Spain's Marbella is no stranger to Zhang Jun, who came here to train this time last year. Today, when choosing a training site, I naturally thought of this place first.

But this year, there are some old friends in Marbella.

"Huh? Li Yongle? Zhang Jun was a little surprised, he didn't expect to meet each other here. Do you have the money to this extent? Travelling to Spain? ”

"Of course not, ho-ho! I came to the training camp with my pair. Li Yongle said with a smile.

"With the team? So, Sophie did tell me that you were called into the Olympic Games...... Wait a minute! The National Olympics are coming to Spain? Zhang Jun was even more surprised.

"Yes, the national Olympic team was invited to Marbella to play a four-nation invitational tournament. We'll live upstairs from you. Li Yongle pointed to the top of his head.

"This ...... Such a coincidence? ”

"Your news is really closed, Marbella is the territory of Atletico Madrid's president Hill, he prefers China, but I heard that our manager has a good relationship with Hill, so they invited us. We'll be able to play again, ho-ho! Li Yongle said with a smile, being able to compete with Zhang Jun is the greatest pleasure.

"Are you sitting on the main force?"

"Not yet, but there's no problem with the first substitute, I'll catch up."

The two of them found an empty seat and sat down, then called for two cups of hot juice and began to talk.

"Tell the truth, Li Yongle. Why give up the chance to Warrendam? And to participate in the chicken ribs of the University Games? I would have had a chance to play with you. ”

Li Yongle took a sip of juice: "I don't think anyone who plays football will refuse the call of the country, right?" Can you ignore the jersey with the Chinese flag on its chest, Zhang Jun? ”

Zhang Jun was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "Indeed, you can't refuse, you're right." It's just a pity that you'......"

"Hehe, am I not in the Olympics now? It's the same everywhere you play, as long as you can improve. Now I am training Qiu Zhi at the National Olympic Games, maybe it is better. But I'm definitely going to go out, and I'm thinking about it when the Olympics are over. Maybe go to the Netherlands like you and start my career with a small club. Li Yongle pointed at Zhang Jun with a straw. But I'm not going to Warrendam. He saw what Zhang Jun wanted to say, "Because I want to play with you, not as a teammate, but as an opponent." ”

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The warm beaches of Marbella in Spain are indeed better than the ice and snow of the Netherlands. Warrendam's players are as energetic as frogs waking up from hibernation. This is a match for their performance in the Netherlands, especially when they see beautiful girls bathing naked on the beach.

But Zhang Jun can already be distracted, and his teammates joke because he already has Sophie, and Zhang Jun does not deny it, it is true. But his national Olympic teammates couldn't do it, one by one when they ran on the beach, they saw those enthusiastic girls, even their feet were a little weak, and they really wanted to fall down, and then rolled to the girl's side, lying down for a long time and unwilling to get up.

Even people like Li Suisheng, who usually look serious, can't resist the temptation and want to get into those girls.

And the girls also seem to be very interested in these sturdy guys, always making all kinds of sultry poses to tease the running National Olympic team members.

But in the case that even the coach is not exempt from vulgarity, there is one person who really concentrates on training and does not squint. He is Xiang Tao, who is known as the "yellow bomber" in the team.

It's really puzzling. Wang Yu asked Xiang Tao on behalf of the vast number of silver people why he was so calm, Xiang Tao glanced at Wang Yu arrogantly, and then said in a very disdainful tone: "According to the habit of watching A movies, I am not interested in European women. ”

The crowd fell.

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Yang Pan was once again standing on the edge of the Dall'ara stadium, with a fourth official holding an electronic display board next to him. Yang Pan jumped, moved his body, and then took the time to look at the big screen. In the 70th minute of the second half, 1:1, Bologna drew with the away team Empoli.

He will come on as a replacement for Nervo, and this time his task is not to be "active in defending", as Mazzoni asked him: "On the premise of solidifying your defence, actively forward to assist, use your speed to break down the opposition back line in the last 20 minutes!" ”

Nervo looked up at the display board in the fourth official's hand: on the 7th, down on the 21st.

