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

Chapter 0084: Eighteen-year-old club and national team captain?!!

The match against Andorra was due to space constraints.

Andorra’s home stadium, the National Stadium, only sounds domineering in name.

The venue itself is simply too small.

At 3,300 seats, it’s not as big as some community pitches in England for playing fieldball.

There are only a few seats that can be allocated to the visiting England fans, so the number of fans who can finally go to the game is limited.

And the tickets for this game have also become a profit paradise for ticket sellers.

Many people grab tickets not to watch the game, they are all resold for resale.

In order to be able to watch Lin Xu’s national team debut in person, many fans bought away fan zone tickets for the Andorra National Stadium through these shameless ticket sellers at a price that was twice or three times or more than the original ticket price.

Plus a round-trip ticket to Andorra.

Expensive hotel accommodation.

Most of the people who can finally go to the scene are puzzles with relatively wealthy wealth.

But this match with Hungary is much better.

This is England’s own home turf.

It was held at Wembley Stadium.

One is not used to fly back and forth to another country, the stadium is in London, and it is convenient for fans to go back and forth, and the cost is much smaller compared to it.

The other is Wembley Stadium, which is world-famous and does not have a capacity of a few thousand like the National Stadium.

The new Wembley Stadium, one of the world’s greatest stadiums, seats 90,000.

The visiting team Hungary can come with the team to watch the game at most about five or six thousand, and there are still many seats left, and English fans, as long as they buy early, can almost all buy tickets.

Ticket prices are not as high as those in Andorra.

Of course, like Darren, if the booking of tickets only starts two days before the start of the game, it is naturally impossible for him to buy the remaining tickets.

The fans who could go to the scene tried to buy tickets.

Because of a big win with Andorra in the absolute sense.

This home game that followed was also hyped up.

The media started warming up a day or two in advance.

Everyone is speculating about what kind of lineup Southgate will put out in this home game, whether Lin Xu will continue to beat Kane to start, and even casinos have opened a market specifically for this.

In fact, England have done reasonably well in the past few World Cup qualifiers.

They haven’t tasted 940 to failure so far.

It was a draw with Poland and a direct victory in all other matches.

The Three Lions under Gareth Southgate, plus various competitions such as the World Preliminary Round and the warm-up match, have been unbeaten for more than ten consecutive games, but a simple victory and a big win like 9:0 still give fans a different feeling.

When playing Andorra, fans rarely felt the feeling of crushing the enemy.

The goal highlights of the match with Andorra were all on Twitter on the day of the 13th match against Hungary.

From time to time, there are people who click in to collect and watch.

Playback has remained high.

Lin Xu’s Twitter followers also quickly broke through from one million to five million after the end of that game.

The fans who originally paid attention to him were more fans of the Dragon Kingdom.

And now.

Many fans in England also took the initiative to find Lin Xu’s account on Twitter and clicked to follow.

This is their English baby.

How can it all be the attention of those Dragon Kingdom fans!

Although now Lin Xu has firmly established that it is their England’s.

But these English fans are still very careful about it.

They were afraid that Lin Xu would have a better impression of the Dragon Kingdom because of this.

So the English fans who followed Lin Xu called friends to call more domestic fans, and Lin Xu’s Twitter account followers continued to rise before the start of the home match with Hungary.

Five million, six million, seven million, until it breaks through ten million.

It was finally time to stop.

Ten million fans, such a number may not be much in football all over the world.

Many stars have tens of millions of Twitter followers.

But know.

Lin Xu’s account has only been registered for a few days.

And he even forgot to operate after signing up, so he sent a tweet on the day he signed up, and he hasn’t posted any more news since.

But such an account, which has only one Twitter, already has tens of millions of followers.

When Perret saw it, he was a little surprised by Lin Xu’s appeal.

Advertisers like players like Lin Xu the most.

Perret didn’t make a mistake in his decision.

Now find Perret and want to sign Lin Xu as a spokesperson

Advertisers, the grade is much higher than half a month ago, and even luxury brands have contacted Perret to ask about the possibility of signing a short-term contract with Lin Xu.

These brands are much better than the original FMCG products.

And Lin Xu, who has made his debut, has many more opportunities to choose in the choice of advertising endorsements.

Perret had previously approached two endorsement products, which originally felt that Perre’s asking price was a little higher, but after the debut, the directors of the two endorsements took the initiative to find Perre, hoping to add two percentages to the price Perret had previously proposed, so that Perret could prioritize signing them.

That’s the benefit of strength.

When you become strong, everything will give you concessions.

Perret is not in a hurry, though.

Lin Xu is not short of money now, and his endorsements can be read slowly.

Those players in the first team of Petersburg were envious after seeing that Lin Xu’s Twitter account had become tens of millions of bloggers.

But they also know.

Lin Xu will become England’s best star.

It’s just a matter of time.

But Lin Xu can succeed, why can’t they.

These young players, who used to be substitutes, have also been inspired to be more self-motivated, and they have become more diligent.

Fortunately, they did not tell Lin Xu the reason for his motivation.

Otherwise, Lin Xu might tell them half-jokingly, “But I have a hanging.” ”

But fortunately, Lin Xu did not know this.

So Darren found out.

In recent days, there have been no games, and he has not assigned any training tasks to the players, but there are always people on the club’s training ground quietly occupying the field for training.

The best young people led by Randall, Knight and Hamilton played with Lin Xu, as if they were stimulated by something, and they didn’t even go to nightclubs.

Every morning I woke up and went to training, and I didn’t leave the training ground until nightfall.

