Xu Zhu's Successor's Football Journey

Chapter 4 Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city in central England, located in the West Midlands metropolitan area, 37 kilometers northwest of Birmingham, with a population of [-].

It is Wang Li's next goal. After arriving in this bustling city, he came directly to Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, referred to as Wolves, was founded in 1877 and is a founding member of the Football League. Its home stadium is Molineux Stadium.

In May of this year, Wolverhampton won No.3 in the English Champions League and successfully promoted through the play-offs, so the fans in this city are very happy. They have not seen Wolverhampton for a long time. The Puton team is playing in the top league. For crazy England fans, it is obviously a very honorable thing for their favorite team to play in the top league.

Woodgate Bryan is the head coach of the Wolverhampton Youth Army. He has worked here for more than [-] years. He loves everything about the club from the bottom of his heart.

However, he has worked here for so many years, but he has only trained Steve Bauer, an England international, which makes him a little regretful.The responsibility of the head coach of the youth team is to train young players and replenish blood for the club's first team. Even though he feels that his coaching level is not inferior to other coaches, other people don't think so. This is by no means the achievement of a high-level youth army coach.

September is the start of the Premier League, and the youth team also needs to participate in the England Youth League, the FA Youth Cup and other events, so Woodgate has been very busy recently.

At the moment, he is observing the internal training match of the Wolverhampton youth team from the sidelines of the court. This kind of confrontation allows him to fully understand the technical level of each player, so as to select the young players who will face Manchester United in the FA Youth Cup in England three days later. The team's participating players, although he has no hope for this game at all.

At this time, a staff member walked towards him quickly, Woodgate turned his head suspiciously, and asked, "What's the matter, Paul?"

The young man named Paul took a heavy breath and said slowly: "There is a young man with a letter of introduction from Thom Stephen, who wants to come to Wolverhampton for a trial training. Let me ask your opinion. .”

"Oh?" Woodgate thought for a while, and Tom Stephen was still trustworthy, so he ordered: "Go and call him in!"

"Okay, sir."

Wang Li stood in front of the club door with a blank face and kicked his hands. After a while, he saw Paul walking straight towards him.

"Let's go, young man, you are so lucky. It seems that Mr. Brian is in a good mood today. He wants to see you in person." Paul patted him on the shoulder and said.Although he didn't know the strength of the young man in front of him, but his courage to come to Wolverhampton alone to request a trial training made him feel more fond of the black-haired boy in front of him.

Wang Li nodded and followed Paul to the club.

While walking, he found that the public facilities here were a bit old, and some places even overflowed with rust, which was obviously not as good as the Blackburn Club in this respect.

True, Wolverhampton are no match for traditional Premier League teams.Its history is a history of ups and downs in football. Just a year ago, they were still participating in the English Champions League. Although they were successfully promoted in May this year, the excess funds have to be invested in the transfer market to strengthen the team. The strength of the team, and there is no extra funds to improve the training facilities and infrastructure of the youth team.

After the two arrived at the small stadium, Wang Li saw Woodgate standing on the sidelines. He was writing something in a notebook in his hand. He looked about sixty years old and looked very kind. I hope he can succeed this time. .

After meeting, Paul introduced: "Mr. Bryan, this is the young man who wants to try out. His name is Wang Li."

After speaking, he turned his head and introduced to Wang Li: "This is the head coach of the Wolverhampton youth team, Mr. Woodgate Bryan."

Woodgate looked carefully at the black-haired young man in front of him, and said with a smile, "Hello, young man."

"Hello, dear sir."

Woodgate nodded, and asked directly, "Are you Stephen's student? Want to come to Wolverhampton for a trial training?"

"Yes, sir, I'm from the Arsenal football school and Stephen is my coach. After graduation, he recommended me to come here for a trial."

"But why didn't you join the Arsenal youth team?" Woodgate asked with some doubts.

Wang Li looked at the kind old man in front of him, and answered bluntly: "Because they look down on me, they said they don't need a striker anymore, and I happen to be a striker."

Woodgate nodded in satisfaction. He hates young people lying the most. If this young man says he does not want to join Arsenal, it is definitely a lie. How many children living in the Holloway area are not Arsenal fans? I can count on my fingers.

"Okay, kid, then I'll give you a chance."

After Paul heard this, he said to Woodgate: "Sir, then I will take him to do the basic test, young man, come with me." After speaking, he was ready to take Wang Li and leave.

At this time, Woodgate waved his hand and said: "No, no, that kind of useless test is saying for a while, look at the children on the court who are working hard."

Paul was stunned, as if he didn't understand what Coach Woodgate meant. Could it be that they were allowed to watch the game here?
Wang Li smiled knowingly, let me directly participate in the team training game?That's not bad, at least I don't need to do those boring tests. Although my positioning and awareness are poor, but with my dribbling and speed, I can at least become an excellent speed winger in the youth team.

Old Wood frowned, he really had nothing to say to this Paul, how could there be such a stupid person in Wolverhampton, I don't know how he got into the club.

"That is to say, let him directly join the team for training!" He added.

Paul scratched his head with a smile, and said with some compliments: "Really, why didn't I think of it, Mr. Brian, you are so smart, no wonder you can become the head coach."

After hearing this, Old Wood raised his head in satisfaction. Although this Paul is usually not very smart, he is still very good at talking.

Wang Li next to him almost burst out laughing, is this a foreigner's "horse"? It's too blatant.
"So young man, which position do you play exactly?" Old Wood turned his head and asked.

"Right winger." Wang Li said bluntly. In fact, he does not have a fixed position. He is not the Wang Li of the past, and his skills are of course different from him.

"Okay then." After finishing speaking, he yelled towards the court: "Ryan, come down and let the guy next to me go up and try."

(End of this chapter)