Chapter 19: Arsenal's Storm of Youth
Descartes was temporarily relegated to the reserve team along with Walcott, but that didn't mean he didn't have games to play.
Like the Italian professional football league system, England's professional football league system is also very complete, and it is more exaggerated, there are more than 140 leagues and 480 groups in England, and we can sometimes see when we play games, there are only 3 levels of the league in Serie A and the Bundesliga, while the English league may have five or six levels.
This shows that the league system in England is very complex.
In fact, even Arsenal's reserve team has a lot of games to play, and the Premier League has a reserve league that spans the country and is divided into 14 divisions, which are specifically used for those reserve players and players who need to recover from injuries to practice, such leagues also have points and leaderboards, but they are less valued.
However, due to the complicated various cup competitions in the Premier League, such as the League Cup, Super Cup, Community Shield, etc., the players of the reserve team are often promoted to the first team to participate in these less important games, in order to buy a little rest time for the main players, so in a year, even the reserve team players have at least forty or fifty games to play.
So Descartes didn't have to worry about not being able to conduct real combat exercises while the reserves were being trained.
After almost a month of training with the team, Descartes has gradually integrated into the Arsenal development team, his technical style is not a big deviation, and his running and passing awareness are very positive, so his integration with the youth team is not too much of a problem.
The 2006-2007 Premier League season kicks off on 19 August, with a traditional Community Shield before the league, but last season Arsenal were only fourth in the league and not FA Cup winners, so they did not qualify for this competition, and this year's Community Shield will be played by two teams in this year's Community Shield, namely Mr Wenger's new rivals Chelsea and the old giants of English football, Liverpool.
Anyway, every time I mention the "old overlord" Liverpool, I feel a little bitter, the overlord is the hegemon, why add an "old brand"?
That's because since the Premier League changed its name in 1992, Liverpool, the former king, has never won the title of the English top league champion, they were almost defeated by the old man with the red nose, not only the spirit is gone, even the team has become a foreign holding, once the most famous king in English football, is now not as good as a year.
Although they staged a miracle night in Istanbul in '05, the Champions League trophy could not hide the scars in the hearts of the KOPs, who once led Manchester United in 12 top-flight titles, but for 16 years, they could only watch the red-nosed old man lead the way to catch up with them again and again.
Lord Ferguilla once said that his life's biggest dream was to "pull the fucking Liverpool off the championship throne", and it took him 21 years to finally do it.
In 2013, he led Manchester United to his 13th Premier League title, and finally beat Liverpool 19-18 in the number of top-flight titles!
The media said that Lord Ferguson retired because of a hip injury that required surgery, but I think that Lord Fu retired because he had completed his life's desire, and he clearly saw that with Liverpool's current ** silk, I am afraid that there is no chance to surpass him again in his lifetime, so he retired from the throne of Manchester United with satisfaction.
If you don't believe it, you see if Liverpool is lucky enough to win another championship in the past two years, Lord Ferguson will come back in a hurry, and he will not give up until he dies to suppress Liverpool.
As for the cause of this hatred, it is said that when Lord Ferguson met the famous Liverpool coach Shankly whom he admired very much at Anfield, the young Ferguson came up to say hello, and Shankly asked the people next to him: "Who is he?" ”
Lord Fur, who had never had such a broad heart, immediately held a grudge against it, and hated it for 21 years, until he finally trampled Shankly and his Red Empire under his feet......
The persistence of this red-nosed old man is simply miserable.
And Liverpool is remembered by such a person, and they can only blame them for being too unlucky.
In the end, in this appetizing game of the Premier League, Liverpool finally came off on top, and they defeated the unbeatable Uncle Bird and his Chelsea 2-1, and finally avenged the defeat in the league.
However, the Community Shield also has a nickname, that is, the "League Killer", and it is said that the team that won the Community Shield for many years has not been crowned in the league, which has become a superstition feared by Premier League managers.
It wasn't until 2007 that the Community Shield suddenly changed its face, as all four teams that won the Community Shield eventually won the league title after that year, with Manchester United accounting for three and Chelsea once.
Unfortunately, it was too late for the Community Shield to change face, as Liverpool finished third in the 2006-2007 season and qualified for the Champions League, but they could only watch as United went one step further in the top-flight title.
And the above mentioned have nothing to do with Arsenal and Descartes, because Arsenal was the fourth in the bitter last season, the fourth in the bitter last season, the third in the bitter next season, and the fourth in the bitter next season......
The title of "Crazy Devil for the Four" is not in vain, the teams competing for the title with Manchester United are hated to death by the Lord, and the teams competing for the fourth with Arsenal are also leveled by the professor.
The Premier League with these two people is truly exciting.
Turning back to the topic, after more than a month of grinding and adjusting, Descartes and their first game finally arrived.
Although it was only an inconsequential regional reserve league game, Descartes, who had just grown a lot of tendons, was still very excited, and he just wanted to test what his body had improved after a month of hard training and eating countless nutritious meals that made people vomit.
But the facts tell Descartes that fitness is not a matter of one or two days, even a month of professional training does not immediately make him Arnold Schivat Sinliga, he is now only a little stronger than his former self, compared to these big men in the English league, he still has to rely on his brain rather than his muscles in the end.
Although the Arsenal reserve team won a big victory in this game, Descartes's performance was not too good, at least his performance in the first twenty or thirty minutes was not too good, and he very much wanted to verify whether his body had become Clark. Kent ended up losing his way in a forest of muscles, and if he hadn't woken up in time to change his style of play, it is estimated that the head coach of the reserve team, Mr. Steve, would have thought that his brain had been broken.
