Chapter 130 War of Words
This is the match that Manchester City will compete in the Champions League again after many years, and the English media is paying attention to it.
This is Zhang Yang's first time back to Italy after a year, and his opponent is Juventus, who has old grudges with him, and the Italian media is also paying attention to it.
In a word, this game is a real focus.
On September 14, 2009, the flight of Manchester City arrived at Turin Airport, and then they took a bus to the hotel they were staying at.
When the team bus arrived at the hotel where they were staying, many media were already waiting there.
This final has long been characterized by the media as a "war between the upstart man Manchester City led by Zhang Yang and the old giant Juventus who was reborn in Nirvana's rebirth"!
Zhang Yang was very dissatisfied with the media's description of the two teams. He did not deny that Manchester City is still in the formidable stage. Behind the team is indeed the financial support of the Arabs. However, the naked ones are said to be "novas", and they are compared with Juventus. One is an old-fashioned family and the other is a nova. Such a label is really unhappy.
An old-fashioned family? Rebirth in Nirvana? When my buddy was in AC Milan a year ago, he still made Juventus look for teeth! It was OK a year ago, but it is OK now!
As the captain of the team, Zhang Yang was the first to walk off the bus and just stepped onto the ground. Countless microphones were stretched out from both sides of the passage, and questions were thrown at him one by one. It should be said that most of these questions were not fresh, most of them were about how he felt when he returned to Italy again after a year, how he felt when facing Juventus, his old opponent, and whether he had no confidence when facing Juventus.
It can be imagined that Zhang Yang would not have any big reaction to the first two questions, but the latter question made him angry.
"No confidence in winning? Then what are we doing here? Give Juventus points?" Zhang Yang said angrily while squeezing forward and trying to squeeze out the reporters' "encirclement".
"Zhang, your confidence is very worthy of praise, but, in fact, Manchester City's overall strength is indeed much worse than Juventus. Will this be a reason for losing?" The man who said Zhang Yang had no confidence to lead Manchester City to win, asked at the top of his voice.
"Who are you?" Zhang Yang asked. He did it on purpose. Of course, he had seen the interview certificate clearly on the reporter's chest.
The reporter proudly said, "The reporter of Turin Sports Daily..."
Zhang Yang immediately glanced at the man with contempt and interrupted the man's plan to continue his introduction, "Manchester City did not lose the disadvantage in the game against Chelsea last season, but there was a team that was beaten by Chelsea. Which team is this?"
The reporter of Turin Sports Daily shouted with a blushing face and thick neck, "This is not comparable. We are discussing Juventus win..."
Zhang Yang was very popular, "What to win? Who wins? The game has not started, you just say we can't win. Why do you draw such a conclusion?! The biggest pleasure of football games is that at the end of the game, you never know who the winner is! You think Juventus is better than us, sorry, my point of view is exactly the opposite..." Seeing the reporter open his mouth and say something, Zhang Yang didn't give this person a chance to speak at all, "The game has not started, I'm good at drawing conclusions. How many years have you reported on football? Do you know football? Who are you?" Zhang Yang almost continued to say "Your mother's surname is the one". Fortunately, he suppressed his anger at the critical moment and did not swear. Otherwise, there would be fun.
"I'll say it again, don't ask such idiotic questions, what's special about facing Juventus again? There's nothing special about it. In my opinion, there's no difference between playing against Juventus and facing Aston Villa in the Premier League."
Well, his words offended Juventus and Aston Villa. Juventus will definitely not be happy to confuse teams like Aston Villa. You must know that Aston Villa was massacred by Manchester City 8-3 last season. Of course, Aston Villa was pulled out by Zhang Yang again and said, so naturally he would not be happy. It will only increase resentment.
The curse erupted, and Zhang Yang simply stopped leaving. He continued to swear at the poor reporter of Turin Sports: "Why do you keep saying that I don't have the confidence to win Juventus? Why? This is because you are timid! Only those who are timid in their hearts will keep muttering. Well, you are looking for psychological hints to comfort you. But please don't come to me again to play tricks. I am not a charity here, and I have no obligation to comfort your terrified little heart."
Someone in the crowd whistled, which was gloating and booing. Whether it was other Italian journalists or English journalists, everyone liked to see Zhang Yang's sharp and emotional behavior because it meant that they would soon have exciting news reports.
Of course, many Italian journalists were quite surprised. After going to England for a season, Zhang Yang was good at scolding, which can be described as "sharp teeth and sharp mouths".
