Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 12 Hero?

My father had already left St. Petersburg and returned to China by plane, leaving Chen Yingxiong alone.

So how does the single life he's longed for feel like?Now if you ask Chen Yingxiong this question, he will definitely spit on the ground: "I just came out of the tiger's den, but it's like a wolf's den!"

This is his status quo.

I thought that my father was gone and I could be free.Just like those professional players, rent a house in the busiest downtown area of ​​St. Petersburg. After daily training, you can linger in the lively nightlife of St. Petersburg, strike up a conversation with those sexy Russian beauties, and if you are lucky, you may even be able to meet a Three hundred rounds of sexy big girls going to bed.

Who would have thought that he is now trapped in the Yudeni Park training base in the northeast of St. .

I live in this natural forest park some distance from downtown St. Petersburg, surrounded by towering fir trees. At night, it is quiet and scary. Except for the whistling wind, you can occasionally hear the wild beasts brought by the wind whistle.Chen Yingxiong, who lacks transportation, can only look at the direction of downtown St. Petersburg every night, with tears streaming down his face—when will such a miserable day end!
The time at night was really difficult for Chen Yingxiong. He couldn't understand the language. When he watched TV, it was all Russian programs, and he couldn't understand a single channel.He doesn't have a computer, so he can't even play games online, otherwise he would still want to play World of Warcraft... World of Warcraft produced by the famous game company Blizzard Entertainment of the United States has officially launched its public beta in China at the end of April this year.After he hadn't been terminated by the club, he locked himself in the house and frantically played this online game.He applied for a public beta account and trained a dwarf shemale warrior.In reality, Chen Yingxiong, who is over 1.9 meters tall, chose a race with the shortest height in the game. This contrast is really interesting.He rushed to level 45 with the fastest speed - at that time, the maximum level in the public beta was level 45 - and became the first player in the server to reach the full level. After the full level, he took advantage of others who were still struggling to level up At that time, I went to the Burning Plains to dig for medicines in the Scorching Canyon, and sold them at the auction house.Since only he can obtain this kind of high-grade material, it can be said that he has monopolized the auction house of the alliance. earned a lot.

In addition to making money through double gathering, he also went to challenge the princess of Maraudon with his friends from the guild.At that time, Maraudon was equivalent to the later RAID-level dungeon... Chen Yingxiong vented his depression in reality to the game. In reality, he became a loser who was terminated by the club. In the game, he had to do a winner.If he can't be a stadium hero in reality, he will be a Warcraft hero in Azeroth!
Later, after World of Warcraft started charging, he also quickly became the first player in the entire server to reach level [-], and continued his earning career of double collection of mining and medicinal herbs. One has a five-player copy, a team copy.Blackrock Tower, Blackrock Depths, Stratholme, The Seminary, Dire Maul... These dungeons all left his battle footprints.

It wasn't until his father brought him to Europe that he ended his crazy online game career.

Now the pink-haired doll-headed dwarf monster warrior named "Who am I afraid of the hero" is still parked at the bridge of the auction house in Ironforge.Wearing a suit of courage, carrying a dragon shield on his back, and holding the iron bone sword dropped by Stratholme, his appearance is very cool.No one in their union knew that the crazy main tank in the guild turned out to be a professional player, so when Chen Yingxiong suddenly disappeared, there was a period of chaos in the union, and even a split... Of course, these Chen Yingxiong are not Got it.

It is really difficult to live without the Internet, without computers, and with incomprehensible TV programs.Many nights, Chen Yingxiong lay alone in bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.He even felt that the training during the day made him look forward to it even more.At least at that time he still had something to do, and at night he would have nothing to do, the time was hard, and every second seemed like years.

After a few days like this, he found himself homesick...

Originally, he thought that he would not be homesick. After all, he was so far away from home. What's wrong with being free, why do you want to miss home?
But now, homesickness did haunt him.In the team during the day, he can resolve this emotion by earnestly completing difficult training subjects, and he can't care about homesickness at all.But at night, when I was the only one left in the dormitory, I couldn't read the TV, I didn't have a computer or internet, and I could only stare at my phone in a daze, the feeling of homesickness came out accurately.

He thinks of the delicious food made by his mother, his silent father, his warm hut, his computer, and the dwarf monster warriors in World of Warcraft, the snacks, hot pot, string incense in his hometown, and even Chinese—— Here, he can only speak English, but he can't speak Russian yet, and even if he speaks Chinese, no one can understand it.

He feels lonely.

Chen Yingxiong has been receiving training in the youth team. Although he signed a professional contract, the club still treats him as a youth team player. After all, he has just turned eighteen—his birthday is May 1988 On the 5th, he was almost classified as a post-25s generation.

