Chapter 833 Welcome to Manchester City!
Looking through the growth history of countless famous football stars, they must have been inseparable from the parks and green spaces near their homes.
On their path to growth, they will definitely meet very good coaches and parents who love them.
They can play football in parks and green spaces without worries every day, from morning to night. Coaches and parents will patiently help them grow and improve, so that they can become the best among their peers.
Next, they will be discovered by scouts, selected by good teams, receive the best youth training, stand out from youth teams at all levels, successfully enter the first team, and make a name for themselves.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the best of this type. Messi's life is relatively bumpy, but it's also pretty close. Su Dong is relatively miserable. He was foolishly deceived into going to Portugal.
But their growth is basically inseparable from such a context.
Dzeko is completely different from them.
He was born in Sarajevo in 1986, yes, the place that went down in history as the site of the World War. But even in the late 1980s and early 1990s, decades after the World War, Sarajevo was already the most chaotic place in the world.
The Bosnian Civil War made Dzeko live in the shadow of war from childhood to adulthood. At that time, he and his family lived in the center of Sarajevo, with artillery fire every day. Although he survived, he was left with indelible scars both physically and mentally.
At that time, he could only eat one meal a day. The doors, windows and walls were full of bullet holes. There was the rumbling sound of artillery fire outside the window. There was only football in his life.
Only after the two sides ceased fighting every day would he run out to play football. That was his happiest time.
For him, football is not only the only entertainment in his life, but also his friend and a tool for him to heal the trauma of war.
Some people gain fear from a difficult childhood, while others gain strength from it.
Dzeko belongs to the latter.
His idol is Shevchenko, and he hopes he can become a comprehensive and outstanding striker like Shevchenko.
But he was too tall.
His tall stature makes him look clumsy, his thin body makes him look fragile, and his clumsy and slow movements make him lack delicate footwork skills. These seem to be stumbling blocks for him to become a professional player.
But all this changed in 2003.
Dzeko never told anyone about this, including his family and agent.
At that time, he was still a midfielder. He was seventeen years old that year. He was going to sign a contract with the famous Zeyonikar club in Bosnia and Herzegovina to start his professional football career and join the first team.
At that time, the most popular young player in European football was from Sporting Lisbon of the Portuguese Super League. He was of the same height as the other players, but was extremely fast, had strong physical confrontation, solid and delicate footwork, and moved very quickly. He was also a young player from a weak football country. At that time, the domestic media in Bosnia and Herzegovina called him "Zu".
It was not until the following year, when Zu helped Valencia reach the Champions League final and eventually win the championship, that he transferred to Barcelona for a sky-high price of 80 million euros. The whole world was shocked and the domestic media in Bosnia and Herzegovina changed their tune.
It turns out that his real name is [Su], and his Chinese name is Su Dong.
At that time, Dzeko was still struggling for first-team appearances in Zeyonikar. They didn’t think he had the quality to play in the game because the tall and clumsy Dzeko found it difficult to hold the ball.
In 2005, when Su Dong was in Barcelona, forming a dream trident with Ronaldinho and Messi, helping Barcelona stage a miraculous comeback in Istanbul, Dzeko successfully transferred to Teplice in the Czech League.
They are better at training young players than Bosnia and Herzegovina. They signed Dzeko simply because they felt that the rise of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe would bring about a wave of high center forwards, and Dzeko's characteristics make him suitable for playing as a center forward.
So, they gave Dzeko some videos of Su Dong's games, asked him to concentrate on studying Su Dong's playing style, and then loaned him directly to the Labem River Club in the Czech Second League.
In fact, they never thought highly of Dzeko. They just spent 25,000 euros to buy a slim hope.
But it was on the banks of the Labem River, in the Czech Second Division, where there was less competitive pressure, that Dzeko made up his mind to study Su Dong's game videos and his playing style. Only then did he realize that height does not mean clumsiness or inflexibility.
It turns out that in this world, there really are monsters that are 1.95 meters tall, but faster than people who are 1.65 meters tall!
It turns out that in this world, there really are centers who are tall but have very delicate footwork and are not inferior to traditional number ten players at all.
During that period, what he watched the most were Su Dong's videos and games, and what he studied the most were Su Dong's playing characteristics. He even deliberately imitated Su Dong in games and training.
So, relying on his outstanding performance in the Labem River, he returned to Teplitzer, started to play as a starter, began to make a name for himself, and then came to Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga.
