Chapter 2 Adapting to Full Value

At night, when Zhou Yi entered the world, the first thing he did was to find Mark Wagner out of his teammates.

It's not because he was able to call out Mark Wagner during the day because he once played against the Dortmund youth team, so he can even remember the name of a substitute player who sat on the bench and didn't play a game for a minute.

The reason why he can recognize Mark Wagner is because since he decided to join Dortmund, he has been training with the Dortmund youth team in this virtual world for almost a month. The players know each other.

But this time he planned to get to know Mark Wagner well.

In the past, he was always arranged by the system by default. The system defaulted to the main lineup of the Dortmund youth team. Mark Wagner was not seen in this lineup. Therefore, Zhou Yi only knew that there was such a person in the Dortmund youth team. How is this person? But he didn't understand.

Now he intends to take a closer look.

After finding Mark Wagner from his teammates, Zhou Yi opened Mark's attribute panel, and learned about this person's ability by viewing his attribute data.

It can be seen from the attribute data that it is reasonable for Mark to play as a substitute. His strength is indeed not outstanding in this team. As a forward, he cannot compete with Schneider.

However, Zhou Yi still noticed Mark's advantages, that is, his tactical awareness of seventy-seven and his position of seventy-five.

As a youth team player under the age of 18, this number is already very good. You must know that in the Dortmund youth team, apart from Gotze, many players with individual attributes reaching 70 are considered geniuses.

Why is Mark's two outstanding individual attributes a substitute in the Dortmund youth team?

Quite simply, his other offensive attributes are really average.

As a striker, his shooting skills are only 44, which is too low. Zhou Yi's shooting skills are now fifty. You must know that he is a midfielder now and doesn't have much shooting training. Of course, Zhouyi has golden fingers, and the training effect is improved faster by ordinary people.

But it can also be seen how bad Mark's shooting skills are.

A striker who can't shoot well will naturally not get too many opportunities to play.

Mark's shooting power is only forty, he is not the kind of player who is good at shooting hard. Thirty-nine long-range shots, the shooting power is not strong, and the long-range shots are naturally not very good. The header is a little better, fifty-five, but it's a pity...Zhou Yi took a visual inspection during the day today. Mark is not much taller than himself. He has such good header data, but his height is not good. No matter how good the ball technique is, it doesn't matter.

Zhou Yi took a quick look at Mark's bounce and strength. The bounce was 47, which was quite average, and the strength was 40, which was also average.

Well, this data determines that Mark has no way to grab a header among the strong central defenders. He was knocked into the penalty area when he entered the penalty area.

But Mark's balance is pretty good. He's 60, his reaction is 57, and his flexibility is 64. He's a flexible striker...

In terms of speed and acceleration, Mark also has no advantage at all. He is not the kind of cheetah who can't catch up with the ball, nor is he the kind of speed player who sprints without the ball like a track and field athlete.

As a striker, he has nothing but flexibility and good positioning.

Such attributes... If I were the coach of the Dortmund youth team,

He will not be allowed to play either.

so miserable...

In the first two months, Zhou Yi followed the reality show and traveled to several European countries. Whether it is in Spain, or in Germany, England, Italy...these countries have one thing in common, the number of people involved in football is very large.

When the children are still seven or eight years old, they will be sent to the echelons of football clubs near the community for training. They are not full-time training, but also have to take care of their studies. It can be said that football is just their after-school activity. , Learning is the main business.

The vast majority of these children cannot be kicked out. During the training process, as they grow older, the gap in physical and talent between them will appear.

Those children with mediocre talents or whose physical development cannot keep up will be gradually eliminated, football will become their hobby, and they will choose other development directions, such as going to school.

By the age of seventeen or eighteen, those who can be kicked out have already stood out from a very large base, but they still have to face fierce competition for elimination.

With ability, a talented player like Mario Gotze will be promoted to the reserve team, the first team, and enter the world of professional football.

However, young people with mediocre abilities and difficulty adapting to the requirements of professional football, after being unable to sign a professional contract with a club, either switch to a weaker club and try again, or find another way out instead of professional football. A road, go to university, or go to work.

It seems that these people are very pitiful.

After more than ten years of youth, I couldn't realize my dream in the end.

But it is precisely because of these thousands of children participating in this huge talent selection mechanism that these European countries are so strong in football.

These children are the soil and the cornerstone. Without them, the prosperity of professional football and the national team would be water without a source, a tree without roots, a castle in the air, a mirage.

In Zhou Yi's view, this Mark Wagner will most likely become an ordinary cornerstone of German football and be paved on the road of German football to the world championship.

And what about Zhou Yi himself?

He has to train hard and avoid making himself a cornerstone. It's not that the cornerstone is not good, the cornerstone is very important, but Zhou Yi has a higher pursuit.

If it was just to become a cornerstone, why did he travel all the way to Germany?

Wouldn't it be better to play carefree on the school court?

After learning about Mark Wagner's abilities, Zhou Yi withdrew from the attribute panel. He didn't have any ideas. This was his teammate. Whether he became a cornerstone or a professional player, he couldn't interfere.

