Chapter 81: The Lottery
Tokyo FC beat Jeddah Al Ahly 3-0 to win this season's AFC Champions League, which is the biggest news in Asian football in the next few days.
"Al Ahly defeated Tokyo by three goals, and the AFC Champions League final system is unreasonable"
This is the direction of reporting in the West Asian region, criticizing the AFC Champions League final as unreasonable.
The first three champions of the AFC Champions League were all West Asian teams, but since the fourth Jeonbuk Hyundai won the championship in 06, the West Asian team has only won one championship in seven consecutive AFC Champions Leagues, which is last season's Doha Sade penalty shootout defeated Jeonbuk Hyundai to win the championship. In fact, it will be the same for another five years after that, and there will still be no other champion for the West Asian team.
"Two shots and one pass helped Tokyo FC reach the top, and Ringer won the AFC Champions League Golden Boot"
"Elected as the MVP of the AFC Champions League Final, it can be described as the first person in Chinese football"
In China, the focus is on Ringer's individual performance, and every goal he scores will be brought out to say, and at the same time, Evergrande will be washed up by the way, and the loss to the eventual champion team is much better.
At the same time, subtly, the domestic media has begun to acquiesce in the identity of Ringer's first person. If it had been at the beginning of the season, or even half a year ago, no one would have agreed to this, but now that Tokyo FC has been leading to the AFC Champions League, everyone has begun to acquiesce to this situation.
"In all the games of this season's AFC Champions League, Tokyo FC scored a total of 23 goals, and 12 of them were scored directly by Lin Sang, and he also had 3 assists and made 1 own goal, that is, 23 goals of Tokyo FC, 16 were directly created by Lin Sang, he is a well-deserved offensive booster of Tokyo FC ~~~"
This is TV Tokyo's report on the AFC Champions League match, and it is clear that it is building momentum for Ringer.
The AFC Champions League final is over, and soon it will be the day when the AFC announces the shortlist for this year's awards, although with Ringer's current performance, this year's Asian Footballer of the Year should be nine out of ten, but Bobovic still let the club start the relationship and create a momentum to add a point of certainty.
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After the AFC Champions League final, Tokyo FC has three league games left.
At present, in the J-League standings, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and FC Tokyo both have 59 points, but Sanfrecce Hiroshima has 4 more goal difference than FC Tokyo, and is temporarily at the top of the table.
In the final three rounds, Sanfrecce Hiroshima was in slightly better shape, with an easy game to win and a few more clean sheets in this easy game. And Tokyo FC, the three games are all tough battles, and if you can win each game, it is good, and the goal difference can only depend on God.
Overall, Sanfrecce Hiroshima is in a dominant position in the league title race, and it may be difficult for Tokyo FC to stand a chance if he doesn't make a mistake.
In the J-League scorer list, Toshito Sato is currently two goals ahead of Ringer with 21 goals due to a goal from a 3-0 home win over Consadole Sapporo in the last round of the league.
However, the league will have to wait a week before it starts, and Ringer will have a week off.
Due to the influence of the scandal, Ringer didn't dare to date the young lady, and he had to spend the holiday alone.
Ringer is back in the city again, this time not on a date, but for an interview with a Japanese magazine.
World Soccer King, one of the three most famous football magazines in Japan.
However, this time I want to interview the supplement of this magazine, "Asia Soccer King", this supplement will interview him, and will also use him as the cover of the next issue.
"Hello, Lin Sang, I'm Shenwu Hongshu."
"Hello."
"Lin Sang, first of all, congratulations on leading the team to win the AFC Champions League, and at the same time winning the AFC Champions League Golden Boot and the Most Valuable Player in the final."
"Thank you, it's all the result of the team's efforts."
"Did you ever think before the start of the season that you would end up winning the championship?"
"No, I don't think anyone could have imagined that it would be like this. Before the start of the season, I was still worried about my place in the team, and I didn't have the time to guess how far the team could go in the AFC Champions League, and the rest of the team was thinking about trying not to be eliminated in the group stage. ”
"And then? When did you start craving for a championship? ”
"Probably after the round of 16, you know we eliminated the powerful Guangzhou Evergrande in the round of 16, at that time Evergrande was considered the top four favorites to win the championship, we can eliminate them, naturally I thought about whether we could go further, and began to hope for the championship."
"It was said that you had the opportunity to join another team at the beginning of the season, so why did you choose FC Tokyo?"
"At that time, my agent told me that there were two teams that were interested in signing me, one was Consadole Sapporo and the other was FC Tokyo, and the reason I chose it was very simple, I didn't want to go too far, you know that Consadole Sapporo is far away in Hokkaido, so I chose FC Tokyo."
