The strongest blade in football

Chapter 182 New teammates and physical examination
On July 7, dozens of fans spontaneously organized to bid farewell to Wang Nuo who was about to return to Paris at the airport.

Wang Nuo only stayed in China for three days, because the World Youth Championship will usher in the first game on July 7. Wang Nuo has to go back to Paris for a medical examination, complete the signing, and go to England with the team for a friendly match.

Wang Nuo was sitting in the waiting hall, thinking about the upcoming new season, when his phone suddenly started vibrating.

It was about to board the plane, and Wang Nuo didn't really want to answer the phone, especially the phone number on the display was an "unknown number".

But the phone kept vibrating, and the other party waited for a long time.

So Wang Nuo picked up the phone.

"Hello."

The voice on the other end of the phone was full of air, but it was also very polite, and the English was quite idiomatic, "I am Leonardo Nacimondo de Arraio, the new manager of the team, I am sorry that I have been working hard for the past two days. I'm busy, so I didn't bother to contact you."

"I'm very happy that the team loaned you out before I came. I've seen you play great games and I like you a lot. Now I'm calling you just to tell you personally as a manager who has only been here for two days. , welcome to Paris Saint-Germain."

"In addition, I know that you will fly back to France today. I have arranged for the manager of the reception to pick you up at Charles de Gaulle Airport. She will contact you when the time comes. I wish you a pleasant journey."

Wang Nuo could feel the rush of enthusiasm, which made most of his anxiety about the unfamiliar Ligue [-] disappear.

"Thank you, manager."

"Don't call me manager, just call me by name, I'll wait for you in Paris."

On July 7, Wang Nuo returned to Paris.

Wang Nuo is no stranger to this city, he has been here many times.

Eiffel Tower, Champs Elysees, Louvre, Orsay Museum, Sacre Coeur... Wang Nuo has been to these places.

However, he is unfamiliar with Paris, a city where he will live for at least a year.

Wang Nuo has already bought a house in Manchester and looks set to buy another property in Paris.

Wang Nuo doesn't want to live in Manchester or Liege, and spends too much time on the road for training every day.

There are teammates who have done this before, living in another city, flying to practice every morning, it is too much trouble.

The reason why he didn't ask assistant Jangresh Luya to help find a house early was because before the negotiation, any behavior was under the nose of the club, and Wang Nuo didn't want to make it more difficult for Mino to negotiate.

After getting off the plane, Wang Nuo saw the person who picked him up that Leonardo said on the phone.

Leonardo said on the phone that she was the manager of the club's reception, but she was very modest and called herself a handyman, Jacqueline.

Wang Nuo behaved very gentlemanly, did not ask her to help with a piece of luggage, and had a friendly chat with her.

Wang Nuo also said hello to a guy who followed her. It was a black player with a huge nose and a very magnetic voice. He introduced himself as Blaise Matuidi.

Wang Nuo had heard of this name before, but he couldn't match it.

The guy also seemed young and looked a bit shy, but spoke very good French.

"You speak French well." Wang Nuo praised.

"Because I'm French," he said, "and your French is pretty good."

Jacqueline laughed at the side, and Wang Nuo realized that he had made an embarrassment. He subconsciously regarded Blaise Matuidi as a sub-Saharan African, such as Côte d'Ivoire or something.

In fact, Wang Nuo also knows the history of France. There are quite a lot of black people in France. Isser often complained that he was squeezed out of the Marseille echelon by those talented guys.

After World War II, the vitality of the French mainland was severely damaged, and the population dropped sharply.

In order to replenish fresh blood and labor force, France used high welfare policies to attract immigrants, and regions such as Africa and the Caribbean, which were colonized by France, became the first choice for France to absorb immigrants.

As a result, a large wave of black immigrants traveled across mountains and rivers to France, where they worked, settled, and reproduced.

Moreover, due to the previous colonial history, these black immigrants to France still have a strong sense of cultural identity with France. On the field, they did not regard themselves as mercenaries, but fought for France with all their strength.

It seemed that Matuidi was a nice guy, and Wang Nuo exchanged phone numbers with him.

Afterwards, Jacqueline drove her Citroen and took Wang Nuo and Matuidi to the hotel that the club helped book for a rest.

