The road to godhood starting from Ligue 1

Chapter 50: Against England U21, many familiar faces

"What are you doing here?"

Gaio asked Pierre to wait for a moment, walked to Mbappé, looked at the equally young player next to him, and said hello.

Anyone who can reach Clairefontaine must have no problems with talent at least.

Just wait and see how it develops later.

Gaio had no impression of this kid, which meant he probably wouldn't be a famous player in the future.

Mbappé scratched his head and said, "I heard that many national team players reported to Clairefontaine today, so I came to see the excitement."

Momeg was stunned. Wasn’t he here to wait for someone?
After a brief chat, Gaio smiled, checked his watch, and said to Mbappé, "You can become a member of the national team in the future. Keep training. I'm leaving now. I have to gather with the U21 team first."

"Okay, goodbye." Mbappe nodded, but stopped talking.

When Gaio was about to leave, Mbappé said, "Gio, I will be at the French Cup match at the end of the month. Will you play?"

"Bastia?" Gaio was a little confused. Why did Mbappe go to Bastia to watch the game?

Mbappé nodded and explained, "Yes, you will play against Rennes. My brother plays for Rennes and our whole family will go to see him."

"Your brother?"

This made Gaio even more confused. Huh? Mbappé has an older brother? Doesn't he only have a younger brother, Etang Mbappé?

"Well, Gilles Kembo Ekoko, he was my idol as a child and inspired me a lot. He played for Rennes and he played in the same position as you, on the right wing. He was also very fast!"

When Gaio heard what Mbappé said, he thought for a moment and realized that this name had nothing to do with Mbappé.

As if knowing Gaio's doubts, Mbappé said, "We are not related by blood, but we are a family. He is the child of Uncle Jean Kembo. Uncle Jean Kembo is also a good football player. He helped Zaire win the African Cup twice and also used his own goals to help Zaire enter the World Cup.

He and my father were good friends, but because Zaire was in chaos at the time, Uncle Kembo entrusted Gires to us and asked us to take him away from that chaotic country of Zaire.

We may not be related by blood, but Gilles, I and Etang have lived together forever, so we are brothers.”

Mbappe recounted a series of past events, and Gaio was stunned. It turned out that there was such a story.

He knew about Zaire, which later became the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As for the relationship between it and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, to be honest, Gio never figured it out.

Africa was such a chaotic place that he had no desire to understand it.

After knowing the reason.

Gaio patted Mbappé on the shoulder and said, "I will definitely play. You don't need to buy tickets. I will get you some front-row tickets when I get back, but I'm afraid you will have to go with the Bastia fans."

Mbappé smiled and said, "No problem! We are just fans of Gires, not Rennes fans."

Hearing this, Gaio took out a pen and paper from his backpack, wrote down a phone number, and handed it to Mbappé. "This is my private number, only you know it, okay?"

"Ok!"

Gaio checked the time and said apologetically, "I'm afraid I really have to go. I don't want to be late on my first day."

"Go quickly!" Mbappe carefully put away the note with Gaio's phone number.

Momege saw the conversation between Mbappé and Gaio, but he never had a chance to interrupt.

After Gaio left, he finally had a chance to speak and asked Mbappé, "Are you here to wait for him?"

"Ah."

"Oh, you never told me you knew him. I saw him in the Clairefontaine newspaper. He used to be from Clairefontaine, but later went to..."

Mbappé and Momège walked away, chatting and laughing. Gaio was not late.

He arrived at the training ground more than ten minutes early, and Pierre, who was with him, went to hand over some things to the U21 coaches.

"welcome."

U21 head coach Eric Montbare reached out his hand and shook hands with Gaio, then patted him on the shoulder and put his arm around him as he led the others. "Hey, let me introduce you to a new teammate, Yann Gaio. If you've been following the French Cup, you'll know that he led the French Ligue 2 team to defeat last season's double champion Lille."

Gaio was somewhat restrained when he came to the new team.

Then I went through the process and introduced myself.

In fact, most of his teammates are playing football abroad, so they don’t know much about Gaio and have no interest in learning more about him for the time being.

Maybe only after actually playing football together will we be willing to understand.

After briefly introducing himself, Gaio found a place and waited for Montbael's next step.

Before Gaio came, he had already known the U21 head coach.

His coaching career began at Paris Saint-Germain, and he is a typical example of a player whose coaching career was far better than his playing days.

Since the late 1980s, he has successively become the head coach of the first teams of Paris Saint-Germain, Guingamp, Cannes and Toulouse.

It was not until he left Toulouse in 2006 that he decided to calm down and train some talents for the French national team.

So he started coaching the U16 and U19 teams. Two years later, he officially coached the U21 team, and has been doing so until now.

This is a very good coach.

very patient.

There is indeed something.

When Gaio was finding a place to rest, suddenly a player who was much taller than him walked towards him.

"Hello, Gaio, I'm Raphael." The other party showed his big white teeth and was very friendly.

Raphael Varane.

Gaio naturally knew this "academic master". He had joined Real Madrid at such a young age and had a bright future.

"Hello." Gaio didn't know Varane's intention in looking for him. Was he just saying hello?
Fortunately, Varane did not let him guess too much and directly told me his purpose. "Zinedin told me that when I return to the U21 team this time, I should interact with you more. He said that we could be teammates in the future. Not only teammates in the club, but also teammates in the national team."

"Well, I'd love to join Real Madrid, but they don't want a player like me. They want the best players, and I'm not one of them yet."

"No, I believe Zinedine."

When the two of them were talking to each other in a somewhat unfamiliar manner, Montbael spoke.

"Everyone, please rest up at the base for now. We'll officially start training tomorrow. After two days of training, we'll travel to London to play a friendly match against England U21. Let's take a look at some of the other team's information today to get a feel for it. Some of these players may be your club teammates. If you have any questions about the information prepared by the coaching staff, please feel free to contact me or any of the assistant coaches with your feedback."

Then, the teaching assistant distributed stacks of A4 paper to everyone.

Above are the key players of England U21.

Including name, club, position, style and so on.

There's even a photo booth.

Gaio flipped through the pages casually and thought to himself, "So many familiar faces."

(End of this chapter)