Young Football Player

Li Chenglong got off the field injured, and soon followed the team doctor to the locker room to deal with it.

For injuries such as strains, unless surgery is required in particularly serious cases, most strains generally wait for natural recovery, and at best, use some topical medicine to speed up the recovery.

In the locker room, the team doctor checked again and confirmed that his strain was not serious, and Li Chenglong was also relieved.

Since joining Dundee United, Li Chenglong has missed a few games except when he has not won the trust of the head coach at the beginning of the season. For most of the time after that, Li Chenglong basically played in the important games of Dundee United, and most of them started. .

After most of the season, he basically didn't suffer any injuries, and this is the first time he has been injured.

Li Chenglong felt that if the injury resistance could be seen in the system, his own injury resistance should be of the very high kind.

This is also a good thing. Many talents in football are ruined by injuries.

For real top stars, high attendance rate is one of the foundations to ensure their success.

The team doctor applied ice packs to Li Chenglong's strained area, and then he will stay in the locker room to watch the game.

The game is not over yet, and Li Chenglong's injury is not serious enough to go to the hospital immediately, so he can only wait for the end of the game in the locker room, and then return to Dundee with the whole team.

Soon the first half ended, the score was still 2:0, everything was as Lee Chenglong expected.

During the half-time break, all the teammates who came back to the locker room came to comfort him. Old John also rushed to the locker room and insulted the Irishman Anderson who injured Lee Chenglong with all kinds of ugly words.

The second half of the game was about to start, and the teammates and the coaching staff also went out to prepare for the game one after another, but Old John stayed at the end.

Bruce, I just met two Chinese in the stands. They said they were reporters from a famous sports newspaper in China and wanted to interview you. What do you think?

Hearing Old John's words, Li Chenglong immediately thought of those two strange Chinese reporters at the pre-match press conference in the morning.

Unexpectedly, they actually found Old John and went there. There is really a way. But now Old John is very well-known among the fans of Dundee United. Many people know that he is his grandfather. It seems that it is not difficult for them to ask about this news and find him.

Seeing that Li Chenglong seemed to be hesitating, Old John continued: I think it's good for you to accept their interview. Although Kate always thinks I'm an antique, I still know something. In recent years, China's economy has developed very fast. Anyway, you also have Chinese ancestry, if you can increase your popularity there, it will be of great help to your future commercial value.

That's fine, you can arrange for them to come in. Li Chenglong had no intention of refusing.

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How popular is Bruce in China? Is he very popular?

Uh, it's okay, he still has a certain popularity on the Internet.

Why, didn't you say that there are no famous football stars in China? Isn't Bruce's strength enough to make him popular in China? Or does it mean that no one in China cares about football at all?

The main reason is that no formal sports media has specifically reported on him, and there are also some good players in China who play in Europe. Currently there are Chinese players in the Bundesliga. Fans still care more about these European players.

There are Chinese players in the Bundesliga? Why haven't I heard of it? But there was a Chinese named Zizi who played well in Celtic. I remember his first appearance was in the Glasgow Derby. I happened to watch that game. , he made a penalty shortly after he came on.

Well, he is our former national team captain.

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Kang Ning and Xia Qing were speechless, the old man with white beard kept chattering,

But they are a little annoying.

But the other party is Li Chenglong's grandfather, and they have to rely on each other to see Li Chenglong, so they can only bear it.

Both Kang Ning and Xia Qing are resident reporters sent by Football Weekly to Europe. Kang Ning is a resident reporter for the Premier League, and Xia Qing is a resident reporter for Ligue 1.

Large-scale sports newspapers like Football Weekly sent resident reporters to Europe very early. In the late 1990s, they first sent resident reporters from Serie A. After entering the new century, the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and Ligue 1 respectively. With a resident reporter.

The job of a resident reporter is mainly to get some exclusive news as soon as possible.

But Chinese football is not good, and Chinese football reporters naturally can't get angry. They often can't find too many connections, and they can't interview those top stars. It is even difficult for them to enter the threshold of those big clubs.

Most of the time, they just process the reports of the European media and send them back to China, just fooling around.

This job is not easy to do.

The paper media is no better than the Internet media. The Internet media can break the news as soon as there is any trouble. If you don’t tell me, you can withdraw it. At most, you can apologize. The paper media report must be concerned about the impact. Once it is sent out, it cannot be withdrawn. up.

