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Chapter 118 A Disturbed Career U-17 Echelon

Chapter 118 A Disturbed Career U-17 Echelon

graduated.

What is Graduation?A person will always graduate many times in his life, and the perception of each graduation may be different.

Graduating from elementary school may not have much memory; graduating from junior high school may leave behind the reluctance of friendship and worrying about the first love; graduating from high school may be just rejoicing that you have been admitted to your favorite school in the college entrance examination, or thinking that you are about to embark on the road of life; graduating from university brings with you confusion and longing for the society you are about to step into.Marriage is also a kind of graduation, which means that the burden and responsibility of the family are about to be shouldered. At the end of life, it will be a kind of graduation-the graduation of life, standing at the end of life, and looking back at the journey you have traveled in this life. Are you worthy or unwilling?But you have no chance to do it again.

Long Bisheng and the others graduated. When the time entered the Spring Festival of 2004, their group of players had already graduated from Yunjia Tianyu Football Academy. When Long Bisheng entered the class, there were 43 players in his class, but now, there are only 31 players left. In five years, the iron-clad battalion and flowing soldiers, the big waves wash the sand, and what is left is only shining gold.

Being able to participate in this graduation ceremony means that they can at least get an apprenticeship contract from the club. Some outstanding players will be directly transferred to the U-17 echelon, while others will go to the U-15 echelon. Players who can directly enter the U-17 echelon mean that they will have more opportunities to play.

Ning Xi and Liu Lin still stayed in the school to continue their studies. Being an agent is actually a very complicated job. It is not enough to rely on eloquence and cleverness. Economics, eloquence, interpersonal communication, understanding of football, understanding of the clubs that your players may go to, as well as negotiation skills, business acumen, financial knowledge... and so on.

Of course, these things can not only be learned in the classroom, but if they do not have a deep background and solid knowledge, it is even more impossible to learn in practice—they have to study in school for two years, and then do an internship with the club's agent team to see how those seniors are good agents, and then go to the domestic agent certificate. If the results are excellent, the club will recommend them to take the agent certificate recognized by FIFA.

At present, there are many official agents from Yunjiatianyu in China with agent certificates. Their appearance also makes those so-called "agents" living in gray areas lose their active market. However, there are not many agents who can have world-wide agent certificates issued by FIFA. The famous agent who can be regarded as famous in Europe is Yunjiatianyu's current general manager Jiang Hao. Chinese players in Europe are basically under his name. You have to be polite when you see them, and ordinary brokers may not even meet these people.

Sometimes it is more difficult to cultivate a good agent than to cultivate an excellent player. For example, Liu Lin is a talent discovered by Jiang Hao by a coincidence. He has a quick mind, clear thinking, and a sense of affinity. He is also very sensitive to information and figures. A lot, besides work, he also loves wine and beauty, and after Pei Wei resigned from the chairmanship of Yunjia Tianyu Club and made Li Qiang, Jiang Hao and Wang Sa the iron triangle of the club, Jiang Hao is too busy to take care of his wine and beauty, so he urgently needs an outstanding talent to help him do something.

It's just that it takes time to train an agent just like training an outstanding player.

A total of ten players were able to leapfrog into the U-17 echelon this time, and all seven players from dormitory [-] were selected. This also proved the correctness of Ding Yu's vision at the time. The seven children in this dormitory all have the potential to become professional players-they are now semi-professional players.

Successfully graduating from the football school means that they can move into the club’s dormitory, train on the club’s echelon training ground, receive apprenticeship wages every month, and have official echelon games to play every season. If they have the opportunity, they may be loaned to other low-level league teams to play games. At that time, the income will go to the sea. Especially for young players in their teens, being loaned out can at least earn nearly [-] yuan a month, which is not a small amount.

