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Chapter 236 The Confusion of Young People
"I'm sorry to tell you that with your current ability, you have not been able to enter my squad. So you will have very little playing time for at least the first half of this season."

Heathfield's words were like a heavy hammer hitting Rong Guang's heart.

He thought of many possibilities, and he would be severely scolded by the head coach.

But he didn't expect such a result.

The ominous premonition in his heart did not become reality, but the reality became more ominous than he thought.

"In order to keep in shape, I plan to arrange for you to participate in the regional league with the reserve team. Although it is an amateur game, there are many professional players who will keep in shape, so..."

What Heathfeld said next, Rong Guang didn't listen at all, he was hit by that "amateur".

Amateur game?

Let me play amateur games?

Let me, a player who won the Copa Libertadores, play amateur games? !

Rong Guang felt that the world had become unreal.

is this real?
Is this something that could really happen?

I transferred to Bayern Munich for 700 million dollars, not to play amateur games!

Rongguang came back to his senses, Heathfield seemed to be still talking, but Rongguang couldn't wait for him to finish speaking, he couldn't wait to make his own voice.

When you decide on my future, can you ask me for my opinion?

"Coach." He interrupted Heathfield aloud. "I know my own problems, my physical ability is not good, my body is not strong enough, I also lose the ball in training and games... But I promise you, in..."

Rong Guang originally wanted to say that it was before the start of the new league season, but when he thought about it, there were only 20 days before the start of the league. If he said that, the coach would definitely not believe it.

So he relaxed the timing a little bit.

"Before September [-]st, I will definitely meet the standard to play in the first team!"

Hitzfeld shook his head: "I believe that with your progress, you will definitely be able to become the main player of Bayern Munich in the future, but..."

Rong Guang repeated what he had just said: "I assure you, coach, I assure you, I can definitely do it! Now, please allow me to go to training."

After speaking, he got up to say goodbye, turned and left the head coach's office.

Heathfield didn't give birth to stay, and didn't say anything, he just watched Rong Guang go out.

After Rong Guang closed the door, he shook his head.

This arrogant kid...

Want to make up for your shortcomings for more than a month?

I'm afraid it's not as easy as you think...

Hitzfeld didn't take Rong Guang's words to heart.

He will still follow his plan.

It is impossible for Rongguang to get too many playing opportunities in Bayern Munich.

The competition in the midfield is so fierce, he has no reason to give a young boy who is not used to European football a chance to play, otherwise what do other midfielders think?
Sauer, Ballack, Ze Roberto, Salihamidzic... What will these big names and veterans think?
From the perspective of the stability of the locker room, it is impossible for him to give Rong Guang any chance to play.

From a purely competitive point of view, Hitzfeld also doesn't believe that a glorious appearance can help the team, he still trusts the old guys more.

Young people, inexperienced, unreliable...

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When Rong Guang came out of the head coach's office, he didn't go back to the locker room, but went directly to the team's gym.He wants to continue the strength training plan given to him by his physical fitness coach.

But at the door of the gym, he met two teammates.

It was the two people he met after his first day at the team, and he later learned that one was Schweinsteiger nicknamed "Little Pig" and the other was Philipp Lahm, both young players around his age.

However, Rong Guang didn't have any deep friendship with them. When he saw the two standing at the door, he nodded at them as a greeting, and then wanted to bypass them and enter the gym.

But he was stopped.

"Ron," Schweinsteiger called.

Rong Guang stopped and looked at him: "What's the matter, Bastian?" Rong Guang didn't belong to him, so he didn't call him "Schwein" like other teammates, just "Little Pig".

"What... what did the head coach ask you to say? I know it's rude to ask, but Philip and I both want to know, because you know, Philip and I are also very worried about our position in the team..." Schweinsteiger explained that he was worried that Rong Guang thought he was here to find fault.

Ram pushed him lightly from behind, which meant that you explained to him so much what to do...

Rong Guang didn't think in the direction that Schweinsteiger was worried about. After being told that by the head coach just now, he always felt angry in his heart and wanted to vent it.

Schweinsteiger's question merely provided him with an opportunity to talk.

So he said exactly what the coach said to him.

Schweinsteiger and Ram on the opposite side were dumbfounded.

"Amateur competition?" Ram was shocked.

Although he also felt that with Rongguang's current performance, it would be difficult to play in the first team, but it would be too ruthless for him to play amateur games directly, right?
"I knew where my problem was, so I told the coach and I promised to meet his requirements before September [-]."

The jaws of the two people on the opposite side almost dropped.

"Are you crazy?!" Ram blurted out, revealing his true thoughts.

"September [-]st? It's only one month and... six days!" Schweinsteiger also believed that this was impossible.

"If I don't want to play amateur games, is there any other way?" Rong Guang asked the two of them.

The two fell silent.

With Rongguang's current ability, there is really no other better way than hard training.

"So I'm going to train, goodbye." Rong Guang waved at them and was about to leave.