If everything is reported indiscriminately, it will easily cause trouble.

In addition to choosing to process some foreign media reports and transfer them back to China, these resident reporters usually pay attention to news related to Chinese players.

If a club in the five major leagues expresses interest in a Chinese player, they will rush to interview it.

If a Chinese player really joins a European club, especially the five major leagues, almost all the resident reporters will gather around and wait for the news.

Since the Chinese player Gao Junmin joined the Bundesliga powerhouse Schalke 04 last year, the resident reporters have often traveled to Germany, and Kang Ning and Xia Qing are two of them.

But after a long time, everyone discovered that Gao Junmin couldn't play in the Bundesliga, so they went back to their respective homes.

As an old man who has been a resident reporter in the Premier League since 2004, Corning knows that there is a Chinese star who is very popular in the Scottish League recently. And it's not the kind of ordinary Chinese, it is said that they grew up in China, which should be very attractive to Chinese fans.

Corning also deliberately inquired about the news from China. This Chinese player is indeed popular on the Chinese Internet, but no one in the regular media has definite information, and it is not even clear whether the information uploaded on the Internet is true or not, so I still No official reports.

Kang Ning felt that this was an opportunity, so he brought Xia Qing to Scotland, planning to meet the Chinese star for a while.

The reason why Xia Qing was brought along was that Kang Ning felt that the reports they sent back together should attract more attention.

Of course, if the report is distorted and he has to take the blame, someone will take the blame with him.

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Entering the locker room at Hampton Park, Kang Ning and Xia Qing finally saw their target, Li Chenglong, up close.

Although they had the opportunity to ask questions at the press conference before, they were all separated far away, and they couldn't even see Li Chenglong's appearance very clearly.

Spiritual short hair, sunny face, slightly sharp eyes, very ordinary height, in terms of appearance alone, it seems that there is not much difference from Chinese people, but they are more handsome. This is the first time that Kang Ning and Xia Qing The impression of seeing Lee Chenglong up close.

Hello, Bruce. The two came forward to shake hands, and Li Chenglong also stood up to shake hands with them. The two immediately saw the ice pack on his legs, and immediately said, You don't need to stand up, just sit down.

Is your injury okay? The two still politely asked about the injury first.

It's okay, it's just a little strain, just rest for two weeks. Li Chenglong heard that the younger reporter didn't seem to speak English very well, so he said: You can speak Chinese, I can understand it. .”

I didn't expect you to speak Chinese so well...

The two introduced themselves first, and then started the formal interview. They planned to use this opportunity to directly make an exclusive interview.

Li Chenglong, tell me about your parents first.

My father is from Lu Province, China, and my mother is from Scotland. They met when they were studying together at the University of London.

Then you were born in England?

Well, I was born in London, England.

But I heard that he grew up in China, so what's the matter?

At that time, my parents were still in college, and it was not convenient to take care of me, so they sent me back to China, and my grandfather took care of me.

Can you tell me about your grandfather?

He died when I was 10 years old.

Oh, sorry, do you still have an impression of China now?

Of course I did. I spent my childhood in China. I was no different from ordinary Chinese kids when I was young. I threw sandbags, played marbles, played Street Fighter and Super Mario.

Then when did you first get in touch with football?

On my 5th birthday, when China's professional leagues were still very popular, my grandfather took me out to buy birthday presents, and I picked a football. football.

Then did you receive professional youth training when you were in China?

No, at that time I was completely wild, kicking around by myself.

How was your level at that time?

It was pretty good when I was in China. I felt like no one could beat me back then.

Then why did you come to live in England again?

Because my grandfather passed away, I was very sad at that time, and I wanted to leave China to go out to relax, and now I have been away for several years.

The interviews of the two were done very carefully, and they would ask questions almost as long as it involved every aspect of China.

Finally, they asked the most critical question: Have you considered playing for the Chinese national team in the future?

Well, I did think about it. If the conditions are right, I would be happy to play for the Chinese team.

Li Chenglong has indeed thought about it. Although he lives in the UK now, Li Chenglong still recognizes his identity as a Chinese. If the Chinese Football Association is not so tricky, he can really consider playing for the Chinese team.

The premise is not to cheat.

The two actually wanted to continue digging for more news, but the game was about to end at this time, and their identities were not suitable to stay in the locker room anymore, so the two had to take photos with Lee Chenglong and leave each other's contact information , and this concludes this interview.