Zhao Zhenghao smiled and said, "Please rest assured by Mr. Xia. Before coming, I had already communicated with Lippi in advance through the match between Mr. Xu of Hengda Group and reached a certain consensus with the coaching team. There should be no problem!"

It is rumored that the sky-high annual salary of the Lippi team is borne by Hengda Group, which seems to be true. It is estimated that if the Football Association communicates directly with the Lippi team, it will be difficult to get the other party's consent, so Xu Jiaying, the big funder of Hengda Group, was brought up.

Zhao Zhenghao continued: "And everyone's goals are the same, that is, do their best to ensure that the national football team can qualify in the World Cup qualifiers. In order to achieve this goal, it is definitely no problem to make some changes. Lippi also specifically learned about your situation and found the video of your last appearance for Espanyol and studied it. He recognized your ability. It was just because there was too little information, and he believed that the representativeness was slightly insufficient."

"Is that true?" Xia Ruofei said with a smile.

Zhao Zhenghao nodded and said, "I will bring you back the highlights of the game against Barcelona edited by the Espanyol coach team. In addition, Espanyol coach Ruby seems to have a lot of videos of your training, and I will also bring these back together. I believe Lippi's evaluation of you will rise a lot! He will definitely give you a green light at that time!"

"That's good!" Xia Ruofei said with a secret sigh of relief, "If this happens, there will be no problem."

Since Xia Rufei is willing to play for the country, he does not want some off-court factors to interfere with him. If the coaching staff is not well coordinated, it will easily cause various storms and affect the preparations of the national football team, and then things will turn into bad things.

This time, the Football Association spared no effort to coordinate with multiple parties, which also made Xia Rufei very satisfied.

Zhao Zhenghao said happily: "It seems that my trip is really worth it! If you can recruit Mr. Xia, a brave general for the national football team, you may be recorded in the history of Chinese football!"

"This is a bit exaggerated..." Xia Ruofei smiled.

In fact, the reality is that the Chinese national football team has become second-rate in Asia. Some former Southeast Asian bottom teams have made rapid progress. The opponents who were able to defeat big scores in the past have become a bit difficult now. It is not impossible to draw or even lose, not to mention traditional Asian strong teams such as Japan, the Baton Country, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Australian teams that joined the AFC. It is basically difficult for the Chinese national football team to win against these teams.

Therefore, the outside world evaluates that although this national football team has good signing and qualifying situation in the top 40 matches, it is only limited to the top 40 matches. After entering the second stage of the qualifiers, it is estimated that they will be the life of running with them again.

If the Chinese national football team can qualify against the trend under this situation, it will obviously write a brilliant mark in the history of Chinese football. Zhao Zhenghao traveled thousands of miles to Spain to interview Xia Rufei in person and successfully promoted Xia Rufei to join the Chinese national football team, which will inevitably be rumored to be a talk.

Zhao Zhenghao said with a smile: "Mr. Xia, do you have any requirements for jersey numbers? I see that you are relatively flexible in the game, and it seems to be more suitable for being behind the striker. It is also very suitable to be a midfield metronome. Otherwise... leave the No. 10 jersey for you?"

"Hasn't Zheng Zhi always worn the No. 10 jersey?" Xia Rufei frowned slightly and said, "It's not good to win people, not to mention that I don't care much about jersey numbers. I think my No. 25 jersey in Espanyol is very good. If no one wears the No. 25 of the Chinese Football Team, I will leave it to me!"

"This..." Zhao Zhenghao couldn't help but show a hint of hesitation.

No. 25 is not a popular number. If Xia Rufei is willing to ask for this number, Zhao Zhenghao will naturally be one hundred willing. Although he said it easily, it is not so easy to use Zheng Zhi’s No. 10 jersey to Xia Rufei. Zheng Zhi’s position in the Chinese football world is also of great importance. Moreover, after being the captain of the national football team for so many years, although he is already 38 years old, he is still an indispensable figure in the midfielder of the national football team.

At the end of his career, the last World Cup qualifiers deprived him of his No. 10 jersey to a player who had never been to the national team before. Even if he could do his job as a Tong Zheng Zhi himself, the fans would not be able to stand the criticism!

However, Zhao Zhenghao didn't know if Xia Rufei was thinking from the bottom of his heart. If Xia Rufei was just polite, he actually wanted a number like No. 9 and No. 10 that symbolizes the main force and core, but he followed the flow and really gave him the No. 25 jersey, and then the good impression left in front would be ruined.

To be honest, Zhao Zhenghao can even ignore whether the national football team can qualify for this qualifier, nor can he care about Xia Rufei's feelings. Any leader who calls him can determine his future. However, for a person like Xia Rufei, he naturally has to make friends with him deliberately, and the priority of this matter is even higher than that of the national football team competition.

This is the real reason why Zhao Zhenghao was hesitating.

Xia Ruofei smiled faintly and said, "Vice Chairman Zhao, don't you think I'm not right, do you?"

"Where are there!" Zhao Zhenghao said quickly, "How could it be?"

"The jersey number matter is decided!" Xia Ruofei said, "Vice Chairman Zhao, you will know after you know it with the Espanyol team. I really don't care about the number matter."

Seeing Xia Rufei say this, Zhao Zhenghao finally believed that Xia Rufei really didn't want No. 10, and he really didn't care about the number of jerseys. He also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"Thank you Mr. Xia for supporting our work!" Zhao Zhenghao said, "Then I will tell the national team immediately and leave the No. 25 jersey first! There are many players joining the team this time, and many people want to pick numbers!"

Xia Ruofei nodded and said, "You are troubled."

