Fox in the Penalty Area

"Xiaoyu, wait here for a while. Our club's youth training director, Director Shi, will come to show you the training base in a while." Dai Zetao said to Xia Xiaoyu who was sitting in the lounge.

The young man asked nervously and expectantly: "Brother Tao, can I see Team Hu?"

"Of course I can. If I promise you, I will definitely not let you go." Dai Zetao laughed.

He took another look at a small film crew who was shooting at Xia Xiaoyu with a camera on the side.

This is the documentary filming team of "Goal".

He originally thought that the filming of this documentary would be over when the Dongchuan Middle School football team was eliminated in the national competition, but he didn't expect that they would follow up from the national competition to the training base of Shining Star in one go.

In the words of the leader, it is to faithfully record how a student player jumps from the school to a professional football club.

After all, they also filmed the contact between Chen Xingyi and Dashun Golden Arrow Club.

It’s just that thinking about the contents of that documentary now makes Dai Zetao want to laugh—when Dashun Golden Arrow recruited Chen Xingyi, his sincerity was not lacking. The club attaches great importance to Chen Xingyi.

He still remembers what the dubbing in the documentary said: "When the club manager and the head coach of the first team describe his bright future in the team to a teenager at the same time, Chen Xingyi will inevitably feel a little impulsive, and his heart seems to have changed from The scene of the national competition for high school students flew to the distant Dashun, to the training ground of Dashun Golden Arrow..."

Now that I think about it, it's ironic.

After Chen Xingyi went to Dashun Golden Arrow, he rarely played there. Wang Xianke's so-called beautiful blueprint is simply a empty promise.

Didn't Chen Xingyi be loaned to us in the end?

why?

Because he has no way to grow in the Golden Arrow. You Wang Xianke is indeed good at leading the team to win the championship, but when it comes to training young players...can he lead? He can't take it! Do you know if you don't have this ability?

Chen Xingyi now has two assists and one goal in the Chinese League One, and has also performed well in the FA Cup. For such a player, Wang Xianke of the Golden Arrow would rather put him on the bench than give him more opportunities and trust.

Compared with Chen Xingyi, Xia Xiaoyu made an absolutely correct choice this year.

The core midfielder of the Dongchuan Middle School football team signed a contract with us as soon as the national competition was over, and became a member of the Shining Star youth team. And I believe he will get more opportunities to play with us and grow up quickly, just like his predecessors Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei.

After all, our Shining Star has a fine tradition of giving young players more opportunities, and we also have a head coach Zhao Kangming who is good at training young players!

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The people in the lounge didn't have to wait too long, and Shi Jisheng, the youth training director of the Shining Star Club, appeared at the door of the lounge.

He was wearing a training suit with a whistle hanging around his neck, as if he came here directly after he got off the training ground.

After seeing Xia Xiaoyu in the lounge, he laughed, then walked up, carefully looked at Xia Xiaoyu who got up, and nodded approvingly: "Not bad."

After speaking, he stretched out his hand and introduced himself: "Shi Jisheng, director of youth training."

Xia Xiaoyu hurriedly clasped both hands: "Hi, Director Shi, I'm Xia Xiaoyu, from the Dongchuan Middle School football team..."

"I know, Lao Dai gave me all your game reports a long time ago. We have carefully observed your performance in the national competition. It is not easy to be a father and a mother at the same time, right? Ha!" Shi Jisheng laughed at this point stand up.

Xia Xiaoyu also smiled embarrassedly: "Fortunately..."

After laughing, Shi Jisheng said seriously: "But we want you to know that it's something that the head coach of your school team has no choice but to do. I'm not saying you shouldn't score, it's just that it's obvious that you have both.

Even the more scoring you, not the best you. We compared your performance in the three national competitions, and the best performance was actually your first national competition. What do you think? "

Xia Xiaoyu didn't expect the director of youth training to say these words to himself as soon as he came. He thought that the other party would exchange a few words, say something in front of the camera, and then take himself to find Hu Lai.

Unexpectedly, the other party actually wanted to discuss with me in the lounge to discuss his performance in the national competition.

He frowned, thinking seriously.

Sun Yonggang turned his head and glanced at the photographer, and found that the other party was working very intently, obviously recording all this scene.

He thought of the scene when he took the photographer to meet the person who took pictures of Chen Xingyi and Dashun Golden Arrow.

He was quite excited at the time, feeling that he had witnessed history—it was really touching that the Chinese Super League club valued a student player to such an extent.

But now that I think about it, whether it was Xue Chaoyu, the general manager of the Golden Arrow Club at the time, or Wang Xianke, the head coach of the first team, they all said some empty words to Chen Xingyi, painting a perfect picture, saying that Chen Xingyi will be in the team in the future And what future and status do you have in the club.

In fact, they are all empty promises, with no substance at all.

What is "the core of the next ten years"... How to become the "core of the next ten years" from a youth team player? I didn't talk about it. What kind of core is it, and never mentions it.

