legendary midfielder

Chapter 165 Just a substitute player!
Eighteen games, even if the players are unfamiliar, it is enough for each to understand each other and develop a considerable understanding.

Therefore, during the run-in training, Zhang Xu did not have any problems in cooperating with his teammates.

In this regard, apart from being surprised, Camacho is more pleased and trusting.

He already had enough understanding and recognition of Zhang Xu's strength, and now he has every reason to believe that this year's Chinese national football team will surely bloom in his hands.

Just when Camacho was dreaming of leading the Chinese team to achieve one result after another, a voice interrupted his dream: "Mr. Camacho, should we discuss the starting lineup against San Lucano tomorrow?"

The one who spoke was Luo Jingwei, the leader of the national team, who was officially appointed by a certain domestic organization after the anti-crime crackdown.

"Oh, okay!" Camacho nodded, turned around, and followed Luo Jingwei into the office building.

"What? You don't want Zhang to start? Why?" After Camacho put forward his idea, the team leader Luo Jingwei's first idea was to not let Zhang Xu start, which made Camacho a little confused.

"It's like this, Mr. Camacho," Luo Jingwei explained politely and slowly: "You also know that last time Zhang Xu made a fuss in the national team. Although his intentions were good, the national team is the national team after all, and it's not a place where players can do whatever they want. This time, he was recruited into the national team because he has really good abilities and has certain training value. However, we feel that it is necessary to suppress his enthusiasm and let him learn to obey management, otherwise the national team is full of thorns, and we also have problems in management. Trouble, right?"

"Suppress his vigor?" Camacho scoffed at this statement. A player who has lost his vigor, what else is left for him?
"So, what's your suggestion?" Camacho asked with restraint.

The team leader Luo Jingwei didn't seem to see Camacho's face, and said directly: "We recommend that you replace him in the second half! Anyway, San Lucano is not a strong team. Are you still worried that our national team will be scored by the opponent in the first half?"

"What I'm worried about is that if Zhang is not allowed to start, it will create a psychological shadow on him!" Camacho thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

He didn't agree with the team leader Luo Jingwei's absurd point of view, but felt that the opponent in this game was indeed not strong. Letting Zhang Xu play less for a while might help Zhang Xu's physical fitness and also help Zhang Xu's performance in the league.

But how did he know that Zhang Xu didn't care about physical issues at all, he only cared about whether there were more competitions to participate in, so that he could quickly accumulate experience points and attribute points.

After finally reaching an agreement with Camacho, the team leader Luo Jingwei also seemed very happy. He handed the starting list to the deputy team leader next to him, and ordered: "You print out this starting list and stick it on the wall. Tonight, call the team for a mobilization meeting to boost morale!"

Camacho frowned. He didn't like this kind of meeting and mobilization every now and then, but this is a special national condition in China, so he couldn't say much, so he curled his lips and walked out of the office.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, all the national team gathered in the conference room of the training base, including Camacho, who attended the meeting.

"Today, all our members gathered here to hold a mobilization meeting before the Spanish training camp." After the meeting started, the team leader Luo Jingwei began his eloquent speech:
"In order to improve the competitive level of the national team, our country has spent a lot of determination and funds this time to move all our national teams to the training base in Jerez, Spain, to train with many strong European teams and play games with them."

"We must earnestly learn from these European teams, learn their advanced football concepts, learn their excellent football skills, learn their excellent tactical play, etc., as long as it is conducive to improving our national football, we must work hard to learn and learn from it!"

Luo Jingwei spoke a lot of clichés, which made Zhang Xu fall asleep.

If Zheng Zhi hadn't reminded him, Zhang Xu might have fallen asleep lying on the table. Even so, Zhang Xu still propped his head up with his arms, and his eyes were half closed.

After nearly an hour, Luo Jingwei was finally about to end his speech.

"Recently, our national team's record is not good, the national team's international ranking is also falling, and the outside media have also bad-mouthed our national team, etc. In short, the external environment of our national team is already very bad."

"So, this time, we will use a beautiful victory to counter the remarks that are not good for our national team. Do you have the confidence?" Luo Jingwei asked loudly, waving his right arm.

"Yes!" "Yes—" "What? Uh, yes!"

Everyone in the audience answered in a hurry, and there was no momentum in Luo Jingwei's imagination at all. He frowned, slapped the table fiercely, and asked loudly again: "Is this our confidence? Tell me, do you have this confidence?!"