Of course, Long Bisheng didn't think so far. He just knew that now he had a monthly apprenticeship salary of 200 yuan and a certain amount of subsidies. With income every month, he didn't need to ask his family for a penny, and he could send some of the money back to subsidize the family. He still had those friends around him, and he could still be with Ning Xi every weekend—he felt very satisfied and fulfilled.

After a year, Long Bisheng's height has soared to two meters. In the past year, he has grown rapidly as if he had taken medicine. He grew fifteen centimeters in one year, which made Ding Yu think that Long Bisheng had some kind of "giantism" disease, so he asked him to go to the hospital for an examination. However, the doctor said that Long Bisheng was in good health and did not have any diseases. It was just that his puberty was ahead of schedule. However, in the next few years, Long Bisheng might not grow much longer.

This result made Long Bisheng himself heave a sigh of relief. He didn’t want to grow too tall—after all, being too tall would be a burden. For a football player, a height of two meters is already a pretty remarkable figure. What’s more, Long Bisheng didn’t want to find a wife in the future. Did Yao Ming have to go to the women’s basketball team to find a girlfriend if he didn’t see anyone?

For Long Bisheng, the U-17 echelon is a very magical place. He thinks it is a magical place not because there is an accounting office here that pays him a monthly salary, but because of other things.

Here, you can meet many people who could only be seen on TV before—the U-17 echelon’s dormitory and training venue are all in the Yunjia Tianyu Club, the most magical club in China. From the beginning, the 17-year-old Messi who has already played in Yunjiatianyu's first team, the old man who keeps the goal, may look inconspicuous, but he has a famous son-Adriano who plays in Arsenal.

Seeing the stars of the first team and the important people in the club every day allowed Long Bisheng to get over his star-chaser addiction. The only thing that made him a little upset was that after entering the U-17 echelon, he suffered another blow to his self-confidence—he was already at a relatively good level in school, otherwise he would not have the opportunity to leapfrog to the U-17 echelon, but compared with the proud elites in the U-17 echelon, he is still the most poor one.

Fortunately, Long Bisheng is already used to this situation, and his solution is the same as when he first entered the football school. Aren't everyone else at a higher level than me?Others train five days a week, I will train seven days, others train eight hours a day, I will train twelve hours, the one who can fly first will not be a stupid bird, Long Bisheng remembers Ding Yu's words very clearly.

The head coach of the U-17 echelon is Xia Liquan. The vice principal of the football school was transferred to the U-17 echelon as the head coach a year ago, and Ding Yu replaced his position as the vice principal of the football school.

Xia Liquan is a very strict coach and has rich experience in coaching youth echelons. Nie Fei, Zhu Guosheng, Ai Lin and Wu Jiang are all his proud disciples trained by him. The club transferred him to serve as the head coach of the U-17 echelon. It may not mean that he will bring out a group of young players who can enter the first team in batches.

The ten newly added players, together with the original 23 players, formed the Yunjiatianyu U-17 echelon. This echelon is only one step away from the reserve team, but for many players, this step is a natural barrier. What's more, entering the reserve team does not mean being able to play in the first team. There are at least a hundred professional players in the Yunjiatianyu echelon over the years, but there are only about [-] who can gain a foothold in the Yunjiatian first team. Most of the other players have been transferred to other low-level players The league teams, who can stay in the first team in the end, are all the elites of the elites, the geniuses of the geniuses.

Long Bisheng didn't know if he would be able to stay in Yunjiatianyu's first team in the end. Before he changed, even if he would be transferred out, he would be satisfied enough, because even if he just played in a second-tier team, as long as he could play the main force, it would be no problem to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a season. After playing for more than ten years, Long Bisheng could become a small rich man. This goal was no longer enough for him.

He said that he wanted Ning Xi to be his manager, and Ning Xi also said that her manager would only have him as one of his players, so he would have to make more money, so that [-]% of what Ning Xi got from him would be enough to support her—to do this, it was not enough just to be the main force of a low-level Chinese league team... definitely not enough.

Therefore, he has to work harder.

(End of this chapter)