Chapter 199 The Hero Saves the Day

The Chinese fans, still furious at the Chinese team's performance in the first half, were using the halftime break to lash out at the Chinese Football Association, national team coach Zhou Yonghua, and even the players on the field.

However, everyone seemed to be avoiding Chen Hero as if by tacit agreement.

Some were even making excuses for Chen Hero. Like jet lag, or the lack of understanding from playing with the national team for the first time...

But in the second half, they found that things had changed.

The Chinese team's tactics were obviously different from the first half.

Simple, ugly, without all those passes, touches, and intricate plays that showcased technical and tactical ability.

Everyone who got the ball just kicked it long and forward to Chen Hero, and then the attacking players would sprint forward to support Chen Hero, helping him tear open the Vietnamese team's desperate defense.

Then everyone just needed to watch Chen Hero perform.

In the fifty-sixth minute, he scored his first goal in his national team career.

It was a header.

A very typical Hero-style goal.

A cross from the wing, the ball flying high, the tallest of the Vietnamese defenders only one meter seventy-eight, able only to look up from below. Then Chen Hero jumped up, just like he did in training, easily heading the ball into the goal.

Helping China tie the score.

The Workers' Stadium finally erupted in deafening cheers.

All the fans jumped up from their seats, raising their arms and shouting, the shouts of tens of thousands of people even carrying for kilometers!

"Hero! Hero! He scored his first goal for the national team! We hope this is just the beginning of a new legend, and definitely not the end!"

He Ping shouted excitedly.

After scoring, Chen Hero didn't run off to celebrate wildly. For him, scoring a goal over the heads of the little Vietnamese guys was such a simple thing, what was the need to celebrate so much?

So he stood in front of the Vietnamese goal, raising his right fist high.

This time, in the roaring cheers, many Chinese fans in the stands also raised their right fists in unison.

This is our agreement!

We yearn for heroes, and the hero has returned to save us from our misery!

"Long live the Hero!!!"

Such shouts soon rang out in the stands, and then quickly swept the entire stadium.

His teammates were much more excited than Chen Hero, like those fans, they opened their arms and rushed up, cheering all the way, surrounding Chen Hero.

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Chen Hero had already scored, so what suspense could there be in the rest of the game?

Facing the Vietnamese team, if the Chinese team had taken it seriously from the start, they might have won long ago. After all, there was still a certain gap in strength between the two sides. The main thing was that conceding a goal at the beginning brought the Chinese team's fragile mentality to the brink of collapse. In the subsequent game, they were eager to equalize, and as a result, they became more and more impetuous. The leading Vietnamese team retreated and played a steady defense and counterattack, using the opportunity of the Chinese team's pressing attack to frequently attack behind them.

It can be seen from this that although it was only a friendly match, the Vietnamese team's preparations were obviously more serious and targeted than the Chinese team's.

However, after Chen Hero equalized the score for the Chinese team, he gave his teammates a sense of security. The calmed-down Chinese team exerted their strength advantage, suppressed Vietnam, and the rest of the game was a shooting drill for the Chinese team in the Vietnamese half.

Cheers rang out one after another. Chen Hero scored four goals in the game, and his brilliant performance of a poker hand kept many fans talking about it at home, reminiscing endlessly. It even made commentator He Ping climax again and again, with witty remarks. Many people felt strange—this top CCTV commentator hadn't been so excited when commentating on Liverpool's Champions League matches. Today, he was in completely top form.

In the end, the Chinese team won 6:1 against Vietnam in their home stadium.

In fact, such a match in which the Chinese team beat Vietnam by a large margin was not worth reporting extensively, but after the match, the Chinese media still spent a lot of ink reporting on this match.

Because Chen Hero scored four goals in the game and performed well.

The Chinese media's praise and compliments were overwhelming, but no one felt that there was anything wrong with it.

For them, no amount of honor was enough for a hero.

Many female fans simply announced online that they wanted to sleep with Chen Hero, and posted their sexy photos on Weibo. Of course, without exception, women who did this were labeled with the hat of "hyping themselves up with Chen Hero".

But in short, the entire Internet was immersed in the joyous atmosphere of Chen Hero's national team debut.

Only one person was the exception.

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Zhou Yonghua was very dissatisfied with Chen Hero's unauthorized change of the team's tactics during the halftime break. He believed that this was a disregard for his dignity and authority as the head coach.

So he planned to complain to the Football Association, and he wanted to get the support of the Football Association.

Of course, he knew that the Football Association and the State Sports General Administration had apologized to Chen Hero in exchange for Chen Hero's return.

