Chapter 92 Is This Matter Important?

Although the media supporting Manchester United used excessive words and had a sense of schadenfreude in their tone, they were indeed right. After losing to Real Madrid 2:3 in an away game, Manchester City is indeed optimistic.

At that time, there was optimism not only among the team, but also among the fans and the media.

It is believed that Manchester City has accumulated enough experience in the Champions League last season. Even if they are assigned to the group of death this season, they have nothing to fear. They are the champions of the Premier League, and the Premier League is the number one league in Europe, so the Premier League championship is obviously more valuable than the Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga. Manchester City has many superstars in the team and is not weak at all. Qualifying from the group of death is not a problem. The only thing they consider is whether they will be first in the group or second in the group. As for who you join hands with to qualify, that doesn't matter at all.

This blind optimism infected the team.

But in fact, Manchester City's strength is still far away. The Champions League and the Premier League are indeed completely different.

Even if the Premier League teams with a "mainland style" style of play are technically excellent in the Premier League, in the Champions League, you will find that their skills are still very rough. In the face of faster-paced and higher-intensity competition, those technical flaws are often will be amplified. For example, if a stop ball is slightly larger, there is really no problem in the Premier League, because there are many stops with larger stops. But in the Champions League, if the stoppage is slightly larger, possession of the ball may be given away.

If you lack experience in the Champions League, you will inevitably feel uncomfortable playing.

Dortmund is participating in the Champions League for the first time in seven years, and there is still a process of adaptation, let alone Manchester City.

Dortmund doesn't care about Manchester City. Dortmund doesn't care if Manchester City doesn't qualify.

By the time they took off from Manchester Airport and left the city, they had put the game behind them.

The next time they meet Manchester City is in the final round of the Champions League group stage, when Dortmund faces Manchester City at home. By then, who knows what the situation will be? Maybe the result of this game will be meaningless by then?

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After returning to Germany, Zhou Yi was arranged to go to the team medical team for treatment the next day.

According to the advice of Dr. Marcus Braun, it is best not to play in the away game against Hannover 96 on the weekend to avoid aggravating the injury. It is not a big problem in the first place, but if it is forced to play, it may become a serious problem. . So it's better to be cautious.

Zhou Yi will not participate in this game, and there will be no club games. Next, he will return to China to participate in the World Cup qualifiers when the Chinese team faces Australia at home.

That game is the most critical, and it is only twelve days away. If Zhou Yi is injured in the game against Hannover, he will basically say goodbye to the top ten games. By then, the Chinese Football Association and Dortmund will definitely have a lawsuit. The relationship between the two parties was originally handled well, and there was no need to offend someone over a game that was not very important.

At the same time, in order to ensure that Zhou Yi's injury will not affect the national team's competition, Dortmund also arranged a dedicated doctor for him, who has only taken care of him in the past two days.

The barefooted Zhou Yi sat cross-legged on the physiotherapy bed, looking up slightly at Cortana who was putting on gloves next to her: "So you are my exclusive doctor?"

Cortana didn't answer his question.

Zhou Yi looked around and saw that there were only two of them in the room, and the door to the physiotherapy room was also closed.

Looks like good privacy.

So he lowered his voice and asked, "No one will know about us, right?"

Cortana finally turned around and looked at Zhou Yi this time: "What are you talking about? What's going on? What's going on with us?"

"Living together..." Cortana's series of rhetorical questions made Zhou Yi a little surprised. He didn't expect her reaction to be so intense...

Cortana said angrily: "To be clear, who is living with you?"

"Living together is also called cohabitation..." Zhou Yi felt aggrieved. "I thought the club knew I lived with you, so it asked you to take care of me?"

"..." Originally, Cortana wanted to deny it outright, but seeing Zhou Yi speak so firmly, she herself had some doubts about whether anyone really knew that she and Zhou Yi were living together... After all, there is no guarantee that she and Zhou Yi would live together. Come on, how could no one know about this kind of thing after a long time?

But then she thought again, if she really knew it, why was it only reflected in arranging medical treatment this time? If this matter was really exposed, how could the media not publicize it everywhere and make it known to everyone?

So after thinking about it seriously, she felt that she was worrying too much.

So she snorted: "Thinking too much. Sit tight."

Zhou Yi changed his position obediently, leaning on the physiotherapy bed, then patted his chest and exhaled: "That's good, that's good..."

"What are you doing? Are you afraid that others will know? Do you feel embarrassed?" Cortana came up and squeezed Zhou Yi's left ankle with her hand.

Zhou Yi took in a breath with a hiss.

"Does it hurt?" Cortana glanced at him.

"No, it's just that your action was a bit sudden..." Zhou Yi shook his head quickly, "I'm afraid that if this matter is known to others, it will cause trouble to you... You also know what the media can do."

"What's the big deal? We haven't done anything. Are we afraid of what others will say?" Cortana shrugged.

"Yes, yes, yes. If you are upright, don't be afraid of the shadow. If you have done nothing wrong, don't be afraid of reporters knocking on the door and asking questions..." Zhou Yi nodded in agreement. "By the way, do you still want to live in your house?"

"Actually, I'm moving back next week." Cortana said while giving Zhou Yi physical therapy.

"That's great!" Zhou Yi was very happy.

Cortana raised her head and looked at Zhou Yi suspiciously: "What are you so happy about?"

Zhou Yi said seriously: "You don't have to live at home all the time, which means Mark's injury should be fine and he can participate in the game at any time, right?"

Cortana tilted her head and thought for a while, it seemed that this was really the case. So she nodded: "Yes."

