Valero Football Club is a professional football club located in the eastern suburbs of Madrid. It once competed in La Liga, but is now in La Liga.
Even though this is a small club, it has all the necessary facilities.
For example, many domestic clubs do not yet have dedicated youth training bases, but such a Segunda División club already has a separate youth training base.
If there were no locals to guide you, you would never have thought that there is a youth training base for a professional football club hidden in a residential area right in front of you.
In the middle of the obviously older buildings is the Valero youth training base, which consists of three standard football fields, two seven-a-side football fields, and a three-story building.
Any resident who lives in those buildings can overlook the entire Valero youth training base by just walking to the window of their home and see the children playing football on the court - there may even be their own children there.
Where is the child?
You don't need to go to the sidelines, you only need a pair of binoculars to see how your children are doing.
Five days ago, Valero Club's youth training base welcomed a group of unfamiliar young people, who were all the players of the Chinese Olympic team.
The Valero youth training base is the training ground for the National Olympic team before the start of the Madrid Olympics.
They will train and prepare here until the start of the Olympic Games before moving to Valencia, the venue for the competition.
As a result, the training base of this small team in Madrid, Spain, has many accents from the East.
This may be the latest contact between Valero Club and China.
Even in the windows of the surrounding residents' upper floors, there were many figures peering in and out, including men, women and children, looking at the training ground with curious eyes.
A young man wearing a peaked cap and a pair of sunglasses stood on the sidelines with his hands in his pockets. He looked away from the residential buildings in the distance and turned to the Olympic team players who had just finished training and were about to leave.
Then he walked up to Hu Lai.
"Hu Lai, do you still know me?"
He asked when he reached Hu Lai.
Hu Lai, who was joking with his teammates, turned his head and looked at this tall and straight young man in fashionable clothes. He subconsciously took a step back and stayed away from him, then frowned and said: "Brother, who are you?"
The other party took off his hat and sunglasses and looked at Hu Lai with a smile.
When Hu Lai saw that face, he was stunned for a moment, and then asked in an uncertain tone: "Song Jiajia?"
"Ha! That's right!" The other party was very happy.
Hu Lai was shocked: "Holy shit, why did you change like this? Didn't you go to the United States to study? Why did you end up in South Korea?"
"Is it ridiculous to go to South Korea? I didn't have plastic surgery, I just lost weight!"
Hu Lai looked at Song Jiajia standing in front of him, shook his head and murmured: "No... these are all hallucinations, they can't scare me..."
"Hey, Hu Lai!"
"No, Fatty, you just went abroad to study. Why are you just like a missing person? You didn't say anything about contact? Is it because the United States doesn't allow you to use WeChat?" Hu Lai looked at the other person up and down.
Song Jiajia, who has become much more handsome after losing weight, is completely different from the greasy fat man in his memory.
"Ha, because I have a surprise for you! Saprei loves it!"
I don't know why, but now when Hu Lai hears this word, he thinks of coach Li Ziqiang's black face like an abyss.
This gave him a little headache...
"No, you are just frightened. If not, I have to get the code right. Are you really Song Jiajia?"
"Isn't this nonsense! When you used to play in the school team, I would take your jersey back for you to wash after every game. You still thought that the jasmine smell of our laundry detergent was not as good as that of Li Qingqing's..."
Luo Kai, who was passing by, heard the keyword and turned his head suddenly to look over.
As soon as Song Jiajia saw him, she raised her hand to greet him: "Hi, Luo Kai!"
"You are..." Luo Kai frowned and fell into confusion.
"Song Jiajia, Fatty Song." Hu Lai pointed at Song Jiajia and said to Luo Kai.
Luo Kai's eyes widened, showing a ghostly expression.
Hu Lai laughed when he saw this: "Look, Fatty Song, I'm not the only one with the problem, right?"
Song Jiajia had no choice but to repeat the explanation she just gave to Hu Lai.
Chen Xingyi, who had been watching the excitement, said with emotion: "No wonder people say that every fat person is a potential stock..."
Their encounter on the sidelines also attracted the attention of others, who all stopped to watch. Seeing that the players were not leaving, head coach Shi Wuyuan came up to see what was going on: "What's going on?"
