Chapter 553 Super Messi

Winter in the British Isles is always depressing, rainy and cloudy, with little sunshine, short days and long nights, so workers living in the British Isles always feel that they get up before dawn and go home after dark, which is very depressing.

On this day, a hazy drizzle fell again, floating in the air, occasionally getting into the collars of passers-by's coats, touching their exposed necks, creating a cold chill, making people shrink their whole body, immediately tightening their coats for warmth, spitting out warm air from their mouths, and cursing, damn thief God!

Crowley was one of the many early risers, wearing a black wind coat, and his forehead, which was exposed because of a little baldness, was covered with fine raindrops. With every breath, he would spit out a hazy mist.

His left hand popped out of the wind coat, and he looked at the watch on his wrist. Time was running out, and he couldn't help but speed up his pace.

A pair of thick velvet leather boots stepped on the asphalt road in downtown Birmingham. The tendon soles of the shoes kept making friction sounds with the ground. When he arrived at the intersection, he saw the pedestrian street lights flashing quickly. He crossed the road quickly and came to the opposite side. At this time, the light changed from green to red.

After taking a few breaths, the 35-year-old Englishman looked at the food in his hand. There were some breakfast and food he had just bought, such as toast. If the bread at home had not just run out and he forgot to buy it yesterday, he would never go out so early and endure the hellish weather.

Although he got up early, there were already many pedestrians on the street, especially when passing the corner. Many people stopped by the grocery store on the side of the road, took a newspaper, and threw a coin. If the weather was better, they would read the newspaper while walking, but in this kind of hellish weather, who would do such a thing?

Arriving in front of the grocery store, Crowley glanced at the signboard at the door of the store. There were many popular newspapers in England, such as the Times, the Guardian, the Sun, the Daily Telegraph, etc., with one copy of each placed on it, so that customers can clearly and intuitively see what the content of today's newspaper is, and then go to the window of the grocery store to get the newspaper they like.

There are two types of newspapers in the UK. One is similar to the Times, which costs money, so they always create some attractive covers on the front page, which can greatly promote sales. The Sun is a die-hard newspaper that has a three-page girl in every issue to attract some sultry customers to buy their newspapers, and also made some women famous.

Another type of newspaper is similar to the subway newspaper, which is free, but the quality is very poor, and it belongs to the type that is thrown away after reading.

Crowley, like most English people, has the habit of reading newspapers, but he rarely reads those free newspapers. Instead, he buys a newspaper every day from a grocery store not far from his doorstep, where he is standing now. He is not sure which newspaper company he buys from, but buys from whichever one he likes.

Birmingham is a big city, and newsstands or mobile newsstands are generally not allowed on the road, so newspapers are usually bought in grocery stores, and each grocery store will run many aspects, such as newspapers, mobile phone recharge cards, etc., so the bulletin boards in front of their doors will be replaced with the latest newspapers every day.

Today, almost all newspapers used the same front-page headline, that is, Tottenham Hotspur slaughtered Wigan Athletic 10:0 at home last night, scoring the highest single-game goal score in the Premier League in the past few years, and Messi scored five goals in less than 45 minutes, which was a stunning performance.

So there are eye-catching headlines like [Super Messi] or [Super Tottenham] in the newspapers.

After Crowley glanced at the bulletin board, he went to the window to take a copy of the Times, then quickly rolled up the newspaper, put it in his windbreaker, and walked out of the grocery store quickly. He would rather get wet than get the newspaper wet, because he felt that a wet newspaper looked too awkward and was simply a nightmare for readers.

Crowley walked quickly and soon arrived at the door of his home, which was a small apartment facing the street. They lived upstairs.

He entered the apartment, went upstairs, opened the door and returned home. He changed into leather boots and a windbreaker, took out food and newspapers, and when he was about to go to the kitchen, he saw his twelve-year-old son walking out of his small bedroom barefoot.

"Oh, Dan, it's too cold. Go back and put on your shoes and clothes and come over for breakfast!" Crowley shouted to his son.

But he began to keep busy in the kitchen.

Not long after, his wife and son walked out of the room one after another.

Every time he sees his son, Crowley feels very relieved. Although he is only twelve years old and not very tall, he is very smart. Moreover, his son has an advantage that makes him, as a father, extremely proud, that is, he has a talent for playing football. He has been spotted by Aston Villa, a local Premier League team in Birmingham, since he was a child, and has been cultivated in Aston Villa's youth training camp.

"It's raining outside again, and we're about to have a holiday for Christmas. Should we consider going to the south?" Crowley's wife sat opposite him, next to his son Dan, discussing how to spend the Christmas holiday.

Many British people choose to go to the south around Christmas in winter, whether it is southern Spain or Portugal, or even fly directly to the Canary Islands or Africa to escape the nightmare British weather.

