Milanello is empty in the early morning and the players rarely come here in the morning.

The Milan Sports Centre, also known as Milanello, is where the entire Milan squad trains when the team is not competing.

Located about 40 km northwest of the city of Milano, Milanello was built in 1963 and consists of 6 pitches, as well as a number of small artificial grass pitches. With a total area of 114,000 square meters, it is located on the outskirts of Milan, and the whole center includes a forest and a small lake in addition to the regular training grounds and equipment, and the air is very relaxed, which is ideal for players to train and rest.

If you choose to drive, it is still convenient to take the highway. But if you don't have a car, it's a bit of a hassle.

Specifically, you have to take a train from Milan to a small town called Galalata, and from there you take a local taxi to Milanello. There are several train stations in Milan, but Milano Porta Garibaldi is the easiest and quickest to get to.

Ou Chuliang's Bi Ma Wen was parked in the parking lot of Milanello, and the security guard had already memorized Ou Chuliang's license plate number and appearance in advance, but he was a little surprised by Ou Chuliang's early morning visit.

Acchulian has passed Milan's medical examination, but a shoulder injury at the World Cup has earned him a low rating from the team doctor.

'You don't have a lot of work on your shoulders at the moment, but if you want to play in the goalkeeping position for 10 or 20 years, then you have to reduce the intensity of training and your shoulders need to rest.

In a simple sentence, it reflects the difference between the level of the Milan team doctor and other places.

People are not only professional, but also think about the player's future competitive state. Every new player Milan wants to develop him as a lifelong player, but not every player has the qualifications to do so.

It's not easy to get this qualification because you don't just have to be good enough, you also have to have a background and get along well with the club. Like the Maldini family, it took two generations to work hard.

After signing a contract with Yousibao, there is a way to use suitable gloves. Considering Ou Chuliang's shoulder and back problems, Milan suggested that Ou Chuliang find a sports brand to tailor a sports tank top for him.

For this reason, Raiola once again embarked on the "journey", with the title of Milan, both Nike and Adi are very happy to seek separate cooperation with Ou Chuliang.

"There's one kilometer left, do you want to sprint?" Ou Chuliang looked at the watch on his wrist, he hesitated for a moment, and then kept his original speed.

A four-year contract, for a club as big as Milan, Acchulian has to a large extent to take responsibility for his body and health. The most important step is that it's best not to work against the team doctor.

After a simple jogging to warm up, Ou Chuliang began to do some training with the ball again.

Unlike other goalkeepers, Acchulian likes to play with his feet because he loves football. Touching the ball with your hands is work, and kicking the ball with your feet is a hobby.

Even Zaccheroni was amazed: "How lucky he would be if talent, love, effort, opportunity, and honor all came together in one body!" ”

Less than three days after arriving in Milan, Ou Chuliang began to miss the game.

It is completely different from Naples, and Milan is the economic and cultural center of Italy compared to the countryside in the south. In such a metropolis, everyone lives very busy and the pace of the city is very fast.

This made Ou Chuliang feel that if he didn't train hard and didn't compete hard, he would be overtaken by others.

After training alone, Ou Chuliang sat on a chair on the side of the road in the sports center, letting Lian bask in the sun.

Just two weeks ago, Acchulian was considering whether Milan would agree to his transfer request, and now he is free to enjoy the green field at the sports centre in his Milan training uniform.

This time, Ou Chuliang rented a house alone. The rented house is near Lake Niguada, and the five-storey building here looks like a fake small square, and no noise from cars can be heard inside. Across the street, the windows are lined with ice creams of all colors, and the colorful colors are reflected on the glass door of the entrance.

After living in Milan for less than half a month, Ou Chuliang felt that this new life was really wonderful. Milan is a splendid international city that always makes people want to leave.

Once while enjoying ice cream in a cake shop, a homeless homeless man came to the shop and begged for each customer.

And he was lucky enough to be the first to recognize Ou Chuliang.

"You are China Europe!"

The beggar said excitedly.