Lahm raised his hand and wanted to say goodbye to Rong Guang, but Schweinsteiger stopped him: "Rong, do you know why you conceded goals frequently in today's team games?"

Ram and Rong Guang looked at Schweinsteiger at the same time.Ram was surprised, while Rong Guang was puzzled: "Isn't it my lack of resistance?"

Schweinsteiger shook his head: "That's just one of the reasons, and there is another very important reason, which is that you can't practice in the gym. I haven't watched your game when you played in Sao Paulo, but I can see some of your game habits when you played in Brazil. For example, you don't look at the surrounding environment before you catch the ball, and you don't play without the ball very much. When you don't get the ball, it's like disappearing on the field... These are the conclusions I came to in the afternoon game."

This time it was Rong Guang who was surprised together with Lahm. He opened his mouth wide and looked at Schweinsteiger in a daze.

"The Bundesliga game is faster than Brazil, that's for sure. The defensive players here won't let you stop the ball and come up to press you. Before you catch the ball, they will do everything possible to entangle you. So if you catch the ball and then decide what to do next, it is already too late. You have to be faster than them, not in speed, but in reaction, and in rhythm.

Rong Guang listened to Schweinsteiger's words and suddenly thought of the final of the Copa Libertadores.

In the first leg of the final, didn't Boca Juniors have a player who followed him every step of the way?Wherever he went, he went there, and he didn't let himself catch the ball at all.

Except that his physical confrontation ability was not as good as he felt in the team game in the afternoon, everything else was not weak.

At that time, the game had just started, and I was forced to be very embarrassed by him.

In order to get rid of him, I used all kinds of tricks, ran more than before, and the speed of my feet was faster...

By the way, that's the feeling!
He admitted that what Schweinsteiger said was right. When he played in Brazil, he did not concentrate [-]% on every ball in every game. Sometimes he would relax and slow down.

Even when the opponent is too weak, he will not be able to cheer up.

Judging from his experience of training with the team during this period of time... the rhythm here is indeed much faster!

To play here, you must be prepared to tense up every second of the game, go all out, and concentrate on it.

It will be tiring, but...

Why did you come to Europe?

In addition to making more money here, there is another important reason, isn't the opponent here stronger?
It is my dream to play in such an environment!

Rong Guang hadn't realized this problem before, but when Schweinsteiger said it, he suddenly realized it, and felt a sense of enlightenment.

What he wants to change are concepts and habits.

But Rong Guang has confidence in himself.

In order to be able to play better, what is it to change the concept and good habits?
As Rong Guang thought about it, he realized how much Schweinsteiger had done him a favor.

"That... thank you, Bastian. You helped me so much..."

"Hey, Rong, you can call him 'Little Pig'. We all call him that, aha!" Before Schweinsteiger could speak, Ram beside him said first.

Schweinsteiger glared at Ram.

Rong Guang felt that these two people were quite interesting, so he also said: "You can call me 'rookie', in Brazil, that's what they call me anyway."

"You're actually called 'Rookie'?" Schweinsteiger was very surprised. He thought his nickname "Little Pig" was ugly enough, but he didn't expect someone else to have an even weirder nickname...

Lahm was also surprised that the nickname of the Chinese genius that everyone was talking about turned out to be..."Rookie"!
"That's right, because I've only studied football for a year and a half, so they all think I'm a 'rookie'." Rong Guang didn't feel shy at all when talking about his black history.

"You are all rookies, so what are we..." Schweinsteiger was speechless.

Many years later, when Schweinsteiger, who was already a German international and a famous football star, recalled the conversation between him and Rong Guang, he couldn't help but laugh: "I hated the nickname 'Little Pig' at first, and I thought it was an insult to me personally. But when I met Rong, I found out that his nickname was 'Rookie'! I thought to myself—oh my God, there are still people willing to accept such a nickname! Called 'Little Pig', but I'm not a real pig, right? And Ron is called 'Rookie', but he's not really a 'Rookie' at all... If you are deceived by his nickname, you will be unlucky on the court!"

Ram, who was being interviewed next to him, nodded and said: "'Little Pig' is right, Rong is the most powerful 'rookie' I have ever seen!"

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But now, after Rong Guang had a high-level meeting with them, Lahm was asking Schweinsteiger: "What do you think, little pig? Why do you help and support your competitors?"

Schweinsteiger spread his hands: "We are not competitors."

"Huh?" Ram asked strangely. "Why not again, aren't you all midfielders?"

Schweinsteiger shook his head and said: "I feel like this. I can't catch up with him... I care more about the coach's opinion of us than this. If even Rong wants to play amateur games, what should we do, Philip?"

Ram also frowned: "I have been hesitating before, but now I have made a decision. I want to go out on loan and go to a team that is willing to give me more opportunities to play. How about you, 'Little Pig'?"

Schweinsteiger shook his head painfully: "I...I don't know..."

In a superstar-studded giant team, young players will always have such confusion. No one is a prophet of the future, and it is impossible to know what they will develop in the future.

To stay, or to go out, like Hamlet's "to be or not to be", is really a question...

(End of this chapter)