Chapter 25: Expected

After visiting the training ground, the youngsters went to the dressing room and finally came to the highlight of their trip to Barcelona - the match against the Barcelona U17 football team of La Masia Football School!

The teenagers all put away the relaxed mood they had when they visited before, and the expressions on their faces became solemn.

Although head coach Hao Dong was still outside for an interview on Barcelona's official website, the locker room was naturally quiet.

Before the start of the game, head coach Hao Dong will announce the starting list for this game.

Although in fact, everyone knows who can and can't, but people always have luck in their hearts - what if the head coach sees himself more pleasing to the eye this time and lets himself start?

Guo Nu sat in his place, anxiously waiting.

He was one of those lucky winners.

There was a set of cameras in the dressing room, filming the players preparing for work. At this time, everyone didn't care about having a camera next to them, and they didn't have the heart to care about the camera.

Soon, the door to the locker room was opened, and Hao Dong walked into the locker room with his coaching staff.

Everyone's eyes were on him, even Zhou Yi, who thought he would not be able to start.

"Alright, put away your pilgrimage mentality. In 10 minutes, the first game of our European tour will begin, right outside on the training ground, with no stands and no spectators, but with Camp Nou behind you. La Masia is very strong, and I don't need to introduce that much...... In fact, none of our teams are weak along the way, they are all stronger than us. But the opponent is strong and that's not a reason for us to give up on trying to win. In every game, I will ask you to go all out to win, and I hope you will remember that more important than winning the game is to have a champion heart that always pursues victory! With this heart, even if you encounter temporary setbacks and failures, victory will eventually belong to you!"

Hao Dong's words were extremely inflammatory, and immediately made the young players' blood boil, and they couldn't wait to go on the court to compete with La Masia immediately.

However, Zhou Yi's performance is different from these people, because he has played against this team in the virtual system FIFAOL I don't know how many times, and these nights when he sleeps, he is basically playing against the opponent they are about to face, and he can even recognize everyone on this team.

He knew that this match was completely unwinnable.

That's why he was very interested in Hao Dong's last sentence, and he didn't know if the head coach was also aware of this, so he finally said, "Even if you suffer temporary setbacks and failures", is this a preventive injection for everyone in advance?

Zhou Yi thought a little too much and a little far, but there was no way, who let him have such an active brain?

The enthusiasm of the young players cooled down slightly when Hao Dong announced the starting list, Guo Nu was very excited, and when he heard that he was not in the starting list, it was like being poured a basin of cold water, and it quickly cooled down.

Zhou Yi's friends Sun Pan and Yang Muge both got the opportunity to start, and roommate He Ying naturally also started.

When everyone left the locker room and reappeared, they found that there were more people around the La Masia training ground, which was still a little deserted, in addition to the members of the film crew and the program team with Chinese faces, there were also some people with unfamiliar faces.

Zhou Yi They don't know who these people are, these people are actually the staff of the La Masia Academy, and they are curious about this special game, and they want to see what the strength of Chinese football teenagers is.

The starters went straight onto the pitch, while the substitutes followed the coaches to the bench on the sidelines, a bench without even a backrest. It's a veritable "bench seat".

Zhou Yi and Guo Nu sat down next to each other - in fact, Guo Nu was unwilling to sit with Zhou Yi, but except for Zhou Yi, no one seemed to want to sit with him......

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Although it is only a warm-up game that is not open to the public, the two sides still deliberately make it very formal, such as the ceremony of exchanging small gifts between the captains of the two sides before the game, guessing the coins and picking the edges, and taking a group photo.

As the captain, He Ying wore the captain's armband and exchanged team flags with the opposing captain.

The captain of Barcelona, Zhou Yi knows - not that he is familiar with this person, but in the FIFAOL world, he has played against him countless times, knows this person's name and ability, and other than that, Zhou Yi actually knows nothing about him.

After all, not all fans will pay attention to the echelon of a club, unless he is a die-hard fan of this team. But it's a pity that Zhou Yi is not a Barcelona fan.

