Midfielder Ruler

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Tang Zheng signed a five-year contract with Liverpool until July 1, 2024. However, Tang Zheng performed very well. In his first three seasons at Liverpool, he led Liverpool to win two league championships and the Champions League. Moreover, his physical condition remains very good. Even if he is thirty-three years old.

Klopp's coaching position at Liverpool is very stable, so Tang Zheng, the disciple he is most satisfied with in his coaching career, has given a two-year contract extension.

The two sides quickly reached an agreement that Tang Zheng's contract with Liverpool will be extended until July 1, 2026. This means that Tang Zheng who completed the contract is over 36 years old, which is equivalent to a lifetime contract.

But Tang Zheng, who was preparing for the World Cup in Qatar, shook his head in an interview with the media and said: "No, I will not hang up my boots after fulfilling my contract with Liverpool, but continue my career."

No one knows his physical condition better than Tang Zheng.

Although age will bring decline in form and certain injuries, Tang Zheng, who has been in his fifteenth year of career, knows how to protect himself and how to play football better.

Fifteen years of career experience have taught him how to make the most of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.

The 33-year-old Tang Zheng has declined in form. Fortunately, the Mesozoic and Cenozoic generations of the Russian World Cup have grown up, and the Chinese team emerged as second in Group E without any danger.

In the 1/8 finals, they met Portugal led by Cristiano Ronaldo. However, at this time, Cristiano Ronaldo was no longer qualified to be the main player and could only play as a substitute in the national team.

The Chinese team led by Tang Zheng relied on Liu Ruofan's final victory to defeat Portugal 1:0 and advance to the quarterfinals.

It is a pity that in the quarter-finals, they met the French team, which was in full swing. Tang Zheng's goal failed to help the Chinese team turn the tide. In the end, the French team defeated the Chinese team 3:1 with the goals of Pogba, Griezmann and Mbappe. , advancing to the semi-finals.

At the same time, Cristiano Ronaldo, who turned 37, announced his retirement from the national team and hung up his boots.

This day is a big loss for the direct football world.

A year later, the 35-year-old Messi is no longer the main force in Barcelona, ​​so Messi is considering a change of environment and pursuing a new career.

Before the start of the 2023-2024 Premier League season, the official website of Manchester City Club announced that Messi, the former Golden Globe Award and World Player of the Year winner, joined Manchester City on a free transfer and joined hands with his mentor Guardiola again.

Tang Zheng was surprised when he saw the news. He once thought that the 36-year-old Messi would choose to retire, but... he ended up in the highly competitive Premier League.

But Tang Zheng is not worried. The 36-year-old Messi's condition has declined seriously.

Of course, if you underestimate Messi, you will definitely get no good results.

Messi's decline in form and physical condition is an indisputable fact, but he has a very successful career and unparalleled game experience.

At the end of their careers, many players rely on experience!

This is true for Cristiano Ronaldo, so is Messi, and even more so for Tang Zheng.

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One season later, in the summer of 2024, Messi announced his retirement, ending his nineteen-year career.

Tang Zheng, who is thirty-four years old, has maintained a very good condition and once again led Liverpool to win the league championship, FA Cup championship and Champions League championship.

The 2024-2025 season is a season where Tang Zheng's form has declined more seriously. Coupled with the increase in injuries, his playing time has become less and less, but head coach Klopp has great faith in his beloved disciple.

Tang Zheng also used his performance to repay Klopp and the fans who supported him. This season, Liverpool missed the domestic league championship, but had the last laugh in the Champions League and won the championship.

This Champions League championship is Tang Zheng's third Champions League title in his Red Army career, and also Tang Zheng's ninth Champions League title in his career.

The 2025-2026 season is Tang Zheng's last year at Liverpool. Although Klopp intended to renew Tang Zheng's contract, Tang Zheng declined.

Because Tang Zheng had a verbal agreement with Guangzhou Evergrande owner Xu Jiayin when his player agency signed Zhang Linpeng, and he wanted to play at Guangzhou Evergrande for at least one season at the end of his career.

