Chapter 1 The Coronation Ceremony

At the New Alpi Stadium, the coronation ceremony for the newly crowned league champions was a bit deserted, but it didn't matter, because Napoli would soon be compensated. In the city of Naples, a grand welcome ceremony and parade were waiting for them.

The city government had already made all the arrangements.

The entire team received a very warm welcome after getting off the plane at the airport. When captain Paolo Cannavaro walked down the ramp holding the league championship trophy, the fans on the scene cheered loudly, and the reporters who had been waiting for a long time pressed the shutters of their cameras to record this historic moment.

"This is Napoli's first league title since the Maradona era!" Napoli regional television broadcast the entire parade and celebration live.

After being welcomed at the airport, the entire team of players took the trophy and boarded an open-top double-decker bus for a city parade, where even more fans would interact with them.

The atmosphere was very warm.

However, Chen Hero frowned as he looked at the crazy fans along the way.

Hamsik found it strange: "Hero, what's bothering you?"

Chen Hero shook his head: "Nothing!"

"Then why do I see you frowning all the time?"

"Oh, I was wondering, a league title is already like this, how are they going to celebrate when we bring back the Champions League trophy?"

Hamsik burst out laughing after hearing this.

"You're thinking about this?"

Chen Hero nodded.

"But the Champions League title isn't necessarily ours..."

Chen Hero turned to look at him, his expression very serious: "Did you go to Wembley just to take pictures?"

"Uh... of course it's for the championship... But, I mean, even if we want to win, we may not be able to... You know, the opponent is also very strong. Um... I mean, the probability of this kind of thing is fifty-fifty, I have confidence, but the reality may not be like that... There will always be some accidents, right?" In the end, Hamsik himself didn't know what he was talking about.

Chen Hero finally laughed when he saw Hamsik's embarrassed look: "Afraid of them? Marek, let me tell you, there's no such thing as probability in this matter, because we must win the championship, we can only win the championship, we will definitely win the championship! I've been holding my breath for a whole season, and I'm going to vent it all on them. If we can't win the championship, what's the point of us going to such great lengths to reach the final? We came out of the group of death, faced the defending champion, faced Manchester United... What's the point of fighting so many powerful enemies along the way? So, this championship already belongs to us the moment we reach the final!"

He patted Hamsik on the shoulder: "Don't worry, as long as you think about winning, we can't lose!"

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Until the evening, the celebration activities of the Napoli fans continued, and every bar and pizzeria was packed. At this moment, the Napoli fans, regardless of extremist fans or moderate fans, regardless of whether they hated or liked Chen Hero, all enjoyed the joy brought to them by this championship.

However, all the extremist fans tacitly didn't mention that person's name on this occasion.

The person who made the extremist fans so conflicted was enjoying dinner at his home at this time—at noon, the team enjoyed the mayor's reception at the city hall. However, the food in that kind of place is generally not very tasty, and you have to pay attention to etiquette, so you can't eat well at all.

It's different at home.

However, Chen Hero was quite surprised, because the dishes tonight were slightly richer, and there was also a bottle of red wine on the table.

Both glasses were filled with wine.

"This is to celebrate you winning the league's top scorer and the league championship." Cabrera explained when she saw the question on Chen Hero's face.

Chen Hero smiled: "In the last season, and the season before that, I also won the league championship, but I didn't see you..."

"This is mainly to celebrate the league championship, the top scorer is just incidental."

Chen Hero was speechless after hearing Cabrera's explanation.

However, he knew that it was already amazing for Cabrera to be able to do such a thing. At least when he was with her, he often didn't think she was a woman...

He also knew that this was Cabrera's intention.

He was already very content that this woman who didn't seem like a woman could think of doing such a thing.

"Um... thank you, Christine."

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The next day, traces of celebration could still be seen everywhere in the city, and many colorful flags, thank you notes, and scarves were scattered all over the ground.

Naples was already dirty and messy enough, with garbage dumps everywhere, and now it looked even more chaotic...

But this would not affect the good mood of the Neapolitans—they were already used to their living environment.

On this day, Napoli's training base was deserted, because the team didn't come to training today.