Marc Baltra, captain of Barcelona's Under-17 youth B team, is a defender with outstanding quality.

Seeing Baltra and He Ying shaking hands, the picture that came to Zhou Yi's mind was the picture of Baltra successfully defending He Ying again and again in the FIFAOL world.

I wonder if He Ying's performance in reality will be better......

At least...... Score a goal, right?

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The game started very quickly, and in the early days of the game, because La Masia Youth B did not know enough about the Chinese teenagers, or perhaps because they did not take the opponent seriously, in short, the Chinese team also played a rather threatening attack.

In the end, He Ying grabbed a shot before Baltra, and the football slid out of the goal.

The teammates around Zhou Yi were very excited, and they all jumped up to cheer for He Ying and cheer for their team.

Zhou Yi regretted that He Ying missed such a scoring opportunity, because he was familiar with the La Masia Youth B team and knew that this might be He Ying's last chance to score in this game......

Zhou Yi guessed well, He Ying's kick certainly boosted the morale of the Chinese team, but it also greatly stimulated the players of La Masia's youth B team.

They didn't take this game to heart at first, but now they're all serious.

Xu Tao, the director of the reality show, was also very happy after seeing He Ying's wonderful performance, the Chinese team had such a wonderful performance, why not worry about the ratings of this reality show?

Soon his smile faded.

After La Masia's youth B team began to go all out, the Chinese team quickly felt the pressure.

Just five minutes after Ho's shot went wide, La Masia's youth B team scored.

The man who scored for them, Zhou Yi, was also familiar - Guy Asurin, a fast, sharp little winger.

And this goal was scored in the penalty area after breaking through the defenders of the Chinese team with his speed.

In the face of his shot, although Sun Pan made a save, he was still a little slower.

Sun Pan, who lost the ball, was very annoyed, and he slammed the turf hard.

The teammates around Zhou Yi also sighed, and Zhou Yi still had a calm expression on his face.

It's not that he doesn't regret conceding goals, it's because he's used to it...... In FIFAOL's system, he has seen such a conceded goal I don't know how many times, and that virtual Asurin also scored like this, relying on speed to shake off the opponent, enter the penalty area, and then face the goalkeeper directly.

Sun Pan attacked, and then Asurin made an arc, and the football bypassed Sun Pan's hand and flew into the goal behind him......

La Masia scored, and China conceded a goal.

Even in reality, Sun Pan's performance after losing the ball was the same as in the virtual system, annoyed and unwilling.

Zhou Yi was also annoyed and unwilling at first, but when you lost dozens of games and witnessed more than 100 goals conceded, no one would show the chagrin and unwillingness in your heart.

Zhou Yi knew that this conceded goal was just the beginning......

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Zhou Yi "guessed" right again.

After Assurin's goal, La Masia's youth B team had no intention of stopping, they seemed to be completely enraged by the opening attack of the Chinese team, and wanted to let the Chinese team know the fate of angering them.

And so the goals came one after the other.

In the first half alone, La Masia Youth B has already scored eight goals!

The number 8 on the scoreboard, which represents the score of La Masia's youth B team, is red, almost like it has been smeared with blood, and the undried blood slides down again, pulling out blood stains...... It's dazzling to watch.

The number 0 on the Chinese team's side represents the black color of death.

The Chinese team's bench has been completely silent, they screamed again and again when they first lost the goal, and then only sighs remained, and now, even sighs are gone, and they are as silent as death.

No, it can't be said to be deathly silent.

At least by Zhou Yi's side, there are still some subtle voices coming out.

Zhou Yi heard that next to him, at the position of Guo Nu, there was a low roar similar to that of a beast from the depths of his throat.

He turned his head to look and found Guo Nu gritting his teeth, his hands clenched into fists, staring at the court, looking angry.

"Hey, old Guo. ”

He called softly.

But Guo Nu ignored him.

But Zhou Yi always has a way to move others.

"Do you like losing?" he asked.

Hearing this question, Guo angrily turned his head and glared at him, his eyes as if he was about to kill Zhou Yi.