"Ah, Director Shi, my high school best friend came to see me." Hu Lai quickly introduced Song Jiajia to Shi Wuyin.
"Good morning, Director Shi. I am Hu Lai's high school classmate. My name is Song Jiajia." Song Jiajia was also very polite.
Shi Wuyuan glanced at him, then turned to Hu Lai and said, "Do you want me to give you some time to reminisce?"
Hu Lai indeed had a lot to ask Song Jiajia, so he said to Shi Wuyuan: "Director Shi, can I take a leave tonight? I won't go back to the hotel with the team... But I promise to be back before ten o'clock.
"
Shi Wuyin nodded: "Okay, then you can change your clothes and go with your friends, we won't care about you."
He is still very relieved about Hu Lai. After all, Hu Lai has never had any scandals since he became famous. He does not hang out in nightclubs, nor does he engage in male-female relations. He does not drink or smoke. He obviously has business development potential, but he does not even have a business contract.
He didn’t even sign... he was more innocent than his peers, he only thought about how to play football well.
For such a person, what else should he be worried about?
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The two of them were sitting in a Spanish barbecue restaurant. Hu Lai couldn't help but look at Song Jiajia, and then took out his mobile phone to take a photo of Song Jiajia who was ordering food.
"What are you doing?" Song Jiajia asked without raising her head.
"Take a photo and send it to Li Qingqing to see how you look now. She will be surprised too."
"Oh, Li Qingqing is really awesome now... But you are also awesome. I never imagined that all my classmates in high school would become big stars."
"Is there anything you can't think of? Didn't you say you were going to be my agent? How about it? Where is the plan now?" Hu Lai asked.
This time Song Jiajia did not answer him immediately. Instead, after ordering, she handed the menu to the waiter and said thank you in Spanish. Then she turned to Hu Lai and said, "I really didn't think it was too difficult to be an agent before."
... but when I was really ready to do this, I realized that things were not as simple as I originally thought. Being an agent approved by FIFA is not that easy..."
"What are you doing? Are you giving up? Let me tell you, Li Qingqing also said that she wants you to be her agent!"
"Ah? I'll go, I'm flattered!" Song Jiajia was a little surprised, and then frowned. "Hu Lai, you asked me why I didn't contact you... Actually, I knew I wanted to be an agent at the beginning, and it might take a long time, so I
I feel too embarrassed to see you. So I am too embarrassed to look for you online..."
"Then why do you have a face now?"
"Didn't I think of a way?"
"What can I do?"
"I personally can't be your agent in a short time, but you can't just keep waiting for me, right? What should you do if you want to negotiate a contract with the club? What should you do if you discuss business cooperation? You are so popular now, you must
Many brands have approached you, right?" Song Jiajia asked.
Hu Lai nodded: "I pushed them all!"
When Song Jiajia heard this answer that was very consistent with Hu Lai's style, she couldn't help but be silent for a few seconds before continuing: "So I thought... I can open an agency. You know, basically players nowadays
It is a contract with an agent company. It is rare for an agent to work alone. After all, the requirements for agents nowadays are no longer as simple as being a nanny for players."
Hu Lai nodded, he understood this. Uncle Yong worked alone, but he only served Zhang Qinghuan and occasionally helped himself and Wang Guangwei. He didn't do much business and naturally didn't earn much.
But Uncle Yong doesn't seem to care much about making money... As a native of the capital, with a few houses and two cars at home, he really has no motivation to fight.
He has said that he became an agent purely because he likes football, and at the same time, he can help Zhang Qinghuan.
"I heard that you came to Spain for training, so I came from the United States to find you and talk to you about it face to face. If you agree, I will do it. I will open a company, hire a professional agent, and have a professional lawyer
The team, the accounting team... are here to serve you. As for you, just concentrate on playing football, I am responsible for running the company, and the specific brokerage business will be handled by professional brokers, each performing their own duties. What do you think?"
Hu Lai was actually not very sensitive to these business matters. He just nodded out of trust in his long-time friend: "You know this stuff better than me, and you have the final say, fat man."
"You agreed so simply? Aren't you afraid that I would lie to you?" Song Jiajia asked with a smile.
