Chapter 161 Wang Xiaolei

The Chinese men's football team plans to hold a European training match from the end of July to the beginning of August, the purpose of which is to deal with the upcoming Asian Cup qualifier group stage.

In the Asian Cup qualifier group stage, the Chinese team was placed in Group E, staggering the strong teams such as Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and other teams, and a group with Iraq, Palestine and Singapore. The strength of this group of teams is still relatively high. Weak, the Chinese team has a great chance of qualifying.

This is the domestic and foreign media's analysis of the Chinese team's qualifying situation.

But just as the fans thought, the Chinese team is always 'surprising'. In the group stage qualifiers held in February and March this year, the Chinese team defeated Palestine, but lost to Iraq, which was turbulent in the country. Now the prospect of the Chinese team qualifying is not very optimistic.

If the Chinese team can't pass the Asian Cup qualifiers, it will be a real shame. Therefore, the Chinese Football Association attaches great importance to the performance of the national team and organized this European competition. The purpose is to compete with Before the Singapore game, let the national football team play against a strong European team and experience the feeling of playing against a strong team. When the time comes to play against a fish bag team like Singapore, there will be no more accidents, right?

The Chinese Football Association really attaches great importance to this training match. They have also set aside tens of millions of funds to play against strong European teams.

The warm-up match agreement reached between the Chinese team and Manchester City also includes funds in the name of sponsorship. The sponsorship fee is 2 million yuan. Manchester City can play a warm-up match at their own door, and they can also get 2 million yuan, which is nearly 20 euros of income. A good thing is like a pie falling from the sky.

So Manchester City and Wansheng have no reason to refuse.

After the agreement was reached, the domestic media did a lot of publicity, because the game was very interesting. The Chinese team's reputation in China is not very good, but Chinese fans actually support it in their hearts. Many fans scolded the Chinese team, but they still watched the Chinese team's games again and again. After all, it is their own country's football team. Who else can they support if they don't support them?

Manchester City are also very popular.

In contrast, Manchester City's popularity is positive. Because Manchester City hate to have strength. It was the Premier League champion again last season. More importantly, Manchester City's head coach Wan Sheng is a Chinese. Manchester City also has two Chinese players, Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei. Because of this, many domestic fans like to call Manchester City the 'overseas representative of China'. Team', even the report of Xinlang Sports. The title of "China Overseas Team VS China Team" was also used to cover the game.

At the center of natural reporting becomes the player.

Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei. All are very important players.

Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei are going to participate in the national team's collective training, and they returned to Manchester City to prepare for the training later. Wansheng is very angry about this, but he can also understand Sun Jihai. After all, there is no way for the national team to call. He can't be for the club. Retired from the national team after training.

However, after confirming the warm-up match with the Chinese team, Sun Jihai and the two returned to the team for training together, because they will represent Manchester City at that time.

Domestic reporters interviewed Zhu Guanghu to confirm the news. "They're both great players, but it's a warm-up match against Manchester City. They're first a professional with a European club and then they're part of the national team, so they'll play for Manchester City."

This is very reasonable, at least Wansheng is very satisfied.

He is not unpatriotic, but it is hard to imagine that the training of national team players will take up the training time of the club, which will directly affect his pre-season preparations and, of course, also affect the preparations of the players in the club. It is difficult to say that the Chinese team's approach is correct. sex.

The most important thing is that the Chinese team's training camp is really difficult to have any effect, and that kind of training is too far from Manchester City's preparations.

In any case, after the warm-up match was settled, both Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei became the center of attention of the domestic media.

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Sun Jihai has long been accustomed to being the focus. He is already a famous star. Manchester City has his place, and the national team also has his place. When he joined Manchester City, he became the focus of domestic media reports. After Manchester City played steadily, It has been frequently noticed by the domestic media.

In contrast, Wang Xiaolei is different.

In fact, since he came to Europe, he has not received much attention. When he was in Derby County, he was loaned out to play in the lower leagues. After coming to Manchester City, he played as the second goalkeeper and did not play many times. Even so, he still entered Zhu Guanghu's roster and became the third goalkeeper of the Chinese team, but as the third goalkeeper, he would not receive much attention, and even if he returned to the national team training, not many people cared. After all, he's one of those players who rarely plays.

