Chapter Ninety-Two: Set Sail
With the new contract in hand, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu also entrusted their parents to help them go through the withdrawal procedures, they are about to become professional players, and they must settle down to play football. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the first three days of the new season, Villarreal, Sebatour and Vites announced that the three teenagers had successfully passed the trial, Yan Tao and Xu Ziyi stayed in the U19, and Zhao Wenkang stayed in the U20 reserve team.
Most of the Chinese media think that Zhao Wenkang is a bit hanging, and at the age of 19 he only has a year at most, once he can't grasp the opportunity and doesn't perform well, the club can't want him anymore with his age.
Whether he can get into the first team depends on this season.
Parma will be battling in Serie B this season, and new manager Carney will lead the team on a new journey, and he promised Giraldi that he will bring Parma back to the first division next year.
Zhang Shujie and Li Mu did not return to China this summer, and the "1+3" contract was very tempting for them, and the two called their parents and friends, wanting to continue to stay in Italy and seize the time to practice while others were on vacation.
There is an open space behind Feng Kai's house, where Zhang Shujie and Li Mutian practice their ball skills. Sometimes there are few people on the street, and they will go to the two sides of the street to practice passing and catching each other while running. These are basic skills, and many people may dismiss them in China, but in Europe, this kind of passing and receiving training is a daily compulsory course for every player.
The two teenagers sweated profusely every day, and occasionally the locals would encourage them when they saw them practicing so hard. Feng Kai was worried that the two of them would be physically exhausted if they practiced like this, so he stipulated that they were only allowed to practice five days a week, with Saturdays and Sundays off.
In the past year, the two teenagers' physical fitness has improved a lot compared to before, and they have grown taller. Feng Kai was shocked to find that the height of the two of them was actually the same, both of them were 1.83 meters, which is quite suitable for these two eighteen-year-old professional players, but the two are still young, and in the next one to two years, they may be a little longer, but not too much, not more than two centimeters.
In terms of weight, the two are a little thinner, Zhang Shujie is only 69kg, and Li Mu is almost 70kg. The competition of this reserve team is still not as good as the first team, and they need to be a little stronger. Feng Kai estimates that in the next two years, the height of the two of them should reach about 185cm, and the weight should not be less than 75kg, which is the figure that football players should have.
Now in the second division, Parma has begun to attack the first division, and the previous rhetoric of head coach Carney did not bring results, the Serie B league has only played five rounds, Parma has only achieved one win, three draws and one loss.
Guidolin's arrival became a battle that affected Parma throughout the season.
In the Under-19 squad, Manzo also announced his departure at the start of the season and was replaced by Heraldo Pizzi. At first, Feng Kai was worried that the new manager would put the two Chinese teenagers on the shelf, but when Facchetti's league game began, he realized that all worries were unnecessary.
Pizzi was not a fool, he had already learned about the two Chinese boys from Manzo.
Now Feng Kai no longer needs to stand on the sidelines as an interpreter for the two, and after a year of studying and getting along, the two of them have almost mastered Italian.
Parma's first team had a poor record in their first five games, but the Under-19s won three in a row after two draws, finishing third. The team scored a total of 16 goals! Zhang Shujie scored seven of them, and Li Mu also scored four goals and four assists.
The good performance of the Under-19s has put a lot of pressure on Guidolin, and if Parma can't get results, he will have to follow in Carney's footsteps.
Perhaps God couldn't bear to see Parma, once one of the seven sisters, sink indefinitely, but in the subsequent races, Parma gradually showed their due level, and finally came to third place in the standings before the winter break, and the promotion situation was very good.
Time entered 2009, and this year the Chinese team had a major competition to participate in - the Asian Cup qualifiers.
After the defeat of the World Cup qualifiers and the humiliation of the Olympic Games, many fans have lost interest in the Chinese team's game, even in the first round against Syria, many fans believe that the Chinese team has the possibility of losing.