"Yes!!" This time, it was finally a little tidy, and the momentum was passable.

However, Zhang Xu was awakened by Luo Jingwei's slap on the table. He leaned into Zheng Zhi's ear and asked, "What did he just say? What did he say?"

Zheng Zhi could only give a helpless wry smile to Zhang Xu's performance.

"Okay, very good!" Luo Jingwei nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Now, let's proceed to the second agenda of the meeting. Mr. Camacho will be asked to read out the starting list for tomorrow's game! Welcome everyone!"

This time the applause was a bit neat. It seems that many players are still looking forward to this starting list.

Camacho stood up, picked up a piece of printing paper, and read out the list, and the translator next to him translated the names one by one: "Goalkeeper: No. 1 Zeng Cheng, defenders: Zhao Peng, Rong Hao. Forwards: Gao Lin, captain Zheng Zhi! The rest of the players are substitutes. The reading is over."

"Hey, why aren't you on the starting list?" Wang Dalei, who was sitting next to Zhang Xu, turned around and asked Zhang Xu in surprise.

"Really? I really didn't pay much attention to it. Whatever it is, it doesn't matter!" Zhang Xu really didn't listen very carefully just now, he just kept texting and chatting with Nicola.But he doesn't care much about the starting position, as long as he is allowed to play, he will have a chance to get experience points.

"Well, your nerves are really big!" At this moment, even Zheng Zhi couldn't help admiring Zhang Xu's thick lines.

When announcing the starting lineup, team leader Luo Jingwei took a special look at Zhang Xu's expression. To his disappointment, Zhang Xu had a completely indifferent expression.

It seems that if you want to kill this kid's spirit, you still have something to do!
When Luo Jingwei was thinking about how to polish Zhang Xu, the deputy team leader touched his arm, indicating that it was time for him to say something.

Luo Jingwei woke up with a start, and immediately showed an amiable smile, stepped forward, and said loudly: "Okay, Mr. Camacho has announced the starting lineup to everyone just now. I hope that the players who will start tomorrow must cheer up, work hard, play the momentum of our Chinese national team, and play the level of our Chinese national team!"

There was another long and eloquent slogan, and Zhang Xu involuntarily fell into a semi-sleep state.

At 1:15 pm on January 3th, the match between the Chinese national team and San Lucano officially started.

Zhang Xu sat on the bench, chatted with Nicola, and watched the game casually. In fact, he only needed to take a look at it every once in a while. After all, his vision attribute had reached 85 points now!
At the beginning of the game, the national football team was very active, frequently attacking and creating some threatening balls, but in Zhang Xu's view, these looked like a rainbow in the sky, which looked beautiful, but in fact they were just phantoms.

Although the San Lucano team is only a team in Group B of the West Second Division, their defensive level is very obvious, and the strength of the defense is also very good, so the offense of the national football team feels like waves on the rocks every time.

On the contrary, the defense line of the national football team has many problems. If Zhang Xu is on the field, he also needs to use his speed to unite every player in the defense line to form a fairly so-so defense line.

However, Zhang Xu didn't play now, so the entire defense looked loose and full of loopholes, which made Zhang Xu shake his head.It's just that the beautiful offense covered up these loopholes, making it invisible at a glance.

For example, the team leader Luo Jingwei, who was infected by these superficial phenomena, walked excitedly to the sidelines and loudly applauded the team's performance.

Camacho glanced at Luo Jingwei coldly, and then walked to the sidelines, but instead of applauding, he loudly reprimanded the defenders for various problems.

As for the frontcourt, forget it, the defense is not stable, no matter how many goals are scored in the frontcourt, what's the point?Besides, have you scored a goal now?No!

Just when Comrade Luo Jingwei thought that the national football team would score a goal in the next second, the San Lucano team suddenly made an effort!

In the 18th minute of the game, San Lucano launched an attack on the right side. First, he passed the sideline along the side, and then passed to the center. After the players in the center cooperated in two, they suddenly kicked the ball through, directly tearing open the defense of the national football team.

0: 1!

As early as a second before San Lucano's central player passed the ball, Zhang Xu couldn't help standing up. He had already discovered the opponent's intentions and also saw the problems in his own team. He wanted to remind him loudly, but he suddenly remembered that this is not Deportivo and he is not the captain of the team, but just a substitute player!
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