Chapter 8 Where's Your Header?

Despite the language barrier, Li Qingshan still greeted everyone warmly in English, which was a good start to his Atletico career. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

By the time they walked out of the locker room and walked to the training ground, Li Qingshan had already come out talking and laughing with the Atletico Madrid players.

There were significantly more media and fans waiting outside the Atletico Madrid training ground today than in the past.

Most of these extra media are from China, and many domestic media are based in Madrid. Li Qingshan is different from other players who have transferred to the top five leagues before, he is a player who can obviously get a certain chance to play, rather than being introduced as a young player.

Domestic fans love to see Chinese players playing in the five major leagues, and they like to learn about their training and life in foreign clubs. When Zheng Zhi and Sun Jihai were in England, the Chinese media at that time reported their local news in England every week. What's more, now is the time when transportation and the network are more developed.

As for the fans, most of them are Chinese fans who live and work in Madrid. They held signs on the sidelines of the training ground in support of Li Qingshan.

"Well, Lee, it seems that you are quite popular in your country!" Diego Costa whistled and said. In the dressing room of Atletico Madrid, he is the Spanish player who speaks English best.

"Of course, do you know how many football fans there are in our country?" Li Qingshan saw that his compatriots were also honored to give himself face.

"How much?" Diego Costa asked.

Li Qingshan gave birth to a finger and said: "At least more than 100 million!" ”

Sure enough, Diego Costa slammed his mouth and said, "Are they all your fans?" ”

Li Qingshan touched his nose and said with some embarrassment: "It's not, you know, I played in Guangzhou Evergrande before." Just like here in Spain, Guangzhou Evergrande also has rival clubs in China, and most of the fans of the rival clubs may not be my fans........."

Diego Costa nodded knowingly. He turned his head to look at the dozens of Chinese fans outside, as the top scorer of Atletico Madrid, there were not as many fans who came to express his support during training as this young man who had just joined the team.

That's probably why Atletico Madrid's platform isn't big enough if you move to a bigger club........

He thought.

In fact, he had already had the idea of going. In the entire La Liga, the two super giants that have attracted the most attention are, of course, Real Madrid and Barcelona. They are the most fandomed and strongest team in the world. But if it were the other teams in La Liga, it wouldn't have been as much of a concern.

In terms of La Liga's overseas broadcast revenue. The sale of the broadcast rights of La Liga was bought by the telecommunications group Telefonica for 600 million euros this year, although the price is much less than that of the Premier League and the Bundesliga, but it is definitely not less. However, the distribution of TV broadcast income in La Liga can be described in one sentence - Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.

Taking the 2012-2013 season as an example, the combined income of Real Madrid and Barcelona accounted for half of the broadcast revenue of La Liga, which was twelve times that of Malaga, Sporting Gijón and Tenerife!

In the Premier League, even the lowest paid team can earn at least 75 million euros, more than 30 million euros more than Valencia, the third place in La Liga.

Such a huge income gap naturally makes it difficult for the middle and lower reaches of La Liga teams to survive. Logically speaking, if you look at the competitive strength, La Liga is not weaker than the Premier League at all, or even stronger. The reason for this gap is the irrational operation of the Spanish Primera Division.

Among the five major leagues, the most unhealthy operation is none other than La Liga, in this league, small and medium-sized clubs have reached a situation where they can no longer survive, if it were not for the governments of Spain to turn a blind eye to the tax arrears of La Liga teams, many teams in La Liga would have gone bankrupt long ago, and most of the teams in La Liga do not make money or even lose money, which is a terrible thing. It's no wonder that the Spanish government and La Liga's professional leagues are mulling a reform of broadcast sales.

It's just that as a vested interest in La Liga, the Spanish Football Federation does not support the reform plan of La Liga, and the bickering between the two sides is estimated to continue for a long time. This seems to be a bit similar to the football association of a certain country.........

