Chapter 13: The Season Begins
While the weather in the Iberian Peninsula is getting hotter and hotter, the time has passed through the middle of August, and the pace of the new season is quietly approaching.
As the world's top super giants, but also the most popular and concerned team, Real Madrid's influence is naturally necessary to say, especially in this summer Galaxy Battleship Phase II reconstruction, a number of superstar players joined, which makes Real Madrid even more expected, in the training camp for most of the month, reporters and fans outside the field are like waves, every day almost the training outside the place to occupy, or cheer, or take pictures, and someone has a look at a player, planning to wait for the end of the training, So he chased after him for an interview.
The most watched and sought after star is, of course, Cristiano. Ronaldo and Kaka, they are the only two Ballon d'Or winners in Real Madrid's current squad, and their value is also the highest in world football today, so it is natural that they are eye-catching and sought after.
Van Bizhuang is also very popular, in Spain, his exposure is even higher, in the past two seasons, he can be called the most popular player in La Liga, plus he is a local account, so the Spanish media especially favor him.
In addition to C. Ronaldo and Kaka, even if Real Madrid has superstars such as Raul and Casillas in the lineup, Fan Bizhuang is enough to rank at the top of the popular list.
It's hard to imagine that a player who has not won team honors and weighty individual honors, or even a national team game, can get the support and popularity of so many fans.
However, Fan Bizhuang's performance on the training ground disappointed many people. Whether it is in ordinary training or in the team's practice matches, Fan Bizhuang will always make a lot of mistakes that can be said to be amateurish, although he works hard, but the sharp breakthroughs in the past, and the drag racing-like advancement, as well as tricky shots, seem to be gone.
At the beginning of the new season, Pellegrini also prepared three warm-up games for his team, the first game against German side Wolfsburg, Van Bizhuang started the full 90 minutes, no assists, no shots, and even a few breakthroughs, his wing was like a cripple, unable to help the team in attack or play a role in defence.
Compared to C. Ronaldo and Kaka, who played well, Van Bizhuang's performance can be described as a disaster, also a new signing, the former scored two goals, Kaka did not score, but contributed an assist, and also planned a final goal offensive.
And Fan Bizhuang, who is known as Spain's most likely to win the Golden Ball Award and reach the top of the world in the next few years, is like sleepwalking.
For such a situation, Pellegrini is also very helpless, from the mental state and training attitude, Fan Bizhuang has barely recovered to a normal level, but many things can not only look at the surface, as if it is now, Fan Bizhuang, who used to look brave and strong, who would have thought that his psychology is so fragile, a major blow, directly hit him with serious internal injuries.
In fact, in Pellegrini's view, Fan Bizhuang's so-called "guilt and self-blame" is completely unnecessary, because no one knows that Pablo's father and daughter will have such an accident on the way to the town, and then think about it from another angle, even if Little Luna leaves, but the deceased is gone, and the life of the living will continue, Little Luna likes football so much, likes Fan Bizhuang, if Fan Bizhuang really remembers the little girl, then he should cheer up, use better performance, get better results and even more trophies, I went to comfort Little Luna, I believe that Little Luna is in heaven, and I don't want to see Fan Bizhuang like this.
Everyone understands the truth, but whether it can be done or not is unknown. Everyone's situation is different, and the results may be different.
Pellegrini speculated that the reason why Fan Bizhuang drilled the "horns" like this may be related to his experience as a child, living on the streets twice, his most beloved aunt left, and he was widely bullied and blinded, which had a great decisive effect on his character, maybe he would be independent and strong in many aspects, but in other aspects, his nerves and emotions were more sensitive and fragile than ordinary people.
This is the most helpless thing about Pellegrini, who knows where the cause of the problem is, but he can't solve it, because something like a knot is not willing to be untied by the other party, and no matter how others help, it will not help.
"I can only let Fan think clearly and think clearly, I hope that time can make his wounds heal."
Time is the only "medicine" that Pellegrini believes is the only "good medicine" for Fan Bizhuang to recover slowly.
But for professional footballers, a lot of times, time is what they lack. Especially in a super club like Real Madrid, if you have the ability, if you are good enough, then you can win everything, but you have the ability, but you can't play, the fans and the club can wait for you for a month, two months, if there is still no improvement, then being beaten into the cold palace is the only destination.
