Football: Rejected by the national team, I flew to England

Chapter 025

“Steve.”

Southgate pressed the pause button.

Turned his head to look at his assistant coach.

Didn’t speak for a long time.

Holland didn’t speak either.

The two looked at each other like that.

Holland actually knew what Southgate was trying to say.

Want to say that we really made the right decision?

Just watching a training match, a Championship match, I called up a relegation team substitute from the League One to enter the squad of the national team.

Really, is it correct?

Of course.

It’s still just a World Cup qualifier.

It didn’t just decide who would go to next year’s World Cup in Qatar.

If Lin Xu enters the national team, plays one or two games, and does not perform as expected, they can give up Lin Xu in future matches.

So many players in England.

The Three Lions Legion has not yet reached the point where Lin Xu is indispensable.

But.

For Lin Xu.

Recruited into the team by Southgait.

It means that he will be followed by countless English fans and media in the future.

In the past, Lin Xu was just a substitute for the relegation team, and it was okay if the game was not good, except for the fans of Petersburg, no one would pay attention to him.

It’s not the same in the future.

This sudden and enormous pressure.

Can Lin Xu withstand it?

Southgate became hesitant again after the call.

It is good that Lin Xu can have talent, but he is actually a little afraid that Lin Xu’s talent will not be able to be realized due to too much attention and pressure from the outside world.

There are too many examples of this in football.

Don’t forget.

“He’s not eighteen yet.”

Holland only shrugged his shoulders in the end and replied, “It’s too late to regret now, we’ll know the answer by October.” ”

It’s mid-September.

Next month will be national team match day again.

Until that time.

They knew whether Lin Xu was worth it, and they took out a national team spot to recruit him into the team.

Or whether Lin Xu can resist the pressure depends on whether he can make a brilliant debut in front of thousands of English fans.

……

Southgate and Holland were worried.

Lin Xu had already finished taking a shower.

Lying on the bed, I clicked on the system.

Winning the game today, there are attribute point rewards, he has not forgotten.

【Ding! Congratulations to the host for the main quest progress +1! Help the team get a win and reward five attribute points. 】

The attribute points added to today’s match are all one-time, only available in a single game, and his attribute points return to their original value as soon as the match is over.

Lin Xu looked at the attribute panel, thinking about where to add the five attribute points rewarded.

Suddenly, I heard another dinging sound from the system.

【Ding! Congratulations to the host, the total trust value of teammates has exceeded 100%, and the completion of random tasks has exceeded 100%! Reward attribute points of five points. In addition, open the card drawing system in advance to reward the card draw opportunity once. 】

Ooh!

Lin Xu suddenly became energetic.

This was a bonus.

I originally thought that the random task competition would be over when it ended, but I didn’t expect that there would be an additional completion reward.

Although he has never been a chief, just the five attribute points he rewarded are worth it.

It would be better if you could draw another skill above the silver level for him.

[Is the lottery drawn now?] 】

The system asked.

Lin Xu nodded, “Yes!” ”

【Ding! The lottery system is on! 】

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the gold-level skill Delap’s Out-of-bounds Ball! ] 】

Lin Xu was stunned for a moment.

I grass?

Gold level skills?!

Isn’t he a non-chief?

When did luck get so good!

No.

Wait a minute!

Delap’s out-of-bounds ball?

What skill is this?

It sounds a little familiar.

Oh.

He remembered.

Rory John Drag.

The one who made Stoke City known as the ‘Sky City’.

Although Lin Xu has not experienced it, he also knows that it was because of Delap’s out-of-bounds goal in the 07-08 season that Stoke City was promoted to the Premier League.

In several seasons in the Premier League, Stoke City’s unique sideline ball technique also caused the entire Premier League a headache.

Delap’s powerful hand on the touchline throws the ball.

It’s like a grenade, flat and fast and accurate.

The most outrageous is.

Stoke City also widened the two touchlines at home to throw the ball for Drag’s runners, and even equipped special caddies to rub the ball to increase friction.

Even players on the front line will choose players with stronger heading ability of more than one meter eighty or five meters to adapt to Drag’s hand throwing ball.

The coach’s tactical play, the configuration of the pitch, everything is tailor-made for Drag.

The one who can play a boundary ball to this height may be Delap alone.

After Delap’s retirement, Stoke City also tried to find other people who could throw the ball with such a strong hand to continue their boundary ball tactics, but it did not work well.

No wonder it’s called ‘Delap’s Boundary Ball’.

Actually opened this skill for him.

Lin Xu vaguely remembers that when he watched the game video before, even Arsene Wenger, Arsenal’s former famous manager, had no way to face this tactical play.

This is actually a gold-level skill.

Lin Xu didn’t forget the system and what he said, gold-level skills are already the top and rarest skills.

He’s kind of looking forward to the next game now.

……

Next.

did not wait for the Dragon Country Football Association to call again and put forward conditions to win Lin Xu.

The England national team has released a new squad.

Lin Xu, who only started a game in Peterborough, is impressively listed.

All major English newspapers and media have used the name ‘England’s rising star’ to praise Lin Xu’s outstanding performance in this past game.

The media in England are always picky.

Any star’s poor performance or chaotic private life can be collectively bombarded by these pervasive English tabloids.

But they are particularly tolerant of their own families.

If Lin Xu were purely Chinese, they might not like Lin Xu so much.

But Lin Xu is half of English descent.

From this point, it has already won at the starting line.

Your own children.

If you do well, you should boast!

England fans are also satisfied.

Regardless of whether Lin Xu can play in the future, first call up people into the national team, let him play one or two games for England, and then be an English person.

That’s all that matters.

Only Dragon Country fans watched England revel there.

In the face of the anger of the fans, the Dragon Country Football Association did not dare to come out and release one.

Southgate’s recruitment has greatly increased Lin Xu’s popularity.

Even the popularity of the team with Peterborough United has increased.

Many people came to Peterborough specially to watch Lin Xu’s game on the spot.

This is the new England international!

Those national team players in England, they are familiar with their backs, and there are so many big stars back and forth.

It’s hard to see a new face.

Or is it not unusual enough to be called up directly by Southgate when playing for the Championship relegation team?

Petersburg’s recent home games have sold out quickly.

Even some of their own fans who didn’t buy season tickets wanted to watch the game, but when they looked back, they couldn’t buy tickets.

However, none of this affected Lin Xu.

He is training intently with the team.

After drawing the card that day, he did not forget to add his attribute points.

The main quest rewards five attribute points, and the random quest also rewards five attribute points, adding up to a total of ten attribute points.

He added five points to [running position].

[Possession] added two points.

The remaining three points are added to [speed].

In the match against Birmingham, Lin Xu found that his starting speed was still too slow, and if it were not for the temporary addition of a full score to make up for this defect, at least like the last zero-angle shot, he should not have been able to receive it.

But it’s fine.

Add five attribute points for every match you win.

And he scored four goals in the last game, and at this rate, the task of completing twenty goals should be very fast.

Although he is now a little unable to look at bronze-level skills.

Courtsidelines.

Darren stood there, watched the players’ training for a while, and then asked the assistant coach suspiciously.

“Do you feel…”

“Lin Xu’s speed seems to be a little faster than before?”

The assistant coach stared at Lin Xu carefully, and his eyes widened.

“It’s faster.”

“He’s only been officially training with the first team for two days, so he has improved so much?” Darren opened his mouth a little in amazement.

“I feel the need to push the club.”