Chapter 117: Formal Warm-up Match
The youth team kicks off at five o'clock in the evening, so in fact, at three o'clock in the afternoon, according to the rules, Mark and Zhou Yi should be present at the Bracker training base. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
But until this time, they hadn't set off yet.
Why?
Because they're waiting for Cortana.
"This kid ...... I called her, but no one answered, so I changed it to leave a recording of the call, and I don't know if she heard it......" Standing in the living room, Mrs. Wagner kept looking out of the window, hoping to see her daughter.
The elder Wagner wore a suit and sat as upright as possible in his chair so that the suit would not be crumpled. He didn't speak, but he frowned.
And Mark and Zhou Yi have already packed up all the equipment for the competition, and are waiting to get in the car and go to the training base.
But now because Cortana didn't come, they couldn't set off for a long time, and Zhou Yi was quite helpless.
This woman...... It's not a date again, what else is it to be late!
Mark's mood was slightly low.
At this time, he naturally hopes that his family will come, especially his sister, who has a good relationship with him, and this is also a great opportunity for him to prove that he can take the road of football in front of his sister.
Whatever the reason, he doesn't want his sister to miss his game today.
Even if it's just a warm-up game.
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But in the end, they didn't wait for Cortana. It was half past three, and Cortana still hadn't arrived, so the family had to drive to the Braquel training base amid her mother's complaints.
Along the way, because the time was already a little late, the old Wagner was silent and did not say a word, and drove the car as fast as he could. Zhou Yi sat in the back seat, and while wearing a seat belt, he had to grab the handle above the window with his hand, so that he could feel a little safe.
He wondered if the silent old Wagner was burning with anger, and he wanted to tell the old Wagner that he was going to drive a vindictive car......
The elder Wagner was racing all the way, and the distance that usually takes him 20 minutes to see, he drove there in 12 minutes today, so you can imagine how nervous Zhou Yi must have been on the road - he didn't want his dream trip in Dortmund to be hiccups because of a car accident.
After getting out of the car, Zhou Yi and Mark grabbed their backpacks and rushed towards the youth team's training building, and when they pushed open the locker room door, everyone, including head coach Ekel, was already inside.
"Sorry, sorry......" Mark quickly apologized to the manager and his teammates.
"Mark, you're late! The starting point for today's game is gone!" someone among his teammates cheered.
Mark immediately looked frustrated, and Eckel waved his hand at him: "If you don't go back to what you do, it's really gone!"
Only then did Mark know that his teammates were joking with him, and hurriedly ran back to their respective positions with Zhou Yi.
As the two of them began to change shirts, Ecker continued what he had just said.
“...... Fortuna Dusseldorf Under-17 are still in the lower leagues this season and we didn't get a chance to meet them in the Under-17 league and we didn't know much about them. But I hope you don't underestimate the opponent, and this game will be played according to what we usually train, and the important thing is not how well the opponent plays, but how well you play. ”
After speaking, Eckel set his eyes on Zhou Yi: "Zhou Yi, you are responsible for organizing the team's offense." ”
This is actually the content of daily training, Zhou Yi dared to do this job in training, everyone is used to it, and no one will raise such childish objections as "Why let this newcomer command us?"
Zhou Yi nodded, and naturally and confidently responded: "No problem." ”
He is really confident, because he and this group of teammates have worked together in the virtual world I don't know how many times, and he is no stranger to this team.
It's not a big deal, let him command this team, he really has nothing to be afraid of.
These are players who have been training at a high level for a long time, and they always have more tactical discipline and a sense of coordination than the patchwork team they put together when they participated in the reality show, right?
I could have beaten Barcelona, beat Chelsea, beat Liverpool with that team.
What is impossible to direct Borussia Dortmund to beat Fortuna Dusseldorf now?
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The elder Wagner parked his car and walked slowly from the parking lot to the playing field with his wife.
On the way, Mrs. Wagner was still chattering about her daughter.
Germans attach great importance to football, and their children play, and the whole family goes out to cheer for him, and then take a group photo, which is a very important family memory in the future, and is an indispensable part of the child's life and growth.
If a family member is absent, it will become a lifelong regret.
When was the last time Mark asked the Wagner family to go out?
That seems to be a very distant time ago.
When the two of them came to the stands, they were looking around, trying to find a good position, when they heard their daughter's shout: "Here!
They followed the prestige and saw Cortana, who beckoned to them.
"Why did you come directly!" complained Mrs. Wagner, as she walked over.
