I once said that there were updates during May Day, but now I have only updated 4,000 words in two days, which is considered to be a bit unwilling to the point. Why? Because I encountered a bottleneck. That is to say, when I opened the document, I don’t know how to express the best things I want to write. Maybe it’s because I have written too many games during this period, and I have a little aesthetic fatigue. I laughed.

The game against Sweden is harder to write than I thought. Because this game is not a very important game, I can end it with thousands or even hundreds of words... But later I felt that there were fewer World Cup games and some things I wanted to express could not be expressed, so I added some things to it - such as Kru's desire to perform. Later, when I wrote it for ten seconds, I thought maybe the game would be over here, and the rest could end the game with a few simple words... But in this case, even if the foreshadowing I buried before was vain, I felt a little swaying in my heart...so I delayed the progress.

Another topic extends from this topic.

Recently, there are always readers in the book review area saying "Is the champion going to end after the World Cup?" In fact, this is not the case.

So, I will explain the subsequent arrangements here - this is to reveal the plot to some extent, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, everyone can almost guess the plot of the champion...

When I started to conceive a champion, I didn’t plan to finish writing the World Cup, even if it was the whole book. The World Cup is the end of the climax of the whole book, which means that all the most YY places have ended. But what I wanted to say has not been finished yet, or what I wanted to express in the championship has not been fully expressed, so this is the fifth part of the championship - the ending.

Here I can give you a vaccination first. The fourth part of the championship can be seen by fools. The most exciting part - even the Chinese team can win the World Cup championship. Is there any more YY in the world than me?

For those readers who like to watch YY and enjoy it (please note that I don’t mean to belittle them at all), you can actually consider not to continue watching the World Cup part, because some plots at the end of the fifth part will make people feel depressed. I am afraid that someone will point at the nose and scold you and drag the number of words to cheat the readers’ feelings, so I will explain the words here clearly so that I can avoid misunderstandings.

You can completely regard the championship as two endings, and choose different endings for different readers. Readers who like YY to climax and then end can choose to see the end of the fourth part and stop watching it. This was also a good ending.

Readers who want to read a complete book and think that they have strong psychological tolerance can choose to continue reading, see how Zhang Jun retires, see how various changes occur in Chinese football, see the different endings of the main characters in the championship, and see what I really want to express.

"The climax of the book is that the Chinese team won the World Cup championship, but this is not what the book wants to express. The real meaning of us being a champion is not to win a historic world championship, but to the end of the novel: What kind of championship does Chinese football need?"

This is a passage from my introduction and it is also my original intention of writing the fifth part.

As a fan and an author, I think the current situation of Chinese football is definitely not something that a generation of golden players, and a world cup champion can solve the problem. What Chinese football needs is not one or two talented players, or genius coaches. What is needed is the joint efforts of everyone.

Golden players represented by Zhang Jun can bring a championship to the Chinese team and briefly stimulate the development of Chinese football, but this is not a long-term solution. Chinese football really needs them to invest their valuable experience in the construction of Chinese football after they retire, such as being an official, a coach, or an investment... Anyway, there are many methods, and they are more effective than simply being a player.

And some of the foreshadowings I had buried in the championship before will be realized one by one.

The ending of the fifth part is quite long. From 2010 until Zhang Jun retired, I will certainly not write about real time for a few years. The fifth part is also a kind of change attempt and a breakthrough for myself. When writing about football, I have to write about games, and I don’t want to write more.

The fifth part, there will be competitions, but it will never occupy too much space. Like now, when one game after another, every game is written with 30,000 to 40,000 words, it will rarely happen, and it will be more about things in life and off-field. I want to see that life descriptions are more than the game descriptions, whether it can be written to attract people, and whether it can be accepted by readers. This is one of my goals.

Therefore, if you feel that the style changes too much and cannot be accepted, please don’t scold me and understand it more. I have been writing football novels for three years, but I always feel that there is no breakthrough, but I have regressed a little. I want to try it from a different perspective. If I succeed, maybe I will see a new world.

The protagonist is still Zhang Jun, but I will work harder on other characters and focus more on them, and strive to make other characters come alive.

Let me briefly reveal the plot below and give you a vaccination. If there is any part you don’t like, please prepare in advance.

