Chapter 53: Popularity

In general, fish and seafood are not on Li Mudi's menu, except for cod and hairtail, grilled cod and saury (another name for hairtail fish in the north, not the kind of longjaw that can fetch sky-high prices) are the only seafood dishes that have been on his table all year round since he was born.

The Madrid Food Festival showed him how cod is made in Europe: Spanish cod stew, Spanish marinated cod, Spanish grilled cod, Spanish ham roll cod and even Spanish cod salad! was so scared that Li Mudi didn't dare to taste it.

While everyone was tasting all kinds of novel Spanish food, Li Mudi was feasting on the Celestial Empire delicacies that are usually difficult to eat here, such as back pot meat, boiled pork slices, spicy chicken, and husband and wife lung slices, and he was still in tears while eating. Zhang Yixing, who was beside him, saw it and hurriedly stepped forward, took out a tissue from his pocket and handed it over, while comforting: "Is this homesick?" No, brother, you are from the Northeast, that is, you eat our food and miss the motherland! It's really the moon is the hometown of Ming! Brother, when I have time in the future, I will often return to China to see, if I have the opportunity to come here, I will also bring you some delicacies of the motherland to comfort your nostalgia. ”

…… This little sheep is really sentimental!

When Zhang Yixing, who was "dazed", poetically comforted Li Mudi's "homesickness", Sun Honglei came over with a glass of sherry wine, glanced at the little sheep with his charming little eyes, and said hatefully: "Go aside, what you just said is so sour, almost so disgusting that I vomited out what I just ate." Then he glanced at a few dishes on the stall in front of him, raised his left hand, which was not holding a wine glass, and pointed to Li Mudi, who suddenly began to cough, and said, "Don't you see that these are all Sichuan dishes?" He's spicy! ”

…… As soon as the little sheep heard this, he immediately became more and more confused.

And Li Mudi, who accidentally choked a small piece of red pepper into his trachea just now, finally relieved the danger after coughing a few times with hatred, and scolded in his heart: "What kind of chili pepper does this master use, why is it so spicy, spicy to death!" But his hands and mouths were still idle, and after snatching Sun Honglei's glass of wine and taking a sip of it, he turned on the foodie mode again, and continued to move forward in various Heavenly Empire delicacies without fear of death.

Everyone stayed in the venue of the food festival until half past nine in the evening, and the crew members also participated in a small event because they were invited by the organizers. The Castile coach was eating at various Celestial Food Stalls throughout the whole process, but he didn't know that this scene had been filmed by the photographer of "Mr. Good", he puffed out two cheeks, held a plate full of food in his left hand, held a piece of meat with chopsticks in his right hand, and seemed to be looking around for the next target The image of a foodie appeared in the domestic network news on Monday morning, Beijing time, and for a while, the public's focus once again converged on Li Mudi, who had just swiped the screen a week ago.

Although it is a promotional material released by the crew of "Mr. Good", the protagonists of the content are also several leading actors, but the most concerned by the people who eat melons is a football coach who has nothing to do with this TV series, and it was also made up into a joke by netizens to ridicule the TV series with an investment of more than 100 million yuan, and there is no passer-by who is attractive. Fortunately, the distribution company immediately released the stills of Li Mudi's cameo, which finally brought a positive impact to this upcoming TV series, which can be regarded as a fire before it was broadcast.

In the evening, the latest "World Football" broadcast a special feature: "The Shepherd Flute Blowing in the Sky over Iberia" episode, CCTV's audience is naturally the largest in the Celestial Empire, so overnight, Li Mudi's fame in China has been greatly improved again. Coupled with the promotion of the TV series in the morning and the previous reports from the sports media, the strongest hot figure in entertainment in the first month of 2016 finally fell under the name of the coach of Castile, leaving Zheng Shuang, Fan Bingbing, Lu Han and other headlines behind. On the comprehensive hot list, Li Mudi's name also appeared behind the Kuaibo trial and the Baidu Tieba selling bar incident, ranking in the top ten of the month.

After the next episode of the theme film was broadcast in "World Football" this week, someone in Li Mudi's post bar released a ranking of the ability of the Celestial Empire coach (Celestial Empire people or foreigners who coach in the Celestial Empire) in recent years, and the protagonist's name appeared behind Lippi, Scolari and other world-class coaches, ranking tenth, second only to the eighth place Gao Hongbo Coach ranked second among the Celestial Empire coaches.

This list was obviously deliberately provoked by someone, and then spread among many fans, causing countless people to refute and even scold. Among them, the main controversy appeared in the top few rankings, and although there were also objections to Li Mudi's ranking, most fans still recognized his coaching ability at this stage, and basically acquiesced to his position as the coach of the Celestial Empire, which made Ginés Carvajal, the mastermind behind the controversy, very happy, and he felt that the time to operate his ace to take over the head coach of the Celestial Empire national team was not too far away.

Here in Madrid, after a feast on Sunday night, Li Muddy made his film and television debut in a temporarily rented hotel. Although there was only a short scene of about three minutes, it took about an hour and a half to shoot, mainly because the newcomers were too nervous and could not show their natural state. In the past, Li Mudi would always complain from time to time that many stars had no acting skills and only appearance, and felt that some people acted so poorly that there were still people watching them, and they were better than them. But the reality is that when he actually went up, he behaved even worse, and he couldn't even find his usual daily mood and state under the lens of the camera, and he felt that he couldn't even walk and talk when he watched the replay video.

