champion godfather

Chapter 716 Volume [-] The distance between Crimson's dream and reality
It has been seven months since he came to the distant UK from China, and Chen Jian gradually got used to life in this distant country.In an environment where English is everywhere, his language progressed very quickly, but his academic progress at the University of Nottingham was slow.

It's not that he doesn't want to study well, but that he is too tired.

During the initial period, the landlord Fatty John’s family was used to seeing this dark-skinned Chinese boy dragging his exhausted body back home after the training, and then went back to his room to practice English hard after eating. If there is training, he will go to Wilford early the next morning. If there is no training, he will take a car to the University of Nottingham to attend classes.

Simple days repeat like this.He seldom and almost never goes shopping in the city center, nor does he go to any park to relax and play, except that sometimes John gets extra tickets and asks him to go to the City Stadium to watch a Forest team game together, a stadium with the legendary hero Robin Hood To him the city was nothing but three places, "Wilford Training Ground," "The University of Nottingham," and "Mr. John's House," and the roads between them.

Such difficult days have only gradually improved recently, and there is no problem with English listening and speaking skills.He can now communicate fluently with the landlord's family at the dinner table, listening to John talk about Nottingham Forest's proud past.

His body has also adapted to the training plan of the youth team, and he has shown his usual qualities in training-strength and hard work.

But he still felt very tired.Not only because the training intensity is particularly high, but also because of psychological reasons...

Chen Jian has developed the habit of writing a diary every day since he came to the UK.His original intention is - this is a precious life experience, and he does not want this experience to be gradually forgotten in the journey of life as time goes by, so he wants to use words to describe the details of training and learning in Nottingham Every drop is recorded.

Looking back at the previous diary now, following the crooked words, he would recall every day of these seven months.In fact, he felt that even if he didn’t write a diary, these seven months, and even the remaining five months in the future, would not be easily erased from his memory. Soreness is as real and clear as it gets.

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"Chen! Can't you run? Can't you?" Greenwood, the head coach of the youth team, leaned down and almost bit Chen Jian's ear with his open mouth. Chen Jian yelled loudly in English, regardless of whether Chen Jian could understand or not. "If you can't, you can go home now! No one here will keep you! No one here has any hope for you! You are the lucky one selected by the commercial draft! Do you really think you are lucky? Stand Get up! Keep practicing! You still have [-] back and forth runs with the ball! Don't delay my dinner time, this is the most ordinary youth team training!"

Chen Jian couldn't understand what coach Greenwood was yelling, although this coach always had such a loud voice during training.But he knew that the British coach must be dissatisfied with him - he has never seen anyone who would lie in your ear with a grim face and praise you.

He stood up from the ground, staggered and continued to run forward with the ball, ran a few steps, staggered and fell to the ground.But this time Greenwood didn't wait to rush forward to play "Roaring Tianzun", he got up and continued on his own.

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"Are you lacking calcium all over your body or have you had polio since childhood? Chen! You can't stand such a little collision, why do you play football? Are you a chick? You secretly stuffed sanitary napkins in your underwear, is yours here?! Get up, Go on! What are you hiding! This is not fucking football, this is war! If you can’t win the fight, die for me, and those who run away will die with me if they don’t die on the battlefield! If you are so afraid of getting hurt, I I can recommend you to train with ten-year-olds! Do you Chinese all have this virtue? Confrontation! Confrontation! How many times do you want me to say it?! Confrontation!!”

Chen Jian could already more or less understand the meaning of the series of chants from the youth team's loud coach.He didn't refute loudly, nor did he throw his hands away, but got up from the hand, then screamed and rushed towards his opponent, and then knocked the opposing player to the ground with a foul action.

The young man who was knocked down by Chen Jian let out an exaggerated yell, lying on the ground and not wanting to get up.

"James, if you continue to lie on the ground and pretend to be lazy, I will punish you to run ten laps with the ball!" Greenwood fell into the muzzle this time, and rushed to the ear of the moaning boy lying on the ground and roared.The opponent immediately jumped up from the ground obediently. Of course, he didn't forget to punch Chen Jian in the chest: "You should vent your strength just now to the head coach, hey!"

The youth team players who were watching the excitement all burst into laughter.Greenwood also applauded Chen Jian: "Although there is a foul, the defensive players have to get used to using fouls to stop the opponent. Moreover, this momentum is very good... Also, don't yell 'ahhh' next time, it's too much Silly."

The laughter grew louder.

Chen Jian wrote in his diary: "...I still can't fully understand it, but I think Coach Greenwood should have praised me. This is the first time he has praised me in three months... England's professional football , It really is different from the ones I heard in China..."

