Green Journey

Chapter 159 Shy Kanter, She Niu's tile knife!

The next day, Chu Zheng got up early as usual.

After doing some simple basic strength training in the gym at home, Chu Zheng went out to the Leicester City training base. Today is the day for his official report.

After putting away his belongings in the locker room, Chu Zheng appeared in the restaurant of Leicester City.

At this time, there were already players and some staff dining in the restaurant.

Chu Zheng took a fried chicken steak in olive oil and a vegetable salad, sat down and ate slowly.

After a while, there were more and more people in the restaurant.

During the period, Chu Zheng also saw the person in the team who interested him the most.

As reported by the media in his previous life, Kanter's character is really very shy.

In order to verify it, Chu Zheng stared at Kanter who was sitting across a dining table from him for a long time.

It made Kanter almost bury his face in the dinner plate. In the end, Kanter couldn't stand Chu Zheng's gaze, so he turned his head and sat down.

After a while, Chu Zheng finished his breakfast and was about to leave.

As a result, a figure suddenly sat down across from him, causing Chu Zheng, who was about to get up, to sit back down again.

"Hi! Jamie Vardy! Nice to meet you!" Vardy smiled brightly, and extended his right hand to Chu Zheng across the table.

Chu Zheng was a little taken aback when he suddenly saw the grassroots legend on the opposite side, Brother Pingming, a hero and inspirational brother.

"Chu Zheng!" Chu Zheng came back to his senses, smiled and took the hand that Vardy handed over.

In the previous life, some media used derogatory words about Vardy's character in reports, such as perverted and withdrawn.

But now Vardy's feelings for Chu Zheng are very sunny and cheerful, with a little bit of unruly and social cow syndrome.

Seeing Chu Zheng's gaze, Vardy smiled curiously, "Chu, your eyes tell me that you seem to know me?"

"You can say that!" Chu Zheng nodded with a smile, "Among all the professional football players in the world, your experience is legendary!"

"Haha!" Vardy didn't know what kind of joke was being poked, and suddenly laughed loudly, attracting the attention of some people in the restaurant.

Chu Zheng wasn't flattering Vardy, he really felt that Vardy's experience over the years was legendary.

Compared with fellow British compatriots such as Rooney and Irving, Vardy, who was fledgling at the beginning of the year, could not describe his experience with miserable words.

In 2002, at the age of 16, Vardy was terminated by his hometown Sheffield Wednesday Club on the grounds that he was too short and lacked talent.

Looking at Vardy, who is nearly 1.8 meters tall, it is hard for Chu Zheng to imagine that he was only 16 meters when he was 1.4 years old.

But the magic is that in the few years after being terminated, Vardy's size has risen rapidly, and his height has reached the current 179CM.

Vardy later entered England's eighth regional league, the Stockbridge Park Steelers.

It was there that he started the legendary journey of grassroots counterattack.

Thinking of this, Chu Zheng suddenly thought of a report he had read in his previous life, so he asked, "Jamie, have you really worn electronic shackles before?"

Hearing Chu Zheng mention this, the smile on Vardy's face became a little helpless, he nodded and said, "It's true!"

"I was still in the Stockbridge Park Steel team at the time. No matter how good I was on the field at that time, as long as it was an away game, I had to calculate the time to leave the field early and rush home quickly."

"At that time, I hated the shackles on my feet that couldn't be broken with a hammer."

"Every time I go home from the game early, I keep praying that the team can win the game!"

Speaking of this, Vardy also expressed emotion.

At that time, he was sentenced to a curfew by the court for fighting and fighting. He was not allowed to go out after six o'clock, and electronic ankle shackles were used to monitor him.

Kanter, with his back to Vardy, also pricked up his ears and listened with gusto.

Kanter wanted to join the conversation between Chu Zheng and Vardy. His experience told him that it is important to quickly integrate into the team.

But his character made him only a bystander.

On the second floor of the restaurant, Ranieri, Steve Walsh, and Paul Benetti, the assistant Ranieri brought to Leicester City, were also having breakfast.

"Jamie is such a clever ghost!" Steve Walsh was delighted to see Vardy who was chatting happily with Chu Zheng downstairs. Vardy obviously also found out that Leicester City is about to usher in a Midfield Commander.

"A good start!" Ranieri also said kindly.

If Chu Zheng is the brain of the team in Ranieri's tactical system, then Vardy is the trunk of his tactical system.

Vardy is a striker, Ranieri already understands it very thoroughly.

This player is a different kind of talent.

Ranieri believes that Vardy has the world's top ability to handle the ball single-handedly.

In addition, this player also has excellent starting speed and the ability to accelerate the second burst. He can control the ball flexibly and freely in a state of high-speed movement.

Like former Liverpool player Suarez, Vardy also has unconventional shooting skills.

Ranieri has watched all of Vardy's scoring videos in Leicester City, and he found that this player has no specific scoring posture at all.

No matter in any situation, in any place, Vardy can always send the ball into the opponent's goal and challenge the opponent's entire defense line by himself.

