Li Tie sat on the plane, looking at the ground farther and farther away outside the window, and an indescribable excitement surged in his heart.

The flaming red banner outside the airport was still waving in the wind, and until now he can recall a few big words on the banner: Go down the plateau, go abroad!

According to the time, Li Tie should go to Kunming Haigeng with the team to participate in winter training on the plateau.

But today, the Liaoning Siberian Tigers have been specially approved by the Football Association, and the whole team went to Europe farther away for training.

As the first first-class team to go abroad and visit Italy, Liaozu once again showed its face in front of the whole country in this New Year.

"Good guy, it turns out that you can still play like this!"

The other thirteen A-A teams went up to the boss and down to the players, all of them looked at Liaozu Liuhazi.

How much sponsorship did Liaozu give to the Football Association?

Why is this quota given to it?

As a result, I found out that Liaozu had established contact with various Italian teams as early as the beginning of the year, and it was not until the middle of the year that the object and goal of this exchange were determined. After half a year of reporting to the Football Association and approving at various levels, for a proposal that does not require the sponsorship of the Football Association and pays for all the costs of the players, the officials of the Football Association just waved their hands and agreed that they would not use Haigeng for training this winter.

However, after returning from Italy, the Liaozu players still have to follow the rules for the body, and only the players who pass the body can participate in the A-League next season.

After hearing that it was Liaozu who paid for it himself, none of those A A bosses squeaked.

After many understandings, they also made it simple and clear the purpose of Liaozu's trip.

A group of people are all silently watching from behind, if Liaozu goes out this time to eat and drink spicy and play beautifully to make a lot of money, then this time next year, there will be more than one club in Liaozu to take leave to go abroad.

This time, Liaozu visited Italy on behalf of a domestic A League, and the air ticket money and accommodation were paid by the club. And the number of participants has also been restricted, that is, the players who have not confirmed to stay in the team in the new season and the team wants to sell are not on the list. On this basis, after bringing the main players from last season, a few smaller ones were added from the youth team to make up 20 people and get on the plane.

"Tiezi, what are you thinking?" Li Jinyu leaned over and put an arm on Li Tie's shoulder.

"I'm wondering who is most likely to be left behind when we go to Italy this time."

"Haha! So you want to do this! Li Jinyu laughed, "Maybe none of us will be left behind!" ”

"Impossible, if none of us are selected, wouldn't that be a discredit to Brother Ou? Smash our Jianlibao signboard? Li Tie clenched his fists, his face resolute.

Seeing that Li Tie's expression suddenly became serious, Li Jinyu also took a deep breath.

Don't look at him now hooking up with Li Tie, but looking at the whole team, he feels that only Li Tie is his biggest competitor.

Although Liaozu also has international players such as Zhang Yuzhu and Qu Shengqing, as well as young rookies such as Zhao Junzhi, Li Yi, Xu Liang, and Li Weifeng, who is also Jianlibao's teammate, from a comprehensive point of view, these people have their own "disadvantages".

First of all, Zhang Yuli and Qu Shengqing are not good at foreign languages, Zhao Junzhi, Li Yi, Xu Liang are not very famous, although Li Weifeng has passed the foreign language test, he is also a Jianlibao teammate, but Li Jinyu and Li Tie are the first batch to join the team after all, and Li Weifeng is their "junior".

Of course, Li Jinyu himself also has many "shortcomings" compared with Li Tie, such as Li Tie participated in the French World Cup, and also won the best in the final of the Asian Games just past!

The Asian Games have just ended, and although the national football team is mainly built by the main members of the Millennium Olympic Games, the comprehensive strength of this group of players is no longer inferior to that of adult internationals.

Just the members of Liaozu, there are Qu Shengqing, Zhang Yuxuan, Li Tie, Li Jinyu, Wang Liang, Zhao Junzhe, and Li Weifeng, so in terms of honor, all seven of them are already Asian Games champions! And in the post-game evaluation, Li Tie was named the best in the game, and Zhang Yuxuan, Li Tie, Li Jinyu, and all three were selected for the best team.

