There is a belief called football

Chapter 316 National Team International Competition Day
The cover of the new issue of "Kicker" magazine is a photo of Li Qiao. The editor chose the photo of "Hummels" and "Weidenfeller" carrying Li Qiao. The appearance of Li Qiao with his arms outstretched is very similar to the stills in the Hollywood movie "The Shawshank Redemption".

This editor is very good. The photo he chose has a double meaning. On the one hand, the celebration after the game is the climax of the day, and on the other hand, this game is indeed Li Qiao's personal "salvation" battle.

In fact, many players became famous in one game. For example, in the 97 Four Nations Tournament, in the match between Brazil and France, Carlos scored an anti-physics free kick, and Carlos has been popular ever since.

In the 98 World Cup, Owen also became famous in the Argentine game and became England's golden boy.

"Kicker" magazine is not only the most influential football professional publication in Germany, but also one of the most influential football media in Europe.

So when "Kicker" used Li Qiao as the cover of this issue, the whole of Europe got to know this Chinese boy.

Even Italy's "Turin Sports Daily" has begun to consider Li Qiao as one of the shortlisted players for this year's European Golden Boy Award.

The European Golden Boy Award was founded in 2003 by the Italian "Turin Sports Newspaper". The important European media voted to select the best young player of the year. The selection objects must be young players under the age of 21 who play for European clubs, so Li Qiao fully meets the requirements of the organizers.

Of course, if some people say it’s good, there must be some complaints. The British magazine “442” is the media with opposing opinions. They think that the young people performed well in one or two games.

In addition, Mexico's "Dos Santos", France's "Ben Alpha", Argentina's "Saviola", and Spain's "Reyes" are all players of this type. They became popular because of one or two amazing games, but then fell quickly.

There are indeed too many talented young people in Europe, so Li Qiao attracted a lot of attention, but it only lasted for a day or two, and then the enthusiasm subsided.

不过李乔的3个进球入选了本周德甲联盟评出的10佳进球，当然天下足球的本周10佳也囊括了李乔的3个进球，这还是天下足球开播14年以来，第一次出现本周10佳球里排名前3的来自同一个球员的情况。

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After the 7th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund has 9 points and is temporarily ranked 7th. There is still a gap of 3 places from the Champions League, but Klopp can already breathe a sigh of relief.

The eighth round of the Bundesliga will not start until 8 weeks later, during which time it will be the national team match day. This time, Li Qiao was recruited into the national team by Stein to participate in the friendly match between the Chinese team and Mexico in Shanghai.

European teams are most afraid of the FIFA virus. Considering that Dortmund's "Royce" and "Kuba" are both injured, Klopp does not want to let Li Qiao go back to participate in any friendly matches.

But after communicating with Stan, Stan still wanted to recall Li Qiao, but Stan made a concession. On the two-week FIFA match day, the Chinese team arranged two warm-up matches. The first was against Mexico, and the second was against the UAE.

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When Li Qiao got off the plane at Pudong Airport, countless fans picked him up at the airport. Everyone held up the Dortmund No. 9 jersey, or held a large Dortmund poster waiting for Li Qiao to sign.

But now Li Qiao's fans are not at the same level as before. He is now the most famous male athlete in China after "Yao Ming" and "Liu Xiang", so if he signs autographs for fans at the airport, Pudong Airport will be shut down.

Escorted by security guards, Li Qiao quickly passed the airport hall, during which he waved at the fans several times.

Many fans waited for more than 10 hours to come to see Li Qiao, so they were a little dissatisfied with Li Qiao's hasty departure. Fortunately, a staff member came out to tell everyone that there will definitely be a fan meeting, please rest assured.

After reporting to the national team, Li Qiao participated in the team training. These old friends hadn't seen each other for several months, and they were very excited when they saw each other.

"Li Qiao, you've become a big star," Zhou Dun said.

Li Qiao just laughed.

After the World Cup, Stan began to replace the old and the new in the Chinese team. The old players have already quit the national team. Zheng Zhi and Li Weifeng are missing from the 23-man roster. So the boss of the team has become Zhou Dun, who is now the captain of the Chinese team.

Before the game against Mexico, the Chinese team had two public training sessions. There is no doubt that the sidelines were full. Now the Chinese team has so many people paying attention to the training.

The most popular is of course Li Qiao. Every time he touches the ball, even if he bumps the ball, the fans will scream. After half an hour of training, Li Qiao went to the sidelines to sign autographs for the fans. He left the training ground about 10 minutes later, but everyone still felt that it was not enough.

