Chapter 55: Actually, they are not strong
After the team's training session had ended, much of Arsenal's A.T. Kearney training ground fell silent, and as twilight approached, the vegetation was dark and lifeless. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
But on the second floor of a building, there was a room with a window still lit.
It was the office of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
Arsene Wenger, who was working in his room, heard a knock on the door, "Please come in." He said without looking up.
The door was pushed open and a middle-aged man walked in, walked straight to Arsene Wenger's desk, and placed a disc on his desk.
"What is this?" Wenger finally looked away from his notebook and looked up at the middle-aged man.
"I think you should look at this, Asena. Liam Brady said. "This is a video of our youth team match two days ago. β
"Videos of youth team games?" Wenger thought it was strange, it was just a video of the youth team game, Brady didn't need to run to give it to himself, there was a normal way within the club, he would follow the youth team games regularly to understand the performance of the youth team players.
"Well, it's not our youth team players, it's the opposition's ......," Brady explained. 'It's against us in the youth team, there's a player and I think you should look at his performance. β
"Okay. Wenger picked up the disc and inserted it into the computer's optical drive.
After the disc is inserted into the CD-ROM drive, it starts to play automatically, which is a video of a game, and from the shooting angle, it can be seen that the photographer is standing on a relatively high place and holding a DV shot.
Wenger didn't speak, just watched the video, didn't watch it for a while, and then he let out a "huh", then he narrowed his eyes and looked intently at the computer screen.
And Brady stood next to him, watching with him.
The video is edited, so it's not very long, but it's 12 minutes long.
After reading it, Wenger did not speak immediately, but took off his glasses, leaned back in the chair, closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
Brady didn't speak, just stood by and waited for him.
"Japanese or Korean?" Wenger asked, rubbing the bridge of his nose.
"Chinese. β
"Chinese?" Wenger opened his eyes in surprise.
"Yes, Chinese. Brady affirmed.
"Okay...... How old are you?"
"Seems to be seventeen years old. β
"Seventeen......," Wenger said with some disappointment in his tone. He really wanted the child to be fourteen years old.
"What do you think, Liam?" he asked, looking at Brady.
"Age is not too much of an issue, and besides, this child's talent is not in the body, but here. Brady gestured to his head.
Arsene Wenger nodded in agreement, agreeing with Brady.
It can be seen from the video that the No. 16 player is very particular about his running position, and his movements are also very neat in receiving the ball, and he does not drag the ball in the mud. This is rare for a player in the seventeen-year-old age group.
This kid has a very high ball quotient, extremely high!
Thinking of this, Wenger said: "Are they going to play this game?"
"Of course not, it is said to be a Chinese reality TV show that is going to travel to Europe for a competition. I learned that they have already challenged Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund in Spain and Germany. We are their sixth opponent and a few more to come, Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool ......,' Brady said.
'Let's keep our guys on track of him, the performance in this game doesn't say anything. You'll have to see more performances. β
"Of course. Brady had no objection to the decision.
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The next match for the Chinese teenagers is against the Chelsea youth team, because they are in the same city as the Arsenal youth team, so this time the teenagers don't have to change cities, they don't even have a hotel.
This is also good for their physical recovery, especially ...... Zhou Yi's.
In addition to the special training of friends to help Zhou Yi, Hao Dong also consciously strengthened the training content of Zhou Yi's physical fitness in the training, and after the normal training every day, the physical fitness coach Li Haorui took him to continue to practice physical fitness.
All this is so that Zhou Yi can hold on for a while more in the next game. Even if it's ten minutes longer.
Li Haorui naturally knew that he had a heavy responsibility, so he was also very strict with Zhou Yi.
To his surprise, this time he didn't even hear a word of complaint from Zhou Yi's mouth.
You know, what Zhou Yi was like when he first came to train under him, he still remembers it very clearly. That's a lot of hard work.
Although he has completed the training tasks he has assigned to him every time, the first impression of always complaining about his mouth may not be better.
But this time, even though Zhou Yi was obviously exhausted, he still didn't admit defeat in his mouth.
This kid is a lot tougher than before.
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The day of the game against Chelsea's youth team has finally arrived.
In the dressing room for the youth team at Chelsea's Colham training base, the Chinese teenagers have just finished visiting this luxurious training base full of high-tech and modernity.
However, the excitement of the young players was not as evident as it was when they first saw La Masia.
It's not that they look down on Chelsea, it's that as the game progresses, they care more about the game now, because of the upcoming game, everyone is actually absent-minded when they visit. Even had to ask the crew of the film crew to constantly remind them to remember to make a voice of admiration and show an expression of envy......
In the locker room, Hao Dong was cheering up the players.
"Compared to Arsenal, Chelsea's academy is really not strong. So don't put too much pressure on you, let go of the game, I believe in you and I want you to believe in yourself......!
Chelsea's youth training strength is indeed not strong, but it is only relative to traditional youth teams such as Arsenal and Barcelona, for Chinese teenagers, even if it is not strong, this Chelsea youth team is still strong. But if Hao Dong told the truth, he was afraid that these teenagers would lose their fighting spirit before the competition began.
