Chapter 29: Lower grassroots

The state of Maxi Carey in training is really good, compared with his state last season, it is almost a drop in the sky.
In particular, he was able to use speed to overtake defensive players in training.
This is a very rare scene.
Last season, I don't know whether it is for physical or psychological reasons, or both. Carey rarely uses speed to break through after catching the ball.
Carey has a very strong technical advantage, the technology at his feet is extremely delicate and full of imagination, but speed is his most powerful weapon.
At his peak, Carey was considered to be one of the five fastest players in world football at the time.
Coupled with the fast-breaking style of the then Madrid Pirates coach Bjorn Hantcek, it simply pushed Kyrie's speed advantage to the extreme.
Carey can not only run fast, he can also use the excellent ball feel and foot technology to control the ball in high-speed running, and make all kinds of incredible extraordinary.
This allowed his individual threat to be doubled on the original basis.
A fast running forward has already caused a headache for the defense, and this fast running forward can also make all kinds of outstanding performances in high-speed running.
It is simply a combination of threat and ornamental.
Of course, some people worry that Carey will not change his style and continue to play like this. As he grows older and his physical function declines, sooner or later, his knees will not be able to hold it.
After all, he always uses his legs to play various tricks in high-speed running, and the burden on his knees is much greater than ordinary changes...
This worry becomes a reality on the eve of the 2026 World Cup.
In fact, the 2025-2026 season was originally a very successful season for Maxi Carey. He helped the Madrid Pirates to win the second place in the league while also winning the Europa League.
Eleven goals in the Europa League won the Europa League Golden Boot.
In La Liga, he also ranked third in the scorer list with 29 goals. There is only four goals away from Alexandra Cerrados, who won the Golden Boot, which shows that he is still the top forward in La Liga.
He is in such a good state, and Dutch fans hope that he can lead the Dutch national team to achieve good results in the United States and Canada World Cup.
He himself is also ambitious. Before going to the United States and Canada World Cup, he said that the Dutch national team will achieve a zero breakthrough in the World Cup championship.
As a result, he collided with his teammates during training, causing serious knee injuries...
Failing to participate in the World Cup at the peak of his state, no matter how hard he was at the airport, this is indeed the biggest regret in his career.
It is difficult to attribute all the blame for his serious injury to the collision with his teammates.
Because maybe his knee was overwhelmed before he was hit?
His outstanding performance in the 2025-2026 season is likely to be at the expense of overdrawn knee health.
Even if there is no such collision, maybe a fierce fight in the World Cup will cause him to crash.
But by then, he won't even have the opportunity to cover his red eyes with sunglasses.
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Although Maxi Carey showed good condition in training, the coaches of the Madrid Pirates coaching staff were very pleased.
But now this Madrid pirate still has a problem that cannot be ignored.
That's because Hulai joined the team too late, leaving him little time to integrate into the team.
In the major European leagues a dozen or two decades ago, only the Premier League started in mid-August, and the others started after September 1.
With the increasing number of club and national team competitions, the league has to repeatedly advance the start date of each season, otherwise the national team will not have enough time to play after the end of each season.
La Liga this season will start on Saturday, August 14.
There is not much time left for Hulai to integrate into the team.
At the same time, because of the Spanish Super Cup restructuring, the Spanish Super Cup before the season was moved to January of the season, so the Madrid Pirates also lost an important pre-season warm-up opportunity.
Today’s Spanish Super Cup is no longer just a one-on-one match between the league champions and the Copa del Rey champions of last season, but a small game composed of four teams from the top two teams in the league last season and the Copa del Rey final. Cup match.
If the participating teams of the Copa del Rey finals overlap with the top two in the league, the team with the highest ranking in the league will be substituted.
The top two in the league last season were Catalonia and the Madrid Kings, and the two teams participating in the Copa del Rey final also happened to be Catalonia and the Madrid Kings.
So this season’s Spanish Super Cup is attended by four teams from the league champion Catalunya, the league runner-up Madrid Kings, the league third place Madrid Pirates, and the league fourth place Valentia.
Play a semi-final first, then play a final.
If the Super Cup is scheduled to take place before the start of the season, the Madrid Pirates would be equivalent to two more warm-up games full of gold.
This is of great help to Hu Lai's integration into the team.
Now, although the Madrid Pirates also organized a warm-up match, compared with the real Super Bowl, the effect is still almost...
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After ten days of pirates training in Madrid, Hulay ushered in the club's annual tradition-the "lower grassroots day" before the start of each season.
The name "lower grassroots day" was given by Hu Lai, and they called it "club tradition day".
But after understanding what this "club tradition day" is, you will feel that Hu Lai's name is better.
The Madrid Pirates are a team dedicated to workers-this is not uncommon. When modern football emerged, many teams were organized by workers.
For example, one of the warship ports of the Premier League BIG6 is composed of workers who originally worked in the warport on the River Thames.
However, in the future development of teams composed of most workers, they gradually separated from their original class groups.
This is especially true for those who can become rich.
Some teams will promote their own traditions, but it is just publicity.
The Madrid pirates really used actions to show that they have not forgotten their roots.
Although this action is somewhat "face-saving" nowadays.
But being able to do it is better than not being too lazy to do it.
Before the rise of professionalization of players, the former Madrid Pirates were all part-time players without exception. They usually worked in factories in the south of Madrid.
Even the Madrid Pirates had a prerequisite for recruiting players at that time, and that was that they only accepted workers.
This condition sounds weird now, but in Spain, weird things are normal.
For example, Biscay has only recruited players from the Basque Country until now...
Because the players of the Madrid Pirates are all workers, in addition to training and competition, all other times have to work in their respective factories.
After the surge of professionalism swept the Spanish football, the Madrid Pirates once resisted this change.
It was not until they were almost downgraded by the tide of the times that they had to change their course and accept the professional changes of players.
However, in order to show that they are a team of workers, the Madrid Pirates Club has developed a tradition, that is, before the start of each season, a day will be set aside for professional players to go to various factories in Madrid to experience life, participate in labor, and not forget the club. Tradition and at the same time mingle with the fans of the team.
This tradition has really been persisted every year and has been passed down to this day.
Only the specific content has been adjusted.
At the beginning, this activity was quite hard-core. It was really about letting professional players go to the factory as interns for a day, and take tools to work, just like ordinary workers.
Now it has become an experiential face project.
And with the transformation of Madrid's economy, there were fewer and fewer factories in the past, coupled with the increase in factory automation, it is indeed difficult to find suitable jobs for the players to experience life.
So now it's all broken up to experience life.
Some people go to factories to work, while others enter the community and participate in community service.
For example, visit the elderly in nursing homes to give them warmth.
Or go to a café or bar to serve as a waiter for the pirate fans in a block.
In short, those star players who have an annual salary of millions and often appear in various media reports must honestly serve the fans at this time ~ EbookFREE.me ~ This is the club tradition day of the Madrid Pirates.
After Hulai understood this tradition of Madrid pirates, he still had some expectations.
It's just like a student who works hard in school all day, suddenly heard that tomorrow is organizing an outing.
He didn't meet this stuff when he was in Leeds...
There is also an open day for fans in Leeds City, but it is just an open training base for fans to visit, and they can also watch the team's training up close and get in touch with the players.
That's it.
How can I play role-playing like the Madrid pirates?
The giants really know how to play!
I just don't know whether he will be selected to go to a factory or a community nursing home, or what bar or cafe he will go to-he heard that he decides where to go based on a lottery.
He wants to go everywhere, but different places have different expectations.