Chapter 53: Awards ceremony

Hu Lai is no stranger to London.
When he played in Leeds City, he would come to London several times a year.
Because this city has five Premier League teams: London Bridge, Warship Harbour, North London Rangers, Sidham, London Mars.
In addition, when he returns to China to participate in the competition, he will also fly in London.
The UEFA Champions League, Europa League group draw and award ceremony were held in London, giving him a chance to revisit his hometown.
At the airport, he was surrounded by many media, including Chinese media, as well as a large number of Spanish media and English media.
"Good guys, you don't have to be like this..." Hu Lai waved his hands repeatedly in the face of the enthusiastic reporters. "This battle will make me think that I won't be the best in the UEFA Champions League, but the best in the Champions League or the gold. The ball prize...no need, no need."
The reporters were amused by Hu Lai.
A Chinese reporter asked in laughter: "Even if it’s the best in the Champions League, it’s not far from you, Hu Lai?"
Hu Lai shook his head: "I will work towards that goal, but I don't know how far I am from it."
"It is also a very good result to enter the ten-person candidate list for the Golden Globe Awards..."
"Yes, of course, it means that I am regarded as one of the top ten players in European football by professional journalists and authoritative organizations. But I don't take this seriously, after all, if I don't win a prize, I am nothing..."
A British reporter asked: "Everyone thinks you will be the most likely Asian player to win the Golden Globe. What do you think?"
"Thanks for love, for love." Hu Lai said modestly, "I can only say that I will work hard with this goal."
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After dealing with the reporters at the airport, Hu Lai and the club's general manager Le Lei got in a special car together and headed to the hotel where they were staying.
After a simple refurbishment of the hotel, he will take the special car provided by the organizing committee to the award ceremony site, in front of the reporters, walk across the red carpet amidst the cheers of the fans.
Finally received his UEFA Europa League best player trophy.
After staying in London for one night, we will fly back to Madrid the next morning.
The general manager of the Pirates Club Leray will continue to stay in London to participate in the UEFA Champions League group stage draw.
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Hu Lai had just walked the red carpet and ran into Meili.
The other party smiled and looked at him. This smile made Hu Lai feel frustrated. He turned around and looked behind him, but found no one else, so he pointed to himself and asked Melly: "Are you smiling at me?"
Melly smiled and nodded: "Yeah, who else could it be?"
"I didn't zipper my pants, or there was sauce on my face?"
Meli ignored Hu Lai’s arrogance, he still kept smiling, approached Hu Lai, and said to him in a low voice: "I'm glad you didn't choose to come to the king in the end..."
Hu Lai's eyes widened when he heard the words: "Oh, my phone can turn on the recording function!"
Meli didn't believe his nonsense, and he smiled: "I look forward to the seventh round of the league against you."
After speaking, he didn't shake hands with Hu Lai, nor patted Hu Lai's shoulder, so he turned and walked away.
Hu Lai sighed behind him:
When is the injustice reported?
Didn't you just knock you out in the Olympics?
As for?
Then if I eliminate you in the Champions League in the future, you must not be crazy?
Hu Lai shook his head and continued walking, and met Kendor Kabangka, who was chatting with someone who was not very tall but stood tall.
He was going to walk around, but was stopped by Kabangka: "Hu!"
I had to stop and say hello to him: "Hello, Kabangka."
"Let me introduce to you, this is Sauron Gribsch." Kabangka said, pointing to the man who was chatting with him.
Hulay certainly knows Sauron Gribsch. As the current captain and midfielder of the blue and white Munich, Gribsch is considered to be the successor and successor of Grimander Elmer of the "Sun".
The two played opponents in the Champions League final three months ago, but now they are talking and laughing here.
When Gribsch saw Hu Lai, he also smiled and greeted Hu Lai in English with a German accent: "Hello, Hu, it's nice to meet you. Although we haven't played against each other yet, I often listen to it even in Germany." To your name."
