Chapter 1 The Beginning

The period between the first and second league rounds was about thirteen days, a time for national team matches. Naturally, Chen Hero still didn't have any national team duties.

The anti-corruption storm in Chinese football had raged fiercely some time ago, but now it seemed to be gradually cooling down.

Wei Di, Nan Yong, and Yang Yimin had all been arrested. The leaders of the Football Association and the Football Management Center had been replaced, but there was still no sign of Chen Hero being selected for the national team.

Some speculated that perhaps it wasn't just Nan Yong who disliked Chen Hero... Of course, Chen Hero's way of conducting himself and the personality he displayed were indeed unlikable.

But he could score goals! Who in Chinese football could score more goals than him? It was incomprehensible to outsiders what the Chinese Football Association was thinking, not using such an outstanding center forward.

Chen Hero didn't care. If the national team didn't call him up, he would never actively volunteer. Just like he had said before, it wasn't his loss if the national team didn't recruit him, but the national team's loss.

During the national team match day, he, who had no match, was just at home刷副本 (shua fuben, grinding dungeons).

Now, he and Inzaghi were very enthusiastic about practicing off-ball movement.

In his free time, he paid attention to Chen Xing's acquisition efforts. The legendary powerful Middle Eastern consortium and American tycoon were only known by name, but never seen. As for Zhu Jun? It had long been confirmed as a hype...

Basically, all the news was about Chen Xing's acquisition progress. Fortunately, the progress wasn't smooth, and the two Americans, Gillett and Hicks, still wanted to hold on to Liverpool tightly.

This led Liverpool fans to curse them and hate them to death.

But Chen Hero breathed a sigh of relief—he still didn't want to leave Napoli so early, only three seasons...

But it was estimated that everything would be settled in October, because if Liverpool Football Club couldn't repay the two hundred and thirty-seven million pounds they owed the Royal Bank of Scotland before October 6th, they would enter bankruptcy proceedings, and the team would be managed by the largest creditor, the Royal Bank of Scotland. And if things really developed to this point, Liverpool would be deducted nine points, which was the last thing Liverpool fans wanted to see.

It was said that Chen Xing was negotiating and arguing with the two American bosses.

The more Chen Hero paid attention to the progress of the Liverpool acquisition, the more conflicted he became. He didn't know whether he should hope that Chen Xing's acquisition would succeed or fail...

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In fact, national team match days were a torture for many teams, especially the big ones. National team match days had always been known as the "FIFA virus," meaning that the players of big teams all went to play for their national teams, resulting in exhaustion from travel and affecting their form. At the same time, there was also the risk of injury—whose problem was it if they got injured while playing for the national team? They were injured in a national team match, and the most affected were obviously the clubs.

Therefore, many big teams always argued about whether to let players go back to participate in national team match days.

Even to the point of going to court.

Because there were too many international players in those big teams.

And Napoli didn't have such troubles. In their current lineup, only Arshavin, Sanchez, Hamsik, and De Jong were considered solid starters for their national teams, and they had to go back for national team matches. As for the others, they were either fringe players for their respective national teams, or they had no chance of playing for the national team at all. Therefore, even during the national team match day, Napoli could practice the tactics they would use in the Champions League with an almost complete lineup.

This was the biggest thing for Napoli at the moment. After all, the first match of the Champions League group stage was about to begin on September 14th, and they would face Valencia at their home stadium.

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On September 11th, the second round of the league, Napoli welcomed Bari to their home stadium.

In this match, Chen Hero represented the team and played. This was also the first official match he played in the new season.

Chen Hero had been waiting for this match for a whole summer.

Considering that Sanchez had just flown to South America to participate in the match, he didn't start in this match. Raul started for two consecutive matches, but this time he wasn't playing as a center forward, but as a left winger, which was actually a shadow striker.

This was also the first time Chen Hero played alongside Raul in an official match.

Although it wasn't the first round of the league anymore, CCTV broadcasted it as the first match of the new season, because it was Chen Hero's first match of the new season.

Therefore, commentator Liu Jianhong made a special introduction, saying things like "Everything is difficult at the beginning, this is Hero's first official match of the new season, I don't know what his state is..." and "Some time ago, Chen Hero made wild remarks, saying that he wanted to book the Champions League top scorer, which caused a lot of controversy and pushed him to the forefront, I don't know if this will have any impact on his preparations..."

After a lot of nonsense, the match had already started for five minutes before he remembered to introduce the starting lineups of both sides today.

As usual, he read the home team's list first.

