Chapter Seventy-Two: The Name of the Dragon

Kaka won't be able to stay in China for long, as there are still a lot of moves to Milan and he has to return to Brazil as soon as possible. But before leaving, a talk show on CCTV5 specially invited him, Zhang Jun and Yang Pan to do a show in Yanjing's studio.

As witnesses of Zhang Jun's growth, Liang Ke and Chen Huafeng were also invited and rushed to Yanjing together. Originally, Liang Ke still didn't plan to go, but he couldn't stand the persuasion of the three of them, and finally agreed.

The holiday is actually very busy, and after participating in the filming of this show, Zhang and Yang have to fly to Hefei non-stop to shoot advertisements at their university alma mater. Sophie, on the other hand, had arrived in Hefei accompanied by her mother, where the advertising crew was already waiting for her.

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Although you know that the "Sports Night Talk" column group is recorded and broadcast, not a live broadcast, you are allowed to make mistakes. But Zhang Jun was still a little nervous, and he hid in the toilet and called Sophie for ten minutes before calming down a little.

Before going on stage, the makeup artist touched up their makeup again, and they all looked a little serious. Liu Hongmin, who hosted "Sports Night Talk", kept reminding them backstage to keep smiling and don't keep a straight face. But the effect doesn't seem to be significant, only Kaka is better than them, after all, he's seen the world. It wasn't until the four of them sat down in the studio that Liu Hongmin invited the special guests of this show: Qi Wei, the host of "World Football", and Li Yan, the reporter of "Sports Weekly", Zhang Jun and Yang Pan saw their old acquaintances, and their mood relaxed, and a smile appeared on their faces.

“ok! Five, four, three, two, one, panorama! The show begins! As soon as the director gave an order in the production room, Liu Hongmin immediately smiled at the camera and said: "Good evening, audience, welcome to watch this episode of "Sports Night Talk". Those of you who care about football know that there have been several very happy things about our football this year. You must not have heard of the names of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, and it is surprising that Kaka, who won the World Cup as a member of the Brazilian national team, is Chinese. Today we had the pleasure of bringing three youngsters to the studio and asking them to talk about their football journeys. ”

There was a round of applause from the auditorium in the studio.

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Mom looked strangely at Anke loading things into the suitcase, "You're leaving?" ”

"Hmm!" Anke folded the clothes one by one and put them in the suitcase.

"Back to school so early? Isn't your summer vacation in August? ”

"Anyway, I've seen all the people I should see now, and besides, if I go back late, my work will be gone. The boss is good and said to leave me a place, and I can't embarrass him. Anke continued to pack her things without raising her head.

Mom sighed and didn't say anything. Anke, the kid is too sensible, knowing that the family has spent all their savings in order to send him to study abroad, and almost all of his living expenses are earned by going out to work. When he first arrived in Germany, he could only say "hello" and "goodbye" and went out to look for a job. It's a pity that she and her husband are ordinary workers, and the efficiency of the factory is not good, and they can't help the children.

Mom walked in, took out all the clothes in the box, folded them one by one, and then sorted them and put them back in the box neatly. The suitcase, which was too messy to fit in, immediately had room to continue to put things inside.

"Got all the tickets?"

"Hmm."

"Not waiting for your friend to come back to see you off?"

"No, they're busy. Besides, I never let them drop me off. ”

"Don't even let us?"

Anke looked at her mother, today is the weekend, but her father is still working overtime in the factory, in order to make her Germany as safe as possible to study, her parents are double jobs. Going abroad is not as wonderful as some people think. "No, Mom. It was Wednesday, and you and Dad had to go to work, and I didn't want you to take time off. Anyway, it's not like I haven't been out alone, I'm used to it. Anke smiled, even though he knew he couldn't laugh at all.

His friends have become big stars one after another, shooting commercials, going to big clubs, making a lot of money, and appearing on TV. Wherever they appear, there are crowds, and they are always the focus of people's attention and the darlings of the media. But he still has to be in a restaurant in Dortmund, nodding to drunks for his own school expenses, just for a little more tip.

