphone and replied: "As a championship club, there should be a steady stream of desire for victory. We lost a lot of trophies last season and we want to get them back next season! So, our goals for the new season are ...... Five-time crown! ”
The scene was suddenly amazed. The media had the same first reaction: Is Wen Zhihao crazy or Evergrande crazy? Five-crown winner!!
What is the Five Crowns? The three championships in the domestic arena, the Super Cup, the League, the FA Cup, plus the AFC Champions League, are four crowns; And the fifth title is the Club World Cup!
The first four championships are good to say, and it is possible to win them with the strength of Evergrande. But the Club World Cup champion, this Nima is, right?
You know, winning the Club World Cup means beating both the European and South American champions. Evergrande wants to step on strong European giants such as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern and South American giants such as River Plate Boca at the same time?
it!
The reporters all thought that Wen Zhihao was too young and liked to speak wildly, and they all looked at Cannavaro. Cannavaro smiled meaningfully, then his eyes deliberately widened, he made an exaggerated expression, and said, "I believe in my teammates, there is nothing that cannot be achieved!" ”
The reporters are completely speechless, damn me! Don't be so crazy!
A big madman, a little madman!
On the same day, reporters sent out the statements of Wen Zhihao and Cannavaro, which unsurprisingly caused a sensation again.
Mr. Wen did not pay attention to the reaction of the outside world. He spent all day at the club's training ground, pulling his new teammate Feng Xiaoting to practice one-on-one passes and long passes. Feng Xiaoting, who is the first central defender in the country, was embarrassed by Wen Zhi's luxurious and practical foot skills, and even said that this kind of pervert did not enter the national team.
Speaking of the national team, while Wen Zhihao is working hard, his Evergrande teammates are following the new coach Alain? Perrin competed in the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia. Under the circumstance that the outside world is generally not optimistic, the national team has unexpectedly exploded into amazing combat effectiveness. Three wins in the group stage to advance to the knockout round! Especially in the second game, when they were one goal behind, they reversed the "Central Asian Wolves" Uzbekistan team by two goals. In the second half, almost all Uzbekistan was suppressed, which made fans see the long-lost domineering of the national football team. This battle even attracted the attention of the whole of Asia. Wen Zhihao was naturally excited about the highlight performance of the national team. He can't remember how long it has been since the national team has put on such a vigorous performance.
However, in the first game of the knockout round, facing the host Australia, the Chinese team still showed the gap in strength. The whole game was passive, and Wu Lei on the forward line was alone, and was finally defeated by the opponent's veteran Tim? Cahill's two headers smashed the door to the last four.
Commentator Xu Yang said after the game that if the Chinese team can have a wing knife like Wen Zhihao, the game may be rewritten.
For a time, Wen Zhihao's call for being selected for the national team spread all over the Internet. The national football coach Perrin only said that the door of the national team is open to every player at any time, and he hopes that the players will use their performance to fight for it.
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With the return of the international players one after another, Evergrande has gradually entered the track of preparation for the new season. Throughout the winter transfer period, Evergrande once again made a big move: successively cleaned the Italian "Xuan Ming Er", who had a sluggish performance last season, and spent 15 million euros to replace Ricardo, the MVP of last season's Brazilian league? Goulart brought to Tianhe and poached the Europa League Golden Boot Allan from Red Bull Salzburg in Austria for 11 million euros.
Determined to re-emerge, the Chinese Super League hegemon is about to hit the first championship of the 2015 season: the Super Cup, the battle of the kings!