Fame with a ball

In the SOHU Square in central London, there is a building that today determines Lin Zhigao's future fate.It is the office building of the Football Association.

Queens Park Rangers coach Warnock and club manager Fox accompanied Lin Zhigao to attend today's hearing.

Before the hearing, the club should prepare Lin Zhigao's game video and various data, and at the same time use various methods to prove that Lin Zhigao has superhuman talent in football, and he can make outstanding contributions to improving the level of the Premier League.Then in the hearing, a jury composed of England Football Association officials, government officials, members of the Professional Players Association, and three experts will decide whether Lin Zhigao can obtain special treatment after reviewing the materials applied by the club. labor certification.

Warnock has never understood why the Chinese national team has not recruited Lin Zhigao until now. If Lin Zhigao has entered the national team and can participate in enough matches, the club does not need to prepare materials for him and do various things. I am going to convince the difficult jury, because Lin Zhigao, who has joined the national team and participated in enough competitions, will definitely get a labor certificate as long as he applies.

The difficulty of obtaining a special treatment labor certificate is more than twice that of an ordinary labor certificate.If it weren't for the fact that the team cannot do without Lin Zhigao at all, having him is the guarantee of the striker. The club would not be bothered to spend so much effort to operate for Lin Zhigao-the FA officials are the same as all the officials in the world. Neither is synonymous with integrity. If the club wants to get what it wants in the FA, money and relationships are the only magic weapon.

But just as puzzled as Warnock, Lin Zhigao didn't know why the national team didn't call him up—he thought at first that maybe he wasn't strong enough.But everyone he knew told him that his performance was better than any Chinese player studying abroad, so why couldn't he make it to the national team?

Lin Zhigao didn't know what the reason was.Although the Football Association has approached Lin Changan and asked Lin Zhigao to register in China, registration and being selected for the national team are two completely different things. Just call me back, do you think it is so easy to ask for leave and return to China when the season is in full swing?

Fortunately, the club has promised Warnock that it will definitely use all its connections to help Lin Zhigao, which makes Warnock feel more at ease about the team's performance in the second half of the season.If Lin Zhigao had to terminate the contract with the club early because of his labor certificate, Warnock would not know where to cry—according to how stingy the boss has been since taking over the club, he will be able to do so during the summer transfer period next year. It's no wonder that a lot of money is invested in buying players for the team.

To attend the hearing, in addition to being accompanied by the head coach to explain the important position and indispensability of the player in the team, a witness is also required to prove that the player who applied for the special treatment labor certificate is indeed worthy of his reputation and did not falsify during the application process behavior emerges.Generally speaking, it is best for a witness to choose a famous head coach. If not, well-known stars are also fine.

The one who testified for Lin Zhigao was Rodney Marsh, a legendary player in the history of Queens Park Rangers. In 70, he single-handedly brought Queens Park Rangers from level 2 to level 1. A favorite of Queens Park Rangers fans.

Rodney Marsh may not be well-known in today's football, let alone a player like Pele or Maradona, but in the UK, he is also an old legend.

After Marsh retired, he used to be the head coach for a while with his 18 years of professional player career and former England international status, but soon he realized that he did not have the talent to become a famous coach, so he devoted himself to football brokerage people in this industry.Currently, he is one of the shareholders of the largest sports agency in the UK, and almost half of the Premier League players' contracts are in the hands of his agents.

In other words, although Marsh is not a well-known head coach now, the network resources he has met are definitely no less than any world-class coach.This time the Queen's Park Rangers Club can invite him, most of them are still relying on historical affection.

At the hearing, Warnock first submitted the application materials to the jury, and then played audio-visual materials to prove that Lin Zhigao performed well on the court.They selected the video highlights of the two games against Manchester United and Chelsea. After seeing Lin Zhigao in the video, facing the fierce momentum of the Red Army and the Blue Army, he still did not stop his goal. The expressions of the jury members All suddenly changed a lot, obviously because of the strength of Manchester United and Chelsea, they also realized that Lin Zhigao did have certain strength and talent.

Then there is the testimony of witnesses. Warnock and the club manager first stated the importance of Lin Zhigao to the team, and then from a competitive point of view, they wanted to prove that keeping him in the Premier League can indeed make a certain contribution to improving the level of the Premier League. contribution.

Finally, there is the testimony of the witnesses.Rodney Marsh also enjoys fame in the UK. Some officials of the FA are old acquaintances of him. After he finished his speech, several people showed faint smiles on the spot.

After the club's application process was completed, the six jury members argued fiercely about whether to issue Lin Zhigao with a special treatment labor certification.Although they all admit that Lin Zhigao has performed very well in the current half of the season and has a high level of football competition, but because he has not won a personal honor or collective honor-the best in the game is obviously not counted.He also came from China, which is known as a football desert, so the jury was almost divided into two factions, and the chatter began to discuss for two or three hours.