First of all, Cru will meet a girl who changed him from a certain level (it seems to be particularly fond of saying this today...) and they will have a relationship, which is the main love line in the fifth part. But unlike the emotional scenes I wrote before, there will be no ending of "from now on, the prince and the princess live happily together". In other words, their relationship will not have a clear ending. At the end of the championship, their relationship has a follow-up. As for what kind of follow-up, please use your imagination.

Secondly, it has been long been said that the changes in Chinese football have been described from some aspects. Qiu Suhui will leave Chinese football. I believe everyone has seen Chen Wei's changes, and I have an explanation. Yang Pan, a person with deep scheming, will also do something that seems incredible to readers for his own development, which is all for his future development (of course, this incredible thing is definitely not a clichéd plot of betraying friends or betraying love...).

Then, Zhang Jun's growth continues to be the key point of the description. I believe that many readers have seen how a handsome young man grows into a mature captain. Then he will continue to grow in the fifth part, but whether this growth is good or bad, everyone has their own opinions. I don't make any bias, I just make a faithful record, and let readers judge it yourself. In the afterword of the book "Do you care about playing football", I have said that the champion describes how a boy becomes a man, so in the fifth part, Zhang Jun eventually goes from a boy to a man.

Continue, the last World Cup in the championship - the 2014 World Cup, is described in just one word: a mess. Please imagine the rest for yourself. At the same time, this World Cup is also a great opportunity to shape the different personalities of Zhang Jun and others.

An Ke, his ending will also be a key point in this movie. In "Do you care about playing football?", Ren Yudi is a tragic character because he was forced to say goodbye to the football field. In "Champion", An Ke will also be a tragic character. Please forgive me for not revealing the details of the tragedy. But... please don't throw eggs and tomatoes! However, his final ending is pretty good, after all, he still has good brothers to help...

Ren Yudi, who has delayed the tragic image of "Do you care about playing football?", continues to be sad... Please don't throw tomatoes and eggs... In fact, you should be able to guess his ending. For an idealist who left his family business and came to Italy to do football, the ending was long destined. For the Florentine, he is just an outsider after all...

Florence, and one of them. As the saying goes, there are prosperity and decline, and prosperity will decline. This is the law of nature and cannot be violated. Even a strong man like Sabato can't change the laws of nature. After experiencing an unprecedented dynasty and a brief glory, it is the normal development trajectory of a club. This is very normal. Please don't feel sad... don't throw tomatoes and eggs...

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In short, these are basically the same. The melody of the fifth part is: helplessness.

Zhang Jun’s helplessness towards Chinese football, Florence, and people and things around him. Many things even if he is the best striker on this planet, he cannot change. Even if he can break the goalkeeper guarded by the world’s best goalkeeper, some barriers are still unbreakable.

I hope everyone can understand this kind of mood, rather than complaining about Zhang Jun's incompetence.

Maybe this is also a kind of maturity in itself.

Does anyone remember the message from a book friend in my book review area before? I put it on for more than a year until Qidian Library was wrong and deleted, and that sentence could never be found again... The friend named Chu Yan said: "If you care about the paper full of the passion of a young man, then the champion is filled with sincere hope and a faint sadness, and mature thinking."

The fifth part reflects this faint sadness. Faced with so much helplessness, Zhang Jun can no longer be angry. The whole part is full of this sadness and nostalgia.

Please don't complain that I wrote ruined a hero's image. What I want to write about is not a hero, but an ordinary person, and the struggle of ordinary people in the face of fate (well, the people who saw this want to say that I have to be a bitch and have to set up a archway, and I also admit that because it is indeed...). Remember when I said I want to write a real YY?

The real YY sounds contradictory, doesn't it? I understand that YY is certainly YY, and the Chinese team has won the World Cup championship. What else can be more YY than this? But... but, I hope that under this helpless YY, I will try to write a sense of reality, so that readers will feel that these things may be realized at some point in the future, and dreams will finally come true! Many years later, when this scene is really realized, someone will say: "Look, many years ago, I read a book called "We Are Champions", which is exactly the same as it is now!" (OK, I admit that I am both a bitch and a archway... People who want to vomit will vomit, I don't mind...)

This is also the reason why I insist on not writing football novels that use alien technology, martial arts secrets, and become the world's top star, because that is impossible to achieve. Although YY is too YY, it is possible to achieve it in the end.

