Chapter 4 Only Headers?

"Tryout!!"

The voices of Li Qingshan and Uncle Magis sounded at the same time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Roy, this kid is here to meet ....."

Before Uncle Magis could finish speaking, Roy interrupted him: "Magis, I know this kid, he scored a few beautiful headers yesterday"

"You know me?" Li Qingshan said suspiciously, could it be that this uncle watched yesterday's game?

"Yes, I watched the video of your goal."

At this time, Uncle Magis was anxious: "Roy, this kid is here to apply for a job delivering flyers."

"Oh?" Roy glanced at Li Qingshan: "Young man, do you want to change to a more stable job?"

“….”

Li Qingshan was a little confused, what is this called, to find a part-time job, there are still people who pull him to try out.

"I'm just here for a part-time job on the weekends, and I still need to go to school."

'We're not a professional team and a lot of the players have their own jobs, so if you go through the tryouts, you just need to train with the team every Monday and Thursday nights and when there are no games on the weekends, and play in leagues every weekend, so you won't be delayed from going to school. Roy said in a flat tone.

Looks like Roy really wants this kid to join the team. Uncle Magis was thoughtful.

"And, if you pass the trial, the team will sign you to a contract of £100 a week"

"£100!?"

Li Qingshan and Uncle Magis shouted in unison again.

A weekly salary of 100 pounds is the treatment of the main players in the team, does this kid have this strength? Managing Li Qingshan's tall and strong figure, Uncle Magis is still a little suspicious, in England's lower leagues, it is not uncommon to see such a strong figure, and there are even many taller than it. Football is not something that can be played well by being tall and fit.

If Li Qingshan knew Uncle Magis's thoughts, he would definitely complain silently: I can't play football well, but I can use the top of my head well. But he didn't have time to guess the heart of a red-faced middle-aged uncle now. He is now really quickly calculating the concept of a weekly salary of 100 yuan: "100 pounds a week, more than 800 a month, and more than 4,000 yuan in renminbi!! ”

That's more than Aoyama's mother gets every month when she teaches in middle school.

"Tryout or something, let the horse come, uncle!!"

Li Qingshan couldn't wait

"First of all, you need to change your clothes first." Roy is still unhurried, probably doctors are all this character, and he is just a dentist.

Roy took Li Qingshan to the team's equipment room to find a pair of well-fitting sneakers and training clothes.

'It's half an hour before the team practice, the tryout needs to be approved by the manager, you can go and warm up first. Li-Qing-Shan" Roy pointed to the team's training ground, and said Li Qingshan's name with a little difficulty, probably for foreigners, Chinese names are always very awkward.

"So you're not the head coach," Li Qingshan muttered quietly.

"What did you say?"

"Ah, nothing"

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FC United players came to the training ground one after another, and they all cast curious glances at Li Qingshan, who was warming up on the field, but no one stepped forward to talk to him, probably seeing his Asian face.

At this time, Roy was working with the team's head coach, Karl. Marginson discusses Li Qingshan.

Carl was quite satisfied with Li Qingshan's first impression, his body was quite strong, his body was full of muscles, and his strength seemed to burst out from these muscles at any time.

"You're saying you've only seen his goal highlights on video?"

"Yes, he had a great header"

"Well, the team needs to add a striker." Amateur teams are like this, people come and go, but because it is an amateur team, it is not easy to find a strong player to join.

The teams in the Premier League, especially the upper ones, have learned from continental football, but the lower leagues in England still maintain the tradition of English football, playing high and playing long passes. So, when Karl heard that a striker with a good header came to try out, he was still very expectant.

"He's also very physical," Roy said, and he was also impressed by the footage of Li Qingshan in the video against the defender.

"He looks very good physically, he's been running for almost thirty minutes," said Uncle Magis, who looked at his big belly, with envy.

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Li Qingshan, who was wearing a yellow training uniform, had been running laps in the training ground, and he had been running for almost thirty minutes, but he seemed to be at ease all the time. In fact, the soccer warm-up is not just jogging, but should also include some stretching of muscles and ligaments to avoid muscle or ligament strains during exercise. However, because Coach He when Li Qingshan was a child was not professional, although he was named a football school, it was more like a strengthened football interest class.

However, Li Qingshan, who doesn't know this, is still jogging seriously, this is his principle, and he is very serious in what he does. When he was a child, the coach asked him to practice heading, and he practiced desperately; The football school closed down, went to high school, he also studied hard, and finally was able to be admitted to the University of Manchester.

In the past few years, he has also learned to think. He already knows that his training in the football school since he was a child is not scientific, even if he has been training headers, in fact, many of his movements are not very good. It was only by relying on his talent for accurate judgment of the landing point since he was a child that his header looked good. Therefore, after three years of high school, his football ideals have faded a lot, after all, he was 16 years old when he gave up football, and it is difficult for a player who can only head the ball to be recognized by a professional team.

However, after receiving the trial invitation from FC United, he still remembered his childhood dream, dreaming of one day being able to gallop in the professional league, dreaming of one day wearing the jersey of the national team to compete in the World Cup.

"It's just an amateur team, what am I thinking?" Li Qingshan shook his head self-deprecatingly. His goal now is simply to find a job that will ease the burden on his family to come to England to study. Pro football or something, just think about it.

After watching Li Qingshan finish a lap, Roy took him to Carl. Marginson.

