Chapter 12: Two Young Men
"Beck, you're ready to go. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info: You're not in the right place to continue with this trial. Facing Beck, who was still flushed and angry, Jimmy said in a cold and unquestionable voice.
"But ......." Even now, Baker still has a hard time calming down the bad mood in his heart, and wants to refute it unconvinced.
But Jimmy's suddenly cold face made him swallow the unfinished words in his stomach at once. Jimmy's majesty as the head of youth training made Baker afraid to continue to resist in person. He could only glared at Li Lei, who was still smiling and looking at him defiantly, and after snorting angrily, he turned around and walked away from the court quickly.
It's not over yet! Baker, who had left alone, said viciously in his heart.
From Jimmy's obvious maintenance and favoritism, he knew that this hateful yellow-skinned monkey was going to stay. As the old man of United's development team, Baker doesn't feel that it is difficult to make it difficult for Lee to have a hard time at Carrington.
Well, he seems to have forgotten to think about it at all, judging from what Li Lei did to him on the field today, will Li Lei be a person who is willing to be bullied and will not resist.
Regardless of Baker, who has already left. After Jimmy saw his figure disappear on the court, he immediately turned his head and looked at Li Lei, who had been acting innocently in front of him.
"I didn't do anything." Li Lei said lightly with an innocent expression. In order to make his words more credible, he even raised his hands and made a look of completely giving up resistance and completely confessing.
Maybe you really didn't do anything, but you kid definitely said something. The corners of Jimmy's mouth twitched slightly. As an experienced old fox, how could he naively believe Li Lei's words. The oiliness in it, he didn't even have to look at it to feel it.
Besides, he is not blind, if it weren't for Li Lei, would Baker really be so out of shape and even crazy just now. If you think about it on your toes, you can think of the answer.
This time, he really felt that the person named Li Lei in front of him might really be an extremely rare piece of jade, but it was definitely a thorn in the face that was difficult to adjust. Difficult young man, Jimmy has also seen a lot in his own career. But at this moment, he has a very strong premonition in his heart that perhaps the biggest challenge of his career will be on Li Lei, who is standing in front of him.
When he first met Li Lei, he thought that the colorful hair was just some messy trend that this kid was pursuing. But now it seems that it is really not so simple.
Thinking of this, Jimmy suddenly had a flash of inspiration and blurted out to Li Lei, "I said child, did you have any nicknames before?" ”
Well?!
It seemed strange that Jimmy asked, and Li Lei stared at him in surprise for a while before he came back to his senses and said, "Yes, I used to live in the slums, and their people seem to have always called me - Flower Worm. It's weird, it's just inexplicable. ”
As he spoke, Li Lei's face unconsciously showed a look of incomprehension and absurdity. It seems that I really don't like the nickname of the flower worm, which sounds neither domineering nor bluffing.
And, in fact, it is. At the beginning, Li Lei didn't know who called this nickname, and he didn't know why they called him. Although he didn't have a good idea of this kind of nickname and bandit in his heart, it was really difficult for him to be satisfied with the title of Flower Big Worm.
However, no matter what he himself thinks, at least other people agree with his strange, absurd-sounding nickname. This can be seen just by looking at the unanimous look of recognition and exclamation on the faces of Jimmy and the others around him at this time.
In fact, they are also a little confused about this peculiar nickname. But as long as they thought of Li Lei's unruly, unruly, arrogant and domineering behavior and attitude towards Baker before, they suddenly felt that it was very appropriate to use this nickname to describe Li Lei, and there was a sense of matching between the two that was difficult for them to describe.
Anyway, the turmoil between Li Lei and Baker is over. Under Jimmy's auspices, the trial match went on again after the main team was temporarily replaced with a substitute striker.
With Baker's departure, Li Lei's luck seemed to have run out, and his lack of experience, technical maneuver, and eating too much of the opponent's offensive player's feints were suddenly magnified again.
Even if he was attentive and tried his best to make a save, it was impossible to avoid the door behind him being breached again. If it weren't for the fact that his reaction speed in front of goal was so superhuman, and he narrowly blocked two beautiful headers from the opponent, his own performance in the last few minutes of this trial match was simply nothing and a mess.
Interestingly, though, every few minutes after the main team scored a goal, they didn't dare to smile and celebrate. Even, on the contrary, he would peek at Li Lei tremblingly, and only after confirming that he was only dissatisfied with his performance, and not really angry with himself, he would walk back with relief. It's as if they've done something really bad instead of scoring a goal, and it's hilarious.