Just as he was looking down and reading the list on the paper, he suddenly felt Zhang Lu next to him nudge him. At the same time, he heard Zhang Lu shouting, "Look at this ball... Eh? Good ball! Good ball!!"

He hurriedly raised his head and saw Chen Hero running out of the penalty area in the TV on the opposite side, and the fans in the Stadio San Paolo were all standing up from their seats.

The huge noise came out of the TV, shaking everyone's eardrums.

"Hero! Hero! He scored!!"

In fact, Liu Jianhong didn't see the process of the goal at all. He didn't even know if Chen Hero scored the goal, but he had commentated on many matches, so he had some experience—when the camera was pointing at someone, it could basically be confirmed that they scored the goal. And now the camera was zooming in, putting Chen Hero in the picture.

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It was indeed Chen Hero who scored the goal. Liu Jianhong's experience was correct.

The match had only started for six minutes when Chen Hero received a pass from Raul in the penalty area, turned around and swept the ball into the goal between the goalkeeper and the post.

His strong body played a very crucial role in the process of this goal.

He leaned against Bari's defender, protecting the ball, so that the opponent couldn't steal it even if they wanted to.

After Chen Hero ran to the sidelines, he actually performed Michael Jackson's signature moonwalk in full view of everyone!

It was too terrifying to walk on the grass with high friction while wearing studded shoes. It really took some skill...

"Wow!!" The Italian commentator laughed. "Michael Chen who is one meter ninety-three tall!"

The other teammates didn't come up to disturb him, but let him finish the moonwalk.

After finishing the dance, Chen Hero pointed at the camera.

This was for Cassano to see.

Didn't you say I couldn't dance? I'll show you!

Cassano in front of the TV laughed instead of getting angry when he saw this scene. Because although Chen Hero did dance, he was a bit clumsy, like a dancing bear...

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"Napoli really had a good start! Only six minutes into the match, their number one scorer Chen Hero scored!"

"Hero's state is really too good, although he missed the first round of the league, this didn't stop him from scoring..."

"The first goal of the league! If I remember correctly, this Napoli center forward said that he would win the league's top scorer for three consecutive years, it seems that he really intends to do what he said. The league has only started for two rounds, and he has scored a goal, we can fully expect his ranking on the scorer list at the end of the season..."

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After celebrating his first official match goal and league goal of the new season with a moonwalk, Chen Hero was not satisfied.

He continued to pursue goals.

In the thirtieth minute, Chen Hero got his wish and scored twice.

This goal was still a tap-in in front of the goal, but he used his best header.

Maggio crossed from the wing, and when Chen Hero was running towards the goal, he suddenly exerted his strength and jumped up, and then accurately grabbed the spot in the crowd.

Header!

The ball went into the net, and Bari's goalkeeper, Francois Gillet, didn't even have time to react because the distance was too close.

"Ooooooooooh!" The commentators climaxed again collectively.

"Header! Header! Here it comes! Hero's header is here! In the air, he is invincible!"

"This is a truly pure center forward!!"

"Napoli is two goals ahead! Chen Hero scored twice! This is his first league match of the new season, and he scored two goals, what a great start!"

"It seems that Chen Hero is not joking, nor is he just making wild remarks, he is really working hard towards the goal of winning the top scorer for three consecutive seasons!"

"Napoli is already two goals ahead in the first thirty minutes of the first half, and the suspense of this match has basically been killed..."

After scoring the goal, Chen Hero didn't hesitate to take off his jersey. The muscles inside kept shaking as he ran, making the giant bear tattoo on his back look like it was alive.

Although taking off his clothes would earn him a yellow card, Chen Hero admitted that he earned a yellow card for his first brace and his first two goals of the new season. He felt that he couldn't vent his inner emotions without taking off his clothes.

He knew very well that this was already his third season in Serie A, and almost everyone was familiar with him. He could foresee that the defensive pressure he would encounter on the field would be greater than in the previous two seasons. It would be very difficult to win the league's top scorer.

Fortunately, he didn't need to be distracted by participating in the Champions League in the first half of the season, and he could put all his energy into the domestic league. Therefore, this period was actually the key stage for him to desperately刷 (shua, grind) goals. If he could establish enough of a lead in the first half of the season, it wouldn't be a big problem even if he slowed down and was distracted by the Champions League in the second half of the season.

For this reason, he had already decided.

Switch to the Berserk mode that he hadn't used for a long time again.

Slaughter Storm, activated.

Chen Hero, full power ahead!!