Chapter 3 First Team
"I'm a lucky guy?"
After Chadwick left, Zhang Tiehan was still recalling this sentence, and suddenly felt that it made sense... In the training game this afternoon, he did nothing but defended Chadwick. If it weren't for shit, how could Ferguson decide to promote himself to the first team?
This is impossible!
There is no reason at all!
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang Tiehan still couldn't believe it, "Today is not April Fool's Day. I don't know that staff member at all, and I can't deceive myself, but why can Ferguson take a fancy to me?"
Do I have other advantages?
Of course, there must be, for example, my power, which part comes from the heavy hammers of the ancient and mysterious Titan clan, as well as the "supernatural powers and secret techniques" that have not been unsealed and other ancient forces. However, Ferguson certainly wouldn't know these, and all he could know was his performance in the training match.
If you think about it carefully, your performance is to defend Chadwick, defend Chadwick, and... or defend Chadwick, you can't think of anything else at all.
But why?
Zhang Tiehan shook his head helplessly, "It seems that he'd better go back and ask Fletcher, maybe he knows something." Ferguson and Zhang Tiehan lived in the same player dormitory, which is one of the reasons why the two can become good friends.
"Darren!" Zhang Tiehan greeted him when he walked into the players' dormitory.
Fletcher looked over, his face full of surprise, and there was also excitement and confusion. The strange expression with three emotions was only needed to have a look, and Zhang Tiehan understood. The two lived in the dormitory for two years, trained, ate together, and lived together, and were friends who could talk about everything. Zhang Tiehan knew Fletcher very well, and perhaps it was also true.
really……
"Zhang Tiehan, how is this possible? Today is really not April Fool's Day? I heard you join the first team! Of course, although I have been in, I still don't believe it." Fletcher walked over and started spitting, as if he was afraid that others would regard him as a mute.
"I heard others talk about it in the afternoon. It's incredible. Everyone believes that Old John won't lie." Old John is the administrator of several courts in Carrington's training base. He is already sixty years old.
Zhang Tiehan rolled his eyes.
This guy certainly won't know more, otherwise it wouldn't have been like this.
Zhang Tiehan didn't speak much, but that night, Fletcher was already lying on the bed and was still chattering, all the words in his mouth were about ‘Fuck’, ‘How is it possible’, ‘Unrealistic’, etc.
Zhang Tiehan was annoyed. He turned over from the bed and asked, "Darren Fletcher, are you really my best friend?"
Fletcher finally stopped talking.
...
The next morning, Ferguson walked into the office early.
This office is more than 30 square meters. In addition to an office desk and a wardrobe, there is also a one-meter-wide tactical board next to it, as well as more than a dozen small seats in front of the tactical board. This is Ferguson's office and also the place where Manchester United players take tactical classes.
Ferguson has been working here for seven years since the Carrington Training Base was opened in 1996.
Ferguson sat on his back chair, picked up a document on the table and looked carefully.
This was sent by the youth team head coach Mike Guinness yesterday. It is about Zhang Tiehan's player information, including detailed information on Zhang Tiehan's physical condition and performance in the Manchester United youth team for two years.
After looking at a few pages briefly, Ferguson shook his head, "As Mike said, this young man is strong and has good endurance, but his skills are too rough, but maybe he will be a qualified substitute."
Ferguson thought.
This summer is a great turmoil for Manchester United. Even he himself has completed the contract renewal with Manchester United. Several old players retired and terminated, and his favorite players Beckham and Perron have transferred and left. Since the contract renewal, he has been making plans. Manchester United has experienced great turmoil, their competitiveness in the past two years will definitely be worse. In the past two years, the new generation of Manchester United must grow. During this period, Manchester United's performance cannot be worse, and increasing the strength of the bench is a must.
Nowadays, Manchester United has many excellent players in front and backcourts; after Beckham left, the wings were a bit weak, so he spent a lot of money to introduce 18-year-old young star C-Ronaldo from Portugal, which has slightly made up for the shortcomings of the wings; the midfield position is the most important thing to worry about.
