Chapter 18: The debut (1) ()

Today's extra training is no longer just Zhang Yang and Yaxioi, and the big black Louis also joined in.

Yaxioi passed the ball, Zhang Yang stopped the ball and turned around. He looked ahead. Luis was already ready.

"Come on! Look at me swaying past you!" Zhang Yang looked at him gritting his teeth.

"Come on, don't forget, I'm a little Turam!" Louis clapped his palms, stabilized his center of gravity, and shouted loudly.

"Little Turam! Look at how I, Ronaldo, Jr., passes you." Zhang Yang took the ball forward, and faces Louis's legs to intercept him. He knocked the ball to the left and wanted to change direction and pass Louis. Others passed, but the ball was left by Louis.

"No, come again."

"If you do it a hundred times, don't even think about taking advantage of me, Turam."

"You two, don't forget that I still have you." Yashioy shouted.

In the distance, Coach Mark Levi looked at the three young men with a smile and nodded with satisfaction.

Yashioi has a second-hand scooter. After the training, Yashioi drove Zhang Yang back to the apartment. Louis and Zhang Yang both lived in the same apartment, but Louis said that he would not go back to the apartment in advance.

"Where is that guy?" Zhang Yang asked as he looked at Louis who ran away.

Yashioi shrugged. He didn't know that in the youth team, Yashioi was a proud guy. He rarely paid attention to what his teammates did or thought. It can be said that now, now he practiced with Zhang Yang and Louis. Before, Yashioi would definitely not have such behavior. He would rather practice alone, because he felt that his strength was much higher than his teammates.

"Zhang, do you know? There is another Chinese in our team." Yashioy suddenly said to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was stunned, "There is another Chinese? Who is it? Why haven't I seen it before?"

Yashioy shook his head, "Maybe he's injured and left the team temporarily, I don't know."

Zhang Yang did not continue to ask, and he also realized that it was impossible to expect to get some situations from other people from this guy's mouth. How did this proud guy live so big before!

Zhang Yang didn't know that he had a compatriot teammate in the team, but at this moment, a reporter was coming from home to try to interview his teammate.

The wind in Marseille seems to be constantly stopping all year round.

Zhong Dajun is a reporter for Sports Weekly. When he first arrived at St. Charles Railway Station, Marseille was also in a strong wind. At a high place, Marseille Harbour was vaguely visible, and thousands of masts swayed in the wind, which was spectacular.

Without even experiencing the scenery of the port, Zhong Dajun headed straight to the Marseille Club. From the escalator in the hall, it was the Marseille subway station. From St. Charles to the Prado Station where the Marseille Club is located, there were only 4 stops in total.

Zhong Dajun is here to interview Meng Yang. Obviously, Zhong Dajun's preparations are not sufficient, and he doesn't know that the person he is going to interview does not seem to be in the team now.

"The first young Chinese player to sign a contract with the G14 club" was on a long journey from Bad Kissingen to Paris through Frankfurt, and then to Marseille, such titles kept flashing in Zhong Dajun's mind. What attracted Zhong Dajun was how young Chinese players came into contact with European football in different ways, from Star 08 in the hot spring town in Germany to Mengyang alone in the Mediterranean immigrant city.

In January 2004, Meng Yang went to Marseille for a trial, and he officially won the youth team contract in July this year (on July 17, Meng Yang signed a two-year contract with Marseille Club), which means that he has lived here for almost a year.

The velodrome Stadium is right next to the Prado Station. Unfortunately, the Marseille Club located across the road has already gotten off work. The French Ligue 1 leagues between Marseille and Lille, which will be held tonight, are cancelled for some reason. Therefore, the club staff also got off work early.

However, when Zhong Dajun saw that there were staff on duty at the club, he went up to ask.

After presenting the reporter's certificate, Zhong Dajun began to inquire about the interviewees from the on-duty staff.

"Is there any youth team competition recently?"

"Please wait." The duty officer then told Zhong Dajun, "You are lucky. There will be a youth team game tomorrow, and their opponent is Paris Saint-Germain."

"Thank you." Zhong Dajun was very happy. He was lucky. He asked again to be on the safe side, "Do you know there is a Chinese player in the youth team?"

"Chinese players?" The duty staff scratched their heads, "It seems there is, I remember a Chinese player seemed to be on the roster of the game."

"Excellent." Zhong Dajun almost jumped up happily. His luck was not ordinary. He just came to Marseille and might see the match of the interviewee.

He immediately walked to the ticket office not far away and bought a ticket for the youth team game. In fact, as long as the members of the Marseille fan association can watch the youth team game for free, there is no need to spend money to buy tickets. This is also to encourage fans to come to the scene to cheer for the youth team players.

However, Zhong Dajun obviously does not have the certificate of Marseille fans and can only pay for tickets. The ticket price is not high, only 1 euro, which is just a symbolic meaning.

