Chapter 10: Thomas Crote
Dongda pulled back a goal, and the momentum was in full swing, so it continued to strengthen the offensive.
But Dongda's offense is too single, Ringer, the fullback, is actually the only starting point of Dongda's offense, Yingqing University can become a strong team of Japanese universities, and their head coach is not a vegetarian, so he quickly saw through this and arranged for someone to strictly guard against Ringer.
After 45 minutes of running back and forth in the first half, and just after another quick sprint, Ringer finally realized that his stamina was not enough, and only 8 points of stamina was completely insufficient in 90 minutes.
In the stands, the middle-aged man just now asked the Japanese next to him, "Did you ask clearly?" ”
'The other party is a student from China, he has not signed with any clubs, and he used to be a goalkeeper and only recently moved to full-back. The Japanese told what they had learned.
"Chinese?" When the middle-aged man heard this, his eyes lit up obviously.
On the pitch, the game was going on, and Ringer was too tired to do it right now. This is also something that can't be helped, he has always been a goalkeeper before, and now he has only turned to defender, his own physical strength is weak, he has been playing wild ball before, he did not realize the importance of physical strength, so he only added 2 points of physical strength, and the current physical strength is only 8, he feels that he is about to be unable to support it.
"You have to save your energy, otherwise you won't be able to run until the game is over." Ringer thought: "Anyway, save some energy and see if you have a chance to equalize the score." ”
In the 80th minute of the game, Dongda was still a goal behind, at this time Ringer was also a little silent, and the students of Dongda in the stands also fell silent, Ringer was the brightest person in this performance, Ringer had no choice, then this game may still be difficult to change the fate of losing.
At this time, Ringer was trying to figure out a way, and the opponent was very careful to defend his breakthrough on the wing, which was no longer working.
Switching to the middle lane?
Yes, do it when you think of it.
In the 82nd minute, as soon as Ringer got the ball on the side, there seemed to be an invisible defensive net in front of him, and Ringer did not come hard, and returned the ball to the central defender again.
After returning the ball, Ringer immediately ran to the middle, he had just communicated with the central defender, and the opponent would make a wall collision with him. Sure enough, the ball was passed back in front of him, and this time Ringer didn't go any further to the side, but accelerated to the middle of the road.
"Lin Jun, here you go again!"
"Come on, rush, Lin Sang!"
Thanks to Noriko's shouting in the second half, Ringer's surname has spread, and many people know his surname Lin and are cheering for him.
Ringer strode the ball and quickly shook off the defence and passed through midfield to the edge of the opposition penalty area. At this time, there are defenders in the opponent's penalty area, and the person who has just been passed behind him is chasing back.
Ringer only thought about it a little, the person who was chasing back had already come to his side not far away, Ringer knew that he could not delay any longer, adjusted his feet slightly, raised his right foot, and used all his strength to pump the ball at once.
"Lin Jun's long-range shot!"
As soon as the pursuer saw that he was about to shoot from a distance, he directly put the shovel, and Ringer just shot the football out, and then he was tackled to the ground by the opponent. Ringer didn't care about anything else, and even when he fell to the ground, his eyes kept following the ball, just in time to see the ball cross the arc and smash into the right post of the goal.
Bang!
The ball then bounced into the goal.
"Todai, win! Todai, victory! There were cheers from the sidelines.
To be honest, it was Ringer's first goal in a varsity game, and he had been a goalkeeper before, so he didn't have anything to do with the goal. Watching the goal fly into the goal, Ringer felt as if a stream of blood rose from his right foot to the top of his head, which made his whole body boil, and he wanted to roar loudly, want to look up to the sky and roar, but before he could make any movements, his teammates rushed over and hugged him and cheered.
In this way, Ringer scored the first goal in history in an official match of his football career, and he was surrounded by a group of teammates who could not make any gestures of celebration.
The final result of this game was also 2:2, Ringer passed and shot, and then he would be strictly guarded wherever he ran, and at the same time his physical strength was exhausted, and others failed to stand up, and East Nature failed to win this game.
However, this game has always been remembered by many people, appearing in football newspapers and sports programs many times. Everyone in the room witnessed Ringer's first goal, and they became witnesses to history, and the game appeared in the memoirs of many.
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After the draw against the mighty University of Okeong, Ringer went back to his old ways, attending classes every day and attending games on weekends. He was fixed at left-back, even if he defended poorly.
This is the norm in Japanese football, and most of the players produced are good at attacking rather than defending, and the same is true for full-backs, who only need to be good at assists, and it doesn't matter if they don't defend enough. This is the case with Ringer at left-back, who is not good defensively but has a strong ability to assist.
Over the next month, the University played three games, with one win, one draw and one loss, but Ringer did well and had to score or assist in every game.
At this time, Ringer also unexpectedly received a trial invitation from a professional club, and he did not expect that the local club in Tokyo, Tokyo Green, a football club in the J2 League, would notice him so soon. But thinking about it, as a local club in Tokyo, it is normal for Tokyo Greenery to pay attention to him first.
Ringer was considering whether to accept the trial invitation when suddenly a foreigner approached him.
"Hello, Lin, nice to meet you." The other party was a white man in his forties and fifties, with distinctly Germanic characteristics, and spoke in English. Not only does the entrance examination require Japanese to pass the test, but also the English score is required, Ringer's English is not bad, and you can hear that the other party is speaking British English.
Ringer was wondering what the other party was looking for him, and the other party spoke first: "I'm Thomas Crot, a professional football agent, as far as I know, you don't have an agent, so I hope to be your agent." ”
Ringer is even more strange, he only told the fat man about wanting to become a professional player, and the others don't know, how can someone come to the door to recommend himself as an agent?
"I have my own agency in Dortmund, Germany, with more than 100 European players such as German international Manuel Neuer, in addition to Europe, Japan is also my main business area, I have a long-term office in Asia, and currently have Asian players such as Shinji Kagawa, Keisuke Honda, Makoto Hasebe, Yuto Nagatomo, Shinji Okazaki, Son Heungmin, and Jung Dae-se. If you want to become a professional footballer and want to play in Europe, I can help you. ”
Listening to the other party's self-introduction, Ringer remembered who this guy was.
In his previous life, Ringer knew that there was such a character, but he just didn't remember the other person's name. Krot is a former German professional footballer who also selected for the German national team in his career, but he has not achieved much in his career due to injuries. Late in his career, Krot played for Cologne, where he met Yasuhiko Okutera, the first Japanese player to land in Europe, and has been associated with Japanese football ever since.
In the mid-90s, the Japanese J-League entered the golden era, and many old European players came to Japan to pan for gold. Krot's agency was not large, but it quickly established contact with most of the J-League teams, and after the end of the J-League golden era and other European agents broke ties with Japan, Krott took a different approach and started the job of running Japanese players to play in Europe.
Since 02, there have been 13 Japanese players who have landed in the Bundesliga, all of whom are from Krot's agency, especially the great success of Shinji Kagawa, which has made Krot's agency famous, and many clubs are willing to deal with Krot. After all, Dortmund bought a midfield core for 350,000 euros, which made many European clubs that tightened the monetary system quite angry, and Arsenal, which has a bank deposit of 70 million, also signed Japanese players, not to scratch the lottery.
It has to be said that Thomas Krott is an important contributor to the large-scale landing of Japanese players in Europe.