Champion’s Heart

For the match against Arsenal, Liang Qiqi sat on the bench again.

In fact, this is no surprise. Ever since Hao Dong announced Zhou Yi as the core of the team, Liang Qiqi should have understood that he was reduced to a substitute.

In the team, there are not as many people around him as before, which makes him very disappointed.

Also very unwilling.

He can't accept this reality, but now he can only wait, waiting for his opportunity, just like Zhou Yi was waiting for the opportunity.

Liang Qiqi knew that Zhou Yi's physical fitness was not good, so this kid would definitely not be able to persist in continuous high-intensity competitions.

And the outstanding performance on the court needs to be supported by physical fitness. He didn't believe that Zhou Yi could show any decent performance when he couldn't even run.

When Zhou Yi's physical fitness is not good or his performance is not good, that is his chance!

This time, I want to take back everything I lost!

The main position, and others' attention to oneself!

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The strength of Arsenal's under-17 youth team is also outstanding. In English football, Arsenal's youth training has always been very famous, and they have also trained many stars who are now playing in professional football.

Wenger, the head coach of Arsenal, is also known for his emphasis on youth training and his willingness to give young players opportunities.

Arsenal's first team has many young players who have been promoted from the youth academy.

Some of these young players have already played the main force in the first team, and some usually train with the first team. In the League Cup or less important leagues, they will get the opportunity to start or come off the bench, and most of the time they follow the youth team. Participate in the competition.

So it is not appropriate to say that these people are pure youth team players. In fact, they are already youth team players with first-team capabilities.

Today, these players also appeared in the game against the Chinese teenagers.

For example, the front midfielder Jack Wilshere, such as the midfielder Francis Cockerlin, such as the striker Gilles Sunu.

These three are all players who have signed professional contracts, but because the first team is overcrowded, they cannot guarantee a stable playing time in the first team, so they still play with the youth team most of the time.

Coklin made his first professional league appearance in Arsenal's home game against Sheffield United some time ago, when he came off the bench to help the team beat Sheffield United 6-0.

And Wilshere started in that game and scored a goal.

Jack Wilshere has been considered to be the core figure who can lead the England team in the future, and his talent has excited the entire English media and fans.

Some people compare him to Cesc Fabregas. Cesc Fabregas, who is now the captain of Arsenal, is a midfielder. He was sixteen when he represented the first team for the first time, and Wilshere was also sixteen.

When Arsenal fans think that the future Arsenal midfield is composed of Cesc Fabregas and Wilshere, they think this picture is so beautiful...

It stands to reason that the Arsenal youth team with such a strong lineup should completely control the rhythm at their feet from the beginning of the game, and then quickly resolve the battle, making the rest of the time into garbage time.

Standing on the sidelines of the youth team's training ground, wearing a peaked cap, Tim Kiester thinks so.

This is the first time he has watched this group of Chinese teenagers play. He believes that based on the results of the past few games, the strength of this Chinese team should not be so strong. It is normal for them to lose to Arsenal. The suspense is only Just lose a few goals.

As for the game against the Dortmund youth team... Kist chose to forget.

But when the game started, Kester found that the situation was not quite what he had imagined.

When the Arsenal youth army led by Wilshere faced the Chinese teenagers,

did not have the absolute upper hand.

On the contrary, in the midfield, the situation is still somewhat deadlocked...

Kester didn’t need to find out which Chinese boy on the pitch was Zhou Yi, the football would draw his attention there—when the Chinese team was in possession of the ball, other Chinese players would basically pass the football to the same person.

The player wearing the No. 16 jersey of the Chinese team is Zhou Yi, the target of his observation.

At first glance, Zhou Yi's passing is very plain and simple, there are no dazzling fancy passes, such as rubbing an arc with the outside instep, bypassing three defensive players, accurately sending it to the feet of teammates, or passing out A long pass from 40 meters away from the ground, like a scalpel, drilled through the two defensive players who tackled the tackle, and sent it to the striker's feet...

Such a pass, fifteen minutes after the start of the game, Kist did not see a single kick.

He just runs, catches, passes, runs, catches, passes.

Many passes are short-distance passes of about five to ten meters, which are not difficult and have almost no technical content.

But of course Kistor, a scout who has read countless people, would not think that Zhou Yi is a parallel importer.

