Fengba Greenery

Chapter 3 Are You Here for Trial Training?

Chapter 3 Are you here for a trial training?
For Li Qingshan, Britain is a strange place, and it is also his first time to go abroad.His father opened a small pig farm in his hometown, and his mother worked as a language teacher in a middle school in the town.It is barely a well-off family, but coming to the UK to study is also a big burden for the family.

He's going to find a part-time job on weekends
Busy weekends, busy study abroad career, from now on

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Alma came home, she was from Manchester.

She is sitting in the room at the moment, sorting out the photos and videos of the game, and editing the video of Li Qingshan's goal.

"What a terrible big man", Alma, a senior fan, couldn't help but admire.

"Well, what a beautiful header"

Hearing the sound of the door, Alma turned around in surprise:
"dad"

Standing at the door at this moment is Alma's father, Roy, Roy Saul.He has two identities: a dentist and assistant coach of FC United.

At this time, he was wearing a red sportswear. Although he was nearly fifty years old, he was in good shape. With short gray-white hair and a half-inch long beard, he was really a handsome middle-aged uncle.

Roy usually works in his own dental clinic. As an assistant coach of FC United Manchester, he also has to take care of the team's training, so he often goes home very late, but today he came back earlier than usual.

As soon as he got home, he saw the video of Li Qingshan's goals edited by Alma. As an assistant coach of an amateur team with a good record, beautiful goals always attracted his attention.

"Great goal" Uncle Roy hugged his baby daughter: "Can you introduce me?"

So Alma quickly talked about the situation of yesterday's game

"The lad who scored the goal is good, the header prediction is very accurate"

Roy thought for a moment, and said, "You mean, he is a new Chinese student from your school, maybe he will be interested in coming to our team for a try."

"Yes, Dad, he scored three beautiful headers yesterday." Alma pursed her lips and smiled, recalling yesterday's game and the funny scene of Li Qingshan falling headlong from the air.

"The team needs to replenish personnel recently, especially the striker. That guy Chris has moved." Roy rubbed his head and said with a little headache.

His team has indeed encountered a lot of things recently. For ordinary amateur teams, it is necessary to maintain a huge lineup, because many players have other jobs, but the United Manchester team is a very ambitious team. The team, they are determined to rush to the professional league, so they maintain a generally stable team lineup, but before the season, the team lost two forwards, and now the team has only one genuine forward, which must be completed before the start of the season. Find a few forward players to complement the team.

On the other hand, the team managed to raise the cost of building a new arena, and plans to build a stadium belonging to the team at the Ronald Johnson Stadium in the Moston area. For a team, having its own The stadium is of great benefit to the future of the team.

At least there will be a substantial increase in the team's ticket revenue and peripheral merchandise sales. FC United's ambition is not just to hang out in the lower leagues in England, their goal is to break into the professional league.

However, the construction of the new stadium has encountered a bit of obstacles recently. Some residents on St. Mary Street near the early stadium site have resisted the new stadium construction plan, believing that the new stadium will cause parking chaos in the area.

Thinking of so many headaches, Roy could only smile wryly.

....
"Gig Lane?"

Li Qingshan was holding a map at this time, frowning as he looked at the densely packed English letters on it.Then I turned out a newspaper, and a job advertisement was stamped on it: "Recruitment for a leaflet delivery worker, with a daily salary of 100 pounds"

"It should be here!" Qingshan straightened his collar, ready to go in and interview for this lucrative position.Among the salaries of casual workers who generally earn only seven or eight yuan an hour, a daily salary of one hundred pounds is rare.

Li Qingshan was greeted by a red-faced old man from England, and he was talking endlessly at this moment: "You must distribute [-] leaflets to every resident in St. Mary's Street within two days, don't play tricks on me, Boy, I'm watching."

"No problem, sir, I have experience in this field of work." Maybe Li Qingshan's simple and honest appearance is easy to gain trust, and he easily got the job.

"When will I start work, sir"

"Not yet, Mr. Roy is responsible for printing the leaflets. He is the team's assistant coach. We need to wait for him to come. The team will start training soon. You wait here for a while, they will be here soon. Until then, you can visit our team's training ground, you'll like the lads here."

"Team" Li Qingshan discovered that behind the building he was interviewing for was a football field with only stands on both sides. There were thousands of red plastic seats on the stands, which looked a little crude, and the flat grass was emerald green.There is a row of banners hanging on the top of the stands, and a row of large characters is impressively printed

"Football Club United of Manchester"

"United of Manchester?" Li Qingshan was a little puzzled, and said to the red-faced uncle, "Sir, if I didn't know that this is not Old Trafford, I would have thought you were Manchester United."

"In fact, we are Manchester United! Damn Glazer!" The red-faced uncle suddenly became excited: "This group of American vampires! Sooner or later we will teach the Yankee team a lesson!"