When dealing with children, sometimes you need to coax.
It's just that these children are probably not so easy to coax......
Zhang Tao raised his hand with a sad face: "Mr. Hao, even if they are not strong, they are only not strong compared to Arsenal, right?
Looking at many other players, although they didn't say it like Zhang Tao, it can be seen from the look on their faces that they are not confident, they don't think that the Chelsea youth team is not strong, they just think it's the coach coaxing them.
But after experiencing the strong level of European youth football, they are no longer children who have little knowledge before going abroad, and they are not easy to be coaxed.
Especially after losing 0-7 to Arsenal Youth in the last game, the confidence that had been built up was destroyed.
Even if Zhou Yi also plays in this game, everyone will be worried because he won't last long.
When Hao Dong saw the young players like this, he knew that what he was worried about still appeared.
These children are also very well educated......
Just as he was pondering how to convince the children to regain their fighting spirits, someone came up to him.
"It's true, Mr. Hao is right. Zhou Yi stood up and said, "This Chelsea U17 youth team is really not strong. β
Everyone looked at him, including the surprised Hao Dong.
"What nonsense!" Liang Qiqi, who was not used to seeing Zhou Yi, finally found a chance to spray - we are discussing professional issues here, do you have this amateur interjection?" "Do you know Chelsea's academy?"
"As a fan, I understand a little. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi did not back down, and just went straight to the front.
"Joke!" Liang Qiqi snorted coldly.
Zhou Yi ignored Liang Qiqi and continued: "There is actually only one person in this Chelsea youth team, their striker Gael Kakuta, a black man. Being able to play as a striker and a winger, as well as a midfielder, has good physical fitness, a good sense of breakthrough and rhythm, and a good sense of the big picture, which is not easy to have as a black man......"
Listening to Zhou Yi gushing about the style of play called Gail Kakuta, everyone was stunned.
You know, not to mention this person's style of play, even this person's name, they didn't know it before!
When Sun Pan saw Zhou Yi's serious appearance, he muttered in his heart - this kid is talking nonsense again, right?
It's not like he hasn't done that before......
Because Sun Pan was a friend of Zhou Yi, he only muttered in his heart because he cared about Zhou Yi's face, but Liang Qiqi directly showed this speculation, he shouted: "If you make up a name and make up nonsense, you dare to say that you understand?"
Xu Yang, who had not spoken all this time, was already in shock - because there really is a man named Gail Kakuta in the Chelsea youth team! And listening to Zhou Yi's words, he seems to know this Gail Kakuta better than the Chinese coaching staff!
Now hearing that Liang Qiqi didn't believe it, Xu Yang, who couldn't stand his attitude towards Zhou Yi everywhere, snorted: "Zhou Yi is right, the Chelsea youth team does have such a number one. β
At this time, some of the teammates who didn't believe Zhou Yi before were all shocked.
Sun Pan opened his mouth even more in surprise - this kid was blinded?!
Yang Muge also stood up to testify to Zhou Yi that he was not making it up: "Zhou Yi does know a lot about youth training in Europe. When we were at Dortmund, he told me before the game about GΓΆtze's style of play and his weaknesses, and his words were proven in the game. β
Yang Muge is an honest person and never lies, everyone knows this, he said that there is such a thing, then there is really such a thing.
So everyone's gaze at Zhou Yi became more complicated.
Even Hao Dong was a little puzzled, why did Zhou Yi know so much?
Xu Yang asked this kind of question directly: "Zhou Yi, why do you know so much?"
"Well, I'm a fan, I usually like to watch football and watch everything related to football when I have nothing to do...... Zhou Yi explained. "And there is a football game called 'FM', which has a lot of detailed information about the genius demons in real football, all of which are inseparable from the eight or nine in reality. β
He doesn't know if he believes his explanation, but he can't tell everyone that he has played against this Chelsea youth team dozens of times in his dreams, and has studied each of his abilities in terms of data, and found that the best stat in it is that Gael Kakuta, right?
As for Kakuta's style of play, he naturally summed it up based on those numbers. He hadn't actually seen Kakuta play, and he didn't know if that was really the way he played, because in the virtual system, this Kakuta of the Chelsea youth team is grey and can only look at the stats, but not play.
Chu Aya told him that it was because Kakuta was injured and therefore unable to play.
After Zhou Yi finished explaining, Xu Yang did not continue to ask, obviously accepting Zhou Yi's answer - what if he didn't accept it? Can he think of other possibilities? He couldn't imagine that Zhou Yi had a virtual world in his mind that could perfectly map reality......
Zhou Yi saw that everyone was silent, and continued: "They are such a powerful character, and this powerful character ...... I'm also injured, so I shouldn't be playing this game. So what are they afraid of? I think we can compete with them!"
Hearing Zhou Yi say this, Hao Dong glanced at Zhou Yi in surprise again, and then nodded: "Indeed, the latest news we got is that the Chelsea U17 leader was injured at the beginning of the season and has not returned to the team, so he can't play today's game." β
The eyes of the players looking at Zhou Yi can only be described as "worship......
Sun Pan's mouth is estimated to be directly stuffed into an incandescent light bulb and then taken out without difficulty.