Red Rebels

Triple Crown

On the day after the FA Cup final, almost all of Europe paid homage to the Red Rebels, because this team set a record for the treble this season, and they are still continuing their quadruple crown and The journey to the Grand Slam.

But this is definitely not the reason why football fans all over the world are crazy about it. After all, the Red Rebels have won the Grand Slam a long time ago. What really makes football fans around the world excited and shocked is that the Red Rebels have arrived this season. So far, I haven't lost even a single point.

The unbeatable record is an amazing statistic, especially for the Red Rebels. They have set too many new records in football this season. In the Premier League, they have won the championship in 38 games. It is unprecedented, and even in the future, it may be difficult to break this record; in the League Cup and FA Cup, the Red Rebels' unbeatable victory is also highly recognized, especially this team's success in these two cup competitions. They also arranged for generals and substitutes to play in the game.

In the Champions League, the Red Rebels have won 12 consecutive victories so far this season, breaking the 11-game winning streak set by Barcelona that year. Moreover, they still have a final to play. If they win, they will not only win Unprecedented victory in the Grand Slam in a season, and will also break many football records.

This season is definitely a magical season for the Red Rebels, because they are creating a miracle this season that could not be achieved even in the Grand Slam. Now, they have touched the end of the miracle, and they are just short of it. The last game

However, unlike the whole world that rushed to praise the Red Rebels for winning the Triple Crown, in China, after the FA Cup final, the media's hype about the Red Rebels only lasted for one day, and was quickly replaced by other news.

This is definitely not because the Red Rebels left and the media stopped hyping it, but because they found a more valuable hype point than the Red Rebels, and this hype point is closely related to these domestic media practitioners.

The first news to break was that the Football Association officially signed a so-called famous coach, the Dutchman Adrian Se.

Adrianse is not considered a top coach in the world. Even in the Netherlands, he is not worthy of the title of top coach, but he is a very capable head coach. It is well known that the media generally affirmed the Football Association's ability to sign such a powerful coach.

Wang Lin and others personally participated in the signing ceremony between Adrianse and the Football Association, while Xiao Yu deliberately avoided it. However, in interviews with the media, Wang Lin and the senior executives in charge of sports did not deny it, saying that the current domestic football is facing a reshuffle.

"It's a matter of life and death right now. I never even thought that one day domestic football would reach this point. I left angrily for a game, but today, I'm back.

I hope to be able to contribute to domestic football again. This is a belief that sprouts from my heart as a football player."

"Of course, as a businessman, I want to see results, and I want to see the money I invest can be rewarded, so we have developed a more detailed plan for this, but it cannot be announced to the public yet. We will We will reveal our plans to the public in the coming days."

"Us?" A reporter immediately caught Wang Lin's words at the scene, "Excuse me, Director Wang, who are we included here? Does it really include Xiao Yu, the godfather of the Red Rebel Army, as rumored by the outside world?"

Wang Lin smiled, but he didn't expect that he would be caught by the reporter for his casual words. He stared at the reporter noncommittally, "I can't reveal too much for the time being, but what I can guarantee is that I am not the leader of this plan. , is not the core, and this plan will involve all aspects of domestic football."

"We all know where the problem lies, and we are all trying to find ways to change this situation, so we have formulated an extremely exhaustive plan, based on youth training and the league, with the focus on re-cultivating students who can be cultivated To produce the soil for outstanding football talents, rather than seeking quick success and quick results for short-term results."

"During the Premier League FA Cup final, someone once saw the country's top leader appearing in the stands. Did he receive your invitation? Does this mean that the country's decision-makers have begun to pay attention to football reform?"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "That's for sure. We will resolutely implement the leaders' decisions. We hope to lead domestic football to take off. This is our belief in this reform."

"Then I would like to ask Director Wang, can you disclose a deadline for the more specific progress of this reform?"

Wang Lin shook his head, "I have no choice. We are still meeting and negotiating, but I can be sure that this is a top-down reform that focuses on the overall situation and dominates the details. It will be implemented vigorously and resolutely, and will not be as procrastinating as before. .”

"It's like signing Adrian Se this time. We made a lot of preparations in advance, but we didn't disclose it. It's only now that everyone has received the news. So what I can guarantee is that by the time you receive the news, That must have been when the planning was underway.”

"Is it really impossible to give an exact deadline?"

"Wait a minute, I've been through it for more than ten years, I don't care about these days anymore."

After saying that, Wang Lin left the press conference with a smile.