I wonder if the editor-in-chief will reimburse this euro. Zhong Dajun looked at the tickets in his hand and thought to himself.

The stingy bald man would definitely not be reimbursed. Thinking of this possibility, Zhong Dajun was very angry.

The league between Marseille and Lille that night was cancelled for some reason. Zhang Yang was a little depressed. He was looking forward to this game. It was undoubtedly a wonderful enjoyment to be able to experience the atmosphere of the Villodem Stadium in person, although he could only be in the stands at this time.

Fortunately, although the competition has been postponed, the ticket in Zhang Yang’s hand will still be useful at that time.

After about a few hours of training in the dungeon, Zhang Yang came out of the dungeon panting. He looked at the time and it was only 19:45 pm.

Thinking that tomorrow would be the first game after joining the Marseille team, Zhang Yang was very excited, and this excitement made him unable to calm down.

He decided to go out for a walk. Since he came to the Marseille, he has never gone out for a walk. He has been training all day long, and his life seems to be boring forever.

Zhang Yang has been to many cities in France in the past two months. At this moment, walking on the streets of Marseille, he couldn't help but look at the city. It was the first time he went to see this city seriously.

Only when you enter Marseille, you will feel that this is Marseille, not Paris, is the most heroic and romantic city in France. One of the intuitive examples can refer to the Earl of Kidu, who is known to everyone from Marseille. Dumas told us earlier than Jin Yong that the definition of a hero is not as simple as eating a large piece of meat and drinking a big bowl.

Zhang Yang's favorite was Napoleon. So he asked the pedestrians on the road if there was a Napoleon memorial nearby, but the reply he received a little disappointed.

The Frenchman who was asked about his direction seemed to be very interested in Zhang Yang, or Zhang Yang was the first Chinese man he met wearing a Marseille jersey, and he started chatting with Zhang Yang.

When he learned that Zhang Yang was a player of the Marseille youth team, the middle-aged man, who was obviously a Marseille fan, was extremely happy. He even took out a Marseille pictorial from his bag like a trick and asked Zhang Yang to sign it.

Zhang Yang looked at this pictorial. This was a poster of the first team of Marseille, with Ribery, Nasri, and Nyan on it... He signed his name very seriously on it, with Chinese name: Zhang Yang.

This Marseille fan does not seem to think that there will be anything wrong with Zhang Yang signing this as a youth team player. He was very happy to see Zhang Yang signing his name, "Haha, thank you. I hope that one day you will appear on this." This fan is expressing his encouragement and support for this strange young Marseille player in this way.

"It will definitely be." Zhang Yang smiled thankfully, and he smiled. The latter gave him a thumbs up.

"Giree Fassas, Director of the Marseille Fan Association." The middle-aged man stretched out his hand.

"Zhang Yang." Zhang Yang said his name. As he expected, his name made the director of the Fan Association very distressed. Giri Fass read it several times before he finally made the sound.

From the mouths of this hardcore Marseille fan named Giri Fassas, Zhang Yang knows more about the team he plays for now.

It turns out that in Marseille, the Marseille people's favorite is not Napoleon, they like Tapi, the boss who won the Champions League for Marseille in the 1990s, and later went to jail.

In and around Marseille, Marseille clubs have become a religion and are the main content of life for many people.

The 1993 Marseille Champions League championship was finally proved to be the result of the bribery policy, but the Marseille still remembers the trophy.

Now in the lobby of the Marseille Club, the biggest photo is the player Abedi Bailey, who held the trophy and opened his mouth and whistled.

"Unless someone pointed a revolver at our forehead, we will never change that painting until the earth explodes." Gilli Fassus said seriously.

Giri Fassas told Zhang Yang that the Marseille also likes people who are similar to Tapi, such as Atletico Madrid boss Hill, who once spent millions of dollars to buy a retired aircraft carrier for the reason "because I haven't."

This is how Marseille is, being used to remembering what they think is worth remembering. It is easy to understand their uniqueness. Almost all maps of cities are in the north, but Marseille is not. It is east above the city map. In other words, if a place even has a latitude and longitude in reverse, their thinking will not be the same as outsiders.

Zhang Yang suddenly felt that this city and this team seemed to be really suitable for him!

In this fanatical soil, his hope began to take root and sprout.

"There will be a youth league tomorrow, welcome to cheer for us." Zhang Yang sent an invitation to this middle-aged fan.

"I will definitely go. Haha, I wish you a goal." Giri Fass had a good impression of this young player. He took out the poster again, pointed to the place where Zhang Yang signed, and gave a thumbs up.

Zhang Yang smiled happily. In the poster that was able to join the first team, this is exactly his current goal!

On Monday afternoon, the originally cold Marseille suddenly became a little stuffy, and the air seemed to stop flowing.

However, this seems to be more of a passion and tension in Zhangyang's heart.