But he felt that the State Sports General Administration and the Football Association must have been under public pressure to do so, and they must have been harboring resentment towards Chen Hero in their hearts. It's just that they didn't have an excuse to take down Chen Hero.

Of course, he didn't expect the Football Association to drive Chen Hero out of the national team. Just look at Chen Hero's momentum after this game to know. But at least he could give him some warnings through internal channels and put pressure on him through the Football Association.

Zhou Yonghua thought that Chen Hero would still listen to the Football Association, after all, they were the people directly in charge of him. In the past, Chen Hero could ignore the Football Association because Chen Hero was not a national team player and was completely outside the system, so the Football Association couldn't control him. But now it's different, Chen Hero, you've entered the gate of the national team, you're a member of the system! When the time comes, you dare to ignore the Football Association?

The Football Association has countless ways to deal with you!

The reason why Zhou Yonghua was so sure that the Football Association would help him take down Chen Hero was because he himself had been promoted by Deng Wenjun. It can be said that Deng Wenjun was his backer, helping him suppress an internal "riot" in the national football team once. So he believed that the Football Association would definitely stand on his side, and would never "turn its elbows outward."

With deep trust in the Football Association, Zhou Yonghua dialed the phone number of Deng Wenjun, the full-time vice chairman...

I simply can't bear to continue describing Zhou Jianhua's experience of calling Deng Wenjun, it's really... a human tragedy.

Anyway, the final result was that the next day, the Chinese Football Association suddenly announced an astonishing decision—national team coach Zhou Yonghua voluntarily resigned. As for the reason for his dismissal, the Football Association gave the reason of physical problems.

This decision was so sudden that many people didn't believe it. They speculated about what had happened.

But no matter how they guessed, they would never have imagined the truth at the time.

At that time, after Zhou Yonghua complained to the Football Association about Chen Hero, Deng Wenjun's spine was instantly soaked with sweat.

You motherfucker! You're trying to get me killed, aren't you? You bastard! You actually want me to touch the idol of the one above!? Are you really afraid of dying late?!

The little bit of good impression that I finally accumulated in front of the one above is about to be completely destroyed by you, you bastard!

Damn it! Zhou Yonghua, Zhou Yonghua, did I have no feud with you in my previous life? I helped you become the coach of the national football team, which is already giving you a lot of face. Can't you just be honest?

The more Deng Wenjun thought about it, the angrier he became, and he cursed Zhou Yonghua head-on.

He directly cursed Zhou Yonghua into a fool, not knowing why Deng Wenjun, who had always been his strong support, would suddenly turn his gun and curse him.

Finally, after Deng Wenjun scolded him, he said to him: "I'll give you two choices, Zhou Yonghua. First, you resign and get out of here; second, I'll remove you! Choose one!"

Zhou Yonghua didn't expect that Deng Wenjun would actually stand on Chen Hero's side this time. He couldn't understand what had happened at all. "Why?" he blurted out.

"Why? I can only tell you that you have offended someone that you and I can never afford to offend!" After Deng Wenjun finished saying this, he hung up the phone forcefully.

He didn't bother to care about the confused Zhou Yonghua. Naturally, he couldn't tell Zhou Yonghua the truth, so he could only say so much. If that kid was smart enough, he would choose to resign voluntarily, and maybe he could make a comeback in a few years.

If he's not smart...

Hmph!

Deng Wenjun glanced at the phone and snorted heavily.

Anyone who has a problem with Chen Hero, I'll make sure he can't get along first!

Many people thought that at the press conference, the three people were expressionless and reluctantly apologized to Chen Hero, expressing their dissatisfaction in this way.

But in fact, they didn't want that person to have any bad associations after seeing their expressions. So they had to be expressionless.

After knowing the truth, they definitely didn't dare to have any dissatisfaction with Chen Hero.

The one above's intention to support Chen Hero was very obvious.

If I go against him... my career will probably come to an end.

Chen Hero wants to be the boss of the team? Then let him be!

Even if he unifies the national football team's locker room, what does it have to do with us?

As long as Chen Hero is happy, the one above is also happy, and the one above is happy, then Deng Wenjun's immediate boss is also happy, and only when Deng Wenjun's immediate boss is happy can he himself be able to smile often...

Chen Hero is his lucky god in his career. He's being careful to serve him, and he doesn't even have enough time, so how could he help Zhou Yonghua to oppose him?

Poor Zhou Yonghua, just because he didn't understand enough information, didn't stand high enough, and didn't see things the same way, it ultimately determined his fate of having to resign sadly.

People are not born equal in the first place, and everyone's fate is different. If some people can't see their own positioning clearly and insist on going against the heavens, they will naturally die miserably in the end.

After all, not everyone is the protagonist in the story...