The coaches shortlisted for the French Football Magazine's Coach of the Year award, apart from Yang Chen and Hitzfeld, are former Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, now at AC Milan, Claudio Ranieri, who led Roma to two consecutive Champions League finals, and Sir Alex Ferguson, who won back-to-back Premier League titles with Manchester United.

  It can be said that all the coaches who can enter this list are the most powerful and prestigious coaches in Europe at present. Even if it is a coach like Hitzfeld, who was fired, he led Dortmund to defeat Juventus and win the championship, which is a recognition of his coaching ability in itself.

  Yang Chen is absolutely the least experienced and weakest head coach in the shortlist, because the team he coached, Kaiserslautern, was only the champion of 2. Bundesliga last season, if not for the influence brought by winning four titles including German Cup, German Super Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup, he might not have been noticed at all.

  It's precisely because he saw that his qualifications and reputation were not enough, in the Super Coach Assistant System, his reputation was only at the national level, far from European level, so for tonight's awards ceremony, he always had a mindset of emphasizing participation, after all, being able to be shortlisted is already the greatest recognition for him.

  The awards ceremony officially began with a review of the matches played by the five shortlisted coaches' teams in the past season, which were mostly video clips and corresponding tactical analysis and introductions.

  French football magazine has definitely worked hard in this regard, so whether it's video clips or analysis and commentary are very professional, including the tactical analysis of Kaiserslautern, which focuses on the team's overall coordination, midfield pressing and pressure, as well as the use of Gattuso, all of which are Yang Cheng's wonderful writing.

  After all 5 candidates had finished their introductions, the host shouted into the microphone.

  "They are all very powerful head coaches, among whom Mr. Capello is a guarantee of championship, Mr. Lippi's team is always full of tactical appreciation, Mr. Ferguson's Manchester United is overflowing with passion, and Mr. Hitzfeld's Dortmund has brought the willpower of German teams to the extreme."

  The host paused for a moment and said, "But among these candidates, I still admire Mr. Yang Cheng the most!"

  The scene was filled with thunderous applause.

  Although the head coaches are opponents on weekdays, that's on the court. Privately, everyone respects each other, and some head coaches have a good relationship with each other. So when a young and handsome coach appears in the circle, everyone is encouraging and supportive.

  "When everyone mentions Kaiserslautern, the first impression is overall strength, the second impression is the helplessness of Andy Müller and Luis Enrique, as well as the tenacity, toughness and unity of this team. I didn't know Mr. Yang Cheng before, but I thought the head coach of Kaiserslautern should be a respected predecessor like Mr. Capello or Mr. Ferguson, but unexpectedly it was a 26-year-old young general!"

  "This team's games are always played very positively, proactively and with great control. Even when using 3 defenders, all three defenders took on the responsibility of attacking, which is something only an attacking genius can do. Therefore, in his team, there will never be a lack of attacking passion and highlights!"

  "But for a team to be successful, defense is also crucial. So we can see from this Kaizerslautern team the kind of midfield pressing that makes countless teams gnash their teeth in hatred, as well as a Gattuso who Mr. Yang himself jokingly calls a 'midfield troublemaker'. This way, this Kaizerslautern team looks much more balanced!"

  As the host's words fell, the scene suddenly erupted in another round of warm applause, and everyone's heart suddenly had an intuition that this year's French Football Magazine Coach of the Year should belong to Yang Cheng!

  Yang Chen himself found it unbelievable, because he thought that Dortmund under Hitzfeld was more outstanding and the achievement of winning the Champions League was higher, so he should have won this award.

  But what he didn't think of was that the selection of French football magazines has always been known for its professionalism, especially the main coach selection, which attaches more importance to technical and tactical professional level. Moreover, Yang Cheng led Kaiserslautern to win the European Cup Winners' Cup and the German Cup with the identity of the Bundesliga team, which is already a very high achievement.

  Yang Chen was influenced by the previous life, and he felt that the Champions League was the most important thing. The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was just an extra, but the decline of the Cup Winners' Cup should have started from this season. At least, the intensity and gold content of the competition for the Cup Winners' Cup this season were absolutely the highest.

  "A young head coach, a young team, undoubtedly the most exciting news of the season is that from now on, Europe finally has an outstanding Asian head coach, he comes from China and his name is Yang Cheng!"

  The host's words were met with thunderous applause from the audience once again.

  "Let's welcome, Saison, French Football Magazine Coach of the Year, Kaiser Slawtun coach, Yang Cheng!"

  Yang Cheng saw the host stretch out his hand and point at himself, and all the lights in the room suddenly focused on him.

  At this moment, Yang Cheng became the focus of the whole scene and became the most dazzling star.

  However, this elegant and refined young marshal seemed to be overjoyed, stunned for a moment, before slowly walking towards the award stage, constantly receiving praise and encouragement from his seniors along the way, finally making it onto the award stage.