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"Uh-huh, please." Hua Fang answered the phone in the hallway outside the CCTV broadcast room, and she found a secluded corner so that she could try to hear Mr. Ferrio's English with a strong Italian accent.

"Are you saying Milan have found a new owner for Zhang Jun? Which one is it? Well, Brescia? Okay, I see, you say Brescia need a good striker? Well, no problem, I'll inform Zhang Jun. Thank you, Mr. Armando. ”

Hua Fang closed the phone and breathed a sigh of relief. Zhang Jun's whereabouts have also been implemented, and now that she has a direction, it is much easier for her to do it. At the very least, she can take the future into her own hands. After finishing the advertisement, Zhang Jun and Yang Pan will go to the national Olympic team to report, and she will fly back to Italy immediately, and she will go to Bologna and Brescia in more than two weeks to win more benefits for Yang Pan and Zhang Jun.

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"For this program, we also invited three Witnesses from high school. One is Mr. Liang Ke, the coach and homeroom teacher of the three's high school team, and the other is Mr. Chen Huafeng, a reporter who has been following their growth. Liu Hongmin introduced to the audience. Liang Ke and Chen Huafeng stood up and waved to the audience, and then sat down again.

"Teacher Liang Ke, you are the teacher of the three of them, can you talk about their situation in high school? All we know is that they won two national high school soccer championships in high school, but are they just like the average student off the football field? ”

Liang Ke took the microphone handed over, coughed, and stabilized his mood a little, "It's the same, they are no different from many students." In addition to being a little more talented in football, in my opinion, they are ordinary students, who don't hand in homework and talk in class. ”

Zhang Jun and the three were a little embarrassed, while the audience and the host laughed. "Is Mr. Liang right?" Liu Hongmin asked with a smile.

Zhang Jun scratched his head: "What the teacher said is good, hehe!" We weren't good students at that time. ”

"So Mr. Liang, did you think that they would one day become professional players and even stars?" Liu Hongmin then asked Liang Ke.

"Well, I know they have the quality, but I didn't deliberately let them go that way. Personally, I think that as a student, in addition to studying, it is right to play football happily. Liang Ke seems to be quite emotional, since Zhang Jun and them started, five years, he watched the children of the football team enter the team with a smile, and then left with a smile and a trace of reluctance, and embarked on the future of his choice.

"Indeed! If the players could play with a happy mood, our football would not be where it is now. Probably realizing that this topic should not be said here, Liu Hongmin hurriedly asked the three of them: "Do you think Mr. Liang Ke is right?" Are you having fun when you play? ”

Kaka nodded, "My time in high school was my happiest two and a half years. ”

"Is it happier than lifting the World Cup with your own hands?" Liu Hongmin smiled evilly.

Kaka smiled: "I think this should be two different kinds of happiness." The World Cup is more like an ecstasy, an accident, like hitting the jackpot. In high school, playing football with them was a simple joy that I thought would never be able to get back after leaving school. ”

Liu Hongmin was quite satisfied with this answer, he smiled: "I'll show you a video below, in fact, I think everyone must have seen it a long time ago, but I think it's necessary to revisit it with you again." ”

Several people twisted their heads to the big screen behind them, and the director inserted a picture.

The hustle and bustle of the fans and the huge sound effects on the scene made Zhang Jun and Yang Pan immediately return to the Philips Stadium on June 5. Wang Jianxiang's passionate voice sounded in the studio, and it had been a long time since I heard such a passionate voice from him.

"Zhang Jun counterattacks with the ball! He stabbed Ajax's Galasek at a flying speed! Trabelsi also came up to defend and he wanted to stop Jang Jun with a ferocious tackle! Zhang Jun will continue to dribble the ball! He swept past Trabelsi with an incredible stop-and-go acceleration! ”

Kaka's eyes on the scene lit up, ninety degrees!

Kifu rushed up, but Zhang Jun used the same method to pass by! Two consecutive emergency stops change direction to accelerate! ”

Zhang Jun staggered into the penalty area! As soon as the opposing goalkeeper Taimyel wanted to attack, he saw Zhang Jun get the ball and flick his right foot, parallel to the goal.

