Fame with a ball

Lin Changan held several newspapers under one arm, and pushed open the door of the office with the other arm.

Xiao Zhou, a staff member who arrived earlier than him, greeted him with a smile: "Director Lin, you are here so early today."

Lin Changan nodded: "It's okay to stay at home, so come to the unit early to have a look."

"Is there your son's game tonight?"

Lin Chang'an smiled unconsciously and nodded: "Yes, at eleven o'clock in the evening, the match against Arsenal, I read in the newspaper that Gao Gao is still the starter."

"I've known this for a long time, and it's been written about in sports channels and many newspapers." Xiao Zhou felt very surprised: "I never thought Gao Gao would be able to win glory for the country at the age of 17. It's really amazing."

"Where, he's just a football player." Although Lin Changan said this, the smile on the corner of Lin Changan's mouth told others that he was proud of his son!

Seeing Lin Changan sitting on the chair and impatiently reading the newspaper, Xiao Zhou didn't bother him and walked away quietly.

Lin Changan has never paid much attention to sports news or watched football games before, but now he buys sports newspapers every day, and watches every Premier League game. The next day, he will go to the office and broadcast the night before. The information of the game, such a change is indeed big enough.However, colleagues in the unit also understand him very well. Even the director asked Lin Changan's son by name at a staff meeting the day before yesterday to play football in the UK. But what about showing off?

The newspaper Lin Changan read today was bought for him by his wife Qian Hongyan when he went out to buy soybean milk and fried dough sticks. For some reason, sports newspapers such as "Sports Weekly" and "Football" are always out of stock. All sold out early in the morning.Lin Changan prepared to buy it on the way to work several times, but after asking a few newsstands, there were no newspapers for the day.As a last resort, he asked his wife who got up earlier than her every morning to help him buy newspapers.

Although Qian Hongyan now knows from the newspaper that her son is a good football player and has joined a professional team, she still thinks that playing football is not a legitimate career as she has always pinned her hopes on her son going to college to find a good job.So whenever Lin Changan told her excitedly that Gao Gao was in the newspaper because of something, Qian Hongyan always turned her head with a straight face, with a look of "don't tell me I won't listen".

Lin Changan took a sip of his freshly brewed tea and opened a local sports newspaper.However, they found that the front page of the newspaper was fine, but several inside pages were placed messily and upside down. On one of the inside pages, there was a big photo of Lin Zhigao shooting the ball.

Reminiscent of how his wife randomly stuffed several newspapers into balls for him when he was going out this morning, Lin Changan secretly smiled: Let me just say, it is impossible for you not to care about Gao Gao!

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At 22 o'clock in the evening, in the speech room of the CCTV sports channel, Sun Zhengping was chanting words to the big screen that was showing the pre-match highlights, obviously reciting the latest information of the two teams and his own opening remarks.

Sun Zhengping's assistant helped Sun Zhengping sort out all the materials he had collected before the match in a place where the camera couldn't see. When he accidentally saw Sun Zhengping with a serious expression, the assistant couldn't help thinking of when he was chatting with Sun Zhengping yesterday. Ask the other side which team they think will win this QPR-Arsenal match.

Sun Zhengping is notoriously cautious in his speech and never expresses his private emotions too much in the conversation, but when talking about the Chinese player Lin Zhigao in the Queens Park Rangers, he still showed a smile: "Although I I can’t guarantee which of the two teams will win, but I’m sure that Lin Zhigao will definitely play well in this game.”

"That's Arsenal, the giants of the Premier League! Queens Park Rangers are just newly promoted." The assistant asked in puzzlement: "We don't guess that Lin Zhigao will be crushed by Arsenal, but he can still score goals?"

Sun Zhengping smiled mysteriously, and said: "The current Arsenal is not the former Arsenal. What's more, I like Lin Zhigao's aggressiveness. What he is good at happens to be what Arsenal did not have. Arsenal have, but since Arsene Wenger came, Arsenal have completely changed."

