Considering that Yan Junling first arrived in Madrid and was completely unfamiliar with the place, Wen Zhihao naturally wanted to help him as much as he could. So Wen Zhihao asked him to live here temporarily, and he could move out at any time after renting a house and gaining a foothold here.

Yan Junling's off-court personality is actually not extroverted, and he is a little shy, he is very embarrassed, and feels that this is very troublesome Wen Zhihao. Wen Zhihao said to him directly: "Dayan, you don't have so many worries, in fact, I just came to Europe from China, and when I joined Vitesse for the first time, Brother Zhang Yuning invited me to live with me like this." Later, we got along very happily, we left our hometown from China to here, it was not easy for everyone, and it was supposed to help each other. And we know each other so well, I'm sure we'll get along very well, besides, this house is not small, one person lives empty, and you just want to contribute some popularity when you live in. How could this be better than a hotel? ”

"That's okay, I'll pack up my things and move in in two days, and I'll trouble you later." Feeling Wen Zhihao's kindness, Yan Junling finally accepted his kindness.

"What are you talking about, don't be polite to me." Wen Zhihao waved his hand, but suddenly thought of his eldest brother Zhang Yuning, as if there was no news after going to Bremen, and he didn't even play in the World Cup......

Atletico Madrid did not announce a transfer news on their official website until the day before the first team was concentrated: the club signed a two-year contract with Chinese goalkeeper Yan Junling for a transfer fee of 3.5 million euros.

This transfer news caused a lot of shock in the Spanish media, this is the second season of Atletico Madrid to introduce Chinese players in the transfer window, apparently all the media think that Wen Zhihao has made Atletico Madrid taste the sweetness, so Atletico Madrid has increased its attention to Chinese players. In other words, Yan Junling was stained with Wen Zhihao's light.

In the Chinese media circle, it is not that everyone has no feeling about Yan Junling's landing in European giants. Rather, I had already noticed the clues. Although Atletico Madrid's secrecy measures are strict enough, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Shanghai SIPG's secrecy work has not been done so well, and after the World Cup, the Chinese media have a hunch that these international players may collectively have big moves, so the attention is focused on them, and with the ability of the Chinese media to spy on the news, it is difficult to hide their secrets.

Still, after the transfer was finalized, the domestic sports media in China still rushed to report and write about it. "The first newspaper of domestic football" "Football Weekly" commented: Yan Junling became the second Chinese player to land in a European giant, of which Wen Zhihao played a very active leading role. Such a statement was quoted by most of the media, and for a time this opinion became the mainstream of public opinion.

In fact, if Wen Zhihao is really regarded as a pioneer, his role is much more than that. Yan Junling's joining Atletico Madrid is just the beginning of another wave of foreign travel after the World Cup.

Chinese players who have been unanimously praised by the media at the World Cup have landed in Europe from China, and this summer transfer window is a festival for all Chinese fans.

Four days after Atletico Madrid officially announced the signing of Yan Junling, last season's La Liga champion, Rayo Vallecano, the champion of La Liga, announced that Chinese international striker Wu Qiuwang would join for a transfer fee of 4 million euros. He became the second Chinese player in the club's history after Zhang Chengdong in the 2015-16 season. And Zhang Chengdong originally joined on loan, so strictly speaking, Wuqiu Wang is the first Chinese player in the true sense of the history of Rayo Vallecano.

Subsequently, another La Liga promoted club, Huesca, announced that it had reached an agreement with Guangzhou Evergrande, the Chinese Super League hegemon, to join the team for a year on loan from international fullback Deng Hanwen, who had just finished the World Cup. In addition, according to Evergrande insiders, if Deng Hanwen can meet Huesca's requirements after the expiration of his loan, the team fully supports Deng Hanwen to stay in the European arena for training, and Huesca has Deng Hanwen's right of first refusal.

In fact, this is not over, even some of the older players in the Chinese team have frequent scandals with European clubs. Bundesliga Hertha Berlin and Mainz were revealed to be very interested in Hao Junmin, who had the experience of Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga. However, there has been no official response from both sides. Public opinion is also waiting and expecting.

The official announcement of Chinese players staying abroad has appeared in succession, and the fans are crazy, and the media is completely fried. As it turns out, there are many benefits to playing well in the World Cup.