In this Asian Games, although the new coach Santraci led the team, with the assistance of Ladd, he still defeated Lebanon 4-1, Cambodia 4-1, and Tajikistan 5-1; defeated Oman 6-1 in the second round of the group stage, and narrowly defeated Iran 3-2 to advance to the quarterfinals; In the next knockout round, the Chinese team defeated Turkmenistan 3-0, defeated Thailand 2-1, and defeated Kuwait 3-1 in the final, and finally won the gold medal in the Asian Games.

After winning the gold medal, although the Chinese team is generally seen by the outside world as having some flaws in defense, it can definitely be called the top in Asia on the offensive end. In particular, the 3-2 victory over Iran was the highest quality game of the Asian Games. You must know that most of the national football team this year are young people, and this Iranian team is led by Ali Daei, almost built with the lineup that hit the World Cup in the top ten last year.

To win such an Iranian team is enough to show the strength of this youth army.

With the blessing of the Asian Games champion and the top 16 of the World Cup, the Chinese team jumped to the 14th place in the 98-year national team year-end ranking released by FIFA at the end of the year, achieving the highest world ranking in the history of the national team and the history of Asian teams. Judging from the number of 14, don't look at the Chinese team without scoring a goal or winning a game in the World Cup, but FIFA does not think that the Chinese team is the weakest in the top 16!

Such a Chinese team is enough to enter the eyes of European teams, but those giants who are ready to move have been waiting and watching, after all, no one knows what the Chinese players will play after they come.

Since Ou Chuliang joined Milan in the middle of the year, Liaozu immediately found Milan, with the gimmick of "Ou Chuliang trained here when he was young", coupled with Ou Chuliang's own admission, Milan finally agreed to have a friendly visit and cooperation with Liaozu, after all, since 94 years, Milan has the habit of visiting China to make money. For Milan, Chinese teams are actually no strangers.

But this time Liaozu's trip to Milan is different from Milan's visit to China, Milan's visit to China is to earn business expenses, just like a movie star invited to star; Liaozu, on the other hand, is more like a small trader, picking and picking, carrying his own small boxes to other people's territories to sell. If you like it, you can stay, it doesn't matter if you don't get it, the big guy is familiar with the face, so it's convenient to come again next time.

So for the 20 Liaozu players who went to Italy this time, it is definitely a turning point in their lives!

How can the players not get excited?

The plane was scheduled to leave Beijing at 9:45, and the team members were already dressed and headed to the airport before 7 o'clock.

The young men all wore black woolen coats, Qu Shengqing, Zhang Yuxuan and a few other sullen ones also put up their collars, and then put on a pair of sunglasses, pretending to be very cool, which attracted the frequent sideways glances of the young ladies who checked in for the boarding pass.

"Oh, I can't believe I can go back to Europe, go to Italy, talk to a team like Milan!" The 31-year-old has a whimsical look on his face, and the Moroccan-born played for Ligue 1 side Montpellier and Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal as a young man.

"I can't believe it either!"

Cui Yingyi just signed a transfer contract with Liaozu and got such an opportunity. For him, the former captain of the South Korean team didn't bring him such an opportunity, and now he is 33 years old, and he can even go to Europe to perform once!

So far, Haji and Cui Yingyi are the only two foreign aides in Liaozu. Liaozu kept them, in fact, they were also thinking about the new season's A. However, if someone is selected by the Italian team, Liaozu does not mind packaging them after half a year to make a difference.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the plane landed at Milan's Malpensa airport.

"Fuyuko, who are you talking to so happily!"

Seeing Qu Dong reluctantly waving goodbye, Qu Yueheng asked curiously.

"Alas, one of my middle school classmates!" Qu Dong was a little stunned when he talked about this, "She and her boyfriend came to France to study, and I only recognized it when I got off the plane. I didn't expect that after so many years, we would meet again because of 'studying'. ”

"Tut-tut, I can't see it, Dongzi, you're still a young man!" Zhu Kai also came over and echoed.

"Damn, don't laugh at me! I was nothing in the class at the time, basically the tail of the crane, or you think I can play football? And people have studied hard since they were children, and now they are studying abroad, can they compare with others? ”

"What's not to compare?" Xiao Zhanbo said with a disdainful face, "I also go to college to make a living, what happened to the returnees?" Returnees may not earn as much as us, and the treatment may not be as good as ours! Besides, let's kick the ball well, and we can still serve our country as heroes! Three hundred and sixty lines of the line of champions, our sports are no worse than those with a pen! ”

"Yes, yes, we're no worse than them!"

