On January 3, 2016, the 2015 FIFA Golden Ball Award was announced. Brazilian star Neymar from Barcelona won the award, and the second place was AC Milan star Al Salavi. Zhang Yang only ranked third because of his missed most of the season and Manchester City's poor record.

Some media have begun to advocate that the era of Zhang Yang and Manchester City has passed.

Zhang Yang and Manchester City immediately used their performance to slap all the skeptics in the face.

In the 2015/2016 season, Manchester City came to the end in the FA Cup, Premier League, and Champions League, winning the championship trophy, and they won the triple crown again! If they hadn't been given up early in the League Cup due to strategic considerations, otherwise Manchester City would have really become the four-time champion.

Subsequently, after the 2016/2017 season began, Manchester City won the championship in the Charity Shield Cup in England, the European Super Cup, and the Club World Cup. They are the well-deserved six-champions, which is also the second time Manchester City won the six-champion championship after the 2009/2010 season.

In January 2017, Zhang Yang once again became the winner of the FIFA FIFA Golden Ball Award, with the second place being Zhang Yang's teammate Balotelli at Manchester City, and Barcelona star Neymar ranked third.

At the end of this season, Manchester City successfully defended their title in the Premier League, but in the Champions League, they stopped in the semi-finals, and the Champions League championship competition this season was between Bayern Munich and Dortmund. In the end, in this Bundesliga civil war, Bayern Munich defeated Dortmund 2-0 and reached the top of Europe.

For Chinese fans, the most important news of this year is that under the leadership of Zhang Yang, the Chinese team qualified for the playoffs in the top ten Asian matches of the 2018 Russia World Cup. The Chinese team's opponent in the playoffs is Colombia from South America.

Almost everyone is not optimistic about the Chinese team being able to overcome this level of Colombia. However, under the unfavorable factor of Colombia being tied by his opponent and getting a away goal, the Chinese team defeated Colombia 2-1 away in the second leg, and Zhang Yang won all three goals in the two rounds of the Chinese team!

Without being optimistic, the Chinese team received a ticket to the 2018 Russian World Cup finals!

After 16 years, the Chinese team will appear in the World Cup again!

When the whistle sounded at the end of the Chinese team's 2-1 away game, the whole of China was boiling, and many fans cried with joy.

Duan Xuan, an old commentator at CCTV, also choked up: The Chinese team has qualified! They have qualified! They have entered the 2018 Russian World Cup! They have completed almost impossible tasks! Congratulations on them! Congratulations on them! Congratulations on the young men! Congratulations on Zhang Yang! Congratulations on our captain Zhang Yang! Congratulations on him! Thank him!

At the same time, the camera was aimed at Zhang Yang.

Duan Xuan continued to choke and said, "We must thank him and express our gratitude to him! Zhang Yang! He is 31 years old this year. As the greatest player in football today, he is the well-deserved No. 1 star! Let's open his honor book, Ligue 1 champion, French Cup champion, Serie A champion, Italian Cup champion, five Premier League champion, three Champions League champion, and Club World Cup champion, FA Cup champion, League Cup champion, Super

He won countless championships! He was elected to the FIFA FIFA Golden Ball Award five times! Such a great player was not able to show his football talent on the World Cup stage until he was thirty-one! This is Zhang Yang's misfortune, which Chinese football owes him, but this is Zhang Yang's luck. We are fortunate to see him lead the Chinese team to the World Cup, and die without regrets! Really, die without regrets!"

Duan Xuan was completely moved, and he didn't know what he was talking about.

In the news broadcast that night, it took nearly five minutes to report on the news that the Chinese team entered the 2018 World Cup. President Xi sent a special congratulatory message and specifically said that he would like to thank Zhang Yang, as a fan, thank Zhang Yang.

In January 2018, the 2017 FIFA FIFA Golden Ball Award was won by Brazilian star Neymar, Zhang Yang ranked second, and Bayern Munich player Gotze ranked third.

In the 2017/2018 season, the media later gave this season a special name: Lao Zhangyang’s most season!

Zhang Yang, a veteran who is about to turn 32, has played his craziest form this season.

In the 2018/2018 Premier League season, Zhang Yang scored 31 goals! Premier League Golden Boot, Premier League champion!

In the 2017/2018 FA Cup, Zhang Yang scored six goals to help the team win the FA Cup!

In the 2017/2018 English League Cup, Zhang Yang scored three goals and the team won the League Cup!

In the 2018/2018 Champions League season, Zhang Yang scored 11 goals, the Golden Boot of the Champions League, Manchester City once again stood at the top of Europe for the fifth time in ten years!

After the club's event ended, everyone's eyes focused on Russia, 2018 Russia World Cup.

The Chinese team was assigned to Group C, with Italy, France and New Zealand in the same group as the Chinese team. This is a difficult group for the Chinese team. In addition to facing New Zealand and the Chinese team has an advantage, their future is really worrying when facing Italy and France.

