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Chapter 15 Oh, he starts.

The one who came to take them into the first-team locker room was the team captain Tularang.

The 32-year-old Toulalan was once the main defensive midfielder of the French national team.

He was also an important member of the former French Ligue 1 champions Lyon's seven consecutive championships.

Former French national team head coach Domenech bluntly stated that Toulalan is the successor to Neviera in the French team.

As an "all-around" defensive midfielder, he has good defensive ability, game rhythm control ability, and passing and dispatching ability.

As a "famous veteran" of French football, Toulalan joined Monaco, which was still engaged in gold-dollar football at the time, after returning from La Liga last season, and was established as the captain - the French Zheng Zhi belongs to him.

As a routine matter, Tularan took the two into the locker room and introduced them to the first-team players.

There are not many big-name players in Monaco's first team.

The more famous ones include Italy's lone wolf striker El Shaarawy, Portugal's national team's core midfielder Moutinho, Portugal's young talented midfielder Bernardo Silva, and former Real Madrid central defender Carvalho (also a Portuguese).

There is also former Real Madrid left-back Coentrao who has just joined the team - he is also a Portuguese.

There are quite a lot of Portuguese elements in the Monaco team.

People were not very enthusiastic about the two young players from the youth academy.

The friendliest gesture was just a forced smile and a routine welcome.

This is also normal.

First of all, of course, it is not uncommon for players from the youth team to come to the first team for training.

Many times, players from the youth team come to the first team for training just to “make up the numbers”.

It is a "reward" for the youth team's good performance.

But generally speaking, it is still a long way to go before you can play in the first team.

Secondly, the team’s recent performance is not good, and the main striker Martial has left again.

Everyone was in a bad mood and the atmosphere inside was not very lively.

As the captain, Tulan was no stranger to this.

And this may not be a bad thing - if the team fails to win for several games in a row and the players are still having a great time in the locker room, singing and dancing, perming their hair, etc., then it means that there is a big problem with the team.

“This is your wardrobe.”

Tularan pointed to the two cabinets in the corner and said.

Both of their jerseys are hanging on the cabinet.

The numbers on the back of their jerseys show their status in the team at a glance: one is No. 39 and the other is No. 38.

The No. 39 jersey belongs to Sunshine, and the No. 38 jersey belongs to Mbappe.

Players from the youth team are not qualified to choose their jersey numbers.

Whatever number you are assigned is the number you are assigned.

This is also a reflection of the "team status".

The sun doesn't care either.

Numbers and the like were not something he was considering for now.

It’s better to get a chance to play in the first team first.

Yangguang walked to his position and changed into training shoes and training clothes.

Then he went to the training ground with the first-team players.

The training of the first team is much more intense than that of the youth team.

There is less basic training and more tactical training content.

When it comes to the competitive team competition.

The first-team players finally began to take these two young players promoted from the youth team seriously.

Mbappe's speed is eye-catching.

What concerns the first-team players more is Yang Guang’s dominance in the penalty area.

When Yangguang squeezed away the team's main central defender Raji, he made a "Saint Turn" and shot the ball towards the goal, but the ball was shoveled out of the sideline by Carvalho who rushed back.

Carvalho angrily yelled at Raj: "What's wrong with you? This is the third time you've made him turn around and face the goal!"

Raj was a good-tempered man, but now he was also angry: "Damn it, come and see if you can handle this kid!"

"Alright, alright, it's just a training match."

Captain Tullarang came to ease the situation.

The two central defenders, both over 30 years old, took a deep breath and controlled their emotions.

Let a young player abuse him.

This made both of them feel a little embarrassed.

Carvalho took a few deep breaths. If he were a few years younger, he could still keep up with the pace. But now.
He felt that when facing the sun, he did feel powerless.
Yangguang held his head in his hands and looked at the football that was cleared away by Carvalho with regret.

The strength of the first team is indeed much stronger than that of the youth league.

If this were in the youth league, he would have scored at least two of the three chances.

For the next corner kick, the players of the main team also felt like they were facing a formidable enemy.

In the end, they still failed to defend it.

Yangguang completed a header in front of the small penalty area.

He went around the middle and moved to the front point, overpowering Carvalho and heading the ball.

The football changed direction slightly and hit the back post of the goal with a clang and bounced into the goal.

No one thought of it.

Under the suppression of sunlight.

In this training match, the substitutes actually had the advantage.

And they were the first to score a goal.

Brazilian full-back Fabinho touched his forehead and muttered: "Where did this guy come from?"

Bernardo Silva's eyes lit up. With this guy around, he only had to be responsible for crossing the ball from the wing.

How many assists will he get this season?
"Assist" appeared in B's left eye and "bonus" appeared in his right eye.

"I like him!"

The Portuguese turned and said to Coentrao beside him.

"Me too!"

The other Portuguese nodded.

Second half of the training match.

Yangguang switched to the main team's lineup.

This made Mbappe envious of Gil.

But compared to the sun.

Mbappe is indeed still in the adaptation stage - Sunshine's task is relatively simple, which is to receive the ball in the penalty area and then complete the shot.

Mbappe has a lot to do.

He was required to create space on the wing, break through, cross the ball, assist the full-back in defense on the wing, and cross positions with the midfielder during positional warfare, making various position changes.

“I also want to be a starter.”

The Divine Turtle looked with envy at Yang Guang, who had already joined the main lineup and was chatting and laughing with B Silva, Fabinho and others.

He and Yangguang were twin stars in the youth team.

To the first team.

One quickly squeezed into the core circle of the main force.

One of them was standing on the periphery like a minion.

Bape feels the gap is a bit too big.

"Killian, come here!"

Assistant coach Carlos shouted.

Mbappe ran over in a hurry.

"You performed well, you will be included in the squad for the next game."

Mbappe's face was overjoyed and looked incredulous.

“You have to be ready to go at any time.”

"Play?!" Bape almost shouted, his fists clenched.

On the first day of training with the first team, the coach tells you to be ready to play.

what does that mean!
This means that he will most likely be a major rotation player in the future!
From youth team players to first team rotation.

This is really rapid progress.

"You are very fast, your breakthroughs are sharp, and your crosses are accurate. If needed, you may come on the field in the second half. Your task is to pass the ball to Yang!"

Bape glared: "That Yang."

"Oh, he's starting in the next game."

"First start?!"

Bape suddenly felt that it was not a good idea for him to be on the bench.

(End of this chapter)