He knew he wasn't playing well in this game, and he wasn't in shape for both assists and defense. It's fun enough for the coach to let him play for 70 minutes, so let's see how this guy performs!

He and Yang Pan high-fived hard, and then put on the coat handed by the staff, and he sat back on the bench. "Well done, Carllow." Mazzoni still said that.

Yang Pan ran two steps tightly, feeling his position. He took a few deep breaths, and he wasn't as nervous as he was the first time he played.

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'Three touches, two passes, one tackle, one turnover, no shots, no dangerous passes. This is how Yang Pan performed in the first five minutes. Li Yan wrote it down in a small notebook.

Suddenly there was a cheer in the stands! He hurriedly raised his head.

"Yang Pan's sudden steal in the front court caught the opponent off guard!" The on-site commentator shouted.

After Yang Pan broke the ball, he first looked up to find someone, but he didn't find a suitable passing point. At this time, the opponent who was cut off by him had already been forced back up, Yang Pan shook his hand, accelerated to shake off the opponent, and broke through along the sideline!

Empoli's central defender came up to make up for the defense, but Yang Pan was like a gust of wind that swept over him, the speed was too fast!

"Yang Pan has broken through! Terrifying speed! ”

Nervo clutched the towel and watched the field.

The second central defender had to come up to fill the position, but Yang Pan did not give him this opportunity, he pumped his right foot, and the football flew diagonally to the outside of the penalty area!

Lateral striker No. 11 Claudiobelli received the pass, he adjusted it slightly, and then hit it with a pick!

Because of Yang Pan's agitation, the defense in the Empoli penalty area was already a mess, and the defender just blocked the goalkeeper's view. Bellucci drilled his foot against the turf into the bottom right corner of the goal!

The ball is in!

“gooooooooooal！！ No. 11 Bellucci! Bologna leads at home! ”

After the goal, Bellucci was about to run to the coach's box, but he suddenly remembered something, turned another corner and killed Yang Pan, who was still standing on the sideline, and hugged him tightly.

"Well done!"

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"Well done!" Li Yan, like other Chinese journalists, jumped out of her seat. Seventy-five minutes into the second half! Yang Pan used a sharp breakthrough on the right side to complete his first assist in Serie A!

"Yang Pan! We've got your back! At this moment, a reporter even opened a banner that had been prepared and held it up. Their actions attracted the attention of other reporters, but at this moment, in the press box, there was only a group of Chinese fans, no Chinese reporters.

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The goal celebration was finally over, and his teammates were in place, Yang Pan stood on the sidelines and secretly clenched his fists. Half a season of hard work has finally come to fruition. Although it was only an assist, Yang Pan knew how difficult it was to be on this field even if it was an assist.

Now we are one step closer to that goal.

Work hard, Yang Pan!

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Three whistles, the end of the show! Bologna got off to a great start with a home win over Empoli for their first win of the new year!

"Well done!" Signori patted Yang Pan on the shoulder as he left the game. And Bellucci, who scored the winning goal, came up and hugged Yang Pan: "Hey! Attaboy! It's so good! I treat you to dinner! ”

"Hah! Claudio, if that's the case, you'll be bankrupt in no time! Ha ha! Someone joked.

"Humph! Don't worry about you, I'm happy today! ”

"Haha!"

In the midst of the laughter, Yang Pan found that Nervo got up from the bench, and then turned and walked to the locker room alone, and there was also a camera following him, just like he did that day.

Carllo, even if his face is expressionless, is it just as hard?

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"Yang Pan proves himself with assists! "Half a season's wait in exchange for an assist!" Mazzoni: He has quality, but he needs to work hard. "That's how we got our first assist. 》……

While the scent of joy is still wafting in China, in Spain, Zhang Jun and Li Yongle are about to start their match.

"It's the first time I've played against you in a foreign country." Li Yongle said to Zhang Jun that it was time to warm up before the game. But Zhang Jungo had almost no way to complete the warm-up, because the members of the National Olympic team who he knew always came forward to exchange greetings with him, which really made him wonder if this was Qiu Suhui's tactical arrangement.

