Football Superstar Training System

Chapter 17 Maybe he's a genius?
In the first-team training base outside the Berlin Olympic Stadium, 44 winter training players are undergoing regular training. The head coach Babel is watching from the sidelines. From time to time, he will make mistakes to some players, and occasionally he will go to the side of the young players to communicate with them. This is the third day of winter training. Babel also got to know all the players outside the first team in this way.

In addition to the coaching staff and logistics staff on the sidelines, some Hertha Berlin team reporters were also there. The club's first public training after the winter break was their first-hand information about the team's status and the outstanding young players selected by the echelon. This is also the top priority for the reporters to report.Of course, the club also hopes to use reporters to show fans the team's ambition to continue to advance for the second half of the season, so that every fan who cares about the team can see the club's determination to return to the top German league.

As the only oriental face in the entire team, Lin Tian's existence naturally attracted the curiosity of off-court reporters.

"Hey buddy, do you know where that Asian player is from?"

"Korean or Japanese?"

"Which echelon did you play in before?"

"..."

The topic about Lin Tian caused the reporters on the sidelines to ask each other.

Fortunately, not all the reporters were ignorant. After a small number of people learned about the situation, all the reporters present knew that the young player of the Hertha Berlin U19 youth team from China was a striker in the team, and his name was Lin Tian. As for other details, they were completely unclear.However, they have at least reached a consensus to focus on Lin Tian's next performance. After all, the reports on Chinese players are very gimmicky.

The morning training will end after the players are divided into groups to grab the ball in the middle circle, and the afternoon training will start after the players have a lunch break.

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"Okay, got it, thank you for the news, Hossina, I will be there right away." Yang Jie hung up the phone of his reporter friend in Berlin, and then took his own equipment to go to the Hertha Berlin club.

"A Chinese player from the Hertha Berlin youth team? Lin Tian? Why doesn't anyone know about these things?" As a reporter in Germany for a major domestic football newspaper, Yang Jie himself had never heard any news about Lin Tian before.

"Forget it, go and see for yourself. Maybe I'm the first reporter in China to pay attention to him. If he is capable, then the reports on him will definitely attract the attention of domestic fans, which is also a good thing for me." Yang Jie made up his mind while driving to the training base of the Hertha Berlin first team.

About half an hour later, Yang Jie arrived at a coffee shop outside the Berlin Olympic Stadium. He and Hosina made an appointment to meet here. When they entered the coffee shop, Hosina waved to him from a seat by the window. Yang Jie ordered a cup of coffee and went straight to Hosina and sat down at the seat opposite him.

"Yang, long time no see." Hosina smiled.

"Long time no see, Hosina." Yang Jie also smiled at his friend, and then continued: "Can you tell me about the Chinese player from Hertha Berlin?"

Hossina took a sip of coffee and proudly said to Yang Jie: "Yang, I have a friend who is a staff member of Hertha Berlin. He told me that Lin Tian is a genuine Chinese who studied at Humboldt University in Berlin. He was spotted by the director of youth training Zork, and then he entered the winter training list because of his outstanding performance in the German U19 Youth League."

"Well, it's good to be Chinese, if you want to have the ability, otherwise you won't be selected to train with the first team." Yang Jie gave his own opinion.

"However, I think it will be difficult for him to stay in the first team. Coach Babel already has as many as seven strikers. It will be very difficult for Lin Tian to replace any of them. After all, the gap between the first team and the youth team lies there." Hosina is not optimistic about Lin Tian, ​​and he analyzes it very straightforwardly to his friend.

Yang Jie frowned. Although Hosina's words made him feel a little contemptuous of Chinese players, his analysis was very reasonable, which also made Yang Jie calm down after the initial excitement.

However, as a Chinese, Yang Jie still decided to defend his compatriots: "Winter training has only started now, and everything is hard to say. It is not up to the two of us whether we can enter the first team. How about Lin Tian's strength, these are still unknown. Maybe he is a genius?"

"Yang, I understand what you mean, but I don't agree with your evaluation. You know, I love China very much, and I have many Chinese friends, but none of this can change my view of Chinese football. Chinese football is currently a football desert. You can't deny this fact. Although from the current point of view, China has begun to pay attention to the development of football, I still don't think there will be any inspirational stories about the rise of football geniuses in the next few years." Hosina shrugged, not afraid to hit Yang Jie.

Hossina's comments seem realistic and pertinent to Yang Jie. He hits the nail on the head with the current situation of Chinese football, but Yang Jie has his own views on whether Chinese players are talented.

"Hosina, do you think there are no talented players among the Chinese?" Yang Jie looked at his friend sitting opposite him.

Hosina nodded and said: "At least not so far, isn't it? Maybe you can give me some examples of players you think are, and I know what you want to say, but, Yang, did they kick out in the end? No, since they didn't, then are they still geniuses? Stories about the fall of geniuses who became famous at a young age abound all over the world, and we get used to it after seeing them too much. Of course, you and I should understand that many of them became 'geniuses' with our help."

"Hosina, I know what it means. There are indeed a lot of 'geniuses' exaggerated by the media in our country. They didn't reach the so-called 'superstar' standard in the end, but I still think that my motherland has real talented players. There are so many children in China. How could there not be one or two talented children among them?" Yang Jie retorted.

"Oh, where are they? Yang, take me to see." Hosina joked to Yang Jie.

"There is no shortage of geniuses in China, what is lacking is the environment to cultivate them!" Yang Jie said firmly, and changed the subject by the way.

(End of this chapter)