Chapter 46
"Coach Robert, if we don't have Reese, do we still want to continue competing?" asked an assistant coach next to young head coach Robert.
"Of course! Today's training must continue. We don't have much time to prepare, and there are only a few days left to practice skills and tactics. If we don't hurry up, I'm afraid we will still suffer a loss when we face the University of Munich."
"But you also know that there are only two goalkeepers in our team. Now the Red Team has no goalkeeper, so how can we compete with each other?"
"This..." Robert couldn't help but feel troubled. At this time, the weather asked him to go there to find the goalkeeper.
"Do you want Videk to play a cameo appearance...? No, no." Robert imagined a white-bearded old man wearing a wide goalkeeper's outfit and standing in front of the goal in trembling and shock, and then a fierce long shot directly knocked him to the ground, making him foam at the mouth and unconscious. He suddenly burst into cold sweats all over his body. He quickly shook his head and put aside this idea that made him feel terrible. Videk is the goalkeeper coach in the team. He has been engaged in this job for more than 30 years, but he still refuses to retire.
Just when Coach Robert was in a dilemma, Li Tian, who was doing the final jogging adjustment, passed by him, immediately making his eyes lit up suddenly, as if he had grabbed the last straw and shouted excitedly: "Student, please wait!", and then blocked Li Tian in front of him in two steps.
"You... are you doing something? Uncle!" Li Tian, who was startled by Robert who suddenly jumped out, took two steps back and asked.
"What? You... you actually called me uncle? Boy, do I look that old?" Looking at Li Tian nodding seriously, Robert was speechless for a long time.
"Uncle, what's the matter with you? If nothing else, I'll do the final relaxation training!" Li Tian's words woke up Coach Robert, who was bleeding in his heart.
"Young man, can you play football?" Coach Robert asked with anticipation.
"It's OK, but the level is not very good. After all, I'm not a football team." Apart from track and field, football is Li Tian's favorite sport. He thinks football is a real manly sport. He likes the feeling of passion. Fierce confrontations, wonderful goals, and crazy fans. Everything on the court fascinates him. In China, whenever the event is broadcast on weekends, he always sits with his father on time in front of the TV. When he arrives in Germany, he has the opportunity to watch high-level football matches with his own eyes, because in this city, he has a German A-level team, Cologne. In the past few months, whenever Cologne has a game at home, Ronnie will take Li Tian to the Ryannazi Stadium, Cologne's home court, to watch the game, which makes him more interested in football.
"It's fine, it's fine! I want to ask you to replace Rees who was injured just now and play a guest appearance as the goalkeeper, because we have not enough players now and the time is tight, so we can't waste our training time today."
"But I have never tried to be a goalkeeper, and I have no experience at all!" Li Tian was not nervous when he heard that he wanted to play a goalkeeper.
"It doesn't matter. You just need to stand in front of the goal and make up the numbers and do your best to guard the goal. You don't have to be responsible for anything else. What do you think?"
"Okay! I will do my best." Li Tian was obviously unhappy Robert said that he was a person who made up the numbers. Although he had not been trained as a goalkeeper, with his physical fitness, he believed that he was not just a person who made up the numbers.
"You agreed? That's great! Widek, give this classmate a pair of gloves and sneakers, and the others are preparing to continue the simulation game. We have less time left. You don't want to lose to the University of Munich team anymore!" Everyone took action with Coach Robert's shout.
"Young man gives you this, I wish you good luck." Li Tian was a little excited to take a pair of gloves and shoes from goalkeeper coach Videk's hand, and a red training vest, immediately put it on, and carefully untied the "parts" on his body.
The training match continued to begin. Before Li Tian, who was standing in front of the goal, had no time to get much excitement, the Huang team's offense came. Fortunately, the Red Team players were very worried about the "outsider" goalkeeper who joined the halftime. They all retreated to their own half to defend intensively, so that the Yellow team's offense could be destroyed in time, but it also made Li Tian, who had not yet entered the game, sweated coldly.
"Coach Robert, is this OK? Get an outsider to replace the goalkeeper. You must know that the goalkeeper's position is very special in the hearts of the players. Behind you are a trusted goalkeeper guarding the goal, other players can play with confidence and boldness. But on the contrary, if the goalkeeper becomes a burden on the players on the field, they may not even be able to play 60% of their own strength." Coach Videk said.
"This is also impossible! Do you want you and me to go up?" Robert smiled bitterly. Perhaps it was verified that coach Videk said that the entire Red Team members were stiff and made frequent mistakes. The two teams with equal strength were now completely oppressed by the Yellow Team in the half-court of the Red Team, and bombarded them, as if they were half-court offensive and defensive drills.
"If you attack, you will attack me. This is a training game. What are you bastards doing? I am now asking to train for offensive routines, not to shrink and defend. Don't care about how many balls you lose. What I want to see is the effect of the offensive." Seeing the performance of the Red Team, Coach Robert shouted loudly on the sidelines.
Perhaps it was Coach Robert's roar that worked. The frontcourt player of the Red Team, who had retreated to defend and defended the ball in half, took advantage of the opportunity of defender clearing the ball and pushed the ball up the whole line.
"No, come back to defense!" However, the Red Team's players had just dribbled the ball into the front of the opponent's penalty area for more than ten meters away. The two defenders who were double-teamed by the opponent immediately broke the ball and drove to the frontcourt with one big foot. Unfortunately, the Red Team planned to return to defense, and two yellow team forwards did not return to defense just now, and were still staying in the frontcourt to restrain the opponent's back line. After receiving a long pass from the rear, they immediately launched a counterattack.
"One!" The Red Team's defense line had just experienced a burst of bombardment and had not recovered yet. The position between the players was extremely unreasonable. The four defenders almost stood on the same line. They were simply matched by the two forwards of the Yellow Team. After passing the Red Team No. 5 central defender who defended them from the front, they tore the entire defense line open. The other defenders could not make up for defense in time, leaving only a lonely red figure standing in front of the goal.
"It's over!" This idea rang out in the hearts of all the Red Team members when the Yellow Team broke through No. 5 defense, because no one would expect an outsider who had never been a goalkeeper to defend the single shot of the team's main striker Nakati.
Chapter completed!