The first thing Goce did after opening his eyes was to turn his head to look at the bed next door. When he saw Zhou Yi still lying on the bed, he felt relieved and seemed to be not too late.

When I fell asleep last night, I was always thinking about getting up early and training with Zhou Yi, and I didn’t sleep well.

I woke up early now. Although Zhou Yi had not yet gotten up, Gece did not dare to sleep.

He just opened his eyes and quietly waited for Zhou Yi next to him to get up.

In order not to lose to Zhou Yi, Gece also worked very hard.

When he was in the youth team, Goce did not have such a strong sense of competition because everyone is a youth team player. And Goce always believed that he would go to the first team earlier than Zhou Yi.

But unexpectedly, after the season, he was transferred to the first team with Zhou Yi. After that, whether in training or in the warm-up match, Zhou Yi's performance was no less than that. Goce finally felt the crisis.

The competition came so rapidly that he had to face it head-on.

You must not lose to Zhou Yi!

When he was in the youth team, Goce had already seen Zhou Yi's strength and knew that this was a very powerful character. He had never underestimated Zhou Yi, otherwise he would not have exchanged jerseys with him at the beginning.

But after arriving in the first team, Goce found that Zhou Yi was actually stronger than when he was in the youth team. He had to do his best, otherwise he might be left behind by Zhou Yi.

He didn't want such a thing to happen to him!

Geze, who was opening his eyes to count the ceiling lattices, suddenly heard a quilt rubbing from the bed next to him. He turned his head and saw Zhou Yi lifting the quilt and getting up. So he quickly sat up from the bed. Zhou Yi was startled, turned around and widened his eyes and looked at him in surprise: "If you are anxious to pee, you can go first."

"Who is anxious to pee!" Gotze rolled his eyes.

"Then why are you jumping up? I thought you were going to grab the toilet with me..."

"You got up to go to the bathroom?" asked Gotze.

"Yeah, wash up by the way."

"What a coincidence, I washed up, too." Gotze replied.

"You are really here?" Zhou Yi thought of what Goce said to him yesterday.

"Of course. Don't underestimate my enlightenment!" Gotze looked serious.

"Okay, please be happy..." Zhou Yi grinned and got out of bed and washed up in the bathroom.

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When physical coach Oliver Bartlett saw that Zhou Yi was following Gotze in the gym.

"This is..." He looked at Gece and asked Zhou Yi.

"Don't worry about him, coach. Let's practice ours." Zhou Yi said and began to warm up.

Gotze was also warming up next to him.

Bartlett couldn't figure out what Gotze was going to do, so he had to remind him: "Mario, you don't have to come to train in advance..."

"It's okay, coach. I'm voluntary and I want to work hard to improve myself." Gertze smiled at Bartlett and continued his warm-up.

Seeing that Gotze was very determined, Bartlett had to stop persuading him, and just reminded him: "Just do some simple physical training. Never hurt yourself, Mario."

"I understand, thank you for your concern, coach." Gotze said while stretching his body.

So in this way, when Zhou Yi trained his physical fitness on the treadmill, Gotze also carried out his strength training on the corresponding equipment.

At seven o'clock, when the large army came to the gym to prepare for today's morning exercise, they were surprised to find that not only Zhou Yi was already sweating profusely this time, but also Goce next to him looked like he had been training for a long time!

"Hey, Zhou Yi! Mario. What are you doing?" Groschloitz opened his mouth wide and shouted in surprise.

But neither Zhou Yi nor Mario answered him, but just gritted his teeth and persevered.

Seeing this scene, Captain Kyle clapped his hands and shouted at the onlookers: "Guys, are you willing to let the two young boys compare you? Start training! You can't be looked down upon by newcomers!"

"Okay!!" Everyone responded with a loud bang.

Groschloitz turned his head to look at his teammates, who had already started to warm up.

"Why did everyone's aura change..." He didn't react.

In this way, every morning, the first team players always see Zhou Yi and Goce sweating profusely when they come to the gym. Under their stimulation, no other first team players are willing to be lazy during training, because that will be considered as inferior to the two young boys, which is simply embarrassing!

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As August just entered, the whole Dortmund team ended their training camp in Switzerland and set off to play for Dortmund.

The first round of the Bundesliga in the new season is a bit ahead of previous years. It is the kick-off on August 7th. The team must return to Dortmund to prepare for the new season, and at the same time give players a rest time. After training for a month of continuous high-intensity, if the players are not allowed to relax for a while, I am afraid that the string that everyone is tight will be broken at the beginning of the season.

