The day before the team's expedition to the 12th round of the Chinese League One, Zhang Sheng received reports from two players.
Both of these players are only 15 years old. One is a student who came to register for the football school on his own, and the other is a good prospect discovered by scouts from the Jiangcheng Junior High School League.
The player who came to sign up is called Huang Dawei. He is not from Hubei Province, but from Jiangxi. Although he lives in a province where football is not very popular, he loves football very much.
He showed his sports talent since he was a child and was recruited into a professional sports school. However, after practicing football for a few years, his parents, who thought he had no future in football, saw that he was tall and forced him to join the basketball team.
For this reason, his parents also spent a lot of money to send coaches and leaders.
It's a pity that people are not as good as God. In the next year, Huang Dawei grew to over 1.8 meters in height, but he was not strong. Moreover, he never showed good basketball talent. Gradually, he became a basketball player.
Substitute for the team's substitute.
The parents who originally sent him to basketball also regretted it, but their son had already embarked on the road of sports, and it was difficult to look back. After all, Huang Dawei's long-term professional training made him fall far behind in cultural classes. After a period of
After much thought, Huang Dawei's parents turned their attention to the recently popular Longteng Football School. After all, their son had received professional football training for several years.
After coming to Longteng Football, Huang Dawei's parents still wanted to give money to the football school, but the office staff and coaches of the football school flatly refused. This caught Huang Dawei's parents, who had always been familiar with the unspoken rules of professional sports, a little off guard, until
The coach of Longteng Football School very seriously told the Longteng team that bribery and gifts were strictly prohibited, so they doubtfully handed Huang Dawei over to the coach for trial training. In the end, the coach allowed him to play the goalkeeper position after some testing.
His parents don't understand this position very much. After all, their son has been trained professionally, and he will never play as a goalkeeper, who they think has the least future. They think that they are not resolute in giving gifts, and the other party is deliberately trying to embarrass him.
Himself, this made the coach responsible for his trial dumbfounded, and finally had no choice but to report it to Zhang Sheng.
The second player is a native of Jiangcheng City, named Xiang Tiange. He is a student of the junior high school of Jiangcheng No. 4 Middle School, a specialized football school in Jiangcheng.
Jiangcheng’s campus football is still very good. Although it is Jiangcheng No. 12 Middle School that holds the banner of campus football in Jiangcheng (produced by Lu Jie, Zeng Qinggao, Cai Sheng, Zheng Bin, Chang Weiwei, etc.), but some other
The schools are not weak either, including No. 1 Middle School, No. 17 Middle School, Wansongyuan Primary School (produced by Hao Junmin, Yao Hanlin), Huanpo Road Primary School (former Zhanzhanguan Primary School, produced by Mei Fang, Jiang Kun, Wu Peng),
Hanyang West Street Primary School (produced by Deng Zhuoxiang and Rong Hao), Gangcheng Tenth Primary School (produced by Zeng Cheng), Wujiashan Primary School (produced by Zhang Xizhe). The Fourth Middle School is also one of the best.
However, most of the football-specific schools have been signed by the former Jiangcheng Zall in advance. Exclusive agreements have been signed in advance. Only schools that focus on academic performance, such as No. 1 Middle School and No. 4 Middle School, have been left out. This is where Xiang Tiange is more troublesome.
, it’s just that his parents don’t agree with him playing professional football. After all, in a school like No. 4 Middle School that often produces top students in Jiangcheng’s college entrance examination, study still comes first.
Xiang Tiange is the kind of student who has good grades but is also good at playing football. So how to convince his parents to allow him to play football has become a top priority.
Seeing the two reports in his hand, Zhang Sheng decided to do it himself.
The handling of the first player was very simple. Zhang Sheng took the initiative to contact Huang Dawei's parents and asked them to meet. After meeting Zhang Sheng, Huang Dawei's parents were completely relieved. Given Zhang Sheng's status, he would definitely
It was impossible to defraud them of the small amount of money. After Zhang Sheng described to them Huang Dawei's future as a goalkeeper, they quickly agreed. And under Zhang Sheng's decision, Huang Dawei also reduced a certain amount of fees, and at the same time
Zhang Sheng asked Huang Dawei to live directly with his uncle's house in Jiangcheng. Because Longteng Football School has regulations, young players under the age of 16 must live with their families or relatives. After all, children's growth and family cannot be separated.
The matter of Xiang Tiange is more complicated. His father is a doctor at a hospital in Jiangcheng, and his mother is an employee of a large state-owned enterprise in Jiangcheng. In their eyes, studying is the right way for children, and playing football and
Training is okay, but it can only be used as an auxiliary means to strengthen the body. This is their understanding as relatively advanced intellectuals.
Zhang Sheng spent a lot of effort on this matter.
First, Zhang Sheng had to prepare a way out for Xiang Tiange. To this end, Zhang Sheng also found Jiang University through connections. After promising a bunch of sponsorships to Jiang University, they agreed to accept three players to Jiang University every year in the future.
