Chapter 443: The Legend of the Football God (Final Chapter)
De Gea: "How did you guess that Mbappe would play in the middle? And you told me by pointing at me, which is quite creative."
When runner-up Paris Saint-Germain was receiving the award, De Gea, who was standing next to Chen Xiaoliang, asked.
Chen Xiaoliang laughed loudly. In fact, when he pointed at De Gea's chest at that moment, what he wanted to express was "follow your heart". In simple terms, you can rush wherever you want. Unexpectedly, De Gea mistakenly thought that he was asking him to defend the middle.
But there is no reason not to pretend when something comes to you: "I can see right through that guy's heart."
De Gea: “Fuck, is this true?”
Chen Xiaoliang smiled mysteriously and led the team up the 107 steps of Wembley.
After receiving the awards, all the Paris Saint-Germain players walked off the field in silence and entered the player tunnel. But what’s interesting is that when the game ended just now, the first person to come over and exchange jerseys with Chen Xiaoliang was Neymar.
It is hard to say whether Neymar did it to disgust Mbappe or was really impressed by Chen Xiaoliang's performance. In any case, Neymar believed that he should do this, and Chen Xiaoliang was worthy of it.
The President of UEFA, Prime Minister Dai Ying and the President of France stood in the middle of the royal box stands, put championship medals on the Manchester United players who lined up, and finally handed the Champions League trophy - the St. Paul's Cup - to Chen Xiaoliang.
After a year, winning the Champions League and the Treble again made everyone excited. Chen Xiaoliang turned around to face the entire Wembley and the whole world and held the trophy high!
At that moment, fireworks burst into life all over the sky, symbolizing the beginning of a new dynasty.
Afterwards, they returned to the stadium and the players' families also walked into the stadium to take photos with the players.
Chen Xiaoliang became the most popular one. Almost every player's family member would politely come to Chen Xiaoliang and ask if they could take a photo with him. Chen Xiaoliang also fulfilled everyone's wishes.
He also took another group photo after winning the championship. Beside him were still Helena, Erica, David and Reese.
Back in the locker room, everyone was grateful to Chen Xiaoliang. Even Benzema, who had already achieved great success, came over to hug him alone, saying that his career had been completely perfect and he could finally retire.
After the carnival in the locker room and a lazy sleep the next day, the team gathered in the afternoon and took the train back to Manchester from London.
At the train station, 20,000 fans were already waiting there. They kept singing until the players came out and started shouting each player's name.
On the way back to Carrington, there were fans waiting in advance or rushing to the scene on both sides. They honked their horns to salute the bus or rolled down their windows and leaned out of the sunroof to shout championship slogans at the bus.
After two days of rest, Manchester United started its championship tour around the city again. After going around the city, Chen Xiaoliang loudly told all the fans at the celebration ceremony at Old Trafford that the team would not stop there and would definitely continue its pace of success.
A generation of wealthy and powerful family was completely revived.
Another day passed, and the awards came one after another.
In addition to the club's best player of the season and the Champions League's best player of the season awards, the Champions League's best team, the Premier League's best player and so on were all given to Chen Xiaoliang.
Even before the 2024 European Cup started, there was no suspense about who would win the championship, because everyone knew that the three major honors of UEFA Player of the Year, FIFA World Footballer of the Year and Ballon d'Or had already been booked by the red countryman.
Boss Jasim did not break his promise and added some more to the original basis, offering a contract with a weekly salary of 1 million pounds, plus bonuses totaling 70 million pounds per year, plus an additional 10% of the club's stock option incentives.
Van der Sar also recovered from the illness without any sequelae, returned to the position of CEO, and signed the contract with Chen Xiaoliang on behalf of the club.
Someone asked him if he was not afraid that Chen Xiaoliang would stop moving forward?
Van der Sar smiled but did not answer, pointing to the training ground outside the window.
Reporters immediately discovered that after the club went on holiday, only Chen Xiaoliang was still in Europe. In addition to bringing his parents over for vacation, he traveled to Manchester, Glasgow and Ibiza, busy with his youth training camp career.
In short, apart from football, it’s still football.
A reporter later interviewed him and asked him what his next goal was after winning the treble? Three consecutive trebles?
