Chapter 15: Coach! I'm deaf!
Standing in the middle of the court waiting for the kick-off, Zhang Shu deeply understood the meaning of the sworn enemy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although the distance between the two cities is not far, the youth team matches are played in the club, and the stadium stands in the Atalanta club are connected, so for the sake of safety, neither Brescia nor Atalanta wants Brescia fans to come to the scene to watch the game.
Even without the Brescia fans, there were at least 1,000 people in the stands today, and many Atalanta fans poured into the stadium, not only the families of the Atalanta players. Just because today their opponent is Brescia.
Zhang Shu had never played under the gaze of so many people.
When he was in China, Zhang Shu also went to the scene to watch the game, and the city where he was located was a well-known gold medal ball market in the country. It's just that with the wave of professionalization, the yellow whirlwind of the year gradually disappeared in the wave of commercialization. But the fans never abandoned the team, whether they won or lost, and accompanied the team to the end.
Zhang Shu felt the scene of tens of thousands of people shouting together, and he was once one of those tens of thousands, at that time he only felt that the shouts of tens of thousands of people were too small to provide enough help for the team he supported. But he realized he was wrong when he stood in the middle of the court. Standing on the field and standing in the stands is a completely different feeling.
The shouts of more than 1,000 Atlanta fans gathered in the stadium, and Zhang Shu only felt like a small boat, and the surging sound around him tossed his heart up and down. Whenever the opposing player catches the ball, the huge cheers break through the sky, and when he receives the ball, the instant boos sound like a sledgehammer hitting his eardrums.
Facing this huge wave, Zhang Shu smiled.
It seems that the youth team game is also a bit interesting.
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In such an environment, Brescia's young players did not perform well after the opening kick-off, and they almost conceded a goal in the seventh minute. The Atalanta midfielder's long pass was missed by a Brescia defender, and their striker Giampaolo Pazzini received the ball behind the defender, but his shot was denied by the post.
When the football flew towards the goal, it was like a spark splashed in a barrel of gunpowder, and the cheers on the sidelines reached its climax. But as the ball flew off the baseline, it instantly turned into a huge sigh.
Since the start of the game, Xavier has been standing on the sidelines, constantly directing the positions of the players on the field. Even if his shouts were drowned out by the huge noise of the stadium, they could not reach the ears of the players. But he didn't stop this useless practice, and if he didn't do something, he felt that he couldn't suppress the tension and uneasiness in his heart.
Brescia's players are becoming more and more restrained in the face of such a home atmosphere. For a time, there was a lot of danger in front of the goal.
Zhang Shu stood near the center circle and watched the football fly around the backfield. It's been a long time since he's received a ball. The ball was always cut off by the Atalanta players before they could reach the front court, and then went on to lay siege to the Brescia goal.
Brescia also tried to find Turio with a long pass, but Turio was constantly being guarded by two men, one of whom was responsible for entanglement of the ball as it flew and the other took the opportunity to push the ball out of the danger zone.
Zhang Shu is not good at heading and cannot help Turio. I could only watch as the ball was controlled by the Atalanta players.
In the end, Brescia, who was tired of defending, could not withstand Atalanta's attack. On 27 minutes, Atalanta broke the deadlock with a cross from the wing, and their striker leaped high to squeeze past Brescia's defender.
"He just fouled!" Brescia's players are still unwilling to complain to the referee that the opponent has moved his hands when fighting for the header.
But the referee was unmoved and blew the whistle firmly on behalf of the goal.
The Brescia players still wanted to say something around the referee, but the Atalanta players quickly rushed up and pushed the Brescia players away from the referee, which instantly triggered a conflict between the players on both sides.
The referee kept honking the whistle to separate the two sides, but for the hot-blooded sixteen or seventeen-year-olds, the shrill whistle was completely unable to extinguish the anger that rushed into their heads, and the fans in the stands booed the Brescia players.
Fortunately, the players still had the last trace of clarity left in their minds, and there was not much movement other than pushing and shoving, which did not escalate the conflict again. In the end, the referee used three yellow cards to quell the riot, with the Brescia and Atalanta captains each receiving a yellow card, and the Brescia centre-back, who was the first to push, also received a yellow card.
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When the riot broke out, Zhang Shu was still standing in the midfield to watch the play, and when he was eager to join the battle group, the scene was already controlled by the referee. This made him a little regretful, you know, he was a one-on-five guy when he tried out in Milan before.
"Hey, brothers, I have an idea." Since he failed to catch up with the conflict, Zhang Shu, who was unwilling to be lonely, decided to do something else. "We've got to give those arrogant guys a little color." Before reopening the halfway line, Zhang Shu called the front five together. Left midfielder Gian, right midfielder Bacchini, forward Thomas, center Turio, and Zhang Shu, five people surrounded the city in a circle. Brescia had been pressed and beaten before, the players up front had barely had any decent chances, and they couldn't help the backline when they conceded goals, so everyone was holding their breath now.
