When Xia Ruofei and the others walked to the training ground, the team had just finished a stage of training. The players were relaxing on the field. When Manager Ruby saw the bosses, he quickly stepped forward to greet them.
"We're just here to take a look," Zhou Leiyun said with a smile. "You can continue with your training."
Although they did not win yesterday's game, they had tenaciously equalized from a two-goal deficit. Wu Lei had also created a penalty kick. Zhou Leiyun was quite satisfied with the result.
The most important thing was that Wu Lei's performance yesterday was very eye-catching. The RCD Espanyol club also showed its face in front of the domestic fans and gained a wave of reputation. This made Zhou Leiyun very happy.
The reason why he had been working to bring in Wu Lei was, of course, because of Wu Lei's influence among the Huaxia fans.
"Mr. Zhou! Mr. Xia! " Ruby said. "Everyone's attitude towards training is very serious. Wu's performance in training is also very good. After everyone has taken a break, we will have an intra-team match."
Ruby's emotional intelligence was very high. He was very clear about what the Huaxia boss was concerned about, so he specifically praised Wu Lei.
Zhou Leiyun nodded and said, "Well, we'll go according to your arrangement. We're just here to take a look at everyone. Coach Ruby, you don't have to accompany us. Go organize the training! "
"Okay, the two of you can help yourselves," Ruby nodded and said.
Under the organization of the assistant manager, the team members carried out some relaxation exercises in an orderly manner. There were also staff members who put away the training equipment on the field. The scattered footballs also had to be collected one by one because the intra-team match would be held there in a while.
Xia Ruofei saw the footballs piled up on the sidelines and could not help but feel a little itchy. He still liked to play football when he was in high school. After he became a soldier, he would play five-a-side football with his comrades from time to time. But after he left the army, he basically did not touch football.
The turf of the RCD Espanyol club's training ground was very good. Xia Ruofei could not help but walk over and stretch his foot to pick up a football. Then he tried to start bouncing the ball.
Today, Xia Ruofei was wearing loose casual clothes. His shoes were also Newbalance sneakers. Although they weren't specifically made for football, it was definitely not a problem for him to do some simple exercises.
After all, Xia Ruofei had not touched a football for a long time. His sense of the ball had inevitably declined, so he bounced five or six times in the beginning. Because of the control problem, the football fell to the ground.
Of course, this was also because he did not deliberately use his mental strength to control it. Otherwise, even if he did not know how to play football at all, the football would be stuck to his feet like glue, unable to fall off even if he wanted to.
However, Xia Ruofei's subtle control of his strength was now at the pinnacle. In addition, he had a certain foundation in football, so after a short period of adaptation, he became more and more proficient in tossing the ball. His toss was full of rhythm and rhythm.
Zhou Leiyun was a little older after all. When he first saw Xia Ruofei could not help but run to the sidelines to play football, he found it a little funny. But when he saw Xia Ruofei become more and more adept at tossing the ball, he could not help but widen his eyes.
Xia Ruofei tossed the ball sixty or seventy times, but the football did not seem to have any intention of falling.
This attracted the attention of the players and the coaching staff on the field. They had already relaxed and were about to start preparing for the group matches. Now that there was nothing to do for the time being, they could not help but gather around.
"How many times has Boss Xia tossed the ball?" Zhou Leiyun looked at Jiang Xiaochen, who was mumbling to herself, and asked.
"86 times!" Jiang Xiaochen quickly answered, and then immediately continued to count, "87, 88, 89..."
He was Xia Ruofei. He had already been counting when he started to toss the ball. He did not think too much about it, but he did not expect that after so long, he was still tossing the ball.
Soon, the players and the coaching staff also got the accurate number. Everyone had been counting loudly on the side. Some used Spanish, some used Catalan, and some used Portuguese. Of course, both Zhou Leiyun and Jiang Xiaochen used Chinese.
In fact, tossing the ball was a very basic technical action. It was mainly used to cultivate the players' sense of the ball. Any of the players and coaches present today could easily toss the ball dozens of times.
