Fox in the Penalty Area

"Damn it, Matt, why are your dark circles heavier?" When colleague Harry Speed ​​saw Matt Dawn in the office, he exclaimed.

Matt replied weakly: "Because I didn't go to bed until 4:30 this morning, and then got up at 8 o'clock..."

"Oh my God, Matt, even if you die bravely for the club, there is no way to name any of the stands of the'Castle Stadium' after you..." Harry said exaggeratedly.

"Then maybe you can name a toilet after me? If that's the case, I hope it's a female toilet..."

Harry laughed loudly: "Well, I know you can't die when I hear you can still joke. The boss called you over. He might have a new job to arrange for you."

"Okay, thank you Harry, I'll go now." After speaking, Matt got up from his seat, then picked up the tablet and walked towards the head coach's office.

Seeing that the footsteps were floating and almost drifting out of the colleagues in the office, Harry shook his head helplessly, but at the same time he was emotional. Fortunately, Matt is a twenty-six-year-old young man who can bear it. If I stayed up like this for two consecutive days, I can't stand it early.

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"Boss, are you looking for me?" Matt knocked on the door of head coach Tony Clark's office, then pushed in.

I saw a middle-aged man with a full face and beard inside, stood up and opened his arms to him: "Ah, dear Matt, you are here...Huh? Why are you acting like this?"

Apparently he also noticed Matt Dawn's wilting appearance.

"Well, I slept less than eight hours in these two days..."

"Ah, sorry, I didn't expect that the analysis video you asked for yesterday cost you so much energy..." Tony Clark said as he recalled, "No, wait, you put The video is handed over to me, so why did you stay up late last night?"

"Uh, it's like this, boss, I was playing CGF yesterday." Matt explained.

""The Godfather of Champions"?"

"Yes, it's "The Godfather of Champions."

"Matt, it's not the first day that we two met. I know you are a crazy CGF player, but I have never seen you play like this. If I didn't know you very well, I would even suspect you Ten women each have ten shots, ha!" Tony Clark grinned.

Faced with the head coach’s boring joke, Matt Dawn rolled his eyes: “In fact, if I didn’t think I would come to work today, I might not choose to sleep at 4:30 in the morning, but would continue to sleep. Go down."

"The "Godfather of Champions" has a new version? No, isn't it only released in October?"

"Uh, it's like this. I accidentally found a post in the crowded community..."

Matt Dawn told Tony Clark about what happened to him yesterday.

"...So you are saying that you found a talented player on the Internet, so you decided to go to the game to verify it, and it turned out that it was exactly like the person said. The attributes of this person are not very good, but they are really capable. Goal?" Tony Clark summed up the big pile of what he just said in a simple and concise way, and successfully shattered the author's conspiracy to take this opportunity to count words.

"Yes, I changed two teams in the game and played for many seasons, both. Especially the second team. He even helped the team reach the Europa League. Boss, you know Which team am I coaching?"

"I don't know..." Tony Clark shook his head.

"Hammond Castle!"

Tony Clark froze for a moment, then suddenly asked as if he was thinking of something: "Wait, you coached my team?"

"Yes, boss..."

"Then where did I go?" The shaggy Clark asked Matt Dawn, pointing to himself.

"Uh...I don't know, Boss. Every player who enters the game doesn't care about the fate of his predecessor who is replaced by him... In addition, Boss, do you care about the wrong point? The focus is on the young player. Okay?" Matt felt inexplicable.

"That player, of course, his performance in the game is really good. But Matt, you have to know, the game is a game after all, no matter how real it is, it is also a game. And the most proud database of "The Godfather of Champions" In fact, it’s only true enough for the players of the European League. As for a young Chinese player... God, the only Chinese restaurant in Portsmouth so far in my life that has a relationship with China. I have eaten there. ..."

Matt pointed to Clark's clothes and interrupted him: "Clothes, boss."

"What happened to the clothes?"

"Your clothes, jeans, sneakers under your feet, this coffee cup on the table, this pair of sunglasses, a sun hat... Oh yes, and this, the carpet under your feet..." Speaking of which, Ma Kneeling on one knee, he bent down and lifted the corner of the carpet, and found the label to confirm it, "Well, yes, the carpet, all of this has something to do with China, and what they have in common is that they are all made in China. 'of."

Matt stood up and spread his hands to his boss.

Tony Clark was speechless: "So it looks like I am standing above China?"

"You can think of it like this, Boss, your life is full of Chinese elements." Matt said, suddenly pointing to a player-shaped ornament on his table and said: "And this, the boss, this is also from China."

"What are you kidding me, Matt? This is a memorial statue of my retirement at Hammond Castle. On it is me, you see, how vivid it is, as if I was shrunken and standing on it!" Ni Clark took the player statuette, placed it next to his face, and showed it to Matt Dawn.

"Oh, that means that the Chinese factory that produces this has very good modeling technology." Matt took the statue from Clark, then turned it over and pointed to the label below.

Clark took a closer look at the label Matt pointed to:

MadeinChina

He widened his eyes: "Damn it! Old Tom told me that this is handmade and the only one in the world!"

"Old Tom" Tom Chichester is the chairman of Hammond Castle Club. When Tony Clark retired from the club four years ago, he took over such a statuette from the club chairman. As a memorial and tribute to the player who only played for the Hammond Castle team in his career.

