As the core of the national football team and Yatai, Du Zhenyu has disappeared from the fans' vision since his retirement. Fans who like Du Zhenyu can only learn from the occasional media report on Du Zhenyu's recent situation that he has been committed to youth training since he retired. A few days ago, du Zhenyu, who has been absent for a long time, appeared on a football talk show and opened his heart to fans for the first time. In the program, Du Zhenyu recalled the peak and trough of his career, and once again expressed his deep feelings for Yatai. This is something that makes many Yatai fans feel very pleased.
How deep is Du Zhenyu's feelings for Yatai? This can be seen from his rejection of Evergrande's high-salary invitation for Yatai. Du Zhenyu said that during his time at Yatai, he had been favored and invited by Evergrande. However, Du Zhenyu has always had a very deep affection for Yatai, plus the head coach who coached Yatai at this time is the biggest mentor of his career, Shen Xiangfu. Therefore, Du Zhenyu refused Evergrande's high-paying invitation. After Du Zhenyu led Yatai to win the championship in the 2007 season, his career reached its peak. Du Zhenyu won the best player in the 2007 Season with an undisputed performance.
Du Zhenyu is characterized by his speed and strong impact on the field. It is worth mentioning that he also has a good physical confrontation ability. These advantages make Du Zhenyu a fragrant feast for European teams to invite. Du Zhenyu bluntly said that when he was playing, the five major leagues in Europe had not invited him except for Serie A, and other leagues had issued invitations to him. Among them, Du Zhenyu joined the Premier League Manchester City team and has already obtained a visa. However, in the end, the Yatai team still left Du Zhenyu for the sake of the team's own interests. After Du Zhenyu's dream of staying in Yang was shattered, he did not blame Yatai for this. Because, Du Zhenyu always understands that without Yatai's years of careful cultivation, there would be no brilliant football experience and achievements.
Du Zhenyu had some unpleasantness in the late Yatai period, and he had to choose to leave the team and transfer to TEDA. At that time, some media portrayed Du Zhenyu as Yatai Ball Bully, saying that he had only one hand covering the sky in the team. In the face of these ball bully rumors, Du Zhenyu laughed. However, what made Du Zhenyu feel crying and laughing was a soul torture of Wang Dong, a good partner who had played in Yatai, after playing for the Qingdao Yellow Sea team.
Du Zhenyu, who has retired, came to Qingdao to meet with Wang Dong, and Wang Dong asked Du Zhenyu after three rounds of drinking that when he played in Yatai, whether he really did not pass the ball to him for a period of time as the outside world rumored that he had been on the field for a while. Wang Dong's soul torture completely amused Du Zhenyu. Now that Du Zhenyu is committed to youth training, he hopes that he can cultivate more outstanding players for Yatai and even Chinese football.
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