Marseille, France.
After a day of devil training, Frank Ribery came home with a tired body.
His wife vasiba is preparing dinner, while he is sitting on the balcony outside, quietly watching the sunset in the distance, but the whole person feels empty, and always feels powerless.
He knows that his state is not good and his mentality is not right, but he has never been able to adjust.
This has been going on for a full year.
Since the world cup in Germany, he seems to have been evacuated, as if all his strength has been exhausted in the world cup. Although his status in the club and the national team has been significantly improved after the world cup, he still has no way to revive himself.
He wanted to get back the excitement he had when he played in the league and the world cup, but he still couldn't.
He's in trouble!
Everyone, including the coach of Marseille, the senior teammates of the national team, and all the people he knows, are telling him that he has encountered a bottleneck and that he needs to break through it. Otherwise, it will be difficult for him to make further progress.
A professional player's career is like sailing against the current. If he doesn't advance, he will retreat.
Ribery was afraid, afraid to go back to the wandering days of the past.
But the more afraid he was, the deeper he was.
It was like a whirlpool. The more he struggled, the faster he sank.
He didn't know what to do with himself.
Finally, he closed his eyes slowly, and the shocking scar on his face was shining in the afterglow of the setting sun.
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Who is the new Zidane?
The French have been troubled by this problem for a year.
Since the end of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Zidane's head over Materazzi has ended France's hope of reaching the world cup and his personal career as a club and national team.
After Zidane retired, who will replace him and become the soul core of the French national team?
Frank Ribery used to be a favorite.
The 24-year-old scar faced winger was not well-known and his career was in a mess. He once mixed with low-level teams such as Boulogne, Ares and Brest, and then went to MESE in the French first division. As a result, he moved to Galatasaray in Turkey a year later.
It turned out that Turkey was not suitable for the French, so he returned to France and joined Marseille.
It was in Marseille's first season that Ribery performed well in the league, won the best Rookie Award and won a ticket for the national team to fight for the world cup. Moreover, he also showed amazing strength on the stage of the world cup in Germany and won full applause.
It can be said that at that time, almost everyone concluded that he would be the core figure of France after Zidane.
But with the start of the 2006-07 season, along with injuries, and the ups and downs of the state, Ribery's performance in the French League was not as good as the outside world expected. On the contrary, Lyon's left winger Malouda was brilliant. He not only suppressed Ribery, but also won the best player of the season.
The younger Samir Nasri, who is also in Marseille team, has also shown amazing talent potential. In the past season, the spotlight has completely suppressed Ribery, becoming Marseille's most outstanding talent star and the only player in Marseille team who has been selected into the best team of the season.
Not only in the club, but also in the national team, Ribery's position has been challenged.
At first, it was gowu. This player once performed very well after the world cup, but his characteristics are different from Zidane. He is not a satisfactory forward. Therefore, Domenech did not place high hopes on him. Instead, he promoted Marseille midfield Nasri to the national team in March.
As a result, Nasri has become the most eye-catching player in the national team since March. Especially in the group match of the European Cup qualifier on June 6, he scored a key goal to help France beat Georgia one-to-zero and continue the excellent record of the team after the world cup.
The title of the new Zidane, also after the game, was crowned by the French media and fans in Nasri's head.
The 19-year-old prodigy began to win the attention of all media fans in France and even in Europe, and became the target of numerous rich teams. He became the most popular player of the French national team.
Ribery also scored a goal in this time's national team game, but it was in the home game against Ukraine on June 2. He was the first to open the record, but in these two games, his fame was completely covered by Nasri.
What's more, Malouda, the best player in the French first division, moved to the top club Chelsea last season. Once he performs well in the Premier League, it is bound to shake Ribery's position in the national team, because both of them are left wingers.
It is because of such a concern that Ribery has worked very hard in the pre-season training of the new season, but he has never been able to adjust his state to his satisfaction.
Fortunately, there is still a long time for pre-season preparation, and everyone is still patient with him.
But if he doesn't get back to his best, let alone play in the top league, I'm afraid that even in the French first division and the French national team will be shaken.
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A cry from his wife vasiba in the kitchen awakened Ribery in the closed eyes.
The Frenchman, startled, opened his eyes and looked around, but saw nothing.
