Chapter 57 National Team Debut
Spain, in the office of national team coach Bosque.
Bosque, the meritorious coach who led Spain to win the World Cup and the European Cup, was watching a video of a game with his assistant coach Toni.
The two did not care about the outcome of the game, but focused on the performance of the No. 10 player in the green jersey on the court.
After watching the video, assistant coach Tony's eyes lit up and he said to Bosque excitedly:
"My goodness, this guy is tailor-made for our national team. With him, our problem of insufficient firepower in the frontcourt attack can be completely solved!"
Bosque smiled and raised his hand to signal his old partner not to be so excited.
Although he also admitted that Werder Bremen's No. 10 player is indeed very suitable for the current tactical system of the Spanish national team.
However, the other party is a little too young! I heard that he is not even 17 years old. If he is recruited to the national team at this age, even if he is a champion coach, he will probably be scolded by the media! "It's good, but he is a little too young. If you rashly recruit him, it may cause controversy. You know how difficult those domestic reporters are?"
Coach Tony saw his good partner's hesitation, so he thought of a compromise:
"How about this, let's let him play for the National Youth Team first. If he can adapt to the National Youth Team's games and perform well, we will put him on the national team's roster and there won't be so much controversy!"
Bosque nodded, thinking it was a good idea, and handed the matter over to Tony.
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After the game with Hamburg, the next round of the Bundesliga will be in two weeks.
Lin Quan thought he could get a long vacation, but unexpectedly he received a call from the Spanish Football Association, informing him to report to the National Youth Team.
Lin Quan is not opposed to playing for the national team, but the team has never called him up before, so his national team record is still blank.
Although the other party only asked him to report to the National Youth Team, not the national team.
But for his age, it would be great to be able to play for the national youth team. As for the national team? He has not considered it yet. He thinks Bosque will definitely not think highly of him. After all, the Spanish national team has too many stars. Why would they recruit a new player like him? Moreover, it feels better to play for the national youth team than to sit on the bench for the national team.
So he quickly packed up and rushed back to Spain to report to the national youth team.
This year's Spanish national youth team includes many young players from La Liga giants, such as Morata and Nacho from Real Madrid.
Barcelona's Thiago, Tello, Montoya, Barat, Muniesa and others.
In addition, there are a large number of main players from small and medium-sized clubs, such as Isco, the main player of Malaga and the strongest contender for this year's European Golden Boy Award.
Most of these players play in La Liga or the Spanish Second Division. Some of them are starters, some are core players, and the rest are also important rotation players.
Because of their age, they are not as well-known as the players of the Spanish national team, but their strength is not weak.
It is no exaggeration to say that they are ranked second among the youth teams of European countries this time.
Like the national team, the Spanish national youth team's central axis is built mainly around Barcelona players.
Lin Quan also came from the La Masia youth training camp, so after he reported to the team, he had no difficulty adapting and quickly integrated into the team's tactical system.
After several days of training together, Lin Quan determined that although these national youth team teammates were young, they were actually stronger than his own club teammates.
Although they are young, their skills have surpassed their club teammates and they have greater potential and talent.
What they lack is just competition experience.
With stronger teammates, Lin Quan felt a lot more relaxed when playing the game.
As long as he runs into an open position, his teammates can always pass the ball to him as soon as possible.
Barcelona's tactical system was tailor-made for Messi.
Lin Quan, who copied Messi's attributes, felt like a fish in water in this system! Therefore, with stronger support, he was like a god in the team's group competition, and easily scored five goals in just half a game using various means.
Not only that, because he used to play as a defensive midfielder, Messi also has organizational skills.
Therefore, he would occasionally play the role of organizing the attacking midfielder in the frontcourt, connecting the team's attacking group and delivering ammunition to other teammates.
After all, you can't be the only one to be in the spotlight.
Because he gave Morata several assists, the latter immediately became friends with Lin Quan and didn't mind at all that their respective teams were sworn enemies in the league.
On the contrary, the Barcelona players were lukewarm towards Lin Quan, vaguely revealing a sense of rejection.
However, they did not bring this attitude to the court. When it was time to pass the ball to Lin Quan, they would still pass the ball decisively.
So Lin Quan didn't mind it much. He guessed that these guys probably thought he would return to Barcelona to take their places.
But only Lin Quan himself knew that he would never return to Barcelona, so he naturally laughed off the other party's cautious mentality.
Lin Quan's perfect integration, as well as his outstanding attacking and linking abilities in the midfield and frontcourt, directly increased the main team's offensive firepower by a large margin.
