The title "British Star" was originally a complimentary term, used to refer specifically to England's most promising super star.
However, most of the Great British Emperor Stars that had high hopes did not reach the heights expected by everyone, so gradually, the title of Great British Emperor Star became a title full of ridicule.
For example, Lingard, the happy boy Sterling, Arsenal's Prince Wilshere, Tottenham's Kane, Everton's Rooney Rodwell, and the most popular son of the Red Devils, "Black Bei" Welbeck - these people are considered the first generation of British stars.
Among these British stars, only Kane's performance in the future is relatively worthy of the expectations of the country's hopeful stars.
Of course, these people can be called the "Great British Emperor Star", and they are indeed genius-level beings themselves.
...are also Gu Ran's main competitors in the future.
Sterling was originally a player in the youth training of Queens Park Rangers Club. His amazing football talent was quickly discovered by major scouts. As soon as the summer transfer window opened in 2010, Liverpool Club couldn't wait to sign him with 200 For a price of 10,000 pounds, Sterling, who was only 16 years old, was brought to the Liverpool U18 youth team.
This transfer price also created a transfer record between youth teams!
Sterling is also defined as a "star of hope" by Liverpool, but his contract includes a clause that requires him to play in the U18 youth team for at least two years and complete an evaluation before he can be promoted to the first team.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Sterling appears in the lineup of Liverpool U18 team.
Gu Ran almost laughed like a pig when he thought of the "Happy Boy" collection.
In this game, whether or not to score a goal is put aside for now. The important thing is that you must not laugh on the field!
Gu Ran tried hard to suppress the smile on his lips and continued training seriously.
Just listen to Coach Mark continue to brag to Coach Dodd: "This will be Sterling's first game in our Liverpool U18 team, so many senior leaders of our Liverpool Club will come here to watch the game today. Their purpose is to... See Sterling in style!”
"Although our Sterling looks like he is carefree now, when he is on the court, he is like a son of God! His speed is very, very fast, and his instantaneous explosive power is very, very strong. His He is also very skilled with his feet. He has world-class running and his ball sense is absolutely talented! I dare say that at the U18 level, absolutely no one can guard him. I believe it won’t be long before this kid The big names will be compared with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo!"
Coach Mark is about to blow Sterling to the sky!
Coach Dodd chuckled, "Really? Congratulations to you Liverpool."
Coach Mark asked proudly: "What about you? You Southampton U18 have always produced young monsters. What good prospects do you have this year?"
Coach Dodd smiled faintly, "What a coincidence, right? We do have a star of hope this year! His name is Gu Ran, and he just led the underdog Bucks Steelhorns to win the national championship."
Coach Mark laughed, "I have heard of it, but... the championship of amateur campus competition is meaningless in the eyes of professionals."
Coach Dodd said proudly: "This is what makes Gu Ran so awesome. He is obviously from a grassroots background and has never received professional youth training before, but he is not only extremely fast and explosive, but also The physical confrontation is even more powerful! The defensive positioning is also good! I dare say that at the U18 level, there is no player that Gu Ran can't guard! In addition, he also has a Beckham-style full-moon scimitar, and He knows Lampard-style through balls, his long-range shots are world-class, and his dribbling skills are dazzling. He can dribble the ball from his own penalty area to the opposite penalty area, achieving full B2B coverage!"
Coach Mark's mouth twitched, "Are you talking about... still a human being?"
He comes from a grassroots background and has never received formal training before. He is invincible defensively at the U18 level. He can also kick out Beckham's full-moon scimitar and Lampard's magic lamp. Water, B2B full coverage... How the hell can this be a human being?
Coach Dodd smiled proudly and said: "Human? Of course not! Don't look at Gu Ran as mediocre during training, but when he gets to the field, he is simply a god!"
Coach Mark frowned immediately.
He said that Sterling was the son of God on the court, and coach Dodd immediately said that Gu Ran was God...