No, seeing that the second wave of Chinese players collectively staying abroad is coming!

And when was the last time the national team collectively stayed abroad? It was also after the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan that the Chinese team competed.

Although the Chinese team had a dismal performance in that World Cup, losing all three games and exiting the group, the international players still received the attention of European clubs. The biggest beneficiary was Li Tie, the main defender of the national team at that time, who joined Everton in the Premier League after the World Cup and once occupied the main role in the Premier League. The "Chinese Derby" staged by Li Tie and Sun Jihai in the Premier League at that time was even more talked about by fans. Although Li Weifeng, who joined Everton with him, failed to gain a foothold, the "big head" was able to be favored by the South Korean K-League team Suwon Samsung later in his career, and it cannot be ruled out that it was also because he had World Cup experience, although he was old, but his experience was trustworthy.

Not only that, but after that World Cup, even Ma Mingyu, the then captain of the national football team, who was 33 years old at the time, got the opportunity to go to the Serie A team Perugia for a trial......

And after more than ten years, the wave of staying abroad again is even more exciting for fans, because the players who are favored by European clubs are younger, and even the martial arts king, who has been criticized by fans in China, actually has room to rise, not to mention Deng Hanwen.

Another point that Chinese fans are concerned about is the relocation of Chinese players to overseas gathering places.

Japanese and South Korean players see the Bundesliga, which is completely open to foreign players and good at developing young players, as a destination for overseas stays, and the Bundesliga has long been seen as the best springboard for Asian players to land in the top five leagues. With Wen Zhihao's success at Atletico Madrid, Chinese players began to form a relationship with La Liga teams. Originally, the biggest obstacle for Chinese players to land in La Liga was that the technical ability of Chinese players did not match the high standards of La Liga's technical stream, but now, La Liga teams seem to be willing to invest in Chinese players to help Chinese players improve.

This is the manifestation of Wen Zhihao's star effect. It played the role of a leader, because with the specimen of success, the team and the players have a goal. This is the same as when Sun Jihai was prosperous in Manchester City, and then Li Tie and Li Weifeng followed in the footsteps of the Premier League.

Wen Zhihao's star effect has brought benefits to Chinese players, but on the other hand, it has driven Simeone crazy.

The reason is very simple, the first team has lost too much blood this summer, the second goalkeeper Moya, the back Augusto? Fernandez, Gameiro, Vietto, Belgian international Carrasco and Argentine international winger Gaitan have left the team one after another, and the first team has lost six players at once. Simeone seemed to be in a hurry, and the people on his recruitment list were not in place for a long time, which greatly affected the team's pre-season preparation.

And three of the six departures from Atletico Madrid will end up in the Chinese Super League in China! Augusto? Fernandez transferred to Beijing Renhe, a promoted Malaysia in the Chinese Super League, for 5 million euros, while Carrasco and Gaitan joined Dalian Yifang, who were also promoted to the Chinese Super League, for a transfer fee of 30 million euros and 10 million euros respectively.

Although in the second half of last season, Simeone's CG combination was the backbone of the attack, and the chances of the two appeared sharply, but the media never expected that the two would go to China to pan for gold, especially Carrasco, who was only twenty-four years old and was at the beginning of the golden age of his career.

However, the media knows very well that the success of this deal has a lot to do with the fact that Atletico Madrid's original second shareholder is the same group behind the current China Super Lian Party. The deal also ushered in a new model of transfer deals in football: a stake for a player......

To get back to the point, although the first team is facing a shortage of soldiers and generals for the time being, Simeone's normal preparations before the season have been progressing in an orderly manner.

Having won last season's treble, Atletico Madrid received an invitation from the Organising Committee of the International Champions Cup to participate in the international commercial tournament that takes place every summer before the start of the season.

The predecessor of the International Champions Cup is the International Football Challenge, which began in 2009 and is held once a year, except for 2010, when the World Cup in South Africa was suspended.

The tournament is also being held in an expanding area, with the main venue being the United States. Since 2013, the first International Champions Cup has been held in the United States, renamed by the International Football Challenge. In 2014, the International Champions Cup has rapidly expanded to 13 cities in the United States and Canada. In 2015, the International Champions Cup was extended to the Asia-Pacific region, with China, Australia, the United States and Europe. In 2017, the International Champions Cup was joined in Singapore.

