With the end of the game, Ling Feng completed his professional debut and also achieved a system achievement:
Ding Dong!
Achievement “Debut” reached
Achievement Evaluation: A
Achievement Reward: Two free attribute points
Hearing the system prompt in his mind, Ling Feng’s heart stirred, but on the surface, he remained unruffled.
Looking at Mahrez walking towards him, Ling Feng showed a bright smile and high-fived him:
“Hey, mate, that shot of yours was so cool!
The goalkeeper couldn’t touch the football at all…”
“Riyad, just call me Riyad.”
After correcting Ling Feng’s address, Mahrez used his not-so-fluent English and asked with slight curiosity:
“Ling, your passing is amazing.
Are all English youth team players like you?”
“Like me what?”
“As amazing as you!”
Seeing Mahrez’s serious look, Ling Feng laughed out loud, then spread his hands, making a joke:
“There are quite a few players with amazing passing, but you probably won’t find another me in the whole world.”
Hearing this, Mahrez nodded as if he understood.
On the sidelines, the Leicester City coaching staff was also excitedly celebrating this hard-won victory.
When shaking hands with Stoke City manager Mark Hughes, Mark Hughes suddenly said:
“Although my team performed better.
But, the result of the game was indeed unexpected.
To be honest, your number 23 is very good.”
Hearing the strong unwillingness and appreciation in the other party’s words, Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson’s heart stirred, and he immediately put on a pretentious look:
“He is indeed quite good, but he still needs to continue honing his skills.”
“I hope next time we meet, it will be in the Premier League…”
Leaving this sentence behind, Mark Hughes turned and walked into the player tunnel.
Turning his head, looking at the black-haired young man with his arm around Mahrez’s shoulder on the pitch, Pearson’s eyes suddenly softened a lot.
At this moment, he felt very fortunate about his decision to substitute Ling Feng onto the pitch.
Not only did it reverse the score and win the match, but he also discovered a genius!
Ling Feng’s sudden emergence suddenly gave him an extra ace in his hand.
With Ling Feng, Leicester City’s certainty of pushing for the Premier League this year would only be greater!
The problem was, could Ling Feng stably output such passes.
Thinking of this, he turned his head and said to assistant manager Steve Walsh beside him:
“Steve, I think we’ve found a huge treasure for the club!
But, I hope his passing talent isn’t just a flash in the pan…”
“Have Ling report to the first team tomorrow!”
Hearing this, Steve Walsh also smiled slightly:
“A very wise decision!”
Having said that, Pearson went to meet Ling Feng walking towards the sidelines, directly opened his arms, and gave the hero of the comeback a big hug.
“Kid, beautifully done!”
The manager’s enthusiasm did not surprise Ling Feng too much.
He just showed a modest smile and thanked Pearson to his face:
“Boss, thank you for giving me the chance to play.”
Although Ling Feng already possessed the vision and passing of prime De Bruyne, and could totally rely on his strength to establish a foothold in the first team.
However, getting along well with the manager was still very necessary.
After all, the one who decides the starting eleven is the manager.
No matter how big a star, once they disobey the manager’s words, they might be frozen out and demoted to the youth team.
What’s more, he was now just a nobody who had just completed his first-team debut, far from the time to act like a big shot!
Ling Feng’s attitude made Pearson very pleased.
He couldn’t help but raise his hand and pat Ling Feng’s shoulder, immediately making empty promises:
“Keep up the good work, I think highly of you.”
To this, Ling Feng just pretended to be shy and smiled.
…
During the selection of the Man of the Match, Ling Feng, who played for only a dozen minutes but provided two assists and helped the team to a comeback victory, was successfully elected.
Therefore, as soon as he walked off the pitch and was about to head to the player tunnel, he was pulled by several reporters to a mixed interview area on the side, preparing for a post-match interview.
Facing the cameras and reporters holding microphones, Ling Feng, attending a post-match interview for the first time, was suddenly a bit nervous.
This was his first time being interviewed by reporters as a professional player.
If he said the wrong thing, would he make a fool of himself in front of many viewers and leave a dark history?
However, thinking that he had survived such a huge event as transmigrating and being reborn, what was there to be nervous about?
He instantly relaxed.
A male reporter in a suit placed a microphone in front of him and asked:
“Congratulations, Ling Feng…
Is your name pronounced like that?”
“Yes.
Ling is my surname, Feng is my first name.”
“You are of mixed Chinese and English descent, right?”
“Yes, my father met my mother while studying in London.
In order to better take care of the family, he stayed in this country.”
Briefly asking about Ling Feng’s family background, the male reporter continued to ask:
“Let’s talk about your performance on the pitch.
This is your first-team debut, how do you feel right now?”
“I feel great.
First, I want to thank the manager for trusting me and putting me on the pitch at the most intense moment of the match.”
“Then I want to thank my teammates.
Football is a team sport.
Without teammates, we couldn’t achieve this…”
“Your passing was very deadly.
Only on the pitch for ten minutes, you provided two amazing assists.”
“Being able to help the team win, I’m very happy…”
Facing a reporter’s interview for the first time, Ling Feng, who had lived two lives, answered very modestly and calmly, completely unlike an eighteen-year-old young man who had just completed his debut.
And this brief post-match interview was destined to become important reference material for major clubs to examine his personal character in the future.
“Thank you for your time.
This is your Man of the Match champagne…”
Looking at the red champagne with the FA Cup logo printed on the bottle handed over by the reporter, Ling Feng finally reacted.
It turned out that the reward for the Man of the Match in the FA Cup was not some trophy, but a bottle of champagne!
Taking the champagne back to the away dressing room, as soon as Ling Feng entered the door, he was grabbed by the shoulder by Vardy, who loudly teased:
“Hey, our little hero is back holding champagne!”
As soon as the voice fell, the Leicester City players, led by captain Wes Morgan, applauded Ling Feng.
Clap clap clap…
After the applause, Ling Feng just smiled brightly, expressing his gratitude to his teammates:
“Thank you everyone, I just did what I was supposed to do…”
Pausing, he raised the champagne in his hand, “I think this champagne belongs not only to me, but also to you.
Because without your hard work in the first eighty minutes, there would be no comeback in the last ten minutes!”
Ling Feng’s words stunned everyone present for a moment.
They did not expect that this youngster who had just been promoted from the youth team and was playing for the first team for the first time would have such high speech skills!
He was only eighteen, right?
From the short ten minutes on the pitch, the passing skills Ling Feng demonstrated had already conquered them.
That kind of fatal pass, no one in the whole team could do!
Having a teammate with super passing skills was a good thing for both the team and the individual.
After all, in the professional football world, who wouldn’t like a powerful teammate?
(END CHAPTER)