69novels Chapter 291
Chapter 291
The first time, the second time.
Chapter 291 Everyone loves N’Golo
December 7.
8:30 in the morning.
A white BMW Mini Cooper arrived at the gate of Belvoir Base very punctually.
“Dog touches you!”
After saying good morning to the gatekeeper, Kante drove slowly into the base and came to the parking lot.
At this time, in the parking lot, except for a Mercedes-Benz C260 and a black Land Rover, there were no other players’ cars.
Kante certainly knew who the owners of these two cars were.
The former belonged to Captain Morgan, and the latter belonged to the star player Ling Feng.
And these two people are often the first players to arrive at the base.
After parking the car and putting on his sports backpack, Kante walked into the base quickly.
In the early days of joining the Foxes, Kante could only run to and from work because his agent was still dealing with the house and other chores.
Fortunately, Ling Feng, a very friendly and enthusiastic teammate, was willing to pick him up every day, so he didn’t have to run to and from get off work every day.
However, it has never been Kante’s character to bother others.
So, after a month of hitchhiking, in order not to bother Ling Feng, Kante bought a second-hand BMW Mini Coopers as a means of transportation.
And this second-hand BMW cost 20,000 pounds, which made him feel distressed for a while.
You know, 20,000 pounds can make an ordinary French slum family spend a year!
No matter now that he is a Premier League star with a weekly salary of 40,000.
But in his heart, he is still the little boy who followed his father to rummage through garbage at the age of seven.
He knows that every penny is hard-earned!
Besides, he has seven brothers and sisters in his family, and a lot of relatives and friends need him to support.
If the club hadn’t been afraid that something might happen to him on the road and had forced him to drive, Kante wouldn’t have spent the money.
When he came to the locker room, Kante saw the captain Morgan and Ling Feng chatting.
“Hello, dog touch you!”
Faced with Kante’s proactive greeting, Ling Feng also smiled and stepped forward to shake hands and bump shoulders with him:
“Bonjour, N’Golo!”
While picking up Kante from get off work, Ling Feng also learned some simple French from Kante and taught Kante English.
Moreover, in daily training, Ling Feng also served as his exclusive translator.
With his help, Kante not only quickly integrated into the team, but also made great progress in English. He could basically understand most of the commonly used tactical vocabulary and say some simple short sentences.
Even so, his English still has a very strong accent.
However, this is also his personal characteristic
“How do you feel?”
“Very good.”
With Kante’s arrival, Ling Feng also began to switch back and forth between English and French and chatted with Kante.
From the beginning, learning French with Kante was not a whim.
This is to prepare in advance for the chance to chat with French-speaking football stars in the future!
Among the ultimate goals Ling Feng set for himself, in addition to winning the Golden Ball and the championship, there is another special one.
That is to collect football stars!
Since he was finally reborn, he certainly hopes to get to know the many famous football stars in his memory.
If he can chat with them, it will be even better!
This is also his original intention to learn other languages.
After the two of them finished, other teammates also came to the locker room one after another.
After changing clothes, everyone came to the restaurant for breakfast. After enjoying a hearty breakfast, they went to the massage room.
Today is the first day back to the team after the holiday, and it is usually mainly for recovery training.
While Ling Feng and Mahrez and other teammates were receiving muscle relaxation in the massage room, the club’s football director Rudkin suddenly visited:
“Guys, let me inform you of a piece of news. Sky Sports plans to do a documentary with us.”
“Of course, all the filming will not disturb you. Just do it as usual.”
“In addition to some team filming, there will be a separate interview with you. Someone will notify you when the time comes.”
Obviously, from the club level, the team’s current record and league ranking are the closest to the Premier League championship in team history.
Even if they fail to win the championship in the end, this season is an extraordinary and wonderful journey for them, which is very worth remembering.
Therefore, when Sky Sports proposed to film a
When the short documentary was shown, the club’s top management accepted it immediately without hesitation.
For the players of Leicester City, it had basically no impact.
The team already had a dedicated photographer who was responsible for filming the team’s daily life.
