Football’s First Defender

Before Chelsea made Yang Feng's transfer transaction, the team's preseason arrangements for the new season had already been made!

The whole Chelsea team will carry out the "Asia Tour" activity in the summer of 2008. The main goal is actually the very vast Chinese market!

And with the news of Yang Feng's transfer to Chelsea, the tickets for the two warm-up matches in Guangzhou and Macau have continued to be inflated on the basis of the original sky-high prices!

But there are still countless Chinese fans, Chelsea fans, who are content to dig out their wallets and grab tickets. Not only can they see many Chelsea superstars on the spot, but they are also very likely to see Chinese players make their first appearance in the Premier League giants!

Even if this is just a warm-up match! But witnessing the first appearance of a future superstar is still very memorable for some fans!

As a new aid, Yang Feng himself has the honor bonus of being the main player who has just won the European Cup championship, but the four seniors in the Chelsea central defender position are also people who have seen great storms with the national team, and their strength is also good. Chelsea reached the final of the Champions League last season. It seems wishful thinking that Yang Feng wants to enter the rotation lineup as soon as he arrives at the team!

However, since the main purpose of this "Asia tour" is to expand the Chinese market of the team and the Premier League, then Yang Feng's magical transfer operation will immediately make Chelsea's reputation and the benefits it can obtain in China become higher!

Even if Scolari only regards Yang Feng as the fifth choice in the position of central defender, and even feels that it is not worth spending tens of millions of pounds for the team to buy a central defender who is obviously not going to be used in a short time, but at the top of the club Under the intervention of the team, at least in the two Chinese warm-up matches, Yang Feng's playing time must be guaranteed!

For the Chinese market, Yang Feng is Chelsea's biggest cash cow. After the official announcement that Yang Feng joined Chelsea, in terms of the sales of genuine jerseys in mainland China, Yang Feng's far-leading data even surpassed the sum of other players, which can be seen!

Chelsea in the new season will start pre-season training on July 9th! And many international players who have European Cup tasks can extend their vacation for one to two weeks and return later!

However, this "Asia Tour" is an extremely important business activity that the club attaches great importance to. The club requires all players to participate without special reasons!

Even this summer, Ballack, who has just had his wedding after the European Cup final, may not be with the team to prepare for the current pre-season training, but he still has to come to China to participate in business activities!

Yang Feng, after getting acquainted with a group of teammates for a short time, he returned to the motherland with the team without even playing two training games!

At 7:15 a.m. on July 21, the Chelsea Club and their team arrived at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport! This is the century-old Chelsea club, and it is the first time to come to China! Countless media and fans witnessed this historic moment at the airport!

Chelsea's many big-name players such as John Terry, Lampard and Petr Cech were all present. Only Drogba missed this "Asia Tour" because of his recovery from injury to a critical moment!

The newly married Ballack has just held his wedding on the 14th and has been staying in Germany. This time he did not leave London with the team. He will take another flight to Guangzhou to reunite with the team in the near future!

Among the Chelsea players who walked out of the airport, the most popular one was of course the local Chinese player Yang Feng!

Chinese fans are sometimes so strange. When there is no player of the highest level, everyone likes foreign players. But as long as there are Chinese players among those players, the vast majority of fans will immediately give more attention to their compatriots because of patriotism!

Yang Feng, who has proved with his strength and honor that he can gain a foothold in Europe, naturally surpassed the big brothers in the Chelsea team in the support of fans!

Enthusiastic fans surrounded the Chelsea players three layers inside and three layers outside, and the fans around Yang Feng were almost impenetrable!

Anyway, all the Chelsea players finally got their autographs and returned to the hotel where they stayed! In order to open up the Chinese market and enhance Chelsea's brand image in mainland China, this time the club strictly regulates the behavior of the players and tries to meet the requirements of the fans!

Countless Chelsea fans, Premier League fans, and star fans from all over the country flocked to Guangzhou. All the commercial activities of the Chelsea team in the past two days have been faced with huge crowds of people. Without security personnel to open the way, it is impossible to get out!

Anyway, almost all the activities did not end on time. Even if the activities were over, it would still take a lot of time for the players and entourage to break out of the encirclement of fans with the help of security...

The madness of the Chinese fans surprised the players and team staff alike. No one would have thought that there are so many crazy fans in China, where the level of football is not considered developed!

Of course, although business activities are very important, the highlight is the warm-up match of the highly anticipated team! Everyone wants to see how these stars play live!

At 8 pm on the 23rd, at the Guangzhou Olympic Center, Chelsea played away against the Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Guangyao, which is the predecessor of the real estate team, but at this time this team cannot be called a giant in the Chinese Super League!