"yes, for the first time."

"The weather in Spain is very nice." Li Yongle looked up at the blue sky and said.

"Yes, that's good," Zhang Jun also looked up at the sky.

"I'm not a starter, what about you?"

"Coincidentally, neither am I. I didn't play until the second half. ”

"Is there strength in the snow? I didn't expect us to meet in the first game. I'm going to meet in the finals, so it's more exciting to play. ”

"Ho-ho! Treat this game as if it were the final! Zhang Jun said with a smile.

The hands of the two were clasped tightly together.

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"I don't think I need to explain it, everyone should know who their key people are, right? Although Warrendam didn't start him, he will definitely play. I hope that everyone will play the results of these months of training, and let him play without a chance! ”

The 442 used in the diamond-shaped position is still used in the national Olympic Games, and the lineup is exactly the same as in the first game as in Syria. Warrendam, on the other hand, fielded most of the substitutes. Qiu Suhui turned his head to look at Adrianse, his teacher.

Is it doubting my abilities? Or are you still afraid that the main force will be injured? In that case, you're welcome!

Qiu Suhui stood up and shouted to the players waiting for kick-off: "Go all out!" Think of it as an Olympic competition! ”

On the 8th of January, the weather was fine, the warm sun of Marbella, Spain shone on everyone, and the football lay quietly on the turf between the two teams, reflecting the sunlight, which seemed to be a little dazzling.

The referee blew the whistle and the football was kicked out. It's just a friendly invitational tournament, but no one takes it lightly.

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Li Jie made a powerful shot but was easily caught by Westtrop, he scratched his head in annoyance, and his very hard kick was caught by the opponent so easily, is this a professional-level goalkeeper?

However, despite this, in the first 20 minutes of the first half, the Chinese Olympic team still had the upper hand. As a former assistant coach at Warrendam, Qiu Suhui is well aware of the abilities and strengths and weaknesses of these players. Therefore, the tactics of the Chinese team are to restrain Warrendam everywhere, and it is normal to press the attack.

The game attracted some European scouts, so the Chinese players worked very hard, hoping to be watched by scouts from a certain club, and it would be even more enjoyable if they could be watched by a big club.

Zhao Pengyu's breakthrough on the left was impressive, and his pace made Warrendam's backup defender Koning struggle a bit to defend. But he knew that blocking the inside line and forcing Zhao Pengyu to the bottom line and then crossing, so that the threat would be much smaller. And Zhao Pengyu could only bury his head and bring to the bottom line and then cross, but the effect was not very good.

"It's not going to go on like this, it needs some changes." Assistant coach Hu Li said to Qiu Suhui.

"Hmm." Qiu Suhui nodded, "The wing attack needs more variety......"

Zhao Pengyu stepped forward with the ball again, but was still forced to the outside by Kening.

"Xiaoyu!" Xiang Tao rushed up from behind, Zhao Pengyu understood a false shake, and then passed the ball back to Xiang Tao, who was inserted behind. After receiving the ball, Xiang Tao did not continue to go down, but flicked the ball sideways and leaned towards the front of the penalty area!

Seeing this, Lin Feng hurriedly tore to the right, and then Xiang Tao got up in the running! A half-high ball, fast and fierce! Westtrop didn't dare to hug it directly, but before he could squeeze his fist and hit it, the football was on his chest!

In a hurry, I could only shoot it out with both palms, but the effect can be imagined...... The football did not shoot far, Li Jie, who was ambushed in the penalty area, quickly followed, and then easily made up the ball into the empty goal!

The ball is in! The Chinese Olympic team leads Warrendam! Actually ahead!

Although it was only a warm-up match, Li Jie was still very excited, after all, this goal further strengthened his position as the main striker. The team members surrounded Li Jie and Xiang Tao, shouting and jumping excitedly. In the past, when the Chinese team faced European teams, although they screamed fiercely, they were basically lacking confidence on the field. Only these newborn calves, they are always full of confidence, they are always eager to win, and they will never give in.

