The youth team's game kicked off at five o'clock in the evening, so at three o'clock in the afternoon, according to regulations, Mark and Zhou Yi should appear at Bracker's training base.

But until this time, they hadn't set off.

Why?

Because they were waiting for Cortana.

"I called her, but no one answered, so I changed it to leave a recording of the phone, and I don't know if she heard it..." Standing in the living room, Mrs. Wagner kept looking out through the window, hoping to see her daughter.

Old Wagner was wearing a suit and sat upright in the chair so as not to let the suit be crumpled. He didn't say anything, but frowned.

Mark and Zhou Yi had already packed up all the equipment they needed for the competition, and were waiting to get on the car and go to the training base.

But now because Cortana has not come and they are unable to set off for a long time, Zhou Yi is quite helpless.

This woman...is not a date, why are you late to play?

Mark was feeling a little depressed.

At this time, he naturally hopes that his family will come, especially his sister who has a good relationship with him. This is also a great opportunity for him to prove that he can take the football path in front of his sister.

No matter what reason, he did not want his sister to miss his game today.

Even if it's just a warm-up match.

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But in the end, they didn't wait for Cortana. It was already three months old, and Cortana was still not here, so the family had to drive on the road amid the complaints of their mother and go to Brakel training base.

Along the way, because it was already a little late, Old Wagner was silent and said nothing and drove the car quickly. Zhou Yi sat in the back seat, wearing a seat belt and holding the handle above the window with his hands, so that he could feel a little safe.

He doubted whether the silent old Wagner was full of anger burning. He wanted to tell Old Wagner that it was not good to drive a fighting car...

Old Wagner rushed all the way, and it usually took twenty minutes to see the journey. He drove in twelve minutes today. From this, you can imagine how nervous Zhou Yi was on the way - he didn't want his dream trip to Dortmund to be hiccup because of a car accident.

After getting off the car, Zhou Yi and Mark grabbed their backpacks and rushed towards the youth team's training building. When they pushed open the door of the locker room, everyone, including head coach Ecker, was already inside.

"Sorry, sorry..." Mark quickly apologized to the head coach and teammates.

"Mark, you're late! The starter of this game is gone!" Some of the teammates cheered.

Mark immediately looked depressed, and Ecker waved at him: "If you don't return your actions, you will be gone!"

Only then did Mark realize that his teammates were joking with him, so he quickly ran back to their respective positions with Zhou Yi.

As the two of them started changing their jerseys, Ecker continued his speech.

"...Dusseldorf U17 is still in the low-level league this season. We don't have the chance to meet them in the U17 league, and we don't know much about them. But I hope everyone will not underestimate the enemy. This game will be played according to the content of our usual training. What is important is not how the opponent performs, but how you perform yourself."

After saying that, Ecker turned his attention to Zhou Yi: "Zhou Yi, you are responsible for organizing the team's offense."

This is actually the content of daily training. Zhou Yi dared to work like this during training, and everyone got used to it. No one would raise such childish objections as "Why let this newcomer command us?"

Zhou Yi nodded and responded naturally and confidently: "No problem."

He is really confident because he and this group of teammates have cooperated with each other in the virtual world for countless times, and he is not unfamiliar with this team.

He wasn't talking big, and he had nothing to worry about when he asked him to command this team.

These people are players who have been trained for a long time and have a stronger sense of tactical discipline and cooperation than the team that they pieced together when they participated in the reality show, right?

I was able to defeat Barcelona, ​​Chelsea and Liverpool with that team.

What is impossible to command Dortmund Youth Team to defeat Dusseldorf Youth Team now?

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Old Wagner parked the car and walked slowly from the parking lot to the competition venue with his wife.

On the way, Mrs. Wagner was still chattering about her daughter.

The Germans attach great importance to football. When their children compete, the whole family will come out to cheer for him and take photos together. This will be a very important family memory in the future and is an indispensable part of the child's life growth.

If a family member is absent, it will also become a lifelong regret.

When did Mark ask Wagner’s family to be dispatched last time?

That seems to be a very distant past.

The two of them came to the stands and were looking around and planning to find a good seat when they heard their daughter’s shouting: “Here! Mom and Dad!”

They looked in the sound and saw Cortana waving to them.

"Why are you here directly?" Mrs. Wagner walked over and complained.

"I heard the recording and came straight."

"Then you should also call us. We waited for you until three in three, and I was almost late. Your father drove the car all the way and I was almost suffering from a heart attack."