Just as Karl was about to say something to him, Li Qingshan spoke: "Mr. Coach, Mr. Roy, there is one thing I have to be honest with you first, I can only head this technique"

"Only headers, you said only headers" Roy is a little messy, if he is, most players will say "I'm good at heading" when they are introduced, but Li Qingshan said "only headers", which makes people feel strange.

"Yes, my coach since I was a child only let me train headball" Li Qingshan replied truthfully, "Because I grew taller and stronger than others since I was a child, the coach thought that I was very talented in heading, so he only let me train headball"

What kind of coach is this!! Carl and Roy were shocked.

"Young man, you are very honest, if it is indeed as you said, I think .........." Carl Zheng looked at Li Qingshan's strong body with a little regret and said hesitantly. At this time, Roy suddenly pulled him aside.

"Karl, as long as he has a good enough header over the rest of us, I don't think it's a big problem even if he only has a header"

"You're right, but he ......."

"Trust me, Karl, I've seen his level of heading and if he wasn't blind, he'd have satisfied you"

Obviously, in response to his assistant's strong recommendation, Carl decided to give Li Qingshan a chance to participate in the team's training match.

Before a training match, it is customary to have a physical examination of the trial players.

The content of the test is actually very simple, first measured Li Qingshan's height and weight, and then asked him to do five sets of 100-meter sprints, five groups of 30-meter switchback runs, and 12-minute long-distance runs.

Unlike a serious fitness test, after all, FC United is only an amateur team in the seventh tier of England, and the physical requirements and constraints on players cannot be as strict as those of professional teams. These tests simply let the coaches understand Li Qingshan's basic physical qualities - he looks tall and strong, but the speed and endurance are unknown.

Such a test was a piece of cake for Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan's father opened a pig farm, but their family hardly eats pork, mainly beef, chicken and fish, and eggs and milk have never been broken.

And Li Qingshan has been taller than his friends since he was a child, and his body has been growing violently, knowing that he gave up football in high school and began to slow down, and now he has reached a height of 1.91 meters and weighs 90 kilograms. So far, his physical development has not stopped, and there is still room for his height to go up.

From childhood to adulthood, relying on the body of a superior head, Li Qingshan was almost a crushing existence during the youth competition, and in order to maintain the results of the football school, the coach also kept him practicing heading, resulting in him almost no training in other aspects.

It stands to reason that with such excellent physical conditions, if it goes well, it will be selected into the echelon by the professional team, however, from 2008 to 2009, Chinese football has set off a vigorous anti-gambling and anti-crime campaign, pulling out a large number of moths in professional football. Many small football schools established during the 2002 World Cup boom when the national football team entered the 2,000 years have closed down, including Li Qingshan's football school.

At that time, it seemed that the national team's results had plummeted, and the domestic league was struggling. Scandals of players being owed wages by clubs are a regular occurrence. So at the insistence of Qingshan's mother. Li Qingshan gave up football to go to high school.

Li Qingshan is a very smart person, smart people work hard to do nothing too bad, with hard work and results, he received an admission to the University of Manchester and came to England, the birthplace of modern football.

Li Qingshan's physical fitness test made Carl very satisfied.

The 500-meter sprint time is 11.8 seconds, 11.83 seconds, 11.96 seconds, 12.11 seconds, and 12.37 seconds.

It's not particularly fast compared to some speed players, but it's definitely not slow. And judging from this set of data, his speed has not dropped significantly, you know, in the rest time of only a few tens of seconds to carry out such a continuous high-intensity sprint, but the time taken is not too different, it is not easy for some small speed players, let alone a strong man with a height of nearly 1.9 meters.

It can be seen from this that although Li Qingshan is not a speed player, his body continues to be explosive and has good physical fitness.

This was confirmed in the following tests.

Li Qingshan's 12-minute run was 4,800 meters.

Carl was overjoyed by this result, which far surpassed all the players in his team.

However, if he knew about the training Li Qingshan had received since he was a child, he would not be surprised by his physical fitness.

The football training materials of New China came from the former Soviet Union. Football training in socialist countries places a strong emphasis on physical fitness. This was especially true during Li Qingshan's teenage career, where the coach always asked the young players to run 5,000 meters before breakfast every day. This would seem incredible in Europe, but in China, it's a common phenomenon.

And it just so happens that Li Qingshan is a very persistent and serious person, the coach said that he has an advantage in heading, so he desperately practices heading, the coach says that physical fitness is the foundation, and he also works hard to practice physical fitness. This also created such a deformed development situation for him.

After testing his fitness, Carl asked Li Qingshan to take a break and prepare for the test with the ball.

However, considering that Li Qingshan said that he would only head the ball, and Karl didn't have any good testing methods, did he just arrange crosses again and again to test his headers?

In the end, he decided to play a training match and only in the game could he really see what a player was capable of.

Roy, the assistant coach with a whistle on his chest, walked up to Li Qingshan and said to him, "Are you ready, young man?"

Li Qingshan nodded

"Fifty minutes of play, 20 minutes for each half, and 10 minutes at halftime"

After seeing Li Qingshan nodding in understanding, Karl clapped his hands and gathered the players who were warming up on the field, and arranged Li Qingshan into a substitute lineup wearing yellow vests.

For the arrival of Li Qingshan, FC United Manchester players did not make much fuss, because as an amateur team, the personnel of each training session are not very fixed, and many marginal players have a high absence rate, so there is often a need to replenish new people, except that Li Qingshan is a Chinese, there is nothing special about it.

The story of a player who can only head the ball and an ambitious amateur team in England's seventh division begins in earnest.