Chapter 55: Heels
Sophie receives a call from Anke asking her to come to Dawning Middle School, saying that she has something for her. As for what it was, Anke didn't say. "Anyway, you'll know when you come."
Sophie found Anke in the stands at the Dawning Stadium, sitting alone on a cement chair and looking at the teacher's apartment building opposite. Originally, there were the same grandstands on the opposite side, but they were later demolished because the school was building apartments for teachers. "I want to buy a house there." Anke pointed to the apartment across the street and said, "You can see people playing here at any time, and if your feet itch, you can go down and play football." Then buy a house for Zhang Jun, Yang Pan, and Ren Yudi, all of whom are neighbors...... Oh, and Kaka. I go to play football during the day and play cards at night. How nice it is to do nothing! But ......," Anke said with his head hanging down, "those are just dreams, and I have to work in Germany to support myself, where will I get the money to buy a house?" I really envy Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, as well as Kaka, they are all stars, and they have all made money......"
"Aren't you going to be a professional player?" Sophie, who had been in the audience, spoke.
"Not intended." Anke shook his head, and then took out a few envelopes from his bag, "These are from Zhang Jun and Yang Pan to your parents, and this one ......" He took out an envelope from the inner bag, which looked no different from the others, "It was given to you by Zhang Jun, New Year's card." Old-fashioned, right? Hehe, don't worry, I didn't peek at it. ”
Anke smiled, and Sophie blushed.
"I was going to come back to meet everyone, but that stinky boy from Ren Yudi disappeared for me and moved away! Let me run for nothing, Lao Liang also went back to his hometown for the Spring Festival, I haven't seen him for a long time, and I don't know how he is. This Spring Festival is so boring, I'll go back in two days, and I'll listen to my mother's nagging after staying at home for a long time! ”
"I'll send you." Sophie put the envelopes into her small bag.
"Don't, don't!" Anke hurriedly waved his hand, "As I said, when I leave, don't send it to anyone!" ”
Especially you, Sophie, in case I do that kind of thing in the atmosphere of parting, so that the brethren know that they will not eat me?
"Then tell me your address, and I'll send you something."
"What is it?"
"You'll know then, hehe!" Sophie laughed.
The two sat on the cold cement stands and talked about the past, the present, and the future, until the end of the day.
Anke patted his ass and stood up, stomping on his slightly numb legs: "It's time for me to go back." ”
Sophie also stood up, she stood on the upper steps, and gestured with her hand: "Anke has grown taller again, and I am still shorter than you." ”
"Hehe, I think you all need to look down!" Anke held her head up.
"Cut—" Sophie opened her arms and looked at Anke.
"What?"
"Hug me." Sophie said.
"Hug ...... Hug you! Play ...... Are you kidding? I ......"
Sophie took the initiative to hug her, "Even if I send you." Anke, it's hard for you to be alone in Germany......"
Anke burst into tears in her heart: "Woo! So excited! Sophie is getting more and more mature! ”
This big pervert......
"Sophie, it's snowing in the Netherlands, where's Luoyang?"
"It's not snowing, I really envy you. It's been a long time since I've seen Luoyang fall into heavy snow! ”
"Huh!"
"Don't giggle, snow affects you more, doesn't it? Your game ......"
"It doesn't matter if it snows or not, we're going to win. The cup is a knockout system, and if you lose one game, you can lose for a year! ”
"It's a shame I can't see the game."
It's a shame I can't see the game......
Zhang Jun looked at the heavy snow, which stopped yesterday and it took a day for the workers to clear the competition venue. It's a game today, but it's starting to fall again. Veronica is a small stadium with no geothermal equipment, and it is easy to get snow on the field.
The game was really not good, the weather was bad, and we ran into a strong team again. But as he said to Sophie on the phone, losing one cup game is a year's loss, and he's going to win anyway. It's not that he wants to prove anything, it's just that he doesn't want to taste failure.
Kozel saw Zhang Jun distracted by the heavy snow, thinking that he was worried about the weather, so he patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, we are at home, the opponent is a technical team, it doesn't feel much better than us, ...... in this snowfield"
"We must win ......"
"What?"
