Chapter 72 What is Chinese football

What is the difference between China in the summer of 2010 and the summer of 2007 in Tang En's memory? In Tang En's opinion, it is no different. The impact of the economic crisis on China is not as huge and obvious as the European, American and Japanese worlds. On the surface, this country is still full of vitality and contains countless opportunities. Although it has been affected by the world economic crisis in the past two years, the country still maintains an economic growth rate of 8%.

Although he is a British citizen, Tang En can never forget that he is actually a white-skinned and yellow-filled egg yolk steamed bun. So no matter how many times he comes to China, he will feel intimate from the bottom of his heart.

Although Shanniya claims that she has one-eighth Chinese descent, she obviously feels about this country as much as Tang En, a purebred British. For her, China is a country with many fun attractions and many delicious tourist attractions, and of course she can make money - Chinese companies have already asked her to endorse her, because her information contains the fact that she has one-eighth Chinese descent, and it doesn't rule out that Fasar wants to win over the relationship between Shanniya and the Chinese market. But as an internationally famous model and a slightly famous actress in Hollywood, this has made Chinese fans very excited.

So when Tang En and Shania got married in Brazil last summer, the Chinese media said complacently that Tony Tang En's family has an indissoluble bond with China - Tang En's good friend and assistant is Chinese Tang; Tang En himself claimed that he loved Chinese culture very much, very much. He also knew Chinese and seemed to know China better than a Chinese; there were Chinese players in the Nottingham Forest; it is said that he recognized Tang's parents as godfathers and godmothers... Now he has a wife with one-eighth Chinese descent.

This summer, Tony Tangen, a very destined person, came to China for vacation again.

When he, Xianya and Tang San appeared at Chengdu Shuangliu Airport, he was frightened by the interview group blocked outside the waiting hall.

About twenty reporters from various media gathered outside the pick-up port, which was obviously different from the ordinary people around who came to pick up relatives and friends. Before Tang En arrived, they attracted a lot of attention and were speculating about which star was coming to Chengdu today.

They also attracted the attention of airport security guards, and soon a team of security guards appeared around these people. They were responsible for maintaining order. They didn't know who was coming, but they knew that they must be some star. As airport staff, they saw a lot of things like this.

When Tang En led Xianya and accompanied by Tangdi, he turned around and appeared at the pick-up entrance. As if he had received a signal, the group of people pressed the camera shutter in their hands. For a moment, the flash continued. The waiting hall turned snow white.

"I thought we were secret enough..." He glanced at Tang next to him, because while the flash was going out, he saw Tang Jing at a glance in the crowd.

"You two are public figures, how could you live in secret?" Tang did not deny that he told Tang Jingdi the news, but he did not admit it either. He just tactfully stated that the combination of Tang En and Xianya was like a fireflies in the night sky. It was so eye-catching and cool, no matter where he hid, he would be discovered...

Shania did not argue with them.     She showed the true quality of a star - she immediately put on the best position, the most appropriate smile appeared on her face, and waved to the reporters.

So Tang En could only smile and waved to these people, "Hello everyone." He said in fluent Chinese.

Tang obviously didn't have to be so pretentious. He pushed the car and followed the two big stars, turning a blind eye to the Chinese journalists.

Tang Jing approached and stretched out her hand to Tang En through the temporary wall of people arranged by the airport security guards, wanting to shake hands: "Mr. Tang En. Mr. Tang En! How long do you plan to stay in China? Can you accept my exclusive interview before leaving? You and your wife Miss Jordanna..."

Tang En turned his head and looked at Tang who pretended not to see anything, and then looked at Shanniya. Shanniya smiled at him, so he stretched out his hand to hold Tang Jing together: "I'm very happy. You make an appointment, Miss Tang Jing."

"Just tonight... are you going to go back to Tang's hometown?"

Tang En nodded: "Okay. You know Tang's contact information, so you must know where we live. Call Tang in advance when you are coming." He teased the current relationship between Tang and Tang Jing with words.

