Chapter 437 "Genius Boy"

Yes, of course Chang Sheng knew this was Gorka. m

Because he knows.

After answering Stramaccioni, Chang Sheng turned back and looked at Gorka who was seriously leading the team training on the field.

Although Chang Sheng recognized his face, Chang Sheng felt that the person in front of him was so strange...

Is this the carefree "genius" Gorka in his impression?

It was so different from the "genius" in his memory...

When Gorka came to Formello to find him, Chang Sheng was moved by his words and decided to give him a chance to make up for his mistakes.

But to be honest, Chang Sheng doesn't really believe that Gorka can make up for his mistakes.

He believed that Gorka would lose the motivation to move forward after three minutes of heat like before. He would complain that coaching was boring and hard work, and he didn't have the patience to deal with those little brats.

Maybe in less than a year, he will voluntarily leave the Vermelo training base in despair, without even thinking of saying a word to himself, as if he has never been here.

What Chang Sheng wanted at that time was to give Gorka one year. Even if Gorka did not take the initiative to leave Lazio during this year, he would come and see his work by then. If you find that he is not qualified to coach at all, fire him.

From then on, I had nothing to do with him anymore. I gave him a chance, but he didn't prove his strength. I can't blame others.

But when he gave Gorka a chance, he forgot about it in the blink of an eye.

There are too many things to do, and you have to do everything yourself. The first team is so busy, who has time to care about an ordinary rookie coach of the youth team.

So the one-year appointment period has actually come, but Chang Sheng forgot about it.

If I hadn't happened to come to the youth training camp this time to look for players, and just wanted to take a look around. Maybe he still can't remember and let Gorka continue to stay in the youth training camp...

Now after seeing Gorka, Chang Sheng remembered everything about the meeting between the two a year ago.

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There was a player who was not long into the circle training.

The defensive player used physical confrontation to steal the ball, so he had to move to the middle to grab the ball.

However, the player seemed a little dissatisfied with the coach's arrangement.

After reaching the middle, he almost stood still. Even if he ran, he only took two symbolic steps and then stopped.

The football was passed around him. He didn't even care.

Originally, there were two people in the middle responsible for grabbing the circle.

The player who passed the ball from the outside saw that he was the easiest to bully among the two, so when passing the ball, he deliberately passed to his side. He also continued to defend passively, so the pass always went smoothly.

But in this way, this set of training seems to be repeated indefinitely. Anyway, people inside the circle can't grab the ball, and people outside the circle can't lose the ball, so offense and defense cannot be interchanged, it will always be these people.

Even Chang Sheng frowned and asked Stramaccioni next to him: "Who is the tall and skinny guy in the middle?"

He was referring to the young player who was passively defensive.

As the director of the youth training camp, Stramaccioni is quite proficient in business and knows all of his players well.

He already knew who this was. So as soon as Chang Sheng asked the question, he immediately replied: "Andrea Borg. Czech youngster. He is only sixteen years old, but his talent is outstanding. He is outstanding among U17..."

Chang Sheng frowned and said, "Outstanding?"

Just then they all heard a whistle.

Gorka blew the whistle and paused training.

Then I saw him walking in. He called out the talented young player.

"Andrea, what are you doing?"

The young player spread his hands and said to Gorka: "Coach, I think this training is unreasonable!"

"Why is it unreasonable?"

"Loop training is just about passing the ball. Why should we allow physical contact?"

Young players and coaches theorized.

"Because physical contact is indispensable in real games, you always have to face physical contact. It is better to adapt in advance during training than to respond hastily during the game." Gorka said.

"I have good skills and fast speed. I can shake them off in advance and then pass the ball..."

The young player didn't seem very convinced, but it could be seen that he was very confident in his skills.

Gorka did not refute him, but nodded: "Okay, let's go one-on-one, you try to get rid of me and pass the ball."

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Seeing Gorka blowing the whistle to pause the game and then arguing with the little genius Borg, the corners of Chang Sheng's mouth turned up involuntarily.

The words Gorka had said to him a year ago were ringing in his ears again.

"I regret it very much. I was young and ignorant, impulsive and willful. That's why I have ended up like this. But... my life is still very long compared to my career. I have already made a mistake when I was young. I I don’t want to make a second mistake…”

In front of them, Gorka and Borg have already set up their formation.

