Time flies like water, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.
There are very few games in the U13 echelon. At most, they are friendly matches with other youth training camps in La Liga. Among the many players, the ones who impressed Chen Mo the most were Sevilla's center back Ramos and Atletico Madrid's forward Torres.
Ramos is the most ferocious and crazy central defender among his peers that Chen Mo has ever seen. Because of Ramos' vicious tackle on Messi, he exchanged a vicious elbow for two teeth from the opponent, as well as the first red card, first suspension and... first fine in his football career.
As for Torres, although it was obvious in the game against Atletico Madrid's youth training team that the other side did not want to bully thirteen-year-old guys like them with their sixteen-year-old grade, but they were forced to come and play at the request of the old youth training coach. He had to be a little reckless, but he still smashed Barcelona's defense to pieces with one person. Pique was like a toy in front of the opponent.
Strength, speed, running position, finishing touch, every one of them is very powerful. He is a very terrifying striker.
However, there are very few U13 games, and Chen Mo has only played against them once so far.
Then there is the daily training. The weekly training time is only two hours on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and the team only has two actual training matches per week at most.
Easy.
But it was easy training for others, and it was much harder for him and Messi.
Guardiola and Enrique will come to the stadium about two times a week, sometimes three times, sometimes once, depending on whether the schedule is tight or not.
We stayed for two to three hours at a time, and there was nothing new. It was still two-on-three in the small penalty area. However, because Enrique and Guardiola had many different ideas, a discussion session was added after the training.
Generally speaking, a few of them talk about their feelings and opinions during training, and then the two big guys interpret and analyze it.
Sometimes it was fun, and sometimes the two big guys had a big quarrel because of their ideological differences. At first, Chen Mo and the others just listened obediently, but as time went by, the two big guys' thoughts made their understanding of football grow rapidly. Gradually, I was able to participate in the discussion.
This kind of day does not have so many ups and downs, but it gives people a warm and comfortable atmosphere like water.
With goals but no pressure, life naturally becomes very regular.
Get up at five o'clock every morning, bathe in the morning sun in Barcelona, and jog five kilometers along the river embankment with Messi. Messi would vomit at first, but gradually he got used to it. Then he would have breakfast and take the school bus to the gym. Xia attends middle school and learns fucking mathematics with the help of top student Keli.
Of course, occasionally when there is no training that day, they will play football at school, but now no one wants to play with them. To be precise, they don't want to be their opponent.
No one wants to be kicked like a pathetic clown under the watchful eyes of their seniors.
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Thursday, December 30, 2000.
"What is the structure of this guy's head? He can't understand mathematics at all, and there is no need to learn foreign languages!"
There was sporadic light rain outside the classroom window. In the interest class, the English teacher was teaching on the podium. Chen Mo was leaning against the window and taking a nap as usual, his little head held in his palm little by little.
Keli, who was holding a pencil and supporting her head, pushed her blond hair behind her ears, revealing her delicate white profile, and her small nose wrinkled with jealousy.
After sitting at the same table with Chen Mo for more than half a year, she initially thought that Chen Mo was just a scumbag with strong limbs and a simple mind who was very talented in football. But after getting along for a long time, she gradually discovered that Chen Mo was actually not a scumbag. He was very smart, but he was very partial to subjects. He couldn't learn mathematics that he was not interested in, but foreign languages...
Those who are under the age of fourteen speak Chinese and Spanish very well, as well as Japanese and English, and even some convoluted German. The reason for knowing German is even more nonsense. According to him, when he went to Japan six months ago, he was worried that the German players would scold him for not understanding, so he studied hard for two weeks, and then... he learned almost everything.
"What a man blessed by God."
Keli was complaining in her mind, and the bell rang for the end of get out of class. Pique in the front row immediately turned around and patted Chen Mo awake: "Hey, hey, Xiao Mo, Seth and I are going to have a party at the beach tonight, will you come?"
"...Can you please be gentle and have some kind of party?"
Suddenly woken up, still in a daze, Chen Mo stretched out. Cesc Fabregas took out a bunch of keys and winked: "Look what I got? The key to the beach villa! This villa My mom just bought it last month, and there’s a lot of wine hidden in the basement!”
Before Chen Mo could speak, Keli's eyes widened: "Drink? Are you crazy, Seth? You are only 14 years old, you can't drink! And you are still athletes!"
"Girl with steel teeth and glasses, I didn't call you, why are you babbling?" Pique rolled his eyes, and Kelly was furious, "Of course I don't care about you, and I don't want to care about you, but if Coach Zach knows that Xiao Mo is drinking , he may be expelled! You are harming him!"
"Oh? No matter how much we care about Xiao Mo?" Pique suddenly regained his energy and winked: "I said...do you like our Xiao Mo? You are so caring."
"you!"
"Okay, okay, stop arguing."
Chen Mo clapped his hands and looked at Pique, "It's just barbecue and beach football that I don't have a problem with. If you drink, don't talk about it. I'm not interested in that stuff. Besides, you still drink at your level? Have you forgotten how you were abused by Torres before? ?”
"..."
The shadow of Torres appeared in his mind, and Pique helplessly spread his hands: "You guys, do you want to poke my pain point... I was just kidding, the wine is astringent and sour, who wants to drink it. Okay. , you can come, then I’ll call out to other students, it’s a rare New Year’s Eve, we have to make it more spectacular, haha!”
As he said that, he and Fabregas went around asking out female classmates.
"I said, these two guys just want to take advantage of your [La Masia's strongest rising star]'s reputation to date girls. After all, with the reputation of a bad student and a rich second generation, parents will not let their daughters spend New Year's Eve. Hang out with them all night."
Keli crossed her arms in displeasure, and Chen Mo said with a smile: "You have relatively little contact with them. They are just a little noisy, not bad students. By the way, by the way, do you want to come with us tonight?" "
"Me? Forget it...forget it, I have no interest in parties or anything like that."
Keli quickly shook her head, and Chen Mo said with a smile: "It's just some barbecue. If it weren't for you in the past six months, Xiaomei and I would have failed in all our math tests."
"this..."
Keli hesitated for a while, then when she saw Chen Mo's earnest look in her eyes, she finally nodded and said, "Well... that's okay, what time?"
"After school, give me your home address. Xiaomei and I will pick you up then."