"so."

"So that's why you're happy?" Cortana asked.

"Of course. Mark is my good friend!"

Cortana lowered her head and kept moving: "Yes, they are very good friends, Mark said so."

"Hiss—" Zhou Yi shouted, "It hurts, it hurts..."

"It hurts."

"Hero, please be merciful!"

"Have mercy? Do you still want to participate in the national team competition?"

When it came to the national team, Zhou Yi immediately stopped shouting, but gritted his teeth and endured it.

Cortana just said it casually, but she didn't expect it to work so well, which actually aroused her curiosity.

So she asked: "Is serving your country a very important thing to you?"

"For me, yes."

"Why?"

"Are you still asking why?" Zhou Yi was very surprised. "I am a Chinese, just like Mark is a German, so it is normal and natural for him to play for the German team, right?"

"That's what I say, but the German team is very strong, and it is a great honor to play for the German team. But as far as I know, Chinese football is not very strong, and its image in public opinion does not seem to be very good. Bar?"

"Hey, do you still know about Chinese football?" Zhou Yi was even more surprised.

"Didn't you win the gold medal at the London Olympics that just ended? The German media also reported that this was a historic breakthrough for Chinese football. They briefly introduced the current situation of Chinese football." Cortana said calmly.

"Well, yes, the image of Chinese football is not very good. There are many scandals. In the past two years, many corrupt officials of the Football Association were arrested... But after all, it is our own country's football. After all, it represents China. Since I If you are a football player, then of course you will want to become a national football player. This has nothing to do with the strength of the team. You see, there are many low-level teams in Europe, even amateur teams. A hundred years or a few decades will not matter. Decent results, but that doesn’t stop me from having so many fans..."

"Your example is not correct. Although those teams are not well-known, they do not have the scandals you mentioned, so their fans can support them." Cortana shook her head.

"Yes. There are indeed many scandals. But let me give you another inappropriate example. There is a child who made a mistake and broke the hearts of his parents. What a normal person would want is to scold him and hope that he will die. ?Isn't it possible? Shouldn't a normal person think that after scolding and beating him, he still hopes that he can correct his mistakes and go on the right path? No real parent would think of giving up his child, and I think that includes me. Many Chinese fans, including the Chinese Football Association, have probably always had such expectations for our country’s football, hoping that it would get better and get on the right track. I used to be just an ordinary fan, a student in school. I can't do anything to Chinese football. But now that I am a player and I can put on the national team's jersey and play for the country, then I hope to do something to change the future of Chinese football and put it on the right track. Push hard. I have the opportunity and the ability, so it’s my duty.”

While talking, Zhou Yi remembered the past events related to Chinese football when he was a child.

When he was three years old, China had its own professional football league, and his hometown also had a professional football team. At that time, his father was a crazy fan, and took him, who was only three years old, to watch the football live and support him. I was even scolded by my mother, saying that being too noisy was not good for the children.

But at the critical juncture of the hometown team's relegation battle the next year, his father still lied to his mother and secretly took him to watch that crucial game. The tickets were bought by his father who stayed up all night and brought him a cotton coat. Bought it in line with Xiao Ma Zha. He was four years old that year and witnessed his hometown team defeating its opponents at critical moments and successfully staying in Class A. The roaring crowds and deafening cheers in the entire stadium, as well as the tears on his father's face, will forever be etched in his heart.

Chinese football and football inspired him so profoundly that he will probably never forget it in his life.

Later, when he was ten years old, his father persuaded his mother to take him to the stands of Shenyang Wulihe Stadium on October 7, 2001. At that time, he was wearing a slightly larger Chinese national team jersey, with a red strip of cloth with "Must Win" written on his forehead, and a scarf with the five-star red flag wrapped around his neck. He witnessed Chinese football with his father at the scene. The most glorious moment in history.

He is a Chinese, and he is a Chinese who plays football. Ever since he fell in love with the sport of football, "Chinese football" has been inseparable from him, whether as a fan or a player.

Zhou Yi spoke so profoundly that Cortana was so fascinated that she even forgot about the movements of her hands. This is really the first time she has seen such a serious Zhou Yi - she has also seen serious Zhou Yi before, but those "serious" ones have some elements of performance in front of this "serious" one. In other words, He said that he was using those "seriousness" to cover up something, maybe it was his true thoughts deep in his heart.

But this time, Cortana could clearly feel that Zhou Yi showed his heart nakedly in front of her without any concealment. His seriousness was sincere.

But this seriousness and sincerity made her feel incredible.

She really didn’t know much about Chinese football. Her only knowledge came from German media reports during the Olympic Games. If it weren’t for the fact that the Chinese Olympic team had two players, Zhou Yi and Yang Muge, who played in Germany, I’m afraid the German media would have disdained it. Mention popular science.

All her understanding of Chinese football comes from media reports. In fact, she only knows some labels and a very superficial impression.

So it's really hard for her to understand why Chinese football can make a 21-year-old boy suddenly become so deep, like an old man who has gone through many vicissitudes of life.

However, Zhou Yi did not remain so deep. After he finished speaking, he found that Cortana seemed to be dazed, so he smiled and said: "Maybe in Brazil, the Chinese team may meet the German team?"

"Being assigned to a group?"

"Maybe it's the knockout round."

"Then your journey is over." Cortana snorted, Zhou Yi's imagination was big enough.

"That's not necessarily true. We'll see when the time comes. Football is round!"

Cortana patted Zhou Yi's feet: "Okay!"

The physical therapy is over, and so is the chat. (To be continued.)