Chapter 254: Who agrees and who opposes (third update!)

In fact, although Chen Yingxiong has never been selected for the national team, there are topics about him that have always been the focus of discussion among the national team.

Everyone plays football, and there is no controversy at all who is the strongest player in China at present.

Even the most confident and arrogant person has to admit that Chen Yingxiong is the most powerful active Chinese player.

They didn't even dare to think about the "miracles" he created in European football, let alone do it.

Chen Yingxiong can do it, and it looks very relaxed and casual, and he can't accept it.

So every time the national team competition and training camp, everyone always discusses Chen Yingxiong's wonderful performance in the European arena.

So although Chen Yingxiong has never appeared in the national team, the national team is not unfamiliar with him.

However, everyone's understanding of him is limited to his performance on the court, and he doesn't know much about what he looks like outside the court. There are many reports about him in the media, including many contradictory people, so in fact, no one knows what kind of person Chen Yingxiong looks like off the court.

When he came to report, he made such a big noise. For a moment, everyone thought that this was a big guy and I'm afraid it would be difficult to get along with...

But they were all wrong.

After meeting, they found that Chen Yingxiong was cheerful and lively, enthusiastic and talkative, smiling and actively greeted and talked to new teammates who had only heard of him and never met.

It even makes these people have an illusion - who is the old teammate of the national team? Why do we all think that he is the old senior, and we are the backward newcomers?

In fact, their feelings are similar. Chen Yingxiong did not regard himself as a newcomer, and felt as if he was trembling and walking on thin ice. With his position in international football and his experiences, his confidence made it impossible for him to be restrained by a national team.

Of course, it is not that he deliberately shows these things in front of these players. This is a natural expression. He is such a person!

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After Chen Yingxiong joined the national team, he was already very low-key. He only had to train and rest in the dormitory every day. But his reputation was too famous, so he couldn't be low-key. The originally deserted Xianghe training base suddenly became a "popular tourist attraction" because of Chen Yingxiong's qualifying, and many fans from all over the country and journalists from all over the world.

These people are all aimed at Chen Yingxiong, and the others cannot attract their interest at all.

Everyone paid great attention to Chen Yingxiong's first national team game.

This is something that can be seen, and in places that everyone cannot see, Chen Yingxiong still cannot be low-key.

After training every day, his dormitory was the most lively, and other teammates came here to find him one after another, just like the envoy who met the king. Chen Yingxiong only had to sit on the sofa in the room without even lifting his butt.

Although he did not make any harsh words on the training ground, nor did he form cliques in the locker room, attracting a group of people and attacking a group of people... He did not do any of these things that the big men of the Chinese national football team often did in the past.

But invisibly, the people of the national team still used him as the center intentionally or unintentionally - everyone was around him when they were having dinner, and everyone followed him during training. Chen Yingxiong's words always had the most words in the locker room, and others just listened more often. In fact, they couldn't find the opportunity to interrupt and show their presence, because Chen Yingxiong talked about his experiences in Europe, players who have been abroad, and there were in the national team, but no one's experiences were as rich and legend as his... Listening to Chen Yingxiong telling his experiences was like listening to a story.

This made the national team head coach Zhou Yonghua a little dissatisfied because he felt that his authority in the team had declined.

The national team should only follow his lead, how can we listen to Chen Yingxiong?

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The warm-up match with Vietnam will soon come.

On the day of the game, the Workers' Stadium was surrounded by fans from all over the country. They spoke in different accents, but were all discussing the same person.

This is Chen Yingxiong's first game in the Chinese national team.

Naturally, it has attracted much attention.

Before the game, the media told everyone that Chen Yingxiong would definitely start in this game. Everyone's expectations for this game reached its peak.

The red flags were waving in the stands, and looking around, they were all five-star red flags.

When Chen Yingxiong appeared with his teammates, he heard huge cheers from the stands.

This kind of cheer seemed louder, louder, louder, and more like deep down than when he was a Liverpool player in China before...

He looked up and looked into the stands.

The fans with oil paint on their faces were yelling at him, what exactly they were yelling, because the scene was too noisy and he couldn't hear it clearly. But it didn't matter, he knew what they were yelling.

He looked at the excited, crazy, and even tears in the stands. They were like themselves, with yellow skin, black hair and eyes, and spoke the same language, using chopsticks to eat, without knife and fork, and liked to eat Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Henan cuisine... Chinese cuisine, born in this land, growing in this land, receiving the same education, and similar ideas and experiences.

There is a word that can be used to describe - compatriots.

We are fellow citizens.

I'm here to play football for these people...

He slowly raised his hand.

Seeing the marching players, Chen Yingxiong raised his hand alone. The fans were a little surprised and his voice was a little slow.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Chen Yingxiong, and everyone didn't know what he was going to do - this didn't look like a wave.

The answer is revealed soon.

After Chen Yingxiong raised his right hand high, he clenched it into a fist!

