Upon hearing Li Shiguang mention Mayes U17, Wang Chu, who had been leisurely sitting up, suddenly sat up straight and looked up at Li Shiguang, whom he was meeting eye to eye for the first time, his eyes filled with surprise.
I'm so famous now?
Are domestic scouts already paying attention to me?
These were the first two thoughts that popped into Wang Chu's mind.
Looking at Li Shiguang's familiar face, Wang Chu asked the question that had been on his mind: "Mr. Scout, am I that famous in China now?"
"Hahaha." Li Shiguang laughed heartily at Wang Chu's words, looking at the slightly green but also somewhat handsome Wang Chu, "I never said I was a scout from China."
"Huh!? Aren't you a scout from China?" Wang Chu looked at Li Shiguang with a blank expression, his doubts deepening.
He went abroad to play football at the age of thirteen, and this year marks Wang Chu's third year in France.
During his time with the Metz youth team, Wang Chu had encountered scouts from other teams before, but this was truly the first time he had met a scout like Li Shiguang, who had an Asian face and spoke Mandarin!
"I never said I was a scout!" Seeing that Wang Chu was still in a daze, Li Shiguang decided not to tease him anymore.
From the moment Li Shiguang recognized Wang Chu, he had already decided to take down the Chinese genius who was known as one of the two stars of Mayz, along with Pjanic!
Not a scout?
If not a scout, then is it a fan of his/her own? Someone who lives in France and has watched him/her play?
Wang Chu was completely bewildered. All I did was casually follow my cousin to a casual university on a random afternoon, play a casual pickup game, and somehow I ran into my own fans!?
But why does the person standing next to me look so familiar?
Wang Chu felt that he had seen this person somewhere before, but he just couldn't remember where he was!
Seeing that Wang Chu was staring at him, Li Shiguang's smile widened. He took off the baseball cap on his head and looked at Wang Chu: "What? Do you feel like you've seen me somewhere before?"
The moment Li Shiguang took the baseball cap off his head.
The image of him smiling broadly in the newspaper, holding the Premier League trophy, surrounded by numerous stars and fans in the very center, suddenly became clear and perfectly overlapped with the face in front of me!
"It's you!!"
After saying those two words, Wang Chu's eyes widened. He didn't even have time to put his shoes back on after they were kicked off. He jumped up from the ground and was instantly stunned and paralyzed. He pointed at Li Shiguang in disbelief, his mouth opening and closing, but he couldn't make any other sound!
"Yes, it's me! Surprised? Unexpected?" Li Shiguang was unusually playful as he looked at Wang Chu.
After a long while, Wang Chu realized that the person standing next to him for so long was indeed Li Shiguang. He quickly put on his shoes and stammered, "You...you...you, how could you...no, how could you be here!? Shouldn't you be leading Leeds United around the country playing friendly matches!?"
"What, you didn't watch Leeds United's recent friendly matches?"
"I didn't see it." Wang Chu shook his head sheepishly.
"No wonder, didn't you see that it was Simeone directing from the sidelines?"
"Ah!? Mr. Li, I...I...I didn't watch it because I was visiting my cousin's house. Actually, I'm a Leeds United fan!" Wang Chu stammered, his face flushed with embarrassment.
Li Shiguang nodded and gestured for Wang Chu to sit down.
After the two sat down, Li Shiguang continued, "You still haven't answered me. Shouldn't you be in France at this time? How come you're here?"
Wang Chu, who had just sat down, seemed a little reserved. Although he wasn't stuttering as much as before, his voice was still very soft: "Two months ago, the national youth team called me up for a friendly match in Europe. Then I suffered a minor injury during the match. After returning to Metz, the coach gave me an early leave, so I came back to China to see my parents."
Are you from Chongqing?
"No! I'm from Jincheng. I came to Chongqing to visit my cousin these past few days. Today he wanted to play soccer, so I came with him here... here... to play... play soccer in the wild..."
I noticed that Wang Chu seemed a little hesitant when he spoke.
Li Shiguang frowned, his tone somewhat serious: "So you've realized you shouldn't have done that?"
Wang Chu knew what Li Shiguang was talking about, and her already flushed face turned even redder. She lowered her head and replied shyly, "...Mr. Li, I just came to visit my cousin..."
"You can't even play around!" Li Shiguang quickly interrupted Wang Chu's explanation. "You get a salary every month now, right?"
"Yes...yes, I have a salary of 500 euros."
"So you can be considered a professional player. As a professional player, don't you even abide by these basic professional ethics? If you get injured on a field like this, how will you explain it to the club? Are you going to say that I got injured while playing pickup football during my vacation?" When talking about this issue, Li Shiguang's tone could be described as stern.
On this point, Wang Chu really has no reason to defend himself.
Li Shiguang is right. The club pays him a salary, not for him to play football on this kind of field.
If an injury is accidentally sustained, it would be an unacceptable loss for both the player and the club.
Faced with Li Shiguang's escalation of the issue to a matter of professional attitude, Wang Chu, with her head buried between her legs, gave up struggling: "I...I didn't...sigh...I'm sorry..."
Li Shiguang glanced at Wang Chu, who seemed to have realized his mistake, and his tone was no longer as stern as before: "You don't need to apologize to me. You're not a Leeds United player. The only reason I said that was out of consideration for us as compatriots. Wang Chu, you are a very talented player, and I don't want you to waste your talent on this kind of field, understand?"
“I’m very talented?” Ignoring the other words in Li Shiguang’s words, Wang Chu looked up at Li Shiguang, a hint of insecurity in his eyes.
Wang Chu has been told by others that he has talent.
If he didn't have talent, the Jincheng Football Association wouldn't have sent him to play in France.
But now, sitting next to him is Li Shiguang, after all.
The manager who just led Leeds United to the Premier League title has football stars like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Luka Modric all under his tutelage.
Moreover, Wang Chu, who had already spent three years in Europe, had heard a saying.
So far, all the young players that Li Shiguang has scouted and bought for Leeds United are promising talents, and at the very least, they have all been able to perform better than most European players at Leeds United!
Now Li Shiguang says he has talent!
These words struck Wang Chu's heart like a shooting star.
It filled him with endless imagination about his future!
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