Chapter 2 before the start of the new season

Li Qingshan and Tian Shaohua's trip to Milan went on a high-profile note, because there was no need for them to hide it - because the kiss between Li Qingshan and Tian Shaohua had been heavily picked up by the crazy media after the Champions League final. With Li Qingshan's current fame, such gossip news has also made the front pages of many media.

In particular, the English tabloids and the Chinese media, which are famous for their gossip, naturally talk more about Li Qingshan's private life.

At this moment, Li Qingshan had just stepped out of the plane at Manchester Airport.

The Reds will have a big championship parade to follow, after which the team will be disbanded and the players will be able to go on a relaxing holiday.

"I know, Mom, yes..... She's my girlfriend anymore...."

"I promise... Promise not to bully her! ”

"It's not that fast, I'll try to bring it back this year... You've met before, anyway..."

Because the plane was turned off, Li Qingshan saw a message from his mother as soon as he got off the plane to explain about Tian Shaohua.

After accepting some nagging, Li Qingshan hung up the phone. Walked out of the airport with the team.

Outside the airport, the whole of Manchester seemed to turn red and the United fans came out en masse.

Fans held signs in support of the team, portraits of the players, and lined up at the airport.

When Captain Rooney and Carrick came out with big ear cups, the whole airport was boiling.

The two captains held the trophy alof, and the fans cheered wildly at the airport.

The footage was broadcast live on UNITEDTV.

The host said in a rather sensational tone: "The Champions League trophy has come off the plane and to Manchester!! This is the Reds' fourth Champions League trophy!! Rejoice, Manchester will be red today!! ”

From the airport all the way to Old Trafford, the festivities reached their climax.

Manchester United's fourth Champions League trophy in its history has made Manchester United fans excited.

Manchester United is England's team with the most titles, but in the hearts of Manchester United fans, there has always been a pain.

That is, their sworn rivals, Liverpool, have a more glorious history in Europe than Manchester United. Even Manchester United won the title this time, it was a four-time title, while Liverpool already had five Champions League trophies.

Whenever Manchester United fans show off their 20 top-flight trophies to the Liverpudlians, the Liverpudlians always extend a hand and show off their five Champions League trophies.

In the Champions League, Liverpool is indeed better than Manchester United.

But after this season, Manchester United's 20 top-flight titles have become 21, further extending the lead over Liverpool, and at the Champions League level, Manchester United has also narrowed the gap with Liverpool, although it is still one away from Liverpool's five Champions Leagues, but for Manchester United fans, it is enough excitement.

This means that their team only need to win one more Champions League title, and Liverpool will be completely crushed by Manchester United, who will become the biggest club in England in the real world.

The festivities continue into the evening.

In the lobby of United's training base, the club's top management, Sir Bobby Charlton and Sir Alex Ferguson, also appeared in front of the players to praise their achievements this season.

After the celebrations, the team's head coach Carlo Ancelotti officially announced that the team was disbanded and that the players would go their separate ways to spend their own month-and-a-half-long vacation.

Li Qingshan flew back to China that night, and as China's number one star, he must have been indispensable for media interviews and various business activities in China.

Although Li Qingshan has compressed his itinerary to participate in such activities as much as possible, in China, Li Qingshan still has to participate in more than a dozen activities in a row, and he has to spend more than ten days just to participate in various activities during his one-month vacation.

In fact, he alone is not too much, mainly Manchester United also hopes that Li Qingshan can participate in more activities to promote Manchester United, although Manchester United fans are still more in China, but Manchester United still hopes to expand its market share in China.

Now that Manchester United has China's number one star in the squad, it is natural to hope to use Li Qingshan's popularity to greatly expand the Chinese market. Manchester United did not go to North America again for this year's pre-season, but to China.

Li Qingshan's agent, Raiola, also put aside his other things and took his economic team to China with Li Qingshan.

Now Li Qingshan has far surpassed Ibrahimovic, Pogba and others and has become the number one star under Raiola's agency. And with Li Qingshan's achievements this season, it is very likely to defeat Messi and Ronaldo and win this year's Ballon d'Or, so for Raiola, this is his top priority in the next half year.

At least in terms of collective honors and individual achievements, Li Qingshan is going to surpass Messi and Ronaldo, but if that's it, this Golden Ball Award is not safe. This Golden Globe Award is not only based on results, but also on popularity.

Just like in 2010, Inter Milan won the Serie A, Italian Cup, and Champions League championships, and won the treble, but as the core of Inter Milan's midfield, Sneijder, who performed bravely that season, did not even enter the top three, and more importantly, Sneijder won the World Cup Golden Boot in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as the midfield leader of the Netherlands, and the result was only ranked fourth in the Golden Ball Awards, which is really a bit unbelievable.

This is actually related to the selection rules of the Ballon d'Or, although Sneijder did not enter the top three, but there were Messi, Iniesta, and Xavi in the top three at that time, in fact, whether the Ballon d'Or was awarded to Iniesta or Xavi, the controversy may not be so big.

Xavi and Iniesta won the league and the World Cup, and the Champions League also reached the last four, so it should be said that there is no problem in terms of team honours. Speaking of individual performances, Iniesta was more eye-catching than Xavi at the World Cup, especially his goal against the Netherlands in the final. However, in the league, due to a long-term injury absence, Iniesta's performance in the league has not been as consistent as Xavi's.

Messi, who finally won the Ballon d'Or that year, was originally the least optimistic among the top 4 candidates, but he was unexpectedly elected as the first place and won the Golden Ball, while Sneijder failed to enter the final selection of the top 3.

