Updated: 2013-01-07

"Hi Mario, how are you doing this summer?"

Mallorca in July is the hottest time of the year, but as the location of the Mediterranean climate, Mallorca will not be cold or hot.

It is July 20th. The first team of Mallorca had already gathered five days ago and is now in the United States for two weeks of training. In the meantime, there will be three friendly matches with three major league teams in the United States. Among them, the confrontation with the Los Angeles Galaxy, which Beckham just joined, is the most concerned game in European football.

Compared with the first teams with stars, Mallorca Second Team and Youth Team are much more unknown. The training time of the second team and the youth team is one week later than that of the first team. After all, they do not have a lot of games such as the Spanish Super Cup and the European Super Cup to play...

However, Balotelli returned to Mallorca from Italy very early, and he would be seventeen years old in less than a month. The news from Mallorca Club was that when he turned seventeen, the club would immediately give him a formal professional contract, and he would also be transferred to the second team to play in the Spanish Second Division to receive better training. According to the news his brother told me, the annual salary of this professional contract may reach 500,000 euros. Although this amount of money is nothing compared to other first-team players, it is already quite generous for a young player who is only seventeen years old. At least none of the Premier League clubs who want to seduce him are willing to pay such a high value...

Balotelli also likes the club Mallorca very much. The head coach of the first team always watches his games on the sidelines and seems to appreciate him very much. The old man who manages young players is also very enthusiastic about himself. Seeing that he is alone in Mallorca without any relatives and reasons, he always invites himself to his house for dinner - the Spanish paella tastes good.

Balotelli doesn’t have so many extra ideas yet. He just simply thinks that Mallorca treats him well, the team is famous, the climate is good in the place where he is located, and Mallorca is also very suitable for him - there are not too many nightclubs...

So he didn't have the idea of ​​leaving Mallorca now. Instead, he returned to Mallorca a few days before the team gathered to prepare for the next season.

That day, he had just arrived at the training base of the Mallorca Youth Team and heard a greeting from behind him.

After looking back, Balotelli saw his teammate David De Gea in the youth team.

This is Balotelli's only friend in the youth team. Although Balotelli is not the brainless person later, as a black man, he suffered a lot of discrimination in Italy at that time. Italy's xenophobia was quite strong. Later, an Italian media conducted a survey, and the number of people who chose to "drive all non-Italians out of Italy" reached 50%, and more than 70% of those who chose to "drive all non-whites out of Italy".

With Balotelli's personality, he is not a player who will cry when frustrated. Instead, under this kind of discrimination, he will become more proud, use pride to fight discrimination, and use better performance to tell those who discriminate against him - even if my brother's skin is dark, he can score better than you white people!

This is also a place where he likes Mallorca, because Mallorca itself is a city composed of a large number of immigrants. Not only whites, but also blacks and yellow people, there is no discrimination. This is also related to the current economic situation of Mallorca. Any country with large-scale discrimination often has not been very good...

Balotelli is very proud. He stands out in the youth team. Last season in the Under-19 Youth League, Balotelli participated in 18 games and scored 25 goals. This record is close to the results Boyan has achieved in Barcelona youth team, so he is also qualified to be proud. The only one in the youth team who has the best relationship with him is De Gea, who will be recognized by him. Not only because De Gea is his roommate, but also an important factor is that De Gea's strength has been recognized by him...

In his usual training, he always teams up with De Gea. He shot and De Gea guarded the goal. This is what Jose told them before. Two geniuses are together and always make progress faster...

Jose even believes that this is one of the reasons why La Liga geniuses appear more than the Premier League. The English League has a local protection system, so players can only join professional clubs nearby. At the same time, young players must sign contracts with their own clubs after they become adults and can transfer in the future. Spain does not have such regulations. Often, young players with talent are gathered in big clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and of course, there is a Mallorca now.

This approach naturally has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that if geniuses gather, the success rate will always be higher. A good training environment, excellent youth training coaches, and strong teammates are the key factors that a genius can become successful. These factors will only be possessed in a strong club. The more top club is, the more it has this environment. Only when a capable player enters such a club will he develop better. La Liga is this model.

And what about the Premier League? Even if he is a super genius as strong as Maradona, if there is only a club in the fourth division near his residence, then he can only receive youth training in this fourth division club. At the same time, when he became an adult, his first professional contract could only sign with this club - unless he moved for legitimate reasons before that - for example, Beckham was born in Leighton, London, and he also received youth training in the local fourth division team Leiden Oriental when he was a child. However, when he was a teenager, he went to Manchester because of his father's job transfer, so he became a member of Manchester United's youth training. If his father had not transferred his job at the time, if his first professional contract was signed with Leiden Oriental, would there be the later Beckham? Of course, if it was Xiao Ming's Leiden Oriental, it would be different...

