Chapter 0023, Overnight
In recent seasons, Barcelona B team has performed poorly.
They have been relegated all the way and have even fallen to the fourth level of the amateur league.
But last season, Guardiola turned everything around.
Since becoming the coach of the B team in 2007, the team coached by Guardiola has taken on a completely new look.
The team that was relegated the previous season finally returned to the C-League and achieved a record of 28 wins, 9 draws and 5 losses.
Especially in the play-off games against Castillo and Babastre, Guardiola's team scored 9 goals and conceded 0 goals.
Such coaching ability that turned the tide finally led Barcelona executives to decide to appoint him as the coach of Barcelona's first team.
Migli, the youth team coach last season and Guardiola's assistant, declined the invitation to be an assistant coach of the first team and returned to the youth team.
"I prefer to be with young people and watch them grow. This is the happiest thing for me."
At this moment, Rexach's expectations and Guardiola's praise are not as exciting as Migueli's.
He couldn't wait to see a rising star appear on the youth league field.
In the future, he will become a genius like Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, and Bojan and destroy the first team!
"Diop, the three young men you want are given to you. I'm ready to leave."
"So urgent?"
"I have to personally clear a locker in the locker room for Ming and wait for him to report, haha."
Seeing Migli's happy expression, Chang Ming only had one thought in his mind.
Barcelona, I came to the right place!
Farewell to Guardiola's first team, Chang Ming left accompanied by Rexach and Migueli.
On the side of the court, young player Messi waved goodbye to Chang Ming in a friendly manner, while Xavi and Iniesta also smiled and nodded.
Chang Ming was extremely moved.
Not only is the football atmosphere here great, but the people here are also very harmonious.
The world's top wealthy family truly deserves its reputation.
Walking outside, Migli introduced the situation of the youth team.
"Ming, there are four major echelons in La Masia, you should already know about them.
"Youth A team under 20 years old, youth team B for 16-18 years old. Apprentice team A for 15-16 years old, and apprentice B team for 14-15 years old.
"You are 16 years old this year. I originally planned to arrange for you to join the apprentice A team, but after seeing your shooting skills, I changed my mind.
"I will give you three days to arrange accommodation. After three days, you will report to my Youth B Team.
"Do you have any other questions?"
Chang Ming shook his head: "It takes three days to play football, which is a bit long. Can it be earlier? I can't wait."
Rexach smiled: "Arrange accommodation first and get familiar with the living environment. Three days are necessary."
Migli patted him on the shoulder: "Ming, you will have plenty of time to play football in the future, so go ahead and arrange your life."
Chang Ming looked at the sky in the distance, full of expectation.
"Yes, I will live here for a long time, and this will become my second hometown."
"Haha, young man, I really like you more and more!"
The two old guys, with an average age of nearly 60, laughed loudly, with no trace of age in their eyes and full of expectation.
Migli returned to the youth team to handle matters, while Rexach took Chang Ming to his residence.
Most of the students at La Masia live in the dormitories of the training base, and a small number of them study there.
Staying together all day can cultivate tacit understanding to the greatest extent.
But Chang Ming is an exception.
Although his Spanish is good, compared with ordinary foreign players, it has not yet reached the fluency of locals.
In particular, Chang Ming still needs to improve his understanding of professional vocabulary in the football field.
For this kind of young players, the club has specially arranged a "staycation" method.
FC Barcelona was founded in 1899. Over the past century, it has been among the best in the world in terms of competition results, number of championships, and youth training.
In addition, the club is unique in other areas.
In particular, the club membership system, which has huge decision-making power, makes fans one of the owners of the club.
Its affiliated fans associations at all levels have relieved the club of a huge management burden.
After Barcelona's foreign youth training players come to La Masia, most of them will stay overnight.
Temporarily live in the fans' homes, eat and live with the fans.
This not only allows them to integrate into the local environment as quickly as possible, but also helps foreign players improve their language skills.
The families who stayed overnight were all carefully selected, and the principle was adopted on a voluntary basis, so there was never any trouble.
It was the same middle-aged driver, waiting for Lexach and Chang Ming in the parking lot.
"Hua Guo boy, how do you feel?" The middle-aged driver chatted enthusiastically with Chang Ming.
"Very good, very good." Chang Ming looked back at the direction of the first team training ground, somewhat reluctantly.
The two got into the car, and the middle-aged driver asked: "Sir, where are we going?"
"Go and help the young man find a place to live."
"Staying overnight, right? I understand. Which one is it this time?"
"Go to the end of Aristides Street, to the Villa de la Lighthouse area."
"What? Is it Castro's home?"
"Um."
"OMG."
The middle-aged driver looked back at Chang Ming, opened his mouth, but said nothing.
Chang Ming felt something was wrong.
Is there something wrong with the person I am staying with?
As the car drove slowly, Rexach briefly introduced the basic situation of the host family to Chang Ming.
"This hotel is very close to La Masia. It takes more than ten minutes by car and less than twenty minutes by jogging. It is very convenient."
Chang Ming was very happy: "That's great. It's best to live close by."
"And you don't need to think about the accommodation costs. The club has already paid for you, but you need to pay some living expenses to the host."
"Don't worry, sir. Since we are staying overnight, I will do my best to help the family share the financial pressure and daily housework."
"Very good, you are a smart boy. We live in a two-story villa with very good accommodation conditions, even better than the dormitory in La Masia."
"Thank you sir for taking care of me. I am very grateful."
"There are only two old people in this family, Lucas and Castro, so in daily life, I hope you can take more care of them. This is the club's expectation of you."
"No problem. I will treat them as my own family."
"Also, they have different tempers. You have to be more tolerant of them and don't get into trouble with them, otherwise the club will be in trouble."
"Old people are like this. They may have a bit of a weird temper. Don't worry, sir, I'll be fine."
"Young man, I like you very much, not only for your skills, but also for your character and character. I'm relieved."
After more than ten minutes' drive, we quickly reached our destination.
When the car drove into the lighthouse villa area, Chang Ming was secretly surprised.
This villa area is really luxurious.
The car slowed down again and drove into the door of a two-story villa at the back.
Rexach took Chang Ming out of the car and walked towards the villa gate.
After taking two steps, Rexach suddenly stopped.
He turned back to look at Chang Ming and whispered an instruction.
"There is one more thing I must remind you. Although you are a member of Barcelona, you cannot be too obvious in this family."
"Why?"
Chapter completed!