After returning to Dortmund, Zhou Yi was called to the office by Klopp alone.

"I heard from Russ that you personally have a number you like, is it number 23?"

Zhou Yi nodded, not understanding what Klopp said about this.

"I'm just curious about why it's such a big number? So I want to ask you, of course, if you think this involves personal privacy, it's okay if you don't want to answer."

"Ah, this is nothing..." Zhou Yi told Klopp why he chose No. 23.

"That is to say, you were the worst-selling person in the audition finals of that reality show, so you want to use this number to remind you of your origin?" Klopp listened to Zhou Yi's story with interest.

"Yes, yes." Zhou Yi nodded.

"Interesting." Klopp rubbed his chin, "Then, your number in the first team is No. 23. What do you think?"

When Zhou Yi was stunned when he heard the head coach say this, he hadn't reacted yet.

Klopp looked at him and smiled: "What's your expression? Shouldn't ordinary people cheer after hearing such words? Isn't it a pleasure to join the first team?"

Zhou Yi pointed at himself in disbelief and said, "I'm staying in the first team?"

During this period, he trained with the team and played some warm-up matches. Except for the first warm-up match, he played for 60 minutes due to special reasons, the other games were only half-time, or less than half-time.

In these warm-up matches, Zhou Yi also felt that his physical fitness was still difficult to deal with a complete game.

Although he had played for 90 minutes in the youth team, after several warm-up matches in the first team, he found that the intensity of the first team's game is completely incomparable to the youth team's game. Being able to play for 90 minutes in the youth team does not mean that he can play for 90 minutes in the first team.

He then understood why head coach Klopp would say that his physical fitness was still up to standard.

His confidence in staying in the first team is not as strong as before. He just trains seriously and tries to improve himself first.

But unexpectedly, when he didn't think about it, luck favored him.

After returning to Dortmund, I heard good news!

"What? Look at your expression. Don't you want to stay in the first team?" Klopp asked back.

"Ah no no no no!" Zhou Yi waved his hands repeatedly, "I'm very happy to stay in the first team! I'm so happy! Thank you coach! In order to fully express my inner joy, can I go up and hug you, coach?"

Klopp was amused by Zhou Yi's face change, and he opened his arms: "Come on, boy."

So Zhou Yi rushed over and hugged Klopp: "Thank you, coach!"

Klopp slapped Zhou Yi hard on the back: "Don't be too happy too early, boy. Staying in the first team does not mean that you can play in the first team. You still have a long way to go before the game."

"I know, coach!" Zhou Yi let go of Klopp and looked at him and said, "I know, I will continue to work hard!"

Zhou Yi was so happy that he almost jumped out of Klopp's office. Seeing him like this behind him, Klopp couldn't help but shake his head...

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Zhou Yi couldn't take out his cell phone when he came out of Klopp's office. He couldn't wait to tell his parents about the news.

He directly called his father.

After a few sounds, the phone was connected.

"What's wrong with my son? I'm at work at your dad..." Zhou Jianliang's voice was obviously talking in his throat, which made people imagine what he is now.

"Dad! I'll stay in the first team for you! I'll be in the first team in the new season!" Zhou Yi shouted excitedly.

The other side of the phone was silent for about a second, and then Zhou Jianliang's scream rang: "Really, son?!"

"Of course! I just came out of the head coach's office. He asked me what number I wanted!"

"Great, son!"

The colleagues in the office looked at Zhou Jianliang who suddenly stood up from his seat in surprise. He held his cell phone and shouted "Great". At this time, Zhou Jianliang completely forgot that he was still at work...

"I'll tell you about this. Dad. I'm going to call my mom now..."

Zhou Yi was about to hang up the phone, but his father stopped him: "Don't call her, you're a long-distance international trip, so let me tell her. You have to keep working hard there, have you heard?"

"I heard it, dad."

"That's good. It's worthy of being my son!"

Zhou Jianliang hung up the phone and waved his fist excitedly: "Ye!!"

Only then did he realize that he was looking at him with a look of a psychopath around him.

"Uh, sorry, sorry..." Zhou Jianliang quickly apologized to everyone and sat down at the same time.

But he quickly got up again, walked out of the work room, out of the office area, and took out his cell phone and started calling his wife.

The colleagues looked at his back and couldn't help but talk: "What's wrong with Lao Zhou?"

"Have you won the lottery?"

“Isn’t the prize draw yet?”
To be continued...