Cortana quickly stuck out her tongue: "Sorry, sorry, I forgot."

Mrs. Wagner sighed: "This is your brother's starting game, I thought you were not here."

"How could it not come?" Cortana held his mother's hand and acted coquettishly. It was impossible to tell that this was a woman who was extremely sharp in front of Zhou Yi and gave him a headache.

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When the players on both sides walked out of the stadium, the people in the stands cheered.

Although it was a warm-up match for the youth team, dozens of spectators also came to the scene. They were basically parents of the home team Dortmund youth team. While sending their children to the game, they also watched their children's games.

Mark's parents and sister also cheered, shouting Mark's name.

This was Zhou Yi's first time participating in a match between European club youth teams. He looked at the stands curiously and found that the people in the stands suddenly envied them.

This kind of scene is a scene that he would fantasize about every time when playing football in the country.

Anyone who has played football in school may understand that feeling. If someone on the sidelines watches the football and cheers for them, then everyone can perform well. If there are beauties in the football... then everyone will be like a chicken blood.

German football is just a warm-up match between youth teams, with dozens of spectators. How could his level be low?

In this country, football has penetrated into all aspects of social life.

In China, football is just football, and it loses its vitality after leaving the football field.

Judging from Zhou Yi’s experiences in Europe over the past few months, he felt that this was the biggest gap between Chinese football and European football, just like a gap.

It’s not that the national team is inferior to others in skills, nor is it even a football system.

It is the gap in all aspects of society.

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Although it is a warm-up match, there are also many ceremonies that should be there before the match, from strutting hand to exchanging team flags, and then picking sides, it is very formal.

The game then began.

The moment Zhou Yi received the ball, head coach Ecker's eyes were firmly locked on him.

This warm-up match is actually one purpose, which is to examine Zhou Yi's performance.

After all, training and competition are different. Some people can perform like world-class players in training, but when they are real games, they will immediately fail.

Although the gap between Zhou Yi will not be that big, it still needs to be paid attention to.

After Zhou Yi received the ball, he did not observe it, but directly passed the football out, and simply passed it to the side with a very simple pass, transferring the football from the middle to the side.

Then he began to run to the next place while shaking his head left and right to observe the situation.

Ecker is no stranger to this scene, and he has seen it accustomed to it during training.

What he cares more about is how Zhou Yi will command the team and lead the game.

He only looked at it for five minutes and a different look appeared on his face.

Because during these five minutes, football has been spinning around the Dortmund youth team players, and the Dusseldorf youth team has not even encountered football!

Football will always be passed to Zhou Yi, and then Zhou Yi will hand it to the next person, then he will run, receive the pass, and then pass the football to another teammate.

It just passes back and forth, and it is not just a foot-turning in the backcourt. Such passes are available from the backcourt to the midcourt, but it does not enter the 30-meter area of ​​the Düsseldorf youth team.

This kind of transmission has been practiced in recent training, but it is still very surprising that it can achieve such an effect.

Who is it all because of?

Ecker knows it very well.

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Zhou Yi observed the performance of the Düsseldorf youth team through five minutes of back-down, and found that it was the same as what he encountered in the FIFAOL3 world.

The Düsseldorf youth team was a little uneasy when they fell so hard at Dortmund. They even felt that this kind of backlash was a humiliation to them.

So they began to push forward, trying to grab a ball like Dortmund that was back and forth.

Dortmund, who were originally crossing and back-passing, suddenly accelerated the pace!

When Zhou Yi received the ball again, he chose to pass directly!

With a straight pass, the football passed through the gap between the left central defender and the left back of the back of Dusseldorf and fell into the gap behind their defense. The right forward of the Dortmund youth team Dennis Hoffman inserted at high speed from the back and just happened to receive the ball!

And he is already behind the Düsseldorf youth team's defense line. In front of him, no one can stop him except a goalkeeper!

The rest suddenly became very simple.

After receiving the ball, Hoffman cut inside, facing the hasty Dusseldorf youth goalkeeper, he chose to shoot.

The football drew an arc, bypassed the goalkeeper's fingers, hung straight to the back corner of the goal, and flew into the goal against the post!

1:0!

The game started only six minutes ago, and the Dortmund youth team took the lead in the game, and the ball was assisted by Zhou Yi!

Hoffman, who scored the goal, ran towards Zhou Yi, who assisted him, and a group of people hugged each other.
Chapter completed!