"Mr. Philp."

Aston Villavilla Training Complex's Head of Academy, Philp. Shakespeare was stopped by the doorman.

The doorman handed him a USB stick.

"What is this?" Shakespeare asked in surprise.

"A black man, he put it here, and he recommends a player to us." The doorman said.

"Broker?" Shakespeare asked.

"I don't know, he didn't say it, he just said that we must watch the video on the USB flash drive." The doorman said.

"What about the black man?"

"He's gone, though, he left the phone number, I'll find you."

Shakespeare held the USB flash drive in his hand, glanced at the phone number on the sticky note, and put it in his pocket with the USB stick.

He didn't take it too seriously.

As Aston Villa's results go from strength to strength, and owner Fang Jue in particular is known for his eye-catching, many players and their agents who consider themselves 'talented' often come to Villa's training base to try their luck.

Yes, in Shakespeare's view, a lot of people are here to try their luck, and the proportion of truly talented players among them can be said to be very small.

At the very least, no treasures have been found yet.

This is normal.

It's not ten years ago when there may be very talented players who are buried.

The well-developed scouting system of the clubs, large and small, is enough to scout and carve up the vast majority of players at a very young age.

However, although he didn't pay much attention to it, Shakespeare did not throw away the USB flash drive and contact information.

The club has the rules of the club.

Even if it is a situation, he needs to take a look at the videos and materials in this USB flash drive.

Or take a step back and say, even if he doesn't have time to look at it himself, he will arrange for the staff to take a look.

Even if you want to throw it away, it's a matter of watching it.

That's the rule.

……

I'm done with the day.

Shakespeare made himself a cup of coffee, and now it's time to enjoy the afternoon.

At this time, he remembered the USB flash drive he had received earlier.

"Dear sir, hello, I am not the player's agent, I am a good friend of the player, my name is Ndidi, I would like to recommend my good friend Ngolo to everyone. N'Golo Kante, a very, very good runner, a guy with a lot of energy. "A small black man appeared in the camera, talking to the camera.

"Is this recommended for track and field athletes?" Shakespeare shook his head.

"Ngolo. N'Golo Kante, a great midfielder from the JS Suraina Academy, is now a Boulogne player, my good buddy, his biggest characteristic is his ability to run, please see-"

When Shakespeare saw this, he almost turned off the video casually.

Then he saw in the footage, a lot of players started running.

"It was a run test arranged by the U23 echelon of Boulogne. Everyone has to reach their running limits.

Look, Kante, who couldn't run to his death, killed the test alone. When everyone stopped, only he was still running in circles around the track. ”

Shakespeare stops moving the mouse point X.

"It can't be fake." He muttered.

The video was apparently fast-forwarded, and if the video wasn't faked, the little black player's fitness was indeed very strong.

'With N'Golo Kante on the pitch, he plays two players by himself and, yes, his running ability allows him to sweep the whole midfield ......'

Shakespeare finally clicked X, and throughout the video, he heard the guy named Ndidi constantly praising Kanter's characteristics:

This man is extremely good at running!

However, football is not athletics, and it is not just a matter of running.

Moreover, Shakespeare can see from the video that this small black player named Ngolocante is short and not physically strong, not to mention anything else, it is difficult to play professional football with such physical conditions.

Shakespeare pulled out a document bag and put the USB stick and the sticky note with the contact information on it.

He wrote a judgment report himself, which probably meant that the player's physical condition was terrible and he was not optimistic or something, and then put it in the file bag.

It's all a standardized procedure to be put into the Aston Villa archives.

To put it mildly, even if a homeless man comes to recommend himself, Aston Villa Club is very quick to 'identify', and then after rejecting this person, they have to make a file for the record.

……

JS Syrene, a small club in the western suburbs of Paris, is not far from the Parc des Princes, but it is unknown.

When N'Golo Kante arrived at the club's training ground, he was greeted affectionately by some of the old staff.

Although he has joined Ligue 2 side Boulogne, N'Golo Kante still often comes to JS Syrena.

He's been here for 10 years, there's a lot of sweat and hard work on the training ground, and most importantly, people here who are familiar with him and have a good attitude towards him, which fills his loneliness in Boulogne.

Even among the people who greeted Kante, none of them could remember exactly what year he had come to be here.

In 1999? Or was it 2000?

In short, from one day on, Kante became a member of JS Syrene.

Everyone slowly got used to the team having this small black player.

Curiously, though, in the 10 years that followed, they almost never met Kante's parents in person.

This kid comes to the club to train on his own, goes home on his own, and is very independent.

Kante's parents came to France from Mali in the '80s.

Located in Ruel. A small bungalow in the Malmaison district is where Kante grew up.

JS Surene Club is not far from his house, adults have to work to earn money, where is there time to take care of Kante, and, a black boy, Kanter is very honest, never causes trouble, very safe.

JS Surene is a poor little club – the teenage talent they have cultivated will be abducted by other clubs at the slightest hint of their appearance.

In the course of this decade, several players have also been taken away by Ligue 2 teams.

Only N'Golo Kante, who came to play at JS Syrena at the age of eight or nineteen, is still in this team, and no one looks down on him.

The club is very close to Paris Saint-Germain, and people often joke that one day, if you can join the Grand Paris and play at the Stade des Princes, you will have a complete life.

A year and a half ago, the chairman of JS Surae made a strong recommendation to the club next door, Boulogne.

Then he joined Boulogne for free and was put in the reserves.

Kante is here for Ndidi.

Ndidi is a plumber at the JS Syrenas Club.

Kante heard his sister say that Ndidi had something to do, and he was a little worried about his little friend, so he came to take a look.

