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Chapter 53 Tour of Warm-up Tournament

After the press meeting ended, after lunch, Ferguson took Ferdinand and Yin Jun to the Carrington training base. He first handed Ferdinand and Yin Jun to the team captain Keane, and asked Keane to take them to the locker room. Teammates meet and then practice in the afternoon.

The meeting between Yin Jun and their new teammates was very ordinary and normal, and there was no bloody plot like the old team members giving the newcomers a blow.

Yin Jun didn't know if this was a normal situation or a special situation.After all, neither he nor Ferdinand is really a pure newcomer.Ferdinand is an England international and has played in the Premier League for many years. He is very familiar with most of the Manchester United team.Although Yin Jun came to the UK for the first time, he has already made a name for himself in the World Cup, and captain Keane took good care of him. Under these conditions, it is normal for Manchester United players not to perform certain repertoires.

After a brief meeting, Yin Jun was led by Keane to the wardrobe with the number 28 written on it, which will be his private space for a period of time to come.

Then, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the team's training session began.However, neither Yin Jun nor Ferdinand joined the team's joint training immediately, but conducted adaptive training under the leadership of relevant coaches.

If they want to join the team's joint training, they still need some time to adapt.

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Yin Jun and Ferdinand had just joined the team's joint training, and Manchester United embarked on the journey of the summer warm-up match.

On July 7, Manchester United split into two teams, commanded by Ferguson and Queiroz respectively, and played two games with local Bournemouth and Chesterfield at the same time.The former is a commemorative match for Mel Machin, who was the coach of Manchester City, and the latter is a commemorative match for John Duncan, with Manchester United as a friendly performance.

These two teams are currently in the lower leagues of the UK.Among them, Bournemouth, which was once promoted to the Premier League, is currently at the bottom of the team's history and was relegated to the fourth tier of England after the end of last season.Chesterfield is not much better. Although they created a miracle of promotion in the 2000-2001 season when they were deducted 9 points, they are still only struggling in the third tier of England.

Both Yin Jun and Ferdinand were assigned to the team led by Ferguson and headed to Chesterfield.

Because of participating in two games at the same time, coupled with the pre-season warm-up match, Manchester United recruited a large number of youth team players.

At Chesterfield, Yin Jun came on as a second-half substitute and played around 30 minutes.Because he is still not familiar with his teammates, and Manchester United has already secured the victory 3-0 when he played, and the team's desire to attack is gone, so Yin Jun neither scored nor sent assists in this game.

After playing these two games at the same time, after Manchester United converged, they went to Norway with a huge team, with more than 30 players in the team.

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In the Norwegian capital Oslo, Manchester United played a warm-up match with the Norwegian team Valerenga. This is the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the nationalization of the Norwegian Cup.

Valerenga is a powerful team in the Norwegian Super League. In history, they have won the Norwegian top league 4 times, and they have also won the Norwegian Cup 4 times.But in the 90s, Valerenga's performance experienced fluctuations. In 1997, the team returned with a strong record of the Norwegian Cup and the Norwegian Cup double crown, and participated in the European Cup Winners' Cup and the Intertoto Cup in 1999, but returned to the Norwegian League in 2000. In 2001, Valerenga successfully surpassed again, and successfully avoided relegation last season.

In this game, Yin Jun came off the bench again in the second half.

This time, his playing time increased to 45 minutes.And he finally sent his first assist after joining Manchester United in the game, and the beneficiary was the team's Norwegian striker, Ole Solskjaer!
Although it was a warm-up match, Solskjaer was very happy to score a goal in front of his hometown fans. After scoring, he pointed to Yin Jun and invited him to celebrate the goal together.

As a legend of Norwegian football, Solskjaer's status in Norway is very high.Seeing that he took the initiative to invite Yin Jun to celebrate his goal, many Norwegian fans at the scene were also deeply impressed by Yin Jun, an oriental boy.

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On the last day of July, the Manchester United team traveled south from Norway to the Netherlands, the Tulip Kingdom.

Here, Manchester United will usher in the most important warm-up matches in this summer warm-up tour: the Four Nations Invitational in Amsterdam, and their opponents are Ajax and Parma.

The Four Nations Invitational Tournament has a unique system. In addition to the game points, every goal scored can also get 1 point. It is very exciting for a team like Manchester United who loves offense to participate.This competition system was later followed by the International Champions Cup, and it can be regarded as having a certain influence in world football.

The level of participating teams in the Four Nations Tournament in recent years has been quite high, which has a high reference value for testing the team lineup and summer training results.

Manchester United's trip to Southeast Asia last summer had a great impact in terms of business and publicity, but several underdogs in Southeast Asia could not give Manchester United their unparalleled attack power and make local fans addicted to scoring goals. After that, any test of the defense line, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the 451 formation.When the official game started, the fragile defense and the new formation had difficulties, and it affected Manchester United's results throughout the season.

This time, Manchester United will test the new formation in a contest with strong teams.

Amsterdam is a football city, here is the European giants Ajax, a team that was once associated with Yin Jun this summer.

However, in addition to football, another industry in this city is also very developed, and that is sex.Among European cities, Amsterdam in the Netherlands is a city known as the pioneer of European weathering, and the red light district here is also famous far and wide.

As the largest and most famous red light district in Amsterdam, De Wallen is located in the center of the oldest part of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, spanning several blocks and several canals, and it is also one of the main tourist attractions in the area.De Wallen is made up of many alleys. The 300 pavilions along the street are leased to sex workers to run businesses, and each facade uses glass doors.Therefore, the sex workers who go to work can "show" as much as they want inside, for potential customers to "select".

There is no shortage of playboys in the Manchester United team. When the team's flight is still flying high in the sky to Amsterdam, they are already thinking about how to find women after arriving.

However, the old-fashioned Ferguson has already grasped the temperament of these boys very clearly. Before the plane landed, he issued a warning to the whole team: If anyone dares to go out and mess around during this period, he must prepare to be caught by him in the new season. Mentally prepare for being in limbo!

Naturally, Ferguson's prestige in the team is needless to say, and his warning immediately calmed down the sprouting hearts of the playboys in the team.

(End of this chapter)