Chapter 34 Main Force

In the first team of Turin, there are three goalkeepers for Lerda to call, namely the 32-year-old Italian Morelo, the 25-year-old Italian Bashi and the 17-year-old Chinese goalkeeper Chu Jiang. After more than a month of investigation, head coach Lerda has had a brand new evaluation of these three.

Among the three, the most experienced one is veteran Morelo, who was also the goalkeeper whom Lerda trusted the most. However, he failed the coach's trust in him in a series of games in the new season. In the Italian Cup qualifiers, his first mistake made the Bulls' lead lose, and the next second mistake almost ruined that game. In the second round of the Serie B League, due to his two consecutive mistakes in a short time, the Bulls' three-pointers turned into zero points and suffered two consecutive defeats. Because of this loss, the Turin team was in a difficult situation for a while, and the head coach Lerda was at the forefront and the coach was shaken.

Originally, Morelo was just a substitute for the old goalkeeper of Turin Serenie. Because the Bulls failed in the upgrade playoffs, Serenie left the Bulls and switched to the Serie A team. Due to Serenie's departure, Morelo finally won the main position of the Bulls. However, his neurotic performance proved that he was very embarrassed. He was barely qualified as a substitute, and he really lacked the ability to be a main player.

Therefore, in Lerda's heart, Morelo has been labeled as "unqualified". Perhaps, Lerda will still transfer him from the reserve team in the future, but that will only let him come back as a substitute and will not return to the position of the main goalkeeper.

Therefore, in the battle for the main goalkeeper of the Bulls, Morelo, who has the oldest qualification and the most opportunities, was eliminated first. The only ones left for Lerda to choose are Italian Bashi and Chinese teenager Chu Jiang.

Thinking of this, Lyerda couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Lyerda is still full of resentment about Petraci's failure to successfully bring Rubinho's transfer mistakes from Palermo. However, he didn't know that Palermo's transfer manager Reno, Vosky, is now more depressed than him.

What's going on? Ultimately, everything starts with the search for goalkeepers all over the world of Torino.

Since Sereni left Turin, the Bulls urgently needed to find a high-level goalkeeper, which has become a well-known thing in the entire Apennines football world.

The Bulls Chairman is ambitious and has always regarded the revival of the Bulls as his lifelong pursuit. This season, he strongly hopes that the Bulls can successfully upgrade. Because the Bulls are not at all looking down on goalkeepers of average level. What the Turin team needs is a first-class goalkeeper with reputation and strength, at least not weaker than Sereni's level.

In the Serie B League, although there are some goalkeepers with good strength, who will get his brain and give his team's patron saint to his competitors? If that happens, the team chairman will definitely be kicked off by his fans. Although there are some good choices abroad, the Italian Football Association has a rule that no club in the second division does not have the qualifications to introduce non-EU players. Putting aside whether foreign players can adapt to the new league environment, Turin has no way to get around the rules of the Italian Football Association.

Therefore, when Torino chooses a new main goalkeeper, he can almost only be limited to the goalkeepers in the Italian League One. Those who exceed the financial support range of the Bulls cannot be considered; those who do not meet the Bulls' selection requirements will not be considered; after repeated screening, the final candidate is Palermo's former main goalkeeper Rubinho. To be precise, there is almost only one candidate, which barely meets the Bulls' selection requirements.

It is precisely because of this that after the Bulls suffered two consecutive losses, Torino Sports News made a big title so sure, "Rubinho, are you ready?" Even media like Torino Sports News knew the dilemma of choosing goals, not to mention the Palermo transfer manager Vosky, who is known for his shrewdness and cunning. Vosky had already taken the butcher knife and made full preparations to rob the fire.

Back then, another team in Torino City, Juventus, was very interested in buying Palermo's striker Amauri, and even reached the point of "not marrying you if you don't marry me". Vosky took advantage of Juventus' rush to sign Amauri and slaughtered Juventus' transfer manager Saiko with a knife, making Amauri's transfer fee as high as 23 million euros, becoming Juventus's betting that season.

