i am a football star

Chapter 8 Laurent Blanc

Liu Ting finally entered the Clairefontaine training base in Bordeaux as he wished. It is a very ordinary training base surrounded by barbed wire. It is much smaller than the Gamper Sports City training base in Barcelona, ​​but it is still larger than the La Masia youth training camp.

In Europe, the youth training camps of most clubs are in the training bases. Only the giants have separate training bases and youth training camps, but most of them are next to each other. Barcelona is one of the rare training bases and youth training camps that are far away.

Liu Ting went to the equipment administrator according to Diarra's instructions, asked for the training uniform, and chose the number of the jersey. Marginal people like Liu Ting could only choose some large numbers. In the end, Liu Ting chose the number 25, which was the same as his own birthday. However, Liu Ting took the equipment administrator and told him about the name on the back of his jersey.

Soon the players of the Bordeaux team came to the Clairefontaine training base one after another. Liu Ting met his new teammates under the introduction of captain Diarra.

"Hey guys, our team signed a young guy yesterday, let's get to know each other." Diarra called everyone over and introduced Liu Ting one by one.

"This is the team's main goalkeeper, Ulrich Lame, who has been with the team for 10 years."

"Hi, I'm Liu Ting."

"This is the team's central defender Mark Planus, who has been playing for Bordeaux since 01."

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According to Diarra's introduction, Liu Ting quickly recognized his teammates in Bordeaux.

The main goalkeeper is Ulrich Lame, a Frenchman who has played in Bordeaux for many years. He only secured his position as the main goalkeeper last season. The substitute goalkeeper is Matiou Valverde, who is also French.

The main left back on the back line is the Frenchman Frank Giulieti, the main partners of the center back are the Frenchman Marc Planus and the Senegalese Soleimani Diawara, and the main right back is the Frenchman Matiou Chalmé.

The midfield mainly includes the team captain Frenchman Arlau Diarra, Brazilians Wendel and Fernando, Argentine Alessandro Alonso, veteran John Micoud and so on.Brazilians have a long list of names, which are usually abbreviated. For example, the full name of the alien Ronaldo is Ronaldo Luis Nazario da Lima, and he is generally called Ronaldo. The same is true for the two Brazilians in the team. Wendell’s full name is Wendell Geraldo Mauricio Silva. Brazilians’ names are usually called by the first syllable.

There are Argentinian Fernando Cavinaghi, Frenchman David Berlion, Moroccan Maroni Chamak, Frenchman Gabriel Obertin, Brazilian Viela, and Liu Ting on the front line. There are a total of six forwards.

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Soon, the coaching staff arrived and the day's training officially began.

Liu Ting was arranged to sit on the sidelines, and the main team and the substitute team were engaged in group confrontation practice on the court. This arrangement showed that he was not even considered as a substitute in the coach's mind.In fact, this is indeed the case. Blanc plans to let Liu Ting train in the first team for two days, and his performance is generally sent directly to the youth team. Anyway, he is only 18 years old, and it is normal for him to be sent to the youth team.

Liu Ting sat on the sidelines, watching the offensive and defensive drills on the court, and knew that since he was still sitting here, it meant that he still had a chance to be a substitute.The head coach Laurent Blanc was born as a defender. His player era was successful. The national team has long been the main central defender of the national team. He won the World Cup champion held in France in 98 and the European Cup champion in 2000. He is a meritorious star in French football.In terms of clubs, Blanco is also considered outstanding. He has played for Naples, Barcelona, ​​Inter Milan and Manchester United. He was 36 years old when he joined Manchester United. It is said that Ferguson himself could not introduce Blanco in his early years. He was worried and finally brought Blanco to Old Trafford at the end of his career. However, Blanco is 36 years old and retired after two years of mediocrity at Manchester United.

The French will definitely remember Blanco deeply. He has a habit of kissing the French bald goalkeeper Barthez's big bald head before the national team game. In the 98 World Cup, Blanco scored a "golden goal" against Paraguay in the eighth-final match to help the French team eliminate Paraguay. At that time, the golden goal system was implemented in international competitions, that is, after the two teams drew within 90 minutes and entered overtime, whichever team first scored the opponent's goal would end the game immediately.

