Taking the opening of La Liga where Zhang Qinghuan and Hu Lai are playing as a symbol, the new season of European football has begun.
On the same weekend, La Liga, the Premier League, the Eredivisie and the Portuguese Super League, all with Chinese players, started at the same time.
However, there are also two players in the Premier League who are not Chinese players on this match day.
Although he was selected into the squad before the game, Luo Kai's fans were very excited.
But until the end of the game, Luo Kai never got a chance to play.
He just got up many times during the game to warm up, avoiding the description of "sitting on the bench for ninety minutes."
But every time he stood up, his fans were happy in vain.
And what about Zhou Zijing?
He was not selected for Leeds City's first-round league squad at all, which disappointed the Chinese fans who were trying to cheer him on and the Leeds City fans who wanted to go to Flanders Stadium to scold him.
The two of them can be said to be the most watched and anticipated Chinese overseas players, besides Hu Lai and Zhang Qinghuan.
It's the Premier League after all.
But judging from the situation in this first round of the league, the moment that Chinese fans are looking forward to for the international football players to flourish and shine in European football has not yet come.
On the contrary, in that minor league that received little attention, both Chen Xingyi and Xia Xiaoyu received their own opportunities.
Because he won the Eredivisie championship with the team last season and contributed three goals and five assists, Chen Xingyi got the opportunity to play for Sporting Amsterdam in the first round of the new season.
His performance in this game was quite satisfactory, with no goals or assists, but he played the full ninety minutes.
Until the end of the game, he was not replaced early.
This may also explain his positioning in Sporting Amsterdam. He may no longer be a rotation substitute player, but is evolving towards a permanent main force.
If he can really play the main role at Sporting Amsterdam, even if the Eredivisie is not as good as the Premier League or La Liga, it will be a great thing for Chen Xingyi, and it will be very helpful to him personally.
With Hu Lai's success in the Premier League, there was a very optimistic view on the Internet. It seems that Chinese players have the ability and should go to the five major European leagues to play in order to help their progress.
Otherwise, whether you go to a league outside the five major leagues or a sub-level league of the five major leagues, it will be a waste of time and wasted years. Even if you can play in such an environment, it will be useless for personal improvement.
This kind of statement is very popular because it caters to some people's strange national pride.
But it's actually very harmful.
If there are any young Chinese players who really think that with their level they cannot go to any of the five major leagues, they will probably die in China.
In fact, it is the most reasonable and correct for Chen Xingyi and Xia Xiaoyu to start in the second-tier leagues or small country leagues.
On the one hand, the competition is much smaller, on the other hand, the pressure is also much lower, and the requirements for players are not so high.
Very suitable as the first stop when landing in Europe.
Bugs like Hu Lai cannot be used as standards, and no one can copy Hu Lai's way so far.
Zhang Qinghuan went directly to La Liga because he was older, more experienced, and not bad at his abilities. Moreover, he went to a mid- to lower-tier team in La Liga, and it took him more than half a season to gradually adapt.
His own personality also allowed him to overcome various discomforts very well. After all, he had experienced hellish troughs. What were the setbacks he encountered in Spain?
If it were other young players, they might not be able to play in half a season and their mentality would collapse, and then they would start clamoring to return to their country to play football.
Although there are a lot of high-sounding reasons, deserters are deserters, and no amount of excuses can change this fact.
It is easy to go back to China, but it is difficult to go back to Europe.
I hope that the fact that Luo Kai and Zhou Zijing failed in the first round of the Premier League can sound a warning to some overly optimistic people in the country and let them know that blindly promoting the level of Chinese players is harmful.
Xia Xiaoyu understands this very well.
So when he went to the reserve team of the Portuguese Super League giant Alvara as the main player of the Chinese Super League champion, he didn't complain and just trained and played with peace of mind.
He was eventually recalled to the first team at the end of last season.
In the first round of the league this season, he got the opportunity to come on as a substitute for 23 minutes.
Although it is difficult for him to produce any eye-catching performance in these 23 minutes, it is still a good start.
It proves that he has the ability to play in the Portuguese Super League.
You must know that this is Alvara, Alvara is a giant in the Portuguese Super League, and their standards are higher and stricter than ordinary Portuguese Super League teams.
Therefore, if he can play in Alvara, even if he comes on the bench, he might be able to play the main role in another team.
During one season in the reserve team, Xia Xiaoyu accumulated enough experience playing football in Europe. At the same time, his physical fitness also improved further, becoming stronger and moving faster. He also got rid of some "bad habits" in playing football.
Going to play in the reserve team may seem like a redundant assignment, but it does allow him to develop silently and calmly.
A year ago, when they were heading to Europe one after another, some fans excitedly claimed on the Internet that they both had a bright future.
But this year, in fact, no one saw any so-called "bright future."
Looking back a year later, there is still no "bright future" yet, but many people can already see some clues from it.
"Bright future" is no longer a fictional concept, but a real future that can be touched.
Although it didn't come today, it will come eventually.
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Han Shuyu's mobile phone stayed on the page of the creation backend of station B, which contained the results of her latest video.
The number of clicks, the number of comments, etc. can tell her very well whether this new video is popular or not.
