The calm German canal flows to Hanover, and the water suddenly opens up a lot, and the river also turns a big 40-degree bend here, and continues to leave quietly in a northeasterly direction in an arc. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info at the bend of the river, the water surface is extremely open, forming a huge fan-shaped lake. Viewed from a high vantage point, the river and lake look like a slender setting with a huge diamond.

On the surface of the Diamond Lake, there is a small peninsula that extends out of the land. Madibourg Football Club and Victor Football Stadium are located on this peninsula.

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After a hurried lunch, Zhuo Yang got on his bicycle. The bicycle he bought from the second-hand supermarket on campus, where many of his classmates traded or sold various items. Zhuo Yang took a fancy to this bicycle because it had a bell that played "clang, clang".

Literary youths always like to flaunt their feelings with nostalgia, and Zhuo Yang inherited the pseudo-literary sullenness in his father's Zhuo Tongtong's blood. The ringing of "Clang, Clang" is like a postman walking the streets in the seventies.

came to Madibao Football Club, explained his intention to the janitor's uncle, and after the uncle's guidance, Zhuo Yang found Chairman Malen's office. In the office, I also met the legendary secretary - Sylvia.

After some simple negotiations, Zhuo Yang and Chairman Mullen negotiated all the terms of the contract. Signing a semi-professional youth player is not a complicated matter, let alone the president of the club himself.

A weekly salary of 1,200 euros, a one-year contract, a goal bonus and an appearance fee. To Zhuo Yang's surprise, he also received a signing fee of 5,000 euros.

This is the first time in Zhuo Yang's life that he has his own income, and the amount is not small, which makes him feel rich.

"Sylvia," said Angus Mullen to his little sweetheart's secretary, "go and tell Jurgen to come to me. ”

Looking at Sylvia, who was swinging her waist and limbs, walked out with a smile, Zhuo Yang had a very ridiculous feeling.

"How did I become a semi-professional soccer player?" Zhuo Yang was a little ridiculous. "My mom asked me to come to Germany because I was playing football at home and causing trouble. I didn't expect to be a footballer here. "It's unpredictable!

The door of the office was pushed open, and a person walked in, and Zhuo Yang, who was outside the wandering object, looked up and looked intently: Oh, what a big man!

I saw that the person who came was wearing a half-new and half-used blue sportswear, in his early thirties, with bright eyes and eyebrows. With a height of 1.85 meters, broad shoulders and a wide stride. The face is full of stubble, and the brown hair is messy and sticking to the door of the head, sloppy with a little vicissitudes. The black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of the nose are buckled on the flat and wide face, which is not very coordinated.

"Angus, you're looking for me?" Dahan said to Chairman Mullen, his voice high and slightly hoarse.

"Jurgen, introduce you. This is Zhuo, Zhuo Yang, from China. Angus Mullen stood up and said. Zhuo, this is the club's youth team manager Jurgen Klopp. ”

"Hello, Mr. Klopp!" Zhuo Yang appeared polite.

"Hello, Zhuo. From China? Well, you speak German quite well. Klopp looked at Zhuo Yang in surprise.

"Thank you, Mr. Klopp, you speak German very well, too." Zhuo Yang stepped forward and grabbed Klopp's outstretched right hand and shook it twice.

"Hahahaha, Jurgen, see, this is an interesting little guy." Chairman Angus Mullen's joke is clearly not high. "Zhuo is my new signing, I handed him over to you, I think, you will like him."

Angus Malen, as a consistently strong club owner, would feel normal for anyone to sign a young player, and Jurgen Klopp is certainly no exception.

"Jurgen, Zhuo is just like you, he works part-time at the club, and he's a university student, so it's the same as you. Zhuo at the University of Music in Hannover, piano, cool major. Chairman Mullen said.

