A choice

A choice

The office was silent, and the sound of the raindrops hitting the windows could only be heard.

Le Kai sat upright, looking at the office and the old man in front of him from time to time.

Wenger with crossed legs, sat opposite, holding a document in his hand, and was flipping page by page.

He didn't speak, and Le Kai didn't even know what to say.

As he said before, he didn't know why the famous world coach took a fancy to him. Le Kai is very ordinary, of course, that was in the eyes of outsiders. For Le Kai himself, he had a big secret in his heart. He was not from this world.

He was born in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning in the north of China in the year 1994. Compared to other children, Le kai had a lot self-discipline from a young age due his previous life experience. From a very young age, he began to give himself some basic football training. Maybe it was the regret of level of his nation's football in his previous life that made him work harder.

Apart from the few world differences, he adjusted really quickly and was grateful for such a chance. One of the differences that made him happy was level of seriousness attached to football in the country. Since 2002, the Chinese football team has entered the World Cup two-in-a-row, which confirms the catchphrase '2002 is the year when football started'. Although they did reach the World Cup a number of times, they were always eliminated in the group stage. But compared to his previous life, the Chinese team has scored goals and won a group-stage game in the World Cup. Now the goal of Chinese football team was to reach the knockout stage.

Of course, this was not an easy task. There was nothing too difficult in the world, but only those who have heart may have chance.

In this era of vigorous development of football, three consecutive three-year youth training programs were carried out. Every three years is a term for a planned youth training program. Because this kind of plan has rigid indicators for youth training, football talents began to flourish, and batches of excellent players emerged. And Le Kai happened to be in the third batch of the planned youth training. After the training selection in the north of China, he was placed in the Portuguese youth training of Sporting Lisbon F.C. for further studies, and then he entered the Portuguese Super League. After a season, he was valued by Wenger to join Arsenal.

To digress a bit, he may ordinary, but he is not. He is different from others; he can predict the path of a ball. He can predict so accurately; it may be likened to foresight. This judgment of the ball path is almost 100% correct, and there has never been an error. And this benefited his talent in football enormously. This propelled him to became a ball stealing machine. During the time he joined Sporting Lisbon, the 17-year-old Le Kai contributed 80 steals in 25 games, averaging a terrifying 3.2 steals per game. This earned him the name O bloqeuio. This also made him extremely stable in the full-back position, and in the second half of the season, cemented his position in the starting eleven. This is all thanks to his 'foresight' golden finger.

He felt that Wenger probably took a fancy to this feature of him.

After all, he remembered that since Cesc Fabregas and Song left Arsenal, the Gunners have been in a state of weak back defence. Therefore, Le Kai felt that Wenger must have taken a fancy to his defensive ability.

But Wenger's next sentence made Le Kai straighten his posture.

"Do you want to be an average defender, or a world-class midfielder?"

Le Kai mouth opened slightly. He thought about Wenger's words, but he still could not understand.

World class midfielder?

I'm a defender, Professor!

But Wenger's expression didn't seem to be joking, his face was extremely serious, and there was a hint of certainty in his eyes. The confidence of the other party even made Le Kai himself start to shake. Did have the potential to become a world-class midfielder?Defending is what he has done from his previous life till now. But when he thought about use of foresight in the midfield area of the pitch, it made his blood boil in excitement. The only problem is that he has training to be a defender since seven. Is it possibly to change now?

Perhaps seeing the puzzlement in Le Kai's eyes, Wenger got up and walked to the desk, took a laptop and put it on the coffee table. He lays the laptop sideways for both to watch. Lucky leaned over and wanted to see what was on it.

It was a recorded video the warm-up match the warm-up match in which he participate. At the 65th minute, facing Arshavin's breakthrough, Le Kai completed a wonderful steal. He remembers this game, this moment. After he made a foresight, he knew the opponent's breakthrough route and set up the defence in advance.

Sure enough, Wenger pulled the video forward for a few seconds, pointed to the screen that suddenly left the defensive team a few seconds ago and moved to the right and asked, "Why are you running like that?"

Because he knew that Arshavin would break through from the right flank .

Wenger continued and pulled the timeline to 78 minutes. Arsenal made a sudden attack by speeding the tempo and dispatching defense cutting pass.

Here, Le Kai also intercepted it.

"Here too." Wenger finished and started to pull the timeline again.

"Here."

"And here."

