On the train, Sun Yao and Zong Xiang were sitting next to each other, lying in front of the table and sleeping soundly.

Zhang Rui also glanced in the direction of the two of them and thought to himself: "These two little bastards don't dare to expose the matter of going to the nightclub. If they do, I will definitely be scolded by the superiors! And I

I can’t let them know that I’m afraid of being stabbed by them. If this kid catches me, how can I survive!”

Arrive at the station and get off!

The youth team members all wore very beautiful sportswear and lined up to get off the bus. Each person carried a bag behind them, which contained their own daily necessities and sneakers.

Sun Yao also knows very well about the Youth Invitational Tournament he is participating in. It is located in Weifang, Shandong Province and is called the Weifang Cup!

Mainly, Shandong Luneng serves as the organizer and invites youth teams from some outstanding teams from all over the world to participate. Most of the groups are around U19.

There are eight teams participating this time: the host Luneng Youth Team, China National Youth Team, Shanghai Youth Team, Shaanxi Youth Team, South Korea Jeonnam Dragons, La Liga Villarreal Youth Team, Portuguese Super League Benfica Youth Team,

Serie A Sampdoria youth team! It can be said that there are many strong teams!

For example, the Shaanxi Youth Team is known as the team that accompanies the prince to study. Not to mention compared with the youth teams of these strong European teams, the domestic Luneng Youth Team and Shanghai Youth Team are both stronger than the Shaanxi Youth Team.

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"Look, Sun Yao! The newspaper! It mentioned the Weifang Cup!" Zong Xiang took out the local newspaper and showed it to Sun Yao.

Sun Yao took it over and took a look at it, then said angrily: "What? Are we here to make fun of ourselves? Or are we the weakest among the eight teams? It's because the Espanyol team from La Liga was unable to come due to many reasons, so we came in advance.

The spare tire! But the spare tire was used! This is so annoying!”

Sun Yao felt extremely dissatisfied. This newspaper cannot harm people like this! Why is his team so weak? How come he is playing soy sauce? Why is he studying with the prince?

Zhang Rui glanced at Sun Yao, blushed and said with a thick neck: "Don't mess with those useless things, keep your mind calm! Come, bring the newspaper and let me have a look!"

Sun Yao reluctantly handed over the newspaper.

"Who is this reporter named Wang Ergou? Where is he? I'm going to strangle him to death!" Zhang Rui also jumped up and shouted, "He actually said that the coaches of other teams are all professionals, but Shaanxi Youth

The team just randomly picked a guy from the street to be the coach, and his quality is completely inadequate! He went to find a coach on the street to try! It’s so irritating!”

Seeing the coach going crazy, the noisy voices of the players who were quite excited at first became quieter.

A group of people took the bus and arrived at the hotel they had booked in advance.

This Weifang Cup will be held for about two weeks, and of course the organizer will take care of some of the hotel expenses!

The draw and other matters were settled early. The eight teams were divided into two groups and played in the group stage first. The top two teams in the group advanced to the semi-finals and finally decided the champion!

The Shaanxi team was also divided into a relatively difficult group!

The opponents in the same group are La Liga Villarreal Youth Team, Portuguese Super League Benfica Club, China National Youth Team, and the Shaanxi Youth Team where Sun Yao plays for himself!

Needless to say, Villarreal and Benfica are powerful. Even the National Youth Team, which is also a domestic team, has the best young talents in the country selected from various club echelons!

The strength is naturally stronger than that of the Shaanxi team!

In the other groups, there is also the youth team of Serie A powerhouse Sampdoria, as well as the All-Korean youth championship team South Korea Jeonnam Dragons. The youth training of Luneng Youth Team and Xu Genbao's Shanghai East Asia Team are both top-notch in the country.

The level is naturally very interesting!

Sun Yao doesn't care about other groups. Anyway, the premise of caring about other groups is only on the premise of the group qualifying. Judging from the current situation, qualifying is more troublesome, so there is no point in caring about another group!

The competition starts on the second day!

First, after the Luneng Youth Team plays against Sampdoria in Serie A in the opening game, then there will be a contest between his team Shaanxi Youth and the Portuguese Super League Benfica!

"Hey! I guess I will have to sit on the bench tomorrow!" Sun Yao shook his head.

After arriving in Weifang today, we had a brief training, and Zong Xiang and Sun Yao were all placed on the substitute team. According to the coach's habit of arranging his troops before the game, Zhang Rui said that it would be a mistake to ask them to play as substitutes.

Keep your word!

"It's not a good thing to go to nightclubs before the age of 20! Wait until I'm 20 years old to go!" Sun Yao seemed extremely regretful that he went to a nightclub and was hit by his coach.

"What a rare opportunity! Play against the Portuguese team, hey!" Sun Yao still shook his head.

In another room, Zhang Rui said deeply: "How dare you say that I am a useless coach? Tomorrow I will show you how good I am in formations! How can I organize formations? Those guys under me can do that."

To be honest, I can’t trust them. Except for Gao Xiang, who is a little bit satisfied with me! Sun Yao? No, I’ll bench him tomorrow! I have to suppress him!”

The next day, the opening match.

Sun Yao participated in the opening ceremony with all his teammates, and then walked out of the main venue to prepare for the warm-up. They did not have time to watch the opening match between Luneng Youth and Sampdoria Youth Team!

After all, they are about to compete!

At the end of the opening game, the score showed that the two teams were tied at 2-2.

Thinking about it, the score is reasonable. After all, Luneng is at home, and their youth training is already doing well. It is such a meaningful game in the opening game! It is normal to perform better!

