Liu Ting finally got his wish to enter the Clay Fontaine training base in Bordeaux, a very ordinary training base, surrounded by barbed wire, much smaller than the Gamble Sports City training base in Barcelona, but still larger than the La Masia academy.

In Europe, most of the club's academy is in the training base, only the giants will have a separate training base and academy, but most of them are next to each other, Barcelona is the kind of rare training base and academy away from the remote.

Liu Ting went to the equipment administrator according to Diarra's instructions, asked for a training uniform, and at the same time chose the number of the jersey, Liu Ting, a marginal person like Liu Ting, can only choose some large numbers, and finally Liu Ting chose the 25th, which is the same as his birthday, but Liu Ting took the equipment administrator and said that it was about the name behind his jersey.

Soon the players of the Bordeaux team came to the Clerfontaine training base one after another, and Liu Ting got to know his new teammates under the introduction of captain Diarra.

"Hi guys, we signed a young lad from our team yesterday, everyone come and get to know him." Diarra called everyone over and introduced Liu Ting one by one.

"This is the team's main goalkeeper, Ulrich Lame, who has been with the team for 10 years."

"Hello, I'm Liu Ting."

"This is the team's centre-back, Marc Pranus, who has been playing for Bordeaux since '01."

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According to Diarra's introduction, Liu Ting quickly got to know his teammates in Bordeaux.

The main goalkeeper, Ulrich Lame, is a Frenchman who played for Bordeaux for many years before taking the position of first-choice goalkeeper last season, and the back-up goalkeeper is Matilyu Valverde, who is also French.

The main left-back in the back line is Frenchman Frank Giuletti, the main partners in central defence are Frenchman Marc Planus and Senegalese Soleimani Diawara, and the main right-back is Frenchman Matiyu Charme.

The midfield mainly includes the captain of the team, France's Aarau Diarra, Brazil's Gondel and Fernando, Argentine's Alessandro Alonso, and veteran John Micu. Brazilian names are a long list, generally abbreviations, for example, the alien Ronaldo's full name is Ronaldo Luis Nazario da Lima, generally called him Ronaldo, the two Brazilians in the team are also like this, Wendel's full name is Wendell Gerardo Mauricio Silva, and the Brazilian name is generally called the first syllable.

There are Argentine Fernando Cavinaghi on the front line, French David Bellion, Moroccan Maroni Chamak, Frenchman Gabriel Obertin, Brazilian Viera, plus Liu Ting has a total of six forwards, the front line is already relatively crowded, no wonder someone had a bad face when Liu Ting shook hands with his teammates just now.

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Soon, the coaching staff arrived, and the day's training began.

Liu Ting was arranged to sit on the sidelines, and the main team and the substitute team were practicing in groups on the field, which meant that he was not even a substitute in the coach's heart. In fact, this is indeed the case, Blanco plans to let Liu Ting train in the first team for two days, and the performance is generally sent directly to the youth team, anyway, he is only 18 years old, and it is normal to decentralize the youth team.

Liu Ting sat on the sidelines, watching the offensive and defensive drills on the field, knowing that since he was still sitting here, he showed that there was still a chance to substitute him. Head coach Laurent Blanco is a defender who was successful as a player, and has been the main central defender of the national team for a long time, winning the World Cup held in France in 98 and the European Championship in 2000, and is a meritorious star in French football. Blanco is also a member of the club, having played for Napoli, Barcelona, Inter Milan and Manchester United, when he joined Manchester United, he was 36 years old and obviously declined in form, it is said that Ferguson himself has not been able to introduce Blanco in his early years, and he was angry, and finally brought him to Old Trafford at the end of Blanco's career, but Blanco is 36 years old and retired after two years of inaction at Manchester United.

The Frenchman will definitely remember Blanco for always kissing the bald head of French bald goalkeeper Barthez before a match during a national team match. In the 98 World Cup, Blanco scored a 'golden goal' in the match with Paraguay in the quarterfinals to help the French team eliminate Paraguay, at that time, the international competition was a golden ball system, that is, after the two teams drew within 90 minutes and entered extra time, which team broke the opponent's goal first and immediately ended the game, and the team that scored first won, without waiting for the end of 30 minutes of extra time, which is also known as the 'sudden death method', as long as a goal is scored to suddenly kill the opponent without giving the opponent a chance to resist.