"After teeing off in a minuteγγγγγ Seeing that the referee was already urging, Zhang Shu hurriedly arranged the simplest tactic. Others did not disagree. Now they have only one thought in their minds, and that is to equalize as soon as possible.
After encouraging each other, the five of them separated and returned to their positions. Seeing that everyone was ready, the referee blew the whistle for kick-off.
Before the whistle fell, Turio flicked the ball forward with the sole of his foot and then buried his head in the Atalanta penalty area. Not only him, but left midfielder Gian and right midfielder Barcchini also went down the flanks like arrows from the string. Zhang Shu stepped forward to catch Turio's kick-off, and instead of passing it back to the striker Thomas as usual, he stepped on the ball at his feet. In less than a second, Thomas passed by him like the wind.
Seeing Brescia's murderous stance, Atalanta's players reacted quickly, and the entire formation began to retreat backwards, guarding against Zhang Shu's long pass. The two strikers pounced on Zhang Shu, trying to break the ball from his feet and counterattack directly.
However, Zhang Shu suddenly started, and in the face of the slightly amateur defense of the opposing two forwards, Zhang Shu dodged their outstretched legs with a light pluck, and then slid the ball forward hard.
The other players in Atalanta were all retreating to defend, and for a while, no one could come forward to interfere with Zhang Shu's dribbling. It wasn't until Zhang Shu advanced to 10 meters in front of the big penalty area with the ball that the back came forward to defend Zhang Shu.
In the high-speed movement of advancing with the ball, Zhang Shu shifted his center of gravity to the right, raised his right foot, and made a move to break through from the right side with the outside instep of the ball. Seeing this, Atalanta's midfielder unconsciously shifted his weight to the right side, but Zhang Shu's raised right foot crossed the football, and the rolling ball hit the inside of the falling right foot and changed direction and rolled to the left. Then Zhang Shu twisted his body and drilled past the defender.
Seeing Zhang Shu break through the defense line of the back, Atalanta's two central defenders rushed out of the penalty area, and their cooperation was quite tacit, almost at the same time over Turio next to him, leaving Turio in an offside position. The two of them struck from both sides towards Zhang Shu, who was dribbling the ball.
However, Zhang Shu firmly made a straight stop, and the ball rolled behind them.
Atalanta's centre-back breathed a sigh of relief, straightened up and raised his hand to signal that the Brescia centre-forward was offside. However, the referee did not blow the whistle, and the two defenders were taken aback, and when they turned their heads, they realized that their full-backs had been taken to the bottom line by two of the opposing wing-backs.
Turio didn't give Atalanta a chance to make amends, stopping the ball a step or so in front of him and then shooting with his feet and the ball whizzing into the goal.
At this time, only 10 seconds had passed since the Brescia midfielder kicked off.
When Turio sent the ball into the goal, the stadium fell silent, as if someone had suddenly choked his neck. Except for the cheers that came from the Brescia bench, everyone found it incredulous.
We were equalised?
Why is this happening, didn't we just press and beat them?
It only took ten seconds for our team to be scored?
The fans in the stands couldn't believe such a reality that they forgot to boo.
But the Brescia team didn't care about their feelings, they celebrated wildly, the 1.90m Turio with Thomas and Zhang Shu on his body, still running excitedly towards Brescia's half, but he didn't run too far, the others swarmed up, pulled him to the ground, and jumped on him one by one.
Zhang Shu was the first person to jump on Tulio, seeing that Turio was about to be pulled, he jumped down decisively and stood aside, and after all the team members built a mountain of meat, he ran and happily landed on the top of the mountain.
Recalling the feeling of being pressed to the bottom last time, Zhang Shu was very satisfied with his cleverness.
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Xavile was also very happy with the ball.
This seemingly solo ride is not the credit of Zhang Shu alone. The goal just now, on the surface, Zhang Shu passed 3 people in a row and then assisted Turio's goal, but in this goal, other teammates also made their own contributions.
The left and right forwards Gian and Bacchini pulled the opponent's full-back to the opponent's bottom line, so that Turio would not be offside, and the forward Thomas took away the opponent's forward midfielder and a back midfielder, allowing Zhang Shu to dribble the ball close to the penalty area before meeting the defense of the opponent's back. At the beginning, the forward insertion of the four of them attracted the most attention of the other party, allowing Zhang Shu to calmly take the ball and speed up. One link after another, everyone can't be missing, it's a team goal.
And this kind of routine has not been practiced in training, it should be the routine that Zhang Shu came up with by himself.
Coming up with this way to quickly restore morale when the team's morale is low when they conced, and it can be successfully implemented, is really a child's peace of mind for the coach
--Savile thought to himself with relief.
As all his teammates ran back, Zhang Shu ran to the stands filled with Atlanta fans.
Facing the dead silence of the stands, he frowned and reached out to pluck his ears, and then shouted to Savile on the bench with a sad face.
"I can't hear anything!! Instructor!!! I'm deaf!! β
"Smack!" Savile slapped himself on the head.