Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 981 Commemoration of the Return of the Hero
The UEFA Champions League, the highest-level competition in football today, has completely surpassed the World Cup.As far as the gold content of the final is concerned, the World Cup final has been overwhelmed.

As a football player, the chance of participating in the World Cup is not great, but the Champions League final still has a chance every year.The Champions League has almost become the highest honor for a professional player, especially for those players who cannot participate in the World Cup, the Champions League is the World Cup for them.

Shevchenko, a Ukrainian player who also played for AC Milan before, once said: "For me, the Champions League final is my World Cup final!" At that time, he had just represented AC Milan in the final and defeated Juventus , won the 2003 Champions League trophy, and then he took the trophy back to his hometown and brought it to the grave of his mentor Lobarovsky to comfort his mentor.

At that time, Ukraine's strength in the football world was not high-level. Except for a few stars, it was still unable to participate in the World Cup.It was Shevchenko's playing year, the golden age of professional football. At that time, Ukraine had no hope of reaching the World Cup, which made Shevchenko very pessimistic, thinking that he would never have the chance to participate in the World Cup in his lifetime.Unexpectedly, three years later, he led Ukraine to appear in the World Cup in Germany.

The same is true for Chen Yingxiong today.Because of the tense relationship with the General Administration of Sports of China and the Football Association, he felt that he might never have the opportunity to represent the Chinese team in the World Cup in his life. Therefore, he has long given up the dream of the World Cup that many players have had.

For him, he lost the opportunity to show himself on the important stage of the World Cup, and the same high-level Champions League became the only stage.Regardless of the league, even the top European league like the Premier League has regional characteristics. Some people like to watch Serie A, some people are supporters of the Bundesliga, and some people think that La Liga is the top league in Europe. These people Maybe they all dismiss the Premier League, and naturally they will not pay attention to the Premier League games.

But the Champions League is different. Anyone who knows the importance of the Champions League will of course attach great importance to the Champions League.Then if a player has an outstanding performance in the Champions League, he will soon become famous all over the world.

It has been two full years. Chen Yingxiong has not been able to appear in the top football field in the world today, because he chose to join Liverpool. This team has not qualified for the UEFA Champions League in the past two seasons.The team finished second in the league last season and finally qualified for it.

Chen Yingxiong, the super center who once amazed the entire Champions League and frightened all participating teams, also announced his return.

Before the first group match of the Champions League, Chen Yingxiong chose a particularly peculiar way to celebrate this memorable day.

He got a tattoo.

It's been a long time since he got a tattoo.At the beginning, after tattooing a whole giant bear on his back, he tattooed the Chinese characters of "Beware of Bear Infestation" on his neck, and a bear head logo on his left arm.

Then there are no new tattoos on his body.

Now he went to a tattoo parlor to get a silhouette of the Champions League trophy on his upper right arm.

The tattoos are not big, small and not very eye-catching.

But it was still discovered by observant reporters.

After a training session, Chen Yingxiong walked out in a sleeveless T-shirt, accepting photo requests and autographs from fans on the sidelines.

Then the sharp-eyed media discovered the tattoo on his arm—in fact, it is really hard to say whether Chen Yingxiong deliberately let others discover his new tattoo...

For a star like him, anything can become news and appear on various media.Things like tattoos are naturally of great concern to everyone.In the eyes of many traditional Chinese people, tattoos are only done by gangsters, gangsters, hooligans and other scum.However, in Europe and the United States, tattooing has become an art, and many outstanding tattoo artists are artists.

The bald tattooist who tattooed a giant bear on Chen Yingxiong's back at the beginning has become a famous tattooist in St. Petersburg and even in Russia because of this incident. People come to him for tattoos. Unceasingly, the business has improved countless times than before. Until now, the photo of Chen Yingxiong taking off his shirt after scoring a goal and showing his back tattoo to the camera is still hung high above the store, showing off to all the guests who come here his craft.

So when we interviewed Chen Yingxiong, everyone mentioned the new tattoo on Chen Yingxiong's arm.

"Oh, this." Chen Yingxiong tilted his head. "This is my new tattoo."

"Is there any special meaning, hero?"

"No, it just means that I have won the Champions League once, which is similar to a record..."