He said that no one can guard Sterling at the U18 level. Coach Dodd then said that no one can break through Gu Ran at the U18 level...
Is the targeting so obvious?
You guys at Southampton are so awesome that they're almost out of the solar system!
"What's even more awesome is," Coach Dodd paused for a moment, and after seeing the increasingly unhappy expression on Coach Mark's face, he continued to say proudly: "Gu Ran has a super golf IQ that is ahead of this era. He He is really playing football with his brain."
This kind of praise is incredible.
You must know that most young talents are still in the stage of strong physical talent. Generally, players with football intelligence will only appear in the middle or late stages of their careers.
The saying that the older you get, the better you become, actually refers to your golf business experience.
The body is at its peak and the technique is at its peak. If you want to make a breakthrough, you can only compete with your skills and brains.
The old demon stars are often smarter and more cunning when handling the ball, and are better able to take advantage of the situation, rather than just relying on body and technology.
Therefore, it is absolutely incredible to say that a young player has a golf IQ that transcends his time.
Coach Mark curled his lips and smiled and said: "Dodd, you are really good at blowing. How can you, a Chinese who has not received professional training, blow so well? I don't believe it!"
Coach Dodd smiled and said: "Hey, Mark, my old friend, you know me, I never brag, I am just stating a fact, although this fact sounds a bit exaggerated, this so-called star of hope, It's an exaggeration to surpass ordinary people! Your Sterling may be very powerful, but, I'm sorry, our Gu Ran is even more powerful."
Coach Mark shrugged and said: "Don't say it so early. We will know who is stronger when the game starts in the afternoon!"
"Okay, let's compete in a competition."
The two coaches were smiling on the surface, but in their hearts they had been secretly fighting for 842 rounds.
Coach Dodd walked to the sidelines of his home court and reached out to call Gu Ran over.
"Gu, how are you feeling today?"
"Very good, coach."
Apart from being nagged by Evelin and being forcibly grabbed along the way, everything else was fine.
Coach Dodd smiled: "That's good...Today's game depends entirely on you! The opponent already knows that you are strong, yes, they know that you are fast, they know that you sprint hard, and they know that you are invincible defensively. , they know that you are extraordinary, they know that you can also use the scimitar of the moon and the magic lamp to guide the way... they will definitely target you."
Gu Ran was stunned, "How did the other party know... Liverpool's pre-match intelligence system is too strong, right?"
"Ahem..." Coach Dodd waved his hand, "None of this matters. In short, you have to go all out for this game!"
Gu Ran nodded and said: "Don't worry, coach."
Coach Dodd breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, let's continue training."
At the same time, coach Mark returned to the sidelines where his players were, summoned the players of the Liverpool U18 team to his side, and began to lecture:
"Please be serious about this afternoon's game!"
"Try to pass the ball to Sterling, Sterling, you have to go all out to break through, especially break through from the Chinese Gu Ran, let him know how good you are!"
Sterling, who is currently worth £2 million, was baffled but nodded.
Coach Mark warned the others: "I want to emphasize it again. In today's game, you must keep an eye on Gu Ran on the opposite side! The coach on the opposite side made the Chinese guy look like a god. You guys We must not allow that Gu Ran to have room to develop!"
"Do you understand everything?"
"Yes! Coach!"
"Don't worry, coach, we will brutally torture that guy named Gu Ran! We have already remembered his arrogant face!"
"We will fuck him to death! We will take back the glory of the British National Championship from that Chinese guy!"
"We want him to cry for his father and mother and regret playing football!"
Hearing the high morale of the players, coach Mark nodded happily, "Okay! This is the momentum we want! Let's start training! Let the Southampton U18 players take a look at our Premier League-level youth training What level is the echelon?”
The players of the Liverpool U18 team immediately came on the stage aggressively and trained with the Southampton U18 team.
The training level of the Liverpool U18 team is still very high, but the training level of the Southampton U18 team is not bad either.
