Hope of the whole village [football]

On the new year, Shen Heng appeared at the door of Staunton's mansion on time.The courtyard door needed Bluetooth sensing, so he called Staunton at the door to say that he had arrived, and then the heavy courtyard door opened, and Shen Heng drove in a Mercedes-Benz.

After getting the call yesterday, he checked it out several times, and it always felt like a dream—he got Staunton's call.Those simple numbers seem to be different from others.

The front yard is huge.There is a green belt in the middle, and there is a rockery on the east side. Water gurgles from the "mountain" and flows into a huge swimming pool.

Shen Heng drove to the entrance of the mansion, pulled over and stopped, and knocked on the door.

It was Staunton himself who opened the door.Shen Heng handed over a bouquet of perfume lilies according to the strategy of "what to bring to a British family for dinner" on the domestic Internet.

Staunton froze for a moment, then raised the corner of his mouth, took it, and said, "Thank you, it's beautiful. I've asked a few 'chariot' teammates to come to the training, otherwise the number would be too small."

"Yeah," Shen Heng said while taking off his shoes, "Okay."

"The dressing room is over there," Staunton said. "Get dressed and go across the living room to meet us in the backyard."

"understood."

After changing his clothes and coming to the backyard, Shen Heng found that there were two midfielders and two defenders coming from the chariot, and they were practicing their skills at the moment.

"Hey! Chinese star!" Someone joked with him.

Shen Heng smiled, waved his hand, did a brief warm-up and trotted to join everyone.

However, Shen Heng soon discovered that their practice was too difficult.

At the beginning, they practiced the technical movements of "stopping the ball, pulling half a circle with the left foot first, then pulling half a circle with the right foot, and passing the ball" in groups of two and two. A few people practiced "Rainbow Extraordinary".

"Cai, rainbow extraordinary?" Shen Heng was dumbfounded, "wouldn't you be slapped in the face?" Because the movements are too flashy, if you use rainbow extraordinary, you will be suspected of playing the other party, which will easily lead to retaliation, and you will be slapped on the head Face.Of course, "retaliation" will get a red card, but the user is also quite dangerous.

"Know all of them." Staunton put his hands on his hips. "If you can, you don't need it. However, sometimes it may be the only way to get rid of the opponent. The more skills you have, the easier it is to surpass others."

"okay."

Shen Heng tried his best to catch the ball and pass others, but he seemed a little clumsy.

For this action, you need to press the ball on the calf of the other leg with your toes, then jump up, bounce the ball with your calf, let the ball fly over the heads of both attackers and defenders, and then catch it. Shen Heng usually has no problem, but in actual combat If you can't do it, either the ball is not far enough to pass, or you have a bad life and can't catch it.

They come one by one, no matter whether they do well or not, they must be replaced immediately, so as not to waste everyone's time.For the entire ten rounds, all the other five people succeeded, and only Shen Heng failed. It was a bit embarrassing to see.

"Heng," someone looked at him pitifully and said, "Otherwise, why don't you do this move? Take a rest first, and then join in the next move?"

Shen Heng shook his head: "I want to continue, can I?"

"Sure..."

Staunton watched from the side, and felt that Shen Heng was really willing to embarrass himself for the sake of raising the ball.

Fortunately, by the eleventh round, Shen Heng succeeded.

He passed the tank defender.

Two or three people applauded him. Shen Heng, with fair skin and a slender neck, smiled shyly.

After practicing a few technical moves, the six started three-on-three, and began to play wicket matches on the Staunton lawn.

Staunton is a forward, and Shen Heng is also a forward, but after 30 minutes of comparison, the number of goals scored by the two of them is six to one, which is a huge difference.

Shen Heng walked back to the center of the "court", lifted his T-shirt and wiped his face, revealing his fair belly: "Well..." It turned out to be six to one.

"Shen Heng." Staunton lifted Shen Heng's chin with one hand, "Look at me."

"...Huh?" Facing the idol's eyes, Shen Heng was a little evasive.

"look at me."

"..." Shen Heng tried hard to look directly at the other party.

"Heng, you know, more than technique," Staunton said, "you need to work on your mentality. You need to be more confident in your shots. You need to put pressure on the defender and put pressure on the goalkeeper."

Shen Heng stared fixedly at Staunton.

