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Chapter 835 Invitation to the Charity Match

It is a very good result to advance one place to sixth in the ranking, but it is still far from the goal of Rongguang and Benitez.

The Premier League is different from other leagues. Other leagues will qualify for the European competition next season at No.6, but the Premier League must be in the top five.Because the Premier League has one more cup than leagues in other countries.

Other countries have one cup competition, but the Premier League has two cup competitions, one is the FA Cup, which is similar to the FA Cup, the same as the German Cup, Italian Cup, and Spanish Copa del Rey.

The winner of this cup can qualify for the UEFA Cup next season.

But there is another competition in English football, the English League Cup. The champion of this game can also participate in the UEFA Cup.For the sake of fairness, the Premier League has one less place in the European competition.

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Rong Guang does not practice every night on the football field outside his home. Apart from spending time with his children, he occasionally surfs the Internet at home.

Although he lives in the UK, he is not interested in British news at all, nor does he pay attention to European football news. He watches more domestic news.

While browsing the news, he suddenly remembered something and asked Deborah: "How is the construction progress of the school we donated to build in Sichuan?"

He was talking about last summer.

Last summer, he was not in China because he was recuperating in Brazil, but an earthquake shook the world in the west of his motherland.

The magnitude [-] earthquake devastated Sichuan in western China.

The Rongguang people were not in China at the time, but they were also very concerned about the earthquake.His hometown in the northwest of China's interior has visibly shaken, so he feels it all the more deeply.

After the earthquake, in addition to donating 1000 million RMB at the first time, he also donated to build a school in Beichuan, Mianyang, one of the hardest-hit areas, in the reconstruction of the earthquake-stricken area.

At that time, the Chinese media had reported it for a while, but Rong Guang himself did not take it seriously.For him, donating to build a school is normal and not worthy of a big report.

After donating to build the school, Rongguang didn't take care of it. He handed over all these trivial matters to Deborah, and asked Deborah to help him keep an eye on it.It is enough to report the progress to him from time to time.

He only remembered it today when he saw domestic news about the reconstruction of the earthquake-stricken area.The team's performance was not good before, and he was also busy with training. All his thoughts were on how to get the team out of the predicament. Naturally, he didn't care about the school.

"The progress of the project is fairly smooth..." Deborah got up and went to her computer to find relevant information and report to Rongguang.

But only halfway through the report, he was interrupted by a phone call.

It was Deborah's cell phone that rang.

Deborah left the living room to answer the phone.

After a while, she came back, and the call was over: "It's Park Ji-sung's manager's call. He said that Park Ji-sung will call you later, please communicate with me first."

"Huh?" Rong Guang was very strange, what does Park Ji-sung's manager have to do with him?Why did you call Deborah and say you were looking for yourself?What can I do for you?
A few minutes later, Rongguang's cell phone rang, an unfamiliar number, but it was really Park Zhixing who answered, Rongguang didn't save Park Zhixing's phone number before.

The two communicated in English with their own accents.

Although the two are their own masters, and the two teams they play for are rivals in the same city, the personal concerns of the players will not be affected by the relationship between the teams.

Park Zhixing told Rongguang on the phone that he planned to organize a charity competition and hoped to invite Rongguang to participate.

The specific form is that Park Ji-sung is in charge of one team, Rong Guang leads the other team, and the two teams will play a game, and all ticket proceeds from the game will be donated to charity projects...

As for why Rong Guang was chosen instead of other people, it was because Park Ji-sung felt that everyone was Asian first, so it was easier to talk.Secondly, the two of them played against each other in the semi-finals of the Champions League two seasons ago. In the boring debate about who is the real Asian champion, Rong Guang even spoke for himself, and the two of them can be regarded as having some friendship.

Rong Guang didn't immediately agree, but told Park Ji-sung that he needed to think about it and give him a reply after thinking about it.

After hanging up the phone, he kept silent about the content of the phone call with Park Ji-sung, but asked Deborah to continue reading about the progress of the school's project.

It wasn't until Deborah finished reading that he suddenly asked Deborah, "Has it been almost a year?"

Of course Deborah understood what he meant, so she nodded and said, "Yes, it's just over a month or a year."

"One year..." Rong Guang rubbed his chin, then suddenly said, "Just now Park Ji-sung asked me to organize a charity competition, but now I have an idea..."

Deborah immediately understood what Rongguang's idea was: "You want to hold a charity competition related to the Wenchuan Earthquake?"