Chen Xiaoliang said meaningfully that all he wanted was to win all the championships he could.
Of course, he is not the only one who is determined to compete for the championship.
Real Madrid mobilized all its resources and started a frenzy of purchasing in order to regain the hegemony that it had lost due to the failure in the European Super League and two consecutive years without a championship.
In addition to Mbappe, they also spent 100 million to buy Hoilund, who played well in Bayern. I heard that he was once a target of Manchester United, but the plan was changed only because of the arrival of Chen Xiaoliang and Cesco.
Vinicius, Mbappe, Hojlender and Rodrigo also formed a new attacking group at the Bernabeu.
The situation in the Premier League was even more exaggerated. Seeing the huge revenue brought by Manchester United's huge success, the BIG7 came together and jointly raised the transfer market prices in European football to a sizzling level.
Basically, the starting price for buying players is 80 million pounds. If there is no investment of more than 200 million pounds in the summer window, it would be embarrassing to say that you can fight for the top four in the Premier League.
Since it was Guardiola's last year at Manchester City, in order to re-establish the advantage, he actually spent 150 million euros to buy Frenkie de Jong from Barcelona in order to strengthen the midfield's passing and control ability.
Liverpool and Arsenal did not stop either. The most abnormal one was Newcastle. They were originally a family, but they rented B Silva, Brozovic, Milinkovic-Savic who left Manchester United to Riyadh Crescent, Ruben Neves and Kyle Walker from the Saudi League. At one point, they were only behind Manchester United in the league title odds, surpassing Manchester City.
All of this was later called the "Chen Xiaoliang Effect" by the media.
Of course, Manchester United was not idle either.
In addition to Australian winger Irankunda and French defensive midfielder Ugo Shuku, who have already joined the team, the team also signed old player Jonny Evans for free, allowing him to return to the club as a player and coach.
Finally, the defense has improved.
The successful De Gea left the team and the club signed a young goalkeeper from La Liga Valencia club, Kva's compatriot, 22-year-old Georgian Mamardashvili.
Maguire, who had made great efforts but still could not get a starting position, finally agreed to transfer to West Ham United after winning the championship. Manchester United bought Benfica's 20-year-old young Portuguese central defender Antonio Silva. His transfer price of 75 million euros and Mamardashvili's 35 million euros added up to exactly 110 million euros.
The European Cup in Germany will kick off on June 14, 2024.
After 30 days of competition, host Germany and France reached the final, while England and Italy competed for third place.
In the end, Mbappe once again scored two goals in the final, but unlike the result a month and a half ago, this time he lifted the Delaunay Cup.
Nevertheless, his performance in the Champions League final, especially the funny scene of him falling in front of Chen Xiaoliang, will never be erased, and this championship only makes him slightly closer to Chen Xiaoliang in terms of the odds of the Ballon d'Or.
Twelve days after the French returned home with the Delaunay Cup, the Paris Olympics finally opened as scheduled under the strong operation of the French police.
Before that, Chen Xiaoliang had already participated in the Olympic torch relay ceremony in Manchester.
Many Chinese people began to question why Chen Xiaoliang did not return to China to participate and insisted on staying in Manchester.
People always feel idle after they have eaten their fill. Originally, those fans who shouted at Chen Xiaoliang not to return to China thought that Chen Xiaoliang was just a potential rising star and the football environment after returning to China would harm him. But now Chen Xiaoliang has already achieved success and become the number one player in today's football world. Those people changed their tune and attacked Chen Xiaoliang. Words like unpatriotic, ungrateful, and only knowing how to make money but not knowing how to win honor for the country were all sprayed out from the keyboard.
For a while, the "anti-Liang faction" and the "pro-Liang faction" appeared on the Internet in the Red Country, and the war of words intensified.
Chen Xiaoliang did not respond to this.
It was not until the night of August 9th, local time, in the men's 4×100m final, that Chen Xiaoliang represented the Red Country sprint relay team for the second time. This time, he was once again the first to cross the finish line in the last leg, and also won the second gold medal in the sprint event for the Red Country after Liu Xiang.
For this game, he added the luxurious reward given by the system at the end of the season to his speed. At this time, his speed had exceeded the limit of 20 and reached the level of 21.