"The phone, Frank." His wife's voice came again.
Ribery was relieved that his cell phone in the living room rang.
Lazily stood up from the balcony chair, quickly walked back to the living room, grabbed the mobile phone to look at the screen, the caller ID is a strange phone number.
Strange, who?
But Ribery pressed answer and put the phone to his ear. "Hello, who can I speak to?"
He was in French, but an English sentence came across the phone.
"Hello, is that Frank Ribery, please?" Asked the stranger.
"Er... Who are you?" Ribery did not answer, but asked.
The person on the other side of the phone smiles, "I'm Alpine."
"High cold?" Ribery didn't respond for a moment, so he wanted to ask, who is alpine?
But the next second, he was stunned and cried out: "alpine cold?"
Even vasiba, his wife in the kitchen, was shocked by the movement.
"My God, you... You... You are... Alpine?"
"Yes." The person in the phone answers faintly.
"The former head coach of Inter Milan, who is rumoured to be in charge of Bayern Munich?" Ribery's face was full of surprise.
Hearing this, the cold on the phone seems to be hesitant, "in European football, there should be no second cold?"
It's him! It's true, it's him!
Gao Han called me, my God!
Ribery had an urge to go crazy. He even wondered if he was dreaming?
See him very hard to twist his arm, pain, pain, but he is silent laughter.
I'm not dreaming. Alpine called me!
"Hello, are you listening?"
"Ah, yes, yes, yes, I'm so excited, Mr. Gao Han. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."
"Never mind. I'm just worried about you hanging up on me." Gao Han laughs.
"No, no, how? Which professional player is willing to hang up on you? " Ribery himself felt flattered. "But... But, Mr. Gao Han, you called me..."
"Yes, there is something."
"Well, you say, you say." Ribery was excited.
What can I do for you?
Don't say that he is a smart guy, even if his brain lacks a string, he should think of it at this time.
"As you said, I really want to take over Bayern Munich, but I need a very good winger, I think you are very suitable, because you have the strength to become the best top left winger, but I want to know, would you like to come to Bayern Munich?"
The more Ribery listens, the bigger his mouth will open, and he will be able to squeeze his whole fist in the end.
Yes, that's right. Gao Han called him to invite him to play football.
"Yes, I do, Mr. Gao Han, I do." Ribery had the impulse to repeat it a hundred times, even a thousand times. Even at his wedding with his wife vasiba, he was not so impulsive as he is now.
My God, playing for the cold, that's the dream of all professional players. It's my turn!
"That's good. I'll call you today just to ask your opinion. Next I'll let the club talk to Marseille. I'm looking forward to seeing you at the sebena training base in the new season."
"Thank you. Me too, Mr. Gao Han." Ribery said excitedly, "but... What can I do for you?"
Generally speaking, the top teams always need the cooperation of the players to play for the leading stars of the other team.
"No, frank, you just have to be patient and train hard."
"Don't worry, Mr. Gao Han, I promise."
"OK, goodbye."
"Good bye, Mr. Gao Han."
After Ribery hung up, the whole person clenched his fist, jumped up from the ground, cheered and rushed over like a sharp arrow. He picked up his wife vasiba, who was standing at the kitchen door, and made a big mouth to kiss her.
He's so excited, so excited!
"What's the matter? What's going on? " Vasiba was almost out of breath.
"Alpine, alpine, vasiba, the number one gold medal coach in football, has cultivated Kaka, Torres, villa, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Deco, Ibrahimovic, Adriano, Yaya Toure..."
"My God, all the players who play under him have become the top stars in the world."
Vasiba was shocked to hear Ribery's words.
"He even called me and invited me to work for him. You said, vasiba, can I refuse? How can I refuse? "
Ribery, he's so excited.
All of a sudden, he felt that his lost goal had become clear again.
He is eager to play under the leadership of the cold, and make great progress, like Kaka, like Messi, like Cristiano Ronaldo, like Ronaldinho and others, to become one of the top stars in the world, and even the first French player to win the World Footballer of the year after Zidane.
All of a sudden, his goal became clear, and his lost fighting spirit came back.
He felt as if he was full of strength, a desire and a strong will.
This is incredible!
But it happened to him so truly.
And this also makes him more firm in his mind, must go to Bayern Munich, to play for the cold!