Mark stared at the TV screen blankly. Pique took the ball down and passed it to Xavi. Xavi turned around and passed it forward to Iniesta. Iniesta dribbled the ball past Shahin, and then passed the ball to Messi.

Facing Dortmund's central defender Subertic, Messi easily broke through, entered the penalty area and shot!

Although Weidenfeller made a save, he was unable to save Messi's shot.

Football hit the net, and Barcelona secured the victory 2:0!

The Champions League champion completely said goodbye to Mark.

Mark slowly turned his head to look at the door, his dull gaze gradually became clear. Then he jumped up from the ground and rushed to the door and shouted down: "Zhou Yi! What are you howling!!! My Champions League! My Champions League championship ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!! You pay for it!"

"What other game are you playing? Mark! Get out quickly with your things! We are going to Brakel!" Zhou Yi shouted downstairs.

"What? Isn't the season over? It's holiday now, what are you doing at the training base?" Mark was puzzled.

"Go and sign the contract! Professional contract!" Zhou Yi shouted at the top of his voice.

Mrs. Wagner, who was busy in the kitchen, stopped hearing Zhou Yi's words.

Soon, she heard a dense and messy sound of footsteps coming from above her head.

Mark appeared at the entrance of the stairs. He grabbed the railing and leaned under him, looking at Zhou Yi: "Are you kidding, Zhou Yi?"

"Who is kidding? Mr. Ricken called to notify me, you and I will go to Brakel now and sign a professional contract!" Zhou Yi shouted excitedly at Mark.

Mark was stunned for a moment, then turned around and ran back: "I'll go change my clothes!"

Zhou Yi also followed him upstairs, and he also wanted to get things.

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Russ Ricken held his cell phone and listened helplessly to the various shouts and footsteps coming from inside.

"Hey, Zhou Yi?" he asked tentatively. "Zhou Yi, are you still by the phone?"

The answer to him was Mrs. Wagner's voice vaguely: "I'll call your dad back, Mark, let him come and send you there!"

Then there were all kinds of footsteps...

Zhou Yi did not answer Ricken.

Obviously, Zhou Yi seemed to have forgotten that he was still talking to him and ran away like that.

He has been the youth training supervisor for a year and has been in charge of notifying some players to sign professional contracts, but this is the first time he has seen such an excited person notified...

He smiled and shook his head, then hung up the phone.

Forget it, let’s talk about the rest when he comes to the training base...

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Mark's father was working in the company and suddenly received a call from his wife. After listening quietly, he hung up and asked his boss for leave.

"Uh, Old Wagner. We haven't reached the end of get off work yet..." The boss pointed to the clock hanging on the wall to remind Old Wagner.

Old Wagner nodded: "I know, sir. But I have to go home."

"Reason?" asked the boss.

"My son is going to sign a professional contract with Dortmund Club, and I'm going to send them to the club."

"Ah? Ah!" After hearing the news, the boss was stunned for a moment, then slapped him. "Okay, I'm on vacation! Go quickly! This is a very important thing!"

"Thank you sir." Old Wagner turned and left his boss's office.

After leaving the company, Old Wagner drove the car quickly and returned home as fast as possible.

When his car was parked at the door, Zhou Yi, Mark, and Mrs. Wagner all opened the door and walked out, and they were ready.

"Get in the car, kids." Mrs. Wagner pushed the two children into the car and sat in the passenger seat herself.

"It's a pity that time is too sudden and I didn't have time to notify your sister." Mrs. Wagner felt a little regretful when she sat in the car. "But I will call her to come back for dinner. We must celebrate it well in the evening!"

After saying that, she patted the center console of the car and announced with great enthusiasm: "Set out! Go to Brakel!"

It felt like the person who wanted to sign a professional contract with Dortmund was not Mark, but her...

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On the way, Mark and Zhou Yi were looking forward to a better life after signing a professional contract. They would no longer be youth contracts. In terms of income, they would be much better than they are now. They can be regarded as real professional players, relying on the salary paid by the club to support themselves, instead of relying on their parents.

While talking, the car had already arrived at the parking lot outside Bracker training base. The guard at the door saw Old Wagner and Zhou Yi. After Mark, he raised the railing without saying anything and let it go.

The guards have known these parents who often send their children to the club for training and do not need to check any documents.

But the guards were also surprised. Didn’t the youth team have already taken a vacation? What did these two children come to the training base to do?

