Soccer: The Road to Extraordinary

Chapter 112 The future is yours.

Strictly speaking, Yan Feng's transfer to Guangzhou R&F is still a bit late.Because the team had already gone to Australia for spring training in early February, when Yan Feng joined the team, the R&F team was almost coming back from spring training.Therefore, Yan Feng did not fly to Australia, but stayed in the club to train with the reserve team first.

Strictly speaking, it would be a disadvantage for Yan Feng to transfer to the R&F team at this point in time.There is not enough time to warm up and run in with the team.It is very difficult to gain the trust of the head coach when Yan Feng himself is not well-known.To get a chance to play, Yan Feng still has a long way to go, and it is very likely that he will have to wait until the team's midfielder suffers an injury before he has the chance to play.

Coming late to the team is an unavoidable disadvantage for Yan Feng, but the good thing is that the Guangzhou R&F team lacks a midfielder.In terms of defensive midfielders, the only candidates currently available to the R&F team are Svensson, Lu Lin and Wang Song.The latter two are not considered Zhengyin's midfielders, and both have physical problems.

As far as the current situation of the R&F team is concerned, they have a lot of midfielders, and they have a lot of them.But basically all attacking midfielders, lack of defensive midfielders.Judging from this situation, as long as Yan Feng can play well and let the head coach see his role in defense, he can't be the main force, but it's okay to be a latent supplement.This is Yan Feng's chance.

In fact, the senior management of the Guangzhou R&F team has been criticized by R&F fans in recent years.Although Zhang Li, the boss of R&F, is also a real estate developer, and his financial resources are not inferior to Evergrande in the same city, in terms of investment, there is always thunder and rain.The players bought, whether foreign or domestic, cannot compare with the Evergrande team in the same city.

It is said that there are two Chinese Super League teams in Guangzhou, but the Evergrande team is the well-known boss in the world, and the R&F team will always be a younger brother that is not valued by people.Of course, all of this is also related to the fact that R&F started late and invested less than Evergrande.However, the important reason is related to the localization strategy that R&F executives have been admiring and the pursuit of the southern style of football.

Some people don't know what Southern football is.Southern football mainly refers to the southern team's ground-penetrating style of play that focuses on passing and controlling the ball.Southern football used to be brilliant, but it has fallen in recent years.The main reason for the decline is that Lingnan players are too physically disadvantaged. They can't play the desired effect if they only have good skills and lack good bodies.

Yan Feng's entry into the R&F team is mainly due to the team's localization strategy.But judging from the southern style of football the team is pursuing, having a good body but not good enough skills will be the biggest obstacle for Yan Feng to gain a foothold in R&F.

After Yan Feng started training with the reserve team, he suddenly felt a little old, although he was not yet 26 years old. "Why are the reserve teams all children?"

When Yan Feng first joined the reserve team, he always felt out of place.Anyone who stands among a group of players who were born in 97 and 96 and are still under 20 years old will have the illusion of whether they are in the wrong place or whether they are old.

In fact, as far as players in their 20s are concerned, many European and American teams have played in the first team for a long time, and their appearance is relatively mature.From the perspective of physical development, Chinese players are generally slower than European and American players.Looking at the curious and immature faces, Yan Feng really wanted to say: "Actually, I'm not here to play football. I'm a new assistant coach."

Yan Feng is not the only one training with the reserve team this time.There is also a player named Hou Junjie. He also failed to catch up with the Australian first-team training because he just transferred.

Hou Junjie is a player born in 93. Although he can't compare with a group of players in 97 and 96, he is only 170cm tall and weighs 65kg. He looks like a small player.

In other words, the R&F team's introduction of Hou Junjie's official description marked the position on the field as the midfielder.In other words, he is Yan Feng's competitor.And it is also a direct competitor who entered the team at the same time.

Maybe it's because Hou Junjie also knows that the two are direct competitors in the same position. Although he and Yan Feng are both new players, they are not very willing to communicate with Yan Feng.

Originally, Yan Feng was happy that he was no longer just an older first-team player here.Coupled with the fact that both of them were players who transferred to R&F around the same time, Yan Feng really wanted to have a good relationship with Hou Junjie.However, Hou Junjie just regards him as a competitor at present.This made Yan Feng somewhat helpless.

