Volume 1: Heroes Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 57 An Old Era Ends and a New Era Begins (Second Update)

Chapter 57: An old era ends and a new era begins (second update)

“Arshavin’s cross——!”

The football soared into the air and flew towards AC Milan's penalty area.

Since it was a counterattack, there were not many people here. In addition to goalkeeper Dida, Naples only has one Chen Yingxiong involved in the attack, while AC Milan has two defensive players, center backs Kaladze and Maldini.

Kaladze had been thrown behind by Chen Yingxiong's sudden acceleration, and now the only person who could really pose a threat to him was Maldini.

This is the confrontation between Chen Yingxiong and the number one legend in Serie A for twenty years!

The two people took off almost at the same time, and their judgment of the landing point was very accurate.

Maldini in front of him has the advantage of being stuck in the position. He is likely to push the football out before Chen Yingxiong. He didn't even need to push it too far. He just needed to rub the football backwards, which was enough to change the direction of the football and let Chen Yingxiong behind him miss.

Anyway, there is not a single Naples player within a few dozen meters. This is a real fight back. Hamsik made a long diagonal pass from the backcourt, giving him a head start. Arshavin started from the wing, relied on his speed to get rid of Beckham, and then took the ball and made a long-distance pass.

This process was very short. Except for him and Chen Yingxiong, no Naples player had passed half time - Naples has this mentality now. The offense is left to Arshavin and Chen Yingxiong, old friends, and no one else is allowed to go up. Support them, this is to avoid letting AC Milan counterattack once they lose the ball.

It's a bit challenging for Maldini to jump backwards, but considering that he only needs to interfere with Chen Yingxiong, the defense this time is not difficult.

But Dida's expression in front of the door changed.

Because he saw Chen Yingxiong jump much higher than Maldini!

He shouted: "Paul——"

Almost at the same time he opened his mouth, huge shouts erupted from the Sao Paulo Stadium. Whether it was AC Milan fans or Naples fans, they could not suppress their shock when they saw this scene. Everything turned into sound and erupted.

The sound came suddenly, like a violent storm, drowning Dida's exclamation.

Chen Yingxiong jumped forward while sprinting. He jumped quite high!

This "quite high" happens to have a reference that allows everyone to intuitively see how high he jumped - the top of Maldini's head when he jumped backwards reached Chen Yingxiong's chest...

Generally, when two people compete for the top position, the difference is only between one head or half a head, and some are even within a millimeter.

How could there be such a huge gap like now?

When many people saw this scene, they suddenly felt a sense of sadness deep in their hearts - legends will grow old one day...

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Maldini suddenly felt a shadow above his head. He raised his head and looked back, just in time to see Chen Yingxiong's face! The way he gritted his teeth, it looked like he was smiling at himself...

Chen Yingxiong lowered his head and pressed forward with the top of his forehead, and the two were facing each other.

Chen Yingxiong opened his eyes when he headed the ball. He also saw Maldini's surprised expression, and then he smiled.

Like a bear smiling at his food.

The two people met each other for just a moment.

Because Maldini leaned back, he directly bumped into Chen Yingxiong, and Chen Yingxiong leaned forward and pushed the football that should have been pushed away by Maldini toward the goal!

Near the penalty spot, he headed the football to the front of the goal. Dida jumped out and his fingertips touched the football, but he still could not change the flight path of the powerful header. The football flew straight in Got the goal!

"Second the victory! Naples sealed the victory! Chen Yingxiong scored twice in the game!!"

"Beautiful! Beautiful header! Chen Yingxiong already has an overwhelming advantage in the air!"

Milan's commentator was a little helpless: "Paul is really old..."

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When the football flew into the goal, Chen Yingxiong and Maldini also fell to the ground in the air.

The difference was that Maldini fell directly on his back, while Chen Yingxiong lay on top of him.

But Maldini didn't feel the violent impact or pressure. He didn't even feel that there was a man who was 1.9 meters tall and weighed more than 90 kilograms on his body...

When Chen Yingxiong landed, he landed on all fours first. He bent his elbows to cushion the force of the fall and his own gravity, and finally supported his body without directly pressing on Maldini.

Then he jumped over Maldini and ran to celebrate the goal.

Maldini stood up from the ground, looked at Chen Yingxiong's back, and sighed.

It’s really not okay to disobey the old man...

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"Chen Yingxiong defeated Maldini! He scored the goal that sealed the victory for the team! With less than ten minutes left in the game, AC Milan, which was trailing by two goals, basically lost hope of winning! "

Liu Jianhong's commentary made many Chinese Milan fans hate it. Chen Yingxiong's Napoli defeated AC Milan. They couldn't directly scold Chen Yingxiong, who was very popular in China, so they had to vent their grievances to the commentator.

For a time, the condemnation of Liu Jianhong on the Internet set off a new climax.

Zhang Lu analyzed the ball in detail for the audience.

