Vol 2 Chapter 19: Lucky mark

U17 head coach Ecker is re-watching the video of this youth team match between Dortmund and Düsseldorf.
Zhou Yi's performance is perfect, except that he didn't score.
But having said that, he has such a performance, still care about one or two goals?
Zhou Yi is positioned as a midfield organizer, the pass organization is his job, scoring goals?
That is not in his ability assessment project.
But Zhou Yi's performance was so good, and did not surprise Eckel.
Because he has seen Zhou Yi's performance, that is, the Chinese teenager's game against the Dortmund youth team, Zhou Yi's series of performances after his first appearance all impressed him.
So when he learned that Klopp personally ran to Barcelona and signed the kid, he was not surprised.
He was even happy that Dortmund signed Zhou Yi in the end.
This warm-up match just proved that Zhou Yi's physical fitness can be played for the Dortmund U17 youth team.
The person who really surprised Eckel was not Zhou Yi, but... Mark Wagner.
This man who always makes a substitute on the youth team and can't even enter the roster, unexpectedly put on a hat trick in the game.
Some people say that scoring is not the only measure of a player's performance.
But for forwards, especially centers, scoring is the only criterion to measure them.
A striker who can’t score a goal may be excellent in other ways, and everyone still thinks that this striker is a little bit meaningless.
But a striker, even if the other aspects of the performance are average, but can only score goals, then everyone will think he is an excellent striker.
For a long time, in the youth team, Ecker did not feel that this Mark Wagner has what it takes to be an excellent striker.
His physical fitness is not good enough, and his personal ability is not outstanding.
If you must find an advantage, it may be comprehensive.
It seems to do anything.
But in fact it is just mediocre.
Ecker has not been optimistic about the future of Mark Wagner. He believes that this kid is definitely unable to enter the first team of Dortmund, and it is impossible to obtain a professional contract at the Dortmund club.
His best result is to switch teams and see if he can play in the second division.
Anyway, his future will not belong to Dortmund.
But after this game, Ecker had a different view.
If this is not the performance of Mark’s accidental collision with Universiade, then... Ecker will have to re-evaluate Mark’s future.
As long as Mark can continue this performance and continue to play, the first team is still too early, but at least it should be able to enter U19.
Perhaps the biggest discovery of this game was Mark Wagner.
So why does Mark have such a performance?
Eckel did not find it difficult to guess. It was very simple because of Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yike lives in Mark's house, and the tacit agreement between the two is guaranteed.
In the game, in addition to three assists, Zhou Yi also sent Mark to the ball many times.
He passed Mark more passes than other teammates.
This conscious cooperation made Eckel think of more things.
He began to think about whether this combination can be fixed in the team?
Since Zhou Yi and Mark are more cooperative, why not make them a pair?
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During the team's offensive training, Mark Wagner and Zhou Yi were arranged in a group.
In the beginning, few people took this action seriously, and the coaches did not think they were interested in the arrangement.
But after each offensive training, Mark and Zhou Yi were put in a group, and everyone finally pondered back-the coach this was deliberately arranged to use the tacit agreement between Zhou Yi and Mark.
However, there is no objection to this coaching arrangement.
Mark's performance in the last game is seen by everyone. Being able to stage a hat-trick shows that he is in good shape and is normal to be valued by the coach.
This arrangement is also a great encouragement and affirmation for Mark, which makes Mark confident in the next training. The recognition from the coach is even more positive for him than playing a hat trick in the game.
In the subsequent warm-up games, Mark also played a very important role in the team.
Sometimes it's a starter, sometimes it's a substitute. Because it's a warm-up match, the significance of starting the bench is not important.
The key is the performance in the game.
Eckel also tested it to separate Zhou Yi and Mark, and found that Mark performed completely differently with and without Zhou Yi.
When he was present with Zhou Yi, he was like a fish.
But when Zhou Yi was not on the court, he seemed helpless.
But is this Mark's problem?
After careful observation, Eckel concluded that this is a problem for Dortmund's other players.