Hou Junjie was unwilling to deal with Yan Feng, and the young players in the reserve team seemed a little dissatisfied with Yan Feng.At least Hou Junjie was bought from the former Chinese Super League team Shanghai Shenxin, which is somewhat convincing.And what about Yan Feng?A Chinese player who has never heard of it, and he is from the bad team Shenzhen, who can be convinced?
"Who is this guy? He doesn't look young or well-known. How did the team buy it? We are considered adult players. The team didn't give us a chance, but gave us the position. I don't accept it."

"Yeah. I don't agree. Why didn't I enter the first team, but gave it to an outsider?"

"I'd like to see how heavy he is, and he actually took away our chance."

The young players of the reserve team were all dissatisfied with Yan Feng's arrival.The way they looked at Yan Feng began to become unfriendly during the constant communication.

After training with the ball, the reserve players were even more uproarious and angry.

"I'll go, can this guy play in the Super League with his feet skills?"

"Look at him, with a ball, he only has a few horizontal strokes and straight pulls, not even a fake move."

"How do you look at it, this guy's technology is scumbag, not as good as mine?"

"Let's practice and let this so-called first-team player see our skills."

Yan Feng's performance in training with the ball was quite satisfactory, neither showing gorgeous dribbling moves, nor showing a few amazing unique skills.This of course made those young players who were already competitive.As a result, those reserve team players began to continue to play their own tricks.What are oxtail flicks, Marseille maneuvers, and Cruyff movements.The action of stepping on a bicycle continuously is commonplace.

Yan Feng looked at the reserve team players doing all kinds of pleasing skills, automatically ignored their provocative eyes, and said with emotion: "The young players nowadays are incredible. The skills at their feet and There are so many tricks. All of them look really good."

At this time, Yan Feng thought of Lin Fan again. In fact, Lin Fan was younger than the players in front of him, and his figure was also not grown.However, Yan Feng felt that Lin Fan's level should be higher than these people, at least Lin Fan was very calm and more stable in the middle one.In fact, thinking about it now, Yan Feng felt that Lin Fan was still too precocious, and he didn't feel like a kid at all when he was on the court. "It's good to be young."

A group of young players from the reserve team originally used their own skills to give Yan Feng a bad impression, but the latter just smiled and sighed, and continued to do what he should do.It's better to be ashamed than to be ashamed, right?It gives them the feeling of being punched in cotton.

Seeing that the display of gorgeous skills had no effect, the reserve team turned their ideas on Hou Junjie.

Although Hou Junjie is a defensive midfielder, he is actually more of an avant-garde due to his physical condition.In fact, due to the limitation of physical confrontation ability, Hou Junjie often has more difficulty in defense, and he is more inclined to attack.

When Hou Junjie watched many reserve team players perform their special tricks, he also saw the problem and the reason.He also wanted to make eye contact with Yan Feng, so he also made various flamboyant gestures.Not to mention, Hou Junjie himself is very flexible, and after a few sets of moves, he has the demeanor of a European and American star.Compared with Yan Feng, the young players are obviously more convinced of Hou Junjie.

So several players from the reserve team instigated Hou Junjie to say: "Brother Junjie, I heard that that guy is a midfielder just like you. You are direct competitors. I don't think his level can compare with yours. From the practice with the ball just now, that guy doesn't look like much. At that level, I really don't understand how a player buys him?"

"The team has already bought you, how could they buy such a player again? I really don't understand. Maybe he came through the back door."

"The next team training match, the coach will probably place you in two teams. At that time, you can't let him compete."

After a few reserve team players turned over the words, Hou Junjie, who originally wanted to compete with Yan Feng, decided to wait for the opportunity to make Yan Feng look ugly.After watching Yan Feng's technique again, he is confident to play tricks on his opponents with his feet.

"Well, these boys are very enthusiastic about training today. Not bad, not bad. There is a new look in the new year." The head coach of the reserve team, Xie Yuxin, did not know the inside story, and was somewhat pleased with the positive attitude of the disciples.

"However, the newly purchased defensive midfielders of these two teams are still not satisfactory. Hou Junjie is too thin, and his playing style overlaps with many midfielders in the first team."

"As for this Yan Feng, he looks good physically, but he feels that his skills are not delicate enough. At this level, I think it is a bit daunting to face the top offensive foreign players of other Chinese Super League teams. It is really hard to understand that the senior management is like this this year. Turn to full operation."

