Chapter 3: Are you here for a tryout?

For Li Qingshan, Britain is a strange place, and it is also the first time he has stepped out of the country. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoHis father owned a small pig farm in his hometown, and his mother worked as a Chinese teacher in the town's middle school. It is barely a well-off family, but coming to the UK to study is also a big burden for the family.

He was going to look for a part-time job on the weekend

A busy weekend, a busy study abroad career, starts at this time

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Irma is back home, and she is Manchester.

She is sitting in the room at the moment, sorting out the photos and videos of the game she took, and also editing out the video of Li Qingshan's goal.

"What a scary big man", Irma, a veteran fan, couldn't help but admire.

"Hmm, that's a beautiful header"

Hearing the voice at the door, Irma turned back in surprise:

"Daddy"

Standing at the door at this time was Irma's father, Roy. Saul. He has two identities: dentist and assistant coach for FC United.

At this time, he was wearing a set of red sweatshirts, although he was nearly fifty years old, he maintained a good figure, with short gray hair and a half-inch long beard, he was really a personable middle-aged uncle.

Roy usually works at his dentist's office as an assistant coach at FC United and also has to juggle the team's training, so he often comes home late, but he came back earlier than usual today.

As soon as he got home, he saw the video of Li Qingshan's goal edited by Elma, and as an assistant coach of an amateur team with a good record, beautiful goals always attract his attention.

"Great goal" Uncle Roy hugged his baby daughter: "Can you tell me about it?"

So Irma quickly explained the situation of yesterday's game

"The lad who scored the goal was good, the header was very accurate"

Roy thought for a moment and said, "You mean, he is a new Chinese student from your school, maybe he will be interested in coming to our team." ”

"Yes Dad, he scored three beautiful headers yesterday" Irma recalled yesterday's game, thinking of the funny scene of Li Qingshan falling from the air, and pursed her lips and smiled.

"The team has been in need of reinforcements lately, especially the strikers, and the guy from Chrissy has moved," Roy said with a slight headache, rubbing his head.

His team has really suffered a lot lately, the average amateur team, maintaining a large squad is a must, because a lot of players have other jobs, but the United team is quite ambitious, they are motivated to rush to the professional league, so they maintain a generally stable team lineup, but before the season, the team lost two strikers, and now the team only has one striker left, and it is necessary to find a few strikers to replenish the team before the start of the season.

On the other hand, the team managed to raise the cost of building a new arena and prepared to build a new arena in the Mostone area. Johnson Stadium has built a stadium of its own, and for a team to have its own stadium, it is a great benefit to the future of the team.

At least there will be a significant increase in the team's ticket revenue, merchandise sales. FC United's ambitions aren't just to compete in the lower leagues of England, their goal is to break into the professional league.

Recently, however, construction of the new course has been stymied, with some residents of St. Mary's Street, near the early site of the course, resisting the new course construction plan, believing that the new course would cause parking chaos in the area.

Thinking of so many headaches, Roy could only smile bitterly.

….

"Gig Lane Stadium?"

Li Qingshan was holding a map at this time, frowning and looking at the dense English letters on it. Then he pulled out a newspaper with a job advertisement stamped on it: "Recruit a flyer delivery person with a daily salary of £100"

"This should be it!" Aoyama straightened his collar and prepared to go in and interview for the lucrative position. Among the salaries of casual workers who are generally only seven or eight dollars an hour, a daily wage of 100 pounds is rare.

Li Qingshan was greeted by an old man from England with a red face, who was talking endlessly: "You must distribute 10,000 leaflets to every household in St. Mary's Street within two days, don't play tricks on me, young man, I'll look at it."

"No problem, sir, I have experience in this kind of work" Maybe it is Li Qingshan's honest appearance that is easy to gain trust, and he easily got this job.

"When will I start working, sir"

"Not yet, Mr. Roy is in charge of printing the flyers, he's the team's assistant coach, you need to wait for him to come over, the team will start training soon, you wait here for a while, they'll be there soon." Before that, you can visit our team's training ground, you'll love the lads here."

"Team" Li Qingshan only then discovered that behind the building he interviewed for was a football field with only two stands, and thousands of red plastic seats in the stands looked a little simple, and the flat turf was verdant and green. At the top of the stands hung a banner with a large line of letters

“FootballClubUnitedofManchester”

“UnitedofManchester？” Li Qingshan was a little puzzled, and said to the red-faced uncle, "Sir, if I didn't know that this is not Old Trafford, I would have thought you were Manchester United."

