i am a football star

Chapter 17 Li Yuyang of "Chinese Football"

2007年9月26日，法国联赛杯第三轮的比赛，全替补出战的波尔多如愿以偿理所当然的1:2输给了梅斯队，结束了2007/2008赛季的法国联赛杯之旅。

The head coach of Bordeaux and most of the players didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Blanc had originally planned to focus on Ligue 3. Now that he lost the game, Bordeaux is fully preparing for the next game.A week later, Bordeaux will participate in the second round of the third qualifying round of the Europa League at home. Since the first round has already won a 1:[-] away game, the second round is not a big problem now.

On this day, just as Liu Ting came out of the Clairefontaine training base, Jacques Pierre, the gatekeeper, stopped Liu Ting: "Hey, Liu, there is a reporter over there who wants to interview you."

Liu Ting thought it was those entertainment reporters who wanted to interview him. After the news about Léa Seydoux was reported recently, some reporters did come to interview Liu Ting, and some went to interview Saidoux, but both Liu Ting and Seydoux were only well-known in their own fields, and had not attracted much attention. This kind of news did not attract enough attention, and it only occupied a small corner of the entertainment newspaper.

Only when Liu Ting met the person who wanted to interview him did he realize that he had guessed wrong.

"Hello, Liu Ting, I'm Li Yuyang, a reporter from "Chinese Soccer". May I take a moment to interview you?" The person standing opposite Liu Ting was a Chinese, not the French entertainment reporter he thought. Listening to the other party's Chinese-flavored French, Liu Ting was a little bit dumbfounded.

"I am very happy to accept your interview, but I hope you can hurry up. We have a game tomorrow, so we have to go back early to rest." Liu Ting replied directly in Chinese.

The reporter named Li Yuyang was obviously taken aback. He didn't expect that Liu Ting could not only speak Chinese, but also speak it very well.

"I didn't expect you to speak Chinese so well. You don't look like a European Chinese at all, but more like an authentic Chinese." Li Yuyang sighed, and then asked in Chinese: "Liu Ting, can you briefly tell us about your situation? Where are your parents from in China?"

"My father is from Hong Kong, and my mother is a Monaco with half Chinese ancestry, so I have [-]/[-] Chinese ancestry and [-]/[-] European ancestry." Liu Ting said simply.

"Then which European club did you study football in?" Li Yuyang continued to ask, but he obviously didn't look for the French newspapers in advance, otherwise these issues would have been reported in French newspapers.

"I went through youth training at Barcelona."

"Then why didn't you stay in Barcelona, ​​but came to France to play?"

"Because Barcelona didn't give me a professional contract, I came to Bordeaux."

"Are you going back to Barcelona in the future?"

"I'm fine in Bordeaux, and I don't think about transferring for the time being. Well, it's almost the end of today, and I'm going back to rest."

"Last question, will you play tomorrow's Europa League qualifier?"

"I don't know, it depends on the arrangement of the head coach, but the coach is likely to arrange a rotation, and the chance of playing is not great."

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Looking at the back of Liu Ting's departure, Li Yuyang thought in his heart that he had come to the right place this time, and he had dug up such a selling topic.

Li Yuyang was originally sent by "China Football" to the Bundesliga Cottbus team to report on Shao Jiayi, but Shao Jiayi's condition in Cottbus is not very good. The team's head coach Sandel doesn't like Shao Jiayi, which makes his situation in Cottbus not very good. He can only get some substitute time in each game.

Li Yuyang had nothing to do in the Bundesliga. No one could do anything if Shao Jiayi was not liked by the head coach. They, the Chinese media, could only make up some news about why Shao Jiayi was not liked or how Shao Jiayi would perform if he was given the opportunity. Anyway, they were all obscene reports, or they just wanted to criticize Cottbus coach Sandel.

The same is true for Li Yuyang. When he was "learning" from German media reports, he saw a French newspaper published in French. There are also some French people in Germany. Such a newspaper can have a small amount of sales, and there is a market for buying and selling.Li Yuyang saw a lot of words about "Chinese teenager" in this newspaper. He immediately searched many French newspapers and found out that there was a young man of Chinese origin who was playing for Bordeaux in Ligue [-]. He performed well in the last two games.

Li Yuyang left the report on Shao Jiayi to a colleague who came with him, and went directly to Bordeaux to find big news.Now it seems that it is really big news. Shao Jiayi’s story is well known in China, and many Chinese media are waiting to report it in Germany. Even if Cottbus has changed coaches and Shao Jiayi may have more opportunities under the new coach, it is not as good as this news. Liu Ting’s story is definitely unique. There must be a market for sending it back to China, and Liu Ting’s experience is also very interesting. He was born in Barcelona’s youth training. After being kicked out, he performed well in Bordeaux. It's a dick's counterattack.

The fact that Liu Ting speaks fluent Chinese will also be a highlight.

At this moment, Li Yuyang sighed in his heart, knowing a foreign language is really important. If he hadn't taken French as an elective during college, wouldn't he have missed this good opportunity to succeed now?He didn't know his French at all. If Liu Ting was not Chinese and could understand French with a Chinese accent, other people might not be able to understand what he was saying.

Thinking of this, Li Yuyang quickly took out his mobile phone and called back to China.

"Hey, editor-in-chief, I just found a big piece of news. There is a player of Chinese origin playing for the Bordeaux team in Ligue [-], and he performed very well. He came from the La Masia youth training camp..."

Soon, Li Yuyang found a lot of newspapers in France that had reported on Liu Ting, and checked the news about Liu Ting, his family background, his youth training background, how he got to Bordeaux, etc., and sent them back to China.

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In the summer of this year, the Chinese team was out of the group stage of the Asian Cup in a cruel and inhuman way. This made Chinese football sink into the dark abyss again.