She doesn't need to look, she must be popular.
Because there is Hu Lai in it!
This latest VLOG was made after she returned to her dormitory after watching the game that day and stayed up all night. It records the process of watching Hu Lai's debut with other Chinese students.
As an amateur video creator who is still in school, Han Shuyu’s path to becoming a UP master began when she came to study abroad in Madrid, Spain.
At first, she just wanted to record and share her study abroad life in a foreign country by shooting a video VLOG.
The video content is mainly records of my daily life.
At the beginning, the videos were very short, generally no longer than three minutes. The pictures were accompanied by music, and there was no audio commentary, only plain text subtitles...
The content is basically boring and has no highlights.
So she, like all new UP owners, received no attention.
It wasn't until she appeared in a VLOG of a visit to a Chinese restaurant in Madrid that her fans began to increase slightly.
Because Han Shuyu looks... pretty and cute.
Well, this world is such a reality. When the boring viewers at Station B accidentally discovered a cute and beautiful female UP host, Han Shuyu was no longer the new UP host that no one cared about.
As the number of fans increased, Han Shuyu also appeared more in her videos, and she also began to use her own voice to narrate the videos. Now she can easily stand out in various unfamiliar environments and under the gaze of passers-by.
A person calmly recorded the scene at the same time while looking into the camera of his mobile phone.
The first time Han Shuyu's VLOG became popular was when she went to the Crown Stadium to watch her favorite home team, the Kings of Madrid, play. She recorded in detail what she saw on the way to the game, as well as what she saw while watching the game and after the game.
The immersive record of watching the game, coupled with the traffic generated by the top giants such as Kings of Madrid, the latter is more important. This video became the first work of Han Shuyu's UP career to be played more than 10,000 times.
In addition to the boring LSP fans, more fans, especially Madrid Kings fans, began to pay attention to her.
Although there are many girls who like football, there are still relatively few female fans among the large group of fans. And there are even fewer female fans who are willing to appear in the public eye in the form of video VLOG. They are still willing to appear in front of everyone in the form of video.
There are very few beautiful and cute female fans.
So when Han Shuyu gathered all the above conditions, she naturally received more attention.
At first, it was the Madrid Kings fans who followed her. Later, not only the Madrid Kings fans, but also fans of other teams followed her because they wanted to see the video VLOG of the beautiful fans.
Now each of Han Shuyu's videos has one or two million views, and the number of comments often hovers around two or three thousand.
So today Han Shuyu is already a "middle UP owner" with 180,000 fans at Station B. He is not even a big UP owner with over a million fans, and he is definitely no longer the weak and pitiful little UP owner before.
Of course I want to go further, but it is also difficult.
Because on Bilibili, a website that focuses more on two-dimensional subculture, football is not a hot topic. In the homepage category of Bilibili, you don’t even know where football is.
Actually "football" is in the "Sports" channel.
But the "Sports" channel is not displayed directly on the homepage. Instead, a downward arrow representing "More" is displayed at the end of all channel categories at the top of the homepage.
Click on it to find the poor "Sports" channel in "More".
This shows how difficult it is to become a big UP player at Station B through football.
Of course this is much better than before.
A few years ago, the "Sports" channel was still a subcategory under the "Lifestyle" channel.
Han Shuyu has no ambitions, and he doesn't think there's anything wrong with this.
She first started making VLOGs about watching football just because she liked football.
Now she is very satisfied to have hundreds of thousands of fans. She never thought that she could become a small "Internet celebrity" because of this.
However, with Hu Lai joining Madrid Pirates and coming to La Liga, Han Shuyu's UP main career seems to have changed...
The VLOG where she recorded Hu Lai joining Madrid Pirates and going for a physical examination has more than 500,000 views.
If she hadn't been too excited at the time and didn't pay attention to the position of her cellphone when she took the photo, which resulted in Hu Lai not being able to take a picture of Hu Lai's upper body when he signed an autograph for her, I believe the video would have been even more popular.
The latest video of Hu Lai's La Liga debut broke the record of all Han Shuyu's previous videos.
870,000 views, 12,000 barrages, and a maximum number of simultaneous viewers of more than 10,000... These achievements she has never achieved before prove how terrifying the traffic of "Chinese Football Number One" is.
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And you must know that this is just a video she recorded of a group of them watching the broadcast of the Hu Lai match, rather than actually going to the scene.
In other words, a group of domestic fans watched the video of Han Shuyu and other Chinese students watching the live TV broadcast of the Hu Lai match through Station B, and it could have almost one million views.
This is only the data for the last three days.
With Hu Lai's "Dongfeng", Han Shuyu became popular.
This is of course a good thing for her. No UP owner doesn't want his videos to be seen by more people.
But it also means huge pressure.
Because suddenly so many people liked watching her videos and wrote all kinds of passionate messages in the barrage and comment area, she naturally didn't want to disappoint the lovely viewers.
Many viewers are already looking forward to her VLOG of watching the game at Pirates Park this weekend.
Han Shuyu himself is also looking forward to it.
But now she is worried.
Tickets!
Where can she get tickets for the next round of the league match between Madrid Pirates and Valero?
