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羅素開始被華夏幸福wfc, 乜野宣傳都冇佢
Then簽佢做咩
可能預備組爭個台柱
羅素有咩比唔上支那中堅?
唔係你好唔好，係睇你係咪有血統
唔係支那人
歐沖夠有血統
葡超球隊查維斯今日同BFFC friendly, 找找BF
又唔係kiki果次
正常羅素人工唔平，無可能簽佢為左多個預備組台柱
正常羅素人工唔平，無可能簽佢為左多個預備組台柱
Brian Fok後備上陣20分鐘, 打中堅
葡超經驗 acquired
會唔會俾其他支國球員排濟 支國球圈成日排外
以前都有香港球員試過，小志強果陣係中甲就係俾杯
上季Duncan 打cba季初表現大勇，點知季中全隊支國球員杯佢，話佢鬼佬樣又串又嚟搶佢地飯碗，結果隊波季尾炒左Duncan ，好彩今季轉左會表現ok
支國球圈成日排外以前都有香港球員試過，小志強果陣係中甲就係俾杯
上季Duncan 打cba季初表現大勇，點知季中全隊支國球員杯佢，話佢鬼佬樣又串又嚟搶佢地飯碗，結果隊波季尾炒左Duncan ，好彩今季轉左會表現ok
嘩 終於大顯身手
Meet Andy Russell: The former non-league defender now teammates with Javier Mascherano in China
According to his Wikipedia page, Andrew Russell’s only career honour is the 2014 Lancashire Challenge Cup.
The defender’s time in English football was modest, to say the least. He played for Woodley Sports, Mossley, Chorley and AFC Fylde, across the seventh and eighth tiers of the pyramid.
But now, aged 31, five years after refusing to accept being told that football was only a hobby and he needed to focus on the 9-5, he is primed for his debut in the Chinese Super League.
Earlier this year, Southampton-born Russell put pen to paper on a deal with mega-rich Hebei China Fortune, a side managed by Chris Coleman.
In the space of half a decade, he has gone from twice-a-week training sessions alongside plumbers, personal trainers and teachers, to cracking jokes with Argentina internationals Javier Mascherano and Ezequiel Lavezzi across the table at lunchtime.
“You are almost trying to rationalise things that are absolutely not normal for someone who has come from where I have come from,” Russell said, who earned just £60-a-week when he played for Woodley.
“I have been conscious since I moved here not to be too overwhelmed or too starstruck, because if you start the whole time thinking ‘I used to play non-league against 150 people or 200 people’ then you are looking backwards as oppose to forwards.
“Although it is totally surreal, it becomes the new norm and you are trying to put yourself on a level with these guys as best as you can and work as hard as you can.
“It is hard to explain. At the end of the day, they are just normal guys, which sounds a bit weird but you do not want to become overwhelmed and taken back by the situation, because if you do that they you are never going to show your best or play your best.”
Russell was a shrewd signing by Hebei in February, due to his ability to waive the foreign player rule.
His family moved to Hong Kong aged two, making him eligible for a passport. Russell returned to England in his late teens for university, where he studied in Manchester, and forged a semi-professional football career in the north.
But it was at the age of 26, and one particular day in work, where Russell realised that juggling full-time work and non-league football was not for him.
“I went to a training day in Leeds,” he recalled. “I had to leave my house at 7am, get myself to Leeds, then I had to tell the guy who was leading the course that I had to leave to go for this football game.
“He gave me a proper dressing down. I remember it really clearly. He told me that football is only my hobby and that this is my career, what are you doing?
“So I took that, he let me go and I went down to Rushall Olympic. We drew 1-1, I got back in the car and got home at about 1am that night and I just thought there has got to be more to life than this.
“That was my last season in the UK.
“That day, coupled with my wife and my mentor helping me understand what my goals were and what I want to achieve, pushed me to explore.”
Russell saw a friend playing for Hong Kong-based South China in the Barclays Asia Trophy against the likes of Manchester City and Tottenham in front of 40,000 people and wanted a piece of the action.
After a successful trial, he joined in 2014. It was four years later that Russell ventured to China, joining second-tier Liaoning Whowin, where a season of impressive performances saw him picked up by Hebei.