The assistant didn't understand and asked again, but Sun Zhengping refused to say anything.

Before I knew it, it was time for the game to start in the UK. The director cleared the field, set up the cameras, and the big screen switched to Arsenal’s home stadium, the Emirates Stadium. The stadium, which can accommodate 60432 people, was full of seats. The white, blue and white stripes belonging to visiting team QPR are suppressed to be barely visible.

Before the game started, the fans took the lead in singing Arsenal's team anthem in the Emirates Stadium, and the passionate voice immediately enlivened the atmosphere.

Players from both sides began to come out of the player tunnel, with the head coach at the forefront.Before the game, the two sides did not announce the starting lineup of the game, so all the media just focused their cameras on the player channel, preparing to wait to see what the starting lineups of the two teams are.

"Tarabut... Dyer... Lin Zhigao! Lin Zhigao will start this game! He is wearing the number 9 jersey! The number 9 represents the core of the team!" Sun Zhengping got excited, and immediately resumed the comparison A steady voice said: "It seems that he will play the center position in this game."

Players from both sides start the field, shake hands and stand on both sides of the referee, waiting for the referee to whistle and kick off.

Sun Zhengping is studying Arsenal's starting list at the moment: "The media has been hyping the topic of the Asian Derby beforehand. The reason is that there is a Korean player Park Joo-young in the Arsenal team. Park Joo-young was born in Daegu, South Korea. He is 26 years old this year. He is a South African. The South Korean captain of the World Cup, who played for the Monaco club before. The South Korean media unanimously believe that Park Joo-young is the heir of Park Ji-sung, because he took over the armband of the South Korean team captain from Park Ji-sung. As we all know, Park Ji-sung is the most outstanding achievement in Korea so far. A player who plays for the Premier League team Manchester United and plays the main force."

The Chinese team has been suffering from Korean phobia for nearly 30 years, and because of the arrogant attitude of the Koreans, it is a ridiculous act they invented to snatch everything away, which makes a large part of the Chinese people hate South Korea, especially the fans, basically No one in the world likes the country of South Korea.

And Sun Zhengping, as a senior commentator and senior fan, although he can't express his true feelings straightforwardly on TV (Huang Jianxiang, the only one who expressed his emotions straightforwardly, has been expelled from CCTV), but the occasional cynicism, Still can have.

"Although the Korean media are unanimously optimistic that Park Joo-young can become Park Ji-sung's successor and also perform well in the Premier League. Arsenal's head coach Arsene Wenger seems to have high hopes for him and gave him the No. 9 jersey, but Park Joo-young is obviously He has not yet adapted to the playing style and rhythm of the Premier League. As a striker, he has not scored a goal in the seven rounds of the Premier League. It will not be a pity to spend 500 million euros to lure him from Monaco. The Chinese teenager Lin Zhigao, who was hyped by the media as an Asian derby and compared with Park Zhouyong, participated in four rounds of the league, scored five goals, and ranked first in the scorer list seventh."

"And maybe there is one thing you don't know. Before signing Arsenal, they had already negotiated with last season's Ligue 19 champion Lille team. According to the agreement between the two parties, the Lille team will give Park Zhou Yong a A three-year contract with a monthly salary of 300 euros, and the Lille team will also pay him a transfer fee of [-] million euros to the Monaco club. But when the first round of medical examinations had already been completed, Park Zhouyong suddenly moved from Lille The hotel disappeared, and a few days later, Arsenal issued an announcement saying that they had bought Park Joo-young. This behavior made the Lille team feel 'shocked and angry'."

"The chairman of the Lier club, Sedu, even said that because of Park Zhou-yong's leaving without saying goodbye, the Lille club had to find another suitable striker with only a few days before the transfer market closed. Shocked and outraged by this change of heart, it is totally unacceptable on a player's personal level."