Qiu Suhui really wants those people in China to see, this is his biggest purpose Qiu Suhui's transformation: to cultivate them into a first-class team in Asia from the confidence and spirit.

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Warrendam was 1-0 down and it was the thirtieth minute of the first half, and Adrianse couldn't sit back anymore because he didn't want to lose to his apprentice. "Zhang Jun, Sarden, Kozel, Hena, let's all go warm up."

When Li Yongle saw Zhang Jun get up to warm up on the bench, he straightened up hopefully and looked at Qiu Suhui, hoping to hear the greeting for him to go up to warm up. But until the end of halftime, he didn't see the figure in the coach's box move.

Warrendam, who fell behind in the second half, really replaced nearly half of the players, and Kozel, Sarden, Hener, Zhang Jun, these absolute main players all appeared, and it seems that Adrianse is not willing to stop there.

In terms of the National Olympics, Qiu Suhui still did not make any adjustments, he just instructed Li Suisheng and Liu Peng to keep Zhang Jun and Hena tightly together, and not to give each other too many opportunities.

Li Suisheng worked very hard, but Zhang Jun, who let him see Baqiao's true biography, was obviously still a little hot.

"Toot!" Zhang Jun forcibly broke through from the middle, and Li Suisheng, who was already out of position, pulled Zhang Jun helplessly. The referee gave Warrendam a direct free-kick about twenty-three metres up front.

When he saw Zhang Jun personally put the football on the turf, Qiu Suhui suddenly remembered that so far this season, Zhang Jun has scored five direct free kicks in various competitions, which is a remarkable statistic as a striker. His left-footed curling ball was even called "Smile" by the Dutch media, a nice name, but it made opponents fearful.

It was obviously the first time that the Olympic team had seen Zhang Jun's free kick, because when Zhang Jun chose to take this free kick on the left side with his left foot, everyone thought he was going to pass the ball. But the ball flew out of a clear arc, around the human wall, and flew straight into the near corner!

When Sima Hongxin noticed that the football was spinning around the wall from the far end and straight to the upper left corner of the goal, he didn't even react and watched the football burrow into the net!

The ball is in!

Zhang Jun smiled lightly and high-fived Kozel, who came up to celebrate, and said nothing more. It's like just scoring a goal from a set-piece drill.

Qiu Suhui has now seen with his own eyes that Zhang Jun has really matured a lot after experiencing that incident. If you don't understand why the Dutchman called his free-kick "smile", look at his expression!

Qiu Suhui shook his head and smiled, and then said, "Li Yongle, go warm up." Come back in five minutes. ”

Li Yongle was a little excited to stand up, take off his trousers, and then run to the sidelines to warm up. It's finally time to play, and this is the first time he has played for the national Olympic team since he was selected for the national Olympic team. For more than two months, in Honghe, under Qiu Suhui's hands, he felt that he was growing every day, and he was confident not to disappoint Qiu Zhi, who trusted him. But what excites him the most is that he can finally compete with Zhang Jun!

Five minutes is really long, at least that's what Li Yongle thinks. It wasn't until he stood beside Qiu Suhui and took off his coat that he unexpectedly regained his calm.

There was no tactical board, no instigation of requirements, Qiu Suhui just patted Li Yongle on the shoulder and said to him: "Freeze Zhang Jun." ”

And that's exactly what Li Yongle wants to hear.

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The football went out of bounds, Hu Li signaled to the fourth official for the Chinese team to make a substitution, and Li Yongle stood on the sidelines. Zhang Jun looked at Li Yongle, and at the same time, Li Yongle also looked up at Zhang Jun after sorting out his jersey, the two looked at each other, and then looked at each other and smiled.

I really didn't expect to meet in such a way, you represent China, and I represent Warrendam.

And Adrianse also paid attention to this tall man, he was that Li Yongle, Les had already taken a fancy to him, but unfortunately he didn't know why he didn't come. Now that you're playing for your home country?

It's better to watch a real person than a videotape.

