I Want to Be the King of Football

Francisco Pavin, 23-year-old central defender, standard Madridist.

He has been trained in the Real Madrid youth training camp since he was a child, and he climbed up one echelon and finally entered the first team.

He still clearly remembers that on the night of October 6, 2001, coach Bosque used him to replace the youth academy Raul Bravo at the 70th minute. It was his first team in Real Madrid. In their debut, the team beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0.

In the winter break two months later, Real Madrid signed him a seven-year contract extension.

Almost at the same time, Real Madrid president Florentino formally proposed the Zidane + Pavin policy.

Overnight, the young academy player became famous all over the world and caused a huge response.

Who is Pavin?

How can his name be tied with Zidane?

Pavin never thought that he would become famous in this way, and he never thought that the pressure brought by this way of fame would be so great, even big enough to destroy a person's self-confidence.

Bosque is a good person. He has coached Real Madrid's youth team for a long time. He loves Real Madrid very much. He often uses his rest time to watch the training and games of the youth team. He understands Real Madrid's youth training and trusts its players.

Playing under Bosque, Pavin is conscientious and walks on thin ice. Although it is controversial, it is still quite satisfactory.

But who would have thought that even Real Madrid like Bosque would be dismissed.

Although Florentino has repeatedly emphasized that the introduction of Queiroz is to value his ability to cultivate young players, and hope that he can cultivate a group of young players like Real Madrid, but everyone knows that it is false.

In fact, Real Madrid chose Queiroz after poaching famous coaches such as Wenger and Ancelotti.

One superstar a year has brought huge benefits to Real Madrid. The team has been relieved from the financial pressure in 2001. Especially with the joining of Beckham this summer, Real Madrid's future financial income is even more promising. , In this case, in the blueprint of President Florentino, what is needed is more Zidane, where is Pavin needed?

Therefore, this summer, the voices of introducing world-class central defenders such as Nesta and Samuel are endless.

Although it did not succeed in the end, it also sounded the alarm for young players such as Pavin.

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The team’s finances are limited, and the transfer budget is mostly invested in the superstars in the frontcourt, but from now on, Real Madrid has enough financial resources to take into account the introduction of superstars in the frontcourt and strong reinforcements in the backcourt.

If Pavin wants to continue to gain a firm foothold in the team, he must perform well enough.

As a native of Real Madrid, Pavin has a very clear understanding of his own situation, so he worked very hard throughout the summer training camp.

But things did not change for the better because of his efforts.

The old captain Hiero is gone!

Elgra began to be Pavin's partner at centre-back.

This player from northern Spain has a sturdy and fierce style of play, but he was born in the midfield and is not tall, only 1.84 meters. The defense is very problematic.

In the season when Elgra established himself at Real Madrid, he actually played a central defender, but he was not a central defender.

For two thousand years, Bosque put out the Real Madrid first team, drastically changed the team's tactics and adopted a five-back tactic, and the most thoughtful move was to withdraw Elgra from the midfield to the central defender and serve as a scavenger.

This set of play completely reversed the weakness of Real Madrid that season, and reached the Champions League final all the way, and finally defeated Valencia to win the championship. Helgue also became famous and gained a firm foothold in the first team.

With the successive joining of superstars, Elgra's position is also between the midfielder and the central defender, but his problems always exist, so that some Spanish media joked, Elgra is the best of Casillas. Goalkeeper coach.

Pavin is good at rushing and fighting one-on-one with his opponents, but no defender can ensure that every rushing and defense can be successful, especially for a young central defender like Pavin, who is in a serious position like Real Madrid. Offensive and defensive teams.

There used to be a seasoned Hierro, but now it has become a half-way monk Elgra.

What's even worse is that the midfielder's barrier, Makelele, is gone!

From the pre-season warm-up, Pavin has clearly felt the intensification of the defensive pressure. He has also reacted with the head coach Queiros several times. The Portuguese head coach gave positive feedback and said that he would consider making Beckham a guest appearance. Back waist.

Can the combination of Cambiasso and Beckham work?

Pavin doesn't know.

But tonight, against the wolf-like Valencia away from home, Queiroz's single-back midfielder and small diamond-shaped midfield undoubtedly put a mountain of pressure on Real Madrid's backline, especially Pavin and Elle. Guerra.

Cambiasso is not Makelele at all.

In the case that the frontcourt superstars are not actively defending, Makelele can barely support, and Cambiasso is even more difficult.

Perhaps Cambiasso is worse than Makelele in terms of passing, receiving and controlling the ball in midfield, but in defense, especially when the opponent counterattacks quickly, Cambiasso plays a far greater role. Not as good as Makelele.

So that Pavin had to grab the ground again and again to make up for the weakness of the midfield.

He knew the danger. Every time he made a grab, he might make mistakes behind him, but he couldn't do anything about it.

