Chapter 001: The Chinese in La Masia

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Barcelona is the capital of the Catalan region of Spain, the second largest city in Spain after the capital Madrid, where the climate is pleasant, the scenery is beautiful, full of monuments, known as the "Pearl of the Iberian Peninsula", is a world-famous tourist destination.

The world-famous FC Barcelona is located in the city of Barcelona, the home stadium of Barcelona, the Camp Nou is the largest stadium in Europe, with a capacity of 98,000 people, and the second largest football stadium in the world after the Maracanã Stadium in Brazil.

Next to the Camp Nou is the La Masia Academy, known as the West Point Academy of football, and for those who don't like Barcelona, it is also called La Masia Film and Television Academy. Of course, Stanislavsky's acting arts will not be taught, and "The Self-cultivation of Actors" will not be used as a textbook.

It's really an academy.

La Masia has produced Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, Puyol, Pique, Valdés, Reina and other famous European players, but some of these players may not be famous, and now it is December 15, 2006.

At this time, the youth team training is going on on the training ground, the main team wearing the blue vest and the substitute team in the yellow vest are fighting on the field, among which there is a clear Asian youth, who is trying to show himself on the field, he uses his foot skills to break through the defenders of the main team, looking for opportunities, and the performance can be regarded as a circle.

Soon, the Asian youth lost the ball, the substitute team was limited, the main team quickly counterattacked, and soon the main striker Christian Tello led the ball quickly, and finally Tello himself shot the ball into the substitute team's goal.

The Asian youth was thinking that this guy was good at advancing speed and shooting with the ball, but he was nagging with his teammates: "I know that I am rushing with the ball, and I will play a cross in the youth team, and he will have to bear it in professional competitions in the future." ”

The teammates on the bench team also knew that the two of them had a conflict, and they didn't say much.

Soon, the Asian youth felt that someone was running towards him from behind, and the Asian youth looked back and saw that Tello was learning Messi's goal celebration moves, running forward with his hands slightly downward to celebrate the goal, running in front of the Asian youth, and yelling from above: "Hey, this is the real striker, see?" Yellow-skinned monkey. ”

The Asian youth was obviously enraged, and hit the opponent in the face with a right hook with his right hand, and Tello was immediately hit on the turf, and when the Asian youth wanted to rush up and kick twice, the teammates quickly separated the two sides, and the youth team head coach and the youth team assistant coach who was a guest referee rushed towards the scene of the incident.

"Bastard, you're a football player, not a boxer, are you trying to murder? Come back to the locker room with me, you don't even want to be a team-wide practice this season. "The head coach of the youth team, Francisco Carlos, yelled at the Asian youth without asking why.

The Asian youth pouted, didn't say anything, and walked back to the locker room.

When I was leaving, I heard the voice of the head coach of the youth team telling the whole team from behind: "No one is allowed to break the news to the media, otherwise you will wait to sit on the cold bench." ”

The players didn't dare to say much under Carlos's obscenity, and Tello didn't mean to make a big fuss, after all, he picked it up first, and it also involved such a sensitive topic as racial discrimination, which is often not easy to clear up.

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In the dressing room, a young man stood in front of the only mirror, looking at himself in the mirror.

In the mirror is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, with obvious mixed-race characteristics, with a harder face line, looking more like an entertainment star than playing football. Looking at this face, which is a bit like Keanu Reeves, the actor who starred in "The Matrix" in Hollywood, the Chinese young man sighed.

The young man's name is Liu Ting, born on December 25, 1988, his father is a Hong Kong native, his mother is a mixed race of half Chinese blood and half Monaco blood, because his mother has Monegasque nationality, the family immigrated to Monaco in 1996, Liu Ting's parents died in a car accident in 97, Liu Ting, who was sitting in the back seat of the car at that time, was not injured much, but suffered a more serious concussion at that time.

After more than half a year, when Liu Ting's concussion was better, he found a strange thing, there were many strange memories in his mind, to be precise, memories from the future.

Liu Ting has had a lot of memories about the future since then, from being overwhelmed at the beginning to finally accepting it, Liu Ting has also confirmed that these memories are basically correct, and these memories have also made great changes in Liu Ting's life.

Liu Ting didn't know if he was a person in this world with future memories, or a person who traveled through the future.

Anyway, Liu Ting felt that it would be good to be happy and do what he liked.

Liu Ting has loved football since he was a child, and after arriving in Monaco, he has a good environment, there are football schools everywhere in Europe, and he can participate in some football activities such as football summer camps at any time, and the price is cheap and does not cost much. Even if you enter the youth academy of a professional club, you don't have to spend your own money, and maybe your parents can also solve the work problem and household registration problem.

After that car accident, Liu Ting's football skills improved considerably, and at the age of 14 he entered Barcelona's La Masia Academy.

