Fame with a ball

At the press conference after the game, Capello attended with Lin Zhigao.

When they arrived at the venue, Guardiola had finished his interview and left in a hurry.But none of the newspapers or media left in the press hall, they were all waiting for today's highlight.

When Capello and Lin Zhigao bought the venue one after the other, countless reporters pointed at them with "long guns and cannons". To cover these spotlights, Lin Zhigao just lowered the brim of his hat.

When the first wave of celebrations was held in the locker room, Pepe put this hat on top of Lin Zhigao's head, and said that he "will definitely need it later."

Lin Zhigao sneered at that time, thinking to himself, "Should I wear a hat to pretend to be a shy young man?" However, his teammate couldn't refuse the kindness, so he attended the press conference wearing a hat. He didn't realize until now that Pepe's This decision is so wise, he really deserves to be his good teammate!

Especially compared to the head coach Fabio Capello who was almost burst into tears by the flashlight.

I have to say that Capello has been famous in football for many years, and his reputation and prestige are still great. From the moment he opened his mouth, hundreds of reporters all fell silent and listened quietly to his speech. He indicated that the reporter could start asking questions, and only then did the reporter ask him about the game.

This is actually a rule. When a player is particularly dazzling in a certain game, if the head coach does not bring him to the press conference, the reporters can ask the head coach about the player.But if the head coach brings the player to the press conference, the reporters have to give each other face, no matter how strong their desire for an interview is, they have to wait until the head coach himself has finished speaking.

Fortunately, Capello is not a particularly unreasonable person. After answering two or three questions from the reporters, he raised his hand to indicate that the reporter can interview Lin Zhigao.

"Shua, Shua, Shua!" In an instant, countless microphones were held up under Lin Zhigao's eyes, and the press conference hall was suddenly noisy, as if it had become a vegetable market.

"Hello, Lin Zhigao, I'm a reporter from "Torino Sport". I want to ask if you created the extraordinary move you used in the game?"

"I scored two goals in the first game for the team and performed amazing stunts. Is this what Juventus planned?"

"I'm a reporter from The Daily Telegraph. Are you Mr. Capello's secret weapon specially trained to deal with Barcelona?"

"I'm a reporter from The Sun. You changed jerseys with Messi before the game. Did you know each other before?"

"Juventus has never arranged for you to play in the domestic league before. Is it specially training you to participate in the Champions League?"

"I'm from World Sports Daily, what is your relationship with Messi? I saw that you seem to have exchanged phone numbers?"

"Are you willing to move to La Liga next season?"

"We are CCTV reporters. The first match of the Champions League has achieved such a great success. Lin Zhigao, do you have anything to say to the domestic fans?"

"I'm a reporter from "Kicker". May I ask what is the name of the extraordinary move you used in the game? Does it have a history?"

"..."

Too many questions, in various languages, were thrown at Lin Zhigao all at once, almost making him dizzy.Fortunately, with the help of the translator, he finally understood what these problems were.

With a bit of pride and a bit of composure, Lin Zhigao answered these questions one by one: "When I play and when I sit on the bench, I follow the arrangements of the coaching staff. Starting in the Champions League, it was because I missed many rounds of league training for the Chinese national team. So this game is not scheduled, and I am not a secret weapon."

"Messi and I met once in London, honestly in a game, we were both surprised - if you want me to define it, yes, we are friends now. What? Yes, I have Messi's cell phone number, and he has mine, but, haha, I won't give it to you."

"To the fans in China who have always supported me, please help me convey my gratitude to them. I really appreciate them staying up late to watch my games again and again. I know it is not easy. If I have the opportunity in the future, I hope to go to China Play a few more games, meet them face-to-face - what did you say? No, no, no! I have no intention of transferring, I love Juventus, my current teammates and coach, and my contract with the club is still in effect. It's two and a half years away, so it's too early to ask."

"Mr. Reporter, please don't sow discord, my agent will not contact other clubs in private. That's it."

"Is that extraordinary move?" Under the repeated questioning of many reporters, Lin Zhigao showed a slightly shy smile: "Yes, it is my original creation, but I also refer to the experiences of many other professional players. I summed up and combined this set of movements in a human way. In fact, I have only successfully completed this set of movements in training before, and I am also very surprised that I can succeed in today's competition."

"You ask what it's called? Well, I think, because it needs a lot of ball control frequency, and there are actually a lot of changes, I want to call it, neon lights?"

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How can a football player get his name in newspapers all over the world in the shortest time possible?

A hat-trick in the game? NO!

Top scorer honors in the five top leagues? NO!

In the competition, have five people in a row staged the hand of God and Flying Immortal?Still NO!