Tang didn't say anything, but Tang Jing didn't care at all. After completing the interview between Tang En and Xianya, she seemed very excited: "I have a car, do you want to take my car?"

Tang En shook his head and rejected her: "Thank you for your kindness. But we also have a car."

Tang En and his group of three pushed their luggage out. The reporters kept asking questions, hoping to get answers from the three. In fact, these reporters are not all aimed at Tang Enlai. Some media want to interview Shaniya, while some media are more interested in Tang...

Just surrounded by them, they walked out of the hall.

"Okay OK, friends." Tang En felt that it was too troublesome to bring a large group of people, so he stopped and turned around and shouted to the reporters, "I am here for vacation in China this time, and I hope I can enjoy a quiet vacation. Thank you for coming to greet me specifically, please go back now!"

After saying that, they walked straight to the driveway outside lined up for the taxi carrying passengers.

Tang Jing asked in surprise behind, "Is this your car?"

Tang En turned around and smiled at her: "Don't take a taxi and don't act like a car, Miss Tang Jing."

"A quiet vacation is simply a luxury for me." In the car, Donn complained in English about everything he encountered at the airport.

Shania sat next to him. Holding his hand, she said with a smile: "I've been used to it for a long time. I've never thought about where I could go quietly."

Tang sat in the passenger seat and said nothing.

Seeing him like this, Tang En remembered what he had always cared about and asked, "I said, man... how has you and Tang Jing developed?"

"Ah?" Tang didn't hear clearly.

"Are you in love with Tang Jing?" Tang En changed his statement.

"How is this... possible?" Tang Ya denies.

"Okay. Look, I'll take Xianya back to meet our parents. If they ask about your lifelong affairs, what do you plan to answer?"

"I'm still young..."

"At twenty-nine years old, are you still young?" In fact, Tang's actual age should be forty-one years old, which is Tang En's current age.

Tang didn't say anything.  Because he didn't know how to answer this question.

"You know... no matter what, they still hope to see you get married and get your child as soon as possible..." Tang En murmured, a little lost.

No matter what, he was not his own son. It was different from closeness and alienation. Although he felt a little awkward, he could only accept this reality. He got the fame and fortune and love he had always dreamed of, and had to pay something in exchange for these costs. So he lost his biological parents.

In the evening, Tang Jing proposed that she be the host and invite three of them to dinner. Tang En thought the excuse Tang Jing found was very interesting. She was not from Sichuan at all, so what kind of "host" is she?

But I still happily went to the appointment - I had to give Tang face, right?

After dinner, they returned to the hotel.  In the room, Tang En and Xianya accepted Tang Jing’s exclusive interview together.   In fact, it was mainly interviewing Tang En.                                                                                                       �

Tang Jing is very concerned about the prospects of Nottingham Forest next season, and she wants to hear about Don En's plan. So Don En chose to reveal some. Then he reviewed last season. Don En was generally satisfied with the team's performance last season, and being able to squeeze out Chelsea from successfully advancing to the European Champions League next season was also in line with his expectations.

Next is to talk about living with Shania after marriage. Naturally, he is very loving and happy. On the football field, Tang En's goal is to win and win, while in the life of a couple, he is to have a child.

Then Tang Jing cared about Tang En's physical condition and asked him to talk about his feelings about his bedridden rest at home for five months due to heart disease. Tang En felt that there was nothing to talk about, and getting sick was not a good thing, let alone heart disease. So he made his attitude towards this part of the question directly - without answering it.

The atmosphere was quite harmonious. Tang Jing for a moment that she was interviewing Tony Tang En, who was said to be the most difficult reporter to access. But in terms of Tang En's health, she finally saw the arrogant and unreasonable side of this person.

I had to enter the last stage - as the head coach of Nottingham Forest and the most successful young coach in Europe in recent years, and also a football person who knows a lot about China, how Tony Donn views Chinese football.