But fortunately, the scene is very short, and the partners are the eldest brother Sun Honglei and the little brother Zhang Yixing, and after being familiar with it for a while, they still completed the work smoothly and steadily, and did not let everyone delay their work in vain.

The recording share of this day is enough for the next episode of the "World Football" feature film, as long as the midweek Fed Cup match is added live, the program team can successfully complete the task. Therefore, Zhu Xiaoyu and others did not continue to be on the side of the Castile training ground, but in the remaining few days, while editing the film, they came to Madrid for a free trip and visited everywhere.

Time blink of an eye to January 21, Thursday, at 19:00, the second leg of the second round of the Spanish Federal Cup, Castilla hosted Ferrol, the previous aggregate score was 1-1.

Castilla's starting line-up for this game: goalkeeper Abad, right wing-back Dani, central defenders Linhardt and Manu, left-back Rodriguez, central midfielders Peperu and Fabas, right winger Cederes, left winger Lin Liangming, forward Muñoz, forward Narvaez. Among them, 17-year-old centre-back Junor Manu made his professional league debut, while new signing Kuchi was also on the bench.

Ferrol had been in excellent form, winning all the way to the top of the table in Group 1 of La Liga B, but the main left wing-back Marcela and right midfielder Marcos Alvarez were injured and could not play in this game. Judging from the starting lineup of the opposing coach, I still want to fight for Castilla in this game, after all, as long as I can score a goal away from home, I can bring back the previous disadvantage.

After the opening, the visitors were still more cautious, hoarding a lot of defenders at the back, trying to stabilize the defense and seek opportunities to counterattack. The home team, on the other hand, continued the tactical play of passing and controlling, taking advantage of the technical advantages of the midfielders to control the ball, but was not in a hurry to form an attack. In the case of an away goal, as long as you can guarantee not to concede a goal, you can successfully advance.

Twenty-five minutes later, the two teams combined for three shots on goal, and none of them hit the target. At this time, Ferrol, who was on the disadvantageous side in the promotion situation, took the lead in changing his style of play, and while strengthening the scramble, he began to frequently attack on the two wings, and the number of crosses increased.

In this case, 28-year-old striker Joserou, who is in the prime of a player, has become the key to changing the situation on the field. He is not outstanding in height and is a weak point in terms of speed, but he has very tenacious willpower and has excellent ability in shooting, heading, running and work commitment. Although due to the team's tactical arrangement, it is often not advantageous to take advantage of the opponent's entire backline alone, but he has successfully attracted the attention of the opponent and allowed his teammates in the back row to have relatively easy room to play.

In the 32nd minute, the visitors hit a counterattack immediately after a successful midfield tackle, and the forward midfielder Pelez dribbled the ball along the middle. Castilla's side lost a goal unexpectedly, and the only players who can participate in the defense here are two central defenders and right-back Dani, and Peperú, who is chasing back, is still about five or six meters away, and he can't help for a while. In the blink of an eye, the football had reached a position only about ten meters outside the line of the penalty area, and at this time, it would pose a great threat to the goal if the opponent continued to advance, so Linhardt decided to hand over the task of following Joselu to his partner Manu and Dani, who was coordinating the defense, and stepped forward to force Pellez himself. But just when he changed his focus and wanted to step forward to block, Joseru, who had been running in the ribs to help his teammates open the gap, suddenly changed direction, accelerated and went straight to the middle, and Pellez, who was dribbling the ball, understood that he would send a through pass.

After Linhatt, who had already handed over his center of gravity, found out about this intention, his heart was cold, and he felt that if the ball passed past him, Manu, who had no experience in professional matches, would probably not be able to stop the old and spicy opponent, and the situation was very critical. He subconsciously increased the force of the kick, made a tackle, and stretched out his right leg fiercely, hoping to touch the ball and destroy the through pass. But it was still a step too slow, the ball had already been passed out before the foot was in place, and it was kicked to the right ankle of Pellez's pass, and Ferrol's front waist immediately hurt a somersault, and then rolled on the ground.

The referee, who has been following the trajectory of the football, saw this situation and immediately put the whistle in his hand, but seeing that Joselu in front of him had already thrown off the defender, and when he caught up with the ball in the penalty area and was about to shoot, he gave up the intention of blowing the whistle and raised his hands forward to make an offensive gesture.

In the face of the opponent's ferocious tackle, Pelez still cringed psychologically after all, the footwork of this direct pass was not mastered well, Joselu shot at a very small angle when he controlled the ball, but in the face of Manu and Dani who were struggling to chase over, he had no choice but to choose a difficult attack. The arch of his right foot sent a perfect arc to the far corner of the goal, but fortunately the home goalkeeper Abad was very focused, his center of gravity was lowered quickly, and he touched the ball off the line with his outstretched left foot.

Only then did the referee blow the whistle and come to the foul site outside the penalty area, bending down to check on Pellez's injury. The team doctor came up and took a brief look and shook his head at the away coach and suggested a substitution. The referee on the side separated the players of the two teams who were fighting each other, and then showed a yellow card to the fouling Linhardt, which caused dissatisfaction among the visiting players and the coaches on the sidelines, but they were also temporarily calmed down after receiving a stern warning.