But Wang Xiaolei is still very satisfied with the current situation, because he is only under 19 years old!

When he first came to Europe and joined the Derby County youth team, Wang Xiaolei was only a little over 16 years old. After training in Derby County for half a year, he was loaned to a lower league team, and then his life was training, loaning, Training, loan, his strength and experience also increased.

Having been in Europe for nearly three years, Wang Xiaolei has grown from a child to a real professional player, but in fact, he is not yet 19 years old.

At this age, most of the European "football geniuses" are still waiting for opportunities in various youths, and he has become the second goalkeeper of the defending champion Manchester City of the Premier League and the third goalkeeper of the Chinese National Football Team.

The position of goalkeeper originally requires a lot of experience. If a goalkeeper really wants to become the main force of a strong team, he must go through a long wait. Many goalkeepers need to be twenty-five years old before they can take a firm position in a top league team.

Wang Xiaolei is not yet 19 years old, and he still has a lot of time.

During these times, Wang Xiaolei also set goals for himself. The first is to maintain his state, work hard to improve himself, and strive to successfully take over as the main force of David James.

David James is almost 37 years old. Goalkeepers can always play for longer than other position players, but 37 years old is also a veteran. James is still in state, but everyone knows that it is difficult for him to persist for too long. So there are still many opportunities for Wang Xiaolei.

As long as he can gain the trust of the head coach, Wang Xiaolei can become the No. 1 goalkeeper of the Premier League's top teams, and he will be in the national team at that time. It is also much easier to win the main position. At that time, it will be like Sun Jihai, and domestic public opinion will support him to become the No. 1 goalkeeper - the main goalkeeper of a top-level Premier League team, is it still not qualified to be the No. 1 goalkeeper of the Chinese national team? ?

This is Wang Xiaolei's goal.

So he didn't care about how much fame he didn't have for the time being.

But when the attention comes. Wang Xiaolei still felt different. There is always a great sense of achievement and honor in being the center of attention. When Manchester City and the Chinese team are going to play, the domestic media scramble to interview Wang Xiaolei.

After training every day, when Wang Xiaolei walked out of the club's gate, a large group of reporters surrounded him, most of them domestic reporters, and a small number of local reporters. I also hope to conduct a brief interview with Wang Xiaolei.

This feeling of being the center of attention. Wang Xiaolei is really not excited.

He enjoyed the feeling.

Wang Xiaolei experienced this feeling for the first time. He felt so good. When a domestic reporter interviewed him, Wang Xiaolei also said excitedly, "I don't know if I can play, but the boss should let me play." But In fact, he is still a little worried that he will not be able to play at that time. After all, he is only the second goalkeeper, and David James is the one who plays most of the time. He also has no absolute confidence in whether Wansheng will let him play.

So in training. Wang Xiaolei was also troubled by this incident.

This affected the efficiency of his training and made repeated mistakes in the training field.

Diamares, Pierce and others have noticed Wang Xiaolei's situation. They reminded him again and again, but it didn't work. At the same time, Wan Sheng also noticed that Wang Xiaolei always seemed to be distracted during training.

He's a little weird.

On weekdays, Wang Xiaolei's training is still very serious, why is this happening now? He thought of the upcoming warm-up match with the Chinese team, and he also had some guesses in his heart.

In the middle of training, he called Wang Xiaolei over.

"Xiao Lei, you have to be more serious in training." Wan Sheng reminded.

Wang Xiaolei lowered his head, feeling uneasy in his heart, and apologized, "I'm sorry, boss."

"Look up and look at me."

Wang Xiaolei raised his head in fear, and saw that the coach was staring at him, his eyes were full of majesty, as if he could see through his heart in an instant.

Seeing the anxious expression of the child in front of him, Wan Sheng curled his lips and asked, "It is said that many reporters want to interview you? You are now a big star."

"No...no, boss."

"What isn't it?"