As for Flashing Star, it is much more pragmatic. The club did not arrange for the general manager to meet Xia Xiaoyu, nor did the head coach of the first team come in person. Instead, a youth training director who was supposed to manage Xia Xiaoyu came. The limelight, the situation of reaching out indiscriminately. This young club does lack many of the stinky problems of traditional domestic professional football clubs.

Secondly, the director of youth training did not just promise empty promises, but seriously discussed his performance in the national competition with Xia Xiaoyu. From what he said, Sun Yonggang could easily understand that the Shining Star Club must be very serious. I have studied Xia Xiaoyu's game video and scout reports.

Whether it is Dai Zetao, the scout who stands silently by the side, or Shi Jisheng, the director of youth training, they have done their work meticulously.

Sun Yonggang felt that this pragmatic work attitude was more flattering.

He could even predict that after the Dongchuan Middle School football team's documentary was broadcast, the fans would compare and discuss the footage of Dashun Jinjian's meeting with Chen Xingyi.

Maybe the golden arrow will be flogged again...

When Sun Yonggang diverged his thoughts, Xia Xiaoyu also finished thinking, and he said to Shi Jisheng: "There is a reason for that, Director Shi. I..."

Shi Jisheng didn't let him go on, but laughed: "Is it because of the difference between having or not?"

Xia Xiaoyu nodded and admitted: "Yes, Director Shi. When the Dongchuan Middle School team has such an efficient and powerful striker like Hu Dui, I only need to do one thing well - pass the ball to him - and that's it. This is also what I am best at. But then Hu team left, the gap between the other forwards in the team and him is too big... Ah, I am not complaining, I am just telling the truth, Director Shi..."

Shi Jisheng smiled and nodded: "I know, after all, even in China's first division, there are not many forwards who can be as efficient as him. I just want to hurt your school team coach."

"Coach Li? In fact, I played three national competitions in school, and I didn't leave until the third year of high school because of Coach Li..." Xia Xiaoyu said.

Shi Jisheng said: "I have seen the training of your school team. The quality of the training is still very high. Even if you stay in the school until the third year of high school, the improvement is obvious. Your coach Li is indeed a capable coach. There will be no players like Hu Lai."

Xia Xiaoyu said in his heart, but Coach Li has repeatedly emphasized that he is not Hu Lai's enlightenment coach... If it is replaced by other coaches, he may wish to take the honor of "Hu Lai's enlightenment coach" to himself. As for Coach Li, he tried his best to push away, and he didn't know what he was thinking...

"Let's talk about you, Xia Xiaoyu. You are almost eighteen years old, and you can only stay with me for a year at most. Thanks to the high level of training of your Coach Li, you don't have to start from scratch with me. The basics You don’t need to do such things as training, during this year, all the training plans that the team arranges for you are aimed at making you adapt to the first team as soon as possible.”

When Shi Jisheng said this, both Xia Xiaoyu and Sun Yonggang were taken aback.

Xia Xiaoyu is preparing to step into professional football with the mentality of slowly training and growing up. Although he has been considered a talented person by coaches at all stages since he was a child, he is also very aware of the huge gap and difference between youth football, especially campus football and professional football.

People who are as strong as Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai have also been in transition for two or three years.

It's not bad for me to be able to play in the first team at the age of twenty-three.

It's all just about playing the game, not about being the main player, just being able to play.

What, you mean Hu Lai?

Team Hu, that's a bug, it's not within the scope of our discussion...

Sun Yonggang was even more surprised. He thought that what he saw just now was enough to show that the Flash Star Club attached great importance to young talented players.

I didn't expect there to be more explosive!

Going to the first team during the one-year transition period?

Oh my God……

Everyone knows that the Flash Star Club is rooted in the local area and is willing to give local young players the opportunity to grow. But is this approach too bold?

Wait... Could it be that the Shining Star Club thought that there was a camera nearby, so they deliberately said this to increase their favorability and advertise by the way?

You must know that you need to apply in advance to be able to enter the training base for filming. The Flash Star Club agreed to their shooting requirements and did not charge a penny. Do you want to advertise for Flash Star here?

In fact, the club doesn't really plan to let Xia Xiaoyu go to the first team after a year... So this is another form of painting big cakes?

Just when the "conspiracy theory" in Sun Yonggang's mind was gradually taking shape, and he was about to convince himself, he heard Shi Jisheng say: "Don't look at me like that, I didn't make this plan, it was Director Zhao."

"Director Zhao?" Xia Xiaoyu was stunned.

"Who else can be coached by Zhao? Of course it is the head coach of our first team, Zhao Kangming, coached by Zhao!" Dai Zetao explained next to him.

"So this is..." Xia Xiaoyu was a little confused.

"Director Zhao has also studied your game videos and materials, and he is very optimistic about you." Shi Jisheng looked at Xia Xiaoyu with a smile on his face.

Being personally followed by the head coach of the first team, and being favored by the coach with the highest level of youth training in this country... Xia Xiaoyu just felt dizzy as if he had been drinking, and fell into an unbelievable sense of happiness.