Chapter 408: Interview
Norcap Stadium is not a place to celebrate, Liverpool after taking a family photo collectively, they walked off the pitch one after another, when walking out of the stadium, Zhang Tiehan was stopped by several reporters, he wanted to leave directly, but saw that one of the reporters came from the imperial court 5, Zhang Tiehan still stopped, after all, compatriots are to be treated differently.
He glanced at the reporters around him and found that in addition to one Manchester reporter, there were three Spanish reporters, all of whom were hostile forces, so Zhang Tiehan thought about it and said to the court 5 reporter in Chinese, "Let's communicate in Chinese." ”
When the reporter heard Zhang Tiehan's words to him, he shook hands with him in a little surprise, "My name is Fang Qian." ”
It's really rare for a female journalist to be called by that name.
In fact, Fang Qian is a female reporter who has just turned regular in the imperial court 5, because she speaks Spanish well, she came to Spain to do football interviews, she doesn't know much about football, but after working in Spain for three months, she still has a general understanding of Spanish and European football.
A Chinese football reporter in Spain, in addition to the news of big teams such as Barcelona and Real Madrid, should also be concerned about the outstanding football stars of the whole of Europe, of course, the links between Chinese players and Spanish football are in the interview.
Zhang Tiehan accounted for two.
He's Chinese.
In fact, there is still a big difference between Chinese and real Chinese players, after all, Chinese are not real Chinese players, but Zhang Tiehan is a big star, even in Spain, I often hear his name, but Fang Qian can't be contacted on weekdays, after all, Zhang Tiehan has been in England, and the news she reports has basically nothing to do with Zhang Tiehan.
But this time is different.
Barcelona vs. Liverpool is a match that is all over Europe, and Barcelona is within the scope of her interview. Naturally, as Barcelona's opponent, Liverpool is also within the scope of the interview, and Zhang Tiehan, a Chinese-Chinese superstar in Liverpool, must be within the scope of the interview.
Fang Qian didn't have much hope to interview Zhang Tiehan, because she heard from her peers that Zhang Tiehan was not a good interview subject, and he often did not accept interviews.
Fang Qian didn't feel that he had anything special.
She's not bad, but she's just good. She's not Miss World Beauty Pageant, she's just an ordinary person, which isn't a merit, and then what? Nope.
But she didn't expect that she was so lucky to meet Zhang Tiehan, and Zhang Tiehan also told her that she wanted to interview in Chinese.
Fang Qian actually wanted an autograph for the first time, but in the end she suppressed her impulse, she looked at her somewhat dazed peers on both sides with some embarrassment, and handed the microphone to Zhang Tiehan's mouth. In Chinese, he began to ask, "Tie Han, can I call you that?" In China, a lot of fans call you that. ”
"Absolutely." Zhang Tiehan smiled and said.
"You've just won Barcelona with your team, you scored two goals in the game, and in two legs, you scored five goals for Liverpool, for your own example. Are you still satisfied? ”
Zhang Tiehan thought about it and said, "It's quite satisfying." Barcelona played very well today. But in the end we withstood the pressure and won the game, thanks to the whole team, and for myself, I feel a little uncomfortable to play, because Barcelona are really strong. They have a lot of control over the ball and a lot of times it's hard for us to get the ball. ”
'But their strikers aren't very good, their strikers don't take their chances a lot of the time and that's why they lost to us.'
Fang Qian rolled her eyes, she really didn't expect Zhang Tiehan to say that.
Those teams that emerge victorious. Shouldn't we all humbly praise our opponent's performance and say that our victory was 'luck' or something? Why did he get to Zhang Tiehan and become 'the opponent's striker is not good', is he saying that he is good?
Sure enough, as my peers said, this guy is very peculiar!
Next question.
