Chapter 482 Uncle Drew football version? King of wild fields, start!
“The ball is scored!”
“Pogba opened the scoring for the French team!”
“One to zero!”
Looking at the special Pogba came to the bench to dance and celebrate, while Ling Feng, who was sitting on the bench, curled up his lips and complained lightly in Chinese:
"Idiot!"
In the friendly match with the French team, in order to protect the main team, Hodgson chose to inspect newcomers and substitutes.
Therefore, the main players including Ling Feng, Kane, Henderson and others did not start.
In contrast, Deschamps' French team uses the Three Lions as a whetstone and sends out its main force!
Now the starting lineup of this French team is infinitely close to the French team that won the World Cup in Ling Feng’s impression.
Lori is guarding the goal in the backcourt, Varane and Umtiti form a central defender combination, Lucas Hernandez and Sidibe are on the left and right;
The midfielder is Pogba, The "troika" composed of Kanter and Matuidi
In the frontcourt, there are Griezmann, Giroud and Bundesliga Hornets super star Ousmane Dembele.
On the bench, there are also talented young players Mbappe, Pavard, Lemar, Martial, Mendy and other players.
This lineup, both now and after winning the championship, can be called super luxurious!
Without Ling Feng, a core player who exerts a huge influence on both offense and defense, England would have a very difficult time.
Even if he got the chance to start in this game, Tottenham's supernova Ali, who replaced Ling Feng as the core of the frontcourt, worked very hard to use his talents.
He even broke into the penalty area during the game, successfully created a point, and helped Vardy score and regain a victory.
However, compared to Ling Feng, he is still more than one level behind.
The French team almost completely suppressed England through its gradually mature tactics and overall strength.
The shortcomings of England's central defender's lack of individual defense ability are undoubtedly exposed.
Under the attacks of several assaulters from the French team, they looked in a state of disarray.
In the end, with Dembélé assisting Griezmann's push shot after blasting from the wing, England lost 1-2 to France at the Stade de France.
The two-year undefeated streak in friendly matches has also come to an end!
In the eyes of many British media, this French team is one of the best in today's football in terms of its overall lineup and tactical play.
If Lingfeng and England want to compete for the Hercules Cup in Russia next year, the French team will definitely be one of their biggest enemies.
Of course, they also believe that if England plays with all its main players, it will be worthy of the French team!
. . .
After completing the last game of the season, Ling Feng also took a flight back to London with the team.
After saying goodbye to his teammates at the London airport, he took the car back to his mansion in Cheshire. Looking at the empty home, Ling Feng felt a little empty
Due to the design of her personal brand, her girlfriend Barbara has been very busy recently. She is either going to the clothing factory to select suitable fabrics or discussing the design with the designer team
However, as soon as he put down his luggage, Ling Feng received Agent Mendes’ phone number:
“Hello?”
“Ling, there is good news, I want to share it with you!”
“What is it? ”
"Netflix wants to collaborate with you on a football program!"
As soon as these words came out, Ling Feng was a little surprised:
"Oh, a football program? Want me to be a guest commentator? Or.”
“Hmm, have you seen Pepsi’s Uncle Drew commercial?”
Uncle Drew? !
Even though he is a football fan, Ling Feng is very familiar with this name.
The origin of Uncle Drew is actually a creative commercial produced by Pepsi-Cola and NBA Cavaliers star Kyrie Irving.
In the advertisement, Irving transformed into a gray-haired old man through makeup, and then pretended to be a pig and eat the tiger on the field, violently torturing young people, and received bursts of exclamations from the audience.
Uncle Drew is the identity Irving disguises in the film.
Of course, this is just a script for an advertising shoot.
However, this commercial received a great response and had such a huge impact around the world that Irving's popularity and fame exploded.
This commercial was filmed for four seasons, and many well-known NBA stars also participated.
It is worth mentioning that even the little days in the far east have borrowed a few tricks from variety shows.
The profession of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is also from an NBA player to a professional gymnast, badminton player, track and field world champion, etc.
