Chapter 157 The English Football Association's Three Visits

As time came to mid-May, all major leagues came to the end. The champions of the Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 have already been decided, but the Premier League and La Liga champions have to wait until the end of the last round to reveal the suspense.

Compared with the La Liga champion, the last round of the Premier League is obviously more interesting.

League champion and league golden boot!

Once Liverpool beat Middlesbrough at home in the last round, in addition to ensuring the league championship, they can also increase their own single-season winning streak record to 17 games, sharing the second longest winning streak in the top five European leagues in the 2006-2007 season with Inter Milan.

The first record is the 19 consecutive wins created by Guardiola during the 2013-2014 season when he was in charge of Bayern.

The suspense of the league golden boot competition seems much smaller than that of the league championship, because Liverpool can win the league championship as long as they win, but the league golden boot cannot. Li Qing must score one more goal than Harry Kane in the last round to equalize the total number of goals in the season.

According to the scorer ranking rules, players with fewer penalties only enjoy the advantage of a higher position, but the actual ranking of the Golden Boot and Silver Boot will not be based on the number of penalty kicks scored, but players with the same number of goals will share the league Golden Boot.

That is to say, if Li Qing wants to enjoy the league Golden Boot alone, he must score two more goals than Harry Kane in the last round of games!

"The pressure is so great!"

Li Qing looked at the media reports and felt the pressure overwhelming.

Liverpool, who won at home, got a day off as usual the next day. Li Qing rarely went to Melwood training base for extra training. He planned to go to Manchester to find Tong Shenbing to relax and divert his attention.

During this period, in order to reverse Chelsea, my nerves were tense and I felt a little difficult to breathe.

Just as Li Qing was about to leave, the phone rang at an inopportune time. He took it out and saw that the note was the technical director of the English Football Association.

"Why is Les Reese calling me at this time?"

Li Qing was puzzled and had to answer the phone.

A familiar middle-aged voice came through the receiver: "Hello, Li, I'm calling you at this time. I hope I didn't disturb you?"

"Fortunately, I was just about to go out."

Les Reese was obviously a very friendly person: "Then my call is really timely, haha..."

"..."

Li Qing was in no mood to talk nonsense with Les Reese, and asked directly: "Mr. Les, do you want to call me for something?"

"Indeed, I have something." Les Reese could hear that Li Qing was in a bad mood, but he didn't ask the reason. After all, they were not very familiar with each other, and he went straight into work mode : "The World Youth Championship is about to kick off in South Korea. There are only three days left before the final 23-man roster is submitted. I wonder what you think?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Les Reese remembered something and quickly added: "By the way... Gareth intends to let you participate in the national team training next month. There may be some conflicts in time, but you can choose one."

Li Qing then remembered that Les Reese had called him half a month ago and said that the head coach of the U20 National Youth Team, Simpson, hoped that he could join his team and participate in the World Youth Championship in South Korea.

Because it was the key period of the league to chase points, his answer was to wait until the make-up game was over.

I thought that the Football Association would be influenced by domestic fans during this period and have the idea of ​​naturalization. Facts have proved that his waiting during this period was in vain. The Football Association did not respond at all.

Should he accept the call of the English Football Association and participate in the World Youth Championship?

At the age of 16, he did not participate in the World Youth Championship held in South Korea this year. He could still participate in the next or the next one, but next year is the World Cup year.

If I choose England, then even if I get a passport, I will not be able to represent the men's football team in any international A-level events in the future.

My motherland, why do you make it so difficult for me to choose?

What should I do?

For Les Reese, it is not important whether Li Qing agrees to join the U20 National Youth Team. He hopes that Li Qing can participate in the next training session of the England national team to prepare for the World Cup qualifiers in mid-June.

Through these days of observation, Li Qing's ability is rare in the world. Even the popular French fried chicken Mbappe cannot be compared with Li Qing. How can such a super genius be given up easily?

He knows that Li Qing's situation is much more complicated than those dual-nationality players, because Li Qing has a motherland in his heart. According to the relevant rules of FIFA, once he represents England in the World Cup qualifiers, it means that Li Qing will not be able to represent the men's football team in international A-level competitions in the future even if he gets his passport again.

From a personal perspective, he hopes that Li Qing can represent England in the World Cup. After all, as an Englishman, he certainly hopes that the national team will become stronger and stronger.

The World Cup in Russia will start next June. It is difficult for the national team to achieve ideal results in the World Cup by relying on Harry Kane alone. However, with the equally outstanding Li Qing, everything will be different.

From an objective point of view, the choice can only be completely given to Li Qing.

The two were silent for about three minutes. Li Qing sighed in his heart and broke the silence: "Can you give me three more days?"

Although the World Youth Championship is imminent, it can only stand aside compared to the national team World Cup qualifiers, so Les Reese smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, even if you reply to me after the FA Cup final."

In ancient times, Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang three times. Now the technical director of the English Football Association has called three times. Li Qing felt that it would not be a solution if he dragged it on, so he said: "Thank you Mr. Rice for your kindness, but I have dragged it on for so long. We Chinese have a saying that a gentleman's word is as good as his horse. If you say three days, it's three days."

"Okay, I hope there will be good news in three days."

"Goodbye."

After hanging up the phone, Li Qing lay on the sofa and fell into deep thought.

About half an hour later, he sent a message on his personal verified Weibo accounts on Dongqiudi and Xinlang: Les Rees, technical director of the English Football Association, has called me for the third time. I don’t know how to choose. Should I continue to wait for the call of the men’s football team, or accept the invitation of the English Football Association to participate in the World Youth Championship and the World Cup qualifiers? If it were you, what would you choose?

Li Qing has hundreds of thousands of fans following Xinlang Weibo and Dongqiudi. Soon, there were a large number of fans following and commenting.

Nearly 90% of fans support Li Qing to accept the invitation of the English Football Association, and only about 10% of fans said that Li Qing is still young and hopes that he will wait patiently.

In fact, Li Qing can wait, no matter how long he waits, but... he needs an attitude.

Unfortunately, the Football Association did not express any attitude. The only deputy director of the office, Chen Yong, who came to Liverpool, was here for his cash cow.

As a time traveler, no one knows better than him what kind of NC organization the Football Association is.