After Amaoli transferred to Juventus, his performance plummeted and was nicknamed "Iron Guard Amao Donkey" by Juventus fans. Iron Guard refers to Amao Li helping his own frontcourt and looking more like the opponent's defender. Donkey says that Amao Li doesn't have a brain to play football, and only makes brute force. He seems to work hard but has no results at all. The Sakko, who was in charge of this transfer at the time, was scolded by Zebra fans after that, and soon had to leave Juventus with regret.

Such a transfer has become the laughing stock of Juventus, but it has become Vosky's proud work. Now, he wants to copy the same transfer again on Torino. This time, what he has seized is the Bulls' desperate desire to keep the goalkeeper; what he is selling is the high-paid goalkeeper Rubinho who has already lost in the competition with Siligu.

For such a goalkeeper with a decline in height and an annual salary of up to 120,000 euros, Vosky still opened the door and asked Petrachi for a transfer fee of 600,000 euros, and insisted on a fixed price. What he saw was Turin's strong desire to sign Rubinho from the chairman, middle to the head coach, and fans.

His transfer strategy almost succeeded. To be precise, in the previous life when Chu Jiang was reborn, he did succeed. However, this time, he failed, and the failure was unclear. The cunning and greedy Vosky never expected that due to Chu Jiang's unexpected joining and Chu Jiang's outstanding performance in the Italian Cup, Petraci was unable to make up his mind until the last moment of the transfer ending and spent a lot of money to sign Rubinho.

Lerda was still upset about missing Rubinho. He didn't know that the failure of this signing made Vosky's heart bleeding. Siligu had already firmly played in Palermo, and his excellent performance even attracted the attention of the Italian national team head coach. Therefore, Rubinho, as a substitute goalkeeper, has no chance to play at all, but Palermo had to pay a high salary to support this substitute goalkeeper who was twice as high as the main goalkeeper's salary...

For this reason, Vosky has been scolded by his boss. You should know that Palermo's boss Zampalini is also a chairman with a irritable personality. After Vosky made this mistake, his life has never been easy...

Chu Jiang was unaware of the "culprit" that caused all this. Compared with Vosky's hardships, Chu Jiang has now become a little bit better. Because the balance in head coach Lerda's heart has slowly turned to Chu Jiang.

Morelo was useless and Rubinho passed by. This forced Lerda to tap the potential in the team and find a trusted goalkeeper for the Bulls.

Compared with Chu Jiang, who was a young boy, Lerda first selected the main candidate for the Bulls, and was determined to be the more experienced David and Bashi.

Bashi is not old, only 25 years old, but he has a record of playing more than 20 Serie A and more than 80 Serie B games for Empoli, and is a goalkeeper with rich game experience. As for Chu Jiang, it has been less than two months since he landed in the Apennines, and his professional league experience is pitifully small, with only about 40 minutes.

According to common sense, it should be undoubtedly a matter of no doubt that Baxi overwhelms Chu Jiang and becomes the team's first choice main goalkeeper. However, common sense is just common sense, and common sense is not suitable for geniuses!

In the face of geniuses, the so-called common sense and the so-called rules are all for them to surpass! How old is Michael and Irving when he represented England in the World Cup? How old is Buffon when he represented Parma in Serie A? How old is Bernabeu's golden boy, Raul, the prince in white who was known as the "Lord of the Rings", when he first destroyed the city and captured the village for the Galaxy warship?

It can be seen that age and experience have never been a constraint that limits the development of geniuses!

Although Chu Jiang is young, has little experience, and has not played in the professional league for a long time, after this period of investigation, Lerda has believed that he is a genius, the best genius he has ever seen!

If he wasn't a genius, how could he save the Bulls twice in the most dangerous times in a row? If he wasn't a genius, how could he have such excellent free kick skills? If he wasn't a genius, how could he withstand the suffocating pressure, calmly instigate the attack, or even calmly score a free kick?

Moreover, many people only noticed Chu Jiang's excellence in taking the set-piece, but few people noticed that as a goalkeeper, his goal line skills are as outstanding as free kick skills. In the 40 minutes of Chu Jiang's outing, the opponents who fought were not without opportunities, such as Cosenza's encirclement in front of the goal, and Crotone's number one star's shot in the penalty area. If these two attacks were made, if any of Morelo or Bashi came to defend, the ball would be very likely to be in. However, Chu Jiang saved all of them! In addition, Chu Jiang had made several successful saves.