Thoughts were turning in his mind, Ling Feng couldn’t help but Forgot to continue asking:
"Have seen it, and what next?"
"The format of Netflix's football program is similar to Uncle Drew's commercial. I hope you will pretend to be a middle-aged uncle with a deformed body through makeup, and then go to England. Playing football with strangers in various areas.”
Hearing this, Ling Feng couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows and suddenly became interested:
“It’s interesting. What’s next?” br>
“In the process of playing football, you’d better let your opponent take the lead first, and then chase points when you are behind. Moreover, your identity cannot be exposed within the specified time.”
"If your identity is exposed, your mission will be considered a failure!"
"Also, in addition to playing football with ordinary people, you also have an important mission during the program. That is to discover future stars!”
“If you find some good ideas, you can give them the future star T-shirts prepared by the program team.”
“Then. These people will be qualified to participate in the finals!”
“The fourteen players in the finals and the winning team of seven will have the opportunity to receive generous bonuses and even a professional club membership. Tryout opportunity! ”
"As for the name of the program, it's called "King of the Field"!"
After listening to the program format and plan described by Mendes, Ling Feng already had a preliminary understanding of the entire program process.
“How long will it take to shoot this show?”
“They plan to shoot six episodes of a season first. If the show gets a good response, they will start shooting the second season. An episode lasts about ten minutes."
"Well, when can we start filming?"
"You can do it at any time."
"Then let's start tomorrow!"
In Ling Feng's opinion, this program is very interesting, and he can't wait to participate!
In his mind, he had already begun to think about how he could hide his identity well.
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June 16th.
Birmingham, UK. The first episode of the football variety show "King of the Fields" sponsored by Coca-Cola and created by Netflix itself was filmed in Birmingham, the second largest international city in England after London!
After strict selection by the filming team, they selected a wild field named Morris Park as the filming location for the first phase.
This field stadium is about ten kilometers away from St. Andrews Stadium, the home stadium of the British Championship team Birmingham Club. It is relatively close to the entire urban area of Birmingham
Therefore, there are many experts who play football on this wild court.
And there are a lot of spectators watching the game, which allows the program's camera crew to disguise themselves as spectators watching the game, and then use hidden high-definition cameras to film the entire process of pretending to be pigs and eating tigers!
At noon, the program opened in a beauty salon near the field field.
"Hey guys, welcome to the "King of Wild Fields" program! I am the host."
While the host was greeting the camera, Ling Feng was sitting aside. , also appeared on the scene.
"Hi, this is Ling Feng!"
After briefly interacting with the host and introducing the nature and process of the entire program to the audience, Ling Feng sat in front of the dressing table and let the professional makeup artist do the work. He performs cross-dressing.
Originally, Ling Feng was of mixed Chinese and English descent, and his skin was not that white. Coupled with the sun and rain in the professional arena, his skin showed a very healthy wheat color.
There is no need to apply makeup to the skin color at all. It just deepens the bags under the eyes, adds some wrinkles, ties up the hair, puts on a fake beard, and puts on a fake beer belly.
Up to one After hours of makeup, Ling Feng transformed from a handsome mixed-race guy into a paunchy, middle-aged Spanish bearded uncle!
At this time, even Ling Feng's parents, standing in front of Ling Feng, might not be able to recognize Ling Feng at a glance.
Facing the camera, Ling Feng waved his hand, lowered his voice, and greeted the "audience" in fluent Spanish:
"Hola (Hello) , My name is Andre!”
In order to avoid suspicion, the program team will also arrange a wingman for him.
And Ling Feng’s character is the Spanish uncle of the wingman, who came to England to travel and planned to participate in a football match!
After completing the makeup, the program team set a game task for Ling Feng:
"The game task for this game is that you must complete three assists!"
For this task, for the Premier League assist king It’s not difficult at all!
After leaving the beauty salon, Ling Feng and the program crew got into a spacious SUV and headed for the stadium.