Hearing Sun Zhengping's words, his assistant couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise. It was the first time he had seen Sun Zhengping bring so much personal emotion into his commentary on the game.

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Inside the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal won the kick-off, captain Robin van Persie fired a long-range shot and the ball landed in the Queens Park Rangers half.

Queens Park Rangers' players immediately began to return to the defense.

Arsenal's football offense is fast, smooth and exciting, and it is the best played by any Premier League team.The football was passed one after the other at the feet of the players, a dizzying number of times, and the Queens Park Rangers players had just caught up with the man with the ball before the ball was passed to the feet of another Arsenal player , As far as the style of play is concerned, it is indeed very beautiful.

Before the match, Queens Park Rangers had thoroughly researched Arsenal's dispatch. Head coach Warnock attached great importance to this match. Commentary on each player one-on-one.

Although Arsenal played beautifully, the whole team paid attention to the skills under their feet rather than the strength, which resulted in a relatively weak defense.Warnock explained to the team many times about the formation that the opponent will use, hoping that they can take advantage of the opponent's weak defense and score a goal in less than 10 minutes after the start of the game.

Moreover, the team's division of labor has once again been refined.Warnock asked Lin Zhigao not to follow the football foolishly. Although he has good physical strength, he is not good at dribbling and controlling the ball. , so Warnock asked Lin Zhigao to stay in the opponent's half, wait for his teammates to pass the ball, and then just shoot, that's it!

The situation on the field is that football has always been under the control of Arsenal!

"25 minutes into the first half, Arsenal had a staggering 68 per cent of the ball and QPR players were circling around Arsenal's half like headless flies without getting the ball. , even if they got the ball, they were too late to shoot, because the deafening boos of the home fans made them shake physically, and then it was easy for Van Persie or Arteta to snatch the ball from their feet."

Home field advantage!

The booing of 6 Arsenal fans can make any player not mentally tough enough to shudder.Queens Park Rangers had just been promoted to the Premier League, and their players hadn't seen many big scenes, so it was easy to be frightened by the boos of nearly [-] people.

As soon as the Queens Park Rangers players touch the ball, they are greeted with overwhelming boos, and as soon as the Arsenal players attack, they are greeted with cheers and the sound of the Arsenal team anthem.

With such an obvious and violent gap, it is no wonder that the Queens Park Rangers players who have not experienced much big scenes feel uncomfortable.

Warnock stood frowning on the sidelines.

The players on the team were booed. He had anticipated this situation a long time ago. He also gave the players a shot in the arm before the game, telling them not to be afraid, and don't panic. Everyone has the home court advantage. Today is your turn. , It's his turn tomorrow.Arsenal is not terrible, so we must put our mentality to defeat the enemy and so on.

But it's one thing to say it all, whether the players listened to it in their hearts, and whether they really took it seriously, Warnock didn't care and couldn't care.Queens Park Rangers' home stadium can only accommodate [-] fans. The team used to play in the Championship, and they have never seen such a big momentum no matter home or away. Now their performance on the field is not even half of the usual. What a disappointment for Warnock.

However, the court is not without people who are not affected at all.

As soon as Warnock looked up, he saw Lin Zhigao standing in the Arsenal half, watching his teammates struggling to grab the ball, waiting for the opportunity, but the opportunity never came, so Lin Zhigao looked very boring.

His demeanor was relaxed, and he stood with his feet apart, watching the confrontation between the players of the two teams intently, waiting for his chance.The boos of Arsenal's home fans didn't affect him at all. At most, when the boos were louder, it made him feel unhappy, so he stared at the home field fiercely, and then frowned.

Is it really necessary for Lin Zhigao to play the midfield position?

Warnock was thinking about it with a headache.

Lin Zhigao has great strength, shoots fiercely, has accurate angles, and has excellent physical strength. In Warnock's view, he is simply a perfect striker embryo.Warnock has always wanted to train Lin Zhigao into a striker like Ronaldo, so that he can perform miracles on the court from time to time, making the opposing players unable to defend, and scoring as many goals as he wants.