There were even children who specialized in tossing the ball. They could continuously toss the ball hundreds or even thousands of times.
Therefore, tossing the ball itself did not make people feel that it was amazing.
But Xia Ruofei was the owner of the club. He was not a professional player at all. He was not even an amateur player. It was amazing that he could do this.
Moreover, Xia Ruofei's tossing of the ball had a very strong sense of rhythm. It seemed to have a special rhythm that made people feel very comfortable. It was definitely not like watching some people toss the ball and worrying about him in fear.
Everyone had a feeling that as long as Xia Ruofei was willing, he could keep tossing the ball until the end of time...
"156, 157..."
The sound of everyone counting naturally reached Xia Ruofei's ears. He was also a person who had seen big scenes. He would not have stage fright in this situation. On the contrary, he felt a faint sense of excitement. It was as if he had returned to his high school days when he was playing football. It was just that the people standing on the sidelines at that time were not top league coaches and players. They were all his classmates. If there were beautiful female classmates among them, the sense of accomplishment would immediately rise by several levels.
Xia Ruofei felt that he was in a very good state. He simply added a few fancy moves in the process of tossing the ball. When the ball spun and fell, Xia Ruofei's foot quickly circled the ball twice. Then, he lightly padded under the ball. The ball suddenly stopped on the surface of his foot and did not move at all.
Then Xia Ruofei kicked the ball up forcefully. The football suddenly flew up high. It was at least a dozen meters high, and it was not the kind of ball that was completely straight up and down.
Xia Ruofei trotted a few steps toward the predicted landing point. The football quickly fell at this time.
Under the influence of gravity, the speed of the football's fall was getting faster and faster.
Everyone saw Xia Ruofei gently tap the bottom of the football with the tip of his foot. The football suddenly stopped, as if it was glued to the tip of Xia Ruofei's foot. It did not move at all.
From the whistling speed to the instant when it stopped on the tip of Xia Ruofei's foot, the transition from extreme movement to extreme stillness had a strong visual impact.
Even the professional coaches and players could not help but exclaim — this action seemed simple, but in fact, it tested the control of the football. Even some professional football players were not necessarily sure that they could stop the ball well in the face of such a fast ball that went straight up and down.
Huaxia fans often ridiculed the national football team players for stopping the ball ten meters away. In fact, many professional athletes were not sure that they could stop the ball well when they encountered some difficult balls.
Xia Ruofei gently flicked the ball up again. Then, without waiting for the ball to fall to the ground, he bent his body sideways, bent his bow, and kicked the lower half of the football.
The football suddenly flew out at a very fast speed. It drew a big arc in the air and drilled into the net. The football was still spinning at a high speed when it fell.
Xia Ruofei's place of the ball was on the sidelines. The distance to the end line and the center line was almost the same. Although the training ground was a small field, he shot directly near the sidelines. Moreover, he used the outer instep arc. The trajectory of the football's movement was almost perfect. In the end, it flew into the goal, sticking close to the corner between the column and the crossbar.
It could be said that even if the goal was guarded by a goalkeeper, there was nothing he could do in the face of such a world class ball that hung directly in an absolute dead corner.
"Wow!"
"God, what did I see …"
…
After the players took a deep breath, they could not help but doubt their lives. They saw a company boss, wearing NB sneakers, use a movement that was more relaxed than a professional football player. He turned sideways near the sidelines and sent the ball directly into the goal. If luck was excluded from this kick, many people secretly compared themselves to this in their hearts and sadly found that they might not be able to do it …
Wu Lei was the first to react. It was not that his psychological quality was strong. It was mainly because Xia Ruofei's image and status in his mind had been deified. No matter what kind of unexpected move Xia Ruofei did, it would not surprise him. In his mind, Xia Ruofei was omnipotent.
Therefore, Wu Lei was the first to shout a good shout. Then the players and coaches also reacted and applauded Xia Ruofei's wonderful performance.
Zhou Leiyun and Ruby also gave Xia Ruofei a thumbs up.
"Mr. Xia, I didn't expect your footwork to be so good. Have you received professional football training before?" Ruby came forward and asked.