In addition, he has a physical advantage that sprinters do not have at all, which allows him to enter full speed after 30 meters and maintain it all the way to the finish line, unlike other sprinters who will enter a highly anaerobic state after 70 meters and their speed will begin to decline.
Looking at the entire international track and field arena, it is a very explosive existence.
When the female reporter named Dong pointed the microphone at Chen Xiaoliang, who was wearing the five-star red flag and the Olympic gold medal around his neck, after the game, the fans all over the country were looking forward to the question.
But the reporter Dong was as stable as ever and asked, "You are so good at track and field events. Would you consider not playing football in the future and preparing for track and field competitions professionally?"
According to unreliable jokes on the Internet, after she asked this question, 31 people in the country vomited blood, 67 people fainted, 250 people smashed TVs, and 200,000 people left messages under the Zhongyang TV station account saying they didn't want to see this reporter again.
However, veteran Su Bingtian, who was a substitute for the relay team in this Olympics, later posted a message on social media:
"I like watching football, too. I asked Xiaoliang about it, and he said he would."
Of course it will. Although it is not clearly stated what it is, these four words still leave countless fantasies for others.
In addition to the 4×100 relay, Chen Xiaoliang also participated in the 100m, 200m and 400m races this time.
In the 100m final, Chen Xiaoliang missed the championship again. The gold medal was won by Kenyan sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala with a time of 9.81 seconds. Chen Xiaoliang came in second with a time of 9.83 seconds.
He thought that the 0.02 second gap was probably due to the loss at the start.
But what’s interesting is that when interviewing in the news interview area after the game, most of the reporters surrounded Chen Xiaoliang and ignored the new Olympic sprinter Omanyara.
The scene was posted on the International Olympic Committee's social media, where they called it "an absolute superstar".
However, some media outlets jokingly wrote the title "Chen Xiaoliang, who was hard to lose, finally lost in Paris."
After participating in the World Championships in Budapest last time, Su Bingtian suggested that Chen Xiaoliang could take part in the 200m and 400m races, because those two events do not entirely depend on absolute speed. Athletes will enter the anaerobic state after 100 meters, which is just what Chen Xiaoliang, who has super endurance and recovery ability, likes.
With the advice of professionals, Chen Xiaoliang actually signed up.
As a result, he brought the miracles he created on the football field to the Olympics.
Relying on the fact that his physical strength can automatically recover when it drops below 35%, Chen Xiaoliang won the 200m championship with this year's best time of 19.21 seconds, which is only 0.02 seconds away from Bolt's world record.
But in the 400m final the next day, Chen Xiaoliang completely combined speed and endurance, breaking the 400m world record of 43.03 set by South American star Van Niekerk with a score of 42.99!
The media who had joked about Chen Xiaoliang breaking his undefeated streak a few days ago were now dumbfounded, and even many sports fans thought he was being too ridiculous.
We have to win the treble in football and the treble in the Olympics?
Most importantly, thanks to three gold medals in the weak sprint events, the Red Country finally ranked first in the gold medal table of the Paris Olympics, beating the Beautiful Country by one medal.
Just like that, a successful summer vacation to relax and improve the new season's condition through sprinting ended, but what was left to Chen Xiaoliang was endless topics and perhaps the most powerful commercial influence in history in the era of traffic.
But his main job is still football.
In order to make way for the Olympics, European Cup and America's Cup to be held in the same summer, the five major leagues in the 2024-25 season were all delayed until September. But after the league started, those confident opponents discovered in despair that after a summer away, Chen Xiaoliang had returned and become stronger again.
Not only did the training he did every day during the holidays allow him to accumulate a large amount of training points, but the hidden achievements triggered by the triple crown, various awards, and even the three Olympic gold medals also gave him a lot of rewards.
This allowed him, who was already soaring into the sky, to soar even higher into the horizon that his opponents could not reach.
By the end of October 2024, when the Ballon d'Or was selected, Manchester United had achieved 51 unbeaten games in the Premier League across seasons. In that season's reformed 36-team Swiss round-robin first round of the Champions League, Manchester United also had 7 wins, 3 draws and no losses, and finally advanced to the round of 16 as the top of the 36 teams.
Without a doubt, the Ballon d'Or was once again awarded to Chen Xiaoliang, with Mbappe and Haaland standing next to him again.
