Chapter 41: Grassroots and Stars

Li Qingshan stood in the players' tunnel, his teammates in front of and behind him, and beside him, not far from him, were the Liverpool players wearing the white away jersey. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Seeing this group of stars who can usually only be seen on TV standing in front of them, few people remained calm. As much as they try to look like their opponents, there are always people who will actually look at the Liverpool players who are chatting with themselves.

Although it is only Liverpool's substitute lineup, there are only players who have been selected for the England national team. Carragher and Stewart. Downing. There is also a star striker in England's youth team, Sturridge.

These people are now standing in front of them and chatting casually, looking much calmer than the FC United players.

It was the toughest opponent in the club's history for FC United, and for Liverpool's players, it was an ordinary FA Cup game with a pretty good signing. They played this game with an easier intensity than they did in their internal training games.

However, for FC United, even if Liverpool despises them and sends a substitute lineup out, the difficulty of the game is not much lower than against Liverpool's main lineup....Anyway, the difference in strength between the two sides is there, even if it is a substitute lineup, it is also a group of players with Premier League strength.

The shouts of the fans outside pierced the narrow fan tunnel, Li Qingshan raised his head, the light passed through the exit, and from this exit, he will step on a completely different stage than before, a new world full of thorns and challenges.

Captain Dean Stott, who was at the front of the line, turned his head and clapped his hands. "It's time to play, guys!"

Hearing this, Li Qingshan took a deep breath and walked forward.

As the players played, the clamor and cheers of the fans were a little louder. Every player was greeted with enthusiastic cheers from the fans.

Li Qingshan stepped on the steps of the exit and accelerated towards the turf of the court.

The moment you step out of the exit, cheers, applause, and flashing lights flood in. He ran forward against the huge sound, looked up at the stands of the familiar Gig Lane Stadium, looked at the familiar stadium and fans, and the waves of red people all over the field, and he saw Irma and them behind the goal on the left, as well as Yang Yang and his friends who occupied a small area.

Familiar stadiums, familiar people, but completely different feelings, it's a completely different atmosphere from the seventh division.

Li Qingshan's blood was about to start burning.

It's really exciting to be able to play against such a powerful opponent.

Li Qingshan clenched his upper and lower teeth tightly and walked into the court with his head held high.

"It's finally getting started!"

Zhang Jun in the studio saw the players from both sides lining up and raised his voice.

"There will be a Chinese player in this game, but it will not be a Liverpool player, but a striker for their opponent FC United, I believe everyone will already know when they see the starting lists of both sides before the game."

At this time, the camera at the live broadcast scene swept to Li Qingshan, who was entering, probably because of his special identity, and the camera took special care of him.

"That's right, it's this young man, he is not a local Chinese, but a native Chinese, currently an international student at the University of Manchester, and the sixth Chinese player to appear in the FA Cup after Zheng Zhi!" I believe everyone is familiar with the previous five flavor players, they are Fan Zhiyi, Sun Jihai, Li Tie, Hao Haidong and Zheng Zhi, and now, one more person has been added to this list, he is not a professional player, but he has also created a small history. ”

Zhang Jun talked eloquently in the studio. He is a very comprehensive commentator, an English football expert, and he has a lot of football information.

"FC United are currently the leaders of the seventh tier in England and we are surprised that Li Qingshan is the top scorer in the FC United team, having scored a staggering 34 goals in the league this season, which speaks volumes about the quality of his centre-forward. England's amateur league has produced many Premier League players, will Li Qingshan become the next professional player to come out of the lower leagues? It's not impossible, you know, Li Qingshan is only nineteen years old this year, and he is still quite young. ”

Since this game was not the focus of the game, the anchor did not arrange personnel to explain it at first, and Zhang Jun took the initiative to ask for the commentary of the game when he saw a Chinese player playing.

However, the number of viewers of this game is no less than those focus battles, which is mainly due to Li Qingshan's appearance. For a long time, Chinese football has been quite sluggish on the international stage, and for many Chinese fans, they can only project their love of football onto European football clubs, especially if there are Chinese players playing for these teams. However, over the years, with the return of Sun Jihai and others, there are no Chinese players in mainstream European leagues.

Fans are eager to see Chinese players playing in Europe, and it's almost become an obsession.

So, even though Li Qingshan is only an amateur player, this match has attracted the attention of many fans. Moreover, how did an international student who studied in the UK play in the seventh tier of the English league, and he is now even an opponent of giants Liverpool in the third round of the FA Cup. What could be more dramatic than that?

With the development of the Internet, many news media will post news on Weibo for the first time. The video footage of Li Qingshan's appearance was made into a GIF by many football news accounts and posted on Weibo, which was enthusiastically forwarded by many netizens.

Even CCTV5's Weibo followed the game, and the Weibo editor sent out a GIF of Li Qingshan's appearance, accompanied by the text: "The sixth Chinese to play in the English FA Cup." ”

It was just such a short Weibo that was forwarded and commented by hundreds of fans within a few minutes.

A Chinese student playing against Liverpool in the FA Cup was too dramatic. Even Chinese who don't usually pay attention to football can't help but click on the picture to see.

Gao Tiantian is one of them, he is a fan who likes to watch football very much, but he did not find his own European home team like many other Chinese fans.

This round of the FA Cup is of course a face-to-face meeting between the Premier League teams, with Manchester United and West Ham United choosing.

At this time, it was already early in the morning, and he was lying on the bed alone with a laptop computer, blocking the bright light of the computer with a cup to avoid affecting the rest of his roommates.

He's a sophomore now, and he's a football fan in their dorm, and the rest of his roommates are already asleep. But now one of the open video windows on his computer screen is jamming.

"This damn campus network!"

He cursed in a low voice, the school's campus network was too slow. So he took advantage of the live broadcast jam to open Weibo, ready to swipe the news of other games.

The first Weibo that came out made him a little unbelievable, the one that was officially sent by CCTV5. He saw a familiar figure in the picture.

His cousin Li Qingshan!

That's right, he is Li Qingshan's cousin, and Li Qingshan's mother Gao Meili is his aunt.

He knew that Li Qingshan had gone to study in the UK, but unexpectedly saw his cousin on the FA Cup. He hurried to search for news about the game.

"The sixth Chinese to play in the FA Cup?"

"The English amateur league striker who scored 34 goals in half a season?!"

The more Gao Tiantian looked at it, the more surprised he became, he knew that Li Qingshan learned football in the football school when he was a child, but didn't the football school go bankrupt later? As far as he knew, his cousin had never touched a soccer ball again when he was in high school, and he hadn't even watched a soccer game!

He looked through the comments praising Li Qingshan under this Weibo day by day. As the cousin of the party, he naturally felt honored, and even forgot to watch the game.

He suddenly remembered, did he want to talk to his aunt about this? He pulled out his phone and was about to dial it. Then hung up again. At this time, it was past two o'clock in the morning, and the aunt and uncle had already fallen asleep.

I'll talk to them tomorrow. He put his phone on the bedside table and opened the live link to the game.

At this point, the players from both sides of the match are already in their positions on the pitch. Dean Stott lost tee off while guessing the coin.

At the moment, Liverpool's striker Sturridge has put the ball on the centre circle of the tee. Li Qingshan turned his head left and right to look at his teammates.

In today's game, Marginson arranged a strategy for them to defend first and then counterattack. Therefore, in the first half of the game, Li Qingshan will be the only attacking player, and even he will be involved in the defense of the midfield and the defense of set-pieces.

Dean Stott stood behind Li Qingshan and shouted to his teammates: "Pay attention to defense!" ”

Then, the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game.