"Is this team related to Manchester United?" You know, Manchester United is a world-renowned super giant. If Manchester United is a luxury ship, the team in front of you is at most a small sampan.Looking at the agitated red-faced uncle, Li Qingshan expressed his doubts.

Although the red-faced uncle didn't know that Li Qingshan described FC United as a small sampan in his heart, he could still hear Li Qingshan's disapproval of the comparison between FC United and Manchester United in Li Qingshan's tone.Although he was a little upset, because Li Qingshan had an Asian face and didn't understand the grievances of the two teams, the red-faced uncle still introduced the origins of the two teams to him.Fans of English football teams are notoriously loyal.

It turned out that FC United was established in the summer of 2005 by a group of fans who opposed the acquisition of Manchester United by American businessman Glazer.The Glazer family took full control of United on May 2005, 5, and opponents of the takeover met on May 12.While the focus of the meeting was on continued opposition to takeovers rather than new clubs, the chairman of the meeting, Addy Wilson, announced that the next meeting on May 5 would discuss the matter.It was announced at the second meeting that if 19 people pledged financial support to the club, the new club would be established.Although the final number was slightly less than 5, the chairman decided to establish a new club.

The neighboring club Leigh RMI (LeighRMI) encountered a financial crisis at this time. They asked "FC United" to acquire Leigh RMI, and FC United provided Leigh RMI with additional assistance to keep the club in business.However, the founders of "FC United" rejected their request, because their purpose of establishing the club was to respond to unpopular acquisitions, and they did not think it was appropriate to acquire other clubs.However, the Liv team finally survived the crisis, and the first game of "FC United" was against Liv RMI.

When the club was established, it wanted to be called "FC United" (FC United), but the Football Association of England refused on the grounds that it was too popular.So they had to choose another new name, including "FC Manchester United" (FC United of Manchester), "FC Manchester Central" (FC Manchester Central), "AFC Manchester 1878" (AFC Manchester 1878) and "Newton Heath United FC" (NewtonHeathUnitedFC).On June 2005, 6, "FC Manchester United" was elected with 14% of the votes, and "FC United" continued to be the abbreviation of the club.

The team was established in 2005, and it took seven years to upgrade from the North West County Football League, the tenth tier in England, to two consecutive levels. After going through the North West County Football League, it was promoted to the current seventh tier in 2008 Northern Premier League Super League Group.However, in the past three years, the team has been stuck in the seventh-tier league with no hope of promotion. This is a big blow to FC United, who aspires to a professional league.

Despite this, the red-faced uncle was still very excited, "But we are still very confident, our new stadium will be built soon." When the red-faced uncle mentioned the stadium, his face could not hide his pride.

Indeed, as a team in England's seventh tier, having a stadium entirely of its own means a lot.In this case, the team will have a stable ticket revenue and revenue from team peripheral sales.You know, FC United Manchester can be said to be the amateur team with the largest number of fans. They pour in thousands of fans every game, far exceeding their opponents.Moreover, most of the team's construction funds come from fans' donations. It is simply impossible for other amateur teams to build a football stadium relying on fans' donations.

Funding is still in the second place, and the most important thing is that many fan volunteers participated in the construction of this stadium.The bench in the locker room was made by one fan himself, another fan pulled the free elevator, and another group of fans was responsible for the landscaping of the stadium.In England, the community is an important force supporting the team. Having its own stadium in a community means that the team will take root in the community and become a part of the community.This can be regarded as part of the cultural value of English football.

"But we have encountered trouble recently." The red-faced uncle was a little helpless when he said this, "But we hired you to solve this trouble."

"Look for me to solve the trouble, I'm just going to distribute leaflets, uncle" Li Qingshan said hastily, he is a foreigner, he is not familiar with the place, and he can speak English stuttering, so how can he get involved with the locals.

"Hahaha, don't worry, young man." The red-faced uncle couldn't help laughing when he saw Li Qingshan's embarrassed appearance.

"You do hand out leaflets, the solution is in the leaflets, some residents on nearby St Mary's Street think the new stadium will make parking chaos in the area. We have a plan, and we have distributed 10000 leaflets around the area to let them know The team brings them joy, not trouble."

Just when Li Qingshan was talking happily with the red-faced uncle, Roy drove to the team's training ground.

He needs to come in advance every training day to prepare some equipment for the team's training.

However, today, he didn't expect that the big man who impressed him yesterday would actually appear at the team's training ground today, and even had a happy chat with Uncle Maggis.

Seeing Roy, the red-faced Uncle Maxxis was obviously very happy: Roy, this guy is here to find a job...
Before Uncle Maxxis finished speaking, Roy said: "Maggis, I know him"

Uncle Maggis was taken aback, this world is so small?

At this time, Roy has already walked towards Li Qingshan who is also a little confused: "I know you, young man, the goal you scored yesterday is really beautiful."

"You are here for a trial training!"

(End of this chapter)