Midfielder Ruler

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With Tang Zheng returning to the team, the enthusiasm of the River Plate players in training has increased a lot. The haze of only one victory in the past four rounds has been swept away, and the smile has returned to the face of the head coach Simeone.

Since Tang Zheng had just experienced a long-distance flight, Simeone did not practice with the team in order to avoid unnecessary injuries to Tang Zheng. Instead, he carried out restorative training under the leadership of physical coach Enzo until his death. Joint training is allowed only when the physical condition returns to a normal state.

Two days later, although Tang Zheng's body had returned to the regular game state, Simeone still wanted to protect Tang Zheng, and did not put him in the starting lineup of the away game and the independent team, but put him on the substitute list.

Tang Zheng, who was sitting on the bench, finally knew why the team only won one game in the four league games he was absent. The reason was that the midfielder lacked an effective barrier, and the long pass transfer lacked precision, which directly led to a single offensive routine. Coupled with Falcao being severely restricted, the overall decline in scoring ability is an inevitable result.

When the first half ended, the score was still 0:0

Although he didn't score a goal in the first half, Simeone didn't make substitution adjustments at the beginning of the second half. Instead, he waited until the fifteenth minute of the second half before replacing Aveleras with Tang Zheng.

With Tang Zheng playing, River Plate's offense has been significantly strengthened. The offensive routine is not limited to penetration in the middle and crossing from the side. Taking advantage of the width of the court has gradually become a new tactic for River Plate. In addition, Tang Zheng spared no effort on the court Running, he contributed a lot to the offensive and defensive ends of the river plate.

In the tenth minute when Tang Zheng came off the bench, his precise long pass transfer found Sanchez who was plugging in at high speed from the left. The opposing central defender kicked the ball into the goal.

This goal also became the only goal of the game. In the end, River Plate defeated Independence 1-0 in the away game. Taking advantage of San Lorenzo's tie with the league, the points gap was narrowed.

River Plate won the first match when Tang Zheng returned to the team, and the reporters in the mixed area would naturally not let Tang Zheng go.

Originally, Tang Zheng didn't want to accept the reporter's interview, but he accidentally saw Xu Wei, the editor-in-chief of "Sports Weekly" in the mixed area, so he walked over.

Xu Wei didn't talk too much nonsense. After shaking hands with each other, he directly cut to the topic. He spoke out the recent unfavorable remarks against Tang Zheng in China, especially the punishment imposed on him by the Football Association.

Tang Zheng's complexion changed quickly, and the handsome face that was smiling just now became extremely ugly in an instant. Xu Wei patted Tang Zheng's shoulder: "Are you okay?"

"Ah?" Tang Zheng frowned, "It's fine.

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"Is there anything we need to say to our "Sports Weekly"? As long as you dare to say it, I can guarantee you that it will definitely appear on the headlines of tomorrow's newspaper!" Xu Wei glanced at Tang Zheng, patted his chest and said.

Tang Zheng put his hands on his hips, shook his head, and gave a wry smile: "Forget it, they will blame them if they want to, and if they suspend the game, they will suspend the game. In a team that doesn't believe in me, I feel like an outsider, you know? The life of the national youth team is really painful, there are intrigues everywhere, and that is a major issue related to the future of Chinese football! Why should it be linked to interests? Isn't getting tickets to the World Youth Championship next year the most important thing?"

Xu Wei opened his mouth halfway, but he insisted on not saying a word, because he knew that what Tang Zheng said was the truth.

The surrounding reporters focused on Tang Zheng, who had a lot of emotional fluctuations, but they couldn't understand Mandarin, so they had to focus on Tang Zheng, and then find a lip-language expert to solve it when the time comes.

Many things are difficult to solve in a short period of time, and sometimes it even takes several generations to solve.

Xu Wei patted Tang Zheng on the shoulder twice again, and said firmly: "No matter what, as long as I am in "Sports Weekly" for one day, "Sports Weekly" will stand by your side!"

"Hey." Tang Zheng sighed for a long time, turned around, avoided other reporters' cameras, turned to look at Xu Wei: "Brother Xu, thank you."

Xu Wei smiled and said after a while, "Actually, this may be a good thing for you."

"Good thing?" Tang Zheng asked suspiciously.

"Well." Xu Wei nodded and said, "You are very young and talented. It must be very difficult to get a chance to play in a big club like River Plate. If you fly around frequently, it will definitely affect your game state. Think about it. The dust in Frankfurt, Sun Hai in Manchester City, Li Tie in Everton... are all lessons learned. The officials of the Football Association don't understand football at all, they just know how to mess around. Now you are in a stage of rapid growth and you have to follow the rules. Sometimes, The performance of patriotism is not only playing for the country."

"You should have heard Shevchenko say such a sentence, right?" At this point, Xu Wei paused, and seeing Tang Zheng shrug his shoulders, he continued: "He once said, 'My country is not a football powerhouse. , so maybe in my career I will never have the chance to play in the World Cup, so the final of the Champions League is my World Cup!'”

