Godfather Of Champions

Seven months have passed since China came to Britain, and Chen Jian has gradually become accustomed to life in this remote country. With English everywhere, his language progressed very fast, but his studies at the University of Nottingham progressed slowly.

It's not that he doesn't want to study well, but that he is too tired.

In the first period of time, the landlord Fatty John’s family has become accustomed to seeing this somewhat dark-skinned Chinese guy dragging his exhausted body back home after the training, and returning to his room to practice English after eating. The next morning, if there is training, he will go to Vilford, if there is no training, he will go to the University of Nottingham by car.

Simple days repeat like this. He seldom never goes shopping in the city center, nor does he go to any park to relax and play, except that sometimes John gets extra tickets and asks him to go to the City Stadium to watch the forest team game, a legendary hero Robin Hood. For him, the city is just three places: "Villeford Training Base", "University of Nottingham" and "Mr. John's Home" and the road between them.

Such hard days have only slowly improved recently, and there is no problem with English listening and expression skills. He can now communicate smoothly with the landlord's family at the dinner table, listening to John talk about the proud past of Nottingham Forest.

His body has also adapted to the training plan of the youth team, and he has shown his usual qualities in training-toughness and hard work.

But he still felt very tired. Not only because the training intensity is particularly high, but also because of psychological reasons...

Chen Jian has developed the habit of writing a diary every day since he came to England. His original intention was-this is a precious life experience, he does not want this experience to be gradually forgotten in the journey of life with the passage of time, so he wants to use the situation of words to learn the bits and pieces of training and learning in Nottingham Di are recorded.

Looking back at the previous diary now, with the skewed text, he would recall every day of the seven months. In fact, he felt that even if he didn’t write a diary, the seven months, or even the remaining five months, would not be easily erased from his memory. It was too deep and too strong, just like the body after training every day. The soreness is as real and clear.

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"Chen! Can't you run anymore? Can't you stop?" The youth team coach Greenwood fell down, his open mouth almost bit Chen Jian's ear, and he fell to the ground with tiredness. Chen Jian yelled in English, regardless of whether Chen Jian could understand or not. "If you can't, you can go home now! No one here will keep you! No one here has any hope for you! You are the lucky one selected by the commercial draft! Do you really think you are lucky? Get up! Keep practicing! You still have 20 dribbling back runs! Don't delay my dinner time, this is the most ordinary youth team training!"

Chen Jian did not understand what coach Greenwood was yelling at, although the coach always had such a loud voice during training. But he knew that the English coach must be dissatisfied with him-never seen anyone sneered in your ears and praised you.

He stood up from the ground, swayed and ran forward with the ball, ran a few steps and staggered and fell to the ground. But instead of waiting for Greenwood to continue rushing to play the role of "Roaring Heavenly Sovereign", he got up and continued on his own.

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"Are you calcium-deficient or poliomyelitis since childhood? Chen! Can't stand such a collision, so what kind of football do you still play? Are you a chick? You have a sanitary napkin secretly stuffed in your underwear, are you here?! Get up, get up, Go on! What are you hiding! This is not a **** football, this is a war! If you can't win, you will die for me, and those who run away will not die on the battlefield and die with me! If you are so afraid of injury, I I can recommend you to train with a ten-year-old child! Are you Chinese all of this virtue? Face-to-face confrontation! Face-to-face confrontation! How many times do you want me to say it?! Positive!!!"

Chen Jian can already hear how much the youth team's loud-sounding coach is talking about the meaning of a series of gurgling shouts. He did not refute loudly, nor did he wave his hand away, but got up from his hand, then yelled, thinking about his opponent rushing, and then threw the opponent player to the ground with a foul action.

The young man who was knocked down by Chen Jian yelled exaggeratedly and didn't want to get up on his knees.

"James, if you want to continue lying on the ground and pretending to be lazy, I will fine you to run ten laps with the ball!" Greenwood fell to the muzzle this time and rushed to the ear of the moaning kid lying on the ground and roared. The opponent immediately jumped up from the ground obediently, of course he hadn't forgotten to punch Chen Jian in the chest: "You should vent this energy to the coach, hey!"

The youth team players watching the excitement all around laughed. Greenwood also applauded Chen Jian: "Although they have fouled, the defensive players have to get used to using fouls to stop the opponent. Moreover, this momentum is very good... Besides, next time, don't yell'ahhhh', it's too much. Silly."

The laughter grew louder.

Chen Jian wrote in his diary: "...I can't fully understand it yet, but I think Coach Greenwood should have praised me. This is the first time he has praised me in three months...England's professional football Sure enough, it is different from what I heard in China..."

