Golden Greenery

The calm German Canal flows to Hannover, and the water suddenly widens a lot. The river also turns a forty-degree bend here, and continues to leave quietly in the northeast direction in a circular arc. Where the river turns, the water surface is extremely open, forming a huge fan-shaped lake. Looking down from a high place, the river and lake look like a huge diamond set in a slender ring.

On the surface of Diamond Lake, there is a small peninsula extending from the land. Maddie FC and Victor Football Stadium are located on this peninsula.

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After a hasty lunch, Zhuoyang rode on his bicycle. He bought the bicycle from the second-hand supermarket on campus, where many students used to exchange or sell various items. Zhuoyang fell in love with this bicycle because it had a bell that sounded "Boom, Boom."

Literary youths always like to use nostalgia to flaunt their feelings. Zhuo Yang inherited the pseudo-artistic mensao in his father Zhuo Tongtong's blood. The ringtone of "Boom, Boom" is like a postman walking around the streets in the 1970s.

When he came to Maddieburg Football Club, he explained his purpose to the uncle at the door. After being instructed by the uncle, Zhuoyang found Chairman Mullen's office. I also saw the legendary secretary in the office - Sylvia.

After some simple negotiations, Zhuoyang and Chairman Mullen negotiated all the terms of the contract. Signing a semi-professional youth player is not a complicated matter, let alone the club chairman himself.

A weekly salary of 1,200 euros, a one-year contract, a goal award and an appearance fee. To Zhuoyang's surprise, he also received a signing fee of 5,000 euros.

This is the first time in Zhuoyang's life that he has his own income, and the large amount makes him feel rich.

"Sylvia," said Angus Mullen to his sweet secretary, "tell Jurgen to come to me."

Seeing Sylvia with her waist swinging in the wind and walking out with a smile, Zhuoyang felt absurd.

"I just became a semi-professional football player?" Zhuoyang was a little bit dumbfounded. "My mother asked me to come to Germany because I played football at home and got into trouble. Unexpectedly, I became a football player when I came here." It's so unpredictable!

The door of the office was pushed open, and a person walked in. Zhuoyang, who was wandering away, raised his head and looked intently: Hey, what a big man!

I saw that the person who came was wearing a half-new and half-worn blue sportswear, in his early thirties, with bright eyes and two eyebrows. With a height of over 1.85 meters, with broad shoulders and back, he walks with extremely wide strides. His face was full of stubble, and his brown hair was messily pasted on his forehead, which was a bit of vicissitudes in the sloppy. The black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of the nose don't look very harmonious on the flat and wide face.

"Angus, are you looking for me?" The big man said to Chairman Mullen with a high-pitched and slightly hoarse voice.

"Jurgen, let me introduce you. This is Zhuo, Zhuoyang, from China." Angus Mullen stood up and said. "Zhuo, this is the head coach of the club's youth team, Jurgen Klopp."

"Hello, Mr. Klopp!" Zhuoyang looked polite.

"Hello, Zhuo. From China? Well, you speak German quite well." Klopp looked at Zhuoyang with some surprise.

"Thank you, Mr. Klopp, you also speak German very well." Zhuoyang stepped forward to hold Klopp's outstretched right hand and shook it twice.

"Hahahaha, Jurgen, see, this is a funny little guy." Chairman Angus Mullen's smile was obviously not high. "Zhuo is my new signing. I hand him over to you. I think you will like him."

Angus Mullen, a consistently strong club owner, calling the shots on signing a youth player would feel normal to anyone, and Jurgen Klopp is certainly no exception.

"Jurgen, Zhuo is like you,

Both work part-time at the club, and he is a college student, just like you. Zhuo is at the Hannover University of Music, piano, a cool major. said Chairman Mullen.

"Whoa, yeah? Musician playing football, amazing young man." Jurgen Klopp was clearly interested. "I'm currently studying football coaching at the German Sport University in Cologne."

