Seven Hundred and Fifty Leeds United Has Taken a Fancy to You!

Before the deep time travel, I once saw such a question: Is Europe and the United States a humane society?

At that time, he didn't know much about it, and he always felt that it should be similar. After all, we are all human beings, but without practice, we have no right to speak.

Now that he has been in European football for so many years, he can say with certainty, yes!

Distance produces beauty, and in many cases, it is because of unfamiliarity and lack of understanding that it causes deviation.

Even in European football in Vanity Fair, it is also a place full of sophistication.

It's like the newly promoted Verona in Serie B this season.

That year, when Gao Shen coached Naples to play in Serie B, Verona lost the relegation playoffs in Serie B and was disastrously relegated to Group A of Serie C.

This stay is four years.

Last season's Serie C Group A league, after playing 12 rounds, Verona ranked 13th among the 18 teams, only two points more than the bottom deputy squad leader Pegnese, the situation can be described as quite Danger.

Verona's management was also in turmoil, so they hurriedly hired Andrea Mandolini to fight the fire.

Mandolini was born as a professional player and has played for Ravenna, Turin, Atlanta, Ascoli, Inter Milan and Udinese successively, among which he has played for Inter Milan for seven years.

After retiring, he transformed into a head coach. He first worked as an assistant coach in Ravenna for four years, and then he coached teams such as Vicenza, Atlanta, Bologna, Siena, and Sassuolo. Not long.

After coaching Verona this time, he used his personal relationship during the winter break to rent six or seven young players for Verona from Serie A teams such as Inter Milan, Roma, Atlanta and Regina. players.

Among them is Inter Milan U19 youth team captain Emmanuel Napoli.

With the help of this wave of supplements during the winter break, Verona immediately rushed from the bottom of the ranking to fifth in the league in one breath, entered the promotion play-offs of Group A, defeated the opponent, and successfully returned to the league. Serie B.

After tasting the sweetness, the first thing Verona did after being promoted to Serie B was to find the Red Wolves Roma and loan the new generation of Italian striker Marco D'Alessandro. Young rookies from the Italian national team of all ages.

Not only that, Mandolini also hand-picked Atlanta's Croatian high school forward Bjeranovic, and the transfer fee is expected to be as high as 700,000 euros. This will be Verona's most important signing this summer.

Just ask, if there is no human relationship network, can Verona go from the third-level quasi-relegation team half a year ago to the current Serie B?

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Gao Shen did not contact Verona directly, but found the Italian coach Ventura.

That's right, it was Ventura who was "beaten" by Gao Shen back then and Verona was relegated, and will be called the best head coach in Italy by Lippi in the future.

Before, when Gao Shen was coaching Naples, he met him in the Italian Football Association. He owed Gao Shen a favor, and now Gao Shen called him and asked him to go to Verona.

So, within two days, Ventura called Gao Shen.

It's done.

Jorginho, a midfielder with dual citizenship in Italy and Brazil, transferred from Verona to Leeds United for a high price of 100,000 euros.

The nineteen-year-old midfielder did really poorly in Italy.

When he was still receiving youth training in Brazil, he was no longer favored by the Brazilian team, but he was taken by an Italian football agent to a youth training camp dedicated to training talents for Italian teams. There were 50 people in total. After two or three years, he was sent to Italy and signed with Verona.

At that time, Verona was still in Serie B.

Last season, Jorginho was loaned out to San Bonifacio in the fourth tier, played 31 games, scored one goal and had no assists, which is certainly a failure for a midfielder .

Jorginho plays more as a midfielder and midfielder, but the playing style of the low-level league makes it difficult for the thin Jorginho to adapt. Coupled with the tactics of the surrounding teammates and the team, the performance of the Brazilian teenager Very average.

This is why he is only worth 80,000 euros.

For this Brazilian teenager, Verona is just having a headache how to use it. After all, the advantages and disadvantages are obvious, and it feels very incompatible with the Italian football style.

As a result, Leeds United offered 100,000 euros, and Ventura came forward again, and Verona, who was eager to buy Bijelanovic, agreed.

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Every morning, when he wakes up in bed, opens his eyes and tilts his head, Jamie Vardy can see the blue and white striped jersey hanging on the wall.

That's Sheffield Wednesday's home jersey.

"There are still three levels." Vardy lay back on the bed, looked at the ceiling, and muttered to himself.

Halifax are promoted to the sixth division, while Sheffield Wednesday is still in the third division.

He came from the youth training of Sheffield Wednesday, but at the age of sixteen, because of his thin body and lack of outstanding football talent, Sheffield Wednesday refused to give him a professional contract and let him leave freely.

At that time, he thought: stop playing football!

