Chapter 2: prelude

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As Matt Dawn said, even though Leeds is the third largest city in the UK, its scale is completely incomparable with Chinese cities. From the eyes of Hu Lai, Leeds is really small.
So they didn't take too much time in the commercial vehicle, they arrived from the hotel to the training base next to the home stadium in Leeds, which is also the club headquarters.
Then, under the witness of many Chinese and British media on the scene, he was met by club chairman Jug Hodge, club general manager Eric Duffy, athletic director Nevin Ball, and commercial director Harry Brad Lee, as well as the team’s coach Tony Clark, almost all senior management of the Leeds City Club warmly welcomed.
"Is it such a high standard?" After introducing each other, Hu Lai was still a little confused. He quietly asked the agent Yong Jun who had been with him.
Yong Jun smiled and said: "Because of your joining, Leeds City has suddenly become popular in China from an unknown team. The huge amount of attention has made them aware of business opportunities-in fact, before we set off, there are already some Chinese The company expressed its willingness to sponsor Leeds City..."
After listening to Uncle Yong's explanation, Hu Lai suddenly realized: "Dare to love me and become the "God of Wealth" in Leeds?"
Yong Jun lowered his head to conceal the increasingly exaggerated smile on his face, to avoid surprises the other party: "You are about the same age as a'gift boy'."
Everyone welcomes Hu Lai’s arrival, and Tony Clark is the most enthusiastic one of them. When Hu Lai reaches out to shake hands with him, he directly grabs Hu Lai’s handle. He pulled into his arms and gave him a warm bear hug.
"You are finally here!"
That tone made Hu Lai feel that the coach is about to say: "I want to kill you!"
Fortunately not, otherwise Hulay would wonder if the head coach should be called Tony von Clark.
After a brief greeting, Hu Lai followed into the main building of the training base. A group of people went straight to the fourth floor and came to a place that was specially used for posing for photos:
On the blue background wall, is the huge Leeds City team logo, below the team logo is facing a large solid wood table. The tabletop is shiny and shiny. I don't know how many people have touched it.
There were two chairs behind the table, and there was an empty space in front of them. There was nothing and empty. Hu Lai didn't know its purpose until the following media reporters filled it up—obviously it was used for observing salutes.
The reporters pointed the camera at the table, the machine was set up, and everyone looked at the table with expectant eyes.
There is a contract on it.
Hulai and club chairman Jug Hodge sat in front of the camera, and the latter handed him a signature pen.
Yong Jun reminded Hu Lai outside the camera: "Don't sign it, just put the pen on it and make a look. This is mainly for the reporters to take pictures."
The real contract has already been signed, and this scene is a "show" for the media and the public.
Hu Lai understood naturally, he put the pen in the signature position, but did not fall, and then together with Yogg Hodge looked up and grinned at the many cameras.
In the flash, in the sound of the shutter, they left a picture of great significance to Chinese football.
After a lapse of 14 years, Chinese football finally has another male football player going abroad, starting his adventure in a foreign country.
Everyone hopes that this is also the prelude to Chinese football going overseas...
Every Chinese reporter present, while pressing the shutter to record this scene, was looking forward to-in the future, if more Chinese players will appear in the European arena, so many of us media reporters are accustomed to it. As a routine... that would be great!
Just like Japan and South Korea now.
I think Japanese players had to rely on their companies to spend money to force people into European clubs in order to stay abroad.
At that time, the Chinese media did not ridicule people less, saying that European clubs just looked at the Japanese "people are stupid and have a lot of money", and they won't give you Japanese players a chance at all. They came to sit on the bench and spend money for nothing...
The results of it?
The first and second Japanese players did indeed go abroad and land in Europe by means of corporate sponsorship.
But the next Japanese players do not need to spend money to send out Japanese companies. With the outstanding performance and good reputation of Japanese players who went out first, more European clubs are keen to tap talents from Japan.
At the beginning, it was still buying famous players. Later, even the young players were signed. As long as they showed a high enough talent, they signed it directly. Even if such players have not proven themselves in the first team... this is the brand effect. In European football, Japanese players have formed a well-known brand, so that European clubs do not have to hesitate too much and are willing to bet on the future of young Japanese players.
There are now as many as 50 Japanese players studying abroad in Europe, and there are two teams of 23 national teams left.
Only Hu Lai came out of the young Chinese players, and he went to a Premier League relegation team, even though they were enough to excite the Chinese media and fans.
The gap between the two sides will almost be recorded in light years.
Not to mention South Korea. Although the number of overseas players is not as good as Japan, the quality is high.
Park Chun-tae’s title of "Asian Light" is not from their own media YY, but is recognized throughout Asia, even if it is sour, it must be recognized.
That's why the Chinese media are full of so many expectations for Hu Lai's study abroad. They sincerely hope that what they are witnessing here today is not the end of a history, but the beginning. Not a spark that occasionally appears in the dark, but the dawn before dawn.
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Wang Haoxi and his two roommates Song Xinghe and Pei Yu got their wish and stood in the front row. They are now sitting in the south stand of the Flanders Stadium, the home stadium of Leeds City, waiting for Hu Lai to come out and interact with them.
While waiting, they hung the five-star red flag on the railing of the stadium stands.
But they were not the only ones who brought the national flag. In addition to the three of them, there were many figures with yellow skin and black hair like them. They were all very young, obviously all Chinese students studying in Leeds.
There are many universities in Leeds, among which Leeds University is the most famous and attracts many overseas students.
Nearly 50% of the population in this city are college students.
Many people in China also choose to study in Leeds.
Before Hu Lai came to this city, the impression of Chinese students of Leeds might be that the city is small, the nightlife is rich, the environment is good... etc.
But now, for many Chinese students studying abroad, this city has a different meaning in their hearts.