After winning the league championship, Mazzarri gave the whole team a day off—after being tense for an entire season, they finally won a championship, so the players should also rest and recuperate in preparation for the Champions League final.

Lest they be too tense and break down.

Many players were sleeping in at their homes at this time.

But the reporters got up early, even before they had time to sleep.

With the league championship decided, the media had to rush to summarize the just-concluded season.

Many things happened this season, and some of them must be worth recommending to readers.

For example, Chen Hero's thirty-eight goals, Napoli's sudden rise, the defending champion Inter Milan's collapse, AC Milan's rebirth...

There were many things to talk about, they just needed to consider whether there was enough space.

Chen Hero's thirty-eight goals were the most important thing. When reporters went to work, they would exchange information privately, praising Chen Hero's performance.

Of course, only Italian reporters would do this.

In Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, Perez was gnashing his teeth.

He had already returned to Barcelona. Once he started this matter, he didn't need to squat there every day.

Although he had returned to Barcelona, he was still very concerned about the news about Chen Hero—because he wanted to see Chen Hero make a fool of himself.

Who knew that the news that came one after another was not good—for him.

In the home game against Inter Milan, Napoli won 2:1, and Chen Hero scored twice. In the away game against Juventus, Napoli won 2:1, and Chen Hero scored twice again.

If scoring four goals in two games could still be considered out of form, then all the players in the world should be ashamed and kill themselves because of their bad form.

Hernandez Garcia Perez was very depressed. He couldn't figure it out. Could it be that those things really had no effect on Chen Hero at all? Could his heart be made of iron and stone? Not to mention a player, even an ordinary person, when encountering such a big thing, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to eat or sleep well, right? Why was he able to act as if nothing had happened?

The editor-in-chief of *Diario Sport* also asked Perez about this matter.

Perez didn't know the answer, so he just made one up: "Uh... I think this should be inertia, his scoring momentum this season is too good, driven by inertia... And he is very familiar with Serie A, and the difficulty is much lower. Napoli is two points ahead of AC Milan in the league, which makes it easier for him to score... When it comes to the Champions League final, facing the powerful Barcelona, he will definitely not be able to hold on..."

This was completely nonsense, and even the editor-in-chief didn't believe it.

But Perez insisted that this was what he meant.

After returning, Perez started looking through the information again, intending to find the reason why Chen Hero could still stand firm. But from those reports, he couldn't find the answer at all, not even a clue.

He could only really hope that Chen Hero would perform abnormally in the Champions League final, and Napoli would be defeated by Barcelona. Only then could he stand up straight in front of the editor-in-chief again.

And he was indeed a little unconvinced—bad form is caused by many factors, and external interference is only one of them. It can't be said that my method didn't work at all, it can only be said that it seems to be a little short of the mark.

That's right, let's add more fuel to the fire!

Perez was determined to make Chen Hero sick.

Just after the end of Serie A, he quickly concocted an article, the main content of which was about Chen Hero's thirty-eight goals.

This time, the entire Serie A was shot...

In the article, he claimed that the current Serie A was no longer as brave as it used to be. In the past, it was still considered the "Little World Cup", but now La Liga is the real "Little World Cup", and the highest-paid players in the world all play in La Liga. Because the level of Serie A has declined, scoring thirty-eight goals in Serie A is nothing at all. It is very disappointing that the Italian media is making such a fuss, which shows how far Serie A has fallen...

As soon as this article came out, it aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Italian media.

They argued with the Barcelona media.

Since it was an argument, Chen Hero's name would naturally be mentioned frequently.

From time to time, reporters would run to Chen Hero to ask him what he thought of the words of Hernandez Garcia Perez, a reporter from *Diario Sport*.

Chen Hero already knew that this guy was the reporter who broke the news that he had a secret agreement with Liverpool and hyped it up. Everything he had experienced during this period was related to him. He was the instigator.

So he had no good feelings for this person at all.

"The Spanish Super League, where only two teams compete for the championship and the other teams are just making up the numbers, is not qualified to say anything about Serie A. As for that birdman... who is he?"

This was Chen Hero's answer.