Chapter 178 Number 10! Li Qing Vs. La Masia Twins

Li Qing received an unprecedented welcome at Incheon International Airport, and he was somewhat flattered, especially with so many young and beautiful female fans flirting with him.

However, Li Qing was a newly emerged superstar after all, and his popularity was not particularly high. Only those fans who were particularly focused on Li Qing came to Incheon International Airport to pick him up.

About an hour and a half later, Li Qing, accompanied by the staff of the English Football Association, took a taxi to the four-star hotel where the England U20 youth team stayed.

At this time, the England U20 had just finished training and returned to the hotel. Li Qing saw three teammates from the club, Arnold, Ejaria and Ojo, from a distance.

Arnold was sharp-eyed and waved at Li Qing and shouted loudly: "Hey~ Li, this way."

The members of the England U20 youth team who were about to return to their respective rooms heard Arnold's shout and turned their heads subconsciously, just in time to see Li Qing, who had just finished the Premier League and FA Cup finals.

Although Li Qing is the youngest player in the England U20 youth team, he is the most well-known player in the team, so the No. 10 jersey, which symbolizes the absolute core, belongs to him, even though he missed the first two rounds of the group stage due to the FA Cup final.

Ejaria and Ojo followed Arnold and took the initiative to greet Li Qing, hugging each other.

Arnold has the best relationship with Li Qing, and he smiled and blinked: "You performed well in the FA Cup final."

"Hehe~"

Li Qing smiled and shrugged: "That's just like that..."

In addition to a few players from Liverpool who walked towards Li Qing, most of the players also walked over, except Tomori and Solanke from Chelsea's youth training camp.

Tomori did not go because his good friend Solanke was hostile to Li Qing.

Why Solanke is hostile to Li Qing? It is because the management of England U20 Youth Team favors one over the other. Logically speaking, he has been wearing the No. 10 jersey symbolizing the core since he participated in the U19 European Championship. Now Li Qing wants to take the No. 10 jersey symbolizing the core without even playing a game for England U20 Youth Team. Why?

Just because he performed well in the Premier League and FA Cup?

Bah!

If Chelsea is willing to give me a chance, I can do it too!

The more Solanke looked at Li Qing, the angrier he felt, and his eyes were about to burst into flames.

Li Qing felt as if someone was looking at him, and turned his head to look, and happened to meet Solanke's eyes. He raised his eyebrows, turned his head and asked Arnold, pointing at Solanke who turned his back, and raised his eyebrows and said: "Who is that?"

"Dominic Solanke, a Chelsea youth player."

Arnold glanced and said casually.

"Why do I feel like he's very unhappy with me?"

"He must be unhappy with you!"

Before Arnold spoke, Ejaria said, "Before you chose the England U20 team, he was the No. 10 player of this team. Now you are coming and you want to take No. 10. Do you think he has any grievances?"

Li Qing slapped his forehead fiercely. The team leader Peter Taylor didn't say anything. He remembered that Peter Taylor vowed that any number could be chosen, so he chose the No. 10 jersey that symbolized the absolute core.

If Peter Taylor said something, he would not choose this number.

But now it is impossible for him to give the number back. As the biggest star of England U20, what's wrong with wearing the No. 10 jersey?

About ten minutes later, Li Qing met the head coach Simpson at the hotel where the England youth team stayed, and the two had a good chat.

That night, the English Football Association held a grand press conference at the hotel to welcome Li Qing to the England U20 national youth family for the first time.

Head coach Simpson was relatively low-key when accepting media interviews, and did not show his ambition to win the championship: "Champion? No, no, no... Our goal is to seek a breakthrough in performance."

Li Qing's mouth twitched slightly, obviously dissatisfied with the answer of head coach Simpson. If he did not fight for the championship in the tournament system, he might as well go back to grow sweet potatoes.

Of course, he knew that this was Simpson's initiative to show weakness to avoid the team becoming the target of public criticism.

The second round of the 2017 FIFA U20 World Cup group stage has all ended, and the most critical third round is in full swing. England U20 is one of the four teams in Group A, and naturally became the focus of the third round.

In terms of overall strength, Argentina U20 and England U20 are stronger than the other two teams, and they should advance together, and the remaining two teams will compete for the best third place in the group. No one expected that after two rounds, the host country Korean U20 won two consecutive victories in the group and ranked first in the group.

England U20 has a clear advantage in overall strength, so they will not be ranked second. Therefore, they will do their best in the third round of the group stage at the Suwon World Cup Stadium.

However, South Korea U20 star Lee Seung-woo vowed to beat England U20 at home and end the group stage with three consecutive wins.

England U20 head coach Simpson and the players did not respond, but Li Qing could not help it. He said on INS and Twitter that he would beat South Korea U20 by a large margin at the Suwon World Cup Stadium.

The South Korean media was already very upset with Li Qing, and now they dared to speak rudely in their home stadium, so they naturally launched a targeted fishing reel war.

However, at this time, Li Qing was concentrating on preparing for the last round of the group.

Li Qing did not respond, and the domestic media and fans of the Celestial Empire could not hold back, and helped Li Qing to ridicule the Korean media, claiming that Li Qing would lead the England U20 to defeat the Korean U20 youth team led by Lee Seung-woo at the Suwon World Cup Stadium.

The Suwon World Cup Stadium was built specifically for the 2002 World Cup and can accommodate 43,959 fans. There was still an hour before the start of the game, and more than 80% of the fans had already poured into the entire stadium, and the remaining seats were still being filled at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Because Li Qing made relevant remarks that did not give face before the game, the home team South Korean fans saw Li Qing coming out of the player tunnel, and they tacitly raised their middle fingers and booed loudly.

Li Qing smiled disapprovingly. In his opinion, South Korea fans are just clowns.

South Korea U20 star Lee Seung-woo looked at the arrogant Li Qing, and his mouth corners naturally raised. As an outstanding product of La Masia, he is quite confident.

England Messi?

My South Korea Messi is much better than you!

The reporters on the scene all had sharp eyes. They captured a very textured picture. Lee Seung-woo looked at Li Qing with interest, as if... he was very dissatisfied.

At 6 pm Seoul time, which is 8 pm in the capital time, the last round of Group A of the 2017 World Youth Championship between South Korea U20 and England U20 kicked off. In order to avoid the last round of group matches being controlled by external groups, the two games in Group A kicked off at the same time.