Fox in the Penalty Area

"Fox in the Forbidden Zone"

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

The Madrid Kings women's football team practiced twice a day today, but the training ended slightly earlier than the Madrid Pirates men's team.

"How was today? It's the first day of training with the team." Li Qingqing asked with a smile.

"It feels okay, but I found out that the pirate and the king are really mortal enemies in the same city..."

Hulay asked her about Madrid's requirement that all players drive sponsor-branded cars to training.

"Our women's team does not have such a requirement because the women's team does not have sponsors to send cars."

Although women's football has become very developed and popular in Europe, it is still far behind men's football. Whether it is the attendance rate of each game, media exposure, or commercial development level, it is completely incomparable to the men's football team.

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

This amount of money is almost worthless in exchange for male football players.

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

"But the men's team does have such a request. Mercedes-Benz is the sponsor of the Kings of Madrid and will give cars to the men's team players before every season. It may be for the interests of the sponsor, or it may be for the club's image. In short, the men's team It is indeed required that every player must drive a sponsor's brand car for training and competition. It doesn't matter what car he usually drives. Training and competition must be consistent. If someone drives a car of another brand, he will be fined by the team."

Hu Lai grinned.

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

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

"Okay." Li Qingqing did not refuse and agreed simply.

Hulay then continued to talk about what he saw in the Pirates.

When talking about Toni and Martinez chasing and quarreling in the locker room, but everyone else followed them and did not stop them. Even when the captain was introducing himself, they were able to take care of both sides. Li Qingqing said with emotion: "It's really not bad. Same. I don't know what the men's team is like. At least when I first joined the women's team, I was introduced to all my teammates as a newcomer. Everyone welcomed me in the locker room very seriously. It was 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."

"That's good if you think so." Li Qingqing smiled. "It's really meaningless. Everyone seems to be very friendly to you on the surface, but who knows what they think on the inside? In the end, you have to rely on your football ability to speak for itself."

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

"It's normal for him to have opinions about you." Li Qingqing said with a smile, "You are regarded by him as the biggest threat. He thinks you are here to steal his position. Wasn't he injured before? After being injured, his performance has always been... No, another player in the same position as him comes here at this time, and he will definitely be nervous. Of course, if you are a nobody, it’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, what the players think,

The coach can't control it either. "Li Qingqing asked Hu Lai with a smile, "How are you doing? Do you think wealthy teams are in trouble compared with small teams? "

"Trouble, it's indeed a bit troublesome, but I'm not afraid of it." Hu Lai said nonchalantly.

"You just have to have this momentum!" Li Qingqing clenched his fists to encourage Hu Lai, "Come on, Hu Lai!"

Hu Leon held his head high, like a proud little cock.

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

"Why are you laughing?" Hu Lai asked.

"I feel like I'm coaxing a child...ha!" Li Qingqing burst out laughing before she finished speaking.

Hu Lai rolled his eyes at her: "Why are you so young?"

"Why isn't it small?"

"I'm telling you, I'm not young at all!"

As soon as he finished saying this, Hu Lai's expression turned strange: "Hey, this conversation is so strange..."

Li Qingqing was stunned for a moment, then blushed and said angrily: "How bad are you, Hu Lai!"

Hu Lai pretended to be confused: "Ah, something is broken? Is there anything?"

Li Qingqing rolled her eyes and didn't want to pay attention to him, then turned around and left.

But Hu Lai grabbed his hand.

"Don't go!"

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

"Why are you so anxious? Isn't it still early?" Pulling the warm and soft beauty, Hu Lai couldn't bear to let go. He even wanted to take Li Qingqing directly into his arms.

"The teacher is going to teach me Spanish tonight, and we have to eat a little early." Li Qingqing explained.

"All right……"

Hu Lai reluctantly let go of his hand.

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

"Be good."

It really feels like coaxing a child...

Hu Lai touched the cheek that had just been kissed by Li Qingqing, thinking to himself that he must let Li Qingqing know that he was no longer a child!

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"Dad, Mom, we are full!"

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

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

"Good!" the two children cheered and ran off the dining table and towards the yard outside the door.

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

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

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

Without her children present, she had the opportunity to chat with her husband about internal matters within 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 this kind of person.

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

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

Her husband has suffered a lot for this. For example, the media is always keen to discuss her husband's rights and wrongs, portraying Kaili as a bad boy who is distant from him.

But the husband has never changed, or rather he has no intention of changing.

So Sophie is used to it.

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

"I expected him to be angry..." Carey said, "but he wasn't. He kept smiling."

Sophia's eyes widened: "He's... not angry?"

In ordinary people's opinion, how many people who are not familiar with Kaili can tolerate being treated in such an attitude by Kaili?

Hu Lai had just arrived, he was so young, and he was still carrying a transfer fee of 120 million. He was young and energetic, so it was impossible for him to swallow this breath.

As a result, 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 unhappy with the club's attitude towards me, and I'm also unhappy with him."

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

Sophia sighed inwardly.

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

I feel like my husband’s temper has gotten weirder and weirder since his poor comeback performance last season.

If this continues, 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 hang out with my teammates on the team.

Then one day, we had a complete falling out with the club and everyone broke up.

No one wants to get to that point.

They have always had a good relationship with the club and are deeply loved by Pirates fans here. Madrid is like their second home.

If her husband hadn't insisted on returning to her hometown team to retire, she would have actually stayed in Madrid.

The children are more fluent in Spanish than Dutch…

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Not long after dinner, the Spanish teacher Song Jiajia invited for Li Qingqing arrived. When Hu Lai opened the door, he was stunned for a moment.

Hu Lai quickly introduced himself: "Hello, I am Hu Lai, Qingqing's boyfriend."

The middle-aged woman laughed when she heard this and stretched out her hand to him: "Hello, Mr. Hu, I am Claudia Lopez, Miss Li's Spanish teacher."

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

"Mr. Hu, your Spanish is so fluent." The two exchanged a few words while walking inside. Claudia Lopez was so impressed by Hu Lai's Spanish that she couldn't help but praise him.

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

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

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

Lopez looked astonished: "Indeed, not every Spaniard can become a language teacher. But I would like to make a small suggestion, Mr. Hu."

"Please speak, Ms. Lopez."

"In the future, if Miss 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. The answer is that there are two completely different effects. The latter will deepen her impression, and the former...she cannot remember the knowledge she obtained without using her brain. "

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

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

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

"I just had a chat with your boyfriend. He is a great guy." Lopez pointed at Hu Lai and spoke to Li Qingqing as slowly as possible so that she could understand him as much as possible.

Hu Lai understood it first. He knew that the teaching had started at this moment.

So he said goodbye to the two of them and went to the backyard.

While Li Qingqing is learning Spanish, he also has to continue training his left foot.

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There are only a few ordinary lighting lamps in the yard that are not bright. After all, it is not the villa in Jincheng. There is also a specially renovated football field in the backyard, and naturally there are professional tracer lights.

But Hu Lai doesn't need to make such a big fanfare.

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

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

Take it from one end to the other and back again.

The whole time he could only touch the ball with his left foot.

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

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

From the way Ms. Lopez smiled and nodded, we can guess that Li Qingqing must have learned well.

He is practicing football, and Li Qingqing is learning languages.

In Madrid, their new life began.