But the Chinese Super League is a far cry from the industrious non-league outposts where Russell cut his teeth.
Now, his days are spent in the gym and on the training ground, eating the right foods and listening to every word of what Coleman’s coaching staff are telling him.
According to his Wikipedia page, Andrew Russell’s only career honour is the 2014 Lancashire Challenge Cup.
The defender’s time in English football was modest, to say the least. He played for Woodley Sports, Mossley, Chorley and AFC Fylde, across the seventh and eighth tiers of the pyramid.
But now, aged 31, five years after refusing to accept being told that football was only a hobby and he needed to focus on the 9-5, he is primed for his debut in the Chinese Super League.
Earlier this year, Southampton-born Russell put pen to paper on a deal with mega-rich Hebei China Fortune, a side managed by Chris Coleman.
In the space of half a decade, he has gone from twice-a-week training sessions alongside plumbers, personal trainers and teachers, to cracking jokes with Argentina internationals Javier Mascherano and Ezequiel Lavezzi across the table at lunchtime.
“You are almost trying to rationalise things that are absolutely not normal for someone who has come from where I have come from,” Russell said, who earned just £60-a-week when he played for Woodley.
“I have been conscious since I moved here not to be too overwhelmed or too starstruck, because if you start the whole time thinking ‘I used to play non-league against 150 people or 200 people’ then you are looking backwards as oppose to forwards.
“Although it is totally surreal, it becomes the new norm and you are trying to put yourself on a level with these guys as best as you can and work as hard as you can.
“It is hard to explain. At the end of the day, they are just normal guys, which sounds a bit weird but you do not want to become overwhelmed and taken back by the situation, because if you do that they you are never going to show your best or play your best.”
Russell was a shrewd signing by Hebei in February, due to his ability to waive the foreign player rule.
His family moved to Hong Kong aged two, making him eligible for a passport. Russell returned to England in his late teens for university, where he studied in Manchester, and forged a semi-professional football career in the north.
But it was at the age of 26, and one particular day in work, where Russell realised that juggling full-time work and non-league football was not for him.
“I went to a training day in Leeds,” he recalled. “I had to leave my house at 7am, get myself to Leeds, then I had to tell the guy who was leading the course that I had to leave to go for this football game.
“He gave me a proper dressing down. I remember it really clearly. He told me that football is only my hobby and that this is my career, what are you doing?
“So I took that, he let me go and I went down to Rushall Olympic. We drew 1-1, I got back in the car and got home at about 1am that night and I just thought there has got to be more to life than this.
“That was my last season in the UK.
“That day, coupled with my wife and my mentor helping me understand what my goals were and what I want to achieve, pushed me to explore.”
Russell saw a friend playing for Hong Kong-based South China in the Barclays Asia Trophy against the likes of Manchester City and Tottenham in front of 40,000 people and wanted a piece of the action.
After a successful trial, he joined in 2014. It was four years later that Russell ventured to China, joining second-tier Liaoning Whowin, where a season of impressive performances saw him picked up by Hebei.
But the Chinese Super League is a far cry from the industrious non-league outposts where Russell cut his teeth.
Now, his days are spent in the gym and on the training ground, eating the right foods and listening to every word of what Coleman’s coaching staff are telling him.
At 31, his lifestyle has had to become somewhat robotic, as he attempts to squeeze every last drop out of his relatively short professional career.
“I just wish that I had been a little bit more dedicated and a little bit more professional during that part of my career,” Russell said, recalling his non-league days.
“When I think about how I live my life now and how I lived my life in these last few years, which have allowed me to get to where I am now in terms of how hard I have worked and how professional I have been.
“If I had applied myself properly back in those non-league days, then I am sure something would have come up further up the pyramid.
“I could have great games and play to a good standard, but it would be a one in 10, I couldn’t find that consistency.
“But I wasn’t living consistently in how hard I worked and in the processes that I was following day-by-day. The two go hand-in-hand and I learned that a little bit too late.
“I still follow non-league and find out how my old teams are getting on, follow my old teammates and see how they are getting on, but I don’t think back too much about my own non-league time and if I do, I look back a little bit regretful and that I could have applied myself better.”
