When Chen Yingxiong ferociously hammered the football back into the goal again, as if to vent his frustrations, the Chievo goalkeeper standing beside him didn't react at all. The Stadio San Paolo had become a sea of jubilation.

"Top scorer! Top scorer! There's no doubt about it, he's the top scorer!" The Naples radio commentator shouted.

"Chen Yingxiong has surpassed Ibrahimović!! He has climbed to the top of the league's top scorer list with twenty-seven goals!"

Chen Yingxiong, who had taken off his shirt and was running wildly, showed everyone the tattoos and muscles on his body, then plunged into the team's substitutes' bench and was surrounded by his teammates.

Someone shouted, "The Swede didn't score! He hasn't scored yet! You are the top scorer now, Hero!"

Chen Yingxiong smiled when he heard the shout.

Finally, no one would share the Golden Boot with him anymore.

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While the Stadio San Paolo was immersed in jubilation, Ibrahimović was still pursuing his own goal on the field.

He didn't know that Chen Yingxiong had already scored, but the people off the field did.

If Ibrahimović didn't want to share the top scorer's honor with Chen Yingxiong, then it was up to him to score two more goals in the game to surpass him.

But for the few minutes left in the game, it was too short.

He might be able to score another goal, but scoring two more goals was almost an impossible task...

If he really still wanted the top scorer title, then he would have to accept the reality of sharing this honor with Chen Yingxiong.

On the Inter Milan coaching bench, someone secretly glanced at head coach Mourinho.

After this game, those reporters would definitely mention Chen Yingxiong's name to Mourinho. They knew too well what those reporters were like. So how would Mourinho respond?

Although they also felt that, in terms of overall strength, Ibrahimović was a notch above Chen Yingxiong, but just looking at this top scorer competition, Chen Yingxiong had defeated Ibrahimović this time...

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After the game restarted, Chen Yingxiong was still looking for opportunities to score, not letting go of every possible goal.

This made him truly terrifying. Many forwards, after scoring a goal, would start to slow down their pace and steps, but Chen Yingxiong would not. His desire for goals was endless, like a woman in her forties who couldn't get enough sexual satisfaction, as fierce as a tiger.

But unfortunately, he couldn't score just because he wanted to.

Until the referee blew the whistle to end the game, he had not been able to score again, and his goal count in his first Serie A season was fixed at the number twenty-seven.

"The game is over! Napoli has won a place in the Champions League qualifiers next season! Chen Yingxiong also staged his second poker of the season in this game! Surpassing Ibrahimović to become the league's top scorer! Inter Milan's game... just ended, and Ibrahimović was unable to score until the end! Chen Yingxiong has secured the league's top scorer title!"

The commentator, of course, knew the latest news from the other stadium. Chen Yingxiong on the field didn't know, so as soon as the game ended, the first thing he did was run to the sidelines to ask the coaches.

Napoli's assistant coach Viviani also knew what Chen Yingxiong was running over to ask, so before he could speak, he directly told him the answer.

"You are the top scorer, Hero! The Golden Boot belongs to you alone!" He said to Chen Yingxiong with a smile.

After hearing Viviani's words, a relaxed and joyful smile finally appeared on Chen Yingxiong's face.

"Congratulations, Hero!" Viviani went up and gave Chen Yingxiong a hug.

Chen Yingxiong hugged Viviani and patted the assistant coach on the back: "Thank you!"

Releasing Viviani, head coach Mazzarri came up to congratulate him: "It's not easy to win the top scorer in your first season in Serie A. You performed very well, Hero."

Chen Yingxiong nodded with a smile: "Thank you, coach. If you hadn't pushed me to the position of main scorer, I wouldn't have been able to score so many goals."

Mazzarri was very satisfied with Chen Yingxiong's words. In fact, it was true. If he hadn't supported him, Chen Yingxiong would never have been able to score so many goals. But at the same time, Chen Yingxiong had to have the ability to do so. Otherwise, even if he provided support, Chen Yingxiong would still be unable to score, and it would all be in vain.

Like Lavezzi, last season, Reja had cultivated him as the main scorer. Zalayeta and Paolo Sousa, these genuine center forwards, were all covering for Lavezzi. Lavezzi played in thirty-eight league games, not missing a single one. The result? He only scored eleven goals, but he was still the team's top scorer.

This goal count was really too shabby.

Mazzarri had carefully studied Napoli, and he felt that Reja was not wronged in being kicked out. Lavezzi was a qualified winger, but he had spoiled him into a "center forward". In fact, Lavezzi simply didn't have the ability to play as a center forward. He had no physical strength, no awareness, and no shooting skills. What he was good at—speed, technique, and breakthrough—were all the key qualities of a winger.

And there was a natural powerful center forward, Chen Yingxiong, in the team, but he insisted on clinging to his stubborn ideas and not using him properly. As a result, Chen Yingxiong didn't play to his strengths and didn't have an effect, while Lavezzi, due to the presence of Chen Yingxiong, who didn't get along with him, couldn't find a turning point. Napoli's ups and downs in the first half of the season could be completely attributed to Reja's ability and thinking.

