Football: The strongest post-2000s Chapter 096

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Liverpool’s 3- 1 home victory over Tottenham once again put Li Qing in the spotlight. It was his one goal and two assists that orchestrated Liverpool’s comeback victory.

After consecutively defeating Wolves and Chelsea, it was easy to see that all ten goals scored by Liverpool in the three matches were related to Li Qing.

Two goals + one goal + one goal and two assists.

Six goals and two assists!

The remaining two goals seemed unrelated to Li Qing, but in reality, his excellent performance created many attacking opportunities for his teammates. This means that the three most beautiful matches Liverpool played since 2017 were all orchestrated by Li Qing.

The key is that Li Qing is not even sixteen years old!

Such an excellent performance easily made him the focus of attention for fans worldwide.

Especially Chinese sports media and fans, many even hoped that the Football Association could contact Li Qing to restore his Chinese nationality and then represent the Chinese men’s football team in the last five qualifying matches of the Asian Top Twelve.

Judging from Li Qing’s contribution of six goals and two assists in less than ninety minutes across three matches, if he were to represent the Chinese men’s football team, there would be a chance to win all of the last five matches. At that time… the Chinese men’s football team, with a total of sixteen points, would have a high probability of representing Asia in next year’s World Cup in Russia.

Anyway, Li Qing has been in Liverpool’s youth training for over six years, so he can definitely obtain a Premier League work permit. Therefore, there is no need to worry about not being able to play in the Premier League if he regains Chinese nationality.

The remarks from these media and fans naturally attracted the attention of the Football Association, but Football Association officials scoffed at them and chose to ignore them.

It would be a complete joke for such a large country like China to need an underage player to carry the burden of Chinese football!

Of course, many media and fans did not support this approach, believing that Chinese football was rotten to the core and beyond saving!

Li Qing admitted that he was Chinese, so wouldn’t proving himself in the world football center also be a way to bring glory to his country?

British domestic media praised Li Qing greatly. Perhaps after reading news reports from China, many well-known media hoped that English coaches at all levels would call up Li Qing early to prevent him from being taken away by China.

The Liverpool Echo even hoped that England’s senior national team coach Gareth Southgate would call up Li Qing and have him make a substitute appearance in an international A match, thereby cutting off Li Qing’s chance to play for China.

England coach Gareth Southgate was surprised by Li Qing’s performance, but he believed that Li Qing was still too young, only sixteen, and should first play for the U 17 and U 19 youth teams.

After all, this year is a major year for youth World Cups.

First, there’s the U 20 World Cup in Korea, followed by the U 17 World Cup in India.

Li Qing, whose attention was fully focused on team training and extra practice in the system training ground, rarely paid attention to outside media comments, only occasionally checking posts forwarded by Tong Shenbing when chatting on WeChat.

That evening, Tong Shenbing sent Li Qing a rather unexpected voice message.

Why unexpected?

Because Tong Shenbing actually asked Li Qing if he wanted to train tomorrow.

From the time they met until now, although their relationship had progressed quickly and they occasionally flirted, she had never asked a question with the meaning of a date.

Li Qing had a soul close to thirty years old, so how could he not understand the implied meaning?

This… wasn’t she asking if he was available tomorrow?

So he said with a half-smile, “Cousin Shenbing, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Honestly, tell me, are you coveting this undeveloped body of mine?”

“Pah!”

In less than ten seconds, Tong Shenbing replied, “I really don’t know what you, an underage boy, think about all day!”

“Hehe~”

Li Qing laughed, “You asking me if I want to train tomorrow isn’t just asking if I have time tomorrow, right? If you want to do something, just say it directly.”

“Want to do something?”

Tong Shenbing was an internet savvy person, deeply researched in internet puns. For some reason, she linked it to “Want to ‘gan’? Just say it.”

Pah, pah, pah!

Her pretty face flushed in a girls’ dormitory at Manchester University. She quickly drove the inappropriate images out of her mind, then pressed the screen and said, pretending to be relaxed, “Isn’t tomorrow your sixteenth birthday? I just wanted to see if you have time tomorrow. If you do, let’s have dinner together.”

After listening to the voice message, Li Qing slapped his forehead. He had actually forgotten that the original owner of this body’s sixteenth birthday was tomorrow.

Of course, his birthday was calculated according to the Chinese lunar calendar, the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, but it coincidentally fell on Valentine’s Day.

Li Qing felt very comfortable listening to her. He pondered for a moment: “I have training in the morning and afternoon. If your time allows, then let’s have dinner together. My treat.”

After a while, Tong Shenbing replied with a text: Okay.

It was clear that Tong Shenbing had made up her mind.

The next day, Li Qing arrived early at Melwood. Strangely, teammates who usually didn’t arrive at the training ground until after ten o’clock began to arrive at nine.

Firmino and Coutinho, who should have been on vacation in Malaga, also returned to the Melwood training base early to participate in team training.

In addition, he felt that his teammates’ gazes were a little strange.

But he couldn’t quite figure out what was strange.

Li Qing was a relatively lazy person and never bothered to guess about other people’s affairs.

After the hour-and-a-half training session, players successively walked towards the locker room. Li Qing also packed his things and prepared to go, but just then, assistant coach Krawietz called out to him: “Hey~ Li, come here for a moment.”

“Mr. Peter, what’s up?”

Li Qing looked over curiously.

Krawietz’s right hand naturally rested on Li Qing’s shoulder: “This weekend is the fifth round of the FA Cup, a home game against Leicester City. I wonder if you’re ready to start?”

“What? Start?”

Li Qing’s pupils suddenly contracted, looking at Krawietz in surprise.

“Don’t be so excited, I’m just asking you casually.”

Li Qing: “…”

The two chatted for about five minutes, and Krawietz smiled and patted Li Qing’s back: “Go take a shower quickly, we still have lunch later.”

For some reason, Li Qing always felt that Krawietz’s expression was strange. He could roughly guess from the coach’s arrangement. Since he wasn’t suitable to start yet, why did Krawietz ask him if he was ready?

“So strange…”

Li Qing walked to the locker room door with doubts. Strangely, the locker room was pitch black inside, with no sound coming out, feeling a bit scary.

But just then, the locker room lights came on brightly, and Firmino and Mané were seen pushing a cake cart out of the shower room.

Li Qing walked in with his mouth half-open, and the teammates standing on both sides sang in unison: “Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to Lee Qing…”_

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