Fox in the Penalty Area

Hu Lai got out of the car and extended an invitation to Song Jiajia: "Why don't you go to the house and have dinner before leaving?"

Song Jiajia, who was sitting in the driver's seat, waved his hand: "I won't go. Your business is over, and the team still has a lot of work to do."

"How much time can a meal be wasted?"

"No, no, I have to be with my staff. I won't disturb your two-person world, hey!"

Song Jiajia raised the car window, waved goodbye to Hu Lai again, and drove away.

Hu Lai watched him leave, then turned around and opened the courtyard door with his fingerprints.

When he opened the door of the house and walked in, he found that Li Qingqing was already busy making dinner in the kitchen.

He was taken aback: "Did King Madrid's training end so early?"

"Are you back?" Li Qingqing, who was busy in the open kitchen, heard Hu Lai's voice and explained without looking back, "I only trained for half a day today. I went home after lunch at the base. By the way, I Watching the live broadcast of your welcome ceremony on TV, what is it like to have more than 20,000 people shouting your name together? Hehe!"

"It's okay, there are 30,000 fans in the Flanders Stadium." Hu Lai was modest on the surface, but he was showing off.

"When it comes to the official game, the Pirates Park can be filled with 80,000 people. As a King of Madrid player, I know that the Pirates fans are very fanatical. Their home stadium is almost full, and it is the home stadium of the team with the highest attendance rate in La Liga." As Li Qingqing said, she turned around and brought the mixed salad to the table.

Then she noticed a small national flag in Hu Lai's hand, and asked in surprise, "Where did this come from?"

"Oh..." Hu Lai turned the national flag in his hand, "I went for a physical examination this morning, and after the physical examination, I met some Chinese students studying abroad. When I signed them, one of the girls gave it to me..."

He told Li Qingqing all about the situation at that time.

Li Qingqing laughed straight after hearing this: "So it was you who frightened them, why did someone send you off..."

She stepped forward, took the national flag out of Hu Lai's hand, and walked towards a glass vase.

First, I took out the flowers in the vase and compared them with the national flag. I found that the vase was too high, and the pole of the small national flag was too short, which made it uncoordinated to insert.

So she put the flowers back again,

Then I went to find the kind of glass that only drinks water.

Put the flag in, the height is just right this time.

Li Qingqing looked at it with satisfaction, and put the cup on the dining table.

A touch of red on the white tabletop is particularly conspicuous.

"How?" She tilted her head and asked Hu Lai.

Hu Lai nodded: "It looks good."

Li Qingqing, who was praised, smiled and walked back to the kitchen to continue making dinner.

Hu Lai followed in to help.

Having had the experience of cooking together in Leeds, the two cooperated very well.

They chatted while cooking.

"How do you feel, did you meet the senior management and head coach of the Pirates today?" Li Qingqing asked.

"It's all good. They're warm and friendly."

"You are the most valuable player in the history of the Pirates, so of course they will be warm and friendly to you." Li Qingqing said with a smile, "This is the first time you have met the head coach of the Pirates, right?"

"Well, yes. For the first time, I only heard his name before, but I haven't touched it. After all, Leeds City has never played against pirates."

"How does he look?"

"Parotti seemed like a very easygoing guy, always had a smile on his face. To be honest, I was kind of surprised..."

"What's so surprising about this? Don't everyone say he's a nice guy?" Li Qingqing asked strangely.

"That's why I'm surprised. The Madrid Pirates are a team with a very radical team culture..." Hou Lai said with a frown.

Regarding this point, after participating in today's welcome ceremony, he has a deeper understanding.

Especially the Spanish uncle who flashed past the camera with a sign had a particularly big impact on him.

He really didn't expect to see that word again outside his homeland...

"It is reasonable to say that for such a team, shouldn't the head coach be a person with a very fighting spirit, 'go up to the world, hit the air in the middle'? Just like Leeds City, the head coach is a psycho, so Our whole team is also neurotic, attacking to the death... I think a head coach and a team are always related in temperament."

After listening to Hu Lai's doubts, Li Qingqing explained with a smile: "Bound the temperament of the head coach and the team. This kind of thing is actually more common in the middle and lower reaches of the team, because the head coach must imprint his own personal characteristics. On the team, you can lead the team to play good results. But the giants often don’t need this. The giants have their own team culture, which has been accumulated and handed down over a long period of time. It’s not just one or two head coaches. Something that can change. Like our King of Madrid..."

She paused here because she was going to put the fried salmon out of the pan first.

Hu Lai handed her the plate, picked up the pan, and tilted it slightly so that Li Qingqing could transfer the salmon to the plate with only one hand.

After all this was done, she put the plate on the table and went back to scoop up the almost cooked pasta. Hu Lai took two clean plates out of the disinfection cabinet and got them ready.

Li Qingqing continued the topic just now: "...For example, what is the tradition of the King of Madrid, do you know?"

"Champion." Hu Lai shrugged.