So after he came, he originally planned to have Lavezzi switch to playing as a winger, but who would have thought that Lavezzi had been completely spoiled and refused to change. He had no choice but to sacrifice Lavezzi, who couldn't score goals as a center forward and refused to pass the ball as a winger, and put Chen Yingxiong in his place.

Chen Yingxiong really didn't disappoint him. He used one goal after another to help the team win a Champions League spot in one fell swoop. He himself also became the league's top scorer.

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When the game between Inter Milan and Atalanta ended, Ibrahimović walked off the field with a gloomy face. He had not been able to score, and he had only scored one goal in this game. His goal count was fixed at twenty-six.

He didn't know if Chen Yingxiong had scored, but it didn't matter, because soon someone would tell him.

"I'm sorry, Zlatan..." The team's coach's expression was like a doctor shaking his head to the family members of a patient outside the operating room.

Ibrahimović knew the result.

"Fucking hell..." He cursed in a low voice, very unhappy.

But what was the use of being unhappy?

The game was over, and the season was over.

His teammates had begun to celebrate the league title, but Ibrahimović himself stood in the joyous crowd, feeling bored.

The league title was a collective honor, and the league's Golden Boot was an individual honor. He liked collective honors, but he also liked individual honors. He might not be the biggest contributor to the league title, but the Golden Boot was definitely the best reflection of his personal ability.

But now, the Golden Boot that he had been thinking about for a season had been snatched away by that newcomer from Napoli!

How could he not be angry?

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At the Stadio San Paolo, Chen Yingxiong was celebrating with his teammates, celebrating the team's fourth place in the league and securing a Champions League qualifying spot for next season. He was also celebrating his first Serie A Golden Boot.

Since his debut, except for his first season at Zenit St. Petersburg, because he didn't play much, his personal ability was too poor, and he had nothing but headers, which led to him not getting the top scorer award, he had been the top scorer in the league in every subsequent season.

For him, this was a very rare honor. Ibrahimović cared about the Serie A Golden Boot, and he cared about it too.

However, he considered the issue from a slightly different angle than Ibrahimović.

He felt that if he played well and scored a lot of goals, so many that he could win the Golden Boot, then the team's results would definitely not be too bad. At the very least, they could get a Champions League spot, right? If things went well, they would go for the championship...

So his desperate pursuit of the Golden Boot was not just for personal honor, but more out of the consideration that this was a win-win situation, benefiting both himself and the team.

His teammates came up to pat Chen Yingxiong, congratulating him on winning the Golden Boot this season.

"Good job, Hero!"

"Congratulations on the Golden Boot!"

"This is your first season in Serie A! It's hard to imagine what you'll do after this!"

After Chen Yingxiong had played enough with his teammates, he ran to the West Stand.

Now, in the entire Stadio San Paolo, only the fans in this stand supported him. He had won the Golden Boot award, so he definitely had to come and thank these fans who supported him.

Seeing Chen Yingxiong coming alone, the fans in the West Stand all rushed to the front rows. They waved their arms and shouted Chen Yingxiong's name, and some fans even held up banners and cardboard signs with Chen Yingxiong's name on them—the prototype of Chen Yingxiong's die-hard fans in Naples had gradually begun to appear...

Chen Yingxiong certainly knew the value of fans, so he didn't go against the fans much even at Zenit St. Petersburg. It was only after coming to Naples that he didn't expect the Naples fans to have such deep feelings for Maradona. Even a casual word from him could cause a storm-like reaction.

In addition, his stubborn temper also flared up, and he refused to bow his head, fighting the fans to the end. That was why the relationship between the two was so bad.

Now that some fans had turned to support him, he didn't need to always hold on to his airs and be enemies with all the fans. The great revolutionary前辈 said it well: To deal with the enemy, you must win over some, attack some, and create division.

Chen Yingxiong was personally practicing the experience of the revolutionary前辈 and sages.

Chen Yingxiong waved to the fans in the stands, then took off his jersey and ran to the bottom of the stands to give it to the fans.

This made the fans excited. Many people leaned on the railings and reached down, wanting to catch the jersey. Some people were even more extreme. They hung on the railings with one hand, like Tarzan, and fell from the stands to grab Chen Yingxiong's jersey—who said that those who liked Chen Yingxiong were all neutral fans? They were just as狂热!

In the end, Chen Yingxiong's jersey was snatched by a young man. He held the jersey high, showing off his harvest, making the people around him envious.

After giving away the jersey, Chen Yingxiong ran back and returned to the locker room with his teammates.

The Napoli fans in the stands were reluctant to leave. They sang continuously in the stands, excited about the team's return to the Champions League next season.

The last time Napoli entered the Champions League was the season when Maradona was found to be using drugs. At that time, the team's performance completely collapsed as Maradona was banned.

Now, after more than ten years, the team has once again entered the Champions League, and they have too much to look forward to and dream about.

For Chen Yingxiong, his dreams and expectations were no less than those of the fans.