If it weren't for the reminder of the Bulls goalkeeper coach Difusco, even Lerda himself wouldn't notice it. Because Chu Jiang's free kick was too dazzling!

Similarly, his extremely outstanding psychological quality is also covered by the halo of the free kick, a big heart that can adapt to any big scene. It is precisely because of this excellent psychological quality that Chu Jiang has stood up many times in times of crisis, played calmly in front of 10,000 fans, and even created some illusions to cover up his real motivation to launch an attack.

Excellent goal line skills, outstanding psychological qualities, and unique free kicks, everything is concentrated on a 17-year-old boy with only 40 minutes of appearance. He is not a genius, what else can he be?

Although Chu Jiang is not without his shortcomings, such as he basically does not use hand throws in the game, such as his range of movement is not large and his ability to attack is lacking. However, all of this seems not so important compared to his advantages.

Moreover, Bashi is just a player loaned from Empoli, and his strength is just average. If he buys out, he will have to spend 130,000 euros in transfer fees. It is not a good deal to spend so much money to buy such a mediocre player.

Chu Jiang is different. The Bulls have half of the ownership of Chu Jiang. If Chewo does not use the right to buy it after half a year, the Bulls can even keep Chu Jiang in the team forever. Even Chewo wants Chu Jiang, and the Bulls can still negotiate with Chewo and find an opportunity to buy Chu Jiang. If they are not good, if Chu Jiang is really unable to keep Chu Jiang, the Bulls can still get compensation of 300,000 euros.

No matter from any angle, Chu Jiang is better than Bashi.

What's more, Chu Jiang's performance in the last game helped the Bulls get three points while also helping Lerda stabilize the coach. After he scored, he even presented the goal to head coach Lerda. Therefore, from a personal perspective, Lerda also prefers Chu Jiang.

The goalkeeper's ability, future development, help to the team, economic factors, and personal feelings, no matter from any aspect, Chu Jiang has an advantage in Lerda's mind. Therefore, after full consideration, Lerda has already made a bold decision.

The 17-year-old Chu Jiang will become the main goalkeeper of the Bulls! The next game is the stage where Chu Jiang officially starts!

On September 10, coach Lerda announced the list of selected players who were away from Sassuolo as usual. In the last game, Ogbonna and Dambrosio of the national youth team returned to the team's roster at the same time. In the goalkeeper position, Lerda still recruited two players, Bashi and Chu Jiang.

Before the game, the focus of the reporter's concern was not whether the Bulls' top star Bianchi's health was fully recovered or whether he would start in the next game; nor when Morelo, who was punished by the team, will return to the first team; but who will get the starting chance of this game, Bashi and Chu Jiang.

According to common sense, the candidate for the main goalkeeper should not be so popular. However, after Chu Jiang's outstanding performance, the reporters were very interested in this issue.

Because, this goalkeeper is unique! In a sense, he is even like a striker, with the ability to instantly change the situation on the court!

Regarding this question, Lerda played Tai Chi. Faced with the constant questioning of reporters, he just did not announce the team's main goalkeeper's choice, but just pretended to be mysterious and said that everything was naturally clear at the beginning of the game. Obviously, the choice of the main goalkeeper actually became a smoke bomb for coach Lerda to deal with Sassuolo.

Using the goalkeeper to make smoke bombs? The reporters present couldn't help but laugh. This situation was unheard of and was really bizarre. But after thinking about it carefully, they were all relieved again. Because Chu Jiang does have the ability to control the outcome of the game!

At 3 pm on September 11, the home court of Sassuolo in Praglia Stadium in Modena. The fourth round of the Serie B League will start here on time.

The one who appeared before the Turin team goal was Chu Jiang, a Chinese boy who was only 17 years old!

This choice is both unexpected and reasonable.

Chu Jiang, who started for the first time, was not as immature as he was on the court. Under his command, the Bulls' defense was as solid as a stolen person, and it was difficult for the opponent to find an opportunity to attack.