This is the confidence of the top giants. For other teams, the championship is the highest honor that needs to be pursued, but for the King of Madrid, the championship is their tradition.

When he played in Leeds City, although he also won two championships, in fact, what the club pursues is not the championship, but the ability to steadily qualify for the European Championship every year. Being able to win the championship is purely a surprise. It's good if you get it, but it's no big deal if you don't get it.

Leeds City is a small team after all.

Some wealthy teams just feel satisfied that the team can qualify for the Champions League.

Only the King of Madrid, if a season does not win the championship, it is a failure. From players to coaches, and even club presidents, they are all under tremendous pressure.

The championship is a matter of course for them because King Madrid is the best club in the world. Only enough championship glory can be worthy of this status.

"Yes." Li Qingqing said. "Taking this as a tradition, even the women's football team, which was established more than a hundred years later than the men's football team, has a clear goal from the very beginning, and that is to be the champion. For this reason, they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money and invest a lot of resources in the women's football team. Even the Benavente training base with advanced facilities is used by the women's football team. As I told you, we are even separated from the first team by a barbed wire fence when we train."

Hu Lai nodded. Li Qingqing had told him about this as a novelty when he first arrived at the Madrid Kings Women's Football Team.

When I was in the women's football team in Paris Eger, let alone training with the men's football team, the training bases of the two teams were not in the same place, and they were far apart.

Regardless of China and foreign countries, this situation is normal in women's football.

The King of Madrid is an anomaly.

So Li Qingqing was stunned when she found out that they were training in the same training base as the men's football team after she came to Madrid King.

"At the King of Madrid, both men's and women's teams are chasing championships. Their players must be champion-level players, and the head coach is the same. If a coach can't lead the team to the championship, he has to leave get out of class. Players can't Help the team win the championship, no matter how big the name is. This is the tradition of the King of Madrid. Although they are criticized for being impersonal, they are indeed the most successful team in the last century, and they also have the most championship honors in Europe team."

"But according to what you said, the pirates have no reason to hire Parotti as their head coach. No matter how he looks at it, he doesn't conform to the tradition of the pirates..." Hu Lai still couldn't figure it out. He said and handed the two plates to Li Qingqing .

Li Qingqing took the pasta out of the pot and put it on a plate, and then scooped out the meat sauce that had been fried on the other side and poured it on top. The minced meat rolls down from the top of the noodles, and the juice flows sideways, seeping into the gap between the noodles and the noodles.

After she finished pouring a plate of noodles, Hu Lai brought the plate over and stirred it thoroughly with chopsticks to make the sauce and each noodle closely contact.

Along with his movements, the fragrance overflowed.

"Parotti's labels are 'good old man', 'easy to get along with' and 'easy to talk to'." Over there, Li Qingqing continued to drizzle the sauce on another plate of noodles, and said at the same time: "It doesn't sound good, but it has no personality. But if you have no personality, It means that there will be no conflict and violation of the tradition of pirates."

She handed the noodles covered with sauce to Hu Lai and asked him to continue to mix well.

And she herself picked up two empty glasses.

"Just like water, you pour it into a cup and it takes the shape of a cup, you pour it into a bowl and it takes the shape of a bowl, and you pour it into a bottle and it takes the shape of a bottle. Parrotti is just water, he has no characteristics of his own, On the contrary, it can be compatible with more features.”

Hu Lai was carrying two plates, while Li Qingqing was carrying two glasses of water, and they walked to the dining table together.

The two sat down to start eating dinner.

Noodles, fish, vegetable and fruit salads contain carbohydrates, protein, and vitamin supplements from vegetables and fruits. Although it is very simple, it does not lack the necessary nutrients.

"Parrotti has only been here for two seasons. Before him, the Pirates were a head coach with a special personality."

Hu Lai announced his name: "Hantchek, coach of 'Madman'."

Li Qingqing nodded: "Yes, that's him."

Bjorn Hantchek, the famous "madman coach" in football. He is the former coach of the Madrid Pirates. He has coached this team for five years and led the Madrid Pirates to two league titles and a Copa del Rey title. In the Champions League, the Pirates were once brought into the semi-finals. However, the Madrid Pirates eventually lost to the Turin Bulls led by Caesar, missed the final, and naturally missed the championship. That was the closest to the Champions League title after the Pirates won the championship fifteen years ago.

The coach's coaching ability is as controversial as his personality. Those who like him like him very much, and those who hate him want him to die.

Hu Lai also worked with "Crazy" Clark, but to be honest, compared with Hantcheck, Clark is much more normal... After all, Clark is only crazy in football tactics, and he is still a normal person.

And Hantchek is crazy, both in football and in the world.

He once did something that he rushed to the field and dragged the opponent off because he thought the opponent's replaced player was walking too slowly.

As a result, not only did he fail to resume the game as soon as possible, but instead triggered a brawl between the players on both sides.

He himself was shown a red card and suspended for five matches not only for rushing onto the pitch and grabbing a player, but for the way he punched him in the face during that brawl...

