Chapter 237: Chapter 236: The Shocking Love-Hate Relationship in Football (Eighteenth update, asking for a full subscription, not a drop left, will continue writing upon awakening)
Lisbon Athletic Official Website Banner: Congratulations to the academy player Cristiano Ronaldo for receiving multiple honors including the Portugal Cup’s Best Forward, Best Lineup, and Assist King!
Lisbon Athletic Official Website Major Feature: Congratulations to the academy player Deng Kai for receiving multiple honors including the Portugal Cup’s Best Player, Best Midfielder, Best Lineup, and Top Scorer! He is our pride!
Matrazzi: Deng Kai and Cristiano Ronaldo are in my plans for next season, they will break records by joining the Lisbon Athletic first team and become the youngest first-team players!
Morelense Club Chairman: We tried our best to keep them, but Deng Kai and Cristiano Ronaldo belong to Lisbon Athletic, and they should be playing on a bigger stage!
Deng Kai bids farewell to Morelense: "In the past six months, there hasn’t been a day where I slept well. I came to Morelense and got the chance to play, but what have I left behind? Now, I can finally rest assured, I can tell everyone with my head held high, I have left behind two Championship Trophies at Morelense! Thank you for your support, Morelense will always be my second home!"
More than 80% of Morelense residents bid farewell to Deng Kai! They stated they will always support him!
Ronaldo: Shit! Why do you get the major feature and I only get a banner feature?
Deng Kai: Don’t say that, I also had the line that I am the club’s pride added to mine!
Ronaldo: ...
Ronaldo: Don’t you find it disgusting to hear the words you said to the Morelense fans? Count how many ’second homes’ you have now?
Deng Kai: I said it once when I visited your place, once when I accompanied Hathaway to the Oscars, once to the neighbors in the Chinese community, once to the CCTV crew that came from China, and once to Manchester United fans... It’s quite normal. Although jerks tend to love everyone they meet, they are indeed serious about each one.
Feng Te: Is there no one who cares that my loan period is also up, and I have to go back to Lisbon Athletic?
Perhaps it was because the Portugal Cup ended so late this year, the usually less-noticed Portugal Cup suddenly got a lot of media coverage.
Not just from the Portuguese press, but the whole of Europe.
The reason is simple... there was nothing else to report after all the other major events ended.
Before the heavy news related to the European Championship arrived, winning the Portugal Cup was, after all, a piece of legitimate news.
After all, many authoritative media outlets can’t report every day on "XXX has already reported to the national team training base," "XXX hasn’t reported to the national team training base yet," "XXX says they’re preparing to report," can they?
News information also comes in types and levels.
You can have the latest clues, but you also need thematic columns.
You need to track hot topics, and also trace and delve deep into important events.
Record Report made its name in the European football media with a series of articles by special correspondent Jiang Yunzhu.
With a series of reports, they broke into the first tier of European football media elite!
Jiang Yunzhu’s series of articles on Deng Kai and Cristiano Ronaldo became a classic case of football media operations, and were written into marketing textbooks of major European universities!
The news started with winning the Portugal Cup.
Academy players leading a Primeira Liga team to defeat the big three of the Liga NOS to win the Portugal Cup... this topic was obviously eye-catching.
And the subsequent in-depth content was also well laid out... this team went from last place in the season to winning the championship and got promoted! They added two trophies to a team that had never won any honors before!
Beyond just the team, the players became the focus of coverage, with newcomers Deng Kai and Cristiano Ronaldo winning the Primeira Liga’s Assist King and Top Scorer awards, not even sparing honors such as Best Player, Best Midfielder, and Best Forward!
Got rising stars, don’t you?
And it could continue digging!
In the first half of the season, Deng Kai played in the Portuguese youth league U17 and won both the Top Scorer and Assist King in just half a season! Can you get more impressive than that!
At first, many parents were disgruntled that Deng Kai won the U17’s Best Player award after only playing for half a season.
But now, who can still be dissatisfied?
Winning the U17’s Best Player in just half a season, that was just understating his talent!
The other player snagged the best player of the season award for both the Portuguese Premier League and the Portuguese Cup!
Who else can compete with that?
Digging deeper into Ronaldo’s story, in the first match of the season, he collapsed on the field, diagnosed with a "serious" heart condition, and underwent surgery. Just when everyone thought his career was over before it even started, he rose from the ashes in the Portuguese Premier League like a phoenix and made a royal comeback!
Half a season’s top scorer of the Portuguese Premier League, king of assists in the Portuguese Cup, who else but Deng Kai?
This news was a daily headline, dazzling the idle European football fans.
And there’s more!
Looking back a year before, at the age of thirteen, Deng Kai and Ronaldo played in the U15 matches and dominated Portugal’s U15 youth league, sweeping up awards like top scorer, top assists, and various ’best player’ awards. Not to mention, they even lifted the Championship Trophy in the inaugural Youth Champions League!
And of course, they took home the titles of top scorer, king of assists, and various ’best player’ awards.
Unbelievable, right?
Exaggerated much?
Wait, there’s more!
Last summer, in the European Youth Championships hosted by Czech Republic, both were called up despite the norm, and with the main players injured, they carried the team on their shoulders, leading them to victory in the European Youth Cup and continuing Portugal’s golden generation’s legacy!
Now, people are calling them the diamond generation of Portugal!
Is all the bragging done and the news special over?
That would be just skimming the surface.
A true news master knows how to tell a story!
Jiang Yunzhu clearly has a deep understanding of women’s literature.
Her piece "You’ve Only Seen Them Fighting Side by Side on an Old CD, Not Knowing They Once Led Their Respective Teams with Mutual Admiration!" had the drama fans totally lost.
What?
Weren’t Deng Kai and Ronaldo friends since childhood?
"Two years ago, at Portugal’s diamond generation invitational, Deng Kai lifted the trophy, his vanquished opponent being Cristiano Ronaldo!"
"Five years ago, at the Portuguese Football Association’s Golden Boy Cup, Deng Kai won, besting the absolute core of Madeira’s national youth team, still Ronaldo!"
"From eternal enemies to the most trustworthy teammates! From fierce rivals on the field to moving in with Deng Kai’s family! Deng Kai and Ronaldo are Portugal’s Superman and Batman, the West’s Monkey King and Calabash Brothers!"
The story’s rhythm soared.
The rest of the European media were dumbfounded.
Not giving these two the Golden Ball award would be an injustice!
This journalist is incredible!
Glancing at her bio.
Jiang Yunzhu, deputy editor-in-chief of China’s "Sports Weekly," enjoying the deputy editor-in-chief level treatment at Portugal’s authoritative "Record Report"...
Indeed, a person’s reputation precedes them; those who ascend are truly exceptional.
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