Born to be a coach [soccer]

At 1:31 on the evening of January 24, the transfer window closes.Except for Royce who is still in Borussia Mönchengladbach, Sunderland's signings have all been in place.

In addition to the two Nordic players introduced in early January, Sunderland also introduced Xherdan Shaqiri from Switzerland, Jamie Vardy, an amateur player from Iron Man, and promoted the red-haired boy Jack from the youth team. • Kaulbeck and young goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.It's just that Pickford was loaned out after being transferred by Anton, and he was thrown to the relegation team Xie Wednesday to "level up".

Of the three who remained, the first to shine was the little Shaqiri.He is extremely fast, has excellent left and right foot skills, and has an excellent sense of position. When placed on the field, he can go left, right, or forward. Break out in a cold sweat.

In Sunderland's internal training match, Shaqiri's speed advantage was quickly reflected.He ran on the field, looking ahead and suddenly behind, running dazzlingly.

The person who was least optimistic about Shaqiri was assistant coach Russell Black.Speaking of it, Russell is a slightly old-fashioned traditional England coach. He has always admired tall and standing center forwards, the kind who just stand in the penalty area and eat cakes.

But when he stood on the sidelines to watch Shaqiri play a training game, Russell was completely speechless.He folded his arms, looked at the little man running fast on the field, silently counted the frequency of Shaqiri's steps, and looked shocked.While watching, Russell murmured, "Like, really like it!"

A clear and bright voice suddenly interrupted: "Who do you look like?"

Russell: "Like...like Messi!"

Yes, watching this small boy galloping on the field gives people the illusion of being in La Masia.At this time in the La Liga arena, Meng San Barcelona is in full swing, and its core No. 10 is also a small man.At the end of last year, this little man just won two honors of "World Footballer" and "European Footballer".

Who says little people can't play football?

The person who was smiling and asking questions at the side raised his hand and pushed the wide-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Don't you think he's not tall enough now?"

Russell gritted his teeth: "Anton, you..."

"Junior Brother Sha has great potential, train him well, maybe he will become a 'Swiss Messi'. Brother Russell, it's up to you!" Anton left Russell who was gnashing his teeth, and went back to the office by himself.After getting along for more than a month, he has completely figured out the assistant coach's temper.Russell's temper is not good, he likes to complain and complain, but his character is very upright, and he will not refuse to admit it because of his mistakes in judgment.That's what's lovely about his personality.

However, the nickname "Junior Brother Sha" that Anton gave Shaqili quickly spread in the club.Many people asked what it meant, but Anton only said that he was Garner's "junior brother".

Others expressed their understanding, except for Halldosson, who had heard of this nickname, and tried to find a "necklace" made of bones for Shaqiri, saying that Junior Brother Sha should wear a necklace that would make him look "majestic". Only then—Anton expressed shock: You even know this?

He knew that Haldosson was educated, but he never thought that Haldosson was so educated that he could even remember such small details in "Journey to the West" clearly.

Shaqiri reassured Anton. His judgment was: by mid-February, Shaqiri would be able to gradually integrate into the first team and become the main force of the team.

But it was Vardy and Colbeck who gave Anton a headache.

Vardy had been in the amateur team before, and now he just quit his job processing prosthetics and became a professional player-he is really uncomfortable.And Anton found that it made sense for Xie Xie to choose to terminate the contract with Vardy on Wednesday: Vardy is thinner.

The confrontation in the British Championship is very fierce, and the training intensity of Sunderland's own team is not weak.After a training match, Vardy was almost knocked off his back, with a bruised nose and a swollen face-it wasn't that his teammates would intentionally bully him, it was Vardy himself who fell.

In addition, Vardy didn't perform well enough in the two training games, he couldn't feel it, his technical movements were easily deformed, and he didn't score a goal.For a time, the coaching staff was a little discouraged: it was finally dug out from the amateur team. I thought it was a pearl, but it turned out to be a fish eye after a closer look. How depressing is this?

The red-haired boy, Colbeck, has been trained in Sunderland's youth training since he was a child, and he is very familiar with Sunderland's training methods.His problem is not physical or technical, but some mental problems.This boy seldom smiles, always has a sullen face, and even speaks sarcasticly when talking to his teammates. Cool is cool, but there is always a sense of distance between him and his teammates.

Whether in the youth team or in the first team, Colbeck has no friends.His only friend is Pickford, but he was thrown out by Anton for leveling, and he never sees him at all.

Anton felt that Colbeck always looked at him coldly, with a hint of hostility. He didn't know if it was because of Pickford, or it was just like Russell said, that kid "has a rebellious personality in the back of his head." ".

Into February, Sunderland's schedule is still very intensive.Because they have to play the sixth round of the FA Cup, they will play a total of 2 games in February, with double matches a week in a row.But according to tradition, on the first Wednesday of February, Guangming Academy will organize an "Open Day" event, and welcome Sunderland fans big and small to visit Guangming Academy and watch the players train.