"This ball... the hero jumps really high. He jumps while rushing forward, and what about Maldini? He jumps while retreating. The way they jump directly determines the final result. But even if That's right, the gap between the two people is not so big. In any case, Maldini is also a defender who has experienced many battles, so this is really caused by his decline in physical fitness... In front of the young and powerful Chen Yingxiong, the four Ten-year-old Paolo Maldini is really old... But that's how football is, a new generation replaces an old one..."

In fact, Zhang Lu also sighed in her heart.

I remember that when CCTV first broadcast Serie A, I was a guest on the Serie A broadcast. Almost twenty years later, I am still sitting in this position, but many people have changed around me. And those people who were enough to carry his memories disappeared one by one from the TV screen in front of him. After this season, Maldini will also retire.

He doesn't know how long he can stay in this position. At first, this was what he thought. He felt that twenty years in the same position was long enough. Now that China Central Television has won the rights to broadcast the Champions League, he sometimes has to commentate on Champions League games. As he got older and stayed up late, his energy was very low. He once wanted to leave this job.

However, the appearance of a person changed his mind.

He wanted to continue explaining and witness with his own eyes the history of a Chinese player's struggle in Serie A.

This season, we bid farewell to Maldini, and this season, we welcome Chen Yingxiong.

An era ends and another era begins.

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Chen Yingxiong was surrounded by his teammates, and his goal helped the team seal the victory. Now everyone doesn't have to worry. The two-goal lead allows them to play calmly until the end of the game.

The stands were filled with cheers and boos again.

If you listen carefully, you can seem to feel that the cheers are getting louder.

In fact, starting from the game against Roma, the cheers dedicated to Chen Yingxiong gradually increased in every game. It was the organized fans who resisted, while many "unorganized and undisciplined" fans began to reflect on their previous blind obedience. They felt that their actions were too unfair to a player who desperately helped the team score goals. Even if he once said something very outrageous to Maradona, he also explained that it was a distortion by the media. Why is it necessary to hate him alone for so long?

So in every game, more people join the team cheering for Chen Yingxiong.

This is a schism within the fans. The more neutral fans used their cheers to counter the boos of the extreme fans.

The Naples fan group, which had always been united, was actually divided because of a foreign player with a flamboyant and stubborn personality. I am afraid this is something that many people did not expect at the beginning.

The city of Naples once wanted to melt that arrogant guy and bury him completely in the anger of the whole city.

But unexpectedly, Chen Yingxiong was like a stone in a latrine, smelly and hard. Not only was it not digested, it became a stone in the hearts of all Neapolitans, causing division in the city of Naples.

Whether this city can finally change Chen Yingxiong is still unknown, but Chen Yingxiong is already gradually changing the city.

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In the end, Naples gave AC Milan another 3:1 at their home court, which made people think of the game last season. Moreover, this game dropped AC Milan's ranking from fifth to sixth, one place further away from qualifying for the Champions League. Is Naples really going to become AC Milan's nightmare?

They vowed to take revenge, but unexpectedly, they would be made new enemies by each other.

The Naples people seemed very excited. They defeated the powerful rival AC Milan at home and got precious three points. They are one step closer to their European war goal.

Chen Yingxiong is also happy because he scored two goals in the contest with Maldini. He thinks this is a memorable thing.

For this reason, after the game, he specifically found Maldini and hoped to exchange jerseys with him.

Maldini was in a bad mood after losing, but he still maintained enough grace in front of Chen Yingxiong. After listening to Chen Yingxiong's request, he readily took off his jersey and handed it to Chen Yingxiong.

After the two people exchanged jerseys, they should have just walked away. Maldini suddenly said: "Are you interested in coming to Milan to play, young man?"

Chen Yingxiong was stunned for a moment.

Seeing the confused expression on the other party's face, Maldini thought the other party didn't understand, so he asked again in English.

Chen Yingxiong smiled: "Thank you for your kindness, but I won't leave here now."

Maldini found it strange that his relationship with the fans was not very good. The Italian media were speculating that Chen Yingxiong might only stay with this team for one season before switching to another team because of his relationship with the fans. No one has lasted several seasons with such huge boos at home.

"I thought your relationship with the home fans would make you..."

Chen Yingxiong shook his head: "I haven't conquered this place yet!"

He grinned broadly, like a child who has found a new toy.

After speaking, he raised the AC Milan No. 3 jersey in his hand and said to Maldini: "Thank you for the jersey, Maldini. I will keep it well!"

He turned and left.

Maldini was left looking at his back with a complicated look.

What he just said shocked the veteran who was about to retire.

In his career of more than 20 years, he has cooperated with and played against countless players. It can be said that he has met almost thousands of players of all kinds.

But in his mind, he couldn't seem to find anyone as arrogant and unruly as him... No, wait, maybe there is one?

In Maldini's eyes, Chen Yingxiong's back seemed to overlap with that of another figure wearing a blue Napoli jersey. The figure was short and had an eye-catching "10" printed on his back.