The training base that Zenit St. Petersburg borrowed in Manchester to prepare for the UEFA Cup final is called "Carrington Training Base", but it has to be made clear that this is not Manchester United's Carrington training base, but Manchester City's. Although the two are so close together, they must not be confused.

How close are Manchester United's Carrington and Manchester City's Carrington?

Sun Jihai once again kicked the football into the sky with a big foot in training, straight into the sky, and disappeared. The manager at the time, Kevin Keegan, shouted angrily: "You go to Manchester United to pick up the ball!" ”

Look, it's so close, just a big foot away.

However, compared to the glamorous and famous next door, Manchester City's Carrington training base looks a bit run-down and low-key.

The team is also not in a good position in the Premier League at the moment. After former Thai chief executive Thaksin Shinawatra bought the team last year, he withdrew his gold yuan in preparation to emulate Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich.

Unexpectedly, he was mired in a lawsuit and was banned by the Thai government, so he could only go into exile. Jiang Yu's own acquired team is naturally unintentional. In addition, his overseas accounts have been frozen, and he has no money to support the team.

Therefore, the dilapidated situation of this training ground is even more in line with the current predicament of this team.

Zeni only borrowed Manchester City's training base, not their dormitory, and the team usually stayed in a hotel in the city, between the only Manchester Municipal Stadium and Carrington training base.

Every day they take a bus to Carrington for training, Zhongniu eats at the training base, and then takes the bus back to the hotel after the training in the afternoon.

This life will continue until August 13. On 13 August, they will go to Manchester City Stadium for acclimatisation training, and a pre-match press conference will be held at this time.

Manchester City have lent their training base to Zenit, not that they have to look elsewhere for themselves. There is only one training ground for Zenit that is actually used, and it does not affect the normal training of the Manchester City club's various teams.

In other words, both teams train under the same roof.

The Zenit players got off the bus and had to pass through the perimeter of the Manchester City first-team training pitch to reach their training ground, separated by a barbed wire wall. It's so close that the City players can look at them with a little curiosity, and they look at the City players and the training base with curiosity.

Chen Yingying's understanding of Manchester City is only that he knows that this team has its own Chinese compatriots who are playing, and Sun Jihai's name is known to everyone in the Chinese chalk football circle. Before him, he was the most successful foreign player in the Crececeous Kingdom.

Of course, this title may have to be given to Jean Xian a little now. There are already voices in the Creceous Kingdom that although Chen Yingying has only appeared in our field of vision, he has not been in the field of vision for two seasons, but he is already the most successful foreign player in the Creceous Kingdom. At least Sun Jihai didn't win the top scorer in his league and didn't score eleven goals in the League Cup......

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"Hey Dunn put his arm around Jihai's neck and pointed to the training ground next door." Look at that person, is it from your country? ”

Sun Jihai looked at his gesture, the target person was easy to find, and he saw the big man with black hair almost at a glance.

He nodded: "That's right, Richard, he's just like me, a Cretaceous countryman. ”

In fact, you don't have to look at it, Sun Jihai also knows who the other party is talking about (). Chen Yingying, a child who has been very popular in China's domestic media recently. Playing in the Russian league is very good at scoring goals, and what he is best at is scoring goals with his head, which is also known by his size.

Sun Jihai actually doesn't pay much attention to the domestic media, and he knows Chen Yingying's information because his agent will nag this person in his ear from time to time. But knowing this person, it's because of the League Cup.

The kid was in excellent form in the UEFA Cup, and his goal against Everton got him covered in the English media. It's not a big deal to score a goal in the UEFA Cup, I've scored in all the defenders of this year. But to be able to score goals in a row is remarkable. After 200 years, Sun Jihai found that the news about this child in the European media began to gradually increase.

Until half a month ago, he scored a hat-trick in the semi-final against Bayern Munich, which shocked the whole of Europe. Only then did he realize that this kid was so awesome.

But such a terrible child has never been favored by the China Creceous Football Association. It made him a little weird.

Isn't the Chinese critual football engaged in some kind of Olympic strategy? They have recruited almost all the outstanding young players of the right age into the national Olympic team, why didn't they recruit heroes? It stands to reason that he is also a player of the right age......

What Sun Jihai didn't know was that Chen Yingying was not registered at all on the side of the China Creceous Football Association............ Therefore, if you want him to work for the country, you have to go through a lot of procedures, which is more troublesome. Moreover, there is another factor that makes the China Creceous Football Association worry about recruiting Chen Yingying, this tattoo on the back!

In the past, the China Creceous Football Association had regulations that all players with tattoos and hair dyes were not allowed to be selected for the national team. Now that the rules have been relaxed, players with tattooed arms and hair that are not pure black have also begun to appear in the national team. But a tattoo like Chen Yingying's large area is really eye-catching.

