our champion dream

Chapter 135 Prelude
On the plane, Li Xiaoming didn't sleep. He seemed to have adapted to the life of a trapeze man. Although he wasn't mentally very good, at least he didn't feel dizzy anymore. He was like a dead fish and a shrimp when he didn't board the plane.

He obediently sat in his seat leaning against the window, fiddling with his IPAD. This is the latest product of Apple, which was only released last week. With the funds in his bank account soaring, he also bought it. I sent one to my home, and to Li Qingru.

Ferdinand wandered back from the toilet and saw Li Xiaoming looking lazily at the IPAD.

"What are you looking at? Yo, I'm rich." He asked.

"Don't make trouble, I'm watching the AC Milan game."

When Ferdinand heard Li Xiaoming say this, the expression on his face froze, he was dumbfounded!
"I heard that right, you were brainwashed by God last night, my God, this is the headline news in England." He said in a tone of disbelief.

His voice was a little louder, which immediately aroused the interest of other teammates in the front, back, left, and right seats.

Because just like why Rio Ferdinand was surprised, other teammates were also surprised by this matter.

"What? Li, you actually watch AC Milan games, you slacker, don't you always fall asleep in Ferguson's tactics class?"

"Yes, Li, what do you think? Are you afraid of Milan?"

"Don't worry, Li, I'll cover you. It's fine. If you're nervous, give me the ball and let me show off. You've been getting too much attention lately." Wayne Rooney stood up very dissatisfied. Rubbed Li Xiaoming's hair.

"Wayne, what does it mean to be in the limelight? Now his popularity has exploded, and this kid, so far, has never invited him to dinner."

Everyone rushed over, surrounded Li Xiaoming, shouted and expressed their surprise.

It's just that the goal of their topic has changed from why Li Xiaoming wants to watch Milan's game, to why Li Xiaoming is so stingy, never treats him to a meal, and is always on the go.Everyone expressed their dissatisfaction with this one after another. Even Rooney was about to wave his fist and started threatening him personally. The movement here even attracted the attention of the coaching staff.

Fortunately, it is now in the stratosphere cruising stage, so it is not a big deal for the players to walk around on the plane.

Surrounded by everyone, Li Xiaoming twitched his mouth and scratched his head: "You group of multi-millionaires, do you have the nerve to let me buy you something to eat?"

"Of course!" Nani counted with his fingers. "When you won the first championship, Rooney invited us to dinner, and then Ferdinand invited the big man to come back and scored once. Bei Shuai came back a few days ago and invited him once, and then even the boss invited him once. , Now that you are full of plans, you are the only one who hasn't invited me. And the most important thing is, every time, you have to go to my house to eat."

Li Xiaoming was stunned for a moment, then thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was really the case, he smiled awkwardly, and said

"Well, look, I still live in someone else's house. I have to save some money to buy a house, and I'm going to marry a wife later." For a while, Li Xiaoming didn't know how to explain.

At this time, Rooney shook his head and said, "Excuse me! The way you lie is the same as lying to my wife."

"Um. Alright." Li Xiaoming spread his hands and said helplessly, "If we beat Milan by a big score, and the score advantage is so great that we don't need to contribute in the second round, I'll invite you to choose the location."

"Aww!!!" The pack of wolves surrounding Li Xiaoming began to cry and howl.

Why Li Xiaoming watched the AC Milan game has been forgotten by everyone, and now everyone is thinking about how to make Li Xiaoming spend a lot of time.

On the coaching staff's side, assistant coach Mullenstein also sat back, and then told Ferguson what happened there with a smile.

After listening to Mullenstein's description, Ferguson and Beckham, who was sitting next to Ferguson, looked at each other and smiled.

"This kid, it's really interesting..." He smiled and shook his head and said to Beckham.

Beckham, who has been closing his eyes and resting his mind, also looked back at his teammates who were fighting, shook his head and said: "I used to have the energy to play with them, but now that I am old, I can rest as much as I can, but I really have to obey my old age. The world is indeed for young people."

"How is it? How do you feel when you come back?" Ferguson touched his big nose and said.

