There is a dream called football

Chapter 21 Football is a Pyramid

100 kids stand on the field for the last time, and for most of them, life at training camp is over.

Those children who did not make the cut cried secretly last night. This was the first setback in their lives.

Football is different from other fields. It is difficult to get into Tsinghua University, but at least you can repeat it. In 5 or 10 years, you can be as persistent as Fan Jinzhongju, but football is not good. If you are not in your early 20s, it will be too late.

Everyone understands that there will be no next chance. The atmosphere at the scene is a bit sad, and the moods of the winners and losers are very different.

Saki appeared, the sun shining brightly on his bald head, and he came in front of the crowd.

After snapping his fingers, he ordered the staff to distribute gifts to everyone.

"This is a wish from the club. I wish you all the best in the days to come."

Someone couldn't hold back and shed tears.

Sacchi said with a smile: "Children, maybe you think this is cruel, but in fact this is football."

"In Italy, starting from U9, U11, U13, U15, until U19, some people will be eliminated every year. In the end, only about 10% of people can play professional football, and only 10% of these 10% can play in the first division."

Saki stretched out three fingers, "The realm of football is divided into three layers."

"The lowest level is to learn to play football, which is not difficult, you have all learned it."

"The second level is to play professional football. Unfortunately, this is very difficult, and only a small number of people can."

"The last level is to understand the philosophy of football. This may only be achieved by Baggio, Zidane and others."

"So don't cry, there is only one Baggio, and there is only one Zidane, but there are thousands of people who play football. Without you, there would be no professional football today. Applause for yourselves."

Saki applauded first, and he slapped hard, as if trying to cheer for the children with all his strength.

Under the leadership of Saki, the sparse applause became orderly and loud.

"Boys, believe me, football will change your life, football teaches us a sense of responsibility that you don't learn in school."

"The goalkeeper has the responsibility of the goalkeeper, the defender has the responsibility of the defender..."

"Football also teaches us courage, whether physical or mental pain ultimately pushes you forward and becomes a stronger individual."

"In Italy footballers are classified as artists, which I agree with because football is beautiful."

"Finally and most importantly, football teaches us to experience a beautiful life, and that sentence, may your life be wonderful."

Sacchi announced the list of finalists.

"The ten lucky ones will fly to Madrid a month later, that is, on August 8. In La Fabrica, everything is the same as here, except that you are facing the strongest opponents from Europe, South America, and Africa."

"Go dream, in the end 10 people will join the Real Madrid youth team."

"Go dream!"

Sacchi brought out the passion of the Italians, and everyone was fired up, and maybe nothing can do it except football.

*****
Back in Guangzhou, Lei Wen finally convinced his parents, but how did he do it?As the only child in the family, if he really insisted, his parents couldn't do anything about it. Besides, it was Real Madrid, and it was not easy to inquire about it casually.

A small court for usual training.

Lei Wen wore earphones and listened to English while playing football. The written test in Madrid a month later was in English, but he could bring a dictionary, but he also had to have a good foundation in English.

On the other side, Li Qiao popped out a few Spanish words from time to time.

"hola."

"Hello."

"gracias."

"Thank you."

……

"Raven, Spanish is much more difficult than English."

Raven took off his earphones, "The possibility of us staying in Spain is slim, isn't it a little too early for you to start learning Spanish?"

Li Qiao said with a smile: "Look, you are here again, can you have some dreams?"

Lei Wen gave a thumbs up, as if to say, you are awesome, I will not argue with you.

"By the way, Castilla's training video must be watched every day."

Raven nodded.

As the 10 children who can go to Madrid, Li Qiao and Lei Wen are all privileged. They can log in to Real Madrid’s internal network every day and watch the training video of Castilla (Real Madrid’s second team). Of course, the training video of Real Madrid’s first team is strictly confidential and cannot be seen by outsiders.

"Li Qiao, I think Real Madrid's training pace is very fast. If we want to keep up, we have to work harder."

"Yes, one is confrontation, and the other is physical fitness."

Speaking of which, Li Qiao took out a recipe, "I asked my dad to ask a nutritionist from his hospital to write it for me."

Lei Wen took a look, there were raw eggs, medium-ripe beef, milk, vegetables, soda water and so on.

There are also fried foods that cannot be eaten. Fried chicken, French fries, and hamburgers must be quit. In addition, alcohol is not allowed, and it is best not to drink at all.

"Strict enough, this French fries are my favorite, do I have to quit in the future?"

"If you want to have a strong body, you can only eat a high-protein, high-fiber, low-fat diet."

Lei Wen nodded. In China, the physical disadvantage was already obvious. When he arrived in Madrid, facing those children in Europe and Africa, his thin body really had to give up.

In addition to diet, another very important thing is training. To build muscles, a lot of exercise is the only way.

"Lei Wen, from now on we will get up at 5 o'clock every morning, go to climb Baiyun Mountain, and go up the mountain while juggling the ball."

"Okay, starting from tomorrow, don't be lazy on the bed."

"Hey, don't worry."

*****
In Baiyun Mountain, the 56-year-old old man Zhao is carrying the load. There are some drinks and food in the box. Almost every famous mountain and great river has such a porter to satisfy the tourists who come and go to buy something to eat and drink.

But in the past few days, Uncle Zhao can always see two teenagers running up the mountain with a ball bouncing on this mountain road.

At first they didn't care, but these two young people would buy a bottle of water from old man Zhao every time as a little support.

Uncle Zhao finally couldn't hold back his curiosity this day and asked, "Are you all professional players?"

"No, but we're going to be pros."

Hearing such an answer, Old Man Zhao always felt warm in his heart, because he is also a fan, but he hates iron but not steel.

Looking at the boy's back, Uncle Zhao said with a smile: "If there are more children like this in China, then let alone participating in the World Cup, how difficult is it to win the World Cup?"

But what old man Zhao didn't expect was that many years later, when he saw these two young people again, he would be even more surprised.

(End of this chapter)