"Are you afraid of this? You lent me 50,000 yuan without saying a word, and I haven't paid it back to you yet. You didn't even mention it when we met... Just for the sake of the 50,000 yuan.
, I can’t be afraid of you lying to me.” Hu Lai shrugged and curled his lips.
Song Jiajia was stunned for a moment: "If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten that you still owe me fifty thousand yuan..."
"The boss is awesome!" Hu Lai gave Song Jiajia a thumbs up.
When Song Jiajia heard this, she looked at Hu Lai and smiled. She didn't say anything, she just laughed.
When Hu Lai saw him like that, he asked, "Why are you laughing?"
"Nothing, I just feel... it's great. You are really a man of the hour now, Hu Lai."
His words brought Hu Lai back to his days as a student at Dongchuan Middle School.
Thinking about it now, there are still many not-so-good memories during those years, including cold violence from teachers and classmates, and school bullying... But now he is still willing to recall those good and bad experiences.
Because apart from those not-so-good memories, there are also good times he spent with Song Jiajia and Li Qingqing.
There are the years when he grew up step by step in the school team, and there is the process of fighting side by side with his teammates to win the right to participate in national competitions and win the national championship.
Although he has countless fans now, he still had to use the charm essence lotion given by the plug-in to gain a few fans on campus...
Whether his youthful high school years were good or not, he could not forget the days when he was looked down upon by others, but he could not turn a blind eye to those happy days either.
It can only be said that the person he is today was shaped by various good and bad experiences in the past.
Without the good and bad experiences of the past, Hu Lai would not be where he is today.
He looked at Song Jiajia's handsome face and sighed: "Fat man didn't expect you to lose weight, so how can I call you fat man in the future..."
Song Jiajia smiled happily: "It's okay, I'll just call him Fatty. I'm used to it."
"Hey, why on earth are you thinking about losing weight?"
"To pick up girls."
Song Jiajia's clean answer stunned Hu Lai: "What?"
"I'm telling you, Hu Lai. Ever since I lost weight, I have become much more popular with girls... What's wrong with you?"
Hu Lai looked at him and said sadly: "You have changed, you are no longer the fat man I knew!"
Song Jiajia pouted: "Hu Lai, are you still a virgin?"
"Does this have anything to do with being a virgin?"
"Then you're still a virgin."
"die!"
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Song Jiajia sat in the car, waved to Hu Lai, and then watched his figure walk into the hotel lobby and walk deeper, and then asked the taxi driver to drive away.
After dinner, he and Hu Lai didn't talk much about high school, but more about his experience studying in the United States.
As for Hu Lai's experience, it goes without saying that he also knows that although he has not contacted Hu Lai, he is paying attention to everything about Hu Lai.
Although they haven't seen each other for several years, the two of them felt no stranger to each other from the first moment they saw each other.
We still joke and play around like we did when we were roommates.
It's as if the years in which each other was absent didn't exist at all.
With a ding-dong sound, he received a new message on WeChat. He turned on his phone and saw that it was a transfer message from Hu Lai.
Fifty thousand dollars.
"If I pay you back, I won't pay you any interest!"
Song Jiajia didn't click, but replied: "No need to pay it back, just wait for the signing fee that I signed for you!"
"Go away! You want to sign me for fifty thousand yuan?"
"Bah! Don't think about what you were like back then. Fifty thousand yuan is a lot of money, okay?"
"Fuck, what you bought for 50,000 yuan was not me at that time, but my future, okay? Look at me now, how many times your original investment has doubled? Let me tell you, fat man, what happened to your extra money?
It will cost another 10,000 yuan!"
"Promise! When our company is launched, I guarantee you will earn ten million times the ten thousand yuan a year!"
"Ten million times ten thousand yuan? Ten million...one hundred billion! Boss is awesome! I will depend on you in this life and the next life, and the next life!"
"Uh, no... I mean making ten million a year..."
"Fuck, Fatty, with your math skills, I'm starting to doubt your company's financial future..."
"I made a typo, not a calculation error! My typo has nothing to do with my math level!"
Song Jiajia quarreled with Hu Lai on WeChat, but she smiled happily.