"Remember, you're a shooter, you're a killer, you're the one who kills your opponent, kills the game, and you have to send them to hell. You have to be proud and confident, determined, decisive. That Chinese culture One set doesn't work in the arena."

Shen Heng was more shocked than him.

He also knew these truths, but... Staunton even said this with a strong sense of coercion.

Thinking about it again, Staunton was indeed the kind of person he described.When Staunton played single-handedly, the opponent's goalkeeper was very scared, and he lost first psychologically.

In the 30 minutes of the second half, Shen Heng tried to tell himself "I am a shooter" and "I am the role of killing the game and killing the opponent". I felt really better and scored three.

It was one o'clock after practice.There are a total of five bathrooms indoors and outdoors in Staunton's house, and it doesn't take much time to take a shower.Shen Heng blushed when he wiped his whole body with Staunton's big towel.

At 01:30, Shen Heng and five other people finally started the "party".

Shen Heng discovered that the lunch that Staunton used to entertain his teammates was...boiled chicken breast, boiled vegetables, and everything else.

Look at the drinks, er, plain water.

well.

Sure enough, it was Staunton.

"Hehe," said a chariot midfielder, "it's hard, it's hard...Eat this on January [-]st..."

Another defender said: "Isn't this expected a long time ago? Athletes need low-fat, low-sugar, and salt control. Staunton is the most strict I have ever seen."

Shen Heng: "..."

No way, let's eat.

During the dinner, everyone showed curiosity about Shen Heng from China and asked him to talk about his growth experience.

"Okay..." Shen Heng wiped his mouth, put down the tissue, and said, "I used to practice long-distance running, and I started practicing at the age of six. Later, because I liked football, I only wanted to switch to another sport when I was 12 years old. It was too late. But ...My parents strongly objected, and even locked me in the room, saying that if I went to play football, they would not recognize me." Shen Heng remembered that he carried a football every day, and unconsciously slammed his feet with his feet in class. Swipe back and forth with bang bang, causing the teacher to glare.

"Ah?" A Dutchman looked confused, "Why???"

In the Netherlands, almost everyone loves football.A boy's first gift is usually a soccer ball.They are a small European country, but there are more than 3000 football clubs and 121 million registered players, accounting for 7.2% of the total population. Therefore, he couldn't understand what Shen Heng said just now.

"Well...how should I put it..." Shen Heng scratched his forehead, "Chinese people are too angry and disappointed with Chinese football. Chinese football has a bad reputation, and parents must be more worried."

It is said that in competitive sports nowadays, if you win, you will blow it up and you will lose it, but football is not. If you lose, you will be sprayed, and if you win, you will also be sprayed. "Followed by a string of scolding.

In fact, Shen Heng really always felt that he was sorry for his parents - because his parents were always laughed at when he went to play football.

"Hmm... Actually, I don't quite understand it." A German took the time to ask, "Isn't China a billion people? Why this result?"

"It's a bit complicated," Shen Heng explained earnestly, "Although China has 14 billion people,...before 2010, the number of registered players was only a few thousand, not more than 100. About 100 people, while at the same time... Japan has about 2011 million. Since 2014, the Chinese Super League has improved somewhat. In 2018, the number of registered players reached 15 to 14, and in 6 it reached [-] to [-]. Now U[-] and U[-] are still OK." After [-] years, I finally entered the main match of the Asian Junior Championships again. You must know that there are many Asian countries who like to change their age secretly.

"Uh," the German didn't quite understand, "why is there no one playing football?"

"It's also... a bit complicated," Shen Heng continued to explain, "Before 1994, it was administrative sports, called the 'national system', where some seedlings were selected in various places, trained and cultivated intensively, and used 'time' to improve their level. In 1994, football was changed to a market system, with League A and League B. The result of the football reform was that football schools sprung up, but after just three years, some problems were exposed—it was just a market system at that time, and there were not many clubs. Yes, after graduating from school, the students have nowhere to play and nowhere to go. Football schools have closed down one after another. At the same time, the clubs that have just started do not have a youth training system... only two or three have one. Therefore, the national system is gone. Centralized Training no longer exists, and the market system is not sound. From 1997 to 2009, China's youth training collapsed in 12 years. After the "peak" from 1997 to 2001, everything went downhill. That is to say, if it does not rely on naturalization, at least it will There was a gap of 12 years." Shen Heng remembers that in 2001, when he was on the scene when he qualified for the World Cup, Shenyang Wulihe Gymnasium instantly turned into a sea of ​​joy, and the next day's "Sports Weekly" headlined the front page titled "Qualified", and then, The 2004 Asian Cup won the runner-up, and Japan still won the handball. Everyone thought it was the beginning, but who knew it was the peak.

