There are strange things in football every year, and there are many transfer periods.

At the Four Seasons Hotel Coventry, a father and son recently moved in.

The father and son are Weibo celebrities in China. The son's name is Xu Yu, 25 years old, ten years ago, Xu Yu had the halo of "genius boy" and "Huaguo Messi". Of course, these two titles were sealed by the Chinese media.

Xu Yu became famous at a young age, and at the age of 14, he became the captain of the U15 echelon of Shanbei Aluminum Energy Football School, and was recognized as a "genius boy" in the echelon. He is known as a super all-round teenager who can play forward, left midfielder, and right midfielder.

Xu Yu's father, Xu Wei, belongs to the kind of parents who are standard Chinese "looking for their son Jackie Chan". When his son was 15 years old, Xu Wei sold the house that his family had demolished, took the "Huaguo Little Messi" to stay abroad at his own expense, and became a member of the Spanish Conelia Youth C team.

The media blew Xu Yu into the sky. It is said that Xu Yu is the star of hope in Chinese football, and he is likely to become Messi in Huaguo.

The media seem to ignore the fact that that Conecia is just a club in Spain that specializes in amateur youth training. The Conecia C team, on the other hand, competes in the twelfth regional amateur youth league in Spain.

It doesn't matter if you're in a league that's low. Young people always have to move forward one step at a time. For example, today's Manchester United striker Qu Bai, at the age of 17, was just a player in the Chinese C League. Hua Bing - Hua Jia - English B Reserves - English B First Team - Belgian First Division - Premier League. With the help of his mentor Hao Hexi and Liu Yun, who is also a teacher, friend and father-in-law, Qu Bai completed the five-level jump in a few years. Today, he is one of the top strikers in Europe.

However, Xu Yu's father, Xu Wei, seems to feel that his son's play in the Spanish Amateur Youth League is overkill.

In an interview with the media, Xu Wei was ashamed.

Reporter: Are you so confident in your son's level?

Xu Wei: I play with a bunch of retired players from professional teams, and Xu Yu sometimes comes to see them. By the time I was 4 years old, the retired players couldn't play my son anymore. I think children are very talented, no, talented! You should train and live at one of Europe's top clubs. In time, he will definitely be able to become a player of the level of Ronaldo and Messi.

When Xu Yu was 17 years old, his father Xu Wei led him to the Barsaramacia Youth Academy for a trial.

Barcela-Marcia Academy, the cradle of Barça's superstars, has walked out of Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Pique, Xavi, Puyol, Buzquec, Pedro, Bojan, Fabregas。。。。。 In the whole of Spain, as well as in the whole of Europe and the world, La Masia is recognized as the strongest youth school.

Every year, millions of young players from all over the world apply to La Masia's Academy.

La Masia's exacting scouts have to choose one out of two thousand from millions of application videos sent from around the world each year to determine 500 tryouts. Getting a tryout spot doesn't mean you're going to be able to join La Masia. They also undergo a near-rigorous test of tryouts in Catalonia – the final quota for each year, only a hundred. It can be said that La Masia's enrollment model is one out of ten thousand.

In fact, Xu Yu's game video failed to impress the scouts of La Masia's school at all.

But if people's luck comes, they can't stop it: Li Dongshui became the first Chinese director in Barcelona's history that year. This patriotic overseas Chinese, when he heard that there was a "little Messi" in the motherland who wanted to try out in La Masia, took the initiative to use his connections to win a trial place for Xu Yu.

The Chinese media blew into the sky again: "Barcelona threw an olive branch to Little Messi!" ”

"Messi is about to join Barcelona and become a member of the Camp Nou!"

However, in the trial, the trainer's evaluation of Xu Yu was: thin body, unable to hold the ball, slow speed, poor ball awareness, and most importantly - lack of fighting spirit!

As a result, the La Masia School turned Xu Yu away.

Such an evaluation is like a chrysanthemum that stabbed Xu Yu's father! In an interview with the domestic media, Xu Wei was very frozen, and generously scolded La Masia School:

"My son, compared to the La Masia kids, is a superstar on the senior team! Barcelona U17 no one can match my son! ”

"Then what do you think is the reason for La Masia's rejection of Xu Yu?"

"There are many reasons! I think it's because of racism! ”

The reporter couldn't help laughing: "But in the La Masia academy, there are still many young players of African and Asian descent." ”

Xu Wei glared at the reporter angrily: "That must be because my son's talent has caused some people to be jealous!" Do you know what Babos, the head coach of the Aluminum Energy Football School, said about my children: Xu Yu is the most talented child I have ever met!! ”

In fact, Xu Wei consciously omitted a few words in Babos's original words. Babos's exact words were: Xu Yu is the most talented kid I have ever seen in the U15 team of the Aluminum Energy Football School.

After rejecting Xu Yu, La Masia Academy gave the father and son a piece of advice:

"Barcelona has a football school in China and a Barcelona academy. It's better for them to go back to their home country, attend such a football school or academy, improve themselves, and then submit their application next year. ”

Xu Wei scoffed and changed his tone to the media: "It's not La Masia who rejected us, it's that we voluntarily gave up the opportunity for a trial!" The level of the children in La Masia is too low, and I am afraid that my son's level will be lowered! ”

After all, it is the "Star of Hope of Huaguo" and "Little Messi of Huaguo", and there are well-wishers in Huaguo's association who want to help the father and son. It just so happens that the Yucheng Football Association and the French club Metz have a good cooperative relationship. Just in time for Huaguo to implement the "100 Teenagers Overseas Program". The association won Xu Yu a chance to train in the Metz academy.

Who would have thought that this matter would not be resolved.

An official of the association once complained to someone after drinking: "Xu Yu's incident is completely the kindness of our association, and his father became a donkey's liver and lungs." His father thinks that the environment over there is not right, there is a problem with the coach there, and the level of the academy there is not enough - in the long run, it will definitely delay the development of the child. I'm afraid that Huaguo Little Messi will stage a modern version of the story of Zhongyong in the future. ”

In the next two years, Xu Wei led his son around to the youth academy of the "giant" for trial training. After coming and going, "China's Little Messi" is 20 years old, exceeding the upper age limit of most giants' youth academies.

In the "trials" that have been touring around the world year after year, "Huaguo Little Messi" has really become a modern version of the story of "Hurt Zhongyong".

Xu Wei had to face the reality and return to China with his son. Let his son Xu Yu join the Huachao Yucheng Li Scarf team.

Chinese clubs often like to look at the player's fame when selecting players. Xu Yu was known as "Huaguo Messi" five or six years ago, and such a person was naturally accepted by Yucheng Club.

Huachao's debut - "Huaguo Little Messi" is exposed.