Jurgen Klopp was born in 1967. He used to be a professional football player. He spent most of his career at the Mainz Football Club. He followed the Mainz team in the middle position of the German Football League B. He first started playing as a striker and later switched to playing as a defender. . At the end of his playing career, Jurgen Klopp began studying sports at the University of Frankfurt. After officially retiring last year, he entered the Cologne German Sports University to study coaching. After graduation, he can obtain an international A-level coaching certificate.

Jurgen Klopp is a college student who is similar to a correspondence course. The most important thing is to have a place for practice and combine coaching theory with actual coaching. Angus Mullen knew Klopp early on and offered him the opportunity to coach the club's youth team. Jurgen Klopp has been coach of the Madyborg youth team for a year. Although it is only the youth team of the C-level football team, it is difficult for most trainee coaches to get such an opportunity. At most, they will get a job as an assistant coach in the youth team of the C-level or lower level or even an amateur team.

At this point, Jurgen Klopp is still very grateful to Angus Mullen.

In this way, the two college students, a piano learner and a mixed instructor certificate, chatted very enthusiastically. Although the style of painting was very discordant, it did not hinder the joy between them.

After all, the discourse must be pulled back to the topic.

"Zhuo, can you participate in training this afternoon?" After receiving an affirmative answer, Jurgen Klopp said to Zhuoyang: "Well, I will take you to meet the rest of the team."

After saying goodbye to Chairman Mullen politely, Zhuoyang and Jurgen Klopp walked towards the youth team.

The entire Maddie Club is located on a beautiful peninsula, and a quiet small road connects the various components of the club. The Victor Stadium is where the peninsula and the land connect. Walking past the stadium, the office building of the club is next to it. In the three-story Baroque-style small building, there are various departments such as the sports department, youth department, marketing department, finance, personnel and logistics, etc., which are compact and complete. Next to the office building is a brand new white two-story building, which houses the gym, shower room, massage room and medical department, and there is a small restaurant on the first floor. Further forward, three standard training grounds are scattered in the shape of 'U' beside the water. The three training fields are separated by neatly manicured gardening and two or three rows of tall birch trees. Along the river bank, a high circle of barbed wire surrounds the edge of the peninsula.

"The one on the left is the training ground of our youth team, and the two on the right are for the first team." Jurgen Klopp said to Zhuoyang again seriously: "In addition, in the team, you can call My husband, you can also call me Coach Klopp."

"Yes, sir." Zhuoyang seemed to respect his coach very much.

Chinese children always respect their teachers, even if the teacher seems unreliable, even if the teacher is not worthy of respect.

When the two walked to the training ground, there were already many people on the training ground. They were all youth team players and assistant coaches, and they were preparing for training in the afternoon.

"Doo——" Klopp miraculously took out a whistle from nowhere, and blew it hard, which shocked Zhuoyang next to him.

"Before training, let me introduce you. This is your new teammate, Zhuo Yang, you can call him Zhuo. Zhuo is from China." Klopp waved his arm, "Zhuo, you first introduce yourself to everyone. "

Zhuoyang rolled his eyes, and said to himself, you've said everything, what else can I introduce? He took two steps forward, and introduced himself seriously to the group of people in front of him. "Hello, everyone. My name is Zhuo Yang. I am seventeen years old and I am from China. It is a pleasure to meet you. It is a great honor to be teammates with you."

He is polite, modest and official, and speaks impeccably in just a few words.

Next, everyone else introduced themselves, including assistant coach Edwin Woolf, strength and conditioning coach Edward Graham, and goalkeeping coach Gavin Marcus. There is also the captain of the youth team, central defender Per Mertesacker, midfielder Nigel de Jong, forward Frank Ribery...

With Zhuoyang's super memory ability, after one pass, he can clearly remember everyone's name, location, age and other information.

"Beep—" Klopp's whistle rang again, and Zhuoyang trembled again. "OK, this is the end of the welcome meeting, and now the training begins. Edwin, continue to follow the training plan. Zhuo, come here."

