Chapter 166: European Golden Boy

On December 11, Li Chenglong attended the opening ceremony of the official fan cemetery held by the Schalke Club.
This is the official fan cemetery specially designed by Schalke management. The location of the cemetery is very particular. In the cemetery you can see Proud to Schalke Stadium. There is a large club emblem in the center of the cemetery. There are also goals on both sides of the cemetery. .
This is a theme cemetery of the Schalke 04 club, only sold to Schalke 04 fans.
Of course, Lee Chenglong, the most popular star, must attend this kind of official event.
But this can also be taken with money, and it is certainly not a platform for nothing.
At this opening ceremony, Li Chenglong is indispensable to be asked by reporters.
"Bruce, you are now 9 points behind Bayern. Do you think Schalke still has a chance to compete for the league title?"
"Of course there is. In fact, it only takes three games to reverse the 9 points, and we still have 18 games."
"But your opponent is Bayern, they almost can't make mistakes."
"Then we will try our best to do our own thing, whether we can reverse it depends on God's will."
"In a few days, the UEFA Champions League round of 16 will be drawn. What kind of opponent do you prefer?"
"The teams that can enter the knockout rounds are very strong. No matter who is drawn, they need to go all out to have a chance to win the game, so it's the same for everyone."
"So is there any team you want to avoid?"
"The one I want to avoid most is Arsenal, but we and Arsenal are both qualifying in the same group. Naturally, there is an avoidance principle."
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On December 15, this is the day of the 17th round of the Bundesliga.
The game of Schalke 04 was scheduled at 7 pm, but Lee Chenglong came to the club just after noon.
Today is not only the day of the match, but also the day when the "Torino Sport" awards Jackie Lee the European Golden Boy Award. The team has prepared everything early.
When Li Chenglong appeared in a suit, reporters from all over Europe had been waiting, and various shots flashed constantly.
The editor-in-chief of Torino Sport, Jacob Bailey, who has been prepared in advance, announced the winners of this year's European Golden Boy Award in front of many reporters.
"After a unified vote by this newspaper and the major European sports media, it is Bruce Lee who won the 2012 European Golden Boy Award!!"
The reporters at the scene applauded and welcomed him. At this time, Jackie Lee took the stage. Jacob Bailey took out the Golden Boy Award trophy he had prepared and handed it to Jackie Lee.
The Golden Boy Award is not only called the Golden Globe Award for players under the age of 21, but even the trophy is made completely imitating the Golden Globe Award. The main body of the trophy is a golden football, which is basically the same in appearance as the Golden Globe Award. But the base is different.
With the trophy in his hand, an uncontrollable smile appeared on Li Chenglong's face. He first took the trophy and kissed it, then raised the trophy high and showed it to everyone.
This is the most important trophy that Jackie Lee has won so far in his career.
"Thank you very much "Torino Sport", and thank you all the sports media who voted for me." Li Chenglong began his acceptance speech.
"This trophy is a huge encouragement for me, and it is also a recognition of my performance on the court. I will continue to work hard in the future to strive for a better performance for the media and fans who support me."
The end of Li Chenglong's thanks, followed by various interviews.
At this happy moment, not only interviews with the award-winning Jackie Lee, but also team chairman Tenis, coach Stevens, etc. all came to the scene to gain momentum, and inevitably had to be asked by reporters.
"When I played against Dundee in the Europa League last season, I took a fancy to Bruce. At that time, I was determined to bring him to Gelsenkirchen, no matter what the cost." It was the team chairman Tenis' answer to reporters.
"There is no doubt that Li will grow into a top superstar in the future, he will become a player of the level of Ronaldo Messi, and even has the potential to become the best in history." This is Stevens's statement.
The scene was almost done, and the people of "Torino Sport" also announced the final scores of the three candidate players.
Li Chenglong thought he would win with a huge advantage, but judging from the published scores, he did not have much advantage.
He scored 141 points, Isco scored 129 points, and Shalawi scored 118 points.
Although it was not a narrow victory, it was not a huge advantage.
Since the start of the season, Lee Chenglong has contributed 5 goals and 2 assists in the Champions League, and the Bundesliga has 9 goals and 8 assists.
As for Isco, 2 goals and 2 assists in the Champions League, 3 goals and 1 assist in La Liga.
In terms of performance, both Li Chenglong and Isco helped their team to qualify from the Champions League with an unbeaten record. However, in the domestic league, Schalke 04 is currently ranked second in the Bundesliga, while Málaga is ranked second in La Liga. four.
I don't know what the voting procedures are.
But in any case, Lee Chenglong is already the winner of the Golden Boy Award.
Li Chenglong became the tenth European Golden Boy Award winner and the first in the history of the Schalke 04 team.
Last year, Dortmund’s Gotze won the prize, and this year Schalke’s Lee Chan won the prize. This is the second consecutive year that a Bundesliga player has won the Golden Boy Award. It also created a small history.
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At the end of the Golden Boy Award presentation, Li Chenglong brought his freshly obtained trophy to the locker room to prepare for the competition later.
"Bruce, show us the trophy." As soon as Jackie Lee came in with the trophy, Matip snatched his trophy.
"This is the trophy for the Golden Boy Award? Is it really gold?"
"European golden boy, you are really amazing."
"Based on Bruce's performance, it is reasonable to be elected as the European Golden Boy."
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Everyone was talking about this trophy.
Draxler even held the trophy in love, and said enviously: "I don't know if I have a chance to get one in the future?"
"Julian, you behave well, next year's Golden Boy Award is yours." Li Chenglong patted his shoulder and said.
Draxler, like Jackie Lee, was born in 1993.
This year, like Li Chenglong, he was included in the 40-man squad for the Golden Boy Award, but he was eliminated early and was not enough to be included in the final three-man squad. But next year, he will have the opportunity to continue running.
Li Chenglong believes that UU reading www. uukanshu. Com's own joining will definitely help Schalke 04 to achieve beautiful results. Then Draxler seizes the opportunity to perform well. There may be a chance to win the Golden Boy next year.
Seeing that everyone was talking about it, Li Chenglong said again.
"Everyone knows that before the game starts, I will show the Golden Boy Award trophy to the fans on the court?"
"Yeah." Everyone nodded in response.
"Our team’s recent situation is not very good, but this game I want to show the trophy, so I implore everyone, the next game must be serious, if I just won the Golden Boy Award, I will show it at home After the trophy, we turned around and we lost the game at home. I'm going to lose face."
"And everyone already knows that they were tied in the Bayern game. If we win this game, we can also recover the two-point gap."
"We are 7 points behind Bayern in the half and we have some chances in the second half of the season."
As soon as Li Chenglong finished speaking, Matip, Atsushi Uchida and others began to beat their chests to make sure.
"Don't worry, Bruce, we will definitely take Freiburg."
"It will never shame you."
What Li Chenglong said is also true, on the one hand to avoid shame, on the other hand it is indeed possible to recover the points difference.
In the last round of the first half of the Bundesliga schedule, Bayern's game was the first to start. They were already tied 1:1 at home by Borussia Borussia last night.
Bayern was tied, not only missed the chance to become the Bundesliga's highest-scoring half-time champion, but also gave Schalke the opportunity to chase points in 04.
If they can recover two points and are 7 points behind Bayern in the half, then Schalke 04 still has some chances in the second half of the season.
Although the chances are actually slim, it is better to be 7 points behind than 9 points behind.