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400. Captain Xiaolong

Long Shute is definitely the busiest person in Bayern formation.

On July 18, he arrived in the capital with the team. After only two hours of rest, he was taken to CCTV to record his personal interview. He and Zhang Bin and Liu Jianhong talked about the differences between Chinese football and European football, and optimistically looked forward to the upcoming Olympics and the World Cup two years later, bringing full hope to the audience.

On the 19th, he participated in the interactive program held by World Football with Ram, Schweinsteiger, Muller, Robben and Ribery. As a cooperation project between CCTV and Bayern Club, he certainly could not refuse, so they spent three happy and relaxing hours with hundreds of meters fans.

At noon on the 20th, Long Shute led the team to defeat Beijing Guoan 8-0, ending their first stop in China with a big victory.

In the evening of that day, they boarded a plane, crossed most of the country from the North China Plain, and came to Guangzhou.

On the 21st, he attended a commercial event organized by Volkswagen Group with his teammates, creating momentum for the upcoming Volkswagen South China Manufacturing Base.

In the afternoon, they finally took time to train for two hours, and half of them were signing autographs for the fans.

Bayern players are basically enthusiastic and cheerful. Leading by captain Ram and Pig, they will try their best to meet the requirements of fans. What's more, they have Long Shute, a Chinese teammate. Long Shute, as the Golden Ball, has impatiently signed more than 200 signatures in a row. Even if the others are reluctant, they will not dare to leave in person, right?

On the 22nd, Bayern held a friendly match with last season's Chinese Super League champion Guangzhou Evergrande.

Guoan's crushing defeat is right in front of him, and Evergrande doesn't want to lose the same thing. Head coach Lippi of course sent all his main players and vowed to clear the reputation of the Chinese Super League.

Influenced by the fatigue of the journey, many of Bayern's main players were substituted after only playing in the half game, even Robben and Ram were the same. Only Long Shute played the whole game.

During the entire ninety minutes, he once again showed his unfathomable physical fitness. The eight-kilometer running distance in the half-time directly dragged down the captain Evergrande, who was responsible for guarding him, and his national teammate Zheng Zhi, who was responsible for guarding him!

You know, Zheng Zhi is also a hard-working man who has experienced in British football!

Evergrande, who has just entered the AFC Champions League knockout stage, is in a period of overwhelming self-confidence. The Guangzhou team, which is arrogant in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, fought a defensive counterattack in the second half of the warm-up match. Even so, head coach Lippi still has no chance of winning.

Not only the chance of winning, he is even worried...will his team repeat the mistakes of Guoan?

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When the final whistle sounded, Lippi finally didn't have to worry, his team lost 1-8 to the European champions.

The only thing that could comfort him was... relying on the free kick of Brazilian midfielder Conca, they scored a goal, but they did not swallow eight bullets like Guoan.

Evergrande, which is struggling to make a big progress in the league and the Champions League, suffered a blow, perhaps this is not a bad thing.

Players can calm down and regain their so-called Chinese Kaiser myth, then become more pragmatic and work harder to start a new journey.

Long Shute is not a real guy who doesn't recognize his relatives, but he has played all his strength in these two warm-up matches.

He used facts to tell the strongest teams in the Chinese Super League how far they are between them and themselves...

On July 26, Bayern will also play an Audi Cup match with Wolfsburg in Shanghai, but fans of Oriental Pearl cannot see their Chinese captain up close.

Because three days ago, Long Shute had already flew back to Europe and came to England, which was lonely overseas.

The 2012 London Olympics...is about to begin.

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"Thank God, you finally reported it to me in a healthy way!"

At the Hilton Hotel in London, Guo Olympic head coach Li Bing finally put down the big stone in his heart.

This is a matter of course: no one can come to his team, or even get out of it himself, but the team's captain must be missing.

"Team Dragon, you're not very interested in Guangzhou. Is it too bad to kick our team? But...hehehe, fortunately I'm not here..."

