The strongest blade in football

Chapter 115 Manchester City First Training
In mid-June, Manchester gradually entered the summer, the World Cup in South Africa began, and the World Cup came to the African continent for the first time.

After fierce competition, Spain finally defeated the Netherlands through overtime and won the World Cup for the first time.

For the British, this World Cup is undoubtedly bitter.

In the first half month after the start of the World Cup, the whole of England was immersed in the beauty of the World Cup, until they encountered a goal-line injustice in the quarter-finals and were eliminated by Germany 1-4.

The British media went completely berserk and concentrated their firepower on crazy output. After the end of the World Cup, they still complained about this matter.

In addition to the England goal line injustice, some "classic events" were also born in this World Cup.

For example, the magical octopus Paul, Zheng Dashi crying while playing the national anthem, Suarez's devil's hand, and Iniesta's super lore.

While making people talk about it, it also made the whole world focus on football for a whole month.

After the World Cup ended, it was finally time for the Manchester City players to return to the team.

Except for some World Cup players who postponed their return due to special circumstances, most of the players returned to Manchester and started pre-season preparations under the leadership of coach Mancini.

Wang Nuo had already gone to report. As a rookie, he had to perform well.

Manchester City's training base is also in Carrington, in fact it is very, very close to Manchester United's training ground!

Sun Jihai told him an interesting story on the phone.

It is said that when Bianchi first joined the team two years ago, he called a taxi, accidentally went to the wrong training ground, went to Manchester United, and was ridiculed by the media.

There was another time when Sun Jihai kicked the ball with his big foot in training, and accidentally used too much force, the football flew high and far. The head coach Keegan yelled at Sun Jihai angrily-you go to Manchester United to pick up the ball !

Although the training bases of the two clubs are very close, Wang Nuo did not go to the wrong place.

It is said that the club will spend a lot of money to build a new training base, because the current training base is a bit rudimentary and does not match the local tyrant temperament of the current team.

When Wang Nuo entered the training base, the first thing he saw were two standard courts with carefully manicured turf.

On the right side of the training ground, there are two two-storey buildings, painted blue and white, which are the office area and player recovery area of ​​Manchester City.

The player's recovery area is relatively outside. The first floor is the medical room and strength training center, and the second floor has the hydrotherapy recovery pool and restaurant.

The training base is not big, and to Wang Nuo's surprise, the locker room here is also not big.

When the administrator named John led him to open the locker room door, Wang Nuo felt that it was so...ordinary.

It's very simple, without any extravagant decoration, the roof is very low, surrounded by white walls, a long wooden bench surrounding the whole room is painted light blue, and the lockers are one size smaller than the standard Liege.

There are only three physiotherapy reclining chairs, which are placed in the middle of the inside. Apart from the training notices on the wall, there is only a small TV and a hook for team uniforms.

John seemed to see the doubts in Wang Nuo's heart, and said with a smile, "This place has always been like this. The space has become smaller, but the distance between the hearts of the players has been shortened."

"Some teams in the Premier League have huge and spacious locker rooms. The teammate closest to you is 3 meters away, and the physiotherapy chair is placed in another area. Tell me, can the players still get together?"

Wang Nuo felt that what he said was very reasonable. John must have survived the hard times with Manchester City. He is really a smart man.

Two hours later, Wang Nuo finally met his "big name" teammates from his new club.

Compared with the standard Liege, Manchester City's lineup is much more luxurious, and anyone who comes out and puts it in the league is a proper star.

Everyone did the body side first, and most of the teammates managed their bodies well.

Before starting training, Mancini introduced to everyone in standard Italian English: "We have two new teammates, this is Wang Nuo, and this is Yaya Toure."

Well, what a neat introduction.

Wang Nuo guessed that the English level of his new boss might not allow him to make more complicated introductions.

Wang Nuo had to greet everyone with a stupid waving gesture.

Yaya Toure is not much better, although he comes from Barcelona and is a bigger name than Wang Nuo.

On the contrary, the welcome from the teammates is quite warm, they know that newcomers this summer are very expensive!

In addition to Wang Nuo and Yaya Toure, David Silva and Kolarov have basically completed their signings and will soon be training with the team.

The team has come and gone a lot this summer and City are going through a big shakeup.

Next, Mancini said a few more words.

It didn't take long for the training to start under the organization of the famous assistant coach Brian Kidd.

