Chapter 847: An Invitation to the Charity Match
Moving up one place to sixth is a good result, but it is still far from the goals of Glory and Benitez.
The Premier League is different from other leagues, which qualify for next season's European competition in sixth place, but the Premier League must be in the top five. Because the Premier League has one more cup than the leagues of other countries.
While other countries are all cup competitions, the Premier League has two cup competitions, one is the FA Cup, which is similar to the FA Cup, and the German Cup, the Italian Cup, and Spain's Copa del Rey.
The winner of this cup can qualify for next season's Confederations Cup.
But there is another competition in English football, which is the English League Cup, and the winner of this competition can also participate in the League Cup. To be fair, there is one less European place in the Premier League.
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Rongguang also doesn't train every night on the football field outside his home, in addition to spending time with his children, he occasionally surfs the Internet at home.
Although he lives in the UK, he is not interested in British news at all, he does not pay attention to European football news, he watches more domestic news.
While browsing the news, he suddenly remembered something and asked Debora: "How is the progress of the school we donated in Sichuan?" ”
He's talking about last summer.
Last summer, he was not in China because he was recuperating from an injury in Brazil, but an earthquake shook the world in the western part of his home country.
The magnitude 8 earthquake caused heavy damage in Sichuan, western China.
At that time, the Rongguang people were not in China, but they were also very concerned about the earthquake. He felt the tremors in his hometown in the northwestern part of Chinese mainland, so he felt it even deeper.
After the earthquake, in addition to donating 10 million yuan for the first time, he also donated to build a school in Beichuan, Mianyang, one of the hardest-hit areas of the earthquake.
At that time, the Chinese media had reported on it for a while, but Rongguang himself did not take it too seriously. For him, donating to build a school is normal and not worth a lot of hype.
After donating the school, Rongguang didn't care much about himself, he handed over all this trivial matter to Debora and asked Debora to help him keep an eye on it. Just keep him informed of your progress from time to time.
Today, when he saw the news about the reconstruction of earthquake-stricken areas in China, he remembered it. The team had not achieved good results before, and he was also busy training, so all his thoughts were on how to get the team out of trouble, so naturally he didn't care about the school.
"The progress of ......the project is quite smooth," Debora got up and went to her computer to find relevant information to report to Rongguang.
However, I was only halfway through the report when I was interrupted by a phone call.
It was Debola's cell phone that rang.
Debora left the living room to answer the phone.
After a while, she walked back, and the phone had already been spoken: "It's Park Ji-sung's agent's call." He said that Park Ji-sung would call you later, and communicate with me first. “
"Huh?" Rongguang is very strange, what does Park Ji-sung's agent have to do with him? Why did you call Debora and say she was looking for herself? What's the matter with me?
A few minutes later, Younggwang's mobile phone rang, an unfamiliar number, but it was really Park Ji-sung when he picked it up, and Glory didn't have Park Ji-sung's phone number before.
The two men spoke in English with their own accents.
Although the two men are their own masters, and the two teams they play for are still rivals in the same city, the personal concerns of the players are not affected by the team relationship.
Park Ji-sung told Young-gwang on the phone that he was going to organize a charity contest and wanted to invite Young-gwang to participate.
The specific format is that Park Ji-sung is in charge of one team, Young-gwang leads the other team, and the two teams come to a game, and all the ticket proceeds from the game will be donated to charity projects......
As for why he is looking for Glory and not others, it is because Park Ji-sung thinks that first of all, everyone is Asian, so it is easier to talk. Secondly, the two of them had played each other in the Champions League semi-finals two seasons ago, and in the boring debate about who is the real Asian king, Rongguang also spoke for himself, and the two of them can be regarded as having some friendship.
Rongguang didn't agree immediately, but told Park Ji-sung that he needed to think about it, and he replied to him after thinking about it.
After hanging up the phone, he kept silent about the content of the phone call with Park Ji-sung, and asked Debora to continue reading about the progress of the school's work.
It wasn't until Debora finished reading that he suddenly asked Debola: "It's been almost a year, right?" ”
Debora certainly understood what he meant, so she nodded, "Yes, it's just over a month and a year." ”
"A year ......" Rong Guang rubbed his chin and whispered, and then suddenly said, "Park Ji-sung came to me just now and said that he wanted to organize a charity competition, but I have an idea now......"
