Chapter 1 After Bellamy's Goal

After Bellamy scored, the game was still just an ordinary warm-up, friendly, and commercial match. Liverpool, having sent out their full starting lineup, certainly couldn't afford to not score a single goal; that would be too embarrassing.

Although Gao Hongbo had formulated a defensive counter-attack strategy for the team, and their defense was fierce, Liverpool was still the better team.

Generally speaking, after scoring a goal, a team like Liverpool would slow down the pace, play steadily, score another goal in the first half, then substitute ten, maybe even eleven players in the second half, and then it would truly be friendly game time.

But no.

After the game restarted for a while, everyone realized that something was wrong.

Liverpool continued their offensive. Although the Chinese players were working hard and fighting desperately, running actively, and defending fiercely, Liverpool used their skilled passing to exhaust the Chinese defenders. Liverpool's passing and control skills were certainly not as heaven-defying as Barcelona's, but they were more than enough to deal with the Chinese team.

The Chinese players ran from left to right, from front to back, but couldn't even steal the ball. Liverpool passed the ball back and forth, acting like Barcelona in front of the Chinese team.

Yang Hao first went to steal Charlie Adam's ball, but Adam passed it to Martin Škrtel, who came up to support him. He then ran to steal Martin Škrtel's ball, thinking that if a center-back was pressing forward, he could intercept the ball and launch a counter-attack, delivering a fatal blow.

But Škrtel passed the ball away just as he was about to reach him, this time to Lucas in front.

Yang Hao turned and ran back. Lucas dribbled forward, and he chased after him. Just as he was about to catch up, Lucas passed the ball to Bellamy, and Yang Hao couldn't catch up anymore, because he was on the wing, at least twenty meters away. By the time he ran over there, it would be too late.

Liu Jianhong felt a pang of sadness watching this scene. Because Yang Hao's situation was not an isolated case in this game.

Under Liverpool's skilled passing and teamwork, the Chinese team was like a monkey being played around with during practice...

"This is the gap..." he sighed. "Can we say that our players aren't fighting hard? Can we say that our players aren't working hard? Can we say that our players aren't taking it seriously? None of that is true, but they just can't steal the ball from Liverpool's players. This isn't a matter of attitude, it's a matter of skill. Chinese football is too far behind the world... and it's continuing to fall behind!"

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Yang Hao certainly couldn't steal the ball by just rushing in like that, but Gao Hongbo had his own methods. In addition to that, the most important thing was to defend the penalty area. So, overall, the Chinese team was defending the penalty area with all its might. Most of the players stayed in the thirty-meter zone, their main task being defense and blocking shots.

They were only one goal behind, and there was still a chance to catch up.

He could see that Liverpool was taking this game very seriously and they were playing very hard. This didn't offend him; on the contrary, he was very happy. Because such opportunities were rare, for a European powerhouse to go all out... such a situation was uncommon in commercial matches. This was a very good training opportunity for the Chinese players, and they could learn a lot from this game.

If the opponent was going all out, he had to go all out too!

The Chinese team defended with all their might, striving to concede as few goals as possible. If they only conceded one goal in the first half, it would be considered a victory for the Chinese team, and they would still have a chance in the second half...

This kind of defense was indeed a headache for Liverpool. A solid defensive formation was difficult for many teams to deal with.

But for Chen Hero, no such problem existed...

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"Bellamy pulls to the wing... he crosses it!!"

With Liu Jianhong's loud shout, everyone's attention was drawn to the center of the penalty area.

The football was high in the air, and so was Chen Hero!

He jumped up, the tallest person in the entire penalty area. Du Zexing and Feng Tangming were also trying to compete for the header, but they were still a head shorter than Chen Hero!

Those Chinese fans who had watched Napoli's games for several seasons at home saw this scene and their pupils shrank. Here it comes! Hero is flying! No one can defeat Chen Hero in the air!

"Hero heads it!!" Liu Jianhong roared. "Goal! Goal! Goal! Goal! Goal! Goal!! Hero scores!"

This was much more passionate than when Bellamy scored... all because the scorer was a Chinese player!

Too close, too powerful, too sharp an angle, Yang Zhi simply stretched out his hand and didn't even attempt a diving save.

He just watched the football fly into the goal...

"He used his best skill to open the door to China's goal! Such an outstanding performance, are the Football Association officials in the stands watching?!" Liu Jianhong questioned the podium, and at the same time, the TV broadcast quickly switched to the podium, where a group of Football Association officials were sitting and watching the game.