In fact, the main reason why he did not renew his contract with Liverpool is that the Premier League is too fierce, and it is difficult for Tang Zheng to continue playing in his current competitive state.

In other words, his brilliant career record in the past does not allow him to accept the fate of being a substitute.

Rather than staying at Liverpool as a substitute, it would be better to change the environment.

Six years have passed in the blink of an eye, and it’s time to say goodbye.

Tang Zheng's attendance rate in the 2025-2026 season has reached the lowest point in his career, but his appearances will always bring something different to the team.

Liverpool once again relied on Tang Zheng's multiple super performances in strong dialogues to win a victory worth six points, helping the team win the 2025-2026 Premier League championship.

In the 2025-2026 Champions League season, Tang Zheng was different from the league in that he maintained full attendance.

Before the season, not many people believed that Tang Zheng, who was about to turn 36, would score 11 goals and eight assists in the UEFA Champions League in the 2025-2026 season.

But... Tang Zheng did it.

He told everyone, your uncle is still your uncle!

With Tang Zheng's superb performance in the Champions League, Liverpool also won the ninth Champions League championship in team history, and Tang Zheng's tenth career Champions League championship.

The end of the UEFA Champions League finals in the 2025-2026 season also means that Tang Zheng says goodbye to European football.

Yang5 specially produced an album for Tang Zheng called - Legend, Never End.

In Buenos Aires, Dortmund, Madrid, and Liverpool, Tang Zheng has left his mark on his clubs and cities.

In addition to the Monument Stadium, there are bronze statues of Tang Zheng in the outer squares of the Signal Iduna Park Stadium (Westfalun Stadium), the Bernabeu Stadium and Anfield Stadium.

Dortmund, Real Madrid and Liverpool expressed Tang Zheng's contribution to the club in this way.

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Tang Zheng, who had fulfilled his contract with Liverpool, did not start his vacation. Instead, he took a private plane to Guangzhou as soon as possible to meet with Guangzhou FC (note: the Chinese Super League no longer allows club names to add sponsors) to prepare for the remainder of the 2026 Chinese Super League season. tournament.

With Tang Zheng joining, Guangzhou FC defeated Jiangsu FC, Beijing FC and Shanghai FC to win the league championship after three years of absence.

In the 2027 Chinese Super League season, the legend of 38-year-old Tang Zheng continues. In addition to leading Guangzhou FC to defend the Chinese Super League championship, he also won the final championship in the Football Association Cup and the AFC Champions League, becoming the first triple crown team in the Chinese Super League.

Everyone thought that the 38-year-old Tang Zheng would announce the end of his twenty-year career, but that was not the case.

On Christmas Day 2027, Tang Zheng, who was already a free agent, returned to the European League again. He signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with French Ligue 1 team Paris Saint-Germain.

Half a year later, Tang Zheng followed Paris Saint-Germain to win the French Ligue 1 championship in the 2027-2028 season.

Therefore, Tang Zheng also surpassed the German legendary star Klinsmann and became the first player in world football to win the championship of four of the five major European leagues.

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"Don't rush the years. I won't push back what is coming. Don't rush the years. You still have to chase those who have gone far. When you have to say goodbye, the moment of saying goodbye is like the passing of time. Who can beat it? Who can sigh and do nothing?"

"Twenty years, how many 20 years are there in life? When your story becomes history, when we are no longer young, we will tell the future generation that you are the only one who exists, and you are a legend in the football world!"

The French Ligue 1 champion in the 2028-2029 season is still the outstanding Paris Saint-Germain. When the broadcast camera showed Tang Zheng holding the championship trophy high, Central 5 commentator He Wei said emotionally.

Because as early as the season, Tang Zheng had revealed that he might end his career after this season.

In the frenetic atmosphere of the Parc des Princes, Tang Zheng, his daughter Tang Qingqing, and his son Tang Guan were alone, sitting quietly.

