Football giants

Chapter 817 Football Genius
It's almost training time.

Players of the U15 youth team walked out of the training building one after another.

But different from the past, today there is a row of people standing beside the U15 training ground, outside the barbed wire fence.

Judging by their appearance and size, one of the two leaders should be the head coach of the football school, Mr. Xu.

"Who is that person next to Mr. Xu?"

"I don't know, it's too far away, I can't see clearly!"

"Could it be a high-level guide?"

"No, Director Gao won't wear this kind of clothes."

"Is that General Fan?"

"How is it possible? General Fan is so thin?

"Could it be Xie Qianfeng?"

"Tch, Xie Qianfeng is taller than him."

"Don't make wild guesses. Judging by his appearance, he may be from an investment company."

"Hey, I've also heard that Mr. Xu plans to sell the team, will he even sell the football school?"

"Yeah, it's quite worrying. If this football school is sold, where are we going?"

"Don't worry about it. Even if they really sell the football school, they can still close the school? Besides, if you are really good and strong, where can you not play football?"

"Oh, Wang Lei, of course you can say that. Everyone knows you are Xiao Zheng Zhi, and there are professional teams looking at you. Where are you going to play football? But we are different from you!"

This group of teenagers from the U15 team walked into the training ground talking and laughing along the way.

Mr. Xu was born in the army and has always been strict in running the army. He also adopted a tough militarized management of the football school.

Therefore, as soon as this group of young players entered the training ground, all of them were very conscious and began to warm up.

But there were also quite a few people who raised their heads and glanced outside the arena from time to time, and the more they looked, the more they felt that the person standing on the sidelines looked familiar, and they whispered to each other from time to time, guessing who it was.

Yang Huan stood outside the barbed wire, watching the players warming up on the training ground from a distance.

He noticed a very interesting phenomenon almost at the first glance.

Among this group of U15s, there is a short and thin one.

Perhaps many people don't know that when playing football, physical fitness always comes first.

This is true even in youth teams.

The kind of player who falls down at the first hit, no matter how good his skills are, it is impossible to become a talent.

The most typical is Messi.

Messi suffered a lot of injuries when he debuted in his early years, and even a lot of people thought that if he continued to play like this, it would be impossible for Messi to become a talent. However, it turned out that Messi also changed his playing style and strengthened his physical fitness. Only then did he become the current superstar.

Those who can become a professional player, even if they look very thin, have much stronger physical fitness than normal people.

This short and thin player caught Yang Huan's attention at the first hit.

But what really surprised Yang Huan was his bouncing after the warm-up, and the subsequent slalom.

During the ball-jumping training, seeing his various tricks and various difficult moves, it can be seen that he has a very good sense of the ball, but this is not too outstanding.

What really caught Yang Huan's eyes was dribbling the ball around the pile.

Despite his small stature, he has fast explosive power, quite flexible body and strong balance ability.

Other players usually need to adjust the piles, and some even twist their bodies around, which is very awkward and embarrassing.

But what about him?

It's like flowing clouds and flowing water, done in one go, almost every step is just right, so after a trip, it still seems to be very easy to do, compared with other teammates around, it has a feeling of standing out from the crowd.

"Old Xu, what's the name of that little man in yellow?" Yang Huan couldn't help but asked.

Mr. Xu chuckled, as if to say, you kid can't help asking questions at last, right?
"He, Gao Ren, is only 12 years old."

"12 years old?" Yang Huan was a little surprised.

Is this 12-year-old kid going to kick a 15-year-old's age group, right?

You must know that children in this age group grow the fastest, and sometimes they are one year behind, which is a big deal.

"Although this kid was born in Longhai, his parents are migrant workers. He had no time to take care of him when he was a child, so he picked up a peeling football thrown away by others on the side of the road and gave it to him. As a result, this kid has been playing with that football since he was a child."

"I heard that at first, he was shooting with his hands. Later, some fans passing by told him that it was football and he had to kick it with his feet. As a result, this kid started playing football at the age of four and has been playing it ever since."

Yang Huan also felt that this was really interesting.

From childhood to adulthood, football is a toy, and you play with it every day. What kind of feeling is that?

"Two years ago, a friend of mine who was an amateur referee happened to go to their school to whistle for an inter-school friendly match between elementary schools. I happened to see this kid, ten years old, in the third grade, starting with a group of sixth-grade students."

Yang Huan couldn't help laughing when he heard this, he could completely imagine what kind of weird scene it was.

You know, in the sixth grade of elementary school, if the body grows faster, it will already be close to the height of an adult.

Looking at this kid's current appearance, one can imagine how short he was two years ago.

"But do you know? In that game, this kid scored more than a dozen goals by himself. Scoring goals is like playing games. There is no way for others to grab the ball from his feet. They can only keep fouling!"

Speaking of this, Mr. Xu chuckled, "Fortunately, my friend saw it and thought it was good. He took care of him a little bit when he was at the whistle, and sent off two opposing players with red cards. He told me the news immediately after the game."

"As soon as I heard it, I rushed over immediately. After watching one of his training sessions, I immediately went to his parents and dug them over."

Yang Huan couldn't help nodding his head. He could tell that this kid was indeed quite good.