Somewhat akin to Jamie Vardy’s rise from non-league, hard work and endeavour has helped Russell get to where he is today.
But with the Chinese Super League, many footballers making the move to Asia have been criticised for ‘only going for the money’.
“That is the first thing people hear about,” Russell said. “But if people were to come and experience it and see first hand, they would see that it is actually a pretty impressive place to play.
“There was a lot of talk of Arnautovic coming out, a lot of talk of Fellaini coming out, but I am a big advocate of the fact that there is a lot more to China football than just the money.
“If anyone had come and watched our first league game, we only played one of the newly promoted teams, it was in an absolutely world class stadium and there were over 35,000 fans there.
“The team is well supported and the facilities have been brilliant. Everything has been absolutely amazing.
“You do get taken aback by it all, so there is a lot more to it than just the financial side of things.”
He added: “It is only going to be natural when the likes of Mousa Dembele, who has just signed from Tottenham, where he was playing with world class players every day, it is going to be a step down.
“For me it is a very competitive league and the obvious thing is the top foreign players, but there are plenty of good local players here too.”
A Hong Kong passport has also allowed Russell to venture into the international game, making his debut in a 2-0 loss away at Qatar in May 2016.
And the experience of playing international football also brought with it an additional unexpected quirk: YouTube highlight compliations.
The title reads: ‘Andy Russell Defensive Skills VS Lebanon’, in the same way that his now-teammate Mascherano has dozens of videos celebrating his on-pitch achievements.
“Ha ha… erm… I have to be honest, I have typed Andy Russell into YouTube before. I have to hold my hands up and admit I have seen it!
“But all that stuff goes back to the surreal thing. You are playing with these players and these coaches and even when I first arrived in Hong Kong, you never believed that someone was going to make a video about you playing in an international game.
“I just focus day-by-day on just training hard and over time, these things just happen.
“I just wish that I had been a little bit more dedicated and a little bit more professional during that part of my career,” Russell said, recalling his non-league days.
“When I think about how I live my life now and how I lived my life in these last few years, which have allowed me to get to where I am now in terms of how hard I have worked and how professional I have been.
“If I had applied myself properly back in those non-league days, then I am sure something would have come up further up the pyramid.
“I could have great games and play to a good standard, but it would be a one in 10, I couldn’t find that consistency.
“But I wasn’t living consistently in how hard I worked and in the processes that I was following day-by-day. The two go hand-in-hand and I learned that a little bit too late.
“I still follow non-league and find out how my old teams are getting on, follow my old teammates and see how they are getting on, but I don’t think back too much about my own non-league time and if I do, I look back a little bit regretful and that I could have applied myself better.”
Somewhat akin to Jamie Vardy’s rise from non-league, hard work and endeavour has helped Russell get to where he is today.
But with the Chinese Super League, many footballers making the move to Asia have been criticised for ‘only going for the money’.
“That is the first thing people hear about,” Russell said. “But if people were to come and experience it and see first hand, they would see that it is actually a pretty impressive place to play.
“There was a lot of talk of Arnautovic coming out, a lot of talk of Fellaini coming out, but I am a big advocate of the fact that there is a lot more to China football than just the money.
“If anyone had come and watched our first league game, we only played one of the newly promoted teams, it was in an absolutely world class stadium and there were over 35,000 fans there.
“The team is well supported and the facilities have been brilliant. Everything has been absolutely amazing.
“You do get taken aback by it all, so there is a lot more to it than just the financial side of things.”
He added: “It is only going to be natural when the likes of Mousa Dembele, who has just signed from Tottenham, where he was playing with world class players every day, it is going to be a step down.
“For me it is a very competitive league and the obvious thing is the top foreign players, but there are plenty of good local players here too.”
A Hong Kong passport has also allowed Russell to venture into the international game, making his debut in a 2-0 loss away at Qatar in May 2016.
And the experience of playing international football also brought with it an additional unexpected quirk: YouTube highlight compliations.
The title reads: ‘Andy Russell Defensive Skills VS Lebanon’, in the same way that his now-teammate Mascherano has dozens of videos celebrating his on-pitch achievements.
“Ha ha… erm… I have to be honest, I have typed Andy Russell into YouTube before. I have to hold my hands up and admit I have seen it!