The Champions League ah, that was a legendary competition, a starry sky that he could only look up to in the past.

Among the shining stars, which star would he become?

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The next day, several things made the headlines of the Italian sports media.

The first was that Inter Milan celebrated their fourth consecutive league title at home. Mourinho had achieved unprecedented success in his first season in Serie A, and he also maintained his record of winning a championship every season.

The second was the final unveiling of the Champions League spots. Napoli finally relied on their crazy 5:0 win at home, squeezing out Genoa, who defeated Lecce 4:1, to win a Champions League qualifying spot. After many years, they had the opportunity to return to the Champions League. Although the Champions League at this time was very different from the Champions League they had participated in before...

The third was the final settlement of the fierce competition for the league's Golden Boot. Chen Yingxiong, an Italian newcomer who no one had expected before the season, defeated Ibrahimović, who had been leading for most of the season, with a crazy poker in the last game, and won the league's top scorer title.

His photo of celebrating his fourth goal by taking off his shirt appeared on the front page.

The Italian famous sports media "Milan Sports News" used their headline to evaluate this matter.

"Beware! Bear Sighting!"

His Golden Boot was highly praised by both the Chinese and Italian media.

"...Successfully winning the Serie A league's top scorer, Chen Yingxiong completed a 'feat' of winning the top scorer in two different leagues in one season. This is an unprecedented achievement and is very remarkable! And what's even more remarkable is that he won this Golden Boot after wasting half a season. No one was optimistic about him being able to win the Golden Boot before..."

"The Golden Boot award is generally a golden shoe, and now Chen Yingxiong can wear golden boots on both feet at the same time. After conquering Russia, he defeated those local and world-class outstanding shooters in Serie A with twenty-seven goals..."

"This is simply unbelievable! Winning the top scorer in two leagues in one season! I have been in this industry for thirty years and have never seen such a thing—because it is almost impossible. Fortunately, the Russian league is not a cross-year league, so he has the opportunity to win the Golden Boot in the Russian league and then win the Golden Boot in the Serie A league after the transfer... But even so, the different competition system only provided such a possibility, and Chen Yingxiong seized this opportunity and achieved his own great feat of winning two Golden Boots in a single season! Times create heroes, Chen Yingxiong seized the opportunity, and fate did not treat him badly. Congratulations, Hero, you deserve it!"

All the media were offering their incredible praise for Chen Yingxiong's amazing achievements.

If it was just a league Golden Boot, it was really not worth writing so much about. But if you only used a third of a season to win the Golden Boot in the original league before transferring to a new team, and then used only half a season to win the Golden Boot in the new league, then it deserved this kind of praise and flattery.

Those old reporters who had been in the football circle for decades keenly realized that perhaps what appeared in front of them was not a fleeting meteor that was not rare, but... a small sun that was rising! He had just risen, and the light he emitted illuminated the entire earth into a dazzling golden color. What would the world be like when he was at his zenith?

When Chen Yingxiong was interviewed by reporters after the game, he was asked about his Golden Boot.

He very "humbly" said: "This is nothing, really. Because, this is just the beginning!"

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After the game, Mourinho was indeed asked about the issue of Chen Yingxiong defeating Ibrahimović to win the top scorer. Mourinho refused to answer all of them.

But the mean reporters didn't forget to ridicule him in their media.

"Roma Sports News" put Chen Yingxiong's photo of celebrating a goal and Mourinho's photo of directing in the game together, and then added their own made-up lines.

"Zlatan! That kid scored again! Are you still sleepwalking?! Are you planning to let me lose face in front of those reporters?!" In the photo, Mourinho roared like this.

And Chen Yingxiong said: "The most outstanding big man can obviously only be me!"

Chen Yingxiong successfully won the league's top scorer in his first season in the Italian Serie A, which completely exceeded many people's expectations. He even made a famous coach like Mourinho suffer a loss.

But this was just the beginning.

During his time at Zenit St. Petersburg, he changed the Russian Premier League and left indelible traces on Russian football.

So from now on, what kind of impression will he leave on Italian football?

After Chen Yingxiong transferred to Napoli, Akinfeev, the main goalkeeper of CSKA Moscow and the Russian national goalkeeper, said in an interview with reporters that he was happy about Chen Yingxiong's departure: "He's finally gone, and I think many people like me can breathe a sigh of relief. He really is a nightmare for defenders and goalkeepers! Now it's good, he's going to harm the Italians!"

Yes, Chen Yingxiong has come to harm the defenders and goalkeepers of the Serie A league.

He has fully proved this point through the Golden Boot in his first season—he is definitely capable.

That arrogant and unruly giant bear is bound to stir up this stagnant former top European league!

——Stop crying, or the Northern Giant Bear will come!

(End of Volume 2: Beware of the Bear)

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ps, Volume 2 ends here, and Volume 3 "The Bear is Out, No Notice" is coming soon. This volume will be the part where the Giant Bear begins to exert its power in Naples.

I think I wrote Volume 2 as a transition plot quite satisfactorily~~

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