"Borrowing the words I gave to Henry." He Wei changed his words: "When the train of time passed slowly through the Parc des Princes, the 39-year-old Tang Zheng was sitting there, looking over with affectionate eyes. They were all his 23-year-old friends. Shadow. The fading ruts silently take away the hustle and bustle of six cities. In Buenos Aires, in Dortmund, in Madrid, in Liverpool, in Guangzhou, in Paris, they continue to guide the whole journey. The people who followed went to pursue that lost time. When the years turned around quietly with tears in their eyes, 39-year-old Tang Zheng was there, looking with affectionate eyes, trying to return to the starting point, the platform where he started, and remembering when he picked up his luggage. , that 17-year-old appearance, that...where the dream begins."

"Fans sitting in front of the TV, please remember this man. In the next hundred years, in our country, there will never be another football player who can compare with him. The world's number one star, Tang Zheng. !”

After the end of the 2028-2029 French Ligue 1 season, Tang Zheng, whose contract with the club expired, neither accepted the contract extension offered by Paris Saint-Germain nor the 1+1 contracts offered by Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan. It was an announcement of the end of his twenty-one-year career.

But Tang Zheng did not say goodbye to football. He announced on his personal social platforms Twitter and Weibo that he would move to the coaching bench after a year's rest.

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In the summer of 2030, Tang Zheng, who had received the A-level coaching certificate issued by FIFA early, did not start as a coach of the youth team after retiring as a common professional player. Instead, he accepted Dortmund's invitation to serve as the head coach of the first team. The two parties signed a contract. signed a four-year contract.

Career and coaching career are two completely different concepts. Having a successful career does not mean having a successful coaching career. Retired Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi are the best representatives. Therefore, many media questioned Dortmund's decision.

But Tang Zheng slapped those questioning media in the face a season later. At the end of the final round of the 2030-2031 Bundesliga season, Dortmund beat Bayern by one point to win the league championship after four years.

In the 2031-2032 season, Dortmund seems to have returned to the invincible time of twenty years ago, except that Tang Zheng, wearing the No. 10 jersey, is no longer on the court and has moved to the coaching bench. However, the same thing is that his team made a splash in Europe. A yellow storm.

Under the leadership of Tang Zheng, Dortmund won the Bundesliga championship, German Cup championship and Champions League championship in the 2031-2032 season...

Tang Zheng, who naturally likes to slap people in the face, told everyone that his legend continues.

In the four seasons he coached Dortmund, Tang Zheng's Dortmund won three league championships and two Champions League championships.

In the summer of 2034, Tang Zheng, whose contract with Dortmund expired, neither chose to renew his contract nor signed with other wealthy clubs. Instead, he unexpectedly accepted the invitation of the Brazilian Football Association to become the head coach of the Brazilian national team.

At the World Cup in the summer of 2038, the Brazilian national team coached by 48-year-old Tang Zheng finally won the sixth star on its chest.

Tang Zheng, who led the Brazilian national team to win the World Cup, did not renew his contract. He made an unexpected choice - accepting the invitation of the Chinese Football Association to serve as the head coach.

In the 2042 World Cup, the Chinese team made qualitative progress under the leadership of Tang Zheng. Although it did not advance to the finals, it tied the best result of an Asian team in the World Cup created by the Chinese team led by Tang Zheng 24 years ago. .

Four years later, the talented Chinese men's football team finally realized a dream by hosting the World Cup on home soil.

World Cup championship dream.

Although many football talents have emerged in the Chinese men's football team in the past ten years, there is only one who can truly lead the Chinese men's football team to the top.

That is the Chinese legend, Tang Zheng.

Even if Tang Guan is the top scorer and best player in the local World Cup.

Fifty-seven-year-old Tang Zheng has few regrets in his coaching career. He announced the end of his eighteen-year coaching career the next day.

Over the past thirty years, he has devoted almost all his time to football.

Now, he has given up everything and devoted all his time to his wife, son, daughter, grandson and grandson...

A generation of legends fades out of people's sight, but legends will always be legends and will not leave, they will just continue in another way.

Because after Tang Zheng, Tang Guan can already inherit his father's mantle and shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending Chinese football.

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