Going to Westphalia Stadium and standing in the south stand to watch a game, it was really touching Mark.

After returning from the court, Mark devoted all his strength to training every day. After the team's normal training class, he and Zhou Yi would practice in the gym. Zhou Yi gave the set of training muscle strength that Wangler gave him to Mark.

Then Mark performed his strength training, while Zhou Yi performed his physical training.

Zhou Yi has also practiced harder than before. Not only is he affected by the South Stand, but he also...

In order to improve their strength and realize their respective dreams, the two teenagers worked together.

During this period, the u19 league continues.

In fact, there are not many league games in u19, and there are only 26 rounds in the West Division League, but the time is long because there are still playoffs, that is, the championship playoffs. If the playoffs are included, the entire league will not end until June 28th.

But there is no need to worry about the few games. In addition to the league, there are also German Youth League Cup competitions that U19 participated.

In addition, some warm-up matches and friendly matches will be arranged when there are no league and cup matches.

So there are enough competitions.

Through his outstanding performance in the competition and training, Zhou Yi has consolidated his position as the main player in the team.

Yebala also arranged Zhou Yi as the team organizer, and he became the center of the team's offense. After Gotze was liberated, he could play a greater role in scoring. When necessary, he could also help Zhou Yi share the task of organizing the offense. Ensure that Dortmund's u19's offense will not be hindered.

The benefits of Zhou Yi's insistence on physical training are also revealed. His playing time is increasing minute by minute.

After Zhou Yi joined, Dortmund u19 made great progress in the league, gradually leaving its competitor Borussia Mönchengladbach u19 farther and farther away.

As for the u19 of Dortmund's arch-rival Schalke 04 in the Ruhr area, it is even further away from Dortmund.

The league reached 21st round, Dortmund U19 won 16 and draws and lost 1, 52 points, ranking first. The second team in the league changed from Borussia Mönchengladbach U19 to Leverkusen U19. Forty-eight points. Borussia Mönchengladbach U19 became third. Schalke 04's U19 only had 38 points, ranking fourth.

According to the rules of the German U19 League, the entire Germany is divided into three divisions, namely the southern division, the western division and the northern division.

There are fourteen participating teams in each competition. Through the 26 rounds of league competition, the top two in the southern region, the top two in the western region and the northern region, a total of four teams advanced to the final playoffs, and then fought against each other. After a two-round match between home and away games, two teams advanced to the playoff finals were decided.

The final is a winning and losing match played on a gravity field.

As long as Dortmund U19 can win the first place in the Western Conference League, it will advance to the playoffs and have the opportunity to compete for the championship of the National U19 Youth League.

In addition, Dortmund also performed outstandingly in the U19 German Cup, and they have reached the quarterfinals, which is the quarterfinals.

The quarterfinals will be held on April 12, with Dortmund u19 hosting Cobrence u19 at home.

During this period, Zhou Yi did not miss every game. It was just that the playing time was either long or short.

Mark has not played in U19 yet. Although he has been selected into the roster several times, he has been on the bench.

But Mark's current mentality is different from when he just entered u19. He is not anxious about whether he can play. He just trains patiently and seriously. After the training every day, he will practice with Zhou Yi in the gym.

At the same time, both of them now eat a lot of beef and protein powder, which is increasing muscle.

After all, strength comes from muscles, and muscles are the foundation. If you don’t have any muscles, no matter how hard you practice, your strength will not increase much.

In such day-to-day training, March has passed.

When Mark was fighting against his defenders during training, he no longer wanted to start like that, and he always fell down as soon as he touched it. One very intuitive impression was that at the end of the training, Mark's clothes were no longer so dirty.

Mark was excited about this change.

It was true that Zhou Yi heard that he had finally found the right path now. Even if he trained hard, he wouldn't have to worry about messing up the matter.

Although he did not get a chance to play, Mark's face was always filled with a smile, just like his last time at u17. He was full of beautiful visions for his future.

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Las Riken will come to Yebala regularly to learn about Zhou Yi and Gotze's training and competition situation at U19.

Both of these people should be considered young players that the club attaches more importance to.

Gotze is the best product for Dortmund youth training, and naturally has received a lot of attention.

Zhou Yi was a young player transfer transaction that Klopp personally finalized, so Ricken naturally would not neglect it.

"Gece's performance is more dazzling, but it is actually related to Zhou Yi." Yebala said to Ricken. "Before Zhou Yi came, Goce had to take on too many tasks. After Zhou Yi came, he liberated him and allowed him to perform freely, which made him perform better."