Before the car could stop in the parking lot, Mark opened the rear door. He couldn't wait to jump out of the car, followed by Zhou Yi. After the two got out of the car, they wanted to run in, but Mrs. Wagner stopped him.

"Wait a minute, kids!"

She got off the co-pilot and walked quickly to the two impatient teenagers, then sorted out the clothes of the two of them.

"Don't run, it's so ugly to sign a contract out of breath," she said to her two children. "Be calm, you are professional players!"

Mark scratched his head embarrassedly, and Zhou Yi just smiled.

"Go." Mrs. Wagner said lovingly as she looked at the two children.

The two turned around and walked towards the Youth Training Building. At first, they could still keep pace and not walk too fast. However, it was difficult to suppress the joy and excitement in their hearts behind them. They walked faster and faster, and finally ran away.

Mrs. Wagner watched the two children running behind her back, and just shook her head with a smile. She did not say anything to stop her.

Because this is the nature of a child.

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Ricken waited for two teenagers Zhou Yi and Mark in his office. Seeing that they were panting and their cheeks were flushed, Ricken pretended to be surprised and asked, "You guys ran over directly from home, are you?"

"How is that possible, sir. We don't have that physical strength. We came from the parking lot." Zhou Yi said.

Ricken smiled.

"Okay, come on, you can check the contract. You can ask any questions at any time." Ricken pushed the two children into the chair and sat down, and had already put the contract text in front of them.

In fact, generally speaking, when signing professional contracts, you should be accompanied by an agent, even for youth team players. Nowadays, more and more players are precocious, and they can enter the first team to play games at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and even become the main force. Therefore, agents have long extended their tentacles to the youth team. As long as they are talented and famous young players, agents will come to you.

However, Mark and Zhou Yi emerged at a speed that was too short, so neither of them had any agents yet.

Of course, you can only see the contract yourself.

In fact, Zhou Yi couldn't understand the contract. The complicated legal terms made him think of the passages that needed to be recited in the political textbook, and he felt a big headache when he thought about it.

Zhou Yi only cares about two things: contract years, salary, time and money.

This is the only thing he can understand.

And to put it bluntly, this is the most important thing for professional players.

How long they play in a team determines the next development of the player. The more famous the player is, the less willing the player to sign a contract that lasts too long in a small team. However, this is not a problem for young team players, because they often have not achieved success and at this time they often pursue stability, rather than using the team as a springboard.

At the same time, clubs also treat annual restrictions on contracts differently. For those players with outstanding talents, clubs often give a contract with a long period of time, which can be found for ten or eight years, and five or six years is normal.

For those youth team players with average qualifications, the club usually controls the years to a relatively shorter period, such as three years and four years. Three or four years can also show whether an 18-year-old player can develop to a level in the future. If three seasons have passed, the player still has no good performance and progress has stopped, it can be said that the player no longer meets the requirements of his team. Then the club will choose to sell him one year before the contract expires, or simply wait for the contract to expire and not renew the contract.

Zhou Yi took a look at his contract period for eight years.

He is eighteen years old and twenty-six eight years later, and is in the prime of his career.

From this period, we can see that Dortmund Club is still optimistic about Zhou Yi's future. Of course, there is a reason for their optimism, which is the optimism that Zhou Yi won by his own performance.

After just eight months of joining the youth team, he became the absolute main core of the two youth teams, helping Dortmund Youth A team win two important championships, and is a talented player second only to Gotze.

Such talent and performance are naturally worthy of the club's attention to him.

Zhou Yi had no objection to the eight-year contract period because he knew very well that the first professional contract in his life would not be really fulfilled until the contract expired.

As long as you have good insurance, the contract will definitely be re-signed, and will be modified at that time, both the salary and the years.

So there is no need to worry about it now, so eight years or six years.

The contract period is fine, Zhou Yi will look at the rewards next.

As the first professional contract in life, the salary is often not too high.

But this is not too high compared to those first-team stars, and compared to an ordinary working class, professional players' salaries are still quite considerable.

Unlike the English team's statement that weekly salary is emphasized, Bundesliga teams all say annual salary.

So what is Zhou Yi’s annual salary?

The contract says 150,000 euros.

150,000 euros!

If it is converted into RMB, it will be a bonus of 1.5 million!

Zhou Yi was only eighteen years old and had become a person who earned millions a year!

Compared with money, his parents may have to earn it in their lifetime based on their current income. Now it is only Zhou Yi's income in one year.

This is one of the reasons why Zhou Yi must be a professional player.

That is for the football dream in my heart, and for money.
To be continued...