That season, Manchester United extended their unbeaten streak to 68 games, rewriting the historical record of 58 unbeaten games in the top five leagues set by Sacchi's AC Milan.
And most importantly, they won the treble again.
Even those who are unwilling to accept the result will have to accept the result.
From July 2023, when 19-year-old Chen Xiaoliang joined Manchester United, to 2042, when he retired at the age of 38, Manchester United won 17 Premier League titles, 14 Champions League titles, and all four Club World Cup titles held every four years after the reform.
When he was 26 years old, that is, in the 2030-31 season, all his attributes finally reached 20, and relying on achievements and breakthrough points, he continued to break the limit of 20.
Star cards are no longer useful to him because his abilities allow him to use the moves and skills of any star at will.
He also won 17 Ballon d'Or awards and 16 FIFA World Player of the Year awards in 19 years.
However, the few times he played less were because he did not participate in the World Cup, and also because the organizers gave them to others in order to avoid already tired aesthetic fatigue.
Until 2038.
The fans didn’t expect that they would have to wait so long for Su Bingtian’s words “it will happen”.
But what was even more unexpected was that when Chen Xiaoliang said at the age of 34 that the time was ripe and he wanted to play for his country in the World Cup qualifiers, more than 30 countries in the world even decided to take a day off on the day of Chen Xiaoliang's first national team game.
In fact, most people have said that Chen Xiaoliang no longer needs to use the national team to prove anything. The honors and achievements he has achieved have already allowed him to reach an unprecedented historical status, and his youth training camp has also trained many young football players for the Red Country.
Just like the man who defeated all opponents in the 1990s, won three consecutive championships and established the Bulls dynasty was called the God of Basketball, people at that time no longer discussed whether Chen Xiaoliang was the king of basketball. People only had one name for him, and that was the God of Football.
But as he looked at the system that had already reached 99% of the goal, he kept reminding himself that he was very close to the goal he had set at the beginning.
His model has shown countless parents in the red countries that they can be successful in playing football and become respected.
With the consistent support from the top management, many clubs including Manchester United, Ajax, Roma and Glasgow Rangers began to establish football training camps in China based on his model and named after him.
People have ideals, but society is realistic. Only when an absolutely positive and successful hero appears in a field will people's views and attitudes towards this field begin to change.
Only when this person brings together a group of people who achieve success like him will this field be completely changed.
He led his young players back to the World Cup in 2034 and reached the quarterfinals.
Many people said that this was enough and that it was beyond their imagination.
But Chen Xiaoliang still didn't choose to stop there.
Since he is going to do it, he must try his best to the end. No matter where he is, he doesn't like the feeling of losing. Moreover, four years later, there will be a stronger group of players among those he trained.
In 2038, at the Red Country World Cup, as the host, Chen Xiaoliang and his teammates, with the cheers of hundreds of millions of people in his hometown, achieved a goal that no one thought was possible - winning the World Cup.
But for Chen Xiaoliang at that time, there was not too much excitement, only relief.
The day after the game, Chen Xiaoliang announced his retirement in an interview with FIFA, ending his 22-year professional career.
He did not hold a retirement ceremony, nor did he ask the club to hold any farewell ceremony. He simply returned to Manchester, to Carrington, which was so familiar to him, packed up his things and left.
Since then, he seemed to have disappeared, and along with him disappeared Helena, who had always been by his side.
The house was sold and his whereabouts became a mystery. Countless media and reporters made it their sacred mission to find him.
Many people found Reese, who decided to retire when he retired, and David, who had served him for 22 years, but both said they didn't know where Chen Xiaoliang had gone.
Half a year later, Erica sold the Ibiza club, which was already in the upper-middle level of La Liga, and then disappeared like her sister.
From time to time, people would post photos of Chen Xiaoliang they took on social media. Some were clear, some were blurry, but every time a photo was released, many people would rush to the scene, but none of them could find Chen Xiaoliang.
Some said that he and Helena married and lived in seclusion in a sparsely populated town, others said that they changed their names, traveled around the world in disguise, and some even saw Erica living with them.
All of these things have become legends and have been written into novels by many writers and made into movies by many directors.
Together with his 22-year football career, all have become eternal legends.
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