On the morning of July 7, Jacqueline picked up the two from the hotel and went to the club's training ground.

There, they meet the head coach and others before going to the medical center for a pre-signing physical.

Last night, Wang Nuo had a good night's sleep. In the car, he was full of energy and kept chatting with Matuidi.

Matuidi is a native Frenchman who is quite familiar with French football. To Wang Nuo's surprise, this guy was selected for the French national team!
"What position do you play?" Wang Nuo was curious.

He knew that this guy was definitely not a striker, because Mino put a "shackle" on the club.

"Defensive midfielder," he said.

Wang Nuo was very surprised, because the image of the tall Vieira flashed in his mind, and that guy was not as shy as the one in front of him.

And he's too skinny and not strong at all.

Wang Nuo is very curious about what the future training matches will look like.

When he was in Manchester City, he had to face Kompany, Kolo Toure, Vieira, Yaya Toure, De Jong and a bunch of tough guys every day.

Obviously, the pressure here will be much less. Compared with Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain's lineup is quite far behind.

Not long after, Jacqueline's car drove along the A14 highway to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a suburb of Paris.

This place is twenty kilometers west of Paris, not far from Versailles.

The royal style here is no less than the Palace of Versailles, but it is a real French secular town, full of French aristocratic and petty bourgeoisie.

Along the way, surrounded by green trees, the environment is quite good, and the training ground of Paris Saint-Germain is here.

According to Jacqueline, the training base in Paris was once moved away because it was located in a military forbidden area. The new training center was rebuilt on the basis of the original one. It was put into use only three years ago, so the facilities are very new.

Jacqueline is also a talkative girl. On the way from the airport, Jacqueline has already popularized quite a lot of basic knowledge about the club to Wang Nuo.

For example, Saint-Germain in the team name was originally because the place where Paris Saint-Germain is located is called Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Another example is the baby carriage under the team emblem, because the Sun King Louis XIV was born here.

Once, the Saint-Germain-en-Laye area was the de facto "royal center" of France and witnessed many major events in French history.

In the past, Wang Nuo only knew that the club had not been established for a long time, but today, he has learned new knowledge, and his weak understanding of Paris Saint-Germain has gradually become fuller.

After a while, Jacqueline finally drove the car into the club's parking lot.

Wang Nuo noticed that the training ground of the Paris base is completely closed, and no training can be seen from the outside, and Jacqueline also made a big circle when entering the parking lot——

There are only two gates in the entire base, one is on the parking lot side, and Jacqueline said there is another one next to the small building of the base.

At the exit next to the parking lot, Wang Nuo saw some fenced areas, which seemed to be places for fans to ask for autographs and take pictures.

There were dozens of cars parked in the parking lot. At a glance, Wang Nuo saw that the number of luxury cars was obviously not as many as in the Manchester City parking lot.

As soon as he got out of the car, Wang Nuo saw that the lean and capable Leonardo in a suit had come to pick him up and Matuidi.

Standing beside him is the team coach Combu Ale, whom Wang Nuo had met last year.

He is a real star of Paris Saint-Germain's golden age in the 90s and has coached the club for two years.

He and Leonardo warmly hugged the two new players, and said some beautiful words after the greetings.

Wang Nuo remembers very clearly that when he followed De Sartre to Paris to meet Combuaret more than a year ago, the coach's attitude was a bit cold.

In fact, it's not just Combuare. With Wang Nuo's quasi-golden boy performance in Manchester City, he can obviously feel that everyone has become very polite and friendly to him.

There is no doubt that the football world has always spoken with strength, otherwise Leonardo would not have made that call, and now he would not come to the parking lot with the head coach to meet them.

Wang Nuo can see that the coach Combuare is not a talkative person, and Leonardo dominates the topic in many cases.

"You came at the right time. Many players have returned to the team for more than a week. There is still more than half a month before the first round of Ligue [-]. Pre-season running-in is still very important."

Those strong teams in the Premier League are filled with a large number of foreign players. In the summer, there will always be many people absent from various warm-up matches. Paris Saint-Germain is different.

Most of Paris Saint-Germain's players are French, and the proportion of foreign aid is smaller.