"Yes, yes, there were a few reporters, but I didn't say anything."

Wan Sheng shook his head and decided to say it directly, "Are you thinking about the game against the Chinese team?"

Wang Xiaolei panicked, but finally nodded, "Yes."

"Are you worried about not being able to play?" Seeing Wang Xiaolei nodding, Wan Sheng continued to ask, "Then do you want to play?"

Wang Xiaolei's eyes flashed with fire, and he nodded immediately, "Think, I really want to play, it's a game with the Chinese team."

"why?"

Wang Xiaolei was still a little scared, but he didn't dare to lie in front of Wan Sheng, so he could only express his thoughts, "When those people interviewed, they asked me if I would play, and I said a lot. Now that I said it, I can I don't want to hold back..."

Wang Xiaolei seemed to have some courage, and then continued, "And I am in the national team, many teammates look down on me, they see me as young, some are jealous of me playing in the UK, and some people are in front of me. Said I was just lucky. If I played against the Chinese team, I wouldn’t even be able to play, they would definitely look down on me even more, I want to prove myself, I don’t want to be looked down upon and ridiculed.” He clenched his fists fiercely as he spoke. .

Wan Sheng listened to these words and nodded, but he could understand Wang Xiaolei's feelings.

Although it is hearsay, the Chinese national team is not so harmonious. The quality of those national players is not necessarily high. It is normal for them to be jealous of Wang Xiaolei playing in Manchester City.

Wang Xiaolei is less than 19 years old and can become Manchester City's second goalkeeper. He is naturally jealous of his high achievements, and "old qualifications" bully "young newcomers". This kind of thing happens in any team.

He was telling the truth.

But in fact, Wang Xiaolei’s worry is not necessary at all. In the match between Manchester City and the Chinese team, Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei will almost certainly play. Manchester City club can’t be stuck in preventing Wang Xiaolei from playing, and Wansheng will not do that either.

Wansheng also plans to increase the number of appearances of Wang Xiaolei in the new season so that he can gain some game experience and grow up slowly.

But Wan Sheng didn't give a positive answer. He said sternly, "If you continue like this, I'm sure you won't have a chance to play. Do you understand?"

"If you want to play the game at that time, you must complete the training tasks stipulated in the past few days, and you will have to train more at the right time. Your reaction speed is very fast. But your shortcomings are also obvious, whenever it comes to the game, you will be a little nervous, I hope you can be more calm in the game."

"Whether you can play at that time will depend on your performance in the past few days, do you understand?"

Wang Xiaolei nodded immediately.

Immediately he reacted, the coach gave him a promise, which translates as, as long as you perform well these few days, you will have a chance at that time.

Suddenly he became a little excited.

"Go, go back to the court and continue training." Wan Sheng said.

"Okay, boss, I will work hard!" Wang Xiaolei had a goal, and he became very motivated. When he thought of playing against the Chinese team in a few days, he felt full of energy.

Wan Sheng looked at Wang Xiaolei and nodded with satisfaction.

This young man was brought to Europe by himself, and his path from the previous life in memory is completely different, so how far he can go is really worth looking forward to.

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At the end of July, Manchester City played their first warm-up match against Nottingham Forest.

Wansheng is no stranger to Nottingham Forest. Their head coach Hasson is also an old rival and friend. Although Nottingham Forest suffered relegation, Hasson retained the position of head coach. The club believes that he can lead Nottingham Forest back to the British Championship.

When the two teams played against each other, Wan Sheng and Hasson also stood on the sidelines and talked together.

They talked about Manchester City, Nottingham Forest, and exchanged coaching experience with each other. Hasson proposed to loan Manchester City players, of course, from the youth team. They can’t afford to rent Manchester City first team players, and no first team players are willing to Go to League One.

Wan Sheng thought of the "young people with no future" in the youth team. It would be better to let them go to the lower leagues to experience. With their potential, the final result is to be in the lower leagues.

This is professional football.

Effort is important, but potential is even more important. Without potential, there is no point in working hard. Those young players who are loaned out or even sold to other clubs are also a way out. (To be continued ~^~)