Chapter 23: The aftermath of the super goal
Ringer rushed to the sidelines after scoring a goal, receiving cheers from the fans and hugs from his teammates.
The goal came in the 88th minute, and after the celebration, there was not much time left in the game, Ulsan Hyundai completely retracted, and both teams could only accept the scoreline, a score that was not very satisfactory but acceptable.
Soon, the results of the other two teams in Group F came out, Beijing Guoan drew 1:1 with Brisbane Roar at home, so that after two rounds of the AFC Champions League group stage, Tokyo FC and Ulsan Hyundai have 4 points, and Beijing Guoan and Brisbane Roar currently only have 1 point, and this result is very good for Tokyo FC to qualify from the group. But at the moment everyone is not very concerned about the result, they are most concerned about that super goal from Ringer.
As soon as the game ended, all kinds of reporters gathered around, and Ringer had become a sweetheart, and Ringer really experienced the feeling of becoming famous with a goal.
"Lin Sang, I'm a reporter from "Nikkan Sports", how did you complete such a super goal at that time?"
"I didn't think much about it at the time, I just remember that coach Bobovich said before he came on the pitch that if we lose this game, it will be difficult for us to qualify from the group, so I just wanted to help the team equalise and luckily I did it in the end."
"Lin Sang, I heard that you used to be a goalkeeper and then a defender in the college team, what made you want to switch to playing as a striker?"
"Actually, when I was very young, I liked the striker position when I first started playing football, but for some serendipitous reasons I became a goalkeeper, and then this has been carried on, and there was a time when we were in college and we were short of full-backs, so I applied to the coach for the full-back position. Then I met my agent, Mr. Crot, and I have to thank him for taking a fancy view of me, becoming my agent and asking me to move to playing as a striker, and he arranged for me to go to football to learn the basics that I had missed before. Ringer felt that the agent was the best excuse at this time, and he couldn't say that he had a human implant plug-in.
"Lin Sang, you are a Chinese, but you studied football in Japan, do you think you play Chinese football or Japanese football?" This is a journalist who clearly wants to make a difference.
"I don't think football has borders, it doesn't matter which country you play, it's the same football."
"Lin Sang, I mean~~"
The other party wanted to continue to entangle, but Ringer directly interrupted: "I'm sorry, I only answer questions related to the game, the next ......"
After dealing with these reporters, Ringer's forehead was slightly sweaty, fortunately he was reborn and seen the world, otherwise he might have been accidentally trapped.
On the same day, media reports about Tokyo FC and Ulsan Hyundai came out.
"Reproducing the two-goal reversal, the unbreakable gas team"
"The long-distance run ignites the whole field, and Tokyo FC keeps a point at home"
"Riding more than 40 meters alone, China's Kaka shines in the AFC Champions League"
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Dortmund, Germany, Kroe came to his agency as usual to take care of some daily affairs, and at noon, he was about to go out for lunch at his favorite French restaurant, when the office phone rang.
"Hello, is this Mr. Thomas Crote?" Picking up the phone, there was a string of Japanese English on the other side, and Krott often ran to Japan, so he naturally knew the English accent of the Japanese.
"Hello, I am." Krot thinks it could be a player agent on the Japanese side.
"Mr. Crot, excuse me, I'm a reporter from Sports Newspaper and would like to give you a simple telephone interview, is it convenient for you now?"
"Okay, no problem."
"Your player Ringer scored a super goal in today's AFC Champions League game, and he thanked you after the game, saying that you discovered him in the first place and asked him to play as a striker, how did you discover his talent in the first place?"
"Uh~ I stumbled upon him during a warm-up game for the college team, and I didn't actually go for him at the time, but the moment I saw that kid, I was attracted to him......"
When he heard the question from the other side, Krot was still a little unprepared, he knew that the Chinese player he signed, but he scored a super goal, which Krot didn't know anything about, but after being an agent for many years, Krot reacted quickly to reporters and immediately thought of a statement.
"Okay, thanks." Hanging up the phone, Krot still didn't know what was going on, but he knew a little bit that his players were famous, and that was a good thing.
Unable to eat for the time being, Krot turned on his computer and typed in the official website of the AFC, but unfortunately only the latest results could be seen on the official website, Tokyo FC drew 2-2 at home to Ulsan Hyundai, and Ringer scored a goal in the 88th minute. The video of the goal has not been updated, so Krot called the Japanese sports portal again, and there is a big slogan on the front page of the cover.
"Super goal maker, super newcomer of Tokyo FC!"
Click on the video, Krot saw the midfielder in the Ringer game with the ball accelerated, connected three people, and finally scored the final goal, this video was cut from the broadcast of Japanese TV, and there was a woman's exclamation in the video: "Oh ~ Kaka!" I saw Kaka, I felt like I was watching Kaka play, was he possessed by Kaka? ”
Krot knew that it was a gimmick by the Japanese, and invited some women to comment on the game to attract the audience, and Krot had always been dismissive of this practice, but this time, he thought the Japanese woman's explanation was wonderful.