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"Chen, you have to pay attention to the position of the opponent's offensive player! You chase the ball, what kind of ball are you chasing? Do you think your physical strength is really good? This is not your football draft, your physical strength is in professional matches Can’t hold on at halftime. Are you training here with the goal of a professional game? If it’s not for you, just treat me as if I didn’t say..."

"Of course, Coach Greenwood. But George Wood..."

"You want to say that his physical strength is very good, right? Yes, he is very, very, very good. But he is a monster. Are you a monster? Are you George Wood?"

Chen Jian shook his head.

"Then listen carefully! Your body may be considered strong in your country..."

"No, not strong, Coach Greenwood..."

"Don't interrupt me! Well, since it's not strong in your country, it's not strong here. You can't always think about defending by your body, I don't know which idiot told you, defense It depends on the body. In fact, the body is only a kind of talent, but people cannot always live by talent. You need to learn to observe and analyze every action of offensive players, and then judge from it what they will do next, prepare yourself in advance. It's anticipation, do you understand anticipation?"

"I think...I understand, Coach Greenwood."

Greenwood pointed to his head: "If you think football is a physical sport, you are wrong, Chen. Football is actually a sport full of wisdom. Idiots and fools will not have any future here. Your body is not strong, but there is no rule that only strong people are qualified to be defenders and midfielders. You have to learn to use your brain and wisdom to defend, find the next move of offensive players and their weaknesses, and then make targeted The countermeasures. Your speed and the agility of the Easterners are your characteristics, and you have to work **** this..."

Chen Jian nodded vigorously: "I see. Coach Greenwood, thank you for your teachings."

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"Chen! I asked you to use your brain to kick the ball. I didn't let you run without a single step! Where are you standing and defending? Vegetatives can calmly pass your wooden stake!"

"Tackle! Decisive point... Look, you put him in the penalty area. What do you do next? Give the opponent a penalty? A foul? What are you afraid of? Free kicks and penalty kicks, which one do you choose? "

"Get in, get in! Don't stand still and run forward after passing the ball... How can your teammate pass the ball to you if you don't run, his other passing routes are blocked. Only you Plug in the back to create a passing route for him. Don't think that passing is something that the ball-handler considers. It requires him and the whole team to move and cooperate to create a passing route! Standing and kicking the ball It is absolutely not allowed here!"

"Chen, do you know what your biggest problem is? It's not a thinner body than the British, and it's not a solid foundation. Those can be improved through continuous exercise and practice. Your biggest problem is here. Brain, wisdom , Awareness. It is football awareness! Playing on the field and watching you in the stands are completely different things. Don’t think that you have watched a lot of football matches even if you have an excellent sense of football. If you don’t come down and play in person, you will always be I don’t know what’s going on! You have to learn to observe and analyze the situation on the field... Isn’t your English improving very fast? Why can’t you use this cleverness to cultivate football awareness?"

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Like this, Chen Jian can still think of a lot now. He discovered that the praise turned out to be the only time in the past seven months that the youth team coach Greenwood affirmed his efforts. Other times, he is all picking his faults. When he thinks he has done a good job in this area, Greenwood must be able to find more problems elsewhere.

Many times Chen Jian wondered if he was actually not suitable for playing football... It was just a mistake maker. Even the most basic running is considered by Coach Greenwood as having problems with running posture, which affects speed and explosiveness... But he has been running like that since he was a child. He has been running for 18 years, and no one has said to him, "Hey, man . You have a big problem with your running posture."

He admitted that he thought about a lot of messy things before coming, including what vocational training in the UK should look like, but he never thought it would be so harsh and unbearable. Doing a little wrong, the sharp whistle and Greenwood's loud voice immediately appeared in his ears.

Can't refute, can't explain. Wrong is wrong, I can only say "Yes, Coach Greenwood. I will not make a mistake next time!" The reason is simple, because he is from China, a country that is extremely backward in football, and he can be any of the youth teams. People of his age are better than him, and they all know more than him. In the sport of "football", he, a Chinese, has no right to say the least.

During the seven months in the youth team, in addition to undergoing unimaginable training, he also has to undergo a mental test-any effort will almost be ruthlessly rejected. Never expect to be beautiful After stopping a long pass, he was applauded by the coach, or he was appreciated and applauded by his teammates after successfully cutting off an opponent’s dribble... Those scenes that have appeared in football YY novels have never been Chen Jian was confirmed. why? Because coaches and teammates will think that what you have done is nothing more than ordinary. Does a football player still need to be complacent and expect praise and rewards for completing his job?

