Volume 1: When Heroes Appear, People Pay Attention. Chapter 13: The Decision to Retire (First Update Guaranteed)

Prior to this, Chen Yingxiong had never spoken about retirement in public. When he was 32 years old, he renewed his contract with the club for four years. At that time, many media once vowed that this was Chen Yingxiong's last professional contract. Because Chen Yingxiong will be thirty-six years old after the contract expires, and retirement will be almost around the same time.

As a result, when Chen Yingxiong was thirty-four years old, he signed a new four-year contract with the club, and the previous contract was invalidated. Chen Yingxiong's contract will expire at the age of 38.

This time the media continued to swear that Chen Yingxiong would retire after the expiration of his contract, and had no intention of learning from the previous experience.

They feel that last time their contract expired at the age of 36, and now they are not retiring at the age of 36. There are also many players who continue to play hard, so Chen Yingxiong is 36. It is not unthinkable to not retire at the age of 10.

But this time it was completely different. The contract expires at the age of thirty-eight, and in two years he will be forty. At this time, many players will choose to retire, and even if they do not, there will be very few. And it also depends on your own playing style.

For example, Inzaghi did not retire until he was thirty-nine.

But Inzaghi is a forward who does not rely on his body to play football. He mainly relies on his sense of smell to score goals. His running range on the court is not large and the distance is not long. He does not need to sprint with the ball often and does not pass much. As a human being, he only needs to appear in the most critical place at the most critical time, and then score a goal, which puts very low physical demands on him. Not a big burden.

So he could play until he was thirty-nine. If it weren't for A, Milan would not renew his contract. He could even keep playing.

But Chen Yingxiong is different. He is a player who relies on his body to conquer the world. When he was young, his goals were filled with an unreasonable sense of power. He used his body to forcefully knock away three defensive players, flew to head the ball despite layers of blocks, and constantly competed with defenders for strength and strength...

These are his magic weapons, but can these magic weapons still be used when he is thirty-eight years old?

Everyone thought it was impossible.

Chen Yingxiong's physical fitness will inevitably decline with age.

In fact, this is also true. After the age of thirty-six, Chen Yingxiong's physical fitness declined significantly.

This can be seen from the number of times he fell to the ground due to opponents' violations on the court.

Therefore, the media have become more determined that Chen Yingxiong will retire when his contract expires. Some media even believe that Chen Yingxiong may not have to wait until the age of 38 to announce his retirement in advance.

Because when a player who relies on his body to conquer the world suddenly realizes that one day. When his best ability is gone, he will lose the courage and strength to continue fighting.

But this time, everyone was wrong again.

When Chen Yingxiong was thirty-seven years old, Liverpool Club announced again. They have reached an agreement with Chen Yingxiong's agent Dracula to renew the contract with Chen Yingxiong for three years, extending the expiration date of Chen Yingxiong's contract to the age of forty!

This time, the whole world was shocked.

At that time, some media criticized Liverpool for doing something very irrational and giving a 37-year-old guy a three-year contract. This was simply crazy and risky behavior.

You must know that this three-year contract is not the harsh contract of Arsenal. Liverpool Club still gave their captain the first-class salary of the entire team. Liverpool's investment in Chen Yingxiong is not small.

The media questioned whether Liverpool could recoup their money by doing this. If Chen Yingxiong was frequently injured, all their money would be wasted.

But Liverpool ignored it.

They once again demonstrated their unconditional and unrestricted trust in Chen Yingxiong.

And their trust was rewarded.

Until this season, Chen Yingxiong was the top scorer in the Premier League. Until last season, Liverpool benefited from Chen Yingxiong's goals and won consecutive league championships.

Chen Yingxiong proved to the world his super power of immortality.

He made a gorgeous turn in front of fans and media around the world.

He transformed from a heavy tank who relied on his body to charge forward, to an opportunist who relied on his sense of smell in front of the goal.

In this way, his decline in physical fitness will not affect his goals.

After everyone analyzed it, they felt that according to this trend, as long as Liverpool is willing to continue to give Chen Yingxiong a contract, Chen Yingxiong might really be able to continue playing.

At this time, Chen Yingxiong encountered the ban.

At this time, it turned out that Liverpool proposed a new contract. However, the contract period has been changed from the previous four and three years. It dropped to two years.

Maybe this is a sign.

But no one thought that Chen Yingxiong would make the decision to retire so early. He refused to accept a new contract from Liverpool and decided to retire after fulfilling his current contract.

This decision was made so suddenly, catching fans and media around the world off guard.

Before, everyone was thinking, "Is it time for you to retire this time?", but when Chen Yingxiong really announced his retirement, the first reaction was surprise - "Is this person really going to retire?" They were a little bit dissatisfied. Realism. It was as if they were still in a dream, or Chen Yingxiong was teasing them.

