Chapter 1: The Traitors of the Rugby League
Shortly after Christmas, many Americans are still in the holiday spirit, and Major League Soccer staff are already preparing for the upcoming draft in Los Angeles.
Among the players who signed up for this year's draft, there is a very incredible name - LinChen.
Lin Chen is a Chinese, and also a Chinese with a small reputation in Los Angeles, his Chinese name is Chen Lin, perhaps to save trouble, Chen Lin only reversed his first and last name when he chose his English name.
Chen Lin lived in the United States since he was a child, and after graduating from high school, Chen Lin did not choose to go to college, but became a professional football player on the San Diego Chargers.
Yes, you read that right, it's rugby and not football in the traditional sense.
No American isn't passionate about the sport, and Chen Lin is no exception, so he joined the San Diego Lightning right out of high school and has been the main kicker in a very short period of time.
In the past 2010, although the San Diego Chargers also failed to enter the playoffs, their results have improved a lot from the previous year, which is due to a large part of Chen Lin.
Kickers are one of the most important scorers on the rugby pitch, Chen Lin handed in 94 percent last year, and his free kick success rate reached an astonishing 94 percent!
Chen Lin can already be regarded as one of the top kickers in the rugby league, and fans have no doubt that the young Chen Lin will definitely be the number one kicker in the league in the future, and he may even become the best kicker in the world.
The San Diego Chargers are drawing up a new contract for Chen Lin, who previously had an annual salary of only $120,000, and in the new contract, the San Diego Chargers offered Chen Lin a high annual salary of $800,000.
But even so, the San Diego Chargers don't have the slightest confidence that they will be able to keep Chen Lin, his performance last year was too bright, and most importantly, Chen Lin is young enough, he was born in 1992 and is only 18 years old this year.
This is an age full of unlimited potential and infinite possibilities, and many clubs in the league have thrown an olive branch to Chen Lin, and the contract they prepared for Chen Lin is more tempting ~ enticing than the contract of the San Diego Chargers.
And just when fans were speculating whether Chen Lin would continue to stay in the San Diego Chargers, or which team in the league he would choose, Chen Lin's name unexpectedly appeared in the list of Major League Soccer drafts.
This is undoubtedly explosive news, both for rugby league and for soccer leagues. The staff of the two leagues successively approached Chen Lin for verification, and the reply they received was that Chen Lin did sign up for this year's major football league draft, and this decision cannot be changed!
Chen Lin's decision is incredible, you must know that this is in the United States, in this land, football is not only not the most popular sport, but a little unpopular, whether it is baseball, rugby or basketball, ice hockey, it is much more popular than football.
Chen Lin is the most promising kicker in the rugby league, and he could have a very bright future, but why did he choose to play football at this time?
Can football be as glamorous as rugby?
No American would think that even though soccer is widely regarded as the number one sport in the world, in the United States, football is king and rugby is the most popular sport!
There is no doubt that Chen Lin also loves rugby, otherwise he would not have become a professional rugby player, but why did this professional rugby player choose to participate in the draft of the Major League Soccer when his career was about to usher in glory?
What made him want to give up rugby and play instead?
The fans were puzzled, and they would not have thought that the current Chen Lin was no longer the original Chen Lin, and that there was a completely different soul hidden in this body that did not seem to have changed in the slightest.
Chen Lin didn't know what was going on, he just woke up and found himself in the United States, and he had gone from an ordinary college student to the most promising kicker in the American Football League.
As a teenager who grew up in China, and as a teenager who regarded joining the school football team as his dream, Chen Lin really had no love for the sport of rugby.
After a period of struggle, Chen Lin resolutely signed up for the draft of the Major League Soccer League, which was an opportunity for him, an opportunity to pursue his dream and prove himself.
Chen Lin's own football level is not too high, otherwise he would not even be unable to enter the school football team, of course, this is also related to many other factors, Chen Lin's proud and stubborn personality is really not very like......
It's as if this time he's stubbornly going to the Major League Soccer draft.
After being puzzled, Chen Lin ushered in the slander and abuse of the fans.
Many rugby fans scolded Chen Lin for not knowing what to do, no matter how he looked at his future in the rugby league, it was more brilliant than going to the football league, but he wanted to give up rugby.
And football fans did not have any good impression of Chen Lin because of his choice of football, they felt that Chen Lin's approach was simply inadequate.
Chen Lin has lived on the rugby pitch since he was a child, so why does he think he can become a professional footballer just by his 94 percent free-kick shooting rate?
You must know that the free kick of rugby is not the same as the free kick of football, the free kick of football is walled, and there is also a goalkeeper, on the football field, the free kick hit rate is not to mention 94 percent, even Beckham, who is very good at free kicks, is only less than 10 percent of the hit rate.
Could it be that he Chen Lin really wants to eat all over the world with one trick?
Unlike the anger of football fans, American football fans show more disdain for Chen Lin, this yellow-skinned teenager may be able to dominate the football field, but on the football field, he is still far behind.
Professional football isn't something everyone can play, and American football fans are already waiting to see Chen Lin and the rugby league jokes.
Of course, the rugby league will not sit still, Chen Lin's actions have disgraced the entire rugby league, in addition to many professional rugby players publicly accusing Chen Lin, the rugby league has also officially issued a statement on the "Sports Illustrated".
The Rugby League said that if Chen Lin still refuses to withdraw from the draft of the Major League Soccer League and apologize publicly, then he will be permanently expelled from the Football League!
This means that if Chen Lin still refuses to get lost, then no team in the football league will be able to accept Chen Lin at that time, regardless of whether he passes the major league draft or not, even though he is the most potential kicker in the league at the moment.
This is tantamount to an ultimatum given to Chen Lin by the Rugby League, in fact, the Rugby League still left Chen Lin a little leeway, if someone else betrayed the alliance, he would have been directly expelled, how could there be a chance to get lost.
The rugby league really doesn't want to lose this promising kicker.
But Chen Lin did not appreciate it, he expressed his determination to participate in the major league draft on his Facebook, and said that he was very confident that he would become a professional football player through the draft of the major league.
As soon as this message came out, it immediately caused an uproar, and fans poured into the comments below the message, and insulted and abused Chen Lin in all aspects, including football fans and football fans, and of course, some fans who watched the excitement of basketball, ice hockey and baseball.
For a time, not knowing what to do and not knowing what to do and not being able to do anything became synonymous with Chen Lin.
Of course, no matter what, Chen Lin is on fire, he has become the most talked about sports star in the whole United States after 10 years of Christmas, and even Eli Manning and Kobe, who have won the football league MVP and NBA MVP respectively in the past 10 years, have been overshadowed by him.
In any sports newspaper in the United States, you can see LinChen's name.
It is hard for fans to imagine that a hairy boy who is only 18 years old can cause such a big storm in the American sports world. Chen Lin is even more unimaginable, he just wants to play football, why every American is so excited.
Of course, Chen Lin did not know that in the United States, the war between the professional football league and the professional football league has never stopped, football is the most popular sport in the world, and the most popular thing for Americans is football.
If Chen Lin switched from Major Football League to Rugby League, Americans would only cheer for him, but Chen Lin was going to switch from Major Football League to Major Football League.
This is nothing short of a provocation for pretentious Americans, a provocation to their traditional culture.
Chen Lin was directly labeled as a traitor by the Americans, although this yellow-skinned Chinese has a legal identity in the United States, but his existence is simply undermining the harmonious development of American society.
That's why the Americans' reaction is so fierce, they hope that Chen Lin will fail, whether it is in the rugby league or in the football league, they all hope that Chen Lin is a loser, only in this way can the Americans' face be preserved.