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Chapter 603 The main event [the fifth update of the explosive liver, ask for a monthly ticket]

Near noon, Yang Yang's private jet arrived at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

At this time, many media reporters and fans had already gathered in the airport after hearing the news, but Yang Yang did not meet them. Instead, he took a Liverpool car directly through a special passage and headed to Anfield Stadium.

Although it was not a game day, but also a working day, Anfield Stadium still gathered nearly [-] Liverpool fans.

Not only did this greatly exceed Yang Yang's expectations, but even Liverpool general manager Rick Parry, who was in charge of organizing the celebration, was surprised. Originally they guessed that there were at most 3000 people.

Unexpectedly, Liverpool fans would be so enthusiastic.

Fans pouring into Anfield one after another blocked the surrounding roads. It looked like a match was going to be held at Anfield at noon. When they saw Liverpool's reception car passing by, they all shouted Yang Yang's name, and some fans even chased after the car.

Sitting in the back row of the car, Yang Yang felt the enthusiasm and love of the fans around him. He was really flattered.

As a player, he always felt that he was just doing his duty, but whether it was in Ajax or Liverpool, he was admired and loved by the fans, which made him even more afraid to slack off.

"See, many people outside are wearing your NO.11 jersey." Sitting in the front passenger seat, Raiola turned his head, pointed at the fans outside the car window, and smiled at Yang Yang.

After Yang Yang heard this, he took a closer look, and it was true.

"I heard that in the past few days, Liverpool's local jerseys have been sold out. Adidas temporarily transferred a batch of goods, and they were sold out immediately. Many fans rushed to buy jerseys, and they must ask for your number and name to be stamped. This is also a commemoration for them."

Speaking of this, Raiola smiled slightly and said: "There is not even a jersey in the fan shop at Anfield in front. This has caused many fans to complain to the club's fan service department."

Yang Yang couldn't help smiling, he didn't know what to say about this situation.

"The last time a Liverpool player won the Ballon d'Or was in [-]. Michael Owen won the European Ballon d'Or thanks to his many cup titles that year, but Liverpool did not hold such a sensational celebration at that time."

"This time, besides the fans, Liverpool's mayor and high-level executives will also come to the scene, and two American bosses will also come. Coupled with the arrival of many British media and TV stations, the influence of this celebration ceremony will not be small. Liverpool is taking this opportunity to show the importance it attaches to you, and this is also a kind of momentum."

The reason for building momentum is very simple. Next, there is a more important personal award waiting for Yang Yang.

That is the World Footballer!
That's the real big deal.

Not long ago, FIFA announced the top three lists of the World Footballer of the Year. Yang Yang and Kaka were shortlisted for the top three. There is no suspense, but what is surprising is that Barcelona's Lionel Messi got the third ticket.

I have to say that this is really surprising, because Cristiano Ronaldo performed even better than Messi last season, and Manchester United entered the Champions League semi-finals in addition to the Premier League title.

Whichever way you look at it, Cristiano Ronaldo seems to have more reason to be shortlisted.

But sometimes things are like this, and Messi enters the top three.

Of course, Yang Yang doesn't think that Messi is unworthy or lacks this level, because at this level, there is not much difference between each other, and it is difficult to tell clearly who gets in and who doesn't.

But in terms of performance, it is true that Cristiano Ronaldo is better, including personal data.

I believe that Messi's entry into the top three has a lot to do with him being born in Argentina, scoring twice in three consecutive games at the end of last season, and the five consecutive games against Getafe.

What's more, top giants like Barcelona are doing their best to promote it behind the scenes.

Not much else to say, which one of the players who can play for Barcelona does not play a pivotal role in their respective national teams?Some are even directly the captain of the national team and have voting rights.

Therefore, the top giants still have quite an advantage in this regard.

And this also reminded Yang Yang that he must be careful, until the last moment, he has no chance of winning.

At the very least, Kaka's background and his platform are higher than Yang Yang's.

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When Yang Yang, wearing a Liverpool jersey and holding the European Ballon d'Or, appeared at Anfield Stadium, more than [-] fans had gathered in the stadium. Although the stands were empty, the momentum was very large.

At this point in time, all those who came to the scene to celebrate Yang Yang were die-hard fans of Liverpool and Yang Yang.

And a simple stage was specially set up in the middle of the stadium, and Benitez had already brought Liverpool players to stand on it.