Beckham smiled, and said: "I'm not used to it, they are much more energetic and pure than us before, Li this kid, when he asked me for an autograph that day, he was embarrassed to take out one and saw that it was a pirated copy." Manchester United No. [-] jersey, and while you were away, he secretly asked me if I still had any grudges with you. He probably didn’t know that the conflict between us had been resolved a long time ago.”

"He hasn't adapted to his identity yet. He still thinks he is an ordinary fan. He does the same things as ordinary fans, but this is also good. Isolate a lot of interference and play football without distraction."

To be honest, a player like Li Xiaoming has never been seen in his coaching career.

Talented, but also very hardworking.Generally speaking, those talented players will always be lazy, because they don't need to train hard to achieve the strength that ordinary people can only achieve through hard training, which will more or less make them feel a little slack.

This is almost a common problem of all geniuses.

But in Li Xiaoming's body, there is no such common problem. Moreover, Li Xiaoming has always been the one who complained the loudest on the training ground, but he has always been the one who persisted until he could no longer persist. For several months, Li Xiaoming's Hard work Ferguson can see it.

It's unimaginable.It is completely different from the Chinese before him, and he has never even heard of Li Xiaoming's scandal. Any famous star will be scrutinized, whether it is Rooney back then or Ronaldo. Every now and then, he would fall into the short-term vortex of drunkenness, hugging left and right, and he would not wake up until he reminded him many times, and Li Xiaoming was the first one who played football very cleanly and purely.

His private life is very boring, but on the football field, he can always make countless big news.

Such a player is definitely the favorite of any coach.I am very lucky to be able to be his coach instead of being his opponent.

It's just that if Li Xiaoming is allowed to go to Ferguson, Li Xiaoming will laugh out loud. After all, for him, there is already an incredibly beautiful woman waiting for him in the motherland thousands of miles away.

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Why did Li Xiaoming watch the video.Under Ferdinand's questioning, he still answered this question.

"I want to collect the signatures of all the big-name players. I am confirming how many signatures from Milan I can collect. By the way, Leo, do you think Pirlo is handsome or Beckham is handsome? Inzaghi is handsome? How handsome is Rooney? Well, why did you roll your eyes? Well, I admit to the question just now, indeed these two people cannot be compared."

In the bustling alarm clock, the plane landed at Milan's airport.

After the Manchester United team arrived in Milan, they met many reporters outside the airport, including many Italian media.

As the hottest new star in European football right now, Li Xiaoming is naturally the target of the media reporters.

Just one day ago, Serie A ended the No.20 five rounds, and AC Milan defeated their opponent Genoa 3:1 in the away game.

Although the ranking this season is not too good, their strength should not be underestimated.

As the core of the team, Pirlo scored a goal in the game.

When he was interviewed by reporters after the game, he was asked about the next quarter-finals of the Champions League.

"Manchester United are a very strong team, especially their new attacking midfielder, Li Xiaoming is a very good young player. I think we have to be very, very careful when dealing with him. Although this is our home ground, We can't take it lightly..."

When he answered the interview, he spoke highly of Li Xiaoming.

Now the reporters want to ask Li Xiaoming what he thinks of Pirlo's remarks.

But after hearing the reporter's question, Li Xiaoming scratched his head and replied: "Pirlo is a very great player, and Milan is also a very great team. I think this game is a very big challenge for Manchester United. I am very happy." Looking forward to playing at the San Siro Stadium."

Li Xiaoming's answer is still very official.

Of course Li Xiaoming knows who Pirlo is, he has redefined the role of the defensive midfielder, the master of the art of the Apennines, and is a legend.To be praised by such a big man... In fact, he couldn't stop laughing in his heart.

But at least, Li Xiaoming's expression is still very calm up to now, and he has heard all kinds of praises in the past few months.There are players with bigger names than Pirlo, so now Li Xiaoming can calmly face these praises, or flattery.Not only in terms of football skills, but also in the skills of dealing with the media, he has also matured a lot.

"Although it is an away game, we still have to strive to win this game." Li Xiaoming replied. "My goal is to go further."

He still didn't answer the reporter's question directly, but talked about him a little bit.

