Football System: Penalty Zone Hero

Authors note: Bonus chapter #4 for 40/20 power stones.

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Chen Yingxiong felt that his life had become much smoother. With Yesenin as his "translator", he could communicate with others much better than before, and he could also understand articles in the newspaper. Later, with Yesenin's translation, he knew the content of the article: reporters were speculating about Chen Yingxiong's background, and since there was no name on the jersey, they didn't even know what his name was.

In front of outsiders, Yesenin was just a translator and Chen Yingxiong's Russian teacher. Chen Yingxiong found that the people in the club were not surprised by his appearance. It seemed that he was not a fake guy. However, he was obviously the incarnation of the mysterious Aurora, so how did he become a translator and Russian teacher, and then apply for a job here? Chen Yingxiong had no idea.

Most of the time, he was a Russian teacher, not a translator. After all, his role as a translator was very limited now. Chen Yingxiong only needed to communicate with the club's coaches. When communicating with teammates in the locker room, the translator was not allowed to enter. 

After all, there were many things in the locker room that he did not want outsiders to know. He did not need to contact the media at the moment, so he did not need to use a translator.

Although there were obviously more reporters at the youth team training ground after the youth league game, Popovich strictly prohibited Chen Yingxiong from accepting interviews. He did not want the media to disturb this promising player. He was worried that pursuing fame and fortune too early would make Chen Yingxiong lost. His worry was justified. Many young and talented players lost their way in all kinds of praise and quickly fell because of premature fame. Popovich did not want Chen Yingxiong to become one of them.

Chen Yingxiong's current life was training during the day and studying Russian with Yesenin in the dormitory at night.

He didn't know why, but he felt that he had made rapid progress in learning Russian. Was it because Russian was easy to learn? Or was Yesenin, the Russian teacher, really talented? But Yesenin's teaching method was really interesting - he taught Chen Yingxiong Russian by combining newspapers and TV programs. He focused on Russian words related to football.

Could it be due to his supernatural powers? Sometimes, Chen Yingxiong thought so. He'd never been amazing at languages after all.

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Life began to go smoothly, and in football, Chen Yingxiong seemed to have good luck.

The next weekend, he was again selected to participate in the youth league roster. After being selected for two consecutive games, Chen Yingxiong could feel that his position in the youth team was becoming more and more important...

Chen Yingxiong knew that he was important because of his excellent heading ability and physical fitness, as well as his excellent performance in the first game.

Well begun is half done, he knew it very well, so in the first game, for a goal that was blown off, he was so impulsive that he argued with the referee and was almost sent off with a red card...

On August 26, the Saint Petersburg Zenit Youth Team continued to play at home against their opponents, this time against the Smena Komsomolsa Youth Team.

For this game, Advocaat and assistant coach Porter once again came to the indoor stadium of Smina Football School to watch the game.

Of course, they could not attract the media's attention this time. Outside the stadium, there were obviously more reporters than in the previous game.

They all came to observe the mysterious number 33.

Chen Yingxiong still wore the No. 33 jersey in this game, but he still did not start.

He was substituted in the 65th minute of the second half.

When he took the court, photographers in the stands quickly pressed the shutters of their cameras to capture his strong and upright figure.

When Chen Yingxiong came on the field, the score was already 4:0, and the home team Zenit St. Petersburg was leading the opponent by a large margin.

This result was quite normal, after all, their opponent was a semi-professional football club...

However, Chen Yingxiong did not show mercy just because the opponent had already suffered a crushing defeat.

Seven minutes after he came on the pitch, he used his best header to blast open Komsomolsk's goal.

After scoring the goal, Chen Yingxiong cheered.

The photographers in the stands pressed the shutter again to freeze his passionate figure.

He came on as a substitute in two consecutive games and scored goals soon after. Those professional football journalists were all keenly aware that perhaps a promising star was rising!

When Advocaat saw Chen Yingxiong score another goal, he became more determined to transfer him to the first team.

And what about Porter? He had nothing to say. Chen Yingxiong's performance blocked all his doubts. In front of such an absolutely dominant header, he didn't have any complaints.

Seeing Chen Yingxiong score the goal with his head, Yesenin, who was sitting in the stands and serving as his translator, smiled with satisfaction. No one noticed when a faint colorful light flashed across his face.

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Chen Yingxiong was in high spirits and of course, he was unwilling to let the game end like this. In the last game, he had a chance to score twice, but the referee blew the whistle. This time, he had to do it no matter what!

