green mercenary

Chapter 232
If there is anyone in this world who can leave the wind behind, then he must not be Qu Bo, but Owen.

Chester, a port city in the Midwest of England and a famous tourist destination, is only 29 kilometers away from Liverpool.

On December 1979, 12, the Owen family's fourth child was born in Chester, named Michael James Owen.

Ten-year-old Owen broke the record set by Inrush in a single season in the under-11 age group of the regional league with 97 goals.In this regard, it has attracted the attention of many wealthy scouts, including Manchester United, Arsenal, and Chelsea.

On his birthday, 15-year-old Owen made a decision that would change his life.He joined Liverpool, which is 29 kilometers away from home and only half an hour's drive away.Since then, Owen has left an indissoluble bond with this city with rich cultural history.

In the 95-96 season, Owen participated in the FA Youth Cup on behalf of the Liverpool youth team.In this youth training system that has produced Fowler, Mike Malaman and Red Clapp, Irving has made rapid progress.Starting from the quarter-final against Manchester United, he scored consecutive hat-tricks and helped the Liverpool youth team win the FA Youth Cup for the first time in history.

The media predicted: "He will be the Three Lions' super shooter in the next few years, and he will be a golden boy in English football.

It's nothing more than a teenager becoming famous.

On May 1997, 5, Liverpool coach Evans made Owen debut in the Premier League for the first time.Owen, who replaced Borg, was only 6 years and 17 days old. The goal of this Premier League debut made him the youngest goal scorer in the history of the Premier League. This record was not broken by Wayne Rooney until six years later.

In the 97-98 season, in the selection of the Premier League Player of the Year, Owen ranked third after Bergkamp and Adams.It was also this year that Owen won the Premier League's best young player award with his outstanding performance.

Since 1994, Owen, who was only 14 years old, was recruited into the England under-15 youth team and won the first peaked cap to represent the England team in the game against Finland.

In the 33 games of England's youth representatives at all levels, Owen scored a total of 37 goals. With such a number of goals, Owen's name is well known and firmly remembered.

1998年2月11日，在英格兰队智利的友谊赛中，18岁零59天的欧文首次穿上了英格兰的球衣，也成为了20世纪代表英格兰出战的最年轻的球员。

And Irving is well known to the world, but it was in the 1998 World Cup.

In England's game against Tunisia, Owen became the youngest player in England's national team history and the youngest player to appear for the national team in the World Cup.

Immediately afterwards, in the group stage between England and Romania, Owen also became the youngest player in England's history to score a World Cup goal.

In the 1998 quarter-finals, in the British-Arab war.Less than 10 minutes into the game, Danish referee Nielsen awarded a second penalty.This second penalty was created by Irving. No. 7 captain Beckham made it easy and helped England equalize.

Five minutes later, Owen received a pass from Beckham in the backcourt with the outside of his left foot in the frontcourt, and used his skillful dribbling skills and super fast dribbling speed to squeeze away the opponent's midfielder, strode forward to break through the penalty area, and dribbled the ball to the right.Put the ball into the net before the opponent's defender and goalkeeper block.

It was this goal that made Owen famous in the first battle. The young man was like the wind, leaving the wind behind him, and the name of the chasing boy Owen resounded throughout the green field.

Although England lost to Argentina in the penalty shootout, this big boy with a smile like the summer sun kept appearing in the discussions of the fans.Even in China thousands of miles away, some young children still yelled like in the TV commentary, "Little Irving, it's Irving again!"

After a fantastic summer in 98, when Owen returned to Liverpool, he once again shined in the club.Hat-tricks and big fours emerged one after another.

However, in April 1999, Irving suffered the first major injury in his life.

Injuries, comebacks, repeated injuries, comebacks, Irving, who was almost scrapped for the entire season, still scored goals with high efficiency in his limited playing time.

On the eve of last year's European Cup, Owen was only called up to the England national team a month before the start of the game.

After suffering from injury, in a friendly match in May, Owen not only scored a goal, but also almost helped England beat Brazil.From Keegan's smile, it is not difficult to see that taking a healthy Irving to the European Cup was his biggest wish at the time.

But in the European Cup that year, England was divided into the death group that gathered Germany, Portugal and Romania.

In the last game of the group against Romania, with a few seconds left in the first half, it was Owen's anti-offside that scored a goal for England to overtake the score.

Although Owen's goal was wonderful, the England team was lore by the Romania team.With one win and two losses in the group stage, Owen did not become England's savior.

After the European Cup, Liverpool ushered in the Houllier era.Owen, who has recovered, has gradually returned to his strongest state.

This season, Irving's state has exploded.He and Husky are almost unbeatable strikers in England.

This season, Liverpool also ushered in the best ranking in the history of the Premier League-the runner-up, and it also overwhelmed the rival Manchester United for the first time.

In the Carabao Cup final, although Irving did not appear, the wonderful performance of Roman Fowler enabled Liverpool to win the championship.

In the FA Cup two days ago, at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Owen dedicated an amazing performance at the last moment of the game.

With 7 minutes left in the game, Owen scored two goals on his own to help Liverpool beat Arsenal led by the professor.At this time, Liverpool already had the double crown in hand.

In a few days, Owen and his Liverpool will join forces with Eindhoven at the Signal Iduna Park Stadium to compete for the Europa League championship.

If Eindhoven wins this game, then the double crown is also in hand.The Eredivisie double crown VS Premier League double crown, such a report will definitely attract readers' attention.

But judging from the results, the Eredivisie giants stumbled and snatched the Champions League Twente firmly in their hands.In this way, the drama of "two kings earning three" will not be staged, and reporters must seize this opportunity to ridicule Eindhoven.

Hearing Owen mentioned by the media, Bai Xiaotian thought of the golden boy affected by injuries and wealthy families, shook his head and smiled.But in the eyes of others, this action became a symbol that he did not take the future pillar of England's striker seriously.

"Goodbye boy, what does your smile mean? Could it be that you look down on Michael?" The British reporter was obviously dissatisfied with Bai Xiaotian's "answer".

Hearing this, Bai Xiaotian grinned, "Mr. Reporter, I never meant to underestimate my opponent, I just thought of an interesting thing."

"Oh? What's interesting?" The reporter obviously needed an explanation from Bai Xiaotian.

"Mr. Reporter, England is considered a strong team in Europe. But do you know what Chinese fans call it?"

"What's your name?"

Bai Xiaotian glanced at the reporters around him, obviously, everyone was curious about this question.

Bai Xiaotian paused, and said word by word, "The England team is called the Chinese team in Europe by the Chinese fans!"

"The Chinese team in Europe?" All the reporters were dumbfounded, and for a while, no one understood the meaning of this title.

Seeing the doubts in the reporter's eyes, Bai Xiaotian said triumphantly, "Our Chinese national men's football team is one of the best teams in Asia. This title represents the recognition of our fans for the England team. So in the decisive battle in a few days later, I will definitely not underestimate my opponent. On the contrary, I will use all my strength to fight to the death and compete for the championship for the team!"

At this moment, although Bai Xiaotian was still surrounded by reporters.But behind Bai Xiaotian, there seemed to be a thousand zhang ray of light, swaying out.

Many reporters were infected by Bai Xiaotian's bold words and ambitions, subconsciously picked up the cameras in their hands, and captured Bai Xiaotian's magnificent moment.

The next day, hundreds of thousands of copies of "Battle of the Focus - The Golden Boy Contest between the East and the West" were printed and sent to all over the world.

(End of this chapter)