Chinese students studying in Leeds will become the most envied group of all Chinese students in the UK...no, and even in Europe.
Because they have the opportunity to get close to Hu Lai, the hopeful star of Chinese football, they don’t need to spend airplanes, accommodation fees and time to come here from far away in Europe. They only need to get on the bus and spend twenty from the city center. You can watch a Hulai game in the Flemish Stadium in minutes.
This UK's third largest city, which was not prominent among many study destinations in Europe, has now become a sweet potato.
This is a big plus for the Chinese students studying in Leeds.
So there are so many Chinese students here today, all of them are as happy as the Chinese New Year.
Before the Hulai people came out, they couldn't wait to sing and dance in the stands.
But Wang Haoxi glanced at the 200-odd people in the South Stand, still frowned: "There are not many local Leeds fans..."
There are too many Chinese fans at the scene, and many people think that Leeds is the Chinese team.
Song Xinghe curled his lips: "Obviously, the fans in Leeds are not very optimistic about Hu Lai."
The news of Hulay’s transfer to Leeds has been announced for a long time, and Leeds fans naturally have their views on such a signing. Based on the discussions on the Internet and in the fan bar, basically most Leeds fans are not cold about this signing.
There are several reasons for this.
On the one hand, it is due to the arrogance and conceit of the fans of the old football powers, and the lack of understanding of the level of Chinese football that is thousands of miles away. After all, they have never seen a Chinese player on the court before. What is the level of a Chinese player? What is the difference between spending 12 million pounds to buy such a player and scratching the lottery ticket? What if a "thank you for participating" is scraped out?
what? You mean the Olympics?
Ha, as far as the level of Olympic football...can it be compared to the Premier League?
On the other hand, it has something to do with the current team's head coach Tony Clark. Tony Clarke publicly stated in an interview after signing Hu Lai that he had been observing Hu Lai two years ago and was very optimistic about Hu Lai's talent. This is the person he called for the club to sign.
Tony Clark's statement may make Chinese fans happy, because it means that at least there will be no such plot that the coach does not like Hu Lai.
It shows that Hu Lai is Tony Clark's person.
But what Chinese fans don't know is that such a statement is a good thing in the hearts of Leeds City fans.
The fans of Leeds City don't like Tony Clark very much now.
Because Tony Clark succeeded the team's legendary coach Lauren Gurry.
Leeds City fans still resent the club's merciless dismissal of Lauren Gurry. How can they have a good face for Tony Clark’s successor?
It can be said that Huley’s unpopularity in the hearts of Leeds City fans was implicated by Tony Clark, and Tony Clark was not seen by Leeds City fans because of the Leeds City club’s management...
This talent has just arrived and has not played the ball yet, and his reputation among Leeds City fans has become indifferent. It is completely unreasonable.
But is there any way?
The fans of Leeds City are also wronged-Lauren Gurry has done a good job, coaching for 13 years and brought Leeds City from the Premier League team to the Premier League team. What a great feat? It makes perfect sense to put his name on the roof of the stands of the Flanders Stadium.
The results of it? Because you were at odds with the club management and you resigned angrily, your club didn't even try to stay, you just agreed!
Did you manage to do this?
Is this the attitude you should have towards the meritorious coach of Leeds?
Do you still take our Leeds City football tradition into your eyes?
Well, you have to change coaches, you can change to a better level than Lauren Gurry. What happened to Tony Clark, the loser of the British championship team Hammond Castle?
What can he do?
Oh, he once led his team to beat us in the English Champions League...
But it was Leeds City that went to the Premier League in the end, not Hammond Castle!
Besides, before he took office, Lauren Gazi led Leeds City to successfully relegation in the Premier League. After Tony Clark took over, our team is still relegating, and we don’t know if it will succeed in the end... What's up?
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Wang Haoxi’s frustration did not last long. When he saw Hu Lai appearing on the turf of the Flanders stadium, accompanied by coach Tony Clark and club chairman Jug Hodge, he vigorously waved his arms and blew. He whistled and shouted: "Hu Lai!!!"
All the Chinese students in the stands were cheering, and the atmosphere of the scene was fully guaranteed and there was no cold spot.
Yogg Hodge is also very satisfied.
Are all Chinese fans at the scene?
That's not a problem at all!
All Leeds fans are coming, so he might be worried... Is it time for the distinguished Chinese guests from afar to see that our fans are booing Hulai?
Do you still want to sign the sponsorship contracts that are being discussed?
In order to let the Chinese guests feel the warmth of being at home, he also specially arranged for people to dress up as panda dolls and run on the court to interact with Hulai amidst the cheers of the fans.
It fully reflects his importance to the Chinese player and the Chinese market.
The naive "Giant Panda" challenged Hu Lai to compete with him, but how could the clumsy "Giant Panda" be Hu Lai's opponent? Naturally, it was defeated.
This extraordinary fan meeting ceremony ~EbookFREE.me~ Chinese journalists off the court and Chinese students in the stands laughed constantly.
The effect is directly full.
Yogg Hodge smiled happily when he saw this scene next to him. He seemed to have imagined how the Chinese media would report this scene the next day...
Perhaps few people in faraway China have heard of our Leeds City Club before, but it doesn’t matter... I promise you will know each other in the future!
At the end of the welcome ceremony, Hu Lai kicked the football into the stands and gave it to the fans who came to cheer for him. Wang Haoxi used his previous skills as a goalkeeper in the high school team, leaped into the air and grabbed one before the football had landed.
After delivering the football, Hu Lai, wearing a Leeds City jersey, held up a Leeds City scarf, and took a photo with the club chairman, team coach, and the panda doll.
Everyone in the camera smiled brightly, even the panda doll seemed to be laughing.
This happy scene today seems to indicate that Hu Lai will have a bright future in this team...