If professional players want to become famous the fastest in the game, they cannot do without the assistance of world-class events.

Neymar has been playing in the Brazilian league since he started playing football. He has never played in Europe, which is known as the world's top league. Why can he become a genius who is attracting the attention of the world and being competed by giants?

Because of the 8 goals he scored for Brazil in the World Cup in South Africa!

It is impossible to become a world-class star without participating in world-class competitions.No matter how famous or capable you are in a certain top league, there is no way to spread the word about yourself to the whole world.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the top scorer in Serie A, won almost all the personal honors in Serie A. He is known to almost everyone in Italy, but audiences in other countries don’t buy him very much. Russian Super League In the leagues of the Portuguese Super League, it is estimated that the fans did not pay much attention to the existence of this person at all.Later, Ibrahimovic moved to Barcelona, ​​but he sat on the bench for more than half a year, and finally returned to Serie A to AC Milan.

If players in a certain league want to be world-famous, they must show their abilities in world-class events. In the world, there are generally three top-level events that receive global attention: the UEFA Champions League, the European Cup, and world cup.

Let’s not talk about the European Cup and the World Cup, they are national-level events.And the Champions League is the competition among the top clubs - here are the best players in the world, the best head coaches, the largest number of fans are gathered every year, there are countless scouts and reporters at any time Set your sights here.

Want to be famous all over the world?Then beat every top club in the world in the Champions League!As long as you can win and score goals, there will naturally be countless reporters rushing to report on you, countless scouts paying attention to you, and countless clubs wanting to buy you.

Lin Zhigao was really not well-known in the world before. At least a dozen awards like the top scorer in the Premier League are awarded in Europe every year.Even if you are the one who broke the league scoring record, who else would pay attention to this except British fans?Oh, Chinese fans certainly don't count.

That's why after Lin Zhigao went to Turin, he was not harassed by too many fans and reporters, because many Italian fans didn't pay attention to the British League at all.

But the UEFA Champions League is different. This level of competition, no matter which country the fans are from, even as far away as Asia, North America, South America and Africa, there are countless people paying attention.

Especially when the opponent is a team like Barcelona... Lin Zhigao hit the headlines of sports news all over the world almost overnight!

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"Another genius who shocked the world! "

This is the headline of the new issue of the French "L'Equipe".In the report, the reporter who wrote the news used large paragraphs to describe Lin Zhigao's extraordinary goal action, analyzed its technicality and difficulty, and said that this set of extraordinary actions "will be similar to Ronaldinho's flicking the bull's tail." , Ronaldo's pendulum has become an extraordinary stunt in football!"

Not only that, "French Football", a well-known European sports magazine for many years, also ranked Lin Zhigao and Neymar together, saying that they are "among the young players born in the 90s, the two who are the most eye-catching and have the most unlimited future achievements." ".

The sports pictures in the new issue of Germany's "Photosports" is an exploded illustration of Lin Zhigao's "Neon Lights".

The British "Observer" said that Lin Zhigao's "neon lights" name for his extraordinary moves sounds ridiculous, but it actually describes the essence of this set of extraordinary moves: high-frequency touch The ball and fake moves make the enemy elusive, and it is impossible to judge the direction of his breakthrough.The speed of the ball is extremely fast, and the opponent's body center of gravity is often not adjusted properly, and he is already extraordinary.It looks like a neon light when disassembled, using the dazzling light to confuse the enemy, and then dribble the ball to score a goal while they are not paying attention.

The Italian newspaper, "Gazzetta dello Sport" has always been happy to ridicule Juventus, but this time it is also rare that it did not say a bad word about Capello in the news report, but added a sour sentence at the end of the news : "Spend 2000 million euros to buy Lin Zhigao, even if he only played this game for half a year, it is worth it."

"Turino Sport" has always favored Juventus, and since then they have spent a lot of pen and ink to describe the difficulty of winning this game, Capello's wise tactics, the efforts of Juventus players, and Lin Zhigao's genius Extraordinarily amazing blah blah blah.

As a well-known pro-Barcelona "Mundo Deportivo" in the Spanish media, it compared Lin Zhigao's skills with Messi's skills in the game. They said: "Although Juventus' talented player Lin The superior dribbling skills displayed in the game initially resembled Denilson's cycling, or Ronaldo's pendulum dribbling, but we are sure that the frequency and way he controls the ball is a reference to Messi's sticking skills Yes——Lin Zhigao himself said so when he was interviewed by reporters."

