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"Palm, after I leave, the door of the team depends on you!" Marc Andre Ter Stegen smiled at his good friend who had been with him for ten years.

"You're going too early, Mark." Zhang Zhetian looked at his friend worriedly.

Although there are many young talented goalkeepers nowadays, many of whom have become the main force of the team before the age of 20, the most important thing in the position of goalkeeper is experience, so the older the goalkeeper, the more popular he is.

When a young goalkeeper is in good shape, he is a goalkeeper, once the performance is not good, all kinds of cynicism will come, and if the huge pressure is not handled well, it will ruin the young goalkeeper.

As the meritorious goalkeeper Victor Valdés went to the Premier League to take on a new challenge, Barcelona urgently needed to find a successor, and signed Ter Stegen, the little lion, known as Oliver Kahn's successor, as early as May.

However, rumours have it that Ter Stegen is too young to adapt to the pace and style of La Liga competition, so Barcelona will also sign another experienced goalkeeper, Claudio Bravo, the main goalkeeper of the Chilean national team who plays for Real Sociedad, is their target.

Obviously, with Bravobi, who has played in Spain for eight years, the young Ter Stegen is clearly at a disadvantage, and it is unlikely that he will be on the bench next season.

"Don't worry, palm, I'm one of the best goalkeepers in the Bundesliga." Ter Stegen said confidently.

After all, his friend has completed the transfer procedures, and no matter how much he says, he can't change the reality of leaving, Zhang Zhetian sighed in his heart, stretched out his hand to pat, Ter Stegen's face darkened, took a few steps back, and said with a dry smile: "It's time to board the plane." ”

"Take care, if you can't stay over there, come back." Zhang Zhetian said seriously.

"you, you're cursing me like that? What about the good ten-year brotherhood? Ter Stegen snorted and laughed.

When leaving, although the two of them did not have tears in their eyes, they could see it with reluctance.

"Palm, come on, look forward to the future Champions League battlefield, we can meet, and then see who can win."

Champions League? But first I can play in the first team.

"Palm, come to Berlin and cheer me on."

"Well, while the La Liga title has nothing to do with you, it's not bad to have a Copa del Rey title."

"Haha, there's going to be a European champion soon."

"Old women are not to be trifled with."

"I know I'm confident, but I'm not arrogant."

"Huh."

"Palm, didn't Mr. Krampus say he would recommend you to Mr. Favre?"

He believed in his compatriot Jan Sommer more, saying that I am still young and that there will be opportunities in the future. Hehe. ”

"It's okay, palm, train hard, stay in good shape, this time the team won the third place, next season to play in the Champions League, multi-front battle, so many games, you will definitely have the opportunity to play, with your strength, as long as you can play, you will definitely be able to stand in the main position."

"Hopefully, Mark, come on, get the Champions League trophy and treat me to a big dinner."

"Haha, okay, don't eat anything less than 1000 euros."

……

'If you can't give me a place in the first team, I'd better leave, Mr. Campus.' Zhang Zhetian looked firmly at the teacher who had carefully cultivated him for more than ten years.

Uwe Camps sighed, and after Ter Stegen left, he strongly recommended the head coach Lucien Favre to take over the young lions who left Spain.

Although Favre is not afraid to promote talented young people, he boldly corrected Ter Stegen, who was less than 20 years old, brought in the young Marco Reuss, and even loaned Andreas Christensen, who is only one year older than Zhang Zhetian, from Chelsea this summer, which shows that he likes to use young people, but in the goalkeeper position, the Swiss coach does not trust Zhang Zhetian from China, who is not yet 18 years old.

At that time, Zhang Zhetian was 178 cm tall and not tall, but he had a long arm span and a pair of eye-catching big palms.

Krampus knows this proud boy very well, although he is not yet 18 years old, but the strength of Zhang Zhetian has surpassed Ter Stegen, who made his first appearance for Borussia Mönchenchen, and the youth team, and even the reserve team, cannot satisfy him at all.

Although he has a deep affection for Mönchengladbach, for the long-term development of his disciples, he also knows that even if Zhang Zhetian kicks out, with the scale of Mönchengladbach, it will be difficult to escape being dug up by the giants, so Kemps put forward his own advice: "Zhang, to be honest, your talent is higher than Mark, and your achievements will be above Mark." But you're still young, and the first thing to do is to play at a high level as soon as possible and gain more experience. So, you can choose a secondary league and find a team that can give you a place in the main team. ”

Since Zhang Zhetian and Borussia Mönchengladbach only signed a youth contract, and it is about to expire this summer, whether it is the head coach or the team management, they do not value him, so Zhang Zhetian can find his next home after the contract expires.

Despite carrying a letter of recommendation from Kampus, Zhang Zhetian traveled almost all over Germany, and even the team of the German second division went, but no one cared.

It's not that no team wants to accept him, but none of them can meet one of his conditions: the position of first-team goalkeeper.

Just because he insisted on this "impossible" condition, Zhang Zhetian went from Germany to Belgium, to the Netherlands, to Spain, looking for middle and lower teams, and without exception they were rejected because of this condition.

Seeing that the new season in European countries is about to begin, Zhang Zhetian came to Portugal with the last hope.

Because of his Chinese nationality, Zhang Zhetian could not go to the UK at all, so Portugal was his last stop in Europe.

Luckily, he met Bole, the new coach of the University of Coimbra, Francesco Costinha, who had just been relegated from last season.

The Università Università de Coimbra had just come to the end of their second pre-season friendly at the end of a 1-1 draw away from Portuguese Premier League side Don Dilla, and the defensive-minded Costiña was unhappy with the performance of the goalkeeper who conceded the goal early.

As he left the pitch, Costinha heard the voice of a teenager: "This goalkeeper is terrible, if it were me, I wouldn't have lost that goal." ”

What a big breath, well, an Oriental?

When Costina saw the huge palms of Zhang Zhetian, he was already moved, and coupled with the recommendation letter of the German goalkeeper Ter Stegen, who had just won the European Champions Cup for Barcelona, Costinha decided to give this Chinese teenager a chance to try.

July 21, 2016 is a memorable day, on this day, as the main goalkeeper of the University of Coimbra, Zhang Zhetian played a friendly match against the promoted horse Ference who rushed to the Portuguese Super League, and his performance will determine whether he can get his first professional contract.