Spanish law prohibits Spanish teams from signing professional contracts with players under the age of 17, so this loophole has been exploited by other teams over the years, most famously when Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger poached Barcelona star Cesc Fabregas from La Masia for almost nothing. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the Sporting Gijón team, there are two players under the age of 17, one is Juan Mata, the Spaniard is only 16 years old, and there is Juan Carlos, who is two months away from turning 17, so both players are currently on youth contracts.

Of course, this also means that if other teams can trick them into leaving, they can get them without paying a penny.

With the outstanding performance last season, Mata and Carlos have also become famous, there are many teams playing the idea of these two youngsters, but, so far, no club has been able to succeed, whether Mata or Carlos, they are loyal to Leon, Mata is willing to follow Leon from Real Madrid to Gijon, maybe Mata will aspire to a giant club in the future, and will consider a higher stage, but now Mata will not choose to leave, as for Carlos, people who are familiar with him are clear, this is the most unlikely to betray Leon in the Sporting Gijón team, whether it is Leon's kindness to him, or because his sister Alice is Leon's girlfriend, of course, this layer of relationship is not known to outsiders.

Now, Sporting Gijón has one more player under the age of 17.

He is Karim Benzema.

Because there are still a few months to turn 17 years old, so Sporting Gijón and Benzema also signed a youth contract, however, on the basis of the youth contract, the two sides added an agreement, on December 19, 2004, that is, Benzema's birthday, when he turns 17 years old, Sporting Gijón will immediately offer a professional contract, and Benzema's agent and family also promised that they will play in Gijón with peace of mind and will not be poached because it is a youth contract.

Leon is very serious about this, and he made a special note in his notebook that when Benzema was seventeen years old, the club was going to leave to sign a professional contract with this child, and he did not believe in any promises, and when the stakes were big enough, verbal promises were not credible.

Of course, Li Ang believes that as long as he attaches importance to Benzema, gives this little guy the opportunity to play, and focuses on training, Benzema will not think of leaving.

With the signing of this youth contract and the transfer fee of one million euros to Sporting Gijón's account, it is officially announced that Karim Benzema, the 16-year-old has officially become a member of Sporting Gijón.

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Benzema's family is also resolute, and they know that it is important for Benzema to integrate into the team as soon as possible.

Leon returned to Spain the next day, and Benzema traveled to Spain with his father.

The transfer can be said to be quite rapid.

At noon on the same day, the Mareo training base.

Leon took the tiger-headed Benzema out of the team's locker room.

"This is Karim Benzema. Leon introduced Benzema to the team, "a really good French lad. ”

"Hello everyone, I'm Karim Benzema, I'm sixteen years old and I'm from France. Benzawa also introduced himself immediately, and this little guy is not stage frightened at all.

"Welcome, little one. Hierro came up to welcome the whole team, "I'm Fernando Hierro, the captain of the team. ”

Leon handed Benzema to Hierro and left, believing that with Hierro there, he didn't need to worry about anything.

After the departure of Miguel Kobas, Leon appointed Hierro as the team's first captain, former AC Milan vice-president Albertini was appointed as the team's second captain and remains the team's vice-captain, and the team's goalkeeper Valencia was appointed as the team's third captain.

No one has any objection to Leon's arrangement, although Hierro and Albertini are new to the team, but the fame and influence of these two stars are there, and they are qualified to be team leaders. Moreover, Li Ang's prestige in the team also determines that his decision will be absolutely implemented.

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Benzema looked at Hierro, his eyes widened, this is Hierro, the Hierro of Real Madrid, before coming to Gijón, he hadn't heard that Hierro was actually in Gijón.

"Hello, Captain. Benzema said respectfully that he has a lot of respect for the Real Madrid legend.

"Hello, Karim. I'm Demetrio Albertini. You can call me Demi. Albertini greeted Benzema with a smile, and at the same time he was extremely curious, the manager of the team seems to be very fond of promoting young people, there are several players under the age of 20 in the team, and now there is a 16-year-old French guy.

