Chinese champion

Chapter 39 The Call of the Country

On October 2000, 10, the small town of Appiano Gentile, Italy.

The small town of Appiano Gentile is located between Milan and Como in Italy. Originally unknown, it is famous all over the world for having the training base of Inter Milan, the first division powerhouse.

In the early morning in the small town of Appiano Gentile, the sun was shining brightly, and the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant. A black-haired young man ran with a ball on the street of the town, and people kept saying hello to him along the way.

"Hi! Pei!" A short black boy greeted him, and this boy also had a ball under his feet.

"Hi! Auba!" It was our protagonist Pei Wei who took the ball. Three years have passed since 1997. Pei Wei is already a 17-year-old youth. His appearance has not changed much, but he has matured a lot. But there was a significant change, about ten centimeters longer, already more than 1.8 meters.

Greeting Pei Wei was Nigerian Obafe MIMARTINS, who is also a member of the Inter Milan youth team. He is the main striker of the youth team. Although he is only 1.7 meters tall, his 11-meter speed has reached an astonishing speed. [-] seconds one, the only player in the youth team faster than Pei Wei.

Martins and Pei Wei came to the Inter Milan youth team in the same batch. During the team test, the two stood together during the 100-meter sprint, and they crossed the finish line almost at the same time. Finally, it was only after computer analysis that they found out that Martins rushed half a step ahead of Pei Wei. After that, the two cherished each other, and soon became good friends, and even lived in the same dormitory.

"Have you heard? Coach Lippi was dismissed yesterday, and the new coach is Italy's under-21 youth team coach Tardelli." Martins said.

Pei Wei nodded. He had already heard about this incident. In the first match of the 2000-2001 Serie A season, Inter Milan lost 0:1 at home to newly promoted Reggina. The club chairman Moratti was furious. In addition, in the "Silver Fox" last year, the belt team only achieved a tie for fourth place with Parma, and only entered the UEFA Champions League this season through the play-offs. It is not surprising that Robert Baggio, who is loved by fans, was dismissed from get out of class.

Pei Wei sighed. He doesn't like Lippi very much. A large part of the reason is that he has always refused to reuse players like Baggio. If Baggio hadn't scored two wonderful goals in the play-offs last year, Inter Milan I am afraid that this year I will be reduced to the dilemma of playing UEFA Cup for a living.

But is it really a wise choice to change the head coach after just one game in the new season?Lippi's success at Juventus is definitely not accidental, and his experience in leading the team is still very rich.

Pei Wei shook his head, he was just a member of the youth team, it was not his turn to worry about such things.

The two talked and talked, and they had already reached the Pinettina base after a while.

There was no one on the training field yet. Pei Wei and Martins changed their jerseys and shoes together and started jogging to warm up.

The number of people on the court gradually increased. Inter Milan has always had the best youth team in Italy, especially this 83-year-old youth team. Last year, they beat their city rival AC Milan to win the Italian Northern Youth League Championship. , several main players in the team have attracted the attention of many teams, such as the main forward, Martins who scored 28 goals last year and won the top scorer, and his partner Altobelli, last year's best player , the midfield engine Pei Wei from China, Rebage known as the "little Giggs", the midfielder Biava, the defender captain Potenza, the new generation of Italian goalkeeper Kodaz, etc., thanks to this A batch of excellent players, their youth team is affectionately called "Italian Spring".

MARIO REBECCHI followed them into the field. He is an optimistic and cheerful young man: "Hi! Auba, Pei! Tomorrow we are going to play against AC Milan's youth team. Do you have the confidence to play again?" Kill them once?"

Martins jumped up: "I only got into one of them last time! This time I'm going to get into two!"

"Hey!" Little Altobelli was dissatisfied: "If you enter two, you must leave one for me, right?"

"Hey!" Martins smiled and looked at Pei Wei: "It depends on how our midfield engine is doing then!"

A whistle sounded, and the playing players separated immediately, and started training under the leadership of the coach.

Ferri (Riccardo · FERRI), a former Inter Milan player and a banner figure in the defense line, served as the coach of the Inter Milan youth team after retiring in 1997.