"Why did you choose to wear the number 8 shirt?"
"Kaka is my idol, he's the number 8 he wears, and when I joined the team, there was no one wearing the number 8 shirt, so I chose that number."
"Can you tell us about your head coach, Bobovic? What kind of person is he? ”
'Coach Bobovic is a good coach, he has a good tactical level and at the same time he is very emotional in the team, and he is the one who gives the most credit to us for winning the championship.
"Have you ever thought about joining Europe?"
"Of course, I think every footballer wants to play in Europe."
"Ever imagined that one day you would meet Kaka on the pitch?"
"To be honest, I didn't really think about it, I'm just a well-known player in Asia and the European giants are still far away for me."
"If there was a day when you and Kaka met on the pitch, would you like to be teammates or rivals?"
"This? If I do meet him on the pitch, I will be happy for both team-mates and opponents, and I will definitely ask him for an autograph or a jersey. ”
"Your agent is said to be actively working on your transfer to Europe?"
'I don't know about the transfer, I just want to play the last few games of the season first and help the team get a better result.
"League champions?"
"Yes, everyone wants a championship."
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At the end of the interview, the magazine took a few more photos of Ringer for the cover of the next issue.
Coming out of the magazine's headquarters, Ringer thought for a moment, and there should be nothing wrong with the answer to the question just now. Krott had taken care of it beforehand, and the other party didn't ask any tricky questions, and Ringer thought that he could give himself a score of 99 if he answered appropriately.
Well, deducting one point is for fear of pride.
For the next two days, Ringer went to follow the fat man and rested for two days.
During this time, the scandal of Ringer's transfer to Europe reappeared, and this time Krott publicly said: "There are several European teams interested in Lin at the moment, and at the end of this season, Lin will meet a new challenge." ”
The implication is obvious, Ringer will definitely join a European team in the winter.
As for which team it is, Krot didn't say, and it was up to reporters to speculate.
Most of the media thought it would be Arsenal, after all, Ringer was named by Arsene Wenger during the summer transfer window.
The Chinese media is most enthusiastic about this, with the credit of leading the team to win the AFC Champions League, Ringer has started the achievement of the first person in Chinese football, and many people are still waiting for him to continue to open the achievement of joining the second person of the European giants.
However, news soon came that Dortmund's scum uncle said of Ringer in an interview with Japanese reporters: "I watched the video of the (AFC Champions League) final, he is an impressive player, with a keen sense of smell on the pitch, and can always tear through the opponent's defense in the face of tight defense. ”
"I think he can find a way to score goals even against the defense of the big five league teams, and we will make an offer to Tokyo FC in the winter transfer window, and I believe he can be the next Kagawa."
Uncle Scum made a few words to link Ringer's name with Dortmund, and then Schalke 04 and Eintracht Frankfurt both expressed similar meanings.
This time, Ringer, who was casually reported in the summer and had been forgotten about two sentences, appeared in European media newspapers again, and the tabloids in England were even happier, Arsenal was already a Premier League joker, and this time it was related to Arsenal, so naturally there were two sentences of discussion.
"Arsene Wenger's valued Asian talent may be intercepted by the Bundesliga team~~~"
"The next Kagawa caused several teams in Europe to scramble ~~~"
Some tabloids reversed the order, and it became: "Wenger is red at Dort, and wants to cut off the Asian talent he values~~~"
For a while, Ringer seemed to be the favorite to transfer for the upcoming winter break.
On this day, Ringer opened his Weibo, which he hadn't been on for several days, and there were a bunch of questions about his transfer.
"Boss, it's amazing, it's caused European teams to scramble."
"Ball Fairy-sama, which team are you going to go to?"
"Boxian, go to Axianu, Axianu is more compatible with you."
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Seeing these questions, Ringer was speechless.
There are indeed several teams interested in him, but Ringer himself knows that they value themselves so-called, first, their transfer fee is not high, 4 million euros, anyone can afford this price, and second, their Chinese identity, must have a certain role in opening up the Chinese market.
The combination of these two points makes those teams willing to bet on him, just like scratching a lottery ticket, anyone can afford two dollars, if they are lucky enough to scratch the general.
Therefore, Ringer wants to be like a cheap lottery ticket, the price is not expensive, and even if they don't scratch the prize when they buy it, there is the Chinese market to earn back part of the cost for them.
If Ringer's transfer fee were to increase tenfold to 40 million euros, I am afraid that there would be basically no team interested in him.