Tang Zheng nodded dully, as if he understood another level of meaning from Xu Wei's words.

Champions League final?

That is the highest quality, most influential and top game in the world.

No one knows that on this night, the boy who traveled across the ocean in pursuit of his dream had a brand new dream...

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Sun Xiang and Dongfang Zhuo became the first and second Chinese player in the history of the Champions League respectively, but this historical record is nothing to be proud of for Chinese fans.

On the contrary, this record has become a joke of RB, Korean media and fans, especially South Korea's number one star Park Ji-sung followed Manchester United to win the UEFA Champions League in the 2007-2008 season as the main force, which is not worth mentioning.

So what Tang Zheng has to do is to use the A-League as a springboard to log into the five major European leagues, and use another way to prove that Chinese football does not lose to any country!

Xu Wei, the editor of "Sports Weekly" who returned to China, fulfilled his original promise to Tang Zheng. In addition, some of Tang Zheng's teammates in the National Youth Team helped to speak up. After continuing to serve as the chairman of the Football Association, he submitted his resignation to the General Administration of Sports, but because there was no suitable candidate, he had to re-elect the chairman of the Football Association.

Countless fans have begun to give up on national teams at all levels, focusing on the Bundesliga, English Championship and Arab League, which have Chinese players playing, can be regarded as a kind of spiritual comfort.

Tang Zheng, who aims to enter the European League, is getting better and better in the next league. Compared with his performance before the Asian Youth Championship, he helped River Plate end the 2008-2009 A League Spring League with a wave of five consecutive victories.

As a result, they became the champions of the spring league with 42 points in nineteen rounds. If Tang Zheng hadn't missed four of the focus games, it is estimated that he would probably overwhelm forward Falcao and become the best player in the spring league.

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With the end of the spring league, it was very close to Christmas, and the team began to have a holiday, but Tang Zheng did not return to China, he chose to stay in Argentina for special training.

Dream, because dare to think!

But if you want to realize your dreams, you must take practical actions.

On January 1, 2009, the winter transfer window in Europe will open. Those clubs that urgently need to strengthen their player reserves have already prepared 'excavators' and are ready to buy players at any time.

Especially for those rich clubs, in addition to poaching players who have performed well in the European League, they are also paying attention to distant South America.

Among them, Brazil and Argentina are the focus of attention. In early December, AC Milan announced that it had bought Fluminense's main defender Thiago Silva for 10 million euros ahead of many European giants. , but because their non-EU quota for this season has been used on Biyodes, Thiago Silva can only wait until next season to be eligible to play for AC Milan.

As River Plate, the champion of the A-League Spring League in the 2008-2009 season, several outstanding players in the team became the focus of everyone's attention, especially Falcao and Tang Zheng.

River Plate Club has already received several fax offers from European teams, but Chairman Aguilar rejected them all, saying that Falcao and Tang Zheng are not for sale.

Of course, the most important thing is that the offer made Aguilar dissatisfied.

Falcao is the top scorer in the autumn and spring leagues, so he must be in the tens of millions, right?

European black shops Porto and Benfica only quoted five million euros, and Tang Zheng's insured price was even more outrageous, only three million euros.

This is undoubtedly an insult to Aguilar, and it has not even reached the level of cost price.

This Christmas, Tang Zheng was once again invited by the head coach Simeone, but he declined because Chen Jia called him, and those who named him had to go to their house to spend the holiday together.

Originally, Chen Zhonghua and Chen Jia hoped that Tang Zheng would let him go after celebrating the traditional Chinese New Year's Day, but Tang Zheng could not be persuaded to use training as an excuse.

At this time, the Argentine media began to report on the players who might leave in the summer (Eurasia is winter). Tang Zheng, who is the defensive barrier and engine of River Plate's midfielder, is impressively listed, and the analysis shows that the transfer probability is very high.

Because "Ole Newspaper" picked out that Tang Zheng's agent, Rodrigo, appeared frequently in Europe, and he was suspected of contacting some European teams.

Coupled with the ambiguous answer of River Plate chairman Aguilar, River Plate fans are more willing to believe the media's speculation, after all, nothing can come from nothing.

Therefore, during Tang Zheng's extra training period, there were many more River Plate fans holding up banners and slogans outside the training ground.

Tang Zheng looked intently, his vanity soared.

The banners and slogans basically revolved around the fans' hope that Tang Zheng would stay in the team and contribute to the team.

But Tang Zheng smiled, it is an eternal truth that people go to high places and water flows to low places.

Perhaps after many years Tang Zheng will choose to retire in the riverbed, but he is in the age of rapid growth, it is impossible to stay in the riverbed forever.

It's just that River Plate has always been kind to Tang Zheng, so it's definitely not okay to just leave like this, then...at least leave something for the fans.

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