The English reporters even applauded. Although they sometimes don’t deal with Zhang Yang, now Manchester City represents the English team, and Zhang Yang is the captain of Manchester City. Now they are angry with the Turin people. They naturally look very refreshed and stand on Zhang Yang’s side. In fact, the media in Turin before exaggerated that Zhang Yang has no confidence to lead the team to defeat Juventus, and when Zhang Yang and Manchester City are a little silent, many English reporters are very unhappy. They are very disappointed with Zhang Yang. Now, disappointment turns into whistles and cheers.
Manchester City head coach Mark Hughes was discussing tactical issues with his assistant, so he was not the first to get off the car. He was the second to get off the car. As soon as he got off the car, he saw Zhang Yang snoring with reporters in Turin. This made Mark Hughes frown. He was the team's head coach, but the first person in the whole team was his player. When the media talked about Manchester City, he must be the first to talk about Zhang Yang. When talking about Manchester City's glory last season, Zhang Yang was also considered the number one hero, but as the head coach, he was rarely mentioned. Mark Hughes was naturally very unhappy about this. It was just because of the team's unity, the head coach, and he was tolerated.
Mark Hughes coughed and was about to speak and told Zhang Yang not to make trouble anymore. He hurried into the hotel. At this time, Zhang Yang just finished his snoring. He shook his finger at the Italian reporter, including the reporter of Turin Sports, "Everyone, welcome to the Alp Stadium to watch a feast..."
Now, there were boos from Italian journalists. For them, Zhang Yang, who made them love and hate, was back.
Looking at Zhang Yang's back walking towards the hotel, Mark Hughes's face was not very good. Before he could say anything, he held it back, and felt like he was hitting the cotton with one punch, which was frustrating.
"Wow, it's so cool!" Tevez said. He had just joined Manchester City for not long and had no idea about Zhang Yang. However, at this moment, watching the captain of this team as young as him swearing at Italian reporters, and the reporter who has always been eloquent and good at spreading troubles was stunned and at a loss. A feeling of admiration arose in Tevez's heart.
"He is an old rival to Turin Sports." Ronaldo said with a smile, "It's now lively."
It's really lively.
Before the game was played, Zhang Yang blew the words of the reporter of the Turin Sports Daily in front of the hotel became the focus of media attention...
The angry Turin Sports Daily angrily denounced Zhang Yang as: lack of education, disrespect for opponents, rude words, rude words, rude words, and dirty words! Obviously, they recalled the stadium fight in the 2007/2008 season when Zhang Yang represented AC Milan and Juventus, and angrily denounced Zhang Yang as an evil man and a scum of the stadium.
However, the rehearsal behavior of Turin Sports, apart from arousing the unbearable past of several Juventus players, did not seem to resonate with the entire Italy. After all, Zhang Yang played for AC Milan at that time, and you can't bring AC Milan in to fight Juventus.
However, The Turin Sports Daily said that Zhang Yang had been to England for more than a year, and was even more rude and did not know how to respect his opponents. This resonated with the Italian media.
Now, the English media is not happy. What does it mean? Zhang Yang becomes rude after staying in England for a year? Is this ridiculing England as a rude place?
The English media has a rare stand on Zhang Yang's side.
Even Zhang Yang's behavior of snoring at Turin Sports News was praised by the English media as: a tough captain, has personality, is not afraid of strong enemies, a real man!
Zhang Yang was also shocked. He was just provoked by the Turin Sports Daily again and again. He was very popular, so he broke out. Unexpectedly, he became a hero in the English media. This was really rare, he spoke out. Even Mendes called and praised Zhang Yang for his wonderful scolding. Zhang Yang thought at first that Mendes was talking slander.
The most important part of this hype and quarrel is that as the captain of Juventus, Buffon stood up to criticize Zhang Yang for respecting his opponent, paying attention to the occasion when speaking, and setting a good example for fans.
If Buffon was the captain of Juventus in the past, Zhang Yang was just an ordinary member of the team, the relationship was not equal. Now it is different. Zhang Yang is also the captain of Manchester City. I don’t know if it is because of this reason. This is the 'captain’s battle of words' after becoming the captain, which made him very excited. He said directly, "When I was in AC Milan, one of the most unforgettable scenes was that I saw Buffon picking up the ball from the net, so he was so handsome."
OK. This sentence has caused a big mess.
Chapter completed!