Chapter 140: Can Chinese Do It?
The last warm-up match of AC Milan has ended, and it has come August 26, 2010, a very ordinary day. It is neither the Christmas that Europeans love, nor the annual Spring Festival for East Asian ethnic groups.
However, even ordinary people or things have their meaning or value, as is the same on August 26.
Because on this day, AC Milan officially submitted the first round of the Serie A player list to the Italian Football Association, and this list was also announced to the public at the first time.
Some times are remembered and even evolved into a festival, not because it is special or destined, but because there are some memorable things or people who just happen to hit this day and make it extraordinary, that's all.
However, for AC Milan fans, August 28 is still an ordinary day, just like countless days and nights in the past, it is not very special.
If you insist on saying that there is, it is nothing more than that many people have re-built a jersey with No. 22 printed on it. The grandson of the second uncle's family next door also walked into the stands, inheriting the family's long historical tradition. In addition, tickets for the new season are much more expensive than last season, so many people protested to the Italian Football Association, demanding that the Football Association urge the club to resume the ticket prices of last season.
In addition, the entire Apennine Peninsula remains as passionate as before and as fanatic as before, and the air still exudes the fragrance of passionate football.
However, on the other end of the earth, China, which is 20,000 kilometers away from Italy, has many significances on August 26, and is even a historical first.
Because in the list of players announced by AC Milan, they found a strange and very familiar name - yi.zheng.
For Chinese fans who are familiar with the Serie A, the names of the stars in each club are well-known. Chinese fans are familiar with their performance in the league and even the interesting and embarrassing things during their growth.
This is especially true for the Serie A giant AC Milan, who has accompanied countless Chinese fans to grow up. Not to mention the names of players of the first team, they can memorize the names of players of the youth team.
This is the basic skill of being a fan!
However, when the unique name yi.zheng appeared among a bunch of Italian names, many people were stunned! They were stupid!
I didn't know how to face this strange and familiar name for a while.
Don't they know each other?
Of course not!
yi.zheng, those who have applied new English concepts know that this is a typical Chinese name, and the translated meaning is Zheng Yi!
All three-year-olds know it!
The reason why they were stunned, stunned, and stupid was just because they couldn't believe it.
You should know that since the millennium Chinese football legend Ma Mingyu landed on the Apennine Peninsula, no Chinese players appeared in the Serie A stadium in the next ten years.
In addition, compared with the other four major leagues, Serie A is like a no-man's land full of traps for Chinese players, which is very difficult for people to get involved! The best proof of the failure of Chinese players to achieve their debut so far!
Serie A is the forbidden area for Chinese players!
This has almost become a consensus among all Chinese fans!
However, as time goes by, not only did Serie A not have Chinese players, but Ligue 1, Bundesliga, La Liga, La Liga, and Premier League are also on the list of "forbidden places for death" for Chinese players.
Chinese players who once left a strong mark in the European arena have to face the embarrassment that Chinese players are about to disappear in Europe after nearly 20 years of professionalism in Chinese football!
This is what makes countless Chinese fans feel heartbroken! It also makes countless Chinese fans helpless!
Seeing the close Japanese and Korean players rushing to Europe like crucian carp, Chinese fans could only pray in their hearts that Shao Yi, a veteran who played in the German Second Division, could hold on for a longer time and a longer time.
In this way, fans can still talk in their hearts that the flag of the Chinese overseas legion is still flying, even if it is broken!
So when the word yi.zheng appears on the AC Milan player list, everyone's heart is as if something is hit hard.
It doesn't hurt! But it makes people gasp!
It's not itchy! But it makes people feel like a fire and it's hard to calm down again!
However, ordinary people can fall into a short-term dullness for something beyond expectations, but the media cannot. As a group that disseminates messages, timeliness and speed are two words that will never be forgotten.
The first thing I realized was Guangdong media.
Just half an hour after AC Milan announced its player list, Guangdong Sports urgently interjected this news that sounded a bit shocking, but was enough to make many Chinese people cry.