This position is very important, and it is the core of the team's offense and defense. He only has two players available: Roy Keane and Nicky Bart.
Bart is old, Keane is even older.
The two are still barely able to use it, and some players are competent, but they are not as good as the two of them, and there are other tasks, so adding substitutes is necessary, but the only problem is that in the whole world football, there are not many good players suitable for Manchester United's tactical system in this position, and even substitutes are not easy to find, so he thought of the youth team.
Zhang Tiehan, a standard defensive midfielder.
In yesterday's training game, when everyone else was trying to show their offensive abilities, the young man was not afraid of hard work to defend and ran hard all over the field. Perhaps his ability was not the strongest, and there was nothing outstanding about it. But what Manchester United needed was a defensive midfielder substitute, not a star with strong personal abilities.
With qualified abilities, excellent physical endurance, and daring to fight, that's enough. What's more, this young man comes from Manchester United's youth training camp and doesn't have to pay even a penny.
"I hope he can do it well." Thinking of Manchester United's recent situation, Ferguson sighed.
"Clang! Clang!" A knock on the door sounded.
"Please come in."
Zhang Tiehan walked in.
He was still a little nervous. Until he woke up in the morning, he was still strange about this, but soon he became calm and fearless, even encountering such things as time travel. As a member of the youth team, what's strange about being promoted to the first team?
This means that my football career has made great progress!
Zhang Tiehan was very calm when standing in front of Ferguson.
However, under those eyes staring at each other, Zhang Tiehan still felt a little awkward. Those eyes seemed to be able to see through him. Although he kept saying that he wanted to calm down and calm, he still couldn't help but stand up uneasy.
"Sir?" Zhang Tiehan couldn't help but speak again.
Ferguson's serious face finally soothed. He looked at Zhang Tiehan and said, "Young man, you should know that the Manchester United youth team has many young geniuses, Richardson, Fletcher, Eagles, some of them even played in the Premier League. Do you know why I chose you?"
Zhang Tiehan could only listen, he was still puzzled by this.
If you talk about skills, you will definitely not be able to say anything wrong with me. You are not on the same level as the three people Ferguson mentioned. The only thing that is outstanding is the body. Yes, your body is the first in the team.
Other…what else? Cultural knowledge?
Ferguson ignored Zhang Tiehan's expression and just said to himself, "Young man, don't be unconfident. In fact, you are very outstanding, you are better than them! You are very strong and have a heart that never gives up. You train very hard and play very hard, so I asked you to try it on my team. Do you have confidence?"
"Yes." Zhang Tiehan replied subconsciously.
"That's good!" Ferguson looked at Zhang Tiehan, "Have you had breakfast? If you are ready, go to the training ground with me. From today on, you will train with the first team."
"Yes, yes, sir!"
Following Ferguson to the training ground, Zhang Tiehan finally concluded: This old man is comforting himself and increasing his confidence.
What a good old man.
It’s a pity that I am an eighteen-year-old boy, but I have a mature heart. It really doesn’t mean much to comfort me. It would be great if the old man’s comfort could double my skills. Perhaps it would have to rely on unblocking other ancient powers in my body, so it obviously has nothing to do with this old man.
but……
"I'm not bad either. I'm not bad at defensive ability and strong body. These combined are not as good as real big stars, but they should be qualified players. If I follow Manchester United's first team for a while, I might be able to catch up with the team's level, and it may not be possible to become a star at that time."
Yes, that's it!
Zhang Tiehan immediately became more confident!
I followed Ferguson to Manchester United's first-team training ground. It was only 8:30, and there were not many people on the first-team training ground.
Zhang Tiehan walked into the stadium and found a ball, and went to the side to adapt to the ball feeling.
Not long after, the players came to the training ground one by one. They met and joked. It was strange that head coach Ferguson actually came to the stadium so early. Then they saw Zhang Tiehan, a newcomer. Some people met Zhang Tiehan at the Carrington training base, such as Giggs and Keane. They knew that Zhang Tiehan was a Manchester United youth team player, but most people didn't know it.
