第1章 我踢后卫十五年，你给我前锋模版？还是对抗力量潜力拉满的那种？！ 

I've been a defender for fifteen years, and you're giving me a striker template? And one with incredible power potential?!

Since the dawn of modern football, the center forward has never been so depopulated. The number nine position has long lost its former glory. Players like Osimhen, Džekeres, and Isaac are now commanding nearly a billion dollars. The two leaders, one a weakling who only knows how to win in tough matches, while the other didn't win his first major championship until he was thirty, having moved to another country. Twenty years ago, this would have been unimaginable. Despite a serious knee injury, Ronaldo lived up to his "alien" persona, still winning two World Cups. Didier Drogba, the "Warcraft," was unstoppable, crushing Premier League defenses with impunity. Filippo Inzaghi and Christian Vieri embodied two distinct styles of center forward, but their off-field saga was equally captivating. Andriy Shevchenko, Gabriel Batistuta, Patrick Kluivert, and Ruud van Nistelrooy... in that group...

自现代足球起源以来，中锋——从未像如今这般凋零。九号位早已不复当年荣光。奥斯梅恩、哲凯赖什、伊萨克之流竟也能身价迫亿，两位执牛耳者，一个是只会吃饼的硬仗软脚虾，另一个直到三十岁才靠转会他国混到了人生第一个重量级冠军。放到二十年前，这简直不可想像。膝盖重伤后的罗纳尔多无愧“外星人”本色，仍然两夺世界杯冠军。“魔兽”迪迪埃-德罗巴肆意霸道地倾轧着英超诸雄的防线。菲利波-因扎吉和克里斯蒂安-维耶里代表着两种截然不同的中锋风格，但场外的花边新闻同样精彩。舍甫琴科、巴蒂斯图塔、克鲁伊维特、范尼斯特鲁伊……在那个群...