Sky Sports’ proposal was just to give them another camera.
Especially after confirming that Sky Sports would not enter the locker room to film, the Blue Foxes didn’t take it seriously, but instead started talking about accepting interviews.
And Ling Feng became the object of consultation for other teammates.
Who made him almost an old hand in dealing with the media at such a young age?
It is worth mentioning that the first person to accept an interview with Sky Sports was not the team’s head coach Ranieri, nor the star player Ling Feng, but the team’s soul figure and chief scout director, Steve Walsh!
Someone has calculated that among the starting eleven of the Blue Foxes, except for Schmeichel and the team’s youth training Ling Feng, the other nine were recommended and brought back by Walsh.
So, in a sense, Walsh is the creator of this Premier League top team!
As the saying goes, there are always good horses, but there are not always good horse trainers.
The importance of good horse trainers is very important in professional football.
If you want to understand the story behind why Leicester City has been able to achieve great success after returning to the Premier League, it is a good starting point to start with Walsh.
After talking with Walsh, the next person interviewed by the Sky Sports producer was the team’s head coach, the Italian coach Ranieri who took charge of the Blue Foxes this season!
In a room with lights and cameras, Ranieri accepted an interview with the documentary producer.
At first, it was just some routine questions.
For example, the feeling of returning to the Premier League to coach, the team’s initial goals, the understanding of the players, etc.
Soon, the topic came to the players introduced this season.
“By the way, I just talked to Steve Walsh, and he said that you didn’t seem to want to sign N’Golo Kante at first, is that right?”
Faced with the reporter’s question, Ranieri also smiled and admitted:
“Oh, yes. We had an idea at the beginning, we wanted to find some international players. So we bought Inler”
“But Steve was very persistent, and kept talking about N’Golo. N’Golo. He even made a very detailed scouting report and put it on my desk!”
“Then I read the scouting report, and I didn’t know that this little guy could play in the Premier League at that time”
“It wasn’t until N’Golo came to the team and saw his performance on the training ground that I knew he was right.”
At the beginning, Ranieri was not very optimistic about Kante and didn’t have much expectations.
Even if the chief scout Walsh strongly recommended it to him, he only reluctantly accepted to sign this little French midfielder.
Anyway, it doesn’t cost much, just buy it.
However, with a deeper understanding of training and games, he was surprised to find that this 1.68-meter-tall defensive midfielder is absolutely the most indispensable part of the team!
Even though he plays the inconspicuous position of defensive midfielder and is extremely low-key off the court, his outstanding performance on the court can no longer cover the brilliance of this Frenchman.
Many football experts have pointed out that the reason why Leicester City has made great progress on the defensive end this season, in addition to the Italian defensive tactical concept instilled by Ranieri to the team, is largely due to the arrival of Kante!
With sweeps and interceptions everywhere in the midfield, Kante relied on his abundant physical strength and active running to form an insurmountable barrier in the midfield of Leicester City.
Whether it is against the tall midfielders and forwards of the Premier League, or competing for the 55-5 ball, Kante, who looks a little thin, is not inferior at all!
Especially his ability to stick to defense. Once stuck by Kante, any player has only one end, that is, the ball is intercepted!
With Kante by his side, Brother Drinking Water can also reduce the burden of defense and focus more on the work of the backfield hub.
What surprised everyone was that Kante was not only able to do a good job of defense as a back midfielder, but also had a way to advance!
Coupled with Ling Feng’s rapid advancement ability and accurate passing in front, Leicester City has diversified its means of passing and advancing in the stage of switching from defense to offense, which is simply impossible to defend!
It can be said that in the past three months, Kante has conquered his teammates and fans with his performance
If a vote is held for the best signing of the Premier League season now, the Blue Fox fans will definitely vote for this little giant who is only 1.68 meters tall!
. . .
Sky Sports’ follow-up and player interviews did not end within a day.
But
As the schedule progresses, let the players talk about their views and feelings about important moments in some important games.
