Chapter 20 Good News

On January 17th, in the twentieth round of the league, Napoli drew 1:1 with Palermo at home. Chen Yingxiong scored the only goal for Napoli in the match, helping the team to equalize. However, he failed to score again and win the game for the team.

Despite this, he received good news.

That was, after scoring this goal, he finally topped the league scorer list with thirteen goals, surpassing Di Natale and Diego Milito, who scored twelve goals.

This also gave him a good mood when he went to Milan to attend the Serie A Oscar awards ceremony.

Last season, Chen Yingxiong gradually began to want to compete for the league's top scorer from the second half of the league because his performance in the first half of the season was too terrible to look at...

But this season is different. Although the scoring rate has declined, the number of goals is not small. Halfway through the season, he has already scored thirteen goals.

Chen Yingxiong had this idea from the beginning of this season.

He knows the defensive level of Serie A. Because of this, he feels that being able to continuously win the Serie A Golden Boot is a very challenging and fulfilling thing.

He didn't publicly clamor to book the league's top scorer because... the Serie A promotional video didn't ask him to shoot it...

But deep down, this is his goal.

From the first day of the new season, he has been heading towards this goal.

Now that he has scored thirteen goals in half a season, even if he only scores thirteen goals in the second half of the season, the result of twenty-six goals is still very remarkable, and maybe he can really get the top scorer of this season.

Of course, he will never be satisfied with this.

In fact, a league's top scorer is not a particularly proud honor. Many players have the opportunity to win the league's top scorer, and players who have won the league's top scorer do not necessarily become superstars. Superstars do not use the league's top scorer as an evaluation standard.

But... this is based on occasionally winning, or even winning the league's top scorer only once in their career.

If... every season is the top scorer in the league they are in?

Then it would be completely different.

Since his debut, Chen Yingxiong has not been the top scorer in the Russian Premier League in the 2006 season because he played too few games and his personal ability was too young. In the following 2007 and 2008 seasons, he was the top scorer in the Russian Premier League. After transferring to Napoli, he reversed Ibrahimovic at the last moment of the 2008-2009 season and also won the league Golden Boot, achieving a completely seamless connection.

In this way, he has been the top scorer in the league for three consecutive seasons, which also gave Chen Yingxiong a crazy idea in his mind...

Why can't I continue to do this? Strive to have a top scorer award every year?

Then, let's start with the 2009-2010 Serie A league!

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After finishing the game with Palermo, the next day Chen Yingxiong, together with Mazzarri and Cassano, took the private plane provided by the chairman to Milan to attend the awards ceremony held at the Milan Cathedral.

Mazzarri was nominated for the Best Coach award for his outstanding performance since coaching Napoli, and Cassano was also nominated for the Best Italian Player award for his revival in Napoli.

The Milan Cathedral is a place with fond memories for Chen Yingxiong...

Right outside this magnificent cathedral, he had an incomparably beautiful encounter.

So when walking the red carpet, Chen Yingxiong was stunned for a moment at the entrance of the cathedral.

Since then, there has been no intersection between them...

"Hey, Yingxiong, what are you doing?" Cassano, who was walking behind, saw Chen Yingxiong suddenly stop, and he almost bumped into him.

"Ah, I'm thinking, what should I say when I receive the award later?"

Cassano was stunned for a moment: "You are just one of the candidates..."

"I think the Best Foreign Player must be me, right?" Chen Yingxiong said.

There are three candidates for the Best Foreign Player, namely Chen Yingxiong, Ibrahimovic and Diego Milito. And for this awards ceremony, Ibrahimovic also flew back from Barcelona.

Just as he was talking, there was a commotion at the edge of the red carpet, mixed with exclamations and the sound of pressing shutters.

Chen Yingxiong and Cassano looked back and saw a person coming out of the car. It was Ibrahimovic.

Cassano smiled.

It's really a narrow road for enemies.

Like Chen Yingxiong, Ibrahimovic is a popular candidate for the Serie A Best Foreign Player and Best Player, and his voice is very high. Especially the media in Milan, are blowing his trumpet and creating momentum for him.

Because in terms of personal achievements, although Chen Yingxiong grabbed Ibrahimovic's Serie A Golden Boot at the last moment, the Swede only lost by one goal, and his team also won the league championship. He is one of the biggest contributors to the team's championship.