Blanco killed Paraguay with a golden ball in the absence of Zidane's suspension in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, he met Croatia led by Davo Suker, who claims to be able to play the violin with his left foot. The French team won 2:1.Before the start of the final, Blanco could only sit on the sidelines in a suit. When the French team entered the field, Blanco walked over to hug Barthez’s bald head and kissed as usual.

Although Ronaldo, the core of the Brazilian team, had a sudden illness before the game and performed poorly on the court, Denilson took over the banner of Brazil's offense and once tested the French team's defense.Barthez deservedly became the best goalkeeper in the French World Bar.

Blanco is definitely a famous star defender in French history.

Although he was born as a defender, after retiring as a head coach, Blanco's coaching style is more offensive, and he is good at leading the team to play offensive football.According to Liu Ting’s memory, Blanco’s future coaching career will be absolutely successful. He will lead Bordeaux to break Lyon’s seven-year monopoly on the Ligue 08 championship in the 09/10 season.

Because he led Paris to continuously fail to break through the quarter-finals of the Champions League and reach the semi-finals, he dismissed get out of class. Afterwards, Blanco also had scandals with Inter Milan and Barcelona.

Laurent Blanc is definitely a capable head coach.

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On the sidelines, Laurent Blanc is watching the team's training with his assistant Jean-Louis Gasset.It is now August 8rd, and tomorrow is the day when the first round of Ligue 3 starts.

"Is it okay for Cavinaghi to be injured in the America's Cup? It seems that we will let Vieira play in tomorrow's game." The assistant coach said his opinion.

"Well, Berlion is in good form. Tomorrow's game needs him to help the team. Both Viela and Chamark can play. We need to watch again." Blanco said.

"Aren't you going to let that Chinese kid play to see his performance?" Gasset saw Liu Ting next to him.

"Wait a little longer."

Blanco really didn't take Liu Ting seriously. He was just a kid who was abandoned by Barcelona. Even if he was a genius, the most important thing in football is a genius who has become an ordinary person. Such things happen every day, and every team has such examples.

Liu Ting is on the sidelines. According to his understanding of Bordeaux and Blanco, Bordeaux will mainly play 442 and 433 formations, both of which are attack-oriented. The Argentines Fernando Cavinaghi and David Bellion will be the main partners on the front line, and the others on the front line will be used as rotations.Cavinaghi has excellent ball-handling ability, good field awareness and shooting. He was the core of the Argentine team in the 03 World Youth Championship. He won the Golden Boot of the World Youth Championship.However, he is obviously driving high and low, and now he can only play for Bordeaux.This summer Cavinaghi went back to participate in the Copa America. Although he was only a marginal substitute in the Argentine national team, he still had to go back, but he was injured in training and had to rest for two months. Cavinaghi will not be able to play the first few games of the new season.

Berlion once played for Manchester United, but was given up by Manchester United. His strength is fair, and his characteristic is his fast speed. Back then, Ferguson saw Wenger get a treasure like Henry, and he also came to bet on the talent of the French player to buy Berlion. However, it is obvious that not everyone can become Henry, but Berlion can still play a main position in Bordeaux now.

Among the others, Moroccan striker Chamark is the biggest competitor. Liu Ting knows that he will go to Arsenal for two years in the future, so he should still have some ability.

Morocco is an African country, located in northern Africa, very close to Europe, and it is a different country from Monaco, where Liu Ting's nationality is located.The classic Hollywood movie "Casablanca" was filmed in Morocco, also known as "North African Spy".

At the same time, the Brazilian Viela and Gabriel Obertin, a young player produced by Bordeaux's own youth training, are also competitors.

When Liu Ting was thinking about his situation, he heard someone calling himself: "Hey, Liu, warm up, it's time for you to play."

It was the voice of assistant coach Jean Gasset.

Liu Ting went to the sidelines to warm up for about 10 minutes and replaced Obertin on the field. Obertin was obviously upset, and he sat on the bench without shaking hands with Liu Ting.

Liu Ting held back his mouth, this guy is too straightforward, how does the coach think of you with such a shameless face?

Sure enough, Blanco's expression on the sidelines was not very good. If this happened in an official game, I don't know how those newspapers would arrange the discord in the Bordeaux dressing room.

(End of this chapter)