In the end, there may be several talented players in China, one or two excellent mentors may appear, an excellent Football Association leadership team, and a complete professional football system. These things may appear in the same era. Then, under the promotion of these things, we will eventually become champions.

Under such an ideological background, on the one hand, I want to imitate Zhang Jun, which is the need of readers and the need of the novel environment. On the other hand, I also want to pull Zhang Jun off the altar with my own hands, because this is not only my hope, but also the result of the final development of the novel environment. In this way, everything appears real, the character Zhang Jun is more credible, and the story is more credible.

Zhang Jun himself does not want to become a "Hope for Chinese Football", but fate and the times force him to do this and become a hero. I hope everyone will still see an ordinary Zhang Jun, who will bring us a lot of joy, and he also has his own troubles and helplessness, and even weakness.

Remember, first of all, he is a person, secondly, he is a football star.

After saying so much, many people must think that the final end must be a tragedy.

If someone really thinks that, then you will be wronged by me.

The ending of the championship cannot be said to be tragedy, or even everyone can be said to be happy. Even if the ending of the main drama, everyone has their own destination, and those that have not been written must be still looking for. But they will not think they are tragic characters. Even if someone like Ren Yudi who is written by me as a tragic character, they will not agree with it, right?

"Do you think I'm unlucky and pitiful? Are you angry or unfair about me? Zhang Jun."

"Don't be stupid. I have never seen any kind of storm for so many years. What's this? You know, I have been with you for so many years, from playing football with you to leaving you, and then watching you play football on the rostrum, you enjoy the joy of victory together, those silver championship trophys, those laughter and tears, and those memories are all very precious property? These are more precious than ten Florences. I can give up everything I have now, but I won't give up memories, and no one can snatch them from me. With these, do you think I am still a pitiful person? Or a bad luck? No, I am very happy and happy. I am actually very content..."

For professional football, the important result is the result. But for those teenagers who seem to have returned to their school days and are playing football without worries, the most important thing is to enjoy the joy of football.

Similarly, for this book, everyone knows the result. As a YY novel, the Chinese team's winning championship is inevitable. But what is important is the process before this, the teenagers experience, laughing, crying, and growing. This is my purpose of writing the championship. Otherwise, I only need to write the post "A certain year, month, and a certain day of a certain month, the Chinese team will become the king of the world" on a fan forum. Why do I need to spend more than three years writing these million words?

"What do you think the end of the championship will be like? After reading this bastard Lin Haitingtao's kid who used typing to write the championship, do you feel very trash and cheating on the royalties, and you are very disappointed?"

"Don't be stupid. The result was clear after he released the trailer. If he wanted to see the unexpected ending, he should have given up. Then why did you still chase after it for two years? A thousand words ending is just the ending in the author's heart. You must have your own ending in your heart, and it is impossible to satisfy everyone. But in the process in the middle, watching the protagonists grow from teenagers to men, and watching them get married one by one, isn't it more interesting than guessing the ending?

Why have I waited for more than two years? If it were just to see the ending, it would be great if everyone waited until his full book would be read that day. Don’t you realize that there are many pieces worth remembering in this? Zhang Jun scored his first goal in the Netherlands; saved Fiorentina with a hat trick, and also kicked off the Milan league championship; faced Buffon's Longteng in the World Cup; won the first triple-champion for the Fiorentina club; scored thirty league goals and embraced Sophie on the sidelines…”

It is impossible to win everyone's praise for a novel with more than two million words. With my ability, I can't write so-called classics. But I am also very happy to be able to write those reminiscent of the pieces. I am actually very content...

The end of the fourth world is just around the corner, so writing this article is to make a postscript for the fourth part and a preface for the fifth part, which plays a role in inheriting the past and opening up the future.

Summer is coming, and the weather in Chengdu is getting very hot. Telecom's ADSL is always disconnected again, and is in a irritable mood. When I encounter a writing bottleneck and cannot write something, it is also interesting to talk to you about some writing experiences and ideas. In fact, online writers and readers are not different camps that are tit-for-tat. Communication with each other is the feature of the Internet. Everyone is welcome to read this article and post their ideas to the book review area. My essence has not been added for a long time...

In the fifth part, when Zhang Jun retired, Li Yan would write a summary of his career for Zhang Jun. In fact, I just borrowed Li Yan's hand, and I wrote it.
Chapter completed!