I came to study in college, but it was also in the name of a special recruitment for football students.
With this promise, Zhang Sheng found Xiang Tiange's parents. Regarding Zhang Sheng's arrival, Xiang Tiange's parents didn't look very good. In their view, it was nothing to trick their children into playing football.
Good people.
After meeting with Zhang Sheng, Xiang's father said very directly: "Coach Zhang, I know your intention of coming here, but let me make it clear first, Tiange will definitely study for college in the future, and his grades are not bad.
Football can be done, but it cannot be a career."
Zhang Sheng explained to his father very patiently: "I know Tiange's grades are pretty good. With his intelligence, it will definitely be no problem for him to go to college, but I think we should also consider our children's thoughts."
Xiang Ma took over the conversation directly: "He is still so young, how can he have his own ideas? He is a student, and studying is the right way. Our family is not the kind of family that is short of money and needs children to earn money from their bodies."
After hearing what Xiang Ma said, Zhang Sheng understood very well that Chinese parents do not approve of playing football. In fact, this is a misunderstanding among many people in China.
To be honest, football has never been a poor man’s sport around the world!
The phrase "football is a poor man's sport" was first put forward by Blatter in Africa, but this is not a true mantra at all. Football is a middle-class sport. Whether a country's football population is stable depends on whether the country's middle class is
Powerful and stable.
Many people say that Romario came from a slum. This is because the Chinese people have a biased understanding of the slums. The Chinese think that the slums are for beggars. In fact, this is not the case. They are just the children of migrant workers living in big cities. Of course, this is all
This is a special case. Most children who play football grow up in a very good environment.
After investigation, most players in Africa are the children of chiefs or local officials, and the same is true in Brazil. Kaká is a very famous example. But everyone was shocked by a few stars who came out of the slums, and they always thought football
It is the way out for the poor.
In China, there are even more special reasons.
China's cultural heritage of thousands of years makes it seem that most people have a paranoid understanding of reading, that is, all things are inferior, only reading is high. Especially after the founding of the People's Republic of China, countless people have changed their destiny through reading. Therefore,
In the eyes of most people, children who play football are the path they have to choose because their families are poor and their children are disobedient. In addition, the exam-oriented education in China also puts children under tremendous pressure. People who play football
Even less.
Facing Xiang Tiange's parents, Zhang Sheng could only use his trump card: "Actually, you don't have to worry too much. We have an agreement with Jiang University. If the players of the Longteng team and Longteng Football School really don't play...
After they come out, we will let them enter Jiangnan University and choose corresponding majors to study."
Hearing Zhang Sheng's words, Xiang's mother was a little stunned and asked: "When you say Jiang University, do you mean Jiangcheng University?"
Zhang Sheng nodded affirmatively and said, "Yes, it's Jiangcheng University. I don't think you look down on Jiangcheng University, right?"
Hearing what Zhang Sheng said, Xiang's mother was a little embarrassed: "How could it be possible? Jiang University is such a good school."
Zhang Sheng also hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and said: "Actually, you have also misunderstood our Longteng Football School. Although our Longteng Football School is characterized by football, in the final analysis it is still a school. Since it is a school, the students in it also regard learning as their priority.
Lord. For the echelon that Xiang Tiange entered this time, we only train 4 times a week, each training is only one and a half hours, plus a game on Saturday. At other times, our students are studying cultural classes, and in
In our football school, if the cultural class fails, training will be forced to be suspended and make-up classes will be made."
Xiang's father and Xiang's mother looked at each other and said, "That's true, but how strong is Longteng Football School?"
"You don't have to worry about this. After our Longteng Group took over the football school, we hired a lot of very experienced teachers. Later, in order to support us, the Wuchang District Government specially assigned a group of outstanding teachers to come here. You may not know it, right?
.We had a dozen students from the junior high school last year enter the No. 1 High School Affiliated to China Normal University and Jiangcheng Foreign Language School." Zhang Sheng persuaded again.
Hearing what Zhang Sheng said, Xiang's father and Xiang's mother finally understood the power of Longteng Football School. They didn't think that the second son of Longteng Group would lie to them. After all, if these were lies, then this lie would be too big.
It was clumsy. However, subsequent investigation is inevitable.
Zhang Sheng also knew their concerns, and he said: "These things are well-documented. You can check our football school's website, or you can inquire through Jiang University or Jiangcheng Education Bureau."
In the end, Zhang Sheng wrote all the requirements of Xiang Tiange's parents into the signing contract, and then successfully won the young player Xiang Tiange. He will also officially transfer to Longteng Football School next semester.
Xiang Tiange was even more happy when he heard the news.
After handling these matters, Zhang Sheng received another task from the system, which was to lead the team to an undefeated season. The reward was very good. It was a high-level potential pill. This item was something Zhang Sheng must get.
