Chapter 1173: Belated Triumph
When Manchester City beat Chelsea, the media across England began to focus on City's unbeaten streak.
After this game, their unbeaten run in the league stands at 47 games, the best result in the club's history, while also surpassing Nottingham Forest's record of 42 consecutive games and moving them second in the history of English football as a whole.
The next 31 rounds of Manchester City's opponent is Sunderland, Manchester City play at home, with the current form of the team, beating Sunderland is not a problem, then they will extend their record to 48 games.
In the 32nd round of the league, Manchester City challenged Liverpool away. It was a tough game as Liverpool's 3-1 win at home to Manchester United showed everyone their quality and gave them hope of competing for a top-four finish and qualifying for next season's Champions League. Liverpool are still sixth in the league with 45 points, while fourth-placed Chelsea are on 54 points, just nine points separating the two sides. It's still possible to fight for it.
So when the time comes, Liverpool, who are bent on qualifying for the Champions League, may burst out with unimaginable energy at their home stadium.
Add to that the fact that Manchester City are just one step away from Arsenal's record, and it's hard to say whether they'll think much of it. Maybe it's because you want to win the game too much, but you won't necessarily lose.
Something like this is all too common in football.
The closer you get to the record, the more the players care about it. The more they care about the record, the less difficult it is for them to play properly.
Now that Manchester City are eight points ahead of Manchester United in the league, the suspense of the league title is not very high, and all eyes are on the record.
Will City be able to equal, or even surpass, Arsenal's record of 49 league games unbeaten?
It's worth waiting and seeing.
But before that, we have to be patient for a while.
After playing against Chelsea, Rong Guang left Manchester with Sun Hai and flew back to China.
Participated in the two warm-up matches of the Chinese national team against New Zealand and Honduras.
The first of these two games was not commanded by Gao Hongbo, but assistant coach Fu Bo. Gao Hongbo wants to take another national team to visit Costa Rica to attend the opening ceremony of the Costa Rica National Stadium built with China's assistance on March 26, and to play a friendly match with the Costa Rican national team.
Although this team is also called the Chinese national team, the team is actually the national youth team coached by Su Maozhen, plus some players who have participated in the national team training camp in the past year, but are not in the national team lineup that won the Asian Cup.
The Chinese national team that stayed in China to participate in the warm-up matches is basically the team of the Asian Cup.
These two warm-up matches mean that the Chinese national team has begun to enter the preparation for the World Cup qualifiers.
In July, China will begin their first match of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil Asian qualifiers, taking on the winners of Laos and Cambodia in the second round of qualifying.
Therefore, the current warm-up games are basically based on the run-in lineup, and there are not much new players added, unless there is an injury, or a player who has not been selected for the national team is particularly good and in particularly good shape.
Since it is to run in the existing lineup, then Rongguang also has to come back to participate in the game, after all, he is the core of the team, if the Chinese team's game wants to have a little gold, it is not to see how strong the opponent is in the warm-up game, but to see if Rongguang can come back.
When the glory is back, everyone can use him as the core to run in the team and find a sense of cooperation in the game. If the glory doesn't come back, then there is no point in exercising such a competition.
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Debola, Rongguang and Sun Hai flew back to China on the same plane. For this reason, Rongguang's parents flew from China to England in advance to take care of their grandson, so that Debora could leave with peace of mind.
Rongguang returned to China to participate in the warm-up match, and Debora didn't need to go along.
But this time it was different, because in addition to playing the warm-up game, there was another thing waiting for glory.
That's what Molly had said to Rongguang before, and the domestic company that sponsors the Football Association plans to discuss cooperation with Rongguang.
Debora is in charge of following up on this matter, so she naturally has to go back to China for an interview.
The proposed project is to lease the training camp that Rongguang has built in Mallorca, and send the children selected from the country to this training camp first, and then find a European club for them to continue training at their respective clubs.
If no team is willing to accept these players for the time being, they can also train in the training camp and temporarily form a team to participate in local amateur competitions to maintain their fitness.
After discussing with Sun Fengyang, Rongguang agreed to such cooperation in principle, but the specific details had to be discussed by Debola.
After a few phone calls and a lot of emails, the negotiations between the two sides were almost concluded.
Debora went to China this time, and if there were no surprises, she might finally have to sign the cooperation agreement.
The three parted ways in Beijing, with Rong Guang and Sun Hai going to Wuhan to join the Chinese national team, while Debora stayed in Beijing to meet and negotiate with business representatives.
