Prominence in Football Community

"Xiao Yingying, is this what you mean by watching the game live?"

Sitting in a bar, Feng Shiyao asked Xiao Yingying who was watching TV with her head up.

They were in a bar full of Sampdoria fans in Sampdoria shirts, beers in hand, watching the game on TV.

Xiao Yingying quickly pointed to a boy wearing glasses and said, "Who told him to boast that he could get tickets for us, but it turned out to be bragging!"

The boy with glasses said aggrievedly: "I didn't know that the tickets for Sampdoria's home games are so popular now. After all, it is the second division. During the previous games, the home stands were mostly empty, and tickets were easy to get. The result is different now... and there are too many of us..."

He was referring to a dozen or so Chinese students studying abroad like them.

This is a gathering of international students, and the theme is to watch Gao Zheng's competition.

Originally, this plan was ambitious. We wanted everyone to cheer for Gao Zheng in the stands of the Marasi Stadium, and let the Chinese five-star red flag appear on the stands of the Marasi Stadium to show the spirit of Chinese students studying abroad.

As a result, they couldn't get so many tickets for several home games in a row.

So there is really no way, the event can only be changed to watching the live broadcast of the game in the bar and cheering for Gao Zheng.

"Hey, it's enough to see Gao Zheng's game, even if it's not at the scene..." Most of the foreign students were easy to talk to and didn't mean to embarrass the organizers.

"That's right, we also brought the national flag. Remember to take pictures and send them to everyone."

Feng Shiyao turned her attention to the competition. She asked Xiao Yingying strangely: "Didn't you say that Gao Zheng is the core? Why didn't you play?"

Just as Xiao Yingying was about to open her mouth to explain, a boy beside her smiled and said, "It is said that it was because of poor physical fitness, so she didn't start. It's the first time for the beauty to participate in our overseas student activities, and she has never seen her before..."

Feng Shiyao smiled politely at him: "Thank you."

But did not answer the questions that followed.

It was Xiao Yingying who explained for her: "Sister Feng is a busy student, how can she have so much time to eat, drink and have fun? This time I came out to watch the game, and I forced her out."

The boy quickly said: "From now on, Yingying, you will have to forcefully flirt,

Studies are important, but you still need to relax properly, work and rest well..."

Xiao Yingying saw Feng Shiyao silently said two words to her from an angle that the boy couldn't see. Judging from the shape of her mouth, Sister Feng said "Yingying"...Is this what Tucao Ma Huanyang called herself? ?

In fact, there is no need for Sister Feng to complain, Xiao Yingying herself can feel the enthusiasm shown by Ma Huanyang. It's not the first time for me to participate in an activity among foreign students, but it's the first time for Ma Huanyang to call herself that, and she doesn't feel comfortable with it.

So Xiao Yingying gave Ma Huanyang an awkward yet polite smile: "Hehe."

Ma Huanyang didn't seem to care about Xiao Yingying's attitude, or that Xiao Yingying was no longer in his eyes. He approached Feng Shiyao and introduced Gao Zheng to her enthusiastically: "Beauties are not fans, right? Although Gao Zheng is a substitute, But as long as he comes off the bench, he will perform well, so now Sampdoria fans call Gao Zheng a 'super substitute'... Although he performed very well on the court, Gao Zheng is actually a very good contact in private I have only been to the training base three times, and he can already be remembered by me..."

When Ma Huanyang said this, the boys around him exclaimed with envy and jealousy: "Gao Zheng even remembers you!"

"Brother Ma, did you ask him for his autograph?"

"What's an autograph? We, Brother Ma, even have a group photo together!"

Ma Huanyang stared at Feng Shiyao with a complex smile that was obviously showing off but didn't want to be too direct.

"If you want Gao Zheng's autograph and group photo, I can take you there."

Feng Shiyao also smiled awkwardly and politely: "Ah, no need, thank you."

"You're welcome, there's nothing troublesome. In fact, Gao Zheng is really easy to get in touch with..." Ma Huanyang still wanted to work hard.

"Well, I know." Feng Shiyao rested her chin on her hands, and replied absent-mindedly while watching TV.

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Berardi and his reserve teammates sat in a dedicated area, watching the game.

For this game, they traveled collectively from Sassuolo to Modena.

Sassuolo is just a small town with only one stadium, which is now the training ground for Sassuolo's first team and reserve team.

The home ground of the first team is the Alberto Braglia Stadium in Modena.

This stadium can accommodate 21,000 people. Usually, Sassuolo games can seat 5,000 people, which is considered a good attendance rate, but Berardi visually estimated that there were almost 8,000 or 9,000 people in today's game.

I don’t know if this kind of attendance has something to do with that incident... Anyway, even the media in Sassuolo and Modena are talking about it.

They were all talking about Sassuolo missing out on a super talent.

"Hey, Dominic, do you think that Gao Zhen is as powerful as the media said?" His teammate Manuel Mora sitting next to him asked curiously. He was born in 1994 and was only transferred to the reserve team this season. , He has not experienced the situation where Gao Zheng came to the Sassuolo reserve team for a week of trial training last season.

Instead of answering the question directly, Berardi pointed to a black man sitting behind them and said, "You can ask Marios."

As expected, Mora turned her head and cast doubtful eyes on the black man.

Marios Konat glared at Berardi first, and then said to Mora helplessly: "Yes, it's really amazing..."

Konat even said that Gao Zheng played football very well, which surprised Mo La who asked the question. You must know that Konat never praised people in the team and was known for being difficult to speak.

"This……"

Seeing Mora's surprised expression, Berardi cleared his throat: "This is going to be a long story..."

"Then don't talk about it!" Konate said to Berardi grimly.

Berardi made a face.

