Football's hand covers the sky

Chapter 4 The most difficult position to get ahead (recommended ticket)

In the Monaco head coach's office, Ranieri is holding the data that the assistant coach handed him to try out the players and their performance in the past two weeks.

"This Chinese kid is doing very well?" The first page of the opened file was Li Shou's information.

Name: Li Shou

Nationality: Chinese

Born: 1992, 11, 11

Height: 187

Weight: 80

"Yes, among the players in this batch of trial training, this little guy's performance is the best one." Monaco has two assistant coaches, and the one who answered Ranieri at this moment was naturally his confidant Paulo Benetti.

After Li Shou came to the Monaco training base two weeks ago, Ranieri never appeared on the sidelines of the training field again. For two weeks, he was co-hosted by his confidant Paul Benetti and reserve team coach Ayres.

"During these two weeks, this little guy has worked the hardest and is the best." Benetti seemed to admire Li Shou very much.

"We held four confrontation games in two weeks, and this little guy didn't make any obvious mistakes in the four games," Benetti continued.

"And George also found that this little guy's concentration is terrible, and George even said that this little guy's concentration on the court is not even Gianluigi." Giorgio Pelizzaro, another close friend of Ranieri, is a goalkeeper coach from Italy.

Speaking of this goalkeeper coach, his resume can be said to be quite rich. He started in Naples, and in the following 20 years, he has played in Fiorentina, Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Rome, Parma, Inter Milan and Juventus.

The ability of Pelizzaro can be analyzed from the names of these clubs. After all, the goalkeepers of these clubs are not bad, including world-class goalkeepers like Buffon and Cesar.

Benetti said "Gianluigi" is Buffon, the number one goalkeeper in football today, so when he heard this name, Ranieri couldn't help but look up at his cronies.

"George is very optimistic about this little guy," Ranieri's tone seems to have changed.

"From these few games, George did praise this little guy, but the level of a goalkeeper is impossible to really judge from the games," Benetti replied.

Indeed, it is impossible to see the level of a player's ability completely from training. The test of a player's true ability still needs to be on the field, and the position of the goalkeeper is very special.

In other positions of players, there are so-called teenagers who become famous. They can get on the field at a young age and show their talents. For example, the "Argentine Ronaldo" Ocampos who Monaco just signed.

This Argentine genius is two years younger than Li Shou, and he has to wait another month to join Monaco, but he has already made a small name in world football through his performance.

There are countless such examples in world football, but goalkeepers are completely different. In today's world football, there are only a few who become famous at a young age.

The older generation Buffon made his debut at the age of 17, and became the main force at the age of 19, occupying the world's first goal for nearly ten years.

Mesozoic Neuer, who made his debut at the age of 20 and became the main force at the age of 21, is currently the No.1 goalkeeper of the Mesozoic generation.

The new generation of De Gea, who made his debut at the age of 18 and was firmly established as the main force at the age of 20, was poached by Manchester United at a high price in the summer transfer a year ago.

There is another condition for these people to be able to secure the main force at a young age, that is, the main goalkeeper is injured. Other positions on the court will be injured more or less after a season, but the goalkeeper is the least likely to be injured among all positions on the field.

As long as the main goalkeeper is not injured, the substitute goalkeeper has no chance, so compared with other positions, the goalkeeper needs more luck.

But luck is only part of it. It takes a strong heart to seize the opportunity to become an excellent goalkeeper. Other players can make mistakes, allow mistakes, and even save their own mistakes.

But the goalkeeper does not have this right. If the goalkeeper makes a mistake, it almost means that the goal he is guarding is lost. Once the goalkeeper loses the goal, the goalkeeper will face huge pressure and even doubt himself

This is also the reason why Catalano warned Li Shou to "never lose confidence in yourself" before the trial training, especially for young people like Li Shou.

Therefore, the goalkeeper still has to renew his contract to a certain extent. When he is older, he will have more experience, and with more experience, he will become more mature, and his mentality will also change when he matures.

The goalkeeper is special not only because he is the only two-handed player on the pitch, but also because he has very high demands in all aspects, especially in terms of heart and spirit.

"Then give him a contract." Following Ranieri's words, Li Shou officially embarked on the road of a professional player and became a real player.

More than an hour later, Benetti walked out of Ranieri's office, and when he returned to the training ground again, the trial players ushered in their final fate.

Uneasy, nervous, and expectant, all eyes were on the assistant coach for a while, and Li Shou was naturally among them.

"Li Shou~~~" Benetti didn't talk nonsense, and started calling someone directly, and everyone knew very well what it meant to be called by his name at this moment.

"Yes~~~" Li Shou has confidence in himself. Maybe he is not as good as those top goalkeepers, but he is very clear that he has advantages that others do not have, and he has only one competitor among the trial players at the moment.

Although there were two goalkeepers in the confrontation two weeks ago, it was Ranieri's purpose to inspect the young Sulzak, which means that Li Shou's real competitor was the old goalkeeper.

The football world is cruel, and Li Shou realized this for the first time at this moment. There were more than 20 people in the trial training, but the assistant coach only called three people by their names.

Goalkeeper Li Shou, and the remaining two are central defenders, Andre Lagi from Italy, who played for Bologna in Serie A last season, and the other named Carl Medjani, who played for Ajaccio last season and was promoted to Ligue [-]. Ajaccio has returned to Ligue [-] this season.

Speaking of which, these two people have a very good relationship with Li Shou. In three of the four duels, these two stood in front of Li Shou, and these three duels were also won by a party of three.

"You can call your agent over to discuss the contract" One thought of heaven and one thought of hell were talking about this moment.

Although Benetti began to comfort other players, it was clear that Benetti's comfort was nonexistent. Those who failed to get the contract could only silently pack their things and look for the next one.

"Lee, Andre, let's have a meal together to celebrate tonight." These two weeks of trial training have cultivated a good relationship between the several people, not to mention that the three have now received a positive answer from Monaco.

For this invitation, Li Shou couldn't wish for it. It's not because he wanted to eat this meal. After all, Li Shou became a monk halfway through, and he didn't understand many things, so he could just ask the two of them for advice.

(End of this chapter)