Chapter 745: The Basque Lion

In the past few years, Alpine has traveled to almost all developed countries on the European continent, and has even passed through or visited small towns for races, especially those in northern Spain surrounded by mountains.

Gradually, he realized that the biggest difference between developed countries and China, as a developing country, is not in the big cities.

After years of development, many large domestic cities such as Beijing and Shanghai are comparable to international cities such as London, Paris and Madrid, and even surpassed.

But the real difference between the two is in the smaller, more backward towns.

For example, this small town in northern Spain, called Matrico, has a population of only five or six thousand people, and if you stay in China, it is a village, at best a small fishing port by the sea.

Along the winding mountain road, Matrico's roads are clean and smooth, with campsites and marinas, as well as elementary, middle and high school education, a sizable sports centre, and a full-size football pitch.

After walking out of the mountain road, overlooking Matrico, although their buildings are also disorganized, but they are very clean, which makes people look comfortable, under the blue sky and white clouds, people feel that it has a special Basque Country unique taste.

Gao Han faintly feels that this may be the biggest difference between developing countries and developed countries.

After leaving the mountain and entering the village, Mikel Alonso pulled his car aside.

When everyone got out of the car, there was a football field across the road, the terrain was five or six meters lower than the road, and they grabbed the iron guardrail on the side of the road, feeling like they were standing in the stands of the stadium and watching the game.

Although it is a small village, the turf of the football field is very well trimmed, and it is obvious that it is maintained by special personnel on weekdays.

Legend has it that every weekend night there is a game between the town's amateur team and the team from the neighboring town, and the townspeople come to cheer them on.

At this moment, there is a group of teenagers training in the stadium, and there are special youth coaches to guide them.

This also made Gao Han sigh from his heart, European football is indeed very popular, and even this kind of place that can be said to be a poor and remote place has professional youth coaches to guide young players to train, and once they perform well, they will immediately be looked at by the big teams around them.

Examples include Real Sociedad, Athletic Bilbao and Racing Santander, to name a few.

China has a vast land, a large population, and a huge span of east, west, north and south, and if you want to fully popularize football, even if it is from the highest level of the country, I am afraid that it will not be possible to do it in twenty or thirty years, and it will take more time to do it like Spain.

While Gao Han was thinking about it, the youth coaches below had divided the group of twelve or thirteen-year-old players into two groups and started training in separate teams, but they had placed two or three older young players in each team.

After the start of the team competition, the older players were obviously higher than the others in terms of technical level and physical confrontation, but Gao Han still distinguished the two best players from the details of passing and receiving, and it seemed that the youth coach also knew that they were the strongest, so they were divided into different teams.

One is in midfield and the other is in central defence.

Both seem to be just sparring with the team, more running, passing and receiving, not involved in attack, only responsible for defense, but the strength advantage of standing out from the crowd still makes them very eye-catching, especially the long pass, which is very accurate.

Gao Han's eyes swept over and immediately found out the data of the two players.

Asir Ilya Ramendi, March 8, 90, 19 years old, 120 strength, 175 potential.

Igor Martinez, born May 17, 91, was eighteen years old, with a strength of one hundred and ten and a potential of one hundred and seventy.

The former is a midfielder, who can play in the midfield, or in the back, and is on the thin side, while Igor Martinez is a left-footed player who can play both left-back and centre-back, and he is more lean, typical of Basque Country players.

"Hey, who's that kid at centre-back?" said Peric Alonso.

It seemed that he also thought that kid was interesting, but he didn't know him.

But the Xavi Alonso brothers shook their heads, saying they didn't know either, at least there was no one in the Real Sociedad academy.

Illah Ramendi, on the other hand, belongs to the Real Sociedad academy, but now he is out of training and training with the nearest team in the town.

"That kid is good, it's good news. Gao Han smiled and praised.

Peric Alonso's father and son couldn't help but pay more attention, what can be favored by Gao Han?

"Perrick, the one you're talking about is very similar to Xavi, isn't that him?" Gao Han pointed to the midfielder.

Peric Alonso laughed, "I really can't hide it from you, that's right, it's him, Asir Ilyaramendi, the academy gem of Real Sociedad, who represented the second team in the third division of the second division last season, but this season the second team was relegated from the second division." ”

This has to be said to be a big pity.

A team like Real Sociedad is always up and down between La Liga and La B, and the team's finances are not much better, and the first team may not be able to take care of it, let alone the second team.

Therefore, their investment in youth training is not large, and they are more supported by youth training talents in the surrounding areas.

"To be honest, his current situation is quite embarrassing, the first team will not give him too many opportunities in order to rush to La Liga, but playing in the second team to the fourth division is a bit condescending. ”

Gao Han is fully able to understand the difficulties of Real Sociedad right now, as well as the situation of the players.

In European football, I don't know how many players in this situation every year, many of them end up being unknown, but I don't know that many of them are not so-called not strong enough, or talented, but the opportunities are too poor.