"Oh, I'm afraid not, dear!" Crowley was spreading salad dressing on his toast, "Maybe we have to go to London." After finishing speaking, he looked at his son with a smile, "I always believed that , Dan has the opportunity to go to London!”

"Oh!" The wife suddenly realized it, and immediately reached out and touched her son's blond hair lovingly, "Yes, our Dan is the best. I believe he will be selected. Tottenham Hotspur will not miss it. ,Right?"

Dan seems to be a shy and handsome young man. After hearing the praise from his parents, he felt a little shy, "But I haven't received the notice yet, and I don't know if it will work. Besides, I just went to participate in the selection event."

"Come on, Dan, have some confidence in yourself. Look, what is Tottenham Hotspur's player selection event called? Genius Day!" Crowley laughed and encouraged his son, cheering him on, "It means It is said that only geniuses can participate in activities, and if you can stand out from so many geniuses, you are the genius among geniuses!”

Crowley's words not only amused his son, but also made his wife laugh.

In the eyes of all parents, their sons are always the best, the best, and the best, and the same is true for the Crowleys.

"I heard that Tottenham Hotspur's youth training base is in cooperation with St. Mary's School. Entering Theobald is equivalent to entering St. Mary's. Oh my God, even if you can't play football in the future, , you can also continue your studies, which is much better than at Aston Villa. "My wife is more pragmatic.

"Of course!" Crowley nodded, "So this talent day selection also attracted a lot of people. I paid attention to the news last night and heard that there were nearly as many training and game videos submitted by local British players alone. Five thousand copies, but there are only fifty people participating in the Genius Day event, that is, only one person can choose from one hundred people."

"However, if you enter Tottenham Hotspur, it almost means you are close to success!" Crowley's thoughts almost represent those 5,000 children who submitted their children to Tottenham Hotspur to play football and football. What Parents Say About Training Videos.

The Genius Day player selection activity is an activity launched by Tottenham Hotspur specifically for Christmas. Because it is the first time it is implemented, it is currently only available to the British Isles, that is, the UK mainland, for all people aged ten to fourteen years old. All children can sign up and submit their videos directly online. After being confirmed by Tottenham Hotspur's technical analysts, the young players will be invited to Tottenham Hotspur's training base to participate in selection activities.

Another way to enter the selection activities is to be spotted by Tottenham Hotspur's scouts, who will write a player report and recommend it to the club. Crowley's son Dan is this way. He was spotted by a scout from Tottenham Hotspur and after asking for their wishes, he was recommended to the team.

But many days passed and there was no news.

"Well, if we can accompany Dan to London for an event, we can also attend Tottenham Hotspur's Christmas Carnival. I heard that this year's carnival will be more lively than in the past. It will be great!" the wife was full of excitement. Said expectantly.

“If Dan can get into Tottenham Hotspur, we’ll be able to go to the carnival every year from now on!”

The couple were talking to each other over there, while Dan on the side casually took the Times that his father had bought. There was a very conspicuous photo on the front page, which showed Messi running wildly in celebration after scoring a goal. A scene, and not far below this big photo, is a photo of Tottenham Hotspur head coach Ye Qiu being interviewed.

"10:0, my God, they are simply monsters!" My mother came over and saw the headlines.

Ten goals, such a game is very rare in football matches. Even if Tottenham Hotspur has staged massacres many times this season, being able to score double-digit goals is absolutely terrifying.

"Messi, Dan, your idol!" Crowley said to his son, pointing to Messi's photo.

The front page headline of The Times read, Super Messi!

Obviously, this short Argentinian superstar has completely conquered all the fans in the UK. No matter how picky you are, no matter how demanding you are on your players, you can't ask him to do more, because Not only does he score goals, but he also provides constant assists.

To say that Tottenham Hotspur's best performance this season, in addition to Messi, Franck Ribery is also quite outstanding, but perhaps Messi has created too much momentum. During this period, almost all newspapers Everyone has set their sights on Messi, and many people even think that he can win the World Footballer of the Year.

"He's so good!" Although Dan is just a kid, he plays football very well. He knows very well that to be like Messi, only the best football players in the world can do it, and Messi is undoubtedly Just a superstar.

While the three of them were eating breakfast and discussing Messi, the sound of the doorbell came from the door of the apartment.

"Hello, may I call Crowley's house?" A voice came from the doorbell.

"Yes, which one are you?" Crowley answered to the doorbell.

"I have a courier from you. It's from London. Please come down and sign for it. I'll be downstairs!"

When Crowley heard this, he immediately opened the door and banged downstairs. Not long after, he heard him banging upstairs again, with an extra express in his hand. He looked very surprised and excited.

