In the past few years, Gao Han has traveled to almost all developed countries in the European continent, and has even passed or visited some small towns for competition, especially small villages and towns surrounded by mountains in northern Spain.

Gradually, he realized that the biggest difference between developed countries and China, as a developing country, is not the big cities.

After years of development, many domestic big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai are no less inferior than international big cities such as London, Paris and Madrid, and even more so.

But the real difference between the two is in those smaller towns that are relatively backward.

Just like the small town called Matriku in northern Spain, with a population of only five or six thousand people. If it is placed in China, it is a village, at best a small fishing port by the sea.

You can walk around the winding mountain road. As you can see along the way, the road in Matriku is very clean and flat, with facilities such as camping sites and docks, as well as elementary, junior and high school education facilities, a large sports center, and a standard-sized football field.

After walking out of the mountain road, I overlooked Matriku. Although their buildings were also messy, they were cleaned up very clean, which made people look very comfortable. Under the blue sky and white clouds, people felt that they had a unique taste of the Basque region when they saw it.

Gao Han vaguely felt that this may be the biggest difference between developing countries and developed countries.

After leaving the mountain, he entered the village and town not far away, Mikel Alonso parked his car aside.

Everyone got out of the car, and there was a football field across the road, with a terrain of five or six meters lower than the road. Grasping the iron guardrail on the side of the road, it felt like standing in the stadium stands and enjoying the game.

Although it is a small village, the sod on the football field is trimmed very flat, and it is obvious that it is maintained by dedicated people on weekdays.

It is said that there is a game here every weekend night, where the town’s amateur team plays against the teams in the next town, and the town residents will come to cheer.

At this moment, there are a group of teenagers in the stadium training, and there are special youth training coaches to guide them.

This also made Gao Han sigh from his heart that football in Europe is indeed very popular. Even such places that can be said to be remote, there are professional youth training coaches guiding young players to train. Once they perform well, they will be immediately attracted by the big teams around them.

For example, Real Sociedad, Athletic Bilbao and Athletic Santander, etc.

China is vast and has a large population, with a huge span of east, west, south and north. If we want to fully popularize football, even if we formulate policies from the highest level of the country, it is probably impossible to do it without twenty or thirty years. To achieve this like Spain, it will take more time.

As Gao Han thought, the youth training coaches below had divided the group of twelve or 3 years old into two groups, and the teams carried out training, but two or three older young players were installed in each team.

After the team competition began, the older players were obviously better than others in terms of technical level and physical confrontation. However, Gao Han still identified the two best players from the details of passing and receiving. It seemed that the youth coach also knew that they were the strongest, so he divided them into different teams.

One is playing in the midfield and the other is playing in the central defender.

Both of them seem to be just accompanying the team to train, more of them running, passing and receiving balls, not participating in offense, but only being responsible for defense, but their strength advantage still makes them very eye-catching, especially long passes, which are very accurate.

Gao Han's golden eyes swept over and immediately found the data of the two players.

Asil Iliaramendi, March 8, 19 years old, with a strength of 120 and a potential of 175.

Igor Martinez, May 17, 18 years old, with a strength of 110 and a potential of 170.

The former position is in the midfield, where he can play as a front midfielder or drag back, and he is thin. Igor Martinez is a left-footed player and can compete with the left-back and central defender. He is more powerful and the characteristic of a typical Basque player.

"Hey, who is that guy who played the central defender?" Perrik Alonso was a little surprised.

It seemed that he also thought the boy was interesting, but he didn't know him.

But both of the Harvey Alonso brothers shook their heads and said they didn't know that at least there was no such person in the Real Sociedad youth training camp.

Ilia Lamendi belongs to Real Sociedad Youth Training Camp, but now he has suspended training and is training with the team in the town nearby.

"That kid is good, it's a good product." Gao Han praised with a smile.

Perrik Alonso and his son couldn't help but pay more attention. How could they be favored by Gao Han?

"Perick, the one you are talking about is very similar to Harvey, is it him?" Gao Han pointed at the midfielder at all.

Peric Alonso laughed, "It's true that I can't hide it from you. Yes, it's him, Asil Ilia Lamendi, the youth training treasure of Real Sociedad. Last season, he represented the second team in the third-level second league, but this season, the second team was relegated from the second league."

This has to be said to be a big regret.

Teams like Real Sociedad always have ups and downs between La Liga and the Spanish Second League, and the team's finances will not be much better. The first team may not be able to take care of it, let alone the second team.

Therefore, their investment in youth training is not large, and they rely more on youth training talents in surrounding areas to support them.

"To be honest, his current situation is quite embarrassing. In order to rush to La Liga, the first team will not give him too many opportunities, but playing in the second team to the fourth level league is a bit in a bit of a talent."

Gao Han can fully understand the current difficulties of Real Sociedad and the players' situation.