Finally, an official from the FA came out, and Warnock and Lin Zhigao went up nervously immediately. The official smiled and said to Warnock and Lin Zhigao: "After a long debate, the jury agreed that , Zhigao Lin, a professional player from China, obviously deserves a special labor certificate. Your club can start to process the labor certificate for him."

Lin Zhigao cheered and rejoiced.Warnock also heaved a sigh of relief. With the labor certificate, he has no worries and can rely more on Lin Zhigao in future games.

To be honest, in the previous games played by the team, Warnock did not use Lin Zhigao as the core to designate tactics, although he scored the most goals in the entire team.And the more Lin Zhigao performed well in the game, and the more other players relied on his goals to equalize the score, the more worried Warnock was psychologically: he was afraid that Lin Zhigao would not be able to obtain a labor certificate, and the club would have to lose the current most. An important entry forward.

But now, all worries can be thrown away!Warnock can devote himself to formulating a new set of tactics, and the core of the tactics?Lin Zhigao of course!Is there anything that makes people happier than scoring goals?

The news that Lin Zhigao passed the special talent clause was spread by Sun Dawei, a reporter from "Sports Weekly", and was quickly reprinted and reported by major domestic media.

Because Lin Zhigao is actually the first Chinese player to pass the harsh conditions of the British, so his reputation in the country has risen to a higher level. Today, when Yao Ming retired and Liu Xiang has no successor, there are more and more players. Some people ranked him with Yao Ming and Liu Xiang, calling them the greatest representatives of Chinese sports in the early 21st century.

Some fake fans even boasted that Lin Zhigao is definitely better than Kaka, and his future achievements will definitely be higher than Kaka. As for the reason?The fake fan said: Of course it is because Lin Zhigao got the special genius treatment that Kaka didn't get at the beginning!

It seems that the netizen who made his remarks must not know that the FA's special genius clause is because a certain character named Kaka was restricted by the labor certification conditions and failed to join the Premier League. The domestic public opinion criticized it, and then gave birth to it.

Although most Chinese people pay attention to sports events, the reason they pay attention is definitely because they want to gain national pride. Many people do not pay attention to this sport because they like it.So similar to the fact that Lin Zhigao is better than Kaka, and that he will definitely surpass Ronaldo in the future, there are endless remarks, which caused many real fans to have a stomach ache when they saw the smile, and once set off a battle between the two factions on the Internet.

One group of people optimistically believes that Lin Zhigao will definitely surpass Kaka in his future achievements and become a world-class star.The other group of people insisted that Lin Zhigao should be thankful for his success in the Premier League. If he wants to play the main force in a wealthy club and become a world-class star?You are dreaming!

Because Chinese football has been weak for decades, and none of the overseas players has made great achievements, over time, many fans do not believe that Chinese football will rise, or in other words, they do not believe that in the days when the Chinese Football Association exists, Chinese football will rise.Furthermore, for everything that is once associated with China and football, they first think pessimistically and badly. They never dared to expect that one day China will really become a football power, and one day China will There will really be a world superstar like Maradona.

The scolding battle between the two factions was once so fierce that the war almost spread to the entire Internet, and then disappeared without a sound. The reason is that those fans who do not believe that Lin Zhigao will have great achievements in the future are actually just a matter of deep love and responsibility. That's all, they are afraid of being disappointed, so they don't choose to give hope.Compared with those fans who are optimistic and believe that Lin Zhigao will achieve great things, these fans who are full of pessimism actually have the deepest love for Chinese football.

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Lin Zhigao set himself a new goal, that is, to win the Premier League Golden Boot this season.

A few days after the FA hearing, Lin Zhigao learned from some people that in order for him to successfully obtain a work permit, the club executives spent a lot of money.The person who disclosed the news to Lin Zhigao did not give him the specific number, nor did he say how he got the news, but he successfully planted a seed in Lin Zhigao's heart, wanting to repay the club and prove that own seed.

The most valuable individual honor for strikers in the Premier League is the Golden Boot.Lin Zhigao is currently ranked second in the scorer list. He has the ambition and strength to become the top scorer. This is not wishful thinking.

And Robin van Persie, who happened to be ahead of Lin Zhigao in the scorer list, after learning that Lin Zhigao had such an ambition, very arrogantly decided to have a goal contest with Lin Zhigao. When the season ends next year, who can win? If you win the Golden Boot, then the loser must pay the price—and what is the price?Van Persie, who felt that he had a very big chance of winning, said that he had to think about it carefully, and squeeze Lin Zhigao hard at that time.

And when Lin Zhigao went to the bar to drink with Van Persie, he said to the other party very disdainfully: "You just wait until the end of the season, clutching your wallet and crying! Because the victory must belong to me!"

As a counterattack, Van Persie decided to get Lin Zhigao drunk in the bar first.Ever since he discovered that Lin Zhigao's drinking capacity is very bad, which is almost equivalent to that he can't drink (in fact, he just can't drink), Van Persie's new pleasure is to get him drunk when he goes to the bar with Lin Zhigao, so as to obtain satisfaction.