This performance not only won him the respect and love of his teammates, but also surprised the head coach of the National Youth Team, Julen Lothpage.
Because Lin Quan is younger than his teammates in the national youth team, he thought that the national team had given him a burden and asked him to train with the young player Lin Quan.
I didn't expect that it was actually a thigh, as big as an elephant's thigh.
His appearance perfectly solved the team's dilemma of lack of a strong finisher in the frontcourt.
Although this guy is not very old, his personal ability is so strong that he is simply a copy of Messi.
Everyone in the world knows how much the Spanish national team wants Messi! So, he did not hesitate to put Lin Quan in the starting lineup and arranged for him to play in Spain's European Youth Championship qualifier against Switzerland.
In this game, the upgraded Spanish front attack group showed strong offensive firepower in the game.
The Swiss team, known for its defense, conceded three goals to its opponents in just half the game.
The Swiss players were all stunned. The opponent's number 10 was so fucking abnormal that no one could defend him in a one-on-one situation.
The key is that he can not only score goals, but also pass the ball and assist.
If we send two people to double-team him, he will immediately pass the ball to the gap in the Swiss team's defense.
The other players of the Spanish youth team are also very strong, and they can score goals when they are given space.
As a result, the Swiss team was caught in an awkward situation where they could neither defend nor not defend.
The players of the Spanish youth team played very comfortably in this game, although the team only changed one forward.
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But the feeling is completely different from before, like a rusty machine that has been injected with lubricating oil and becomes smooth again.
Many players even felt like they had changed an entire team, and the team felt stronger both offensively and defensively.
But their opponents, the Swiss youth team, felt terrible.
They saw the shadow of the cosmic team Barcelona in this Spanish youth team, and the passing and controlling system they played was exactly the same as Barcelona's.
Even the opponent's number 10 is almost exactly the same as Barcelona's Messi.
Faced with the Spanish youth team's terrifying ball control ability, they couldn't even touch the ball and could only chase the ball around like headless flies.
The players of the Spanish youth team easily mobilized their defensive players by passing the ball, causing many loopholes in their defense, and as a result, they lost balls one after another.
Before the end of the first half, the Spanish youth team had already scored three goals and their ball possession rate reached a terrifying 79%.
Throughout the first half, the Swiss team hardly touched the ball.
The situation of the Swiss team did not improve in the second half, even though the Spanish national youth team gave the host team a chance to show their respect.
They had intentionally played with less restraint and only scored two goals in the second half, but Switzerland was still beaten without any chance of fighting back.
In the end, at the end of the game, Lin Quan made two assists and two goals, helping the team to win over the opponent with a score of 5:0.
Poor Swiss team, they didn't score a single goal in their home court and were even badly beaten by the opponent.
But they are not the worst.
Four days later, Spain will host Croatia at home.
In this game, Spain continued its terrifying firepower.
Although the Croatian national youth team is stronger than Switzerland, it still couldn't escape the fate of being slaughtered by Spain.
Lin Quan was in full swing in this game, scoring four goals in a row and also making two attacks.
At the end of the game, Spain defeated Croatia 7:0 and advanced to the European Youth Championship with eight consecutive wins.
Their terrifying offensive firepower has also attracted the attention of the entire European football world.
Fans of many countries have begun to lament that the Spanish national team has swept the European Cup and the World Cup, but now their youth team is so terrible.
Does this mean that European and even world football will be dominated by the Bull Fighting Army in the next decade or so? …
It seems that there is no need to be so pessimistic...
At the same time, in the World Cup qualifiers.
Facing the weak Georgia, the Spanish national team had the advantage but failed to score. They fired dozens of shots around the opponent's goal throughout the game. Finally, Soldado scored a goal in the 86th minute of the game, and won the victory with difficulty.
After the game, the Spanish media had mixed reactions.
They sang praises for their youth team's dominant performance in the European Under-17 Championship, but were far from satisfied with the performance of the adult team in the World Cup qualifiers.
Although they won the game, the team's current situation of weak forward force has not changed.
Even because of the aging of Xavi and others, the team's condition began to decline, which made the whole of Spain worried and concerned about the upcoming Confederations Cup.
Just at this time, Lin Quan's outstanding performance in the youth team attracted the attention of the media, so someone suggested: Since the national team's striker is not strong enough, why not recruit this talented striker from the youth team and give it a try?
This proposal has caused great controversy.
There were many people who were in favor and against it. For a time, whether or not to recruit Lin Quan into the national team became the focus of discussion throughout Spain.
(End of this chapter)