Chen Yingxiong, who has been trained by Popovich in the youth team, is still trying to adapt to his living environment and his teammates.

What he didn't know was that Zenit St. Petersburg had undergone tremendous changes during this time-the team's assistant coach Vladimir Borovekia, who had previously decided to buy him, had left the team.The reason for leaving was that his immediate boss coach Vlastimir Petzera was dismissed by the club because of conflicts with the club's top management. As the person brought by Petzera, Petzera left. Naturally, it is impossible to continue to stay in the club.

Because the new head coach Advocaat also brought his own assistant coach - the Dutchman Kool Porter (Cor_Pot).

Chen Yingxiong didn't know about this matter, so naturally he didn't know how it might affect his fate.

What is the first major job a new head coach will do after he arrives at a team to start coaching?
There is no suspense, it is to build your own strength in the team.

Cleaning and introduction have become two major themes.Although the Russian league is still going on, the European continent is still in the preparation stage for the new season. The Russian league is different from the European mainstream leagues. March to November.So there is no season here, only season here.This year is the 2006 season, and most other leagues in continental Europe say the 06/07 season.

As soon as Advocaat came to the team, he brought three of his disciples when he was coaching the South Korean national team - the young Korean midfielder Lee Ho (Lee_Ho), the left back Jin Dongjin who was in his prime (Kim_Dong-Jin), and all-rounder Xuan Yongmin (Hyun_Young-Min).

South Korean players seem to particularly like to go abroad with the help of the national team coach.After Hiddink led the South Korean team into the World Cup semi-finals, he went to coach Eindhoven and took away two generals of the South Korean national team, Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo.

With the arrival of Advocaat, the Zenit St. Petersburg team, which was originally out of reach with South Korea, suddenly became more Korean.

The number of South Korean journalists who came here to interview also increased suddenly.

As a 21-year-old international player, Li Hao has played in the 2006 World Cup and is known as a genius.It is the hope of Korean football.

With this momentum, he joined Zenit St. Petersburg after this year's World Cup.

For a while, he became the leader among young Asian players, making the Korean media proud.

As for Chen Yingxiong, he has been in the team for almost two weeks. Although he trains with the youth team every week, he has never participated in any official youth team match.

The club said to find him a translator and language teacher before, but there is no more.The club has just changed coaches and is still in a period of turmoil. Many tasks are not being done, and the handover of tasks is not so smooth.So this "youth player" who was signed a few days before the departure of Petzera and Borovekia stayed in the youth team as if forgotten...

It wasn't until Advocaat found out that he brought three Koreans that the first-team lineup became a bit bloated, and he decided to clean up some players.

Because he took over the team's coaching position in the middle of the summer transfer window, he needed to know what signings his predecessor had made, so he asked the club for a list of the team's transfers this summer.

He wanted to see what kind of people his predecessors bought, and whether they left him wealth or rubbish...

When he got the roster, he realized that his predecessor seemed to have no intention of signing.As the media said, during that time all his energy was spent arguing with the media and high-level officials.

In the transfer-in column, there are only two names...

And they're all forwards.

One is named Fatih_Tekke and the other is Hero_Chen.

The first is a Turk, the second is... Chinese!

Chinese?
Advocaat froze for a moment.Due to the fact that he once coached the South Korean team, he is no stranger to Chinese football.

He is very clear that there are no players in the Chinese national team who have played in the Russian league, otherwise he would have known it long ago.

And based on his understanding of East Asians, Chinese names are rarely spelled and pronounced in this way.

Chen is a surname, it should be Chen.But what does this Hero mean? He knows the meaning of Hero in English, but he has no idea what it means in China.

He suddenly had a strong interest in this Chinese player with a strange name.

"Is there any information on this person?" he asked Nikolay Vorobjov, the coach of the team who gave him the list.

Verobuchov glanced at the person Advocaat pointed to on the list, and showed a playful smile.

When Advocaat saw his smile, he became even more curious.

He wanted to see more and more what kind of player this was.

In the coaches' meeting every Monday morning, Kennedy Popovich meets the team's new head coach again.This is the second meeting. When Advocaat first took office, all the coaches gathered to welcome the new coach and asked him to recognize someone so that he could cooperate with his work.In order not to stay for a few months, but don't even know who is in the coaching team.

"Good morning, Mr. Popovich." Advocaat greeted Popovich in fluent Russian.

"Good morning, Mr. Advocaat." The last time Popovich saw his head, his attitude was more respectful. He is not familiar with it now, so it is better to restrain himself a little.

