Chapter 21 Korean? Chinese!

The first team means that his son has a promising future for Chen Tao, and more for Chen Yingxiong.

Chen Yingxiong is full of longing for the life of transferring to the first team. Here he will get the opportunity to participate in the professional league, and he has the opportunity to score goals and celebrate with tens of thousands of live audiences and millions of TV viewers...

He will become a household name, get richer contracts, and get a lot of advertising endorsements. Of course... the blonde beauty will take the initiative to post and be enthusiastic, and then he will give up half-heartedly...

Of course, these are his dreams. What he needs to do at the moment is... to meet his teammates in the first team.

Assistant coach Porter took Chen Yingxiong to the locker room, handed him over to the team's captain Vladislav Radimov and left.

The captain is responsible for introducing the new player to his teammates.

Zenit's first team is indeed much better international than the youth team. Here, there are players from all over the world, they speak different accents and they have rich experiences.

For example, the team's captain Radimov.

This former Russian hope star made his debut at the Smina Football School in St. Petersburg. He has played for CSKA Moscow, Zaragoza, Dynamo Moscow, Levsky Sofia, and Samara Soviet Wings, and finally returned to Zenit, St. Petersburg.

He was a member of the Soviet under 16 and under 18 youth team, and later became a member of the Russian under 21 youth team. He represented Russia in the 1996 European Championships and performed well. He then transferred to the La Liga team Zaragoza.

But he performed poorly in Zaragosa, and after a bleak period, he went to the Bulgarian League.

Although Radimov has been to three countries, he can't speak English. It's a bit troublesome for two people to communicate without a translator around him.

Radimov, who was 1.82 meters tall, had to look at Chen Yingxiong.

A man from Dongfang Kong thought that he must be his teammates of the three Koreans - this new head coach really likes Koreans. He just took office and brought four of them in one go!

If Chen Yingxiong knew what he was thinking, he would definitely... "You are Korean! Your whole family is Korean!"

As a Chinese who is not Hakka and South Korea, it is really normal to have such a reaction...

Radimov asked him in Russian: "Do you speak Russian, boy?"

Chen Yingxiong thought for a long time, then replied in Russian who was very unskilled: "I only know a little bit, I've just started learning..." Although Ye Shengning's teaching method is very interesting, Chen Yingxiong also felt that he had made great progress, but it was not so fast that he could immediately chat with his teammates in fluent Russian.

Seeing his painful expression of speaking Russian, Radimov knew that this kid hadn't started yet. He thought it would be better to hand him over to the three Koreans and let them introduce him to him - although they also came this summer, at least they have been here for three weeks...

So he took Chen Yingxiong to Li Hao, a Korean player who was changing clothes, and said to him: "Li, your compatriot, newcomer, please introduce it to him..."

Li Hao was very happy to hear that another Korean player has come to the team. The Korean Gang is in a trend of growing!

He turned his head and saw a strange face...

As a player of the South Korean national team, he knows all Korean countries, but this person is very unfamiliar.

He thought to himself that maybe it was from the domestic league. Judging from his appearance, he was quite young, maybe he was still a child...

Since he is his junior, the younger one should say hello to him first. As a rising star in South Korea, Li Hao does not believe that a Korean player who plays football does not know him. Therefore, there is no need to introduce himself at all, and the other party should bow to him and say hello to him.

So he looked at Chen Yingxiong without saying a word.

Chen Yingxiong knew that there were several Korean players in Zenith, St. Petersburg, but he couldn't tell who was who. Koreans didn't tell whether they were men or women, and they all looked the same in his eyes...

He thought the captain Radimov was introducing him to this new teammate, waiting for the new teammate to say hello to him.

Radimov waited for Li Hao to take over his mission...

The three of them stood in a circle like this, looking at me, and I looked at you. For about half a minute, no one spoke.

When the others in the locker room saw the captain bringing a big man in at first, they were very curious and kept staring at Chen Yingxiong and the others. Unexpectedly, when they walked to Li Hao, after Radimov said something, the three of them seemed to have been frozen, without saying a word, looking at each other.

The locker room suddenly became quiet, and no one knew what was going on. The people who were still talking also shut up and turned their heads to look at the three people.

This weird quiet lasted for a long time.

Until Chen Yingxiong broke this quietness, he asked in English: "What's wrong?"

Radimov couldn't understand English, and Li Hao couldn't understand either.

Li Hao also felt strange. When he was anxious, he asked the captain in Korean: "Who is he?"

Radimov and Chen Yingxiong couldn't understand Korean, so Radimov asked Li Hao in Russian: "Don't you know each other?"

Two other Korean players, Kim Dong-jin and Hyun Yongmin, also came together. Unfortunately, they both couldn't speak Russian, so they could only ask Li Hao in Korean: "What's going on?"

