Chapter 430: The Great Test
New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Whitehall Apartments, Yale University North Community
On the afternoon of the second day of the initial audition,
Jiang Yelin chose to live in the whitehall apartment on the north campus of Yale University, facing the Yale Sports Center Stadium to the north, this apartment is suitable for visiting scholars and faculty and staff with families, of course, not everyone can afford to live, although it is not an independent HOUSE, but it is a one-story layout, two living rooms with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a huge kitchen, thinking for a long time, Jiang Yelin decided to live alone instead of going to Bai Suzhen's luxurious apartment in downtown New Haven.
"I invite you to come today, I want to hear your Jianyì, the second half of the league division competition will officially start in two weeks, and the Yale women's football team has swelled to 32 players, and in terms of the playing style and selection of the main lineup, I want to hear your thoughts as an assistant coach and coach......" Jiang Yelin's living room is an oak long table, and on the side is a tactical whiteboard, and on the bracket under the whiteboard is a bunch of magnetic blue, red, black and yellow tactical chess pieces of various colors, and in the center of the whiteboard is a schematic diagram of a standard football field.
Although Mia Suter and Audrey have been members of the Yale women's football team for two years and have been selected for the training camp of the national team at the same time, in terms of personal relationship, they do not belong to a circle, Mia is naturally a representative of the elite circle of the second generation of Bai Fumei, known as the most outstanding sports genius in Yale University in the past 10 years, and has the title of the flower and goddess of Yale Law School, while Audrey, a sophomore in the School of Management, and Ben came from a middle-class family that was not too wealthy, Her father was a manager of a large shopping mall but her mother was a housewife, the daughter of a small farmer, and Audrey and Ben were able to attend the university because they received a full scholarship to Yale.
"Coach, I hope that when you are in the team, as a coach, you have to have a sense of non-smoking, Alice took the Marlboro commemorative cigarette case you gave me and stuffed it with cigarettes in front of me, the annual limited edition ZIPPO lighter that Fisher can't put down is actually 24K pure gold, I think Yale is a sacred temple of learning, Coach Ronnie never does this, material and money are not the reason why we came to Yale, I hope you can listen to my words......" Mia Suter sat at the table, He looked at the new owner of this apartment with a stern expression, thinking that it would be better for this guy not to bring Alice and Fisher, the high-eyed best friends, with high eyes.
"What are you talking about, Mia, I guess this is a souvenir that Alice and Fisher took from Coach Django, come, the coffee is brewed, you can add your own sugar, Coach Django, do you want to add some milk?" Audrey came out of the kitchen with three cups of coffee, in fact, a kitchen, in a semi-open space with one of the living rooms, flanked by a bar-like table and a huge refrigerator, and a glass wine cooler alongside the refrigerator. Of course, Audrey didn't dare to ask the coach if she wanted to have a drink, but coffee, just at the right time, today is Thursday, and the next training session is theoretically tomorrow afternoon, but Coach Django called, Audrey and Mia each rode their bicycles to this luxurious and spacious apartment......
The area of a family on the first floor of the Whitehall apartment is more than 1,800 square feet, and the monthly rent is as high as 3,000 US dollars, which Nima is about to catch up with a student's tuition for a year, and the amateur coach from Wall Street in New York is obviously not disadvantaged at all in terms of life, which is in obvious contrast to Coach Ronnie van der Hay, who applied for free accommodation in the student dormitory, and has a particularly strong impact on a beauty from a middle-class family like Audrey, as for Mia Suter, she is actually quite happy to live here. First of all, it is quiet, spacious, and easy to enter and exit, otherwise, if Django lives in a student dormitory, Mia and Audrey will have too many eyes and eyes on the way to meet him!
"Thank you Audrey, by the way, go back and post a job advertisement on the threshold of my student dormitory, just write that I am looking for part-time waiters to clean the house and buy groceries and cook something, on an hourly basis, McDonald's hourly wage is 7 US dollars? So it's okay for me to pay $10 an hour, right? It starts at two hours at a time...... Must be a Yale student, must be an adult girl over the age of 21......" Jiang Yelin took the coffee brought by Audrey, and said about inviting the waiter while opening his mouth, but left Mia Suter aside, intentionally or unintentionally...... Of course, he didn't skimp on an apologetic smile.
"Hmph...... What kind of virtue ......" Mia turned her head angrily when she heard this, and threw two pieces of sugar into the coffee cup pushed by Audrey heavily, and then stirred it with a small coffee spoon, Jiang Yelin just said lightly what he said about hiring a part-time waiter for $10 an hour, and somehow made Mia feel extremely harsh when she heard it, and muttered in her heart, this guy is a nouveau riche from Wall Street, and he has a few dollars that he doesn't know how thick he spends indiscriminately, Don't let Alice and Fisher, the newly enlightened, know about this, or you'll be going to apply for a part-time job and revolve around this badass coach all day long!
