There is a belief called football

Chapter 238 Serbian Treasure Hunt ([-])

There are many cities in Europe that are famous and crazy because of football, whether it is Glasgow, London, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Munich, Turin, Rome, for us who are far away from the continent, we often fall in love with these cities not because we have been there, but because of football.

But in fact, more than 20 years ago, the famous football cities in the European continent were not the familiar names such as Madrid, Barcelona, ​​and Munich that we are familiar with today, but a beautiful city located on the Balkan Peninsula - "Belgrade".

The city has two proud teams - "Red Star Belgrade" and "Partizan Belgrade".

Among them, "Belgrade Red Star" once won the European Champions Cup in 1991, and "Belgrade Partizan" youth training was rated by UEFA as the second most powerful youth training camp in Europe after Ajax in the Netherlands.

Although both teams are first-class teams in Serbia or the former Yugoslavia, Red Star has more fans, and in terms of historical achievements, Red Star has won more honors.

Understanding a team generally begins with the players. If you want to talk about the famous stars trained by the Red Star Club in the history, then you can’t finish writing a few chapters.

The same is true when talking about the Red Star Club. Under normal circumstances, the history of the team winning the Champions League in the 90s must be talked about, and to talk about that period of history, three people must be mentioned-the three greatest members of the Red Star Club, Savicevic, Pantsev, and Prosineski, who are known as the "Three Musketeers" in the Balkans.

Although the history of 20 years ago is a bit vague for us, these three people are the best offensive trio in Europe that are as famous as the "Dutch Three Musketeers" and "German Troika".

It was with the help of these three people that Red Star defeated the then flourishing "Marseille" in 91 to win the Champions League.

If the history is a bit far away, then let’s talk about the top stars that Red Star has cultivated in the past 10 years. Among them, the most familiar ones should be the iron guard "Vidic" who played for Manchester United, "Stankovic" who played for Inter Milan, and Serbia.

So some people say that the former Yugoslavia’s youth training is the second in Europe. This is definitely not bragging. Not only that, this country has also cultivated many excellent coaches. Of course, the Chinese are most familiar with Milutinovic and now Stan.

After Stan took over the Chinese national team, he has always wanted to improve China's youth training. He hopes that in 10 or 15 years, the Chinese team will have 5 players like Li Qiao and 10 Zhou Dun. His thinking is also different from the previous Chinese youth training.

In the past, China's youth training was always ambitious, thinking of cooperating with the world's top football powers, which would have immediate results. Therefore, in the 90s, the Chinese Football Association cooperated with Jianlibao to send a group of children from Brazil to study abroad (the batch of Li Tie and Li Jinyu).

And later sent young people to Germany and Spain, the purpose is the same, backfire.

After Stan arrived, his youth training thinking was very simple - that is to cooperate with Serbia and use Serbia's European first-class youth training to train young talents for China.

Stan's purpose of returning to Serbia this time is also two-one is to find some cheap and good players for Guangzhou Tianbao, and the second is to match the youth training cooperation between China and Serbia and find a reasonable plan.

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Stan contacted the chairman of the Red Star Club "Dragan Stojkovic" through an intermediary. Stojkovic on the phone was both direct and forthright.

"Stan, I think you brought me RMB",
"Haha, don't Red Star Club have anything not for sale?"Stan asked.

"No, you know, we in Serbia are like the Netherlands. Young people come in, we train them, and then send them to places where they make a lot of money. This is how we survive."

"Okay," Stan said.

"Also, you can buy directly with RMB",
"Why"?Stan asked.

"You know, the euro thing is depreciating",
Stan chuckled in his heart, "What an old fox", but then again, in the second-tier European football countries, it is really difficult to survive without such careful planning.

"Okay, I'll take a look at the weekend",
"Stan, I can't neglect you and let you squeeze the bus, you know, you are a big shot now",
"What? Did I fly over?"thought Stan.

Unexpectedly, Stojkovic really thought so, "I'll send the club's helicopter to pick you up at that time, you know, I'm not willing to take that thing, the last time it came in handy was Vidic's transfer, and I used it once to serve the Russians." After speaking, Stojkovic laughed for a while.