Soon, the Bulls, who played away, took the lead in gaining the advantage of the situation on the field and launched wave after wave of fierce offensives at the home team's goal. Soon after, the Bulls' offensive achieved results!

After the opening, just three minutes later, the right winger Ivenko, who was in excellent form in Torino, was pulled down by his opponent when he broke through to the near Sassuolo penalty area, and the referee decisively judged a free kick. Chu Jiang naturally would not miss such an opportunity. The free kick he took flew into the goal guarded by Sassuolo goalkeeper Pomini without any suspense.

1:0, Torino quickly established a leading advantage in the away game. The goalkeeper, Chu Jiang!

This is Chu Jiang's third goal scored for the Bulls!

The home team was not to be outdone and soon returned to their qualities. In the 18th minute, Sassuolo launched a threatening attack. Midfielder Catellani grabbed the defense space of the Torino team and shot 30 meters in front of the goal. The football went straight to the lower corner where the goal and the post were intersected.

If Bashi was guarding the goal, he had no way to react when the ball was so fast, the angle was so sharp, and his vision was blocked. However, Chu Jiang was different!

Relying on excellent prediction and flexible reaction, Chu Jiang jumped and saved the football out of bounds as the football was about to fly across the goal line!

Catrani, who missed this goal, hugged his head and sighed! He was already ready to celebrate the goal, but he never thought that he would be saved by Chu Jiang! The Sassuolo head coach on the sidelines had also made half a celebration move, but after seeing the ball being magically saved, he had to retract his arms with high raised back into his arms in regret.

After seeing this save, Lerda was full of spring breeze and her heart strengthened her confidence in supporting Chu Jiang.

This save obviously affected Sassuolo's offensive morale. Soon, the home team showed more fluctuations in the game.

30 minutes later, the three teams of Turin teams cooperated in a series of cooperation. Sgrigner took a high ball and handed it to Bianchi in the top of the penalty area. Bianchi headed the ball back to Ivanko who was inserted behind him. Ivanko dribbled the ball and went straight to the penalty area. Sassuolo's defense couldn't catch up with him. He was about to pull him down, but he was worried about Chu Jiang's free kick. So, in hesitation, he missed the opportunity to knock down Ivanko and let his opponent drive the ball into the penalty area.

Single shot!

Ivanko did not waste this opportunity, raised his leg and shot, scoring his third goal in three games, which was also his fourth goal in five games in the new season!

2:0, the Bulls led to the second half.

In the second half, Sassuolo had no power to resist and was soon scored by Sgrigner to his first goal after joining his new club. Five minutes before the end of the game, Chu Jiang scored twice with a free kick, locking the score on the field to 4:0!

The Bulls won a big victory!

The 4:0 score made all the predictions before the game vague. It’s not that no one guessed that the Bulls would win, but no one expected that the Bulls would win so easily.

In the game, the Bulls completely controlled the situation on the court and created a large number of scoring opportunities. If it were not for the outstanding performance of the opponent's goalkeeper and the Bulls' offensive players who were slightly lacking in a last-minute kick, this game could have achieved a bigger score.

After this game, Chu Jiang scored two goals and several wonderful saves, and was undisputedly elected as the best in the game. His number of goals in Serie B also rose to 3, ranking at the forefront of the scorer list! In the Bulls' formation, he was tied for the Bulls' best scorer with Ivanko, who was in excellent condition!

The goalkeeper is at the forefront of the scorer list, which is quite strange. Chu Jiang took free kicks three times and made magical scoring rates with three hits have become the focus of media attention. Many reporters are asking, who can block Chu Jiang's next free kick? Who will be the next victim of Chu Jiang's free kick?

Chu Jiang's performance of free kicks with two goals in this game also successfully aroused the interest of the media. The media have speculated whether this magical Chinese boy can break the record of Mikhainovic, the former Yugoslav international, the current head coach of the Fiorentina team, and is known as the free kick master, and complete a free kick hat trick in one game!

For a time, the debate about Chu Jiang became the hottest topic of the Apennines. The young Chu Jiang also entered the vision of major media and major Serie A clubs for the first time! His handsome oriental appearance, handsome style of play, and wild performance after scoring also attracted the attention of many Italian female fans.
Chapter completed!