"Although Lin Zhigao's dribbling skills are more gorgeous than Messi's simple dribbles, this definitely does not mean that he is better than Messi. If Messi does a gorgeous feint like stepping on a bicycle or a Marseille roundabout, On the contrary, his advantages are downplayed, because the real strength of Messi lies in his touch frequency, so fast that opponents don't even know where he will break through, they can't guess the direction of Messi's breakthrough, and they can't prevent it He. Now we have finally seen the No.2 player in football who has learned Messi’s stunt. People who stand at the top of football are lonely. Messi now has such an excellent chaser, presumably he You won’t be lonely in your future career, right?”

Considering that Messi and Lin Zhigao have a good personal relationship, the reporters of "World Sports Daily" have actually given Lin Zhigao a lot of face, at least they didn't scold him in their press release.If it was a young player from Real Madrid who beat Barcelona technically this time... I think this group of reporters would never write this press release in such a "moderate" tone.

Compared with the "pro-Barcelona" of the Spanish media and the "pro-Juventus" of the Italian and British media, the reports of third-country media such as Germany and France are undoubtedly more neutral and pertinent.

A more rigorous and professional football magazine in Germany, "Kicker", also interpreted this set of "neon extraordinary" moves, and compared it with Messi's extraordinary. It is very rare that "Kicker" News reports have always been rigorous and professional in wording, but in this new report, there is a bit of unexpected naughtiness: "Messi's excellence has always been simple and unpretentious. Extraordinary, and relying on the powerful touch frequency and explosive power of rapid breakthrough, Messi's skills are absolutely top-notch in today's world football. And Lin Zhigao's extraordinary, to be honest, in this player who is only 18 years old I saw the speed and explosiveness that did not lose to Messi in the young players."

"Although Lin Zhigao's ecstasy is more gorgeous and dazzling, it does not lack the necessary skills. Compared with some impractical fake moves deliberately pursued by some players, I think Lin Zhigao's 'neon lights' ecstasy It has both skill and practicality. Not only that, but without strong muscle strength and instant explosive power, non-professional players should not try this kind of action often."

"Finally, as a friendly reminder, we recommend that amateur players use 'Neon's Extraordinary' with caution, those with a waist circumference of three feet or more should use it with caution, and those without explosive power should not use it."

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Compared with the turmoil in European football, the domestic media seems much calmer.

It's not that domestic fans are not excited about Lin Zhigao, but that they can often see Lin Zhigao's news on newspapers and networks. The speed and efficiency are almost every day. New content, so after seeing the match against Barcelona After the report, apart from the professional fans who exclaimed "Lin Zhigao's technology has improved again!" ordinary passers-by were much calmer.

Of course, as "Lin Zhigao's No. [-] brain-dead fan" in the domestic media industry, Sun Dawei, the reporter of "Sports Weekly", specially wrote and illustrated, and encouraged the editor-in-chief to publish a whole special issue to report on this game, and the sales volume was also very good.

Today, when the cake of the media industry is gradually being swallowed up by the Internet media, well-known domestic entertainment newspapers and periodicals have sold millions of copies, and they will shout "Long Live God". Sports professional newspapers and periodicals can sell hundreds of thousands of copies, which is already very good. It's sold out.In the past, the editor-in-chiefs of sports newspapers never expected that their newspapers would exceed the circulation of entertainment newspapers one day, but since the appearance of Lin Zhigao, this originally impossible expectation has gradually become an achievable goal-more and more Many fans and non-fans have come to buy professional sports newspapers, some for reading and some for collection.

And the more exclusive the special issue, the better the sale. The editor-in-chief of "Sports Weekly" is happy to use Lin Zhigao as the headline for his newspaper 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The one who benefited the most is of course the leading sports newspaper in China, and the "Sports Weekly", which has a fairly good relationship with Lin Zhigao.Sun Dawei was also promoted by the editor-in-chief to "Chief Editor-in-Chief of the European Branch of "Sports Weekly" because he often got exclusive reports from Lin Zhigao, or had an exclusive interview with him.

Sun Dawei was overjoyed by this, and often called Lin Zhigao to harass him in order to seek more exclusive interviews. Later, Lin Zhigao couldn't bear it and sent Jiang Shupeng to act as a shield.Jiang Shupeng was indeed Sun Dawei's nemesis. He put on a cold face, and no matter how many shameless requests Sun Dawei made, he would swallow them aggrievedly.

……

In a high-end villa area in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, a brown-skinned teenager who is particularly thin but looks full of explosive energy is sitting in front of the computer, watching a video program with a serious face.

An obese middle-aged man with a briefcase tucked under his arm wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, pushed open the door of the villa and walked in. He shouted "Neymar! Neymar!" in the living room. After no one answered, the middle-aged man Reluctantly, he walked to the study room, and sure enough, he saw the boy he was looking for sitting in front of the computer desk.