Of course, of course, Diego Costa does not seek to understand these reasons, he just knows that even Atletico Madrid, which is at the third pole of La Liga, has far less media exposure, the number of fans, and the salary level than the top five in the Premier League, unless he can go to Barcelona Real Madrid, otherwise, Costa is not willing to accept such a status quo.

Therefore, he has already discussed with his agent Mendes, and after this season, he will move away.

He's a guy who likes to enjoy the spotlight and show his face in the media.

Li Qingshan ignored Diego Costa's mental activities. He walked to the sideline to say hello to the fans who had come to cheer him on, and then walked into the training ground.

Soon, Li Qingshan appreciated Simeone's training style.

Many successful teams will say, "We play like we play in training!" ”

But Simeone's rule is: "We want to train like a game!" ”

Simeone's training requirements are very simple and absolute: fight and make contact like a game!

Simeone's Atletico Madrid is a team of tactical discipline and a strong emphasis on physical contact. This fits perfectly with Simeone's own temperament. When Simeone played football back then, he was a tough, hard-nosed midfielder who was never afraid of confrontation and sometimes even looked rough.

Moreover, his team has a strong emphasis on defense. At his behest, even the center forward needs to take on the task of defending. Pressing defence and ball breaks are the cornerstones of the team's tactics.

This kind of training intensity and requirements are quite different from Li Qingshan's previous experience.

But Li Qingshan is no longer the amateur player he was a year ago, at least he meets the requirements of a professional player in most technical indicators. Moreover, his body is stronger and stronger than a year.

So, the intensity of the physical confrontation that Simeone asked for was actually quite easy for him.

When the other players of Atletico Madrid were in the opposite position in training with Li Qingshan, they could only be secretly complained.

This Chinese really lives up to his name.

When it came time for the group training match, Li Qingshan was assigned to the team of the substitute side. It's also quite normal that with two consistent scorers in Diego Costa and Villa, Simeone won't easily break down this forward combination.

Atletico Madrid's centre-back duo is Godin and Miranda, who are very close in height, Godin is 183 cm tall and Mirada is 184 cm tall. Compared with Li Qingshan, who is one hundred and ninety-two centimeters, he is half a head shorter. In addition, they had already heard that Li Qingshan was a scorer who mainly relied on headers, so they guarded against Li Qingshan's header from the beginning.

Which Cheng thought that Li Qingshan frequently pulled outside the penalty area to catch the ball at the beginning of training, which made the two of them very strange.

It wasn't until Li Qingshan received the ball outside the penalty area and directly volleyed into the corner without making adjustments that they understood what Li Qingshan wanted to do.

When Li Qingshan's second kick was 278 meters outside the penalty area, and the players of Atletico Madrid looked at him dumbfounded.

If the first long-range goal can be described as luck, then it cannot be described as luck with such a high-quality shot on goal twice in a row.

Even Simeone frowned after seeing Li Qingshan's two shots, it seems that he doesn't know enough about this center forward.

And the players at Atletico Madrid have mixed feelings.

Isn't it said that most of the goals are scored with headers?

Why do you keep running outside the penalty area and shooting from a distance?

Where's your header?

Godin and Miranda looked at each other, and their previous plan to give Li Qingshan, a newcomer to the team, a "welcome ceremony", was messed up by Li Qingshan's non-routine play.

Li Qingshan looked at his new teammates and felt a little strange?

What are you doing looking at me?

In fact, he just wanted to try out how effective the heavy artillery skill with an ability value of eighty-eight was.

Judging from these two feet, it is quite reliable. In particular, his shooting power is amazing, and the ball is shot extremely fast. If the angle is a little tricky, the goalkeeper is very difficult.

Simeone turned to his assistant Juan Biscaire standing next to him and said: "It seems that the Chinese lad is not only the quality of what he has shown before, and I am now expecting more surprises from him." ”

Simeone gave a satisfied look at the big man he had signed back in the winter transfer window.