  The editor-in-chief of the French football magazine personally held the annual best coach trophy and walked out, first hugging Yang Cheng, then carefully handing the trophy to Yang Cheng's hands, and the two men's handshake triggered another thunderous applause from the audience.

  After receiving the trophy, the organizer also held a flower presentation ceremony.

  A lovely young French beauty walked up from the stage, Yang Cheng was the first to recognize her as the girl who made a face at him in the dressing room earlier. She looked petite, around 1 meter 65, but had a slender figure, not stunning, yet very proportionate and good-looking, flawless.

  The delicate facial features are embedded with nearly perfect fine five senses, plus that one head of dark golden hair combed into a messy yet elegant style, paired with the black flat-chest evening dress, looks very simple and unadorned. Paired with her plain but spirited makeup, it makes anyone who sees it feel comfortable.

  The girl seemed to have recognized Yang Cheng as well, and was startled. Especially when she walked up onto the stage, she almost fell over, twisting her foot in the process. Fortunately, Yang Cheng reacted quickly and supported her hands.

  The girl is probably not very old, only ten years old, so she doesn't have the ability to think on her feet like those big stars. At this time, she was already scared out of her wits and felt that the opportunity to appear on stage that she had worked hard to get might become her swan song.

  But then Yang Cheng suddenly took the initiative to take over the flowers in her hand, and smiled to relieve her: "You are the most beautiful and moving French girl I have ever seen. Can you tell me your name?"

  The scene suddenly burst out laughing, completely dissolving the awkward atmosphere of the flower girl's mistake earlier.

  "My name is Melissa, Melissa Terrio!" said the French girl with a red face.

  Yang Cheng thought to himself that this name sounded a bit familiar, but he didn't investigate further, and the scene also didn't allow him to delve deeper.

  "Melissa, a charming French name, as beautiful as you!" After that, Yang Cheng, with his gentlemanly demeanor, escorted Melissa to the side of the stage, where she was then taken over by staff members, without ever making her lose composure.

  "Please forgive me, I'm still young, and whenever I see a beautiful girl, I get infatuated!" Yang Cheng chuckled and teased himself about his earlier behavior.

  The head coaches on the scene all had a good impression of Yang Cheng. At least his gentlemanly demeanor just now was impeccable.

  Looking deeply at the trophy in his hand, Yang Chen thought for a moment, "First of all, I want to thank the French football magazine for recognizing me. I am honored to receive this trophy. I also want to thank everyone who has helped me, especially my parents. They are just a couple of farmers living in rural southern China, but I learned precious qualities from them. Without them, there would be no Yang Chen today!"

  Yang Cheng looked at the trophy in his hand again and felt more and more fond of it.

  "As I walked into the auditorium, I kept telling myself that I couldn't possibly win because among all the nominees, the other four were coaches I greatly admired and who were more deserving of the award, especially Mr. Hitzfeld, who led Dortmund to play impressive football and achieved remarkable results!"

  "But why would a French football magazine give an award to me?" Yang Cheng asked himself.

  Many head coaches on the scene were also wondering about this young head coach's self-questioning.

  "There is only one explanation, they are encouraging me, giving me confidence, hoping that I can understand that getting this award is not the end point, because I am only 26 years old, I can still continue to work hard in football, and achieve even higher and more outstanding results!"

  A thunderous applause erupted, especially after Yang Cheng held up the trophy. Everyone was looking at this young European Coach of the Year, who is absolutely the youngest in history to receive this honor, at just 26 years old.

  "Looking at Mr. Yang Cheng, I couldn't help but think of myself, also 26 years old, back then I was just a young football fan, but he has now become one of the best head coaches in Europe, I feel ashamed, but at the same time, I hope that in the future European football will produce more young and talented generals like Mr. Yang Cheng, so that our European football will become more prosperous!"

  The host's final words naturally triggered a warm applause from everyone present on site.

  They are all football professionals, and naturally everyone hopes that European football will become more brilliant, so they can also benefit from it. If European football becomes a dead water, then these head coaches will be out of luck.

  But behind the scenes, out of Yang's sight, a pair of eyes that shone with an otherworldly intensity were fixed on him as he slowly walked down from the podium, receiving congratulations from many European coaches - Melissa Trejo.

  At this moment, Yang Cheng appears to be so elegant and refined in Melissa's eyes, almost representing all the advantages of the white prince she has been dreaming of, he seems to be a perfect synonym.

  "What? Infatuated with him?" A female companion suddenly appeared beside her.

  Melissa reluctantly withdrew her gaze, glared at her companion, "Nothing!"

  "Ha!" her companion teased, "He's a European champion, award-winning and has a bright future ahead of him. But you're just a lovesick girl clinging to your celebrity dreams, he'd never look twice at you!"

  After finishing speaking, his companions also seemed to think that Yang Cheng was quite good-looking, with a handsome and elegant appearance, and couldn't help but sneak a few glances at him from behind the scenes.

