green star

Chapter 657
After the Wenchuan Earthquake, Li Rui actively donated money to aid the reconstruction of the disaster area. After that, he intends to create a foundation in his own name. I can't spend my whole life.And as a football star, Li Rui has a lot of influence, so he wants to rely on his own influence to set up a foundation with his own capital injection, which can be regarded as doing his part for the society.

When Beckham learned that Li Rui planned to create a foundation, his shrewd wife Victoria immediately discovered the feasibility of it. Now, the global influence of Li Rui and Jessica has faintly surpassed Beckham and Victoria have become the first couple in football.

Victoria is aware of this. After all, time is not forgiving, and Beckham will retire in a few years at most, so his influence is naturally not as good as that of Li Rui.

However, Victoria still thought of a good plan from the fact that Li Rui wanted to establish a foundation. After discussing with Beckham, the two considered jointly establishing a foundation with Li Rui. Li Rui, his wife and Beckham Both Ham and his wife are the founders of the foundation, and all four of them injected capital in their own names as the initial capital of the foundation.As for the day-to-day operations of the foundation, it is left to professionals to take care of it.

Both the Beckhams and the Li Ruis can use their huge influence to raise money for the foundation.

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"David, I didn't expect you to be caring." Li Rui joked.

"What? Am I a very unloving person?" Beckham asked rhetorically, pretending to be angry.

Li Rui heard Beckham's dissatisfaction from these words, so he apologized: "I was wrong, you are really caring, and the United Nations can testify." He knew that Beckham was a charity ambassador for UNICEF. A lot of charity work.

Beckham shrugged and clinked glasses with Li Rui.

Li Rui and Beckham have a very good relationship. He still agrees with the idea of ​​co-founding a foundation with Beckham. Victoria, who is 'long-sleeved and good at dancing', if the foundation is really established, at least there is still a lot of guarantee for attracting money. Of course, Li Rui and Jessica's influence is not small.

Although this matter is a major event, after discussing some major frameworks and details, a consensus was quickly reached.

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At 2008:11 noon on November 10, 11, Li Rui and his wife and David Beckham held a joint press conference in London, announcing the official establishment of the LEE Foundation.

The purpose of this foundation is to assist vulnerable groups, as well as to help children with leukemia and other diseases.The first fund received by the foundation is 400 million pounds, of which Li Rui, Jessica, Beckham and Victoria each donated 100 million pounds, which will be the start-up capital of the LEE foundation.

The first task of the LEE Foundation after its establishment was to announce aid activities for the reconstruction work in the Wenchuan Earthquake in China, donating 150 million pounds, mainly for the construction of schools with a higher level of earthquake resistance.In addition, the LEE Foundation will also contribute to children's welfare, health and other issues.

Li Rui said that for the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area, he will continue to donate to the disaster-stricken area. Counting the foundation's donation of 150 million pounds, Li Rui's total donation to the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area has exceeded 6000 million yuan.

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At the press conference, the Manchester United Club announced a pledge of 50 pounds, and representatives of the London Chinese community also pledged 10 pounds raised during the charity performance.

Li Rui's teammates at Manchester United and the England national team also pledged a total of about 60 pounds in the next few days.

In addition, the Chinese embassy in London, the mayor of London, George Glazer, the owner of Manchester United, and Jose Mourinho, the head coach of the England national team, were also invited to attend the press conference.Originally, Li Rui had considered inviting Ferguson to attend, but considering the bad relationship between Ferguson and the Beckhams, he decided to let it go.

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The Chinese embassy in London pledged 5 pounds, the mayor of London personally pledged 5000 pounds, and the American owner of Manchester United, George Glazer, personally pledged 3 pounds. The coach of the England national team, Mourinho, who was invited by disciple Li Rui to support the opening of the foundation, also generously pledged 5 pounds. Even Ferguson, who was not present at the scene, also pledged 5 pounds.

It can be said that the establishment of the LEE Foundation was relatively successful. In a few days after its establishment, it received a total of about 600 million pounds in charitable donations.This is undoubtedly very important for the foundation to start operating quickly.

