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Chapter 221: The Birth of a New Champion
"The game is over!! The new champion in the history of the UEFA Cup has been born! Zenit St. Petersburg from Russia defeated the Glasgow Rangers and became the biggest dark horse in this UEFA Cup!"
Although the English are a bit concerned about Chen Yingxiong surpassing Alan Shearer, they still have nothing to say about Zenit's championship.
Although Zenit encountered a little trouble in the second half of this game, they quickly used their strong overall strength to defeat the Glasgow Rangers.
Chen Yingxiong's goal is very important. He stabilized the entire Zenit team and no longer have to worry about it.
As a record-breaking shooter, he has naturally attracted media attention.
The televised cameras were always on him.
Chen Yingxiong and his teammates are celebrating the victory and the championship. As soon as the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Denisov took the lead and rushed towards Chen Yingxiong, then jumped high and jumped directly into Chen Yingxiong's arms.
He alone was not enough, Anyukov and Kerzakov also rushed up, and all three jumped on Chen Yingxiong's body, hanging on like that.
Chen Yingxiong hasn't even fallen yet!
After driving them off his body, Chen Yingxiong was hugged by the captain Tymoshchuk again.
"Damn it!"
He became the most popular character. Because everyone knows that Chen Yingxiong definitely contributed the most to Zenit's ability to reach the finals, and he is an absolutely indispensable figure. Without him, Zenit might have been eliminated in the group stage, or they might have gone home early against Marseille.
It is precisely because of him that the team was able to pass all the way, beheading those giants or quasi-rich families that they could only look up to before, and reached the UEFA Cup final.
In the final, when the team encountered difficulties, he still stood up and calmed everyone's restless hearts with a goal.
Now that I have won the championship, of course I have to thank the biggest contributor.
The only pity is that such a good player is leaving them.
As the captain, Tymoshchuk did not reprimand Chen Yingxiong for transferring early. Leaving the team would have a bad impact on the team. Is it because he himself wants to leave the team...
He and Chen Yingxiong have the same idea, wanting to go to a bigger stage.
This is the sad part of the Russian team. Zenit's financial strength is one of the few in Europe, but no matter how rich they are, they are still a grassroots team in front of those European giants.
But all capable and ambitious players only use them as a springboard, not the kind of team that can play until retirement.
Winning the UEFA Cup championship is already the most glorious moment in the history of Zenit's team building, but it was from this moment that the fate of this Zenit team was doomed-they were about to be dismembered. These players made the whole of Europe know them through the UEFA Cup. I believe that more players will follow in the footsteps of Chen Yingxiong and Arshavin and go to the top league teams in the European continent to pursue their dreams.
Zenit St. Petersburg is too small to accommodate the big dreams of so many people.
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The Zenit players only celebrated outside for a while before returning to the dressing room.
There they continued to celebrate wildly, each with a bottle of champagne in hand, and shot at each other.
Just like the Water-Splashing Festival of the Dai people, whoever gets shot the most means who is the most popular.
As a result, Chen Yingxiong, the most popular junior in the team, was shot all over his face and covered in champagne. But our Chen Yingxiong belongs to the type who gets more courageous after setbacks, so if you shoot him, he will definitely shoot back!
In this way, holding champagne, he caught Denisov, the fiercest "regimental commander" who shot him, and drenched him from head to tail.
"Your own people don't beat your own people!" Denisov was held down by Chen Yingxiong and shot on the ground, begging for mercy.
"Damn! Why didn't you say you belonged to me when you shot me just now!" Chen Yingxiong didn't stop, and poured a bottle of champagne on the leader.
"Okay, okay! That's accidental injury, it's accidental injury! The Eat, Drink, and Play Orchestra should be the same!"
In this way, under the call of the group leader, the members of the eating, drinking and playing band gathered together, forming a tyrannical fighting force, sweeping across the entire locker room, and shooting all the teammates who dared to resist.
In the end, when there was no one who could stand intact except them in the entire locker room, they had already wiped out all the enemies in the locker room. A few members of the Eat, Drink and Play Orchestra stood in the middle of the dressing room with champagne in their hands, laughing with their heads up. After laughing, he poured all the remaining wine into his mouth.
Then wiped his mouth, turned and entered the shower room...
After such a fuss, of course they have to take a shower and change their clothes.
Zenit specially prepared a set of golden t-shirts for this championship. When Zenit players wear this t-shirts to go out to receive the award, how stylish it is!
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After Chen Yingxiong took a shower and changed his clothes, he took out a stack of red cloth from his small bag. He unfolded the cloth, draped it over his back, and tied a knot around his neck to ensure that it would not fall off.
At this time, the whole picture of the cloth is revealed.
It turned out to be a bright five-star red flag!