Rongguang and Sun Hai didn't even leave the airport, and they completed the transfer directly in the terminal.
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Since the Chinese team won the Asian Cup, this is the first time that Rong Guang has returned to China.
Chinese fans have been looking forward to this day for a long time.
Before, they were worried that Glory would not come back for this seemingly insignificant warm-up game, but when they were sure that Glory would come back, they were all boiling.
Fans from all over the country began to connect in tandem and discussed going to Wuhan Tianhe International Airport to pick up the plane together.
They will give glory the belated cheers of heroes.
At that time, when the Chinese team returned to China with the Asian Cup, the grand occasion is still vivid to this day, but the only regret is that Rong Rong was not present and could not accept the cheers of the fans.
This time, they want to make up for the glory.
When the plane that Rong Guang and Sun Hai called took off from Beijing Capital International Airport, Chinese fans were already waiting at the domestic arrival exit of Tianhe Airport, and more and more people gathered.
Wuhan had been prepared for this for a long time, and had arranged a large number of police forces to maintain order at the airport in advance. And the scene at the Capital International Airport at the beginning, Chinese fans also knew it, and everyone knew that Rongguang didn't want the scene to be chaotic.
So although there are many people, the order is orderly.
While waiting for the glory to come, so many people were still quiet, which surprised the police officers in charge of maintaining order.
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When Rongguang and Sun Hai walked to the exit, although the people had not yet gone out, someone had already seen them. The people who saw them were the first to let out a cheer, and then the cheers spread as if they were contagious, and finally there was a huge cheer at the exit of the entire departure hall, which caused everyone's eyes to be sideways, and even made people wonder if the roof of the terminal building would be lifted......
In the tsunami-like cheers of the mountains, Sun Hai made a "please go first" gesture to Rongguang.
"It's your glory." Sun Hai said to Rongguang with a smile. "Belated triumph."
He wants to leave Glory alone to receive the cheers.
Rongguang scratched his head, did not shirk, and walked in front.
Seeing him come out, the cheers of the fans were louder again.
They clapped rhythmically and shouted, "Glory!" Glory! Glory! Glory!! ”
They waved the five-star red flag, held aloft the jerseys of the glorious national team, as well as various hand-painted posters and cartoons.
This is a way of expressing their love and respect for glory.
Glory raised his hands and thanked the fans.
The fans were even more excited.
He didn't stop, but continued to walk, and the wall of people lined up by the armed police was crowded by the somewhat excited fans.
Glory travels through this passage.
At first, everyone just watched him chant slogans, and then a young fan suddenly timidly reached out and touched Rongguang's arm.
Gently touched it.
Then he withdrew his hand and looked at his palm in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe that he had really touched his idol, the hero glory of Chinese football!
He looked up at Glory.
Glory, who had already walked to the front, turned around and smiled at him, not blaming him.
The young fan's actions seemed to encourage the other fans, and they also reached out to touch Glory's shoulders, arms, and back......
Especially the female fans, who are extremely crazy, screaming again and again when they touch it......
Whoever touched him, Glory did not raise his hand to separate them or block them.
However, the armed police who were responsible for maintaining order seemed very nervous, desperately pushing the fans back to prevent them from coming into contact with Glory.
Sun Hai walked out behind Rongguang, he looked at Rongguang's back, surrounded by arms.
He felt a little kind of affection – at Manchester City, when they won the title, the fans slapped the Manchester City players to express their excitement and love for the players.
So Rongguang didn't think there was anything unusual about the behavior of these Chinese fans.
Sun Hai believes that maybe when this situation appears in China many times in the future, those armed police soldiers who are responsible for maintaining order will definitely get used to it, don't be too nervous, the fans just love glory too much......
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Rong Guang and Sun Hai eventually managed to get out of the "arm jungle" and then joined up with the national team staff who were picking them up outside - this staff member was completely squeezed to the outskirts by the fans, so he could only do things in a hurry outside. Fortunately, there were no problems with Rongguang and Sun Hai, and he was relieved.
If Rongguang and Sun Hai, especially Rongguang, have any three longs and two shorts, it will be difficult to explain it when they go back......
It's not an exaggeration to say that Glory is now a national treasure.
"Take it easy, it's not a big deal." Sun Hai said to him, comforting him. "There may be a lot of such things in the future, just get used to it, just get used to it, haha!"
Glory smiled and nodded. I580