The opponent of the second warm-up match is also a team from Germany, but Karlsruhe of the German Second League, the two teams are not at the same level in terms of strength, this game is more to give the new signings a chance to run in and enhance tacit understanding, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a training.
Fan Bizhuang is still the starter, but his performance is still unsatisfactory, Not to mention that C. Ronaldo and Kaka have brushed a wave of presence with goals, even Benzema and Alonso, the two new signings, have opened up, and Fan Bizhuang is still nothing, his only highlight in the game is to create a free kick outside the penalty area in the second half, in fact, the situation at that time was that he received C. Ronaldo's ball and stopped wide, and it happened that the football avoided the defensive area of the defender, the German defender is probably also a rookie with little experience in the game, seeing Fan Bizhuang speeding up to chase, he simply pulled Fan Bizhuang down.
Van Bizhuang created a free-kick for the team, but it was not he who shined, Cristiano Ronaldo scored directly through the free-kick, and all the fans in the stadium cheered and screamed for the Portuguese, and Van Bizhuang could only witness the whole process as a bystander.
In fact, Cristiano Ronaldo's free-kick skills are very good, and in the Premier League, he often scored directly from free-kicks. Fan Bizhuang's "elevator ball" also borrows elements from the other party.
But when it comes to goal success rate, Fan Bizhuang is undoubtedly superior, and it is a good thing and a worry for a team to have two free kick masters, because whoever becomes the team's first penalty taker is probably not convinced.
The solution given by Pellegrini is to "compete for posts", based on the three pre-season warm-up games, once there is a free kick opportunity, Cristiano Ronaldo and Van Bizhuang take turns to take the penalty, who scores more goals, who is more threatening, then after the league starts, who is the first penalty taker on the field.
As a result, in the last game, Fan Bizhuang faced a free kick opportunity in a good position, but he directly put the anti-aircraft gun, and this time it was Cristiano Ronaldo's turn to take the penalty, and he seized the opportunity.
In this competition, Fan Bizhuang was in a backward position without any suspense.
And in this game, Van Bizhuang also failed to play the whole game, although he is Pellegrini's descendant, as a mentor, the Chilean engineer also wants to continue to give Van Brechuang time and opportunities, but the position of the helm of the giants is not good, there are many concerns in all aspects, Pellegrini can not and dare not let a player who has not been in form occupy an important position in the team.
In the 60th minute, Fan Bizhuang was substituted, and he was replaced by Real Madrid's vice-team Guti.
"Don't take it personally, man. The warm-up game doesn't say anything, you'll be fine. Ha, I've always had the feeling that you're going to be a great player, so the difficulties will pass. ”
Before going on the field, Guti whispered in his ear after high-fives with Fan Bizhuang.
Fan Bizhuang's situation, Gutilauer and others, who were familiar with him, were very clear, and in addition to sighing, they were helpless, so they could only give him some support and encouragement in words.
Fan Bizhuang nodded and returned to the bench.
Kaka, who had also been replaced, sat next to him, looking at the boy with a dry towel over his head with a suspicious and complicated look.
In the past year, Van Bizhuang's name has not only resounded in the Iberian Peninsula, but also in the entire European continent, and Kaka has seen the deeds of this talented teenager from his teammates and fans in the newspapers more than once, and the media have put on countless halos for him, "football elf", "La Liga Tianjiao", "the ruler of football for the next ten years", etc., which can prove how good this teenager is.
Kaka also believes that the Chinese teenager is likely to win the Golden Globe in the future, but after getting along for a while, he has doubts about such speculation.
Maybe this teenager has been really good in the past two years, but now he ......
Kaka shook his head, he is also a person who has experienced suffering, and he knows how painful it can be when people are sinking, the difference is that now he has stood up again, and he is galloping across his favorite green field again, and the boy in front of him seems to be still in the abyss.
"Fan."
Kaka snorted softly, and as Fan Bizhuang turned his gaze, he reached out and patted the other man on the shoulder, saying the same words of encouragement as Guti.
"Your performance today is average. I've seen a lot of your game videos, and that's not really what you're capable of. So...... You've got to get the best bang for the season...... It's time to get started. ”
Fan Bizhuang didn't answer, his eyes looked into the distance with a slightly heavy eye, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"yes, the season is about to begin."