"Can you talk about what you think of Barcelona? A lot of people are because they play more advanced style, and they play the most gorgeous and advanced football in the world. ”
Zhang Tiehan nodded affirmatively, he felt deeply about this, "I think so." ”
"Barcelona football is advanced and that's where they are better than us. I also used to wonder what would happen if I was at Barcelona because I felt like their strikers always had a lot of chances and if I had that many chances I would have scored eight goals? Ten balls? It was wonderful. ”
"I should give credit to their number 34 [Iniesta], he is very good, he always gives his team-mates a lot of chances, he is very talented, but unfortunately he has a few strikers in front of him."
"Ronaldinho? I always hear how good he is in England, but over two legs, I don't see where he is good, he's completely limited by our defence? Their number eight (Gyuri)? I don't know why Rijkaard sent such a player, what did he do? Eto'o? Well, he scored a goal, so I won't say much about it. ”
'I think they should look at bringing in better strikers, of course, I'm not referring to me, like Thierry Henry, who plays for Arsenal, I think they have a good idea, Henry is better than all of them.
'If they have strikers who can appreciate their chances more, then maybe they will be the winners.'
'I think the key to our victory was to take our chances, we didn't have many chances in the two legs, but I tried to take them, so we scored five goals and they only scored three, and that's why we won.'
"Advanced football can be interesting and give a team more opportunities to annoy the opposition, but you have to have good players"
Zhang Tiehan's words degraded Barcelona's striker for nothing.
Fortunately, the Spanish reporters next to them did not understand Chinese, they used the camera to shoot it first, and then find someone to translate, otherwise they knew what Zhang Tiehan said, I am afraid that the scene will be angry to refute, after all, Ronaldinho has become the object of Zhang Tiehan's belittlement, which they cannot tolerate.
As for Jiuli, it doesn't matter.
Originally, the Spanish media had never been very interested in Giuli's cousin.
Fortunately, Zhang Tiehan also praised Iniesta, which may be the only thing to be thankful about, if Iniesta knew that Zhang Tiehan said this, I am afraid that he would also have a good impression of Zhang Tiehan.
Zhang Tiehan really rarely praises the opponent's players.
Fang Qian listened to what Zhang Tiehan said. really rolled her eyes, but she still held back, and felt that Zhang Tiehan was really a very different person, she continued to ask, "After this game, Liverpool eliminated Barcelona and advanced to the Champions League semifinals." Can you say a few words on that? ”
"For example?" Zhang Tiehan was a little dazed.
'Liverpool's goal in the Champions League, for example.
"The champion is for sure." Zhang Tiehan nodded, "Our goal is to win the championship." We were champions last season and a lot of people said it would be difficult to defend the title, but it wasn't impossible, and a lot of people said Barcelona were the team with the best hopes, but we beat them and nothing is impossible in football. Don't be surprised to see us lift the trophy a month and a half later. Because we worked hard, we worked towards the goal of the championship, we just achieved the goal we worked hard for, and it's not a big deal! ”
'Personally, I've never won a Champions League trophy and hopefully this season, I can get it.'
Zhang Tiehan said sincerely.
He couldn't wait for the title.
In terms of individual accolades, he won the European Golden Boot. As a shooter, that's the highest honor. He won the top scorer and striker in the Champions League, the best newcomer in Serie A, the best newcomer in the Premier League, and various small awards in various magazines, but the only thing he lacks in this regard is the heavyweight Ballon d'Or, World Footballer of the Year and other awards, the latter two and various individual honors in the World Cup. It's not that you can score more goals, sometimes it depends on luck and time.
But in terms of club honours, he didn't get anything.
Not a single top-flight title.
It is almost impossible for Liverpool to win the Premier League title this season, and the Champions League title is the only honour to strive for. He was very eager to get it.
After talking about the last question, Zhang Tiehan did not give any more interviews and returned to the locker room with his teammates who had arrived.
The rest of the day is the team's time to celebrate
The result of the Barcelona and Liverpool match was something that many people did not expect.
