Chapter 276 Ai Huang's Transfer
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When the plane landed at Kunming Airport, staff from the national team had already picked it up and arranged for the two to go to the training base.
Xia Ze and Zhang Wei flew to Kunming together with other Guangzhou players.
Guangzhou Evergrande has Zheng Zhi, Huang Bowen, Yu Hanchao, Zheng Long, Feng Xiaoting, Mei Fang, Gao Lin and Zeng Cheng selected for the national team, while Guangzhou R&F also has left back Jiang Zhipeng selected for the national team.
In addition to Xia Ze, Zhang Wei, Gao Bo and Ai Huang who have studied abroad, the players from Guangzhou have already accounted for half of the national team.
This also saved the staff of the national team a lot of effort. For those who came from Guangzhou, half of the members of the national team were already concentrated in the reception.
Gao Bo, Xia Ze, and Zhang Wei have known each other since childhood. Although they were opponents in the youth teams of the two clubs before, after going abroad to play football, the two sides have a lot of contact and encourage each other.
Now Gao Bo is firmly seated as the main striker in the mid-range La Liga team Real Sociedad, and his performance is also very good. He scored 12 goals in La Liga last season and is the team's top scorer.
For a striker of a mid-lower team, such performance is achievable.
Therefore, he has also secured his position as the main striker of the national team, and Gao Lin, who had an outstanding performance in Guangzhou Evergrande, can only take second place as Gao Bo's substitute.
However, Gao Lin himself has a good mentality. Seeing that the young player of the youth team took his place in the national team, he felt a little relieved.
Because in the past, he also went to the youth team to guide the youth team players with his first-team teammates, and Gao Bo can be regarded as half of his junior.
Although Gao Bo performed well in La Liga, he has always been humble and polite to the seniors of Guangzhou Evergrande, and did not dare to put on big-name airs.
In addition to the three young players Xia Ze, Zhang Wei and Gao Bo, another young player who was studying abroad, Ai Huang, did not go to Kunming with the team this time. Even the captain of the national team was also Ai Huang at Guangzhou Evergrande. Zheng Zhi, the eldest brother at that time, did not know where he went.
Zheng Zhi and others are regular visitors to the national team. Since they were selected for the national team for the first time last year, Xia Ze and Zhang Wei have never missed a national team game this year, so they are quite familiar with Zheng Zhi.
At Kunming Airport, there are already hundreds of fans picking up the plane. It seems that they have known for a long time that these dozen or so players in Guangzhou will take this flight to Kunming.
When Xia Ze and the others appeared at the airport, they were taken aback by the grand occasion inside the airport. Hundreds of fans wearing national team jerseys were cheering loudly.
Some called Zheng Zhi, some called Gao Lin, some called Gao Bo, and some called Zhang Wei, but the most vocal one was Xia Ze.
After all, Xia Ze is in the most successful and exposed Premier League in the world. Many people around the world know Xia Ze's name, let alone his compatriots in China.
Because there is not much time left for the players to report, the staff of the national team quickly arranged for the players to leave by car, so everyone did not stop at the airport, which disappointed the fans who wanted to take autographs and group photos.
After arriving in Kunming, Xia Ze obviously felt that the air here was much thinner than in Guangzhou and the UK, and it was difficult to breathe at first.
"This is altitude sickness. When we set up our home court here, we were not used to it. It will get better after a while." Captain Zheng Zhi spoke very kindly. Seeing Xia Ze and Zhang Wei's faces were a little ugly, Just explain it to them.
Because like Xia Ze, Zheng Zhi, who also has the experience of playing in the Premier League, has a lot more topics with Xia Ze. Xia Ze often asks about Zheng Zhi's experience playing football in England.
After all, Zheng Zhi has played in the Premier League, the British Championship and the Scottish Premier League, and he has a much deeper feeling for British football than Xia Ze.
Zhang Wei and Gao Bo also came to interrupt from time to time, telling about their overseas study in Europe.
This makes other domestic players feel a little envious. Unfortunately, most of them are over twenty-five years old and missed the best time to study abroad.
After all, they have stable playing time in their respective clubs, especially in Asian overlords like Guangzhou Evergrande, where the salary is high and they can win championships. This kind of temptation is higher than going abroad at the risk of not being able to play.
They are also not like Xia Ze and Zhang Wei, who have been working abroad since the youth team. They are poor and have nothing, but they can let go.
So just listen to envy, except for Mei Fang, a slightly younger player, the other players didn't think much about going abroad to play football.
Everyone talked and laughed all the way, and then came to the hotel where the national team stayed.
In the next ten days, they will live and eat in this hotel. This is a closed training.
For players who are playing in the Super League, this is an opportunity for them to adjust.
As for Xia Ze and other three overseas players, they have been on vacation for half a month, and they also need to regain their form within these ten days.
Head coach Lippi and the coaching team had already arrived at the hotel, and went to the training ground to inspect the venue.
And other members of the national team also came to the hotel one after another on the same day.
The 23-man roster of the national team is as follows:
Goalkeepers: Zeng Cheng, Wang Dalei, Yan Junling
Defenders: Jiang Zhipeng, Mei Fang, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng, Ren Hang, Zhang Chengdong, Zhang Wei
Midfielders: Zheng Zhi, Huang Bowen, Hao Junmin, Wu Xi, Sun Ke, Cai Huikang, Yu Hanchao, Zheng Long, Xia Ze, Ai Huang
Forwards: Gao Lin, Wu Lei, Gao Bo
Most of the people had already arrived at the training base that day, with only one exception——Ai Huang.
When everyone was wondering why Ai Huang was late, everyone was shocked when the team leader told everyone the news that night.
The reason why Ai Huang hasn't come yet is because he's going to have a medical checkup, to go to Barcelona for a medical checkup.
Ai Huang transferred from Manchester United to Barcelona!
This news is shocking enough, because Ai Huang's performance at Manchester United is not bad, and he is considered to be another shining rising star. The British media's evaluation of him is not even lower than that of Xia Ze.
Van Gaal also gradually paid attention to this winger from China, but at this moment, he actually moved to Barcelona!
The transfer fee was 25 million euros, setting a record for the highest value of a Chinese player and also the highest value of an Asian player.
If this news comes out, it will surely shock the entire football world.
After all, the transfer from Manchester United to Barcelona, the last transaction between the two giants in football was Pique.
And now Pique is already the cornerstone of Barcelona and the Spanish national team.
Needless to say, this news is quite shocking.