In the first match against Italy, the Chinese team lost one-to-two. Despite the loss, the Chinese team led by Zhang Yang won the respect of Italy. The Chinese team did not give up until the last moment of the game. They were still fighting endlessly. Zhang Yang scored the first goal in the history of the World Cup for the Chinese team! In Italy, Balotelli and Al Salavi made contributions in the first and second halfs.

In the second match between France, this game was related to the life and death of the Chinese team. In the end, in this game, the Chinese team tied the powerful French team 2-2. The French team once led 2-0. Zhang Yang first used a direct free kick to help the Chinese team equalize a goal, and then sent the penalty kick created by his teammates. Two-to-two, the Chinese team retained the last hope of qualifying.

Facing the last opponent in the group stage and the weakest opponent New Zealand, the Chinese team showed a "strong team style", three to zero! The Chinese team beat New Zealand, and Zhang Yang scored a hat trick in the game!

On another venue, the French team lost to Italy 10-1. In this way, the Chinese team entered the quarterfinals as the second in the group. The whole country was jubilant.

After the group stage, Zhang Yang scored six goals in this World Cup. The 32-year-old veteran led the scorer list, making a group of young people look up to him.

The Chinese team's opponent in the eighth game is defending champion Brazil.

The match between the Chinese team and Brazil is considered the most tragic match in the 2018 Russian World Cup.

In the 11th minute of the game, Casemiro, who played for Real Madrid, took the lead for Brazil. Brazil 1:0 China.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Gansu scored a direct free kick, Brazil 2:0 China!

At this time, almost everyone thought that the Chinese team would not only lose, but also be a crushing defeat. However, the Chinese team, led by Zhang Yang, began a tenacious battle.

In the 33rd minute of the game, Zhang Yang relied entirely on his personal skills and after overtaking many Brazilian players, he scored a wonderful lob shot, breaking Brazil's goal, and the Chinese team scored a goal! China 1:2 Brazil!

In the 43rd minute of the game, the Chinese team got a chance to set the ball in the frontcourt, and Zhang Yang took the direct free kick and scored directly! Zhang Yang scored twice, and the Chinese team tied the score! China 2:2 Brazil!

Before the end of the first half, the Chinese team tied the score. At this moment, countless fans around the world couldn't believe their eyes.

"Under the leadership of their captain Zhang Yang, the Chinese showed their tenacity to the world!"

In the 63rd minute of the game, after receiving the Oscar's pass, Neymar scored with a low shot after overtaking many Chinese players. Brazil once again surpassed the score, Brazil 3:2 China!

In the 71st minute of the game, Zhang Yang received a pass from the side after receiving a teammate's pass from the wing, and a very beautiful Lions headed the ball and scored a header! Three to three! Zhang Yang scored a hat trick, and the Chinese team tenaciously tied the score again, China 3:3 Brazil!

In the 83rd minute of the game, Oscar's amazing world wave helped Brazil to surpass the score again, Brazil 4:3 China!

After the goal, the Brazilians celebrated wildly. This game, even for the six-star Brazil, seemed so difficult. They did not expect that the Chinese team would be so difficult to deal with before the game.

However, just five minutes later, a scene that shocked the whole world happened. A corner kick opportunity for the Chinese team. After the corner kick was opened into the penalty area, it caused chaos in the Brazilian team's penalty area. Zhang Yang shook three Brazilian players away in the narrow penalty area, and then passed the Brazilian team goalkeeper and scored the football into the goal!

"God, it's incredible! The fourth! The fourth! Zhang Yang scored another goal! This is a beautiful goal as pearl! What an incredible goal! Zhang Yang scored a Samba-flavored goal that Brazilians must envy and worship!"

Zhang Yang staged a great show of the big four, China 4:4 Brazil!

At this moment, the audience was cheering, and even Brazilian fans had to cheer for Zhang Yang's goals and for his perfect performance in this game and this World Cup.

In injury time, Neymar scored his second goal in this game, helping the Brazilian team to surpass the score again and freeze the score at 5-4!

Brazil 5:4 China!

This game is also considered by Brazilians to be the hardest game to play in this World Cup!

At the end of the game, the applause in the stands lasted for Zhang Yang!

Brazilian fans also stood up and applauded Zhang Yang.

Before the start of this World Cup, Zhang Yang said that this is his first World Cup and the last one. In this World Cup, he has only one goal, that is, enjoy the game and the feeling of enjoying the World Cup!

"This is a World Cup that belongs to Changyang. He said he wants to enjoy the feeling of the World Cup. He did so. He left nine goals for the World Cup and four games that fans around the world can often recall. The stage of the World Cup will no longer appear dim because of the lack of the figure of the greatest players of this era." - FIFA official website

After the World Cup, Zhang Yang disappeared from people's sight and said he wanted to enjoy the holiday.

On July 27, 2018, a news exploded. A large number of journalists and fans suddenly flocked to the Cook Islands, a pocket island country known as the "wedding holy place" in the South Pacific.

