World's No.1 Football Manager

Chapter 70 The Catfish Effect
Everyone turned their attention to Xiaoxia. The heroine of the female middle school who had been majestic on the court just now suddenly became shy, with a red cloud floating on her dark face, and she was still secretly pulling at the corner of her clothes with one hand.

It seems that these words should have been held back for a long time, and they have been embarrassed to speak, and they have to say it when the conference is about to end.

"I...I think...I think 3 foreign aids are not...too much." Due to nervousness and shyness, Xiaoxia stammered.

???

Everyone looked at Xiaoxia inexplicably, and her face turned even redder.

She took a deep breath, adjusted her emotions and thoughts, and continued to speak: "I mean, the AFC has 3+1 foreign aid. You only talk about following the example of the Chinese Super League. Why don't you integrate with the AFC?"

The AFC Champions League implements a 3+1 foreign aid policy, that is, 3 foreign aids of any nationality + 1 Asian foreign aid.

Everyone is even more confused, Xiaoxia, what do you mean? What does +1 foreign aid mean?Looking for Yawai?Do you want to find a Japanese and Korean student, or a veteran Pakistani?
"You just mentioned 3 foreign aids, I think... um... there should be another foreign aid of the opposite sex!"

Oh, that's right!Everyone suddenly realized, Xiaoxia, if you just say you want to play football, isn't it over?It's the AFC Champions League again, and it's 3+1 again. As for going around such a big circle?
"Where can I find foreign aid of the opposite sex?" the fat central defender asked stupidly without turning his head.

"..." Everyone looked at Fatty speechlessly, all with caring eyes for the mentally retarded.

Gao Yuanqing coughed and persuaded: "Xiaoxia, stop making trouble. You play football very well, but we are all men in the club. This signing is also to participate in the FA Cup. It is not suitable for you to join!"

Xiaoxia bit her lower lip with her neat teeth like shellfish, she lowered her head and said nothing, her almond eyes were watery, they looked a little red, and she looked like she wanted to cry.

Among the rough guys present, they couldn't see the little girl's pear blossom with rain.

Gao Fushuai spoke first, "Our team is called Quancheng Saturday Amateur Football Club, and it has to be a men's football club. I think anyone who is a football lover can join our team."

The man with kidney deficiency also chimed in, "Xiaoxia's level is definitely good enough for the main team. If she joins, our team's level will be greatly improved!"

The numb guy who was beaten by Xiaoxia just now also stood up to speak out, but he still didn't forget to put gold on his face.

"The level of the main team? I think Xiaoxia's level is good enough for the women's national team! Don't think I can't defend her, it may be even more embarrassing if someone else defends! Join us, the team will not lose!"

The others were also afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and they shouted in confusion, "I heard that there is a very good amateur team in the city, and there are also retired players from the women's football team. They play well."

"Yeah, we can't discriminate against sex, we should include those who play well"

"There are a bunch of old men in our team, and a little girl can be regarded as a beautiful scenery."

"Join in and play first, just use it as a trial training."

"Men and women work together without getting tired"

……

Gao Yuan was confused, whether these guys really admire Xiaoxia's golf skills, or because of Xiaoxia's relationship with him, or just deliberately singing the opposite tune just to mess with him.

So this year's player meeting has a fourth agenda item: a vote on whether to admit Xiaoxia to the team.

As a result of the final vote, only one vote was against, and the rest were all in favor.

The only vote was cast by Gao Yuan.

Looking at the one-sided voting results, the smiling Xiaoxia and the cheering team members, Gao Yuan once again realized the state of mind of Lao Wang back then. It’s okay to mess around with democracy. Damn it, it’s better to "speak with one word", why do I feel that I have been emptied...

Player recruitment is simple and simple, but troublesome.

The simple thing is that Quancheng is the championship team on Saturday, there is the FA Cup to play, and the most important thing is that they still have money. They are simply awesome in amateur football, and they are absolutely attractive to everyone.

The trouble is how to communicate with the players and the opponent's club, and how much it will cost. This requires finding a qualified intermediary.

The middleman needs to be able to get in touch with all aspects, and he has to be eloquent and good at fooling around.

In professional football, such intermediaries are called brokers or brokerage companies. They are all qualified and registered with the management agency, and are bound by relevant laws and regulations.In amateur football, there are no formal agents, but there is no shortage of various brokers. After all, in the current society, the most indispensable thing is middlemen who make the difference.

Gao Yuan immediately thought of a suitable candidate, his cheap cousin Li Taiquan!This guy is known as a professional fan leader, and he eats the bowl of football middlemen.

His business scope is very wide, contacting warm-up matches, registering with the Football Association, poaching amateur players, organizing fans to cheer, selling player autographs... As long as it is related to football, you can definitely find him.