After listening to Jiang Xiaochen's translation, Xia Ruofei shook his head with a smile and said, "I just liked to play football when I was in high school. I didn't learn it systematically."
When Ruby heard this, he could not help but say with some regret, "I can see that your talent is quite good! If you had received professional football training from a young age, you would have become a star player! "
Speaking of this, Ruby suddenly reacted. He smiled with some embarrassment and said, "Of course, maybe this is a good thing … If you had played football, your career would not have been so successful …"
Ruby thought that Xia Ruofei was already a shareholder of the club. A person who could easily take out tens of millions of euros to invest in a football club at such a young age would have a net worth of at least hundreds of millions, and the unit of measurement was in euros.
In contrast, what was the big deal about becoming a football star?
Even a top superstar like Messi could only earn a few hundred million euros in his entire career. Xia Ruofei was still so young. When he reached Messi's age, his wealth would certainly not be lower than this.
And how many people could become Messi's?
Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "It's not necessarily a good thing to have a hobby to become a professional … But to be honest, our Huaxia's population base is there. There are still many seedlings with good football talent. It's just that because of the general environment, many talented players did not embark on the path of professional football in the end. There are also people who, because of unscientific training or other reasons, started to go downhill early and did not play to their talent."
Ruby nodded in agreement. He did not know much about football in Huaxia before. He only knew that it was almost a football desert. When the club decided to bring in Wu Lei, he was a little disapproving, thinking that the commercial significance of this signing might be far beyond the significance of the competitive level.
But after really coming into contact with Wu Lei and watching him train, Ruby's view changed.
Ruby said, "You said a lot. I will suggest that the club go to Huaxia to inspect more. If there are talented young players, we can absorb them into our youth training camp."
"That is indeed a good idea!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile.
"Boss, let us see your footwork again!" A young player shouted.
After Jiang Xiaochen translated the player's words to Xia Ruofei, she said, "Boss Xia, this player is called Mark Roca. He is a product of RCD Espanyol's own youth training. He is only 21 years old this year and is already the core of the team's midfield. He is an important point in the team's backfield. His straight passes are very accurate and often accurately tear apart the opponent's defensive line. Coach Ruby values this player very much."
Xia Ruofei looked at the young player wearing the number 21 jersey and said with a smile, "If I don't delay everyone's training, then I'll play a few more kicks?"
Ruby saw that Xia Ruofei was in high spirits and naturally did not want to be a wet blanket at this time. He immediately said, "The training schedule for this morning is more relaxed. Mr. Xia, show everyone your footwork again!"
Xia Ruofei heard and nodded. He pondered for a moment and then asked Jiang Xiaochen to arrange for the staff to move a few dummies to be used as a human wall to the field.
Everyone knew at a glance that Xia Ruofei was ready to show off a free kick to attack the goal.
However, everyone was also muttering in their hearts because the dummies Xia Ruofei arranged to be placed in positions that were a little far away from the goal, almost 30 meters away.
Moreover, the density of the human wall was very high. Eight dummies were used to form two human walls, which almost blocked all the shooting routes. It was almost impossible to do this in a real game. There were only 11 people in the team. Besides the goalkeeper, if eight more people were used to form a human wall, then there would only be two people left. How could they defend?
Xia Ruofei easily walked over with a football and placed it at a position about 32 or 33 meters away from the goal. The position was relatively upright, almost facing the goal.
Those who had played before knew that the best distance for a truly threatening free kick must be more than 20 meters. This distance was just right for the power to be exerted, and there was enough space to play a curve ball. If it was too close, the ball would have flown out before the curve could be formed. If it was too far away, both the accuracy and the speed of the ball would be affected. Moreover, the goalkeeper would have more time to react, and it would be difficult to pose a threat.
Generally speaking, the position should be slightly off. The angle was too straight, and it was not good.
Now, Xia Ruofei's position was not only remote, but the angle was also very straight. It was too difficult to shoot directly.
Xia Ruofei stepped on the football and said to Mark Roca with a smile, "Roca, are you interested in competing for a free kick from this position to directly attack the goal?"
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