Stop the ball ten meters away, the goal depends on Meng

Chapter 19 The FIFA Syndrome

"Why are you hurt again?"

When Su Changwei returned to Madrid, his mother scolded him.

"You are not yet an adult, and your body is not yet fully developed. If you are injured so frequently, if you leave hidden dangers to your body, it will be a lifetime thing!"

Over the past three years of accompanying training, Chang Xiaolin has also become half a sports expert.

In order to better understand the athletes and provide her son with the best educational conditions, she studied the journey of many athletes studying abroad.

These cases include not only football players, such as the older generation Yang Chen, Xie Hui, Sun Xiang, Li Weifeng, Dewey, Sun Jihai, Fan Zhiyi, Li Tie, Zheng Zhi, Shao Jiayi, younger Dong Fangzhuo, Hao Junmin, Zhang Chengdong, Wang Chu, and even basketball players such as Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, and Yi Jianlian.

In these famous domestic top stars, what Chang Xiaolin sees is not success and fame, flowers and applause, but loneliness and pain, sweat and blood tears that ordinary people can't imagine.

When she just sent her son to Spain, she knew for the first time that in fact, dozens of young players in China are sent to Europe every year for youth training.

The "study abroad trend" has indeed been around for a long time. Even as early as the 90s, Jianlibao spent huge sums of money (the first sum was about 900 million) to sponsor 22 youth training players to go to Brazil, including Li Jinyu, Li Tie, Li Weifeng, Shang Yi, Zhang Xiaorui, Tao Wei, Hao Wei and other stars of hope.

At the turn of the century, the Premier League was in full swing. Zhang Enhua, Sun Jihai, Li Tie, Zheng Zhi, Dewey, Fan Zhiyi, Zhang Xiaobin, Dong Fangzhuo and others landed in England one after another. For a while, there was even a precious image of Sun Jihai Vs Zheng Zhi's "Premier League Chinese Derby".Sheffield United even established a branch in the provincial capital of SC—Chengdu Sheffield United, which became the first domestic team invested by a foreign club.

At the same time, the German league, which encourages confrontation more, also attracted Gu Guangming, Li Bing, Zhou Ning, Li Hui, Zhang Xiaorui, Yang Chen, Xie Hui, Shao Jiayi, Hao Junmin, (Zhang Xizhe) to join.

And as the Matador Legion swept the football world, a wave of learning Spanish football emerged in China. Not only did they send young players to Spain to receive youth training, Real Madrid, Barcelona and other clubs even opened many football schools in China, harvesting a wave...

In addition to these three major leagues, Italy (Ma Mingyu), France (Li Jinyu, Wang Chu), the Netherlands (Xie Yuxin, Sun Xiang, Yu Hai, Zhou Haibin, Xiao Zhang Yuning), Portugal (Dong Fangzhuo, Yu Dabao, Zhang Chengdong), Switzerland (Shi Jun), Belgium, Serbia, Lithuania, and even the former Yugoslavia (Jia Xiuquan, Liu Haigang) have also had Chinese players.

According to incomplete statistics, in the past 30 years, there have been at least four-figure Chinese players who have "studied abroad" through various means - the Wanda family has sponsored 150 players - but there are only a handful of players who can really occupy a place in mainstream league teams!

The road to success is too difficult!
[My son is definitely not a once-in-a-century football genius! 】

Chang Xiaolin has a clear understanding of Su Changwei.

That's why she was more worried about her son's growth path.

After playing for Real Madrid for three and a half years, he has always been a marginal figure in each echelon. Now he has finally "opened up", but suffered a serious injury because of participating in the national team. This is bound to have an impact on his career that has just improved...

You know, a large part of the reason why Su Changwei was able to stand out was that Real Madrid U18's main right back Luiz was injured in the summer, which gave him the opportunity to play...

The 17-year-old Su Changwei is just the age for young players to increase their goals rapidly. In two months, a player may undergo a qualitative change, but he can only lie in a hospital bed.

Chang Xiaolin, who loves her son eagerly, finally couldn't help but put forward a suggestion:
"I won't stop you from serving your country, Avi."

"But...can you discuss with them, some less important competitions, and don't participate in it in the future, is that okay?"

Su Changwei glanced at his worried mother, and laughed out loud:
"Mom, the national team... is not run by our family yet!"
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On November 11th, the Chinese team, which was on an expedition to Southeast Asia, played in the fifth game of the Top 15 Tournament.

They overcame the harsh away environment and swept Singapore with an impeccable score of 4:0, raising their points to 9 points and continuing to maintain the hope of qualifying.

The last round of matches will be held on February 2012, 2. Before that, the majority of Chinese fans can at least have a not so bad New Year...

International match days have always had the notoriety of "FIFA syndrome".

Because the national team game not only disrupts the rhythm of the club in terms of time, but also because the long journey will definitely affect the physical fitness and state of the players, and may also lead to unexpected injuries.

For example, in the Real Madrid first team, Di Maria, Kaka, Marcelo, Arbeloa, Carvalho, Shaheen and other players have more or less withdrew from recent training due to injuries, and also missed the match against Valencia on November 11.

Due to the conflict between Mourinho and the head coach of the B team, Nacho and Carvajal, who were trained in the local defense, were not reused. In addition, Marcelo, Arbeloa, Carvalho and other defensive players were collectively injured. Real Madrid's defense suddenly became stretched.

Especially, the right back.

But Magic Bird would rather let Arbeloa play with injuries than use Carvajal and Nacho...

Fortunately, there was no danger in this game. At the Mestalla Stadium, Real Madrid defeated the Bat Legion 3:2 with a controversial penalty.

Mourinho's formation after the game has been criticized a lot.

Some people accused him of disregarding the health of the players and making Arbeloa's injury worse.

Some people also suggested that he look at the overall situation, temporarily abandon internal conflicts, and use youth training players.

But... How could Mourinho listen to persuasion?

Three days later, Real Madrid rushed away to participate in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage.

Not only did Mourinho fail to learn the lessons of the league, but he intensified and directly used the midfielder Lars Diarra as a guest right back!
The line of defense put together in this way is really frightening.

Thanks to Real Madrid's offensive ability is strong enough, the defense lost two, they scored six in the front!

In the end, they beat Dinamo Zagreb with a score of 6:2 and advanced to the knockout round one round ahead of schedule, which did not make the voice of criticism louder again.

The criticism completely dissipated on the evening of November 11.

In this round of the league, Real Madrid sitting at the Bernabeu, with an incomplete lineup, beat their city rivals Atletico Madrid 4:1!

On this night, Mourinho's popularity reached its peak!
Those celebrities, experts, and critics all shut their mouths!

Competitive football is like this, the winner is king!
However, even the Madrid derby is not as important as another matchup.

Two weeks later, on December 12th, Real Madrid is about to usher in the battle of the century with Barcelona!

Last season, the Magic Bird, who just led Inter Milan to win the Champions League, landed in the Bernabeu. He was full of ambitions and prepared to overthrow the rule of the Barcelona dream team, but he did not expect to be beaten 0:5 by Guardiola in the first duel!

It was the first time he suffered such a disastrous defeat after becoming famous. Mourinho began to bear the burden of humiliation, and even in order to deal with Barcelona, ​​he did not hesitate to develop a "three midfielder" iron barrel formation...

After running in for a season, Real Madrid is almost unstoppable this season, with an astonishing 10 consecutive victories in the league and five rounds of victories in the Champions League. All fronts are triumphant.

As long as Barcelona is defeated in a head-to-head confrontation, Mourinho will be able to step on Guardiola and truly become the No. 1 handsome football player!

(End of this chapter)