Of course, there are many factors that caused Messi's unexpected election, but the voting mechanism of the Ballon d'Or is undoubtedly very problematic.

First of all, Sneijder, despite his accolades, but due to his frequent injuries at Inter Milan in the second half of the year, at the end of the year, the coaches and players of the national team, except for sports journalists, almost forgot about him....

And it is inevitable that Xavi and Iniesta will split their votes with each other. In addition, Villa will inevitably participate in the vote distribution of the Spanish gang, so it is difficult for Xiaobai and Xavi to have an advantage. In the end, Xiaobai and Xavi received 17.36% and 16.48% of the votes respectively, a difference of less than 1%, which shows the average number of votes between the two.

After the majority of the votes were evenly shared, Messi, who was the most famous, naturally took advantage of it and won the Golden Ball.

Therefore, the voting mechanism of the Golden Globe Awards is not beneficial to Li Qingshan, at least in terms of fame, Li Qingshan, who has risen in the past two years, is naturally difficult to compare with Messi and Ronaldo.

So for Raiola, in the next six months, his most important job is to build momentum for Li Qingshan!! Do your best to avoid surprises in the Golden Globe awards.

In this regard, Manchester United Club naturally has the same goal as Raiola, so the Carrington base, which was forbidden by Ferguson in the past, can often be seen in this fat man.

Li Qingshan got off the plane in Beijing, and then from Beijing, the activities were one after another, followed by Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

In megacities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, it is also convenient to gather popularity, so these business activities are also arranged in such large cities.

There is an endless stream of interviews of all kinds - TV stations, newspapers, magazines, online media..... Even the media of entertainment sections and fashion magazines came to interview him.

Li Qingshan has long been more than just a football star in China. Just like the scene of thousands of empty alleys caused by Beckham's arrival in China, Li Qingshan's influence in China has long broken through the limitations of the football circle.

He has now become another national sports superstar after Yao Ming and Liu Xiang, and his influence is even greater than the first two - after all, football is the world's number one sport, and if basketball or football is more popular in China, then hurdles and football have really become a niche sport.

Of course, attending these events and signing various endorsements will naturally not be obligatory, just for the income of these ten days, Li Qingshan earns more than his income from playing at Manchester United.

Raiola's mouth is about to crack these days, the consumption power of the Chinese market is really terrifying, and he has a golden key to open this market - all Chinese merchants are lining up to send money to Li Qingshan, so you have to choose carefully, but not any brand can drink Li Qingshan to sign a contract.

Raiola's team is busy every day, and Li Qingshan is also a good one these days, and after this busy time, he is going to enjoy his vacation.

As soon as the signing ceremony ended, half of Li Qingshan's vacation would have passed.

After these arranged activities, Li Qingshan returned to Changsha and was ready to accompany his parents.

As a professional player, he didn't have a holiday for the New Year's holidays or anything, and he could only have a little time during the break between the seasons, so Li Qingshan stayed at home for a few days.

But this time, even at home, Li Qingshan can't be clean.

In modern society, the power of the media is pervasive.

Li Qingshan's home address was quickly dug up by the paparazzi, followed by an influx of media one after another.

Now that Li Qingshan knows the troubles of being a celebrity, he simply bought another house in an upscale community and let his parents live in it, so as not to be disturbed by the media, and he himself had to come to cover the water.

Li Qingshan, who is in Changsha, can't avoid going to some activities.

For example, the previous high school invited him to give a speech, and for example, the former football school coach came to them, hoping that Li Qingshan could fund the establishment of a football school in Changsha, and so on.

Li Qingshan did not postpone this kind of activity much - although this football school did not teach Li Qingshan anything useful, but after all, it was also the enlightener who led Li Qingshan to the road of football.

The football school does not need to spend any money, with the help of Raiola's team, Li Qingshan Football School was established in a large vacant land on the outskirts of Changsha, due to the outstanding performance of the national team, coupled with such a star as Li Qingshan, now the domestic football fever is burning, and the Changsha municipal government is also strongly supporting.

Li Qingshan believes that this is a good thing, although football schools are now mushrooming, mud and sand, and the quality is uneven, but this football fever is stirring up in China, which is also conducive to the development and spread of football.

However, Li Qingshan's football school is similar to the football interest class, and cooperates with many middle schools and primary schools in Changsha to run schools, adhering to the concept of not to cultivate many professional players, but to let more children contact, understand and like football.

For a country, the strong foundation of football is undoubtedly the huge football population, professional players are only part of the top of the pyramid, and more importantly, the population who likes to play football.

China's landscape is a large population, but if you talk about the football population, it is undoubtedly a small football country - the current number of registered players in the country is only more than 20,000, which is not as large as Singapore.

Therefore, Li Qingshan believes that the most important thing in football is to develop the football population and lay a solid foundation, and only when the low end of the pyramid is large enough can this pyramid be built high.

However, as more and more media poured into Changsha, Li Qingshan simply left China early and went to Madrid.....

Naturally, he went to Madrid to meet his girlfriend Tian Shaohua, and after leaving China, Li Qingshan also left the center of gravity of the vortex. Although he is also a big star in Europe, he is unlikely to cause as much of a sensation as he does at home.

After a few pleasant days in Madrid, Li returned to Manchester.

After returning to Manchester, Li Qingshan did not rest much, and his figure soon appeared in the Carrington training base to start the recovery training of the new season.

Although he won the triple crown, Li Qingshan did not dare to relax at all, he is still very young, and he is still far from his peak.

Manchester United posted a photo of Li Qingshan training at the training base on various official social media accounts: "The Red Devils' pre-match preparations have begun. ”