Chapter 1397 Far Exceeding Expectations

Marco Roca still remembered that when the two were competing for free kicks a few days ago, they still needed to communicate through Jiang Xiaochen's translator. How many days have passed? Xia Ruofei suddenly greeted him in Spanish, and his pronunciation was quite standard, which made Macroca feel a bit like a dream.

Xia Ruofei said with a smile: "I have learned some simple Spanish in the past few days, so I can barely communicate!"

Wu Lei next to him looked at Xia Ruofei with a look of hopelessness, and asked, "Brother Xia, what are you talking about?"

He came to Spain several days earlier than Xia Ruofei, and he has been learning Spanish during this time, returning to the hotel after training and competition every day, and taking at least one or two hours of Spanish lessons.

But so far, Wu Lei has only learned some very simple words and memorized a few football terms. For example, in the conversation between Xia Ruofei and Macroca just now, he only heard the word "good morning".

And Wu Lei is very clear that Xia Ruofei really started to learn Spanish, and it only took three days to count, and he was already able to reach such a level.

Originally, Xia Ruofei, a person who had never played professional football for a day, killed him, a professional player who had been systematically trained since childhood, in a free kick, which was enough to make him depressed. Now he is even more talented in language than others. It's so much worse, so it doesn't make people live?

Xia Ruofei said with a smile: "Just say hello! Leizi, you have to strengthen your Spanish learning. If you want to gain a foothold in the team in the future, communication with your teammates is essential!"

Wu Lei said dejectedly: "Brother Xia, it's not that I don't work hard enough, but you are too good... How did you manage to raise your level of Spanish from zero to this level in three days? Your language talent is also very good. Too scary, isn't it? Why are you so good at everything? Could it be that you saved the galaxy in your last life? Standing with you, the frustration is too serious!"

Xia Ruofei laughed and said, "As long as you work hard enough, you can do it!"

Wu Lei was speechless for a while, and said secretly in his heart: I didn't see you working so hard! Haven't you just flipped through the Spanish dictionary these days and mumbled a few words along with the video tutorial? Good talent is good talent...

Xia Ruofei looked at Mark Roca, who was on the side. Naturally, the kid was dumbfounded and didn't know what the two of them were talking about.

Xia Ruofei explained with a smile: "Wu is asking me about the learning experience of Spanish!"

Macroca gave Xia Ruofei a thumbs up and said, "Mr. Xia, you are the person with the best language talent I have ever met.

none of them! "

Xia Ruofei smiled and waved his hand and said, "I won the prize! Roca, go and change your clothes! Let's go to the training ground first!"

Macroca said quickly: "Wait! Mr. Xia, I was just about to ask! You are wearing this suit today, this is to..."

The signing of Xia Ruofei and the Espanyol has always been a secret stage. Apart from the club's management and the head coach, only Wu Lei really knows about the players.

The Spanish sports media's report on this signing has caused a wave of heated discussions in China, but in fact, it has not caused any waves in Spain. It is just a few tofu articles in the newspaper, and generally these The players themselves didn't pay much attention to such news, so no one in the team knew that Xia Ruofei had become their "special teammate".

Xia Ruofei smiled and said: "You will know in a while! Go and change your clothes first! Maybe I will give you a surprise later!"

Since Xia Ruofei is going to participate in the away game against Valencia, and he has to participate in training today, the coaching staff will naturally announce that he has joined the team, so everyone will naturally know about it.

Macroca nodded with a confused look, and then went straight to the locker room. Xia Ruofei and Wu Lei jogged to the training ground and warmed up by the way.

Xia Ruofei and Wu Lei jogged around the training ground to warm up, and soon Mark Roca joined them.

Soon, the players all arrived at the training ground one after another. They saw Xia Ruofei wearing training uniforms, and the expression was the same as that of Marco Roca.

However, the coaching staff quickly answered everyone's doubts.

Before the training officially started, Ruby called everyone together and said, "An announcement to everyone! In the future, Mr. Xia will become a member of the team, and he will wear the No. 25 jersey and fight alongside everyone! "

As soon as Ruby said this, the players of the Espanyol first team couldn't help stunned, their faces filled with disbelief.

One is a high-level club executive in suits and leather shoes, and the other is a professional player who often smells of hormones all over his body and sweat. It is impossible for these two identities to be linked together!

