There is a dream called football

100 kids stood on the training field for the last time. For most of them, training camp life was over.

Those children who did not advance secretly cried last night. This was the first setback in their lives. They were a little uncomfortable, but more importantly they were unwilling to accept it.

Football is different from other fields. It is difficult to get admitted to Tsinghua University, but at least you can repeat it. In 5 or 10 years, you can be as persistent as Fan Jin passed the exam, but football is not good. If you are not in your early 20s, it will be too late.

Everyone understood that there would never be another chance. The atmosphere at the scene was a bit sad, and the moods of the winners and losers were completely different.

Saki appeared, the sun shining particularly brightly on his bald head, and he came in front of everyone.

With a snap of his fingers, he ordered the staff to distribute the gifts to everyone.

"This is the club's sincere wish. I wish you all the best in the future."

Some people could not hold back and shed tears.

Sacchi smiled and said: "Kids, maybe you think this is cruel, but in fact this is football."

"In Italy, starting from u9, u11, u13, u15, and all the way to u19, some people are eliminated every year. In the end, only about 10% of the people can play professional football, and of these 10%, only 10% can play in the first division.

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Sacchi held out three fingers and said, "The realm of football is divided into three levels."

"The lowest level is to learn to play football. This is not difficult. You have already learned it."

"The second level is to play professional football. Unfortunately, this is very difficult. Only a few people can do it."

"The last level is to understand the philosophy of football. This may only be possible by Baggio, Zidane and others."

"So don't cry. There is only one Baggio and only one Zidane, but there are thousands of people playing football. Without you, there would be no professional football today. Applaud yourselves."

Saki clapped first, clapping vigorously, as if he was trying to cheer for the children with all his strength.

Under the leadership of Saki, the originally sparse applause became neat and loud.

"Children, believe me, football will change your life. Football teaches us a sense of responsibility, which you can't learn in school."

"The goalkeeper has the responsibility of the goalkeeper, and the defender has the responsibility of the defender..."

"Football also teaches us courage. Regardless of physical or mental pain, it will ultimately push you forward and become a stronger individual."

"In Italy, football players are classified as artists, which I agree with because football is beautiful."

"Last and most important, football teaches us to appreciate the beautiful life. Again, I hope your life will be wonderful."

Sacchi announced the final roster for promotion.

"These ten lucky people will fly to Madrid in one month, that is, on August 3. In La Fabrica, everything will be the same as here, except that you will face the strongest people from Europe, South America, and Africa.

those opponents."

"Go ahead and dream, eventually 10 people will join Real Madrid's youth team."

"Go dream!"

Sacchi gave full play to the passion of the Italians, and everyone was ignited. Maybe nothing can do this except football.

*****

Back in Guangzhou, Raven finally convinced his parents. As for how he did it? As the only son in the family, if he really persisted, there was nothing his parents could do. Besides, it was Real Madrid. A casual inquiry would tell you that this was not easy.

A small stadium where we usually train.

Raven wore headphones and listened to English while playing football. The written test in Madrid a month later will be in English, but you can bring a dictionary, but you must also have a good English foundation.

On the other side, Li Qiao would pop out a few Spanish words from time to time.

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"Hello."

"Gracias."

"Thanks."

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"Raven, Spanish is much more difficult than English."

Raven took off his headphones and said, "The possibility of us staying in Spain is slim. Isn't it a little too early for you to start learning Spanish now?"

Li Qiao smiled and said, "Look, you're here again, can you have some dreams?"

Raven gave a thumbs up, as if to say, you are awesome, I won't argue with you.

"By the way, Castilla's training video must be watched every day."

Raven nodded.

As 10 children who can go to Madrid, Li Qiao and Raven are privileged. They can log into Real Madrid's internal network every day and watch the training videos of Castilla (Real Madrid's second team), and of course the training of Real Madrid's first team.

The video is strictly confidential and cannot be seen by outsiders.

"Li Qiao, I think Real Madrid's training pace is very fast. If we want to keep up, we have to work harder."

"Yes, one is confrontation and the other is physical fitness."

As he spoke, Li Qiao took out a recipe and said, "I asked my dad to ask a nutrition expert from his hospital to prepare this for me."

Raven looked at it and saw that there were raw eggs, mature beef, milk, vegetables, soda water, etc.

There are also fried foods that cannot be eaten. Fried chicken, French fries, and burgers must be given up. In addition, you cannot drink alcohol. It is best to abstain from alcohol.

"Strict enough. This French fries is my favorite. Do I have to quit it in the future?"

"If you want to have a strong body, you can only eat a high-protein, high-fiber, low-fat diet."

Raven nodded. In China, his physical disadvantages were already obvious. When he arrived in Madrid, facing those children from Europe and Africa, his thin body really had no choice but to give up.

In addition to diet, another very important thing is training. To build muscles, heavy exercise is the only way.

"Leaven, from now on we get up at 5 o'clock every morning and go to climb Baiyun Mountain, playing ball while climbing up the mountain."

"Okay, starting from tomorrow, don't be lazy in bed."

"Hey, don't worry."

*****

In Baiyun Mountain, 56-year-old Mr. Zhao is carrying a load. There are some drinks and food in the frame. There are such porters in almost every famous mountain and river to satisfy the tourists coming and going to buy something to eat and drink.

But in recent days, Mr. Zhao could always see two teenagers running up the mountain with a ball on this mountain road.

They didn't care at first, but the two young men would buy a bottle of water from Uncle Zhao every time as a little support.

On this day, Mr. Zhao finally couldn't restrain his curiosity and asked: "Are you professional players?"

"No, but we will become professional players."

Hearing such an answer, Mr. Zhao always feels warm in his heart, because he is also a football fan, but he just hates the fact that iron cannot become steel.

Looking at the young man's back, Mr. Zhao smiled and said: "If there are a few more children like this in China, then what's the difficulty in winning the World Cup, let alone participating in it?"

What Mr. Zhao didn't expect was that he would be even more surprised when he saw these two young people again many years later.