Chapter 11 Selection for the national team

Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Baidu search 4G Chinese network update faster)

This is the training base of the team in São Paulo, Brazil.

At this time, it was still cold in Brazil, and the players were wearing long-sleeved training clothes and carrying out their daily training in the cold wind.

At the moment, they are engaged in a half-court tactical training with only half a football field. This kind of training develops their team coordination, as well as offensive and defensive strategies. The manager informed the players of his tactical ideas, and the players implemented the manager's tactical ideas during the half-time tactical training.

Even though the two teams were only facing off in half of the field, and everyone was not running fast, it would be very tiring to conduct four sets of fifteen-minute tactical drills in a row.

"Hurry up and hurry up! Don't let your rhythm relax! Stay excited and focused! Leiy!! It's tactical training! I didn't let you go tango with the goalkeeper!! Later, you will stand in the circle for me to grab the ball!! You can only change positions with others after grabbing five rounds!! ”

Just in the midst of this angry scolding, you can tell that Lei Yi is treating training as a game again...... And, he was just bullying the team's second goalkeeper. After bringing the ball in front of the goalkeeper, he performed a series of fancy footwork, but he just didn't shoot. After being scolded by the head coach, Lei Yi sneezed seven times in a row, and even his nose turned red in the cold wind of late winter, which made him look a little ridiculous. But for the little guy who is too energetic in this team, maybe it is better not to be too kind and let him bully the big with the small.

After the ball-grabbing training began, everyone spread their hands to Lei Yi and made helpless expressions, but many people actually began to snicker uncontrollably after turning their heads.

Three of the São Paulo players who participated in the training formed a circle centered on the Thunder Wing. Just when you could know that Lei Yi was already not feeling well, Domingos walked into the circle, stopped fighting beside Lei Yi, and touched his head without saying a word.

When the head coach saw this, he motioned for two more people to go in.

If it's just one person stealing the ball inside the circle, then it's good to only surround three people outside. But if there are two people who enter the circle to grab the ball, then the difficulty will be greatly reduced, so two more people should be added to the outer circle to increase the difficulty.

So the circle around Thunder Wing and Dominguez instantly became a lot larger. Then, the five players in the outer circle began to pass the ball irregularly. The Sao Paulo player standing in front of Dominguez to the left bounced the ball with his knees, stopped the ball with his instep, and then kicked it out with a very sudden kick. The ball passed between the motionless Dominguez feet and was picked up by the Sao Paulo player diagonally behind Domingos.

Someone gave Domingosby the number "2" with his hand, signaling the ball to pass between his feet, and he had to grab the ball twice before he could swap places with one of them. Dominguez just nodded very indifferently and motioned for them to continue.

The seven on the periphery began to pass the ball as if they were instinctive, and cultivated a tacit understanding with each other in the process, and Thunder Wing also began to steal the ball, but Dominguez still stood still. There were four more crotch balls, and everyone compared Domingos with a number "5".

It was only at this moment that Domingos said to Thunder Wing, "Let's get started." ”

After that, the five players in the circle, as well as Domingos and Thunder Wing in the circle, each cooperated to carry out a variety of passes and steals.

Ray Wing's dislike of playing lap-grabbing training is something that almost everyone in the Sao Paulo team knows. In fact, Lei Yi prefers to control the ball himself and then play with the people who come to grab the ball. But what if the role played is reversed?

Just look at what Thunder Wing has become after five successful tackles.

That's basically...... It's similar to the whole body being rubbed and electrified. Everyone who is glared at by him has an illusion...... I don't know if this kid will go crazy in the next second, and he rushes up and grabs them and bites them hard without caring about anything.

After finishing this round of circle-grabbing training, Lei Yi's expression is basically the same as the girl who has been ruined. Simply, with one more set of physical training, they will be able to end the day's training.

After another hour, the players were finally let go by the head coach, but Lei Yi was still caught by the head coach to lecture. The sight was really sad and tearful.

"Leiy, I know you're outstanding. No one has taught you to play before, but you can do well on the pitch. But there's one problem, I've sued you before. Your style of play is too classical. For nearly two decades, the defence of football has been continuously strengthened. The defensive ability of the whole team to work together is becoming more and more terrifying. You love to cross and you like to pass assists to your team-mates. But I still want you to change yourself and don't just be a lone ranger when trying to break through the defenses. ”

Lei Yi seemed to hold his breath and wanted to refute something, but in the end, he nodded to his head coach with an extremely serious face.

Mel: "Good. It looks like you and Dominguez are already good friends in private, right? ”

Lei Yi: "Yes, although he doesn't like to talk much. But he was much easier to get along with than he seemed. ”

Mel: "Well, you have to learn more from him. He's also young, but I'm sure he'll be able to teach you a lot in some ways. ”

Lei Yi nodded again, and then the head coach Mr. Mel finally smiled at him, and began to care about him like a friend, or an elder to a junior:

"It's your national team break day in four days. I wish you a good enough appearance. ”

It turns out that although Lei Yi has spent a long time with Garrincha himself, he has not followed the right person, so that he still looks like a hairy child for many more years. For a bear child like Lei Yi, basically, after you touch the fur upside down a few times, and then touch it along again, he will be happy again.

