Hero of the Penalty Area

Chapter 13 The First Game ()

Whether the dinner will be effective will not be known until the weekend game. In daily training, Popovich, in order to allow Chen Yingxiong and the team to have more running-in time and increase the tacit understanding, he even let Chen Yingxiong become the core in training, specially designed a set of tactics for him to play his role. Strengths.

Although he only intends to give Chen Yingxiong more than twenty minutes of playing time, these twenty minutes may be crucial for Chen Yingxiong.

During the training, Chen Yingxiong was still fully engaged, and he was not stingy when it was time to exert his strength. It is often the top teammates who turn their backs on their backs.

But over time, Popovich found that his guards have improved in prevention and control, as well as physical confrontation. It's still not obvious now, maybe they didn't feel it themselves, but it was also because Chen Yingxiong only practiced with the team for a short time. If the time is long, this result can be significant...

Time passed quickly, and a week of training passed in a blink of an eye. Chen Yingxiong worked very hard, but in Popovich's view, it was not enough. Because the tacit understanding between him and the team can't be cultivated by this week of training. The language barrier made their communication on the field very difficult. Sometimes Chen Yingxiong turned and ran in the middle, but his teammates passed the football to his previous position. Sometimes teammates pulled to the wing, and Chen Yingxiong thought they were going to pass, so he rushed into the penalty area. As a result, his teammates hesitated when passing the ball and he was offside... There are many situations like this.

If you can choose, Popovich would rather "forget" Chen Yingxiong by the coaches of the first team for another two months. During these two months, Popovich will try to get Chen Yingxiong and the team to run in while training. One side of the game.

But obviously, Ed Wocart and the Potter couldn't wait.

Popovich guessed that Edvard Carter definitely intends to clean the team. Although Chen Yingxiong is considered a young player, the contract he signed is a professional contract, so it is naturally within the scope of the cleansing.

If the performance is not good...it would be too easy to clean such a player who has no power, no power, no background.

The night before the game was very calm for Chen Yingxiong. His dormitory still lacked any entertainment facilities, so he followed the habit he had developed over the past few weeks to wash up at 10:30 and lay on the bed at eleven. After half an hour of music, I wore headphones and fell asleep.

Of course he also thinks about tomorrow's game, but he just thinks about it. He hasn't tossed and turned to the point of falling asleep.

He actually didn’t know that the head coach and assistant coach of the first team would come to watch tomorrow’s game. He simply felt that if he performed well in the game, he would attract the attention of the youth team’s head coach, and his status in the team would be Will be higher, which will make his life in Zenit St. Petersburg a little smoother.

He seemed so calm about this game that he did not call his parents in China to tell them that he was about to usher in the first official game in Zenit.

They can't see the game anyway, lest they worry about it.

The home stadium of the Zenit St. Petersburg youth team is not in the Yudeni Park training base, but in the Simina Football School in the city. There is an indoor football field that is their home stadium.

It was the first time that Chen Yingxiong came to play in this kind of indoor football stadium. It was a square building, which looked like a large warehouse from the outside. Only when he walked in, he found that there was a cave inside.

Stands, billboards and courts, everything. It's just that the turf here is not natural turf, but artificial turf.

In Russia, there are many such indoor football stadiums. Because most of Russia is in high latitudes, outdoor sports are almost impossible to develop in winter. Football, a sport that is very weather dependent, can only be continued indoors. The weather is cold, natural turf is difficult to survive, and the maintenance cost is too high. Even the outdoor stadiums of many Russian Super League teams are covered with artificial turf. It is not surprising that indoor football stadiums are covered with artificial turf.

It's not that Chen Yingxiong has never kicked artificial turf. Nowadays, many high schools and universities in China have begun to lay green artificial turf, which looks very beautiful. However, compared with domestic artificial turf, Simina's artificial turf is much better, and it is closer to the feeling of real grass.

There were some people in the stands. They were all fans who came to watch the game. There are also a group of children wearing uniform jerseys. It is probably the students of Simina Football School.

This football school has sent many excellent seedlings to Zenit St. Petersburg, the most famous of which is Andrey Arshavin, a midfielder who now plays for Zenit's first team. These children obviously regard Arshavin as their goal and idol.

In addition to these children, there are also many people, some of them are holding a poster of a young player and a sign with a name on it.

Chen Yingxiong glanced over and found that there were still a lot of people sitting in the stands, perhaps hundreds of spectators. Unexpectedly, there are so many loyal fans in this kind of league... He was a little emotional.

When playing a youth team match in a domestic club, the stands were empty, and the few fans made the players unable to beat their spirits. The stadium is quiet and can only hear their own shouts and the muffled sound of football and foot collision.

If Chen Yingxiong can read and understand Russian, he will find that many of them are not hard-core fans, but are relatives and friends of young players on the field...

In addition to these audiences, there were also a few people on the sidelines who knew they were reporters at first glance. They were also sitting in the stands holding cameras and notebooks.

If you can score a goal in the game, maybe you can become a news figure!

Chen Yingxiong looked at these reporters and thought.