Then it was the Shaanxi Youth Team’s turn!

This game was also broadcast live by local media. After all, it can be called an international event.

"I'm really nervous to have the opportunity to participate in a competition of this level so soon!" Some teammates were also discussing their feelings at this time.

Sun Yao sat silently on the side, pouting, looking very unhappy!

Because his name was not on the starting list that Zhang Rui read just now!

It's a pity that he managed to grab a pretty main number No. 7 before! When word spreads out, people will see that the dignified No. 7 is hiding on the bench. What a shame!

As the dissatisfied Sun Yao sat on the bench, the game began!

The Benfica youth team from Portugal plays against the Shaanxi Chanba youth team from China!

As a representative of the European Latin faction, Benfica showed strong midfield control ability from the beginning and launched a siege on the Shaanxi Youth defense line!

The game was also broadcast on local television.

You can even see it at Sun Yao’s house!

Sun Yao's parents were also watching Sun Yao's performance on TV at home. Unfortunately, Sun Yao was still sitting on the bench pouting at this time, and because he was not a star, they would not give Sun Yao a close-up at all!

In fact, Sun Yao did not want the TV to show Sun Yao a close-up of himself, but just took him with him when he was doing a close-up of Zhang Ruite!

Unfortunately, Zhang Rui was even worse than Sun Yao. Zhang Rui, who finally wore a suit and leather shoes and polished his leather shoes three times in the morning, also did not get the favor of the camera. Instead, his Portuguese colleague who was also directing the game next to Zhang Rui often got close-ups!

It was also said indifferently on TV.

"Of course, we have expected such a scene on the court. Before the game, some media said that the Shaanxi Youth Team is a team that accompanies the prince to study. Whether it is the overall strength of the lineup or the coach's ability to arrange the formation, it is obvious

It is the weakest among the eight teams! But the current situation is that if you can’t touch the ball and have no fighting spirit, you are surrounded by Benfica! You will lose the ball sooner or later!”

It's too late, it's faster than that!

The midfielder of the Benfica youth team made continuous passes to the winger on the wing. The winger's corner pass was blocked by his teammates on the back line, but when they were fighting for the ball's landing point, Shaanxi Youth

The team's defensive loopholes were still exposed, and the midfield captain of Benfica's youth team, No. 8 Mudiosa, followed up and pushed her!

The ball hit the net!

"Yes, we have already guessed the situation on the field. If you play like this, you will lose the ball sooner or later!" The commentator on the TV was still talking nonsense, "But the coach can't help it. After all, the level of the players is like this! But the players can't do it either.

No way, the players have worked hard! After all, the coaching level is like this, how strong do you want the players to be?"

If Zhang Rui hears about this kind of work, I'm afraid he will prepare to go to the TV station again!

After all, even the coaches of the youth teams of these domestic teams are famous!

First of all, in order to prepare for next year's Asian Youth Championship, the Chinese National Youth Team has just replaced Su Maozhen as the head coach of the National Youth Team. Su Maozhen was not only a legend as a player, but also went to the UK to study after retirement and won the

Ferguson's personal coach! It can be said that he is a domestic coach with advanced foreign concepts!

Luneng’s coach this time is also the famous Guidance Yin in China, who once led the women’s national team! And he is working in the Shandong Football Association because he wants to lead the Shandong men’s football team to participate in the National Games in the second half of this year, so this cup competition

It is also a local battle to test the results!

Xu Genbao, the founder of Shanghai East Asia Genbao Football School, is also a legendary figure in domestic football. These players are all outstanding products of his ten years of hard work!

Only the Shaanxi Youth Team and the head coach of the Shaanxi Youth Team - Zhang Rui! A pure grassroots person! He leads the team just for fun!

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Seeing that the scene was extremely passive, Zhang Rui also frowned. If this continues, the second and third goals will be conceded!

Moreover, there is no decent attack on our side yet!

"European teams are even so strong in their youth teams? Didn't the National Youth Team shine in the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands a few years ago? It shows that there is not much difference between us and foreign countries in youth football! Why are we so passive now?"

Zhang Rui wondered in his mind, "Should we make adjustments in advance?"

Zhang Rui turned his head and looked at Sun Yao. Sun Yao immediately stood up and saluted!

Then Zhang Rui shook his head again and looked back, "It's too early now, wait a minute!"

Sun Yao sat down again disappointed!

After a while, Zhang Rui turned his head again, and Sun Yao was excited again!

In the end, Sun Yao was disappointed and returned to the bench!

The unhurried voice of the commentator was still heard on the TV. Suddenly, the voice of the commentator became urgent: "Benfica had a chance to attack quickly. No. 17 Tomano broke into the penalty area with the ball! Fell! Fell! Penalty kick!

The referee saw it clearly and made a very decisive decision!"

Penalty kick, Mudiosa easily made the penalty! 2-0!~

Zhang Rui was extremely dissatisfied and shouted: "Is that referee blind? This is also a penalty kick! You black whistle!"

At this time, the assistant referee came over to calm Zhang Rui's mood, "If you talk more, I will tell the referee what you just said, and you can go directly to the stage conductor!"

Zhang Rui had no choice but to close his open mouth!

He turned around, looked at Sun Yao, and frowned: "Sun Yao! Warm up!"

"Hey! What a shame!" Sun Yao immediately stood up and walked to the running track next to him, preparing for warm-up exercises!

"Wow haha! It's finally my turn to appear! Portuguese boys, stay tuned!"

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Chapter completed!