"Haha!" Matt laughed, "Congratulations, Boss. Maybe when you travel to China in the future, you will see many'you' in the store..."

Clark was also amused: "Then it looks like I should go to China, maybe there I am already a well-known celebrity, everyone will have a statue of me in everyone's home... Oh, think about it, it feels wonderful!"

After laughing, he sullen his face again and grinned to Matt and said: "But Matt, the Tony Clark statuette of'MadeinChina' is different from the player of'MadeinChina'. The former has only one task, and that is to pose. It’s admirable on the table, on the shelf, or in other places. The latter is required to play. Do you think there are good players in China? At least I have not heard of... and, moreover."

Seeing that Matt seemed to have something to say, he quickly raised his hand to stop him, and continued: "Furthermore, Matt. As I just said, in the mainstream European leagues, the sports ranger company can guarantee their The player database is authentic and credible, but in the far east, where the sports ranger company has no time to take care of? We don’t know anything about what happened there. Why does the sports ranger guarantee that the player data there is real? Believe it? The Chinese player you love so much in the game, he looks like a'genius'..."

Having said this, Tony Clark raised his hands, put out **** each, and made a "quotation mark" gesture.

"But it may also be the national pride of the local investigators. In reality, Chinese players can't reach this level, so they can only satisfy themselves by exaggerating the reported data... Remember those top monsters in GF? There are a few young monsters in the game whose data is as beautiful as the most perfect player you can imagine. The result? In reality, they were found to be ordinary players who are so mediocre that they can no longer be mediocre. So, Matt, don’t Take it too seriously, it's just a few lines of game code."

Matt Dawn certainly knows the stories of the monsters his coach told him, and he is even familiar with them.

But he still felt that now and then, the influence of "Godfather of Champions" was still very limited, and the sports ranger was just an independent game studio working in a garage, because there was no way to collect player data from mainstream European leagues. The attribute value can only be imagined out of thin air, and then there are some jokes that the top geniuses in the game are unknown in reality.

But now, the sports ranger has a large team of volunteer investigators in many countries. For example, he himself is such an investigator. He believes that in such a large market in faraway China, it is impossible to have no dedicated investigators. ...

Of course, this is not the time to argue with the boss. He remembered that the boss asked him to come as if something was going on, so he asked, "Boss, did you ask me to discuss the game with me?"

"Ah." Tony Clark patted his forehead. "You made me forget about business. I originally wanted you to help me make an analysis video of our next round opponent York United, but I see In your current state of mind, I'll find someone else to do it..."

Matt said quickly, "No, I'm fine, Boss. In fact, my brain is so clear, I just look tired..."

Tony Clark looked at his young video analyst and nodded in agreement: "Indeed, you can talk to me here for a long time about a country that none of us have visited. Okay, then this afternoon the team I need this video when I finish training."

"No problem, boss!" Matt walked away.

After he walked out of the office, Tony Clark, the 38-year-old young head coach, picked up the figurine decoration on his desk again, and looked carefully at his miniature.

So lifelike and lifelike... It was actually made on the assembly line?

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After training in the afternoon, not long after Tony Clark returned to the head coach's office, Matt knocked on his door again.

"Boss, the video you want." He put the USB flash drive in his hand on the desk in front of Clark.

But instead of leaving, he handed his cell phone to Tony Clark.

"What's this...'transfer window'? What are you showing me this for?" Tony Clark raised his head and looked at Matt Dawn suspiciously.

"Transfer Window" is an internationally renowned football data website, which contains almost all football-related data in the world, from players to staff, from clubs to national teams, and all football-related data on this website. Can find it.

Of course, now in the mobile Internet era, this veteran website has also launched a mobile APP client, allowing people to conveniently query the player information and transfer trends they want to query directly on their mobile phones.

What Matt Dawn showed Tony Clark was the mobile client interface of this website.

"LaiHu! This is the Chinese player I told you." Matt Dawn pointed to a photo of a player on the phone screen and said ~www.ltnovel.com~ Tony Clark looked down at the side of the phone screen The smiling young player, with a childish appearance, raised his hands: "Yes, a real player. I didn't say that he was a fiction, Matt."

"No, not this. You look down and look at his game record. This is his game record in the Chinese Football League this season... By the way, the Chinese League is different from ours. They started at the beginning of the year. At the end of the year, it’s not New Year’s Eve. This year’s China League One has played eight rounds, and he has scored seven goals in the league..." Matt slides the phone screen to introduce Tony Clark.

"In the first three rounds of the league, he did not score and did not play. That was because he went to participate in an international competition called the East Asian Cup. He represented the Chinese national team in three appearances and scored five goals, winning the best match of that tournament Shooter. After coming back, he scored seven goals in the league and three goals in their domestic cup matches—similar to our FA Cup games. That is to say, he played nine games in all competitions this season. A total of 15 goals were scored."

Matt Dawn held the phone screen in front of Tony Clark's eyes and listed the numbers in a calm tone, just like the daily work of a data analyst.

"I don't know if the Chinese investigator has falsely reported the value, and I don't care if the exaggeration in the post of the overwhelming community, I only trust the data, the boss. That LaiHu, only 19 years old, he was selected for the Chinese national team, he participated In international competitions...no matter what game he participates in, he scores goals. This is what the statistics tell us, and the boss, the statistics will not lie."

Tony Clark stared at the tables and numbers on Matt Dawn's phone without speaking.