Arriving in China,
FC United was first enjoying the scenery of Beijing, Lu Wei led the whole team to play crazy in Beijing for two days, for these players who have been yearning for China for a long time, the Great Wall, Forbidden City and other names have long made their hearts surging, they are wearing ordinary T-shirts, wearing ordinary sunglasses and hats on the streets of Beijing, and they can be seen in Beijing's major attractions. Fortunately, there are many foreigners visiting Beijing every day, and most of the players are not so famous that they are not recognized by fans.

Lu Wei is not very comfortable with this group of people, please Zhang Zhang's more than a dozen translators to follow them to have some sense of security, I have seen the news of players in Japan due to language barriers and contradictions, although now the mobile APP function is very complete, but this insurance still has to be good.

Lu Wei brought the captain Robertson and Barbosa, the most famous in China, to the recording site of the "World Football" program group the next night.

In last month's World Cup qualifiers, China regrettably tied with Syria 2-2, and entering the World Cup is only a theoretical possibility, at this time, FC United, which has a close relationship with China, visits to China is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for Chinese fans, although FC United is not yet a giant, but there are also many fans who regard FC United as their home team.

CCTV also attached great importance to this, not only sent the most famous "World Football" program group in China, but also arranged the most senior Zhang Wenwu and beautiful host Ma Shu to host the program.

In the background, Lu Wei brought the players and the TV station to connect, and the two hosts discussed with Lu Wei quite seriously the content to be interviewed for a while, among which the most important thing for them was FC United's miraculous rise from an amateur team to the Premier League, FC United's method of running the club, whether there is something for Chinese football clubs to learn, and so on.

Lu Wei was also satisfied with the preparation of the TV station, after all, the sports channel is a channel specializing in sports programs, and did not ask him about the gossip news about how to make a fortune and his relationship with Barbara.

Lu Wei has also seen the two in private in his previous life, although it is the first time to come to China on the surface, but there is no stage fright, a slightly Beijing Mandarin makes Zhang Ma and the two are also quite amazed, Chinese they have also seen a lot, and it is still relatively rare for Chinese who are so familiar with China, especially Beijing.

"Director Lu really can't tell that you grew up in the UK, your Mandarin is very standard, and you have a bit of a Beijing accent, if you don't say it, you must think that you are an authentic Beijinger."

Zhang Wenwu quipped.

"Where, after the award, I have never forgotten where my roots come from, China is my motherland, my hometown, I will never forget these."

Robertson and Barbosa, who could not understand the Chinese, sat honestly on the sidelines, listening to the interpreter who told them the process of the interview, and felt the powerful scale of China for the first time, and could not help but pay some respect for this place.

The interview took place in the recording hall, and there were only a few dozen fans on the scene except for them and the staff, and Lu Wei knew that these fans were also screened out, and there would be no impact, they just needed to complete the interaction according to the process as normal.

The whole show lasted for an hour and a half, and the host's questions at the beginning naturally began around this FC United China tour, how are the players doing in Beijing, what do they think about China, Lu Wei and Robertson naturally have questions and answers, Lu Wei occasionally plays a little humor during the interview, causing the audience to laugh.

The interview program went smoothly, and the atmosphere of the fans and audience was also enthusiastic, half of them wore the red jersey of FC United, half of them wore the red jersey of the Chinese national team, and whenever Lu Wei pointed out the key sentence, they would applaud neatly and then let out just the right amount of laughter.

Although Lu Wei is a little awkward on stage, he also understands the reason why the TV station does this, after all, it is a live broadcast program, if something happens, many people in China will be punished for it, or even lose their jobs. Sport is about making people happy from sports, and in some ways, China's entertainment is overdone, while in others, it is too rigid.

In the interview, it is inevitable that Lu Wei will be asked about his views on Chinese football, and Lu Wei has long been prepared for this.

"Although I was born and raised in the UK, I have always been very concerned about the development of Chinese football, China is a sports country, in the Olympic comprehensive sports event has been able to achieve good results, but the Olympic Games and professional football are different, Olympic football is just a platform for young players to show themselves, I remember the beginning, the Olympic Games were not allowed to participate in professional athletes, I also read reports about Chinese football, the failure of the Olympic Games, the failure of the Asian Cup, the failure of the World Preliminary Round, Can't China's 1.3 billion people find eleven who can play football?

As he spoke, Lu Wei's voice gradually rose, and the experienced Zhang Wenwu also secretly signaled the staff to cut this section as soon as there was a situation.

"But don't forget that China has more than a billion people, but not more than a billion players, England is much smaller than China, the population is only one-twentieth of China, and the Manchester region is only two million people, but in such a small place there are nearly ten professional teams, as well as countless amateur and semi-amateur teams, when I became the head coach, FC United was only a seventh-tier team, and at that time there were already more than 100 echelon members."

"Every school and even every community has its own football team and stadium, there are many Premier League stars are starting their first steps in professional football from these amateur and semi-amateur teams, I believe that Chinese football will develop very well in the future, but there must be a systematic professional club echelon and youth culture foundation, I know that China's education upgrade system is an assessment system, but how many people will be willing to spend time and energy to play football under such a system?"

"The structure of any sport is going to be pyramidal, all we can see are the teams at the top, but at the bottom of the mountain and at the bottom of the mountain, there are countless amateur teams and lower divisions that support the whole English football system, Andrew, I ask you, what did you do before you were 18?"

Hearing Lu Wei's question, Robertson shrugged.

"I joined the Celtic youth team at the age of 9, was abandoned by the club when I was in high school, then went to train at Queens Park, an amateur team, worked in supermarkets while training, sold underwear, and then joined FC United at the age of 18 to officially become a professional footballer."

Not only Zhang Wenwu and Ma Shu, the fans in the audience sighed a little, it turned out that the legendary captain of the Red Rebels still had such a past.

"I don't know how many football stadiums there are in China, how many football stadiums can really be used to play football, how many people play football on the field every day, how many children are really involved in football training, how many football schools, but what I know is that there is not enough environment and platform for children to play freely, children do not have time and space to play football, in such a place, football is impossible."

Zhang Wenwu relaxed his body, was silent for a while, and took the lead in clapping.

"No successful team is built in a day, and although FC United has only been established for more than a decade, not even as old as our Chinese Super League, FC United has worked tirelessly for more than ten years to accomplish an impossible task, and their experience has a lot to learn from our league."

At the end of the show, Zhang Wenwu made a summary to the audience.

"FC United is somewhat different from other English teams with a long history, not as small as normal people understand, slow development, but at the beginning of the drastic reform, reduce the number of first-team members, spend a lot of money to introduce outstanding players, large-scale improvement of the team's hardware facilities, and vigorously develop youth training, and did not give up the future for temporary results, Director Lu just said in the interview is very good, youth training is the future of a team, The fundamentals of a team, there is not enough youth training strength, a team a league and a country, no matter how good the results are, it is only fake prosperity, in the future of taking a momentary glory to consume decades.

Lu Wei also breathed a sigh of relief, doing shows here is much more tiring than other places, but Robertson and Balbosa don't think so, they are very happy when interacting with fans, and the interview show also ended in the group photo.

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