Most people saw Barcelona before the game, but in the end it was Liverpool who won, Barcelona only scored one goal in the whole game, Liverpool scored two, both goals were scored by Zhang Tiehan, plus a hat trick in the first leg, Zhang Tiehan's five goals were too gorgeous.
"World Sports" commented, "Zhang kicked Liverpool into the Champions League semi-finals with his right foot!" ”
Five goals, all scored with the right foot.
At the same time, he also kicked Barcelona out of the Champions League with his right foot, which was a surprising result, and after the European quarter-finals, almost everyone was talking about Zhang Tiehan and talking about the two-legged clash between Liverpool and Barcelona.
Many people were surprised by Zhang Tiehan's strength.
It's not uncommon for a player's table to dominate the outcome of a game, and many outstanding stars can do it, but like Zhang Tiehan, who scored all five goals alone and led the team to beat the world's top Barcelona, is still too dazzling.
After the game, many football celebrities joked, "One Zhang is equivalent to a Champions League trophy every year." ”
This is the value of Zhang Tiehan.
Liverpool used the benefits of a championship trophy to buy Zhang Tiehan, and then they had the hope of competing for the championship trophy, no one can deny that if it were not for Zhang Tiehan, Liverpool would have been eliminated long ago, and even Benfica would not have been able to pass the level.
At the post-match press conference, almost all of the reporters' questions were related to Zhang Tiehan.
Benitez was also happy to answer these questions to win against Barcelona, but soon he felt that his choice was wrong, and the reporter's questions were not limited to Zhang Tiehan's appearance on the pitch, they even asked a lot about his private life, including Zhang Tiehan and his girlfriend's questions, how could Benitez know?
So the Spaniard sternly said, "I only answer questions related to the game." ”
Many reporters immediately labeled Benitez as a communicator, and they didn't think that caring about Zhang Tiehan's private life had nothing to do with the game. Think about it, why can Zhang Tiehan be in such a brave state? It must have something to do with daily life, and if he is always in a bad mood on weekdays, the state of the game will definitely be affected.
This kind of life and competition are actually very linked, maybe Benitez doesn't have such a strong logical thinking
On the other side, Barcelona coach Rijkaard looked dull.
However, the media also asked him, after all, Barcelona is a high-profile team, if it is not for the defeat to Liverpool, they must be the focus of the most attention, even if they fail, there are many people who are concerned about Barcelona's situation, such as their goals for next season, especially the transfer in the summer.
Some Spanish media even asked if Barcelona would target Zhang Tiehan, which Rijkaard had not considered before, but now he suddenly felt that he should ask the board of directors and Mr. President.
In the game, the Dutchman discovered that sometimes the team should have an efficient striker who is good at breaking down dense defenses.
Barcelona had been working to bring in Henry, and Rijkaard was actually not impressed by this, and he did not think that the Frenchman would have anything outstanding when he came to Barcelona.
But after this game, he suddenly found that if there was a Henry in the frontcourt, the game would definitely be much easier.
What if Henry was replaced by Zhang Tiehan?
Zhang Tiehan as a striker, with Ronaldinho and Eto'o to play 433, it is simply the most dreamy and ideal combination, will Barcelona still have opponents at that time?
Thinking about Rijkaard, it doesn't seem very practical.
Henry is easy to do, Henry's transfer fee is not high, but if he wants to poach Zhang Tiehan from Liverpool, it is definitely not for him as a manager to decide, I am afraid that no manager in the world can make this decision now, after all, there are too many funds involved.
Real Madrid poached Zidane that year and spent more than 60 million euros, not including Zidane's salary contract, so what about Zhang Tiehan?
Eighty million euros?
It's hard.
Coupled with the salary contract, if a club wants to take Zhang Tiehan from Liverpool, it needs to prepare at least more than 100 million euros, which is still the most guaranteed estimate.
Barcelona could have done it if they had made up their minds, but did they really make up their minds?
No matter what Rijkaard thinks, it's not something he can decide. (To be continued......)