Mora raised a new question: "Since Gao is so powerful, why didn't we sign a contract with him at the beginning? Is what the newspaper said true?"

Berardi shook his head: "I don't know about that. How much do we ordinary players know about the decisions made by the club's top management?"

"Then Gao will hold back his strength in this game and want to take revenge? Are we in danger?" Mo La frowned and said with some concern.

"Don't worry, this is our home court." A teammate next to him patted him on the shoulder, "Furthermore, football is not a sport that can be decided by one person. No matter how good you are, you have to rely on your teammates. If his teammates perform If it’s not good, it’s useless to be taller than one person. In terms of overall strength, we are much better than Sampdoria. This can be seen from the league ranking.”

In his words, he disapproved of Gao Zheng's power.

Berardi glanced at him, and it was reserve striker Ricardo Barbouti who was speaking.

He remembered that this person was not in the reserve team last season, but was transferred to the reserve team in March last year. At that time, Gao Zheng had already played in the Sampdoria reserve team.

So he didn't see Gao Zheng playing football, and he lacked an intuitive impression of Gao Zheng's strength. In addition, now that the two armies are facing each other, it seems to be a "politically correct" approach to belittle the opponent.

Berardi smiled and patted Mora: "That's right, we are Sassuolo players. We are worried about danger, don't we make others ambitious?"

Babuti sat in the back row, overlooking Berardi who said so, and snorted slightly. I am very dissatisfied that Berardi did not leave anything for him to use.

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Gao Zheng was warming up with his teammates in the warm-up area. He looked around.

Although he had a trial training in Sassuolo for a week, he is still very unfamiliar with this stadium.

Sassuolo's original home court was too small to meet the regulations, so they rented the stadium in Modena as their own home court.

When he came to Sassuolo for trial training, the hotel was in Modena. At that time, Uncle Guo drove him back and forth between the hotel and Sassuolo every day.

As his performance in the Sassuolo trial training became better and better, he has begun to pay attention to the houses in the two places, thinking about whether to live in the quiet Sassuolo or the slightly bustling Modena .

Of course, he didn't have to worry about this issue later, because he didn't have to live in either Sassuolo or Modena.

When Gao Zheng was warming up, the TV camera followed him all the time.

He needs no introduction, he is the most watched player in this game.

"Gao is warming up, but now the second half has just started, I think he will not be allowed to play so early. But I know that what everyone wants to watch most now is the game after he comes on the field... The players on both sides seem to have the same meaning-the score It hasn't been rewritten until now, it's still 0:0..." Sylio joked about the slightly dull game.

In fact, Sassuolo is still very active, but Sampdoria can't hold back the defense and played negatively. Sassuolo didn't have a good chance against Sampdoria, which was shrinking defensively. This game didn't look very good.

The TV broadcast even caught a Sassuolo fan yawning in the stands.

The kick-off time for this game is two o'clock in the afternoon. For the lazy Italians, this is still the lunch break. If the game is not good-looking, it is really easy to make people sleepy.

But to everyone's surprise, after warming up, Gao Zheng did not go straight back to the bench to sit, but came to the side of head coach Iachini and assistant coach Carrillo.

"Huh?" Syrio also questioned. "What's the situation? Is Yakini going to let Gao play now?! It's only fifty-six minutes now... the second half started ten minutes later? This is not in line with Yakini's previous habits... Before he always Gao was sent in after 60 minutes, and it was either the second substitution or the third substitution, but he has not used the substitution quota yet..."

Borata in front of the TV snorted: "What's so surprising, this is a game against Sassuolo! Who doesn't know the story between Gao and Sassuolo? Let me say that if Gao starts the game How could it be so dull in the first 50 minutes of the game?!"

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Ma Huanyang really wanted to find a topic to get close to Feng Shiyao, but Gao Zheng didn't play and the game was dull, so he couldn't find a topic to talk about.

Although the game was indeed a bit boring, Feng Shiyao watched the game quietly and didn't ask any more questions, which made Ma Huanyang unable to answer.

So Ma Huanyang watched the game for more than 50 minutes absent-mindedly, his eyes always wandering back and forth between the TV screen and Feng Shiyao's face.

At this moment, there was a burst of cheers in the bar. Ma Huanyang, who was secretly staring at Feng Shiyao, was taken aback, and reflexively asked the people around him, "Did Sampdoria score?"

"What! It's Gao Zheng coming out!" Someone corrected him.

Only then did Ma Huanyang look up at the TV screen, and found Gao Zheng standing in front of the two Sampdoria coaches, and the head coach Yachini was holding her and explaining something to him.

The commentator on the TV said excitedly: "It's confirmed! Gao wants to come off the bench! Now it's fifty-six minutes, and there are more than thirty minutes left for him. This is his coming off the bench in the first team of Sampdoria." The longest time since I played! Obviously Iachini also understands it very well!"

Hearing this sentence, the Sampdoria fans and Chinese students in the bar burst into laughter.

Everyone understands.

Amidst the roar of laughter, Feng Shiyao raised her head and focused all her eyes on the person on the TV screen.

It looks no different from the Xiao Gao she knew... Even with that jersey, it's hard to connect him with the star who can make everyone cheer just by standing on the sidelines.

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Yakini looked up at Gao Zheng who was standing in front of him, and said with a smile, "I don't think I need to say anything, right?"

Gao Zheng quickly waved his hand: "Coach, you should say a few words, don't specialize."

"Kick it as you want." Iachini patted him on the back and shoved him towards the fourth official. "Let Sassuolo regret it! It's a pity that their boss didn't come to the game today, maybe it was on purpose?"

"I don't know." Gao Zheng shook his head with a smile, and walked towards the fourth official. He saw that the other party was entering his number - 40 - on the huge electronic substitution number board. The number of the player who was substituted - 99.

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