The first time I saw him was when he was about to leave.

Chapter 112 This is why I fell in love with football! [4,000-word chapter]

In just the second game of his national team career, and his first start, he completed the achievement of assisting and scoring twice.

Two games and three assists!

Such an outstanding performance not only made Ling Feng the object of praise from the British media, but also allowed him to complete the achievement of [National Team Assisting and Scoring Two] again, and was rewarded with a free attribute point.

As the first superstar who was selected for the national team’s World Cup roster before playing in the Premier League, and completed assisting and scoring twice in the second game, Ling Feng’s popularity and fame have exploded under the media’s publicity.

Many fans compared him to Owen and Rooney who emerged out of nowhere that year.

However, what Owen and Rooney are remembered for is their goals;

And what Ling Feng is remembered for is his extremely accurate and imaginative assists!

The last supernova who was so highly expected was Wilshere, the “little threat” who challenged “Habas” alone in the Champions League.

It’s a pity that Wilshere has been affected by injuries in the past two years, his state has been fluctuating, and his development has not been as expected.

Even so, Wilshere is only 22 years old and has time to continue to realize his talent

It is a basic operation in football for the domestic media to praise their own players.

However, other countries are not as good as the British media.

Owen, Woodgate, Rooney, Wilshere, and now Ling Feng.

In the early days of the debut of each British star, the British media will spare no effort to praise them, wishing to blow them up to the sky and eat the benefits brought by traffic.

Once their career development is not satisfactory or they suffer setbacks, they will also ruthlessly add insult to injury!

As for the players’ thoughts, these media that rely on traffic for their meals can’t care so much.

Ling Feng has long been accustomed to this.

However, with the media’s hype, Ling Feng, the “new Beckham”, finally attracted the attention of the original.

After retiring for a year, David Beckham, a “heartthrob” who is focusing on developing his personal brand and investment, tweeted on his personal social media account and posted the sports cover of The Times.

Then, he wrote:

“Hey, great game, but unfortunately I wasn’t there. Look at this young man, what a perfect cross arc!”

After posting the tweet, Beckham did not forget to @ Ling Feng.

When he learned that his first love and idol in football mentioned him in a tweet, Ling Feng was overjoyed and did not forget to tweet “declare love” immediately.

He posted a photo of Beckham celebrating after assisting his teammates in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and then @ed Beckham, saying:

“Thank you, David! This is why I fell in love with football!”

This sentence is from the bottom of Ling Feng’s heart.

If it weren’t for Beckham, he might not have fallen in love with the sport of football at all.

The small interaction between “New Beckham” and “Real Beckham” on social media made many fans feel a little bit of nostalgia

They began to miss Beckham’s presence on the green field.

Beckham’s fans posted things related to Beckham on social media and launched a wave of memorial meetings:

For example, jerseys with Beckham’s autograph, tickets for England’s World Cup matches, underwear endorsed by Beckham, etc.

Then they all added Ling Feng’s sentence – “This is why I fell in love with football!”

You know, Beckham is one of the most famous football players in the world.

His social media fans have reached tens of millions, second only to the “peerless duo” Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi!

Therefore, after this small interaction between the two, Ling Feng suddenly gained hundreds of thousands of fans.

Coupled with his performance in the England warm-up match, his social media fans finally exceeded one million!

Then, this wave of commemoration conference was captured by various media and reported immediately.

Then, it went viral!

This commemoration conference suddenly became uncontrollable.

Not only Beckham’s fans, but also fans of other stars have spontaneously posted the reasons and reasons why they fell in love with football on their social media accounts.

For example, Messi’s fans posted a video of Messi copying Maradona’s one-on-five goal;

Cristiano Ronaldo’s fans posted a video of him hitting a falling leaf free kick against Portsmouth;

Zidane

The fans posted photos of the celestial beings in the Champions League.

Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Pirlo, Kaka, Xavi.

Every fan’s first love or idol in football is different.

Taking this opportunity, fans around the world used social media platforms to “declare love” to their first love or idol in football.