There is a not-so-large stadium called Egur Park Stadium near the Marseille youth team's base. In the simple lounge of this somewhat lonely stadium, Zhang Yang stood up and listened to the sound from outside the window. There seemed to be many fans coming today. Could it be that there will be so many fans in a youth league?

Can you play today? Can you score a goal? Can you win the cheers of fans?

He was a little excited, his body was unable to control himself and trembled slightly. He began to drink water in big gulps. He wanted to calm down his somewhat excited brain, and he had to calm down.

I started to get involved in football. How many years have I started to fall in love with football? How many years have I been struggling for this ideal?

Although this is just a youth league, Zhang Yang insisted that this is his final! It is the first real game in his career!

Unexpectedly! Half an hour before the start of the game, more than 2,000 fans had already poured into the stadium. After yesterday's Ligue 1 Marseille and Lille match were postponed for some reason, the energy was not released. Marseille fans who were not excited every week without seeing their own team matches turned their attention to this youth team match.

By the time there were more than ten minutes left before the start of the game, the stands at Egur Park, which could accommodate more than 6,000 people, had already occupied most of the stands by fans.

According to the staff's vision, there were about 4,000 fans, which was an incredible number, and the game had to be postponed. This was because in this game, the local police in Marseille only sent more than a dozen policemen to maintain security symbolically. After all, the possibility of conflicts in the youth team's league is very small. However, now, so many fans are pouring into this stadium built in the 1950s, which makes this stadium that has been in disrepair even a little overwhelmed.

The police officer who maintained security on the scene had to immediately discuss with the referee and the fourth official. The game was temporarily postponed and he needed time to apply to draw police forces to maintain order at the scene.

Referee Cams and the fourth official also realized that the situation seemed a bit serious. After obtaining the consent of the head coaches of the youth teams on both sides, they decided to postpone the game for fifteen minutes and give the police time to mobilize security forces.

Pierre walked into the locker room and told the players that the game had been postponed for fifteen minutes.

“Why postponed?”

"Oh, hell, I just prayed for my lucky necklace, and it didn't work after fifteen minutes."

Someone complained.

"Today there were more than 4,000 fans, and the security force on the scene was insufficient..." Pierre shut up all the complainers with just one sentence.

"Wow, this is a big scene."

"Yes, I've never scored so many people in front of me."

"I must perform well today, haha."

Pierre smiled. The reason why he came to tell the players specifically to postpone the game for fifteen minutes was for this. These young people will definitely be very excited. They will work harder to play football in front of so many fans.

Of course, facing so many fans at once, you may feel a little nervous. However, if you can't bear the atmosphere brought by 4,000 people, the psychological tolerance of such a player is too bad, and it's better not to have such a player.

Zhang Yang didn't say anything. He was also very excited when he sat there. However, what he knew best was that in this game, there were only one audience and four thousand audiences, which were the same for him!

As long as he can play, he will fight like the bravest warrior!

"Go on the court! It's time for Marseille fans to know you! Young men, don't be scared by our own fans and your legs are weak."

Coach Pierre clapped his palms and joked with his players. After that, he turned around and walked out the door. He wanted to walk in the front, which was Pierre's habit.

Behind him are his disciples, and the young men he has worked hard to train are his soldiers! Although these young people have different talents, some of them are not hard enough, and some are not very obedient, he has devoted his own efforts to anyone, and any person's outstanding performance and success will make him feel very accomplished.

Zhang Yang already knows that he will be a substitute in this game, which is understandable.

Now, he is looking forward to having a chance to play!

It’s now that my childhood dream has finally come true. I will take this step and become a professional player, and spread my youth and dreams on the passionate green field!

Marseille first-team coach Fernandez and first-team assistant coach Hiltney also appeared in the old stands at Egul Park Stadium.

They are looking at Zhang Yang's performance.

The match between Marseille and Lille was postponed, which is good news for Marseille because one of their substitute shooters was injured in training again. Now, Marseille's first team has only one real forward. If the game against Lille is normal, Fernandez will even have to face the dilemma of not even a real shooter on the bench when he sends a single striker!

Knowing that the youth team of Marseille and the youth team of Paris Saint-Germain today, Fernandez came over. He remembered the impressed Chinese guy and wanted to see how that kid was now.

However, thinking that it was less than a week since signing Zhang Yang that day, Fernandez was not optimistic that he could see Zhang Yang's outstanding performance.

"Which is him?" Assistant coach Hiltney asked Fernandez. He had heard the head coach of his team tell the story of the Chinese boy. Hiltney also admired the boy's persistence and efforts in pursuing his football dream, but he firmly did not think that a Chinese could perform well. In fact, he had known before that the team had signed a Chinese player last year, but Hiltney knew that this was more due to the club's needs to develop the Chinese market, rather than the players' personal abilities.
Chapter completed!