Evergrande defender Zhang Linpeng, who came to London early because of the Olympics, missed the club's previous warm-up match with Bayern. He half complained and half thankfully said this.

"There's no way," Long Shute smiled and found a reason, "I don't have time to train with everyone, so I can only use the opportunity of a warm-up match to stay in shape."

The players of the National Olympic Team are basically around 90 years old, and they are only a few months apart from Long Shute. They have not been a professional player for a long time and have not been completely infected with the bad habits of the old seniors, so it is much easier to deal with everyone's relationships.

In order to welcome Long Shute's arrival, Li Bing, as the head coach, specially ordered a table outside, but no other player was involved except Long Shute.

In this private room, everyone is full of bigwigs in the Chinese sports industry, and Li Bing can only sit nearest to the door.

Seeing Long Shute come in, these people stood up from the sofa in the lounge area.

"Oh, here we come, Captain Xiaolong, come, let me introduce you to you. This is Director Liu of our General Administration of Sports. It may be the first time you have met. At this Olympics, Director Liu personally took charge. Our football program has also achieved a historic breakthrough under the care of Director Liu." Secretary General of the Football Association and Director Wei of the Football Management Center spoke with a smile, but he still did not forget to praise the merits of the leaders.

"Captain Xiaolong, I have long admired Daming. You are the pride of Chinese sports." Director Liu stretched out his right hand with a smile, looking like an amiable neighbor uncle.

"Director Liu, I'll be lucky to meet you."

After all, the blood that the Chinese have passed down from generation to generation for five thousand years is flowing. Long Shute did not naively think that with the honors of the Champions League and the Golden Ball Award, a ministerial-level official could show a flattering expression. So he just shook hands with the other party enthusiastically and unhumblely, and then casually said a few polite words - of course, in terms of age, it is understandable that the other party is talking to the elders and the younger generations.

Also seated are the deputy director of the General Administration, chairman of the Football Association, Cai Ping-Pong, vice chairman, Yu Hongchen, the first team leader of the National Olympic Team, and the old minister of the National Olympic Team and Li Xiaoguang.

Everyone sat down at the dining table based on their identities and qualifications, and Long Shute sat next to Director Liu "flattered".

According to the convention, after eating three cups, Long Shute toasted a few leaders and then removed the wine glass in front of him.

Although this is not polite in Chinese restaurant culture, considering Long Shute's current reputation, the generous leaders will not turn against each other on the spot.

"Little Dragon, your age is not much different from that of our old guys' sons. I'll call you that," Liu Yueniao patted Long Shute's shoulder while drunk, looking very close. "The people sitting here are all their own people. Tell us what you mean. With our strength... can we qualify in groups?"

Long Shute was not surprised about the leadership problem, because there was no other complicated relationship between them, and the only intersection was nothing more than the Olympics.

"Quan in the group is not my goal, Director Liu," under such circumstances, Long Shute did not dare to show his usual verbal skills, but answered the leader's questions carefully. "I have evaluated the strength of each team, most of which are equal to each other, and the difference is not as obvious as that of the adult team. With our level, if nothing unexpected happens, there is no problem with qualifying. If it goes well, we may be able to get a medal."

What are the evaluation strengths and what are the equals? Where do these leaders who are only concerned about major issues have the skills to study these, but they all choose to believe in Longshute's analysis.

Cai Ping-Pang said with a smile:

"Since ancient times, heroes have become young people, and young people are ambitious. If you can bring the team to the top three, we will celebrate your achievements after the Olympics!"

"By the way, let's not talk about the results, there is one more thing," Liu Yueniao waved his hand, "The main flag bearer of the Chinese delegation has not been finalized. Xiaolong, as the leader of Chinese sports, you cannot refuse this task, right?"

Long Shute smiled slightly, filled the wine glass he had already removed again, and collided with the bureaucrats on the table one by one:
Chapter completed!
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