Yang Yang stepped onto the stage quickly, hugged the coaching staff, teammates and staff one by one, thanked them for coming to celebrate for him, and then shook hands with Rick Parry, two American bosses, the mayor of Liverpool and other guests.

When Yang Yang finally stood on the stage and held up the European Golden Globe with both hands, the audience burst into deafening cheers.

From now on, Liverpool will have the second European Ballon d'Or!

Even, in a short time, they are likely to have the first World Footballer in the history of Liverpool and the Premier League!
This made all the fans at the scene feel extremely excited.

Yang Yang's honor is the honor of Liverpool and their fans!

Feeling the frenzied atmosphere at the scene, Yang Yang was also very excited. He walked to the microphone and thanked all the fans tremblingly.

"For me, it is a great honor for me to bring the European Ballon d'Or to Anfield and share it with everyone. Here, I would also like to thank the coaches, teammates, management and staff of the club behind me. I would also like to thank everyone and all Liverpool fans."

"It doesn't just belong to me, it belongs to everyone, everyone in Liverpool!"

Yang Yang's emotional speech once again brought him extremely warm applause and cheers.

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The celebration at Anfield lasted a full hour.

Subsequently, Liverpool held a lunch at the St. Thomas Hotel, responsible for entertaining all the guests present, media reporters, and the club, but the two American bosses left early after participating in the celebration.

Recently, their situation has not been easy.

The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has intensified. It is said that the wealth of both of them has shrunk sharply. When they bought Liverpool, they adopted the same method as the Glazer family, borrowing heavily, and then threatened to build a new stadium for Liverpool and introduce superstars.

During the winter break this year, Benitez hopes to sign up and strive to win the league championship this season, fulfilling the long-cherished wish of Liverpool over the years, but the two American bosses seem to be reluctant, so they are not very happy with Benitez.

Before, there were even rumors that the two American bosses were quite dissatisfied with Benitez and wanted to replace Benitez with Mourinho, but with Liverpool's recent recovery, everyone stopped talking about it.

Under such circumstances, the fact that the two American bosses can come to the celebration ceremony is already a great deal of face to Yang Yang.

After the luncheon at the St. Thomas Hotel, Yang Yang still couldn't be idle.

After resting for half an hour, he, accompanied by Liverpool general manager Rick Parry, went to a celebration of Liverpool's main sponsor Carlsberg, which was also specially organized by Carlsberg for Yang Yang to win the European Ballon d'Or.

And this time, Yang Yang specially put on a commemorative T-shirt specially customized for him by Adidas.

It is said to be a commemorative edition, but in fact, some celebration sentences about the Golden Globes are printed on ordinary Liverpool custom-made T-shirts, which may come from Benitez or Gerrard. There are a total of more than a dozen pieces in total.

This is also Adidas' usual routine, and then this whole set of commemorative T-shirts will be sold exclusively in Liverpool's fan shop.

For any professional club, the main sponsor is the big sponsor, usually two, the jersey sponsor and the jersey chest advertising sponsor. Liverpool’s jersey was originally Reebok, but after Reebok was acquired by Adidas, it was transferred to Adidas, and the chest advertising has always been Carlsberg in the past ten years.

Although Yang Yang's football boot sponsor is Nike, as a Liverpool player, it is not against the rules to attend the activities of Adidas and Carlsberg. After all, the club's sponsor is much larger than his personal sponsor.

Of course, when he attended the event, he was wearing Nike sneakers.

Nike will send several pairs of shoes every month, including some running shoes or casual shoes, which are included in the terms of the sponsorship contract. Sometimes even Yang Yang himself is not quite clear about the specific details of the terms and the scope of authority.

For example, when he participated in a Carlsberg event, he wore an Adidas jersey, but Adidas also sent sneakers, but was stopped by Mino Raiola and replaced with the Nike sneakers that the Italian fat man carried with him.

According to Raiola, if you wear Adidas sneakers on this occasion, Nike will immediately call and ask for accountability.

Yang Yang also felt quite speechless about this, but after thinking about it, he took 1000 million euros from others every year, and now he has won the European Golden Globe Award, and there are additional terms of income. It is normal to do something for others.

Besides, the pair of sneakers under his feet sell for more than 1000 RMB in China, and now Nike is giving it away for free like Chinese cabbage.

The only trouble was that he was really exhausted after two consecutive days of participating in various activities.

He always felt that he was more used to being on the training ground and the pitch than in these situations.

And more importantly, he was not feeling well after two days of no training.

(End of this chapter)