Football's Number One Madman

Chapter 18 Player Stories

Chapter 18 Player Stories

"Today's training ends here, let's disband!"

Assistant coach Cox blew the final whistle, more than 20 players clapped their hands and evacuated from the training ground one after another.

Li Poluo exhaled, dragged his slightly tired body, and walked towards the locker room.

A strong arm suddenly wrapped around his neck, caught off guard, this sudden force almost crushed him!
"Damn it, don't post it suddenly, it will kill you!"

Lee Polo didn't even have to turn his head to know that the owner of this arm must be that damned Akinfenwa!
It's not that he brags, the entire team can exert such pressure on himself, and only this bear weighing more than 200 catties!

Ajinfen laughed loudly:

"Little guy, walking with weights builds your core strength! Don't you want to get stronger?"

Li Poluo sneered:
"I'm here to play football, not to wrestle, man!"

Akinfenwa smiled and shook his head:

"Little guy, who told you that football players don't need upper body strength? Like Wayne Rooney, he's an amateur boxer!"

Rooney?

This name is not unfamiliar at all, but the current captain of Manchester United!
Li Bo Luo was stunned for a moment:
"You're right, I need to increase my resistance."

Seeing his good manners, Akinfenwa was very pleased:
"Then go to the gym with me, I can provide you with professional guidance, of course, this time for free!"

Li Poluo couldn't help but rolled his eyes:
"Go! I see, you just can't find someone to talk to you, right?"

As a young player, I was bullied by the old guy again!
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Like the club's specifications, New Wimbledon's gym is quite simple, without any high-tech products, basically mechanical aids.

Akinfenwa whistled, picked up a pair of dumbbells from the rack, and swung them lightly.

Li Poluo glanced at the "30KG" on the dumbbell, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

This pair of dumbbells is 120 catties, which is almost the weight of an adult, but in the hands of Akinfenwa, swinging it is as easy as a branch - not to mention that we have been training for nearly 6 hours today, everyone's physical fitness It's almost used up already.

Looking at his arms that are thicker than his own thighs, Li Poluo has no doubts at all. If this strong man is willing, he can easily strangle himself to death with his arms...

Li Polo didn't dare to compete with Akinfenwa. He picked two 20KG dumbbells and practiced at his own pace.

A few minutes later, Akinfenwa dropped the dumbbell and lay down under the barbell not far away without changing his tone:
"The warm-up is over, let me show you my true strength!"

Looking at his posture, Li Poluo couldn't help but rolled his eyes:
"OK, OK, you have said many times that your bench press can reach 200 kg (average male 50-60KG), but you don't have to demonstrate it to me at this time. We can't do some recovery first Sexual training? The combination of work and rest is also very important!"

Akinfenwa ignored him at all, and started training on his own, still muttering:

"Do you want to rest? Your kid is obviously young, and you rested all day yesterday. Is this not enough?"

Li Poluo put down his dumbbells and stretched his arms:
"Come on, we just trained all day and we're not tired at all...isn't it normal?"

Akinfenwa vigorously lifted the barbell in the air, his arms were almost motionless:

"Ha, I thought you, like me, would be full of energy when you heard that you were going to play against a strong team like Manchester United!"

Li Poluo found a bench and sat down:

"The news is really exciting, but so what? I'm not a kid anymore, I don't dream that I can be selected by Manchester United in one game and fly to the sky."

Akinfenwa glanced at him, a little surprised at his calmness:
"I thought that a little guy of your age would be more or less passionate!"

Lee Polo shrugged his shoulders:

"I am self-aware. Two weeks ago, I was an amateur player who only trained once a week. Even if I barely become a professional player now, I am far away from the level of Manchester United..."

Akinfenwa put down the barbell and sat up slowly:
"Yeah, it's too far away, but... people have to have some hope, don't they?"

Li Poluo lowered his eyes slightly, and nodded noncommittally:

"I also wish I could go to a bigger team, but I'm content now, really."

A month ago, when he worked as a waiter in a supermarket, he worked 40 hours a week, but it cost only 240 pounds, plus Clapton's "appearance fee" of 20 pounds per game, it was only 260 yuan.

But now in New Wimbledon, the weekly basic salary has reached 300 yuan. If appearance fees, goal awards, zero seal awards, and winning awards are added, it can reach 350 yuan!
A full 90 yuan more than before!Soared 35%!

And you can also enjoy up to six weeks of "summer paid vacation", and you can get paid on time even if you are injured. This kind of treatment is much better than that of waiters!

What's more valuable is that the club includes food and lodging, virtually saving a lot of expenses!
As a low-level foreign population, what else is he dissatisfied with?
Probably feeling that the atmosphere of the conversation was a little heavy, Akinfenwa laughed and changed the topic:

"Boy, do you want to hear my story?"

Li Poluo didn't really want to discuss the philosophy of life, so he took the opportunity of going down the slope to express his agreement.

I saw the fat man coughed, and said slowly:
"I am a mixed race of England and Nigeria. I have been receiving football youth training since I was 5 years old, but the weight gain is too fast, which directly affects my speed. You also know that the most popular players in England these years are the types who can run and rush. , so until now, no professional club has accepted me.”

"Once, my agent contacted me to go to Watford for a trial. The result of the trial was very bad. The club wants to sign a contract with me, that club is called Alantas, have you heard of it?"

Lee Polo shook his head realistically.

"Bumblebee" Watford is only a little familiar to him. After all, it is not a mainstream team in the Premier League. It has been ups and downs between the Premier League and the British Championship for more than ten years, and it has never been able to stay in the top league for a long time.

Akinfenwa was not surprised:

"It's normal because it's in Lithuania, where there are only 10 clubs in the top league, 36 rounds per season, which means you have to play each opponent four times, and the wages there are very low, only £4 a month. That’s the equivalent of $400 a week.”

Li Poluo opened his mouth, even though it was more than ten years ago, this number really surprised him.

Akinfenwa explained with a smile:

"Very low, right? But I had no other choice at all. I had to support myself. More importantly, I really love football. If I really stopped playing football, I didn't know what to do."

"So I left the UK for the first time. At that time, Alansta was quite strong and could participate in the UEFA Cup that year. It was a bit lucky to say that the previous main striker was injured. I only trained for a few days and got the chance to play. Opportunity. But as soon as I got on the field, I heard the fans yell like a chimpanzee, and some people publicly yelled 'Fuck that nig*er!', so angry that I almost stopped the game on the spot and went home..."

Racial and religious discrimination is nothing new on the court. Lee Polo did not comfort him, but just listened to him in silence and continued to tell the story:

"But I didn't do that because I needed the job. So I played the whole season and won the domestic cup, and then I came back to England, but still no professional team wanted to sign me. I played in amateur football. After playing in the league for three years, I became a member of a professional team for the first time. League Two, League One, Championship, and then League One, League Two, until now, I am 32 years old, but I am not satisfied, I want to score 200 goals, I want to play a top league, even... the Champions League!"

Champions League?

Li Poluo couldn't help raising his eyebrows, a little surprised at the delusions of this middle-aged man.

With Akinfenwa's level, I am afraid that he will not be able to play in the rotation in the League One relegation team, let alone play in the Champions League!
Sensing his doubts, Akinfenwa didn't feel uncomfortable at all, just laughed:
"Although I am also a new addition to this team, I have perfectly inherited the tradition of the Crazy Gang!"

He stood up and patted Li Polo on the shoulder:

"Let's start practicing more, we've talked too much!"

(End of this chapter)

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