Zhang Qiming works as a background management employee in an Internet company. He has been playing football since junior high school. At that time, the Chinese League A was booming. The year he was admitted to university was the first time China entered the World Cup finals.Not everyone can perform well for the first time. Even a strong football country may not be able to achieve good results in the World Cup for the first time, let alone a weak country.

England participated in the World Cup for the first time and could not qualify for the group stage. The football kingdom Brazil failed to qualify for the group stage in the first two World Cups. The Greek team was worse than the Chinese team when they participated in the World Cup for the first time in 1994. They failed to score a goal and swallowed ten eggs. But 10 years later, in 2004, the Greek team won the European Cup as a dark horse.

The South Korean team, which has been suppressing China in football in Asia, made the Chinese team suffer from Korean phobia. The first World Cup was also terrible. It lost Turkey 0:7 and Hungary 0:9. Fortunately, the World Cup system was quite strange at that time. The weak team lost two games and did not need to play. The strong team may have several games in the group stage. If the group stage is tied, the winner must be divided over time. The ranking is determined by an extra match with the same points. The German game, otherwise it may lose even worse.

The football history of the Japanese team is also full of blood and tears. In 94, when they hit the World Cup, the Japanese team encountered "black 30 seconds". At that time, the Japanese team won the last round of qualifiers at home and entered the World Cup finals for the first time. At home, Japan led Iraq 2:1.After the game, everyone in Japan thought that they only needed to hold on for 30 seconds, and the referee would definitely blow the whistle within 30 seconds. At that time, the referee had already kept looking at his watch. It was the last "black 30 seconds" that blocked the Japanese. If they didn't know it, they would think that this was what happened to the Chinese team.And Japan's first World Cup trip in 98 also came back disheartened after three defeats.

On the contrary, South Korea’s old leader, North Korea, entered the quarter-finals for the first time in the World Cup. In the group stage, Italy was eliminated as a dark horse. When the Italian team returned home, they were greeted with tomatoes and eggs all the way. I don’t know if anyone in Italy knew how to make tomato scrambled eggs at that time.In the quarter-finals, Portugal led 2:0 at the beginning, but then the Panther Eusebio broke out, and North Korea lost to Portugal 3:5.

Therefore, Zhang Qiming felt that the results of the Chinese team's first World Cup should not be too demanding, and he was not the leader of the Football Association who wanted the Chinese team to win as many goals as they wanted.Unexpectedly, Chinese football soon fell into a long-term dark chaos. After the disastrous defeat in the 02 World Cup and the loss to Japan in the 04 Asian Cup final, Chinese football became more and more chaotic. Worrying and panicking.

When Zhang Qiming went out, he bought a random football newspaper on the side of the road. He mainly paid attention to the situation of the European League.Well, "Chinese Football", the professional football newspaper with the largest circulation in China, opened the newspaper and saw a headline on the front page - "Chinese players shine in the Ligue [-], and the future can be expected from the giants".

The report here immediately attracted Zhang Qiming's attention. After a closer look, it turned out that it was a Chinese youth player from Barcelona's youth training. His name was Liu Ting. He was not yet 19 years old.

Seeing this report, Zhang Qiming immediately thought of a post about "China Zidane's Amazing Ligue [-]" on Mop Soccer some time ago. He recalled that comparing the video in that post with the simple photo in the newspaper, it was probably the same person. This made Zhang Qiming a little excited.Among the Chinese players studying abroad, only Shao Jiayi of the Bundesliga and Dong Fangzhuo and Sun Jihai of the Premier League play in the five major leagues, but they are not absolute main players. Only Sun Jihai can get a lot of opportunities to play, and now there is another player worthy of attention.

At the same time, there was a lot of noise on Mop.com, and the post "China Zidane's stunning Ligue [-]" became popular again.

"I didn't expect that there was actually a Chinese player playing in Bordeaux? I used to think that this video was a fake video made by others for entertainment. It is said that those who play computers can use previous game videos to make a video of Real Madrid winning Barcelona 10:0. If you don't understand it, you will be deceived. If you don't watch the video carefully, it will definitely be fake."

"I just don't know if "Chinese Soccer" has over-hyped it? The Chinese media always start the mode of blowing the wind as soon as there is a player who performs better."

""Chinese Football" also knows how to brag, but there is a bit of morality, unlike "Sports Weekly" which directly brags about it. For example, if a Chinese player goes to a European club for a trial training, he will be directly transferred to "Sports Weekly" and will be reused and will soon become a star. So there should be a Chinese who has become the main player in Bordeaux. As for whether it is as powerful as the newspaper said, it needs to be confirmed.

"Chinese in Monaco? Isn't Monaco super difficult to immigrate? Those who can immigrate are usually very rich."

"He immigrated there in the [-]s. It wasn't that difficult at that time, and didn't he have a father who started a company before? It's just that he died later. From a rich second generation to an ordinary person, he can only find a way out by playing football."

"It is said that he is from La Masia. I don't know if he can return to play for Barcelona in the future."

"Fuck off, stupid!!"

"Fuck off the imperial dog!!"

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Soon, another forum scuffle began.

At the same time, the boss of the "Sports Weekly" headquarters is furious. What their Sports Weekly is good at is to find those players who play in Europe to praise them at home. Except for the famous international footballers who have studied abroad, there are always some Chinese who have followed their parents to work abroad or immigrated abroad to play football in Europe.

Now that there is such a Chinese player, he seems to be very good. "Sports Weekly" has not received any news, and it has fallen behind step by step. Today's sales have been completely suppressed by "Chinese Football". You must know that although the sales volume of "Chinese Football" was higher than that of "Sports Weekly" in most of the time, it was limited. Today, it has directly increased by more than ten percentage points.

(End of this chapter)