Zhang Jun turned his head to look at Kozel and said with a smile: "We must win this game!" Then he ran to warm up, and standing in a daze just now made him feel a little cold.
Adrianse was still loudly laying out tactics in the dressing room, and people who didn't understand Dutch would think he was loudly reprimanding a player.
"The weather conditions were terrible and I want everyone to be careful. Take care to protect yourself, after all, our goal is still relegation! The cup is a knockout game, it's not fun to fight one game at a time, and it's a good result for us to get to the quarter-finals. Don't be misled by comments from the outside world, they don't understand anything! ”
The Volendam fans braved the snow to watch and cheer for the team, they don't think as much about the future as Adrianse, they just know that the team is in the quarter-finals of the Dutch Cup, and it is not easy to have such a result as a promoted horse, but they are still looking forward to the team to continue to bring them joy.
Breda head coach Cate looked at the sky and frowned: "Damn the hell weather! A snowflake drifted into his eyes.
"We don't need to worry about anything at all, there is still a big gap between the other party and our strength. Moreover, the opponent's physical condition is not very good, and the last game against Feyenoord almost exhausted each of them. Even if the weather was bad, we were still able to win. The assistant coach said on the side.
"I hope so......" Carter muttered. The team is currently in good form in the league, moving up to third after three wins in a row, squeezing Feyenoord out of the top three after losing in the previous round, and he will naturally want to prove himself in the cup.
After a huge uproar, the game began. After the opening, the players on both sides were cautious due to the weather. After ten minutes of trial each, Breda gradually gained the upper hand, and third place in the league was not a matter of luck. They frequently fired from outside the box and caused Westrop plenty of problems.
"Sure enough, there is a gap in strength...... How could Breda capsize at such a small ball? Carter finally relented after twenty-five minutes of observation. Based on the current situation on the field, it is estimated that Breda will score sooner or later.
Of course, the home team is not completely without opportunities, and they also have a few beautiful counter-attack opportunities, but Zhang Jun, who receives the ball, will always slip on the field and give up control of the ball, which is a pity.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the fourth official took advantage of the fact that the ball was out of bounds and replaced the white ball with a red ball, so that it was much easier to distinguish the ball in the vast white snow.
Yang Pan's speed advantage was not fully exploited in this slippery field, and many times, he ran faster than the ball. Often, the soccer ball bounced twice behind him and stopped, and he himself couldn't stop and slid far away before stopping.
It was a tough game indeed, and the coach was right. It's too hard to do your best in this game...... Yang Pan didn't dare to dribble the ball, so he had to take advantage of the opponent's defender not pressing, and passed the football diagonally to the front of the penalty area, and Zhang Jun was inserting it there, which was the blind spot between the opponent's two central defenders!
Breda goalkeeper strikes!
Zhang Jun rushed quickly, but even if he got it, it would not be easy to deal with. The field was too slippery for him to dare to make a move. Plus, plus he ran through......
Zhang Jun shouted in his heart, "Oops! "When I looked back at the ball, there was a big mess under my feet, and I stumbled.
Some fans sighed, and it was a pity that there was a hard-won offensive opportunity.
If Zhang Jun can't get this ball, he will definitely hit the goalkeeper.
Jang Jun fell forward, dancing to keep his balance, but in vain. He fell! With his left leg lifted up, his heel touched a high ball from Yang Pan, the ball changed direction, flew over the head of the goalkeeper, and then crashed into the empty goal behind the goalkeeper in a very elegant parabola under the gaze of everyone......
The ball is in!
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!! ZHANG Jun!! ”
The snowflakes in the sky seemed to be disturbed by the roar in the football field, blurring Adrianse's eyes, and the game he wanted to give up was snatched back by Zhang Jun's incredible goal in the 70th minute, why is he always so unexpected, even the way he scores?
Zhang Jungang wanted to get up, but was crushed by a group of ecstatic teammates.
1:0! Warrendam leads rival Breda in the quarter-finals of the Dutch Cup! This goal was scored by Zhang Jun in an incredible posture in the 70th minute!
"Ula! Zhang Jun!! "The fans can only cheer loudly to show their affection for the young Chinese striker.