"Zhang Jun shoots...... Oh no! ”

Tymyr hurriedly pounced on the far corner! But he didn't get to the ball. In this place, the editors of CCTV did a little special treatment, and instead of putting the goal down at a normal pace, it was directly turned into slow motion.

Zhang Jun gently knocked the ball up with the heel of his right foot, then his body rose upward, and then swept the football that was still in the air into the near corner of the goal on the left side of his body with his right foot.

"The ball is in! The ball is in!! Zhang Jun scored an incredible goal! Wang Jianxiang's roar and the cheers of the fans at the scene made the audience in the studio unable to calm down for a long time. Liu Hongmin is right, they have watched such a goal more than once, but they still want to relive it, no, it is revisited over and over again. Every time I watched it again, the excitement was like seeing each other for the first time, and there was a lasting applause in the studio.

The sound of the stadium gradually disappeared, and the big screen went black, Liu Hongmin and others turned back: "Everyone watched the goal just now, and from the warm applause, you should be able to hear everyone's mood at this time." I remember after that final, there was a media in the Netherlands that called the goal 'Scorpio', was that right? What is the origin of this name? ”

Li Yan said: "This is indeed the case. It is said that the reporter at that time compared Zhang Jun's goal photo with Scorpio, and came up with such a name. It should be said that it is still very appropriate, you can see how similar they are. ”

The big screen put the photo of the moment of Zhang Jun's goal and the Scorpio constellation chart together at the right time, allowing the audience to compare it for themselves.

The audience suddenly exclaimed: it is indeed too similar!

Liu Hongmin said with a smile: "But I just learned that this goal has actually been there for a long time, and its name is not 'Scorpio'." Li Yan was a little surprised: "It's been a long time ago?" ”

Liu Hongmin didn't answer him, but twisted his head to the big screen behind him: "Please look at the big screen." ”

Even Zhang Jun, Yang Pan and Kaka were very surprised when they saw this video. That was their sophomore year of high school, a goal against Dingding High School in the semifinals of the Luoyang Qualifiers.

With a white jersey, red stripes, and the number "11", it was Zhang Jun who burst into front of the goal with the ball in his sophomore year.

"Zhang Jun dribbled the ball, Xia Bo didn't attack! The two were one-on-one in front of goal, and Zhang Jun shot ...... "The rest is exactly the same as what happened in the Dutch Cup final, the goalkeeper was deceived, and Zhang Jun scored the ball with his heel."

This was 18-year-old Zhang Jun, and the match was a semi-final of a regional qualifier in the high school league at the time. That's why the game was broadcast live on TV, and that's why we were lucky enough to have a tape of the game. According to the TV station staff who gave us the video, this goal is only the second of the same goal scored by Zhang Jun, the first one scored in the last game of this semi-final, but unfortunately because there is no video, we don't know what the first goal scored. But we invited the person who witnessed the creation of this ball and named it: Chen Huafeng, a reporter from Luoyang's "High School Football"! Could you please tell us more about the audience? ”

"Okay." Chen Huafeng took the microphone and said, "I don't know how Zhang Jun came up with this kind of shot, when I saw him score like this in the quarterfinals, I couldn't believe my eyes." This kind of shooting can only be done by players with very good physical flexibility and coordination, and I later gave it a name......"

"What's the name?" Qi Wei asked a little impatiently, "Long Teng." Chen Huafeng replied.

"Dragon?"

"That's right, take the meaning of the dragon for nine days."

"Hah! This name is more in line with the aesthetic of the Chinese. Some time ago, Zhang Jun scored a back-heel goal, and the Dutch media called it 'scorpion tail'. However, the domestic media generally thought that the word 'scorpion' was indecent, so it was renamed 'Shenlong Tail Swing'. Zhang Jun, you really have a fate with the word 'dragon', hehe! ”

Zhang Jun was a little embarrassed: "I didn't deliberately pursue anything, I just knew that I was a striker, and my task on the field was to score goals." ”

Liu Hongmin once again set his goal on Kaka, and in today's show, he seems to be in touch with Kaka. "We all know Kaka is your nickname, not your real name. So can you tell us how you got your nickname? ”

Kaka smiled: "When I first arrived at Shuguang, Mr. Liang arranged an intra-team game. The match ended in a draw. After the game, Zhang Jun found me, and he thought that my name was not loud and good, so he changed my name, which is now known as 'Kaka'. ”

"Zhang Jun often gives people nicknames." Yang Pan interjected on the side.

