Chapter 33 A Trip to China

Three days after the team assembled, the team flew to the home country of the team owner's old manager to start this summer's trip to China, which was also Villa's first visit to China. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info For this trip to China, the Villa team has also planned for almost half a season, except for the transfer team led by Lamb who did not come for the time being because they had to continue to grind their lips and be busy with transfers, almost all the important staff of the club came, and Cruise's security department was all dispatched, and more than a dozen big men dressed in black super clothes had big shoulders and round waists, and they were full of domineering at a glance. Xiao Xue, the first chairman of the Haoxue Foundation, officially took office, and Han Shao joined the public relations department and became Bella's deputy, and the two finally had official titles. Li Haolong also specially allowed the players' wives and girlfriends to accompany them, they can participate in the first half of the activities, but they are not allowed to accompany them after the training camp begins, and Han Shao's Riella and Griezmann's girlfriend Erica Choberena and more than 1 year-old daughter Mia are also in the beauty group, most of the girlfriends of the rich and handsome players are high-quality beauties, and the most beautiful scenery of the team is formed.

In addition to the players who are in contact with the next family, the Villa team is full of 19 first-team players and five young players promoted from the second team, including Boone, Johnstone, Pickford, Amavi, Henrichs, Chester, Vallejo, Benvic, Grealish, Jedinak, Brandt, Antivoros, Nzunzi, Lincoln, Dembele, Weigel, McCormack, Arario, Griezmann, etc. Brave, flexible and very explosive, born on September 3, 1998, British team central defender Darnell Johnson, 191 cm, 77 kg, outstanding jump, passionate, born on July 5, 1999, British central defender Trevoh Chalobah, poached from Chelsea, 190 cm, 77 kg, strength, endurance, speed, body is extremely good, and is also the captain of England Under-19, Jacob Davenport, born on December 28, 1998, defensive midfielder, Former Manchester City academy player, 172cm, 66kg, England Under-18 midfielder of the year 2016, born on March 17, 1998, Luis Enrique, and Barcelona coach with the same name, from Brazil's Botafogo left-footed player, 182cm, 76kg, comprehensive modern center forward.

These five players are all young rookies who have been discovered by the team itself or brought in from other teams, the most promising of which are Trevoh Chalobah and Davenport, both of whom are proud of the team, and are also the hopeful stars attracted by Villa after Li Haolong's all-round development of the academy. Bringing them in this summer, training with the first team, and even the possibility of being promoted to the first team, at least make them feel the atmosphere, which is always good for the development of young people.

Aston Villa's players are still going to China for the first time, and they are also full of curiosity about this mysterious oriental civilization, and they keep asking all kinds of questions about China to Han Shao, who is more casual than the chairman, in the club, Han Shao, who can boast of his good shots, even has a higher popularity than Li Haolong, Li Haolong is generous in his big spend, and Han Shao is bold and generous all the time in life.

Compared with the stupid questions asked by foreigners when they first came to China, the questions asked by these young people are much more reliable, and they are all topics of interest to young people in the world today, at least not as many as in the past, such as "Does everyone know kung fu?" Do you eat cats, dogs, and monkeys every day? In China, if you give birth to triplets, do you have to kill one? Is raising the national flag and not wearing a red scarf to be strafed? Do you usually ride pandas?" Something like that. Speaking of which, there is a joke, there is a custom in China to burn paper money for deceased relatives on some festivals, foreigners are very incomprehensible that we want to burn the "money", in fact, they don't know, we not only burn "money", but also burn "houses", "luxury cars", and even "beautiful women", which scares them to death!

The itinerary of this trip to China is very tight, a total of four cities, the first stop is Beijing, the capital of China, and Guoan, the second stop is Shanghai, and the Shanghai Port team plays a friendly match, the third stop is Guangzhou, and the Asian hegemon Evergrande plays a game, and the fourth stop, Aston Villa Football School in C City. There are not many football school buildings, after more than half a year of construction, all the works have been completed, but the football experience hall outside has not yet been completed, the Villa team will start this summer's training camp in the football school, and will also participate in the "Old Shopkeeper International Football Friendly Match" initiated by a club, inviting Inter Milan, Bayer Leverkusen and Espanyol to participate.

During the team's training camp, Li Haolong also had two major events, one is the Haoxue Foundation's rural sports facilities and poverty alleviation activities, the first batch of remote Liangshan in Sichuan and Huining in Gansu Province, will go to the villages in these two poor areas to build new primary schools and new stadiums and provide financial assistance to the people there. In addition, Li Haolong will also participate in the selection of the "Chinese Football Youth Tour of the UK" initiated by his own plan in C City, intending to discover highly talented Chinese teenagers under the age of 12 to live in Birmingham, and accept the influence of Villa's latest youth training technology concept since childhood, and strive to cultivate hope stars for China through foreign soil, unlike those previous drafts, this time the age is younger, the model is to go to the UK to settle down for a long time, from the environment, diet, and learning in a comprehensive Xihua, this year's tentative quota is 10, Until they get into the youth team and get paid, all the costs will be borne by the Villa team, including room and board.

Such a selection of materials will be held every year in the future, which was proposed to the Chinese Football Association when Li Haolong seconded Gaudino, and it can be regarded as an exchange, but this is willing and has been planned for a long time, just take advantage of that time to say it, even so, the Football Association is still very cautious to put forward a request, must thoroughly explain what it means to go to the UK, and parents must fully agree to implement it. Taking advantage of this time, Li Haolong also said to the leaders of the Football Association again what he said to his father-in-law before the New Year, the leaders were quite enthusiastic, and listened to his heartfelt words very carefully, and Li Haolong was very excited about his good attitude, thinking that the Football Association could listen to it, if at least he could accept the suggestion of unifying the technical and tactical style, it would be a great success, but then there was no more...... Later, a familiar staff member of the Football Association also contacted Li Haolong and told him a sad fact, in fact, these words have been conveyed by Vice Governor Zhang Xiaoquan, what he doesn't understand is that even if the current leader is willing to support such a reform, the next leader will make changes on a whim, and the new official will take office with three fires, how can you do it if there is nothing to burn, you have to burn it if you want to find a way, even if you poke the suggestion to Xi Da, he pressed it down and implemented it, but you also have to know that he is not a lifelong system, Football must not be elevated to the basic national policy, but should be added to the constitution! There is still a long way to go unless football is completely separated from the system and completely marketized and civilized. Li Haolong also sighed three times when he heard this, and strengthened his firm belief in slowly making changes by himself, as the great man said, a spark can always start a prairie fire!