Chapter 839 Where's My Koi? (Seeking a Monthly Ticket)

"Mr. Philp."

Philp Shakespeare, director of youth training at Aston Villa Villa Training Base, was stopped by the guard.

The guard handed him a USB flash drive.

"What is this?" Shakespeare asked in surprise.

"A black man, he put it here, and he recommended a player to us," said the doorman.

"Broker?" Shakespeare asked.

"I don't know, he didn't say, he just said that we must watch the video in the USB flash drive." The guard said.

"Where's the black man?"

"He left, but he left a phone number, I'll find it for you."

Shakespeare held the USB flash drive in his hand, glanced at the phone number on the note, and put it in his pocket along with the USB flash drive.

He didn't take it too seriously.

As Aston Villa's performance is getting better and better, especially the owner Fang Jue is known for his vision, many players and their agents who think they are "underappreciated" often come to the Villa training base to try their luck.

Yes, in Shakespeare's view, many people come to try their luck, and the proportion of truly talented players can be said to be very small.

At the very least, no baby has been found yet.

This is the normal situation.

This is not ten years ago, there may be very talented players buried.

The well-developed scouting systems of current large and small clubs are enough to discover and carve up the vast majority of players at a very young age.

However, although he didn't pay much attention to it, Shakespeare did not throw away the USB flash drive and contact information.

Clubs have club rules.

Even if it's a situation, he still needs to take a look at the videos and materials in the USB flash drive.

Or to take a step back, even if he doesn't have time to read it himself, he will arrange for the staff to take a look.

Even if it is to be thrown away, it is after reading it.

That's the rule.

...

A busy day at work is over.

Shakespeare made himself a cup of coffee and now enjoyed the afternoon.

At this time, he remembered the USB flash drive he had received before.

"Dear sir, hello, I am not the player's agent, I am a good friend of the player, my name is Ndidi, I would like to recommend my good friend N'Golo Kante to everyone, a very, very capable Run, a guy with a lot of energy." A short black man appeared in the camera, talking to the camera.

"Is this recommending track and field athletes?" Shakespeare shook his head.

"N'Golo Kante, an excellent midfielder from the youth training of the JS Surena Club, and now a player of the Boulogne Club, my good buddy, his biggest feature is that he can run, please see——"

Seeing this, Shakespeare almost turned off the video.

Then he saw in the camera, many players started running.

"This is a running test arranged by the U23 echelon of the Boulogne club. Everyone must reach their running limit.

You see, Kanter, who can't run to death, killed this test by himself. When everyone stopped, only he was still running laps and laps around the track. "

Shakespeare stopped moving the mouse to click X.

"It can't be fake." He muttered.

The video was obviously fast-forwarded and edited. If the video is not fake, the physical fitness of this little black player is indeed very strong.

"With Kante on the field, he can beat two players by himself, yes, his excellent running ability allows him to sweep the entire midfield..."

Shakespeare finally clicked X. Throughout the video, he could hear the guy named Endidi praising Kanter's characteristics:

This person is extremely good at running!

However, football is not track and field, and it is not enough to be able to run.

Moreover, Shakespeare can see from the video that this small black player named Ngolocante is short in stature and not strong in body. Not to mention, it is difficult for such a physical condition to play professional football.

Shakespeare took out a file bag and put the USB flash drive and the sticky note with contact information in it.

He wrote another judgment report himself, which roughly meant that the player's physical condition was very bad, and he was not optimistic about it, and then put it together in the file bag.

These are all standardized procedural operations and will be placed in the archives of Aston Villa.

It is not an exaggeration to say that even if a homeless man came to recommend himself, the Aston Villa club would 'identify' very quickly, and after rejecting the person, they would make a file for the record.

...

JS Suresnes, a small club located in the western suburbs of Paris, although not far from the Parc des Princes, is unknown.

When Kanter came to the club's training ground, some old employees greeted him affectionately.

Although he has joined the French second team Boulogne, Kante still often comes to JS Surena to see.

He has been here for ten years, the training ground here has his sweat and hard work, and most importantly, the people here are familiar with him and have a good attitude towards him, which can fill his loneliness in Boulogne .

Even among the people who greeted Kanter, none of them could remember exactly when Kanter Jr. came here.

Year 1999? Or is it 2000?

In short, from a certain day, Kanter became a member of JS Suresnes.

Everyone gradually got used to the team having this small black player.

Oddly enough, though, they hardly ever met Kanter's parents in person over the ensuing 10 years.

The kid came to the club to train by himself and went home by himself, very independent.

Kante's parents came to France from Mali in the 1980s.

A small bungalow located in the Rueil-Malmaison district, where Kanter grew up.

The JS Suresnes club is not far from his home. Adults have to work to earn money, so there is no time to take care of Kanter. Moreover, a black boy, Kanter is very honest, never causes trouble, and is very safe.

JS Suresnes is a poor little club - the young talents they cultivated will be abducted by other clubs as soon as they show up.

In the past ten years, several players have also been taken away by the French League Two teams.

Only Kanter, who came to JS Surena to play football at the age of eight or nine, and is still on this team at the age of nineteen, no one thinks highly of him.

This club is very close to Paris Saint-Germain. When people joke, they often say that one day, if you can join Paris and play at the Prince Stadium, your life will be complete.

A year and a half ago, the chairman of JS Suresner strongly recommended Kante to the next-door team Boulogne.

Then he joined Boulogne for free and was placed in the reserve team.

Kanter came to find Ndidi.

Ndidi is a plumber at the JS Surena Club.

Kanter heard from his sister that Ndidi had asked for leave for something. He was a little worried about his little friend, so he came to have a look.

...

