"Hello everyone, I'm Liu Yichuan, a special correspondent of Sports Weekly in London. www.biquge.info I believe you know who this person is next to me, right? Yes, he is the Arsenal No. 1 Boss who has kept three clean sheets in the last four games and won the Player of the Match three times. ”

After speaking, after reporter Liu Da shook hands with Zhang Zhetian, they each sat beside each other.

"Hello everyone, I'm Zhangzhetian." Zhang Zhetian smiled and waved his hand in the direction of the camera.

"Wow, wow, Brother Tian waved to me!"

"Hell, Brother Tian is waving at me!"

"Brother Xiaotian is so handsome!"

"Where is handsome, the appearance of ordinary people, uh, don't beat me, wife, he's very handsome, very handsome, more handsome than me, okay?"

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Liu Yichuan: As the first player in Huaguo to join a European giant, we are all curious about how you did this.

Zhang Zhetian: It's a pity that I'm not the first Chinese to join a European giant.

Zhang Zhetian shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless expression, Liu Yichuan smiled, and said secretly in his heart: "His personality is obviously very Western, no wonder he can be so successful in Europe." ”

Zhang Zhetian: With the development of the Internet, a lot of information can be found on the Internet. Everyone knows that I went to Germany when I was six years old and joined the Academy at Borussia Mönchengladbach until I was 18. Because the team couldn't offer me a chance to play in the first team, I left Germany and tried out everywhere. Finally, in Portugal, I was lucky enough to meet the head coach of the University of Coimbra, Mr. Francisco Costinha, who appreciated me and through the warm-up matches I was able to get a professional contract and fulfill one of my dreams of becoming a professional footballer.

Liu Yichuan: A lot of Chinese players also play in Portugal, haven't you seen them?

Zhang Zhetian: I didn't pay attention, on the court, I don't deliberately pay attention to what nationality the other party is. You know, as a Chinese, how difficult it is to get a main position in a European team. So every day in addition to training, is to play, only continuous improvement, I will be able to keep the main position.

Liu Yichuan: Compared with many Chinese players who stayed in Europe, why were you able to play the main team in the team from the beginning? Generally speaking, the goalkeeper position is based on the player's game experience.

Zhang Zhetian: First of all, I started early. As I said, I went to Germany when I was 6 years old, so I was trained professionally in German football at a very young age, and my understanding of the style and tactics of European football, including culture and language, was completely seamless. At the starting point of youth training, I was too far ahead of domestic players of the same age. If you use a numerical analogy, 100 points full value, I have been in German youth training for ten years, and if the results of training can score 50 points, the maximum in China is 2 or 30 points.

The corners of Liu Yichuan's mouth twitched, this is indeed the truth, and European football youth training is the most scientific.

Palm Zhetian: Marc Ter Stegen you know, right?

Liu Yichuan nodded and said: Borussia Mönchengladbach debuted and is now Barcelona's main goalkeeper.

Zhang Zhetian: Do you know how old he was when he made his first appearance for the first team?

Liu Yichuan calculated in his heart and said: "18 years old, there are still 20 days to turn 19 years old." ”

Zhang Zhetian spread his hands and said: "He can play the main force, why can't I?" I'm the same coach as him. ”

Khan, he is a local household registration book, and he is his own youth training, so he has a greater advantage than you, an outsider. Although you have the same coach as him, you are always Chinese, and in the concept of Europeans, the football level of Chinese people is not good.

Although he said so in his heart, Liu Yichuan would not say it stupidly.

Zhang Zhetian: AC Milan's Donnarumma knows, right?

Liu Yichuan nodded, how could the football reporter who was eating not know?

Gianluigi Donnarumma is Italy's talented goalkeeper, who surpassed Gianluigi Buffon in his first league appearance for Serie A giants AC Milan the year before last to become the youngest starting goalkeeper in Serie A.

Known as "Buffon Jr.", Donnarumma was ranked 80th in the Guardian's Top 100 Stars list last year, ahead of long-established Chilean international Claudio Bravo and Belgian international Thibaut Courtois.

Zhang Zhetian: With the progress of the times, age is no longer a condition to measure the strength of a player, young players abound for strong teams, and in the goalkeeper, the position that needs the most experience, it has begun to no longer rank according to seniority. Although I am confident, I am never arrogant. I think I'm no worse than the 18-year-old Mark, and Donnarumma, who is younger than me, is already AC Milan's main goalkeeper, do you think I'm worse than him?

Liu Yichuan shook his head and joked that if it weren't for the ball hitting his teammate's leg and refracting the direction at the Allianz Arena, Zhang Zhetian's European debut would have been perfect.

This kind of performance, not to mention that Gian Luigi Donnarumma can't do it, even the Italian goalkeeper of the same name, it may be difficult to get out of the Allianz Arena.

Zhang Zhetian: I'm almost an adult, and I need to play more games. The youth team and the reserve team don't satisfy me. In the end, I chose to leave and go to tryouts everywhere. Borussia Mönchen's status as an academy player was still attractive, but because I stubbornly insisted on one condition, it became an obstacle for me to join the team.

Liu Yichuan: What are the conditions?

Zhang Zhetian: I have to be guaranteed a regular position in the first team.

What?

Not only Liu Yichuan was taken aback, but the people who watched the live broadcast also spoke one after another to express their astonishment.

A Chinese who has been alone in European football without the support of Chinese enterprises and without a strong background has eaten many times behind closed doors for this untouchable condition.

The people who eat melons can fully imagine the picture of an 18-year-old Chinese teenager who was rejected by various European teams because of his persistence last summer.

In many cases, interviews with characters can lead to untold or lesser-known experiences through the accounts of the people involved. At least in Europe, people rarely lie, so the credibility of what they say in interviews is relatively high.

Yichuan Liu: Because the University of Coimbra can offer you a main position, so you stayed there?

Zhang Zhetian: Yes, not only the main position, but also trust. I am grateful to Mr. Costinha for bringing me through the doors of professional football. I will never forget the trust he placed in me. Actually, to be honest, I didn't think I would play in the Portuguese league, I thought that even if I went to the non-mainstream league, I would be able to establish myself in the first division.

Liu Yichuan: Later you did well there and caught Arsenal's attention?

I don't know how many teams are following me, the first to contact me was Manchester City, then Arsenal, just these two. In fact, Manchester City is the most sincere, because their manager Mr. Guardiola also came to Portugal to see me in person, I am very touched, thank him for his appreciation of me.

Liu Yichuan: But in the end, you chose Arsenal.

Palm Celestial: Arsenal finally agreed to my terms, and Manchester City can only guarantee that I will share the opportunity with the other goalkeepers at the moment.

Liu Yichuan: Arsenal and Manchester City are both giants in the Premier League, how did you feel when they contacted you?

Zhang Zhetian: It's calm, really. Even if the transfer fails in the end because of the conditions I insisted on, I wouldn't be sad. After all, I still play at the Universitario de Coimbra and I can start every game there. And I'm so young, I will have opportunities in the future.