Chapter 1: Youth players on the road to Tottenham
End of July 2020.
The summer in London is not hot . The temperature is just over 20 degrees Celsius, which is not even summer compared to many places in the Red Country.
There is a road in north London called Tottenham Road, which is named after the famous Tottenham Hotspur football team, one of the top six teams in the Premier League .
Around Tottenham Road sits a huge training base with several standard football pitches.
Unlike some other clubs, Tottenham's training base has never been open to the public. If the media wants to take pictures of training, they can only have the opportunity when the first team goes to the home game.
A white-skinned young man from the Red Country who doesn't look like a football player at all is currently practicing shooting in this mysterious training base.
Although the training session of Tottenham U18 youth training team had ended long ago, he still picked up the ball, stepped back, ran up, and shot over and over again, repeating the same actions.
In the distance, the other members of the youth training team who were packing their bags to go to the restaurant for dinner started talking.
"Look, Chen has started practicing alone again."
"Yeah, tomorrow is the last team tryout before the new season. If he's not selected, he'll have to go back to the Red Country."
"Why does he always practice shooting?"
"Don't worry about it. Red people are not good at playing football. Go home and practice table tennis as soon as possible."
"But Chen is really the hardest working one among us."
"Come on, he thinks he is Son Heung-min. How many Asians can gain a foothold in the Premier League? It's useless to practice without talent."
Although he couldn't hear other people's discussions from a distance, over the past two months, the Red Country boy knew that his level was far behind that of other youth training team members, and he had suffered a lot of ridicule from others.
But he still concentrated on repeating his shooting movements.
He stood at the top of the penalty area and focused all his attention on the target holes in the goal. There were four target holes located at the four corners of the goal, which were also the four most difficult places for the goalkeeper to save the ball.
Although he aimed carefully every time, with his footwork, only one or two out of ten shots could hit the target.
Every time a goal was scored, a line of numbers flashed before his eyes.
997, 998, 999...
1000!
"NND, I'm so tired, I finally got a thousand..."
The young man sighed and slumped down on the grass without caring about the direct sunlight.
"Hey, look, he's not practicing!"
The youth training team members saw the Red Country boy stop and started whispering again.
"Why was it so fast today? It was over in 20 minutes. Usually he can last about an hour and a half."
"Did you give up?"
"It's probably because your body can't take it anymore. You can't do this even if you train like this every day."
"Who says I can't?"
After a brief silence, a burst of obscene laughter broke out from the crowd.
The relaxed Red Country boy heard the whispers and couldn't help but sit up, turn around and glare at those people.
"Let's go, don't provoke him."
"Yes, tomorrow is his last day at the club. The Reds all know Kung Fu, so it's not worth getting beaten up. He's leaving soon, and we have to stay and participate in the youth league."
Seeing the crowd disperse, the young man from the Red Country laughed in his heart.
When he first arrived, a local player bullied him, but he immediately shut up after being punched a few times by him. Although the coach strictly ordered that there must not be a second fight, from then on other players only dared to mock him verbally.
His name is Chen Xiaoliang. He is from Donghai City, Hongguo, and is a high school student with excellent character and academic performance.
Because the Chinese Football Association had an overseas youth training program, it was recruiting potential talents from various middle schools. Chen Xiaoliang was selected as a reward for good students because he was good at football exercises and his parents and the principal were old acquaintances.
Before leaving, his parents kept encouraging him to enjoy the three months in London and treat it as a summer camp.
However, for Chen Xiaoliang, these three months were absolutely a nightmare.
The selected children were sent to the youth training teams of top clubs in various European countries to receive less than three months of training. If they were noticed by the club during this period, they could choose to sign a player contract and become professional players.
But Chen Xiaoliang doesn't know how to play football at all, and the football exercise was invented by some genius expert in the Chinese Football Association. It is a kind of exercise that requires holding the football in your hands and dancing...
The unique characteristics of Hongguo.
I remember the first day he joined Tottenham's youth training team. He had only played for ten minutes in the first training match when he was substituted by the coach because of poor skills. He never played again since then.
After that game, he became a laughing stock in the eyes of those British youth training players.
The club staff repeatedly complained to the Red Country Football Association, asking them to confirm whether they had sent the wrong person and why they had sent such an amateur.
However, no matter how long the nightmare is, you will wake up eventually.
Tomorrow is the last day of tryouts.
As one of the conditions for the implementation of the cooperation between the two parties, Chen Xiaoliang must be sent to play for at least 45 minutes in the last team trial match.
Then it’s time to go home.
After all, the Premier League is about to begin, and the reserve team and U18 leagues will also start at the same time. The club has no time to take care of such a red country boy.
Chen Xiaoliang collapsed to the ground again and closed his eyes.
People passing by thought he was too tired from practicing and was taking a rest.
Only he could see the magical scene happening before his eyes.
【Boom boom boom! 】
[Congratulations to the host for completing one thousand blind-angle shooting exercises! ]
[The Football Manager Attribute System has been successfully opened! ]
In fact, he is not from this world. Before traveling through time, he was a university teacher.
He is single and lives alone. He likes to stay up late at night and watch short video apps. He couldn't fall asleep after being brainwashed by the divine song. After staying up late for several days in a row, he suddenly had a headache and passed out. When he opened his eyes again, he traveled to this world and became a little player.
After traveling through time, he had his own system, but when he first arrived, the system was not activated.
Only after completing a thousand blind-angle shots can the normal function of the system be enabled.
That's why I practiced shooting every day for more than two months, and finally achieved the goal of one thousand times the day before the selection.
[Do you want to open the personal properties panel? ]
"yes!"
Chen Xiaoliang looked at the attribute panel appearing in front of him excitedly!
【Technical attributes】
Passing 5, Crossing 2, Marking 6, Penalty 9
Technique 2, Corner Kick 2, Dribbling 2, Out of Bounds 5
Steals 3, Shots 5, Stopping 3, Free Kicks 4
Headers 3, Long shots 4
【Physical attributes】
Burst 9, Bounce 10, Agility 11, Stamina 10
Balance 5, Strength 5, Speed 10, Constitution 8
Height 181cm, weight 64kg
Right foot 20, left foot 5
Wang Defa!
Although the attributes in Football Manager, from the lowest 1 to the maximum 20, are all within the range of professional player level abilities, even if it is 1, it is still 1 for professional players, but these attributes still exceeded his psychological expectations...
What a rotten attribute this is!
It's simply the worst of the worst!
