Chapter 157 The FA’s ‘Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage’

As time comes to mid-May, all major leagues are coming to an end. The champions of the Bundesliga, Serie A and French Ligue 1 have been named. Only the Premier League and La Liga champions have to wait until the end of the last round to reveal the suspense. .

Compared with the La Liga championship, the final round of the Premier League is obviously more interesting.

League Championship and League Golden Boot!

Once Liverpool defeats Middlesbrough at home in the final round, in addition to ensuring the league title, it can also increase its single-season winning streak to 17 games and share with Inter Milan the single record of the five major European leagues created in the 2006-2007 season. Second longest winning streak of the season.

The number one record is the nineteen-game winning streak created by Guardiola during the 2013-2014 season at Bayern.

The competition for the league golden boot seems much less suspense than the league championship, because Liverpool will be the league champion as long as they win, but the league golden boot cannot. Li Qing must score one more goal than Harry Kane in the last round to win the season total. The number of goals scored was evened.

According to the ranking rules of the scorer list, players with fewer penalty kicks only have the advantage of being ranked higher. However, the actual ranking of Golden Boots and Silver Boots will not be based on the number of penalty kicks scored. Instead, players with the same number of goals will share the league. Golden boots.

In other words, if Li Qing wants to exclusively win the league's golden boot, he must score two more goals than Harry Kane in the final round!

"It's so stressful!"

Li Qing looked at the media reports and felt overwhelming pressure.

Liverpool, who won at home, got a day off as usual on the second day. It was rare that Li Qing did not go to the Melwood training base for extra training. He was going to Manchester to find Tong Shen Bing to relax and divert his attention.

During this period of time, Chelsea's nerves were tense in order to reverse Chelsea's situation, and it felt a little difficult to breathe.

Just when Li Qing was about to set off, his cell phone rang at an inappropriate time. He took it out and saw that the note was the Technical Director of the Football Association.

"Why is Les Reese calling me at this time?"

Li Qing was confused and had no choice but to answer the phone.

The familiar middle-aged voice came through the receiver: "Hello, Li, I am calling you at this time. I am not disturbing you, right?"

"Fortunately, I was just getting ready to go out."

Les Reese is obviously an acquaintance: "Then my call was really timely, haha..."

"..."

Li Qing was in no mood to talk nonsense with Les Rees and asked directly: "Mr. Les, are you calling me for something?"

"It's true that something happened." Les Reese could hear the bad mood in Li Qing's words, and did not ask the reason. After all, they were not very familiar with each other. He went directly into work mode: "The World Youth Championship will be held in Bangzi Country soon. Curtain, there are only three days left before the submission of the final 23-man roster. I wonder what you are thinking about? "

As soon as he finished speaking, Les Reese thought of something again and quickly added: "By the way... Gareth intends to let you participate in the national team training next month. There may be some conflicts in time, but you can choose one of them."

Li Qing then remembered that Les Reese had called him half a month ago, saying that Simpson, the head coach of the U20 National Youth Team, hoped that he could join his team and participate in the World Youth Championship.

Since we were in a critical period of chasing points in the league at that time, his answer was to wait until the make-up games were over.

He thought that during this period, the Football Association would be influenced by domestic fans and have the idea of ​​naturalization. It turned out that his waiting period was in vain, and the Football Association did not respond at all.

Do you want to accept the call from the FA and participate in the World Youth Championship?

The 16-year-old will not participate in this year's World Youth Championship held in Bangzi Country. He can still participate in the next one or the one after that, but next year is the World Cup year.

If you choose England, then even if you get a passport, you will not be able to represent the men's football team in any international A-level events.

Motherland, why do you make it so difficult for me to choose?

what can we do about it?

For Les Reese, it is not important whether Li Qing can agree to join the U20 national youth team. He hopes that Li Qing can participate in the next training session of the England national team to prepare for the World Cup qualifiers in mid-June.

After these days of inspection, Li Qing's ability is rare in the world. Even France's popular fried chicken Kylian Mbappe cannot compare with Li Qing. How can such a super genius give up so easily?

He knew that Li Qing's situation was much more complicated than those of dual-nationality players, because Li Qing had a motherland in his heart. According to relevant FIFA rules, once he represented England in the World Cup qualifiers, it would mean that Li Qing would not be able to get his passport again in the future. Unable to represent the men's football team in international A-level competitions.

Based on personal emotions, he hopes that Li Qing can represent England in the World Cup. After all, as an Englishman, he definitely hopes that the national team will become stronger and stronger.

The World Cup in Russia will start in June next year. It will be difficult for the national team to achieve ideal results in the World Cup by relying solely on Harry Kane's offensive points. However, with the equally outstanding Li Qing, everything will be different.

From an objective perspective, the choice can only be completely left to Li Qing.

The two were quiet for about three minutes. Li Qing sighed inwardly and broke the silence: "Can you give me three more days?"

Although the World Youth Championship is imminent, compared with the national team's World Cup qualifiers, the World Youth Championship can only stand aside, so Les Reese smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, even if you answer me after the FA Cup final."

In ancient times, Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage three times to invite Zhuge Liang. Now the technical director of the Football Association has called three times. Li Qing felt that there was no way to delay it any longer, so he said: "Thank you Mr. Rice for your kindness, but I have delayed it for so long. We in China have A word is enough to be a gentleman, a word is hard to catch, but a word is three days."

"Okay, I hope there will be good news in three days."

"goodbye."

Li Qing hung up the phone and lay on the sofa, lost in thought.

About half an hour later, he sent a message on his Weibo personal authentication account: FA technical director Les Reese has called me for the third time. I don’t know how to make a decision. Should you continue to wait for the call from the men's football team, which has never been heard from, or accept the FA's invitation to participate in the World Youth Championship and World Cup qualifiers? If it were you, what would you choose?

Li Qing has hundreds of thousands of fans following him on Xinlang Weibo and Qiqiudi, and soon a large number of fans followed and commented.

Nearly 90% of fans support Li Qing's acceptance of the FA's invitation. Only about 10% of fans say that Li Qing is still young and hope he can wait patiently.

In fact, Li Qing can wait for as long as he wants, but... he needs an attitude.

It's a pity that the Football Association didn't show any attitude. The only deputy director of the office who came to Liverpool, Chen Yong, was all because of his money tree.

As a time traveler, no one knows better than him what kind of NC organization the Football Association is.