He'd better mind his own business.

So in the virtual Braker training base, Zhou Yi and his virtual teammates started training again.

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Today is the day when Zhou Yi officially started training in the Dortmund youth team. Because he, his teammates and the coaches still cannot speak the language, Tim Kiester accompanied him as Zhou Yi's translator.

In the morning, Tim Kiester drove to the hotel where Zhou Yi was staying to pick him up, and then they went to the Brakel training base about ten kilometers away from the hotel.

"How did you sleep at night?" asked Kist while driving.

"It's okay." Zhou Yi said.

"Is the jet lag reversed? Poor rest will affect training performance. When the coach sees it, it will leave a bad first impression on them. The first impression is very important..."

"Mr. Keester, you remind me of my father..." Zhou Yi said helplessly.

Kester smiled, he was indeed a bit wordy, not like the usual him.

Because today is Zhou Yi's first day to participate in team training. As he said, first impressions are important, so this training session is also very important.

As the player he urged Klopp to bring in, if Zhou Yi performs poorly, then his vision and ability as a scout will be questioned.

He doesn't want this to happen.

"Well, I can't go into the player's locker room. I can only translate for you on the sidelines on the training ground for a while. In fact, most of the time it depends on your own understanding. Don't be too nervous, and don't be too nervous. Pressure. Even if you perform poorly, considering the actual situation you just flew over, no one will actually have any ideas..."

"Mr. Keester, I think you seem more nervous than me." Zhou Yi spread his hands. What Kester said was inconsistent. He was told to perform well before, but now he is told that it doesn't matter if he doesn't perform well. Is it to perform well or not?

Kester smiled again, and asked Zhou Yi: "Aren't you nervous?"

"Not nervous." Zhou Yi answered decisively, and his tone was so affirmative that Kister wanted to roll his eyes——Your mouth is so powerful, how could you not be nervous? Children want to save face and refuse to admit that they are unbearable. Kester didn't expose it, and he still couldn't let it go. All he could think about was that Zhou Yi made frequent mistakes on the training ground because he couldn't understand the words of the coach and teammates. A sight that left youth team coaches and players shaking their heads.

Ah shit, I swear to God, I've never been so nervous sending my kids to their first day of school!

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When he got outside the locker room, Kester didn't let Zhou Yi in right away, but seemed to be waiting for someone.

"Mr. Keist, why didn't you let me in?" Zhou Yi asked, pointing to the door of the dressing room.

"Wait, wait..." Keist looked outside. "That kid Wagner hasn't come yet... This kid is also late for training..."

He also muttered under his breath.

Zhou Yi realized that Kester was waiting for Wagner to bring him into the locker room.

But Zhou Yi didn't think that without Wagner, he wouldn't even be able to get in the locker room door. It is good to have a friend who is enthusiastic about yourself in the team, but it does not mean that you have to rely on him for everything.

So Zhou Yi didn't say hello to Kester, he just opened the door, and shouted in German: "Hello!"

Then he went in and said hello to his new teammates one by one, and came to his seat after a lap.

Keist watched Zhou Yi's performance behind him and shook his head.

This kid is not outgoing like the Chinese people he knows...

However, this method can be used to integrate into the team, but the training is still real.

Players still have to watch training...

Keist always had worries in his heart.

It is rare for Kister to be so worried about Zhouyi. Perhaps it is precisely because he has followed Zhou Yi for so long and given Zhou Yi hope that he does not want him to fail.

He hopes that after one year, Zhou Yi can smoothly adapt to training and life in Dortmund, and then gradually get on the right track.

However, when the training started, Kist, who was Zhou Yi's translator, was still taken aback on the sidelines - he found that Zhou Yi had a thorough understanding of the coach's training intentions!

None of his concerns arose during training.

Zhou Yi seemed to have been training with this team for a long time. He cooperated with his teammates tacitly and naturally integrated into the team.

Even the head coach of the youth team, Sasha Eckel, was surprised by this.

At the age of 48, he has rich experience in coaching youth teams, but this is the first time he has seen someone like Zhou Yi.

Seeing Zhou Yi training with his new teammates tacitly on the court, he couldn't help but ask Kester: "Did he really just join our team?"

Kiester spread his hands: "I'm also puzzled, he looks like a veteran who has been training in your team for at least a year."

Eckel shook his head: "It's really strange, I can only say that this kid's adaptability may be better than all of us imagined..."

Kist remained silent. He was very happy that Zhou Yi integrated into the team so quickly, and the stone in his heart could finally be let go.

Although he still doesn't quite understand why Zhou Yi can integrate into the team so quickly, why he is so comfortable in training, just like playing football in his own backyard...

Of course, neither he nor Eckel would understand that Zhou Yi had trained with this team for countless days and nights before coming to Braker. He actually knows this team very well. He knows the playing style and characteristics of each of his teammates, and he knows how to cooperate with them in training and games.

And this is probably one of the biggest functions of that system.

If Zhou Yi can appear in the database of the FM game in the future, then his adaptability must be... 20 full value!

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