Unlike the previous answers, when it comes to Chinese football, Tang En seemed to have a lot to say.

"I heard you plan to change football back to the national system? I don't know how to evaluate it. If it is just to make the national football team achieve results, it is understandable to do so. Just like the table tennis, diving and gymnastics in your country. Very effective. The whole world knows that China is the strongest in table tennis, diving and China is the best. Gymnastics is also China's traditional advantage event."

"But I don't think the meaning of football is to make a country's team win the number of places in international competitions. Football is a competitive event, and it is also a game. Anyone can participate in it and play games. At the same time, it is even a life. I am the head coach of the club. For my club fans, going to the stadium to watch the matches of their hometown teams once a week is a life. This lifestyle is passed to the son and then to the grandson, and has been going on for hundreds of years. Do you understand this difference from you now?"

"In my opinion, although China was the first place of football invented, China is still far from what I call "life". How many years have professional football been introduced to China? How many years has the UK been doing? I believe that professional football has promising in China, because Chinese people are very smart and know how to do something well. It is also possible to do it well. The key is whether you want to do it well. After more than ten years of professional football, this thing is still like water without a source and wood without a soil in China. I think this is simply too failure! For smart Chinese people, it is simply shameful!"

Tang En suddenly became a little excited. It seemed as if he was the Chinese who felt ashamed of it.

"Due to failures in the Olympic and World Cup qualifiers, your General Administration of Sports decided to restore the previous national system. I do not deny that doing so will help your country develop a team with a corresponding position in the world football world. At that time, participating in the World Cup or Olympics will also achieve acceptable results for your fans. But if I am an ordinary football fan, I feel sad about living in such an environment. Would you like to know why?"

"I hope to hear it in detail." Tang Jing was already attracted by Tang En's high-profile talks without realizing it. She even forgot that this part was just a routine "growing up". She would not take up too much pages when she wrote the report. But now, she had a very strong idea in her heart - to make this part the top priority of the interview and recommend it to all readers.

"A strong national team, including various invitational and commercial competitions, can there be many games in a year? And a mature club team. How many high-level games do you have to play in a year? As an ordinary fan, he will of course support his national team and waving flags and shouting for his motherland on the national team game day. Very good, so what about the national team game day? How do you vent his love and desire for football? What kind of partner should you find to place this love similar to faith? Are foreign teams?"

Donn laughed from his nose. “AC Milan? Inter Milan? Real Madrid? Barcelona? Juventus? Manchester United? Arsenal? Liverpool? Chelsea? Bayern Munich? Or Nottingham Forest? Or German national team, Italian national team, England, Spanish national team, French national team, Portugal national team, Czech national team, Brazilian national team, Argentina national team, Japan national team, South Korea national team... There will be no Chinese national team anyway.”

"Of course, they can like the above teams, there is no problem at all, and no one has the right to interfere with other people's interests and hobbies and choices. But they are Chinese and Chinese fans. The above teams do not perform at their doorstep every weekend. They cannot cheer for their favorite teams on the stadium, and can only scold their arch-rival fans on the Internet. They cannot get close to these stars outside the training ground. Ask for autographs, and can't even buy real team souvenirs... This kind of love is honest,

He said I felt very sad. "He shrugged. "I think Chinese people pay great attention to a sense of belonging, but such love does not have a sense of belonging. You love those teams, those teams may not love you. Ah, I am not slandering European teams. I just think that the distance between you and them is too far away, and they don't care about your love at all. What is the positioning of those Chinese fans who go to the airport to welcome idol teams in the eyes of European clubs?" Tang En thought of his gold rush journey to China with the team.

What do Chinese fans who are so enthusiastic that they even worship the worshipping them are in the eyes of Allen Adams and Evan Dogette? It is just the "Chinese market". The exchange rate between the RMB, the pound and the euro.

