Chapter 1 After the Match

The game against Manchester United was over, and as with any important match, controversy was inevitable. It was a traditional part of the program. The media would definitely start discussing these controversies after the game, and even things that weren't controversial could be turned into them.

Specifically, the main incident was Smalling being injured and taken off the field after a collision with Chen Hero. Should the goal have been ruled as a foul by Chen Hero beforehand? After all, Smalling was genuinely injured, not faking it.

After the game, Ferguson protested the decision. Although he knew what was going on, he believed that sometimes shouting loudly was the only way to get your point across.

He argued that Chen Hero had clearly committed a foul and that the goal should not have been allowed.

Martin O'Neill, on the other hand, felt that there was nothing wrong with the goal because Smalling had fouled first.

"...Everyone could see that Smalling bumped into Hero in the air first."

A reporter asked, "Then why was it Smalling, the one who initiated the foul, who got injured?"

O'Neill shrugged and said something that sounded really annoying: "Because his body isn't as strong as Hero's! So, he was the one who suffered in the end!"

Everyone already knew how strong Chen Hero's body was, but O'Neill stating it so plainly gave off a "I'm awesome, what can you do about it?" kind of vibe.

Chen Hero himself also said in an interview that he hadn't committed a foul: "Yes, I had some physical contact with him in the air. But isn't that normal in a soccer game? I don't understand what you're making such a fuss about. Is FIFA planning to introduce new rules banning physical contact between players on the field?"

The series of rhetorical questions left the reporters speechless.

However, one reporter mustered up the courage to ask, "Then why was he the one who got injured, and not you..."

"Because my body is stronger than his. If you hit a wall with your head, you'll be the one who gets hurt, not the wall." Chen Hero looked at the reporter who asked the question with an "Are you an idiot?" expression, and only stopped when he saw the reporter lower his head in embarrassment.

After the game, Smalling's injury was diagnosed. He hadn't injured his shoulder joint, but the bone had been affected.

There were some slight cracks.

This result surprised many people—although they knew Chen Hero was in good shape, they didn't expect him to be this good. Looking at the bruises on Smalling's shoulder, and then at Chen Hero… he was perfectly fine!

For Smalling, Chen Hero really was a wall!

But Smalling was just a starting point.

What the media wanted to argue about wasn't whether the move was a foul, but whether Chen Hero's approach of using his physical advantage to attack his opponents was appropriate...

However, this kind of discussion was boring and wouldn't have any impact on Chen Hero. It was purely something for bored British people to use as entertainment.

The British really liked to argue.

Arguing about Chen Hero using his physical advantages was just one way for them to pass the time.

For a while, people from various media outlets came forward to express their opinions, and even a talk show was created on television specifically on this topic.

Chen Hero's comment on this grandstanding approach by the British was just two words.

"Boring."

To him, his body was his capital. Maybe one day he would get old and his body wouldn't be as good as it was now, and it wouldn't be much of an asset. But at least he didn't have to worry about that now. Since his body was his capital, his weapon, why couldn't he use it?

As long as he didn't foul, he could use it however he wanted. As for whether he fouled or not, that was up to the referee to decide, and it wasn't up to those experts, fans, and reporters to write a verdict for him.

So, he thought those British people were really boring.

But boring as they were, they couldn't hinder him.

He would do what he had to do, and he didn't have to worry about anyone causing trouble for him. They should go find trouble with FIFA first!

Speaking of which, if FIFA really changed the rules because of him, and made it so that no contact was allowed in the penalty area in soccer games... then he would be famous in history for that alone.

If FIFA modified the rules because they were afraid of him, wouldn't that prove how awesome he was from another angle?

Maradona was awesome? Pele was awesome? Di Stéfano was awesome? Beckenbauer and Cruyff were awesome? But had any of these people ever caused FIFA to modify the rules of soccer for them alone?

So, if FIFA dared to do that, it wouldn't be suppressing Chen Hero, it would be desperately praising Chen Hero to the heavens...

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This controversy was meaningless, and the media themselves actually knew it, but they were just using this opportunity to hype things up. The media lived by hype.

In fact, there was another thing that was more worth hyping.