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"Chen, you have to pay attention to the position of the opponent's offensive player! You chase the ball, what kind of ball are you chasing? Do you think your physical strength is really good? This is not your football draft. Your physical strength can be used in professional games. You can’t even hold on for half the time. Did you train here with the goal of professional competition? If it’s not you, just pretend I didn’t say it..."

"Of course, Coach Greenwood. But George Wood..."

"You want to say that his physical strength is very good, right? Yes, his physical strength is very, very good. But he is a monster. Are you a monster? Are you George Wood?"

Chen Jian shook his head.

"Then listen carefully! Your body may be considered strong in your country..."

"No, it's not considered strong, Coach Greenwood..."

"Don't cut me off! Well, since it's not strong in your country, it's not strong here. You can't always think about physical defense, I don't know some idiot told you that, defense It depends on the body. In fact, the body is just a talent, but people can't always live by talent. You need to learn to observe and analyze every movement of the offensive players, and then judge what they will do next, and prepare yourself in advance. It’s a prediction, do you understand the prediction?”

"I think... I understand, Coach Greenwood."

Greenwood pointed to his head: "If you think football is a sport based on the body, you are wrong, Chen. Football is actually a sport full of wisdom. Idiots and fools will not have any future here. Your body is not considered strong, but there is no rule that only strong people are qualified to be defenders and midfielders. You have to learn to use your brain and wisdom to defend, find the next move of the offensive players and their weaknesses, and then make targeted The countermeasures. Your speed and the agility of the Orientals are your characteristics, and you must work hard on them..."

Chen Jian nodded vigorously: "I see. Coach Greenwood, thank you for your teaching."

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"Chen! I told you to use your brain to play football, and I didn't tell you not to run! Where are you standing stupidly defending? Vegetables can calmly pass you, a wooden pile!"

"Tackling! Be decisive... Look, you put him in the box. What are you going to do next? Give the opponent a penalty? Foul? What are you afraid of? Free kick or penalty, which one do you choose? "

"Forward, forward! Don't stand still after passing the ball, run forward from a diagonal direction... If you don't run, how can your teammate pass the ball to you, and his other passing routes are blocked. Only you never Only by plugging in behind can he create a passing line for him. Don’t think that passing the ball is something that the ball holder only considers. It requires the cooperation of his side and the whole team to create a passing line! Play standing up It is absolutely not allowed here!"

"Chen, do you know what your biggest problem is? It's not a body that is thinner than the British, nor is it a solid foundation. Those can be improved through continuous exercise and practice. Your biggest problem is here. Brain, wisdom , Awareness. It’s football awareness! Playing football on the field is completely different from watching football in the stands. Don’t think that you have a good football awareness if you don’t come down to play yourself. I don’t know what’s going on! You have to learn to observe and analyze the situation on the field... Isn’t your English improving very quickly? Why can’t you use this intelligence to cultivate football awareness?”

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Chen Jian can still think of many things like this.He discovered that the original praise turned out to be the only affirmation of his efforts by the youth team coach Greenwood in the past seven months.At other times, it is all about picking his faults. When he thinks that he has done a good job in this aspect, Greenwood can definitely find more problems from other places.

Many times Chen Jian wondered if he was actually not suitable for playing football...it was simply a mistake-making machine.Even the most basic running will be considered by Coach Greenwood as having a problem with his running posture, which affects his speed and explosive power... But he has been running like this since he was a child, and he has been running for 18 years, and he has never seen anyone say to him, "Hey, buddy. There's something wrong with your running posture."

He admitted that he had thought about a lot of messy things before coming here, including what vocational training in the UK should look like, but he never thought that it would be so harsh and unbearable.If he made a slight mistake, the sharp whistle and Greenwood's loud voice immediately appeared in his ears.

Can't refute, can't explain.A mistake is a mistake, and I can only say "Yes, Coach Greenwood. I will definitely not make a mistake next time!" The reason is very simple, because he is from China, a country with extremely backward football standards, and anyone in his youth team His peers are better than him and know more than him.In the sport of "football", he, a Chinese, has no right to speak.