When Wang Nuo stepped onto the court for the first time and warmed up with Vieira, Carlos Tevez and others, Wang Nuo was extremely happy.

Especially Vieira, who is almost a star who has been famous all over the world since Wang Nuo was very young.

Wang Nuo also wanted to impress his new teammates, so during the free warm-up, Wang Nuo put on his shoes and started running laps to warm up.

As he ran past his teammates again and again, he heard someone behind him say, "Hey, that kid can really run!"

Wang Nuo felt that they had already seen one of their own characteristics.

At that time, he wanted to turn his head and say to them, "You know, I participated in the Edinburgh Marathon this summer, and the whole marathon time was 3 hours and 20 minutes!"

Wang Nuo continued to run many laps until Brian Kidd blew the whistle and let everyone start lap training.

The players were divided into two groups, one group practiced passing the ball with one kick, and the other group tried to steal the ball, scoring 10 point for 1 consecutive kicks.

At this time, Wang Nuo had to sigh. In an ordinary lap training, the pass frequency of teammates is much faster than the standard Liege!

Wang Nuo had to concentrate on making sure he wasn't the one who made the mistake.

When he first arrived, Wang Nuo would involuntarily observe his new teammates to see what kind of characteristics the legendary Manchester City possessed. Similarly, he also found that almost everyone was looking at him.

Standing in the queue, Wang Nuo felt like a mummy—only moving his eyes to look left and right.

He knew that if he did one wrong move, everyone would watch him, and he could even feel them saying, "Hey! Look at that Chinese boy!"

Fortunately, Manchester City is called a "mercenary" by the outside world, and they have just grown rich and have not achieved any outstanding results, so Wang Nuo feels that there are no hard-to-serve bosses and weird rules among his teammates.

The age structure of the Manchester City team is a bit similar to the standard Liege. Most of them are young people, and it is easy to get along.

It didn't take long for Wang Nuo to integrate into it, and quickly made friends.

His first friend was Kompany.

After training the first two items, Kompany ran up to him and asked, "Are you that little pervert who scored Anderlecht 4 goals in one season? You can really do it."

Wang Nuo knew that the guy in front of him made his debut from Anderlecht. Manchester City the year before last was a tough guy.

Wang Nuo smiled and nodded, indeed he was also proud of it.

Kompany added, "I also know about your banana challenge. Honestly, you did a good job. My dad is Congolese. I also have people calling black monkeys at me. The way you fight back is very special. I like it." .”

Kompany was talking about the thing that Emir tweeted.

During the World Cup some time ago, it coincided with FIFA’s anti-discrimination day. Before the game between the Netherlands and Brazil, the players played the slogan Say no to racism.

Then, when Wang Nuo was attacked by fans after the game at the Jan Bledel Stadium, a photo of Wang Nuo eating a banana calmly was inexplicably dug up, setting off a wave of "eating banana challenges" on the Internet.

Many sports stars have expressed their solidarity, and through the activities initiated by the emir, they used the way of eating bananas to oppose racial discrimination.

As a result, Kompany developed some natural affection for Wang Nuo.

In addition to Kompany, another friend Wang Nuo made was Wright Phillips.

Wright Jr. is now 28 years old. He used to be teammates with Sun Jihai and regarded Sun Jihai as his confidant.

Now, he also takes good care of Sun Jihai's little brother.

Of course, Wright, who is 1 meters, and Wang Nuo, who is 65 meters, come together, but he looks more like a little guy.

Wright likes to make jokes. For example, he asked Wang Nuo, which is the longest English word?
Wang Nuo gave a spectacular answer, but Wright laughed and said, it should be Smiles (plural), because the interval between the first and last letters is as long as a mile!
Well, Wang Nuo got a good old British brain teaser.

In fact, Wang Nuo's English level is not bad, and there are basically no problems in daily communication.

It's just that because he has spoken French and Dutch for a long time, he often gets confused when he doesn't pay attention to the words he speaks.

Of course, there are more differences between languages.

For example, Dutch and French have a lot of very low guttural sounds similar to "ghhhh", like having phlegm in the mouth or coughing up phlegm, which does not exist in English.

After a whole day of training and getting along with his teammates, Wang Nuo feels good. He thinks that in terms of communication, he only needs to learn some English football terminology.

Wang Nuo found that Manchester City is a relatively pure team. Here, he can focus more on football itself.

Next, his first task is to get in touch with his teammates, and gradually become familiar with the training and game rhythm of the Premier League team!
(End of this chapter)