"Aren't you feeling better?" Wang Ai interrupted nervously: "You were recuperating in Tubingen for a long time. We only let you go when you were completely healed. Why, you relapsed again?"
At the dinner table, Xu Qinglian also put down her chopsticks and looked at the shy and low-key Shandong native with concern.
"I'm sick." Qu Bo smiled bitterly, shook his head, and sighed: "Let's put it this way, if I don't train and can be an ordinary person from now on, nothing may happen in my life. But as long as I train, as long as the competition is tense
, it would be dangerous if my body and mind were both tense. Last season, our team had several very tense games, and all the main players were injured. I was extremely stressed, and then I couldn’t sleep for several days. After the game, I found that I couldn’t sleep.
Fortunately, when I went to the hospital, all the data were over the line."
When Qu Bo said this, he looked up and saw the caring faces of his little brother and younger siblings. His eyes were blurred by a warm current in his heart. He quickly shook his head: "Don't worry too much. I asked for leave with the coach and went to Tubingen.
I asked the professor to check it out for me. Fortunately, there was no big problem. I just have to pay attention to it in future training and competitions. The physical pressure should not be too great, and the psychological pressure should not be too great. At the same time, I should also pay attention to my diet. Later I took this physical examination report with me.
I went back to the club and told my head coach. After all, I still know which one is more serious, money or health. At that time, I thought, if the club really wants to leave me, it will be the same if I return to China. It costs more than three million yuan a year.
I can still make money. Unexpectedly, both the club and the head coach tried to retain me, saying they would try to provide an environment suitable for me and not put too much competition pressure on me. They hoped that I could stay and continue to be a rotation player. I proposed a salary reduction, and the club
I didn’t agree. Of course, when other players asked for a salary increase at the beginning of this season, I didn’t mention it, and the club didn’t give it to them. Otherwise, if we can’t reach 20,000, how can we reach 1.5 or 1.3.”
"We are in this industry." Wang Ai shook his head and held up Xu Qinglian's freshly squeezed orange juice: "Anything else is false, but wishing you good health is true."
After saying that, the two looked at each other, smiled, and raised their glasses to drink together.
"Speaking of which, I don't recommend that you return to China." Wang Ai put down the cup and said thoughtfully: "If you can't stay in the Premier League, then you can go to the Championship. If you don't want to stay in England, you can go back to Tübingen.
In short, I won’t go back to my country if I can’t.”
Qu Bo nodded: "I actually think about it this way. Although it is easy to make money and feel more comfortable in all aspects after returning to China, you can actually save a lot of money, but it is not easy to maintain your status. Once you can't play in the Chinese Super League at home, you will still be in trouble."
What should I do? Play in League A? This step-by-step state will be over. If I stay in Europe, even if I can't play in top-level competitions, I can still maintain my state by playing in the second-tier league, so that my sports life will be longer."
Speaking of this, Qu Bo took the initiative to raise his cup: "Speaking of which, I have to thank you. Brother, if you hadn't created Tübingen Youth to protect us, once we couldn't stay in the Premier League, we would have gone to a second-tier league like the English Championship.
The Serie A league may not go smoothly either. After all, the cultural gap in this region is huge, and it is difficult to integrate. The same is true for Jihai in Manchester City. He has to compete every day. If you fall behind the main force a little, you will be gone. If you are not careful, the substitute will
It’s gone, and then I won’t be able to stay in Europe. In the future, if I go to the English Championship when I get older, I won’t know anyone. There are so few Chinese people in Europe, and we don’t have teammates and friends to help us. If we just want to go down based on our strength, I’m afraid it won’t be possible.
We won’t be able to stay for long. But having Tübingen is another matter. If we fail to develop in the top competition, we still have a team of our own to support us in the second league. In my heart, I have a lot of confidence."
Wang Ai and Qu Bo had a drink, shook their heads and said: "I didn't think about this. I originally started this team just to find a place for myself to play football. Later, when the tournament went smoothly, I invited Lao Bai and Lao Luo, etc.
After they transferred and left, I probably figured out that this team still has the role of cultivating Chinese players. But if you say it again today, it still has a role of providing a guarantee, or in other words, it can start again once the bottom is reached.
"
Qu Bo laughed heartily: "In the 2004 season, I was under the guidance of Gao Guo. He said that when I first came to Tübingen, I was still the coach of the national youth team. At that time, the Lion Stadium was still smoking and making a fuss. You should tell him this at that time.
It is the European base of Chinese football. Looking at it now, it is indeed accurate. Over the past few years, I have really been rushing towards this."
"Hey, I actually had a vague idea at that time, and it's not as clear as it is now. Look, you said this today, doesn't this add another thing? When you and Brother Jihai get older, you can
Go to Tübingen for retirement. Just as Feavre took care of us back then, we will continue to take care of young players. Of course, if you want to return to China and make a lot of money, that's up to you."
Qu Bo shook his head repeatedly: "Brother Jihai, I don't know, but if I get too old and can't play in the top league anymore, I will definitely go back to Tübingen. If I can't, I won't go back to China. Domestic...sigh."
"What?" Wang Ai put a piece of steak in his mouth and asked.
Qu Bo sighed and looked up at the furnishings of the room. The dining room faced the backyard. The backyard of more than 200 square meters was topped by an awning, and in the middle was a large swimming pool ten meters long and five meters wide. It was not like an ordinary country house.
The large bathing pool in the backyard, which is five meters long and three meters wide, is a real swimming pool. It is a real swimming pool. There are four lounge chairs and a small round table beside the swimming pool, and there is a lawn five or six meters wide outside the courtyard wall.
When Qu Bo arrived, he came in through the main entrance and saw how spacious the villa with dozens of rooms on three floors was. The garage next to the villa could accommodate three cars side by side, and on the other side of the garage across the main body of the house, there was a
Small garden. The lawn in front of the villa is separated from the road and the courtyard wall. In Qu Bo's impression, this is a villa rather than a small manor.
Looking away from the surroundings, Qu Bo said in a low voice: "I went back to China this summer to meet with many teammates. Well, how should I put it, I found that they are not what they used to be. I just joined the first team and the national youth team.
At that time, everyone was focused on training and competition, and did not dare to engage in any bad habits. The few who smoked had to do it secretly, and could not smoke more than five cigarettes a day. But now..."
Qu Bo shook his head again and sighed: "When I went back, one of my former teammates happened to be getting married. Did you guys go to celebrate? We had a table and a private room. Halfway through the meal, I couldn't hold on anymore. The room was full of smoke.
I was scared when everyone was drinking. I said I had to leave beforehand. Halfway through my walk, I realized that I had forgotten my phone. When I got back to the door, I heard people inside saying that I was pretending to be a coward and that I looked down on others after studying abroad. But I... ugh
!”
"The sky in China is only this high." Qu Bo's left hand floated on the table for an inch, and then he raised his arm to a foot: "The sky in Europe is so high."