And the teams invited to this tournament are all prestigious and well-established European traditional giants. The likes of Real Madrid and Milan, as well as Premier League giants Chelsea, have participated in many competitions, and this year is the first time Atletico Madrid have participated.

Although the pre-season time is very tight, there is only half a month left in the European Super Cup, and after that, there is the Spanish Super Cup, the two pre-season titles, Atletico Madrid does not want to give it away, but the club president Enrique? Cerezo is still resolute to participate, Simeone is actually more worried about the state of the players, if there is an unexpected injury in the commercial game, it will be more than worth the loss, it is not cost-effective, but the club has club considerations, this is an opportunity to compete with the city's rivals in the market, especially the Asian market with huge potential, Atletico Madrid now wants to firmly grasp it.

Of course, Cerezo would have taken a different perspective when he persuaded Simeone.

"Diego, isn't this an opportunity to take a look at everyone's form and prepare for the two Super Cups, and you don't have to worry, I guarantee that when the season really starts, your players will still be strong."

The first team was short of personnel, and Simeone could only promote six players from the B team and the youth team in one go, and put together a list of 26 players to rush to Asia for the international Champions Cup.

Atletico Madrid will compete in two tournaments in this year's International Champions Cup, the first of which will be Singapore. Playing AC Milan and Arsenal respectively, the squad will travel to Guangzhou, China, to face Premier League giants Chelsea and host Guangzhou Evergrande as a Chinese team invited for the first time.

The first appearance of a Chinese Super League team in the International Champions Cup is also largely a reflection of China's growing position in international football.

As the former "king of celestial bodies", Wen Zhihao returned to Tianhe to fight against his old master, just such a highlight is enough to make Atletico Madrid earn enough popularity.

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Since the main venue of the International Champions Cup is in the United States, there are only three teams in both Asian regions, and each team can play two single round-robin matches to determine the final champion.

In Singapore, Atletico's first opponent is seven-time Champions League winners, traditional Serie A giants AC Milan.

However, the giant club is no longer what it used to be, finishing sixth in Serie A last season and can only participate in the Europa League, which is obviously a notch behind the current Atletico Madrid.

There was no suspense in the final result, 4:1, Atletico Madrid won the first big win of the International Champions Cup.

It is worth mentioning that although Atletico Madrid scored four goals, none of them belonged to Wen Zhihao. Simeone sent a large number of young players, Wen Zhihao, as the core of the team, naturally understands that young players have a chance to perform, so he mainly does the work of threading the needle in the midfield and sending a key pass, he sent two assists, and the young Barre who had an outstanding performance in the Copa del Rey last season and the eighteen-year-old striker Giovanni both scored two goals, Simeone's expression is slightly better, at least these two players are a discovery.

In the second game of the Singapore leg, the focus against Arsenal is not on Atletico Madrid's side, and the main focus of the media is how Aubameyang, who switched from "Hornet" Dortmund to Arsene Wenger for a transfer fee of 63 million euros, can show on his debut at his new club.

In this game, Simeone added some of last season's core player rotation to the starting line-up. Antoine Griezmann, Godin and Saul started the game.

It was Arsenal who broke the deadlock first. It was Aubameyang who scored the goal. Eighteenth minute. Alexandre Lacazette shaking off Lucas on the wing? Hernandez then crossed and Aubameyang poked in front of goal to head home.

After conceding the goal, Atletico began to get serious, and the overall high pressure in the midfield pushed Arsenal's formation further and further back, and soon Atletico Madrid firmly controlled the pace of the game in their own hands.

This is Atletico's killer move last season and has been tried and tested in any competition. Let Barcelona and Real Madrid suffer, Arsenal's defense is not airtight, and naturally it is even more powerless.

In the end, Atletico scored three goals in a row and beat Arsenal 3-1. In the two Champions Cup games in Singapore, he scored seven goals and conceded two goals, and his attacking power was still quite good.

After the first leg of the competition in Singapore, the whole Atletico Madrid team flew to Guangzhou non-stop to welcome the second leg of the International Champions Cup.