Because it was Ms. Vera, Chen Yingxiong’s spokesperson, who announced the news. Journalists are still skeptical. They had to get Chen Yingxiong's personal admission before they could be sure.

And some people can really rest assured.

So media from all over the world flocked to Liverpool, to Liverpool Club, and to Chen Yingxiong's home.

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In fact, before Vera announced the news, Liverpool Club had already received an answer from Chen Yingxiong. He refused to renew the contract. This was not because he was dissatisfied with Liverpool for only giving him a two-year contract. In fact, the Liverpool Club said that the length of the contract extension was entirely up to Chen Yingxiong’s opinion. If he wanted two years, it would be two years, and four years would be fine. no problem.

He refused to renew the contract simply because there was no need to renew the contract.

As he told Gerrard. The reason why he keeps breaking the experts' glasses. He renewed his contract with Liverpool again and again and refused to retire until he was forty years old. The only purpose was to help Liverpool surpass Manchester United's record of winning the Premier League.

Manchester United's record is fourteen championships. Liverpool started from scratch and chased one by one until they reached fourteenth, tying Manchester United's record. Then as long as they win another championship, they can surpass Manchester United and become unique.

Unexpectedly, it was ruined by a suspension in the end.

Fifteen consecutive championships can not only break Manchester United's record, but also create an unprecedented record of consecutive championships in world football.

Now we are one championship away from breaking the record. Chen Yingxiong is confident that even if he misses half of the season next season, he can lead the team to the championship.

Naturally, there is no need to renew the contract.

If he had already broken the record this season, he planned to just have fun in the last season.

Liverpool Club tried to retain Chen Yingxiong. But Chen Yingxiong was very determined. His career spans twenty-three years from 2006 to 2029, which is already a long time.

He has also won all the championships he can win, and he really can't think of any reason why he needs to continue playing.

Today, he has already surpassed Messi, who retired at the age of 36, in terms of personal honors and has become the player with the most awards in the history of world football.

The most tragic thing about Messi is that since Chen Yingxiong started to work hard, he has only been able to win awards in La Liga, and no one in Europe can win...

But he is still Chen Yingxiong's most important opponent and the only opponent.

After Messi, who is one year older than Chen Yingxiong, retired, Chen Yingxiong immediately fell into a state of "drawing his sword and looking around at a loss" because he had no opponent. The only motivation that supports him to continue playing is the competition with Manchester United.

Under his leadership, Liverpool has completely suppressed Manchester United for more than ten years. Even if Manchester United invited Mourinho as the team's head coach, there was no way to break Liverpool's monopoly. Even if they were very close to this goal, in the end it was Liverpool. Victory was achieved. So after four seasons, Mourinho also left Manchester United.

Since then, the Premier League has completely become Liverpool's world.

Thinking that Chen Yingxiong has indeed won so many championships and personal honors, and dedicated seventeen years to Liverpool, neither Chen Xing nor Niang can ask him to stay.

They had no choice but to agree to Chen Yingxiong's request.

Won't renew his contract. Instead, he agreed to retire.

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Niang faced numerous reporters, all of whom came to ask him a question.

That is whether Chen Yingxiong really plans to retire.

There is nothing that cannot be said about this question. Niang nodded: "Of course we want to renew his contract, but we also respect his personal wishes. For him, he has nothing to pursue and fight for. So he plans to extend the contract with him. Retire after expiration."

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At the same time, Chen Yingxiong was also blocked by reporters at his door.

They asked the same questions.

Chen Yingxiong's answer was no different from Niang's.

Because there is nothing to pursue. So I decided to retire.

What he said was that he retired not because he was old, but because he had nothing to pursue.

This is not an unintentional move, it shows Chen Yingxiong's own self-confidence. The subtext is "If I didn't have nothing to pursue, I wouldn't retire!"

But someone in the media still caught on to a problem.

"I remember you once said you wanted to break Manchester United's Premier League championship record. Now you are just tying it. You are about to announce your retirement. Isn't there still a goal to pursue?"

Chen Yingxiong glanced at the reporter who asked this question.

"Don't I have one more season before my contract expires?"

"But you're banned for half of next season..."

"Half a season is enough." Chen Yingxiong directly interrupted the reporter and replied domineeringly.

When he said this, many reporters saw an aura of "everlasting" in him.

Even at the age of forty, his confidence is still the same as when he was young!

The reporters even had the illusion that "this person can actually continue to play, right? As long as he wants to, he can continue to play like this."

A player who is forty years old can still make people feel like this. Is such a person really old? ! ! !

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