This point, perhaps Li Lei himself did not notice. I don't know if the six words "slum" and flower worm are so deterrent to these young players in the reserve team that they seem to see Li Lei as a bad person who can't be messed with, lest they anger him and bring themselves the same treatment as Baker.
In fact, if Jimmy hadn't been asking them to increase their offensive efforts on the sidelines, trying not to let Li Lei, a rookie goalkeeper, have too much self-confidence, and to suppress it appropriately, they wouldn't have done anything to the goal behind Li Lei at all.
In this way, they all fished for three days and dried their nets for two days. As long as it's not in the box, absolutely, without a defensive shot on goal, they definitely won't shoot. If it weren't for Jimmy on the sidelines supervising them, and out of awe of the academy director, they would have deliberately missed even the chance to open the goal.
Anyway, this is just a trial match for Li Lei, but a decisive match about the selection of the first team, and they are also waterproof with peace of mind.
On the other hand, on the other side, the reserve team substitute players in the same camp as Li Lei have never been so satisfied with their status as substitute players. Looking at the obvious shrinking performance of the main players on the opposite side, they were all happy to see their teeth and eyes.
So much so that they eventually unconsciously slouched. Anyway, even if they give up the defense, the other party may not necessarily have to attack with all their might.
In this way, under the circumstance that the main side deliberately made a big waterproof, and the substitute side catered to it at will, this trial match finally came to an end.
"Toot! Honk! Honk! ”
With the main team's final kick, a powerful long-range shot that looked like it was over the crossbar, Jimmy finally blew the whistle for the end of the trial match.
Seeing that the reserve players on the main side breathed a sigh of relief, Jimmy, who had a keen eye, and had long sensed that something was wrong on the field, couldn't help but shake his head and smile. As a bystander, he didn't expect that everything Li Lei did to Baker and the reckless character he showed would have such an impact on the players on the field.
In a trance, he even saw in Li Lei the shadow of the grumpy German door god who was full of intimidation not only to his teammates but also to his opponents on the field.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shake his head again, feeling that he was thinking too far. Li Lei, a pure football rookie, is still very early to reach Kahn's level.
While Jimmy was immersed in his thoughts, Li Lei's voice suddenly reached his ears and brought him back to his senses.
"Sir, how am I doing, can I stay?"
Looking at Li Lei, who was sweating profusely in front of him, although he was pretending to be calm on the surface, but there was nervousness in his eyes that could not be concealed, Jimmy couldn't help but smile dumbly. It was really hard for him to believe that the big boy who was nervous in front of him at this time would be the unruly and crazy goalkeeper who was as crazy as he was on the pitch before.
In fact, this is also Li Lei's nervousness in vain. Although his performance in the whole trial match was only an occasional bright performance in the goalkeeper position, and the overall performance was only qualified, which was not an outstanding level at all, but the most important thing in the youth trial itself was not strength, but potential.
And in him, Jimmy already sees enough potential to attract him and attract Manchester United. From that point on, he's definitely qualified in Jimmy's judgment and can stay.
Jimmy, who knew Li Lei's difficult family background, had no intention of hiding something from it, anyway, sooner or later he had to tell him. Therefore, he nodded and simply gave Li Lei an affirmative answer.
"Yes, kid. I think we're going to see each other more often for the next period of time. Come on, I'll tell you about the fact that this Richard coach will be working with you for a long time and he will personally train you in everything you need to be in the goalkeeper position. With that, Jimmy introduced Richard, who was already impatient, to Li Lei, so that they could get to know each other in advance.
"Hello, kid. Just call me Richard. I'm looking forward to working with you in the future. As soon as Jimmy finished speaking, Richard couldn't wait to stretch out his hand, and his eyes were shining because of excitement and excitement, staring at Li Lei without moving, and said excitedly.
Looking at the middle-aged man who was extremely excited in front of him, and saw that he was even shining, Li Lei didn't know why, and suddenly thought of something bad. All of a sudden, the hairs on the whole body stood up, and the chrysanthemums tightened. Looking at Richard's outstretched hands, he didn't know what to do.
At this moment, after Li Lei, a strange young man was ushered in Ferguson's office.
I saw that with a kind smile on Ferguson's face, he looked at the immature and obviously nervous young face in front of him, stretched out his hand and took the lead in greeting him, and smiled kindly: "Hello, Cristiano, welcome to Carrington." ”
"How's it going, boy, are you ready to join the great Manchester United?"
"Yes, sir." The young man, Cristiano, was visibly nervous, but when he answered the question, he suddenly looked very confident, as if it should have been like this.
On this day, no one realised that the great Red Devils Manchester United welcomed two young men destined to go down in the history of Manchester United.
Another full-scale revival of the Red Devils dynasty is quietly brewing.