"That's really an honor..." Hu Lai pretended to be humble.
"I'm glad you didn't choose to go to the Madrid Kings." Grebes laughed. "It would be boring if you and Meli were on the same team. Look at Cabonka and he would never choose the Madrid Kings. ."
Hulay glanced at Kabangka and asked, "Then when will you go to Catalonia?"
Kabangka smiled and did not answer directly: "I have a one-year contract with Manchester Athletic."
Hu Lai suddenly realized: "Understood, see you next year in La Liga!"
Gribsch: "Don't be so full. I'm trying to persuade him to join us in Munich."
Kabangka shook his head: "If I go to the blue and white Munich, in addition to the Champions League, other games will become no challenge."
"Ha, you look down on Ruhr Rhein too much by saying that!"
"You just dug out Ruhrlein's master archer..." Kabangka murmured.
Similar to the King of Madrid, Blue and White Munich, as the hegemon of German football, has another famous saying:
The best German players should play for Munich.
At the peak of the blue and white Munich, six of the German national team's eleven starting players were theirs.
At that time, someone ridiculed, or ridiculed, that the German national team should wear a blue and white Munich blue and white striped shirt to participate in international competitions.
After hearing Kabangka's complaint, Gribsch didn't care, but laughed: "So we can devote ourselves to the Champions League. Isn't that good?"
Kabangka shook his head: "No. I still like to do more challenging things..."
After saying goodbye to Grebusch, he took Hu Lai and left.
Hu Lai glanced at his hand pulling his sleeve: "Why are you pulling me?"
"Do you want to stay and chat with Gribsch? Ask him to persuade you to consider going to Blue and White Munich in the future?"
"Okay... I thought what the two of you were talking about, it turned out that he was pulling you in."
"He knew I wanted to leave Manchester Athletic." Kabangka said to Hulay.
"Will you really come to La Liga next year?" Hu Lai asked.
"If it goes well...Yes. I will come to beat Melly, just like I beat him in the Champions League. I will also beat you, just like in the Premier League."
"Speaking as if I never beat you in the Premier League..." Hu Lai pouted.
"Do you have one?" Kabangka was obviously surprised by this.
Hu Lai was also surprised: "Don't you? You don't even know this? In the 2025-2026 season, we beat you 1-0 at home and I scored the only goal."
Kabangka thought for a while before it suddenly came to light: "Ah! I know which game it is..."
Then he smirked: "But I didn't play that game, so it doesn't count! You still haven't beaten me."
Unexpectedly, Hu Lai was not irritated, but also laughed: "I also remembered that you just returned from injury at the time, for the World Cup, so you did not take a risk. As a result, you not only lost the Premier League champion, but also the best of the Premier League. Snatched away. Oh, and the World Cup, you didn't win us either!"
Kabangka took a deep breath, and he couldn't compare to Hu Lai when it came to revealing human scars.
"Hu, I'm curious..."
"Curious about what?"
"Curious why you haven't been killed yet?" Kabangka said, biting his molars.
"Ha!" Hu Lai laughed. "You should discuss this with Melly!"
"What are you discussing with him?"
"Because he wants to know the answer too!"
Kabangka was speechless, and it was nothing wrong with such a slut.
So he turned to leave decisively.
Hu Lai didn't want to stay, and went straight to find his place.
Then he met Tony Clark, the coach of Leeds City.
"Boss?" Hu Lai was surprised. He didn't expect to meet the former head coach here. "Why are you here?"
Clark explained with a smile: "I was selected for UEFA's three-person shortlist for the best head coach last season."
Hu Lai smiled and said, "Congratulations to the boss!"
"It's just a shortlist, and it doesn't mean you can win. In fact, this prize belongs to Hantcheck..."
Clarke was right. Bjorn Hantček, who led the Blue and White Munich to the Bundesliga, German Cup and Champions League "Triple Crown" last season, will definitely win the honor of the best coach. Like Hu Lai, he came to accompany him on the run.