"Sir!" Zhuoyang followed Jurgen Klopp to the edge of the field.

"Now tell me, what position are you good at playing?" Klopp stared at Zhuoyang.

"Hmm..., the middle and front courts are fine, I don't choose." Zhuoyang was very honest.

"..." Klopp asked again: "Then which foot are you good at?"

"Well... let's use the right foot. Actually, I can use both feet, so I don't choose." Zhuoyang was still very honest.

"..." Klopp scratched his head: "Then what stage of professional training have you received?"

"Professional training? What's that? Sir, I just dribble on the field and then shoot...well, that's it!" Zhuoyang was always honest.

"..." Klopp was completely speechless. "Okay, I see, you go to the training department to pick your number, get the game and training equipment, and then go to Coach Graham, he will give you a series of tests."

Zhuoyang chose No. 18, because No. 18 is the smallest number that can be chosen. Youth team players only have numbers on their jerseys, but no names.

After the physical test, the afternoon training is over. Zhuoyang's first day of player life also came to an end in a happy mood. Among them, the signing fee of 5,000 euros was the source of happiness.

Around 2002, semi-professional players had almost disappeared in the German Football League C, but in the youth teams of each team, there were nearly one-third of semi-professionals, part-timers like Zhuoyang Players are no surprise. Not only the youth team, but the first team of most clubs only train for half a day.

The nightlife of many players is beyond imagination, and they often have to sleep until after eleven o'clock the next day before getting up, so training in the morning is nonsense.

Klopp lives in the club's dormitory, which saves money on renting an apartment, doesn't it? Under the bright light of an old-fashioned desk lamp, Klopp looked at the report on Zhuoyang's physical examination in his hand.

Zhuoyang's physical fitness test is very simple, and his cardiopulmonary function is very normal. He is 182 cm tall and weighs 72 kg. Some other statistics are very mediocre among football players. After all, Zhuoyang has not received professional training, not any professional training in sports.

Even for the simple test data, Klopp looked at it very carefully. From time to time, he had to turn the previous page back and look again, for fear of missing something.

At the same time, in the dormitory of the Hannover University of Music, Zhuoyang was very excited. He turned on the computer, looked at the message, nothing changed, everyone was still the same. Haiyang entered a key high school to repeat his studies, and Jiushan and Lao Mu began to prepare for the medical examination for conscription, so there should be no problem.

Zhuoyang wanted to share the happiness in his heart with someone, but he didn't know who to tell it to, because even Haiyang and the others couldn't tell it for the time being, and if it reached his mother's ears, it would be no joke. As a result, he could only leave messages to his father and mother on the computer.

"Dad, Mom, I found a part-time job to teach a group of children." Strictly speaking, a considerable number of players in the Fort Mady youth team are indeed 'children' under the age of twenty. "The income is quite good, so you don't have to send me money anymore, I can support myself. Your son is amazing, right?"

Zhuoyang is proud and triumphant, a fox's tail is raised high in the Alps at night.

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In the afternoon of the next day, Zhuoyang arrived at the club on time, riding his sentimental bicycle, "Boom, Boom" and found a place to put the car away.

In the locker room, there were already two people chatting away, seeing Zhuo Yang coming in, they greeted each other: "Hi, Zhuo."

Zhuoyang with a super-strong memory called out their names accurately: "Hi, Per, Hi, Ricardo." Per Mertesacker is the captain of the youth team. The main central defender. Ricardo Montolivo, midfielder, Italian, seventeen years old this year.

The familiar Zhuoyang chatted with the two of them. After a while, the players came in one after another, and Zhuoyang greeted them one by one.

"Hi, Nigel."

"Good afternoon, Billy."

"Hi, Duke."

"Hi, Frank."

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When everyone was surprised to find that Zhuoyang didn't call anyone's name wrong, fitness coach Edward Graham opened the door and walked in.

"Let's go, boys, start training, I hope you have a good mood today."

The players walked towards the training ground sparsely, but everyone looked at Zhuoyang in a different way.