What does it mean for those Forest players? Just ordinary supporters who are far away. They are very different from Notting fans in the minds of these people. They have the responsibility and obligation to use victory and their own skills to please Nottingham fans every week to support them at the city stadium. But they will not please these fans far away in China, although they are as enthusiastic as the former.

Nottingham Forest Club receives letters from fans around the world every day. Due to the existence of Assistant Tang and Sun Jihai, there are also many letters from Chinese fans. Most of the letters are templates, most of which are postcards and souvenirs. Some of them are just professional "trust insects" in China, while others really like the forest team. But no matter which case, the postmark date of the ordinary letter is almost one month different from the date of receiving the letter.

Isn’t the cost of this kind of love a little too high?

"I said so much, can you understand what I mean, Miss Tang Jing?"

Tang Jing nodded mechanically - in fact, she hadn't digested Tang En's words yet.

"The purpose of the General Administration of Sports and Football Association of your country's football is definitely not to give your national fans a football cultural lifestyle - this is not within the scope of their concern and consideration. Their purpose is to say it well. I hope that the national team's performance will be better, but to put it unpleasantly, it is just for the political achievements of their leaders during their tenure. What are Chinese fans in their hearts? This is really an interesting question..."

Perhaps it is a "mob" who gathers outside the stadium to shout "Football Association idiots", "Chinese team disbanded" and "Xie xlong, idiots", or it may be the number in the statistics of every Chinese Super League... Anyway, it is a group with a disgusting face and vague image, not a "people" with life, emotions, flesh and blood. So naturally, there is no need to care about their feelings, listen to their voices, and don't care what "football" means to these ordinary people.

"...Their work focus is only on the national team. As long as the national team has good results, they are good officials, even if they have political achievements. As for football culture and football life... what is that? Can they guarantee their promotion and wealth? Can they guarantee their political achievements? To subtly embody the influence of football into the lives of the people, what is needed is not just the efforts of several leadership teams. How many leaders are willing to plant trees on their own for the sake of future generations? I have worked hard for four years and have no political achievements, so that you grandsons can make political achievements? Why! Why do I have to do such a thing as making myself suffer and others take advantage of others!"

Tang En suddenly stood up from the chair and walked around the room excitedly, completely forgetting that he was being interviewed now. He just had a lot of things to say in his heart. No matter who the audience is, and where is it.

Since talking about Chinese football, Tang En has been communicating with Tang Jing in Chinese, because it may not be meaningful in English. So Shania couldn't understand what her Uncle Tony was talking at all. Seeing Tang En suddenly stood up excitedly. She walked around the room and muttered constantly, she was a little worried: "Uncle Tony..."

Tang Jing didn't expect that Tang En would have such a fierce reaction. She asked this question at the beginning, actually wanted to hear Tony. How did Tang En, an outsider, view Chinese football with a bad reputation now, just to let readers know how a foreigner views our own football. Unexpectedly, although Tang En was indeed talking about this from an outsider's perspective. But his emotions... he didn't think he was an outsider no matter how he looked at it.

She also stood up, her heart full of contradictions. Should she speak out and persuade Tang En to calm down, or hope that he will continue to say this and let herself hear more information...

"Yes, that's what they think!" Tang En turned around and stood up and said, "You have indeed gone through some detours and wrong paths in the process of developing your career path, but this does not mean that you have to completely deny everything in professional football and return to the national professional system. Is your football problem a professional problem? It is the stars making too much. Is the club spending too much money? Which European teams make less? Which club does not invest money? Players in countries with high-level football are moral models and models. Are the grass squeezed out milk? Are all European clubs clean and transparent like vacuum? Of course, people in the system will not admit that they have caused all this.