Players from both sides immediately entered a tense stage of competition.
The players of the Liverpool U18 team are all eyeing No. 47 of Southampton U18.
The emotional bubbles on both sides also dropped wildly one after another.
Gu Ran, who was wearing the No. 9 jersey, was training quietly while concentrating his thoughts and picking through a large number of white training result bubbles and blue skill bubbles.
Before lunch, Gu Ran picked up 3 white training bubbles about physical fitness and sprinting, and 1 blue skill bubble for "High-speed Sprint Dribbling +1".
Gu Ran himself has the "High-speed Sprint Dribbling" skill. After picking it up this time, the high-speed sprint dribbling will be superimposed to +4.
Those three white training result bubbles are exactly 100 hours worth of the remaining training results, and can be automatically exchanged for one special talent point.
Gu Ran did not hesitate and directly allocated this talent point to the "explosion" attribute.
The burst attribute was immediately increased from 74 points to 75 points.
——Since today’s opponent is Sterling, and Sterling’s strongest advantage is basic speed and explosive speed, Gu Ran also strengthens his explosive speed in a targeted manner, so that he can better compete with Sterling. .
Gu Ran still has 5 pickup opportunities left today.
Gu Ran plans to leave these five opportunities to stars such as Sterling and Alan Shearer.
After the morning training, the thunderstorm stopped.
Players from both sides rested in their respective dressing rooms before heading to the Melwood Training Center restaurant for dinner.
After eating, both parties rested in their respective rest areas for more than an hour.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, players from both sides came to the first team's playing field.
At this time, there were already many Liverpool staff sitting in the simple stands on the sidelines.
Some of them are just ordinary employees who come to cheer for the Liverpool youth team, and a few are Liverpool's technical staff and full-time scouts. Their task is to evaluate the performance of the Liverpool youth team. By the way, take a look at Southampton U18 Is there anyone the team can tap?
At this time, there was still some water in the venue.
Six groundskeepers were working quickly to clear the lawn.
After the water on the lawn was cleared, the Southampton U18 team and the Liverpool U18 team entered the field and began to warm up before the game.
Although the water has been cleared, the venue is still slippery.
Today's game is destined to be a difficult game that requires a lot of basic skills from the players.
At 3pm.
A large group of people came to the training ground with several senior Liverpool officials and took their seats in the stands.
Kaka, a reporter from Liverpool FC, took photos of the senior executives.
The senior management also laughed and discussed with each other, and from time to time looked at Sterling who was training on the field to give pointers.
As expected, they all came to see Sterling, the star of Liverpool hope, perform.
——This period was also the beginning of Liverpool's renaissance.
Liverpool's original owners, the "bloody duo", finally sold their shares to Fenway Group. After getting rid of the "bloody duo", Liverpool's top executives seemed high-spirited and complacent.
As soon as Fenway Group took over Liverpool, it waived the club's debt of up to 100 million pounds and determined the long-term strategic plan to expand Liverpool's home stadium Anfield and upgrade the Melwood training base and Kirkby youth training base.
Although the new boss Henry and "the most beautiful proprietress in football" Linda did not come to the training ground to watch this U18 friendly match, the caring executives still ordered people to prepare three high-definition shooting cameras and wait for the game to be over. The process is edited into a collection to announce the good news to the new boss and the new boss wife.
They want to dedicate this crushing victory to their new boss and new boss wife.
After a while, star Alan Shearer, dressed in simple sportswear, also came to the training ground.
The passion on the training ground was immediately ignited.
The Southampton U18 players were very excited and trained even harder.
Alan Shearer is the pride of the Southampton club. Although he spent most of his career with his hometown team Newcastle United, it was through the Southampton youth academy that he came through, his name and picture, It has always been hung on the club's wall of honor, inspiring successive Saints newcomers.
