Chapter 103: Halard Pique (Part 1)

When the finals ended, the city of Lisbon was silent for a few seconds. Donn stood in the stands to applaud the Greek team, exactly as he knew, and even the process did not change much. In this cup, if there is any team that can completely restrain the host, then only Rehager's Greek team is.

Scolari's Portugal not only wants to win the championship, but also win beauty. But their offense has no effect in front of the Greeks' impregnable defense. It is like stabbing a huge rock with a gorgeous crystal dagger, and the final result is only a white scratch on the stone, while the crystal dagger shatters into countless pieces.

1:0, the low-key Greeks defeated the self-confident hosts, and they created the greatest victory in the history of their national team.

Looking at the ecstatic Greek players, Don Eun was no longer as excited as he saw this scene for the first time. He clapped and said to Don next to him: "I can already imagine what the front page headlines of major media will be published tomorrow. This may be the most unconvincing champion in the history of the European Cup, and Denmark is more convincing than them."

"Because Schmeichel and Laudrup?" asked Don.

Don nodded: "The Portuguese must have lost very unwillingly. They lost to a team with no star players. The total value of the team may not be as high as that of Feigo and Cristiano Ronaldo... This is really ironic. Don, we won't go back to the UK tomorrow, go to another place first."

"where?"

"Spain, Barcelona." Don Eun looked back at the lively scene in the center of the stadium and turned around and walked out of his seat. "Let's go, the game is over."

Whether it is the ecstatic Greek or the frustrated Portuguese, or what they think and know about the Greek team winning the championship in Europe and even the world football world, these have nothing to do with Don En and his assistant coach Don.

The busy summer officially kicks off.

The next day, when Don En and the other two were sitting on a plane from Lisbon to Barcelona, ​​Don was reading the newspaper where they had just been published. The European Championship final that ended last night was naturally the focus of the media. Don En said it was right. The media's reaction to the Greeks' winning of the championship was very interesting. The local media in Portugal almost all said that the Greeks' championship was stolen. The tactics of ten people defending and one person's offense were very immoral.

When talking about this game, other European media such as Spain also believed that the Greek carnival was not a good thing for the future development of Europe.

Utilitarian football will sweep Europe again, and the viewing quality of football will be greatly reduced. This may make the already shrinking football market more difficult - no one likes dull and boring games, fans don't like it, and sponsors don't like it.

Tang En glanced a few times. He couldn't understand Portuguese at all... But he was not surprised that Tang could understand. This person was very, very learning, and he spent all his spare time on learning, so it was nothing strange for him to learn Portuguese.

"What's going on?" Tang En asked casually.

"Just like you said yesterday." I lived with Tang En for a while. Tang usually said more and more things - when there are always people chattering around you, you will slowly open your mouth. "No new ideas."

Tang En smiled: "The losers always have all kinds of reasons to excuse themselves for their mistakes. Is the whole world going to start discussing defense now?"

Tang took the newspaper away and looked at the proud Tang En: "I don't think defense will become the mainstream tactics for many teams in the future. But all coaches will start to study how to break this defense."

Tang En shrugged, "No matter what they think or do. Defence is the basis of all tactics. We go to Barcelona, ​​where there is a young man who I am very interested in. And our opponent this time is very strong..." Looking at the confused Tang, he chuckled. "Very very, very strong."

When the two found a hotel in Barcelona and put down their luggage and felt the youth training camp in Barcelona, ​​Tang knew who Tang En was targeting this time and the competitors the Forest team had to face this time - as he said, very strong.

Tony Donn fell in love with the central defender of Barcelona youth team Gerard Pique (gerard_pique). At this time, Pique was not very famous, but in the hearts of Barcelona fans, he was the future successor of captain Puyor.

When they stood by the training ground to watch the target training, Don Edward even found Messi inside. But he didn't find it at all for happiness or fineness. Because he knew very well that at this time, Messi had become the focus of Barcelona's first team.

As for Pi Kui, he knew very well that he still had room to take advantage of.

What’s very special about Spanish law is that they stipulate that teenagers over the age of 18 are not allowed to sign any professional contract. This is common to any company in Spain, and naturally the football club is also in it. So when the Spanish club worked hard to cultivate a new star. Seeing him as the main player in the Spanish youth team, he had to worry, for fear that foreign clubs would come to harass him.

Because they cannot sign professional contracts with young players. That means they cannot restrict the whereabouts of the players. If the players have feelings for cultivating other clubs. The club also promises his future, then he will naturally be happy to stay. But if the club cannot promise any future for young players due to some of its own difficulties, and at the same time, other clubs that can achieve this promise take advantage of the situation, then it is completely imaginable that the genius will leave...

Need an example? Francesque Fabregas, who loves Barcelona deeply and is a loyal supporter of Barcelona's hardcore fans, is because he cannot get the call for the Barcelona first team. At the same time, because of the strength of Xavi and Iniesta, Barcelona cannot promise this young man that he will play as the main player in the future for a long time.

So the captain of the Spanish Youth Team, the best player in the 2003 World Youth Championship, left Barcelona, ​​which trained him, and went to North London.

Wenger is a very cunning person. He has a very accurate vision of people and his vision of finding loopholes is also unique.

Spanish law does not allow their professional clubs to provide professional contracts to young players under the age of eighteen, while English law allows British clubs to provide professional contracts to young people over the age of sixteen. The time difference between the past two years is the capital that English clubs can rely on to travel to Spain to find gold - young man, the club that trains you cannot give you a professional contract, nor can you promise your future, but we can!

Arsenal's Wenger is like Columbus in the Age of Discovery, opening up a new continent for English clubs. All England coaches know that Spain has a large number of excellent young players, who sign for free, don't have money, and can still fight when they come! Especially Barcelona, ​​Fabregas's success in Arsenal proves the strength of their youth training level from an angle that embarrasses the Catalans.

Therefore, Tony Donn was not surprised that he could see English speaking people on the training ground. He also knew that there must be scouts from Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea among the disguised crowd, and the target they were also his purpose of visiting this time - Herad Pique.

Standing by the training ground and watching the Barcelona Youth Team training for a while, Don En asked Don beside him: "What do you think?"

"He is very good in body, and as a central defender, his skills are much better than those of England's defenders." Tang said, this was the conclusion he saw in half an hour. As for other qualities, he would not comment if he didn't see them. "From the physical point alone, I think it's not a problem for him to adapt to the English League. Who are our competitors?"

"As far as I know...Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea." Donn reported the names of the three most influential clubs in England.

Tang was not surprised, he nodded: "It's natural." Excellent players naturally attracted the favor of excellent clubs, and what made him more interested was how Tang En planned to compete with these three clubs.

Compared with economic strength, Nottingham Forest is not as good as Chelsea, which is rich and powerful. In terms of the glory he has won, the declining Forest team is not as good as Manchester United in the Premier League in the past ten years. In terms of training young players, they are not as good as Arsenal. In addition, there is currently Pique's friend, Fabregas.

In fact, long before Don Enlai, Pique was infinitely close to Manchester United. Ferguson's trust and cultivation of young people made Pique even more moved. Chelsea is the least advantageous of the three. Their first team has already stockpiled too many stars. Pique knew very well that there was no difference between him going to Stamford Bridge and staying at Camp Nou.
Chapter completed!