Chapter 10: The First Adversary

Over the next few days, the entire Dortmund club and the German journalists who accompanied the team saw Zhou Yi's popularity in China. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It was supposed to be an open training, but by the last two days it had to be closed.

Because there are so many Chinese fans who come to watch the team's training, it has completely affected the team's normal training.

Those fans kept shouting Zhou Yi's name from the stands.

Their voices even drowned out the coaches' whistles, preventing the players from reacting to the coach's instructions in the first place.

So the team had to cancel the public training, and at the same time, in order to avoid offending the Chinese fans, Zhou Yi also participated in the press conference, ending why the team did it.

“...... We take the game very seriously and hope to have a good training session before the game......"

Zhou Yi explained.

Within the team, everyone was also intimidated by Zhou Yi's popularity in China.

"God, it turns out that Dortmund has so many people in China who like it!"

"Hey, it's not Dortmund, it's Zhou Yi. It is the popularity of Zhou Yi. ”

Someone corrected him right away.

"Oh, yes, yes. What a terrible popularity!"

Zhou Yi knew that he was in a hurry, just after the top 10 match, the Chinese team qualified. Chinese fans will have such a high popularity, and even many non-fans who usually don't watch the game at all will come to join in the fun. Naturally, there are a lot of people.

Although the World Cup is becoming less and less valuable than the Champions League, the World Cup is still a well-deserved first place in football competitions in the world. At least domestically, the World Cup is positioned higher than any other football competition.

Because of Zhou Yi, Dortmund's popularity in China, which had lost Gotze and Lewandowski, was not affected.

Seeing this scene, Watzke felt more and more that it was the right decision for the club to give up Lewandowski and choose to keep Zhou Yi with all its might. If Zhou Yi has a mistake, can they still enjoy such treatment when they come to China?

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Dortmund's trip to China this time has a total of three games scheduled.

One game in Guangzhou, one game in Shanghai, one game in Beijing, and after the fight, they left Beijing and returned to Germany.

In Guangzhou, Dortmund's opponent is Guangzhou Hengyuan, a local professional team in Guangzhou.

Three years ago, this team was a team in the Chinese Super League, but now they are the supremacy of the Chinese Super League.

Since the successful promotion, Hengyuan has won the Chinese Super League championship for two consecutive seasons.

Although this season's Chinese Super League has not yet been played, they also have great hopes of winning the championship, if nothing else, Guangzhou Hengyuan will create the hegemony of the Chinese Super League three times in a row.

The head coach of this team is the world-class coach Lippi. There are many domestic stars in China, and many international players are from Guangzhou Hengyuan.

In addition, although their Brazilian foreign players are not very famous, they are all very strong.

As the strongest team in China, the match between Guangzhou Hengyuan and Borussia Dortmund is naturally eye-catching. You must know that Dortmund has just won the Champions League. Everyone wants to see how big the gap is between the top teams in China and the top teams in Europe.

At the pre-match press conference, Zhou Yi also talked about the Hengyuan team: "I have many teammates from the national team who are from Guangzhou Hengyuan. I also know that they are the champions of the Chinese Super League for two consecutive seasons. I've introduced them to my team-mates and it's definitely an opponent to be reckoned with and I think we'll give it our all in the game. ”

A reporter asked Zhou Yi what he thought of Hengyuan's practice of burning money, and Zhou Yi shrugged: "I think it's good." Football takes money, and it takes a lot of money, and I'm not against burning it, as long as it's done correctly and professionally. In my opinion, the reason why Hengyuan was able to succeed in the Chinese Super League has a lot to do with the professionalism and correctness of their money-burning. I admire them. ”

Zhou Yi's answer surprised many people.

Since the rise of Hengyuan in Chinese football, it has been constantly criticized, and there are always people who look down on their practice of burning money, thinking that the boss of Hengyuan has used money to defile the purity of football. Even if Hengyuan has won two Chinese Super League championships, everyone thinks that they are nouveau riche, they have no championship background, and they are by no means giants. Some people think that Hengyuan's boss invests in football, which is a political investment, and it is a bad practice for the upper and lower levels, which is despicable.

You must know that when Hengyuan Group acquired the Guangzhou team, its boss said that he would win the championship of China's top league within three years and the AFC Champions League championship within five years.

As a result, Hengyuan was promoted from the Chinese League to the Chinese Super League in one season.

Even so, it didn't change everyone's impression of them.

After Hengyuan's promotion, when Beijing TV reported on the new season of the Chinese Super League, the Beijing media ridiculed Hengyuan's "burning money" in every way, and some of the words were still difficult to hear.

This TV station has made some "conjectures" like scolding Huai for Hengyuan's recruitment: first, the introduced players must be furious when they encounter the Chinese Super League giants, and even see Shandong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and other teams will be angry.

Second, the price of the introduced players must be high, it doesn't matter if they can be used or not, the key is the high price. So much money was spent, so that the fans could remember who paid for it.

Third, the introduced player must be famous, it doesn't matter if he can play or not, the key is that as soon as the player takes out his hand, all the fans exclaim: "Wow, he's here!" followed by "Hengyuan is really rich".

In the end, he pulled out the original "arrogant words" of Hengyuan's boss and sarcastically said: "In this way, Hengyuan's goal must not be the AFC Champions League, right?

Now Hengyuan has won two Chinese Super League titles, and the momentum in the AFC Champions League this season is also good.

But there are still a lot of controversies about Hengyuan, some people say that they are nouveau riche, so they know that they rely on throwing money, and don't use money if they have the ability. Some people also criticized Hengyuan for relying on foreign aid, and the Chinese ontology players are all foils.

But Zhou Yi gave Hengyuan Club a high evaluation, which of course surprised everyone.

You know, Dortmund is not a club that lives by burning money, but Bayern Munich, which has the posture of "German Hengyuan". It stands to reason that Zhou Yi, as a Dortmund player, should not have a good impression of the "Hengyuan mode".

Although the reporters were surprised, no one dug into the problem, after all, today's protagonist is Dortmund, Zhou Yi, not Guangzhou Hengyuan.

On the Internet, there were soon remarks about Zhou Yi praising Guangzhou Hengyuan. In the following message, everyone is also mixed about this, some people think that Zhou Yi is a smart person, and he realizes that the reason why Guangzhou Hengyuan can succeed is definitely not by burning money alone. Some people were disappointed with Zhou Yi's statement, but they didn't expect Zhou Yi to be a "money-only" person.

The people who hold these two views are actually the people who support and oppose Hengyuan, and they simply quarrel in the comment area under the news, which is very lively.

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Zhou Yi doesn't care what happens online. He doesn't care how his words will be interpreted by reporters and fans. He said what he thought was right and didn't expect everyone to agree with him.

Or is it more important to play.

Guangzhou Hengyuan head coach Lippi praised Dortmund for their outstanding performance in European football at the pre-match press conference, saying that Dortmund was great and Klopp had done a great job.

Then he also focused on Zhou Yi, which is the topic of most interest to the Chinese media.

In the interview, the world-class marshal "Silver Fox" Lippi spoke highly of Zhou Yi.

“...... There is no doubt that he is a world-class player. It was a blessing for Dortmund to have him. Chinese football is also lucky to have him. If I were to be the head coach of the Italian national team, I would really like him to be an Italian so that I could recruit him into my national team......"

A reporter asked, "What about Sun Pan?"

Lippi smiled and blinked: "Forget Sun Pan, although he is also very good, we already have Buffon." ”

There was a burst of heartfelt laughter from the reporters.

The Italian goalkeepers who lived in the same era as Buffon are really a bit "born Buffon......