In 2015, Ye Xuan was seventeen years old.
He had just been eliminated from the China League A youth training camp and returned to his hometown in Xuncheng, dragging a woven bag. The coach's words were so polite that people couldn't get angry: "My skills are good, but my body is too thin, and the number of places in the team is limited."
This is not a consolation, it is a verdict.
No one thinks he can still make a living in football. Until he stood on the sidelines of Jiangxi Chiyan's training ground and said those words to head coach Liu Jianjun:
"I don't want anything, just twenty minutes."