"In fact, we are Manchester United! Damn Glazer" Uncle Redface suddenly became excited: "This group of American vampires! Sooner or later, we'll teach Yankee's team a good lesson! ”

"Does this team still have anything to do with Manchester United?" You know, Manchester United is a world-famous super giant, if Manchester United is a luxury ship, the team in front of you is a small sampan at most. Looking at the red-faced uncle who was a little excited, Li Qingshan expressed his doubts.

Although the red-faced uncle didn't know that Li Qingshan described FC United as a small sampan in his heart, he still heard Li Qingshan's tone of disapproval for the comparison between FC United and Manchester United. Although he was a little unhappy in his heart, for the sake of Li Qingshan's Asian face and not understanding the grievances between the two teams, the red-faced uncle still introduced him to the origin of the two teams. Fans of the English team are notoriously loyal.

It turned out that FC United was founded in the summer of 2005 by a group of fans who opposed the American businessman Fraser's takeover of Manchester United. The Glazer family took full control of Manchester United on 12 May 2005, and opponents of the takeover met on 19 May. Although the focus of the meeting was on continuing to oppose the takeover more than the creation of a new club, the chairman of the meeting, Adi. Wilson announced that the matter would be discussed at the next meeting on 30 May. At the second meeting, it was announced that if 1,000 people pledged to financially support the club, the new club would be formed. Although the final number was slightly smaller than 1,000, the chairman decided to form a new club.

The neighbouring club Leigh RMI (LeighRMI) was in financial crisis at this time and they asked "FC United" to buy Leigh RMI, and FC United provided additional assistance to Leigh RMI to keep the club in business. However, the founders of FC United rejected their request because they had formed the club in response to an unpopular takeover and did not consider it appropriate to buy other clubs. However, the Leaf team finally survived the crisis, and the first game of the "FC United" was against the Leaf RMI.

The club was founded and wanted to be called "FC United", but the English Football Association refused on the grounds that it was too popular. So they had to choose new names, including FC Manchester, FC Manchester Central, AFC Manchester 1878 and Newton Heath United FC. On 14 June 2005, "FC Manchester United" was elected with 44% of the votes cast, while "FC United" continued to be the club's abbreviation.

The team was founded in 2005 and spent seven years promoting from the North West Second Division of the 10th division of England to the North West County First Division Football League, and in 2008 it was promoted to the current seventh division, the Northern Premier League. However, in the past three years, the team has been stuck in the seventh division and has no hope of promotion, which is a big blow for FC United, who aspire to the professional league.

Despite this, the red-faced uncle was still very excited, "but we are still very confident, our new stadium will be built soon" The red-faced uncle could not hide his pride when he mentioned the court.

Indeed, as a team in the seventh tier of England, it means a lot to have a pitch entirely to yourself. In this way, the team will have a stable revenue from ticket sales and sales of team merchandise. You know, FC United is arguably the amateur team with the most fans, and they are flooded with thousands of fans every game, far more than their opponents. Moreover, most of the funds for the construction of the team come from fan donations, and relying on fan donations to build a football stadium is simply impossible for other amateur teams.

Funding is secondary, and the most important thing is that there are many fan volunteers involved in the construction of this stadium. The bench in the locker room was made by one fan himself, another fan pulled the free elevator, and another group of fans was responsible for the landscaping of the stadium. In England, the community is an important force behind the team, and having your own pitch in a community means that the team is rooted in the community and becomes part of the community. This is part of the cultural values of English football.

"But we've been in trouble lately," the red-faced uncle said a little helplessly, "but we hired you to solve this problem."

"Find me to solve the trouble, I'm just going to hand out leaflets, uncle" Li Qingshan hurriedly said that he was a foreigner, he was not familiar with the place, he stammered English, and he was involved in the affairs of the locals.

"Hahaha, don't worry, young man" The red-faced uncle couldn't help but laugh when he saw Li Qingshan's cramped appearance.

"You did go and hand out the flyers, and the solution was on the flyers, and some residents of nearby St. Mary's Street thought the new stadium would make parking chaos in the area. We already have a plan to hand out 10,000 flyers around the perimeter to let them know that the team brings them joy, not trouble. ”

...

Just when Li Qingshan and the red-faced uncle were talking, Roy drove to the team's training ground.

He needs to come in early for each training day to prepare some equipment for the team to train on.

However, today, he didn't expect that the big man who impressed him yesterday would actually appear at the team's training ground today and have a good time talking with Uncle Magis.

Seeing Roy, the red-faced Uncle Magis was visibly happy: Roy, this young man is here to look for a job.......

Before Uncle Magis could finish speaking, Roy said, "Magis, I know him"

Uncle Magis was stunned, this world is so small?

At this time, Roy had already walked towards Li Qingshan, who was also a little confused: "I know you, young man, the goal you scored yesterday is so beautiful"

"You're here for a tryout!"