In the next few days, news about reforms broke out one after another. First, many league club officials were arrested, and then referees and Football Association officials were arrested. However, these are the follow-up to the anti-corruption and anti-counterfeiting storm.

The real news that the media is paying attention to is that the investors behind the clubs have gathered in the capital, including clubs from top and second-tier professional leagues. They have frequent meetings, and then there are reforms led by Wang Lin and others. The factions frequently met with the Football Association, officials in charge of sports and higher-level leaders.

The latest news is revealed every day, but everything is so ambiguous that even those football fans who usually start to abandon domestic football begin to attract their attention again.

This stormy tension lasted for five days until May 21, two days before the European Champions Cup final, when major domestic media suddenly received an invitation letter issued in the name of the league. Invite them to hold a press conference in a hotel in the capital on the 22nd.

At this moment, reporters from all over the country suddenly gathered in the capital. They all knew that everything should begin to be revealed.

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When Xiao Yu slowly walked into the venue with Wang Lin and others, all the reporters at the scene suddenly stood up. They had already received the news and knew that it was Xiao Yu from the Red Rebel Army who was leading the reform. , but until now, when they saw Xiao Yu appear with their own eyes, they were willing to believe that all this was true.

That kind of excitement, that kind of excitement, that kind of atmosphere that makes people's blood boil finally exploded at this moment

The reporters at the scene were in a huddle. They all rushed to the podium one by one, hoping to get Xiao Yu's immediate answer, but they were quickly stopped by security guards and Xiao Yu's bodyguards.

"Please take a seat." Xiao Yu stood in the middle of the rostrum, smiled at the reporters present, and then made a gesture to sit down. When all the reporters sat down, he smiled and sat down too.

There was a little noise at the beginning, but it soon became silent, and he looked at Xiao Yu.

"I know that you must have many, many questions, and I also know that you must have too many doubts. I know even better that you have endured years of grievances and unwillingness in your hearts, but today, here, I can tell you Everyone, it has passed, those dark days have passed, they have passed."

There was thunderous applause at the scene, especially the reporters. Every one of them wished they could smash their palms to pieces. Even a few female reporters couldn't help crying. Even they themselves didn't understand why.

Doesn’t it mean that you have become numb to domestic football? Have you given up any hope?

"Someone once asked me what I think about football. I answered him that it is a kind of faith. No one will abandon or hate his faith. The moment we choose to love football, we have our own faith, even if we are in the future. We try every possible means to abandon him, but in the end we will find that it is like being addicted to drugs. The more we want to quit, the greater the addiction becomes."

"Once I met a domestic football player on the street. He talked to me about football. He asked me strangely, why haven't our Red Rebels built football schools in China over the years? In Japan, Hong Kong, It’s available in places like Singapore and the United States, so why not in China?”

"Do you hate domestic football like me? He asked me that at the time," Xiao Yu said word by word.

The reporters at the scene remained quiet. No one said a word. They just recorded, recorded, and filmed without listening.

"I asked him, why do you hate domestic football? How much do you hate domestic football?"

"He almost gritted his teeth and said that he was very, very disgusted. Then he listed with me a long list of reasons why he hated it, as well as a lot of examples of cheating and match-fixing. But as he spoke, he cried. He cried and said, I just want to drag all those people out and chop them down."

"Why did he cry? I was very surprised, but I soon understood that because of love, when you love to the depths, when you are disappointed, regretful, and hate can't be turned into steel, love will slowly turn into hate. Love The hatred is as deep as it is. While hating domestic football, I also deeply hate my own powerlessness.”

"He told me that he came into contact with football when he was in junior high school in 1998. He came from a remote rural area. He didn't even know what football was before. The first time he saw football was in a newspaper in France. The World Cup, Zidane, Ronaldo, these names appeared in his life for the first time, and then he became crazy about football."

"When he was in high school, the national team was competing for the World Cup in South Korea and Japan. He and a group of classmates skipped classes and skipped school just to watch a World Cup qualifying match. They jumped out of the school dormitory wall at midnight every night and ran to My classmates’ houses nearby stayed with their TV sets until early in the morning, just to watch an away game.”

"That day, he talked to me a lot, a lot about his experiences with football, and among these words, there was one sentence that particularly moved me. He said that although he was hated, even though he was disappointed, even though he told himself countless times , Never mind those bastard things, but every day, every time, when I open the page, I always habitually click on domestic football at the first place, just because I want to see what I want to see."

"This state lasted for many years. Only later did he realize that he was holding on to a hope."