"The team will go to the UK in two days, and there will be the Emirates Cup in a week. This year, they will play against the New York Red Bulls and Boca Juniors."

"Oh, by the way, are you going to play for the national team at the end of the month?" Leonardo suddenly remembered that Mino seemed to have mentioned it to him once.

"Yes, the World Youth Championship."

Leonardo hesitated to speak, and finally nodded noncommittally, "I hope you won't miss the league."

Not long after, the routine medical examination before joining the team began.

The medical examination before signing is not a formality. For example, due to the unsatisfactory medical examination, Ruud van Nistelrooy's transfer to Manchester United was delayed by 12 months.

When Wang Nuo joined Standard Liege and Manchester City, he had already undergone many medical examinations and knew about it quite well.

The results of the physical examination are not simply "pass" or "fail". The physical examination is only to provide the club with a detailed player physical report.

Specifically how to interpret the data and how to judge the physical condition of the players is up to the professionals of the club.

They will use the data to decide whether to sign a player.

This is why some players fail the medical examination when transferring to one club, but pass the medical examination successfully when transferring to another team.

Different teams and different players will have different physical examination items.

The content of Paris Saint-Germain's medical examination is relatively rich.

A total of six professionals in white coats conducted medical examinations for Wang Nuo and Matuidi.

First of all, they checked Wang Nuo and Wang Nuo for some routine items, such as height, weight, eyesight, blood pressure, etc., and drew a few tubes of blood.

After completing the above projects, Wang Nuo and Matuidi were asked to warm up quickly on the bicycle, and then use an isokinetic muscle strength assessment training machine to evaluate their muscle state.

This machine can follow the movements made by Wang Nuo and the others to determine which muscle groups are weak and cause potential injuries in the future.

Wang Nuo has been asked to repeatedly contract his thigh muscles, and then the machine will return his legs to their natural state, and then continue to exert force, making each movement of Wang Nuo more difficult.

The results showed that there was an imbalance in Wang Nuo's waist and tendons, but it was not a major problem.

Next, is the oxygen uptake capacity test.

A player's oxygen uptake is directly linked to his ability to run on the pitch, so this test is particularly critical.

Wang Nuo's oxygen uptake ability has always been quite good, because he himself was a running madman.

For this project, the staff asked Wang Nuo to bite the oxygen supply tube and pinch his nose, and run continuously on the treadmill at different speeds.

By constantly increasing the speed, he is constantly approaching his running limit.

Originally, during the physical examination, the staff were forbidden to comment on the test content without authorization, but what Wang Nuo and Matuidi showed obviously surprised everyone.

Especially Wang Nuo, he is like a humanoid horse.

"Are you a track and field athlete or a football player?" the supervisor in charge of testing joked.

When he spoke, the speed on the treadmill was already 20 kilometers per hour in order to obtain the maximum oxygen uptake of the testers.

This speed is already quite strenuous for ordinary players, and they can't last for too long, but Wang Nuo seems to have no pressure.

"Three-point speed, I can basically stick to close to five kilometers." Wang Nuo can speak freely while running.

Everyone in the room was quite shocked, looking at Wang Nuo as if looking at a monster.

At the end of the physical examination, it is the inspection and testing of all parts of the body, of course, mainly the bones and joints.

Leg joints are very important, related to the player's mobility and ability to resist injury.

They had Wang Nuo and Matuidi lie down and perform a series of stretching exercises.

Then, based on the results of the first two parts, a more detailed inspection is performed.

The movement of each joint is checked, with ankles, knees and hips being the most important.

Because Wang Nuo had injured his ankle three months ago, the injured part was taken care of.

"How is my ankle?" Wang Nuo asked this time.

"There is no trace of injury at all." Wang Nuo was very satisfied with the expert's answer.

Finally, all the physical examinations before signing the contract were over. Wang Nuo and Matuidi are not only very healthy, but also have very good physical indicators.

Wang Nuo and Matuidi were lying on the bed enjoying a comfortable massage, and the expert told Leonardo directly in front of them, "There is nothing wrong with the two of them."

This means that both Wang Nuo and Matuidi can officially sign the contract.

Leonardo looked very happy. After going out, he said to the two, "There will be a press conference at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, don't forget to pack up and be handsome."

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