Chapter 241: Star of Hope
Lin Yuan stood on a pitch at the Mahada Onda training base, looking left and right.
The sky is as blue as a wash, only the distant sky is low with white clouds, and you can clearly see the mountains and horizon in the north.
Madrid is the capital of Spain, but it is completely different from what Lin Yuan imagined before. He thought it would be a bustling metropolis full of high-rise buildings. But after he came, he found that there were very few high-rise buildings here, and he stood a little higher, and he could see through the whole city at the same time.
Air visibility is very high.
He took a deep breath.
This is the air that Coach Gao breathes!
Now Lin Yuan is wearing an Atletico Madrid coat, the coat is a little big and doesn't fit very well, but there is no way, Atletico Madrid Club does not have clothes tailored specifically for him.
Beside Lin Yuan, there were twenty-nine Chinese teenagers like him, dressed in well-fitting or ill-fitting Atletico Madrid jackets, looking around the training ground curiously, chattering and discussing.
The group here is very new to this group of football teenagers from China, thousands of miles away.
They are one of the sponsors of Atletico Madrid, the fourth batch of selected players in the "Chinese Football Hopes" program sponsored by well-known enterprises in China.
In the eyes of domestic fans, they shoulder the hope of the future of Chinese football, and the name of this project is not wrong.
For these young players themselves, it is more of a dream come true, and they still can't feel the ardent expectations of domestic fans.
The opportunity to study, train, and even become a professional player at one of Europe's top football clubs is the highest dream in the hearts of every footballer standing here.
Lin Yuan won the national selection this summer and finally qualified to come to Atletico Madrid for training.
However, before participating in the national selection, his parents had doubts about whether to let their son take the road of football, after all, this meant that Lin Yuan would interrupt his current cultural class study and gamble all his future on the road of football.
Is this something worth doing? Lin Yuan's parents weren't very sure.
At this time, Lin Yuan's sister tried her best to help her younger brother speak, persuading her parents that since her younger brother was so talented, she should let him try, and if she failed, she would let her brother die.
So with the strong support of my sister, my parents finally nodded and agreed.
Lin Yuan had the opportunity to participate in the national selection.
As a result, in the selection, he passed all the way, and finally became one of the twenty-five people who could stay in Spain.
And so he came to Spain.
He followed in the footsteps of Coach Gao and chased him to Madrid, Spain.
In fact, this hopeful star program is not only carried out at Atletico Madrid, but also goes to Valencia and Villarreal.
But coming to Atletico Madrid is the goal of the vast majority of Chinese football teenagers, because there is Gao Zheng here.
Every football teenager regards Gao Zheng as their idol.
According to the plan, the teenagers will first train at Atletico Madrid for three years, and in the final year, nine out of 30 will be eliminated, and then three will be eliminated each year until the end of another three years. After a total of six years, these teenagers are basically adults, and it will be up to them to see if they can afford to stay in Atletico Madrid's B team or the first team at a higher level.
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After Lin Yuan looked around, his eyes fell on the group of people on the other side of the court, who looked like they were the same age, wearing the same Atletico Madrid jacket, gathered together, and were also looking at him.
I heard that there are players from the Atletico Madrid echelon.
Many Chinese football teenagers are very envious, they have just come here and have not started training yet, but they are already echelon players, and there is a feeling that the other party has already gotten in the car.
But Lin Yuan found a black-haired, yellow-skinned teenager with an oriental face in the middle of the group.
Not only him, but the other partners also discovered each other.
They got together and wondered: "Could that person be one of the people we came to Atletico Madrid before?" ”
"It's not like, it looks about the same age as us, if the first few batches of us were older than us, it would have been impossible for us to be in the team at this age group for a long time......"
"Is it the Chinese in the Atletico Madrid echelon?"
"Maybe it's not Chinese, it's Japanese or Korean?"
"Hey, isn't that the guy?!" Someone in the crowd exclaimed.
"Who?"
"It's the caddie who entered the field hand in hand with Gao Zheng in the Madrid derby last season! The two of them were still chatting! ”
As soon as this person said this, everyone remembered that because this caddie was really different, everyone was very impressed.
In this way, it makes sense for him to be a caddie - the caddie at Atletico Madrid's home stadium must be a member of the Atletico Madrid echelon.
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At the same time that Lin Yuan and the others were looking at Dong Jin, Dong Jin was also looking at Lin Yuan and them.
He still saw so many Chinese peers wearing Atletico Madrid jackets at once.
They looked similar to themselves, they were all black-haired and yellow-skinned, and the sound of discussion was blown by the wind from afar, and some words were actually understood in Dong Jin's ears.
He had heard that Atletico Madrid had always helped China develop young players, but this was the first time he had seen it.
He had some intimacy.
He wondered if he would like to say hello to them in a moment, and he was a little excited to see so many Chinese peers for the first time.
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Whether it was Lin Yuan or Dong Jin, these people gathered on the training ground, not to start training, but to wait for someone.
Gao Zheng changed his clothes and did not go to the training ground of the first team before the start of the first team training, but went to the training ground of the youth team under the leadership of the staff.
He has a special task today, to meet the new Academy recruits of Atletico Madrid, interact with them, cheer them up, and at the same time it is also a reward for the young players who have joined the echelon of Atletico Madrid.
After all, as the star of Atletico Madrid, he is also an idol in the hearts of those children.
Being able to get up close and personal with idols can also improve the morale and fighting spirit of these young players, which will help them train well in the Atletico Madrid echelon.
These people are the future of Atletico Madrid, a continuation of the football tradition of Atletico Madrid.