Such an explosive head coach and the Madrid Pirates are a perfect match.

Everyone thought he would be on this team for a long time.

Unexpectedly, after leading the Madrid Pirates to win the Copa del Rey in the 2024-2025 season, he announced that he would not renew his contract with the club, and went directly to rest at home for a year without leaving home.

Now, this man with a full personality has returned to his home country and is the head coach of the Bundesliga giants Blue and White Munich. The treble is a combination of league titles, domestic cup titles and Champions League titles in one season.

He was only 48 years old when he did all this, and he was the youngest head coach to complete the "Triple Crown" achievement.

The future is even more promising.

Losing such an excellent head coach has to be said to be a great loss for the Madrid Pirates.

"A lot of things in this Pirates team are still left by Hantchek, and Parrotti did not change without authorization after he came, but continued to use the core framework, and then changed it without compromising the core framework. Make his changes. Winning the Europa League in the first season can also show Parrotti's ability." Li Qingqing continued.

"Although some people say that the main credit for this championship is Hantchek, after all, it was Hantchek who laid the foundation for Parotti to win the championship...Parotti has not argued with anyone about this issue. He coached the team Afterwards, the fighting spirit of the Madrid Pirates was not affected, everything was no different from before, and the stability of the team was ensured during the coaching change. Of course, this is all due to his personality without 'personality'..."

After hearing Li Qingqing's analysis, Hu Lai asked, "Then Qingqing, do you think Parotti will be the head coach for the Pirates?"

"Why do you ask that?" Li Qingqing didn't quite understand.

"Hearing what you said, I always feel that Parotti is like a transitional coach. It was completely recruited by the Madrid Pirates Club after Hantchek's resignation and could not find a suitable candidate in a short time. After all, Parotti He is highly compatible, any team style can be compatible..."

"You're overthinking this. I don't think it's enough. Everyone has won the Europa League. Even if it was a transition, it is now supported by the club."

Hu Lai scratched his head: "That's good, I'm afraid that the head coach will be replaced not long after I come here..."

"Why do you have such worries?" Li Qingqing was curious.

"The main reason is that I always encounter such things. When I first went to Flash Star, the coaching position of Director Zhao was precarious, and he might be dismissed from get out of class at any time. Later, when I went to Leeds, the boss Clark was also on the verge of dismissal... I was afraid that this would become an old meme , repeating the cycle endlessly."

"That's not to be afraid, Hu Lai. With your current ability and status, even if the head coach is changed, you will definitely have a place in the Madrid Pirates. You are Mr. 100 million euros!"

"Everyone is talking about 'Mr. 100 million euros', which makes me think that I really have 100 million euros. Actually... what does it have to do with me!" Hu Lai spread his hands, empty.

Li Qingqing covered her mouth and smiled: "Hurry up and eat noodles, or you'll be in trouble."

"Okay." Hearing this, Hu Lai picked up the noodles with chopsticks, but...

Li Qingqing frowned and watched as Hu Lai picked up a noodle awkwardly and clumsily for a long time, then slid back half way tremblingly, she couldn't help but said: "What are you doing?"

"As you can see, eat noodles."

"You hurt your right hand?"

"No."

"Then why do you eat noodles with your left hand?"

"Ah... you said this." Hu Lai looked down at the chopsticks held in his left hand, "After I met Parotti today, he told me that I should practice my left foot well and try to improve my shooting ability. , there is no short board."

Li Qingqing was stunned, and raised his sword eyebrows: "Is this the first time we met?"

"Well, straight to the point. He does seem like a good coach."

Li Qingqing squeezed her chin with her hands, and said in a deep voice: "It's really... Your shooting ability is very good now, with a header and a right foot. If there is a problem, it is that the left foot is not good enough. So familiar with your Opponents can target your right foot and force you to use your left foot to control the ball and shoot at goal…”

"Really? Parotti said the same thing." Hu Lai nodded.

"Did he let you practice like this?" Li Qingqing asked again, she was referring to eating with her left hand.

"That's not true..." Hu Lai shook his head.

Li Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief: "Let me just say, if he can come up with this idea, then his level is not very good. You are Baidu's method again?"

She thought of the scene when she first met Hu Lai, when he turned into Dongchuan Middle School Cao Di. Later, Hu Lai told her that it was for training and improving her physical coordination, and the method was found on the Internet...

She rolled her eyes wildly.

"No, no, I just think about it. I just figured that if I want to improve my left foot, then I have to train myself to be a left-hander. Not only my left foot, but also my left hand. So it's like simply Eat with your left hand..."

Li Qingqing interrupted his whims: "It's alright, alright, don't mess around. If you want to practice your left foot, it's very simple. After dinner, my sister will take you to practice in the backyard!"

Hearing this, Hu Lai quickly changed hands, picked up the plate and shoveled the noodles into his mouth.

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Li Qingqing quickly reached out to stop him: "Don't be so anxious..."