Dodd, the head coach of the Southampton U18 team, is also a teammate who trained with Alan Shearer in the youth training team at the same time. Almost every word of coach Dodd is inseparable from Alan Shearer, a young player of Southampton U18. People are so influenced by it that they have already regarded Alan Shearer as an idol.
It is usually rare for Southampton U18 players to have the opportunity to meet a legendary star of Alan Shearer's level.
One can imagine how excited they are now.
Compared to the excited Southampton U18 players, the Liverpool U18 players were less excited about Alan Shearer.
However, when Alan Shearer walked into the stadium, Liverpool's senior management and other staff stood up to pay tribute to Alan Shearer.
Although Alan Shearer had nothing to do with Liverpool when he was a player, Alan Shearer is a retired legendary superstar and the Premier League's top scorer after all, so in Liverpool, he still gets the respect he deserves.
Michael Edwards, Liverpool's director of data analysis, even kindly invited Alan Shearer to sit with him and watch the game.
Alan Shearer smiled and declined.
——He came here specifically to cheer for the home team Southampton U18 team.
After Alan Shearer shook hands with Liverpool's senior officials one by one and exchanged greetings, he went straight to the visiting team's bench.
Southampton's U18 players were all so excited that they stopped training and wanted to rush over to shake hands with Alan Shearer.
"What are you doing?!" Coach Dodd frowned and yelled: "When did I say you could stop training? Why don't you go back and continue training!"
"It's...coach." The young U18 players could only return to the court angrily.
But at this time, they were no longer interested in training, and their attention was entirely on Alan Shearer.
Only Gu Ran remained calm and continued training without any distractions.
After yelling at the players, Coach Dodd himself rushed forward excitedly and gave Alan Shearer a brotherly hug with great enthusiasm.
Coach Dodd directly hugged Alan Shearer with his feet dangling in the air.
Alan Shearer had a silly smile on his face.
His silly smile is as simple as that of an old farmer, without any airs of a big star.
You know, in the Premier League, Alan Shearer scored a total of 260 goals and is the scorer with the most goals in the history of the Premier League.
His celebration after scoring was also iconic - raising the palm of his right hand in the air and running - yes, it's that simple.
Alan Shearer has many nicknames, one of which is "Chinese", which was given to him by his teammates at Newcastle United. The meaning of this nickname is that Shearer is usually very shy and has a good smile. Oriental men have a shy temperament, and Shearer is hard-working and never alone. Although he is the Premier League goalscorer with the most goals, his assists are also ranked high in the history of the Premier League. This kind of teamwork spirit , which is also in line with Westerners’ impression of Chinese people.
"Hi! Alan! Long time no see!"
"Dodd, how are you doing? How is everyone at home?"
"Haha! Okay, okay! Alan, you are still the same!"
"Dodd, you have gained a lot of weight."
"Hahaha, I'm getting older..."
Two old friends who used to play together in the Southampton U18 youth team met happily.
Coach Dodd smiled and said: "Alan, thank you for helping the little cubs get the chance to compete in this competition. Look, these little cubs all practiced extra hard when they heard that they could see you today."
Shearer glanced at the training area of the Southampton U18 team, nodded with satisfaction and said: "Not bad, really good. However, there is no need to thank me. After all, I am also from the Southampton youth training. I will do something for the Saints." That’s how it should be.”
Coach Dodd smiled and said: "When you see them, do you think of when we were young? Of course, they can't compare with us."
Shearer smiled naively and took the initiative to stir up the topic: "Dodd, I heard that the club has signed a new star of hope? How about it, do you have any hope of beating Liverpool U18 today?"
Coach Dodd immediately said with excitement: "Yes, his name is Gu Ran! Let me tell you, this kid is great! Let's put it this way, with him here, I don't think it will be a problem for us to win!"
Shearer's eyes widened in shock, but his expression was still naive, "Really? Can you beat the Liverpool U18 team? Man, are you kidding me? I heard that Liverpool U18 just spent 2 million The pound bought a star of hope!"