This action is not unfamiliar to Chinese fans!

After he raised his fist, the whole stadium burst into louder cheers, and the fans kept roaring Chen Yingxiong's name like crazy.

The fans in the entire stadium seemed to be Chen Yingxiong alone. They shouted Chen Yingxiong's name. Apart from this sound, there was no other sound in the huge Workers' Stadium!

Everyone on the field couldn't help but look up at the crazy fans. Their eyes were filled with surprise and fear.

Chen Yingxiong did not. He lowered his head and just raised his right fist high.

I didn't let it go until I walked onto the stadium.

But the cheers did not disappear with his movements, and continued to echo over the Workers' Stadium.

"This is the charm of a hero! This is the appeal of a hero! When you call up the high school, thousands of people will respond!" CCTV's commentator He Ping was very excited, and his voice was trembling.

A historic moment...

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Although it was exciting at the beginning, when the game started, everyone quickly returned to the cold reality from the hot and boiling state.

This Chinese team did not seem to have achieved qualitative improvement after having Chen Yingxiong. It is exactly the same as before, with a chaotic tactic style and people don’t know what to do on the court. It cannot be said that these players are not fighting. Chinese football has been scolded for so many years, and the fighting spirit on the court should be scolded, so it is still a matter of fighting, but... the players don’t know how to fight, and it is easy to be too impatient.

Chen Yingxiong seemed very lonely in the frontcourt and lacked support.

And the Chinese team made another mistake in the defense line.

The Vietnamese team, which insisted on the small and fast-acting style of play, succeeded by a sneak attack in the first half for more than 20 minutes, and led the Chinese team in the score.

Chinese fans who were still cheering for Chen Yingxiong every time he took the ball were not happy at this time.

After a brief silence, a traditional program was performed in the stands - "Swearing the Football Association".

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When he was conceding the ball, Chen Yingxiong was in the frontcourt - he had no habit of returning to the penalty area, so he witnessed the whole process of scoring.

He could only shake his head.

The team's defense line is too bad, and the division of labor between the two central defenders is unclear. It is logical that one person should rob, and one person should be responsible for filling in the back to form a strategic depth, so that the defense line will not allow the opponent to penetrate the straight pass in the midfield...

He never thought that he would be the savior of Chinese football, and that this task was too difficult. With his understanding of Chinese football, he could not do it. But one thing he could do is to let the Chinese fans struggling and waiting in the dark enjoy some joy for the time being, even if it was short, but after all, he had it. It would make them no longer so painful and helpless in the process of waiting for dawn.

He wants to do something.

Head coach Zhou Yonghua's tactics were wrong, so he decided to kick the head coach away and do it himself.

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Until the end of the first half, the Chinese team was unable to equalize the score. Chen Yingxiong, who was highly expected by people, fell into a state of fighting alone on the court because he did not receive effective support. Moreover, he seemed not very adaptable to playing with the Chinese team.

In short, his performance is difficult to satisfy.

However, there was no booing at him in the stands. Chinese fans gave Chen Yingxiong enough patience. Perhaps it was because they felt that if even Chen Yingxiong could not do it, they would have no hope. So in their hearts, they still had to keep a hope for Chen Yingxiong.

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When they returned to the locker room, the Chinese players seemed very frustrated and anxious.

It is really shameful to be led by Vietnam at home.

What is Vietnam's level? What is the Chinese team?

They have forgotten that Vietnam and China have long been at the same level, and it is normal for anyone to win and lose...

Although this is a warm-up match that has nothing to do with the overall situation, the Chinese team does not want to lose to a team like Vietnam at home. Whether in terms of overall national strength or football, the Chinese have a sense of superiority towards Vietnam.

If they lose to Vietnam, let alone themselves, even the fans outside will not spare them.

Zhou Yonghua planned to say something to boost morale, but he didn't expect that as soon as he spoke, Chen Yingxiong suddenly stood up and spoke in front of him.

"If you want to win this game, just listen to me."

He said straight to the point.

Everyone raised their heads and looked at him in surprise.

Even Zhou Yonghua was shocked and didn't know what the player was going to do, so he forgot to speak out to stop him.

"There are too few effective passes for me in the first half. There are always some meaningless passes, which have no effect except to brush the ball control rate! So if you want to win in the second half, you have to pass more effective passes for me! Don't look at my back to the offensive direction and don't give me the ball. I don't only know how to head the ball, and don't always have to pull to the side to get the cross. As long as you have the ball under your feet, you can pass the ball to me after you hit the frontcourt!" Chen Yingxiong said with his fists.

"When I'm on the side, you can also pass the ball to me, because it's still my range! When I'm double-teamed in the penalty area, you pass the ball to me. In the air, those little guys are not my opponent!"

He spoke with confidence and arrogant, but unexpectedly, no one of the dozen Chinese national team players in the locker room interrupted him, just raised his head and looked at Chen Yingxiong blankly.
To be continued...