Chapter 124 Strength Wins Respect (1)

Wayne Rooney, England's most dazzling new striker in 2003, this evaluation is absolutely true.

As a rookie in the Premier League, Rooney scored 14 goals for Everton in 2003, which made him the main striker of Everton. Last year, he was selected for the England national team, which was also a recognition of him by Eriksson. After the match between Everton and Manchester United, Ferguson even rated him as "the best football player in this country in the next 10 years".

You know, at this time, he is not yet eighteen years old!

The reason why the media rated Rooney as a representative of England's power forwards is that Rooney's physical ability is indeed excellent. He is very strong, has strong impact, and has a certain speed. Technically, Rooney's ball sense and small skills are not the most delicate, but he often has some unexpected creativity, such as sudden lobs. He also has a certain dribbling ability. He likes to retreat to receive the ball, and then dribble the ball to attack in the direction of attack. In this case, he has a strong impact.

This season, Wang Li's sudden rise has made the English media even more excited. His delicate footwork, his always unexpected way of scoring goals, his unparalleled dribbling speed and his threatening long-range shots have all been favored by the media. He is even called the representative of England's technical forwards. Although this is a bit exaggerated, it also shows his popularity.

Wayne Rooney and Alan Wang, England's two forward geniuses!

Although they have never met, it does not prevent them from having a spiritual connection for a long time.

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"Hello, my name is Alan Wang." After seeing Rooney on the sidelines, Wang Li walked straight towards him and extended his right hand to show friendliness. He admired the big guy in front of him from the bottom of his heart. If it were not for the martial arts from his previous life, Wang Li knew that he would never be able to reach Rooney's level in the field of football. With the physical condition of a normal person plus acquired training, even if he wanted to gain a foothold in the Premier League, it would be almost impossible to accomplish.

However, what Wang Li did not expect was that Rooney was not friendly to him. He just stretched out his hand and casually patted Wang Li's right hand, and then ignored him and continued his training.

In fact, Rooney also looked down on Wang Li and was completely dismissive of the so-called English striker duo as described by the media.

Although Rooney also became famous at a young age, it was all hard work. When he was in football school, he scored 90 goals in one season, which no one has been able to surpass so far. In the Everton youth team, he also had a dazzling performance. In order to gain a foothold in the Premier League, Rooney, who grew up in a poor family, cherished all his time to train every day. Don't think that success is so easy. Even Rooney, who has innate physical advantages, has worked hard for his ideals that ordinary people can never imagine.

As for the black-haired boy in front of him, after the media exposure, he also got to know Wang Li a little. Just a year ago, he was still training in the Arsenal Football School. After that, he was not even selected for the Arsenal youth team. After entering the Wolverhampton youth team, his performance can only be described as "passable". He only performed well in a dozen Premier League games. What does this mean?

In Rooney's opinion, Wang Li is just a shooting star that is being praised by the media because of his outstanding performance for a while. Sooner or later, the shooting star will cross the sky, and by then, all the honors will disappear!

At this moment, Wang Li's friendly behavior seemed to him to be a kind of cowardice. Yes, cowardice, the cowardice of the weak! If Wang Li had not been known as England's striker duo, he might have greeted him in a friendly way, but now it was impossible. Before Wang Li showed the strength that matched his reputation, Rooney would ignore him.

Seeing Rooney's performance, Wang Li could only walk away in embarrassment. However, he didn't care too much about it. He had long passed the stage of competing for strength and victory, and he also understood the reason for Rooney's performance. Without mentioning things off the field, Wang Li and Rooney were absolute competitors in the England team. At least, before Michael Owen retired, it was almost impossible for them to play at the same time, not to mention Vassell, who was only 25 years old and in his prime.

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The other players on the field were very enthusiastic. After extensive media coverage, they were all familiar with the black-haired boy who had just joined the team. Of course, except for Gary Neville and Paul Scholes, the other players were only meeting Wang Li for the first time.

However, what made Wang Li a little embarrassed was that he could not call out anyone's name except Rooney. Even Gary Neville and Paul Scholes, who had played against him before, he just felt that they looked familiar and could only wave and say hello awkwardly.

These players didn't really care about this. There was no competitive relationship between Wang Li and them at all, and some of them were even about to withdraw from the national team. So they all looked at Wang Li with a smile, and took the initiative to come over and surround Wang Li to ask questions. Of course, they didn't ask about football-related matters, but more about the progress of Wang Li and little Angela's love. This kind of gossip would definitely become an important diversion for these bored people after playing football.

"I heard from David, Alan, do you have a beautiful female agent? It seems that she likes you very much." After getting to know each other, Scholes threw away his hypocritical face and began to tease Wang Li, "So, what will you choose? I think you and little Angela are also a good match. However, the law in England does not allow a man to have two wives."

"Paul, you don't know this. Alan is half Chinese. I've seen a Chinese movie in which the men had several wives. Yes, it seemed like there were three wives, some secondary wives. In order to understand this, I even looked up a lot of information!" Owen Hargreaves interrupted. In the England team, he was a well-known romantic and was recognized by the media as a 'super pervert'. It was said that he had changed several girlfriends in the past two years.

"Is this true? Then after I retire, I will go to China, it is really a paradise for men!"

"No wonder people used to yearn for the East. That's why."

“Is it still like this now?”

These energetic players on the court were obviously very interested in this issue. They started discussing it with each other while chatting and laughing. Women are always one of the most interesting topics for men, and being able to marry several wives is what most men yearn for.

However, Wang Li, who has a low emotional intelligence, felt embarrassed and shy about this topic, because he was the protagonist of the discussion among his teammates. He felt that chatting with his teammates was not a good choice, so when no one was paying attention, he ran directly to an empty goal and started his free kick training.

It was called training, but in fact it was just a pretense. After being teased by several teammates, his heart had already been struggling between Rita and little Angela.

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