With such a difference in youth training, think about the morality of the English media that if a young local player is produced, he will praise him to death and criticize him to death if he is not good at a game. It is not difficult to know why the young genius in Spain comes one after another, but it is more difficult for England to find a few outstanding young players to come out than to reach the sky...

This is the advantage of this model in Spain, but what are the disadvantages? It is very simple. This approach simply blocks the mid- and lower-level teams and those low-level league teams. There are many low-level teams in the Premier League that survive by training and selling people. For example, the low-level team Crew, this team is not good in history, but has provided many famous players such as Danny Murphy, Neil Lennon and other famous players to the Premier League team. They have also earned funds from these players that can continue to survive. The English clubs are much more nourishing than Spanish clubs, because the characteristic of the English league is to rob the rich and help the poor, and to support small and medium-sized teams as much as possible. The Spanish league is to rob the poor and help the rich, so that resources can be concentrated in the hands of those big clubs...

So these two models have pros and cons. Mallorca suffered a lot in this way. They could not retain their youth training members and could only find young players who were not good at the wealthy family to train them. Therefore, players who achieved results in the Mallorca youth team often had to be twenty-two or three years old. Tristan, Luke, Novo, and Campano were all such examples, and the situation has improved a lot until now.

However, since Jose's Mallorca is a top team and is a capable person who can take advantage of the small team, then Jose will naturally not be so stupid as to destroy himself. This kind of thing cannot be solved by a Mallorca club. If the small and medium clubs really reach the point where they cannot survive, it will naturally make the big clubs compromise and allow these small and medium clubs to survive. Mallorca does not have to be the first to be the first.

The topic was a bit far-reaching. It was precisely for this reason that Balotelli had a good relationship with De Gea. After hearing De Gea say hello from behind, Balotelli turned his head and smiled at De Gea.

"I've had a good time this summer, David," Balotelli said with a smile.

De Gea walked up and walked side by side with Balotelli into the training ground: "Isn't today a rest day? What did you come to the training ground?"

Balotelli smiled and said, "Where are you?"

De Gea touched his head: "Of course I'm here to practice more. Mr. Piri said that it's very likely that I will be transferred to the second team to play in the Spanish Second Division next season. Of course, I have to work harder, but isn't it just a matter of time before you go to the second team? Why are you here to train now?"

"I'm here to see you practice more. After all, you are not a genius like me, and you are not as popular as me. You are so handsome. I just need to watch you when you train..." Balotelli replied.

De Gea rolled his eyes. Balotelli is good everywhere. It’s just that this temper is unbearable. However, it seems that the Mallorca youth team has a tradition of playing such a player. I heard that the captain of the Mallorca first team now has a 2b like this. I guess this guy will be appreciated by the captain when he goes to the first team...

While thinking, De Gea walked into the youth team's training ground with Balotelli, and ended up directly hitting the club's technical director, behind-the-scenes manager and boss of the youth team and scouting department, Mr. Piri...

"Oh, Mario, David, you came so early today." Piri warmly greeted Balotelli and De Gea. Balotelli and De Gea also responded to Piri, both of whom respected Piri.

"Well, you are really hardworking... I'm going to find you too. Come on, don't go to training first, follow me to my office, and I'll tell you if you have something to do."

"What, we will train with the second team next?" After hearing Piri's purpose, De Gea said in surprise, while Balotelli still looked motionless.

"That's right, according to our assessment, the strength of you two has far exceeded the level of the under-19 youth team. If you continue to play in the youth team, it will only delay your development. So after the training camp begins, you will directly receive training in the second team. Mario, after your birthday on August 12, you will get a professional contract from the club, and then you will be able to play for the second team. As for David... you will not be seventeen until the end of the year, so you will not be able to play for the second team before that. After all, the second team is a professional game, but you will receive training in the second team until you turn seventeen... What do you think?"

"Great, thank you Mr. Piri!" De Gea replied excitedly. Although Balotelli was not so excited, a hot light appeared in his eyes.

ps: Well, the new weekly bird... I have been blessed with the blessing of the whole year, and the click list has been changed to the weekly list, so that my book, which always revolves around the weekly list, can be reached last weekly list, and the location is quite high. I also have to thank my brothers for their strong support, but Lao Guo is still a little greedy. This book seems to have never been on the Zhouhong vote list yet. Brothers, please vote for Lao Guo more recently? If you can go to Zhouhong votes, you will have no regrets in this book. Thank you.

ps2: This chapter is updated four hours earlier, and the other update times are still the same.

{Piaotian Literature www.PiaoTian.com Thank you for your support, your support is our greatest motivation}
Chapter completed!