But even if you know each other, you don’t know each other at all. Zhang Tiehan would not take the initiative to say hello to others, just sit alone and have a simple training.
It was soon nine o'clock and the training match officially began.
Ferguson is a very strict coach. He has the highest status in Manchester United. He controls the most power. No matter how valuable a player in the team is, he dares not violate Ferguson. It is said that David Beckham left like this. Because he and Ferguson are not in line, he can only leave Manchester United.
There is such an example that just ended, and everyone in the team didn't want to anger Ferguson, so they worked hard to get up early and wouldn't be late for even a second.
By nine o'clock, the team had already gathered.
Ferguson pulled Zhang Tiehan to the team and briefly introduced, "This is Zhang. Maybe some people have seen him, so I will train with you in the future." Then he signaled Zhang Tiehan to introduce himself.
Zhang Tiehan was a little nervous.
Everyone in front of him was a real big star, and he was just a youth team player. He stood in front of everyone and said, "My name is Zhang Tiehan, I am a Chinese, with a back midfielder, a defensive midfielder."
Some people laughed.
Zhang Tiehan shrugged indifferently. They just met and were not even considered a teammate. If they could really compete together in the future and train together for a long time, they would naturally become familiar with each other. What is the use of just introducing them?
Daily training has begun.
Zhang Tiehan just followed the training. The first event in the morning was to restore sexual physical fitness training, and the purpose of the training was to wake them up. He was jogging with the team, which was not difficult for him. Some people were interested in seeing Zhang Tiehan's performance, and then they saw that this guy who seemed a little stupid had good physical fitness.
After the first project, Zhang Tiehan only took a few breaths.
His physical fitness is not outstanding, but he is definitely not bad. He basically reaches the top level of the first team and is stronger than many people here.
Next are other training programs.
On the first day of training with the first team, Zhang Tiehan didn't know what to do. He just followed the events under the guidance of the assistant coach. The most important thing is training in skills, tactics, passing, etc. This is the focus of the first team's training, such as passing, which is a training that must be done every day. Some pass games like "Monkey Running" will be completed seriously.
Zhang Tiehan was also involved.
He is not doing well in this regard. His skills are poor in the youth team, not to mention that compared to the first-team stars, he works hard and earnestly, but he still makes frequent mistakes.
"He looks serious," assistant coach Clem said to Ferguson while holding a small notebook, "but the skills are really not very good. He can't keep up with the pace at all."
Ferguson looked at the training on the field and said nothing.
What Clem said is actually nothing wrong. Zhang Tiehan felt that he could not compare with these first-team big stars. His movements were very simple, but he rarely made mistakes. For example, the passing is now being made. They can use various simple or fancy moves to complete the passing, and the passing is very accurate, which looks very simple, but it is not easy to do it, because the direction and strength of the football come from are always different, and it is difficult to always play so accurately.
It's just a pass.
Not to mention the tactical training that follows, let alone Zhang Tiehan, even the best player in Manchester United youth team in this regard, they can't keep up with the first team.
Professional competitions are originally about tactics, and tactical training is deeply rooted in their bones. Many of them have cooperated for many years, and even when their teammates make moves, they know where to run.
Zhang Tiehan, who just joined the team, couldn't keep up at all.
Many times, when teammates pass the ball, he either runs too far or too far, and he can't get the pass at all.
The first day of training ended like this.
Zhang Tiehan was a little nervous. He felt that his performance was really bad. The old man Ferguson might have let him leave directly. After all, his performance was too poor and he could not keep up at all.
"No, I must persist!" Zhang Tiehan thought firmly, "Even if my strength is not good, it is really inferior to the first-team one-day tour! I should spend more time practicing."
At this time, Zhang Tiehan suddenly felt a seal in his mind loosening.
He closed his eyes and felt it, and saw that one of the three seals in his mind had already flashed brightly. It was an eye that seemed to contain wisdom for millions of years. That eye was full of wisdom and majesty, as if he could see through everything.
"This is……"
Chapter completed!