That was Chen Hero breaking the single-season total goal record for the second consecutive season!

When he scored his second goal against Manchester United, Chen Hero had already scored his one-hundredth goal of the season.

He didn't even know this himself—he didn't have time to keep track of his goal count all the time.

It was the media reporters who came to interview him excitedly that he found out about this.

"Broke a hundred again?" After getting an affirmative answer from the reporters, Chen Hero smiled.

But his smile wasn't brilliant, on the contrary, it was a little indifferent.

But what he said made the reporters present very uneasy.

"Not bad. Let's continue next season."

He simply and easily reserved the matter of breaking a hundred goals next season as well.

Then he left a group of reporters in disarray in the wind.

The reporters' minds were filled with Chen Hero's words, and they couldn't accept this reality for a while.

Based on their understanding of Chen Hero, they knew that Chen Hero never boasted. No matter how incredible his words seemed, he always managed to make them come true in the end. For example, before, when he was six games behind in the Champions League group stage, he still said that he wanted to win the top scorer award. Everyone treated it as a joke, and no one thought that Chen Hero, who was already nine goals behind the top scorer at the time, had the ability to become the top scorer.

What was the result in the end? He really did it!

Over the years, Chen Hero had repeatedly used facts to slap the faces of those who laughed at him, looked down on him, and questioned him. Therefore, the reporters were used to not questioning him now.

So, they weren't worried about whether Chen Hero could do it again next season, but were thinking about a more far-reaching question—if he continued to play like this, he would probably have more than a thousand goals in official matches in just four more seasons!

In the history of world football with official statistics, no player has ever scored more than a thousand goals in official matches!

According to statistics, the player with the most goals in official matches is Austrian striker Josef Bican.

According to statistics from the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, he scored five hundred and eighteen goals in the league. In the rankings, his total number of goals in official matches is eight hundred. Although some people say that he scored more than a thousand, only eight hundred can be counted due to the long history and missing data.

But that was still amazing enough.

You need to know that these are official matches, which are different from the more than a thousand goals claimed by Pele. Pele's data includes many friendly matches and warm-up matches. Romário's is even more exaggerated, he even counted the goals in the youth team—at that time, he wasn't even considered a professional player.

It is normal for many players to score ten goals in a warm-up match, after all, you can choose very weak opponents for warm-up matches, and different game mentalities will also lead to different results.

There is nothing comparable to official matches, and the difficulty of scoring goals is much lower than in official matches.

So, the player with the most goals in official matches now is Josef Bican, with eight hundred goals.

If Chen Hero continues in this state and says that he scores at least one hundred goals every season, he will only need two more seasons to surpass Josef Bican and become the player with the most total goals in official matches in the history of world football.

At that time, he will only be thirty years old, and he can continue to break this record and eventually aim for the milestone of a thousand goals!

He will become the first player in the history of world football with clear data records to score more than a thousand goals in official matches!

This future is a little unimaginable for many reporters...

They don't have a sense of excitement that they are witnessing a legend, on the contrary, they are all terrified by the possibility of this becoming a reality.

Because they think that if this really happens, how boring will world football be!

In the future, it will all be Chen Hero's one-man show!

What's the point of anyone else playing?

How can this be allowed? How can soccer become a one-man game?

They have already begun to consider how to suppress Chen Hero in the future...

This will be seen soon.

Logically speaking, breaking a hundred goals in a single season, and doing it for the second time in a row, is something that deserves more media hype.

But unexpectedly, apart from the media in Liverpool that were already pro-Liverpool Football Club, other media outlets, although they also reported on it, always gave people a feeling of insufficient enthusiasm.

Some media also reported on it in great detail, using half a page, or even a whole page.

But they were really just reporting, reporting without personal emotions. Just objectively describing the matter. If fans read such news reports, they would only learn that Chen Hero had accomplished such a thing. As for the attitude of this media, they would not see it. Not only that, if these readers were not fans of Chen Hero, they would not have any other special feelings.

Some media even said that Chen Hero wasn't doing this for the first time anyway, and everyone would get used to it sooner or later, so what else was there to say?

This is the sensationalism of the media. They can make readers go crazy, and they can naturally make onlookers indifferent.