Late at night on March 9, a Xinhua News Agency reporter who had returned to BJ for a week was facing the computer screen with WPS turned on in the study room at home. After thinking for a long time, he finally put his hands on the keyboard.
"The young man who kept breaking through the ceiling of Chinese football has a clear impression in my mind. He is gentle, wise and superb. These are the labels I added to him. This time the leader asked me to go to Germany to see him and listen to him.
Let’s talk about the European Golden Boot dispute between him and Messi that has affected world football. Originally, I was looking for a ‘fixed answer’. I thought I just needed to compare the data and praise him based on my impression. But as expected
The answer did not appear. Later, I made a special trip to his hometown in Germany, Tübingen, where I not only asked Li Bing and Wang Yongpo, but also interviewed many citizens, Lion Stadium staff and young players. However,
These visits did not allow me to clear up the fog in my heart. What kind of life and life did Xiao Wanger, who almost everyone in China has known over the years, spend in Europe? How did he build and maintain his life outside the stadium?
His competitiveness on the court, and how he got to where he is today... Oh my God, I still can't believe that Gerd Muller's record will be doubled one day!"
"It wasn't until I just watched the 25th round of the Bundesliga season 1213 on TV, and was calming down the excitement in my heart in a quiet study, that his image suddenly became extremely real and clear. It was a kind of feeling that seemed to have already
A defender of physical and mental unity who is far away from my life and my world. It’s just that he has so much star aura that I, and of course many people, always regard him as an ordinary star and ignore his inner nature.
.This conflict between his simple interior and his brilliant exterior has always made my impression of him vague, and the closer I get, the more unclear I am."
"Looking back now, the football expert who I had a great chat with in the gym in Munich that morning completely overlaps with the one who just led the fans to dance the 'Big Tree Dance' under the stands of the Allianz Arena just now."
With his hands off the keyboard, the reporter exhaled with satisfaction, got up and left the study. After a while, he came back and opened a bottle of Red Bull. Tomorrow was the deadline for submission. He was going to the end today. After finishing this diary-style appendix, he started writing.
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""Sagittarius' Heart - A long special interview with Wang Ai"."
"Title: Shooter, once a very popular title, was a reference to a forward in an era when positions and roles were relatively fixed. In recent years, as the style of play has become increasingly integrated, it rarely appears unless he is so powerful that his shooting can bring huge benefits.
Due to the benefits brought by his partial defense, the title of shooter is becoming increasingly rare, but it is also becoming more and more precious. It only belongs to those super football superstars who can change the outcome of the game, or even make a huge change, by relying on their personal abilities."
"On a German afternoon in February, I sat in the gym at Wang Ai's house. I was surprised at how complete the fitness equipment was and how old it was. It could be seen that the floor was cleaned frequently, but there were various deep and shallow pits, which reminded me inexplicably of
The training room of the Shaolin Temple... no, this is really a training room. How can it be a place where one of the top three players in the world hone his skills? How can it be less legendary?"
"While I was thinking wildly, a tall young man came up to me with a tea tray. He was more stable than when he was a child, and he looked a little haggard, but his expression was still gentle and calm. Even though he knew he was a superstar, he still treated him calmly.
I am a person I have never met before.”
"He told me very frankly that he was indeed competing with Argentine superstar Messi for the European Golden Boot, and he was indeed promoted and influenced by outsiders, including me. According to him, originally his European Golden Boot was only for the team.
It requires him, an offensive player, to work hard to score goals, and for him to enjoy the joy of the game and resolve the pain of training. But because all parties want to see direct competition between several of the best shooters in world football, so
They gradually became 'hostile'."
"He told me personally that the direct cause of today's situation was the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo, another superstar besides the two, to Real Madrid. He gave me a brief analysis of how Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer to Real Madrid led to the return of balance in La Liga and how it led to the return of La Liga.
The gold content of the Golden Boot suddenly increased, and how fierce competition finally approached his dominance in the European Golden Boot. After all, he had monopolized this award for five years before... He told me with a smile that he
Subconsciously, he regarded this award as his own, so that when someone tried to take it away, he almost instinctively became angry."
"He further told me that he knew very well that the formation of this situation was deliberately promoted by someone. It is the operating rules of the current professional football world, which he called the Commercial Event League. He, Messi and Ronaldo are all part of the game.
A clever hand pushed Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid, starting the competition between the two superstars of La Liga, improving the data of La Liga's Golden Boot, and finally forcing him to join the war. And his participation in the war will inevitably make the other two arrogant.
Even those who are self-reliant will fight back, and then they will have scoring statistics that they will never return to this season and that they dare not look forward to."
"Then, he compared to me the differences in the way of thinking between China and the West. He said that the professional league was bred by Western culture and is full of adventurous spirit, while China is an agricultural civilization, and the values based on the characteristics of agricultural production will tend to be conservative and stable. He said
We can learn Western science, technology, and institutional rules, but we cannot learn the spirit. The implication is that Chinese football and leagues can only and must follow the path with Chinese characteristics."
"The rich, step-by-step in-depth analysis allowed me to intuitively understand the level of thinking of the only star with a doctorate in world football, and made me realize how terrifying a visionary person is: it seems that nothing can happen to him in front of him.
Confused, just like no one in football can pose a threat to him. Although Messi once tied the data, he was soon left behind again in less than a month, and it seemed that victory was within reach."
"I think I need to admit that his thinking and thinking blurred my understanding of him to a certain extent, and the only combination of scholar and player also made it difficult for me to grasp the description of him. It was not until I later made the overall interview report that I discovered that, although
He has many achievements, both in thinking and action, but he is still essentially a straightforward person, just like the candidness in interviews and the straightforwardness in competitions."
"He told me that this is the gift of a shooter."
"He told me he was screened and molded by the professional league."
"He told me that the shooter's heart kept him focused, facing difficulties, fearless, and moving forward courageously."