Two days ago, I asked Qian Qijuan to run the website, and it worked out quite well.

Sure enough, after listening to the call from Gao Yuan, Li Taiquan slapped his chest loudly, saying that he was known as the number one "headhunter" in Ludong football, and that this matter was a piece of cake, and his cousin's business could be done in minutes.

It's just that some service fees may be needed, but he promises that he will definitely give the best price for his nephew. He didn't make any money when he set up a website last time.

Gao Yuan was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and said that he would pay 1000 yuan as an intermediary fee for one person, whether he likes it or not, and if it is too little, we will find someone else. I heard that "General" is also very familiar with those guys.

Li Taiquan thought that he could make a lot of money, but when he heard that Gao Yuan was going to find his old rival, the general, and remembered Gao Yuan's horror when he went crazy, he didn't dare to insist anymore, and played the family card in order to grab business.

"Big nephew, we are nephews and uncles. We are a family. If my cousin doesn't help anyone, let alone 1000 yuan a piece, even if he doesn't give you money, my cousin can't stand by and see you in trouble, right? Don't worry, my cousin is making a profit this time, and I will take care of this matter for you. If the team has any business in the future, don't look outside. You don't need to find others, and your cousin will go through fire and water for you!"

Li Taiquan usually looks unreliable, but he actually does things neatly. After two days, these three new players appeared on the Saturday training ground in Quancheng.

In addition to Xiaoxia who has been training with the team for two days, there are several new faces in the team, and they are all talented players with abilities and characteristics. Quancheng's strength on Saturday suddenly increased.

The three newcomers were a little surprised that there was still a strong female player in the team, but it was only a surprise, and they quickly accepted this fact.Because there is no precedent for retired women's football players joining men's football clubs in amateur football, besides, Xiaoxia's ability is indeed much higher than others.

To Gao Yuan's surprise, the addition of new aid not only improved the hard power of the team, but also played a "catfish effect" in training.

The catfish effect refers to the fisherman throwing catfish into the sardines, using the swimming of the catfish to cause the sardines to be uneasy, prompting the sardines to swim faster, so as to avoid suffocation of the sardines due to lack of oxygen during long-distance transportation.

These new aids are the catfish that Gao Yuan put into the team. Their high level in training stimulated the team members of Quancheng Saturday, and everyone held their breath. They couldn’t let these three defeated players compare themselves. Xiaoxia is a girl.
The team's sense of honor and self-esteem stimulated them to devote more energy in training and competitions, and the only remaining lazy thoughts were completely thrown into the sky.

In addition, there is another point that Gao Yuan did not expect at the beginning. Both Xiaoxia and "Huangmao" had been trained in professional echelons. The training methods and skills they mastered are far from comparable to Gao Yuan's on paper.

They put forward some suggestions for improving Gao Yuan's training content and subjects.

And Xiaoxia has become everyone's technical guide. When she sees someone whose technical movements are not standard, she will demonstrate on the spot.

It has to be said that Xiaoxia deserves to be a genius with a technical value of 17. Her movements are very standard, simple yet majestic, beautiful and practical, which can be called "textbook" standard movements.

Under her guidance, many bad habits and irregular movements that everyone developed when playing wild ball have been completely changed.

Whenever he saw Xiaoxia guiding the players' technical moves one-on-one after training, Gao Yuan felt a little sour in his heart. Damn, who is the coach of this team?How do you feel like you are throwing away the shopkeeper?
But Gao Yuan is not a person who is jealous of the virtuous and capable, let alone the person he is jealous of is Xiaoxia!When Gao Yuan saw the recent soaring training progress bar of the players, all problems were no longer a problem.

Not to mention one-on-one technical guidance, he wished Xiaoxia could compile and print a textbook directly so that everyone could recite everything verbatim.

Gao Yuan was not idle. During this period of time, he was studying crazily, constantly absorbing new technical and tactical knowledge concepts and training methods. He listened to opinions and suggestions more carefully than anyone else, observed Xiaoxia and others’ standard technical movements more carefully than anyone else, took notes and records more meticulously than anyone else, and looked up literature more frantically. For foreign language materials he found on the Internet, he compared English-Chinese dictionaries and translated word by word.

During this period of time, apart from the nightclub girls, Gao Yuan was the person most familiar with the night scene of the provincial capital at 3 a.m.

The hard work pays off, one day I got up and looked in the mirror, and found that the value above my head had changed. The progress bar of tactical training and technical training was full at some point, and the value +1 reached 8!For offensive training, defensive training and other attributes, the progress bar is almost reaching 100%, and the value increase is just around the corner!

Learning makes progress!At this moment, Gao Yuan had a deeper understanding of this famous saying.

(End of this chapter)