From Dortmund Trainee to World's Best Midfielder

What if you could rewrite your origin story? Chen Feiyu stands atop the football world—World Cup champion, Ballon d'Or winner, the complete midfielder every club dreams of. Yet when asked which moment he'd relive, his answer surprises everyone: summer 2019, when he was nobody, grinding through Austria's league alongside three future legends. While Haaland evolved into a goal machine and Szoboszlai became a midfield maestro, Chen transformed from a scrappy defensive midfielder into something unprecedented—a player who could tackle like a destroyer, pass like a playmaker, and score like a strike…