[Football] I'm just a defender

After Real Madrid drew with Villarreal, it was the national team match day.

For the Spanish national team training, Forlan is still the role ignored by Spain, but unlike his heart and mind to join the Real Madrid first team, he does not have too much obsession with the national team, and he has always been in the idea of ​​letting Spain take its course.In fact, this is true. How can a person have so many obsessions? Fran is very open to this. If Spain does not need him, it may really not need him.Still the same, the more times he was ignored and rejected, the more he got used to it.

The club has temporarily stopped training. After all, there are very few players like Forlan who have no national team missions in Real Madrid.But on such a day when Fran should have been completely ignored, a person who seldom talked to him since signing with him called him and told him a news, or a notification is more appropriate.This person is Carvajal, Spain's all-powerful agent, and it is understandable to ignore his little transparency in normal days.

"Fran, in that café near the Bernabéu stadium, there is a gentleman who is a gentleman to you and wants to talk to you."

The meeting was made mysterious and formal, but Fran was at a loss about it.Before the appointed time, he was sitting in the cafe wearing casual jeans and sneakers. After hesitating for a long time, he still ordered a glass of carrot juice as usual. Since it is sold in the store, there is a need for it to exist, right?

It's just that when the waiter put the carrot juice down in front of him, Fran looked at Pavon who was sitting directly opposite him and blinked blankly. This is the distinguished guest that Carvajal said, what are you kidding?

Pavon didn't know where he was sitting in the corner before. He sat down with a coffee cup, compared to Franco, who was leaning on a back chair and drinking vegetable juice with a straw in his mouth. However, under this contrast, the person opposite was still the same. He was at ease, but the embarrassing one became himself.This kind of understanding made Pavon even more depressed, and it was rare to get straight to the point, "Do you think there is any problem with the cooperation between us, I mean the cooperation between the two central defenders?"

The reason why he remarked on the term "double center back" is because he had always played the position of left back when he was in the reserve team. Among the three backs of Castilla, no one could shake Francisco Alvarez at that time. The defensive core of the central defender.When entering Real Madrid, the full-back has no place for him, but he is currently unable to play in the absence of rotation in Elguera, which also shows that he cannot compete with this "defeated player" as a central defender.

But what's the problem with double central defenders?Since he joined the first team, Fran didn't think he would be given up, so if this is the case, what problem can he have?He kept silent at first, but looking at Pavin who seemed a little annoyed because he didn't get an answer, he still tried his best to think about the answer, "You mean our cooperation? A tacit understanding? But it's not really that there is no tacit understanding between us. "At any rate, we have known each other since the youth team. Apart from Iker Casillas, the team Riverland is most familiar with is Pavon.

"It's a 433 lineup now, that's right, but there will always be competition between the two central defenders, right?" Pavon no longer referred to himself and Fran.

"You mean, positional conflict?" Fran pondered for a long time what the competition meant, and tried in a different way that he thought he understood correctly.

It was always like that, the victory was always Francisco Pavon in the first place, but the man Francisco Alvarez never saw him as a competitor and, of course, not a friend. "If you play three central defenders, what position do you think you can have?"

Fran looked calm and said nothing, and Pavin continued, "Based on your current experience in the game, you can't fully understand when to turn offense and defense. You can't control your own rhythm well, and you can't adjust your partner's rhythm..."

While listening to Pavin's words, Fran took a big sip of carrot juice from the cup, and before he swallowed the drink, he saw Pavin's black face clearly visible.Pavon still doesn't like his attitude. Off the court, he is always indifferent to everything. Sometimes he is shrewd and sometimes confused, but the most annoying thing is that sometimes you can't tell whether he is pretending to be confused because of his shrewdness.

But for Forlan, he knows that he will be overheated due to the atmosphere of the stadium, lose his mind and tiptoe around in order to please the fans, so he doesn't think Pavin's statement is wrong. He may not lack game experience, but after all, he has entered the top league. The time is still too short, and there is still a lot to learn.

But looking at Fran's agreeable expression, Pavin felt that the powerful fist formed by the profound words he had thought about for a long time was like hitting cotton. According to Lan, it can't cause any harm at all. This person's playing style is a tough rock, but in fact his personality is a dough that can be kneaded as long as there is no pain or itching.He was terrified by these circumstances last season, and the same thing doesn't seem to affect Forlan at all this time, let alone expect him to fight back.

Pavon felt that his anger was suppressed in his chest, and he couldn't vent it but he couldn't digest it either.What he said was mediocre to this "newcomer to the lineup". Where did he get his blind self-confidence? Did he forget that Pavin was selected to join the first team when he thought he was about to be promoted?In this case, what about the qualifications of the national team?Now he has indeed joined Real Madrid like himself, and it seems that he is placed on the bench because of Queiroz's importance, but the national team is still one step ahead.

He had already finished half the glass of carrot juice. Fran smacked his lips and put the glass on the table, "Isn't the Spanish national team training camp? Why haven't you gathered yet?" After all, Pavon still entered the national team this time. Team roster.

