Nesta defended Chen Hero—or so it seemed in terms of results, because Chen Hero didn't score in the following matches. However, AC Milan's defenders focused so much on Chen Hero that they neglected the other Napoli players.

So, in the second half, when Hamsik used a long shot from outside the penalty area to give the team the lead, Nesta looked helpless—he had been glued to Chen Hero and was powerless to prevent the goal.

Had he successfully defended Chen Hero?

He himself didn't dare to think so. It seemed he hadn't let Chen Hero score, but as a center forward, the job wasn't as simple as just scoring goals. He could also create opportunities for his teammates… When he was frozen by the defenders, it meant that the other teammates would have more chances—because to deal with such a threatening center forward, you couldn't rely on just one person. Even Nesta needed help from his teammates.

This, in turn, gave Hamsik the opportunity to take a long shot…

"Hamsik! Hamsik! Hamsik scores! His long shot puts Napoli ahead! Napoli leads AC Milan 2:1 at their home! For those visiting teams, this is indeed a… hellish stadium!"

As if hearing the TV commentator's words, San Paolo Stadium erupted in a huge cheer. The Napoli fans were using this way to declare that San Paolo Stadium was their territory!

This is southern Italy!

This is Naples!

Here is a group of lowly southerners whom you northerners call "donkeys!"

But here, anyone, any team, must bow your arrogant, noble head!

"Napoli! Napoli! Napolitani (meaning Napoli fans)! We are Napolitani!!" The Napoli fans cheered wildly on the stands.

Although this season had just begun, the Napoli fans felt a crazy and wonderful taste. Although the team lost to Roma away from home, they had so far remained unbeaten against the stronger AC Milan and Inter Milan, once away and once at home.

Napoli fans could allow their team to win nothing in a season, as long as they could beat the damn northern powerhouses a few times in the league.

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In the end, Napoli defeated AC Milan 2:1 at home, maintaining their unbeaten home record this season.

Leonardo's team had to accept the fact that the momentum of recovery and rise was once again beaten down by Napoli… The two-game winning streak came to an abrupt end, and AC Milan's ranking even slipped to eleventh. Leonardo was still struggling to find a way and opportunity to lead the team out of the quagmire.

Napoli, on the other hand, relied on this victory to jump to fourth place.

But after the game, what everyone talked about most was not the victory or defeat of the game itself, but whether Chen Hero's goal should be considered valid.

He and Thiago Silva definitely had physical contact, so was it Thiago Silva who fouled or him?

This became the focus of everyone's debate.

Because if Thiago Silva fouled, then the goal was undisputed and should be counted. This could only show that Chen Hero was very tenacious. But if Chen Hero fouled and knocked Thiago Silva away, then it was a foul first, and the goal was invalid.

After the game, major TV stations discussed the goal.

Berlusconi's media unanimously attacked Chen Hero as a rude barbarian, because after the game he didn't even offer a word of concern to Thiago Silva, who had been knocked off the field by him.

Italy's TV station one specially made a program to express their disdain and dissatisfaction with Chen Hero. They invited some well-known experts to criticize Chen Hero's football as backward, barbaric, and not in line with the development trend of modern football. Once he suffered injuries, he would end his career early, because the physical weapon he relied on most would fail, and he lacked other weapons…

Other media started to smear him from Chen Hero's private life, saying that he lived under the same roof with a beautiful bodyguard all day long, and who knew what dirty things they had. Others said that Chen Hero's looking for a female bodyguard to live with him was completely a smokescreen, because in fact he was a homosexual and he liked men. For example, his relationship with Arshavin was too good, and his friendship with Cassano was also suspicious—they had just had a fight before, how could they be arm in arm after one night?

Berlusconi's various media controlled nearly 70 percent of the Italian market, and their voices had a wide impact. For the uninformed masses, if these media said Chen Hero was a homosexual, then they would really think Chen Hero was a homosexual.

As a result, this incident made those real Italian homosexuals very excited. The thought that Chen Hero, whom they had fantasized about countless times day and night, was actually a homosexual made them very happy.

Chen Hero didn't know about this at first—he doesn't read media reports about him much now. He has so many things to do, how can he have the time to argue with the media? But when a reporter ran to ask him, he was particularly surprised: "There's such a thing?"

The reporter was very happy, because the media liked to see Chen Hero arguing with the media, so there would be news. Of course… they liked Chen Hero arguing with other media, if he bit them, it wouldn't be fun.