Yang Feng, as a Chinese player in the Chelsea team, is playing at home, so of course he automatically got a starting spot! He will partner Terry, played for Chelsea for the first time, and is still a starter!

When the on-site broadcasters introduced Chelsea players one by one, there would be warm applause and cheers on the field. The fans expressed their love for these players with their enthusiasm!

And when it was the turn to introduce Yang Feng, the decibels of the fans reached the highest point! The audience is boiling!

On my own land, in such a successful and great club, I can see my compatriots wearing blue jerseys. For many Chelsea fans for many years, the inner mood is definitely a thrill and excitement!

Yang Feng prepared for this warm-up match with a very correct attitude, but in the game, it was hardly Yang Feng's turn to perform too much. Chelsea, who played almost all the main players, firmly grasped the rhythm of the game. The Guangzhou team had almost no Too many opportunities to attack!

The Guangzhou team, which has always been on the defensive, blindly cleared long passes most of the time. Yang Feng, Terry and Petr Cech on the goal line were almost not in any great danger of sports wars, and they all became field reporters!

The gap between the two teams is really too big. In the end, Chelsea was 4-0, and they easily won the game with less effort!

Terry was replaced by Alex at halftime, and because Yang Feng was a domestic player, he was left on the field for a full 70 minutes for commercial reasons before being replaced by Carvalho!

Yang Feng also received thunderous applause from the audience at the end of the game!

In this game, Yang Feng's performance opportunities can be counted by pinching his fingers, more directly relying on the judgment of the landing point, and he made a successful clearance in advance. There was only one time when Lu Lin of the Guangzhou team got the ball to counterattack and confronted Yang Feng head-on. , although the fake moves were very realistic, but Yang Feng firmly stuck in his position during his march, and did not hesitate, but used his body to fight and directly broke the football!

It was Lu Lin who successfully broke through and hit the goal when facing other defensive players who were slightly relaxed, and Xu Liang hit the crossbar directly with a free kick in the first half, which is a rare highlight of the Guangzhou team !

Three days later, Chelsea moved to Macau to face another Chinese Super League team, Chengdu Sheffield United, at a neutral stadium!

In this game, it may be that the players' physical condition is gradually returning from the holiday, or it may not be the need to save face for the home team as before in the Guangyao team's territory. Chelsea played more normally in this game, 7-0 In the bloodbath of Chengdu Sheffield United, Yang Feng made his debut again, but this time he was replaced by a substitute after halftime!

This makes the Chinese fans who come to Macau to watch the game a little regretful!

After staying in China for nearly a week, the Chelsea team will go to Malaysia to play a warm-up match with the local team to maintain the team's market in Southeast Asia!

In this game against the Malaysian team, Yang Feng was thrown on the bench by Scolari, and he got the chance to come off the bench in the second half!

In order to prepare for the more important warm-up match a few days later, Chelsea kept their strength in this game, and it ended hastily with only 2-0!

Afterwards, the warm-up matches with the Russian super team Lokomotiv Moscow and the Serie A giants AC Milan are the highlights of Scolari's preparations and testing of his tactical drills during this period of time!

And Yang Feng, in these two warm-up matches that are obviously more important to Chelsea, did not get even a minute of chance to play!

The combination of Terry and Alex is Scolari's first choice, and on the substitute list, Scalari's fellow Brazilian Belletti is even more trusted by the head coach than Chelsea's former main central defender Carvalho. In the two warm-up matches, Yang Feng came off the bench one after another, and Yang Feng really became the water dispenser administrator!

Fortunately, for this situation that is destined to be on the fringes of the team for a long time, Yang Feng had already expected it before he moved to Chelsea. For now, just work hard to improve yourself. For the competition, just let it go!

Although the club vowed before the transfer that it would give him a chance to play, he would rather believe in ghosts than the management's mouth! Yang Feng didn't think he really had any great chances this season at the beginning!

In Yang Feng's view, he agreed to transfer to Chelsea instead of Liverpool, which also raised his offer after going there. First, he came to Chelsea, a platform that is best at cultivating defender talents, to quickly improve his own abilities in all aspects. Second, he also took advantage of Chelsea. Influence to successfully obtain a labor permit to enter the Premier League, even if there is no chance to play in the team in a short period of time, it is not a bad thing to let the agent work hard to loan to the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League in the winter window or summer window!

Although Yang Feng may not be able to compete for playing time for Captain Terry and the other three international-level competitors at this stage, but if he goes to a mid-lower team, Yang Feng still believes that he can still occupy a main position! How can I say that I am also a young central defender who has proved his strength in the European Cup. It should not be difficult to go to a small team to grab a position from those big and rough central defenders!