Carter turned around and punched the booth in the dugout. If you fall, you can still hook the ball with your heel, do you say it's luck? I stressed before the game that I asked the back line to pay attention to the Chinese on the number 21. Could it be that a few of his falls have made the defenders slack?
The game restarted and Breda stepped up their attack, but Warrendam grew stronger and braver, cheered on by the home fans. Maybe it was because of Zhang Jun's goal that they felt that Yanjing was standing by their side today. Immediately afterwards, Yang Pan also had a long-range shot that slid out of the goal, making the opponent's goalkeeper break out in a cold sweat.
Zhang Jun did his best in the game, as can be seen from the fact that he did not have a clean place of clothing on his body after being substituted.
When Adrianse replaced Zhang Jun with Ochu in the 80th minute, the fans in the stadium stood up and applauded Zhang Jun, thanking him for bringing such a beautiful goal to the team and his fighting spirit.
Draped in a thick coat, Jang Jun sat on the bench panting heavily. In this game, because of the venue, he almost doubled his physical strength than usual, and he felt so tired. But he still scored a beautiful goal, which made him very excited. As a striker, you can only find that presence if you continue to score goals on the field, right?
In fact, when Adrianse replaced Zhang Jun, it meant that the home team had given up attacking in this game, and they wanted to maintain the advantage of this goal until the end.
Naturally, Breda refused to be eliminated from the tournament like this, and they launched an almost frantic counteroffensive for the rest of the day. However, the weather was fair for both sides, and the muddy and slippery pitch would make it more difficult to defend but not much easier for the attackers.
The rest of the game was almost spent in constant active mistakes on both sides, and the moment the referee blew the final whistle, the whole court boiled! Warrendam made it all the way to the semi-finals of the Dutch Cup as a promoted horse!
Zhang Jun, the hero of the victory and the only scorer, has once again become a topic of conversation. His back-heel goal was once again voted Goal of the Week by the Dutch media, and some even compared his goal to Ajax's Van der Vaart's back-heel goal not long ago, and dubbed it "Scorpion Tail". However, the Chinese media have given it the name "Shenlong Tail Swing", and they generally think that the word "scorpion" is not very elegant.
Li Yan got the relevant report sent back by Wang Hua and read it carefully several times. Although he is still in China, he is still in charge of all the reporting work related to Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, and he has even suggested that the agency send reporters to continue to follow up on Li Yongle, who is still in college. "Don't look at him as not famous now, he only appeared as a friend of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan in the interview, but he will definitely be famous in the future. At that time, we had already established a good relationship with him, and it was not difficult to get first-hand news. This is what he said to the boss, and the next day the company assigned reporters in Yanjing to keep an eye on Li Yongle, and sent some drafts back from time to time, not necessarily to report, mainly to see the progress of the reporter's work. Now it is not a matter of how much his news will increase the circulation of the newspaper, as long as the foundation of cooperation is laid.
Now the domestic reports about Zhang Jun are actually similar, there are not many surnames to read, how to highlight yourself in the news report? How to attract attention? Li Yan thought about it a lot, but he still didn't gain anything. Today, after reading the various reports sent back by Wang Hua from the Netherlands and the feedback of the Dutch side, an idea suddenly jumped out of my mind.
Zhang Jun had a good performance in two consecutive games, both had the best goals, and were named the best player of the game. Suffice it to say, when he stepped onto the professional scene, he faced few difficulties – if the defeat at Ajax could have been a setback – and it was unconscionable.
If there is **, there must be a bottom, this is a natural law, and no one can change it.
Looking at the excited face in the photo, isn't it time to wake him up? Why don't you pour some cold water on many domestic media? Blind popularity is not good for him who is only twenty years old, especially his mind is not mature enough.
With his mind decided, Li Yan lit a cigarette and wrote the paper.
Two hours later, he threw the pen and let out a long breath, and the ashtray next to the manuscript paper was already full of cigarette butts covered with soot. Every time he writes something about Zhang Jun, he is always so happy and does it in one go. When he first wrote about domestic football, he only had such a feeling when he exposed some match-fixing black whistles, but unfortunately although there are many match-fixing black whistles in China, there are not many that can be written. Most of the time, he was depressed like a pregnant woman with a difficult birth.