However, being able to be included in the three-person candidate list is already powerful enough, indicating that last season's Clark was able to rank in the top three among all head coaches in European football.
"I watched your two matches with the Madrid Pirates. Although I was very reluctant to give up, I must admit that you left Leeds City is the right choice. We are still too small here..." Clark smiled and shook his head, "I will do it now. One thought: Don't let us meet Madrid pirates in the draw."
Hu Lai waved his hand: "I don't want to meet Leeds either."
"It seems that we have reached a consensus on this."
Clark reached out to Hu Lai.
Hu Lai shook hands with it.
Then the two separated to find their respective positions.
Hu Lai held back and did not ask Clark about Zhou Zijing's situation.
La Liga played two rounds, and the Premier League also played two rounds. In the two rounds of the league, Zhou Zijing didn't even make it into the big squad.
Hu Lai didn't know if Zhou Zijing would be like he had just joined Leeds City, first through training and team competitions to adapt for a month before getting a chance.
But the reason why he was like this at the beginning was because his physical condition was not yet able to meet the requirements of playing in the Premier League.
Does Zhou Zijing have any problems in this regard?
His body is already the strongest existence among Chinese players...
Despite this question in his mind, Hu Lai did not ask. He worried that this would have a negative impact on Zhou Zijing.
Anyway, any Chinese player who goes abroad to play will have to experience unacceptable things.
Zhou Zijing had to walk by himself.
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The UEFA draw and award ceremony are divided into two days. The first night is the first night, and the second day is the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League group draw.
At the awards ceremony that evening, various awards were announced one by one.
Mario Salado from Catalonia United won the European Young Player of the Year Award last season as he wished. He was very excited when he received the award, and he was a little stuttered at the beginning when he gave his thank you speech.
As expected, the best coach in Europe belongs to Bjorn Handchek, who led the Blue and White Munich to the Triple Crown.
The former coach of the Madrid pirates, after the Madrid pirates became famous, did not continue to coach the pirates, but returned to Germany and ushered in the peak of his career in blue and white Munich.
Fortunately, his successor Parotti led the Madrid Pirates and won a Europa League championship, otherwise, many people might miss Hantcheck.
But even so, Parotti, who has only one Europa League champion, is not enough to look at the achievements of Hantechek's triple crown.
Hu Lai took the stage to receive his Europa League best scorer trophy and best player trophy, and gave a very simple speech of thanks.
Although the Chinese media and fans are very excited, Hu Lai knows that he is not the protagonist of this stage today. He was calm and he was not even excited when he won the European Young Player Award last year.
The protagonist then appeared.
The best player in the Champions League belongs to Soren Gribsch, who helped the blue and white Munich win the championship.
He scored five goals, assisted six times and made 11 goals in the Champions League. He is the core hero of the team's championship. He deserves this honor.
The final finale of the European Player of the Year Award, that is, the winner of the European Ballon d'Or is still Gribsch.
There is nothing to say. If the core of the Triple Crown midfielder fails to win this award, then the professionalism and authority of the European Ballon d'Or will be greatly questioned and will be reduced to the same field as the FIFA World Footballer. ...
Kendor Kabangka won the Silver Ball.
And Paris-Herger's head forward Mendy Payer won the bronze ball ~EbookFREE.me~Because there is no international competition this year, the important reference standard for awards is the results of club competitions.
Gribsch deserves the award.
At the end of the awards ceremony, the three winners, holding their own football trophies of different colors, stood on the stage and let the photojournalists swarm to take pictures.
The smiling faces of each of them are reflected on the bright trophy.
Hu Lai, like the others, sat in the audience, applauded for them, and cast envious eyes.
Although he was very cautious in answering the interview at the airport, he was full of enthusiasm.
One day, he will put himself in this scene.
And it will be the one standing in the center C!
(End of this chapter)