"Kaka?" Krot muttered, and then dialed the assistant's phone: "Top, book me a ticket to Japan, yes, today, just book this afternoon." ”
Ringer's goal first detonated the Japanese online sports media, and then appeared in the paper media the next day, without exception praising the super goal, and at the same time Ringer began to be called the Chinese Kaka.
After Tokyo FC's home draw with Ulsan Hyundai, Ringer was voted the best player of the match by a huge margin, and when the second round of the AFC Champions League was over, Ringer appeared in the AFC Champions League Team of the Year, and was also the only substitute player in the best team of the round.
The AFC's simple instructions for him were: he came off the bench when he was two goals down, first caused chaos in the opposition backline to create chances for his teammates to pull a goal back, and scored a late equaliser for the team.
The best team in this round of the AFC Champions League is a 433 formation, with four players selected in the J League, and in addition to Ringer, the Kashiwa Suns beat South Korea's Jeonbuk Hyundai 5-1 at home in this round, which makes them have three selected for the best team at one time.
Jeonbuk Hyundai is also sad enough, how to say that it is also the former AFC Champions League champion, this year's AFC Champions League two rounds of group stage, but they lost a 2:10, the first round of home 1:5 defeat to the Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Evergrande, and then the second round and 1:5 away to the J League's Bai Sun God, that is, Southeast Asian teams rarely suffer such a fiasco, what is even more strange is that no one said about the head coach's dismissal, and the thinking of the Korean team is sometimes really incomprehensible.
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Beijing, China.
Beijing Guoan, as a team in the capital, is located in the bustling area of the capital city, and is also the first professional team in China, which has a fan market in the country, and must be the team with the most supporters in the capital.
But today's Beijing Guoan, even the year of investment is not small, the results are not up, last year's Chinese Super League championship lost to Guangzhou Evergrande, the FA Cup is only the top four, and the four are empty in another year, fortunately, they got the AFC Champions League qualification, and this year they returned to the Asian arena again.
On the campus of Beijing Institute of Technology, several college students are walking and talking.
"Last night, we were forced to draw by the Brisbane Roar at home, and only one point was scored after two rounds, and it is difficult to qualify for the AFC Champions League." A thin man with a few pockmarks on his face said.
"I think the analysis in the newspaper is still reasonable, we are going to play two games in a row against Japan's Tokyo FC, Tokyo FC is just a promotion horse in the J-League, and it was an out-and-out AFC Champions League newcomer who won the cup unexpectedly last year to qualify for the AFC Champions League. As long as we get 6 points on him, then there is no big problem in qualifying from the group, even if we take a step back and win at home and draw away to get 4 points, we can also tie Tokyo FC in points, and we can still have an advantage in each other's records, and we still have a good chance of qualifying. A 1.8-meter strong man next to him said that his statement was that Ulsan Hyundai, who were in the same group in the next two rounds, would double kill the Brisbane Roar.
"Promoted horses, promoted horses are easy to deal with? Now they have 4 points, we only have 1 point, and the promoted horses are better than us. When the Chinese Super League was halfway through last year, there was only one championship opponent of Guangzhou Evergrande, what did the Beijing media say at that time, Guangzhou was a promoted horse, inexperienced, and the future was set to collapse, and our championship was stable. In the end, people didn't collapse, we collapsed first. Xiao Mazi was not angry.
"That's not what the newspapers say, who knows it will be like this." The brawny man muttered.
"Hey, don't argue, you come to see this, the best team in this round of the AFC Champions League is out, and there is actually a Chinese inside." Next to him, a man with long artist-like hair ran over with a mobile phone.
In this round of the AFC Champions League, the three teams of the Chinese Super League, Guangzhou Evergrande lost 1:2 to the Thai team Brilland at home, Guoan drew 1:1 at home with Brisbane Roar, Tianjin TEDA drew 1:1 away with South Korea's Seongnam Yihe, only TEDA's result was acceptable, but TEDA's best performance in that game was Romanian foreign aid, team defender Goian, he scored a goal in the second half to draw the opponent, and Goian also became the only Chinese Super League player selected for the best team of the AFC Champions League in this round. Therefore, there should be no Chinese in this round to enter the best team of the AFC Champions League.
"Who is it?" The two also gathered around curiously.
"Ge~Lin? It's Ge-Lin, which feels a bit like a foreigner's name, but the nationality behind it is correct, it must be a five-star red flag. ”
"Stupid, in English, it must be the first name in front of the last name, it should be Lin-Ge, Lin-Ge?"
"Playing in the J-League?"
"Tokyo FC? That's not our opponent in the next two rounds of the AFC Champions League. ”
The three of them chattered and discussed.
This situation has also begun to appear in various parts of China, and many fans have begun to understand that there is a Chinese named LinGe who is playing in the J-League in Japan.