But the irony is that not long after his contract was terminated, he grew twenty centimeters taller.

After returning to school, he also studied physical education. After graduation, he found a job in a factory specializing in the manufacture of splints for patients with foot drop. His job was to move the raw materials of splints to the shelves of the assembly line. Lifted up and down hundreds of times, the job took a toll on his physical health.

So, he started playing football again.

A formal professional youth training background allowed him to quickly make a name for himself in the field. The nearby Stockbridge Park Steel Team found him with a part-time contract, training twice a week, and a weekly salary of 30 pounds.

The Superburger he often eats costs four pounds, but it's better than nothing.

During his time with the Stockbridge Park Steelers, he helped out his hearing-impaired friends, got into a pub fight with punks, was sentenced to a curfew and put on electronic shackles.

Therefore, fans of the Stockbridge Park Steel Team still remember that he only played 60 minutes in each game, and when the time was up, he was substituted and hurried to leave.

Because, he had to go home before six o'clock in the evening.

He was scouted by seventh-tier Halifax last year after his performance at Stockbridge Park Steelers.

This club is a bit far away, but the salary is relatively high.

So Vardy built himself a car.

There are still two training sessions a week, on Tuesday and Thursday nights, and the training time is from 7:00 to 11:00.

After getting off work at 4:30 p.m. every day, Vardy drove directly to the training ground to report. The time was just right. After training, he went home and went to bed at the same time. The game was played every Saturday.

Such days are very fulfilling.

Last season, in 33 games in the seventh level, he scored 26 goals with extremely high efficiency.

Finally, Halifax rushed to the sixth division league.

Vardy is one step closer to his origins.

But eight years have passed.

His dream is to climb to the starting point of his career step by step when he is old enough to play.

Although, it looks really hard!

...

Get up, brush your teeth, wash your face, eat breakfast...

This process is almost every day.

The league is suspended, but he still has to go to work.

Although Halifax is a team in the sixth tier league, that salary is not enough to support Vardy himself.

At the thought of starting that boring assembly line life again, Vardy felt uncomfortable all over.

While he was having breakfast, his phone rang suddenly.

Caller ID: David Bosomworth.

"Hey, David, I don't have time to chat with you. I have to rush to work. Is there a warm-up match? How much is the appearance fee? First settle the bills of the previous few times, I have been so poor recently Sell ​​yourself, buddy."

As soon as the call was connected, Vardy complained a series of times.

Delays in wages and arrears of wages are the norm in low-level leagues.

But this time there was something wrong with David Bosomworth on the other end of the call.

"Jamie, you need to calm down and listen to me."

"Are you out of money again? I have no money either..."

"No, no, no, Jamie, I just want to say, I'm sorry, I didn't get your permission, but I think this is a good opportunity."

"What do you mean?"

"A team is coming to buy you."

"You agree?"

"Um."

"I knew it, you kid is unreliable, what team is it?"

"Leeds."

"Fuck, it's too far away, you don't know, I have to go to work every day, and I go there after work, there is too little time." Vardy complained on the phone, "Don't I have to find another job? "

"Wait, how much did you sell me for?"

"One hundred thousand pounds."

"How much?" Vardy raised his voice directly.

"One hundred thousand pounds, brother, a very good price, we are very short of money now."

"No, is there such a team in Leeds? Bradford City? That's not true. These teams are all poor, not much better than us. David, you must pay attention. Don't be tricked by others."

Having played in low-level leagues all year round, Vardy is still very familiar with the surrounding teams.

But he was clearly missing the biggest team.

It wasn't his mistake, but that he didn't think about it at all.

Sheffield Wednesday in the third level is already a lifelong pursuit for him, let alone the Leeds United in the second level?

And the news also said that Leeds United was bought by the world's top coach Gao Shen.

Will he look at a small fish like himself who has been in the seventh tier league?

"No trick, Jamie, it's not Bradford City, I said yes, it's Leeds' team, Leeds United!"

Vardy froze obviously, "You... you said... who?"

"Leeds United! Leeds United in the English Championship, Jamie, Leeds United has taken a fancy to you!"

A wave of enthusiasm surged up in an instant, and Vardy only felt that his brain was buzzing all of a sudden.

"No...it's impossible."

"One hundred thousand pounds, the agreement was initialed, and the other party gave the money."

Vardy was stunned, unable to say anything, and even forgot to go to work, the most important thing.

"Jamie, you are about to play in the British Championship. All of us believe that you will become an excellent professional player. Keep working hard. When you develop, don't forget brother. Also, I will give your contact information to Leeds If you have a chance to meet Gao Shen in the future, remember to ask me for an autograph, I am his fan, you know?"

But at this moment, Vardy obviously couldn't hear any voices.