Playing is a craft where practice makes perfect, so developing young players requires patience, tolerance and the opportunity to practice.

In the face of performance pressure, it is difficult for young players to have a chance to excel, and this is true all over the world.

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Gao Han and the others didn't want to cause too much movement, and waited until everyone was done training before they asked Mikel Alonso to call Ilya Ramendi to it.

As a result, as soon as the Basque youngster came up, the whole person looked stupid.

Xavi Alonso is the biggest star in the entire San Sebastian area, especially a midfielder like him, who almost chases Xavi Alonso as a lifelong goal.

As for Peric Alonso, needless to say, he has played for Barcelona in his career, once served as the first-team manager of Real Sociedad, and is a well-known football legend in the surrounding area.

But it was Cantarero and Sergio Garcia who surprised Ilya Ramendi the most, and when he saw Gao Han looking at him with a smile, he really felt the urge to get dizzy.

"High ...... Mr. Gao Han?" said Ilya Ramendi's jaw dropped in surprise.

"Hello, Asir. Gao Han smiled and stretched out his hand.

It was only after Ilya Ramendi had regained his composure that the conversation could continue.

In fact, Gao Han's trip was purely to inspect Ilya Ramendi, and after the afternoon training, Gao Han was convinced that Ilya Ramendi would be a very potential midfielder, with his style, not suitable for playing as a midfielder, preferably a midfielder or a lag, which can play to his advantages.

This is also the reason why including Peric Alonso believes that he is a lot like Xavi Alonso.

Of course, no two leaves are the same in the world, and no two players can be exactly the same.

Gao Han is very satisfied with Ilya Ramendi, and also thinks that it will be a very good choice to bring him to the China City team and cultivate him, and he will succeed Marcos Senna in the future.

But when it comes to transfers, Gao Han never mentions it.

Because he had to talk to Illah Ramendi's parents and Real Sociedad.

"By the way, who was the centre-back you played against?" asked Peric Alonso with concern.

It's also a player embryo, and you can see that it has a lot of potential.

"Oh, his name is Igor Martinez, he is eighteen years old, and he lives in Ondaroa, just north of us. ”

Ondaroa, like Matriku, is a small village in the Basque Country, with a close population.

"Is he an Academy player for Real Sociedad?"

Ilya Ramendi shook his head, "No, he is a student of the Ondaroa Academy, however, I heard that the Academy Department of Real Sociedad has examined him, but the details are not clear." ”

Peric Alonso understands now, it is estimated that such a player, Real Sociedad Academy will not miss it.

But at this time, Gao Han turned his head to look at Cantarero, raised his eyebrows, and smiled playfully.

The latter has cooperated with Gao Han for many years, where do you not know the meaning of Gao Han?

Igor Martinez performed well just now, his passing ability is very good, he is not tall, about 1.8 meters, he is strong but flexible, and he is definitely a talent.

In addition to bringing in a high-level central defender, an eighteen or nineteen-year-old player like Igor Martinez is exactly what the team desperately needs.

Not to mention that Igor Martinez is not a Academy player for Real Sociedad now, even if he is, then the Chinese city team will definitely take the opportunity to try to bring him to Madrid.

It's a big deal, ask for some training fees and compensate Real Society.

In any case, the China City team is also a promotion horse in La Liga, and Real Sociedad does not know what year and month it will have to wait until it will return to La Liga, not to mention that the China City team itself is known for its youth training, and it has always been a feature to vigorously promote young players.

After talking to Ilya Ramendi, Gao Han visited them in person and had an in-depth conversation with his parents, and frankly expressed the interest of the Chinese city team in Ilya Ramendi.

Ilya Ramendi's father was also very excited about the importance of Gao Han, and heard that the players in the China City team, including De Gea and Alba, were all teammates of Ilya Ramendi in the national youth team, and Gao Han also repeatedly promised that the club would increase the cultivation and training of Ilya Ramendi, and his parents agreed to Gao Han's proposal.

However, due to the need to protect the child, the two parties negotiate confidentiality.

After all, if it is learned by the outside world that Gao Han values Ilia Ramendi, not to mention the increase in the difficulty of poaching people, I am afraid that it will cause a lot of unnecessary rights and wrongs, and it will bring psychological pressure to the players.

After negotiating with Ilia Ramendi's parents, Gao Han and the others did not linger long, politely declined their invitation to dinner, and left Matriku in a car.

Before leaving, Cantarero had already obtained the details of Igor Martínez from a secret conversation with Illia Ramendi, and even a phone number.

After leaving Matrico, Gao Han returned to San Sebastian with his assistants and Alonso and his son.

After spending the night at Alonso's house, Cantarero travelled alone to Ondaroa, while Gao Han took Sergio García west to Bilbao.

At the same time, in the city of Milan, Bosco and Real Madrid officially agreed on Kaka's personal treatment.

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