Chapter 041 Lonely Christmas

"At Anfield, the 'Dancing Master' reveals his true colors", this is the headline of the new edition of The Guardian on December 21st.

"In yesterday's Premier League 17th round Liverpool VS Wolverhampton match, the 16-year-old young player Alan Wang, known as the 'Dancing Master', did nothing throughout the game. He was almost in a sleepwalking state, dragging Wolverhampton into the abyss and conceding four goals in a row. Throughout the game, he was directly intercepted 11 times and wasted many opportunities. At the press conference after the game, Liverpool head coach Niliitis called him a 'parallel import'." - Bills Kedman

Apart from this typical critical article in The Guardian, most media outlets have also changed their previous tone of praise to one of ridicule, sarcasm, irony or concern.

"Can Orientals Play Football?"

《Dream Dance? It Will Never Be Real》

《Alan Wang, a shooting star over England!》

Various reports flooded in, and some media even said that Wang Li was worthless. In order to increase sales, they didn't care whether these reports were true or false.

However, many media outlets are still very rational, such as George Kulentalik of The Sun, who wrote in his commentary entitled "England's Future":

"Alan Wang is not even 17 yet. It is normal for him to not adapt to the intensive play of a traditional giant team like Liverpool. We cannot completely deny the strength of a player or a team based on the outcome, performance or performance of a game! We don't know what task Coach Dave assigned him to make him run around aimlessly throughout the game. So if we want to know how strong Alan is, we have to continue to pay attention to him."

"Moreover, for a player under 17, his match experience and adjustment ability are not very strong, so it is normal for him to perform inconsistently. We cannot expect too much from such a young player."

George Kulentalik has always been a die-hard supporter of Wang Li. Since watching Wang Li's first game, he almost became a fan of Wang Li.

However, even though many people understand these principles, most media do not care about the truth of the facts. If it can increase sales, they will cover up the truth.

No matter how much the media outside was arguing, Wang Li was not affected at all. He knew very well that all praises must be obtained through strength. It was useless to be praised by everyone without strength.

After returning to the club, he started his training life again. The match with Liverpool made him clearly understand the gap between himself and those world-famous stars. Whether in terms of consciousness, overall view, tactical system, or physical, rational and physical fitness, he could not reach that level. But he firmly believed that with unremitting efforts, he would definitely surpass others, because all these could be compensated by a large number of matches and training, but internal strength was something that others did not have.

Christmas is coming in a few days, and the next Premier League game will be held on the third day after Christmas, so most of the club's players are on holiday these days, and even Thomas has gone home to spend Christmas with his family, so there are only a few people left in the entire club, and Wang Li is one of them.

Wang Li did not return to London. With more time training, his strength would increase. Before he succeeded, he did not want to accept comfort and care from others.

Wang Li’s daily training is still hard and arduous. During these days of lonely training, his aura seems to have become more domineering in his lightness!

The team's head coach Dave saw all of this. Although he was not good at training young players, he knew that the growth of young players came at a price, especially those who had just landed in the Premier League. Their success was that they could persist. Wang Li was not afraid of failure and was even more motivated to train, which deeply shocked the 48-year-old coach.

He has been thinking about how to use Wang Li recently. Using him as a right winger has indeed affected his performance, and as a free man, he lacks a lot of experience. Seeing this kid training so hard, he was moved and also gave him a sense of determination - I will definitely find the right way to make him my trump card!

Wang Li’s success is his success!

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On Christmas Eve, Wang Li called his parents and walked out of the club gate alone. After all, today is Christmas, and the whole city of Wolverhampton will be filled with laughter and blessings. It would be boring to stay in the dormitory at this time.

"It would be nice if someone could come and spend Christmas with me." Looking at the laughter on both sides of the street, the Santa Clauses on the streets and the smiling children beside them, he also felt a little lonely. At this time, the first person he thought of was Li Qitong. It would be nice if she could come and spend Christmas with him. I just don't know how she is now.

"Oh, maybe it's just not meant to be." Wang Li sighed immediately. He hadn't contacted Li Qitong for a long time. Since the last time they met, he would call her every few days to chat, but maybe Li Qitong didn't have any feelings for him. Every time he felt that she was just dealing with him in a perfunctory manner, and she never took the initiative to contact him, so he felt it was boring and stopped contacting her.

Walking slowly along the road, looking around, occasionally stopping to admire the Christmas tree on the street, some people would say hello to Wang Li when they saw him. At this time, Wang Li suddenly stopped and saw a beautiful woman walking towards him. She was wearing white pants, a tight skirt and a high-necked top. If it weren't for the expressionless face and the gold-rimmed glasses that never changed, Wang Li would never believe that this person was the old-fashioned Rita!

"I didn't expect that she would look so beautiful in this outfit." He said to himself as he looked at Rita approaching.

Rita didn't expect to run into Wang Li here, but she wasn't too surprised. She said expressionlessly, "I heard from Mr. Hai that you haven't returned to London either. As your agent, I'm a little worried. So I was just about to go to the club to see you. Come back to the hotel with me. I'm alone anyway, so let's spend Christmas together."

After listening to her, Wang Li looked at her expression and confirmed that it was indeed Rita. She was so beautiful, but she used this expression and way of speaking to invite others to celebrate Christmas together. This was really strange... But of course he also knew that Rita meant well, but just didn't know how to express it. Thinking of this, Wang Li felt a little comforted. At least there was someone who cared about him, right?

After that, the two bought some food and went to the hotel where Rita was.

They spent this Christmas together.

However, deep down in Wang Li's heart, he was expecting something unexpected to happen. Rita was really beautiful, wasn't she?