Chapter 019: Ancelotti and Zidane's worries
The headlines of the mainstream media in Europe revolved around the suspected unhappiness of Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo at the IFEMA Exhibition Center in Madrid, and the parties Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo also came to the Valdebebas training base in their respective cars.
Since today is the first day of training in the new season, the new head coach Carlo Ancelotti is also known as a good person in the industry, so the time is later than other teams.
Despite this, Tang Zheng drove his newly purchased red limited edition Ferrari Laferrari from the hotel to the Valdebebas training base in the northeast of Madrid.
Because it was the first time he came to the Valdebebas training base, the doorman did not know Tang Zheng's new car, so he was stopped.
But soon, the goalkeeper saw that the player in the car was Real Madrid's biggest investment in Tang Zheng this summer, and he immediately let him go.
Of course, before that, he was 'cheeky' and took advantage of his position to ask Tang Zheng for an autograph.
Tang Zheng will never refuse the fans' requests, so the doorman has a very good impression of him.
Many times the convenience of being with others is to make it convenient for oneself, so the old doorman patiently told Tang Zheng where the first-team parking lot was and how to get there.
Tang Zheng has a good memory, and he drove to the designated parking lot of the first team in less than two minutes according to the instructions of the doorman.
In the parking lot, Tang Zheng saw the scene of the Jing River.
Why is the Jing River distinct?
Audi is the official first-class partner of Real Madrid, and President Florentino advocates that the parking of players should be standardized, and the Audi series cars are parked in front of the eye-catching giant Audi logo, and the non-Audi series cars are parked on the other side, thus forming a huge visual advertising effect.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to sponsoring Real Madrid in cash, Audi will also send a luxury model to the first-team players every year, and the model is chosen by the Real Madrid players themselves, and Tang Zheng has just joined, and the relevant work has not yet been done.
However, the ownership of the vehicle provided by Audi does not belong to the player, it still belongs to Audi, but the player can change it at will every year, and the right to use it is for one year.
In addition to informing the first team of the location of the parking lot, the previous doorman's reminder also told the places that need to be paid attention to when parking, so Tang Zheng's car was parked on the other side of the huge Audi advertising logo.
Pull the handbrake with your right hand, then press the button to close the hood.
Tang Zheng got out of the car, put his right hand on the top edge of the door, and suddenly there was an explosion of a sports car.
A short time later, a beautiful and elegant, red Ferrari 599GTO stopped thirty centimeters to the right of Tang Zheng's Laferrari, only half a fingernail away from Tang Zheng's unclosed door.
Tang Zheng looked down at the owner in the car and raised his eyebrows.
Because...... It was Cristiano Ronaldo who parked the car.
At this time, it was still early, the parking lot was sufficient, and Cristiano Ronaldo's car chose to park next to Tang Zheng, and the distance control was very delicate, so Tang Zheng understood that it meant a demonstration.
But Tang Zheng's attention was not too much on Cristiano Ronaldo, he closed the car door, ignored Cristiano Ronaldo's defiant gaze, and then turned and walked to the first-team dressing room.
"Damn it!"
Cristiano Ronaldo patted the steering wheel dissatisfied.
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Tang Zheng thought that the second teammate to come to the locker room would be Cristiano Ronaldo, but the teammate he didn't expect was Isco.
Isco made a good impression of Tang Zheng, and they had dinner together last night and had a good conversation.
So when he saw Isco, he stood up with a smile, stretched out his right hand clenched into a fist, Isco looked left and right, and found that there was no one else, then grinned, also stretched out his right fist, touched Tang Zheng lightly, and said with a smile: "Just now I saw Cristiano Ronaldo's 599gto parked next to your new car, I was worried that you would be embarrassed, so I ran over." β
Tang Zheng gave an expression like this, no wonder Isco was the second to come to the locker room.
As for why Ronaldo didn't appear in the first-team locker room, Tang Zheng didn't think much about it, he changed into a training shirt by himself, and then waited for Isco to change his equipment, and then went to the first-team training ground together.
By the time Tang Zheng and Isco walked to the first-team training ground, Cristiano Ronaldo had finished jogging and was training with the ball.
Tang Zheng was very surprised by this, Cristiano Ronaldo didn't even go to the locker room, how could he change his equipment?
Are there any other locker rooms?
