The Midfield Master

After discovering that Gretel was a person with a story, Xia Ze told Zhang Wei about the situation, and the two curious Chinese boys began to investigate Gretel's past from the team under the pretext of being related to teammates.

From Captain Brigle and Tenonio, who was also their teacher and friend, the two learned something about Gretel's past experience.

Gretel was born in 1980 and came out of the Benfica youth academy. He played for Manchester City for three years when he was young. In 2001, he witnessed captain Haaland being fouled maliciously by former Manchester United captain and tough guy Keane, which directly led to his retirement.

From then on, he decided that he must not be weak on the court, but to be a "villain", which is why he has such a fierce and aggressive style of play.

And when Gretel saw his teammates being bullied, he would stand up for his teammates every time. He would stand up for Xia Ze because he already regarded Xia Ze as his teammate in his heart.

And two years later, in 2003, Gretel experienced the sudden death in the Confederations Cup of the Cameroonian player Vivian Foo who was friendly with him in the team, which once made him doubt about the sport of football.

This also explains why Gretel was so nervous when he saw Zhang Wei being stunned by the Braga goalkeeper.

After playing for Manchester City for three years, Gretel returned to Portugal and has been playing for the Portuguese Super League team. He got married and had a son.

However, his 8-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 5 years old, and he has been fighting against the treatment of the disease for the past three years.

Gretel didn't have any complaints, and he still played hard to earn medical expenses for his son. He is currently one of the highest paid players in Maritimo's salary class, and his performance is worthy of this salary.

After learning about Gretel's past deeds, Xia Ze and Zhang Wei both sighed. Unexpectedly, a villain with a fierce appearance has such a gentle side in his heart, which also changed the two people's views on Gretel a lot.

These investigations took Xia Ze and the others two months.

In the process of understanding Gretel's past story, Xia Ze and Zhang Wei, relying on their own strength and outstanding performance on the court, secured the main position of Maritimo.

As the core of the midfielder, Xia Ze has become the new favorite of Maritimo fans because of his handsome appearance and excellent skills. There are not a few fans who come to watch his training every day.

In these two months of home games, the song "Let him play" composed by Monica featuring Xia Ze has also become one of the songs that the home fans must sing in every game.

In the past two months, Xia Ze, as the core of the team, led Maritimo all the way forward, defeated Benfica at home, and achieved an unbeaten record of 10 rounds.

After 12 rounds of the league, they ranked fourth in the Portuguese Super League with 23 points, only behind the top three in the Portuguese Super League, and only two points behind Benfica, which is third.

Such a points ranking even makes Maritimo fans think that it is possible to enter the UEFA Champions League next season. And Xia Ze's performance is also very good. He contributed 4 goals and 5 assists in 8 league games, and directly participated in two-thirds of the team's goals. He is considered to be the biggest contributor to the rise of Maritimo.

And Zhang Wei's performance was also recognized by the fans. He squeezed out Igor and became the team's main central defender. He partnered with Rosario. In 7 games, 4 of them guaranteed the team's clean sheet , The defense is quite solid.

In the second round of the Portuguese League Cup play-offs at the end of November, the two who had been promoted to the main team took turns, and Maritimo also defeated their opponents and successfully advanced to the main match.

However, in the past two months, Gretel has always been stable, and he has made several low-level mistakes. In the two games where the team was tied, he conceded goals because of his mistakes, which made the head coach quite dissatisfied. .

But the team is currently in good shape, and no one blames him. Xia Ze and Zhang Wei analyzed that Gretel was affected by his son's illness and the state of the game.

I heard that his son's treatment has reached the most critical stage.

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During these two months, several important things have happened in Chinese football.

Guangzhou Evergrande Club, under the leadership of Yinhu Lippi, played in the final of the AFC Champions League. The away game was 2 to 2, and the home game was 1 to 01. They defeated South Korea’s Seoul team with a total score of 3 to 3 and won the 2013 AFC Champions League. This is the first time a Chinese club has won the AFC Champions League trophy.

At the same time, Guangzhou Evergrande also successfully defended the league title, achieving the great cause of the double crown. The official website of FIFA even wrote an article to congratulate the Guangzhou Evergrande team for their outstanding performance this year, which attracted the attention of the world football world.

After winning the AFC Champions League, Zhang Linpeng, the main right back of the Guangzhou Evergrande team, hinted in an interview that it is possible to leave Guangzhou Evergrande and move to Europe after the Club World Cup.