He quickly saw meaning in these unremarkable passes.

He squinted his eyes and carefully observed every move and pass and catch of Zhou Yi. He found that all Zhou Yi's actions on the court were not as understated as he showed, and naturally it was not accidental.

His every move seems to be calculated carefully, always running into the open to catch the ball, so that when he catches the ball, he is basically uninterrupted.

He ran, received and passed the ball like this, and he was able to make the Chinese team draw with the Arsenal youth team in the midfield. Fifteen minutes into the game, the Arsenal youth team hadn't scored yet! Judging from the midfield, the two sides are evenly matched!

Kist somewhat understood why Klopp was interested in this kid.

This is a Harvey player!

In Barcelona, ​​Xavi has always been a quiet but very important figure. In the eyes of many people, he may not be as popular as the Brazilian Ronaldinho, nor as dazzling as the Argentine genius Messi, but those who really understand what it means to play Barcelona football will understand Xavi's role in that team. value.

In the early days when Rijkaard coached Barcelona, ​​Harvey's main position was not stable, and his role in the team was not as important as Deco and Ronaldinho.

But in the late period of Rijkaard's coaching, Harvey's role became more and more obvious.

Now that Guardiola, who also came from the La Masia system, is coaching the first team of Barcelona, ​​the importance of Harvey is immediately highlighted.

He is already the core of the team's well-deserved midfielder.

With the cooperation of Iniesta, Butzquez and Messi, Harvey organized Barcelona's midfield in an orderly manner.

This discovery surprised Kist a little.

Based on his understanding of the level of Chinese football, he really did not expect such a different player among Chinese players.

Which club in China does he play for?

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It wasn't just Dortmund scout Tim Kiester who was surprised, but also Arsenal youth director Liam Brady, who was watching from the sidelines.

He was originally on the sidelines to watch the game out of courtesy to the Chinese guests.

But after only watching for ten minutes, he became more focused.

Of course, he wasn't looking at Wilshere. He already knew the current Arsenal youth team very well. He was familiar with the positions each kid was good at and the technical characteristics.

His eyes locked on No. 16 of the Chinese team.

Although in the ten minutes of the game, Zhou Yi hadn't passed any ball that could threaten Arsenal's goal.

But as a coach who has been training youth football for more than ten years, this is purely a football sense.

He saw some tricks in every movement of Zhou Yi.

I thought it was just a game of walking around, but I didn't expect to have a new discovery now. But Brady did not immediately draw any conclusions.

He still needs more observations. In his working career, he has seen countless gifted children, some of whom are as talented as the scorching sun, making it impossible to look directly at. But in the end, these people all fell, and they didn't even wait for the chance to shine.

Just because a kid is talented doesn't mean he has the ability to make a name for himself in professional football.

Brady remained calm and continued to observe Zhouyi.

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In addition to Dortmund's scouts and Arsenal's youth training director, the more surprised person is probably Jack Wilshere on the pitch.

Originally participating in this competition, he didn't take it too seriously.

For him, this is just a remedy to keep the game in shape after he was not selected for the first-team squad.

Since participating in a series of warm-up matches with the team's first team this summer and having performed well, Wilshere has set his goal to gain a firm foothold in the first team and become a real player. Gunner.

After starting and scoring against Sheffield United in the league, his mind was basically not on the youth team. He believes that in today's youth team competitions, his strength is outstanding and he cannot find an opponent.

For him, the youth team competition has no meaning for him to improve himself. He still wants to go to a bigger stage and challenge stronger opponents.

When he first knew that he was not selected for the first team squad for this game, he was still a little disappointed, and his mood was not very high. Naturally, it was impossible to concentrate on this youth team game.

But fifteen minutes later, he found that this youth team game was a little different from the past.

Before the game, I heard that this is a youth team from China, and it was a recording session of a reality TV show. All Arsenal youth players, including him, felt that this game must be very good. It's solved, maybe after the game, they won't even get wet with their jerseys.

But now the goal they thought would come easily was late and there was no telling when it would come.

Wilshere is already feeling the pressure.

In the beginning, he didn't pay attention to the opponent, but now when he started to pay attention to the opponent, he found that in his territory - the midfield area, he seemed to have met the opponent...

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