Champion’s Heart

While Zhou Yi and Mark's family were celebrating their win in the Derby and being promoted to U19, Klopp was looking at the game report given to him by Ricken on his desk.

After signing Zhou Yi, he didn't leave him in the youth team to fend for himself. On the contrary, he has been paying close attention to Zhou Yi's situation. So he knew every time Zhouyi made progress.

He also has no objection to Ricken's decision to directly transfer Zhou Yi from u17 to u19. Now that Zhou Yi has shown such ability, it is only natural to be promoted to a higher team.

Klopp didn't care about Zhou Yi's outstanding performance in the game. What he cared about was a sentence mentioned by Ricken in the game report.

Zhou Yi's physical confrontation ability is too lacking, and he is not strong enough to make him too easy to be entangled by opponents in the game, and he will fall when he hits...

When Zhou Yi first came to U17, his physical fitness was a big problem. He couldn't even meet the most basic requirements for playing, so Klopp arranged for Bartlett to give Zhou Yi a small talk.

Two months of Xiaozao made Zhou Yi improve rapidly in physical fitness.

And now, it seems that Zhou Yi is going to give Zhou Yi a little trouble in terms of muscle strength...

Thinking of this, Klopp turned on the computer and began to write emails to Ricken.

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In the evening, Zhou Yi entered the system, and his team was changed from u17 to u19. This team is much stranger than u17, after all, the teams that played against their Chinese team were mainly u17.

Not counting Mark who was promoted with Zhou Yi, only Gotze and Schneider in this u19 team are people he knows.

other people. He doesn't know them all.

But it doesn't matter. If you don't know it now, it doesn't mean you won't know it in the future.

Zhou Yi didn't care about this.

After training with them for a period of time, they naturally got to know each other.

old rules. After Zhou Yi entered the new team, he first opened the attributes panel of his teammates and checked their attributes one by one.

Among these players, Gotze is still the most prominent one.

Sure enough, he is the man who is going to the first team... Zhou Yi said with emotion.

Look at Schneider again,

It's not bad either. Although not as good as Gotze.

But what Zhou Yi cares about is that Schneider's data in u19 is similar to his data in u17 when he played against Zhou Yi and the others a few months ago. There has not been much change. Some data have increased, but the increase is also very limited. Some data even dropped...

For example, the attribute of stamina dropped by three points.

This really made Zhou Yi a little difficult to understand.

Going to u19, it stands to reason that the training intensity there should be greater than that of u17, and the training level should be higher. After all, going up is the reserve team and the first team. It is the world of adult professional football, and u19s must be prepared for it.

Why are some of Schneider's attributes still declining?

After getting to know all his teammates, Zhou Yi started his first training session with his new teammates.

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When Zhou Yi was just falling asleep, Dortmund U19 coach Peter Yebara received a call from Ricken.

Ricken told him on the phone that starting tomorrow, two U17 players will be promoted to U19.

It is not a special thing for u17 players to be transferred to u19, but what makes Yebara care about is the person transferred.

Who's the guy who transferred to my team? he asked.

Zhou Yihe...

Hear this Chinese name. Yebala frowned: How could it be him?

What. Can't it be him, Peter? Hearing what Yebara said, Rickon felt a little strange.

If I remember correctly, he has only been in the youth team for less than three months?

Yes.

Do you have the ability to play for U19 in such a short period of time?

Peter, haven't you followed the recent U17 games? Ricken asked.

I'm the head coach of the U19s, Russ.

Okay... Rickon said. To put it simply, Zhou Yi performed well in a series of U17 warm-up matches, and also played very well in the just-concluded U17 Ruhr Derby. I think his level has surpassed the level of U17, and he will continue to stay in U17 In terms of competition, it will only help his growth, so he should be allowed to play at a higher level U19.

How was the game this afternoon? Yebara just remembered that today is the U17 Ruhr Derby.

We defeated Schalke 04 2:1. Zhou Yi completed an assist and an indirect assist. Of course, just looking at the statistics, you may not be able to see how good his performance is. If you watched from the sidelines After all the games, I'm sure you'll feel the same way I do.