Ricken personally saw Zhou Yi playing in the Chinese team, so he was not surprised by Yebala's statement.

Thinking back to the beginning, many of the Chinese team's level was not as good as Dortmund's youth team, but after Zhou Yi, they were able to compete with Dortmund's u17 for a while, which is enough to tell the problem.

There are two cores in this world. One is a person who performs outstandingly, can personally attack cities and villages for the team, and wins the team; the other is a person who does not look as dazzling as the number one star in the right world, but he is indeed an indispensable figure. Because his existence can improve the level and combat effectiveness of the entire team.

In Ricken's view, Zhou Yi belongs to the latter.

"I also consciously asked Goze and Zhou Yi to cooperate frequently, and both in training and competition, to make them more connected. They are now the golden partners in my team," said Yebala.

Speaking of "golden partner", Ricken suddenly thought of another person.

"By the way, where is that Mark Wagner?"

"He?" Yebala was surprised why Ricken suddenly asked about this person.

"Yes, he still performed very well in u17. How was he doing?"

"He... hasn't played on my team yet."

Ricken was a little surprised when he heard this: "It's not him, right? Isn't he very tacitly working with Zhou Yi?"

"The problem is that he only cooperates with Zhou Yi and doesn't cooperate well with everyone else..."

"That's right..." Ricken frowned, but did not continue asking.

He just cared about Mark by the way. The point was still on Zhou Yi and Gotze, and he didn't care how far Mark could play.

Ricken asked casually and then stopped mentioning this person.

But Yebala suddenly remembered this person.

He noticed Mark's performance in recent times and his previous changes.

One obvious change is that when Mark fights against his teammates during training, it is not so easy to concede the ball.

It is said that he is practicing strength with Zhou Yi, and it seems that this kid is really working hard.

When Mark was transferred to his team, he looked down on his performance. What is the value of a striker who can only rely on Zhou Yi to give him a nanny to assist and score goals?

He completed a hat-trick in the team game, and it could not change Yebala's evaluation of him.

To be honest, it is all about Zhou Yi's high level, which does not mean that Mark Wagner's level is also high.

But unexpectedly, Mark Wagner did not give up. Although he performed very badly for one day, he was still working hard and his performance was getting better and better.

There are not as many players in the youth team as there are only twenty people, so the coach knows how everyone performs.

Today, Ricken suddenly mentioned Mark, which reminded Yebala that Mark had not yet gained the opportunity to play since he changed. Should he give such a hard-working young man a chance to show what he learned in training?

In the past, Yebala thought that Mark was a player who would be useless if he left Zhou Yi, but now, Mark has proved in various training and team games that he can perform well even if he left Zhou Yi. As a forward, he finally dared to confront the opponent's defender.

And it's not just daring to confront.

In team games, Mark ran more aggressively than before. Even if he couldn't score a goal, his running could make room for other teammates.

When Mark had just ascended to u19, what Yebala saw was a young man who positioned himself as the "Heir of Inzaghi".

He can capture the assists given by Zhou Yi and then score a goal.

But in addition to this, his contribution to the team was almost zero.

After so many years of modern football development, an Inzagi-style striker has long lost his place to stand.

The role of a forward is not just to score goals, but is given more responsibilities, such as making goals for his teammates, such as restraining the opponent's ball control and ball output in the middle and backcourt, such as pushing up to intercept when defending at a high position...

A pure replica of Inzaghi is worthless to Yebala.

He doesn't need a second Inzaji.

But after this period of hard work, Mark is also changing, from a forward who only knows how to score goals and cannot help with anything except goals, to a person who is active in running, dares to fight head-on with the opponent's defender, can hold the ball, and can participate in the team's offensive system.

Compared to before, he is more comprehensive.

This is not the earth-shaking change that happens overnight.

Instead, we make progress every day, and every day has a little bit of change than yesterday.

If Ricken hadn't suddenly mentioned Mark, Yebala wouldn't have remembered this.

But now when I think about it carefully, Yebala discovered how much progress Mark has made during this period.

And his efforts that neither put into practice for these unscrupulous things also reappeared in Jebala's mind.

Such a hard-working player, no matter how capable he is, should he be given a chance?

but……

Yebala thought of the next game as the Ruhr derby, Dortmund u19 away challenge Schalke 04u19.
Chapter completed!