The game continued, and Kozel was still used to looking for Zhang Jun. But this time he passed the ball, Zhang Jun had just received it, and when he was about to turn forward, the ball was blocked by one leg, and he himself stumbled and almost fell. A very familiar feeling came to mind.

"Li Yongle!" He couldn't help but exclaim.

"Hey, hey! It's just a greeting gift, Jun Zhang. Li Yongle smiled, and then he took advantage of the moment when Zhang Jun was stunned and rushed forward. On the other side, Wang Yu had already passed the ball to the front.

The Chinese team quickly counterattacked! Lin Feng took the ball with his back to the opponent's penalty area, and did not turn around, but directly distributed the ball to Li Yongle, who was inserted behind!

"Bad ......" Zhang Jun desperately chased back, now only twenty-five meters away from the goal, Zhang Jun knew what Li Yongle would do next, and he loudly reminded Louie Link, who was forced to take it. Watch out for his long-range shots......"

Before the words fell, Li Yongle really picked up his right foot while running! Louis Link hurriedly flew to block the long-range shot. But instead of shooting, the opponent flicked the ball out with his right foot and dodged Louie Link! Immediately after he passed straight into the penalty area, Li Jie comprehended the gap left behind after Louis Link pounced from the side, and raised his foot to shoot!

Westrop had sealed the angle and he held the boccia ball firmly underneath him.

The back and forth of defending and attacking has already demonstrated Li Yongle's current ability. Defending Jang Jun's position and counter-attacking showed his good awareness, which is especially important as a professional. Adrianse has already begun to regret it, why didn't he use Zhang Jun's personal relationship to get him at that time? He's definitely a really good addition to the quality of the team.

Zhang Jun watched Li Yongle run past him with his head held high, and ran back to the position of the lower back.

You're not the only one making progress, Zhang Jun.

He just wanted to tell himself this, right? Zhang Jun looked back at Westtrop, and then waved his hand: "Robert, big feet!" ”

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Zhang Jun took the ball again, and Li Yongle also pressed up again, and everyone could see that the two of them had a good match.

Zhang Jun straightened his upper body and slowly dribbled the ball while brewing his next move. Li Yongle, on the other hand, put his center of gravity very low, leaning over and staring at the football. One tall and one short, as if they were still for a while.

The sunlight shone on the white football and reflected into Li Yongle's eyes, which was a little dazzling...... Li Yongle couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly.

This is the moment!

Zhang Jun suddenly moved! He flicked the ball with the outside of his left foot and moved his body to the left! And Li Yongle was not to be outdone, he kicked with his left foot, and his body flew out to the right like an arrow!

Both of them are very explosive!

Zhang Jun lay the ball forward with his right foot again, and he showed no signs of slowing down. At the same time, his body took a step forward to block Li Yongle, and after a year of training in the professional league, his body was no longer as thin as in high school.

Li Yongle was blocked like this, and he also lost the opportunity to break the ball suddenly, so he had to try his best to block Zhang Jun on the outside and prevent him from entering the penalty area.

The two of them rushed to the bottom line quickly!

Zhang Jun's eyes saw that Li Yongle did not completely seal the angle, and he could still see the goal, which meant entering the range for Zhang Jun.

Li Yongle suddenly felt Zhang Jun's rhythm of dribbling changed, and he realized that he only paid attention to preventing him from breaking through the bottom, but forgot that his opponent was a person who could shoot at any angle and under any circumstances. He's going to shoot! Li Yongle thought to himself.

Sure enough, Zhang Jun stepped on the ground with his right foot, and his left leg picked up, and he was about to shoot!

Here it comes! Li Yongle leaned back slightly to fully stretch himself. Then the right leg stretched out, blocking Zhang Jun's shot from a small angle!

The left leg went down, but instead of shooting, he smashed the ball to the right!

Or do you want to break through!? Li Yongle was taken aback, but he relied on his excellent physical fitness to pull his body back, and he must prevent Zhang Jun from breaking through!

However, the ball was not buckled, and the football hit the supporting foot after it was buckled, Zhang Jun's right foot, and bounced towards the bottom line!

