After the match in Barcelona, the entire team moved to Madrid.

Reality shows aren't filmed all at once and then broadcast episode by episode.

Instead, they're filmed and broadcast simultaneously. This allows for better timeliness and lets more viewers get involved.

It's like why online novels aren't written in their entirety before uploading all the content at once.

Because that would prevent good interaction with the readers, and it would lose the biggest advantage of online novels.

In fact, many American dramas are filmed and broadcast at the same time, adjusted according to audience feedback, and the effect is surprisingly good.

As a reality show, this arrangement is also necessary.

So, while the team was doing training and games in Madrid, the first episode of *Green Field Inheritors*, edited and produced, was broadcast on Zhejiang Satellite TV in China as scheduled.

Because of the all-out promotion beforehand, this show, positioned as "China's first football reality show," attracted a lot of attention.

Now, with great anticipation, the show was finally online.

From the first minute of the show, the ratings began to climb steadily.

The young players with different personalities living and training together already provided plenty of drama, and the game segments were also designed to be fun and full of laughs.

Especially Zhou Yi's sentence at the Barcelona airport, "Someone is filming next to me when I go to the toilet and take a shower... I really can't get used to it," made the audience in front of the TV laugh.

The qualities shown by the young players on the training ground also made the fans in front of the TV feel that perhaps these people were not as bad as the Internet said, and were not people who had been rejected by various clubs.

He Ying, as the most famous star in the team, also had the highest popularity. Many young men and women waited in front of the TV just to see what their "cold-faced handsome guy" He Ying was doing in the team.

Everything did not disappoint.

The highlights that the program team had promoted before were presented to the TV audience one after another, with excellent results.

If this episode had ended with the Chinese teenagers defeating the La Masia Youth B team in the game through hard work, this episode could have been called perfect.

Unfortunately, in the game segment that everyone was most concerned about, all the audience in front of the TV were doused with cold water.

Because of the previous publicity and program segments, the audience's appetite had been whetted, and they couldn't wait to know the results of the game.

Fake fans or people who purely didn't watch football and just watched the excitement thought that the Chinese teenagers would definitely win. Their reasoning was very simple—this is a TV reality show, a variety entertainment program, so how could an entertainment program make people feel bad at the end? So the final result must have been written in the script, and China will win 100%! As for how they made the powerful Barcelona youth team lose... that's a matter for the sponsors and the program team's public relations.

The audience didn't care about those details; they just needed to enjoy the joy of victory.

But football fans believed that it would be difficult for the Chinese teenagers to defeat Barcelona, but maybe they would get a draw, or even if they lost, they wouldn't lose by too much. After all, the program effect still had to be considered. If they lost too much, who would be able to save face?

But these people were wrong.

When the full-time score appeared on the screen, the TV audience was stunned—0:12!

The Chinese teenagers didn't score a single goal, but were scored on twelve times!

This result was really unexpected by everyone.

For a time, after the show was broadcast, the Internet exploded.

In 2008, China's Internet didn't yet have WeChat. Tieba (Baidu Forums) and QQ groups were the main places for everyone to communicate.

On the Tieba forum for the *Green Field Inheritors* show, there were many posts that insulted, ridiculed, and criticized the program team and the young players.

"... Lost twelve goals! And they have the nerve to say that they are the strongest in the country in the seventeen-year-old age group... They really don't draft when they brag!"

"It's just hilarious! They blew their bragging out of proportion! Now let's see how the program team spins it! 0:12! Two hands aren't enough to count it!"

"Alas, a new shame for Chinese football has been born!"

"What Green Field Inheritors? I think it should be called 'Shame Inheritors'! It really does inherit the consistent fine tradition of Chinese football!"

"I'm also stupid, I actually still have expectations for Chinese football... Judging from the performance of the national Olympic team at the Olympic Games, I should have guessed the nature of this show..."

"I'll tell everyone a joke: Chinese football! Hahahahaha!"

"Alas, let's disperse, wash up and go to sleep, Chinese football..."

In other places on the Internet, there were also comments about this episode, and almost all the voices were derogatory and negative. There were also people who claimed to be fans of He Ying who posted to express their disappointment with their idol: "How could he perform so badly? How could he not save the team and become the hero in my heart?"

Although the program team was in Spain, they would collect feedback information through various channels after the program was broadcast, so they saw it all.

No one likes being cursed like a dog, so seeing such bad feedback, the staff of the program team were also in low spirits.

Xu Tao asked Hao Dong if the Chinese team could win in the next game.

Hao Dong replied very simply: "I haven't seen the possibility of winning yet. The youth training of Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid is also very strong."

Hearing the answer from a professional, the chief director Xu Tao sighed deeply.

What's the point of playing this kind of game knowing that you will lose?

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While the Internet in China was already boiling over the first episode, the young players seemed to be in another world, turning a deaf ear to what was happening outside and focusing on playing football.

Although they lost the first game, and lost badly, the filming plan still had to be pushed forward. In addition to normal training, they also had to complete the program team's various tasks and games. But it could still be seen that the crushing defeat had left an indelible mark on the minds of many players in a short period of time, and many players were not in high spirits.

And the thought of having to face two more teams next made them even more dispirited.

