The first tumor in football

Chapter 112: Practical Training, Fox City Legend Vardy

When the match between Ipswich and Tottenham ended, Song Wen's name spread throughout the football world at this moment.

No one expected that this season's English Premier League would unfold with such a magical plot.

Newly promoted Ipswich Town, despite being looked down upon by everyone, faced two Premier League big six teams, Arsenal and Tottenham, at the start of the season.

Not only did they win the game, but they also scored 11 goals against the two North London teams, directly leading the Premier League standings and appearing at the top of the standings.

The 17-year-old super star Song Wen scored six goals in two games, scored two hat tricks, and contributed four assists. He single-handedly topped the Premier League scorer and assist lists.

Such data makes everyone shocked and unbelievable.

When many media reported on Song Wen, the words most frequently used were:

The first person in history.

Crazy.

Unparalleled talent.

Miracle.

After the game with Tottenham, Song Wen's value soared to 100 million euros, breaking several world records and becoming the youngest "Mr. 100 Million" in history and the first Asian "Mr. 100 Million".

Even at this moment, some fans have started discussing whether Song Wen can break the monopoly of Melo and Ronaldo on the Golden Ball and become the first Asian player in history to win the Golden Ball.

The British BBC News even expressed their opinion, saying that Song Wen is the best young player so far. In front of Song Wen, all the so-called talented teenagers pale in comparison. If Song Wen can maintain this state, he will soon surpass Messi and Ronaldo's current achievements in the football world and become the only superstar of the current era.

Shortly after publishing this boastful news, the BBC released another bombshell on their website.

Song Wen has joined the England national team for training. Also selected for the national team is winger Grealish, who is also from Ipswich. Both of them may make their national team debut in the subsequent group qualifiers against Malta.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused discussions from all walks of life.

In fact, Song Wen joined the England national team out of helplessness.

As a professional player, he must play in a World Cup.

With only one year left until the 2018 World Cup, he can make use of his current English nationality.

Wait until after the World Cup and then change nationality, clean and neat.

Before this, he had thought about changing his nationality as soon as possible.

But in the end, I thought, now that I have changed my nationality, what if I am called up by the Chinese national football team?
Song Wen gave up this idea.

Why should people be so hard on themselves?

But it is conceivable that his joining the England national team will bring about a huge public opinion storm.

First of all, there are domestic fans, a large part of whom naturally cannot accept it.

Even in the UK, many fans protested.

Because of Song Wen's style of doing things, there are already many fans of rival teams who hate him.

Especially Tottenham fans.

They had just suffered a bloody massacre at the hands of Ipswich and were already gritting their teeth in hatred towards Song Wen.

In the eyes of Tottenham fans, Song Wen has absolutely no sportsmanship.

Even though they were leading 5-0, they still managed to score another goal in injury time.

Is this something people do?
But for English fans, Song Wen himself has many black spots.

For example, I never say that I am British in public.

Instead, he often says that he is Chinese.

Even according to media reports, Song Wen frequently donated money to China, but he did not give a penny to the British Empire.

To the British, isn't this just making money at home and donating it abroad, a complete traitor to Britain? !

So after knowing that Song Wen was selected for the England national team, a massive anti-Song movement was launched on the British island.

But Southgate doesn't care about that.

By all accounts, Southgate is an extremely obedient coach.

But he listens to his leader, not you fans.

As long as the leader doesn't give the order, Southgate is a determined master of KPI performance struggle.

As the birthplace of modern football, English football plays a very important role in European and even world football. As a leader in British football, the England team has always been a regular at the World Cup.

But in recent years, their results have been very unsatisfactory.

From being eliminated in the quarterfinals and the round of 8, to being eliminated in the group stage of the Brazil World Cup four years ago, their performance has been getting worse and worse.

Although England performed well in the group qualifiers of this World Cup and is currently ranked first in the group.

But this did not put Southgate at ease.

Because this is already an old tradition in English football.

After all, the England national team has always been nicknamed the king of qualifiers.

However, in fact, even in the weaker Group F, although the Three Lions still sit firmly at the top of the standings, they have not played well in every game.

In the first half of the game, they only scored two goals against the underdog Malta, and also drew with Slovenia, which was not very strong as a guest.

When facing slightly stronger opponents such as Slovakia, although they won, they played in fear on the field. They always had the upper hand but could not score. They repeatedly relied on the last-minute goal to barely defeat the opponent, which did not reflect the value of the Three Lions at all.

This is also why Southgate decided to select Song Wen and Grealish.

Of course, Grealish is a buy-one-get-one-free bonus.

In fact, this was a request made by Song Wen himself and Southgate.

And Southgate agreed very readily.