"Your eyesight is really good." Ou Chuliang handed over twenty yuan, "This is a reward, thank you for recognizing me!" ”

Then Ou Chuliang handed over another twenty yuan, "This twenty yuan is the hush money, I just want to enjoy the dessert after the meal here quietly." ”

"Thank you for your generosity!" The homeless man took off his hat and saluted Ou Chuliang, "I wish you a pleasant meal, sir." ”

Speaking to the media on his fifth day in Milan, Zaccheroni said: "At the moment Milan have four goalkeepers and for me, Sebastiano, Ou, Christian, Giorgio will all start from scratch, although the first two will have a better chance. ”

"In front of a champion, everything can be changed. With me, there is no one to guarantee the main force! ”

Zaccheroni is just a small club coach who leads a second division team to the first division, and even if Udinese finished third in Serie A last season, what he said was not entirely convincing to the media and fans. But the important thing is that he needs to show a tough attitude.

Take a look at Milan's crest, the number 1899 tells everyone that next year will be Milan's centenary celebration. If Milan still play around 10 this season, even Berlusconi's outrage may not be able to withstand the outrage of the fans.

Milan only competed in Serie A and Coppa Italia this season, and compared to other competitors, Milan, who only play on two fronts, should plan the league well.

At the club, Acchulian could not have shown a closer relationship with Zaccheroni, who was theoretically on the same page as the other three contenders.

At the beginning of August, there is almost a month left before the first official game of next season. During this period, not only will Milan continue to make buying and selling adjustments, but Ou Chuliang will also need to compete with other goalkeepers for the position of the main goalkeeper.

Even though Ou Chuliang, the main goalkeeper of the Chinese team, participated in the World Cup, he still came to Milanello earlier than Rossi to report and conduct recovery training.

This is Ou Chuliang's attitude.

As Zaccheroni's new goalkeeper coach, Hawke brought together the three new goalkeepers before Rossi returned to the squad and introduced them to each other.

A young man with serious eyes and short curly yellow hair was the first to shake hands with Ou Chuliang and introduce himself.

His name is Christian. Abbiati, from Monza in Serie B.

After the No. 3 goalkeeper introduced himself, the No. 4 goalkeeper had time to speak.

His name is George. Frazolini, only a year older than Acchulian and Abbiati. But his resume can be described as colorful, Giorge, who played for Lazio in Serie A since his debut, changes clubs every year.

Raio, Vitelli, Carpi, Inter, Trapani, Fideris, Udinese and Cosenza, played for three Serie A teams, two Serie B, two C and one D in the eight years of George's career. Now he has transferred from Serie B to AC Milan in Serie A, and the purpose is only to gild.

There are many such goalkeepers in football, knowing that they can't get the opportunity to play, so they are desperately seeking transfers and learning from different clubs. Until you sit on the cold bench for a few years, and then seek a team in the middle of the league based on strength and experience.

So when he saw Ou Chuliang for the first time, George's eyes were shining. Although he and Ou Chuliang are only one year apart, their circumstances can be described as very different.

One has been mixed in experience and salary from various clubs, and the other has already made a name for himself in the World Cup. It is said that after George learned that Ou Chuliang transferred to Milan, he even took the initiative to give up part of his salary and came to Milan to "steal" from Ou Chuliang.

"Ou and strangers are not very talkative, but if he is familiar with you, you will find that he is silently taking care of you many times in life." George commented in an interview.

"He is a friendly guy and is very communicative. With Ou in place, Milan's dressing room will never be as full of struggle and violence as in Germany. ”

In order to check the physical condition of the players after returning from vacation, Zaccheroni organized an intra-team practice match. This is the first training session of Ou Chuliang and Abbiati and others in Milan, and Abbiati and George are also very careful to observe Ou Chuliang's every move, hoping that they can also have a little bit of the Chinese goalkeeper brand in the future.

A little over a month ago, when Acchulian met Italy at the World Cup, Abbiati sat in front of the TV.

He watched as Oclie blocked the likes of Baggio and Vieri in just a few minutes with his brilliant bounce and incredible reflexes.

"It was this feeling of love at first sight, and I was so surprised that I couldn't close my mouth!" Abbiati recalled, "Oh my God, I was saying to myself, this is my favourite goalkeeper! From that moment on, Ou became my idol! ”

Now, Abbiati will be interviewed by reporters who have been waiting outside the sports center for a long time after training.