After watching the training of Yan Feng and Hou Junjie, Xie Yuxin was not very satisfied, especially Yan Feng.But he is only the head coach of the reserve team, and he can't and doesn't want to interfere with high-level affairs.

Speaking of which, the transfer operation of R&F executives this year really disappointed the R&F fans who were full of expectations.Other Chinese Super League teams have spent a lot of money to buy top-level foreign aid this year, and they also frequently spend a lot of money on domestic aid.On the other hand, the R&F team bought foreign aid very cheaply, and sold more domestic aid and bought less.Those who are sold are well-known and powerful players, and many who are bought are not well-known.In this year's 80 billion Chinese Super League, everyone is basically a net expenditure, but the R&F team has made a huge profit of 1.7 million yuan.

"Damn it, R&F executives have no ambition and no enterprising spirit." This is the collective voice of R&F fans.In fact, what R&F fans hope in their hearts is that the R&F team can have the strength to wrestle with the Evergrande team in the same city.

In the next confrontation training match, Xie Yuxin really put Yan Feng and Hou Junjie on the same team.This is what teams should expect when looking at new players.

In the training game, the players in the reserve team didn't pass the ball to Yan Feng very much, so Yan Feng had no chance to show off on offense.But Hou Junjie got a lot of passes, which gave him plenty of opportunities to perform.

In terms of holding and dribbling, Hou Junjie is really good.He's done well when others are willing to feed the ball.With a satisfactory performance, Hou Junjie is also full of confidence.With the support of other players, Hou Junjie finally found a chance to fight Yan Feng one-on-one.

Yan Feng also understood the intention, he just smiled slightly.This kind of heads-up is actually his favorite.

Hou Junjie came to Yan Feng with the ball and started to make some fancy moves.This won the applause of the other players who were waiting to see, and at the same time, they also looked at Yan Feng with a look on their faces.

Just when they thought Yan Feng was going to make an embarrassment and be teased by Hou Junjie, their glasses shattered.

Facing Hou Junjie with all kinds of dazzling fake moves, Yan Feng was very calm and did not make a move easily.After waiting for Hou Junjie's extraordinary action, he quickly put his body on it.Then,
"I'm going, this person is about to fly."

"This is too cruel. Is this a foul?"

Others saw that Yan Feng just pressed his body against Hou Junjie, and the latter bounced out, and the ball was broken by Yan Feng.Everyone opened their mouths wide in disbelief.

In their view, Hou Junjie, who is skilled and flexible, must be able to easily pass Yan Feng.They didn't expect Yan Feng's reaction speed to be so fast, the start speed to be so fast, and his physical strength to be so strong.It feels like the physical contact between the two of them is like a child bumping into a strong man who is often fit.

Actually they forgot one thing.In professional games, dribbling is very difficult and success is very low.Moreover, people with poor physical confrontation, no matter how good their skills are, will often lose the ball under confrontation.

Next, Hou Junjie reluctantly found a few opportunities to think about Yan Feng, but in the end they all failed.Even if you pass first, you will be caught up and lose the ball.Now he finally knew Yan Feng's defensive ability, and at the same time he began to be a little afraid of Yan Feng's physical confrontation.

After Hou Junjie shrank, there were also some other unconvinced reserve players who wanted to try Yan Feng. In the end, they began to be afraid of facing Yan Feng.

"Yan Feng, take it easy. This is team training, and they are still a group of kids." After seeing Yan Feng constantly using his body to torture the reserve players, Xie Yuxin finally couldn't help telling Yan Feng not to work too hard, lest he Injured his player.

At the same time, Xie Yuxin had seen Yan Feng's ability.After a training session, he had to sigh: "This body is really scary. It seems that even if the foot is almost there, this confrontation is not afraid of anyone."

After a training match, the players of the reserve team had a new understanding of Yan Feng.After learning about Yan Feng's ferocious defense, they were finally convinced, at least they were convinced by Yan Feng's body.

"Brother Feng, your body is so strong. You are so powerful." Some players began to worship Yan Feng's physical fitness.

"Hehe, you guys are actually pretty good too. The technique at your feet is very good, and your basic skills are very solid. I believe that the future belongs to you." Yan Feng said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)