Because after watching the game between Ipswich and Tottenham, he found that Song Wen and Grealish had a very tacit understanding between them, and often played exquisite cooperation as if they were in telepathic communication, just like real brothers.

And most importantly, Grealish can help Song Wen attract a certain amount of firepower.

At this moment, Song Wen and Grealish have already appeared at the England national team's training base.

In one week, the Three Lions will travel to challenge Malta away.

Facing the weakest team in the group, this is the best opportunity to test whether Song Wen can integrate into the national team.

Weimarland Spa and Golf Resort.

The resort is a comprehensive training base with hotels, training grounds and other corresponding facilities that can meet the team's training and preparation needs.

When Song Wen and Grealish arrived at the resort, most of the other members of the England national team had already arrived.

Song Wen's mid-season joining undoubtedly made the atmosphere of the national team a little strange.

Naturally, the England national team players have different opinions about this 17-year-old superstar who is the most popular in today's football world.

First of all, some people are full of hostility towards Song Wen.

The first to be affected is Dele Alli.

Prior to this, Dele Alli was the only starting attacking midfielder in the England national team.

He and Song Wen played the same position, and he was humiliated in the previous match between their clubs. Now that he saw Song Wen come to the national team, he naturally hated him.

And there are two players from Tottenham in this England national team.

They are midfielder Eric Dier and Britain's top center forward, Harry Kane.

But these two people did not have much hostility towards Song Wen.

As the first center forward without a championship, Harry Kane only wants to win a championship once.

Song Wen's abilities were fully demonstrated in the last game, and coupled with Dele Alli's disastrous performance, the difference in their status in Harry Kane's heart was immediately apparent.

If there is any real hostility, Harry Kane is more upset with Dele Alli from his own club.

If this kid hadn't gone crazy in the last game, they wouldn't have been kicked out in such a tragedy.

Another player, Eric Dier, actually has an attitude similar to Harry Kane.

As a midfielder for Tottenham, he and Ali have more connections on the field.

Every time the ball reached Ali's feet, he lost it.

He was also implicated by Ali and was criticized by fans during this period.

And the relationship between Dier and Harry Kane is also very good, and the two are also very good friends in private. You know, Harry Kane later left Tottenham and joined the Bundesliga giants Bayern. In order to please Harry Kane, Bayern waved their hands and bought Dier, who was sitting on the bench at Tottenham because of his declining form, without hesitation.

He was chosen by Harry Kane to play with him.

At that time, Dell was in very bad condition and always made various serious and low-level mistakes on the court.

However, at this stage, Dell was still at its peak.

After all, it was 2017 and Genshin Impact hadn’t been released yet.

In addition to these three people, there is another old acquaintance of Song Wen in the England national team, Welbeck from Arsenal.

It is worth mentioning that the England national team has a star-studded and talented front line.

They also have Raheem Sterling, the founder of happy football from Manchester City, Rashford, the rising star from Manchester United, and Jamie Vardy, the representative of late bloomer from Leicester City.

With just these few forwards, we can form a top-notch lineup.

After Southgate gave the players a brief training task assignment, he directly divided the national team players into two groups.

As soon as Song Wen joined, Southgate decided to have a real combat confrontation.

Southgate knows that the addition of Song Wen and Grealish will naturally cause dissatisfaction among some people.

Although Southgate may not have made any achievements in tactical command, he still has some experience in locker room management.

Southgate clapped his hands, attracted everyone's attention, and said:

"Next, we will have a real-life combat training. I will select two captains, and you can choose the players you want to be with in turn to form your own team."

When the players heard Southgate's words, excitement shone in their eyes.

Most of the players in this England national team are very young players.

They are all at a competitive age, and they are more or less dissatisfied with being a starter or a substitute.

Southgate looked at the two people in the team and said:

"Kane, you are in charge of Team A. Vardy, you are in charge of Team B."

He took a coin from his pocket and continued:

"Let's flip a coin to decide the right to choose first."

Kane got the right to choose first. Amid the crowd's cheering, Kane thought about it and chose his teammate at Tottenham, midfielder Eric Dier first.

The right to choose has come into Vardy's hands.

Vardy hesitated for a moment, and finally, contrary to everyone's expectation, he looked at Song Wen.

"Hey Song, would you like to join my team?"

Not to mention others, even Song Wen himself was very surprised.

He really didn't expect that Vardy would choose him at the first hand.

This top striker from Fox City, the most inspirational guy in the Premier League, has gone from a semi-amateur player to the Premier League MVP, from working in a factory to the national team. It can be said that he is completely different from Song Wen. He has the same script as the male protagonist in a cool novel from ten years ago who made a comeback.

He is a grassroots emperor and a legend of Leicester City.

