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Chapter 17 Two Messages

August 27 is a very ordinary day for European football.

The five major leagues are about to start, and the transfer operations of each team are coming to an end. Most of the heavy signings have ended. All that remains are just some negotiations that I am lucky enough to be unfavorable.

However, in China, the two news caused a sensation among fans.

First, the Premier League giant club Manchester United officially announced today that the team's Chinese player Dong Fangzhuo will transfer to China's Dalian Shide Club in the form of a free transfer. He will represent Dalian Shide in the Chinese Super League next season.

After the announcement of this transfer announcement, the obscene reports that had been suppressed by the blind praise of Dong Fangzhuo in China were revealed one after another.

He was too introverted and communicated little with his teammates. After being injured, he refused club treatment advice and decided to participate in the Olympics, causing injury and condition decline, and the competition within the team was too fierce. These are some objective comments.

In fact, the most popular one in China is another interpretation, another one with ironclad evidence.

First, some Chinese sports reporters in London revealed that Dong Fangzhuo was addicted to bar karaoke bars, and then an insider revealed that Dong Fangzhuo was late for training in the team and was acting like a big shot.

What's more, he directly discovered Dong Fangzhuo's private life, that is, he used his first salary at Manchester United to buy a luxury car comparable to a club's world-class star, and found that he hadn't even tried to learn English for so long.

It is obvious that Manchester United gave up on him not only because of his injury. His arrogance or lack of ability to play in the team made it completely difficult for him to stay at Manchester United.

In the end, Ferguson, who had high hopes for him when introducing him, had no choice but to make this final decision. The two sides broke up peacefully and have since become strangers.

In short, King Dong, who just helped the Chinese men's football team win the first and only goal in the Olympics, returned to the country in a state of confusion or anger, or sneering attitude of fans.

And at this moment, a live interview from faraway Italy brought fans a completely different feeling.

Looking at Conte sitting in the head coach position, domestic fans can still vaguely recall his wonderful performance in major clubs in the past few years.

However, during the live broadcast, what he said and his eyes kept floating around him obviously touched the hearts of domestic fans.

This is the first external press conference held by Piacenza before the opening of Serie A. After this press conference, Piacenza will go to Torino City in four days to play away against the Red Bulls Torino.

There is no doubt that it is not good news for Piacenza to face a veteran Serie A team like Torino at the beginning, but the confident smiles of Conte and Liu Feng don’t feel a little anxious.

"Yes, we're ready for a trip to compete in Serie A."

As the team's new coach, Conte performed very naturally when facing media inquiries: "We have introduced a large number of combat power in the summer window, which is very helpful for the team to face the challenges of the new season."

"Liu Feng, do you think you can adapt to the pace of Serie A in the new season?"

After asking Conte, the reporters turned the topic to the young captain of Piacenza, but the questions raised by the media seemed a little...

"Well, as a professional player, I believe I can adapt to all games, including the journey of Serie A in the new season."

Liu Feng smiled politely and replied to the reporter's question: "At the same time, what I want to say is that our entire team is ready for the upcoming new season."

During the interview, there were naturally Chinese media who arrived. Liu Feng was also very kind when he saw the Chinese people, and even directly used Chinese when answering questions raised by domestic reporters.

Fortunately, when Liu Feng was interviewed, the news of Dong Fangzhuo's transfer to Dalian Shide had not been announced yet, so he was not pestered to ask about his views on this matter.

What domestic journalists convey more to Liu Feng is the high expectations and expectations that domestic fans have placed for him.

There is no way. Nowadays, the number of Chinese players playing in the five major leagues has begun to decrease, and many of them are close to thirty years old. Young players are really fancy.

After the news of Dong Fangzhuo's return to China was announced, there were few Chinese players in the new season of the five major leagues.

Zheng Zhi held on to Charlton in the English Championship, and Sun Jihai also joined the English Championship team Sheffield United as a free agent after leaving Manchester City for seven years this summer, both of which are in the second division.

Now, only Liu Feng from Piacenza in Serie A and Shao Jiayi from Cotebus in Bundesliga are still struggling with the dream of hundreds of millions of Chinese fans.

Among them, only Liu Feng represents the team as the core of the team and the captain. How can fans not put all their hopes on him?

In short, the live videos of Liu Feng and Conte's interview on behalf of Piacenza have once again attracted the attention of countless enthusiastic fans in China.

After the National Olympic Team, which was a start and abruptly, more and more fans have realized the unreasonableness of the Football Association and the crazy behavior of harming domestic football.

In the end, more and more fans began to choose to pay attention to foreign players, without any silence. As long as there are overseas players like Liu Feng in China worth paying attention to, it would be better not to watch domestic dark games.

Since foreign journalists need to organize and edit after the interview, the two news reports when Dong Fangzhuo transfers and Liu Feng attends the Piacenza press conference as the captain appeared in the newspaper that day at the same time.

Looking at the news that was clearly divided into two pages in the newspaper, fans who still account for a large share of domestic markets who rely on physical media to obtain football news only feel absurd.

Since Dong Fangzhuo joined Manchester United in 2004, domestic fans have all hoped that he would play for the Red Devils as one of the few geniuses in China, and that he would grow into a world-class superstar at Manchester United.

But today, Dong Fangzhuo, who has played in a handful of games at Manchester United, has returned to China in a mess. Liu Feng, who had no reputation in China before last year, has already promoted to Serie A with a Serie B team.

Such changes are really sad.

Two news, two futures, since then, the Chinese Gemini, who have been looking forward to by fans for a year in China, embarked on a completely different football path.
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