Fox in the Penalty Area

When Hu Lai finished his day's training, when he returned home, Li Qingqing was already at home.

Today, the Madrid Kings women's team practiced twice a day, but the training time was still a little earlier than that of the Madrid Pirates men's team.

"How about today? The first day of training with the team." Li Qingqing asked with a smile.

"It feels okay, but I found that the pirate and the king are really a pair of rivals in the same city..."

Hou Lai asked her about the King of Madrid's requirement that all players must drive the sponsor's brand to train this time.

"Our women's team does not have such a requirement, because the women's team does not have a sponsor to send a car."

Although in Europe, women's football is already very developed and very popular, but compared with men's football, it is still far behind. Whether it is the attendance rate of each game, or the degree of media exposure and commercial development, it cannot be compared with the men's football at all.

Otherwise, how could it be possible for Li Qingqing to rank among the top three in the world for female football players with only a transfer fee of 500,000 euros.

This money is almost worthless when it is exchanged for male football players.

Giving cars to men's team players is a normal marketing activity for auto companies, and it's a good advertisement. But giving cars to women's team players...is a pure loss of money.

"However, the men's team does have such a request. Mercedes-Benz is the sponsor of the King of Madrid, and it will send cars to the men's team players before each season. It may be for the benefit of the sponsors, or it may be for the image of the club. In short, the men's team It is indeed required that every player must drive a car of the sponsor’s brand to training and competition, no matter what car he usually drives, training and competition must be unified. If someone drives a car of another brand, he will be fined by the team.”

Holly grinned.

Good guy, he knows that there are sponsors of clothing brands who will require their spokespersons to only wear their own brand of clothing in public. Unexpectedly, the King of Madrid has a wider control, even controlling what kind of car he drives.

He said to Li Qingqing: "I'll let you drive my car. I'll wait for our club sponsor to give me a car. Anyway, our garage can only park two cars, which is just right."

"Okay." Li Qingqing didn't refuse, and simply agreed.

Then Hu Lai continued to talk about what he had seen and heard in the Pirates.

When talking about Tonini and Martinez chasing and fighting in the locker room, but the others followed suit and did not stop them, and even when the captain was introducing himself, they were able to take care of both ends, Li Qingqing said with emotion: "It's really not bad." Same. I don’t know how the men’s team is, at least when I first joined the women’s team,

As a rookie, I was introduced to the team-mates, and everyone took me very seriously in the locker room. Not as casual as you said..."

Then she asked: "Hu Lai, do you think they don't respect you?"

Hu Lai shook his head: "That's not true, it's just a formality. This kind of superficial respect is meaningless."

"It's good if you can think so." Li Qingqing smiled. "It's really meaningless. Everyone seems to be friendly to you on the surface, but who knows what they think in their hearts? In the end, you still have to rely on your football ability to speak."

Following this topic, Hu Lai talked about Maxi Carey's attitude towards him.

"It's normal for him to have opinions on you." Li Qingqing smiled, "You are regarded by him as the greatest threat. He thought you were here to grab his position. Didn't he get injured before, and after being injured, he behaved the same way all the time. No, at this time there is another player in the same position as him, and he will definitely be nervous. Of course, if you are a nobody, that’s okay, he won’t take it to heart. But you are not a nobody now, Hu Lai .”

Hu Lai scratched his head: "But Parotti told me that I can form the most powerful striker combination in La Liga with Carey..."

"What the coach says is the coach's business. The coach can't control what the players think." Li Qingqing asked Hu Lai with a smile, "How is it? Do you feel that big teams are troublesome compared to small teams?"

"Troublesome, it's indeed a little troublesome, but I'm not afraid." Hu Lai said nonchalantly.

"It is necessary to have this momentum!" Li Qingqing clenched her fists to cheer up Hu Lai, "Come on, Hu Lai!"

Hu Lai held his head high, like a proud little rooster.

Seeing him like this, Li Qingqing couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Hu Lai asked.

"I feel like I'm coaxing a child... Ha!" Li Qingqing laughed out loud before finishing speaking.

Hu Lai gave her a white look: "How small?"

"Why not small?"

"Let me tell you, I'm not young at all!"

Just after saying this, Hu Lai's face became weird: "Hey, this conversation is so strange..."

Li Qingqing was taken aback for a moment, then blushed and said angrily: "You are so bad, Hu Lai!"

Hu Lai pretended to be confused: "Ah, what's broken? Is there any?"

Li Qingqing rolled her big eyes and didn't want to talk to him anymore, then turned around and was about to leave.

But Hu Lai grabbed his hand.

"Don't go!"

"What? I'm going to make dinner..."

"What's the hurry? Isn't it too early?" Hu Lai was reluctant to let go of the warm and soft beauty, and he even wanted to take Li Qingqing into his arms directly.

"The teacher is coming to teach me Spanish tonight, so we have to eat a little earlier." Li Qingqing explained.

"Ok……"

Hu Lai reluctantly let go.

Seeing his aggrieved look, Li Qingqing smiled slightly, then leaned forward and kissed him lightly:

"Good job."

It's really like coaxing a child...

Hu Lai touched the cheek kissed by Li Qingqing just now, and thought to himself, he must let Li Qingqing know that he is not a child anymore!

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"Dad, Mom, we're full!"

The two children, a boy and a girl, stood up from their chairs almost at the same time and announced.

Sofia Carey smiled at them and said, "Go play!"

"Good job!" The two children cheered and ran down the dining table to the yard outside the door.

A big golden retriever dog that was lying under the dining table heard the movement, got up quickly, and chased after it.

