legendary player [football]

54 national team tour

The car drove through a large oak forest, and finally arrived at the gate of the Clairefontaine training base.It looks very, very low-key, that is, there is a blue sign at the door. In addition to welcome to the Clairefontaine French National Football Center, there are rows of sponsor logos, Nike, Volkswagen, Carrefour, KFC, Coca-Cola, everything you need for food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Entering the gate of the base, there is still an oak forest inside.I didn't see many people, but I saw a lot of animals along the way.The little things don't seem to be afraid of the cars that occasionally pass by them. It's time to take a walk or climb a tree. Everyone lives in peace and harmony.

Clairefontaine is known as the cradle of French football. The training base is not only for the French national team to train here, but also for teams of all ages to train here. There is even a football school in it, which is the famous French football school. Lefontaine National Football Academy, commonly known as the French Football School.Many superstars have come out here: Henry, Trezeguet, Anelka, Ben Arfa

In addition to the sculpture of the Hercules Cup, the landmark building in the base must be the castle of the French national team.Although ordinary training grounds can be provided for other teams to come here for training and competition, and are even open to the public, the castle and exclusive training grounds of the French national team are prohibited from entering except for the national team members and related staff.

Since Leo entered the base, it seems that everyone knows him and knows that his father is Zidane. When everyone walks past them, they will kindly call out "Hi, little Zidane, welcome. return."

This is no nonsense, he was selected into the French u19 national youth team last year.Although the training team came wave after wave, but the staff is fixed, can people not recognize him?

Although Leo doesn't really like people calling him that, but every time he hears Mini Luo's grandma calling him Ronaldo Jr. or his dad calling him crj, he feels relieved. It's just a title anyway, let them go Bar.

Every wall of the castle of the national team is covered with large and small photo frames, black and white, colorful, collective and individual. But when Leo walked into the hall, he saw the picture of the French team winning the World Cup in 1998. time group photo.Zidane stood in the very center of the crowd, holding the Hercules Cup high above his head, and his teammates snuggled up beside him, each with a gold medal around his neck, and a happy smile on his face.

Leo stood in front of this picture, trying to search for the fragments in his memory.However, he was only over two years old that year, and he seemed to be unable to remember anything except the label "Dad is crazy with joy".

Suddenly a hand was placed on his shoulder, and someone said to him in Spanish in his ear: "One day, we will also lift the Hercules Cup with our own hands."

This person is naturally Griezmann next to him.

"We are together." On the other side of Leo, another voice said in Spanish.

He turned his head, and stood beside Varane who had approached at some point.

Leo nodded and said one word: "Okay."

Then the three looked at each other and smiled, seeing in each other's eyes the infinite hopes and expectations for the future.

The three weirdos stood in the castle of the French national team, speaking in Spanish that they would win the World Cup for the French team in the future.A slightly mature voice behind said: "It's nice to be young, you can definitely do it."

The three people turned their heads, and the person behind him had a more mature face than his voice and age. He was the defender Mathieu from Barcelona.

The 32-year-old left back was once known as the "poor man's version" of David Luiz. He was once a very lethal left-wing wing of the Bat Corps. Later, as he grew older, he transferred to his good partner Alba , Mathieu's position gradually retreated to the left back.

Mathieu has a stable personality, silent and introverted. In Barcelona, ​​where big names gather but each has a different personality, he seems to have always played a diligent "blue-collar" role.When he transferred from Valencia to Barcelona, ​​Barcelona fans even played slogans like "Mathieu is 102 years old" to mock the honest Frenchman.

Mathieu was about to turn 31 that year, and Barcelona had to spend 2000 million euros to buy a not-so-famous and young defender from Valencia to come back. Everyone from the club's top management to the die-hard fans felt a little bit pained.

The transfer negotiations have been going back and forth for a long time. If it weren't for his own strong will and reasoning, and finally had to cut his salary to facilitate this transfer transaction, he would not have the opportunity to stand here today.It was precisely because of his outstanding performance after joining Barcelona that the French left-back, who had passed his age, received signs from the national team for the first time not long after.

Back then, the 31-year-old Mathieu was still eager to pursue a higher level of competition and glory regardless of salary and pension. This spirit and ambition is quite worth learning for a fledgling young man like Leo.

He greeted the opponent very politely, Mathieu smiled and said: "Do you still remember the last goal of your La Liga debut?"

Leo nodded: "I will never forget it."

"Your speed is too fast, I can't stop you, so I have to resort to tactical fouls."

It was the 6th round of this round of La Liga. Granada, which had lost 5 games in a row, challenged Barcelona, ​​which had won 5 games in a row.Granada was slammed by the Barcelona second team in the whole game, but Leo scored 20 goals in the last 3 minutes, and finally achieved a reversal.And the last goal was Mathieu's tactical foul on Leo. Marx made an indirect free kick and Leo scored with a header.

Barcelona have always been proud of their "beautiful football" and believe that their tikitaka tactics are invincible in the world.The entire back line is organized into a system of defense. Everyone performs their own duties, stands in their own position, and does their part well. They never specially arrange manpower to mark the opponent's players.Even Ronaldo has never had this kind of treatment, but it was only Leo who made his debut in La Liga that made Enrique at the time make the decision to send two generals Alba and Mathieu to guard a midfielder.

I have to say that if Enrique hadn't been flustered by Leo's 2 goals at that time, he must have been afraid of the Zidane family from the bottom of his heart.The two had pinched each other on the court when they were players, and now they are both the head coaches of Real Madrid and Barcelona. It is uncertain how to tear up in the national derby.