You are right, Lars, I have to see with my own eyes to know whether he is capable of handling the U19 game. Yebara said, he believes in the principle of hearing is believing, seeing is believing.

You can see him tomorrow, haha! Rickon laughed. By the way, I've sent all the player information to your email, so take a look at it, Peter.

Okay. I'll watch it now, Yebala said.

After finishing the call, he opened his e-mail, and there was indeed an e-mail from Ricken in it.

There are several attachments in the email, the first two are player information.

The first is from Zhou Yi.

Yebara took a look.

The data records Zhou Yi's U17 game data, in addition to the Ruhr Derby, there are even warm-up matches.

The date of the game, the opponent, the playing time, the basic data of assists and goals are all available.

Jebala looked more and more surprised.

Because Zhou Yi has assists in every game, and occasionally a goal.

The number of goals is not many, but the number of assists is scary!

Yebara took a quick scan and found that Zhou Yi assisted more than half of the goals in almost every game.

This kid...is he really that strong?

Regarding Zhouyi, although Yebala is the head coach of U19, he has also heard about it.

After all, he is the first Chinese player since the Dortmund club was established.

So although Zhou Yi is still only in the u17, the coaches of the youth team will eat and chat together, so they naturally know Zhou Yi.

However, Yebala is not very interested in Zhouyi, so his understanding of Zhouyi is limited to knowing that there is such a person, but he doesn't know exactly who this person is. In his heart, this Chinese boy still has a long way to go, he will only stay in U17 for at least one year, and he is still far away from himself as the head coach of U19.

Didn't expect it to be less than three months?

He was about to report to his team!

At first, when he heard the news, Yebala refused. He wondered if something was wrong.

Now that he saw Zhouyi's information, his doubts deepened.

But is it really so powerful? Yebara has his own standards. He doesn't believe in game statistics. He only believes in what he personally observed on the sidelines.

What is the strength of Zhouyi? Don't you know when he comes to his team for training and competition?

Yebala turned off Zhouyi's information, and then remembered that Ricken said two people, so who is the other person?

He opened the second file.

A name came into view: Mark Wagner.

who is this

Looking at the name, Yebara fell into a brief silence, searching for the name in his mind.

But it is impossible for him not to have heard of all the outstanding young people in the Dortmund youth academy. When Schneider was in U17, he paid close attention to this young man, not to mention Gotze...

But who is Mark Wagner?

After thinking for a long time, Yebara gave up. He really couldn't figure out who this Mark Wagner was.

Then look at the data and see what ability he has to be promoted to his team?

It doesn't matter if you don't read this information, just glanced at it, Yebara was dumbfounded why so many goals! ?

The date of the game where he played highly coincides with Zhou Yi.

This information made Yebara frown, as if he realized something. So he reopened Zhouyi's information.

He placed the two documents side by side on the desktop and compared them one by one.

Soon, he let go of the mouse and leaned back on the chair.

As he guessed, Zhou Yi's assist time was exactly the same as Mark Wagner's goal time, with a high degree of overlap.

What does this mean?

It shows that Mark Wagner's goals are basically assisted by Zhou Yi.

He scored 18 goals during the warm-up match, and 16 of these 18 goals were assisted by Zhou Yi.

What does this mean?

Zhou Yi and Mark Wagner have a good relationship?

Mark Wagner has a strong ability to capture fighters?

or something else...

Facing such data, Yebara fell into deep thought.

At this moment, the phone on the table suddenly rang.

Yebala picked it up and saw that it was Ricken, the director of youth training.

Hey Russ, what's up?

Ah, Peter, I forgot one thing... Well, Sasha asked me to help him bring a sentence to you. He said that Mark Wagner and Zhou Yi must be together to perform better. I suggest you not put They take it apart.

Is that all? Yebara asked.

That's right, that's it. In U17, these two are golden partners! Riken laughed.

Okay, I see, I'll seriously consider this.

Yebala put down the phone and muttered to himself: Golden partner...? (To be continued.)