football player

Chapter 6 Master Luca
"John, please contact me about going to Dundee United to play football."

When eating breakfast, Li Chenglong successfully attracted the attention of his family to him with one sentence.

"Really, Bruce? Have you figured it out?" Old John seemed a little unconvinced why Li Chenglong changed his words suddenly, but he quickly said again: "Don't worry, I will definitely help you out."

It seemed that he was afraid that Li Chenglong would change his mind, so Old John was not in a hurry to eat breakfast, so he ran to the side to make a phone call.

"Bruce, have you really considered it?" Kate Lee asked with some doubts.

Just two days ago, Li Chenglong was very frustrated because he failed to enter the first team. He once had signs of giving up professional football, but now he suddenly strengthened his confidence, which made Kate a little strange.

"Don't worry, Kate, this is a choice I made after serious consideration. No matter what happens in the future, I will continue to stick to it." Li Chenglong knew that the other party was worried, so he comforted him.

"I'm going to find Luca later and ask him to help me with some exercises."

"Bruce, you just need to be ready. I've already called Scotland. I'll go back to Scotland after breakfast." Old John came back after calling cheerfully.

"Bruce, even if you plan to continue playing football, I still recommend you to stay in London. Although Crystal Palace is only the English Championship team, the influence of the English Championship is higher than that of the Scottish Premier League..."

Before Kate finished speaking, Old John was unhappy, and said angrily: "We are the first tier league in Europe, can we not compare to England's second tier league?"

"Actually, whether it is in terms of media attention, player salaries, league broadcast costs, or stadium attendance, the English Championship is higher than the Scottish Premier League, and it is much higher."

Old John was a little unconvinced by Kate's cold answer, but after holding it in for a long time, he could only say: "They're just hype, what's so great..."

Of course, Jackie Lee also knew that Kate was telling the truth.

Scotland is geographically adjacent to England, and the commercial influence of the English league is attractive. Most of the players in the Scottish league are transferred to England.But among them, only a small part can play in the Premier League. Most of the Scottish league players who flow into England actually join the English Championship, and even a large number of them join the League One, England's third-tier league. .

Purely speaking from the level of sports competition, the British Championship and the Scottish Premier League are almost at the same level, and the British Championship also has a commercial bonus, which is indeed better than the Scottish Premier League on the whole.

However, Jackie Lee still prefers to play in the Scottish Super League, or in other words, he prefers to play in Dundee United because of Old John.

Old John used to be a professional player. He joined the youth training camp of Dundee United when he was very young. It is said that he was once a talented player in the youth training camp of Dundee United. After suffering a serious injury in the game, he never reached the expected height.

Although delayed by injuries, Old John became a professional player as an adult. He played for Dundee United for several seasons.

Later, injuries became more frequent. Before the age of 30, John chose to hang up his boots and retire, and then entered the Dundee United Club to work.

Now Old John has been working in Dundee United Club for more than 30 years. Although he is not a real power figure in Dundee United, he definitely has a certain influence.

This is why Jackie Lee is willing to play for Dundee United.

If he stays in Crystal Palace, he will definitely have to wait for the opportunity slowly. If he goes to Dundee United, it will be much better to have Old John to take care of him.

Although it is impossible for him to rely on the relationship of Old John to directly occupy a main position when he goes to Dundee United, he must have more opportunities to perform than Crystal Palace.

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After breakfast, Li Chenglong went out.

He drove the first car in his life that he bought after he got his first month's salary, the Volkswagen Polo, a cheap car that is very popular in Europe.

Starting near my home in south London, drive north, cross the Thames from Chelsea West Bridge into Chelsea, turn east at Chelsea, cross the whole of Chelsea, and finally enter Fulham, park the car in Kings Near the road, and then walked into the Fulham Preparatory Primary School not far away, the primary school that Lee Chenglong attended after he came to the UK.

Fulham Preparatory Primary School is one of the top primary schools in London. Most of the students studying here are children from middle-class families and above. The enrollment rate of students in the school is also very high. When Jackie Chan came to the UK, Kate spent a lot of money. He was sent here to study for a small amount of money.

But Li Chenglong didn't come here to remember the time, but something else.

Li Chenglong skillfully came to the family building area of ​​the school, found the target and went upstairs directly, and knocked on the door of one of the rooms on the third floor.

"Bruce? Why are you here?" The man who opened the door was a middle-aged man, with obvious Eastern European features in appearance, yellowish hair, and the same nose bridge as most Europeans, but the nose hook is more obvious.

"Because I haven't seen you for a long time, Luca." Li Chenglong went up and gave the other party a hug.

Luca Savage, this is Jackie Chan's school football coach when he was in elementary school.

When he first came to the UK, Li Chenglong went to professional clubs for trial training, and was rejected in several consecutive attempts. This was a big blow to Li Chenglong, who thought he played football very well at the time.

However, after entering Fulham Preparatory Primary School, Li Chenglong successfully joined the school football team and received a lot of encouragement from the school team coach Luca Savage, who also took good care of him in the school team training. One of the reasons for entering the Crystal Palace youth academy.

At that time, Jackie Chan was obsessed with those Chinese kung fu movies, so he must worship the other party as his teacher and call the other party Master Luca, which is quite embarrassing now thinking about it.

However, after Li Chenglong graduated from elementary school and successfully joined the regular professional club youth training camp, the relationship with Savage was not so close.Fortunately, although the number of meetings is less, there are still calls and text messages every festival or something.

"Master Luca, I'm already planning to play football in the Scottish League." Although a little embarrassed, Li Chenglong still called out Master, so as to enhance the relationship.

"Is it Old John's team?" Savage still knows something about Jackie Chan's family.

"Well, I think it's hard to get a chance at Crystal Palace, so I'm going to try Scotland."

"Is there anything I can do to help?"

Li Chenglong was waiting for this sentence, so he said immediately: "I want to invite Master Luka to help me with a special training, otherwise I am worried that it will be difficult to get a chance if I go there."

Savage paused to think for a while before saying: "Okay, the school is on summer vacation recently, and I happen to be fine."

The blue Joaquin card that Li Chenglong lit up last night has a number 19 on it, which is the percentage of the fusion degree, which means that his current fusion degree after lighting up the Joaquin card is 19%.

If Li Chenglong wants to continue to light up the next card, he must not only increase his physical attributes and technical attributes to more than 60, but also let the fusion degree of Joaquin cards reach more than 33%, all of which must be achieved through training. Completed.

This is why Jackie Lee came to Luka Savage for help.

Of course, Li Chenglong can go directly to the club's youth training camp to train, but he doesn't know how effective this system is.He has been training there for 5 years. If the system is too strong, his strength will suddenly improve by leaps and bounds, which may cause some unnecessary troubles.

Although this possibility is very small, it can be said that players of his age suddenly become enlightened and greatly increase their strength, but Li Chenglong does not want to take that risk, not to mention that he is already planning to play for Dundee United. There is no need to go back and provoke Crystal Palace.

(End of this chapter)