No, Lei Yi, who had been trained to rob the circle before, made his whole person bad, almost always hummed a very prodigal song all the way into the locker room.

When he entered the locker room and grabbed his change of clothes to prepare for the shower, his teammate, Domingos, who had just been mentioned by Mr. Mel, stepped out of it with only a bath towel around his waist. Seeing this friend of his, Lei Yi was also very happy to greet the other party.

Dominguez just nodded, and then opened his wardrobe while pushing his dripping forehead back, but he paused and turned to look at Lei Yi, and asked:

"You're not coming to tomorrow's training, you're going to play for your national team?"

"yes. The journey is really long enough, although the person in charge of contacting the players in the national team told me that in order to save time on the road, even if the ticket is a little more expensive, it is no problem. But even if I bought a plane ticket that was twice as expensive, I still had to spend about 26 hours on the road. Again, it's a one-way trip. I'm a little glad I didn't come up in the first leg of this play-off. Otherwise, I would have to go back and forth twice in ten days, on the plane and in the airport for four and a half days. ”

The tragic sight of Lei Yi as he spoke amused Domingos and gave the extremely handsome Brazilian player an extremely good-looking side face. But Domingos said a sentence with such a face that made Thunder Wing want to head the atrocity against him:

"Be smart during the game, don't go over and come back lame."

After a day and a half......

It's September, and it's the cold early spring in Brazil.

In September, Beijing has not yet shaken off the summer heat.

A boy who looked like he was just a teenager finally arrived at Beijing's capital airport after two flight transfers and more than 30 hours of air travel from far away South America. He was dressed in a woolen coat, which was particularly strange in the crowd of people dressed in cool clothes.

"Hello, I want to convert all of this into RMB."

"Oh, I'm sorry, but what country's currency is this?"

"Brazil, Brazilian real."

"We're sorry, but we don't offer huàn exchange for this currency here."

At the prompting of the teller at the currency exchange to huàn, the boy looked up at the description of the currency that provided the exchange to huàn, and then let out a groan of extreme annoyance.

"Mr. Andric, I'm Thunder Wing. I...... Forget jì when he went out of Brazil and exchanged the money into US dollars. The staff at the airport told me that the Brazilian real currency is not available here! So I ...... Probably, you may be stuck at the airport...... Maybe I should try to see if someone wants to buy something at the store and I help them swipe their card for cash? Yes, yes! I can take a taxi to the training base first and call you when it's almost there! Yes, I'm sorry...... Sorry for the trouble again......"

Carrying a small bag, Lei Yi ran to the corner and called the head coach of the national team, Mr. Andric, and instantly became enlightened. Then, according to the guidance of the signs, he ran to a place where there were many taxis for customers, and called up the short message sent to him by the staff of the Chinese team to show the taxi driver.

Perhaps Lei Yi will not find out that his national team head coach is likely to be his nanny or dad now.

"Yo, little brother, you're going to the training base of the Chinese team."

When the taxi driver saw the address, he was a little surprised. At this time, Lei Yi, who was sitting in the back seat, finally couldn't bear the heat, took off his tweed coat, and took off the sweater inside, just wearing the long-sleeved T-shirt in the innermost, but even if he did this, it was not enough, and he was finally willing to roll up all the sleeves. Lei Yi, who finished rolling up his sleeves, reacted to the exclamation of the driver's uncle, so he said with a smile:

"Uncle, you know too? It's so stylish! ”

But Lei Yi said this with a smile, but the driver's uncle couldn't stop sighing: "Hey, I know, I'm still an old fan." Eight years ago, in the China World Cup, Yue Yihuang led the team to the top 16 of the World Cup. But this year, we have fallen into the top 10 in Asia and are about to be eliminated. ”

"Who said that!" Hearing that the driver's uncle made a decision with such certainty, Lei Yi immediately retorted: "Isn't this the second round with Uzbekistan that hasn't started yet?" ”

The driver immediately complimented: "Well, you know quite well, it looks like you really like football." ”

Lei Yi said with a look of understanding that you finally understood: "But it's not more." Not only do I love football, but I'm also about to report to the training base right now. ”

The driver's uncle was only stunned for a moment, and then said directly: "Children, it's always good to have dreams." ”

Lei Yi didn't understand what the driver meant, and said happily, "Yes." Uncle, why don't I sign it for you, maybe you can sell it later. ”

The driver's uncle laughed even more and said, "Okay, okay, you can sign two for your uncle later." ”

In this way, when the driver's uncle saw someone coming out of the iron gate of the training base to pay Lei Yi for the car, and brought him in, he was directly dumbfounded, and kept saying to himself:

"I must have been thinking too much...... I must be thinking too much......"