In this period of training, he also arranged it like this.He intentionally let other players play the midfield position, and even the captain and forward Bossroyd were arranged by him to play the center forward. They controlled the ball, passed the ball to Lin, and then Lin scored. What a perfect arrangement!

But now, the original arrangement was temporarily disrupted...

Warnock frowned and thought for less than a minute, and immediately decided that the training to cultivate Lin Zhigao as the core of the offense can come later. Of course, the game on the court is more important now!

Warnock walked to the sidelines where he could be seen by his own players, waved his hands, and made a suggestive gesture.

Of course the QPR players know what the manager means!

Lin Zhigao cheered, twisted his buttocks and ran towards his own half to grab the ball from the Arsenal players. He just stayed in the opponent's half, and he was almost terrified!

Lin Zhigao was extremely fast, and soon caught up with Park Joo-young, the Arsenal player who was dribbling the ball. He didn't even notice this Korean with the same black hair and yellow skin as himself, but aimed at the open space and made a tackle!

The ball is at my feet!

Park Zhouyong was surprised at first, then angry, the ball under his feet was tackled? !

He turned to look at the head coach, but the head coach didn't respond at all. Obviously, Lin Zhigao's action just now did not foul.

Park Zhouyong immediately turned around and chased Lin Zhigao.He knew that there was a Chinese player in Queens Park Rangers. Even before the game, the head coach Wenger talked to him for a while and asked him if he was familiar with the young player Lin Zhigao.

Just a few months after returning to Arsenal, how could Park Joo-young, who finally got the chance to play, not please the head coach?However, he really didn't know what kind of player Lin of the Queen's Park Rangers was, and he didn't know why the head coach Wenger was interested in him.

When Wenger learned that Lin Zhigao scored two goals for Manchester United by himself, Park Zhouyong was taken aback, but because of his inherent impression of Chinese football, he still patted Wenger's chest and said: No one can play football!Maybe they cook delicious food (the best food is of course only the Republic of Korea!), but playing football?That was a joke.

The head coach Arsene Wenger left in doubt at the time, and now Park Zhouyong felt uncomfortable when he thought of the boast he had made with the coach.He has now decided that he must take the football away from the Chinese, so that he can see what Korean football looks like!

Lin Zhigao ran with the ball alone, followed by four or five Arsenal players. In terms of physical strength, others were inferior to him. He could also pass the half-court alone, and then raised his foot to shoot.

But... long pass!

Bosroyd, who has cultivated a high degree of tacit understanding with Lin Zhigao in training, had already spread his legs and ran wildly when Lin Zhigao just got the ball!

The captain of Jamaican descent and Lin Zhigao played together during training. No one can catch up with Lin Zhigao running with the ball, as long as he does not lose the ball himself, and Bosroyd is best at shooting from the penalty area. !

If only the coach had arranged this way earlier, Bosroyd thought at the moment when the instep touched Lin Zhigao's pass, the combination of the two of them would definitely kill the Quartet!

Ten meters away from the goal!

shoot!

"GOOOO—what a pity! What a pity!" The commentator's voice of cheering for the goal had just uttered halfway, when he saw Arsenal's goalkeeper Lukasz Fabuanski getting up from the ground in embarrassment, and He is holding a football in his arms!

"Arsenal's goalkeeper played bravely and saved the almost inevitable goal. The most exciting attack since the start of the game was resolved in this way. Look at the expression on the face of Queens Park Rangers coach Warnock, He was very disappointed."

Also disappointed were Bosroyd, who had just shot, and Lin Zhigao, who assisted.

However, Lin Zhigao's football career is still young. He always feels that as long as the game is not over, then everything is possible!

But what he forgot is that the almost inevitable goal was not scored, and it was still an away game, which was a huge drain on the team's morale.