“But all that stuff goes back to the surreal thing. You are playing with these players and these coaches and even when I first arrived in Hong Kong, you never believed that someone was going to make a video about you playing in an international game.
“I just focus day-by-day on just training hard and over time, these things just happen.
“It was never my aim or my goal or my wish that something like that would happen. It is not that big of a deal, but it is one of those things where you look back and you will think ‘that was pretty cool’ and something you can show your kids later in life.
“From when I was playing non-league you would never dream of that. I remember we used to go mad because one player had a Wikipedia page and that was the coolest thing.
“I was fortunate in my circumstances in that I grew up in Hong Kong and had a Hong Kong passport, but I always say it, here are huge opportunities outside of the UK and in Asia.
“It is not just myself, there are a few other English players doing really well out in Asia and they have made that leap.
“You have got to experience things and those kind of experiences that we are talking about now, which have become normal, I would have never had those opportunities in the UK.
“It all comes from taking that leap of faith.”
“From when I was playing non-league you would never dream of that. I remember we used to go mad because one player had a Wikipedia page and that was the coolest thing.
“I was fortunate in my circumstances in that I grew up in Hong Kong and had a Hong Kong passport, but I always say it, here are huge opportunities outside of the UK and in Asia.
“It is not just myself, there are a few other English players doing really well out in Asia and they have made that leap.
“You have got to experience things and those kind of experiences that we are talking about now, which have become normal, I would have never had those opportunities in the UK.
“It all comes from taking that leap of faith.”
鏡報專訪羅素
羅素成就最動聽真實傳奇
羅素鼓勵球員黎亞洲屈身型
“You have got to experience things and those kind of experiences that we are talking about now, which have become normal, I would have never had those opportunities in the UK."
“You have got to experience things and those kind of experiences that we are talking about now, which have become normal, I would have never had those opportunities in the UK."
勵志
5年前爭d轉行? 
But now, aged 31, five years after refusing to accept being told that football was only a hobby and he needed to focus on the 9-5, he is primed for his debut in the Chinese Super League.
But now, aged 31, five years after refusing to accept being told that football was only a hobby and he needed to focus on the 9-5, he is primed for his debut in the Chinese Super League.
不過個陣應該唔係full time
Russell was earning just £60-a-week during his time with Woodley Sports
Russell was earning just £60-a-week during his time with Woodley Sports
南華果陣ma
一䦕頭wiki:
直到2015年夏季，由於南華足主張廣勇出資贊助地區球會黃大仙，並借出包括羅素在內的球員，但他在隨南華的季前熱身賽中用表現換來繼續留隊的機會
一開頭d球迷都成日笑佢
加操先好d
一䦕頭wiki:
直到2015年夏季，由於南華足主張廣勇出資贊助地區球會黃大仙，並借出包括羅素在內的球員，但他在隨南華的季前熱身賽中用表現換來繼續留隊的機會
一開頭d球迷都成日笑佢
加操先好d
羅素
But it was at the age of 26, and one particular day in work, where Russell realised that juggling full-time work and non-league football was not for him.
“I went to a training day in Leeds,” he recalled. “I had to leave my house at 7am, get myself to Leeds, then I had to tell the guy who was leading the course that I had to leave to go for this football game.
“He gave me a proper dressing down. I remember it really clearly. He told me that football is only my hobby and that this is my career, what are you doing?
“So I took that, he let me go and I went down to Rushall Olympic. We drew 1-1, I got back in the car and got home at about 1am that night and I just thought there has got to be more to life than this.
“That was my last season in the UK.
But it was at the age of 26, and one particular day in work, where Russell realised that juggling full-time work and non-league football was not for him.
“I went to a training day in Leeds,” he recalled. “I had to leave my house at 7am, get myself to Leeds, then I had to tell the guy who was leading the course that I had to leave to go for this football game.
“He gave me a proper dressing down. I remember it really clearly. He told me that football is only my hobby and that this is my career, what are you doing?
“So I took that, he let me go and I went down to Rushall Olympic. We drew 1-1, I got back in the car and got home at about 1am that night and I just thought there has got to be more to life than this.
“That was my last season in the UK.