But what he said was still the truth, and he was not perfunctory to the reporters.He even tacted a bit, because Manchester United's goal is actually the Champions League, but he didn't say that, which sounds a little more acceptable.From the reporter's point of view, although Li Xiaoming did not directly answer the reporters' questions, he still revealed useful information in his answers.

That is, facing the reporter, Li Xiaoming showed his self-confidence, and he said that he would beat AC Milan in the away game.

Since Li Xiaoming is still a rookie, these words are somewhat... arrogant.

"After Li Xiaoming arrived at AC Milan, he was interviewed by reporters. During the interview, he fully demonstrated his confidence..."

After the voice-over ended, there was a picture of Li Xiaoming standing in front of the camera answering reporters' questions, and his voice came out close.

"Although it is an away game, we still have to strive to win this game. My goal is to go further."

Li Xiaoming's expression was very calm, and no emotional fluctuations could be seen from his face.While fiddling with his mobile phone and chatting with Li Qingru, he packed his luggage.

"Li, it's not right for you to say that..." Rio Ferdinand, who lived in the same room with Li Xiaoming, pointed to the TV screen while covering his forehead.

"What's wrong, Leo?"

"Your words and attitude can easily irritate the Milanese," Ferdinand said.

"Annoy the people of Milan? How? I've already said that AC Milan is great, so that's not enough? Then what else?" Li Xiaoming felt a little unbelievable, and he said it very tactfully, and his tone and expression were very different. Calm, how could it be possible to irritate the other party?
As soon as the voice finished speaking, the screen switched back to the studio, and the Italian host said indignantly: "Li Xiaoming looked very arrogant during the interview, look at his expression..." The screen changed to a close-up of Li Xiaoming's expression, his face Expressionless was interpreted as "arrogance".

"Of course, in European football nowadays, Li is the most shining superstar. Even Messi did not have such brilliant results in his first season. The Champions League group stage has just ended, and he has scored four goals. [-] goal, [-] assists, such horrible data, let him be at the top of both the goals list and the assists list... But he is only a young player, and he needs to be humble when facing a giant like Milan..."

Li Xiaoming stared dumbfounded, "Could it be that the Italian media's morality is higher than that of taking things out of context?"

Ferdinand shook his head and pointed to the TV: "The Italians are very proud. You praise them for being great, but if you want to defeat them, doesn't that mean that we are even greater?"

"Are...what a joke, how can I be arrogant?" Li Xiaoming, who reacted, shouted, "I haven't said that our goal is to be the champion!"

"It's a good thing you didn't say it. If you had, it probably wouldn't be such a simple matter now..." Ferdinand said, covering his face.In his mind, Li Xiaoming had already been classified as a bear child.

"It's too stingy..." Li Xiaoming complained while looking at the Italian commentator on the TV screen.

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Just when Li Xiaoming was complaining about the glass-heartedness of the Milan people, Leonardo, Milan's head coach at home, also saw the news.

His first reaction was that the media made a big fuss again, looking for topics to hype up.

Li Xiaoming is now the hottest superstar in Europe, everyone is staring at him, and anything that happens to him is big news, so it is understandable for the Italian media to make a fuss about what he said.

But media hype is hype, and it has nothing to do with me.

He plans to change the channel, such hype is meaningless to him as the head coach.

But at this moment, a thought suddenly flashed in his head—or maybe he could try to take advantage of this media hype?
Leonardo is well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of AC Milan's tactic, because this tactic was designed by him.

Now in the whole of Italy, everyone agrees that AC Milan's midfielder is very strong, with both offense and defense, and it is the same in European football. There is almost no team whose midfielder has both offense and defense as Milan.Pirlo, a well-known organizational midfielder in Europe, Gattuso, a super vicious defensive player that everyone in Europe fears.Coupled with veteran Seedorf and new aid Ronaldinho, he can wake up with a smile every time he thinks of it.

However, the advantage of this tactic is that the offense is fierce and the control is strong, but at the same time there is also a problem, that is, the problem of rhythm. The rhythm of Italian teams is generally slow. In this way, the space behind the defense line is relatively large.If you run into a team that is good at counterattacking... that's dangerous.

(End of this chapter)