Champion’s Heart

Several days before the game, Chinese reporters went to interview Zhou Yi and Yang Muge to hear their opinions on this encounter. Music-Wen-

I made a bet with Zhou Yi. Whoever wins will treat me to dinner. I have already prepared all the money. Yang Muge said with a smile.

I didn't prepare any money, I just swiped my card. Zhou Yi responded.

The two sides were quarreling with each other, but it looked more like sex...

Everyone knows that Zhou Yi and Yang Muge are good friends, and they have a very good relationship in private.

Does your relationship with Zhou Yi give you some special feelings during the game? Some reporters are worried that this friendship will make it difficult for Yang Muge to play in the game.

Yang Muge shook his head: There won't be any special feeling. The game is just a game. If the head coach asks me to mark Zhou Yi, I will give my best in the game.

Even if it's a foul? the reporter asked.

There are more than just fouls in defense. But if necessary, I will foul. Yang Muge said with a smile.

If you knock down Zhou Yi, aren't you afraid of affecting your friendship?

Zhou Yi is not the kind of stingy person. He knows that we are all responsible for our own affairs, and we must do our best in the game. Otherwise, if you ask him, will he show mercy for my sake?

This same question was really thrown to Zhouyi.

How is this possible? Lao Yang and I are friends, but we are also players of our respective teams. How could we do such an idiotic thing? And it will not affect the relationship between us. Zhou Yi spread his hands. I feel that reporters’ worries are unfounded.

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When Zhou Yi stood at the entrance to Schalke Stadium, waiting to play, Yang Muge came up from behind and patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder.

Zhou Yi turned around and saw Yang Muge and smiled: Hey, Lao Yang, you look very energetic today!

If I want to deal with you, I can't do it without being energetic. Yang Muge said with a smile.

so……

The coach said, I'm responsible for guarding you.

I knew it.

The two people were communicating with smiles. If they weren't wearing jerseys of different colors, people would think they were teammates on the same team. From their expressions, it was completely impossible to tell that this was a Ruhr derby.

There was no communication at all between the other Dortmund players and the Schalke 04 players. They became mortal enemies and had nothing to say at all.

Zhou Yi and Yang Muge are two different people.

However, the two of them didn't chat for long, and it was really not the right time to have a serious conversation - if they wanted to chat, they could find a private room in a restaurant after the game and chat slowly.

After saying that, the two people returned to their queue.

Kagawa Shinji came up and asked: Will your friends have any reservations about you during the game?

Of course not, and maybe he will work harder than usual. Zhou Yi shook his head. So Kagawa, get ready, this is not an easy game to play.

Uh... Kagawa Shinji was speechless.

On the other side, Draxler was also asking Yang Muge: What did you talk to him about?

I told him I was guarding him this game.

Ah, then didn't he know our tactical arrangements in advance? Draxler was very anxious.

Don't get excited, Julian. I'm responsible for defending him. Anyone can imagine this, right? Yang Muge said.

That's true... Draxler thought about it carefully, and it was indeed the case.

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When the players from both sides came on the field, Zhou Yi and Yang Muge appeared on the TV cameras. Chinese commentator Duan Xin was very excited: Zhou Yi and Yang Muge! They are the main players of Dortmund and Schalke 04 respectively. There will be a Luxury match between them. China Derby in our area!”

This scene is what many Chinese football people have been looking forward to for a long time. Since Yang Chen played for Frankfurt in 1998, a large-scale wave of Chinese players studying abroad began. However, even in the most glorious period, the number of Chinese players studying abroad was still very small. There was no direct dialogue between them. Less.

When Sun Hai was at Manchester City and Li Te was at Everton, there was a Chinese derby in the European League. However, the direct dialogue between the two sides only lasted 24 minutes. Twenty-four minutes after the opening, Little was replaced by Everton coach Moyes due to the recurrence of an old injury, and the Chinese derby came to an abrupt end.

This is the first time that a Chinese derby has appeared in a European competition.

Half a year later, Manchester City and Everton met again in the Premier League. Sun Hai and Li Te also started again and performed well. Both played the entire game. This Chinese Derby is also the most famous one. British media reported that about 100 million TV viewers watched the game. Ninety-nine percent of these 100 million TV viewers were from China. At that time, the Premier League was still free to watch and was provided by several local TV stations in China. Joint live broadcast, such a finishing performance shows the influence of this Chinese derby at that time.