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The cheers from the stands were indeed louder than when Bellamy scored, but only slightly. It hadn't reached the point where the entire stadium was going crazy, and the treatment was not even close to what he received at Tianhe Stadium...

But this wouldn't prevent Chen Hero from doing what he was about to do.

After scoring, he signaled his teammates not to come up and hug him. He had his own celebration. Then he ran towards the sidelines in the direction of the podium.

The camera followed Chen Hero closely, all the way to the sidelines, and then they saw him turn sideways and slowly but firmly raise his arm...

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"This... what is Hero going to do?!" Liu Jianhong didn't really not know what Chen Hero was going to do. He was purely frightened by the scene that might appear in his mind!

Not just him, but the fans who had watched many of Chen Hero's games were stunned.

They all knew very well what Chen Hero's action meant—he was going to celebrate by slapping someone!

He had slapped those extremist fans more than once in Naples, so everyone was familiar with his celebration.

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Chen Hero raised his arm high, then gathered his strength, and then swung it out violently, drawing a "u" shaped arc, a standard slap!

*Slap!*

Was he slapping the fans in this stand?

No!

Chen Hero then lifted his jersey, revealing the vest underneath, which had the words "For the Football Association, hope you like it!" written on it in Chinese!

He was slapping those official masters of the Football Association!

The TV broadcast quickly switched to the podium, giving a close-up, so everyone could clearly see that the face of Zhong Chusheng, the full-time vice chairman of the Football Association, was as black as Bao Gong's...

Chen Hero seemed to be afraid that the people from the Football Association hadn't noticed that the slap was for them, so he kept pointing at the vest on his chest, signaling them to look here.

"This..." Liu Jianhong didn't know what to say anymore. Everyone knew that there was a feud between Chen Hero and the Football Association, but there was no need to expose this conflict in such a fierce way, in such an environment, right?

He obviously didn't know about the new feud between Chen Hero and the Football Association...

And the word quickly spread in the stands that Hero had slapped the faces of the Football Association officials!

"Too handsome!"

"Hero did a good job!"

"Those bastards should have been slapped a long time ago! A bunch of people who occupy the latrine without shitting! All they know how to do is harm our football!"

"Hero! I support you!"

"Hero! You are my idol! I love you to death! You finally vented our anger!"

"Hero, you just slap them! Don't worry! Chinese fans will be your support!"

Scoring a goal for the Chinese team hadn't caused a full-court cheer, but Chen Hero's explosive action ignited the atmosphere of Helong Stadium!

"Old General He said that if the three major ball sports don't break out of Asia, he won't rest in peace! Volleyball and basketball have long broken out of Asia and gone to the world, but our Chinese football is getting worse and worse! Look at what these dog officials have done to football? Hero did a good job! He did it beautifully! On behalf of Old General He under the Nine Springs, give them a hard slap! Let Old General He vent his anger!"

Soon, a unified voice resounded throughout the stadium: "Well done! Wonderful! The pig association is screaming! Well done! Wonderful! The pig association is screaming!"

There had been no rehearsal, and no one was directing, but the voice suddenly sounded, and then quickly received a response, sweeping into a storm. The voice was so clear that even the fans in front of the TV could hear it clearly!

Everyone heard the slogan that was constantly repeated: "Well done! Wonderful! The pig association is screaming!"

Not to mention the leaders of the Football Association who were sitting at the scene...

Unfortunately, CCTV never gave the scene of the podium again, so everyone couldn't see the expressions of Zhong Chusheng and the others at this moment.

That's a pity...

But you can imagine it, it must be wonderful!

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, probably all flashed across their faces.

The other leaders sitting on the podium also looked embarrassed, their hearts felt like ten thousand alpacas were running wild...

No one thought that Chen Hero would be so bold and reckless, making such a blatant challenge to the Football Association in a live broadcast game!

No Chinese player had ever done such a thing before, he must be crazy!!

Did he still want to join the national team after doing this?!

Wasn't this cutting himself off from the national team?

Of course, they wouldn't know that the Football Association had already sentenced Chen Hero to death in their hearts...

Otherwise, Chen Hero wouldn't have made such a move.

He didn't have any psychological burden at all when he slapped them, and he felt particularly happy.

I'm slapping you turtle sons!

You want to cover it up, you want to keep a low profile? I'll poke you!

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