After these warm-up games, Eckel found that Mark is actually a very good forward looking forward. He is not strong enough and his speed is not excellent, so if he wants to have a shot in the penalty area, the best is to be able to Catch the ball in the air.
If he can't do this, it will be difficult for him to score.
Finding the empty place near the restricted area is almost instinctive to Mark.
When Zhou Yi was present, Mark found the time. Zhou Yi also found the time and passed the football. Mark could form a shot.
But if Zhou Yi is not present, then even if Mark finds his free time, his teammates may not be able to send the football in time. It's not that other Dortmund players can't find free time and can't pass it, but that in this respect, Zhou Yi's moves are faster than them.
This is called reading the game one to two seconds faster than the average player.
In this respect, Zidane is an expert, and he once said that in fact, he is only one to two seconds shorter than the time that others read the game.
But it is this one to two seconds that determines whether a player is an ordinary role player or a world-class master.
Since Zhou Yi and Mark cooperated better than other teammates, what other reason did they break up?
Maybe a pair of Dortmund U17 gold partners can be created?
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The winter break of the Bundesliga is over, but the youth league has not started yet.
Because there are fewer participating teams in the Youth League.
The latest youth team game has to wait until the end of February.
German football has a youth league with a complete system, both U17 and U19.
And it is national in nature.
But there was no such statement before 2002. In 2002, in order to increase the intensity of training young players, the German Football Association decided to establish a national youth football league.
The league is divided into three regions in the northeast, west and south according to the geographical location of each place.
Dortmund U17 is in the Western Division, currently ranked fifth, the results are not too good, but not bad. When they scored the best, they rushed to second place in the league, second only to their rival Schalke 04U17.
Later, as Goetze, Schneider and others were transferred to the first team and U19, the team's performance began to decline, fluctuating.
By the winter break, it ranked fifth.
Schalke 04U17 ranked first.
There are a total of 14 teams participating in the Western Conference, basically all youth teams of various professional clubs.
Compared with the adult team, the youth team competition is less formal and relatively casual.
For example, you can often see a strange face in a game, and the next time you fight, this person will disappear. He may have been temporarily transferred from the low-level youth team, and then returned after playing this game.
There is also a player who always shows in the U17 team, is valued by U19 or U23, and even is valued by the first team. He jumps in a triple jump like a rocket and goes directly to the first team to participate in the game. It will not be seen.
Such is the case for Getz.
Although he is not very old, he is only 16 years old, but it is difficult for U17 level competition to help him improve his strength. At this time, it is normal to go to a higher level team to challenge more difficult opponents.
On days when there is no official game, the youth team mainly relies on warm-up matches and friendly matches with various youth teams to maintain the state of the game.
In these games, Mark has stabilized his starting position with his excellent performance.
After completing five hat-trick games for the first time, Mark completed the hat-trick again. Of course, all three were assisted by Zhou Yi.
When the last warm-up match ended, Mark handed in a transcript that made everyone stand out-seven warm-up matches, he scored a total of eighteen goals, is the most in this period of time on the team Good shooter.
On Mark, everyone seems to see the story of "the ugly duckling becomes a swan".
Before the winter break, he was still a ten-year substitute that was difficult to enter even the big roster. Unexpectedly, he has now become the team's most important offensive firepower.
At first, many people couldn't understand why Mark changed so much. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as "overturned".
Later they realized it-all because of Zhou Yi.
Mark was a mediocre player before Zhou Yi came to the team~EbookFREE.me~Although he can rise from U9 to U17 in Dortmund, U17 is the pinnacle he can do his best.
It is impossible to go further.
No one is optimistic about Mark's future.
But when Zhou Yi came to the team, someone could finally find the sparkle hidden in Mark's body and inspire it.
Mark got a new life.
If the Dortmund youth team does not have Zhou Yi, Mark will continue to sink like this until he finally leaves the team.
By then, no one will know that they missed a qualified professional player.
This is the risk in football. Perhaps there are many young people who leave football for various reasons. It is not that they are not capable enough, but that they are just lacking a suitable person who can inspire them.
Compared with them, Mark is undoubtedly lucky.