In addition to the youth player development program, Li Mudi also funded and cooperated with the charity foundation he set up before, in the form of channels and bonuses to encourage domestic football professionals under the age of 35 who are engaged in referees, coaches, team doctors and other football support work to go to Spain for further study, and also facilitated close exchanges between domestic institutions of higher learning such as Beijing Sports University and Modu Sports University and professional sports universities in the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy. It can be regarded as a channel for Tianchao Football to improve its software strength.

In order to commend Li Mudi's contributions to the development of the Celestial Empire's sports circles, especially football, over the years, the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China decided to award him a National Sports Medal of Honor, which represents the highest honor of the Celestial Empire's sports.

However, due to the importance of this award in the minds of the people and the fact that the General Administration of Sports has imposed access restrictions on the media, the process of awarding the award did not cause much repercussions among the people, but Lin Yuner, who rarely appeared after pregnancy and childbirth, became the focus of attention from the outside world in the past two days. Especially the three-month-old son of the Li family in her arms, who murdered countless paparazzi films, even though Lin and Li's protective measures for children have almost reached the extreme, but people still maintain a high enthusiasm for those photos that do not have a clear face at all.

The main reason is that I hope that the baby can grow up as soon as possible, and then grow into a talented player under the guidance of his father, even if his nationality is now Spanish, but at least there is still the possibility of changing back in the future.

And after experiencing the incident that the children of former sports celebrities such as Da Yao and Sun Wen did not choose the nationality of the Celestial Empire, everyone has been able to adopt a more rational attitude towards similar situations, even if the little baby named Li Nanjun by his grandfather (although Li Mudi wants to find a philosophical good name from the "Tao Te Ching", but his arms can't twist his thighs, which makes him depressed for several days) The little baby finally failed to return to the arms of his father's motherland, but he was left with the blood of the descendants of the Celestial Empire. This is an indisputable fact. As long as he can really grow into a world-class star, the fans in China will be happy.

So in these days at the end of the year, it was hard to return to his hometown in good clothes, and the popularity of the Real Madrid coach on the domestic Internet was crushed by his newborn son, which is really a very strange thing.

However, due to the demands of work, Li Mudi and his family still did not enjoy too long of the vacation, and soon had to take the flight back to Madrid on New Year's Day. Because thousands of kilometers in Europe, the smoke of gunpowder on the football battlefield has begun to wander over the national leagues after a week of calm, and the second half of the season has entered a state of tension, whether Real Madrid can find a chance to complete the defense of the title in the league depends on how they can play in the next two months of almost double matches every week.

As for the various rumors in the transfer market, club director Hierro has made it clear that unless there is a very special event, the Galaxy will not spend any energy on this.

However, Real Madrid's squad still had a minor adjustment on January 3, and the 31-year-old Spanish right-back Odriosola, who had fallen out of the manager's rotation, returned to his old club Real Sociedad for 12 million euros. Real Madrid immediately spent €400,000 to recall their academy youngster Sergio Fernandez after discussing with La Liga club Numancia, so that the young full-back, who can play on both the left and right, fills the void in the first team.

Since the impact of this personnel adjustment on the overall strength of the team can be regarded as minimal, there are not many comments from the outside world on this, and it quickly disappeared from everyone's sight. It's just that few people will find out in the first time that Li Mudi has unknowingly cleaned all the backlines reused by his predecessor Guti in two and a half years, and his reputation as a transfer master is indeed not covered.

The benefit of a stable squad is that there is no need to re-grind, so after resuming training on the 2nd, Real Madrid can immediately enter the tactical drills against their next opponent, which provides ample guarantee for them to travel to the Stadio Butak four days later.

On the evening of the 6th, Li Mudi led the team to defeat Leganés 4-0 in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey and locked the right to advance in advance. The latter has slipped to the bottom four of the league table due to their poor form this season, and the relegation situation is very serious, so there is no time to deal with other competitions, and it is only natural that they cannot pose a decent threat to the mighty Real Madrid.

It is worth noting that Früchtel was again in the starting line-up for this game, and his performance was also very solid, which can almost confirm that he has fully recovered from the operation of his knee injury. It's just that if he wants to conquer the always picky Millinger, he will need to prove it with more good saves, after all, Courtois and Lunin have done a good job before, and it will not be an easy task to replace them in the hearts of the fans.

However, Real Madrid's new No.1 did have a real ability, and it took just over a month to forget about the former goalkeeper that the team's supporters had been thinking about, and everyone was now fully convinced of what Li Muddy had to say about the German international last summer - that he is a superstar who can compete for the best goalkeeper in world football today.

On the evening of the 10th, the Galaxy welcomed Mallorca back to La Liga at home, and Früchter not only completed the seal again, but also scored a wonderful goal for Mbappe with a long pass throughout the game before the end of the game, becoming the first goalkeeper in the team's history to get an assist in only four appearances.

In the Copa del Rey match on the 13th, the suspense of the promotion has been solved in advance, so Li Mudi used a large number of rotation players, Lucas Canizares entered the starting list, and Real Madrid also defeated Leganes, who had long been in love, 3-0 at home, and smoothly entered the threshold of the quarterfinals.