All are institutional issues, because admitting this is equivalent to cutting off their own life, smashing their own jobs, and destroying their own interests. So it is recommended to professionalization, to professional players who are low in quality and have a lot of money, and use the "hate of the rich" mentality in society to transfer everyone's anger towards the Football Association to the professional league. What do you say, "Over the years of professionalization, players have made more and more money, but the football level is getting worse. So the mistake is 'female professionalization'. But if it is not professionalization, how could you know how incompetent and pedantic this institution that has managed Chinese football for 55 years is!!"

"Many years, many years have passed. Maybe your national team will be very good in international football, like the Soviet Union before the disintegration. But your football level will not improve for a hundred years... No, it will never improve. What is football for your people? It is locked in a high-walled courtyard and away from the world to win glory for the country. But it is definitely not a game for children to play happily on the school playground, nor is it a weekly game for fans to gather in the stadium stands and in front of the TV to be happy for it. It is anger for it to worry about it. It has become a belief in life, entertainment, lifestyle, living, and living, sprouting, and growing among the people, and will not decline for a hundred years. It has a rational cycle mechanism. It can have a vast and far-reaching impact. From politicians to civilians, it likes to love...culture!"

"Do you know what that feels like? Miss Tang Jing?" After saying this in one breath, Tang En turned around and looked at the reporter Tang Jing who was already stunned.

"Nottingham Forest was unfortunately relegated, and half of Nottingham City people cried for it. Nottingham County was on the verge of bankruptcy, and the other half of Nottingham City generously donated money without seeking rewards. The donation of one pound to one pound is raised to save the team. Because that is their team, their hometown team! Even if she is just an unknown person who plays in the English C League and almost never hopes to win the European Champions League!"

"But in China today, 90% of people will be half surprised and half mocked and said to you: 'Oh, you are still fucking? You are still watching Chinese football! Self-abuse is not so self-abuse. Idiot!'" After cursing this swearing, Tang En spread his hands and his tone finally eased. "Look, this is the gap between the current situation of the two. Miss Tang Jing. What is the problem with Chinese football? It has no problem, because it itself is a big problem. Big problem breeds a large group of problems, and the problem involves countless small problems... How great is the whole family reunion and family happiness."

Tang En smiled: "But is there any way to solve this problem? To be honest, I think under the current situation of China's sports system, you should not expect to solve it. I sympathize with you very much, really, I won't joke. I really sympathize with you very much... In addition, don't imagine that one or two talented players can help you to achieve glory. Pay less attention to Chen Jian in the future. I know you are trying every means to introduce him to Chinese fans and shape him into a new hope for Chinese overseas players. But I want to warn you, Miss Tang Jing."

Tang En stretched out his index finger and shook it in front of Tang Jing. “He is definitely not the savior of Chinese football. He is just an ordinary young man who hopes to make a living by football and is a little stupid but has good luck. If your little boring delusion ruins my players, today is the last time I will accept your interview.”

When Tang Jing left the ground, she obviously didn't come back to her senses from Tang En's conversation. It was obvious that this interview had a much impact on her than any of Tang En's previous conversations in front of the media. She really needed to go back and digest it. Fortunately, although she was stunned, the interview machine in her hand was still working faithfully, recording every word of Tang En's words and words.

However, there is one thing she was very sober when she left - if this article was reported, the impact it caused was definitely not just a "most successful young marshal - entering the world of Tony Don't" interview can be compared with it.

To make this thing happen, you may even have to take some risks...

Shaniya didn't care what impact Tang En's words would have on the football world in this country. She was just confused about Tang En's passion in the last moment.

What will make Uncle Tony in life so excited? Even unable to control himself?

Tang En hugged her, shook her head and explained with a smile: "She asked a question that I couldn't explain clearly in one or two sentences, and this question could easily make people lose their minds and calmness... I'm so sorry, I scared you, Shania. But now it's okay, at least I don't have to continue to worry about that problem. Let's have fun!" He picked up Shania and threw herself on the bed.

Shania's scream soon turned into a gentle moan...

Tang Jing came out of the elevator, but found Tang sitting in the sofa in the hall facing the elevator.
To be continued...