Xu Jiayin, owner of the Guangzhou Evergrande team, also expressed his willingness to send potential players abroad in order to improve the level of Chinese football.

As for his next stop in the European league, Lippi also said in an interview that several Serie A teams are interested in introducing Zhang Linpeng, and the bid even reached 3 million euros.

Because of Lippi's influence in Italy, many Italian media reported the news one after another.

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When the Chinese Super League ended in 2013, Shanghai East Asia's young forward Wu Lei ranked second in the Chinese Super League's scorer list with 18 goals, and he is also the local top scorer.

After the end of the league, the Bundesliga Stuttgart club officially announced that it will introduce Wu Lei in the winter transfer window at a price of 2 million euros.

This time, the transfer is said to be a transfer predator in European football. Mendes, the number one agent in football today, has completed the transfer. His appearance has made Shanghai East Asia's owner clung to the bottom line of 3 million euros. Relaxing to 2 million euros also made Stuttgart willing to increase the offer from the original 1 million euros to 2 million euros.

Mendes' negotiating ability has been verified again in this transfer, and people have discovered that his tentacles have extended to China in Asia. Mendes' agency is reaching out to every player in the world. local development.

Zhang Linpeng and Wu Lei can transfer to Europe. In addition to their own potential and outstanding performance in the Chinese Super League, the outstanding performance of the Chinese national team in the Asian Cup qualifiers also made them raise their prices a lot.

In the Asian Cup qualifiers, the national football team defeated Indonesia 2-1 in the away game, and defeated the same opponent 4-1 at home, and double-killed each other at home and away. .

In the crucial fifth round of the battle, the Chinese team never lost the chain in the key battle as before. They defeated Saudi Arabia 2-0 at home, with 4 wins in 5 rounds and 12 points. They qualified ahead of the group stage. Into the 2015 Asian Cup race.

The team led by Fu Bo has won the game and the fans' recognition with its beautiful control style of play. And after the Chinese team qualified ahead of schedule, the rumors of Lippi coaching the national football team, which had been boiling before, are close to becoming a reality thanks to the efforts of the Chinese Football Association. Chinese fans finally feel that the Football Association has done the right thing.

After a humiliating 1-5 loss to the Thai team in the summer, the Chinese team fired the Spanish coach Camacho at the cost of paying a huge breach of contract, and helped the new local coach Fu Bo. In the middle of the month, a concentrated outbreak period ushered in.

FIFA's official website also reported the transformation of the Chinese team in the past six months, believing that Chinese football is on the rise.

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In addition, Wen Yinghuang and Shi Boyun, who were sensational in the summer and transferred to Manchester United and Real Madrid respectively, also appeared in the eyes of the world in different forms after a period of silence.

Wen Yinghuang performed well in Manchester United's reserve team. Although he did not have a work permit and could not play for Manchester United's first team, his performance has been recognized by the coaching staff.

Manchester United coach Moyes praised Wen Yinghuang by name in a press conference, and at the same time said that Wen Yinghuang will be loaned out of the team in the winter transfer window to gain more game experience.

For a while, many teams outside the UK were planning to loan Wen Yinghuang, which caused an uproar in the British media.

After Shi Boyun transferred to Real Madrid, he was transferred to the Real Madrid B team to play in the Spanish second division.

In this Real Madrid B team, which had trained excellent shooters such as Soldado and Negrero, Shi Boyun did not get too many opportunities to play at the beginning, and because of language problems, he was unable to integrate into the team.

But after he came off the bench by accident and helped the team kill the opponent, the young Chinese striker immediately found the feeling of scoring goals, squeezed the team's original main striker to the bench, and firmly occupied the main position.

Before the arrival of December, he had already occupied the fifth place in the West Second Division scorer list with 9 goals, and he only started 7 times in the Second Division.

His outstanding performance has made many teams pay attention to him, seeking to one day be able to take him away from the galaxy battleship Real Madrid.

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Chinese football, which has been ups and downs for a long time, suddenly ushered in a concentrated explosion in the past two months. Whether it is the performance of the club, the national team or the performance of Chinese players, they all appeared in the field of vision of the world football for a period of time. Center, let fans in the world think that Chinese football has shown signs of rising.

And the former Manchester United star Gary Neville, who worked as a commentator on Sky Sports TV in the UK, wrote a special article to analyze the current phenomenon of Chinese football. In the next few decades, football will inevitably undergo tremendous changes brought about by the rise of Chinese football.

Although the media have different opinions on whether Chinese football can change the current world football pattern, they have always believed that:

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