When he first came in, Liu Ting was also one of the many geniuses in La Masia, but in the four years in La Masia, Liu Ting gradually became obscure, and fewer and fewer people paid attention to him.

Christian Tello, who had a conflict with Liu Ting just now, was a genius who entered La Masia at about the same time as Liu Ting, and now he is much more famous than Liu Ting, many people think that he is a genius, and Tello himself thinks very highly of himself, but when he first entered La Masia, there was such an outlier as Liu Ting, who attracted the same attention as him, and stole his limelight, and the two began to look down on each other.

Later, Tello behaved better and better, but Liu Ting was ignorant of everyone, he naturally didn't take Liu Ting in his eyes, Tello wanted to bully Liu Ting, but Liu Ting didn't let him bully casually, and the two soon had a conflict. According to his memory, Liu Ting did not have much achievement in the future, although he played for Barcelona early, but on the field, he only knew to bury his head and rush forward with the ball, and there was no cooperation with his teammates, and he was finally abandoned by Barcelona.

Tello will get a nickname 'Special Ball King' in the future, because he will dribble the ball alone as soon as he receives the ball on the field, and he is not a bird at the Plum Ball King, and he does not pass the ball when he dies, as if he can pass the opponent's eleven goals alone, which is why he is called the 'Special Ball King'.

The current youth team coach Francisco Carlos is exactly the one who advocated the introduction of Tello at the beginning, Liu Ting is a 'wasted' former genius, and Tello is a 'real genius' who is favored by everyone, so every time there is a conflict, he stands on Tello's side.

Liu Ting's behavior on the field today was not impulsive, on the one hand, Liu Ting did take advantage of this to take a bad breath, and on the other hand, Liu Ting was already preparing to leave La Masia, so he was naturally not afraid of being targeted by Carlos.

Liu Ting signed a four-year youth contract with Barcelona, which expires in half a year, and he can leave freely at that time.

According to the rules of the Spanish Football Association, young players can sign professional contracts after the age of 17, and Liu Ting, a 'former talent' player who failed to meet expectations, is countless in La Masia's history, and can circle the world in a row. This kind of player often has to be 18 years old before considering whether to sign according to his performance, and signing is also to sell it if other teams need it, and how much money can be recovered back.

Liu Ting is ready to find another way out, and he is not afraid of that bastard coach and the 'special ball king'. The only trouble is that he is not well-known in La Masia, and other teams are also easy to find, it will be difficult to find a better team, and it will be difficult to go to lower leagues such as West B, German B, French B, etc., and he will not do it slightly, Liu Ting is quite confident in his own strength, and there is a reason why he is 'out of the crowd' in La Masia.

Thinking of this, Liu Ting smiled helplessly, took a shower and changed his clothes and left, so he wouldn't stay here and wait for that bastard coach to come back and scold him again.

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When Carlos returned to the locker room after presiding over the training, he found that the arrogant Chinese boy was no longer there, and he was instantly full of anger, and spit in the locker room at 360 degrees without dead ends. The other youth teams are mourning for Liu Ting, only Tello is secretly proud there, that kid doesn't want to stay in the youth team in the future, only he is a real genius.

After Liu Ting left La Masia, he walked around, ate and returned home.

Liu Ting rented a one-bedroom house by himself, and did not live in the dormitory arranged by La Masia. Liu Ting spent the family's money, and he spent it with peace of mind. Although Liu Ting did not spend a lot of money on drinking, many people in the youth team also knew that Liu Ting's family conditions were good and he should be a rich family. This is also one of the reasons for the contradiction between Tello and him, Tello thinks that Liu Ting is a gentleman who spends money to enter La Masia, and there is no comparison with a genius like him, Tello's father is an unsuccessful former professional player, Tello has not had a good family since he was a child, and he has a bit of hatred for the rich.

Liu Ting took out the phone and dialed his agent's phone number and asked him to help him contact the team.

Liu Ting's agent Schiller Wagner, a German, belongs to the famous European agency Mundier Sports Management, also known as Mundil Agency, is one of the largest agencies in Europe, but this German agency is not like other agencies that always show themselves in front of the media, which is well-known, more like the theory of the Chinese - muffled to make a fortune. Of course, this agency does not have European football celebrities such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho under Mendes, nor does it have independent stars like Ibrahimovic like Raiola.

According to Liu Ting's memory, this brokerage company has always been one of the largest brokerage companies in Europe, and it can even be said that it is the largest, according to the evaluation of the American selection agency, the Mondil brokerage company is the largest brokerage company in Europe, but there is no top big star. In Liu Ting's memory, the only famous stars of the future Mondil agency are Cavani, Coutinho, Wanera, Umtiti, Kante, etc., who have strength but are not famous enough.

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