When expressing love, all fans would borrow Ling Feng’s words – “This is why I fell in love with football!”

Through this, many fans who didn’t know Ling Feng before began to search for who said such sensational words, and began to understand Ling Feng.

Then they were attracted by his wonderful deeds!

The 18-year-old English Championship assist king, the best player in two categories of the season.

As the core of the midfield, he led Leicester City to win the English Championship, breaking many English Championship records, and won the first FA Cup in the team’s history of 130 years.

The first super star who was selected for the national team’s World Cup squad before playing in the Premier League, and completed assists and scored twice in the second game.

They were surprised to find that this young man, known as the “new Beckham”, not only looks like Beckham, but also has excellent football skills.

Under the publicity of the media and fans, Ling Feng’s popularity and fame have grown explosively.

After learning about it, many fans of other stars have been attracted by this super star.

Just after breaking through one million social media fans, it was like riding a rocket, rising up!

Ling Feng, who was training at St. George’s Park, held his mobile phone and looked at the number of fans that was rising every moment, and the corners of his mouth could not help but rise wildly.

Fortunately, only mutual following can send private messages.

Otherwise, his private message backstage will be bombarded into ashes by thousands of fans!

. . .

On June 8, 2014, Ling Feng’s 19th birthday, it was also the day when the Three Lions set out.

The lobby of Heathrow Airport, the most prosperous airport in Europe, has long been crowded with fans wearing Three Lions jerseys.

They held various blessing banners and jerseys just to bid farewell to the players of the Three Lions, hoping that they can achieve good results in Brazil.

Unable to resist the enthusiasm of the fans, Hodgson gave the players the opportunity to interact with the fans.

Among them, the most popular among the fans are naturally Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard and other long-established Premier League stars.

Of course, Ling Feng also has many fans.

It is worth mentioning that among his fan base, most of them are female fans.

Among ten fans, there are three female fans!

This is also in line with his nickname of “New Beckham”.

There is no way. In terms of appearance, Ling Feng is definitely the most handsome one in the Three Lions!

William and Bob from the “Fox Club” also came to the airport to bid farewell to Leicester’s “heroes” Ling Feng and Vardy.

Ling Feng also found these two Leicester City diehards, signed their jerseys, and took a photo with them.

“Ling, show your talent on the World Cup stage!”

Facing William’s blessing, Ling Feng just smiled slightly, and then responded very seriously:

“I will!”

Finally, with the blessings of thousands of fans, all members of the Three Lions finally boarded a special plane and embarked on the journey of the Brazil World Cup!

However, their first stop was not Brazil, but Miami, USA!

Because the domestic security in Brazil was not reliable, England and Honduras arranged a warm-up match in Miami.

This match was also the last warm-up match on the eve of the Brazil World Cup.

The weather in Miami is similar to that in Brazil, both are hot.

In this warm-up match, Ling Feng, who had the best performance in the previous match, did not continue to start, but came on as a substitute in the 60th minute of the game.

This time, he returned to the midfield and formed a new midfield partner with Milner.

In the three warm-up matches, Hodgson used three different midfield partners.

Obviously, he is still trying to figure out which midfield partner can achieve the offensive and defensive balance of the lineup.

Perhaps because of the hot weather, even facing Honduras, which is ranked lower in the world and relatively weaker in strength, the Three Lions failed to penetrate the opponent’s goal in the first half.

There was really no other way, so Hodgson replaced Ling Feng, Vardy and Lampard in the 60th minute.

It seems that in the eyes of this old coach, the young but creative Ling Feng has become the secret weapon of the Three Lions to change the situation.

After coming on as a substitute, Ling Feng went through a period of about ten minutes of adaptation, and he did not disappoint Hodgson on the sidelines.

In the 72nd minute of the game, Sterling created a set-piece opportunity on the right.

Ling Feng took the free kick in the frontcourt and then passed the ball into the penalty area.

Lampard scored a header in the area!

And this was the only goal of the game.

In addition to helping the Three Lions win three consecutive warm-up matches, Ling Feng also created a new national team record:

He became the first player in the history of the Three Lions to assist in the first three national team games!