Or did they go to the wrong locker room?
These two questions kept hovering above Tang Zheng and Isco's brains until team deputy Ramos came to the training ground and hugged Tang Zheng very warmly.
From Ramos's mouth, we know that the locker room is rarely used in normal times, because Real Madrid's facilities are among the best in the world, and there is a player's living building next to the office building of the Valdebebas training base, where there are top-notch equipment for basketball and football teams.
There are all the facilities you need such as a small cinema, gymnasium, swimming pool, games room, etc......
Of greatest interest to Tang and Isco is the player's bedroom mentioned by Ramos, the player's living room, which is only accessible to first-team players and club officials from the football and basketball teams, with a total of 57 rooms.
Half belongs to the football team and half to the basketball team.
Each room is equipped with a fingerprint recognition system and has a bathroom, king-size bed and balcony.
According to the vice-captain Ramos, after the team gathers later, there will be a special staff member to lead Tang Zheng and Isco to the living building, choose their bedroom, and then record fingerprints.
During this period, in addition to Cristiano Ronaldo and Khedira, the first-team players who came to the stadium would take the initiative to hug Tang Zheng and say a few words of greeting.
The 2012-2013 Champions League final was an unforgettable experience for Real Madrid players.
Goalkeeper Casillas even joked: "If I had a gun in my hand, I would definitely shoot you without hesitation." β
Tang Zheng now has a good command of Spanish, English, German, and even a little Polish, so he and his teammates don't have any language barriers.
In addition, Tang Zheng is good at communication, and the first meeting with his new teammates was very pleasant.
Cristiano Ronaldo did not take the initiative to communicate with Tang Zheng because of Tang Zheng's 'arrogance' and lack of face, and Khedira was sold to Arsenal in the Premier League because of Tang Zheng's arrival.
Moments later, new coach Carlo Ancelotti led his four-man coaching team to the first-team training ground.
Among the four, Tang Zheng only knows one, and that is the former world superstar Zidan Zidane.
Although Carlo Ancelotti had spoken to the first-team players one by one before, this was the first time they had met each other, so he spoke to each of them very kindly.
It is not unreasonable for Carlo Ancelotti to be called a good man by industry insiders and the media, and his relationship with the players is quite well handled, which is clearly different from his predecessor Jose Mourinho, so everyone has a very good impression of him.
Coach Carlo Ancelotti has initially established communication with the players, but there are no new and old players yet.
And this also highlights Ancelotti's high emotional intelligence.
Usually a new manager might ignore this, but Carlo Ancelotti won't, especially with the strong introduction to Tang Zheng, who has been the most dazzling performer in the past 2012-2013 season.
Everyone welcomed Tang Zheng's arrival, but it didn't seem to be for Cristiano, Ronaldo and Khedira.
Ancelotti, who was standing at the head of the queue, took in the scene and shook his head secretly, what he was worried about seemed to ...... It's coming.
Cristiano Ronaldo joined Real Madrid in 2009 for a record 96 million euros, and Tang Zheng joined Real Madrid four years later for a transfer fee of more than 100 million euros, which is 'disrespectful' for Cristiano Ronaldo.
Especially in recent years, Cristiano Ronaldo has gradually become the number one star of Real Madrid, and he doesn't like to have someone who is stronger than him, especially this team.
Tang Zheng's style of play is tough, and his personality seems easy-going, but in fact, he gives Ancelotti a feeling of a raptor crossing the river.
In addition, Tang Zheng is the king of Real Madrid with the identity of the triple crown, and he is young, so he naturally has a kind of domineering.
Thinking of this, Ancelotti's head hurt again.
Zinedine Zidane, who has just become Ancelotti's assistant, has been influenced by Ronaldo in the past and has always admired Tang Zheng's talent, and his ability to become an assistant coach from the president's adviser has a lot to do with Tang Zheng's joining.
He knows that if the problems of Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo are not dealt with, Real Madrid's results in the 2013-2014 season will not be much better.
There are many grievances among the giants, especially for a top club like Real Madrid, which is even more severe.
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On the first day of training in the new season, Ancelotti did not arrange too much training for the team, but only formulated a simple recovery training, and then the physical trainer Giovanni Mauri took the players to the medical department for various physical fitness tests.
With the development of modern football, training needs to be scientific.
