Chapter 575 My Time

In the latest roster announced by the England national team, there is a person's name that has attracted a lot of attention.

Wayne Rooney!

England's super striker, who played alongside Ronaldo, was already playing for his country when he was seventeen years old, and was once known as the youngest England international.

If Rooney plays against Costa Rica, he will complete his 120th game.

However, as the game draws closer, the debate over whether Rooney should be selected for the new England national team has been raging in various media in Great Britain.

Former England goalkeeper Hilton made it clear that Southgate's decision to recruit Rooney into the national team again was absolutely wrong. This attracted the support of many people.

After all, Rooney announced his retirement from the national team last year, so the debate about Southgate using this game as Rooney's final game for the national team began to appear frequently.

But in the eyes of the absolute majority of England fans, especially older fans, Southgate's decision this time is full of humaneness and absolutely correct. This is also recognized by many current England internationals.

England's current national goalkeeper Pickford praised Rooney, saying that he is the best striker in England's history. Even at the end of his career, he still maintained a very good condition.

At the same time, England's main forward Kane also expressed the same view as Pickford, believing that Rooney deserves the opportunity to complete his 120th appearance for the national team.

From the perspective of coach Southgate, his decision to recruit Rooney has no problems at all and will be supported by other international players on the team.

But Southgate also inoculated those who were paying attention to this matter in advance, and also left a way out for himself, because he later said that Rooney would not receive any extra care in this game.

At the same time, Southgate also made it clear that he would not let Rooney enter the starting lineup, and the No. 10 jersey he had been wearing before belonged to Li Qing.

As for whether Rooney will get the captain's position after playing, it depends on the decision of other players, and he will not interfere in this.

Southgate's statement naturally made many fans who were looking forward to this game because of Rooney very dissatisfied.

Because the current No. 10 jersey of the England national team belongs to Liverpool's talented player Li Qing most of the time.

This rising Liverpool player used his performance to prove that he is worthy of wearing this jersey number. However, in the eyes of the fans, it was just a friendly match, and it was also the final match for a veteran of the national team in the same position as himself. It shouldn't be difficult for Li Qing to give up his number.

And as we all know, although coach Southgate has no decision-making power on this, if the players are not aware of this, they can make Li Qing give up the jersey by making insinuations.

After all, since Southgate has withstood so much pressure and called Rooney into the national team again, why can't he make things more perfect?

Is it so difficult for a generation of legends to put on the Three Lions' No. 10 shirt for the last time and bring this legendary story to an end?

But just when there were divergent opinions, news came from Liverpool that Li Qing developed cold symptoms during the team's physical examination and was unable to participate in the game against Costa Rica on the 15th.

After learning the news, fans in England and Liverpool were shocked and immediately expressed their condolences and inquiries to this talented player in various ways.

In this way, the issue of ownership of England's No. 10 jersey has been perfectly solved. It is just a pity for the fans that Li Qing and Rooney, both talented shooters in the past two days, cannot appear on the field at the same time.

But what everyone didn't know was that before the friendly match between England and Costa Rica started, a young man wearing a mask and brown glasses and a beautiful girl who also wore glasses entered the stadium box early.

As soon as Tong Shenbing entered the box, she took off her glasses and couldn't help complaining to Li Qing who followed her in: "Why do you have to do it so sneakily? It's so boring for just the two of us in such a big box!"

Li Qing rushed into the box, locked the door, and smiled at his girlfriend with a flattering look on his face: "Auntie, please keep your voice down. I am an injured person now. If anyone knows that you and I are here, what will happen?" But it’s troublesome!”

"You are obviously fine, why are you pretending to be sick?" Tong Shenbing looked unhappy, "There is also a game and you are not playing. I don't understand why you come so far to watch!"

"Isn't this for our two-person world!" Li Qing licked his face and approached Tong Shenbing, "Your husband and I are also national football players. Since you choose to be my wife, of course you want to watch the game with me!"

"Who is your wife, ah..."

In the box, Li Qing and Tong Shenbing were laughing and joking. Outside the box, a banner had been put up and the staff began to prepare for the game.

Because this friendly match is a farewell match for Rooney, all proceeds from the match will be donated to the Rooney Charitable Foundation.

In this game, Rooney had no tricks, but many of England's absolute main players, including Kane, Sterling and Walker, did not start.

Newcomers such as Denko and Wilson started for England for the first time, and youngster Sancho also started for England for the first time. The entire England starting players have only played no more than fifty times for England.

Therefore, in this game, Southgate was obviously just for training and testing new recruits, but the performance of these newcomers on the court was indeed eye-catching.

From the beginning of the game, England's young players began to put pressure on their opponents. If it were not for the heroic performance of the opponent's goalkeeper, England would have scored two goals in the first ten minutes.

However, hard work will pay off. After more than 20 minutes of fierce battle between England's young players, Manchester United's Lingard finally broke the deadlock. Then Li Qing's teammate Alexander-Arnold received the ball from Sancho and fired a low shot into the far corner. city.

In the box, Li Qing hugged his girlfriend happily after seeing his teammates score.

The subsequent game was basically under the control of the England team. Rooney came on as a substitute in the second half, and the whole audience was excited. Seeing the roaring fans outside, Tong Shenbing playfully smiled at Li Qing and said: "I finally understand why you I’m going to pretend to be sick.”

Li Qing raised his eyebrows in surprise and looked at his girlfriend. Tong Shenbing chuckled and tapped her boyfriend's nose, "You don't want the person who is appearing now to steal your limelight."

Hearing Tong Shenbing's words, Li Qing burst into laughter, shook his head and said: "His era is over, and my era has come!"