"Wow, huh? Musicians who play football, amazing young people. Jurgen Klopp is clearly interested. I am currently studying football coaching at the German Sports University in Cologne. ”

Jurgen Klopp was born in 1967. A former professional footballer, he spent most of his career at Mainz, where he spent most of his career in the middle of the German second division, first as a striker and then as a defender. At the end of his career, Jurgen Klopp began studying sports at the University of Frankfurt. After officially retiring last year, he entered the German Sports University in Cologne to study coaching, and after graduation, he can obtain an international A-level coaching certificate.

Jurgen Klopp is a correspondence student, and the most important thing is to have an internship that combines teaching theory with practice. Angus Mullen knew Jurgen Klopp for a long time and offered him the opportunity to coach the club's youth team. Jurgen Klopp has been head coach of Madiburg's youth team for a year now. Although it is only a youth team of the third division football team, the vast majority of trainee coaches have a hard time getting such an opportunity, and at most they get a job as an assistant coach with the youth team of the third division or lower, or even an amateur team.

At this point, Jurgen. Klopp is still grateful to Angus Mullen.

In this way, a piano student and a mixed instructor certificate, the two college students chatted very hotly, although the painting style was very discordant, but it did not prevent the elation between them, all of them were not doing their jobs.

Words have to be back to the point.

"Zhuo, can you join the training this afternoon?" After receiving an affirmative answer, Jurgen Klopp said to Zhuo Yang: "Okay, I'll take you to get to know the rest of the team. ”

After a polite farewell to Chairman Mullen, Zoyang and Jurgen Klopp headed for the youth team.

The entire Madibourg Club is located right on a beautiful peninsula, with a secluded road connecting the various components of the club. The Victor Stadium is located where the peninsula and the land are connected, and across the stadium, there is the club's office building. In the three-storey baroque building, various departments such as the competition department, the youth department, the marketing department, finance, personnel and logistics are all in it, compact and complete. Next to the office building is a brand new white two-story building that houses a gym, showers, massage rooms, a medical department, and a small restaurant on the ground floor. Further on, three standard training fields are scattered around the water's edge in a 'U' shape. The three training grounds are separated by neatly manicured gardening and two or three rows of tall birch trees, and along the banks of the river, a barbed wire fence rises high on the edge of the peninsula.

"The one on the left is the training ground for our youth team, and the two on the right are for the first team." Jurgen Klopp said to Zhuo Yang with some seriousness: "In addition, in the team, you can call me Mr. or Coach Klopp. ”

"Yes, sir." Zhuo Yang seemed to have a lot of respect for his coach.

Chinese children always respect their teacher, even if the teacher seems unreliable, even if the teacher is not worthy of respect.

When the two men walked to the training ground, there were already a lot of people on the training ground, all of them youth team players and assistant coaches, who were preparing for the afternoon training.

"Dut-" Klopp magically took out a whistle out of nowhere and blew it vigorously, startling Zhuo Yang next to him.

"Before training, I'd like to introduce you. This is your new teammate, Zhuo Yang, you can call him Zhuo. Zhuo is from China. Klopp waved his arm, "Zhuo, you can introduce yourself to everyone first." ”

Zhuo Yang rolled his eyes, and said in his heart, you have said everything, what else do I have to introduce? took two steps forward and introduced himself to the group of people in front of him very seriously. "Hello everyone, my name is Zhuo Yang, I am 17 years old, I am from China, it is a pleasure to meet you, and it is a great honor to be teammates with you."

Polite, modest and official, just a few words to say it without leakage.

Afterwards, the others introduced themselves, including assistant coach Edwin Woolf, strength and conditioning coach Edward Graham, and goalkeeper coach Gavin Marcus. There are also youth captains, centre-back Per Mertesacker, midfielder Nigel de Jong and striker Frank Ribery .......

With Zhuo Yang's super memory ability, after one time, he remembered everyone's name, location, age and other information.

"Toot-" Klopp's whistle sounded again, and Zhuo Yang shuddered again. "OK, that's the end of the welcome meeting, let's start training. Edwin, continue to follow the training plan. Zhuo, come over here. ”

"Sir!" Zhuo Yang follows Jurgen. Jurgen Klopp came to the edge of the field.

