Golden Greenery

In the 2007-08 UEFA Cup final, in the 70th minute of the game, Zhuoyang, wearing jeans and sneakers, with his naked upper body wet, ran directly through the player tunnel of the City Stadium and appeared next to AC Milan's bench.

The whole world cheers!

After careful calculation and analysis by the media after the game, Zhuo Yang ran 8,732 seconds from getting off the car to the court. This is an international professional-level middle and long-distance running result, and he did not complete it on a wide and flat track. Zhuoyang completed it with a master-level result on the track. If there was a similar event in the Olympics, there is no doubt that he would have won a medal.

In full view of everyone, Zhuo Yang stripped himself naked except for his boxer briefs and took the competition equipment handed over by Tassotti. Zhuo Yang was neatly dressed in a helmet and armor.

"Sir, I'm ready to play."

Ancelotti looked at Zhuo Yang with satisfaction and nodded: "Are you ready to warm up?"

Zhuo Yang: "..."

In the 73rd minute of the second half, AC Milan made a substitution, No. 18 came on and No. 13 Ambrosini came off. The score on the field was 2:0 for Zenit St. Petersburg.

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Dutch coach Dick Advocaat saw Zhuo Yang finally appear on the court, and his anxious heart was hit twice again.

Carter has been coaching for half his life. He has appeared in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has traveled to several national teams. However, Advocaat did not have any outstanding achievements. He always felt that he was very capable, but his players could not fully understand his tactical intentions. Therefore, his reputation is actually higher than his coaching performance.

But Zenit under the coaching of Advocaat is indeed impressive this season. Zenit not only won the Russian Super League championship this season, but also became a dazzling dark horse in the UEFA Cup.

At the beginning, all teams regarded Zenit as a point-delivering machine, but they never expected that along the way, Zenit's men would never die of unknowns. Villarreal and Marseille were defeated by Zenit in one encounter, and the Bundesliga was collectively wiped out by Zenit. From Nuremberg in the group stage to Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen in the knockout stage, they have become the dead souls of the Russians.

When the European football world screamed 'Wolf is coming', AC Milan became the only team that could maintain the traditional dignity of European football.

Zenit's rapid rise is also closely related to the domestic political situation in Russia. The consortium behind him is Gazprom. The former president and chairman of the gas company is Zenit's chief fan and even the team's godfather. He single-handedly built this upstart in Russian football.

The 'godfather' stopped holding any position at the gas company a few years ago, as he took on a new position two weeks ago - President of Russia. The godfather of Zenit is named Medvedev.

When Medvedev was still prime minister, he established a small Zenit fan club among senior government officials. Its members include the head of the Federal Security Service Patrushev, the speaker of the lower house of parliament Gryzlov, the defense minister Minister Serdyukov and others,

He is naturally the talker of this fan club.

With these land lords protecting him and giving money to others, it would be difficult for Zenit to achieve poor results. Therefore, Zenit, which has never won any championship in the 83-year history of the team, finally achieved success this season. The Russian Super League championship made them an upstart.

In 2004, Zhuo Yang led Madibau's remnant team to a 0:0 draw with Zenit in the UEFA Cup group stage. In the past four years, Zenit has changed everything from inside to outside. A new one, completely transformed.

With a handful of well-known Russian players and a famous Dutch coach, Zenit Club now adds a gorgeous passion for attacking on the basis of the fast, concise and powerful style of traditional Russian football. They urgently need to go there. After tying this year's UEFA Cup, we will try our hand at the Champions League next season.

But even so, head coach Advocaat is still worried.

He has carefully studied the core attacker Zhuo Yang of his opponent AC Milan. He is very surprised that Zhuo Yang has maintained the same high goal rate against teams of different styles this season. He scored 47 goals in 33 games in Serie A and 1 goal in 12 games in the UEFA Cup. What does this mean? It shows that Zhuoyang has 2:0 attributes when he steps on the court.

In Advocaat's view, this is the biggest injustice in football.

Before the game, Advocaat was relieved to learn that Zhuoyang could not make it to the stadium in time. Zhuoyang, the biggest X factor, must not interfere with his good deeds. The strong financial and power support undoubtedly made Advocaat's coaching of Zenit even more powerful, but it also gave him extremely huge pressure, because he was only allowed to win but not lose.

In the first half, everything for the aging AC Milan was under Advocaat's calculations. Kaka was successfully redeemed, and the team used the willful assists from AC Milan's full-backs to launch a sharp counterattack. The full-backs and the two midfielders Pirlo and Ambrosini faced an oppressive high-position press. This is AC Milan's biggest weakness in the lineup. Milan knows it, and other teams also know it, but only Zenit, the combination of bear and musket, can do it.

With no mistakes left, Zenit led 2:0 in the first half.

After the start of the second half, the big screen in the City Stadium played a picture-in-picture of Zhuo Yang running on the street, and he was getting closer and closer to the field. Advocaat directed the team to continue to attack and press again and again, because the man with the 2:0 attribute was coming.

But until the much-anticipated runner actually appeared on the sidelines, the score was still 2:0.

The City Stadium can accommodate 55,000 spectators. According to UEFA regulations, the two fans are allocated 15,000 tickets each, and the rest belong to local Manchester fans. The City Stadium is the home ground of Manchester City. The main color here is blue, and Zenit's jersey is also blue, but today the stands of the City Stadium are blooming with drunken red.

The number of fans who traveled from Russia is estimated to be more than 40,000 in Milan. Not only did these Roseneri instantly divide up the 15,000 tickets allocated to them, but they also purchased more than 10,000 tickets at a high price from local scalpers in Manchester City. What's even more outrageous is that they actually reversed all the tickets that there were not enough Russian fans to buy, and they didn't know what means they used.

The 40,000 Rossoneri chanted Zhuo Yang's name feverishly. They didn't care at all about falling behind by two goals. The Milanese had been so excited by Zhuo Yang's savior Xia Ganyidan that they couldn't control themselves. During the 24 minutes of running hard, many Milan people had their eyes blurred.

Nine thousand Russians looked at the Italians shouting hysterically with envy. Their team was younger than AC Milan, but they didn't have such a superstar that could make people crazy. They have never looked down on the cowardly Italians, but there is no Zhuoyang in their team.

The people of Manchester were deeply impressed by Zhuo Yang. They should be neutral and decisively became fans of AC Milan. They even thanked the damn bus drivers who had been cursed by them all day. Without their strike, how could the streets of Manchester have staged such a scene recorded in the annals of football history.

At this moment, Zhuoyang only needs to step on the turf to make the city stadium crazy. Even before he touched the ball for the first time, the Milanese were convinced that victory had arrived.