"Coach, do you want to start your own group? In fact, if you just clean up the house, you can directly ask the team members to volunteer to help, anyway, there are so many people, it is definitely no problem to send two team members to clean up every day, if you cook, it is a bit troublesome, many students eat canteen or fast food, I am afraid that there is no cooking skills, I don't know what kind of flavor the coach likes, if it is an ordinary home-cooked meal, my grandmother taught me a few hands of thick soup and vegetable salad or something, you can try it......"
When Audrey said this, she bravely looked at Coach Django on the other side of the table, this girl is actually in the same mood as Mia, and she doesn't want other people, especially girls, to have more opportunities to contact coaches than herself, this psychology is very subtle, and Audrey also has two tutors in New Haven in order to subsidize living expenses, if she can serve Coach Django, the hourly salary of $10 is definitely a lot! Don't look at the large area of the apartment on this floor, if you clean and keep it tidy every day, the workload is just a little hard in the first few days......
"Haha, okay, if you have the chance, you must taste the ancestral soup of Audrey's family, Mia, you misunderstood me, in fact, my addiction to smoking is not too big, but if you don't smoke in New York, you will have other messy hobbies to take advantage of, okay, I promise you, in front of the girls in the women's football team, I don't smoke, it's all right, can you two talk about team building now? When I think about playing my first game at the end of the month, I don't know how to do it! While Jiang Yelin held up the exemption card, he gave the two core subordinates in front of him a great face, Audrey was certainly happy when she heard this, and Mia's face was finally no longer serious.
"Audrey, seeing that you are so anxious, then you can say it first......" Mia Suter unexpectedly handed over the right to speak to Audrey and Ben first, in fact, Mia does not have too deep hostility towards Audrey, Audrey plays the goalkeeper position, and does not compete with herself at all, not to mention, looking at the domestic women's football players in the United States, that is, the North Carolina gang is Mia's main competitor, Mia Hamm, Kristen Lilly and Linda Hamilton are the main force of North Carolina, and they are also the main force of the national team, He is also the midfielder who competes with Mia for the most competitive position on the field.
"Then I'll throw bricks first, coach, I think the foundation of Yale women's football is too poor, in such a short period of time to tap newcomers, especially newcomers who did not take football as the main sport before, it is very difficult, if you want to talk about timeliness, it is best to recruit back the 4 veteran players who went down yesterday, after all, they have been running in the team for two years, and the foundation is much better than that of newcomers in all aspects...... This is already an optimistic estimate! ”
As the coach and vice-captain, Audrey came up to intercede for the four veteran players who were suddenly eliminated yesterday, on the one hand, her prestige in the team is second only to the captain Mia Suter, on the other hand, Mia is both proud and high-minded after all, and she doesn't smile much, the players respect her skills and talent, but the relationship with the vice-captain Audrey, who is the same as the girl next door, is more harmonious, or rather, Audrey's popularity is better than the arrogant Mia.
"I don't agree with Audrey's statement, the elimination of the four veteran players is the result of everyone's vote, not Coach Django against them, if you want me to say, the 11 main players on the field before the Yale women's football team are uneven, not to mention the elimination of 4 substitutes, by my standards, if this team can compete with North Carolina, I am afraid that even the main lineup will have to be eliminated more than half......" Mia's words were cold and not polite, of course, when she said this, Audrey's face was more embarrassed, It's not like I've quarreled with Mia before, but Coach Django just came, and the first time the so-called coaching staff met to make a fuss, Audrey felt that she shouldn't be so aggressive.
"This, I estimate that before the new recruits enter the school in September, the reserve players that the Yale women's football team can select are now these people, so the focus of our discussion today is not whether these players can meet our requirements, but how to make these players form a healthy competition, and there are obvious changes and improvements in the short term, Yale is the leading university in the United States, playing football is to use the brain, I think in this regard, Yale women's football players, how can they have an advantage over those girls in North Carolina who have developed sports cells!"
Jiang Yelin's words made the dispute between Mia and Audrey end without a hitch, the two girls glanced at each other, and it could be seen from each other's eyes that Coach Django was talking about the idea, there were so many dishes in the basket, wasting time saying that the dishes were not fresh and cleaned, and it was useless to say that the dishes were not fresh, how to cut the vegetables, how to sprinkle the seasonings, and what kind of heat, so that the team's mental outlook and technical and tactical level were significantly improved, which was a topic in front of the coaching staff, and perhaps, it was also the biggest test faced by Yale Women's Football Team and Coach Django!