Football’s First Defender

Before Chelsea made Yang Feng's transfer deal, the team's preseason arrangement for the new season had actually been worked out!

The entire Chelsea team will conduct an "Asia Tour" activity in the summer of 2008. The main goal is actually a very broad Chinese market!

With the news of Yang Feng's transfer to Chelsea, the tickets for the two warm-up matches in Guangzhou and Macau have continued to be speculated on the basis of the original sky-high prices!

But there are still countless Chinese fans, Chelsea fans, contentedly go to clean their wallets and grab tickets, not only can you see many Chelsea superstars on the spot, but also very likely to see the first appearance of Chinese players in the Premier League giants!

Even if this is just a warm-up match! But witnessing the first appearance of a future superstar is still very memorable for some fans!

As a new aid, Yang Feng, although he has just won the honor bonus of the main player of the European Cup champion, but the four seniors in the position of Chelsea's central defender are all figures who have seen big waves with the national team, and their strength is equally good, and Chelsea reached the Champions League final last season, and Yang Feng wants to enter the rotation lineup as soon as he arrives. It seems that he has some wishful thinking!

However, since the main purpose of the “Asia Tour” this time is to expand the Chinese market for the team and the Premier League, Yang Feng’s transfer operation with this magical stroke will immediately turn Chelsea’s reputation and benefits into China. higher!

Even if Scolari only regards Yang Feng as the fifth choice in the position of central defender, he even feels worthless for the team to spend tens of millions of pounds to buy a central defender that is obviously not needed in a short time, but at the top of the club Under the intervention of at least two Chinese warm-up matches, Yang Feng's playing time must be guaranteed!

For the Chinese market, Yang Feng is Chelsea's biggest cash cow. Since the official announcement of Yang Feng joining Chelsea, in the sales of genuine jerseys in mainland China, Yang Feng's data is far ahead, even surpassing the total of other players.

Chelsea in the new season will start pre-season training on July 9th! And many international players with European Cup missions can extend their vacation for one to two weeks and return for a while!

However, this time the "Asia Tour" is an extremely important business activity that the club attaches great importance to. The club requires all players to participate without special reasons!

Even if it is this summer, after playing the European Cup finals, Barak, who has just held his wedding, may not be with the team to prepare for the current pre-season training, but he has to come to China to participate in business activities!

Yang Feng, after a brief contact with a group of teammates, he returned to his homeland with the team without even playing two training games!

At 7:15 in the morning of July 21, the Chelsea Club and his party flew to Guangzhou Baiyun Airport! This is the first time the Chelsea club with a century-old history has come to China! Countless media and fans witnessed this historic moment at the airport!

Many big Chelsea players such as Terry, Lampard, and Cech were all present, and only Drogba was absent from this "Asian Tour" because of his injury and returning to a critical moment!

The newly married Ballack has just been in Germany since the wedding was held on the 14th. This time he did not accompany the team from London. He will fly to Guangzhou on another flight to meet the team soon!

Among the Chelsea players who walked out of the airport, the most popular is of course the local Chinese player Yang Feng!

Chinese fans are sometimes so strange. When there is no player of the highest level, everyone likes foreign players and don't want them. But as long as there are Chinese players among that group of players, most of the fans will immediately give more attention to their compatriots because of patriotism!

Yang Feng, who has proven his strength and honor to gain a foothold in Europe, naturally surpasses Chelsea's big brothers in the support of fans!

Enthusiastic fans surrounded the Chelsea players in the inner and outer layers, and the fans around Yang Feng were almost impenetrable!

Anyway, a lot of Chelsea players, in the end, they signed and signed back to the hotel where they were staying! In order to open up the Chinese market and enhance Chelsea's brand image in mainland China, this time the club strictly regulates the behavior of the players and meets the requirements of the fans as much as possible!

Countless Chelsea fans, Premier League fans, and star fans from all over the country have poured into Guangzhou. All the business activities of the Chelsea team in these two days are faced with a sea of ​​people, without the security guards, they can't go out at all!

Anyway, almost all activities have not ended on time. Even if the activities are over, it will also take a lot of time for the players and entourage to break out of the circle of fans with the help of security...

The madness of Chinese fans has surprised the players and the team staff. No one thought that China, where football is not well-developed, would have so many crazy fans!

Of course, although commercial activities are very important, the highlight is the team's warm-up match! Everyone wants to see what these stars look like when they play football!

At 8 pm on the 23rd, at the Guangzhou Olympic Center, Chelsea played away against the Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Guangyao Team, which is the predecessor of the real estate team, but at this time this team cannot be called a giant in the Super League!