Become a news figure, increase the exposure rate in the media, maybe it can attract the attention of the domestic media, and then his parents can see his news in his hometown in China... Chen Yingxiong thinks that it makes sense. .

Suddenly he saw the reporters turn their targets, they got up from their seats and ran towards the entrance.

Chen Yingxiong looked along...he saw two more people at the entrance.

He didn't know the two people, so he turned to look at the teammates at hand, they also looked at them with a confused expression.

Instead, their head coach Popovich greeted him and talked with the two visiting people.

Senior officials of the club?

Or... an idea flashed through Chen Yingxiong's mind. He was excited by his idea-the team's head coach!

Although he watched the World Cup, he never watched the South Korean team's game, so he did not know Ed Wo Carter, the head coach of the South Korean team at the time. As for his assistant coach Kur Porter, he did not even know him.

What does that mean if it is really the head coach of the team? It means that if you can score more goals in the game, you can win the appreciation of the coach! Maybe there is still a chance to be transferred to the first team!

Chen Yingxiong agreed that he should go to the first team. The youth team is just a springboard for him to be familiar with this new team. After he is familiar with this team, after gradually showing his strength, he should still go to the first team. He didn't come to Zenit to be a youth player.

He doesn't know if his teammates guessed it, but he is ready.

Grab every opportunity to climb up. To play a real professional league! Become a real professional player! Goal! famous! victory! champion! Become a hero on the court!

Just like I promised my father.

Let my name be known everywhere!

He turned to warm up, not paying attention to the mysterious visitor anymore.

He didn't see it, and when he turned around, Ed Wocart and Potter turned their eyes to him.

Edvard Carter and Potter didn't intend to conceal their identities, so when the reporters gathered around, they were not surprised at all.

They came to see Chen Yingxiong's performance.

"Which is him?" he asked Popovich.

Popovich pointed behind him: "He is easy to recognize, the tallest one, with black hair and yellow skin."

The two cast their gazes at Chen Yingxiong.

Just looking at the body type, it really looks like a type full of power.

"How tall is he?" Potter asked.

"One meter and ninety-two, ninety-three kilograms," Popovich replied.

Potter was frightened by the data, and he was indeed strong.

After Popovich showed only Chen Yingxiong to them, he said goodbye. He had to plan his tactics.

And Ed Wocart and Porter were surrounded by reporters.

"Excuse me, Mr. Edvard Carter, when you came to the sidelines of the youth team, did you look at which youth team player?"

"No, no...we're just taking a routine look..." Assistant coach Porter helped Ed Wocart get in the way.

"Excuse me, what do you think about taking over Zenit halfway?"

"You brought three South Korean players when you first arrived at Zenit. Will the team continue to sign in this summer?"

"Introducing three Koreans in one go, don't you worry about nepotism?"

All kinds of questions were thrown at Ed Wocart. These media reporters were originally here to cover the youth team league. This game should be said to be of little reporting value. They are only a routine matter-so there are only five reporters in total. Two of them are from Zenit's official website.

Because of the arrival of Ed Wocart, these reporters surrounded them like crazy wolves. They have a chance to get opportunities that others didn't have. You must know that during this period of time, many media wanted to interview Ed Wocart because he was too busy at work to shirk them. Now they are stuck on the edge of the court and let him run. ?

Ed Wocart reluctantly answered a few questions, and then told reporters that the game was about to start and he was going to watch the game. If there were any questions, they could ask him after the game. Now, let him have a quiet space...

The reporters let him go.

Today's opponent of Zenit St. Petersburg is the Tomsk Youth Team (tom·tomsk). In the first group of youth leagues, Zenit is currently the first, Dina Makhachkala is second, and Tomsk is third. The three teams' points are 42 points, Forty-one points and thirty-nine points.

Chen Yingxiong stood on the sidelines and formed a circle with his teammates, enclosing the coach Popovich in the middle.

Borovikia and Petzera are standing beside the coaching bench, behind them are reporters who are always ready to find the news-they all know that the first team head coach suddenly came to the side of the youth team game, there must be something Purposeful. Maybe it's the players of which youth team are you looking at? Ready to investigate in depth. So who in the youth team is worthy of their invigoration?

As the head coach of the first team was nearby, all the players stood straight and listened carefully to Popovich's tactics.

Popovich is writing and drawing on the tactical board to explain the tactics of the game to the players.

The tactics of the youth competition are relatively simple, mainly based on encouragement, encourage everyone to play a normal level, and show their talents and abilities to the fullest. Unlike the adult team games, there are so many tactical confrontations.

Youth competitions rely more on the brilliant performance of a certain talented player to determine the outcome of the game. The media pays attention to youth competitions, and they will never praise a youth team's head coach for how sophisticated and sophisticated tactics, but will praise a young player How well did they perform in the weekend game? Because of the appearance of Edvard Carter and Porter in this game, those youth team players must work hard to show themselves in the game.

Popovich looked up at Chen Yingxiong while arranging his tactics, and found that the kid looked very excited, with an expression of eagerness to try.

This kid doesn't seem to be nervous at all...