Stand by the last line of defense

Chapter 13: Scouting
Zaragoza head coach Ranko Popovic of Serbia is working in his office.

General manager Lorenzo Ferrer walks into the office. "Lan Ke, has the third substitute goalkeeper been decided?"

"Not yet. What's the matter?"

In the 2012-2013 season, Zaragoza performed poorly, ranked 20th in La Liga, and was directly relegated to La Liga.

In the season that just ended, Zaragoza only ranked 12th in the second division.

This summer, the team changed a new coach, former Osaka Cherry coach Ranko Popovich served as the team's head coach.

Last month, the team's former main goalkeeper Anderson moved away.

Now Zaragoza's main goalkeeper is Alcolia, who arrived on a free transfer in January this year.

He's only 25, and he's in his prime.

The second goalkeeper is 20-year-old Oscar Huali, a young goalkeeper who has been loaned from the Atletico Madrid youth team.

Although there are 2 goalkeepers, Zaragoza is planning to sign a young player as the third goalkeeper for safety reasons.

However, after Zaragoza was relegated from La Liga to La Liga, it became less attractive to players.Especially as the third goalkeeper.

In the past 2 months, Zaragoza has been unable to find a suitable third goalkeeper.

Lorenzo Ferrer said while holding a USB stick. "You can watch this video! Maybe you might find a third goalkeeper!"

When Popovich heard it, he suddenly became curious. "What video?"

He took the USB flash drive from Lorenzo Ferrer, put it in the computer, and clicked on it.

This video is the video of the Spanish branch shooting the youth team and the Atletico Madrid youth team. It was originally intended to be a record for future collection.

Now it has been made into a dedicated video for Zheng Long.

When Zheng Long rescued shots from Joaquin, Moyejo and others with amazing reaction speed in the video, Popovich couldn't help leaning his body in front of the computer.

Seeing that Zheng Long blocked the opponent's inevitable goals one after another, Popovich was slightly surprised, and he slightly shook his head and sighed.

"Wow……"

The video is short, less than 5 minutes.Calderon was through in no time.

After contemplating for a while, Popovich communicated with Lorenzo Ferrer.

The Atletico Madrid Youth B team is not a weak team. It can block all the opponent's shots and keep the opponent clean.It proves that the goalkeeper's strength is not bad.

"His reaction speed is impressive." Popovich praised.

Lorenzo Ferrer nodded: "Well, he has potential. Ranko! He is only 17 years old. As long as he is cultivated carefully, he can become an excellent goalkeeper.

More importantly, he is from China.Soliciting his words will help provide us with fame in China!Maybe he is the next 'Yao Ming'! "

The fact that the Rockets selected Yao Ming and made the Rockets owner Alexander a lot of money has been well known by sports clubs all over the world.

Whether it is basketball or football, every club in the world hopes to find the next 'Yao Ming'.

Many football clubs have made various attempts, defenders, midfielders, forwards, tried one by one.

It's a pity that subject to strength, 'Yao Ming' has not yet appeared in the Chinese football field.

Now seeing a new star with potential appear, anyway, he is only 17 years old, even if it is attracted, the transfer fee will not be too high, it is completely worth the club's gamble.

Unlike the general manager who will focus on the market, the head coach Popovich, who needs to be responsible for the record, did not make a decision immediately.

He thought for a moment and said. "We can't draw conclusions based on just one video. We need to investigate to determine his strength. I think we should send scouts to pay attention to this person."

Lorenzo Ferrer also nodded, approving of Popovich's proposal.

"You are right. I will send scouts to continue investigating this guy!"

Lorenzo Ferrer returned to his office and picked up the phone.

Soon, at the club, all the scouts who had no mission to go out all came to his office.

Lorenzo Ferrer put that video on the big screen and yelled.

"This guy is a player from the newly opened football school. Now, I need someone to follow and observe this goalkeeper!"

After Lorenzo Ferrer went around the scouts present, he looked at Casado.

"Casado, you just follow this guy and give me a report every week. Understand?"

Being able to go on a business trip to the capital Madrid instead of visiting South America and Africa is almost a good job for scouts.

The other scouts looked at Casado with envious eyes.

Casado immediately shouted, "Okay, sir! I promise to investigate the details of this guy!"

Since the vast Spanish branch distributed Zheng Long's video, more scouts came to the training base to watch the team's training than before.

They are basically scouts from various clubs in Spain.

Casado mingled among them, and he saw many colleagues.

It seems that he is not the only one eyeing Zheng Long.

The pace must be accelerated, and if it is really good enough, it must be cut quickly, while other families are still hesitating.

Just sign this guy.

However, this requires an accurate judgment on Zheng Long.

Casado stared intently at the training ground, he was observing Zheng Long's performance.

Casado is a 38-year-old veteran scout.

During the training, he noticed that Zheng Longxun was very hardworking, which he appreciated very much.

but……

Casado was a little disappointed.

The overall performance of the vast Spanish youth team is not good, the basic skills are not solid, and the running is not active enough.

The defenders often miss people, and the striker's shooting skills are terrible. They don't know where to kick, and they often shoot skyrockets.

Their performance can't reflect Zheng Long's strength at all.

That is, the matches with other youth teams every week are of some reference value.

This week, Guangda contacted the Barcelona U17 team

Although the Barcelona U17 team is a little less famous than the Barcelona B team, there is no one who can enter the Barcelona youth training team who is not a capable guy.

Especially their No 7 Adama Traore.

This black boy from Mali can compete with Bolt in the [-]-meter race as fast as he can.

A teammate made a long pass behind him, and Adama Traore ran away.

Right back Liao Fan was no match for him at all, and he couldn't stop Traore's run even by pulling and pulling.

Traore sprinted frantically with the ball, directly throwing Liao Fan behind him and heading straight for the penalty area.

Central defender Liming went to mark the opponent's No. 10 Roman, and Zhang Bin stepped forward to block it.

Facing Zhang Bin, Traore changed direction directly, and simply got rid of Zhang Bin's defense and entered the penalty area.

Zheng Long saw that Traore dribbled the ball into the penalty area, he hesitated, abandoned the goal and went straight to the opponent.

(End of this chapter)