Even Liu Bei said that Vardy (my second brother) was invincible in the world.

Vardy is a well-known killer of big clubs. He never kills unknown players. Among all his goals, almost two-thirds were scored against the big six in the Premier League.

When Vardy was young, he was still playing in the seventh-level league, working 12 hours a day and going to the base to practice at night.

When the weather is cold, cows hide in the cowshed and horses hide in the stable, but Vardy, who is in the position of cows and horses, has to squeeze into the bus to go to work.

Since he has no money to eat during the day, Vardy will choose to eat less and wait for the free lunch boxes provided by the training base in the evening.

Vardy didn't make his debut for a first-team team in a lower-level league until he was 20 years old. Just when his weekly salary reached 30 pounds, he fought with his disabled friend who was being bullied, and was locked up at home with electronic ankle cuffs.

In 11, Vardy climbed to the fifth-tier league and his value soared to 1.5 pounds.

In 12, Vardy joined Leicester City and successfully helped the Foxes to be promoted to the Premier League.

In the 15 season, Vardy finally reached his peak and led the Leicester City to an epic Premier League title, creating the Leicester City miracle.

You should know that the odds of Leicester City winning the championship that year were 1:5000.

What do these odds mean?
For example, the Chinese national football team reached the World Cup final.

The only regret is that Vardy only won the Premier League Silver Boot.

The winner of the Golden Boot is Britain's top center forward Harry Kane.

But it doesn't matter, Vardy has the league championship and Kane doesn't.

There is no champion in this world, but as more people win the championship, Kane is gone.

From any perspective, Vardy and Song Wen are completely different people.

Although Vardy and Song Wen had completely different scripts, perhaps because of the influence of the protagonist's halo, and the fact that there were no teammates in the England national team who had a close relationship with Vardy, Vardy chose Song Wen.

Of course, Vardy naturally has some selfish motives.

Although Vardy was selected for the England national team, due to the presence of Harry Kane, he could only sit on the bench most of the time.

The previous midfielders, whether it was Ali or Dier, they all came from Tottenham Hotspur Club with Kane, so naturally they had better cooperation.

This resulted in Vardy never getting any good opportunities in the national team.

As the most controversial player in football today, Vardy naturally knows Song Wen.

He also watched Song Wen's game against Tottenham.

Song Wen's talent made Vardy amazed, but what made Vardy like Song Wen even more was the last few assists he provided against Tottenham.

In Vardy's opinion, facing Tottenham, who had completely lost their morale at the time, Song Wen had every chance to dribble the ball and score.

But he chose to pass the ball once to Dale Moss and once to winger Grealish, helping these two newcomers in the Premier League to score their first Premier League goal.

Although Song Wen didn't know why he became Vardy's first choice, he naturally had no reason to refuse.

In fact, Song Wen has always admired Vardy as a player.

He stepped forward and shook hands with Vardy, and said with a smile: "Of course no problem, it's a pleasure to work with you."

Seeing the two people talking happily, at this moment, one person became anxious.

Harry Kane looked at Vardy in surprise, as if to say -

"Are you out of your mind? Why did you choose Song Wen first?"

"Can't you just leave him to me?"

If it were in the past, Harry Kane would naturally choose his club teammate Dele Alli without hesitation.

But in the last game, Ali's words and actions completely hurt the heart of the Tottenham Hotspur player.

Therefore, Song Wen is also the first midfield candidate in Harry Kane's mind.

But he did not choose to be the first to grab Song Wen. First, because he and Dale are good friends, and second, Harry Kane believes that Vardy will not choose Song Wen.

After all, in the eyes of outsiders, Vardy and Song Wen are completely two different types of people. It is already good enough that Vardy does not hate Song Wen, so how could he possibly choose Song Wen?
But the fact is, Vardy did just that.

This directly destroyed Kane's intestines.

In desperation, Kane could only choose Dele Alli, hoping that this kid would be able to reform after being severely punished by Pochettino.

On the other side, Vardy looked at Song Wen and said with a smile:

"Song, is there anything you want in a teammate? Grealish?"

Grealish, who was in the crowd, heard Vardy's words, shook his head excitedly, with a bright smile on his face, and was about to step out of the line, and said to the player next to him:

"Sorry, let me pass for a moment."

However, Song Wen on the other side suddenly said:

"No, let's choose Lingard first."

Grealish froze and looked at Song Wen in disbelief, his eyes full of grief and betrayal.

At the same time, the players who had just been shouted at by Grealish to move aside also stiffened.

Lingard looked at Grealish, who was still holding his shoulders, with a little embarrassment, and said:

"Uh, brother, should I give in?"

(End of this chapter)