"I was also confused for a time. Do so many people really hate domestic football? Are they really disappointed and desperate in their hearts, and then give up completely? Or are they just so-called people and Yiyun, attacking What about domestic football as a way to advertise itself wisely?”

"At least I saw from that football player's eyes that although he hated domestic football, although he was disappointed in domestic football and even almost despaired, he still held on to hope in his bones. I also believe that across the country, people like him There are still many, countless, very many, even the majority of them.”

"People live for hope. I always believe that as long as there is hope for those football fans, there will still be hope for domestic football."

"When I come back this time, I don't come to be a savior. I never thought that there would be a savior in this world. I just come back to provide an opportunity, a platform, and a place for everyone to have such hope. It is a platform where all the players have the opportunity to personally push domestic football back on the right track.”

"I once saw a newspaper, and I'm very grateful that it described me as Batman, Spider-Man, or even Superman wearing underwear, but I still want to clarify today that I am not, I am nothing, I He’s just a football player who also holds on to hope.”

"If someone asked me, where does the most important force for reforming domestic football come from? I would choose to say, football mi."

"Maybe there will be a lot of people looking for all kinds of excuses, maybe there will be a lot of people looking for all kinds of objective and irresistible reasons, but I really want to ask, ask ourselves, are we really good for football? Do we give as much as we think we do? Do we really love this sport as much as we think we do?"

"Anyone can add insult to injury, but it can't change the status quo. I believe that for domestic football to rise, it not only needs reforms, but also needs a group of rational and mature football fans. I don't ask you how much you can contribute to domestic football, but I ask you to protect it forever. With the hope in my heart”

The scene was silent for a long time, no one said anything, no reporters asked questions, it was just quiet.

After a full two minutes, Xiao Yu broke his silence again. He then announced a series of measures to reform football, including the birth of the League Union, which will replace the Football Association as the manager of the domestic league, and then a The series is aimed at the reform of domestic leagues.

The top priority of Xiao Yu's reform lies in the league and youth training. An important part of the youth training plan he announced is cooperation with the Ministry of Education to provide basic football training guidance in schools, as well as in-school Competitions of all ages are held with schools, and an inter-school youth football league is formed.

In the plan, each province is divided into large regions, and a youth training center is set up in each district. Players who have shown good performance in the inter-school leagues in each district are gathered together for training, and are guided by professional coaches. There are also competitions for each age group between the district and the district to improve the competition experience of young people.

In addition, Xiao Yu also advocated the establishment of indoor football fields and outdoor futsal fields in schools, communities and other public places to make up for the shortcomings of standard football fields that cannot be popularized across the country. After all, indoor football and futsal fields Football requires smaller venues and is more convenient to maintain. At the same time, indoor football leagues and futsal leagues will also be played across the country.

Xiao Yu will establish the Red Rebel Foundation and invest 500 million yuan in these events every year. In addition to generous bonuses, he will also reach cooperation with TV organizations in various regions. It is expected to be broadcast on TV and attract more sponsorships. Business support.

While announcing this series of measures, Xiao Yu also called on the media to maintain a neutral attitude, hoping that they would have the good intention to promote the development of domestic football instead of blindly suppressing and trampling on it.

"This is a big market, so European giants have taken a fancy to the potential here, including our Red Rebels, so I can't deny that I have a little selfishness in initiating this reform this time, but I also I hope all media and investors can understand that only a healthy and orderly development of football environment can provide more benefits to everyone."

"I can't give any guarantee to the people present and the players, because the core subject of the reform is not me, but everyone. I can't guarantee that it will take many years of reform to bring the national team to the World Cup championship. That is unrealistic. , but what I can guarantee is that as long as you give me time, I can put domestic football back on the path of good development. "

"Only in this way can we have a healthy football environment, achieve mutual benefit, and see the day when the national team can rectify its name in the World Cup."

"Japan believes that it will take at least 50 years for them to win the World Cup. We are so far behind them. I don't know how long it will take us, but I have a hope. My hope is that I hope that until the day I die, I can watch The national team has the hope of winning the World Cup."

The entire press conference has completely turned into a one-man show for Xiao Yu. He also knows that what he said today may offend many people, may receive a lot of attacks, and some may even criticize him, but he doesn't care. He just spoke the truth in his heart and some facts he saw.

The moment Xiao Yu walked out of the venue, he saw the sunlight shining in from the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel. It was golden and seemed to represent endless hope.

The reform kicked off, but Xiao Yu returned to Europe after the press conference and arrived in Madrid, the capital of Spain.

The next day, the UEFA Champions League final, the Red Rebels faced their local rivals Manchester City