"I heard the recording and came straight away. ”
"Then you should give us a call, we'll wait for you until half past three, almost late. Your dad drove me all the way, and I was about to have a heart attack. ”
Cortana hurriedly stuck out her tongue: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I forgot." ”
Mrs. Wagner sighed, "This is your brother's starting game, I thought you weren't coming." ”
"How could it not come. Cortana held her mother's hand, coquettish, and couldn't tell that this was a woman who was extremely sharp in front of Zhou Yi and gave him a headache.
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When the players from both sides walked out of the pitch, the people in the stands cheered.
Although it was a warm-up match for the youth team, there were also dozens of spectators at the scene, who were basically parents of the players of the home team Dortmund youth team, and watched their children's games while sending their children to the game.
Mark's parents and sister also cheered and shouted Mark's name.
This is the first time Zhou Yi has participated in the competition between the youth teams of European clubs, and he looked at the stands curiously, and found that those people in the stands suddenly envied them.
This kind of scene is a picture that he will fantasize about every time when he plays football in China.
Anyone who has played football in school can probably understand that feeling, and if there are people on the sidelines watching and cheering them on, everyone can play at a high level. If there are still beautiful women in the ball...... Then everyone is like being beaten with chicken blood.
German football is just a warm-up match between youth teams, with dozens of spectators, how can the level of people not be high?
In this country, football is permeated into all aspects of social life.
In China, football is just football, and it loses its vitality without the football field.
Based on what Zhou Yi has seen and heard in Europe in the past few months, he feels that this is the biggest gap between Chinese football and European football, like a chasm.
It's not that the international players are inferior to others, and it's not even the football system.
It's the gap in all aspects of society.
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Although it was a warm-up match, there were also a lot of ceremonies before the game, from the team shaking hands to exchanging team flags and then picking sides, which was very formal.
Then the game began.
The moment Zhou Yi received the ball, head coach Ekel's eyes were firmly locked on him.
This warm-up game, in fact, has one purpose, that is, to examine Zhou Yi's performance.
After all, training and competition are not the same, someone can behave like a world-class player in training, but when it comes to real games, they are immediately unqualified.
Although the gap between Zhou Yi and Zhou Yi will not be so big, it still needs to be paid attention to.
After Zhou Yi received the ball, he did not observe, but directly passed the football out again, a very simple ball, and transferred the football from the middle to the side.
He then began to observe the situation while shaking his head from side to side as he ran to the next place.
Ecker is no stranger to this scene, and he is used to it in training.
He cares more about how Zhou Yi will command the team and dominate this game.
He only watched it for five minutes, and a different look appeared on his face.
Because for five minutes, the football has been spinning at the feet of the Dortmund youth team players, and the Dusseldorf youth team has not even touched the football!
The football will always be passed to Zhou Yi, who will then hand it over to the next person, then he will run, receive the pass, and then pass the football to another teammate.
It was just a back-and-forth pass, and it wasn't just a back-to-foot, it was from the back to the midfield, but it didn't go into the 30-metre zone of the Dusseldorf youth team.
This kind of passing has been practiced by the Dortmund youth team in recent training, but it is still very surprising to be able to achieve such an effect.
Who is it all because of?
Ecker is well aware.
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Zhou Yi observed the performance of the Dusseldorf youth team through five minutes of inversion, and found that it was the same as what he encountered in the FIFAOL3 world.
The Dusseldorf youth team was a little overwhelmed by such a downturn in Dortmund, and they even felt that this backward foot was an insult to them.
So they started to press hard, trying to snatch the ball back and forth from Borussia Dortmund.
Dortmund, who was originally a cross-pass and a back-pass, suddenly accelerated the pace!
When Zhou Yi received the ball again, he chose a straight stopper!
With a straight kick, the ball slipped through the gap between the left centre-back and left wing-back and landed behind their defence, while Dortmund's youth right-back Denis Hoffmann cut in at high speed from behind to get on the ball!
And he was already behind the back line of the Dusseldorf youth team, and in front of him, no one could stop him except a goalkeeper!
The rest of the matter became very simple all at once.
Hoffmann received the ball and cut inside to face the hasty Dusseldorf youth goalkeeper and opted for a slotted shot.
The ball arced, bypassed the goalkeeper's ten fingers, hung straight in the back corner of the goal, and flew into the goal by grazing the goalpost!
1:0!
Just six minutes into the game, Dortmund took the lead in the game, and the goal was assisted by Zhou Yi!
Hoffman, who scored the goal, ran to Zhou Yi, who gave him an assist, and a group of people hugged each other.
This is simply the best proof that Zhou Yi has integrated into the team!