  "I'm not dreaming of being a star, I'm interested in media and communication, I hope to become a journalist and news anchor in the future!"

  This has been her dream since she was a child and now she is moving towards this dream.

  "Yes, yes, beautiful anchor, don't forget, your family hopes you become a lawyer!" Her companion couldn't help but strike her, though what she said was true.

  "I'm confident I can convince them, I have to be a journalist!" Melissa said with a serious and determined look.

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  After staying in Paris, France for one night, Yang Chen woke up to dozens of text messages on his phone the next day, almost all from club players, staff, management and friends.

  Since last year's new mobile phone can send text messages, this little thing has been sought after by users.

  Yang Cheng smiled, nowadays mobile phones do not have group messaging function, so he naturally did not want to reply one by one. Moreover, everyone was old friends, and they were all clear about Yang Cheng's personality and habits, and would not blame him.

  However, there are two of them that must be returned, one is Xienna.

  This little girl was locked in a drama school to study, and she was not allowed to go out for no reason. However, it seems that she has been paying attention to Yang Cheng's news all along. Maybe she even watched the live broadcast last night, so she sent him a congratulatory text message overnight.

  Yang Cheng replied with a thank you and then watched Heidi Klum's message.

  The latter first congratulated Yang Cheng, and then hoped that he could take some time to go to the United States, heard that she had already set up a clothing design company, and planned to launch her own clothing brand. As for the TV talent show, she has also contacted cooperative partners.

  "I want to introduce you to an amazing person!" The message ended with a slightly playful tone.

  Yang Cheng looked at it and smiled slightly, "A great person? Who is that?"

  However, after checking the time, Yang Cheng still had at least a week of vacation left. He thought to himself that he should probably go to the US for a trip anyway, since he was also a shareholder and couldn't just ignore everything.

  So I called to ask about the place.

  "Los Angeles?" Yang Cheng was somewhat surprised, wasn't it supposed to be near Hollywood?

  "It's great that the company is opening here!" Heidi Krumb said confidently.

  Yang Cheng didn't quite understand this aspect, anyway he thought that since Heidi chose there, it shouldn't be wrong.

  He then directly booked a flight ticket to Los Angeles at the hotel service desk, had breakfast, and took a plane to Los Angeles at noon.

  After arriving in Los Angeles, it was just after noon. Because of the 9-hour time difference between the two places, although he had flown for a full 12 hours, only 3 hours had passed, which made Yang Cheng somewhat laugh and cry.

  Heidi Krums directly went to the international airport to pick up the plane.

  When Yang Cheng saw her, he found that she was dressed in a neat and professional attire today, not even wearing sunglasses on her face, standing there with confidence and intellectual charm.

  "Get in first and talk later!" Heidi Krumb laughed as she came forward, "Do you have any luggage?"

  Yang Cheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm ready to join you guys!"

  The two of them walked out of the waiting hall with a smile and went straight to the parking lot.

  From Los Angeles International Airport, head directly to Beverly Hills in West Hollywood, where the richest people in America and California are concentrated. However, compared with another wealthy gathering place on the west coast, Orange County, 50 kilometers south of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills appears more luxurious, with larger villa areas, while Orange County is more modern, emphasizing resource utilization rate, each has its own characteristics.

  "Here, even a casual house costs over $1 million. If you go up the mountain, the price will be even more expensive, and it's not uncommon for a house to cost over $100 million." Heidi Krums said with a smile, pointing to the distant high mountains.

  Yang Cheng's past life, apart from being infatuated with football, had few hobbies including the internet and movies. Anyone who likes watching movies would have heard of Beverly Hills, as it is where countless Hollywood stars live. Many gossip magazines even go to the streets of Beverly Hills for street photography, and numerous celebrities consider this small town their own stage.

  It's easy to imagine how bustling and lively it is here, as well as how much attention it receives!

  She turned into one of the streets and came to a two-story house in front of her, Heidi Krum pressed a button on the remote control, the garage door slowly opened, and then she drove in.

  "Is this what you bought?" Yang Cheng asked with a smile as he got out of the car.

  "How is that possible! This was rented temporarily, this house must be worth at least $2 million!" Although Heidi had also saved a lot of money over the years, it's all been taken out to do business now, buying a house for her is indeed a bit luxurious.

  Yang Cheng couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh as he arrived in this paradise of the ultra-rich, and for the first time truly felt his own insignificance.

  This is still a small villa at the foot of the mountain. What about those luxury villas on the halfway up the hill? What about those top-of-the-line mansions on the mountaintop?

  "I'll first take you to the room to take a look, then take a bath and change into some dry clothes. I've already prepared a set of clothes for you on the bed. Then in the evening, I'll take you to meet someone!" Heidi smiled and led Yang Cheng to the room.

  "An extraordinary person?" Yang Cheng asked with a deliberate smile.

  Heidi Klum laughed with a flourish but nodded with a mock-serious face.