"Now tell me, what position are you good at?" Klopp stared at Zhuo Yang.

"Well...... midfielder is okay, I don't pick." Zhuo Yang is very honest.

"......" Klopp asked again, "So which foot are you good at?" ”

"Well...... right foot, in fact, I can do it with both feet, I don't pick it." Zhuo Yang is still very honest.

"......" Klopp scratched his head: "Then what stage of professional training have you received?" ”

"Professional training? What is that? Sir, I just passed on the pitch and then shot...... Well, that's all! "Zhuo Yang is always very honest.

"......" Klopp was completely speechless. Okay, I see, you go to the training department and pick the numbers, get the game and the training equipment, and then go to Coach Graham and he will do a series of tests for you. ”

Zhuo Yang chose the number 18 because the number 18 is the smallest number that can be selected. The youth team players have only numbers on their jerseys, not names.

After the physical test, the afternoon training is over. Zhuo Yang's first day of life as a player also came to an end in a happy mood, and the signing fee of 5,000 euros was the source of happiness.

Around 2002, semi-professional players in the German football third division have almost disappeared, but in the youth teams of various teams, nearly one-third of semi-professional players are filled, and part-time players like Zhuo Yang are not uncommon. Not only the youth team, but also the first team of most clubs only train for half a day.

A lot of players have an incredible nightlife, and they often have to sleep until 11 o'clock the next day, so training in the morning is.

Klopp lives in the club's dormitory, so he can save money renting an apartment, right? Under the flickering old-fashioned lamp light, Klopp looked at the report on Zhuo Yang's physical test in his hand.

Zhuo Yang's physical fitness test is very simple, his cardiopulmonary function is very normal, his height is 182 cm, and his weight is 72 kg. Some of the other statistics seem mediocre among football players, after all, Zhuo Yang has not received professional training, and there is no professional training in any sports.

Even if it was a simple test data, Klopp looked at it very carefully, and from time to time he had to turn back the previous page and look at it again, for fear of missing something.

At the same time, in the dormitory of the Hannover University of Music, Zhuo Yang was very excited. He turned on the computer and looked at the messages, nothing had changed, everyone was still the same. Haiyang entered a key high school to repeat, Jiushan and Lao Mu began to prepare for the conscription physical examination, there should be no problem.

Zhuo Yang wanted to share the happiness in his heart with whom, but he didn't know who to tell it to, because even the ocean they couldn't say it for the time being, and if it reached his mother's ears, it would not be a joke. As a result, he could only leave messages to his father and mother on the computer.

"Dad, Mom, I got a part-time job teaching a bunch of kids." Strictly speaking, a significant number of the players in Madibourg's youth team are indeed 'children' under the age of 20. "The income is pretty good, so you don't have to send me money, I can support myself. Your son is amazing, isn't he? ”

Zhuo Yang was proud and triumphant, and a fox tail cocked high in the Alps at night.

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The next afternoon, Zhuo Yang rode his sentimental bicycle and came to the club on time to find a place to put the car.

There were already two people in the locker room who were idle, and when they saw Zhuo Yang coming in, they greeted him: "Hi, Zhuo." ”

Zhuo Yang, who has a super memory, called out their names accurately: "Hi Pell, hi, Hi Ricardo." "Per Mertesacker is the captain of the youth team, he is 18 years old and a regular centre-back in the youth team. Ricardo Montolivo, midfielder, Italian, 17 years old.

Zhuo Yang, who was familiar with himself, was idle with the two of them. After a while, the players walked in one after another, and Zhuo Yang also greeted them one by one.

"Hi, Nigel."

"Good afternoon, Billy."

"Hello, Duke."

"Hi, Frank."

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When everyone was surprised to find that Zhuo Yang had not called anyone by the wrong name, the physical trainer Edward Graham pushed the door and walked in.

"Let's go, boys, start training, I hope you're in a good mood today."

The players walked towards the training ground in a sparse manner, but everyone looked at Zhuo Yang with a slightly different gaze.