After 30 minutes of embarrassment, Descartes finally understood the reason why Mr. Wenger asked him to strengthen his fitness, just these reserve team guys knocked him into a daze, if he met a steel man like Drogba and Pierce in the Premier League, he was afraid that he would not be able to stand steadily, right?
After two rounds of matches for the reserve team, the Premier League has finally started their journey for the new season. Arsenal's squad has undergone a lot of changes this season, Bergkamp finally decided to retire, and his position was filled by Togo striker Adebayor, and the "big general" Van Persie has not yet opened his mind at this time, so he can only be used as a rotation substitute, occasionally rotating in the position of winger and striker; Rosicky came to the midfielder and squeezed Ljungberg to the bench, saying that in recent years, the handsome Swedish guy's underwear has been sold a lot, but his strength has gradually declined, it is estimated that there are too many hungry women who are looking for him to buy underwear in private, and he is a little tired of coping; In the backline, big man Campbell was gone, the professor brought Galla from France, and the left-back was changed from Lauren to Clichy, who later succeeded Ashley. Cole's "Arsenal Left Strike" traditional defender was still an astonishing defender at the time.
The only constant is their goalkeeper Lehmann, the outstanding German goalkeeper who unfortunately met Kahn in his lifetime, and is probably the most qualified player to recite the memorial "Yu Yu and He Shengliang".
Arsenal, on the other hand, had a disadvantaged first game as they were held to a 1-1 draw away by Aston Villa and dropped two points in the first round of the league.
Fortunately, in the next second round, they defeated Wigan Athletic 1-0 away, barely saving the face of a few strong teams.
But in the next third round, Arsenal suffered another heavy blow, they lost 0:1 away to Manchester City, which was still the best team at the time, and only 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss in the first three rounds of the league, Professor Wenger was so sad that even his hair turned gray.
The next fourth round was even more miserable, Arsenal led the game for nearly 70 minutes, and was beaten 1:1 by Middlesbrough to equalize, and only five points from the first four rounds of the league were pulled down by Manchester United at the top of the table.
It looks like this season is going to be in the race for four again.
At this time, the League Cup, another traditional competition in England, kicked off again.
Founded in 1962, the League Cup is also a long-established national surname cup in England, with a total of 92 teams, which is all the teams in England's "professional league" system.
The so-called "professional league" teams in England refer to a total of 92 teams at the four levels of the Premier League, the Championship, League One and League Two, and other than these 92 teams, other teams are not eligible to participate in the League Cup.
This is a far cry from the FA Cup, which allows teams from all levels of professional league to compete, with 656 teams at its peak and is the oldest football competition in the world for 125 years.
Not one of them.
It is precisely because the historical status of the League Cup is far less than that of the FA Cup, that the Premier League giants have always taken this competition very seriously, and most of the time they will send non-main teams mixed reserves to participate in this competition, unless they reach the quarter-finals or are expected to win the title, they generally do not play with the main team.
Therefore, this competition is also a hotbed of upsets, many Premier League giants will be eliminated in the early stages of the competition, and the winners of the League Cup, non-Premier League teams and Premier League teams have won 56.43% to 43.57%.
It can be seen that the Premier League giants do not attach importance to this competition.
And the professor, who is now in trouble in the league, naturally does not send his main players to participate in this kind of chicken rib competition, so in the early stages of the game, Descartes and his friends were given the opportunity to play for Arsenal in the League Cup.
It was also Descartes' first real exposure to professional football in England.
Arsenal are not required to play in the first three rounds due to their high standings in the competition, and their first opponent is Championship side West Bromwich Albion who have played in the first three rounds.
As a result, Arsenal played attacking football away from home, easily knocking West Bromwich Albion 2-0 off the horse and claiming their first win in the Carabao Cup.
It is worth mentioning that Arsenal had 6 players aged 17 and under in this game, including Descartes, Walcott, Ramsay, Bella, etc., most of them were front-court players, causing huge problems for West Bromwich Albion, who played in the main team of the league.
After the game, this game was also called the "youth storm" by Arsenal by the media.
Don't blame the media for making too much fuss, in fact, in the World Cup in the middle of the year, although the German team gave people a new feeling, but they only played 6 games in the end, and they were still praised by the media as "youth storm", in today's society, what "storm" and what "trend", just like the words "handsome guy" and "beauty", has become a title, and is no longer a big deal.
And with a half-youth team like Arsenal, they are indeed qualified to be called "youth storms", at least compared to those "old youths" in Germany, they are much too much.
Then in the next round of the League Cup, Arsenal eliminated Everton, who played half of the main league team 1:0, with such a lineup, blowing this "storm" more and more fiercely.
More media outlets are starting to take note of Arsenal's young players. In the case of Arsenal's weak main squad and successive defeats in the league, this Arsenal reserve team composed of young people has brought great surprises to everyone.
Although they have only played two games in the League Cup, the names of young players such as Descartes and Theo Walcott have begun to spread in England, thanks to the development and noise of the English media, this young Arsenal reserve team has been touted as a future division qualified to "grab power". Silva or something, class should have been out a long time ago.
In the fifth round of the League Cup, that is, the quarterfinals, Arsenal finally met a strong opponent, that is, England's "old hegemon" Liverpool, can the storm caused by Descartes and his friends continue?
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