Blanco killed Paraguay with a golden goal in the absence of Zidane Zidane in the quarterfinals, and in the semifinals, he met Croatia led by Davo Suker, who claims to be able to play the violin with his left foot, France won 2:1, but Blanco was sent off for a fake fall in the penalty area in the second half and missed the final. Before the start of the final, Blanco could only sit on the sidelines in a suit, and when the French team entered the field, Blanco walked over and hugged Barthez as usual and kissed his bald head, which made all the French people remember this scene, Barthez also played a heroic clean sheet against Brazil in the final, and everything seemed to be unremarkable.

Although Ronaldo, the core of the Brazilian team at that time, had a sudden illness before the game and played poorly on the field, Denilson took over Brazil's offensive banner and once tested the French team's defense. Barthez deservedly became the best goalkeeper in the French world bar.

Blanco is definitely one of the most famous star defenders in French history.

Although he was a defender, after retiring as a head coach, Blanco's coaching style is more attack-oriented, and he is good at leading the team to play attacking football. According to Liu Ting's memory, Blanco's coaching career after that was absolutely successful, he would lead Bordeaux in the 08/09 season to break Lyon's seven-year monopoly on the French champions, and took over the French national team after the French team's defeat in the World Cup in South Africa in 10 years.

Because he led Paris to break through the restrictions of the Champions League quarterfinals and reach the semifinals, Blanco also had scandals with Inter Milan and Barcelona after that.

Laurent Blanco is definitely a capable manager.

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On the sidelines, Laurent Blanco and his assistant coach Jean-Louis Gassett watched the team practice. It's August 3rd, and tomorrow is the start of the first round of Ligue 1 matches.

'Cavinaghi is injured in the Copa America and it looks like we're going to have Viera on tomorrow's game. The teaching assistant spoke his opinion.

'Well, Bellion is in good form, tomorrow we need him to help the team, Viera and Chamak are both available, we need to see again.' Blanco said.

"Aren't you going to let that Chinese kid play and see how he performs?" Gassett saw Liu Ting on the side.

"Wait a little longer."

Blanco really didn't take Liu Ting in his eyes, a kid who was abandoned by Barcelona, even if he was once a genius, the most important thing in football is a genius who has become an ordinary person, this happens every day, every team has such examples.

Liu Ting is on the sidelines, according to his knowledge of Bordeaux and Blanco, Bordeaux will mainly play in the 442 and 433 formations, both of which are attack-oriented, and Argentines Fernando Cavinaghi and David Bellian will be the main partners in the front, and the rest of the forward line will be rotated. Cavinaghi has excellent ball control, on-field awareness and shooting, he was the core of the Argentine team at the '03 World Youth Championships, won the Golden Boot at that year's World Youth Championships, and was Batistuta's successor for a long time. However, he is obviously high and low, and now he can only play for Bordeaux. Cavinaghi returned to play in the Copa America this summer, and although he was only a marginal substitute in the Argentine national team, he still had to go back, but he was injured in training and had to rest for two months, and Cavinaghi was unable to play in the first few games of the new season.

Ferguson saw Wenger get such a baby as Henry, and he also came to bet on the talent of the French player to buy Bailly, but obviously not everyone can become Henry, but Barrion can still mix a main position in Bordeaux now.

Among the others, Moroccan striker Chamakh is the biggest competitor, and Liu Ting knows that he will go to Arsenal for two years in the future, and he should still have some ability.

Morocco is an African country, located in the north of Africa, very close to Europe, and Monaco, where Liu Ting's nationality is located, is a different country. The Hollywood classic movie "Casablanca" was shot in Morocco, also known as "North African Spy".

Brazilian Viera and Bordeaux's own academy-produced youngster Gabriel Obertin are also rivals.

Liu Ting was thinking about his situation when he heard someone call him: "Hey, Liu, warm up, it's time for you to play." ”

It was the voice of Assistant Teacher Jean Gasset.

Liu Ting went to the sidelines for about ten minutes to warm up and replaced Obertan on the field, Obertan was obviously unhappy, and sat directly on the bench without shaking hands with Liu Ting.

Liu Ting held back his mouth, this guy is too direct, so he doesn't have any face shake from the city, what does the coach think of you?

Sure enough, Blanco on the sidelines didn't look very good, if this happened in an official game, I don't know how those newspapers would arrange the Bordeaux dressing room discord.