Chapter 25: Legends of Spain

If there is one player who will attract the most attention in Spanish football after the Christmas holidays, it is neither Messi nor Cristiano. Ronaldo, but a name that surprised all Spaniards - Li Qingshan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It is not easy for a Spanish Spaniard who speaks a Spanish with constant swallowing, fricative, and big tongue to accurately pronounce the three Chinese characters "Li Qingshan", but this has not prevented Li Qingshan from becoming a favorite of the newspapers recently.

How can a footballer's name appear in the media so often? Aside from doing something out of the ordinary, all that's left is to score goals more often, which makes it difficult for strikers to get more attention than defenders – after all, strikers are closer to goal than defenders. As the saying goes, insiders look at the doorway, and laymen look at the excitement. For those in football, a game may be more tactical about passing the ball and interspersing with movements, but for many fans, shooting and scoring goals is the most exciting and beautiful part.

And after the Christmas holiday, the player with the most goals in the entire La Liga is Li Qingshan. In just 12 days, Atletico Madrid played four games, two league games and two Copa del Rey games, except for the away game against Malaga on January 4, Li Qingshan played the whole game in the remaining three games, scoring five goals in four consecutive games, such a goal efficiency even allowed him to surpass Messi and Ronaldo during this period - in the last four rounds of the league, Messi scored four goals, while Ronaldo scored three.

Although there is still more than a month before the winter transfer window closes, the Madrid media can't wait to give Li Qingshan the title of "the best signing in the 13/14 winter transfer window of the Spanish Primera League". I don't know if I will award Li Qingshan a trophy or something.

Scoring five goals in four games in a row, this kind of efficiency is definitely eye-catching for everyone. At the end of every match, the name of the goalscorer is always indispensable. Especially when Li Qingshan showed a burst of state.

In fact, when Li Qingshan transferred to Atletico Madrid, some people in the media questioned whether Li Qingshan's state could immediately adapt to the rhythm of La Liga. After all, Li Qingshan has just spent a long season in Asia, and the rhythm of the game in the Chinese Super League is of course not the same as that of La Liga, and not many people believe that a player who has been playing in the Chinese Super League can seamlessly link the rhythm of the La Liga game without adapting. Moreover, players who have spent a long season will generally be at a low ebb in physical fitness, even if Li Qingshan is a very strong player, it is estimated that it will take two or three months to adjust his physical fitness and adapt to the new game environment.

Which Cheng thought, from the time he came on as a substitute in the first game, Li Qingshan was out of control.

Madrid is not a small city, and Atletico Madrid is not a small team.

If the top two teams in the region, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, have more fans, there is no doubt that in terms of honour and popularity, Atletico Madrid cannot match Real Madrid in terms of honour and popularity, but in the Madrid region the advantage is not as obvious as one might think - at least in the city of Madrid, the number of fans is evenly matched.

So, what happened at Atletico Madrid cannot be ignored by the media.

Especially with the high efficiency of scoring five goals in four consecutive games, and because of this, Li Qingshan's popularity in Spain began to skyrocket.

His name and photograph, as well as the video of his goal, began to appear frequently in the Spanish media and on television.

“...... If Atletico Madrid's biggest takeaway in the winter transfer window is undoubtedly their €8 million striker Li Qingshan, who has scored five goals for Atletico Madrid in his last four games! ”

"The young striker is not yet twenty-one years old, and if the information I have is correct, his birthday is May 6, 1993, which means that he will not be twenty-one in four months. With the introduction of such a young and efficient striker for eight million euros, it has to be said that Atletico Madrid has made another good deal. They always seem to be able to find a good young centre-forward at a good price, and could that player be the next Sergio Aguero or Falcao? I think it's quite possible. ”

“....... Li Qingshan played in the Chinese Super League before coming to Atletico Madrid, and in fact this was his first season as a professional footballer, and his previous experience is even more legendary - he was a Chinese student who went to study at the University of Manchester, played in the local amateur team, and finally signed for Manchester United in the FA Cup, which is said to have been the decision of Sir Alex Ferguson, the godfather of Manchester United. ”

“...... Of course, his experience in the Chinese Super League is even more legendary - scoring 59 goals in a single season! Even though it is in an Asian league, this goal efficiency is also very terrifying. In particular, his Guangzhou Evergrande eliminated Bayern Munich in the Club World Cup, and he staged a big four in this game! In the end, his team also won the Club World Cup in history! ”

“...... It is said that in May and June last year, Atletico Madrid sent scouts to investigate Li Qingshan's performance. After negotiations between the player and Manchester United broke down, Atletico Madrid made a timely move, and even Simeone went to England himself to recruit the young centre-forward. ”

“....... The 20-year-old Chinese, 192 cm tall, the latest weight figure is 92 kg (up two kg), you can see from the photo how strong he is, he is characterized by excellent headers, four of the five goals he scored in Atletico Madrid were headers. In fact, if it weren't for a miscalculation in the Barcelona game, he would have scored six goals."

At this time, there were reports about Li Qingshan in Madrid's newspapers, television, and the Internet. Although Li Qingshan's popularity is far less than that of those stars who have been famous for a long time, many people in Spain already know that Atletico Madrid has such a number one.

At this time, Li Qingshan was holding a bunch of newspapers, with a dictionary, looking at these articles touting him. Who doesn't like to hear good words.

For Li Qingshan, if there is any inconvenience in Spain, it is the problem of language. Normally, he can communicate with his teammates well, with the help of some simple Spanish he has learned, and he can barely communicate with English and gestures, but in every pre-match tactical meeting, he can't do it.

After all, Simone would not slow down his speech in order to accommodate him alone, and even if he spoke slowly, Li Qingshan could only listen to a rough idea.

As he did now, he had a newspaper in his hand and a dictionary on the other side. When he encounters a word he doesn't understand, he has to look through the dictionary, so that it will take him dozens of minutes to read an article.

Learning a language is like that, and now Li Qingshan puts everything in Spanish in the environment. He tried to go to Spanish websites and read Spanish newspapers. The environment is of great benefit to learning a language.

After the Copa del Rey tie with Valencia, the tight schedule was finally eased a bit, with Atletico Madrid's next game at home to Sevilla in five days' time.

Five days allowed the entire Atletico Madrid team to get some repair.