Fran himself simply uncovered the pain that Pavin thought belonged to him. He looked at Pavin who turned away without answering, and innocently reached out to touch the glass on the table in front of him until he confirmed the shape of Pavin. Gone, lowered his head and grinned with a vicious smile.At this moment, another person sat down in front of him, Fran was a little surprised when he raised his head and his smile hadn't had time to put it away, and this expression was seen by the man who had just watched the scene.

"Lars Lagerbeck—" the visitor introduced himself, and extended his hand to shake Fran's hand in a friendly way.Fran got up quickly, and only then did he understand who the person Carvajal said was a noble person to him.The new head coach of the Swedish national team specially came to meet with him before the national team training camp. Presumably it was not because he was narcissistic and conceited that he was thinking about things, but it really meant a lot.

"The head coach of the Swedish national team." Fran swallowed unknowingly, Ragbeck raised his hand to signal him to sit down and said, "It seems that you know me a little bit? Then it's not too abrupt for me to come here. "

Not exactly, but Fran did know him.Not only because he is the head coach of the Swedish national team, but also because of the pioneering coaching method two years ago.Two years ago, Sweden's head coach Soderbergh invited Lagerbeck to co-coach with him. This form of coaching was unique in the World Cup at that time.After the 2002 World Cup, Soderbergh left the position of head coach, and Lagerbeck became the only head coach of the Swedish national team.

Of course, his arrival is not abrupt, because joining the Swedish national team is also in Forlan's consideration.

"For others, I can still talk to him about Nordahl, Liedholm, and Brolin, because they are superstars belonging to the Swedish national team, but you have always been trained in Spain to live in Madrid. We have to change it." Lagerbeck said, the same carrot juice he ordered before was brought over by the waiter, he took a sip, then raised his eyebrows and looked at Fran, "Seeing that you drink with gusto, I thought it was delicious."

"Sweden has Larsson, Ljungberg, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. You have also discovered that they are all midfielders. We appreciate and value your defensive ability, Fran." Gerbeck said it familiarly, and Fran silently looked at the table in front of him without speaking, rubbing his fingers back and forth under the table.

Of course Lagerbeck understood that this matter required his careful consideration. He chose to change the subject, "I heard the conversation between you and your teammates just now. What do you think about the rhythmic coordination he said?"

"He didn't tell me to listen to Erguera completely, and I can't let Erguera follow me, let me be happy, otherwise how can I play this ball?" Fran knew that this matter needs to be thought over and over again. , although it seems that Carvajal also feels that it is good for him to join the Swedish national team with Swedish nationality, otherwise he would not have made such a special arrangement.

"There are many talented players who are coordinated and taken care of by the rich teams, and there are so many geniuses in La Liga. Most of the players are lonely when they transfer to other teams. Why?" Although Lagerbeck is far less famous than other coaches , but this does not prevent him from having his own conclusions.At this time, it is very useful for him to guide and brush up his favor. "Only in a certain environment can they play at a high level, because they only know how to play their own rhythm and don't know how to sacrifice themselves for the team. Now you Once you adapt to him, as long as you succeed, you will be able to adapt to others in the future."

"In the top teams, yes, you are really lucky. Newcomers who want to go one step further need to play more against strong opponents, accumulate experience and improve themselves. Of course you have this advantage in Real Madrid. And these balls The players that the team wants to focus on will always have team teammates-those world-class players who match world-class teams are guarded, Liverpool's Owen, Juventus' Piero, and your Real Madrid's Raúl are all like this. You can't do this, not because you are not a genius and Real Madrid can't pave the way for you, but because none of these teams can train a defender to become their core and banner."

"If I join the Swedish national team, you will train me to become the core and banner of the team?" Fran pushed the empty cup forward, and Lagerbeck got this response and looked up at him and smiled, "If you have this kind of ambition, it's not bad." He brushed this question aside, at least before he officially joined the Swedish national team, he could not introduce the players and style of play to him in detail, nor would he make a promise easily .

"Against Villarreal, don't you? You want to push the tempo, and even if your team-mates don't react when they play, your manager will understand from the sidelines. But so what? ? It can be Raul, Guti, Zidane, Beckham who control the rhythm of Real Madrid, not a defender, even if they are trying to argue with you..." He smiled as if he thought it was very interesting , "Pavon, who tried to argue with you, couldn't do it last season. You need to make sacrifices when you play football, and you are destined to not play smoothly. The difficulty of going upstream and downstream is of course different. It's up to you to choose."

Lagerbeck's pointing made Fran fall into deep thought, and Lagerbeck didn't interrupt his train of thought. He looked up and looked around, and noticed a paparazzi holding a camera in the corner who was stunned for a moment.Realizing that he had been spotted, the other party quickly picked up his equipment and ran away, but neither Fran, who hadn't spotted him, nor Lagbeck, who had spotted him, had any intention of stopping him.

"What do you think of the Spanish national team?" Fran suddenly asked, Lagerbeck turned his gaze back and saw that he was not joking but genuinely questioned, "I want to tell you that the national team does not need you , only Sweden needs you. But obviously I can't, Spain needs you, but they don't have your place yet."

"So what do you think of the Swedish national team?"

"It allows you to participate in the European Cup in 04 as the main central defender."