……

"Ndidi, where have you been?" Kante found Ndidi in the club's staff quarters, where his friend was munching on bread.

"Uh, uh-" Ndidi burped after taking a long sip of water before swallowing the dry bread.

"Are you with the Demba Bar guys again?" Kante asked worriedly.

Demba Ba is a gang of gangsters in the western suburbs of Paris, although they don't have the courage to do anything big, but petty theft and fights are common.

Ndidi used to be a member of this gang, and it was Kante who persuaded the little friend many times not to continue, and personally approached the chairman of the club and helped Ndidi find a job as a plumber.

"Remember the video I took you?" Ndidi said happily.

"Yes."

"I'm going to Birmingham!" Ndidi exclaimed.

"What are you going to do in Birmingham?" Kante was surprised.

"You told me before that Aston Villa's coach Fang Jue is very good at discovering young people, so I took that information to Birmingham." Ndidi said, "I recommended you to them! ”

Kante's eyes widened, he was sure there was nothing wrong with his ears.

God, his little friend took those 'disorganized' videos he shot, and went to Birmingham to recommend him to Aston Villa Club?

"You really went?" Kante took a deep breath and asked.

"Of course." Ndidi nodded proudly and smiled brightly.

"Where do you have the money to go?" N'Golo Kante didn't dwell on what Ndidi said about recommending him to Aston Villa, and he didn't care how Ndidi recommended him, because the result was obvious and it wouldn't have worked.

He was concerned about how this guy Ndidi got to Birmingham.

"I've saved up breakfast for two months, just enough for me to go back and forth to Birmingham." Ndidi said proudly.

"Idiot." Kante, who has been an honest child since he was a child, burst into foul language, "You are spending money in vain." ”

Kante remembered that he had just seen Ndidi eat hard dry bread, which was the cheapest French baguette, and he knew that Ndidi had not only saved breakfast, but also the rest.

Ndidi scratched his head, smirked, and didn't speak.

He once watched a live Premier League game with N'Golo Kante, and heard N'Golo Kante once muttering that if he could be favored by Fang Jue and play at Aston Villa, he would be satisfied.

The speaker was unintentional, but Ndidi remembered.

N'Golo Kante was his best friend, and when Ndidi was fooling around with the thugs, it was Kante who never gave up on him, kept persuading him to get on the right path, and helped him find a job at the club.

He wants to help his good friend fulfill his wish.

Ndidi is certainly not stupid and knows that the way he recommended Kante to Aston Villa was very low.

I also know that the money I have worked so hard to save will be used up this time.

But he's going to do it, he's not thinking about the result, he's just going to do it, for the sake of his good friend N'Golo Kante.

Although it is a doomed wasted journey of money, what is done and what is not done is not the same for him Ndidi.

……

Fang Jue didn't know what happened in the western suburbs of Brazil.

He was still waiting for his koi bunny stupidly.

On 29 January, Aston Villa departed for London.

They will travel to the Emirates Stadium against Arsenal.

It's a match in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

It will also be the third time this season that Aston Villa will meet Arsenal after two meetings with them in the Carabao Cup and the first leg of the league.

The two teams also meet too often.

Even the English media couldn't help but complain that the English football team always has no enmity with Arsenal, how can it be tortured by an Arsenal team.

In the Carabao Cup, Aston Villa won 5-0 away to Arsenal.

Then just over a month ago, in the 17th round of the league, Aston Villa won 6-0 at home to Arsenal.

This time, the two teams met again, and the general opinion in the media was that Arsenal could not escape the doom of being pressed to the ground again.

The course of the game did not surprise the media and fans either.

Despite Fang Jue's rotation in this FA Cup game, Aston Villa continued their good tradition against Arsenal.

Just 46 seconds into the opening period, De Bruyne burst into the left side of the penalty area and was about to cut inside, but it was suddenly diagonally crossed.

Jamie Vardy, who followed up, fired a powerful shot past Szczesny.

However, just as the Aston Villa players were celebrating their dream start, the referee's whistle blew.

Referee McCocey signalled to Abang Lajo in front of goal to interfere with Szczesny's judgment in an offside position.

The goal was offside and the goal was disallowed.

Fang Jue was furious on the sidelines, and he complained to the fourth official in protest.

Fang Jue believes that although Abang Laho is offside, he is not involved in the attack, so there is no problem with this goal.

"Abang Laho is blocking Szczesny's view, can't you see?" Wenger saw Fang Jue's unrelenting appearance, and couldn't help but sneer at him.

"I didn't see it!" Fang Jue immediately said, "Neither of them saw it. ”

The professor snorted, he thought that Fang Jue would be speechless, and even quarrel with him, but he didn't expect this guy to answer so reasonably.

Arsenal escaped less than a minute into the game.

However, Aston Villa's goal finally arrived.

Aston Villa took the lead in the 21st minute.

This time it was Shinji Kagawa who moved to the left and he crossed from the top of the arc of the penalty area.

Abonlaho scrambled in front of goal and the England international couldn't touch the football.

However, Julu, who was defending Abang Laho, panicked, but swept the football directly into his own net.

An own goal!

Aston Villa are 1-0 ahead of Aston Villa.

"When we talked about the game between Arsenal and Aston Villa, we said that Arsenal lost at the feet of Aston Villa every time, which can be said to be very miserable, and the only consolation is that there has not been an own goal." Lineker shook his head, "I didn't expect the own goal to come." ”

Wenger was depressed, the professor glanced at Fang Jue, and then at the frustrated Zhu Lu, the professor had a headache, and he even felt that there was a mysterious force that allowed his team to score such an own goal......

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