"Really? So did he give you any nicknames? ”

"He didn't dare, because I would shoot him with the ball."

Everyone laughed when they thought of Yang Pan's powerful shot comparable to that of Robert Carlos.

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The one-and-a-half-hour program took nearly three hours to complete. In the background, Liu Hongmin and Qi Wei hurried to say goodbye to the three young players.

"It's a shame." Liu Hongmin looked at the handsome Kaka and sighed, "Do you know why I always ask you questions in the show?" ”

"Because of my nationality, I'm more interested." Kaka laughed.

"It's not." Liu Hongmin shook his head, "As soon as I see you, I always have to think about why a Chinese talented player returned to play in Brazil, and China only knew that you once existed by Zhang Jun and their appearance." Why would you play for Brazil and not China......"

Kaka didn't say anything because he had also been troubled by this question at one time or another. Even though Dad said he was not eligible for Chinese nationality, he just had Chinese ancestry. But he is still a little unwilling, he has played football with Zhang Jun and them for two years, and he really wants to play together. Wearing a yellow Brazilian jersey, he lifted the World Cup, but as he said, the joy was like winning the lottery. I shouldn't have belonged to this team, and it's the same if I was someone else. Many people envy him for being a member of the World Cup-winning team at such a young age, and his heart seems to be more willing to work hard with Zhang Jun and others for the future of Chinese football...... The reality is really too cruel, why can't it be done according to his wishes? Why?

"You two have to cheer for the Olympic team and Italy! For the future of our Chinese football, hehe! Liu Hongmin and Qi Wei said to Zhang Jun and Yang Pan.

Kaka looked a little jealous on the side, having the expectations of a billion people is a burden, but it's also a kind of happiness, right?

After saying goodbye to Liu Hongmin and Qi Wei, as well as Li Yan, the three of them had to rush to the airport. Zhang and Yang went to Hefei to participate in the filming of the commercial, while Kaka was going back to Brazil and then flew to Milan. Their holidays are over, and everyone will become famous and busier in the future. I wonder how long it will take to come back again with a carefree party with my former friends like this summer and hang a no-interview sign at the door.

As the car speeds down the highway and the scenery on the side of the road retreats rapidly, does the carefree past fly away as fast as this scene?

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"What?" Yang Pan shouted, "Zhang Jun going to Brescia? ”

Hua Fang nodded, smiling.

"I really envy you, Zhang Jun." Kaka shook his head.

"Oh my God! Zhang Jun, let's change it! Yang Pan took Zhang Jun's hand and said.

"Hey, no way!" Zhang Jun pulled out his hand suddenly, "Being able to play with Baggio, oh, I'm so happy, haha!" Zhang Jun deliberately angered the other two.

Roberto Baggio, who played in Brescia, is the idol of countless young footballers, and Zhang Jun is no exception. Since the World Cup in '94, Zhang Jun has fallen in love with the Baggio, who has been the savior of riding alone again and again and bringing Italy to the final. When Baggio kicked the penalty away in the final match of the Rose Bowl, Yang Pan, who stayed up late watching the game with him, cried because his beloved Italy lost. At that moment, Zhang Jun didn't know whether he should cry or laugh. Brazil, which he loved, won, but Baggio, whom he loved, lost......

For Zhang Jun, Baggio is like an unattainable and unattainable dream. But I didn't expect that one day would give him a chance to touch his dream, and he would be able to stand by Baggio's side at tee-off.

Baggio's ponytail, Baggio's goal, Baggio's back...... In Yang Pan's unwilling chatter, Zhang Jun closed his eyes and began to look forward to the future of fighting side by side with Baggio.

The car continued to speed on the highway to the airport, and so did Zhang Jun's heart. He can't wait for next season to come sooner rather than later.

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