During the running circle, FABRIZIO BIAVA secretly poked Pei Wei: "Pei, the boss doesn't seem to be very energetic today, what happened?"

Pei Wei peeped over, but no, Fei Li's complexion was like that of an unripe eggplant—green.

Pei Wei shook his head: "I don't know."

Altobelli, who was next to him, came over and said, "I heard that the head seems to have conflicts with Giuseppe Baresi, the head of the youth department. There was a quarrel in the youth department yesterday." His father is Inter Milan's meritorious player, Altobelli, naturally knows more.

Potenza said worriedly: "I hope there is nothing wrong with the head." Ferry treated him very well, he almost treated Ferry as a father, and his growth was inseparable from Ferry's help.

Ferry blew the whistle to terminate the training, and the players gathered in front of him. Ferry said: "Boys, tomorrow our opponent is the AC Milan youth team. They are now the same as us, and they have won three games and three games, so , Tomorrow's game is to determine the ownership of the champion at this stage, do you have confidence!"

"Yes!" The players all shouted.

"Very good," Ferry said with satisfaction, "I will now announce the lineup for tomorrow."

"Goalkeeper, Kodaz, defenders, Pasquala, Potenza, Francini, Lothar, midfielder Biava, left midfielder Rebecci, right midfielder Betty, midfielder Pei Wei, forward Martins, Altobelli."

"It's recovery training in the afternoon, and we'll be waiting for them here tomorrow afternoon!"

After the training in the afternoon, Pei Wei came to the bar in the small town as usual and started working as a waiter.

In the past three years, he has been working as a waiter in this bar, and many customers are both his fans and his God.

It was 10 o'clock in the evening, and the bar began to close. Pei Wei helped the owner, Uncle Scala, close the door of the bar before walking to his dormitory.

Pei Wei dragged his tired legs back to the dormitory, and as soon as he stepped into the door of the dormitory, Martins, who arrived before him, waved a letter to greet him: "Pei! I have your letter, it's from China! "

Pei Wei took the letter: "Thank you, by the way, how do you know it's from China?"

Martins smiled: "I guess, it's been three years since I've been here, besides China, is there any other place for you to write to you?"

"Hehe, what a ghost you are!"

After chatting with Martins, Pei Wei walked into the room and opened the envelope as he walked.

The letter was sent by Zhu Jun and Wu Qi. They lost to the Dalian team in the final last year and finally regained it this year. Pei Wei is sincerely happy for them. At the same time, there is another news in the letter. Zhong Yan, Yao Le, and Zhao Lin were all selected for this year's national youth team. Except for the six-man Dalian team, the Hubei team had the most players selected. He Jin was also appointed as the head coach of this team. After easily defeating three teams in April, they successfully entered the top ten competition held in Iran in November, and the top three entered the finals of the World Youth Championship held in Argentina next year.

At the end of the letter, I asked Pei Wei if it was possible to come back to join the national youth team. Coach He Jin very much hoped that he could return to China to play. The competition will start on November 11. If Pei Wei is willing to come back, the Chinese Football Association will immediately send a letter to Inter Milan. Request, He Jin's e-mail address is also written below, so that he can reply as soon as possible.

For Pei Wei, representing China in the competition is the greatest honor, not to mention that he has been away from China for three years, and he really misses these friends very much.

He thought for a while, and ran to the dormitory of Altobelli Jr., where there was the only laptop computer for the youth team.

He borrowed a computer and sent an e-mail to He Jin with his newly applied mailbox. First of all, he expressed his willingness to join the National Youth Team, and he would definitely obey the call of the country. He also asked how to communicate with the National Youth Team. Some things about team rendezvous.

He Jin quickly replied to his email. It seems that he has been watching Pei Wei's news by his computer. He first praised Pei Wei's spirit of playing for the country, and then told him that the National Youth Team is going to play in November. Arrived in Tehran ahead of schedule on the 11th, and hoped that Pei Wei could arrive around the 8th, so that he could practice together with his teammates and adapt to the venue.

After talking about all this, Pei Wei returned to his dormitory. He slept soundly that night. In his dream, he met Zhu Jun and Wu Qi again. Wu Qi was still so dark, and Zhu Jun was still so short... …

(End of this chapter)