Zhang Yang will hold a wedding here, and he will enter the marriage hall with his girlfriend Emma Watson who has been in love for ten years.

This wedding was broadcast live to fans around the world. More than 300 million fans from more than 80 countries and regions around the world watched the wedding live broadcast.

In the words of "French Football", the attention of this wedding is no less than that of the Champions League final.

On January 7, 2019, Zhang Yang won the FIFA FIFA Golden Ball Award again, which is also the sixth time he has won the highest honor for a male football player.

Three days later, Zhang Yang and Emma Watson's first child was born, a boy. Zhang Yang named his child Zhang Man, a somewhat feminine name, which he used to commemorate his years at Manchester City.

In the 2018/2019 season, Manchester City won the Premier League title. They stopped in the quarterfinals in the Champions League.

After the season ended, Zhang Yang announced that he will retire after the end of next season!

Once this news was announced, it immediately became the focus of global media attention. Countless fans called, sent emails to Manchester City Club, and on Zhang Yang's personal website to retain him.

The next day, Zhang Yang updated on Twitter: In his fourteen-year career, he has achieved a lot of glory, enjoyed the joy brought by football, and was also very happy to bring joy to fans, but he has also lost a lot of things and wanted to spend more time with his family. His physical condition is not suitable for continuing to play. I don’t want to wait until I retire, I am very deserted and helpless, without the company of the champion. Now, it is the season to leave. Next season, I will enjoy football to the fullest, hoping to use the championship to see myself off. I love you and always love you.

After this Twitter post was posted, all the words of retention turned into blessings and thanks.

On August 15, 2019, Manchester City defeated their arch rival Manchester United in the Charity Shield and won the first trophy of the season.

In an interview after the game, Zhang Yang happily joked, "Now, I can rest assured that at the end of the season, there is no need to worry about not having a championship."

The next day, his teammates protested collectively in the Manchester City Evening News: The captain underestimates us too much. We want to win the championship and win more championships. Manchester City thanks you, captain!

The young men were going to see the old captain off with the champion. They issued such a declaration and worked hard to do it!

In March 2020, Manchester City defeated Portsmouth three-to-one in the League Cup final and won the second championship trophy of the season.

On May 9, 2020, Manchester City defeated West Ham United 2-0 at home in the 37th round of the league, and Zhang Yang passed and shot in the game. His goal count in the season's league reached 21 goals! For a 34-year-old old shooter, this is a terrifying goal data!

After winning this game, Manchester City won the Premier League championship in the 2019/2020 season one round ahead of schedule!

This is their third championship trophy this season.

A few days later, they beat Chelsea one-to-zero in the FA Cup final.

This is their fourth championship trophy this season!

On May 23, 2020, in the 2019/2020 Champions League final, Manchester City scored his seventh goal in the Champions League this season! They also won the Champions League championship this season.

This is their fifth championship trophy this season!

This game is also Zhang Yang's last game for Manchester City and the last game of Zhang Yang's career. Zhang Yang has already stated that he will not hold a special retirement competition. Therefore, this game is Zhang Yang's farewell performance.

At the end of the game, all the fans stood up, and even Barcelona fans who had always had a bad relationship with Zhang Yang stood up, and the audience was applauding.

On this night, they bid farewell to the greatest star of the 21st century.

After the award ceremony, Manchester City Club arranged a special farewell for Zhang Yang. All the players, each holding or holding at least one trophy in their hands, and then they placed the trophy on the final field and formed a circle. Only one exit was left.

Standing in this castle surrounded by the champion, Zhang Yang raised his right arm high, like the king, and with his movements, the audience cheered thunderously. At this time, Barcelona fans had already left, and they would never cheer that Zhang Yang was the king. The entire stadium was already a sea of ​​Manchester City fans.

Zhang Yang walked out of the only exit of the castle besieged by the Champions League Trophy, and he walked out.

"He was like a king, in front of him, countless trophys, which were the spoils he led his soldiers and comrades to fight all directions! Now, the king was about to retire, he was to stay away from the battlefield, away from the smoke of gunpowder, and he wanted to enjoy a peaceful life. He walked out of the castle, waved to his subjects, and paid tribute to them! They responded to him. Then, the king, under the gaze of everyone, kept walking forward, moving forward, and disappeared into the deep corridor..."

On May 23, 2020, Zhang Yang retired.

When he walked into the player corridor without hesitation with cheers and thanks, and sobbing voices, the camera captured the tears from the corner of the Manchester City King's eyes, and he was already crying.

Football players will die twice, once, when they retire, once, when their hearts stop beating...

The next day, the Manchester City Evening News, which has been supporting Zhang Ying for more than ten years, only had one photo and one title on the front page.

The photo shows Zhang Yang's back disappearing in the player's corridor.

The title is: Long live the King of Football! Goodbye, our King, you have always been here!
Chapter completed!