He still remembers that he was half a year later than Su Dong, and the head coach of Wolfsburg at that time was the former Bayern head coach Magath. The sentence that impressed Dzeko the most was: "Don't learn from Su Dong, his style of play has no future!"
Dzeko knew that this was because Magath was deeply hurt by Su Dong.
There are reports that Su Dong agreed to transfer to Bayern because Bayern decided to change coaches.
Germany's Bild said that it was because Su Dong simply looked down on Magath.
Therefore, the players of Wolfsburg all said that the reason why Magath hated Su Dong was like the resentment a girl would feel after being toyed with and abandoned by a scumbag.
Fortunately, Dzeko did not completely listen to Magath, which allowed him to score a lot of goals in Wolfsburg and become famous overnight.
He has been receiving attention from Manchester City since last year, but he has always been hesitant.
He was not sure whether he should accept Manchester City's invitation. Manchester City's technical director Begiristain and head coach Guardiola both talked to him, and they both told him very clearly that there was only one irreplaceable player in Manchester City, and that was Su Dong.
Dzeko came to Manchester City to assist Su Dong.
This is a nice way of saying it. The unpleasant way of saying it is that he is Su Dong's substitute.
When Su Dong needs to rest or when Su Dong is injured, he will take over.
Dzeko hesitated for a long time and contacted other teams, but in the end he chose Manchester City and boarded a flight from Wolfsburg to Manchester, England on January 1.
He decided to join Manchester City! The transfer fee is 30 million euros!
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Accompanied by his agent, Dzeko turned on his mobile phone as soon as he got off the plane.
As soon as the machine was turned on, a series of prompt sounds were heard.
Three missed calls and one text message.
"Edin, I'm Su Dong. On behalf of myself and the Manchester City dressing room, I welcome you to join us! I'm looking forward to training and fighting side by side with you in the future! Su Dong!"
When Dzeko received the text message, he was completely confused!
It was only at this moment that he suddenly remembered that Su Dong was the captain of Manchester City. If the text message came from Su Dong, then the missed call must have come from him too.
Dzeko was immediately a little excited.
"What's the matter?"
Agent Silvano Martina was born in Sarajevo. He played for Lazio and Torino in his career and later became an agent. The most famous player under his command is Buffon. He and Dzeko's father were teammates for many years and they had a very good relationship. So when Dzeko was playing football, Martina had always been Dzeko's agent.
He is called an agent, but in fact he is like an elder.
Martina actually did not quite agree with Dzeko joining Manchester City this time. He had always hoped to join Dzeko and move to Serie A, but Serie A has been in decline in recent years and the conditions offered by Manchester City are more generous, which is really hard to refuse.
Dzeko handed the phone to his agent. After seeing it, Martina couldn't help but exclaimed: "He is really amazing!"
It is an indisputable fact that Su Dong is the most successful football player in the world. After joining Manchester City, he served as the team's captain and also achieved success and received rave reviews.
"This is a rare opportunity, Silvano." Dzeko also agreed with his agent's judgment. He also admired Su Dong very much. This admiration was rational, not the blind admiration of an idol.
"I hope to learn from him. If there is a chance in the future, I will definitely stand out on my own. I believe that by then I will be stronger than I am now!" Dzeko said confidently.
He plays football not just to make money, because football is his friend and his only thing.
From childhood to adulthood, he firmly believed that if there was no football, he might have died in the bombardment of Sarajevo, or he might have been dominated by countless fears and fell into the abyss of despair.
Just like the countless people around him.
Therefore, he never lets himself fall into fear, he wants to keep becoming stronger.
He came to Manchester City to learn from the strongest person and learn the strongest way of playing football.
Martina looked at Dzeko deeply. He didn't know what to say, but one thing was certain, Dzeko was very courageous to make this decision.
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On the afternoon of Dzeko's arrival in Manchester, Manchester City held a simple signing ceremony for him at the Etihad Stadium.
As the team captain, Su Dong attended Dzeko's signing and, on behalf of the locker room, conveyed a welcome signal to him in person.
Dzeko said that he came to Manchester City hoping to learn from Su Dong and become an outstanding center forward like Su Dong.
At the same time, he also believes that Manchester City will definitely succeed!
"Over the past few years, there has been a saying in European football that teams with Su Dongbo will always win victories and championships. I believe Manchester City will be no exception. This is my purpose for coming to Manchester City!"
The media and fans responded very positively to this and all felt that Dzeko was a good person.
At least he knows his place in the club.
(End of this chapter)
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