Like him, his teammates prepared their own national flags. For example, Tymoshchuk prepared the Ukrainian flag, Arshavin prepared the Russian flag, and Domingos wrapped the Argentine flag into a skirt.
Not only the national flag, those players who have children also brought their children, and when the time comes to attend the awards ceremony, they will also bring their children to attend. Like Arshavin.
Although it is nothing unusual to display the national flag of one's own country after winning the championship. But when Chen Yingxiong returned to the stadium wearing the national flag, it still caused many Chinese reporters to exclaim.
It can be said that it is unique to be able to see China's five-star red flag on this occasion - no Chinese player has ever been able to appear in the finals of such a major event and win the championship. If you can't win the championship, it's useless to prepare more national flags.
"Seeing this scene, is the Chinese Football Association still pretending to turn a blind eye?"
"The Olympics are just around the corner! You should also consider calling Chen Yingxiong into the Olympic team, right? Look at what the Olympic team is playing recently? It's like shit!"
"That's right, Chen Yingxiong happens to be a player of the right age. If he is in another four years, he will be considered an over-age player..."
When a group of people saw the national flag, they naturally thought of the national team.
When Chen Yingxiong performed well in Russia, the Chinese Football Association remained silent, as if they didn't know Chen Yingxiong at all. But this is impossible, because these media have been working hard to introduce Chen Yingxiong to the country and promote Chen Yingxiong. Every goal of his can be seen on the Chinese media the next day.
Therefore, Chen Yingxiong's current reputation in Patriotic China is absolutely impossible to be "ignored".
It is not that the Football Association has not heard of similar problems. Every time the Football Association uses "immature" as a perfunctory excuse.
Recruiting a player from your own country to play for the country, what is immature?
They didn't know that there was disagreement within the Football Association about whether to recruit Chen Yingxiong...
Now a group of people looked at the big man waving the five-star red flag and running around the stadium, and couldn't help feeling a little dazed. They seem to have seen Liu Xiang who, after winning the 110-meter hurdles in the Athens Olympics, wore the five-star red flag and announced to the world that "we Chinese can do track and field."
Many people have said that Chinese people are not suitable for playing football. The reasons are nothing more than institutional problems. Their physical fitness is not as good as that of whites and blacks, or they say that China has no football culture.
But now we have such a player who can score in the UEFA Cup final and celebrate the championship with his own flag after the game.
Football, the Chinese can do it too!
It's just...we haven't found the right path yet.
But, one day, one day, we'll get back on track.
Nothing can stump the great Chinese people! As long as we want to do it, we can make it!
After seeing Chen Yingxiong and the five-star red flag, many people suddenly felt such a sense of pride.
Chen Yingxiong gave those who are engaged in football a little comfort and confidence during the darkest time of Chinese football.
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After the runner-up Glasgow Rangers took the stage to receive the silver medal, the Zenit players climbed up the steps one at a time and went to the rostrum to accept the championship award.
Arshavin carried his child on his shoulders, and Chen Yingxiong followed behind him, being careful all the way, lest Arshavin lose control of his weight and fall backward, so he could support him.
When Arshavin walked up to UEFA President Michel Platini, he carefully bent over and knelt, allowing Platini to hang the gold medal around his child's neck, and then shook hands with Michel Platini.
It's Chen Yingxiong's turn.
Platini was very interested in breaking Alan Shearer's record and becoming the top scorer with the most goals in the restructured UEFA Cup, so he took a few more glances.
When handing out the gold medal, he said something in English: "Good job, young man."
As a result, Chen Yingxiong ignored this big man at all... After he took the gold medal, in front of the TV broadcast camera, under the eyes of everyone, he bit the gold medal hard, blew again, and then put it in his ear to listen to the sound to see if it was really a gold medal!
The Chinese reporters, who were inexplicably more confident in the future of Chinese football because of Chen Yingxiong, covered their faces and were completely speechless... Now they especially hope that Chen Yingxiong did not approve the Chinese flag when he came out to receive the award just now, so that everyone will not know which country he is from... This is so embarrassing!
As for Platini next to him, who stretched out his hand and waited for a handshake, he looked embarrassed and different, just like a wax figure.
In the end, Chen Yingxiong remembered Platini beside him, put the gold medal around his neck, then reached out and shook hands with Platini.
But at this time, Platini didn't know what to say.
As soon as Chen Yingxiong turned around, he hugged his teammates around him.
"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! We are the champions!!!"
When captain Tymoshchuk took the UEFA Cup trophy from Platini and held it aloft, dazzling lights shot up from the roof of Manchester Municipal Stadium, lighting up the night sky in Manchester's East End.
Impressive music was played at the scene, and ribbons fell from the sky with the sound of the music.
A new champion is born!
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