Ruby continued: "Of course, Mr. Xia is busy with his official business, and he can't stay in the team forever, so he will only play for Espanyol in some key games, and in two days, Mr. Xia will play in our away game against Varen. In West Asia's game, use his superb free-kick footwork to contribute to the team!"

After Ruby finished speaking, everyone finally came back to their senses, and quickly applauded Xia Ruofei's arrival.

Macroca has the most intuitive understanding of Xia Ruofei's free-kick kicks, and he is also the most welcome to Xia Ruofei's joining, and his hands are about to become popular.

Of course, there are also some people who applaud perfunctorily. In fact, they don't think so. Among them are the young players Melendo and Puado who have been trained by the Spaniards' youth training. They think that Xia Ruofei is just playing tickets. , it's really not serious.

Especially Puado, who was just promoted from the youth team. He is a marginal player in the first team. Sometimes he can sit on the bench for dozens of minutes. With luck, he can get a few minutes of playing time in the final stage. Bad luck can't even get on the bench, so I'm directly excluded from the squad.

Puado's position overlapped with Wu Lei's. After Wu Lei came, his position became more marginalized, so he didn't really like the Chinese players. He thought that the Chinese people were rich local tyrants. In fact, they are weak chickens, including Wu Lei, who are not worthy of playing in La Liga.

As for Xia Ruofei, it is even more impossible to reach the standard of a professional player in the top league. Isn't it because he is a shareholder of the club and wants to play tickets that he can join the team?

Rich people just play! Puado snorted coldly in his heart.

Xia Ruofei naturally didn't know the different thoughts of the players below. Even if he knew about it, he wouldn't care. Players like Puado are too different from him. To put it in a bad way, does a person care what an ant is thinking?

Xia Ruofei walked to Ruby's side, pressed his hands down, and everyone's applause gradually subsided.

Xia Ruofei startled everyone as soon as he opened his mouth. He used Spanish directly.

He said: "I am an ordinary player on the field and training ground, and everything is subject to the command of the coaching staff. I also hope that everyone will not treat me as a shareholder of the club, and do not give me special treatment. Everything is the same as everyone else. I think our goal is also the same, that is, to win all the way and fight to enter the European war! For this goal, I will also help the team as much as possible within my ability!”

After Xia Ruofei finished speaking, he nodded to Ruby, indicating that he could start training.

When Ruby heard what Xia Ruofei said in Spanish, he was also very shocked. He even wondered, are Chinese people so talented in language? It is said that Chinese is one of the most complex languages ​​in the world. Chinese people can master such a complex language. It must be easy to learn languages ​​such as English, French and Spanish! Otherwise, how can you explain that Xia Ruofei can speak fluent Spanish after not seeing him for a few days?

To be honest, Xia Ruofei's impromptu speech in Spanish, in addition to the slower speed, all grammar, language habits and pronunciation are quite standard.

If only Wu could master Spanish so quickly, Ruby thought to himself.

Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but drift to Wu Lei's side.

Wu Lei also felt Ruby's eyes, he could even guess what Ruby was thinking, he could only squeeze out a smile that was uglier than crying, which was a response to Ruby's earnest expectations.

Ruby signaled the assistant coach to take everyone to training, and he said to Xia Ruofei: "Mr. Xia, if you don't mind, I hope to arrange some tests for you first... The coaching staff needs to know the details of your body so that you can We rationalize the tactics of the day after tomorrow and your playing time."

Ruby is also worried that Xia Ruofei's physical fitness is relatively poor, making it impossible to persist in a long game.

Xia Ruofei nodded with a smile and said, "Of course there is no problem! I said, you are the highest decision-maker in training or competition, and I will not interfere!"

Ruby was also secretly relieved. To be honest, he was still a little conflicted about the introduction of Xia Ruofei. On the one hand, he felt that it was such a good trump card that it would be a pity not to introduce it; on the other hand, he was also vaguely worried about the team coming. God, then point fingers at the team commander, and then dominate the locker room and make a mess of the team.

Of course, in the end, Ruby was still reluctant to take precise free kicks, which is a very important killer for mid- and lower-level teams, and chose to introduce Xia Ruofei. It's just that he has always been a little uneasy in his heart, worried that Xia Ruofei would interfere with the team's command and weaken his prestige.