After a few pauses, Wenger said solemnly: "You know how we like to play football, and we have deployed for this purpose. Can I understand that you have a very high reading ability and dynamic vision of the game?"

Le Kai was silent.

Wenger smiled and began to pull the timeline again; "The most important thing is here, when the injury time was 2 minutes, your long pass."

"This

That pass was very good. It rendered our defense static. The reason why it failed to convert into a goal is because your centre-forward didn't see it and didn't run at all."

Le Kai silently listened.

Having said this, Wenger suddenly smiled and said: "Child, you are a 17-year old, and your skills have not been fully finalized. You can completely change the position. How about trying the position of a central midfielder?"

"But I have not trained as a mid-fielder , Professor?" Lucky was a little anxious.

Wenger smiled slightly and said, "Do not worry, if it does not work, you resume your original defense position. I just don't want your wasted in defense when you can do more in the midfield."

Lucky suddenly said: "Thank you for believing in me. I will do my absolute best !"

Le Kai walked out of the office in contemplation, Wenger's s kept on playing in his mind.

Martin Hughes was waiting at the door, watching Lucky come out, he couldn't help asking, "How was it?"

"The contract was signed." Le Kai said .

Martin Hughes patted Lucky on the shoulder and said, "Welcome to Arsenal!"

"Thank you!" Le Kai's expression brightened a bit.

He glanced at Martin Hughes, and found that this guy was a lot happier than before.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

Martin Hughes grinned and laughed; "Our king is coming back!"

Lucky suddenly realized.

Thierry Henry, the king of Arsenal!

He remembers that around December 2011, Henry returned to Arsenal on loan. He hopes that with the return of Henry, the irritable hearts of Arsenal fans can be eased.

After he walked out of the office building, Le Kai was taken away by a man named Billy. He was a 35-year-old man, wearing a cowboy hat, with a beer-belly and driving a jeep. There was a lingering smell of cow dung and alcohol mixed in the car as the air refresher did its job. The tip of his nose was red. It was obvious that he was a alcohol lover. And this person was the parent of a family that was hosting him.

Since Le Kai is underage, he cannot rent a house alone outside. He was living with a family of fans under the arrangement of the club. Billy is an Arsenal fan, a farmer, and a wealthy owner with small assets. In Billy's words, his whole family are Arsenal diehards.

Arsenal Training Centre was in London. Fortunately, Billy lives not far from the training centre, and he is a person that Arsenal trusts very much, so Billy was entrusted to take care of him.

Billy was a very friendly and talkative guy and in the car, he started showing off his poor Chinese. He even him the nickname of 'Little Lucky',

The reason is that his Chinese name is very similar to the English word, lucky. Although Le Kai has emphasized many times that the word "Yue" is a polyphonic, Billy still called what he wanted.

They were staying in a smalltown with less than 1,000 residents. The town consists mostly of farms. If it wasn't for the heavy downpour, Lucky wouldn't mind taking a good tour.

Led by Billy, Le Kai walked into a two-story building. Opening the door which leads to a hallway, Le Kai is welcomed by a strong smell of grilled cheese.

Billy sniffed and smiled at Lucky "Elena knew you were coming, so she started on dinner''

Sure enough, a chubby woman came out of the kitchen. She held a spatula in her left hand and a kitchen napkin in the right. After seeing Lucky, she smiled pleasantly and said,''Welcome. "

Lucky felt quite warm due to the enthusiasm of the Billy family.

"Come in, I'm preparing dinner for you, I hope you like it." Elena walked over and hugged Lucky lightly, smiling. "You will definitely become an Arsenal gunner, right?"

Lucky smiled. "I will work hard!"

Billy carried his luggage to the second floor. Going up the stairs to the second floor is a straight aisle with two rooms on both sides of the aisle.

Billy pointed to the first room on the left and said, "This is my son'sroom, his name is Kevin, he is 10 years old."

"It's 11 years old after Chinese New Year."

The door opened a gap, and a small figure hid behind the door, revealing half of his face, his blue eyes looked up at Le Kai, and said timidly, "Hello."

"Hello." Lucky smiled and waved his hand.

Billy said displeasingly,"Kevin, come out to say hello, you have to learn to be polite!"

"I don't wanna!"

Kevin closed the door with a bang.

Billy said bitterly,"As you can see, Kevin is a little different!"

Lucky smiled and said, "He will be less timid in the future."

Billy sighed, "Hopefully."