Coach Dodd said proudly: "It's just a star of hope, we have one too! It's almost time now, I'll ask him to come over and get to know you!"
Hiller looked forward to it, "Okay! Okay!"
Coach Dodd stood on the sidelines and clapped his hands, "Okay, stop pretending to train, I know you all want to meet the legendary superstar! Come on then!"
"Ho ho ho!"
The Southampton U18 players rushed off the field crazily and surrounded Alan Shearer!
"Mr. Shearer! I finally saw a living one!"
"Mr. Shearer, I am your number one fan! Please sign your name for me. I will tattoo your name on my thigh!"
"Mr. Hiller, our whole family likes you!"
"Mr. Shearer, I grew up listening to your legendary stories!"
"Mr. Hiller..."
The whole Southampton U18 team went crazy.
This is the superstar effect...
Gu Ran secretly admired Alan Shearer's influence in Southampton.
However, Gu Ran was in no hurry to squeeze towards Alan Shearer.
Of course Gu Ran also likes Alan Shearer. It is no exaggeration to say that Alan Shearer is the ceiling of all Premier League forwards and the most typical British forward. He has been a legendary existence since he was 17 years old. .
There are two eras of super forwards in English football. The 1970s and 1980s belonged to the legendary striker Kevin Keegan. Kevin Keegan started at Liverpool and played for Southampton and Newcastle United.
The years from 1990 to 2006 were the era of Alan Shearer. Alan Shearer also played for Southampton and Newcastle United successively.
In 1988, when Alan Shearer was 17 years old, he received his first professional contract with Southampton Club. On April 9 of the same year, he made his first appearance in the then top league, English League One, and for the first time In his professional debut, he completed a hat trick.
And the opponent was not a weak team, but the powerful Arsenal Arsenal!
This record of debuting and completing a hat-trick under the age of 18 in the top league has yet to be broken by anyone.
After Shearer, England has never produced a local legendary shooter who is qualified to tie with them.
Even Rooney was less than half of Shearer at his peak.
Shearer has a calm and calm personality, and is very low-key. He is even a bit dull during interviews and is extremely poor at words. But when he is on the court, he is definitely a nuclear explosion. His speed (speed was disabled after three serious knee injuries in the middle and late stages) ), confrontation, movement, sense of goal, and one shot are definitely the ceiling for an all-around forward, and his most iconic feature is his powerful long-range shot.
Alan Shearer's long-range shot not only has the beauty of power, but also has precision, pursuing a tricky angle, just like a precision-guided cruise missile.
In the 1990s, being able to shoot a Shearer-style long shot has become the standard for fans to evaluate whether their forwards are strong enough.
At the same time, Alan Shearer's free kicks and penalty kicks are also top-notch, and he can often take direct free kicks with both power and arc.
He has taken a total of 50 penalty kicks in his career and scored 45 of them, with a hit rate of 90%!
In some aspects, Gu Ran at this stage does have many similarities with Alan Shearer.
For example, Gu Ran is Chinese, and Alan Shearer is also "Chinese."
Gu Ran is very low-key and very dull during interviews. Alan Shearer is equally dull and can hardly speak in front of the camera.
Of course, Gu Ran has Evelyn who retouches her pen automatically, something Alan Shearer cannot compare to.
Gu Ran is currently wearing No. 9, and Alan Shearer is the representative star of No. 9.
Alan Shearer made his debut in the League One at the age of 17, and Gu Ran will soon make his debut in the League One at the age of 17...
The difference is also obvious - Gu Ran is very handsome, Alan Shearer is not handsome enough, Gu Ran looks like a heartthrob Beckham when he smiles, while Alan Shearer looks naive when he smiles.
A little bit like... rust strips.
All these similarities made Gu Ran feel very close to Alan Shearer.
For Gu Ran, the most important thing now is not to rush to Alan Shearer to ask for an autograph, but...
How can you prostitute Alan Shearer for free?
(End of chapter)