Sure enough, the Chinese team "lived up to expectations" and lost 2:3 to the opponent in the away game against Syria on January 14, 2009, ushering in a black start.
This time, the fans didn't even bother to scold, rotten wood can't be carved, and it's useless to scold. Mourning is greater than dying, and the Chinese people no longer have any hope for Chinese football.
I don't know if it was the attitude of the fans that stimulated the Chinese team, and seven days later they faced Vietnam at home, and the Chinese team defeated the opponent 6:1, sweeping away the decadence of the previous loss.
The national team has not yet called Ma Junqiang to the team, but Chinese fans seem to have forgotten about the young goalkeeper in the Belgian league after witnessing the victory.
During the period when the national football team quietly climbed to the second place in the standings with one win and one loss, the European League, except for the Premier League, rekindled the fire after the winter break, and Parma in Serie B won one win and one draw in two rounds, and the ranking remained unchanged. The Under-19s were just as impressive, and before they knew it, they were at the top of the table.
By the end of the season, Parma had won nineteen of their forty-two matches and drawn nineteen, losing just four of their games and returning to Serie A in second place.
The U19s also passed the test of the regional competition again, reaching the knockout stage for the second year in a row, and the final result was the top four, the same as last year.
The two teenagers from China played steadily, and the "1+3" contract also worked. On July 5, 2009, Beijing time, under the recommendation of Pizzi, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu were promoted to the first team by head coach Guidolin, and at this moment, they truly became professional players.
At the same time, Zhao Wenkang, who was far away in Setúbal, Portugal, also entered the first team. And the young Yan Tao and Xu Ziyi are still being trained in the reserve team.
In the previous two years, some talented teenagers were selected from the high school league, and this year's high school league also had three people come to Europe for tryouts, but unfortunately, all three of them were eventually withdrawn and none of them passed the trial.
There are no heavyweight matches in world football this summer, only the Confederations Cup, which is not very important, and the Chinese media and fans have also begun to pay a lot of attention to the overseas players. In May, Sun Jihai returned to the Chinese Super League from England and ended his European tour. Although Chinese football has not been able to achieve dazzling achievements in recent years, Sun Jihai's success abroad must be acknowledged.
As early as May 22, 2008, an international friendly match was played at the Hong Kong Stadium, and the Hong Kong South China Invitational Team defeated Sun Jihai's Manchester City team 3:1 at home, which was also Sun Jihai's last appearance for Manchester City. In this farewell match, Sun Jihai wore the captain's armband for the first time and completed the curtain call performance in Manchester City.
It was the tenth day after the "Wenchuan earthquake", and after the game, Sun Jihai and all the team members donated 40,000 pounds to the Sichuan disaster area, totaling more than 400,000 yuan.
Some people say that Sun Jihai did not bring any glory to the Chinese team, and some people say that he is just an ordinary player in the world, but in this turbulent Chinese football, it is Sun Jihai who has maintained the only remaining trace of dignity of Chinese football in Europe. We can criticize and even abuse Chinese football, but for Sun Jihai, we must pay high respect.
Zheng Zhi and Shao Jiayi of the same era as Sun Jihai are still in Europe, but Zheng Zhi went to Scotland this summer, which is only a third-rate league; Shao Jiayi even fell into the German second division with Ketbus, these two people are far less successful than Sun Jihai in Europe, and the two are about to turn 30 years old, and they will not achieve anything.
At this point, the Chinese media pointed out with some pessimism that with the departure of Sun Jihai, the most glorious era of Chinese players studying abroad is over. He is like a pianist in the chaotic noise of Chinese football, and the rhythm he plays is the only sound that can make the Chinese people feel pleasant, but now, this pianist no longer exists.
Perhaps, after the end of the song, there will be others who will play more beautiful songs in Chinese football, and let the 1.3 billion Chinese sing with them.