During this day, the entire club, from the coaching staff to the players at all levels, working, training, eating in restaurants... are all displayed in public.

In order to cooperate with this event, many schools in the Sunderland area will even leave school early, and parents will send their children to the "Bright Academy" to pay their respects to this "sacred place" in their minds.Although the weather was bad that day, and it was so gloomy that it looked like it was going to snow, Guangming Academy still welcomed many big and small fans.

Anton meets the Mason family.Dad Roger Mason came up excitedly and proposed that the family wanted to take a photo with Anton.On the contrary, the two children of the Mason family were very calm.The eldest daughter, Emily, always holds the little black cat named "Larry" in her arms, and said that it is a tradition in the Mayswood community to bring Larry to the Bright Academy every year during the open day.The younger son, John, walked around the Guangming Academy with his hands behind his back, and then came to ask Anton what the specific process of signing up for the youth training was.

Competing with John was the little grandson of the Roma family, Robert. Both boys wanted to join the youth training of Guangming Academy, and they began to compete with each other from the moment they met.It was chef and nutritionist Joyce Romm who came out to smooth things over and turned the two boys from rivals to potential "good teammates."

At this moment, Anton suddenly heard someone calling him, it was Eriksson, who flew all the way over, and said to Anton in Danish: Someone is fighting.

Anton has lived in Denmark for several years, and he doesn't speak Danish very well, but he can fully understand it.He couldn't help but praise Eriksson for being smart. After all, doing so would not cause chaos at Guangming Academy—after all, today is the "Open Day" event that only happens once a year.The public come to watch the Sunderland players fight each other?That would really disappoint the fans.

Anton quickly fooled his future "little players" and hurried to the training ground behind the academy with Eriksson.Along the way, he learned from Eriksson that it was Kaulbeck and Vardy who fought.

"I didn't pay attention to what they were saying. By the time I heard the sound, they were already fighting," Erickson said. "I heard Colback saying 'You are useless' or something."

Hearing from Eriksson, Kaulbeck and Vardy happened to be on the same side during the training match. Anton guessed that the two may have performed poorly, so they blamed each other.Colbeck may be accusing Vardy of having no talent, and even taunted Vardy with the old incident of Sheffield’s termination of the contract on Wednesday. Vardy’s heart was not going well, and he had nowhere to vent his fists, so he naturally waved his fist at Colbeck. .

When Anton came to the training ground, he saw captain Garner stop Vardy, and Henderson pushed Colbeck away.Russell had already arrived at this time, blushing with anger and blocking the way between the two of them.Both Vardy and Kaulbeck were a little underwhelming, and a fight was torn apart by their teammates.

Anton came in front of the two of them, stood side by side with Russell, folded his arms and said nothing, his eyes were not angry and majestic, and swept around the faces of the two of them.The two young men were timid at first, Vardy lowered his head, while Colbeck stiffened his neck and turned his head aside.His nosebleed had just stopped, so he just lowered his head and wiped it on his sleeve.

"You two little bastards!" Russell was furious. "You don't know how to live in a fight. You don't want to be in the first team, do you? It's no problem. Get lost and go to the reserve team..."

Anton coughed twice at the side, but Russell stopped suddenly.In the distance of the training ground, a group of young fans and parents who came in to visit were looking at this place with doubtful eyes.

"Tell me, what's going on!" Anton asked coldly with a straight face.

With Colbeck's temper, it is absolutely impossible for him to sue first.So Vardy first pointed at the other party and said: "He said... I am not a football player at all."

"Who is born to play football?" Anton looked around, "Stand up!"

Everyone on the field stood in place, and no one moved.Vardy calmed down a little.Colbeck was not convinced. He suddenly grabbed the ball from Shaqiri and said, "I just threw him such a throw-in, and I can't catch it?"

The red-haired boy rushed to the sidelines, throwing the ball far away as if the scene was repeated.But maybe because of the resentment in his heart, Colbeck threw the ball high and floating, and flew straight at Anton.Among the nearby players, only Henderson had seen the old incident of Colbeck hitting Anton with a ball behind his back, but he was a little far away and couldn't catch up, and he was sweating for Anton.

But who would have thought that Anton saw the ball flying towards him, suddenly took two steps forward, raised his foot, and immediately stopped the ball firmly under his feet. This is a very standard mid-foot ball stop movement. Finished cleanly, without muddling at all.He judged the landing point extremely accurately, and the time to lift his foot was neither too early nor too late. The ball that was flying straight ahead seemed to be frozen suddenly, and remained motionless under Anton's feet.

The players gave a "boom" in admiration. Everyone knows the goods. Anton's one-handed stop is very beautiful, which is obvious to all.

But the problem is...the whole club knows that Anton...can't play football!

After Anton stopped the kick, he was also shocked.Is he... self-taught?

He obviously won't!

The author has something to say: Today, we will continue to carry out the home team's character saving activities, for a game tomorrow morning.Dear friends who leave a message under this chapter, please accept the red envelope wrapped by the author himself!