Immediately afterwards, five-star sports, Hupu, Xinlang, QQ, Sports Weekly, Football Weekly and other influential domestic new and old media reported the news that Zheng Yi was on the AC Milan player list one after another.
Although the copywriting of various media is different, their meanings are very consistent - the flag of the Chinese overseas legion did not fall! Just now! Just half an hour ago! Chinese player Zheng Yi appeared on the roster of AC Milan!
We are back!
With the competition among major media, the news that Zheng Yi was selected on the list successfully dominated the hot news of the day and remained high.
After half a month, Zheng Yi, the name that ranked among the top 50 in China, swept across China for the second time.
The Serie A, which is about to kick off for a while, has become the most popular league among the five major leagues. The game against Lecce at home in AC Milan is a well-deserved "focus battle" in the eyes of Chinese fans!
Although Milan's opponent Lecce is a famous lift in Serie A!
After all, this historic moment has too many different meanings!…
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Italy.
The news that AC Milan announced its big list also attracted the attention of Italian media.
Authoritative media such as the famous "Sky Sports", "Milan Sports", "Turin Sports", "Football Market", and "Slow Motion" have analyzed and commented on AC Milan's player list.
However, compared with the high praise from the Chinese media, the Italian media is less friendly to Milan.
In the articles published by a number of media, words like "change", "no crown", "exit", "clown", "clut", "incompetence" can be seen everywhere.
In addition, from club chairman Berlusconi to AC Milan's full-time scout Cecil, none of them have been spared from being ridiculed and even criticized by the media.
The reason why AC Milan can become a "thorn in flesh" in the eyes of various media is nothing more than two points.
The first point is that when Inter Milan hired world-renowned coach Rafael Benitez to coach in order to maintain his rule over Serie A, AC Milan, who had no championship for seven years, did not want to fight, but instead hired an unknown and limited coaching experience Masimiliano Allegri!
Not being enterprising is not enough to describe it!
In response to this situation, Turin Sports Daily criticized without hesitation: AC Milan is joking about the qualification for Serie A's Champions League.
If it is just a media appetizer to express disapproval of AC Milan's hiring of Allegri as the head coach, then Zheng Yi's appearance on AC Milan's roster is a severely affected area for Italian media to complain.
In the latest published article, "Slow Motion" directly titled "Is Chinese Perfect?", focusing on the poor performance of Chinese players in European football in the past decade, in order to express their disapproval of Zheng Yi's prospects in Serie A.
"Football Market" compares AC Milan to an unscrupulous businessman who bows his head to money. In order to explore the Chinese market, he does not hesitate to pay attention to Milan's new season results and Serie A's Champions League quota.
"Sky Sports", "Turin Sports" and many European media expressed the same view - Chinese people can't do it!
As a local media in Milan City, although Milan Sports did not directly criticize it, they also expressed doubts about Zheng Yi's prospects.
As for fans, they are more direct than the media's subtlety.
Many people have abandoned Boateng, Adia, Odumadi and others who performed well in the World Cup in the past three warm-ups, and reused the practice of a Chinese who had no professional experience before, directly complained that AC Milan's head was squeezed by the goal, and that only if his brain was broken would make such a foolish decision.
AC Milan's opponent, Lecce's fans, even clamored on the online forum that as long as AC Milan dares to use Chinese people, Lecce will dare to overturn AC Milan in San Siro.
Lecce fans' actions are extremely arrogant! They just forget the embarrassment that they struggled to relegate last season...
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However, in the face of the external disturbances, as the protagonist of this controversy, what was Zheng Yi doing at this time?…
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This chapter was written for three days, more than eight hours, and it was deleted and rewrited three times. I was still not satisfied with this one, but I couldn't rewrite it anymore...
It may be difficult for you to imagine what it would be like to have your brain done. In the previous scene, I just tried it once or twice and found the right words. Now, especially in the past few days, a scene, I have to try it many times before I can find the right verb, noun, preposition, adjective, and then make them into the sentence I want...
It really needs to stop and slow down.
Although I have poor grades, I don't want to rot.
I hope you can understand that I will return as soon as possible.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!