Chapter 23

The next morning, the first team began tactical training, and Jiang Xiaolin, a trial player, naturally did not have to participate.

Jiang Xiaolin was arranged to conduct comprehensive shooting and goalkeeping training with Sergio Romero, the substitute goalkeeper from Argentina.

Of course, judging from Jiang Xiaolin's shooting skills, Romero's goalkeeping training may be more effective.

After seeing Jiang Xiaolin's superb shooting skills yesterday, Romero was also very willing to train with Jiang Xiaolin.

Saving more of these tricky shots will help improve his goalkeeping skills.

Romero is 192cm tall, 10cm taller than Jiang Xiaolin, but he is only 20 years old. As a substitute, he also stood in the second row, right next to Jiang Xiaolin.

After hearing that the two were assigned to do shooting and goalkeeping training together, the 20-year-old Romero immediately put his arm around Jiang Xiaolin's shoulders and said, "Jiang, we will train together later. You have to be gentle with your feet and don't let me miss any goal!"

Seeing the other party actively showing goodwill, Jiang Xiaolin was overjoyed and also joked, "Don't miss all of them for me, just let me miss any goal."

The two of them immediately felt like friends who appreciated each other.

After starting training, Jiang Xiaolin was surprised to find that Romero's goalkeeping ability was not worse than Didulica's, but there was a gap in experience.

Later, while training and chatting, I learned that Romero was already the substitute goalkeeper of the Argentine Olympic team, and he won the 2007 U20 World Cup with the Argentine U20 national team last year.

Sure enough, he is capable, not just a pure substitute.

Romero transferred from Atlético Argentina to Alkmaar on July 1 last year, spending 1.5 million euros in transfer fees from the club.

Jiang Xiaolin suspected that Van Gaal bought Romero to replace Didulica and upgrade him.

This strength is simply the material for the main force!

As for why Romero showed goodwill to Jiang Xiaolin, it was because the Olympics this year was held in China. Romero would follow the Argentine Olympic team to Beijing to play in the Olympic Games, and he had long been curious about China.

Since there was a Chinese in his team, he naturally wanted to get close to him and learn more about the situation in China.

Of course, the more important reason was that Jiang Xiaolin's strength was recognized by Romero, otherwise he would not bother to waste time with Jiang Xiaolin!

The morning time passed quickly, and in the afternoon, when the group confrontation was carried out in two-on-two and three-on-three passing and running exercises, Van Gaal allowed Jiang Xiaolin to participate.

However, in such a team cooperation passing and receiving training, Jiang Xiaolin performed terribly again, with all kinds of amateur performances.

Fortunately, everyone already knew Jiang Xiaolin's strengths and weaknesses, and did not have too high expectations for him. This time, no one protested and said that they would not train with him.

After the training on the second day, Jiang Xiaolin's level experience rose to level 5 300/1000.

On the morning of the third day, tactical training continued.

In the afternoon, an internal training match was held to test the players' status and tactical training.

Jiang Xiaolin finally got the opportunity to show his goal-scoring ability to the coach and teammates in the game.

However, even though Jiang Xiaolin had been signed, he was not included in the team's first-team appearance list for the second half of the season.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin did not get the opportunity to start.

Even in the substitute group, there was no place for him.

Van Gaal still had to examine his real first-team players first, and Jiang Xiaolin had to be a substitute in the second half to perform.

In theory, in the internal training match, the main players are basically the players who are likely to start in the next game, and their comprehensive strength is much higher than that of the substitutes.

But after the first half of the 30-minute training match, the score between the two sides was tied 1-1.

The main team had many chances to score, but they were all saved by the substitute goalkeeper Romero. There was only one second shot, but he was lying on the ground and could not reach it, so he could only watch the ball go into the net.

Such performance made the coaches quite satisfied, but the main goalkeeper Didulica was naturally under great pressure.

During the halftime break, Van Gaal made some personnel adjustments and replaced the remaining players who could not play to find the feeling of the game.

Of course, Van Gaal did not forget Jiang Xiaolin. There is naturally a place for him in this adjustment.

Moreover, he was put into the main team and became an opponent of Romero.

Seeing Jiang Xiaolin being put into the main team, Romero's face suddenly became bitter, and he secretly thought it was going to be bad.

Originally, his performance in the first half was good, suppressing the performance of the main goalkeeper Didulica.

Unexpectedly, the head coach put Jiang Xiaolin into the main team in the second half. Now he didn't know whether he would be filledA few goals!

Jiang Xiaolin also gave Romero an apologetic look, saying that he needed to seize the opportunity and give his all, and he could only let down his new friend.

Romero sighed and gave Jiang Xiaolin a thumbs up, asking him to do his best.

As for himself, as the goalkeeper of the Argentine Olympic team, it was naturally impossible for him to surrender. He also had to try his best to show himself in order to gain more trust from the head coach in the second half of the season.

The substitute goalkeeper is a position that requires time.

Even if the performance in training is better than that of the main goalkeeper, as long as the main goalkeeper performs stably in the official game and there are no accidents, it is difficult to be replaced by the substitute goalkeeper.

Because the goalkeeper position is too special, it cannot be used to train newcomers, and can only be stable.

As long as the main goalkeeper is stable, no head coach will easily replace him.

The substitute goalkeeper can only wait for opportunities silently, and he cannot relax.

Otherwise, once the opportunity comes, if you don't grasp it, you may be completely banished.

After making personnel adjustments, Van Gaal also reminded the players of the main team to try their best to pass the ball to Jiang Xiaolin and create shooting opportunities.

In the second half of the training match, Van Gaal mainly examined Jiang Xiaolin's scoring ability in the game.

If there was no shooting training in the previous two days, or if the shooting training performance was not good, everyone might not be happy and pretended to obey.

But after watching Jiang Xiaolin's shooting training in the previous two days, everyone had no doubts.

If Jiang Xiaolin scored a goal, they could also get assists.

Moreover, since Van Gaal had made a reminder, he naturally wouldn't care whether they could score a goal.

In the second half, just assist Jiang Xiaolin.

Understand and complete the tactical intentions of the head coach, unite and cooperate with teammates in the game, and be willing to give up shooting opportunities and assist teammates under special circumstances, which is also a manifestation of professionalism and team spirit!

After everything was arranged, we rested for a while, and the second half of the game officially began.

This time, all the coaches and players who were rotated out of the team stopped looking at other people. They all stared at Jiang Xiaolin to see how Jiang Xiaolin would perform in this training match!