Chapter 24 Welcome to La Masia

The gate of Barcelona's training base is always crowded with people rubbing shoulders. These people are fans of art football. They come from all over the world, just like believers going to Mecca to worship. The temple of football pays homage.

They held up their cameras and mobile phones that could take pictures, and couldn’t wait to press the shutter frequently before they entered the door, and then excitedly talked about Ronaldinho, Deco, Xavi, Iniesta... Of course, Messi is also absolutely indispensable. This young Argentine genius has captured the hearts of many fans with his superb skills.

But in fact, if they want to see the birthplace of art football, they don't need to go to such a crowded first-team training ground at all.

Just on the other side of Aristides Street is the training ground of the Barcelona youth academy La Masia.

Unlike the hundreds of fans around the first team, there are only a few people watching the training sessions of the youth team.

The atmosphere here is a little different today.

Before the official training time came, a white bus and a convoy of three SUVs stopped on the side of the road where the La Masia Football School was located.

"Didn't we go to La Masia? Why did we come to Camp Nou?" Zhou Yi got out of the car, and his eyes were naturally attracted by a magnificent stadium in front of him. This is the world-famous Camp Nou Stadium, home of Barcelona football. .

Not only Zhou Yi, but everyone else was looking at the Camp Nou not far ahead after getting off the car. It was so huge that people's eyes would be attracted by it involuntarily.

Even He Ying turned his attention to the Nou Camp, a little lost in thought.

After all the young players got out of the car, Garcia, the technical director of the La Masia Football School, came to receive them.

He took everyone to turn left and left Camp Nou.

"Welcome everyone to La Masia Football School!" Standing in front of a two-story building made of yellow stones, Garcia opened his hands as a gesture of welcome. At the same time, this gesture is also very proud to show everyone behind him This small building.

Unlike other teammates who were admiring, Zhou Yi curled his lips and said with some disappointment: "This is La Masia? Isn't this a farmhouse?"

On the way from the airport to the hotel, Zhou Yi and the others saw such a house in the farmland along the highway in the car. At that time, some people said that it was a farmhouse with Catalan characteristics.

Zhou Yi did not expect to see farmhouses in the urban area of ​​Barcelona.

He was indeed a little disappointed.

The famous La Masia football school is just such a small building and a training ground? And it looks like... artificial turf!

"In Catalan, the 'Masia' in 'La Masia' originally means a farm." He Ying, who came down behind him, couldn't help but retort when he heard Zhou Yi's contemptuous tone.

He wasn't too surprised by the true face of La Masia in front of him. Obviously, he had done investigations and made preparations.

"Uh, okay..." Zhou Yi spread his hands.

He later learned that the book that He Ying was always holding in his hand was a Catalan textbook. He Ying studied Catalan so hard, and it seemed that he wanted to play in Barcelona. He is a Barcelona The "brain powder".

Garcia couldn't understand Chinese, so he didn't know what Zhou Yi and his teammates said, and he didn't pay attention to these young players. After introducing the landmark buildings of La Masia Football School, he took Everyone visited the interior of the small building.

It's also part of reality TV.

Garcia took everyone to visit the La Masia Football School. On the slightly yellowed white wall of the restaurant, there were many photos of players. They looked very immature in the photos, but they have long been world-renowned superstars. Still in service, some have retired.

For example, there is a group photo taken in 1988,

Twenty children all had long hair that was popular at the time. One of the thin children has now become the head coach of Barcelona's first team. He is Guardiola. There are two other people in this picture, Artimira and Vilanova, who are now assistant coaches of the first team.

"Barcelona has entered a cycle." When introducing the characters in these photos to Chinese guests, Garcia said very proudly.

Although in the first two seasons, Barcelona's league championship was snatched away by rival Real Madrid, this did not affect the pride of Barcelona's youth training staff in the slightest. In terms of youth training, they have indeed surpassed Real Madrid's La Fabrica.

The young Chinese players followed the tour intently, carefully observing the pictures on the wall of what today's superstars looked like when they were young.

Some are purely curious, others have the mentality of a pilgrim.

Out of curiosity, Zhou Yidong looked around and found that Guo Nu's expression was a bit strange, and his body was still trembling slightly. He couldn't help but patted the other person on the shoulder: "Hey, old Guo, what are you doing?"

Unexpectedly, this action startled Guo Nu. He turned his head and gave Zhou Yi a look. Instead of answering Zhou Yi's question, he continued to glance at those photos with a pilgrimage-like gaze.

Zhou Yi suddenly realized: "So you are a supporter of Barcelona!"

"So what?" Guo Nu's tone was bad, but it wasn't angry, but... a little shy, as if he was a little embarrassed after being known about his support object.