"Ling, David (wingman) will take you to the stadium later"
"Remember, you have to be bad at first, don't run around and let your teammates complain about you. Then, when the team needs a hero to step up, or they want to replace you, You have to show your true skills to surprise them!"
Although "pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger" is not in line with my personality.
However, he would be very happy to treat this matter as a prank.
The purpose of the show is entertainment, so whatever is fun, do it!
The strong contrast is definitely very eye-catching!
What was the expression on the faces of those wild ball players when they saw a good-looking guy suddenly transforming into a superhero and crushing the field?
Confused? shock? incredible? Unbelievable?
Ling Feng was already looking forward to it
After a while, the car arrived at Morris Park.
In the stadium, there are already some players doing warm-up exercises.
There were many spectators on both sides who had stayed after the previous game, or who came specially to watch the game.
It is worth mentioning that the wild ball played by Dai Ying and the wild ball played by China are two completely different concepts.
Most of the wild football players in China are amateurs who play together for the love of football
The level of most wild football players is very average.
But in Daiying, this is not the case at all!
Because the football training system in Daiying is very complete, the base of football players is huge, and the competition is fierce. On the wild fields across the country, there are many people who have been immersed in the professional youth training system since childhood, but in the end they are unable to play professional football. Or a football player who retired from a low-level professional league.
The strength of these people may not be comparable to that of current professional players, but their strength is definitely much stronger than that of amateur players.
There are even many professional players who were born in the wild field, and then gradually became grassroots players in the professional field.
The most representative and well-known figure among them is Ling Feng's former Leicester City teammate "Blue Fox Demon Sword" Jamie Vardy!
And Charlie Austin, the "inspirational brother" at Queens Park Rangers!
The rules in the field are very simple.
You can freely organize a game online, choose which course in which area, which time period, and then check if there are any seats, and then sign up.
In addition to some friends who usually play football together, there are also many passers-by or lone wolves who come to participate in the game alone.
And this Morris Park stadium is a standard seven-a-side field.
For the sake of program effectiveness, Ling Feng and David (wingmen) took the initiative to greet other golfers in a very friendly manner:
"Hey, hello, I'm David, nice to meet you."
"This is my uncle, Andre."
"Hola, hello."
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When the two of them greeted the other strangers participating in the game for the first time, no one could recognize that the bearded man with ponytail in front of them was actually the number one player in England and Manchester United's top player - Ling peak!
As the golfers came to the stadium one after another, Ling Feng also discovered that among the players playing wild football, there were teenagers and middle-aged people in their thirties and forties.
It is worth mentioning that perhaps the location of Morris Park is very popular, and there are also many spectators watching the games from time to time.
Therefore, generally the players who come here to play football are of good quality and are even well-known players in the Birmingham wild football community.
At least from the looks of these wild players, they are all very slim or strong.
Of all the people in the audience, Ling Feng was the only one with a "beer belly"
At this moment, Ling Feng's sight was caught by a young man wearing a Birmingham club jersey. Attracted past.
This young man has a bronze complexion and a kind smile.
Although he is not tall, he is only about 1.7 meters tall.
However, other golfers seemed to be very familiar with him, and they all went up to give him high fives and say hello.
While Ling Feng was doing warm-up exercises, the more he looked at this kid, the more familiar he looked, as if he had seen him somewhere.
Birmingham jersey. Bronze complexion
He searched for a moment in his mind, and soon came up with a British star who had his jersey retired by the Birmingham club when he was only seventeen years old.
Holy shit!
Could it be that boy? !
While Ling Feng was lamenting the evil fate, all the players participating in this wild game, under the instructions of the referee, both sides came to the center of the court and transferred the ball.
Coincidentally, Ling Feng happened to be assigned to the same team as that boy.
As soon as he got the red vest from the referee, Ling Feng saw the boy wearing the Birmingham Club jersey take the initiative to come to him, showing two rows of white teeth and a bright smile:
"Hey, how are you? It's a pleasure to team up with you."
"You can call me Zude!"
(End of this chapter)