To the surprise of the new Real Madrid medical director JesΓΊs Olmo, Tang Zheng's physical condition is the same as Cristiano Ronaldo, and he is ranked as the most disciplined player in the team.
Of course, it was just an accident.
Many people say that Cristiano Ronaldo is a talented player, but in fact, few people know that his talent is not so good, and he has been able to grow into one of the top players in the world because he has put in more sweat than others.
Tang Zheng's great success in Dortmund in the past is directly related to his self-discipline and hard work.
As for the rest of the players, the stats made JesΓΊs Olmo shake his head.
Compared to the data left at the end of last season, it is not half a star.
Next, Real Madrid's medical team and strength and conditioning coach Giovanni Mauri began to develop a training plan for the player's physical condition.
Taking advantage of the free time, Tang Zheng, Isco, Ilya Ramendi, Carvajal and Casemiro were led by the staff to the living building connected to the office building, selecting rooms and recording fingerprints.
There are a total of 57 rooms, and half of them belong to the basketball team, in fact, there are not many to choose from, and the room Tang Zheng chose is the '108' left by Kaka.
Isco opted for the '110' room left by Mesut Ozil, Carvajal chose the '105' room left by Essien, while Illaramendi and Casemiro appeared less confident and chose the room further away.
In this regard, Tang Zheng shook his head.
It is not difficult to see from the choices of Ilia Ramendi and Casemiro that they are not too optimistic about the atmosphere of integrating into Real Madrid.
Like the confident Isco and Carvajal, they chose the back room, symbolizing that they have a great enterprising spirit.
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The Valdebebas office building, the three-storey house that connects the living buildings, houses Carlo Ancelotti and his two assistants, Paul Clament and Zidan Zidane, in the manager's office.
Ancelotti knocked on the table with his right hand, then looked at Clament and Zidane respectively, and said meaningfully: "Did you find anything special about the team's first training camp today?"
Clamment looked down for a moment, then shook his head, indicating that he had made no special discoveries.
So Ancelotti and Clamette looked at Zidane at the same time, and Zidane had a serious expression: "I do have a small discovery." β
Speaking of this, Zidane looked at Ancelotti with a smile: "Carlo, I think you should have found out too, right?"
Ancelotti smiled mysteriously and said, "Let's talk about your discovery first." β
Zidane said: "I believe that many people have paid attention to this morning's newspaper, or have a general understanding from the Internet, the situation of Don and Cristiano Ronaldo is a little wrong, but I don't know if this is not right from the competition in the arena or the 'contradiction' outside the arena, if it is a problem at the competitive level, it is easy to solve, after all, the two are in different positions, and there will be no direct competition, and the 'contradiction' outside the stadium is a little troublesome." β
Ancelotti tapped his chin and shook his head again: "No matter where the situation comes from, we need to do the next work." β
Zidane and Clamette nodded at the same time, agreeing with Ancelotti's statement, and then looked at Ancelotti separately, meaning what to do next.
"So be it. Ancelotti thought for a moment and turned his head to look at Zidane: "Zidan, your relationship with Tang seems to be good, he will hand it over to you, Cristiano Ronaldo will hand it over to me." β
"OK! β
Zidane nodded,
"Then what am I doing?"
Clamment pointed to his face.
"You?" Ancelotti got up from the couch, "responsible for the next training plan of the designated players." β
After saying that, he turned his head to look at Zidane again: "Without further ado, let's go now." β
After a short time, Zidane walked along the office building to the living building.
After the staff helped Tang Zheng record his fingerprints, he walked to another room, and he also helped other players record fingerprint systems.
Tang Zheng was wandering around the room with nothing to do, when there was a sudden knock on the door, he turned his head to see that it was Zidane, so he quickly greeted him, and at the same time stretched out his right hand with a smile: "Hey~ Long time no see." β
"Haven't you just seen this in the training ground?" Zidane winked at Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng rolled his eyes: "I mean last time." β
"The 2009-2010 Champions League final?"
"That's right. β
"Your girlfriend is beautiful. β
"Thank you. β
After a few shabby words, Zidane went straight to the point: "Actually, I came to you this time to talk to you about something." β
"Have something to talk to me about?" Tang Zheng suddenly thought of something: "Is it about the team?"
"Yes!"