Yang Huan is not a professional scout, but he also watches a lot of football. If he still can't see the outstanding advantages of this kid named Gao Ren, it will be a waste of watching football for so many years.

"This kid is born with left and right feet, so he is an excellent material for playing football. I have been here for two years, and I have sculpted him for two years. I let him get rid of the messy technical movements and some bad habits of playing football, and solidified his basic skills."

"In the past, he was thinner and smaller than he is now. When he came to me, the food was good, and his body grew fast. In the past six months, I transferred him to U15. At first, he didn't quite adapt, but now..."

When Mr. Xu said this, he shook his head and let out a long sigh, "In my opinion, at his rate of improvement, within half a year, my U15 here will not be enough for him!"

Yang Huan listened silently, but there was a huge wave in his heart.

Who said there are no football geniuses in China?
Isn't Gao Ren in front of him a football genius?

It is entirely conceivable that if Gao Ren hadn't met Mr. Xu's referee friend and Mr. Xu, what would he have done?
It's very simple, study, take exams, enter a higher school, and gradually stop playing football!
"Master Huan, I have been running this football school for more than ten years, and I have just produced such a good seed. I dare not say anything else. With my whole life of football experience, I can assure you that if this kid is cultivated well and plays in the European professional league, there will be no problem at all. Even if he is cultivated, I..."

At the end of Xu's speech, he kept shaking his head, obviously he couldn't imagine it himself.

"Master Huan, you know the football environment in this country. It's not a place to train people, but I can't satisfy him here anymore. So, I invite you here this time, just to see if you can play football in Southampton? Can you receive the most professional and advanced training in the best youth training camp in Europe?"

Yang Huan nodded, "I understand, Mr. Xu."

After thinking about it, Yang Huan said again: "Let me make a phone call first."

Mr. Xu also knows that the bigger the club, the more formal it is in terms of talent selection.

Like Southampton, the investment in every youth training player is quite large, so the standards and requirements for talent selection are naturally high.

It's not that Yang Huan, as the boss, can't force someone into the youth training camp, but it's unnecessary.

It's better to let professional scouts come and take a look, it's nothing.

Just recently, Southampton's chief scout Ramon Madoni and youth training director Jorge Bernardo Griffa are both in Longhai, and it would be perfect for them to check in person.

After Yang Huan finished making the phone call and walked back to the training ground, the training session had already started.

Although it is a training session for the U15 youth team, the intensity is not weak at all.

In the past, when Director Xu served as the first-line head coach in China, his emphasis was on siege.

But now, in the past few years, he has always requested to pass on the transmission, and it can be said that he is always following the trend of the times.

Regardless of the gap in player quality, Xu Lao's philosophy is still quite up to date.

And don't look at this group of U15 youth teams, but their running ability and tactical execution ability are not weak at all, which made Yang Huan nod from the sidelines.

This should be regarded as the best youth training team in China!
"Old Xu, have these players been playing together for many years?" Yang Huan asked with a smile.

Just looking at the tacit understanding when playing football, it is not difficult to see that these players have trained together and grown up together.

Elder Xu didn't deny it either, nodded and said, "Yes, it's been quite a few years. The one who has been with me the longest must have been there for six or seven years, and the one with the shortest time is that Gao Ren. They are all good seedlings!"

In the past few years, he has invested a lot of effort in this group of players, and these people are his hope.

Although Yang Huan can understand and be considerate, after all, the current domestic environment is indeed not conducive to the growth of young players, but Yang Huan is still quite unimpressed by Xu Lao's practice of keeping players together in captivity.

However, he also admires Xu Lao's heart and his heartfelt love for Chinese football and players.

As a football player, he should know better than anyone else that if a player like Gao Ren is kept by his side, cultivated properly, and given time, he will definitely be able to sell for a good price in China, even a sky-high price.

But considering the player's future, he realized that the football school could not satisfy Gao Ren, and he didn't want to delay the player's future, so he took the initiative to find Yang Huan and introduced Gao Ren to Southampton.

With such a heart, who would dare not admire him?
How many people can do it?

"Old Xu, I've found our Southampton's chief scout, and he'll be here soon, can you make some arrangements?"

"Of course!" Mr. Xu immediately agreed.

Just at this time, the coaches on the training ground looked over, and Mr. Xu beckoned him to come over.

As soon as the coach came over, he immediately saw Yang Huan.

As soon as he heard that it was Master Huan who came to see the performance of these young players, the coach immediately nodded hurriedly and agreed to postpone the match.

When he returned to the training ground, the players on the field immediately became overwhelmed when the news that Master Jiang Huan came to watch the game came out.

These days, whoever plays football in China doesn't know Master Huan?

Young people love to dream, who doesn't want to perform better, be picked up by Master Huan, and go directly to the Premier League?
It's so cool to think about playing football with superstars such as Hazard, Suarez, Toni Kroos and so on!
Ever since, all the young players on the court had exhausted their strength and planned to do a big job in the internal competition.

This also made Mr. Xu very helpless on the sidelines.

As a last resort, I can only come forward in person and discipline this group of brats well.

If not, if the big guy kicks his back on his back later on the court, his old face will be completely ashamed.

On the contrary, it was Yang Huan, standing on the sidelines, listening to Mr. Xu training the players, and he was like Ferguson's hair dryer!
(End of this chapter)