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Li Rui also heaved a sigh of relief after finishing the matter of the foundation. At first, he thought that he and Beckham would be able to set up the foundation, and Ferguson would be unhappy. However, he later learned that the old man in Scotland was more supportive. Although he didn't come to support the establishment of the foundation, it's not a pledge, is it?

Li Rui didn't know what Ferguson was thinking.How to put it, Ferguson is still very satisfied with Li Rui. Li Rui has set up a foundation. Although it will share part of Li Rui's energy, but anyway, it is much better than players eating, drinking and having fun. Moreover, in In the Western world, setting up foundations to do charity is still very respected.

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After the press conference on the establishment of the foundation, Li Rui returned to Manchester from London to attend the press conference of Manchester United at the Carrington training base.

This is the press conference for Li Rui's contract extension. Manchester United officially announced that they have reached an agreement with Li Rui on the contract extension.

And it was announced that the liquidated damages for Li Rui's contract would be increased to 5000 million pounds.

Established a foundation with Beckham and his wife, renewed his contract with Manchester United, and the liquidated damages were as high as 5000 million pounds. During these three or four days, Li Rui once again dominated the headlines of major media around the world, not just sports media , entertainment and some political and economic media also paid great attention to Li Rui.

It can be said that Li Rui began to spread his influence from the sports circle to a wider field. Of course, the influence of the Beckhams has also increased to a higher level. This is what Victoria is happy to see. The couple Together with Li Rui and his wife, the alliance of the most famous couple in today's football, the influence is astonishing.

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11月12日，在联赛杯中，曼联队坐镇主场2:1战胜了女王公园巡游者，晋级2008-2009赛季的联赛杯八强。

In this game, Li Rui was not included in the roster due to injury, and the Manchester United team also carried out a large-scale rotation. The teenager Macheda started as the single arrow. Macheda scored a goal, and Anderson also had a goal. A goal scored.

The news of Manchester United's promotion to the quarter-finals of the League Cup was not a big deal. On the second day, the focus of attention in English football was the result of the FA's penalty for Gallas.

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The Football Association of England, after investigation, especially after analyzing the report of the game supervision and the video of the game, announced that in view of the 'unsportsmanlike' vicious behavior of Arsenal center back Gallas in the game, he was fined 2 pounds, 9 rounds of suspension, plus the automatic suspension of Gallas' red card for one round, in this case, the Arsenal central defender will be suspended for 10 rounds, which is a great blow to Arsenal .

The fine came out and immediately shocked the English football world. Before, everyone thought that Gallas would be fined, and Arsenal was also mentally prepared for this. However, this is the case, whether it is the media or Arsenal. Didn't expect Gallas to be suspended for 10 rounds.

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After the result of this penalty came out, the Arsenal club, which had already told the media that it did not intend to appeal, was also in a hurry. The club held consultations overnight and appealed to the Football Association of England the next day, hoping to relieve Gallas. penalty.

Gallas is Arsenal's main central defender and was the captain of the team before. If he is really suspended for 10 rounds, then this will have a great impact on Arsenal's championship prospects this season.

Regarding this ticket, the media seems to be paying close attention to it. This is a news that fans are keen to talk about after dinner.

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However, just one day later, the Arsenal club once again announced that it would withdraw its appeal and accepted the penalty result of the English Football Association.

Because, the day before, the Queen of England spoke at Buckingham Palace. She said that she watched the match between Arsenal and Manchester United and was worried that Gallas' behavior would teach young fans badly.

This is not a trivial matter in the UK. Although the UK is a constitutional monarchy and the royal family does not have much actual power in the UK, the Queen still has great symbolic significance in the UK and is very respected by people. Moreover, the Queen of England seldom makes public comments on certain things. Therefore, the words of the **** Queen are still taken seriously.

This is why the English Football Association severely punished Gallas.

The last time the Queen of England expressed her views on football was in the 1998 World Cup, when Beckham’s red card caused England to be eliminated by arch-enemy Argentina. Some extreme fans sent death threats to Beckham, and the queen of **** was also there At that time, I stood up to support Beckham, thinking that the loss was not the fault of one person and should not be borne by Beckham.

And **** stood up to speak this time because of Li Rui's incident, which also gave people a better understanding of Li Rui's influence.

(End of this chapter)