It is worth mentioning that in the two warm-up matches against Ecuador and Honduras, Vardy, who played a total of 90 minutes, still did not score.

Although there were shots on target in the game.

But it was still a little short of his first goal for the national team.

Vardy was very open about this.

Because Ling Feng had promised him that he would feed him the ball in the World Cup!

Scoring is only a matter of time

. . .

After completing the last warm-up match on the eve of the World Cup that day, all members of the Three Lions took a special plane to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

As the host, Brazil has done a lot of work for this World Cup.

Including fighting crime, cleaning streets, renovating stadiums, etc.

Thanks to the promotion and publicity of the Premier League worldwide, coupled with the strong hype of the British media, in addition to the home team of their own country, the most familiar team to fans from all over the world is England.

In order to ensure the personal safety of the players of each team, the local police also arranged armed guards for each team to provide security services.

It can be said to be very considerate.

After arriving at Rio de Janeiro International Airport, the Three Lions immediately took the bus prepared by the organizer and arrived at the Pestana Atlantic Beach Hotel.

Two military buses, one in front and one behind, escorted the bus all the way.

Seeing this scene, Vardy, who was sitting next to Ling Feng, couldn’t help but say to himself with some regret:

“In this case, we may not have the chance to go out for a walk”

Hearing this, Ling Feng pulled the corner of his mouth and reminded:

“Instead of going out for a walk, you might as well stay in the room and think about how to kick my pass into the goal during the game.”

In response, Vardy just promised with a serious face:

“Don’t worry, I will seize the opportunity!”

Arrived at the hotel and divided the room.

Ling Feng was still assigned to the same room with his national team roommate Luke Shaw.

And the first thing he did when he arrived at the hotel room was to take out his mobile phone and call his mother:

“Mom, I’m at the hotel, how about you?”

Every time the Three Lions play in the World Cup, they will bring a beautiful landscape to the World Cup.

That is the England wives group!

However, due to the poor performance in the past few major tournaments, Hodgson explicitly banned the girlfriends or wives of players from traveling with the team in this Brazil World Cup.

As a member of the Three Lions, Ling Feng does not have a girlfriend or wife.

So, he does not have to pay attention to this ban.

His parents also came to Brazil with him to witness his first World Cup trip and cheered for him throughout the journey.

And it was his super agent, Mendes, who helped him solve the big and small problems of his parents’ itinerary and accommodation!

After Ling Feng was selected for the England World Cup squad and made consecutive appearances, Mendes became more and more concerned about this England supernova.

While he felt that his vision was as sharp as ever, he did not forget to do the logistics work for Ling Feng.

In his opinion, as long as Ling Feng appeared in the World Cup, even without performing too well, his value would definitely skyrocket.

What followed was the commercial endorsement of high-end brands and considerable commissions!

Mendes will not be careless about making money.

Providing all-round services to players and customers is also his attitude and purpose!

That night, the team held a birthday party for Ling Feng, who had just celebrated his 19th birthday, in the hotel.

They all hoped that Ling Feng’s birthday would bring good luck to the team.

As the protagonist, Ling Feng was smeared with cake by his teammates.

However, when he returned to the room to take a shower, he felt that his relationship with his teammates was closer.

The next day.

The Three Lions went to the team training base of the Brazilian team Fluminense to prepare for the World Cup.

It is worth mentioning that in England’s 23-man roster, Hodgson boldly used new forces. A quarter of the players had played for the national team no more than 5 times, and the average age of the 23-man roster was 26 years old.

In the previous 13 World Cups, England only won the championship in the 1966 home battle.

That is also the only World Cup England has won so far.

In addition, England has played in the World Cup

The best result was fourth place in the 1990 World Cup in Italy.

In this World Cup, England was placed in Group D, with Uruguay, Italy and Costa Rica.

The first match was scheduled for June 15.

The opponent was their old rival, Italy, who had eliminated them from the European Cup two years ago on penalties!

(End of this chapter)


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