Near noon, the national team members of this training camp arrived in Clairefontaine one after another. After a simple greeting in the hall, they went back to their rooms for a short rest.

When Leo was welcomed into the room by the staff, the other party deliberately said: "The great No. 10 lived in this room all the time. I hope you can achieve the same achievements as your father."

"Thank you"

After the staff left, Leo simply packed the things in the backpack, and then he was free to sit on the chair by the window and rest for a while.He habitually took out his phone and looked at it, only to realize that it hadn't turned on until after he got off the plane.

Then he suddenly remembered that he had received a text message from Ronaldo before. He turned on the phone in a hurry, and looked at the text message just now: "This is the real reason why you returned to Madrid."

The reason appears to be that picture of him on the plane with Griezmann.

However, he didn't return to Madrid because he made an appointment to go to Paris with Griezmann, but he came to Paris with Griezmann because he was going back to Madrid.

Leo realized a very serious problem, the president's tone looked bad enough, and then he didn't reply to his text message after 4 hours, and didn't explain to him immediately.

release

Leo hurriedly dialed the phone, but no one answered for a long time.He looked at the time and the training should have ended long ago, and tried calling twice, but still no one answered, he was almost sure that the master did it on purpose.

He wanted to send a text message to explain, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be nothing to explain. It was not the first time that he and Griezmann had a selfie posted online by the other party, and naturally it would not be the last one. There will be with other teammates, if it is difficult to take a picture and explain it again, wouldn't he be exhausted.

The key point is that Leo neglected the most important point. The reason why the president was angry was why he returned to Madrid, not who he took a photo with.Griezmann's ins reads clearly: "I made an appointment with my friends."

Just as he was hesitating whether to send a text message to Ronaldo, the door rang.He put down his phone and went to open the door. There was a tall man standing outside. Not only was he astonishingly tall, he was also very strong. He looked like a strong man standing at the door.Beard on the angular face

This is Arsenal striker Giroud, holding a box in his hand.Smiled to Leo: "I live next door to you."

Leo let him into the house, and Giroud opened the box in his hand and handed it to Leo: "I made my own snacks, and I'll give them to everyone to try."

It's hard to imagine that a tall, 30-year-old man who is famous for his physical strength on the court is a big man in the Premier League. His hobby outside the court is baking, and he claims to be a master of desserts.I have to say that the French national team is really full of talents. There is a striker who loves to make desserts and a midfielder who loves to eat desserts.

Leo really likes his hobby so much, and just glanced at the snacks in the box, he concluded that he and others will become good teammates. He took a piece of cookie and put it in his mouth. It was crispy and delicate, and the rich milk fragrance filled his lips and teeth In an instant, I felt that the first trip to the national team was wonderful.

Jirou saw him staring at the box in his hand, with a wolf-like light in his eyes, and simply pushed the box over: "It's not much anyway, and it's not enough for everyone, so I'll give it all to you."

Leo said on the one hand: "Then why are you embarrassed?" He held the box and refused to let go.

Oh my god, this son of Qi Zu's family is so interesting

I had lunch at the restaurant at noon, and Leo stayed with Griezmann and Varane all the time. The former and him are two good friends who speak Spanish better than French, and the latter can be regarded as his Teammates from Real Madrid.

In fact, through a simple lunch, you can roughly see some interesting phenomena. It is understandable that players who play in major leagues are closer, after all, they are more familiar.Black players get closer to black players, white players get closer to white players, native players get closer to native players, immigrant players get closer to immigrant players

But this is just a phenomenon, not absolute.Pogba is the top player in the family, and everyone wants to get closer to him, it depends on whether he is willing or not.Griezmann has a good face and a good personality, a standard French lover, and a hot frontman recently, so he is naturally likable.

French football and even the French economy rely on immigrants to dominate the world. To put it bluntly, Zidane is also a descendant of Algerian immigrants, and Algeria's 23-man squad for the World Cup all have French nationality.When Leo chose the national team to represent, there were three countries that could choose France, Spain, and Algeria.

In fact, apart from being born in Bordeaux, France, he has little relationship with this country. His father is a descendant of immigrants, and his mother is a pure Spanish girl.When he was less than one year old, he went to Turin because of Zidane's transfer to Juventus. When he was 4 years old, he settled in Madrid with his parents.So when he was 15 years old, he represented the Spanish U16 national youth team. Although his father always said that it was up to him to decide which national team he wanted to represent, Leo knew that Zidane hoped that he could represent the French team. of.Because there is still a feeling and an unfulfilled dream.

Therefore, his understanding of French football is far inferior to his understanding of Spanish football, which belong to two completely different styles of football systems.Western-style football is more about team awareness, while French football is more about individual ability.Leo himself is naturally more inclined to the former. He never thinks that football is a sport that can win games by fighting alone.Before coming here, he expected that he might have some discomfort at first, but his father was able to integrate into the La Liga team from a French player with excellent personal skills, so he must be able to play in this Renren team. Both have found their place in a highly skilled team.

During the lunch break at noon, he called Ronaldo again, but the other party still didn't answer for some unknown reason.Deschamps had to hold a meeting for everyone in the afternoon, so he didn't bother anymore. He threw his phone aside and lay down on the bed to take a nap.

In fact, as long as he knows more about his idol, he should know that once the mental age of some people falls back to 3 years old, they will have a bad temper like a girl in first love.Even when Marcelo praised Messi in an interview, he would be angry with others for a long time, not to mention that the little fan made an appointment with his cousin's No. 7 to fly there without his knowledge In Paris, she is also happily taking selfies and posting on ins, daring to provoke the CEO's possessiveness, it's like death