"Hey, Dan, a courier from London, Theobald, Hertfordshire, Tottenham Hotspur!" Crowley read the address, but soon he noticed the conspicuous logo of Tottenham Hotspur on the envelope, a vivid fighting cock stepping on a football.

"Really?" Dan rushed out of the restaurant excitedly and snatched the envelope from his father's hand. It was indeed Tottenham Hotspur.

"Yeah!!!!" Dan almost did a bicycle kick.

"Dear Mr. and Mrs. Steve Crowley, hello! Thank you very much for your continued support and affirmation of Tottenham Hotspur. We are very honored to invite you to visit our Theobald training base in Hertfordshire on December 23 with your outstanding son, Dan Crowley, and participate in the three-day talent day player selection event. All accommodation and expenses for this event will be covered by our club."

When the Crowley family in Birmingham received the talent day invitation letter from Tottenham Hotspur, another 49 families across the UK also received similar invitation letters. These 50 children are undoubtedly young players recommended by Tottenham Hotspur scouts in the past after careful selection from all over the UK or online videos.

The talent day selection event is a Christmas event launched by Tottenham Hotspur to learn from Ajax. It is one of the activities of the Christmas carnival, but it is also a powerful measure for Tottenham Hotspur to select youth training talents.

This year is just the first trial. The team will conduct the event online and in person, inviting 50 players to London to participate in the event. If successful, it will be held in two phases in summer and winter, and will eventually become a fixed talent selection event for Tottenham Hotspur.

Ye Qiu attaches great importance to the Talent Day event, because with the cancellation of the restrictions on youth training selection areas by the English Football Association and the Premier League, all teams can select talents anywhere in the UK, so Tottenham Hotspur must take advantage of this and attract more outstanding talents to join as soon as possible to enrich the team's youth training camp.

Compared with other teams, Tottenham Hotspur has a huge advantage, that is, they not only have the best youth training hardware and software facilities, but also cooperate with the British famous school St. Mary's School. The latter's new campus is just opposite the Theobald training base, across the road, which has great appeal to young players and parents.

Now for Tottenham Hotspur, the only shortcoming is the youth training coach.

You know, excellent players often represent excellent coaches, and youth coaches have always been the weak point of English football. Even in teams like Manchester United, Arsenal, and Chelsea, youth coaches are very bad, not to mention compared with famous youth teams like Ajax, even compared with some other teams on the mainland, they are still inferior.

Tottenham Hotspur's youth training style is different from other Premier League teams, and it can be said to be in the same vein as the first team. Therefore, in the selection of youth coaches, Tottenham Hotspur is temporarily short of manpower. Ye Qiu still directly dug a few from Ajax, plus a few trained by the original first team, barely enough to make up the coaching echelon.

But in general, youth coaches still need to continue to cultivate, so Tottenham Hotspur's Christmas Carnival this year has another activity, that is, the coach training course. All adults who are interested in youth coaching are welcome to sign up, and Tottenham Hotspur will select the most suitable candidates for training. After completing the training, they will directly enter Tottenham Hotspur's Theobald to work, or even directly join the first team coaching staff.

In the past three years, the Christmas carnival has become more and more popular. Although Christmas is the European New Year, it is not as important as outsiders imagine. Otherwise, there would not be so many people who like to travel around Christmas.

Therefore, since Tottenham Hotspur held the Christmas carnival, it has attracted a lot of attention from fans and London citizens, because everyone has a gene that likes to be lively. Although these Londoners seem to be alone in their own country on weekdays, in fact, when it comes to carnival, they are all so happy that they forget themselves.

As the Christmas carnival has received more and more attention, the scale has almost increased every year. From the first session, Tottenham Hotspur only held an internal carnival in Theobald, and later attracted some fan organizations, and finally directly opened the White Hart Lane Stadium to allow fans and their families to enter. Now, the White Hart Lane Stadium can no longer accommodate them.

It is not only Tottenham Hotspur that attaches great importance to the Christmas Carnival. The London City Government, Tottenham District Council, and Hertfordshire County Council all attach great importance to the Christmas Carnival and provide a series of support and publicity and promotion. With the participation of sponsors and merchants, the scale of the fourth Christmas Carnival will be larger than in previous years.

For this reason, Tottenham Hotspur has launched a series of activities specifically for the Christmas Carnival. The Talent Day Selection Event and Coach Training Course are just two of the activities. In addition, some activities for fans and the community are also being launched one after another.

According to Peter Kenyon, CEO of Tottenham Hotspur, this Christmas Carnival should be made into a regular event, a common festival and event for all Tottenham Hotspur fans!

This is also an important attempt by Ye Qiu and Peter Kenyon to transform Tottenham Hotspur into a platform-based business system.