"How's it going? Are you still used to your new identity and name?" Zhuo Yang asked.
Li Ke quickly replied: "It feels very good. I believe I will enjoy it more and more."
"That's good." Zhuo Yang patted his shoulder.
To be honest, even Zhuo Yang felt a little inconsistent when he looked at a black face wearing a national flag red jersey.
24-year-old Li Ke is the first naturalized player in the history of Chinese football. His original name is Niklas Yannaris. He was a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Cyprus before naturalization. He now plays for Brentford in the British Championship.
No matter what the mentality is, Li Ke's naturalization still caused controversy in Chinese public opinion. Of course, the controversy is reasonable. But the current situation of the national team's reserve force, Li Ke's half-Chinese descent, especially Zhuo Yang's endorsement
, reducing the controversy to the point where it cannot form a whirlpool.
On the international match day in March 2017, Li Ke will usher in his first game for his new country in the top 12 of the 2018 Russian World Cup Asian Qualifiers.
Li Ke's naturalization procedures were started in October last year and completed in just two months. In January, team leader Yang Chen announced his recruitment in the name of the national team, and Li Ke also went to China to report in person.
But he did not participate in the seventh East Asian semi-finals held in Japan in January because the English Championship schedule is busier than the Premier League. Zhuo Yang, Li Ke, Zhang Linpeng, Zhang Xizhe, Yan Junlin, Zhang Chendong, six players in Europe
None of them participated, and the Chinese team played with a purely Chinese Super League lineup.
The same goes for South Korea and Japan. Neither of them recruit overseas players. The North Korean team does. They have three players playing in Japan's second-tier J2 league. Zheng Daese, who became famous after crying in the World Cup seven years ago, is now hanging around in J2.
I haven’t been in the national team for many years.
In the competition between local league players from China, Japan and South Korea, the Chinese team won the third place with 2 draws and 1 loss. The Korean team won the championship with 2 wins and 1 draw.
The top 12 competition has reignited, and the Chinese team's opponent in the sixth round is South Korea.
Not to mention anything else, Zhang Tiedan and Zhang Xizhe spent an entire afternoon just telling Li Kebo jokes about Koreans. One of them was in Huocun, the German Bundesliga, and the other was in Sacun, the Italian Serie A.
But he speaks pretty good English.
Being able to roar along with the March of the Volunteer Army is what Zhuoyang ordered Li Ke to do first. But now it is obviously nonsense to ask him to listen and speak Chinese. As one of the most difficult languages ​​to learn in the world, Li Ke really has to do this.
If he is extremely talented, he will not be stuck playing in the English Championship.
Li Ke's mother is a descendant of Chinese immigrants who was born in London, and her aunt herself cannot speak Mandarin at all. For Li Ke, China is actually a completely unfamiliar country and culture, and Chinese football is another type of sport.
Fortunately, he has a very perseverant character. He has been accustomed to living a hard life with his mother since he was a child, and he has never lacked the courage to overcome difficulties. Moreover, there are big men in the national team who can protect him from wind and rain, so the pressure is not on him. He is fresh to play for the country.
Li Ke is still looking forward to the enthusiasm for her debut.
There are 24 teams in the English Championship, and 46 rounds are played throughout the season. Brentford, where Li Ke plays, is basically equivalent to Southampton in the Premier League in the English Championship. In terms of strength, there is no chance of overtaking the top spot.
There is no danger of relegation and they are a very stable mainstay. Now after 38 rounds, Brentford is ranked 13th.
Li Ke is Brentford's main defensive midfielder and one of the team's vice-captains. He can be regarded as an important minister. Although San Zhang and Yi Yan are in the top league, their competitive status in their respective teams is very different from Li Ke.
Yuan. Overall, Li Ke's life was pretty good.
Li Ke is just the beginning, the naturalization process of the Chinese team is in full swing, and there will be many people who have completed the procedures with Zhuo Yang's approval and entered the national team one after another.
Zhuoyang is not as laid-back as Li Ke. The top 12 competition has entered the most critical stage. Manchester City has basically bid farewell to the league championship, which makes people somewhat unhappy.
Lost to Liverpool 2:3 at home. In the first six games, only Manchester City and Arsenal failed to win in this round. After 29 rounds, Chess 72, Pus 71, Spurs 62, City 57, Nasdaq 56, United 54, Egypt 50.
Trailing Chelsea at the top of the table by 15 points, Manchester City not only has a slim chance of winning the league, but the top four is also in jeopardy. Arsenal can never be ignored, they can always miraculously occupy fourth place near the end.
The situation is so pressing that Manchester City can no longer be called pragmatic. Instead, they have very honestly adjusted their league goals to maintain the third place and compete for the fourth place. Qualifying for the Champions League next season is the bottom line. The third place in the Premier League will directly enter the main draw, and the fourth place will be less profitable but not risky.
Small qualifying round.
On the scorer list, Zhuo Yang, Tottenham Kane, and Everton Lukaku are tied for the top spot with 20 goals. Behind them are Arsenal Sanchez with 19 goals, Chelsea Meiyan with 17 goals, and behind them is Ibrahimovic.
, Hazard, Aguero, Alli, Benteke, Defoe, Joshua King, Mane, Kudos, Vardy, Llorente and so on, including Sun Heung-min, a lot of 10~15
A huge group of goalscorers.
As the top player of the South Korean team today, Son Heung-min missed today's game and was suspended without injury or illness. The qualifying match is the same as the World Cup main game, where two yellow cards will automatically result in a one-match suspension.
The top 12 has reached the halfway point of the schedule. After five rounds, Iran is 11, South Korea is 8, Uzbekistan is 7, China has 1 win, 3 draws and 1 loss with 6 points, Syria is 4, and Qatar is 3.
Don't say anything, just start exerting your strength from now on, and take the Korean sacrificial knife first at home.
In the Changsha Helong Sports Center, all six overseas players of the Chinese team started the game, and Sforza played a 4-3-3 without a center.
Wu Lei and Yu Dabao were on the left and right, with Zhuo Yang behind them. Li Ke, Zhang Xizhe, and Hao Junmin. The central defender was seriously lacking. Today, the 37-year-old Zheng Zhi was pulled back to partner with Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Chendong and Zhang Tie
Dan is separated on the left and right, with goalkeeper Yan Junlin.
The 24-year-old Li is the youngest player in the starting lineup. Even including the bench, he is only older than Zhang Yuning. Chinese football seriously lacks outstanding players born in the 1990s. The 87-89 age group is the last talent benefit of pseudo-professionalism.
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Compared with the post-90s generation who began to dominate the world, this age group is the missing decade of Chinese football. Relying on the support of the post-80s generation, coupled with naturalization, Chinese football is waiting for the spring buds of hope for the growth of the post-00s generation.
transitional stage.
The last chaos before dawn.
Australian referee Peter Green blew the whistle, and Wu Lei in the center circle pushed to Yu Dabao, who then pushed to Zhuo Yang who had already started on the left.
Chapter completed!