"No worse than them!"

Everyone else chimed in.

After coming to Milan, Li Tie stood next to Zhang Yin, who led the team, as an interpreter, and he would not be black-eyed when he came to a foreign country.

Fortunately, the people who answered on the Milan side were waiting early in the morning, and Stoica, after recognizing the visitors from afar, immediately welcomed the players to the bus.

"Sorry, the plane is a little late." On the bus, Li Tie helped Zhang Yin translate.

Due to turbulence during the flight, the plane arrived an hour later than scheduled.

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if you're late!" Stoica humorously replied, "As long as you don't stay late for your football." ”

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At the same time, at the most famous Italian headquarters in Bologna, the new editor-in-chief of the magazine, Sarone, was among others.

When Ma Xiyuan and the others hurried here with their press cards, they were shocked by the scene in front of them.

As soon as I walked into the headquarters of the magazine lobby, I was greeted by a machine, to be precise, a high-powered automobile engine. Four pieces of wood embedded in the engine support a square piece of glass, creating a special writing desk. Such a powerful desk is very much in line with the temperament of a sports magazine.

"Welcome to the headquarters, the guests from afar have worked hard." Sarone kindly stretched out his hand.

"Thank you for your hospitality." Ma Xiyuan also stretched out his hand and shook it with the other party.

It is an "ancient" magazine founded 97 years ago, and you can tell the purpose of its creation and what direction it is committed to.

On Salone's recommendation, Marcy met the publisher's manager, Milino. The two sides sat together for a friendly business negotiation.

Liaozu visited Italy and needed a partner to help the team build momentum, which met all the requirements. After two hours of negotiations, the intentions of the two sides were basically agreed.

Liaozu spends money to help Liaozu build momentum.

After the two sides negotiated, Ma Xiyuan hurriedly left here with people.

"The team is almost there, right?"

"I don't know, there's no news over there, it should be late." The entourage replied.

"Late? It's good to be late, it's okay to be late. Marcy nodded.

Because I didn't know the local situation, public transportation such as the subway and tram here was paralyzed due to the construction of the line, and there were long queues at the taxi stand.

After finally getting on the train, the train basically stopped at one stop.

Whenever a train stops at a station, the stop sign reminds you not of a city, but of a Serie A team.

Less than 3 hours by car, but connected to Bologna, Parma, Brescia, Inter Milan, AC Milan. And in China, a more than 10-hour train ride doesn't necessarily mean that you will pass by so many well-known clubs.

After arriving in Milan, it was already dark, and Ma Xiyuan came to the Green Tree Hotel where Liaozu was staying. This is a four-star hotel, with trees growing scattered on the gentle grassy slope, and the wooden three-storey hotel lies quietly on the yellowed grassy slope, looking beautiful.

After the two sides got together, Ma Xiyuan immediately conducted an exclusive interview with Zhang Yuxi, Qu Shengqing, Li Tie and other World Cup internationals, then Zhang Yin and Wang Hongli, and then some youth seedlings brought by Liaozu.

Looking at the childish faces, Ma Xiyuan suddenly felt that Chinese football was developing rapidly, and it may not take a few more years for a strong team like Italy to retreat and bow down when it encounters China in the World Cup.

Just when he was emotional, Qu Shengqing put his arms around Ma Xiyuan's neck and said with a smile: "Brother Ma, you must try the bathtub here tonight, you are getting old!" With massage vibration, I was startled when I first used it, and then I simply lay in it and almost fell asleep comfortably, hahahaha! ”

"Tut-tut, I think about it when you say that, how about taking a family photo of us taking a bath in the bathtub? Sending it back to China will definitely cause a sensation! ”

Qu Shengqing blinked, looked at Li Tie on the side, Li Tie looked at Li Jinyu again, and Li Jinyu looked at Zhang Yuyu again. When he finally saw Zheng Zhi's face, the young Zheng Zhi's face flushed, as if he thought of something, and his head immediately shook into a rattle: "Forget it, forget it, it's okay to be naked, how indecent this is..."