"Uh, it's not that good..." Zhou Yi raised his hand.

Guo Nu ignored him, and continued to look at the superstars in those photos, matching up with the famous people today.

Iniesta, Xavi, Messi, Fabregas, Pique...he found them all.

While searching, Guo Nu couldn't help but start to fantasize in his mind, if he can enter Barcelona's youth team... Then after a few years, will his photo also appear on this wall?

These young Chinese players all hope to impress the coaches of the giant youth training camps they are challenging through their outstanding performance in the game, so that they can enter the youth teams of their favorite giant clubs, so as to realize their dreams of studying abroad.

Guo Nu obviously also hopes that he can perform well in the game, so as to get the chance to stay in La Masia.

Just when Guo Nu was looking forward to this bright future, Zhou Yi's voice seemed to come from another plane, pulling him back to reality.

"You want to hang it on the wall too, Lao Guo?"

Guo Nu glanced at Sun Pan, and found that Sun Pan was staring at him, so he suppressed the anger of being interrupted from his dream, gritted his teeth and asked, "So what?"

"It's good to have lofty ideals, old Guo. But let's find a way to compete first..." Zhou Yi patted Guo Nu on the shoulder and sighed in a sympathetic tone.

When Guo Nu heard this, he couldn't get angry. Instead, he shrank like a deflated ball... making him even shorter even though he wasn't tall.

The main lineup of the sixteen-member "Chinese team" is fixed, and it's not a secret. Although the head coach Hao Dong hasn't announced the starting lineup for this afternoon's game, any fool knows which eleven will play.

Guo Nu has always been on the bench during the domestic training camp. It is absolutely impossible for him to get a starting chance in this game, unless a miracle happens.

But Guo Nu doesn't believe in miracles. If there is a miracle, can you make him ten centimeters taller?

Like Guo Nu, who is unlikely to be the main force, there is also Zhou Yi, who is known as "the weakest among the sixteen".

So his sympathetic tone is definitely not pretending, he is really sympathetic with Guo Nu!

Two substitutes.

Compared to Guo Nu's unashamed daydream that is purely obsessive, the yearning in his eyes may be a little more real when he also looks at the pictures of the superstars on the wall when they were young.

Just when Guo Nu was still sad and depressed about not being able to play in the game, He Ying was already 100% sure as the main force. As a striker, he was also the most likely to show off in the game and attract the attention of the La Masia youth training coach people.

With his strength, if anyone in this "Chinese team" is most likely to go to La Masia, it must be him.

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The visit ended soon, because I was wandering around in a small two-story building.

The small building, known as La Masia, includes a dining room, six bedrooms, a library and a computer room. Take a quick look at the flowers, and you will be able to finish it soon.

After all, this small building was originally used as a dormitory for echelon players, not as a complex building for a training base, and its scale is naturally limited.

So in this sense, Zhou Yi's first impression of La Masia was not wrong.

It is indeed a place the size of a farmhouse.

After visiting La Masia, the young players came to the training ground of the youth team.

Just across from this small building, after walking a gentle slope, is the training ground.

It was already 4:30 in the afternoon, the sun was hanging in the western sky, and the sunlight slanted down, casting a huge shadow on the training ground, occupying nearly half of the area of ​​the training ground.

This huge shadow comes from an even bigger building next to the training ground.

Everyone looked up at it, this is the home of the world-renowned Barcelona football team, the UEFA five-star certified Camp Nou stadium!

Although they had seen it just after getting out of the car, they couldn't help but look at it now.

This is Camp Nou. Its huge and majestic body fills everyone's vision and rushes towards you. You can't avoid it. You can only accept the visual and spiritual impact it brings to you.

This famous football field is only a dozen meters away from the training ground of La Masia Football School.

Garcia saw that everyone's eyes were attracted by the Nou Camp, so he said: "Our home court and training ground are so close, which is convenient for us to motivate young players, and they can gain motivation by looking up at this stadium. "

Zhou Yi put Guo Nu on the shoulder next to him, and said to Guo Nu who was looking up at the Nou Camp with a pilgrimage expression: "Old Guo, it seems that you are not far from the Nou Camp, just a big foot! Ha!"

Guo Nu wasn't in the mood to joke with him, so he gave him a blank look and didn't say a word.

He continued to look at the Nou Camp, obviously in the shadows, but the slightly anxious face seemed to be able to bloom with holy light...

Seeing him like this, Zhou Yi couldn't continue making fun of him.

Even people who are not favored by the whole world have the right to dream.

Regarding this point, Zhou Yi probably has a deeper understanding than anyone else.

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