i don't want to be king

Chapter 263 Reunion with Ronaldo

All matches for Monaco this season are over.

The team was disbanded on the spot at the end of the last game. Because of preparing for the UEFA Champions League qualifying match that started on July 7, it is scheduled to start regrouping early on June 28.

Several players, including captain Tulalang, have decided not to renew their contracts with the club. They are busy packing all their personal belongings and taking them away from the Latubi base.

Experienced this scene for the first time, Li Liang was a little sad.

He knows that professional football is like this. It is very difficult to live in a club. After all, one day he will leave the Latubi base like Toulalang.

He declined Pasalic's invitation to go on vacation with him and decided to stay at the base to continue training.

He is not alone.

Jardim and his coaching staff only had a two-week break and returned to the base at the end of May to start preparing for the new season ahead of schedule.

Mbappe also returned to the base a week later in order to prepare for the U7 European Youth Championship in Germany on July 11.

Li Liang's hard training has begun to pay off, and his physical fitness and strength have made significant progress.

At the same time, the assistant coach Portuguese Nelson Caldeira began to give Li Liang tactical lessons.

What pleased him was that Li Liang's receptivity was very strong, and Li Liang could roughly master the course that was originally planned for one week in only two days!

Caldeira jokingly said to Li Liang: "Li, you really should apply for a degree in economics!
So when you retire, your smart brain can get a job on Wall Street. "

Only Li Liang knew that he could use the night to review everything Caldeira had taught him again and again.

……

李良在网上查到中国国家队将在6月3日和6月7日进行两场友谊赛，以备战即将在9月到来的世界杯亚洲区12强赛。

Since Liao Qiu retired, no one in the national team has ever mentioned Li Liang even though news of the official signing between Li Liang and Monaco came out.

It has never attracted the slightest attention from the national team's management team.

Li Liang knew that such a friendly match could not really reflect the problem. The biggest test facing the national team would be the top 12 match.

The Chinese team is in the same group as South Korea, Iran, Uzbekistan, Qatar, and Syria.

What is worrying is that only the top two in the group can qualify. In the end, the top two in each group will directly advance to the finals of the World Cup in Russia.

而两个小组第三将在2017年10月5日和10日10日进行主客场两回合比赛，两回合结果占优者，将在2017年11月6日和11月14日与中北美地区的一支队伍争夺一个决赛圈入场券。

The outside world generally believes that South Korea, Iran and Uzbekistan are the most competitive teams in this group, China should be on the same level as Qatar, and Syria is undoubtedly the weakest team in this group.

If the Chinese team wants to hit the places that appear directly, it means that they must play all the home games and make breakthroughs in the away game. They must also ensure that they get enough points in Qatar and Syria!

In addition, Li Liang also found that public opinion's attention to his landing in Ligue [-] has also dropped significantly. The mainstream voice is questioning whether Li Liang can gain a firm foothold in Monaco.

There are also netizens who believe that Li Liang’s goals for the first season in Europe should not be set too high, and that he can gradually enter the bench lineup and get a certain amount of playing time in some games against weak teams and insignificant cup games is quite a success .

Only a few people hope that Li Liang can quickly prove himself in Monaco.

These are all domestic voices. As for the fact that there is hardly any news related to him in Europe or even France, the only thing that can be searched is one or two lines of text in the transfer news.

……

This day after training, Mbappe waited outside the locker room. As soon as he saw Li Liang, he told him that Ronaldo had come to France!
原来No.15届欧洲足球锦标赛，也就是通常人们所说的欧洲杯将于6月10日至7月10日在法国举行。

In addition to the host French team, of course Mbappe most supports the Portuguese team where his idol Ronaldo is.

There are two big brothers in the team, Carvalho and Moutinho, as "internal agents", so Mbappe learned about the movements of the Portuguese team and Ronaldo in a timely manner.

Mbappe invited Li Liang to visit Marcusi, where the Portuguese representative team is stationed, and Li Liang readily agreed.

They found Caldeira again, and after a lot of hard work, Caldeira finally agreed to give them a vacation, and decided to go to Marcusi to visit their compatriots together.

The next day the three came to Marcusi.

Because the Portuguese team was preparing for the group stage, they could not enter the training ground during regular hours, so they had to wait outside the gate of the training ground as agreed with Carvalho and Moutinho.

At the end of the training, Carvalho and Moutinho came out and brought the three into the training ground, where they finally met Ronaldo.

Everyone greeted each other, Ronaldo recognized Li Liang at a glance, smiled and said in English: "Li, you have become stronger!"

Li Liang also smiled and replied in Portuguese: "I still have to work hard, I'm really far away."

Ronaldo was taken aback: "You actually learned Portuguese?!

That's amazing, it's been less than 4 months since we last met..."

Li Liang thanked Ronaldo for his compliment, and he also told Ronaldo that he joined Monaco.

Ronaldo nodded approvingly: "This is really a wise choice.

Jardim is a very good coach, I believe he will help you become a better player!

By the way, Li, I heard from Ricardo and Joao that you are going to qualify for the Champions League. Good luck!
I still remember the agreement with you——

Hope we can meet soon in the Champions League! "

Ronaldo also recognized Mbappe and said with a smile: "Have you grown up so much?"

Mbappe was very envious of Li Liang, who can speak fluent French and Portuguese, and asked him to help him translate.

Ronaldo generously helped Li Liang sign a lot of star cards, and took a group photo with them.

He also invited everyone to watch the Portugal game, and Li Liang happily agreed.

(End of this chapter)