Chen Jian would never tell his parents or those fans and classmates who care about him in China, nor would he tell the landlord John’s family. No matter what kind of treatment and difficulties he encountered, the only thing he has not changed is that he always keeps smiling, even if it is a little reluctant to keep smiling. He didn't want to frown when facing difficulties, giving people the impression that he couldn't cope with it.

Thanks to his smile, the relationship between his teammates and him is fairly harmonious, and there is no situation that excludes him. Perhaps it is also related to those teammates who know that this kid is just a product of a commercial draft, and it is impossible to grab jobs with them here, not a competitor at all.

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Sometimes Chen Jian would call his two companions in Bolton and Everton to ask about their current situation. Whether it is Wang Yang in Bolton or Song Hui in Everton, their situation seems much better than their own. The content of the training is the same as everyone. No special treatment but no abuse. After qualified and completed a training session, they will be enthusiastically praised by the coaches. Their training intensity and training environment are simply inferior to Chen Jian’s “hell” compared to.

When they heard about the situation Chen Jian encountered, they were very surprised. Wang Yang even directly asked him whether he offended the coach of the youth team, or that the coach hated the Chinese very much?

Chen Jian firmly said that it was impossible.

Wang Yang curled his lips and said that maybe your kid might have provoke others in small details, but he didn't notice it.

Chen Jian thought for a while and still shook his head and said it was impossible.

Song Hui was very concerned about Chen Jian's training. After hearing Chen Jian's introduction, he didn't say a word for a while. When Chen Jian thought the phone was broken and planned to hang up, he said quietly: "It's totally two worlds..."

Although training is easier than Chen Jian and the people around them are also very kind, Wang Yang and Song Hui have basically given up their "dream" of staying in the UK a year later. After seeing the level of English football, they called the previous "dream" a "daydream". They knew their level, and they knew that whether it was Bolton or Everton, they had no interest in either of them. The previous commercial shows are simply because of the Chinese market they represent.

After clarifying this point, people can't afford to fight, and if they know in advance that they are eliminated, they will work hard like a fool.

"I have learned a lot in one year. Even if I can't stay in the UK in the end... Ah, I definitely won't. I won't regret this year." When there are six months left before the one-year period , Wang Yang has already begun to characterize his experience this year. "Anyway, I'm here, and I'm much luckier with those who were eliminated early and didn't even have the qualifications to come here. I think I can't ask for anything."

"The gap is indeed too big. Before I came, I still had a illusion-maybe I was the protagonist of those football YY novels on the Internet? Only after I came did I find out what I am? It's worse than others... a billion Light years. The level of Chinese football is indeed backward. It is backward in all aspects. But it is not just the level of the system, players and coaches..." Song Hui shook his head and sighed, a little depressed. "Hi, the only gain is the improvement in English level... Even if I study in the UK in the future, I don't need to go to language school first."

The performance of these two people is completely different from the smugness they had before they came. The reality is cruel, and their dreams woke up.

Only Chen Jian is still persevering and dreaming. He is not arrogant, nor is he fantasizing. He just feels that even if this is a game that he knows is about to lose, he has to hold on to the final whistle. Giving up early is not his style. It has not been since the first time he was eliminated in the audition for "Soccer Boy".

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After Chen Jian once again completed the training plan specially designated for him by Greenwood, he returned to the locker room. The players of the youth team are still changing clothes, and everyone seems very excited. This made him a little curious.

A black man in the team danced and explained to him:

"Coach Greenwood said that the head coach, boss and boss of the first team will come to the youth team to watch the training game tomorrow!"

Chen Jian knows what it means to these people. If you perform well, you may be transferred to the reserve team to qualify for the official competition. If you perform better in the reserve team, you can be promoted to the first team, participate in the league, and after the winter transfer period, you may get a place to participate in the UEFA Champions League, and then shine and become famous with one goal-all young people will do this Dream right? Everyone thinks that they will become the most special, outstanding, different, and outstanding.

For young players who have worked hard for many years, this is a dream moment and an opportunity to decide their own destiny.

But what does this have to do with yourself? Chen Jian blessed the enthusiastic black boy good luck in English, and then went to the shower room to wash his sweaty self.

There are still five months to dream, and now he can't see the road ahead, and he doesn't know whether the dream thing is really waiting for him in front. But he will continue to run, even if he stumbles and loses energy.

Because he really didn't know what he could do besides running forward. (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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