Just like the chief director Xu Tao's sigh, no one would be in the mood to face a game that they were sure to lose.

In Madrid, they would challenge the youth training camps of two teams, one was Real Madrid, and the other was Atletico Madrid.

In Spain, there are three clubs whose youth training camps are recognized as high-level, one is La Masia, the Barcelona youth training camp that Zhou Yi and the others had just challenged and lost miserably.

The second is Real Madrid's youth training camp, Castilla. This club's youth training has a fine tradition. The "Five Eagles Era," which created Real Madrid's glory, all came from their own youth training system. Although they haven't provided any famous players for the first team in recent years, they have exported many active players to La Liga. Just at the beginning of 2007, the media had a statistic that among the sources of La Liga players in the 2006-2007 season, as many as forty-three came from Real Madrid's youth training.

The third is Athletic Bilbao's youth training camp. This club believes in a localization strategy. Except for Basques, everyone else is rejected, so their first team has the highest dependence on the youth training camp. If they don't want their first team to have no one available, they must put a lot of effort into youth training, so Athletic Bilbao's youth training can be ranked third in the entire La Liga.

Next, the youth training of Sevilla, Villarreal, and Valencia are also very strong.

However, the youth training of one team has always been ignored, and that is Atletico Madrid. Although their youth training camp is simply one underground and one above compared to their city rival Real Madrid in terms of hardware facilities, they have also cultivated many outstanding players, such as Real Madrid's banner Raul Gonzalez. Don't look at him as Real Madrid's iconic figure, but he was cultivated by Atletico Madrid's youth training camp.

Another example is Atletico Madrid's golden boy Torres, who was also cultivated by Atletico Madrid themselves. And future stars such as Koke and De Gea are rising.

Now Atletico Madrid Club has also increased its investment in youth training, and the level of Atletico Madrid's youth training is actually very high.

The youth training camps of Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are the objects that the Chinese teenagers will challenge in Madrid.

Even from the perspective of youth training level, perhaps they are weaker than the La Masia football school.

But this doesn't mean that the Chinese teenagers can find confidence from them.

At La Fábrica, Real Madrid's Youth B team beat the teenagers 9:0. The only consolation for the Chinese team was that they didn't lose by double digits this time.

At Atletico Madrid's training base, Majadahonda, the Chinese teenagers defended desperately throughout the game, but still lost seven goals without scoring.

From 0:12 to 0:7, just looking at the score, you might simply think that the Chinese teenagers' performance has improved.

But anyone who has watched these three games probably wouldn't feel that way.

Because the reduction in the number of goals conceded was not because the teenagers performed better, but because their opponents knew to restrain themselves. Sometimes, the attacks were simply symbolic, stopping when they reached the point, especially when they were already leading by three or four goals.

They also seemed to know that people were there to film a show, so there was no need to make it too ugly.

Zhou Yi remained a substitute for the entire process of these two games, without getting even a minute of playing time, and he continued to compete with the La Masia Youth B team in his dreams.

There was good news, although the Chinese team led by him still lost, at least... there were goals.

The virtual He Ying scored a goal in the game against the La Masia Youth B team.

After He Ying scored his first goal, Zhou Yi woke up and saw He Ying's still lifeless face, and couldn't help but want to comfort him that he had actually scored in the game against La Masia, but only in his dream.

But he was afraid that if he said it, He Ying would think he was mocking him, so he could only think about it in his heart and didn't dare to say it out loud.

After finishing the three-game trip to two cities in Spain, Zhou Yi and his teammates set off with the crew and left Spain from Madrid.

When boarding the plane, Zhou Yi stood on the boarding stairs and looked back.

Sun Pan, who was blocked by him, urged, "What are you looking at? What's so good about this broken country? Hurry up and get in!" He had picked up the ball from the goal thirty-eight times in Spain for three weeks, and it was indeed difficult for him to have a good impression of this country... He couldn't wait to leave Spain as soon as possible, and it would be best if he never came back again.

Zhou Yi turned a deaf ear to his urging, looked into the distance, and murmured, "Spain, I will come back, I will come back to conquer you!"

Sun Pan looked at him: "Do you want people to wash themselves clean, strip naked, and lie on the bed waiting for you to conquer them?"

"Pay attention to your words, the target audience of this book is all ages!" Zhou Yi reminded Sun Pan.

Sun Pan squeezed past him with his bag: "Crazy..."

Yang Muge patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder: "Let's go."

Only then did Zhou Yi follow into the cabin, put away his luggage, fasten his seat belt in his seat, and waited for a while. The plane then rushed into the sky from the runway and flew to Munich, Germany.

That was their next stop, the next opponent, the Bayern Munich youth team, was waiting for them.

But the teenagers were no longer as excited as they were on the plane from China to Spain.

After experiencing three crushing defeats, their mood for the next stop was very complicated. It was a bit like rushing to be beaten up.

Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, can't you just not go?

Zhou Yi didn't have such complicated feelings. He put on his eye mask and quickly fell asleep. He wanted to seize the time to train and compete in the virtual system of FIFA Online 3.

Instead of fearing the future, it's better to prepare more. Maybe one day in the future, these preparations accumulated before will lead to a qualitative change caused by quantitative change?