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The match against Mexico was not too intense. During the season, they went to Asia to play a friendly match. The Mexican players were also lazy. In the end, the Chinese team defeated Mexico 2-1. Li Qiao and Ding Mu scored a goal respectively, and "Little Pea" scored a goal in Mexico.

After the game, Li Qiao and Stan attended the press conference. The reporters' firepower was concentrated on Li Qiao alone, but the questions were quite peaceful, and there were no excessive problems. Li Qiao felt that compared with the European media, the domestic media was really good.

After the game, Li Qiao still has 10 hours in China. For Li Qiao now, time is not measured in days, but in hours. Of course, Li Qiao is still far behind Messi's unit of seconds.

During these 10 hours, Li Qiao attended several endorsement activities. The first was that he officially became the spokesperson of Nike in China, the second was a sports drink brand, and the third was to participate in an event held by "EA Game Company".

Li Qiao also played a PK match with the champion of the FIFA China Division, playing the latest EA game - "FIFA15".

Li Qiao chose "Dortmund", and his opponent chose "Real Madrid". In the end, Li Qiao was KO'd. Obviously, Li Qiao is still a rookie in playing games.

For a long time, Chinese fans playing "FIFA" are playing pirated versions, and this year EA not only invited Li Qiao as the spokesperson, but also deliberately added Chinese in the game, in order to promote the legalization strategy of football games in China.

At the press conference, the reporter asked Li Qiao a small question, "How much endorsement fee did EA give you"?Li Qiao smiled and replied: "I really can't say this."

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After completing the busy "China trip", Li Qiao fell asleep on the plane back to Germany. The continuous activities made him very tired. For the first time, Li Qiao felt that being a celebrity is so tiring.

Back at the training base, his teammates hadn't come back yet. With the cooperation of the fitness coach, Li Qiao started physical training, then training with the ball, and finally the most intense shooting training.

Dortmund's shooting training is not the kind where 10 balls are placed on the ground and then kicked one by one. Instead, it is required to do a 20-meter obstacle sprint first, and then the assistant coach will pass the ball to the players, and the players will shoot directly without stopping the ball.

This kind of training is relatively difficult. After a 20-meter obstacle course sprint, the average person's brain will be short of oxygen for a short time.

What's even more difficult is that the assistant coach's pass is not the kind of comfortable pass, but how to play as uncomfortable as possible.

The assistant coach likes to send the ball to Li Qiao at the height of Li Qiao's navel. This kind of ball is difficult to handle. You can't use your feet or your head. It's in the middle.

Li Qiao was embarrassed a few times at the beginning, but then he found a way. Li Qiao used his thigh to pad, and then volleyed, just like the kick of "J Luo" in the Brazil World Cup.

Seeing Li Qiao's beautiful shot, the assistant coach couldn't help giving Li Qiao a thumbs up.

When his teammates were away, Li Qiao practiced extra every day by himself. Li Qiao liked this feeling very much. The life he liked was not feasting and drinking, nor suits and shoes, attracting the attention of everyone.

Instead, he was sweating profusely on the training ground alone. It can be said that Li Qiao is an otaku character, but what he is obsessed with is not comics or games, but football.

Klopp's first assistant coach "Bovac" couldn't help but feel emotional when he saw Li Qiao training so seriously on the training ground. He had never seen such a hard-working player in his decades of football career. Most people go to clubs and play after training.Only Li Qiao practiced alone whenever he had time.

Watching Li Qiao practice free kicks again and again, Buvac took the initiative to help Li Qiao set the ball. Generally speaking, the first assistant coach does not do this kind of "rough work".

"Joe, touch the ball as fast as you can," Bouvac said.

In fact, Li Qiao already knew this, but Li Qiao still expressed his gratitude to the coach.

After kicking 50 times, his calf obviously felt very sore. Li Qiao finished training and went to the team's massage room. When Li Qiao entered the massage room, it was not the familiar physical therapist "Peter Kuente", but a beautiful woman.

Li Qiao took a few steps back and looked at the door plate. He thought he had gone to the wrong room, but after confirming, he found out that he was right.

Just when Li Qiao was confused, the beauty said, "Dr. Peter is sick, and I am the physical therapist transferred from the second team."

Li Qiao looked at the beauty in front of him, and suddenly blushed.

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