At this time, there was an extra green dragon on his arm, which looked like it was wrapped around his arm. He believes that by tattooing a Chinese totem like a dragon on his body, he will become closer to Ou Chuliang.

"Ou has a hint of the German goalkeeper on his body, and our Italian goalkeeper is like a meatball falling to the ground when he falls to the ground." Speaking of which, Abbiati would even make a pose and fall to the ground, "But Ou is rolling on the grass, like a dragon churning in the clouds!" At this time, Abbiati made a gesture of rolling three times with his arm, and there was no actual demonstration.

'But Ou is completely different from the traditional German goalkeepers, he is more up front, and I even see him running outside the box to clear the ball a lot of times. This is completely different from those German goalkeepers who can only stand in the small penalty area and keep the goal! ”

With that, Abbiati's eyes lit up.

'The steps he takes are like a precise meter, whether it's forward or backward, he doesn't have to look at his feet to know where he is and how far behind him the goal is.

"Ou's performance in the game was unbelievable, just a simple training session, I understood what kind of quality he has, why Milan would pay a high price to snatch him from their city rivals!"

As Milan's first-choice goalkeeper last season, Rossi was clearly Ouchulian's number one rival.

When he returns to the Milanello training camp to join everyone, it will be time for Acchulian to observe Rossi as Abbiati observes himself.

Rossi made a name for himself in world football in the early nineties and has been playing for Milan for eight years now.

In 90, Rossi was bought by Sacchi to Milan, and when Capello became the coach, Rossi became Milan's first goalkeeper, and together with Maldini, Baresi, Costacuta, and Tasottti, they formed the strongest backline in the world at that time, and together created the myth of Milan's 58-game unbeaten streak.

And in the 93-94 season, Rossi set a league record of 929 minutes in Serie A without conceding a goal, breaking the record set by Zoff in 1973.

But those glories are gone.

At a time when the calm, steady and well-rounded veteran is always labelled as a butter hand and a mistake in attacking, those supporters of Milan seem to have forgotten what the veteran did a few years ago.

Most of the players look taller and bigger on the pitch than they usually wear in casual clothes, and Rossi is no exception.

His wide pectorals seemed to blow up his training clothes, but it soon became clear that Rossi wasn't at his best.

Rossi actually had some problems with not being selected for the national team, while Italy were eliminated by France in a penalty shoot-out. In addition, after the World Cup, Milan immediately brought China and Europe to the team, so throughout the summer, Rossi basically went on vacation and didn't think about football for a minute.

For this, he now has to pay the price.

With three weeks to go before the start of the new season, Hawk was always yelling at him.

"Rosie, you're standing too far back!"

"Rossi, you have to catch the whole ball with your left hand!"

"Rossi, the pass is not very clean this time, you should be more focused when you kick the ball with your feet!"

The new goalkeeper coach is always very careful to comb every strand of his brown hair, just like he does with his boss and boss.

Every time Zaccheroni came to ask, he proudly reported that the four goalkeepers were in excellent form and ready to play.

Zaccheroni, on the other hand, conveyed another point – that is, the goalkeeper must be involved in the game like the other ten players!

Such an idea was a new attempt at the end of the 90s, and no one knew what the consequences of such an approach would be. So much so that Rossi often complains about why a goalkeeper has to train his feet and make many accurate passes.

"The goalkeeper's pass means the start of the attack, so the goalkeeper's footwork must be accurate!" Zaccheroni explained, "I now demand that the goalkeeper can play a pass that is predictable and not so easy for the opponent to guess the way of the ball, and whoever can do that will get more chances. ”

Zaccheroni often told his players that he was always trying to think as a player, but most of the time he preferred his players to understand his tactical intentions like assistant coaches.

In Zaccheroni's eyes, although Milan is very strong, the number of good players is not very large.

Players like Boban and Weah are "disappearing", and some will stop moving forward even after a few months. To do this, Zaccheroni needs to convince the players while helping the team retain its strength.

He even approached, Desailly, Costacuta, Maldini and Albertini to convince them to accept the 343 formation.

The formation of three defenders means that one of the four defenders from last season will leave the main lineup.

As soon as such an idea came out, not only the Milan team, but even some fans who "know the ball" loudly refused.