"Is the work of the youth team going well?" Advocaat asked Popovich kindly about his work.

"Fortunately."

"I heard your team signed a new player more than two weeks ago?" Without much nonsense, Advocaat got right to the point.

After Petzera and Borovikia left the team, Popovich once thought that Chen Yingxiong's luck was too bad-generally speaking, coaches who can sign players will value this player more.So Borovikia should be very concerned about Chen Yingxiong.With the departure of Borovikia and Petzera, Chen Yingxiong suddenly became uninterested in the youth team.

What made Popovich happy was that Chen Yingxiong, who was ignored, worked very hard and earnestly in training, and he didn't show any impatience, nor was he worried about his future.Should it be said that he is confident enough in himself, or is he ignorant of his possible future destiny?

Now that Advocaat took the initiative to ask Chen Yingxiong, Popovich didn't know what kind of changes this would bring to Chen Yingxiong.

"You mean a hero, Mr. Advocaat."

"Hero?" Advocaat noticed that when Popovich said the Chinese name, he also used the English word "Hero", which was the same as what the Chinese had written on the list.But he had already asked Verobuchov, and he knew that the Chinese was called "Yingxiong_Chen", that is, "Chen Yingxiong".

"Yes, Hero." Popovich nodded.

"Shouldn't it be called 'Yingxiong_Chen'?" Advocaat felt strange.

Popovich explained with a smile: "His Chinese name is said to be 'Yingxiong_Chen', but he said his name 'Yingxiong' means 'Hero', so he wrote it like this, and we usually call him Hero. To be honest, it's much more fluent than that Yingxiong..." Popovich still struggles to say "Yingxiong".

Edvocaat suddenly realized that it was so.

"It is said that the former assistant coach decided to sign him?"

Popovich nodded: "Yes."

"It is said that he also defeated the main defense line of the youth team in the test?"

As soon as this topic was mentioned, the expression on Popovich's face immediately became unnatural.This has spread throughout the club...

"Ah, yes, yes," he admitted.

After this week of training, he has fully seen Chen Yingxiong's ability in heading, which is indeed very outstanding. In training, he has demonstrated the ability he showed in the last test more than once.

"I heard that everyone was arranged to defend him, and fouls were even allowed and encouraged?" Advocaat asked.

He has been just an audience next to him, and the silent assistant coach Kool Porter couldn't help laughing when he heard this sentence.Although he choked back quickly, it still aroused Popovich's dissatisfaction.

He knew what the new assistant coach's laughter meant, either he didn't believe in Chen Yingxiong's strength, or he was just laughing at his youth team - he even used pulling and fouling, but he still couldn't stop a person , It's really embarrassing.

However, after seeing Chen Yingxiong's header ability in training, Popovich no longer cares about this as much as before.Because he thought that Chen Yingxiong really had the strength to break through the encirclement.

He glanced at Porter, then nodded to Edvocaat: "Yes, we used a foul, two players pulled his clothes from behind, and another three players jumped up to fight him, two people in the front An interception, a man interfered from the side. But he scored the goal. It was also because of this goal that the assistant coach at the time, Mr. Borovekia, decided to sign him.”

He simply said it openly, and he no longer felt ashamed.As for these two guys who have just arrived, believe it or not, that is their business.

When Popovich left, Porter almost couldn't wait to express his views on the matter: "I think the youth training director is exaggerating, Dick!"

Advocaat frowned, thinking about how credible this "story" was.

"I have seen a lot of good players, and none of them can do this...One person faces the siege of five people, two people pull behind, two people block from the front, and one person interferes from the side, Just like this, he can still score goals... unless he is not from Earth!"

"It doesn't make sense whether you analyze this matter according to common sense, logic, or experience!"

Advocaat asked: "If it is fake, then why did Zenit St. Petersburg sign him?"

Porter replied: "I don't deny that this Chinese player may indeed have some qualities that Zenit values, but it will definitely not be as exaggerated as they say!"

Advocaat also felt that what his assistant said made sense.To be honest, the "story" that Popovich and Verobuchov told before is really appalling. How could such a thing happen on the court?Unless that hero Chen is a giant man over two meters tall and weighs over one hundred kilograms, and his opponents are all ten-year-old children...

"Well... Anyway, Kool. We have just joined this team, and there are many situations that we are not familiar with. I think it is better to be cautious. Hearing is believing, seeing is believing."

"Are you planning to go and see his training for yourself?"

"I'm afraid I don't have the time, but I remember there was a youth league game on Sunday, the day after our home game..."

(End of this chapter)