Parma are back in the first division, and it will be difficult for them to keep their position in the first division with the current group alone, and the club will need to buy some quality players in order to continue to compete in Serie A in the coming season.
The days of the promoted horses are usually not easy, and Parma promoted Zhang Shujie, Li Mu and Strassel in the reserves. Looking at transactions in the transfer market, Parma are the most mobile of the entire Serie A relegation legion. In the goalkeeper position, they brought in Mirante from Sampdoria, and at the back, they bought Fontanelo for 4 million euros to improve the overall strength. But the most surprising thing is that the veteran Panucci has joined for free, and the Italian international has undoubtedly given Parma's defence a shot in the arm.
In midfield, Gallopa and Coppola, who were signed from Siena, will also be important members of Guidolin's side, and with Strassel coming from the reserves, Guidolin's midfield change will also have more options.
The biggest change is in the forward line, Lucarelli is on loan to Livorno, Reginaldo went to Siena, but the team has welcomed Bodinov, Biabiani and Lanzafamy, plus Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, two young players and the original Paloski, Parma's forward strength has not decreased.
Zhang Shujie still hasn't gone back this year, and neither has Li Mu, the two have just completed their "leveling", and in Parma, which is full of talent in the front line, they must work hard to get the opportunity to play.
"I won't come back this year, Papaya and I have to hurry up and practice, you don't have to worry about me, it's you, Zhou Ying went to college, you have to take care of yourself in school alone. ”
This is what Zhang Shujie said to Wang Shihan on the phone, Wang Shihan was a little disappointed when he heard that he would not come back this year. It's been two years, and in the past two years, the two have only seen each other on videos and photos, and have not been able to meet in person. Even during the Chinese New Year, it was the second half of the Italian league, and Zhang Shujie, who was still in the reserve team at the time, could not return to China to reunite with his family at all, and now for the sake of his career, he had to give up returning to China this year.
Wang Shihan will not blame him, considering his future, his future, he can only do this.
The current ambiguous relationship between the two, Wang Shihan can't find a good reason to go to Italy to see him, the key is that he doesn't know how to tell his parents, the hazy relationship between her and Zhang Shujie, her parents don't know at all, and she is only seventeen years old, and it is impossible for her to tell her elders about this kind of thing, that is to be labeled as "early love".
By the way, mention her school, this year's Yuying Middle School football team did not qualify to participate in the national competition, the new coach has poor ability, and his temper is still very irritable, he scolds the players at every turn, and he is also lustful, he actually wants to take advantage of Wang Shihan, fortunately, Wang Shihan knows how to protect himself and did not let this old pervert succeed.
It's not a way to go on like this, Wang Shihan wants to quit the team, but the old pervert refuses to agree, refuses to sign alive or dead, and Wang Shihan has to stay in the team very reluctantly.
Later, Wang Shihan told Zhou Ying about it, Zhou Ying called and asked An Rong, what is the best, An Rong pointed out a clear way, and told them to go directly to the demon, if he really dared to mess around, An Rong would go back to school to "meet" him even if he resigned as the head coach of the second-tier team of Zhongbang.
An Rong also called the school leaders privately and told them about the matter, asking the school to keep it confidential when dealing with it to protect their students.
With An Rong's words, Zhou Ying took Wang Shihan into the training ground, pointed at the old pervert's nose and scolded, that momentum, there is a queen's demeanor! Zhou Ying, as a former school team manager, has a very high reputation in the school, and she also mentioned An Rong's name as the meritorious coach of the school team, to imply that the old pervert is now honest. The old pervert was afraid that things would make a big deal and didn't dare to do anything to her, so he could only swallow his anger.
In the end, Wang Shihan withdrew from the team unharmed, and the school team was eliminated in the qualifiers one round ahead of schedule and could not participate in the national competition, and the school also fired the pervert coach.
Wang Shihan didn't tell Zhang Shujie about these things, she just wanted Zhang Shujie to play football well, and not to mess up her mind for this little thing.