In this way, the back three will inevitably lead to a lack of defense at the back, which requires the goalkeeper to move forward accordingly, to contain the opponent's counter-attacking space as much as possible, not to make too much space between himself and the backline, and to fill in the empty backfield.

In Napoli, Acchulian had already worked hard to move his area of activity between six and seven metres in front of the goal line, and now he even had to keep going!

But just as Acchulian struggled to adapt to the new team's new style of play, there were always others who were even more reluctant to hear Hawke's disgruntled roar: "Go a little further, go further!" Like Van der Sar! ”

'The coach always talks to us about Van der Sar. Ou Chuliang said with a smile in an interview with Jianghu-Football Network: "He often says that Van der Sar does this, and Van der Sar does that. ”

As a Dutch international, Van der Sar scored a goal in Bergkamp with a precise big kick after getting a corner kick against Switzerland in the Euro 96 tournament. In just one second of performance, Van der Sarjean showed the goalkeeper the so-called modern goalkeeper - he can't help but need to clear the opponent's attacking threat in advance, and he can also take the initiative to participate in the team's attack.

Because of this, Ou Chuliang has been taken care of a lot in the team.

Gradually, Hawke not only mentioned Van der Sar in his shouts, but also often mentioned Ouchulian by name. Because last season, Acchulian often used this way to help the team launch counterattacks in Napoli.

No matter how much the goalkeepers refused, they also began to feel as if Hawke was right when he yelled at him.

For example, Hawke often reminds goalkeepers to pay attention to their foot skills, and Abbiati once complained: "I'm not Maradona, and my foot ability must be worse!" ”

But when they saw that Ou Chulian skillfully completed the task set by Hawke, and saw Hawke's contemptuous smile, Abbiati and Rossi and the others had to continue to bury their heads in it.

Young people are eager to learn, and people like George and Abbiati have always believed that coaching is for their own good. When emotions are high, young people rarely see the downside. George, in particular, thinks it's great to play in Milan, he's never learned so much elsewhere.

But for Rossi, it all seemed so insurmountable.

Whether it's a more advanced position, more skilled footwork and more precise passing, for a 34-year-old veteran, it's as difficult as FIFA's sudden rule that goalkeepers can't pick up deliberate return passes from teammates after '92.

Admittedly, Rossi's goalkeeping skills are top-notch. But in this era of rapid development of football, his "automatic update" function is getting slower and slower, and has begun to slowly become obsolete by the times.

Perhaps Zaccheroni and Hawke will not succeed in Milan, or perhaps their so-called "advanced" tactical concepts will only be short-lived in Milan. Either way, this season is particularly important for Milan. Berlusconi has already made a decision, and there is no one to change in Milan's reform path.

In the competition with the number one competitor, Ou Chuliang's strategic goal is very clear.

First, unite the young people who are less threatening to fight against the veterans who are more threatening, and then convince the young people with better ability and level.

Acchulian's first steps went well, and whatever Hawke and Zaccheroni asked for, he would do it as soon as possible, and then do the best he could.

Led by Ou Chuliang, Abbiati and George also achieved the target with their young bodies and minds, as well as their high attitude towards learning.

In the end, the veteran Rossi was always reluctant to complete these seemingly unimportant trainings at the sound of Hawke's urging. As a result, Rossi will naturally have a worse impression in the minds of the coaching staff.

"I've noticed a long time ago that Ou has a very good attitude." Hawke also began to praise O'Chuliang in interviews, "He is very eager to succeed and is willing to accept all criticism and suggestions." ”

"With such players in the team, the other players will always become very diligent."

Soon, a tournament in Verona was seen as an important warm-up for the new season.

According to the plan, the pre-season warm-up games will be enough for the four goalkeepers to take turns once.

In the 4-3 defeat to Hellas Hellas, Rossi's performance always left a lack of confidence. Especially when dealing with wide crosses, fans are always afraid that the veteran will have a butter hand again and give a ball to the opposition. On one occasion, Rossi even saved a shot that was about to go wide of the goal, only to give them a corner. With such a performance and the final score, the fans will only give a passing grade at most, which is still based on the face of Rossi's past exploits.

As a result, fans are looking forward to the performance of the other three goalkeepers.