Sophia Carey withdrew her loving gaze from the two and the dog, and turned to look at her husband, Maxi Carey, who was sitting above the dining table.

Then asked softly: "How was your first meeting with that Hu?"

Only when the child is not present, she has the opportunity to chat with her husband about the internal affairs of the team.

"I didn't shake his hand." Carey pouted.

The wife was a little surprised: "Huh?"

Then she sighed and shook her head helplessly.

She knew her husband was like that.

Sophia and Maxi are childhood sweethearts and have known each other for more than 20 years. Before he went to play football in Hercules in The Hague, they got along day and night. Now they have been married for seven years, and they have long been aware of her husband's temper.

If he doesn't like someone, he won't pretend.

For this reason, the husband has suffered a lot. For example, the media are always keen to discuss the right and wrong of her husband, portraying Carey as a bad boy who rejects him thousands of miles away.

But the husband never changed, or he never thought about changing.

So Sophie is used to it.

"Okay, so what was his reaction? Was he angry?"

"I wish he was angry..." Carey said, "but he didn't. He kept smiling."

Sophia's eyes widened: "Is he... not angry?"

If most people think about it, how many people who are not familiar with Kaili can resist being treated with such an attitude by Kaili?

Hu Lai has just arrived, he is so young, and he is still bearing a transfer fee of 120 million. It is just when he is young and energetic, and it should be impossible to swallow this breath.

In the end, Hu Lai was able to keep smiling in front of her husband...

This person... is so weird.

After thinking about it, Sophia asked again: "You have been training with him for a day, do you think he can threaten your position?"

Carey seemed very confident: "I have a technical advantage, how could he threaten me? I'm just not happy with the club's attitude towards me, and I'm not even happy with him."

In other words, no matter whether this new aid can coexist with his husband, he will not get good looks from his husband...

Sophia sighed inwardly.

In fact, although my previous husband had a straight temper, he was not so extreme.

I feel that my husband's temper has become more and more strange since his poor performance in the comeback last season.

If things go on like this, Sophia is really worried that her husband will gradually become unpopular among the team's head coach and the club's top management. I can't even get along with my teammates on the team.

Then one day, I fell out completely with the club, and everyone broke up.

No one wants to go that far.

Their relationship with the club has always been very good, and they are also loved by Pirates fans here. Madrid is like their second hometown.

If it wasn't for her husband's insistence on returning to her hometown team to retire, she actually wanted to stay in Madrid.

The kids are more fluent in Spanish than Dutch...

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Not long after dinner, the Spanish teacher whom Song Jiajia hired for Li Qingqing came, and when Hu Lai went to open the door, the other party was stunned.

Hu Lai quickly introduced himself: "Hi, I'm Hu Lai, Qingqing's boyfriend."

The middle-aged woman laughed and held out her hand to him: "Mr. Hu, hello, I'm Claudia Lopez, Miss Li's Spanish teacher."

"Hello, Ms. Lopez, please come in."

"Mr. Hu, your Spanish is really fluent." The two exchanged a few words as they walked in. Claudia Lopez was impressed by Hu Lai's Spanish, and she couldn't help but praise.

"Thank you for the compliment, it's actually not bad..."

"Since you're so fluent in Spanish, why don't you teach Miss Lee yourself?" Lopez asked.

Hu Lai spread his hands in embarrassment: "I can speak, but I can't teach. I can only translate for Qingqing when she doesn't know a word."

Lopez showed a stunned look: "Indeed, not every Spaniard can become a language teacher. But I want to make a little suggestion, Mr. Hu."

"Go ahead, Ms. Lopez."

"In the future, if Ms. Li has any words she doesn't know, please let her look it up in the dictionary by herself instead of asking you directly. The process of looking up the dictionary is also a kind of learning. Telling her the meaning of the word directly is better than asking her to look it up by herself. There are two completely different effects. The latter will deepen her impression, while the former... she will not be able to remember the knowledge she obtained without using her brain."

Seeing Claudia Lopez with a serious face, Hu Lai also nodded solemnly: "Okay, Ms. Lopez, I will pay attention."

Seeing that he agreed to come down, Lopez smiled again, and then greeted Li Qingqing who came over in Spanish: "Good evening, Li!"

Li Qingqing also replied in Spanish: "Good evening, Ms. Lopez."

"I had a chat with your boyfriend just now, he is a great guy." Lopez pointed to Hu Lai, and tried to speak slowly to Li Qingqing so that she could understand as much as possible.

Hu Lai himself understood it first, and he knew that the lecture had already begun at this moment.

So he bid farewell to the two and went to the backyard by himself.

When Li Qingqing was learning Spanish, he also continued to train his left foot.

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There are only a few ordinary lights that are not bright in the yard. After all, it is not the villa in Jincheng back then. There is also a specially remodeled football field in the backyard, and of course there are professional tracers.

But Hu Lai doesn't need to be so fanfare.

After bumping the ball with his left foot, he took out the cones from the set of training equipment Song Jiajia brought him, placed them five meters apart, and laid them out in a straight line on the lawn.

Then he dribbled the ball around the pile with his left foot.

From here to there, and back again.

Only touch the ball with the left foot at all times.

After going back and forth several times like this, he stood still and took the opportunity to rest, turning his head and looking into the brightly lit room.

I saw Li Qingqing studying hard under the guidance of Ms. Lopez.

From Ms. Lopez's smiling and nodding movements, it can be guessed that Li Qingqing should have learned well.

He is practicing ball and Li Qingqing is learning language.

In Madrid, their new life began like this.