Xia Ruofei's two consecutive statements and actual actions made Ruby finally relieved.

He quickly arranged a physical coach to take Xia Ruofei to perform a series of body sides, while he stayed on the training ground to lead the other players to conduct some tactical drills, which may be useful when playing against Valencia. .

Ruby also focused on rehearsing the attack in the frontcourt, with special emphasis on the speed of the counterattack. In addition, he also put forward specific requirements for the players in the frontcourt, that is, once Xia Ruofei plays, the players in the frontcourt must do as much cooperation and breakthroughs as possible. The meter area intentionally creates some fouls from the opponent to win the free kick.

Generally in that area, the threat of free kicks is not particularly large, so the opponent's players will not pay much attention to their actions under normal circumstances.

Xia Ruofei came to the indoor training ground and easily completed a series of tests according to the requirements of the physical fitness coach. He basically didn't even sweat much, and the physical fitness coach doubted that Xia Ruofei's data was too much. It's been perfect!

He once suspected that the test equipment was faulty. If it was other players, the physical and fitness coach would definitely let them test again without hesitation, but now standing in front of him is the major shareholder of the club! He wouldn't dare to lend him a few courage! Could it be that he told Xia Ruofei: The test just now was inaccurate due to a malfunction of the instrument, please do it again?

Do you still want to do it?

Xia Ruofei saw the constipation-like expression on the physical trainer's face, and couldn't help but ask, "Coach, is there any problem?"

"Ah! No no... no problem!" the fitness coach said quickly.

Xia Ruofei stretched his head and glanced at the test data in the hands of the fitness coach, and said with a smile: "Don't doubt the authenticity of the data, the machine is definitely not broken, this is the objective data... If you are worried, I can do it again!"

"No, no!" The fitness coach said quickly, "Mr. Xia, you can go to rest first, and participate in the team's joint practice later!"

"Okay!" Xia Ruofei was happy to see the physical coach say so, shrugged and said, "It's hard for you today!"

"It's not hard! It's not hard!" said the fitness coach.

After Xia Ruofei left the indoor training ground, the fitness coach was busy again. Although he didn't dare to let Xia Ruofei test again, he still couldn't believe such near-perfect data, so he decided to try it himself and see to the end. Is it a problem with the test equipment.

When the physical fitness coach breathlessly followed Xia Ruofei's test sequence, completed most of the items, and then got his own data, he couldn't help showing a wry smile. His data was a lot worse than Xia Ruofei's. As a professional physical fitness coach , which is indeed a bit embarrassing.

However, this also proves one thing, that is, there is no problem with the test equipment, and Xia Ruofei's body side data are objective and true.

The fitness coach couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, picked up Xia Ruofei's body side data, and walked towards the training ground with brisk steps.

He realized one thing, that is, with Xia Ruofei's current physical fitness and physical strength, there is no need to consider how long he can last for the game, because Xia Ruofei can play the whole game.

Of course, it is up to the head coach to decide whether he can make the first appearance or even play the whole game. It is not because he is physically fit that he can start. Xia Ruofei has never played professional football after all. Except for free kicks, other aspects of the coaching staff I don't know much about it, and Xia Ruofei has never cooperated with his teammates. In this case, the possibility of him starting is very small.

But anyway, the fitness coach felt obliged to report Xia Ruofei's physical test data to the head coach Ruby as soon as possible to provide a basis for his decision.

When the physical fitness coach came to the training ground, Xia Ruofei had already participated in the team's joint training.

He did not deliberately use the cultivator's ability to perform very brightly. On the whole, it can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, but even such a satisfactory performance has already surprised Ruby, at least in a short period of time, Ruby saw When Xia Ruofei arrived, even if he did not take into account the factor of taking free kicks, he could gain a foothold in the Espanyol team just by virtue of his performance in this joint training and in-team confrontation.

This has far exceeded Ruby's expectations.

As long as Xia Ruofei can't play any role at both ends of offense and defense except for free kicks, Ruby's options for formation will become more diverse, and there will be much more room for manoeuvre, and after Xia Ruofei comes on the court, the team will The risk will also be greatly reduced.

Ruby was surprised and delighted.

At this time, he saw the physical fitness coach coming over, and he couldn't wait to ask: "How is it? How is Mr. Xia's body side data?"