I got off the plane, changed to a taxi, and had a tiring journey.

When the surrounding area was almost forested and flocks of pigeons cooed, they finally arrived at the Real Madrid youth team.

This position is not an ordinary deviation.

It's not just the location, when he arrived at the stadium, Sun Hao found that there was a gap between the Real Madrid team and his imagination.

The arena is in disrepair and the equipment inside is quite old.

It seems that the Spanish government does not allocate much money for basketball.

This is not too surprising, at this time Spanish basketball has not really risen to the top.

If nothing else, let's just say that three years ago, in the group stage of the 1994 Toronto Men's Basketball World Championships, Spain was defeated by the Chinese team.

Having learned the hard way, Spain has begun its path to revival.

The funding may not be able to keep up for a while, but the thinking is already very advanced.

This can be seen from Sun Hao being taken to the training hall and seeing young basketball talents from all over the world.

If you want to improve the level of basketball, youth training is the top priority.

Spain has taken an inclusive approach, competing by attracting basketball talent from all over the world, and then improving the level of local basketball through competition.

This is quite a sensible approach.

After Raul brought Sun Hao to the training hall, he went directly to the assistant coach, and ignored him completely as he did on the plane before.

Sun Hao looked around, put down his schoolbag, and found a place to warm up directly.

His warm-up was over, and before he could start training with the ball, Raul gathered everyone together.

After everyone had gathered and stood in several rows, he began his speech.

The first half of the content is empty words, but it is also some necessary words.

What is there is young talent from all over the world, the pride of heaven who will have the opportunity to enter professional basketball in the future, here is the cradle of success, and so on.

Sun Hao would have said these words in his previous life.

Taking advantage of this, he carefully observed the teammates around him.

There are both tall, short, fat and thin, not to mention, this Real Madrid youth team is much more inclusive than Hongyuan.

In the process, two people looked at him.

One was a peer about his age, and when he looked at him, there was a hint of contempt in his eyes.

The other looked only eleven or twelve years old, and when he looked at him, he smiled with a very green and kind smile.

Sun Hao didn't care, since he was from all over the world, his personality was naturally all-inclusive.

At this time, after the polite words in the first half, Raul began to talk about some necessary knowledge of the Spanish basketball league, and he also withdrew his attention.

"There are four divisions of the league in Spain and our youth team is in the fourth division, which has a total of 108 teams.

Raul's first words surprised him a little.

Spain doesn't have a large population, and basketball has even fewer populations, but the youth team alone has that number, and it makes sense that it will rise in the future.

Raul went on to give a detailed overview of the rest of the league, and Sun Hao also had a deeper understanding of the 108 teams.

It is not easy to put together 108 youth teams in Spain alone, and the level cannot be guaranteed.

But as he saw earlier, Spain has been inclusive since the reform, and the number of overseas players in the league far exceeds that of domestic players.

The EBA league has been implemented for five years, and the results have been remarkable, and a large number of young talents have entered the national team training list of various countries.

Survival of the fittest, the law of competition applies everywhere, and it is even about to become a training base for young talents in European basketball and even world basketball.

The EBA league is the lowest league, and above that is the third-tier league, Plata.

The Plata League has significantly fewer teams, with only 24 teams.

This drastic reduction in numbers means that the bar is suddenly higher, and only the best of the youngsters can enter the third division.

Then there's the second-tier league, Oro, which has even fewer teams with just 18.

The highest level is the first division ACB, which is the most well-known La Liga in Spain, with only 17 teams in total.

This is like an upgrade in a fantasy novel, one threshold at a time, screening at all levels, and in the end, only the best of the best can enter La Liga.

Of course, like Sun Hao's current EBA league, the next three levels of the league are also full of inclusiveness.

Even La Liga giants Real Madrid and Barcelona have far more overseas players than local players.

After listening to what Raul said, Sun Hao felt mixed feelings in his heart.

The good thing is that this hierarchical league system is very fair, and it will not completely block people out of the door with a height like the CBA.

The concern is that this system has a drawback that cannot be ignored.

You know, the higher you go, the more senior professional players there are, and the fewer opportunities young players will get.

If he is promoted to the first level of the league, even if he stays in the league at one level for a year, it will take three years.

In other words, it was only three years before he reached La Liga.

This is certainly not possible, because by then the time for the five-year covenant has come.

He is indeed playing professionally, but the European league is not paying attention at all at home now.

It is impossible for him to run in front of Li Yuanwei and Yang Wei and say to them: No, you see, I am now a member of La Liga, I have already played professionally, and you have been slapped in the face!