Li Hao shook his head and frowned: "I don't know either..."

Russian players surrounded Radimov and asked him what happened.

"I don't know, I asked Li to introduce the team to his compatriots..." Radimov pointed at Li Hao, then pointed at Chen Yingxiong.

"Is it a Korean again?" the team's right-back Alexandr Anyukov exclaimed. After he finished shouting, he realized that he shouldn't say this in front of his Korean teammates, so he quickly looked at the three Koreans and found that they had not noticed him, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"No, right? The head coach really likes Korean players... I think if this continues, we have to change our name to Seoul Zenit, right?" There are obviously more than Anyukov who thinks there are too many Koreans in the team.

Of course, Radimov had to put the team's unity first. He stopped his subordinates from talking like this and asked: "Stop quarrel, the question now is... how do we communicate with them?"

"Does he speak English?" The question was asked about the team's Norwegian central defender Eric Hagen. He moved from Norway to Zenit last season and speaks English.

Radimov looked at him as if he had seen a savior—“Ask him!”

Hagen used to say to Chen Yingxiong: "Hi, hello." He used English.

After the strange silence in the locker room, there was another hustle and bustle. Chen Yingxiong didn't know what was going on throughout the whole process. He could only stand alone in the locker room, at a loss, and his ears were filled with his strange language.

Listening to those people talking, he didn't know what they were talking about, a sense of estrangement was forming. Chen Yingxiong swore in his heart that he would definitely find Ye Saining to make up for Russian when he went back!

At this moment he heard Hagen's English!

That feeling... was as excited as if he heard Chinese while eating at "Ruilongju". He nodded quickly: "Hello. Do you speak English?"

Hagen laughed. It’s easy to do if this kid can speak English, at least he can communicate...

He patted Chen Yingxiong on the shoulder to show friendship, and then he asked, "Are you Korean?"

"Ha?" Chen Yingxiong was stunned for a moment.

There was a huge laugh in Zenit's locker room.

Everyone was amused by what just happened.

Radimov also laughed. He apologized to Chen Yingxiong through Hagen. "Sorry, since there are already three Korean teammates in the team, I think those who see Dongfang Kong think they are Korean..."

Li Hao looked amused and crying - he was unhappy when he was confused by the Chinese and Koreans. As a leader in the younger generation of Korean football, he looked down on Chinese players. For more than 20 years, the Chinese team has not won against South Korea, which has made Korean players very confident and proud when facing Chinese players. How can the captain confuse himself with Chinese people? The difference is obvious...

Chen Yingxiong was indeed angry at first when he knew that he was regarded as a Korean, but he couldn't refuse to accept Radimov's sincere apology. He didn't know Li Hao's thoughts, but his thoughts were the same as Li Hao - how could he confuse Chinese and Koreans? Koreans' eyes were so small...

After the misunderstanding was resolved, Hagen and Chen Yingxiong became familiar with their teammates.

Hagen introduced him one by one.

This is goalkeeper Kamil Contofalsky, this is goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeev, this is defender Pavel Mares, the tallest person as you is central defender Martin skrtel, that person is Alexand Anyukov... Of course, no one can miss this person. He is the number one star of our team, and he is the nickname "New Tsar" Andrey Arshavin!

In fact, Chen Yingxiong didn’t know how powerful Alshavin was, but after seeing Alshavin’s appearance, he thought this kid was about the same age as him. He thought that it was amazing to be called the “New Tsar” at such a young age!

His teammates welcomed his arrival, both old and new players.

Only Li Hao's expression was a little awkward - he thought Chen Yingxiong was his junior and was still waiting for Chen Yingxiong to say hello to him, but he didn't expect that what he was waiting for was news that the other party was Chinese...

There is nothing to be embarrassed about Chen Yingxiong. Anyway, it’s enough to prove that he is not a Korean, but a Chinese.

Finally, the captain Radimov introduced Chen Yingxiong's origin to everyone - "He was transferred from the youth team, I hope everyone can help him!"

Some people are very interested in Chen Yingxiong, while others seem absent-minded.

There are many players transferred from the youth team, but unfortunately they couldn't stay for too long, so they went to the reserve team. Who knows how long this big man can last in the first team?

Maybe the reserve team is his last destination.

Those who are interested in Chen Yingxiong are because of his body shape.

He looks even taller than the two highest players in the team, Martin Scotter and goalkeeper Camille Contfalski...

Martin Scotter asked Chen Yingxiong through Hagen: "How tall are you, Chen?"

Chen Yingxiong replied: "One meter 92."

"Ah, my team's highest record was broken." Scotter sighed after hearing this answer, and then he patted Chen Yingxiong on the shoulder: "Congratulations, you are now Zenit's highest person!"
Chapter completed!