Two men with the same rebellious personality, oh, one of them is a boy, have been friends since the moment they swapped shirts at the Emirates Stadium.During the contact, Van Persie found that Lin Zhigao and his own personality were actually a bit similar, but one man's unruliness was shown on the surface, while the other boy was sullen in his bones.

The two like-minded people soon became good friends from friends, and they often went to the bar together - Lin Zhigao felt that a man who didn't drink and didn't drink couldn't be called a man because he had been in the Premier League for a long time. "Guiding", Lin Zhigao quickly saw the style of various bars in London at midnight. Of course, Van Persie led Lin Zhigao to "clean" bars. The so-called clean means that there are no drugs and prostitutes.

Van Persie has ridiculed Lin Zhigao many times that he is still a house boy, but he has never taken Lin Zhigao to have sex.One is that Lin Zhigao himself is not willing to find prostitutes, and the other is that Van Persie has been married for 7 years, and his wife is a loyal Muslim. Although his wife and children are not around at the moment, Van Persie must also be loyal to his marriage and not cheat.

One is a married man who is doomed to abstinence, and the other is Lin Zhigao who just wants to prove himself a man by drinking instead of finding women. The two men who have extremely boring nightlife have made a match like this. He drank all over London's bars, and was occasionally accompanied by Van Persie's Arsenal teammates or Lin Zhigao's teammates.

Lin Zhigao's drinking capacity has also increased by leaps and bounds in the past three months. Although he has not yet reached the point where he can drink vodka like water, he has reached the point where he and Van Persie can't drink N cups, and finally drink the other party to the ground. Van Persie continued to sigh with emotion: It is true that there are poets from all over the world...

Perhaps it was because the two of them went to the bar for simple entertainment and drinking, and never caused trouble or gossip, so neither Arsenal's head coach Arsene Wenger nor Queen's Park Rangers' head coach Warnock made an explicit order. Ban the two of them from going to the bar again.In the heavily competitive Premier League, most of the players are under extraordinary pressure, so as long as there is no scandal, the team's head coaches will not prohibit the players' normal entertainment activities.

And Van Persie also mentioned Wenger's appreciation for Lin Zhigao more than once when drinking.

Lin Zhigao has been able to stand upright for half a season in the Premier League, which is fiercely confronted and requires high physical fitness and skills. He is the main starter every time and has not suffered a single injury. The statistics Lin Zhigao has shown in the past six months Not only Wenger, but even the head coaches of other clubs felt their eyes shine.

For a long time, even if Asian players can play the main force in the five major European leagues, they mostly win by technology. The physical fitness of the yellow race is inherently inferior to that of the white race and the black race, but now there is such a strange thing, his physical fitness The quality is not weaker than the Caucasian players, but even better than the Caucasians of the same age, and the skills are not bad, and the training can do a lot, not to mention - cheap.

Players who are not well-known in Europe are always very cheap to buy. Wenger, who has long been accustomed to buying high-potential young players and training them before selling them at a high price, will naturally be attracted to Lin Zhigao, and even more so. What's more, Lin Zhigao has a vast market behind him, China.

At the beginning, the first phase of the Real Madrid Galaxy Battleship's gold-fishing trip in China made all the European giants jealous. Even Manchester United also cooperated with China, but it was terminated due to various reasons.Later, Manchester United introduced Dong Fangzhuo again, and Manchester City introduced Sun Jihai. It cannot be said that they did not consider his commercial value. Now, there is another Chinese player in Europe. What about Wenger's heart?

What's more, after observing Lin Zhigao for several months, regardless of commercial value, Wenger was really amazed by Lin Zhigao's skills and physical fitness.He even planned to make an offer to Queens Park Rangers during the winter break. Of course, before making an offer, he must first explore the player's own mind, so Van Persie, who is Lin Zhigao's friend, played again and again.

After spending several months in the Premier League, Lin Zhigao would be an idiot if he didn't know Wenger, known as the "Godfather of Young Players".Although he failed to bring Arsenal a championship trophy for six consecutive years, Wenger is still a prestigious head coach. He is particularly good at discovering talented young players and is also willing to reuse young players. His contribution to the Premier League is incomparable No, someone once commented on Wenger like this: "He is a legendary head coach. Perhaps the only shortcoming in his life is that he lacks a big ear cup."

Every time he heard Van Persie say this, Lin Zhigao would temporarily pretend to be deaf and dumb.Although he loves money and wants to be more famous, he feels that he has to be grateful.Queens Park Rangers gave the unknown man a contract and chose to trust him-although the club may have had a try mentality at the time, it was after all the first team Lin Zhigao joined since he played football. After the issue of the labor certification, he felt that he should be grateful, at least get one or two trophies for the club, and then think about his future.

After Van Persie learned about Lin Zhigao's thoughts, he couldn't help but patted him on the head with a smile, and said, "Although he looks sharp-tongued, he is surprisingly soft-hearted."

And Lin Zhigao immediately showed his "sharp teeth" scene, allowing Van Persie, who dared to touch the tiger's head, to taste the pain of flesh and blood.