Without blocking the midfield, should the opponent directly take the ball to face the back line and face the goal?

Pavin's only expectation is that Ronaldo and Zidane in front can break the opponent's goal as soon as possible.

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Real Madrid controlled the rhythm and possession of the game and created several chances.

First, Figo received Zidane's wonderful pass, and Palop flew to save the kicker in the penalty area.

But soon, Valencia changed colors.

It was Su Dong’s retreat again. He got the ball with his back and pressed Elgra to turn around and pick a pass. Aimar quickly plugged in, kicked his foot in the penalty area and hit the goal, but was saved by the goalkeeper Casillas.

The left winger Vicente followed up and shot again, and Casillas made a second save and saved the ball from the baseline again.

Facing Valencia's attack twice in a row, Casillas made two saves to keep Real Madrid's goal intact.

But after St. Cassie got up from the ground, the first thing he did was to yell at Pavin and other teammates who were chasing back, showing his dissatisfaction with the back line.

Pavin and Elgra could only bow their heads and carry the pot.

Four minutes later, the superstars in the frontcourt once again created a chance, and it was another straight pass from Zidane. Ronaldo successfully turned offside and received the ball in the penalty area to form a single-handed shot. When facing the attacking Palop , When the Brazilian stopped the ball with his left foot, he failed to control the ball under his feet and missed a great opportunity.

Everyone can see that he is fat and slow.

If it was Ronaldo at his peak, Palop would have no chance at all.

Of course, as the best defensive team in La Liga, Valencia's goal is not so easy to break.

Seeing that Ronaldo missed the opportunity, Pavin and Elgra glanced at each other, and both turned their attention to Su Dong.

This kid is Valencia's most troublesome player.

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The game continues.

After Valencia stabilized his position, he gradually exerted his strength.

They don't chase possession, the team keeps a compact formation, and once they grab the ball, they quickly go into counter-attacks.

This makes it particularly difficult for Real Madrid to cope, because the superstars in the frontcourt are basically not involved in defense.

Valencia's counterattack either went directly to the front court to find Su Dong, or it was assigned to the wing.

This time, Albelda sent a long pass to the left to find Vicente.

Vicente dribbled the ball forward along the left and quickly drew Salgado over.

Pavan maintains contact with Salgado while keeping an eye on Sudong.

When he saw Su Dong retreating and raising his hand for the ball, he immediately followed.

Vicente did not directly singled out Salgado, and obviously he was not sure to eat the Spain international. He made an emergency stop and smashed the ball to the middle, and quickly sent the ball to the feet of Su Dong, who was retreating.

Pavin rushed to Su Dong for the first time, trying to block behind him and prevent him from turning around.

But Su Dong was already prepared, and without stopping the ball, he directly knocked back Vicente's pass, and turned around and sprinted forward without hesitation.

Pavin's attention was first on the ball upwards. When he realized that something was wrong, he went to look for Su Dong, but found that Su Dong had already started to accelerate, which made him pale.

Especially when he saw Aimar catching up from behind, facing Su Dong's knocking back, he directly kicked the ball behind him.

Damn it!

It turned out to be such a cooperative routine!

Pavin shouted the name of his teammate Elgra and Ivan turned around immediately.

But at this time, Su Dong had already rushed to the front of the penalty area, and used his chest to pass Aimar's pick to the penalty area.

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Amid the exclamations of Valencia fans, Su Dong passed Pavin at the fastest speed and rushed to the front of the penalty area. After stopping the ball in the penalty area with his chest, he caught up with him.

In the penalty area, Casillas resolutely abandoned the door and attacked.

Real Madrid's goalkeeper is not tall, his body is very flexible, and his reaction and attack speed are very fast.

But Su Dong was already prepared.

When he was thrown into the penalty area with the ball by Casillas just now, he had already experienced Casillas' ability.

But the same mistake, he will not appear a second time.

This time he stopped the ball a little less hard, the ball fell on the left side of the penalty spot, and Su Dong rushed up at the fastest speed, just before Casillas was in place, stopped the ball.

The Real Madrid goalkeeper was determined to win this attack, but he did not expect Su Dong's speed to be so fast.

Especially when he stopped the ball one step ahead, the whole person also made an emergency stop, and then went to the right.

In this way, very simple, but very practical, Su Dong shook off Casillas who was attacking.

The desperate Real Madrid goalkeeper fell to the ground and failed to stop Su Dong, but he could only watch Su Dong go away, pinning all his hopes on Elgra, who was returning to defense.

But before Elgra was in place, Su Dong had already caught up with the ball near the penalty spot. With a rage shot with his right foot, he slammed the ball into Real Madrid's goal forcefully, setting off a wave of nets!

It wasn't until this moment that there was a thunderous exclamation from the Mestagna Stadium!