Before the conversation between Zhou Yi and Yang Muge, this game was an insurmountable peak for Chinese players in Europe, so much so that the British sports economist at the time even mentioned that it was the highest-rated game in the history of the Premier League. Contest.

The third Chinese Derby took place on December 7, 2003. This was also the last time Sun Hai and Li Te met in the league. Both men started the game and once again played the entire game. The two teams also tied 0:0. Shortly after this game, Li Te was sidelined for seventeen months due to a serious injury, and the two men never met again on the court.

The fourth Chinese Derby is already four years later. One of the protagonists is still Sun Hai, an evergreen player who has studied abroad in China, while the other one is Zheng Zhi, who joined Charlton. After this game, Charlton was relegated from the Premier League that year, and Sun Hai later left Manchester City. There are no more Chinese in the Premier League, and there is no Chinese derby in the entire European football world.

Back then, the Chinese media frantically reported and hyped the second Chinese Derby between Sun Hai and Li Te. That scene is still in the memory of Duan Xin, a senior football player. However, the concept of Chinese Derby has cooled down for a long time and has faded from the memory of many people.

The trend of Chinese football studying abroad is waning, talents are withering, and Chinese football has reached its lowest ebb.

Watching Japanese and Korean players thrive in European football, how can we not make Chinese fans feel envious?

The connection between Chinese fans and European leagues seems to rely entirely on domestic fans of various wealthy teams, but in fact there is another way, which is to have players from their own country playing in European leagues. Young Chinese fans today may not understand that feeling at all. It's hard to imagine that back then, sports news had many Chinese fans waiting to see Yang Chen's latest game news in Frankfurt.

But since Zhou Yi appeared, that feeling has returned again.

Now Yang Muge and Zhou Yi have once again recreated the Chinese Derby in the European League, which has made many old people deeply moved.

Both Zhou Yi and Yang Muge are already the absolute main players of their respective teams, and before this game, there was news that Yang Muge will be responsible for defending Zhou Yi during the game. This is the direct dialogue we most want to see!

As he spoke, huge cheers rang out in the Schalke 04 stadium. The on-site DJ began to announce the names of the players. Every Schalke 04 player would be cheered, and Yang Muge was no exception.

Every Dortmund player will receive overwhelming boos, among which Grosskreutz and Zhou Yi received the biggest boos. Grosskreutz is a staunch Dortmund supporter and often provokes and ridicules Schalke 04, so it is understandable that he is not popular among Schalke 04 fans.

Zhou Yi can still get so many boos basically because his performance in the previous Ruhr area derbies was so good that he caused a lot of trouble for Schalke 04. Schalke 04 thought it was against him. The team's greatest threat.

Naturally, one cannot be polite when dealing with such an enemy.

So in fact, this kind of booing is not a bad thing for Zhou Yi, but a badge of honor.

Commentator Duan Xin also mentioned this when explaining. Because many Chinese people seem to think that foreigners must smile at the Chinese to respect the Chinese. But in fact, if the two sides are enemies, then all attacks from the enemy are the greatest respect for themselves.

And Zhouyi is Schalke 04's number one enemy.

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When the game started, the boos against Zhou Yi were even louder. As long as Zhou Yi gets the ball, the boos will be overwhelming.

It was so big that Yang Muge couldn't bear it. He has played so many games at Schalke 04 and has encountered various opponents. As opponents of Schalke 04, they have also been booed when they went to the Schalke Stadium, but not A team can compare with Dortmund, and no one can compare with Zhou Yi.

It seems that Schalke 04 fans really don’t like Zhou Yi...

In fact, as an opponent, Yang Muge didn't like Zhou Yi either, because this person... was too cunning!

It was clear that Zhou Yi was going to pass the ball to the left, and Dortmund players were indeed responding on the left. Yang Muge, who was in front of him, shifted his focus slightly to the left.

As a result, Zhou Yi's heel knocked the football in another direction behind him!

He missed it, then ran to another place, and Dortmund's offense followed him to the other side.

This made Schalke 04's defense on the left in vain.

Just follow it and move to the other side.

It feels like being led by the nose... (To be continued.)