I am the king of football

Chapter 22 He is worth it
This was a match that was beyond everyone's expectations. No one could have imagined that Hull City, which had always been low-key in the U17 league, could defeat Tottenham U17, which could almost be called a dream team.

When the result of the game came out, the news even alarmed Tottenham's youth training director McDermott, who joined Tottenham's youth training in 2005 and brought a number of young talents to the team, including Aaron Lennon, Danny Rose and Gareth Bale.

Now, Kane is his latest youth training talent that he is proud of. Unexpectedly, in such an U17 match, a Chinese player appeared and surpassed Kane with a hat trick.

"Tomorrow, I hope to get all the information about Qin Hu."

Sitting at his desk, McDermott made a request to his assistant, then he thought of something and stopped the assistant who was in a hurry to leave to work overtime.

"Tell Kane that his youth training career is over. The first team will sign him next week and the team will loan him out before the start of the new season. I hope he performs well."

"Ok sir."

The scene far away in the Tottenham office building was not the only one closely related to Qin Hu. Next to the audience seats at the game venue, a Hull City staff member who came to London with the team also sent an email with both hands flying.

The next moment, Steve Bruce, who was in the head coach's office in Hull City's office building, received an email. He was the new coach hired by Hull City this season in order to be promoted to the Premier League. He previously coached the Black Cats Sunderland in the Premier League.

"Dear Mr. Bruce, I think I have found the youth player you asked me to find. He is a Chinese striker recently signed by the U17 team. His name is Qin Hu."

"I think he has top-notch talent in heading and finishing and is good enough to be a role player in the first team. Here is a player template I made using information provided by Coach Hearn and a video of the team's 3-2 win over Tottenham U17s."

That’s right, the person who was watching Qin Hu shooting again and again from afar in the office building that night was Steve Bruce.

As the second-tier league in England, the Championship League allows the top two teams to be directly promoted to the Premier League each year, while the third to sixth place teams will need to participate in a brutal upgrade knockout tournament. In the end, only one team can succeed in promotion. The whole process can be described as quite cruel.

Last season, Hull City was only ranked 09th in the Championship, which was very different from the club's plan to return to the Premier League within three years after being relegated in the 10- season. This led to the change of coach.

As the coach who once coached the relegation team Birmingham to the mid-table level of the Premier League, and led Sunderland, which was on the verge of relegation, to miraculous relegation, Bruce's coaching ability is definitely more than enough to come to the Championship.

Now that the new season is approaching, the top management of Hull City Club is ambitious and they have given Bruce sufficient budget to recruit new players.

But the problem is that as a Championship team it is difficult for them to sign main players from the top league. Most of the players in Hull City are at the Championship level. If they want to make further breakthroughs, they need some key players who can bring changes to the team.

Since it was impossible to sign top players, Bruce turned his attention to the young players who were loaned out in the top league.

Young talents produced by big clubs are often loaned out for training for a month or two at the beginning of signing. These players can often perform well with simple training. Bruce used to recruit these young players to win lottery tickets when he was at Sunderland.

From defense to frontcourt, he preliminarily drew up some lists and handed them over to the team's transfer manager to implement, but there was still one position that was difficult to resolve, and that was the team's center position.

In the team's major overhaul this summer, the forward line that fans remembered from last season has been updated. In addition to McLean, who remains in the team because of his decent ability, Bruce has also introduced strong players such as Fryatt who has been in the Championship for many years.

But in Bruce's mind this is far from enough. In addition to dealing with the team's regular games, he also needs more tactical changes.

Therefore, he also wants to introduce a center forward, a player who has enough impact and the ability to score goals from set pieces on the court, and preferably also has a certain ability to break the bus with long shots.

But ideals are beautiful and reality is full. There are no such players circulating in the transfer market at all, and even among the young players loaned out by major giants, there are no such players.

Just like Bruce's assistant complained privately, the center forward he wanted could not be trained according to the template, and he might not meet one for many years. Therefore, Bruce wanted to introduce a striker who could at least shoot from a distance. While he was looking for a player in the transfer market, Qin Hu, who had been training in the training ground and finally broke through the old net, caught his eye.

After watching Qin Hu's exciting shots throughout the evening, Bruce was certain that such shots were enough to threaten the opponent's goal when facing the bus. Coupled with the video his assistant sent him at this moment, he was pleasantly surprised to find that Qin Hu's heading ability was as top-notch as his shooting ability.

As for the impact on the defenders, Qin Hu's sprinting speed when he scored the second goal was definitely not slow. As the head coach facing such a 17-year-old rough diamond to be polished, he is confident that he can train him.

As the new season is about to begin, being able to find such a suitable talent in our own youth training system is like searching for him among the crowd for hundreds of times, and when you look back, you find him, in the dim light.

In addition, there are several very good players in the team's U17 team. Bruce decided to bring them to the first team in advance. Even if they are only rotated occasionally, it will definitely be different for these young players.

So, on the bus where the Hull City U17 players were singing all the way home, Hearn received a call from Bruce.

When Hearn hung up the phone, a gratified smile spread across the old coach's face. There is nothing more joyful than seeing the children he has trained have a brighter future, and he met three of them at once.

"Coulson, Cooper, and Chin."

Standing up and signaling everyone to be quiet, Hearn solemnly called out the names on the list Bruce had just given him.

"When you get back, you can start packing your things."

"What's wrong, coach? Did something happen?"

This incoherent sentence scared the three young players so much that they hurriedly tried to recall whether they had done anything that violated the team rules recently.

"It is indeed a big deal. Congratulations. You can report to the first team now."

"Wow~~~"

As soon as these words were spoken, the bus became lively again. The three protagonists were extremely surprised, and the other team members also gave envious congratulations.

Among them, Qin Hu received the most. This Chinese striker, who has been in the team for less than two months, has conquered everyone with his performance in the game. Although everyone is envious, they also understand that he deserves it.

“The intensity of the first-team games will be much greater than that of the U17s. I hope you guys won’t feel discouraged when you get there. You should train well and cherish every opportunity to play. You definitely have the talent to become a regular starter there.”

Finally, Hearn gave Qin Hu and others some sincere advice.

"Kids, you still have a long way to go. The first team is just the beginning. Don't slack off!"

“Understand Coach!!!”

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