Other players also stopped training and gathered around the two people curiously to watch their duel.

Borg started dribbling the ball about fifteen meters away from Gorka, who stepped forward to meet him.

The two met quickly, and the young players around them held their breath and watched the duel nervously.

Chang Sheng suddenly felt that this scene seemed familiar...

Sure enough, just when Borg was about to use a fake move to shake Gorka away, Gorka slammed into him and knocked Borg to the ground while he was making a fake move.

Everything came to a screeching halt.

There was a burst of exclamation among the young players watching.

Borg fell to the ground and rolled several times before he stopped rolling.

Gorka stood next to him and looked at him from above: "You lost, Andrea."

Borg was knocked a little dazed, and then he shouted loudly: "Isn't this a foul, coach!"

"It was a foul, but your offense was also ended. I stopped your offense with a foul, so you lost."

"This isn't right..." Borg looked horrified. He thought he might have been fooled...

"What's wrong with this? Are fouls strictly prohibited in the game? Can you make your opponent behave like a gentleman when facing you?" Gorka asked Borg who was sitting on the ground. "This is a football game, and football is a sport that allows physical contact and confrontation. If you are against physical contact, then why are you playing football? A person who does not like physical contact and is afraid of confrontation cannot become a qualified football player. of professional football players!”

Gorka raised her voice.

"You think you have outstanding talent, Andrea? I have seen countless people who are more talented than you, who can become professional players and play professional games. Which one is not outstandingly talented? What does outstanding talent mean? If you can't even If you don’t have the determination and courage to face difficulties, I advise you to leave Formelo as soon as possible. Professional football is not suitable for you, and football is not suitable for you.”

Borg sat on the ground and stared blankly at Gorka. His youth training coach suddenly became so excited that he didn't understand why...

Of course he wouldn't understand why. The winning streak off the field is clear.

Maybe Gorka saw himself in this Borg?

Wasn't that the same person he used to be? Relying on his outstanding talent, he could play better than ordinary players casually, so he did not train seriously and did not bother to compete with others physically. In the end, he was even afraid of confrontation.

In the end...after being punished by himself, he was kicked out of Getafe's youth team.

And then. He retired without even playing in a serious professional league.

"You are better and more talented than your peers. That is your advantage, but you should cherish this advantage! You should do better than others on this basis, rather than indulge yourself! Today's training Don't do it. Go and train alone. When you think about it, come back and let me know."

Gorka's words were so majestic that young Borg got up tremblingly in fear. Without daring to say a word, he obediently ran to the side to train alone.

Gorka blew the whistle and said to the other players: "Nothing to see anymore, keep training, boys!"

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"I... I fully realized my problem. I never took football seriously... I thought I could become a star casually with my talent. But I was wrong... So coach, please give me some advice." I had a chance. I retired very early because I couldn't adapt to the fierceness of professional football. Then I worked in many jobs, such as gas stations and restaurants... but I couldn't last long in any job. I went to watch your Champions League final at the Bernabeu, and I realized that I still like football, and I want to make something that I can like... So please, coach, please give me a chance, give me a A chance to start over..."

This is what Gorka said when he begged Chang Sheng to give him a chance.

Now Chang Sheng believes that Gorka has really reflected on his mistakes and fully realized his mistakes.

He hates Borg as much as he can, and may also feel regret for his past.

If he had listened to himself back then, maybe he would be a different person today, right?

"Gorka was doing so well throughout the year that I gave him a one-on-one training session with a team. He got into it so quickly it was unbelievable that he had never coached before. …”

Stramaccioni introduced Chang Sheng from the side.

Chang Sheng nodded.

Twelve years ago, Gorka was a thorn in his side when he took over the Getafe youth team. Now it is Gorka’s turn to clean up the thorn in his side...

What a perfect circle.

In this cycle, Gorka experienced many stories, which changed his entire life.

But in any case, as he said, his career was short, but his life was still long. Just because he did one wrong thing when he was young doesn't mean he will be denied his life.

Fortunately, he recognized his problem in time, so he still had the opportunity to start over.

After he became a coach, he also shared his experience with young players, so that those young people would avoid some detours. This may also make up for his original regrets...