The day after his birthday, Farrell said goodbye to the team and returned to training.

A week later, the U17 tournament officially kicked off when the summer heat began to sweep through Barcelona.

A total of 24 youth teams from all continents participated in this year's competition, and after a two-month round-robin points competition, the top 8 teams were finally determined, and the ultimate promotion journey began.

From the first appearance, Farrell immediately amazed the audience with his advanced awareness and accurate judgment, and even scored the winning goal for the team. After that, whenever he played in the game, no matter how good the opponent was before, this time they all lost color in front of him. By the time the Spanish youth team reached the last eight, reports about Farrell could already be seen in the city's football newspaper.

While coverage of the Under-17 World Championship doesn't take up much of the space in the football newspaper, Farrell's name does carry a lot of weight in the limited space.

In the pen of local reporters, the boy who came from the academy has been praised as a flower. There is even speculation from foreign media that the well-deserved dark horse of this World Championships is Farrell.

Even after the points match, the coach of the national youth team handed the captain's armband to Farrell in front of many media at the celebration banquet. The move also led to a lot of predictions in the next day's reports, predicting that Farrell would be the next star of the Barcelona team.

After the celebration banquet, Farrell made a long-distance call to Lianyin as soon as he returned to the dormitory, sharing the good news with her. Although this should be a big deal for him, he was very concise when he told Lian Yin, and finished it in a few words, but then he used a lot of words to describe how he behaved on the field and what kind of paper tiger the other party was.

Lian Yin listened patiently, she had already heard that the person on the other side of the phone was actually asking for credit, saying so much just in the hope that she could praise him.

I don't know when he developed a loyal dog character, but he likes to listen to her praise. can get a compliment from her, no matter how hard and tired he is, it is worth it.

The boy said a lot, until his mouth was dry, and his heart began to get anxious, why didn't Lian Yin praise himself, didn't he do well enough? The boy tugged at his hair in frustration.

At this time, Lienyin, who had always responded with a hum, finally showed mercy and praised him, "Farrell, you have done a great job. ”

"Really?" The original action of pulling his hair suddenly stopped, and he asked a rhetorical question with joy, and then laughed again.

"Hmm." Lian Yin's voice also brought a smile to it, "You wear the shoes I gave you in every game, I see them all." ”

"Ah......, haha." The boy scratched his head habitually, happy that Lian Yin cared so much about himself, and even noticed this. "Because you sent it to me, didn't you say that you hope it can accompany me to win the final?" So he wears it every game, as if he was playing with him.

***

After a short adjustment break, the semi-finals of the World Championships were rekindled.

The semi-finals are related to the battle for the championship and runner-up, so each team is full of fighting spirit and vows to advance to the semi-finals.

With the opening of the semi-finals, a new report has also emerged, and the protagonist in the report is the recently emerging Farrell.

The local newspaper in Barcelona quoted foreign media as saying that a famous coach had a late-night meeting with Farrell with the intention of soliciting money. For the famous coach, the reporter friends disclosed his coaching career in a rich way, and then described in an insider's tone why the other party would take a fancy to the young Farrell and what advantages the young Farrell has.

There are no concerns about the young player being recruited, but there is talk of famous coaches abroad wanting to poach academy players. At this time, people without exception believed that Farrell was already one of the new members of Barcelona.

Lian Yin flipped through the newspaper lightly, unable to understand the confidence of these reporter friends, and even more doubtful about their professionalism. Today's Barcelona team has no shortage of "No. 4 passer", and if the Barcelona team was interested in recruiting Farel, he would not have had that ending in his last life.

The semi-finals were quickly settled, with Spain comfortably making it to the semi-finals.

It's just that at this time, Farrell is a little distressed, for no other reason, some players in the team have received an olive branch from the Barcelona team, but the olive branch that belongs to him has not come, not to mention the first team of Barcelona, even the second team There is no news.

At night, he sat alone at the head of the bed, thinking about the beginning of the game, he did his best in every game, he scored in every game, did he not perform well enough? But if it's really bad, then how can Arsenal's coach Rossi contact him and want him to go to Arsenal? The boy was really confused.

To be honest, he doesn't like Arsenal, it's not that he doesn't look down on this team, but Arsenal is in England, which is too far away from Barcelona. He didn't want to leave Barcelona, he didn't want to see Lien.

After thinking about it all night, the next day Farrell approached the manager and asked the manager to connect him with the management of the Barcelona team, and he wanted to talk to the other party. In order not to leave Barcelona, since the mountain does not come to him, then he will go to the mountain.

After a three-day break, the semi-finals of the U17 World Championship came as scheduled.

Before the game, the head coach once again encouraged the young players in the dressing room to perform well, and then walked up to Farrell and patted him on the shoulder, "This game must be won, and only after the game can we have bargaining chips with the other party." "The manager knows what the captain is thinking, but it's a pity that he is not a Barça manager, otherwise he would have given the boy a contract.

Farrell looked at the manager gratefully and said "thank you" to him.

The manager patted him on the shoulder again and gave him a silent encouragement.

The team that can advance to the semi-finals is not in vain, but this time they met Farrell, who is desperate to get a Barcelona contract, for this first-class midfield captain, the opposing players are obviously a little afraid, if too many manpower to defend a midfielder is obviously unreasonable, but relax their vigilance against him and fear his exquisite and terrible pass.

The opposition eventually conceded a goal in the tangle, and this goal was scored by Farrell's long ball into the goal.

With only three minutes left before the end of the game, the opposing players had a faint urge to cry, and the young players seemed to have anticipated the outcome of the game.

Three minutes is long and short. When the whistle blew and the match was over, Spain won the semi-finals with one goal and will compete for the title of World Championship next week.

The title is not on Farrell's radar, and he is happy that he has finally met the management of Barca.