Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

With Manchester City winning the League Cup, FC United also created a number of firsts in team history, beating a Premier League team for the first time and reaching the last eight of the League Cup for the first time, although fans relish this, but Lu Wei did not take these to heart.

This is just the beginning, and the history of FC United will definitely be constantly refreshed and created.

FC United's opponents in the next round of the Carabao Cup also came out quickly, it is Newcastle United, who are currently second in the Championship, and the League Cup quarter-finals will be played on November 29, and FC United's league opponent on November 26 also happens to be Newcastle United, but the League Cup is at home and the league is away, which means that the Red Rebels will face the Magpies back-to-back.

The other three Carabao Cup games are Liverpool vs Hull City, Arsenal vs Southampton and Manchester United vs West Ham United, the three giants have not met each other, FC United even if they cross the Newcastle United hurdle, there is a high possibility of meeting strong opponents again in the semi-finals.

However, the League Cup will not be played until a month later, and Lu Wei and FC United can temporarily withdraw their hearts to the league.

With 14 rounds of league play, FC United's unbeaten record of 12 wins and 2 draws is impressive, with 38 points ahead of the table. Newcastle, who finished second, also had a good record of 10 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats, but unfortunately this result was 7 points behind the Reds, and in third and fourth place were 9 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats Huddersfield Town and 8 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats Brighton, both with 28 points.

However, there are still 32 games left before the end of the league, and even if Lu Wei is unbeaten in 14 consecutive rounds, he has never been complacent, and his mind is all focused on preparing for the next game.

While the Newton Heath base was in full swing of training, FC United welcomed a group of guests from the far east.

In the afternoon, Maggie, who is responsible for receiving media at FC United Club, introduced the two to Lu Wei.

"Head, these two are reporters from China's "Banana Ball", Mr. Duan and Miss Lin, the conference room is ready, you can go over at any time."

Lu Wei looked at the visitor in sportswear, and although it was a little different from what he saw on TV before, he still recognized him at a glance.

"Brother Xuan, finally see your real person, long time to look up, sorry, now the team is still training, trouble you two to go to my office for a while first, I will explain the matter here and go over." Maggie, you first take the two guests to the office, and then go to the cabinet on the left and take a box of tea leaves to brew and entertain, just take the red jar. The

first sentence was Lu Wei greeting the visitor with Chinese, and the latter sentence immediately switched to English to instruct Maggie.

Duan Xuan and Lin Yu were quite surprised, and being able to call Duan Xuan's nickname so directly showed that Lu Wei knew their identities very well, and was fluent in Mandarin, with some Beijing film flavor, which was rare in a Chinese person.

Led by Maggie, Duan Xuan and the two came to Lu Wei's office, and Miss Maggie arranged for them to sit on the sofa and wait for Lu Wei, made them two cups of tea, and left.

After Maggie closed the door and left, Duan Xuan and the two got up from the sofa and carefully looked at this office, the office was quite large, the west side was the reception sofa and the large coffee table where they were sitting, and the entire wall on the east side was a cabinet, which contained all kinds of football-related books, as well as many Chinese books and periodicals, and even Duan Xuan saw the special publication of "World Football" on the fifteenth anniversary of the broadcast of "Those Years, the Stars We Chased Together".

To the south is a huge floor-to-ceiling window, you can directly see the training ground of the first team, the desk that is nearly three meters long looks very messy, there are a lot of papers stacked on it, a computer is in a dormant state, there is a slight hum in the chassis, and there is a laptop next to it, from the connection line it can be seen that the two computers are in a dual-screen state, and there are two cups on the table, a glass and a thermos cup.

Duan Xuan and the two instantly felt that they were not in England, but in the office of a CEO of a China 500 company, a simple office with Chinese elements in several places.

"Xiaoyu, what kind of person do you say this Lu Wei is?"

Duan Xuan stood in front of the bookcase and looked at a few familiar Chinese books and asked his colleagues.

"I don't know, I just met him, but according to the information, although he is a third-generation Chinese, he does not have British blood, but he seems to have never left the UK, but he sees you very kindly, can you also see "World Football" here in the UK?"

Duan Xuan shook his head with a smile.

"It should be possible, but if you look at this environment, is it very familiar, Boss Wang's office is similar to here, I feel that he is not like a 30-year-old football manager, but a bit like a 50-year-old entrepreneur."

Duan Xuan ignored his female colleague, but walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the training ground not far away.

FC United players are fighting in groups, Lu Wei is standing motionless on the sidelines, next to a person younger than the player holding a book next to him and saying something, although a little far away, but Duan Xuan also recognized it as the assistant coach of FC United, looking at Lu Wei's back, Duan Xuan's doubts were more.

He has visited many teams' training bases, this is the first time he has come to such a state-of-the-art place, and it is also the first time he has seen a Chinese manager in the Europa League, and he is still so young.

Last year, I heard that there was a Chinese head coach in the League One, and it was also a well-known FC United in Chinese fan circles, Duan Xuan had the idea of coming here to interview, but because of his personal work and the European Cup delayed, some time ago with President Wang put this matter on the agenda, Lu Wei also readily agreed to the invitation.

Duan Xuan saw that the reception lady who had brought them up just now walked up to Lu Wei and said a few words, it should be that they were already waiting in the office, and he couldn't see if Lu Wei nodded, but he didn't move, but continued to listen to what the assistant coach said to him.

After more than ten minutes, Lu Wei explained a few words to Steele about the training and left the training ground.

It seemed that the head coach was finally coming to be interviewed by them, Duan Xuan and the two sat back on the sofa like a frightened little yellow chicken, and Duan Xuan did not forget to take the teacup and pretend to taste it.

After a while, Lu Wei walked into the office.

"Brother Xuan, you came so fast, I thought I would not be able to see you until the team finished training."

As soon as Lu Wei entered the door, he took the initiative to extend his hand.

Duan Xuan also hurriedly stood up and held Lu Wei's hand, but he didn't react for a moment whether he should speak in Chinese or English.

Lu Wei saw his embarrassment, "Just say Chinese, I have no problem with Chinese."

Duan Xuan smiled awkwardly, "Introduce yourself, I am Duan Xuan, the CEO of Banana Sports, this is my assistant Lin Yu, your Mandarin is very standard, Mr. Lu."

Lu Wei motioned for the two to sit down, and he also sat down on the single sofa.

"Mr. Duan, Miss Lin, welcome to Newton Heath, but I'm sorry, we only have twenty minutes, we have already made an appointment before, because I will go back there later..."

Lu Wei pointed to the floor-to-ceiling window behind him.

Duan Xuan nodded in understanding, after all, Lu Wei was also the head coach of the team in addition to being the chairman of the club, and it was enough to free up time for interviews during working hours, after all, this was just the first stop they came this time.