The next day, when the manuscript was submitted to the deputy editor-in-chief for review, he decided to post it in the "Titan Observation" column of the second edition of the sports world without changing a word. "When everybody is caught up in a kind of star-making that borders on madness, it's necessary for us to pour cold water on each of their professional games and approach them with a calm attitude. When everyone is disappointed and sinking, it is also necessary for us to light a fire for Chinese football, so that they can see hope and see the twin stars shining in the night sky of the distant Netherlands...... That's a well-written paragraph! Xiao Li, I went to the Netherlands, and I have made remarkable progress! The deputy editor-in-chief in charge of reviewing the manuscript said approvingly to Li Yan.
"Thank you for your training! If you don't have an in-depth interview with Chinese football, you won't have such a deep feeling for Chinese football. ”
"I'm afraid that feelings are still complicated, right?" The deputy editor-in-chief glanced at Li Yan meaningfully.
Li Yan was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "When I stepped into this door full of hope and longing, I was poured a basin of cold water on my head. When you are drenched in soup and everyone is laughing at you, you see the starlight of hope...... I guess that's how I feel. ”
"Good, Starlight of Hope! I just hope this starlight doesn't become a shooting star. The feelings are sincere, well-organized, and every word is fine, and I have nothing to change. Go and give it to Lao Wei, and post it in 'Titan Observation'. ”
Li Yan's pot of cold water, called "Beware of Star-Making Sports Traps", is still too little to extinguish the fire that has been rapidly burning in Chinese football circles. Fans talk about Zhang Jun all day long being able to become the top scorer in the Dutch Super League, as if scoring goals is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables. Whether Yang Pan can be the assist king or not, as if the other Dutchmen are idiots. Can the two join the wealthy family with the help of a beautiful agent and complete the leap from an ugly duckling to a beautiful swan. The market is everything, and in order to cater to readers, the media have also presented fans with all kinds of analysis articles and all kinds of gossip articles......
"Damn! Gossip article, right? If you want to gossip, I have a basket in my hand! Li Yan slapped the newspaper he bought from the newsstand on the table, and the shout "Sound shook the world", which attracted the attention of other colleagues in the office. Who told him to see another so-called report on the latest progress of Zhang Jun and Hua Fang's relationship? "Urban Entertainment Daily! Damn, entertainment report what the are you doing here! If it had been in the past, he would have laughed at such reports. But since he met Sophie and listened to the love story between Zhang Jun and her, he especially hated this kind of reporter who has nothing to dig people's **. What a sweet couple, you have to break up to be comfortable, right? Zhang Jun later told him that he didn't want to hold anyone legally responsible, after all, those who didn't know were not to blame. The question is, does not knowing anything justify and qualify for nonsense? Football players are attracted by their legs, not fucking their genitals!
Because of the success of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan in the Netherlands, football now seems to have become fashionable in China. If you don't care about football, people will despise you, and if you don't express some opinions about football, you are ignorant. The movements that were originally full of masculinity have made some vulgar reports stir up neither men nor women. What are they footballing for? A girl who scratches her head and gestures?
Li Yan knew that this situation was not normal, when those who didn't understand football at all and couldn't play with football were all plugged in, this false prosperity was just the bubble economy of the year, which was incomparably beautiful, but the slightest touch would be a place of sewage, and there would be nothing left.
But what made Li Yan really feel afraid was that this kind of prosperity was what he instigated at the beginning. At that time, I only considered the sales of the newspaper, and I was promoted and raised, but I didn't seem to take into account the opposite effect. I was really overwhelmed by fame and fortune.
What can I do to remedy it? I only have a pair of hands and a pen, and the words I say are like a small boat under the crazy tide of Chinese football, and a wave will cease to exist.
At the beginning of March 2003, when an infectious disease that would shock China and the world in the future was still being hidden somewhere in the south, there was also an undercurrent of Chinese football surging restlessly under the madness of people.
Maybe Li Yan is not the only one who has seen through, but driven by interests, they still pretend not to see it and continue to urge this undercurrent.
This is the saddest thing.
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