Debora immediately understood what Rongguang's idea was: "You want to hold a charity competition related to the Wenchuan earthquake?" ”
Glory nodded: "I want the whole of Europe to pay attention to this......"
"Very good, I support it." Debora took a stand.
"Then I'll call Park Ji-sung back, tell him my opinion, and see what he thinks."
After speaking, Rongguang dialed Park Ji-sung's phone.
On the phone, he gave his opinion to Park Ji-sung.
All ticket proceeds from the event were donated to a charity fund set up in the name of Glory to support the reconstruction of the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken areas in China.
At the same time, the venue of this game is also different from the original Park Ji-sung's idea, at first Park Ji-sung planned to arrange this game in South Korea, but now it is set in Europe, because this can attract more people's attention, so that more people pay attention to the reconstruction after the Wenchuan earthquake, which is the theme of this charity match.
After listening to Rongguang's opinion, Park Ji-sung also expressed his support: "I have no opinion, Rongjun can have such an idea, I am very moved, I will definitely give my full support!" Now, let's find some teammates to play a game, right? ”
"Okay, no problem."
Glory agreed.
At the same time, the two agreed that the specific arrangements for the charity competition would be communicated by the agents of the two people.
After listening to Rongguang's words, Debora nodded and took over the job: "Okay, I'll keep in touch with his agent." ”
"However, you have to find your teammates yourself......" Rong Guang rubbed his chin. Who to turn to? ”
He really didn't have any idea right now.
"Have you heard of 'Zidane's Friends' and Ronaldo's Friends'?" Debora asked.
Glory shook his head a little dazedly - he wasn't interested in these common-sense things.
Debora was not surprised that Rongguang did not know this, so she began to explain the origin of these two teams to Rongguang, in short, in order to help the United Nations Development Programme fight poverty together, these two superstars in world football at that time organized a charity game together, and the two of them formed a team respectively, and the participants were considered their friends, so they took the name of a friend team.
The charity tournament has become a tradition, played at the end of each year, with active and retired stars and some non-players participating.
The main purpose is to rely on the influence of these stars to attract the attention of the public and the media, so as to achieve the purpose of promoting charity.
All proceeds from the tournament will also be donated to charity.
"So the more famous the participating players are, the more influential they are?" Glory immediately grasped the point of Debola's gushing words.
"Yes, this kind of star charity game is mainly about the stars playing a role, and everyone doesn't care about how the game is played." Debora said.
"I see......" Glory thought.
When Debora had explained to him, she went about her business.
Rongguang continued to sit on the couch, his phone in his hand, and he began to look through the contacts in his phone's address book.
He doesn't have many contacts, because he's not the kind of person who likes to make friends all over the world, and he doesn't like to socialize, and he just goes out to celebrity dinners and so on.
So his address book is mostly filled with his teammates, current ones, or former ones.
The first thing that came to his mind was his best friend, Lucas Sutton.
This player, who is already the main striker of the Brazilian national team and wears the No. 9 jersey in the Brazilian national team, should have a lot of influence in today's football world.
So he dialed Lucas's phone.
As soon as Lucas heard that Rongguang was looking for him to play a charity game, he agreed without saying a word: "No problem, when?" ”
"Well, the specific time hasn't been determined yet, I'm just going to tell you first......"
"Okay, when you decide on the specific time of the game and tell me, I will push it even if there is something at that time!" As Glory's best friend, Lucas is righteous enough, and that is completely unspeakable.
After hanging up the phone, Glory found a blank piece of paper and a pen, and then wrote Lucas Sutton's name on the paper.
Next, he continued to work on the address book.
Since Debora has said that it doesn't matter how well the game itself is played, everyone mainly comes to see the stars, so the first thing he looks for is fame.
If you want to say the most famous player in football right now...... Rongguang saw Kaka's name in his phone's address book.
He pursed his lips.
I don't want this person to come to my friends' team!
Then he swiped down and saw Messi's name.
This little Argentine man is also in the limelight now......
After thinking about it for a while, Rongguang called Messi's phone.
Messi was a little surprised that Rongguang suddenly called him for this, but after reacting, he also promised Rongguang: "I'm fine, Rong." Notify me when you are sure of the time. ”
After thanking Messi, Rongguang hung up the phone, and then wrote Messi's name again under Lucas's name.