"Then why are the tattoos so small...it's inconspicuous at all."

In everyone's opinion, tattoos must be conspicuous, and must be able to be seen at a glance, so that it has its meaning.For an achievement as impressive as the Champions League, with Chen Yingxiong's character, he should have tattoos on his chest, from his chin to his lower abdomen, that's right.

Why did he have such a small tattoo on his right arm?

"I can only get tattoos when I'm young. I can't just win such a championship, I have to leave enough space for the future Champions League trophy..."

The other party Chen Yingxiong said was dumbfounded!
Daring lovers are still thinking about more Champions League trophies!

This is really arrogance to a certain level-it seems to be low-key, but in fact it is the real arrogance!
Just looking at the relationship between the size of his trophy tattoo and his arm, it is definitely not two or three trophies that can satisfy him...

Is Chen Yingxiong so sure that he can win so many Champions League trophies in his career?
To know things like the Champions League championship, many players can win one in their entire career. It is already a great deal, and those players who can win two or three are considered great.As for more than four times, they are basically legendary players.

The player who has won the most Champions League titles in history is Gento of Real Madrid. He has won the Champions League six times, five of which are consecutive.

Then came five-time Champions League winner Paolo Maldini and Costacurta, two legendary AC Milan defenders who won the title at exactly the same time.Di Stéfano and his Real Madrid teammates Juan Sandestian, Hector Legia, Juan Alonso, Rafael G. Les Mez, Marquitos, Jose Maria Salaga.These eight Real Madrid players are all players from the period when Real Madrid won five consecutive Champions Leagues.

Then came Seedorf's four Champions League titles.

Count down to three or two times.

Today, when Seedorf has retired, there is no player who can win the Champions League four times in today's football.

In today's football, the closest person to Seedorf is Messi, who has won the Champions League trophy three times.

Looking at the posture, Chen Yingxiong's goal is not to catch up with Messi, but to catch up with the backs of those legendary figures in history.

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The next day, many media used to report on Chen Yingxiong's tattoo and made a special topic of "The Return of the Hero".

For many people, the return of Chen Yingxiong means that this season's Champions League competition will be more intense.Even many people are looking forward to the hero's return.

Think of him as the key third man who can break the balance.

For a long time, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi have dominated the mainstream competition in the Champions League, top scorer, best player... These awards basically rotate between the two of them.

Messi led Barcelona to the championship last season, and he also won the Champions League top scorer and UEFA Ballon d'Or that season.Cristiano Ronaldo reached the top with Real Madrid last season, and he also became the winner of the UEFA Ballon d'Or this season.

And Barcelona and Real Madrid, which own the two of them, are not only the Western Super League, but also the "European Super League" team. Their strength greatly exceeds other giants. up.

Such a situation is too boring, anyway, either Real Madrid wins or Barcelona wins.Many teams are timid before they play against them, and they have no strength to fight back.

Anyway, everyone doesn't want to see a situation where one family dominates, even if two dominate.It just changed from one answer to two answers, the difference is not big.

Now everyone is very happy to see the return of Chen Yingxiong's Liverpool, and everyone pins their hopes of breaking the balance on Chen Yingxiong and his Liverpool.

They all want to see what kind of surprises this team and this person can bring them, and what kind of waves he can stir up this stagnant water.

"...The hero returns, two seasons of silence, almost makes people forget that he scored [-] goals in seven Champions League knockout matches, completed a shocking comeback in the scorer list, not only defeated Messi, but also defeated Barcelona The super center forward...but now he is back! He used to wear a blue Naples jersey, but now he has changed clubs, wearing a red Liverpool jersey, and returned to the stage he was most familiar with...Everyone is on the stage Looking forward to his performance, he won the top scorer in the UEFA Champions League for the first time, and defended the top scorer in the second UEFA Champions League after only half a season... We even have every reason to speculate that if he does not transfer Going to Liverpool, who has no right to participate in the Champions League, will he be able to continue the myth of his top scorer... Unfortunately, the two-year gap period has made this possibility obsolete. Now, he is back, and the record-breaking performance of last season Thirty European goals prove to the world that the hero of the world is about to take the stage!"

(End of this chapter)