After hearing this, everyone was silent.

"There are many other reasons. First of all, China is still a weak country in sports. Students are under too much pressure in the college entrance examination. There are some elementary school students who learn how to play ball in their spare time. However, after graduating from elementary school, they are forbidden to touch the ball... I used to There was a junior who was very talented and played very well. The teacher begged his parents to think about it, but he was still taken home. China attaches great importance to education, and there is even an old saying, 'Everything is inferior, but reading is high'. It is not European and American. This is a country that respects athletes. In addition, for the sake of fairness, college admissions basically only depend on the results of the college entrance examination, and practice cannot increase the bargaining chip. It even said that the school does not allow students to play football. I even wrote a review. I have played 90 minutes of China. There are very few people. Moreover, social welfare is still improving, and it is risky to engage in sports.” In fact, countries with more people playing football are either countries with relatively complete social welfare like Europe, that is, developed countries , or countries like South America and Africa where higher education is elite, that is, very underdeveloped countries. Pele once said, "In Brazil, playing football is the only way for poor children to escape the slums."Chinese people are getting richer, and fewer and fewer people practice sports.

For those all-people-sports China is always counting on geniuses, individual sports may be fine, but football requires 11 people, and it is simply unrealistic for 11 geniuses to come out at the same time.He can't do it, and neither can anyone else, but if there are 10 himself, 10 current captains, 10 left backs, and 10 right backs...their team's results can't be like this.Football needs athletic talents, and the base is large, so there are many talents.In fact, if a country's football is not good enough, it must basically be because there are not enough people playing football in this country.

They are at that level.Netizens say that whipping every day will improve their grades, but this is not true.

For a long time, people think that Chinese football is a maverick and completely separates Chinese football from China, but in fact, it is a microcosm of many things such as educational concepts.

Many people think that if there is no achievement, it should not exist.However, as the world's number one movement, its significance is more than that. Japan has been emphasizing that "it needs the support of the whole people."Japan's performance was even worse that year, so it focused on cultivating everyone's enthusiasm for its own football. There were also a large number of reports and live broadcasts of elementary school leagues and regional competitions-this is certainly relatively narrow, but it is indeed effective. It is difficult to develop smoothly, but in China, except for the super team, no one cares about other teams and other games.

"Secondly," Shen Heng continued, "the Football Association's policies are changing day and night. For example, it needs to learn from Germany for a while, and the Netherlands for a while... Japan has been learning from Brazil and has been making progress. Various policies emerge in endlessly, but they can be changed every two or three years. Change. The corruption and black calls back then also made 'football' fall into the quagmire."

"Hmm..." Everyone listened carefully.

"Also, because football has a bad reputation, no one dares to choose this path. In addition, the field is very scarce, and a large area of ​​open space has been commercialized... Hey. However, after the failure of the Olympic Games, in 2009, the Football Association brought up the word 'youth training' again , established and perfected the four-level league for elementary, junior, high, high, and high schools. In 2015, it joined forces with the Ministry of Education to promote and popularize campus football. Schools were not allowed to ban football. They also set up teaching content and came up with a bunch of tricks, even strange ones... …Then, in 2010, a large amount of capital entered football, and the club’s youth training camps were gradually improved. Because of the high wages of some star players in the club, parents’ rejection of their children’s learning football has become less. I think it’s getting better Let’s go.” But now, there are too many temptations in the big world, and fewer and fewer people love football, and those who play football on the open ground are often born in the 80s.

After a pause, Shen Heng said bitterly again: "Although, the high wages of some star players in the Chinese Super League made netizens very angry, saying that we are not worthy...I agree, we are really not worthy. But the problem is , We don’t use money to attract talents, what do we use? We have nothing but money.”

After Shen Heng said "We have nothing but money", everyone present fell silent.