What the?!

Li Yongle was powerless, no matter how strong he was, he couldn't change his center of gravity twice in a row in just one second.

The amazing explosiveness makes Zhang Jun rush forward like a cheetah! He pulled the ball back on the baseline, then adjusted it slightly, and immediately got up and hit the goal!

Sima Hongxin blocked the angle, and the center of gravity was also very low, but he didn't expect Zhang Jun to really dare to shoot on the bottom line, and he volleyed vigorously! The ball flew over his head and bounced under the crossbar into the goal!

The ball is in again!!

A real zero-angle goal!

At the moment when the football bounced into the goal, Qiu Suhui stood up from his seat suddenly, and opened his mouth to cheer for Zhang Jun, but he immediately realized that he was not Warrendam's assistant coach now, but the head coach of the Chinese Olympic team, so he had to wave his hand and sit back helplessly.

Zhang Jun shook his fist fiercely and ran back.

Sima Hongxin is 1.98 meters tall, with wide shoulders and wide body, it is impossible for him to have space to shoot in the near corner, and most people will choose to cross in front of the goal, but Zhang Jun actually pumped the ball on top of Sima's head, so a little space was grabbed and used by him, and then completed this incredible zero degree angle goal!

Has this kid grown to this point?

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Li Jie was stunned and looked at Zhang Jun, who was running back while laughing with his teammates, and the shock in his heart could not be described in words.

Is this the strength of the Dutch Silver Boot? Is this what Baggio values as a strength? That's what it is...... That person's strength?

I have always joked that he is the top scorer of the National Olympic Games, but that is just because this person has not returned. Do you have the courage to shoot in that situation? I'm afraid you don't even have the guts to think about it, right?

He also dreamed of playing in Europe through the Olympics, but today he realized that although he is stepping on European soil now, he is far from European football......

Li Yongle sat on the ground and once again clearly witnessed the whole process of Zhang Jun's goal, as if he had returned to the winter four years ago, and he watched Zhang Jun score the equalizer and score the winning golden goal in front of him. No matter how majestic he was before this, how he overwhelmed him, but at the last critical moment, he could always throw himself aside, and complete the heroic feat alone, while he was just a spectator.

After a year of professional experience, has the gap widened?

If he is gradually thrown away like this, Li Yongle will not agree to it no matter what. You've been playing for a year now, and I'm just hitting the road!

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The game ended up relying on Zhang Jun's zero-degree goal, and Warrendam defeated the Chinese Olympic Games 2:1 and reached the final of the cup. And Qiu Suhui also achieved the purpose of training troops, running in the team, and increasing experience. It's nice to win, and it's not a shame not to win, after all, the opponent is a professional team, the winner of the last Dutch Cup. Although Yang Pan is gone, he has a more mature Zhang Jun. Moreover, Qiu Suhui always felt that he did not lose to Warrendam, but to Zhang Jun, the main striker of the National Olympic team.

In the final of the cup, Warrendam lost 1:2 to the Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund (BVB). Zhang Jun played the whole game, although he scored a goal, but the two-meter-two-meter Czech high school striker Jan Kohler was really terrifying, and two high-altitude bombardments ended in Volendamm. And Zhang Jun also encountered a German-style defense: rigorous, serious, meticulous, and emphasizing overall coordinated operations. It was clear that he was not yet used to such a defence, with few chances on goal. But even with only four shots on goal, Adrianse was pleased with the efficiency. At least Zhang Junchang has seen that they will also face different teams and different styles of football in the League Cup. Zhang Jun is growing, and Warrendam is also growing.

The one-month winter break is fast behind and they are greeted by an even more grueling second half of the 03/04 season. The League Cup and the Dutch Cup have entered the later stages of the competition, and Warrendam is facing an unprecedented test on the third line.

But Volendam fans are not afraid, they can sing "Jang Jun Bless Volendam" to fight back against all doubts.

Yes, another healthy, mature Zhang Jun, what else do they have to fear? It's their opponents who should be afraid, right?

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