"What's the point, it's a simple task!" Zhao Zhenghao said very politely, "As I said just now, we will do our best to do a good job in guaranteeing Mr. Xia so that you have no worries!"

The two of them talked through everything, and they both felt relaxed.

Xia Ruofei has the heart to serve the country. Now that the Football Association can make so many concessions, he will have less trouble if he handles special matters. Otherwise, he will have to spend some time with the people above.

Of course, he didn't know that although he didn't speak, the Song and Liu families had already done their work in advance for him. Otherwise, how could Zhao Zhenghao have the same attitude today?

Zhao Zhenghao was even more relieved. This trip to Spain can be said to be very perfect, both for the national football team and for him personally.

After the two talked about it, they simply got up to the tea-making area and had tea and chatted with Zhou Leiyun, Ling Qingxue and Song Wei. Everyone's topics did not leave football, but the main thing was about yesterday's game.

In fact, yesterday's game attracted widespread attention worldwide.

In fact, as long as it is a Barcelona game, it will definitely attract attention, not to mention the gimmick of the Caté Derby. Although the strength of the derby is quite different, the derby itself is full of topicality, and the teams in the same city are always full of hostility.

The result of the game was even more dramatic. Barcelona, ​​who had a rare opponent in La Liga, was actually thrown into four goals by the Spanish team, and they were in their famous home court, Camp Nou, and they eventually lost the game.

Major sports media around the world reported on this game at the first time, and reported on it from their own different perspectives.

It can be said that this game has become a feast for global sports media. Everyone's "mouth" perspective may be different, but there is no doubt that this is a media carnival.

For Chinese media, the title should be as exaggerated as it should be.

Titles such as "The Chinese Double Stars Shining in La Liga, and the Giant Barcelona was Beheaded", "Messi was dim under his starlight last night", "He defeated Barcelona alone", "Xia Rufei and Wu Lei became the savior of the Spaniard and jointly staged a soul-stirring killing show" can be said to be endless.

This is not a big fuss about the Chinese media. It is really because Chinese football has been in a slump in recent years. It is difficult for two players who have shined in La Liga. Don’t you have to praise them to death?

What's more, in the game yesterday, Xia Rufei and Wu Lei had a very obvious role. If it weren't for Xia Rufei and Wu Lei, Espanyol would have lost at least two goals yesterday. Therefore, although the title of the Chinese media is a bit exaggerated, it is not entirely self-interested. Xia Rufei and Wu Lei's performance is worthy of such praise.

If professional sports media are still restrained when writing, then the online self-media and netizens, fans are even more scruples. Yesterday's game really made Chinese fans excited. Although it was already three or four o'clock in the middle of the night after the game, everyone was not sleepy at all. They kept browsing various goal videos, Weibo, and forums online, and a large number of posts and replies were generated, all of which were related to Xia Rufei and Wu Lei.

Interestingly, maybe I was a little too excited when I was commenting yesterday. After finishing work at around 4 a.m., Shen Fangjian just posted a Weibo post to congratulate Espanyol on his victory, and then went back to rest - as for whether he could sleep, no one knew, anyway, he did not continue to speak on the Internet since then.

This made netizens very uncomfortable - this shouldn't be the style of the double-produced hall owners of "Wu Chutang" and "Xia Chutang"!

As a result, a large number of netizens flocked to Shen Fangjian's Weibo to leave messages.

"Master Shen, wake up! Wu Lei and Xia Ruofei both scored goals, why are you still sleeping? Get up and blow!"

"Master Shen, you should learn more from Master Jia! Look at his dedicated attitude!"

Although Jia Tianning only posted a Weibo post, he brought an animated picture of Xia Rufei and Wu Lei's goal, and the Weibo copy also did not hide his appreciation for the two, and used a lot of praise that some netizens thought were praise.

In addition, various versions of the highlights appeared on the headlines and Douyin, including the highlights of Xia Rufei's touching balls, and the highlights of all goals scored by both sides in the whole game, etc. Some netizens also intercepted Xia Rufei's last wonderful barb winning ball collection, and tried their best to search for several versions of the commentary, including English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean... The commentary in non-languages ​​were thoughtfully accompanied by Chinese subtitles, and the title was "Look at how commentators from all over the world praised Xia Rufei's winning balls in various languages".

Some of the behind-the-scenes galas also attracted a lot of attention.

Two of the videos once reached the top of the rankings.

One of the scenes is also the official broadcast. At the moment when Xia Rufei scored the barb, when Espanyol players were celebrating around Xia Rufei, the camera turned to the stands and just captured the position closest to the stadium in the first row of the stands. A young man from the eastern side hole was waving his arms happily while shouting something. Obviously, he couldn't suppress his excitement at the arrival of this goal.

It would be nothing if it was just Chinese fans cheering for Xia Rufei's goal, even at the Camp Nou - after all, Chinese people are everywhere around the world. During this period, there would be Chinese fans in the stands waving the five-star red flag to cheer him on every game that Wu Lei participated in during this period.

The key is that this cheering Chinese fan is wearing Barcelona jerseys, and the stands in which they are also Barcelona fans.

Obviously, this is a hardcore Barcelona fan.

But he was cheering and celebrating for his opponent's final goal, which formed a strong contrast.

Some netizens commented very well: at that moment, he was a Chinese fan, not a Barcelona fan.

Someone else joked: Barcelona is going to lose? What if he doesn’t matter! Mr. Xia scored a goal is the key! Celebration first! As for whether he will be killed by Barcelona fans after he comes down, who can think so much about it!
Chapter completed!