"Oh, Neymar, you are watching the game again! Is there any difference in today's game?"

Wagner Ribeiro, Neymar's agent, a former retired player with a lot of contacts, looked at the scene in front of him with no surprise.

Since Nehwal renewed his contract with Santos Club last year, although he said that he would stay in Brazil and play for a few more years, he never stopped paying attention to the news of European football, and even often watched games between giant clubs. Ribeiro certainly understands this.Because even the chairman of the Santos club knows that they will keep Neymar for two years at most. A player as talented as Neymar will go to Europe to play top football sooner or later, just like his compatriot Ronaldinho Roca same card.

But something seems to be different today. Ribeiro waited for a long time and didn't hear Neymar's reply. In the past, no matter how devoted Neymar was to watching the game, he would answer him.

Is he watching some important game?Ribeiro leaned closer to the computer screen to see, but found that the LCD computer was replaying the shot of an Asian teenager shooting a goal over and over again.

"Oh, this person is..." Ribeiro squinted his eyes and looked at the computer screen seriously for a while, and immediately thought of who it was: "Lin Zhigao! A Chinese player who just returned to Juventus this season! He This set of movements is really... er, incredible."

Neymar turned off the video, but opened the page of a website, which displayed the headlines of the online news editions of sports media from all over the world. In addition to the old European sports magazines, even Portugal's ABola, Russia's Sports Express, Zeze in Turkey, Soccer Magazine in Belgium and Sports Expo in the US all have headline summaries.

And 80% of these news are about the Chinese player named Lin Zhigao.

Ribeiro didn't know what happened to Neymar, but he was keenly aware that Neymar didn't like the information about this Chinese player on the Internet.So he laughed, and changed the subject: "You're on vacation today, why didn't you go out with your little girlfriend?"

"Can I do what he does?" Neymar asked him, pointing to a video on the screen.

Ribeiro nodded as a matter of course: "Of course you can, Neymar."

"But I don't think I'm good enough." Neymar frowned slightly, and said in a low voice, "Is it because of my lack of tempering? The Brazilian First Division is still inferior to the European League, isn't it?"

"Uh……"

"I want to go to Europe early."

"What?!" Ribeiro was shocked, and immediately felt nervous.

Neymar's contract renewal with the Santos club was only reached under his persuasion.This is not only because Ribeiro took the red envelope given by the chairman of the Santos club, but also because the European giants who want to sign Neymar are only willing to give him an annual salary of several million euros. The annual salary is really too little!Undoubtedly, Neymar's choice of the latter can give him more commissions. You must know that the fullness of the agent's pocket is directly proportional to the player's salary contract.

Neymar pointed to the computer screen, Lin Zhigao's video freeze-frame image and said: "You know, he is one year younger than me."

"Of course I know this, but..." Ribeiro was looking for a suitable explanation: "Your contract with the Santos club will not expire until the next year! You are still young, Europe may not be suitable for you, you stay in Brazil Wouldn't it be better to practice more skills and get more honors to challenge the appetite of those wealthy clubs?"

"But I don't want the honor I won to be snatched away by others!"

Ribeiro had never seen Neymar speak to him with such a serious expression, so he froze for a moment.

And Neymar, staring at Ribeiro, said word by word: "If I went to Europe last year, then it should be me who is occupying the headlines of the world's major newspapers, not something from Asia." Rookie. If I could have joined Real Madrid, or any other big club earlier, I would have earned a bunch of honors in the top European leagues!"

"The successor of the world champion? A genius who shocked the world? This title can only be mine! So, next season at the latest, I must go to Europe!"

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Madrid, Spain.

Mourinho also watched the game video again, and it was the same as what Neymar watched, it was the Juventus 2:1 Barcelona game.

The only difference is that in addition to the laptop, Mourinho has more other materials at hand: books, paper, various small notes full of words, and many, many sports newspapers.

After burying his head in this pair of materials for a whole day, Mourinho raised his head with a frown and muttered to himself: "Sure enough, if you want to beat Barcelona, ​​do you still have to surpass them in speed and technology..."

The author has something to say: Uncle Psy finally came out of the mountain... Neymar also came out to make soy sauce with him.I have always felt that Neymar is a master who can't be idle. This is just right. He will go to Barcelona and Lin will go to Real Madrid. Let's kill each other.In addition, many people don't know that Mao's unique move is called neon surmounting people. This is because I have read a sentence in the press release or somewhere, that is, it does not need to be a fancy move on the court, as long as you do it quickly. It is enough to turn around and stop quickly to blind the opponent's eyes-so this name appeared, and then I am a realist.