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Chapter 86
Long Bisheng looked at a bank card that Li Fang handed over, and he didn’t know what he was thinking in a daze. Li Fang laughed: "What are you thinking? The money is not for you—you know I’m going to Italy soon, and my parents won’t go with me. It’s the same! If it’s used in your family, you can pay me back in the future! You must win, I’m sure, you will become a professional player in the future! This little money is worth a fortune!”

"...Okay, I'll keep it for you." Long Bisheng thought for a while, finally nodded, then reached out to take the card handed over by Li Fang, and asked by the way: "How much money is in the card?"

Li Fang watched as Long Bisheng took the card, and then smiled: "Not much... one hundred thousand."

Long Bisheng nodded. This figure did not surprise him. After all, Li Fang said just now that his income last year was close to one million, so leaving one hundred thousand to his family is really nothing.

Li Fang quickly added another sentence: "Euro."

Long Bisheng's hands trembled. Even though he didn't know much about finance, he heard the same thing when Liu Lin talked about European currencies. At least he knew that the euro was worth more than the dollar. Now the value of the euro is almost ten times that of the same denomination of RMB. That is to say, there is at least 100 million RMB in this card!
"So much money!" Long Bisheng held the card as if holding a piece of fiery coal, and said hastily, "How can this be in my hand? What if I lose it?"

"What are you afraid of? If I don't have a password for this card, who will get it? Don't worry if I lose it! I won't be able to come back after going to Italy for at least a year. Of course, I need to save more money! Remember the password, it's your birthday, 890821, remember?" Li Fang said indifferently.

Long Bisheng thought for a long time before saying, "Okay... I will keep it safe."

"That's right." Li Fang said with satisfaction: "Bi Sheng, after I leave, the old people of the two families will depend on you to take care of them... You know, you should also become an adult, come on, Bi Sheng, I'm looking forward to the moment when I will fight side by side with you in the national team!"

"I know, Brother Li Fang." Long Bisheng nodded firmly: "You have to work hard too! I will watch every live broadcast of Serie A. I hope to see you on TV soon!"

"Yeah, we should all work hard..." Li Fang said leisurely.

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At the end of August, Yunjiatianyu Club announced that the team’s rookie international player Li Fang was transferred to the Serie A team Perugia at a price of 200 million euros, becoming the second player in Chinese football history to join Serie A. It is worth mentioning that Nie Fei, the first Chinese player to join Serie A, also settled in Perugia for the first time.

All the Chinese media began to talk about this rising star. Since he became the main force of Yunjiatianyu's first team in the middle of last year's league, Li Fang has made everyone's eyes shine. His tireless running, fearless fighting spirit on the field, his precise cross and his almost legendary experience of becoming a professional player have become topics that everyone talks about. Obviously, such a player may not be a superstar, but he is very useful. From this point of view Speaking of the above, Perugia's chairman Gucci and coach Cosmi have a pretty good vision.

With almost all of Li Fang's personal information being dug out, no one knows his best friend and best little brother is still training hard in Yunjia Tianyu Football School, hoping to prove himself in the new year's National Football School Invitational Tournament and avenge his shame.

Since the team failed to enter the final due to his poor performance in last year's semi-finals, it took Long Bisheng a long time to recover from the blow, especially when he practiced his skills hard but failed to get in. The guilt brought about by the loss in that game was biting his heart like a poisonous snake. It was not until after Ding Yu's guidance that his skills improved by leaps and bounds did his guilt turn into a strong desire for the game.

The same is true for other students. For talented young players like Dai Guangming and Hu Gandang, representing Yunjia Tianyu last year and becoming the worst team among the five representative teams undoubtedly made them feel extremely humiliated. However, this year's opponents are still those opponents from last year, which is a great opportunity to prove themselves!

It is under this eagerness that after entering the new semester, all the students work harder in training. Those who participated in last year’s competition did not want to lose the chance of revenge, and those who did not participate in last year’s competition wanted to prove their abilities. Every student worked so hard on the training ground that Ding Yu had to stop their excessive movements on the training ground at certain times.

Among them, Long Bisheng is the one who has improved the most. If it is said that before the arrival of the summer vacation, his footwork skills were only in its infancy, then in the past three months, his progress can be described as rapid. At least now it is difficult for Li Jie to successfully defend his turn and breakthrough. How do you say that?The rapid progress is due to the low starting point, and the starting point of Long Bisheng's technology is indeed low enough.

Ding Yu is appreciative of the players' mood. At least, if an athlete does not have the spirit of not admitting defeat, it is impossible to become a qualified athlete. Never giving up the game at any time and the great desire for victory are the minimum sports qualities of an athlete.

To put it bluntly, any professional sport is a competition for the pursuit of victory. This victory is not necessarily a championship or a medal, but a transcendence of oneself and the individual.

As for Ding Yu himself, he is also very eager for this game. The loss in the last game is not so much the loss to the 89-year-old echelon of Shanghai Chongming Island Football School, but rather the loss to himself and Chongming Island Football School coach Xu Genbao.

After this year of dormancy, Ding Yu has basically understood the characteristics of these players and their best positions. Now, it is time for results. Although Ding Yu’s purpose of bringing this team is not to gain fame, he is happy to see the victories while discovering the potential of these players. Moreover, for these young players, if they can win a national championship in a match against opponents of the same age in the country, it will also be very good for them to increase their self-confidence.

This competition will be a battle for Ding Yu and his disciples to rectify their names.

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Time soon came to October, and the second National Football School Invitational Tournament was about to open. According to some problems that occurred during the last competition, the Football Association quickly made supplements. Each football school can bring more than 23 students to BJ, and the extra part of the cost will be subsidized by the club.

At the same time, another item has been added to this competition, which is the confrontation between the women's football echelons of various schools. With the release of an order by the Football Association last year, all clubs have begun to pay attention to women's football. Although adding a team to support will increase a lot of burden, compared with men's football, the investment in women's football is much smaller. For clubs, the luxury tax will be reduced by 50.00%. After saving this expense, the clubs will be happy to invest the saved funds in women's football.

This makes all the students very happy—maybe this time when I go to BJ, I will have a chance to ask girls out on the street...

This is of course a joke. If everyone was relaxed and excited when they went to BJ last time, then this time, the students in the 89-year-old echelon led by Ding Yu went to BJ with the mentality of eagerness to win-beating all opponents and proving that they can gain a foothold in Yunjia Tianyu Football Academy, which has the strongest youth training in the country, is definitely not in vain!
This time, the 89-year-old echelon of Yunjiatianyu Football School stayed in a hostel that was twice the size of the previous hostel. Unfortunately, no matter how big the hostel was, it was just a hostel. In terms of accommodation conditions, it was not much better than the hostel they stayed in last time.

The situation of the other echelons is similar. According to Liu Lin, except for the oldest U-17 echelon and the women’s football team, the other echelons’ accommodation conditions are similar to theirs. The accommodation conditions of the U-17 echelon are good because they are already considered to be half of professional players. They should live better. As for the women’s football team, girls always receive a little preferential treatment. Regarding this, all students have no objection.

What's more, for Long Bisheng and the others, they don't care about how they live in BJ this time, what they care about is the next game, and what they care about is the victory of the game!

During the adaptive training after coming to BJ, the students of Yunjiatianyu still hold back their energy, and they train very seriously every day.

Ding Yu looked at this class of desperate students with a lingering smile on his lips.

Last year's failure was indeed not a failure in vain. This kind of failure not only did not break them, but inspired their fighting spirit and desire to win. Ding Yu believes that any team that encounters them in the next game will suffer a lot!
(End of this chapter)