Chapter 1 Preston Reserve Team ()

Forty-six-year-old Yulian Darby looked at the reserve players running out of the room in a mess, and a trace of helplessness flashed in her eyes.

As a coach who is not very old and still has ambitious, it is actually not unacceptable to lead the reserve team. After all, you can achieve good results in the reserve team. If you can discover several good players in the reserve team who have been missed by the first team, it is not impossible to join the first team as an assistant coach and even have the opportunity to become the first team head coach.

However, after four or five years in Preston's reserve team, Darby really did not make any achievements.

Originally, there were still a few players in the reserve team that Darby thought were good and should be able to train, but...

David Milton - the white boy who cursed after losing the game, defended the midfielder, ran actively, fought fiercely, and had his physical fitness not particularly outstanding, but his foot skills were pretty good. After grabbing the ball, he could pass the ball immediately to attack. Even if he was not as good as the main midfielder of the first team in terms of ability, he could become a supplementary midfielder of the first team. However, this person has a bad temper, a stinky mouth, and a very poor popularity. He offended everyone every few times in the first team. In the reserve team, basically no one liked him. In the world of football, popularity may not be so important, but you must have the ability and status that people cannot ignore - Milton is far from there, so after the first team got angry and resentful, he was sent to the reserve team, but this king in the reserve team is still like this.

Just because of this, Darby still felt that Milton had the opportunity to become a part of the first team, either his personality had changed or his ability was able to play the main force.

In addition to Milton, Milton's friend George Clapham is also a person Darby is optimistic about. Preston has many good players on the defense line, but not many offensive players can show off. Clapham is a forward, with active running and good confrontation ability. Although his scoring ability is low, it still has a certain effect. What's more, although he and Milton are similar, their personality is much better than Milton. As long as a striker suddenly becomes aware of his ability, he can score a few goals. It should be no problem to gain a foothold in the first team with Clapham's running and diligence.

The other person is Paul Barrett. He is the same as Milton's position as a back midfielder, with abundant physical fitness, active running, and fierce fighting. However, although this black young man already has the basic ability to be an excellent back midfielder, his skills are inversely proportional to his running and physical fitness. Except for his basic passing ability, other aspects are simply a mess. Although this ability is enough to gain a foothold in the English League Two, Preston started out as defense, and the back midfielder is not short of people, so he can only feel aggrieved by Barrett to continue to stay in the reserve team.

Darby expects these three people to be enlightened, Milton is less annoying, Clapham is stronger in scoring, and Barrett is better in skills - but in addition to the three of them, the other person is the one who makes Darby the most headache.

Tiger Lee, a mixed Chinese, third-generation Chinese immigrant, his father is Chinese and his mother is British, with excellent skills and passing. He started to join Preston's youth training camp at the age of 11, and at the age of 15, he became a football apprentice at the Preston Club. At that time, he was even believed to be the Hoddle of Preston in the future, which is the current head coach of the England national team and the former member of the England national team.

However, this young player who successfully entered the Preston first team at the age of nineteen is now twenty-one, but he is still in the reserve team. His skills are fine, at least in the English-C and English-Bike, otherwise he would not have entered the first team at the age of nineteen. You should know that even in England, there are not many players who can enter the first team before the age of twenty. Even those who enter the first team before the age of eighteen are geniuses among geniuses, such as the new Liverpool golden boy Michael Irving.

For players in the British Isles, their most basic characteristics are excellent physical confrontation ability, outstanding physical fitness, but average technical ability. Even excellent British players often only have reasonable ability to handle the ball and can use eight-point technology to play ten of their abilities - however, there will be exceptions everywhere. England's island country will still produce some of the same technology, excellent imagination, and confrontation ability can only be considered ordinary players - this exception often does not achieve much, but once it is played, it will illuminate countless people - such as George Best, Glenn Hodel, the current national team coach nicknamed "charming midfielder", and the geek Paul Gascoin...

It is precisely because of this reason that the first team coaches were full of hope for Tiger Lee, but Tiger brought them only disappointment - in his youth, Tiger could still show his style in front of the rough English brothers with his outstanding skills. However, after joining the youth team, his technical advantages were no longer so obvious, and his physical confrontation became an obvious weakness. The characteristic of almost falling on the court made Tiger perform extremely poorly in the official game of the English C. What's more serious is that his personality is too weak, kind to others, and would rather give in than take over when conflicting with others - this personality is quite good in dealing with people. Most players in the reserve team have a good relationship with him, but on the football field, this personality is even worse than Milton's annoying personality.

There are superstars with humble personalities, but on the court, they will never be humble.

So Tiger, once favored by Blackburn's youth coaches, finally barely joined Preston's first team after he was nineteen and obtained a three-year professional contract. However, after several failed first-team performances, he was thrown into the reserve team and showed no sign of making a comeback.

Darby believes that as long as Tiger fights better and has a tough personality... he can gain a foothold in the first team. However, for coaches, they can help players train their skills, but psychological and physical strength is something they cannot change.

Two defensive midfielders, one attacking midfielder and one striker, are the four players Darby is most optimistic about who can gain a foothold in the first team - Preston is too poor, so poor that leaving the main lineup has already made their finances exhausted. In this case, if the reserve team and the youth team can provide several players who even play as a substitute, they can help the club's finances take a breath.

Unfortunately, these guys are just not enlightened.

Dabi shook his head, and he decided to use another method to stimulate these guys.

"The League Two is about to begin. The club is now short of manpower in the first team. Next, I will arrange a confrontation game. Players who perform well will have the opportunity to enter the first team."

When he said this, the originally lazy players suddenly burst into cheers.
Chapter completed!