Beast King Costa

Chapter 238 Header Relay
"Why is your Chinese so good?"

Standing beside Diego, Zhou Haibin was seriously curious about the outside world: "Are there many foreign people like you who speak Chinese so well?"

"Uh……"

After thinking for a while, Diego shook his head helplessly and said, "Chinese is too poor, and there are very few foreigners like me who are talented in languages."

"Really? Then besides Chinese, Portuguese, and English, can you speak other things?"

"Also, a little bit of Spanish."

After the season ended, Diego began to learn Spanish to prepare for a future move to La Liga - anyway, he will definitely play for a man who is similar to the "bandit leader" in the future, so he should learn Spanish as soon as possible. I will be able to communicate with that man more smoothly in the future.

"Well... so, what language does Holland speak?"

"The Netherlands of course speaks Dutch."

"Well, what about the living environment in the Netherlands?"

"Holland... I don't know. Uh..."

All right!At this moment, Diego realized that the defensive player beside him, the No. 18 Zhou Haibin of the Shandong team, was also a member of the Chinese army studying abroad in later generations-in 2009, Zhou Haibin officially transferred to Eindhoven. Wen, but it is a pity that Zhou Haibin did not play for PSV's first team.

I saw Diego tentatively asking: "Are you yearning for the Netherlands?"

"It's okay, I don't know exactly where the Netherlands is."

Zhou Haibin, who had just turned 20 years old at this time, smiled shyly: "It's just that some clubs in the Netherlands have always been very interested in me and hoped that I would go for trial training. But the club felt that my physical development, footwork skills, and game experience were still a bit weak. I hope I can practice steadily for two more years before going to the Netherlands for trial training."

"I see!"

Diego continued to ask: "Is it because Eindhoven is interested in you?"

"Well, if I'm right, it shouldn't be PSV! It's Vidis, AZ Alkmaar... Oh! There's also a Dutch second division team called Venlo."

Diego knows the three Dutch teams that Zhou Haibin mentioned.

Venlo in Dutch second is the first stop for Japanese star Keisuke Honda to land in Europe.After Keisuke Honda led the team to the Eredivisie in Venlo, he moved to the Russian giants CSKA Moscow.

Vidis was the first stop for Zhang Yuning to land in Europe. Most importantly, Zhang Yuning played the main role in Vidis.It's just a pity that due to various reasons, Xiao Zhang Yuning did not persist in Vidis for too long. After moving to Werder Bremen and Den Haag, he returned to China to play football.

As for Alkmaar, that is a fantastic small town team!
In the 2008-2009 season, Dutch marshal Van Gaal took this small-town team with less than 8000 seats at home to beat the three giants of Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord, and won the championship. The season's Dutch first division champion!
Although Van Gaal's subsequent coaching in the Premier League was not successful, and was even ridiculed by fans as "parallel imports", the coaching ability of the Dutch coach is beyond doubt.

Therefore, Diego immediately gave a pertinent suggestion.

"I think AZ Alkmaar is a very good team! If you are willing to study abroad, you should consider this team. If the three giants of the Eredivisie in the future are Ajax, PSV, and Feyenoord, If a team invites you to join, I don’t think you need to consider them. For you, the most important thing about studying abroad is that you can play football, not which team you go to play for.”

"Really? I really hope to study abroad, thank you for your suggestion!"

"Need not……"

Before the words were spoken, a long ball from the Benfica midfielder flew toward Diego's head, and Diego immediately jumped into the battle.

However, Zhou Haibin also reacted very quickly.

Since there was no way to grab the ball before Diego, Zhou Haibin immediately subconsciously made a tactical foul on Diego—he hugged Diego from behind, although the movement was a little "basic". Shooting all over the place", but it can be regarded as simple and rude to stop Diego's progress.

"Phew... sorry!"

Although he received a yellow card for this action, Zhou Haibin didn't care. After all, if Diego caught the ball and threw off his own defense, the Shandong team's defense would face great pressure.

After the foul, he politely apologized to Diego.

But this action was very protective, so Diego didn't blame Zhou Haibin either. Diego patted Zhou Haibin on the shoulder and said friendly that he was fine.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Benfica got a chance to set the ball in the frontcourt!
However, this set kick was a little far from the Shandong team's goal, so both Beto and Nelson decided not to waste this set kick opportunity to hit the goal directly.

After all, there is not only Diego as a high point in the penalty area.

And David Lewis!

For this Brazilian player who just landed in Europa, Benfica players were surprised to find that David Luiz can be called a "defender with a knife"-not only can he score a heavy free kick, but he can also He is also quite good at playing drop ball and competing for headers in the penalty area.

Therefore, when the team has a chance to set the ball in the frontcourt, David Luiz will definitely participate in the header battle in the penalty area.

"Beep..."

With the referee's whistle sounded.

Beto and Nelson both stepped on in small steps at the same time.

However, Beto was just pretending, and Nelson was the one who took the free kick!
"Boom..."

Nelson directly hoisted into the penalty area with one kick. What he was looking for was not Diego, but the top of David Luiz's head in the penalty area!
At this time, it was the Shandong team's high center forward Igor who was man-marking David Luiz.

Facing Igor, who is as tall as 190 centimeters, David Luiz did not take any advantage in the fight for the top.

However, David Luiz did not directly head the goal.

I saw David Luiz flicking the header and throwing the ball in front of Diego on the other side.

Diego didn't even need to take off, he directly headed the ball in the double-team of Liu Jindong and Bassin!
Because he was too close to the goal, Li Leilei had no time to react!

1 is better than 0!

David Luiz and Diego, the young recruits of the two teams, completed the header relay to break the deadlock!

"it is good!!!"

Fernando Santos on the sidelines happily walked to the sidelines to applaud his players.

This set of positioning ball header relay tactics is one of Fernando Santos' masterpieces on the tactical board.

The two high points are in the penalty area, and the opponent is often hard to defend - the player who is marked by the opponent's high point acts as a "bridgehead" for the player on the other side, assisting the other high point to complete the end of the set kick attack!

(End of this chapter)