In today's China Creceous State, there is still a relatively deep-rooted concept that tattooing one by one is only done by the ruffians, hooligans, and scoundrels. If you have a tattoo as a player, isn't that the ruffian gangster? Isn't this blatantly smearing the image of the Chinese national team and pouring sewage on the football of the Chinese cephalic country?

Of course, in fact, everyone knows what kind of virtue and image the Chinese chalk players are...... It's just that this face-saving thing still has to be paid attention to ().

Dunn patted Sun Jihai on the shoulder: "I heard that he is very good, and the current League Cup scorer list has already chased Alan Shearer!" This must be good news for your national team! ”

Sun Jihai smiled wryly: "He hasn't been selected for any national team." ”

It was Dunn's turn to be surprised: "Why is that?" ”

Sun Jihai shook his head helplessly: "I don't know ...... to say."

From the bottom of his heart, of course, he hopes that such an excellent striker can become a team with him, play for the country, and win glory for the country.

But based on his understanding of the football circle of the Chinese Creceous Kingdom and his personal experience in the national team, he knows very well that Chen Yingying's character "wants to survive in the national team...... Hard.

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Manchester City's players were taking advantage of the break in practice to look at the Zenit players, and the Zenit players were also looking at each other.

Chen Yingying found Sun Jihai in the crowd.

In the past, he could only listen to the team show off the first team on TV and in the youth team, and Wang Yongjun talked to Bei Jihai in the national team. At that time, the name symbolized the national team of the Chinese ceceous countries, representing heights that they simply could not reach.

Now, this person who used to be only looked up to by himself "is separated from him by a barbed wire wall."

Fate is wonderful.

When those who showed off their eldest brother and Sun Jihai's relationship in front of him, they would never have imagined that they would be able to score a hat-trick against Kahn, Lucio, Demichelis and Van Bommel? I would never have imagined that my name could be put together with a legendary superstar like Alan Shearer, who is higher than Sun Jihai, I don't know how many ranks?

"Alright, don't look at it, don't look at it ()! What's there to see? You're not here to visit! Assistant Coach Potter's voice rang out. Prepare for training!! ”

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Sun Jihai would enter the arena and cast his eyes on the training ground next door, and then pay attention to the tall compatriot.

He couldn't contain his curiosity

He's got everything he knows about this guy from the media or from other people's mouths, and he's good at scoring goals' 'I've heard he's been outstanding, I've heard he's in great form......

He had never seen it with his own eyes, not even on the broadcast of his game.

He didn't know the man's style of play, how he scored goals.

So he was curious.

At the training ground next door, Zeni was practicing set-piece tactics.

He found Chen Ying-ying to be the absolute core of set-piece tactics. No matter what the tactics, the football is always going to be sent to him. And his performance is also very eye-catching, living up to expectations. It's always easy to put a soccer ball into the goal.

You can see that his header is excellent, and that's the same thing he knows.

And it's different from what I thought I was, this person's personality is very lively and jumpy, and he gets along very well with the team. Unlike the average Creceous player, he is an alternative. He has seen a lot of Chinese chalk players, and they are all big brother figures in domestic football clubs, but when he goes abroad, he is like a rookie who has never seen the world, and he has to be silent first, and it is difficult to integrate into the team. The tactics that made them thrive in domestic clubs don't work in foreign clubs at all.

He didn't know how this Chen Yingying would be able to get along with his team. He's now able to joke around with his team, chat or something, "but that's after working alone in England for almost a decade.

What an outlier!

When Sun Jihai finished training, Zenit's training was still ongoing. He is already planning to watch the UEFA Cup final live from his home in midweek evening.

It's time to cheer for your own compatriots. There are not many Creceous players who can continue to stay in Europe now"His contract expires in June this year, the club is not willing to renew his contract, he does not want to go back, he also wants to go to other teams.

It's not easy to mix......

Just as he was thinking this, he heard a cheer from the training ground next door, and turned his head to look. Chen Yingying scored another goal in the team's training match.

Well, that's not right. At least this kid in front of me is better than all of us......

Naples...... Serie A team...... He couldn't get a contract extension for Manchester City after trying so hard, but this kid has already made a high-profile transfer to Napoli, a Serie A team.

He shouldn't need to refuel himself.

Let's see for ourselves how much better he is than us. Why he's a better mixer than we all do.

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, the first volume is coming to an end, counting this League Cup final, there are still two games to end.

In the new volume, Chen Yingying will go to the new map of Italy to expand his territory, what kind of shock will a player with a unique personality like him bring to Italian football?

At the same time, Naples will also be the place where he is more known by the whole of Europe, and watch him, a giant bear from the north, turn Europe upside down!

In addition, a ball monthly pass and a recommended ticket! To be continued