It's too low, and he needs another kind of coercive voice.

He doesn't have to open his mouth, the other party will hear the sound even if he covers his ears.

Just like he had planned, to be an NBA rookie.

"Coach, can you skip the level?"

After Raul finished speaking, Sun Hao raised his hand and asked.

It's a normal problem for him, and he doesn't want to waste that much time in the lower leagues.

Or rather, he simply doesn't have that much time.

However, when he asked, there was a burst of laughter.

It's like he's just asked a stupid, stupid question.

"Who do you think you are? Being able to enter the Plata league is already a genius, and you still want to skip the league? A genius boy among geniuses? ”

It was a person behind Sun Hao who spoke, and his tone was full of ridicule.

Sun Hao glanced back and found that it was the person who looked at him with contempt before.

This drew another burst of laughter.

The youth team does not have a limit on the number of players like other third-tier leagues, with fewer teams of 20 and more teams of almost 30.

108 teams, which means that the EBA league has at least two or three thousand players.

However, in the third division, there are only 360 players with 15 players in 24 teams.

That's close to the ratio of one out of ten, and the difficulty is not ordinarily small.

If you go up the next level, the difficulty is more like a power finger function, and then there is a quadratic, fourth-power......

It's not a question of whether it's difficult or not, it's almost impossible.

Raul laughed when he came back to his senses.

Sun Hao is really a little whimsical.

He nodded, though.

"Theoretically, Barcelona had a young man named Pau Gasol last year and it only took him one year to get from the youth team to La Liga."

Speaking of Gasol, these young players unconsciously showed a burst of respect in their eyes.

That's a legend of the La Liga youth team, who once cut down 40+20 inside monsters in a single game.

Sun Hao also nodded after listening, he forgot about Gasol, Gasol was only two years older than him, 17 years old at this time, and he should almost be on the first team.

Jumping three leagues in one year, Gasol's talent can be seen.

Sun Hao's question became a small episode in the opening remarks, and Raul didn't pay much attention to it, and then arranged for the players to enter the training.

The first is a warm-up and basic training without the ball.

The reform of Spanish basketball has also put effort into training methods, combining the characteristics of American and European basketball, and getting twice the result with half the effort.

After the basic training, it is time to train with the ball.

Training with the ball is divided into no confrontation and confrontation.

In the non-confrontational training, Sun Hao's performance was very eye-catching.

Whether it's dribbling or shooting, he's in the first gear of the team's training camp.

Raul's difference in attitude before and after made him aware of the rivalry he faced here, and he didn't hold back any more.

The penultimate part is a one-on-one confrontation with the ball.

It was in this link that Raul deliberately put Sun Hao in the opposite position with the person who teased him.

He did it on purpose.

Before the start of training camp for the new season, he went on a solo trip around the world in search of outstanding basketball talent.

China was his last stop.

He didn't want to go to this stop because in terms of basketball strength, Asia is the worst, and the only advantage is height.

However, the criterion for selecting Chinese basketball personnel is height, and those talents with advantages have long been absorbed by China's CBA league.

But because there was still one person missing, he ended up going to China.

That day, he happened to be in time for a local provincial final, so he stopped by to take a look.

Then I happened to meet Sun Hao in that final, and the latter barely met his selection criteria, which led to a series of things after that.

As for the conditions he gave Sun Hao.

Food and accommodation are conditions that the Spanish Basketball Association will give when recruiting overseas players;

Guaranteed playing time is just a blank check.

This is the same as the original promise of the Bucks to guarantee Yi Jianlian's start.

In competitive sports, whether you can play or not depends on whether you are strong enough.

No one really asks for anything, or can ask for anything, because of a blank check.

This is also the reason why he didn't have much interest in Sun Hao all the way.

A 15-year-old Asian player, the strength barely meets his requirements.

Another way to say this is that he chose this person, in fact, he basically used it to make up the numbers.

If he makes up the numbers, how can he pay more attention?

And the reason why he chose to let Sun Hao and that person pair up at this time was even simpler.

Sun Hao's question just now was a little whimsical, and he wanted Sun Hao to recognize the reality.

Because Real Madrid is a giant team in Spain, every player they recruit is the best among the young players.

Just like a student in the ordinary class of the first year of high school, when he is assigned to the key class in the second year of high school, he will know the gap between himself and his peers.

You may be good in the same place, but here, you are just a very ordinary ordinary person.

It could even be a crane tail.

PS: Thanks for the 10,000 tips for cats who can't program.