Four days later, in the 19th round of the league away to Girona, Früchtel showed his solid goalkeeping skills and saving ability in front of any other top goalkeeper for the first time in Spanish football.

In the 27th minute, the home team's winger Lorna broke through the inside cut and fired a powerful shot from five meters outside the penalty area. The ball that was originally flying to the far corner of the goal was before the penalty spot, and Jose Martinez, who stretched out his foot to block, changed the line slightly, and at this time, Real Madrid's No. 1 had already made a move to fly to his left to save, obviously unable to complete the scheduled interception.

At this critical moment, Früchtel, who was already in mid-air, deliberately raised his right leg and strained it hard, just before he was about to hit the ground, blocking the ball with his right foot to continue into the goal-line. Then he immediately adjusted his position on the ground, and stabbed the ball to the far post before the opposing striker came up to shoot, allowing his teammates to clear the sideline with a big foot, and resolved the goal crisis in a thrilling way.

This wonderful save was later selected as one of the top 10 best saves of the week in the Celestial Empire's "World Football" program and one of the candidates for the BBC's best shot of the week, which is enough to prove how wonderful the process was.

Although this time the goal is not conceded will not have any impact on the result of Real Madrid's away victory, because Pellegri and others knocked on Girona's goal three times in this game, but every successful save by the German goalkeeper has immeasurable significance for the whole team's self-confidence recovery. They no longer have to worry about the safety of their goals as they did in the first half of the season, and with that burden completely abandoned, the Real Madrid players can feel confident and bold enough to focus on attacking at the right time, giving the momentum of last season's invincible squad that slaughtered the entire European football scene a little bit back.

On the 20th, the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey, the Galaxy Battleship played a hearty offensive battle with Celta Vigo, which has relied on sharp offensive strength in recent years, and the final score of 4-2 did not disappoint the fans who watched the game.

Although Früchtel's record of clean sheets since his own goal of Real Madrid was still ended, judging from the performance of the whole game, he did deserve high marks, and those two goals conceded had little to do with him. It was only because of the manager's choice of tactics that the team's back line had several dangerous situations, and he also blocked at least two very dangerous attacks from the opponent, which was one of the heroes of the team's ability to take the lead on the way to promotion.

On the 24th, in the twentieth round of La Liga, he faced Alaves at home. Although Real Madrid won with a comfortable 4-0 final scoreline, many professionals did not ignore the few bright spots in the German side, as he used his best scavenger clearance twice in this game, defusing the real danger before it happened. And this modern way of playing goalkeepers, which stifle the opponent's threat to the starting point, has also become a hot topic in the Iberian Peninsula, and everyone has joined the topic of why only Germans can play like this, while Spain has given birth to this type of goalkeeper.

During this period, Früchtel's name began to be repeatedly mentioned in the media and on the Internet, along with his predecessor Manuel Neuer, and his popularity in the West quickly rose to the level of a top star, and many fans who were not supporters of Real Madrid began to gradually learn about the newcomer in La Liga in various ways.

On the 28th, a duel in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey was played at the Bernabeu, and the Galaxy Battleship, which had a two-goal advantage and four away goals, could be said to have ushered in a routine very easily, so Li Mudi once again hid many cores in the starting lineup, and Flüchtel, who has become the "new favorite" of fans, also sat on the bench.

However, when the game reached the end of the second half, the coaching staff signaled the German goalkeeper to get up and warm up, although the latter felt a little inexplicable, but still came to the sidelines as required to start meticulous activities, but his eyes always involuntarily aimed at the little Canizares on the field, wanting to find out what kind of injury the youngster had. Because the current score is 1-1, and the game time is only five or six minutes including injury time, it seems that the only reason for using the last substitution on the goalkeeper is that the starter on the field is injured.

It wasn't until the final whistle blew that Real Madrid's third substitution was not completed, and when Flüchtel, who did not have any emotions about not playing, was a little doubtful and was about to meet the sidelines with his other teammates who had come out of the bench and celebrate the successful promotion with his teammates who had worked hard for 90 minutes, he was blindfolded by a pair of hands that suddenly appeared behind him, and before he could make a move to stop his teammates from joking, his hands were also controlled, and he was forcibly turned behind him by the person next to him.

Just as he was smiling and asking what kind of plane he was going to make, he broke free from the restraints imposed on him, and a uniform birthday song sounded in his ears, and then many fans in the Bernabeu stands joined in. Meanwhile, captain Marcos Llorente, who was not in the squad today, and Zori, the team's pistachio, pushed a cart carrying a multi-tiered birthday cake from the front of the players' tunnel to the front of the home team's dugout, with the words "Happy Birthday, Chris" written in Spanish and German, respectively.

Today happens to be Früchtel's 26th birthday, and the Real Madrid players have privately made an appointment to surprise the new teammate who has just joined the team for half a season, but immediately after his comeback, he has brought a huge improvement to the team's strength.

This scene shows the super cohesion that Real Madrid now have, and it also indicates that they will be very likely to find the momentum of last year in the second half of the season, and the final outcome of La Liga is far from being predicted in advance.