Grass roots glory

Chapter 62 Towards the Real Ruhr Derby
Marcel Leff, the commentator of German National TV, also opened his mouth wide and uttered strange cries of "Ah!"He kept sighing: "WOW! WOW! This is an absolute dead end that all goalkeepers can't do anything about. It's even more unimaginable that such an exquisite shot came from a big man with the height of a central defender."

At this time, the rebroadcaster was right in the close-up of the celebration. Marcel Leff’s last wave of astonishment hadn’t subsided, and he immediately shouted excitedly: “Oh, God! Everyone, such a shot came from a yellow-skinned guy. Asian young man. With his foot, it will not be surprising if he enters the Schalke first team one day and wins more attention, but where is he from? South Korea or Japan?...Haha! If he is from China, imagine it, it would be really interesting!"

Marcel Leif only took it as a joke, and never thought that it was just a coincidence that what he said was true.

But Zhou Tiancheng has no time to pay attention to these for the time being, the score on the field is the only factor that can affect his emotions.

Schalke U19 responded in a short time, declaring that this game will definitely not show a one-sided trend.

Derby has always been evenly matched to be exciting.Schalke and Dortmund are currently ranked the top two in the Western Division standings. The collision of the two youth training teams representing the highest level in the Western Conference must be you and me.

However, it suffered a loss at the beginning. Whether it was Schalke U19 or Zhou Tiancheng himself, they all paid special attention to maintaining the distance on the field.As long as the opponent's core figure, Ge Ce, does not go deep into the core position within 30 meters in front of the penalty area, Zhou Tiancheng always keeps a distance of about one step from him.This is also a last resort.Zhou Tiancheng's current physical confrontation has not yet reached the level where he can squeeze Goetze and can't pass the ball at all, and the speed at his feet can't take advantage, so he can only take the initiative to leave some space and seek to strike later.

At the same time, Elgort also consciously shifted the focus of midfield defense to Gotze. Zhou Tiancheng got the timely help of his teammates in the defense. He no longer faced Gotze one-on-one, and his defensive success rate was greatly improved.

The problem was quickly thrown to Dortmund's U19 coach Ecker. From these details, it can be seen that the reason why Schalke has been called the "king of youth training" in the Bundesliga for the past ten years is not only the advanced concept of youth training, but also In terms of adaptability at the youth team level, he also has a strong team temperament.

But the only regret is that apart from Zhou Tiancheng's impressive long-range shooting skills, Jiang Hao didn't have many bright spots today.Obviously, Dortmund has noticed his continuous scoring in recent rounds. Not only did he arrange a full-back player in the central defender position, specifically targeting his speed, but the goalkeeper also consciously attacked in a wide range frequently.Even though Jiang Hao worked hard, he could only achieve nothing in the end.The fiery state of scoring four consecutive games came to an abrupt end.

But at the end of the game, the score of 1:1 has not changed.A draw, although the two teams are hardly satisfied, they can barely accept it.

In the derby, a draw should be considered the most "peaceful" result to everyone's satisfaction.

And after this game, on the second night, it was the Bundesliga focus game that the whole of Germany and even Europe was paying attention to.Schalke 04 vs Dortmund at home!

Between the first team, a veritable Ruhr Derby!
According to the club's practice, all key battles will be watched on-site by the subordinate youth echelons.Among them, the U19 echelon is the easiest echelon to be assigned. After all, many people in this team will be added to the first team in the near future, so the club very much hopes that they can see as many big scenes as possible.

In addition to the derby in the Ruhr area, such as the last round of the Bundesliga last season to determine the championship, Schalke 04 also allowed the U19 echelon to feel the atmosphere at home.Although the championship failed in the end, Zhou Tiancheng, who had just arrived, was shocked by the atmosphere of going to the Schalke Stadium that day.After tens of thousands of people shouted in the stands, he felt that he was getting closer to Schalke 04.

This is the second time for Zhou Tiancheng to walk into the Schalke Stadium. When they arrived an hour before the game, the outside of the stadium was already packed, because Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen are only half an hour away, so they came from a long way to go to the away game There are not a few "Bumblebee" fans.It is inevitable that two groups of fans will meet, it is like a collision between different beliefs, different ways do not conspire with each other, and those who roll their eyes and leave are all qualified and civilized people. Together.Although there are a large number of security personnel, it is simply a drop in the bucket compared to fans who want to make trouble.Even some police officers were estimated to be Schalke 04 fans. They saw three or five Schalke fans besieging a Dortmund fan, obviously right under their noses, but pretended to be selectively blind.

Zhou Tiancheng had always grown up in a relatively stable environment in China, had he ever seen such a large-scale group conflict happen just a dozen meters away from him?So he asked: "I'm going, it's so chaotic, so many policemen don't care?"

Jiang Hao's reaction was different. As long as he didn't bully himself, this guy always had an expression that he didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement.

Felman heard Zhou Tiancheng's doubts. As a "comer", he explained to Zhou Tiancheng: "Zhou, you can get used to it in the future. This is our grievance with Dortmund. Well, don't you have an adjective in China? The grievances and grievances in the world, as long as no one dies, the police will not care about it."

Zhou Tiancheng felt that studying in Germany in the past few years was useless. He always thought that Germans were just like those professors and tutors in the school, with a rigorous and rigid style.Now it seems that the crazy side of the Germans is enough to kill France in seconds!
This was just Zhou Tiancheng's impromptu emotion. As the game started, he, like all the tens of thousands of fans at the scene, threw himself into the unreserved shouting.

However, the trend of this game is not as intense as everyone imagined.To be more precise, to surprise everyone.

Sitting at home, Schalke 04 was in full swing, leading 2-0 at the end of halftime, and even pursued the victory in the second half, beating Dortmund 4:1, creating the biggest victory in history.

When central defender Westermann scored twice with a header and scored the fourth goal to seal the conclusion, all the fans in the audience stood up and cheered his name wildly.

Zhou Tiancheng also stood up and applauded, but his eyes were full of determination.He remembers seeing pictures of Westerman in the team's youth training honor room. He is also a central defender. Westerman has not changed his position yet, and he can enjoy the cheers of the audience by scoring twice in the Ruhr Derby. .

What about yourself?
Goals in the youth Ruhr Derby should be just the beginning.

The position Westerman is in now is his dream goal.

(End of this chapter)