......

There was no word all night, and when the sun rose the next day, Ou Chuliang stretched and opened his eyes.

"Those guys should be here!" Ou Chuliang held a toothbrush in his mouth, looked at himself in the mirror, and muttered to himself.

After returning from Turin with a victory, not only Zaccheroni, but even the players felt the change in the fans.

Juventus is an old giant, don't look at the current results are so poor, and the second half of the league may not be able to make a force. Milan can win an away win in the first half of the league is simply earned, compared to those "sisters" who lost to Juventus, Milan has a greater advantage on the road to the title.

After brushing his teeth, Ou Chulian looked down at his red and swollen right foot, remembering Zaccheroni's "advice" yesterday.

"From now on, I'll give you three days off! During these three days, you are not allowed to be anywhere on the football pitch or the gym. ”

"Otherwise..."

After learning that there was nothing wrong with Ouchulian's bones and Achilles tendons, Zaccheroni said that.

Ou Chuliang knew the meaning of the other party's words: What team doesn't want to use a goalkeeper who can attack and defend well as a starter? Don't look at your swollen feet, if you recover well, you can still be the starter!

Ou Chuliang clearly felt that Milan had become addicted to using himself, think about the old fox Lippi who resigned because of losing to Milan, what could be more refreshing?

After packing up briefly, Ou Chuliang walked out of the room neatly dressed.

He still wants to go to Milanello, but not to train, but to be a "spectator" and welcome his fellow countrymen from afar.

After coming to the side of the street, Ou Chuliang was a little troubled. For Ou Chuliang, every taxi ride is like a gamble.

This psychology is called "Auchulian's taxi" by himself, like "Schrödinger's cat". Unless you pull up and take a look, you'll never know if the driver is a Milan fan or an Inter fan.

"You're Ou?!"

"Oh my God, I've pulled Ou!"

The excited fan driver rolled down the window, and after confirming that the other party was a Milan fan, Ou Chuliang's mood was as excited as the other party.

"Oh, you're amazing!"

"Can you tell me what you thought about the ball at the time?"

"Haha, that old guy from Lippi has resigned, and we have one less champion this season!"

"Your performance on the pitch is so cool!"

"When my son grows up, I will also send him to play football, originally I refused him to be a goalkeeper, but after seeing your performance, I think there is nothing wrong with being a goalkeeper."

Along the way, the driver chattered, and Ou Chuliang listened quietly, occasionally replying to him with a sentence or two.

"Ou, are you Chinese players so good?"

"I've seen your World Cup performances and they're all good players."

"If there are a few more Chinese players like you to join Milan, I don't think it will be difficult for Milan to win the championship at the end of the year!"

Hearing this, Ou Chuliang glanced at the driver in the rearview mirror, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, "Who knows?" Maybe your wish will come true! ”

"What did you say?" The driver put a foot on the brakes.

"I said I didn't need to look for it." Ou Chuliang took out a bill with the largest denomination and handed it over, signaling that the extra was the other party's tip.

This is not Ou Chuliang's generosity, but the good mood that the driver brings him to check out!

If Milan fans really welcome the Chinese players, then Liaozu will not come in vain this time!

The gates of Milanello were already crowded with people, and some buses were even parked on the side of the road, as if they had just arrived.

Many of the people in the crowd were reporters with cameras and microphones, and if you look closely, you can even spot many oriental faces.

"Looks like I'm a little late."

Ou Chuliang shrugged his shoulders and entered the park through a side door with his documents.

At this time, a number of reporters had gathered around the stadium, holding cameras and clicking at the stadium.

In the most crowded place, Zaccheroni stood in the center, nodding as he watched the performance of the Liaozu players.

"Mr. Alberto, are you sure you want to choose at least one member of this team to stay?" A reporter asked.

"Who's right?" Zaccheroni's eyes were fixed on the midfielder, "If we can really find a suitable player here, I think Ou's burden will at least be lightened a lot." ”

Hearing Zaccheroni's answer, many reporters drew a cross on their chests.

"God forbid, I hope this Ou's hometown team can be better, we don't want to see Ou so tired on the field anymore!"