In fact, now this team of Sporting Gijón is indeed very young, sixteen-year-old Spaniard Mata, sixteen-year-old Frenchman Benzema, sixteen-year-old Spaniard Carlos, seventeen-year-old Spaniard Marcos, seventeen-year-old Spaniard Javier Blanco, twenty-year-old Serbian and black Branislav Ivanovic, nineteen-year-old Croatian Modric, twenty-one-year-old Brazilian Portuguese Pepe, twenty-one-year-old Frenchman Franck Ribery.

Others such as Argentine striker Milito is 25 years old, Italian Di Natale is 26 years old, Italian Grosso is 26 years old, Spaniard Dorado is 25 years old, and Spanish central defender Isma is 29 years old......

Only goalkeeper Valencia is 33 years old, and 36-year-old veteran Macoul Picla, 33-year-old Albertini and 36-year-old Hierro are over 30 years old.

"Ah, hello Demi. "Benzema is very excited, Albertini is also a long-established star, an important member of the Milan dynasty, I didn't expect to come to Gijon.

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"Haha, boy, hello, my name is Frank Ribery, French. A voice rang out, and Benzema looked over and was startled by a guy with a terrible scar on his face.

"Ah, you, hello......" Benzema said with some caution, "are you also French?"

"Of course, don't worry, boy, I've got you covered. Ribery cracked his mouth and laughed, he put his arm around Benzema's shoulder, and the newcomer's expression was very natural to announce to the others that this kid was covered by him.

Everyone burst into laughter, and after a short period of time together, everyone liked this terrible-looking Frenchman, and Ribery was very active and got along with many people.

"Come on, come on, I'll introduce you to others. Ribery took the introduction from Hierro's hand, "This is McGur, a thirty-six-year-old man, but don't underestimate him, this old man is very powerful." ”

"Hi Karim. McGur Pihra didn't care about Ribery's teasing and greeted him with a smile.

"This is Juan Mata, there are two Juans in the team and this is one of them. ”

"I know you, you're amazing. Benzema said to Mata.

"Hello Karim, you're great too. Mata said happily.

"This is Juan Carlos, it's another Juan. ”

"I know you too, hello, Juan. Benzema said.

Juan Carlos looked a little surprised, "Hello, Karim. ”

"We usually call them Mata or Carlos, otherwise it's easy to get confused. Ribery babbled, "Actually, I'd love to call one of them a big Juan, a little Juan, and they don't want to." ”

Benzema was just hugged by this scary-looking guy with a scar on his face and introduced all the way.

Hierro, who had been robbed of his life, smiled at this scene, and Albertini touched Hierro's shoulder, "Energetic little ones. ”

The two veterans looked at each other and smiled, happy with the atmosphere inside the team.

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After solving the problem of forward recruitment, Li Ang began to make up for the team's last shortcoming.

That's the goalkeeper position.

The team's current No. 1 goalkeeper is 33-year-old Spanish player Jose Valencia, and then 24-year-old Spanish player Nat de Roberto, the original third goalkeeper, 34-year-old Calrieto because he couldn't play, took the initiative to ask for a transfer, and Leon did not embarrass the old goalkeeper and allowed him to transfer to a Spanish C2 league team on a free transfer.

Now, the team also needs to bring in a goalkeeper in case of emergency.

Leon had originally wanted to bring in Adan in Real Madrid's youth team, but with Real Madrid closing the door to any deal with Sporting Gijón, his path to bringing in Adan was out of the way.

Leon then targeted Slovenia's young goalkeeper Samir Handanovic.

The reason why he fell in love with Handanovic is because he knows what this Slovenian young man will achieve in the future, and he is indeed a very potential goalkeeper, and on the other hand, Handanovic is now playing for the Slovenian First League team Domzale, the team's second goalkeeper, and now he is still unknown, and the transfer fee is quite cheap. Now is the time to start.

It is also important to note that Slovenia officially joined the EU on May 1 of this year, which means that Handanovic is already an EU player and is no longer limited by non-European quotas.

And just as Leon was on his way to France to deal with Benzema's transfer, he arranged for assistant coach Banderas to formally ask Slovenian Primera Domzale for their young goalkeeper Samir Handanovic. (To be continued.) )