Rong Guang nodded: "I want the whole of Europe to pay attention to this..."

"Very good, I support it." Deborah expressed her opinion.

"Then I'll call Park Ji-sung back, tell him my opinion, and see what he thinks."

After finishing speaking, Rong Guang called Park Zhixing.

On the phone, he told Pu Zhixing his opinion.

The charity match was held for the post-disaster reconstruction of the Wenchuan Earthquake. All the ticket revenue of the match was donated to the charity fund established in the name of Glory to support the post-disaster reconstruction work in the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken areas in China.

At the same time, the venue of this competition is also different from Park Ji-sung's original idea. At the beginning, Park Ji-sung planned to arrange this competition in South Korea, but now it is set in Europe, because it can attract more people's attention, and let more people pay attention to the post-Wenchuan earthquake reconstruction, which is the theme of this charity competition.

After listening to Rong Guang's opinion, Park Ji-sung also expressed his support: "I have no objection. I am very touched that you have such an idea, Mr. Rong, and I will definitely support it with all my strength! Now, let's find some people to form teammates to play a game, shall we?"

"no problem."

Rong Guang agreed.

At the same time, the two agreed that their managers should communicate with each other about the specific arrangements for the charity match.

After listening to Rong Guang's report, Deborah nodded and took over the job: "Okay, I will keep in touch with his manager."

"However, I have to find teammates by myself..." Rong Guang rubbed his chin. "Who should I find?"

He really has no idea now.

"Have you heard of 'Zidane's Friends' and 'Ronaldo's Friends'?" Deborah asked.

Rong Guang shook his head in a daze - he was not interested in such common sense things.

Deborah was not surprised that Rongguang didn't know this, so she began to explain the origin of these two teams for Rongguang. Simply put, in order to help the United Nations Development Program to fight poverty together, these two superstars in the world football at the time organized a charity match together. The two formed a team respectively, and the players who participated were considered as their friends, so they took the name "Friends Team".

This charity match has become a tradition. It is played at the end of each year. There are active stars, retired stars, and some stars who are not players.

The main purpose is to rely on the influence of these stars to attract the attention of the public and the media, so as to achieve the purpose of publicizing charity.

All proceeds from the game will be donated to charity.

"So the greater the fame of the participating players, the greater the influence?" Rong Guang immediately grasped the key point of Deborah's eloquence.

"Yes, this kind of star charity competition is mainly about the role of stars. In fact, everyone doesn't care about how the game is played." Deborah said.

"So that's how it is..." Rong Guang was thoughtful.

After Deborah finished explaining to him, she went about her own business.

Rong Guang continued to sit on the sofa, holding his mobile phone, and began to look through the contacts in his mobile phone address book.

He doesn't have many contacts, because he's not the kind of person who likes to make friends all over the world, and he doesn't like to socialize too much, going to celebrity dinners and so on.

So his address book is mainly his teammates, current or former.

His first thought was his best friend Lucas Sutton.

This player who is already the main striker of the Brazilian national team and wears the No. [-] jersey in the Brazilian national team should have a lot of influence in today's football.

So he called Lucas.

As soon as Lucas heard that Rongguang asked him to play a charity game, he agreed without saying a word: "No problem, when?"

"Uh, the exact time hasn't been confirmed yet, I just want to tell you first..."

"Okay, let me know when you confirm the specific game time, and I will push it off even if I have something to do!" As Rong Guang's best friend, Lucas is very loyal, so there is nothing to say.

After Rong Guang hung up the phone, he found a blank piece of paper and a pen, and wrote the name of Lucas Sutton on the paper.

Next, he continued to study the address book.

Now that Deborah has said it, it doesn't matter how well the game itself is played, everyone mainly comes to see the stars, so the first thing he looks for when looking for someone is fame.

Speaking of the most famous player in football right now... Rong Guang saw Kaka's name in his phone address book.

He pouted.

I don't want this guy on my friends team!
Then he swipes down and sees Messi's name.

This Argentinian little man is also in the limelight now...

After thinking about it, Rong Guang called Messi.

Messi was a little surprised that Rong Guang suddenly called him because of this matter, but after reacting, he also agreed to Rong Guang: "I have no problem, Rong. Let me know when you have a fixed time."

Thanking Messi, Rong Guang hung up the phone and wrote Messi's name under Lucas' name.

(End of this chapter)