Therefore, this is a first-class striker and the main striker of the team in his mind.

He is happy to see that Vardy can establish a friendly and harmonious friendship with Chu Zheng.

Thinking of Vardy's ghostly running position and Chu Zheng's pervasive and aggressive passing style, Ranieri felt excited. He couldn't wait to see what kind of chemical reaction Chu Zheng and Vardy would have.

Walsh wiped his mouth after wiping the spaghetti on the dinner plate and asked suddenly: "Claudio, have you decided what tactics to use?"

Ranieri smiled when he heard the words, shook his head and said: "Not yet, I need to fully understand the players' status and characteristics before making a decision."

Hearing Ranieri's answer, Walsh nodded and said nothing more.

In terms of qualifications, Ranieri has coached Chelsea, Juventus, Inter Milan and other giant clubs.

Although the Premier League media have ridiculed Ranieri as a tinkerer during this period, and his tactics are conservative and decadent, everyone in the industry knows how powerful Ranieri is.

At 9 o'clock sharp, the whole Leicester City team assembled and began to warm up and do some stretching exercises under the leadership of Ranieri's assistant Paolo Benetti.

More than ten minutes later, under the watchful eyes of the coaching staff led by Ranieri, Chu Zheng started his first training session in Leicester City.

The first training program is sprint training.

Because Ranieri needs to understand the current real speed of each player, which is very critical to his next tactical play arrangement.

In the middle circle, Chu Zheng and Vardy stood together, beside Japanese player Shinji Okazaki and others.

After a while, it was Kanter and Shinji Okazaki's turn.

Seeing the petite Kanter rushing out after the whistle sounded, Chu Zheng suddenly lit up, and it turned out to be the man who covered the entire land of the earth.

Next to Chu Zheng, Vardy saw that the newcomer Shinji Okazaki's entire striker couldn't outrun Kanter, and he showed a bit of disgust on his face.

Soon it was Chu Zheng's turn.

I don't know if the coaching staff wanted to see Chu Zheng's speed. He and Vardy were put in a group.

"Hey!" Vardy looked at Chu Zheng who was standing on the right side, and he showed a smug expression, "Chu, don't be thrown away too much by me!"

"We'll see!" Chu Zheng grinned. In terms of training, he was never humble, and he always put in as much effort as he could.

Behind the two, Kanter, Captain Morgan, Drinkwater, Schmeichel and others also focused their attention on Chu Zheng.

They already know Vardy's speed very well, and no one in the team is his opponent.

Now they are curious whether the central defender who claims to be the fastest in the Bundesliga is really that fast with 4000 million plus 2000 million additional clauses, a total of 6000 million worth.

"Beep!" The whistle sounded.

Chu Zheng and Vardy started at almost the same time, and their legs were moving fast.

Soon everyone was dumbfounded.

Because Chu Zheng was one body ahead of Vardy from the beginning to the end to the finish line at 30 meters.

“holy shit!!!!!!”

Assistant coach Paolo Benetti was so startled that the whistle he was biting in his mouth fell off. He stared blankly at the two electronic timers in his hand.

Chu Zheng is 3.8 seconds, and Vardy is 3.9 seconds.

Both of them ran under four seconds. This kind of 30-meter sprint speed can be said to be extremely rare in football.

Vardy also looked at Chu Zheng with a hellish expression.

This result was something he never expected.

In Leicester City, and even in the Premier League, Vardy has absolute confidence in his speed.

However, he lost just now, and even though he tried his best, he still lost.

Chu Zheng surpassed him in both starting speed and explosive acceleration!

Before today, Vardy learned that the club spent a huge transfer fee to buy a young defender and gave the team the highest salary.

And now Vardy understands why Chu Zheng is worth so much at such a young age.

This speed and explosive power alone are already worth 500 million.

On the sidelines, Steve Walsh smiled and said, "Claudio, why do I feel that Chu is more suitable to play as a full-back or a winger forward?"

Walsh's words made the coaching staff laugh out loud.

Because everyone thought of Chu Zheng's barely passable shooting skills at the same time.

But soon, many players in Leicester City saw a Chu Zheng who had an ordinary sense of the ball, an ordinary pass, an ordinary shot, and an ordinary look at everything.

This makes many people can't help but wonder again whether Leicester City's chief scout, Steve Walsh, who has just taken office as the club's sports director, is as old and dizzy as the Premier League media said.

Spend 6000 million euros to buy such a thing?

And Chu Zheng has been training silently for the next few days.

He is neither close to the group of veteran players headed by Morgan, nor is he close to the England Gang headed by Vardy.

But Chu Zheng was not isolated either, instead a small group of players gathered around him.

Kanter, Shinji Okazaki, Robert Huth, Inle, Fox, these new aids like Chu Zheng, saw that Chu Zheng would be called away by Ranieri after training every day to explain tactics alone, and they felt pulled. Nie Li attaches great importance to Chu Zheng.

So they all moved closer to Chu Zheng.

When Chu Zheng found out that he had become the boss for no reason, he was a little bit dumbfounded, so he just let it be.

(End of this chapter)