In terms of team honor, he has more advantages than Chen Yingxiong. Taken together, it is not impossible for him to surpass Chen Yingxiong.

What's more... he is more famous than Chen Yingxiong.

You must know that personal awards such as the Best Foreign Player are voted by players, so if you are famous, you can take advantage of the voting. This is similar to FIFA's World Footballer of the Year selection. If you are famous, everyone will be familiar with you, and of course you will get more votes when voting.

Cassano obviously thought so too, so he felt that it was too early for Chen Yingxiong to think about what to say in his acceptance speech...

Chen Yingxiong ignored the commotion and turned his head to continue walking forward.

Ibrahimovic took a few steps forward and saw Chen Yingxiong in front of him.

Then he quickened his pace, surpassed Chen Yingxiong and Cassano, and walked in front of the two. Then he waved to the screaming fans, reporters... and the camera lenses.

"Hey!" Seeing Ibrahimovic's back, Chen Yingxiong rolled his eyes.

This guy really doesn't want to be behind him on any occasion... Is he scared by the competition last season?

When Cassano first saw the Swede, he just watched the excitement. Now his face has become ugly. He felt that the Swede's approach was deliberately provocative.

He glanced at Chen Yingxiong, and Chen Yingxiong winked at him.

The two of them also quickened their pace with great understanding, and then passed Ibrahimovic from the left and right, and walked in front of him again...

Moreover, they didn't slow down and wave to the fans and reporters on both sides of the red carpet like Ibrahimovic did after overtaking.

They continued to accelerate and rushed to the finish line in a nearly jogging posture, entering the hall first.

Then the two looked at each other and laughed loudly—although their approach might seem childish to some people. But they had a lot of fun.

But they successfully disgusted Ibrahimovic, which was enough.

Sure enough, when Ibrahimovic saw Chen Yingxiong and Cassano in front of him, "running" into the hall from in front of him in a butt-clamping posture, his face was very ugly—even a fool knew that the other party was responding to his seemingly unintentional "overtaking" just now...

Yes, he admitted that he "overtook" because he was upset that he happened to look up and find Chen Yingxiong in front of him. But he didn't expect Chen Yingxiong to respond to himself in such a naked way in public... You know, his brisk walking was deliberately disguised as much as possible, and it looked like he was just taking a few steps as if he was in a hurry. So he overtook Chen Yingxiong and immediately slowed down, pretending to be very natural to greet the fans and audience on both sides.

How could it be like Chen Yingxiong and that... Cassano! The two of them jogging so nakedly were completely telling everyone—we overtook Ibrahimovic! We are ahead of Ibrahimovic!

So rude!

Forget it... Why should I compete with these two guys!

Ibrahimovic maintained his original speed, continued to smile, and walked in while greeting.

As if he had no intention of competing with Chen Yingxiong at all, and that the other party was petty and childish.

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This scene has already been seen by many people.

Everyone knows that there is a conflict between Chen Yingxiong and Ibrahimovic. This conflict originated from the competition for the league's top scorer in the last round of last season.

The two were completely red-eyed.

Ibrahimovic never expected that he would lose the competition for the Golden Boot in a clearly advantageous situation. This made him very brooding, especially since he then transferred to Barcelona. At that time, there were voices in the Italian media saying that part of the reason why Ibrahimovic transferred was because he was hit by Chen Yingxiong—people only used half a season to grab his Golden Boot, and if he continued to mess around in Serie A, wouldn't he lose even his pants? So he simply transferred, can't I afford to offend him, can't I hide?

This statement made Ibrahimovic very angry.

Now that the two meet again, there is indeed a good show to watch.

Everyone believes that tomorrow's newspapers and TV news will be very lively...

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Mazzarri didn't go crazy with his two disciples. He had just accepted an interview with a local media, so he was left behind, and naturally he saw the whole story between the three of them.

He shook his head, these three individual players...

He also forgot that in the eyes of Italian reporters, he, Mazzarri, is also a very individual head coach.

This time he will compete with his fellow villager Allegrini and his most hated Mourinho for the Best Coach award. Unlike Chen Yingxiong, who is determined to win, he feels that he has no chance. Although he hates Mourinho, he knows that this year's Best Coach is probably still Mourinho's.

But he was a little unconvinced in his heart—Inter Milan won the championship, so of course you are the Best Coach, but Inter Milan's foundation was left to you by Mancini, Portuguese!

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