When the ball was passed to the wing again, he raised his arm high in the middle. His towering height and this arm made him look like a giant lighthouse on the coastline, impossible to ignore.

Originally, the teammates felt sympathy, thinking that they were already five goals ahead and it was only a semi-professional club, so there was no need to be so ruthless.

But if they didn't pass the ball, Chen Yingxiong would not lower his arm. The fans on the sidelines who wanted to see Chen Yingxiong score more goals also started to cheer and kept shouting, "Pass the ball to him! Pass the ball high!"

His teammates had no choice but to pass the ball...

Chen Yingxiong suddenly jumped up from the ground, high above everyone, and then headed for the goal!

As expected, the ball flew into the goal again. The defenders of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur team even gave up jumping... They just looked up and watched the No. 33 header the ball into the goal.

Finally scored twice!

Chen Yingxiong excitedly took off his jersey, revealing his strong muscles underneath. His eight abdominal muscles were clearly defined and very obvious!

This muscular body is his greatest asset. He rushed to the group of photographers and made a bodybuilder's move, showing off his chest and abdominal muscles. Facing the camera, he showed off his body unscrupulously.

This caused screams from the stands.

Popovich laughed - what a show-off!

He knew that this was Chen Yingxiong protesting against him not letting him be interviewed by reporters...

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After the game, Chen Yingxiong once again became the focus of reporters - over 1.9 meters tall, strong as a bear, scored twice and had a wild personality... These were all good gimmicks for reporters to hype!

But they were stopped by Popovich again.

"Please give my players some quiet space!"

"Then you should at least tell us his name!" a reporter shouted.

"No comment!"

"Is this still a secret? He's played twice!"

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While Popovich was still arguing with the reporters, Chen Yingxiong was not forced into the locker room by his teammates this time. Instead, he was called into another office alone by Advocaat and Porter. His translator Yesenin also came with him.

Originally, Advocat planned to communicate with Chen Yingxiong in English, but he didn't know Chen Yingxiong's language level, and there was a translator next to him, so he simply spoke to him in Dutch. "First of all, congratulations on your two wonderful goals in the game, young man."

Advocaat extended his hand to Chen Yingxiong and seemed very kind.

Chen Yingxiong had a pretty good impression of this head coach.

"Thank you, Mr. Advocaat." Although there was a translator present, Chen Yingxiong still expressed his gratitude in English.

When Advocaat heard him speak English, his eyes lit up. "You can speak English?"

Chen Yingxiong nodded. "Not very good, but it's OK for daily communication."

As a player, English was indeed a very important skill - if you had the opportunity to play football abroad, knowing English would be very convenient. So when he was in China, his father also enrolled him in an English learning class to let him learn English after playing football. It seemed that from that time on, his father had the intention of letting his son play football abroad...

"Let me introduce myself. I'm Dick Advocaat, the head coach of Zenit's first team." Since both parties could speak English, there was no need for a translator, and Yesenin became a mere guest.

"I've long heard of your name, Mr. Advocat." Chen Yingxiong shook Advocat's hand vigorously.

He had indeed heard of the name for a long time... but he had never seen him before. Otherwise, he would not have failed to recognize him before.

"I want to ask you something... would you like to play for the first team?"

Advocaat's words were so direct that Chen Yingxiong didn't react. He was stunned for a moment before realizing that the other party was planning to transfer him to the first team!

First team!

What does that mean? It means that I have the opportunity to play in a real professional league - the Russian Premier League!

It meant that he would appear in a game watched by tens of thousands of spectators, that there would be TV broadcasts filming him from different angles during the game, that the TV commentator would spit and praise his goal, and that after the game he would be surrounded by media, and that the coach could no longer stop him from being interviewed...

Is there any need to hesitate and consider this?

He nodded vigorously. "Of course I do, Mr. Advocaat!"

Advocaat was very satisfied with Chen Yingxiong's answer - it would be so embarrassing to be rejected by a player from the youth team...

He nodded, "Very good. I will talk to your coach, Mr. Popovich, and after everything is settled..." He pointed to assistant coach Cole Porter beside him. "Mr Porter will notify you to report to the first team."

Porter extended his hand to Chen Yingxiong. "Hello, young man. I am the team's assistant coach, Coul Porter."

From the smile on his face, you couldn't tell that he once had any prejudice against Chen Yingxiong...

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