"You, happy, happy?" he glared at Zhou Yi and said through gritted teeth. There was no stuttering this time, otherwise it would have ruined the atmosphere too much.

"I don't like to lose either. Zhou Yi shook his head and said, "But look, Lao Guo." ”

He pointed to the court.

"Whether you want it or not, whether you want it or not, this is the gap between us and them. It's like going so far from China to Barcelona. I don't want to lose, I just talk about it, it's very simple. But it's hard to do it, and you need the right approach. ”

Guo sneered: "Then you have it?"

"I'm looking. Zhou Yi said.

Guo snorted angrily, taking this as Zhou Yitian's shameless bragging, and decided not to communicate with Zhou Yi, who had an abnormal brain.

Everyone on the bench was frustrated and miserable about the score and the scene, as if he didn't care if the team won or lost.

He has wronged Zhou Yi.

How could Zhou Yi not care?

He wants to win more than anyone else, otherwise how could he have only played against La Masia Youth B all along?

He is indeed looking for a way, in the repeated encounters with this team, to find everyone's weaknesses and test his ideas. If only one out of a hundred ideas is correct, then find the right path through ninety-nine failures.

It sounds stupid, but it's the only way.

When you're faced with a swamp, you don't know if you're going to sink into the mud with that foot, and you know how to get out of the swamp. The only way is to try, one foot at a time, and if you fail, you will turn into bones in the swamp, reminding those who come after you that this place cannot be walked, please detour.

In this way, with the lives of countless people, a path of life can finally be found in the swamp, a path of life that can lead to the later ones out of the land of death.

For Zhou Yi and his teammates, La Masia is like a vast swamp, with no end in sight, no way around, across their westward journey, and if they can't get through, they will die here.

Thankfully, Zhou Yi has a system that can be tested countless times, and he doesn't have to pay the price of his life when he walks in the system, because even if he steps on the air, he can still resurrect himself in the same place with full blood, and then start over.

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PS, I found out that there is another alliance leader today, thank you for the reward from Tianruoshui, yes, I'm back to the starting point!

Because there is one more alliance leader, I will add a new chapter tomorrow, three more!

In addition, I complained that this part of the plot was written about La Masia, and in order to describe what La Masia was like, I found a lot of information, but the most difficult thing was not the two-story building, but La Masia's training ground, that is, the venue where Zhou Yi and them competed.

I want to determine where the field is, what it looks like, and I found that there is no mention in the information, at most it is an artificial grass field, and it is just a piece, but where is it located in La Masia Football School, and what is the location relationship with the Barcelona FC first team training base, I don't know what it is, there is information that La Masia training ground is very close to Camp Nou, but how close is it? Is it a kilometer or a few hundred meters?

I don't know.

If I don't have a specific direction in my head, I always find it difficult to write, so I have to find it myself.

It took nearly a day, more than a dozen web pages opened, Google Maps and Google Earth were used, and finally found the clue in an old photo of the Camp Nou - in fact, the La Masia training ground is next to the Camp Nou, not dozens of meters, and the outer wall of the Camp Nou may be only a dozen meters.

But why can't I find it on the map?

Because the map is a version of the last few years, the place where the La Masia training ground used to be has been turned into a concrete parking lot!

La Masia Football School has also moved from a farmhouse to the new Gamble Sports City in Barcelona, with a dedicated training center called the "Toth Training Center". So the former artificial grass training ground was turned into a parking lot. It's no wonder I can't find it on Google Maps or Google Earth......

However, Zhou Yi and the others went to challenge La Masia in 2008, and at that time, La Masia Football School had not yet moved, and it was still at the old address.

Although it took most of the day and didn't write a word, to be honest, when I checked the final information, I still felt a sense of accomplishment. And I also have a clear idea in my head, and I can finally put pen to paper...... No, it's typing the keyboard.

This is a bit of a tidbit about the writing of this book.

Take up a little bit of everyone's time, nag and nag everyone, if you don't get annoyed, there will be similar tidbits in the future, and I will tell you about it.

Thank you!

Don't forget that tomorrow is the third watch!

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