Stan was shocked in his heart, and then he could only chuckle and say, "Thank you".

*****
Through the transparent cover of the helicopter, Stan, who is far away, can see the home stadium of the Red Star Club in the distance - "Red Star Stadium".

Stan has been to this stadium many times, but he has never seen it from this angle. Looking down from a high altitude, the Red Star Stadium basically presents a perfect circular bowl shape. Its north is a large residential area, its south is a forest, and the east and west sides are contiguous training grounds.

The modern stadium that can accommodate more than 55000 people is a great stadium anywhere. After getting off the plane, Stan was taken to the VIP box by a special person.

He knocked lightly on the door of the box, and a word of "please come in" came from inside. The guide opened the door for Stan and left.

Walking into the box, Stan saw a middle-aged man with a cigar in his mouth. Before Stan could greet him, the other person had already stretched out his hand and walked towards Stan.
"welcome",
Then the other party offered a cigar, and Stan waved his hand, "No smoking."

Stojkovic smiled, turned around and put the cigar back on the table, then walked to the huge French window of the box and pointed to the players who were warming up outside the window, "Choose, these are the best young people in Serbia, among them there may be the next Nemanja Vidic, Pantsev".

Stan took two steps forward, approached the floor-to-ceiling windows, looked at it for a few seconds and said, "No rush".

"Yes, yes, what to drink? Whiskey? Coffee"?
"Haha, let's have a coffee, I'm afraid that if I'm drunk, I'll charge you a random price, or just add a 0 to you."

Stojkovic laughed and poured Stan a cup of coffee.

As soon as he sees the game, no matter what country it is, Stan will be attracted immediately. This game is "Red Star" VS "Rukani".

Stan carefully searched the players one by one on the field, especially their faces, whether they were from the home team or the visiting team. Stan hoped that his luck would be the same as before, and he could see a Chinese player, just like Wei Xiao.

But after watching the 22 people on the field, Stan was disappointed that there were no Chinese.

"Are there any Chinese in your youth training?"Stan asked.

"This... I don't know very well. I don't care about the specific matters of the team. I'm only responsible for this." After speaking, Stojkovic made a gesture of counting money.

Stan slapped his head, "I forgot that European clubs have a very detailed division of labor. The chairman doesn't care about the specific matters of team personnel, or even can't. Back then, Capello and Real Madrid fell out because they were dissatisfied with the club's high-level interference in their work."

After the start of the game, Stan watched the game carefully. Serbia's league level is not low, and the game is also pretty good. And for so many years, the Serbian team has always insisted on its own European Latin style of play, and its skills are as delicate as the Brazilian league.

"Yes, Red Star is still a strong team, but it's a pity that there are no Chinese players I want", Stein thought.

After watching the game for 20 minutes, Stan took a fancy to two Red Star players, one was their defender "Zoran Lundridge" and the other was the striker "Luka Jovic". Stan took out his notebook and quickly made records. These two players can be recommended to Guangzhou Tianbao.

Stan jokingly said: "Do you sell the No. 77 Zoran?"
"Haha, Stan, I have to say, you really know the goods",
Stan said in his heart, "You said just now that you don't care about the team, so how do you know if I'm good at it?"

Stojkovic stretched out five fat fingers, and said with a smile: "5 million RMB, he is yours."

"Wow, shit, everyone says that Porto is a black shop in Europe, it seems that the one in front of me is not too far behind."

"Hehe, look again," Stan said.

After watching for a few more minutes, Stan wrote down a few players he liked in the notebook, but Stan would not talk to "Stojkovic". Stan is also an old man in the football circle. He will find an agent for these things, which is the most efficient way.

In Europe, like Bayern's Hoeness and Hamburg's Hoeness Jr., transfers of tens of millions of euros can be negotiated in one morning. Most of them can only be done through agents. They would rather earn some commissions. After all, some big-name agents in Europe have good credit.

Drinking coffee and taking notes, the first half passed quickly without knowing it. When the main players returned to the locker room and the substitutes came out to warm up, suddenly an Asian face caught Stan's eyes, and Stan involuntarily put down his notebook and stood up to stare at him.

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(End of this chapter)