In the next few days, Ling Feng, Vardy, and Mahrez all accepted interviews.
During this period, the follow-up team also caught up with Mahrez being elected as the Premier League Player of the Month in November, and Ranieri being elected as the Best Coach of November
This is definitely a good video material.
On the second day after the away game against Sion, Kante, who was lifting weights in the gym, heard the assistant coach’s call:
“Hey, N’Golo, it’s your turn!”
Kante, who was lifting dumbbells, looked confused: “What’s my turn?”
“To accept an interview with a TV station.”
Hearing this, Kante’s honest black face showed a trace of embarrassment:
“Well, I’m not good at English. Can I not accept the interview?”
Perhaps as if he had expected it, the assistant coach directly
“It’s okay, Ling will accompany you, he will be your translator.”
Kante was stunned at first when he heard that Ling Feng would accept an interview with him, and his inner resistance and uneasiness immediately subsided a lot.
For Kante, Ling Feng is his first friend in Leicester.
Kante was a little at a loss at first when he came to a strange country and a strange team alone.
Fortunately, Ling Feng provided help in all aspects, so he quickly integrated into the team and the city.
Ling Feng would even take him to his home from time to time to have dinner and talk about football.
And he fell in love with Chinese food after tasting the delicious food carefully prepared by Ling Feng’s private chef!
Since Ling Feng is accompanying, there should be no problem
Thinking so, Kante put down the dumbbell and nodded:
“Okay then”
“Just go to the media room, they are waiting for you.”
When Kante came to the media room, he saw two seats in the middle.
One was empty, and the other was occupied by Ling Feng, the star player of the Blue Fox.
Opposite Ling Feng, sat a middle-aged man in a suit and tie.
Seeing Kante, who was obviously a little reserved, Ling Feng immediately stood up, stepped forward and put his arm around Kante’s shoulders, and then whispered to him:
“N’Golo, if you have any questions later, it’s hard for you to answer, just pretend you don’t understand, I’ll help you answer.”
Hearing this, Kante immediately felt much more relaxed, and then showed Ling Feng his signature silly smile:
“OK.”
Although he had been interviewed by the media when he was in Caen in Ligue 1.
However, he has never been interested in these media and interviews.
He doesn’t like to be famous, and he doesn’t like to be the darling of the media.
He just likes to enjoy the joy of playing football and the rewards after hard work.
After Kante sat down, the interview began.
“Kante, how is your English?”
“It’s okay, I can probably understand it.”
At the beginning, the producer just asked Kante why he chose to join Leicester City and his feelings after joining.
However, when it comes to the topic of joining, Kante simply omitted some of the processes, saying that he learned about Leicester City from his agent, and then felt honored to have the opportunity to play in the Premier League.
After a few simple questions, the producer found that there was nothing interesting in this interview, so he suddenly threw out an interesting question:
“Ling, can you tell me the story of you and N’Golo? I heard from others that you and N’Golo always whispered in French in the corner”
Hearing this, Ling Feng raised his eyebrows and laughed out loud:
“Haha, those guys are just jealous of my language talent”
“But I remember that one day not long after he joined, after finishing extra training, I met N’Golo on the way home”
In front of the camera, Ling Feng told for the first time that he met Kante who was running back to the hotel on the roadside, and also told the story of how he picked up Kante to go to and from get off work, and then asked Kante to teach him French as a reward:
“It was in that month that I gained a friend and a French teacher”
After saying that, Ling Feng did not forget to raise his fist and signaled to Kante beside him.
The latter was stunned for a moment, and also raised his fist very cooperatively and bumped it with it.
“So what characteristics of N’Golo impressed you the most?”
“He is humble, serious, hardworking, and friendly. I really can’t find any shortcomings in him.”
“You can see N’Golo on any inch of grass on the court! I think every team wants an N’Golo!”
Turning his head to glance at Kante with a silly smile on his face, Ling Feng spread his hands and smiled:
“Whether it is the coach, teammates, or fans, everyone loves N’Golo.
Luo!”
(End of this chapter)