So the reporter happily and gesticulatingly told Chen Hero about this matter and its impact. Of course, there was no shortage of exaggeration.

So Chen Hero was forced to express his opinion: "I'm not a homosexual, but I don't discriminate, but I have no interest in homosexuals. We keep to ourselves."

Logically speaking, this matter should have ended here. The person concerned clarified the rumors, although the comrades might feel it was a pity, but they should also respect other people's sexual orientation…

But the more Chen Hero thought about it after returning home, the more unhappy he felt—why can the media spread rumors and slander others at will, and the most they have to bear is to issue a painless apology statement in their own territory after creating and spreading the rumors? If you dare to fire the reporter who made the rumors, maybe the reporter alliance or something will sue you for affecting the freedom of the press…

He is a star, at least there are reporters to interview him, and he can express his views and opinions through interviews, which is also a bit of a say. But in the face of the huge media empire, he is still insignificant, which can be seen from this matter.

If he is still like this, what about others?

He felt that making a painless denial was still very unpleasant. Because besides clarifying himself, he didn't punish the media that created the rumors.

This made him very unwilling…

So he called Dekula and asked him to collect the names of the media that said he was a homosexual, and then check their mailing addresses and so on.

Dekula also knew about this, he asked: "Are you going to sue them?"

Chen Hero shook his head: "It's always suing every time, it's too uncreative."

"Okay, I'll let Vera handle this…"

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Vera's efficiency was very high. Two days later, many media reported such a thing—

"…Someone broke the news that a few days ago, the headquarters of the media that claimed Chen Hero was a homosexual received a truckload of mysterious 'gifts'. So what are the specific gifts… Let's take a look… Ah! This is really… too…" The female announcer responsible for broadcasting the news trembled, and the TV gave a close-up, and everyone saw clearly that the screen was full of boxes of… electric dildos!

Even more explosive was that the truck that pulled them to this car of electric dildos was a box truck, so on both sides of the truck compartment, a sentence was painted: "I know you are thirsty, especially to solve your thirst with gifts. - Your confidant, Hero."

In front of this sentence, there is also "Gift to xxxx". This "xxxx" can be the name of a newspaper or the name of a TV station.

Anyway, depending on the destination of the truck, the name written is also different. Every media's headquarters has such a truck parked, and they all look exactly the same, not to mention the "gift message" on the container.

Careful people checked and found that all the media that said Chen Hero was a homosexual received such a car of "gifts"…

Obviously, these were Chen Hero's masterpieces.

However, many people, after seeing this scene, first jumped to mind—how painful must Chen Hero be!

"…This is really, uh… a very 'heroic' counterattack…" The female anchor twisted her body awkwardly and said so. I don't know if it's because she felt embarrassed to broadcast such news in public, or because she saw the car of electric dildos and thought of something that made her embarrassed…

The next day, many newspapers published photos of the staff of those media looking embarrassed when they received this car of "gifts"…

This incident immediately became a topic of conversation for many fans. AC Milan fans were naturally indignant, while fans of other teams gloated.

Of course, Chen Hero's approach was also met with more intense criticism from many media. They believed that Chen Hero's approach was simply an insult to journalists, and sending such things… was uneducated! Just like those rude southerners!

However, in southern Italy, it is a different scene…

When Chen Hero followed his teammates to train at the Volturno Fort training base, they found that many fans were gathered outside the training base today, and they held up various slogans to support Chen Hero.

"We stand with you, Hero!"

The most eye-catching is a cartoon, which shows Chen Hero wearing the Napoli No. 9 jersey riding on a donkey, with the logos of the traditional three northern teams under the donkey's feet.

Seeing this cartoon, the team's captain Paolo Cannavaro smiled: "Hero, it seems that your position in their hearts is becoming more and more important…"

Chen Hero didn't quite understand. When he saw the cartoon, he thought that the group of extreme fans were using this method to satirize him again… In China, donkey is always linked to swear words, such as "You stupid donkey"…

Seeing his doubts, Paolo Cannavaro explained with a smile: "Do you know, northerners always call us southerners 'donkeys', so in the Maradona era, whenever we defeated the northern teams, the fans would let the statue of Maradona ride a donkey. So they do this… they see you as the same as Maradona!"

Chen Hero was a little surprised when he understood the reason.

At this moment, there was another burst of noise from outside the field.

It turned out that some extreme fans and those who supported Chen Hero had a conflict because of this painting!