As a Chinese player in the Chelsea team, Yang Feng played in the local area, and of course he automatically won a seat! He will partner Terry to represent Chelsea for the first time, and still!

When the broadcasters introduced Chelsea players one by one, warm applause and cheers broke out on the field. The fans expressed their love for these players with their enthusiasm!

And when it was time to introduce Yang Feng, the decibels of the sound produced by the fans reached the highest point! The audience is boiling!

In my own land, in such a successful and great club, I can see my compatriots wearing blue jerseys. For many Chelsea fans for many years, the inner mood is definitely an excitement and excitement!

Yang Feng prepared for this warm-up game with a very correct attitude, but in the game, he almost did not have too much performance in his turn. Chelsea, which is almost all the main player, has a firm grasp of the rhythm of the game, and the Guangzhou team has almost nothing. Too many opportunities to attack!

The Guangzhou team, which has always been on the defensive, has blindly cleared long passes most of the time. Yang Feng and Terry and Cech on the goal line have hardly been exposed to any major sports warfare danger and have become field reporters!

The gap between the two teams is really too big. Chelsea finally won the game by 4-0.

Terry was replaced by Alex at halftime, and Yang Feng was replaced by Carvalho after being left on the court for 70 minutes for commercial reasons because he was a domestic player!

At the end, Yang Feng also received thunderous applause from the audience!

In this game, Yang Feng's performance opportunities can be counted by pinching his fingers. It is more directly dependent on the judgment of the landing point. The clearance is successful in advance. Only once Lu Lin from the Guangzhou team got the ball and counterattacked Yang Feng. , Although the fake action was very realistic, Yang Feng got stuck in his position during his march and didn't shake it. Instead, he used physical confrontation to break the football directly!

When Lu Lin faced other defensive players who were slightly relaxed, she had a successful breakthrough and hit the goal, and Xu Liang had a free kick in the first half to hit the goal directly and hit the crossbar, which was a rare highlight of the Guangzhou team. !

Three days later, Chelsea moved to Macau and played against another Chinese Super League team, Chengdu Sheffield United!

This game may be that the players' physical condition is gradually returning from the holidays, or it may not be the need to save face for the home team in the Guangyao team before. In this game, Chelsea played more normally, 7-0. After the bloodbath of Chengdu Xiefei United, Yang Feng appeared again, but this time he was replaced by a substitute after half the game!

This makes the Chinese fans who came to Macau to watch the game a little bit regretful!

After staying in China for nearly a week, the Chelsea team will go to Malaysia to play a warm-up match with the local team to maintain the team's market in Southeast Asia!

In this match with the Malaysian team, Yang Feng was thrown onto the bench by Scolari, and only got the chance to come off the bench in the second half!

In order to prepare for the more important warm-up match a few days later, this Chelsea stay is obvious, only 2 to 0 ended in a hurry!

After the warm-up match with Russian super team Lokomotiv Moscow and Serie A giants ac Milan, Scolari focused on preparing and testing his tactical exercise for this period of time!

And Yang Feng, in these two warm-up matches, which are obviously more important for Chelsea, did not get even a minute to play!

The combination of Terry and Alex is Scolari’s first choice~www.NovelMTL.com~ and on the bench list, Scarari fellow Brazilian Beletti is even deeper than Chelsea’s main defender, Carvalho. With the trust of the coach, the two men came off the bench in the two warm-up matches, and Yang Feng really became the water dispenser manager!

Fortunately, for this situation that is destined to be on the edge of the team for a long time, Yang Feng had already anticipated it before he moved to Chelsea. After all, he had just arrived, and there may be a real gap between these competitors in strength. In terms of it, it’s good to work hard to improve yourself now. Regarding the game, everything is just fine!

Although the club vowed to give themselves a chance before the transfer, they would rather believe that there are ghosts than the management's mouth! Yang Feng didn't think he really had a big chance this season!

In Yang Feng's view, Liverpool, which agreed to move to Chelsea instead of raising its offer after going there, came to Chelsea, the most adept platform for cultivating defenders, to quickly improve its abilities in all aspects, and secondly, it also used Chelsea. Influence to successfully obtain a labor certification to enter the Premier League, even if the team has no chance to play in a short period of time, letting the agent make efforts to lend it to the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League team at the winter window or summer window is not a bad thing!

Although for captain Terry and three other international-level competitors, Yang Feng may not be able to compete for playing time at this stage, but if he goes to the middle and lower teams, Yang Feng still believes that he can still occupy a main position! In other words, he is also a young central defender who has proved his strength in the European Cup. It shouldn't be difficult to go to a small team to grab a position from those big and rough central defenders!