In European football, I don’t know how many players are in such a situation every year. Many of them end up being the same as everyone else. However, many of them are not as strong as being insufficient or talented, but because of their poor opportunities.

Playing football is a skill that makes perfect, so cultivating young players requires patience, tolerance and training opportunities.

In the face of performance pressure, it is difficult for young players to have the opportunity to stand out, and this is the case all over the world.

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Gao Han and others didn't want to cause too much noise. They waited until everyone's training was over before they asked Mikel Alonso to call Ilia Lamendi up there.

As a result, the Basque young man was stunned when he came up.

Xavi Alonso is the biggest star in the entire San Sebastian area, especially midfielders like him, who almost regard Xavi Alonso as the goal of his lifelong struggle.

As for Peric Alonso, he has played for Barcelona in his career, served as the first-team head coach of Real Sociedad, and has a very famous football celebrity in the surrounding area. Everyone has to be polite when they see it.

But what surprised Ilia Lamendi the most was Cantalero and Sergio Garcia. When he saw Gao Han looking at him with a smile, he really had a dizzy urge.

"Gao...Mr. Gao Han?" Ilia Lamendi was so surprised that his chin was almost falling.

"Hello, Asil." Gao Han smiled and reached out his hand.

It was difficult for Ilia Lamendi to continue the conversation after he finally calmed down.

In fact, Gao Han's trip was purely just to examine Ilia La Mendi. After afternoon training, Gao Han firmly believed that Ilia La Mendi would be a very promising midfielder. With his style, he was not suitable for playing as a front midfielder. It would be better to be a midfielder or drag back, which could give full play to his advantages.

This is also why Perric Alonso believes that he is very similar to Harvey Alonso.

Of course, there are no two identical leaves in the world, and it is impossible for two players to be exactly the same.

Gao Han was very satisfied with Ilia La Mendi, and felt that after bringing him to Chinatown and cultivating him, he would be a very good choice to succeed Ma Cos Senna in the future.

But when it comes to the transfer, Gao Han didn't mention it.

Because he had to talk to Ilia Lamendi's parents and Real Sociedad.

"By the way, who is the central defender who played with you before?" Peric Alonso asked with concern.

That is also a player embryo, you can tell at a glance that your potential is great.

"Oh, his name is Igor Martinez, and he lives in Ondaroya to the north of us."

Like Matriku, Ondaroya is a small village in the Basque region and has a very close population.

"Is he a youth training player for Real Sociedad?"

Ilia Lamendi shook his head, "No, he is a student of Ondaroya Youth Training School. However, I heard that the Academic Training Department of Real Sociedad has inspected him, but the specific situation is still unclear."

Perrik Alonso now understood that Real Sociedad Youth Training Department would not miss such a player.

But at this time, Gao Han turned his head and looked at Cantalero, raised his eyebrows and smiled playfully.

The latter has been working with Gao Han for many years, so how can I not know what Gao Han means?

Igor Martinez performed well just now, had excellent passing ability, was not tall, about 1.8 meters tall, strong but flexible, and was definitely a talent that could be created.

Chinatown plans to reorganize the defense this summer. In addition to introducing a high-level central defender, a 10-year-old player like Igor Martinez is exactly what Chinatown urgently needs.

Not to mention that Igor Martinez is not a youth training player at Real Sociedad, even if so, Chinatown will definitely take the opportunity to take him to Madrid.

At worst, I will ask for some training fees and compensate Real Sociedad.

In any case, Chinatown is also a new team in La Liga. Real Sociedad still doesn't know when to return to La Liga. What's more, Chinatown itself is known for its youth training, and vigorously promoting young players is a consistent feature.

After talking to Ilia Lamendi, Gao Han and others went to their house to visit them in person, had an in-depth conversation with his parents, and expressed their interest in Ilia Lamendi very frankly.

Ilia Lamendi's father was also very excited about Gao Han's importance. He heard that the players in Chinatown, including De Gea, Alba and other players were all Ilia Lamendi's teammates in the national youth team. Gao Han also repeatedly promised that the club would increase the cultivation and training of Ilia Lamendi, his parents agreed to Gao Han's proposal.

However, for the need to protect the child, both parties negotiated to keep it confidential.

After all, if it is learned by the outside world that Gao Han values ​​Ilia La Mendi, not only will the difficulty of poaching people increase, it may cause a lot of unnecessary trouble and bring psychological pressure to the players.

After the negotiations with Ilia Lamendi's parents, Gao Han and others did not stay for a long time. After politely declined their invitation to dinner, they left Matriku by car.

Before leaving, Cantalero had obtained detailed information from Igor Martinez from his secret conversation with Ilia La Mendi, and even got his phone number.

After leaving Matriku, Gao Han returned to San Sebastian with his assistant and Alonso and his son.

After staying at Alonso's house for a night, Cantalero went to Ondaroa alone, while Gao Han took Sergio Garcia to Bilbao.
Chapter completed!