During the seven months in the youth team, in addition to undergoing unimaginably intense training, he also had to undergo a mental test-any effort would almost be ruthlessly rejected, and absolutely don't expect to be able to play in the United States. After stopping a long pass, the coach gave him an appreciative look, or after successfully cutting off the opponent's dribble, he was appreciated and applauded by his teammates... Those scenes that appeared in football YY novels never happened Chen Jian was confirmed.Why?Because coaches and teammates will think that what you do is an ordinary thing. Should a football player complacently expect praise and rewards for completing his job?
What happened to Chen Jian at the training ground would never tell his parents or those fans and classmates who cared about him in China, nor would he tell the landlord John's family.No matter what kind of treatment and difficulties he encountered, there is only one thing that has never changed, and that is to always keep smiling, even if it is a bit reluctant to keep smiling.He didn't want to frown when faced with difficulties, giving the impression that he couldn't handle it.

Thanks to him always smiling, the relationship between his teammates and him is quite harmonious, and there is no situation of crowding him out.Perhaps it also has something to do with those teammates knowing that this kid is just a product of a commercial draft, and it is impossible to compete with them here, and he is not a competitor at all.

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Sometimes Chen Jian would call his two companions in Bolton and Everton to ask how they were doing.Whether it is Wang Yang in Bolton or Song Hui in Everton, their situation seems to be much better than their own.The training content is the same as everyone else's. They didn't receive any special treatment but they were not abused either. After passing a training session, they would receive enthusiastic praise from the coaches. Their training intensity and training environment were nothing like Chen Jian's "hell" compared to.

When they heard what happened to Chen Jian, they were very surprised.Wang Yang even asked him directly if he offended the coach of the youth team, or that coach hated the Chinese very much?

Chen Jian firmly said that it was impossible.

Wang Yang curled his lips and said that you boy might have provoked others in some small details, and he didn't realize it.

Chen Jian thought for a while this time and still shook his head and said it was impossible.

Song Hui was very concerned about Chen Jian's training situation. After hearing Chen Jian's introduction, he didn't say anything for a long time. When Chen Jian thought the phone was disconnected and planned to hang up, he said quietly: "It's completely two worlds..."

Although the training is easier than Chen Jian, and the people around them are more kind, Wang Yang and Song Hui have basically given up their "dream" of staying in the UK after one year.After seeing the level of English football, they called the previous "dream" a "daydream".They know their level, and they also know that neither Bolton nor Everton have any interest in the two of them.To put it bluntly, the previous commercial show is only because they represent the Chinese market.

After figuring this out, people can't raise their fighting spirit. It's like a fool to work hard after knowing that you have been eliminated in advance.

"I have learned a lot in one year. Even if I can't stay in the UK in the end...ah, I definitely won't. I won't regret this year." Six months before the one-year deadline , Wang Yang has already begun to characterize his experience this year. "Anyway, I'm here, and I'm much luckier with those who were eliminated early and didn't even have the qualifications to come here to see. I don't think I can ask for anything more."

"The gap is really too big. Before I came here, I had fantasies—maybe I was the protagonist of those YY novels about football on the Internet? I only realized what I was after I came here? Compared with others, I was worse... a billion Light years. The level of Chinese football is indeed backward, it is backward in all aspects. It is not just the level of the system, players and coaches..." Song Hui shook his head and sighed, a little frustrated. "Hey, the only gain is that my English level has improved... Even if I study in the UK in the future, I don't need to go to a language school first."

The performance of these two people is completely different from the smugness they had before they came. The reality is cruel, and their dreams have woken up.

Only Chen Jian is still persisting, still dreaming.He is not arrogant, nor is he delusional.He just felt that even if it was a game he knew he was going to lose, he still had to persist until the final whistle.It's not his style to give up early, not since he was eliminated in the first audition for "Football Boy".

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After Chen Jian once again completed the training plan specially designated by Greenwood for him, he returned to the locker room.The players of the youth team were still changing clothes, and everyone seemed very excited.This made him a little curious.

A black man in the team danced and explained to him:

"Coach Greenwood said that the head coach, boss, and boss of the first team will come to the youth team to watch the training match tomorrow!"

Chen Jian knows what it means to these people.If you perform well, you may be transferred to the reserve team and be eligible to participate in official competitions.A better performance in the reserve team can lead to promotion to the first team, play in the league, maybe get a place in the European Cup after the winter transfer period, and then shine and become famous - all young people do this dream?Everyone thinks they will be the most special, the most prominent, the most different, the best.

For young players who have been training hard for many years, this is a dream moment and an opportunity to determine their own destiny.

But what does this have to do with me?Chen Jian wished the enthusiastic black boy good luck in English, and then went to the shower room to wash himself stinky and sweaty.

There are still five months away from the dream, and up to now he can't see the road ahead, and he doesn't know whether the thing in the dream is really waiting for him in front of him.But he still has to keep running, even if he stumbles and loses energy, he still has to run.

Because he really didn't know what else he could do besides running forward.

(End of this chapter)