"Well," the Dutchman changed the subject and asked Shen Heng again, "Now, how many Chinese players are in the five major European leagues?"

"..." Shen Heng became stuttering, "Just, just me."

"Just you?!" The Dutchman yelled strangely, "Only Miao Miao!!!"

"Hmm..." Shen Heng smiled shyly again, "They call me 'the hope of the whole village'."

"Hahahaha!" Four people burst into laughter, "China is a village? Are you the hope of the whole village?"

"It's just a metaphor."

Hearing this, even Staunton couldn't hold back, and the corners of his lips twitched.

Someone asked: "Then, Heng, are you the best player in China?"

Shen Heng felt embarrassed, but still replied generously: "It's already considered... I didn't have good youth training at that time."

"Hahahaha." Everyone laughed again in good faith.

"Don't talk about this, don't talk about this," Shen Heng felt embarrassed, "Go on to talk about my growth experience? Well, I was on a hunger strike at the time, but my parents didn't eat this! Later, my little uncle was very supportive, and he used ' Convince me' as a reason, take me out of my home, and drive to Beijing xx, a club around Beijing overnight. After trial training, the youth training camp of Beijing xx kept me and wanted to train me. My little uncle went back by himself and said, He has become a player in Beijing."

"Hahahaha!" The Dutchman slapped the table and laughed, "Then your parents are crazy?!"

"Almost...but then the two of them also learned to accept the reality."

Even Staunton was fascinated by these things—in a big football country, it was hard for them to imagine what happened to Shen Heng.

Staunton propped his chin with one hand and asked, "What happened next?"

Shen Heng said: "I... I was old at the time, and my skills were not good, so I was very anxious. The coach said to 'cultivate the sense of the ball'. I didn't know how to cultivate it, so I hugged the football into the bed every night and put it under the blanket. Sleep between your feet."

Staunton's eyes were deep, and he was fascinated by hearing it.

"But..." Shen Heng was completely lost in memory, "My coach is very good, and my level has improved rapidly. Later, because of an accident, as a U12 player, I could only play U13 games. Those kids compete, compete, and under pressure... have made a lot of progress." The height and weight of the 12-year-old and 13-year-old children are quite different, and the strength of confrontation is also quite different. Many young players in Europe deliberately play at a higher age of.

The Dutchman asked: "What accident??"

"Well," Shen Heng played with the water glass with both hands, looking a little emotional, "It was the U12 final of that year, Beijing xx vs. xxxx. In that game, I was fouled by the opponent constantly, and I was almost kicked to death... But the referee But I was indifferent. I carried it hard and finally scored a goal, but it was clearly not offside, but the referee insisted that it was offside, and it was blown off! In the 75th minute of the game, I was even sent off with a red card!"

"And then? You exploded?"

"Well," Shen Heng smiled wryly, "I was crying and yelling: 'You guys are blowing the whistle on a group of 12-year-olds! Let 12-year-olds know it's unfair! Does Chinese football have a future?' Kicking the referee. After that, the Football Association made a decision to ban U12 for a year. The Football Association actually showed mercy...only U12, so I went to participate in U13, and the club also supported it very much.”

His English is actually not good, but because he knew that someone might ask these questions, he prepared in advance.

The table was silent again.Staunton looked at Shen Heng and felt a little shocked.

He could imagine the despair of that 12-year-old kid.

After about 10 seconds, a Frenchman raised his glass and said, "I wish there will be no black whistle in the competition."

Others also raised their cups and bumped into each other.

Shen Heng felt that by sharing his "growth experience", he was accepted by everyone.

He is no longer "disliked".

And after that day, Shen Heng went to Staunton's house to secretly attend several "Parties".He felt quite nervous, worried that his teammates in the Kings would find out that he had "joined the enemy".

However, it has to be said that Shen Heng has improved a lot through intensive training and competition with Staunton.Coupled with the pressure in the league, he has improved visibly.

The king lost the first forward and rose instead of falling in the standings, sneaking to the 10th place.

As for Shen Heng, the relationship with Staunton has gradually become familiar.

The author has something to say: Rainbow is extraordinary, Neymar is used the most and has been beaten.

The specific number of Chinese players is different from several statistics, but it is almost the same.

"Campus football" started in 2015, and the Ministry of Education also got involved, which was difficult before...