"Endidi, where have you been?" Kanter found Endidi in the club's staff dormitory, and his little friend was eating bread.

"Uh, uh—" After taking a big sip of water, Endidi burped.

"Are you with the Demba Ba guys again?" Kanter asked worriedly.

Demba Ba is a gang of gangsters in the western suburbs of Paris. Although they don't have the guts to commit serious crimes, petty theft and fights are commonplace.

Ndidi used to be a member of this gang of gangsters. It was Kanter who persuaded this little friend many times not to continue, and personally found the chairman of the club to help Ndidi find a job as a plumber .

"Remember those video materials I took for you?" Endidi said happily.

"I know."

"I'm off to Birmingham!" Ndidi exclaimed.

"What are you doing in Birmingham?" Kanter was surprised.

"You told me before that Aston Villa's coach Fang Jue is very good, especially good at discovering young people, so I took those materials to Birmingham." Ndidi said, "I recommended you to them! "

Kantor's eyes widened, and he was sure that there was nothing wrong with his ears.

God, my little friend went to Birmingham with those 'messy' videos he shot, and recommended him to the Aston Villa club?

"Did you really go?" Kanter took a deep breath and asked.

"Of course." Endidi nodded proudly, smiling brightly.

"Where do you have the money to go?" Kanter didn't worry about Ndidi's recommendation of him to Aston Villa, and he didn't care how Ndidi recommended him, because the result was obvious. will not succeed.

What he cares about is how this guy Ndidi got to Birmingham.

"The breakfast I saved in the past two months is just enough for me to go back and forth to Birmingham." Endidi said proudly.

"Idiot." Kanter, who was an honest child since he was a child, swears, "You are wasting money."

Kanter remembered seeing Endidi eating hard dry bread just now, which was the cheapest French baguette, and he knew that Endidi not only saved breakfast, but also saved the rest of.

Endidi scratched his head, smirked, and said nothing.

He once watched live broadcasts of Premier League matches with Kanter, and heard Kanter muttering once, saying that if he could be picked by Fang Jue and play in Aston Villa, he would be satisfied.

The speaker had no intention, but Endidi remembered it.

Kanter is his best friend. When Endidi was fooling around with the gangsters, it was Kanter who never gave up on him. He kept persuading him to go on the right path and helped him find a job in the club.

He wants to help his good friend fulfill his wish.

Of course Ndidi is not a fool, and he also knows that the success rate of recommending Kanter to Aston Villa in that way is very low.

I also know that the little money I have worked so hard to save will be used up this time.

However, he still has to do it, he is not thinking about the result, he is going to do it, for his good friend Kanter.

Although it is a futile trip destined to waste money, it is different for Endidi to do it or not to do it.

...

Fang Jue didn't know what happened in the western suburbs of Paris.

He is still waiting for his koi rabbit.

On January 29, Aston Villa set off for London.

They will be at the Emirates Stadium against Arsenal.

This is a match in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

This is also Aston Villa's third meeting with Arsenal this season after they met Arsenal twice in the League Cup and the first leg of the league.

The two teams meet too frequently.

Even the English media couldn't help complaining that the English Football Team has always had a grudge against Arsenal, how could it be tortured by a team like Arsenal.

In the League Cup match, Aston Villa played Arsenal 5-0 away.

Then, more than a month ago, in the seventeenth round of the league, Aston Villa scored 6-0 against Arsenal at home.

This time, the two teams met again, and the general opinion in the media was that Arsenal could not escape the bad luck of being pressed to the ground again.

The progress of the game did not exceed the expectations of the media and fans.

Although Fang Jue performed a certain degree of rotation in this FA Cup game, Aston Villa still continued their good tradition when they faced Arsenal.

Only 46 seconds into the opening, De Bruyne broke into the left side of the penalty area, making a gesture to cut in, but suddenly crossed diagonally.

Vardy, who followed up, broke through the goal guarded by Szczesny with a strong shot.

However, just as the Aston Villa players celebrated their dream start, the referee's whistle blew.

The on-duty referee McCausey signaled that Bendtner in front of the goal interfered with Szczesny's judgment in an offside position.

The ball was offside first and the goal was invalid.

Fang Jue was furious on the sidelines, and he complained and protested to the fourth official.

Fang Jue believes that although Bendtner was offside, he did not participate in the offense, so there is no problem with the ball.

"Bentner blocked Szczesny's view, can't you see it?" Wenger couldn't help but sarcastically when he saw Fang Jue's reluctance.

"I didn't see it!" Fang Jue said immediately, "Both eyes didn't see it."

The professor snorted. He thought Fang Jue would be speechless and even argue with him, but he didn't expect this guy to answer so confidently.

Arsenal escaped with less than a minute to go.

However, Aston Villa's goal finally came.

Aston Villa took the lead in the 21st minute.

This time it was Shinji Kagawa who moved to the left, and he made a cross at the top of the arc in the penalty area.

Bendtner snatched a point in front of the goal, and the Denmark international failed to touch the ball.

However, Zhu Lu, who was defending Bendtner, only thought about clearing the football as soon as possible, but in a panic, he swept the football directly into his own net.

An own goal!

Aston Villa have a 1-0 lead over Aston Villa's old friends Arsenal.

"When we talked about the match between Arsenal and Aston Villa before, we said that Arsenal lost miserably at the feet of Aston Villa every time, which can be said to be very tragic. The only consolation is that there has not been any The situation of the own goal." Lineker shook his head, "Unexpectedly, the own goal came here."

Wenger was very depressed. The professor glanced at Fang Jue, and then at the depressed Zhu Lu. The professor had a headache. He even felt that there was a mysterious force that allowed his team to score such an own goal...

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