Per Mertesacker's saga continues and is undoubtedly the brightest star of the second half of the youth season in Tübingen.
Among the four players in the front court, Allison is in front, Wang Ai and Ozil are on the left and right, and Pell is in the middle of the left and right scheduling, which greatly relieves the defensive pressure encountered by Wang Ai and Ozil, and also brings a lot of changes to the frontcourt attack.
In the past, the youth team of Tübingen used short passes on the ground when dealing with the connection between the front and back courts, and the high-altitude ball could not be fought for at all, so they could only rely on Wang Ai's astuteness to grab the second point.
With Pehr, the attack in the front court becomes three-dimensional.
On April 1, in the ninth round of the second half, Tübingen went to Weinheim in the northwestern state of Baden-Württemberg for an away match, and after beating the opponent at the bottom of the standings 6-0, the team traveled south along Heidelberg, Sinsheim and Heilbronn, passing through the city of Stuttgart and returning to Tübingen.
Three days later, on the afternoon of April 4, the Tübingen youth once again went to Mannheim, about 20 kilometers from Weinheim, to play the fourth round of the Baden Cup, that is, the quarter-finals, against Weinheim.
With two goals each from Mesut Ozil and Allison, Tübingen Youth comfortably advanced to the last four.
This year's Weinheim is a negative example of the Tübingen team, a team from a city of about 80,000 people, who did not find a suitable investor to inject capital after being promoted to the state league, and as a result, they were struggling in the knockout zone from the beginning of the league, and with eight rounds of games left in the season, they firmly controlled the bottom 11 place with a total score of 2 wins, 5 draws, 19 losses and 11 points, and no one could snatch it.
Although the Weinheim players are very relaxed, the ball market is relatively cool, and even loyal fans are too lazy to watch the team lose like this.
Fortunately, the market for these two matches against Tübingen Youth was not bad, and fans wanted to see the team at the top of the table, and they were curious about Allison, Mesut Ozil, Mertesacker and Chinese foreign players.
This team is currently on the road to promotion with a domineering attitude, and after being promoted to the Southern Regional League next year, people will not come here again.
After the game, Wang Ai looked in the direction of the north of the city, pondered for a while, and beckoned Jonas and said: "I won't go back to the team today, you can accompany me to Frankfurt." ” Jonas, who is now the team's head of security, is actually equivalent to Wang Ai's personal security when he goes out, nodding.
Jonas was tall and personable after quitting drinking, and if it weren't for his great name as a "peace warrior" in the southern German states, too many people knew him, and no one would consider him a violent maniac.
Weinheim to Frankfurt is less than 80 kilometers away, Favre and Leonie led the other players back to Tübingen by car, Wang Ai and Jonas took a bus, arrived at the southwest suburbs of Frankfurt at less than 5 o'clock in the evening, the two changed into taxis, and ten minutes later arrived at the "Wald Stadium", which has not yet been renamed, the main stadium of the Bundesliga team Frankfurt.
Despite being a large course with more than 50,000 seats, Wald's is not standard, running north-west-southeast, and in addition to a main course, there are six training fields, three of which are high-security turf for regular matches.
To the north is a golf course, and in other directions there are a few lonely sports shops, star hotels, etc., and the rest is a large area of farmland.
Jonas didn't ask Wang why he was here, and the Bundesliga game is on the weekend, usually on Saturday night.
This is also the reason why amateur games are more concentrated on Sundays, a large number of amateur fans and even players are fans of professional leagues, in order to allow them to play with peace of mind and not watch the game while playing, or tangled in not knowing which game to watch, so there are more arrangements on Sunday.
Wang Ai walked through the silent and unmanned main field, there are some fans outside the training ground with barbed wire to watch, this year's Frankfurt team is not very good, since Schneider left, Frankfurt's midfield has lost an important attacking instigator, the attack power has plummeted, the results have been hovering on the edge of relegation, and the situation is more severe than last year.
When Wang Ai arrived, Eintracht Frankfurt's training had just ended, and the players walked out of the stadium, some signing autographs for fans, while others shook their heads and refused to walk to the adjacent parking lot.
The new head coach Magath didn't like Yang Chen's style of play very much, and Yang Chen also had a difficult time, changing back and forth between the main force and the substitute, so his face was not very good, and after barely coping with the two fans, he also planned to go to the parking lot to pick up the car and go home.
"Yang Chen, Yang Chen!"
Just then, Yang Chen heard a shout in Chinese, which sounded very intimate in the German-speaking world.
When I went to the voice, I saw a Chinese boy holding a ball about 20 meters away, waving his hand while jumping his feet.
Yang Chen's heart warmed, there are still some Chinese in Frankfurt, but there are few fans, only occasionally there are fans who come from China to travel or even come to see him, but this year's team's performance is average, and his own performance is not as good as last year, and there are fewer people.
The tired Yang Chen smiled and took two steps: "Hey, I'm Yang Chen, are you from China?"
Also, which team is your jersey from, why don't I know it?
” As he spoke, Yang Chen was very accustomed to taking the ball from Wang Ai's arms, and took out a pen from his pocket to sign it.
Wang Ai's jersey is naturally from the youth team of Tübingen, and after taking over the team, the style of the jersey has also been changed to a certain extent, the color tone has been removed from the black, mainly earthy yellow and bright red, and the lion pattern and simple dragon pattern have been selected, which is a bit similar to the Chinese flag from a distance.
Wang Ai wanted to answer Yang Chen's question directly, but Yang Chen snatched the football from his arms, and took out a big black thick pen to graffiti......
Wang Ai is in a hurry, you scribble with a big thick pen, and I won't rub it all on my body for a while?
So Wang Ai snatched the ball back, and frowned and looked down to see if it was painted.
Yang Chen, whose hand was suddenly empty, held the pen for a long time: This, what's wrong with this?
"Yang Chen, introduce yourself."
Wang Ai stretched out his hand very formally: "My name is Wang Ai, the main striker of the Tübingen youth team in the Baden State League, and currently the assist king in the league."
At the same time, I am also the main striker of the Chinese junior men's national football team, the top scorer and the most valuable player in last year's Asian Junior Championship. ” As soon as he heard that he was not a fan, but a professional player, Yang Chen's attitude also straightened up, and while shaking hands with Wang Ai, he formally introduced himself: "I am Yang Chen, a former striker of Beijing Guoan, and currently a striker in the Bundesliga team Frankfurt.
For the national team......
Since last year, I have participated in training camps and some warm-up competitions. ” After the introduction, the two looked at each other and smiled, although the team is far away, but the same professional players who play in Germany, they feel very close as soon as they meet, and now they are playing in Germany in addition to Yang Chen of Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, Xie Hui of Aachen in the German Second Division, and only Wang Ai who plays in the state league remains.
Although Wang Ai is young and the team level is low, Yang Chen does not dare to underestimate it, and it is almost certain that a young player who can win the Asian Youth Golden Boot will take the road of professionalism.
What's more, judging from the self-introduction just now, this little player can still get the assist king!
This is not simple, it shows that he is very adaptable to the team's offensive and defensive system, and has the trust of the coach and the support of the players, so that he can play both striker and striker, and compared with Xie Hui, who is very pure, his development potential is much greater.
"The kind words are over", Wang Ai grinned: "So, since we are all playing in the front court and can score goals, how about a heads-up?"
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