Chapter 541: Winning

On the afternoon of December 10th, Rubin Kazan, Inter Milan's opponent in the group stage, arrived in Milan.

From the moment they got off the plane, the generals of Rubin Kazan received a "warm welcome" from hundreds of extreme fans of Inter Milan.

"Stop thinking about advancing, you're doomed!"

"There are not so many miracles in the world! Give up!"

"The UEFA Cup is your stage!"

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The fans of Inter Milan played a banner full of such a mocking tone, and launched a psychological offensive against the Russians with boos and abuse.

Rubin Kazan's players think they are the best football team. Inter Milan doesn't care too much about them. I didn't expect so many fans to come over to boo them. Although many Russian fans came to pick them up, Kazan Rubin's players didn't dare to stop at the airport, said hello to their fans and hurried to the hotel.

In the hotel, Rubin Kazan head coach Berdeev held a press conference to put pressure on Inter Milan again.

"The city of Milan is beautiful, the Inter fans are passionate, it's a pity we can't give up this game because we also want to qualify.

We don't have any pressure, and we have already exceeded expectations to get this result. In this mental state, we will perform even better.

It can be seen that Inter Milan is under more pressure than us. There is no doubt that the rich teams always have higher requirements for results.

Now many people have fallen into a misunderstanding, thinking that only one team can qualify for Rubin Kazan and Inter Milan. In fact, if Dynamo Kyiv beats Barcelona by a big score, it is also possible for us to qualify together with Inter Milan.

Finally, congratulations to Xiao Donggao for winning the World Best Newcomer and European Golden Boy Award. He is a great player, but we will not let him play great in this game. "

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When Berdeyev held a press conference, Gao Xiaodong was watching while answering congratulatory calls from relatives and friends.

As Berdeev said, Gao Xiaodong has just won the 2009 Best Rookie Award from the British authoritative football magazine "World Football" and the European Golden Boy Award from "Turin Sports".

"World Soccer"'s selection of the best players of the year is another annual best selection with a long history besides the European Golden Globe Award of "French Football" and FIFA's World Player of the Year.

Although the influence is weaker than the above two selections, it can also be called the third largest award. Unlike "French Football", which is voted by editors and reporters, and FIFA is voted by coaches and captains of various countries, the best player of the year in "World Soccer" is voted by fans.

In the "World Soccer" 2009 best selection, Barcelona is the biggest winner. Messi, who just won the 2009 European Golden Globe Award, was selected as the best player of the year. Barcelona won the best team award, and coach Pep Guardiola He was voted Coach of the Year.

The only one who broke the monopoly of Barcelona was Inter Milan's Gao Xiaodong. He won the first place in this year's best rookie selection with 45.1% of the votes, followed by Atletico Madrid striker Aguero and AC Milan's Paragon. Torto and Jovetic in Florence.

The European Golden Boy Award was initiated by the "Turin Sport" in 2003, and it is also considered a "rite of passage" for young rookies. The selection objects are young players under the age of 21 playing for European clubs. The first European Golden Boy Award was finally awarded to the Dutchman van der Vaart, followed by Rooney, Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Aguero and Anderson. Gao Xiaodong is the seventh winner of the Golden Boy Award. It is also the only young player outside Europe and America.

Although Gao Xiaodong has always been the biggest favorite for the Best Newcomer and Golden Boy Awards, but the hottest is the hottest, and only when he wins the award can he be considered worthy of the name. This is the first time that Gao Xiaodong has been recognized by mainstream European fans and media.

Father Gao was the last one to call to congratulate him. It's not that he doesn't care, because he doesn't understand and is not used to surfing the Internet. Father Gao only knew that Gao Xiaodong won the Golden Boy Award after reading the news. Stupidly confused, the reporter said anyway, these are all great awards, so he called his son to congratulate him, and at the same time told him not to raise his tail to the sky, but to learn to be a low-key person.

Gao Xiaodong naturally only accepts teaching, showing his good quality of being low-key and modest to his father.

After admonishing his son for a while, when Gao's father handed the phone to Gao's mother, he suddenly asked how much the bonus was, which made Gao Xiaodong dumbfounded.

Gao's mother didn't care about what awards her son won, she only cared about whether his son lost weight and whether he would come back for the New Year.

Gao Xiaodong told his mother that he would definitely not have time to go back during the Spring Festival, but he would go home for about a week for Christmas and New Year's Day.

In the eyes of the Chinese people, the biggest festivals are the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, but since the son can come back, any day can be counted as a festival.

Gao's mother was very happy, and then habitually asked Gao Xiaodong if she had a girlfriend? If you have any, bring them here for her to see.

Gao Xiaodong was speechless about being forced into marriage by his parents at the age of 20. He could only tell his mother that he was trying to find it, and that he would bring it back for New Year's Day when he found it.

After talking with his parents on the phone, Gao Xiaodong went online to check his friends' messages. Many of his friends have not yet graduated, and the living expenses provided by his family are not enough to eat, drink and have fun in college. How can he have the money to call him internationally to congratulate him.

Sure enough, there were a lot of messages on Gao Xiaodong’s QQ, and they were all congratulating him on winning the Golden Boy Award. There were not many congratulating him on winning the Best Newcomer. They probably sent messages directly after seeing the results of the selection on the Internet. Congratulations.

However, in addition to these expected messages, Gao Xiaodong unexpectedly saw a message sent to him by class monitor Zhao Xiyuan. This was the first time Zhao Xiyuan sent him a message after his confession was rejected, and it was also the first time between the two one contact.

The content is very plain, just one sentence: I heard that you won the Golden Boy Award, I wish you better and better. But Zhao Xiyuan's avatar changed, and her screen name also changed. If Gao Xiaodong didn't remember Zhao Xiyuan's number, he might not even know that it was Zhao Xiyuan.

"Instant Fanghua? What does changing the name mean?" Gao Xiaodong clearly remembered that Zhao Xiyuan's online name was "Like Water Fleeting Years", but now it has changed to "Instant Fanghua".

If it was before, Gao Xiaodong would definitely send a message to ask Zhao Xiyuan, or ask other people, what does this screen name mean, why did he change his profile picture, etc., but after Qin Ning broke his virginity, Gao Xiaodong seemed to grow up. Although I still feel very warm when I think of Zhao Xiyuan, and I am still very concerned about hearing about Zhao Xiyuan, but I no longer have the original obsession, just like hearing news about a friend who has been parted for many years.

Although he didn't know why Zhao Xiyuan changed his screen name, Gao Xiaodong didn't have any intention of asking, as if he had seen a message sent to him by an ordinary friend, he calmly replied after Zhao Xiyuan's message, "Thank you."

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In Yanjing, the imperial capital of China, Zhao Xiyuan was looking up information and preparing her graduation thesis. When she heard a new message on QQ on her mobile phone, she opened it and saw that Gao Xiaodong's profile picture was shaking. Zhao Xiyuan's cold face showed a gleam of joy, and she hurriedly clicked on it. , but only saw the two polite words "thank you", and in an instant, Zhao Xiyuan's face turned pale...

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