See this scenario.

Darren just made a phone call.

Through Sir Alex Ferguson’s connections, he borrowed a more professional strength and conditioning coach from Manchester United.

Let the professional physical coach assign targeted exercises to this group of energetic young men, and then watch them train on the training ground every day, so as not to hurt the body again.

Father and son with Ferguson, the biggest benefit for Darren is that he can use a lot of Manchester United’s resources in the coaching process.

Sometimes young Manchester United players can come to his team on loan as a signing, and sometimes they can directly borrow a professional strength and conditioning coach as they do now to help the team train better.

This is also the only thing Darren is grateful for the benefits that his status has brought him.

The players in Petersburg began to train in earnest.

And St. George’s Park Training Base.

Everyone in the England squad is also training hard.

Two days of training flew by.

Lin Xu is still the person who has been punished the most times in the training of everyone in the national team.

As long as it is training with the ball, passing practice, or snatching practice, there is no need to look at the result, and his results will always be at the bottom.

But now no one underestimates him for this.

These usually proud international players in the national team have truly recognized Lin Xu.

Not only would they not look down on Lin Xu because of this, but they also set up a special group to help Lin Xu practice.

After the team’s group training, when Lin Xu needs to stay alone for individual passing and ball control practice, there will always be someone in the team who stays to practice with him.

This candidate is not fixed.

Sometimes Foden and Grealish, sometimes Sancho and Saka, sometimes Mount and Rice…

Most of the time it is a player in the midfield.

There was no coaching staff arrangement, nor was the captain or vice-captain deliberately commanding Southgate and assistant coach Holland never mentioned the matter.

But after the game in Andorra, the players in the team will consciously pull out two or three people to accompany Lin Xu when he needs to practice individually.

It takes up your own personal rest time.

Everyone comes in turns.

Nobody complained.

Everyone is happy to do it.

If it weren’t for the better and more delicate footwork of the players in the central midfield, it might have been the turn of very active defenders like Stones in the morning.

This is the England team now.

A united, cohesive England team.

They knew that Lin Xu’s strength was enough to help them win the match, and despite his youth, Lin Xu could be a key decisive point in the match.

And in this case.

To help Lin Xu is to help themselves.

There’s no one who doesn’t want to win the Hercules Cup.

There’s no one who doesn’t want to win the world’s highest collective event.

Everyone is preparing for next year’s World Cup in Qatar.

Everyone in the England national team is like the fans, hoping that Lin Xu can become stronger in the coming year, and hope that Lin Xu can become a key Mr. in England in next year’s World Cup.

This is the common goal of every England player.

For this.

They can sacrifice their own time off.

to help Lin Xu grow.

Southgate stood on the edge of the training ground.

Watching Grealish and Foden by Lin Xu’s side.

One is helping Lin Xu pick up the ball and release the ball, and the other is doing a passing over pole training for Lin Xu.

Southgate’s face also had a slight smile on his face.

“Lin Xu is indeed a very amazing player.”

He sighed and said to Holland.

Holland also nodded, “Yes. ”

On the surface, Lin Xu’s personality traits are not obvious.

To be precise, he doesn’t have any temper.

It’s rare to see him and his teammates getting angry.

Both on and off the playing field.

But he seems to have a peculiar affinity, and he can easily play with everyone on the team, which is rarely the case in the team

There are players who don’t like him.

Foden and Grealish, these people from the Manchester City faction, after all, with Lin Xu’s agent Perret in this relationship, it can be said to play well.

But in this short few days, Lin Xu and Kane have also become very close.

Lin Xu’s personal Twitter, Kane is the first in the national team to follow him.

And then there are Foden and Stones.

That’s what Southgate finds most magical.

Lin Xu plays a center, Grealish and Sancho can also be said to be wingers, no conflict, if you really say that there is a direct overlap in the center position, it must undoubtedly be Kane.

The last game was to let Lin Xu play.

Harry Kane, the first captain, sat on the bench for half the time, until Lin Xu was replaced and Southgate replaced Kane.

So seeing the two of them play together, Southgate was surprised.

“Do they have any special powers as Orientals?”

Holland was stunned and spread his hands.

He didn’t know that.

But that day outside the dressing room in Andorra.

When Christian Garcia came over to Lin Xu to apologize, Holland and Southgate were actually just around the corner outside the door chatting.

They just saw it.

Before figuring out Christian Garcia’s intentions, the first reaction of everyone in their team was to protect Lin Xu first.

This first reaction cannot be fake.

Lin Xu has indeed been recognized by the whole team.

And it’s not the kind of thing that you just became one of us, such a simple recognition.

It’s really about making him an important part.

If you look at it this way.

Lin Xu is indeed amazing.

Southgate looked at Lin Xu.

No wonder Darren decided to make Lin Xu the first captain of Petersburg after playing a game, when Lin Xu was not even eighteen.

Maybe.

Can he do the same? Let Lin Xu be the captain.

Southgate was shocked by the idea that popped into his mind.

He took his hand out of the pocket of his trousers.

It was placed on the chin.

Touching the stubble that I had only shaved in the morning but had already regrown a little blue.

Seriously looked at Lin Xu, who was doing passing training accompanied by Foden on the training ground

Lin Xu’s pass looks really a little rotten.

But Foden wasn’t impatient.

Grealish, who was picking up the ball, also looked quite happy.

The three people were talking and laughing on the field.

The thought that had popped up just now haunted his mind again.

Is this possible?

Eighteen-year-old double captain of club and country? He was thinking about the possible consequences of this decision…