Sampdoria FC's sporting manager, Doriano Tosi, and the head coach of the reserve team, Luciano Bruni, waited outside the building at the training base for the man they had been waiting for, a handsome young man.

Tossi held out his hand to the young man: "Good morning, Mauro. ”

"Good morning, Mr. Manager."

Bruni then shook his hand.

Young people are a little vanity to be greeted at the door by the club's sporting manager and the reserve manager – it shows how much they value themselves and that they are the people they need.

In fact, it is.

Sampdoria FC has been optimistic about him for more than a day or two, and they have been watching him for a long time, and only then did they reach an agreement with their Barcelona club some time ago to loan him.

He himself did not want to stay in Barcelona, where he was well aware that he would not be able to get ahead. So he longed for a new environment, maybe he could still play?

"Welcome to Sampdoria, welcome to the Groano Mugneni Sports Complex, Mauro, I hope you can have a nice half season here." Tossi said.

The interpreter next to the young man translated the sentence to him.

"I hope so, Mr. Manager." He replied to Tossi slowly but clearly in Italian, the second Italian he spoke after meeting with the manager.

Tosi was surprised: "Have you started learning Italian?" ”

"It only started yesterday, but fortunately there are a lot of similarities between Italian and Spanish." The young man passed this sentence on to the sports manager through a translator, who didn't really speak much Italian.

But Tosi was pleased with the young man's attitude, and he nodded: "I'm sure you'll succeed here." Let's go, let's take you around and get acquainted with where you'll be staying for the next half season. ”

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After a lap, Tossi and Bruni took the youngsters outside the training ground of the reserve team, where some of the early players had already come on the pitch and were playing with the ball.

Then a soccer ball rolled over the pitch.

"Excuse me, bother...... Instructor? "The people on the pitch waved for the ball, but I didn't expect it to be the manager, and then he saw the sports manager next to the manager.

What's going on?

He was a little surprised that the club's sporting manager didn't come to the reserve team very often......

The young man next to Tosi looked at the soccer ball that rolled in front of him, and suddenly wanted to show his ability in front of his future teammates and the manager, so he jumped the soccer ball with his feet in casual shoes, and then began to juggle the ball, on the top of his feet, thighs, chest, shoulders, and he let the ball stay on his forehead for a short time.

As a young man from the La Masia Academy in Barcelona, he still has a strong sense of superiority in the academy of Sampdoria, a second-rate team in Serie A, like coming from the big city to the countryside.

Sampdoria's first team is not strong in Serie A today, although they finished fourth in the league last season, but this season it looks like they are fighting for relegation.

Sampdoria's youth academy is also not well-known in Italy, so it is not worth mentioning.

The sports manager and the head coach of the reserve team greeted him in person, which further boosted his sense of superiority and made him can't help but show his hand in front of this group of "dirt buns".

After showing his control of the ball, the young man felt that it was time to draw everyone's eyes firmly on him, so he picked the ball up again, and when the ball fell to the right height, he picked it up and pulled the ball back into the field.

It was a powerful volley, and it was not polite to return the ball in such a way, and the young man may not have taken his future team-mate into account, so who called him from La Masia?

The Sampdoria reserve player who raised his hand to ask for the ball obviously didn't expect this inexplicable person to kick the football back in this way, and he was even wondering what it meant, and the whole person was stunned and didn't make any preparations to catch the ball.

At this moment, a long leg suddenly stretched out from the middle of the road and stopped the whistling football.

The ball hit his foot without making a dull sound, and then bounced off in the distance.

In fact, the football is like it's stuck to that foot.

After receiving the ball, the person who broke the ball turned backwards, and the receiving foot swung backwards along the momentum of the ball, unloading the power of the ball, and when his foot was put back on the ground, the ball rolled off the surface of his foot.

The powerful volley was taken lightly by the owner of this foot.

Then he raised his hand and waved it to the young people outside the arena, and said with a smile in Italian, "Thank you." ”

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The young man really didn't expect that such a kick he volleyed vigorously would be defused by the opponent in such a way, he believed that even if the ball came from the first team, it would be very difficult to finally stop like this in the same situation, not everyone can do it.

But the opponent was so relaxed and freehand, there was not even any expression change on his face when he stopped the ball.

He couldn't help but ask, "Who is he?" ”

Sporting manager Tosi didn't know who this man was, so he turned his attention to the reserve coach Bruni, who had been talking to him.

Bruni replied with a smile and a very casual tone: "You said him, his name is Gao Zheng, and he is here for trial." ”

Icardi looked at the manager in surprise when he heard the translator say this: "Tryout? ”

Tossi was also surprised: "Tryout? How did I not know? ”

Bruni nodded: "Well, I only came here the day before yesterday, and I was still in the inspection period, so I didn't tell you." ”

Young people who have come to this seaside town from the big city of Barcelona are starting to wonder a little about life - can a tryout person take his own kick so easily? Is there something wrong?

How could Luciano Bruni not know what was going on under the young man's surprised expression, but he stopped talking, just folded his hands behind his back and smiled at Gao Zheng, who was once again surrounded by his teammates on the field.

And sports manager Doriano Tosi also set his eyes on Gao Zheng with interest.

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Alberto Marcy was the first to rush up to express his admiration to Gao Zheng: "He is worthy of being the Great Demon King!" The ball stopped so badly! ”

David Leto is even more exaggerated: "You saved my life!" ”

He was the one who asked for the ball from the sidelines just now, and he was the one who almost got hit by the ball. If it weren't for Gao Zheng's "foot" to help, he would probably be hit by this ball solidly, and it would not be pleasant.

On the one hand, others are because of the ability shown by Gao Zheng, and on the other hand, it also comes from the same hatred for the inexplicable young man - although Gao Zheng is a person who came for trial, he has been training with them for two days, and compared with the person on the sidelines, he is more familiar with everyone, and of course he is regarded as "his own person" by the players.

"What is that kid here for? Smashing the field? ”

"That's it, who is that kid! I also let the coach personally accompany ......"

"I think that kid is showing off in front of us, Demon King, you did a great job this time! See the look of surprise on that silly boy's face? He's obviously frightened by your stop! Ha! It's so cool! ”

"Demon King, you just said thank you to him? You don't need to be polite to this kind of person! ”

"It's just that, I don't know where it came from......"

Everyone began to speculate about the origin and identity of this person.

And they didn't have to wonder for long, and before the official start of training, head coach Bruni made the answer public.

'I would like to introduce you to your new team-mate, striker Mauro Icardi, who is on loan from Barcelona's Academy La Masia, who will be playing alongside us for the next half season, so I hope you all have a good time.

The players in the reserve team couldn't control their expressions when they heard the words "Barcelona" and "La Masia" - whether it was the senior team or the academy, it was a giant!

No wonder this man dared to do such a thing as soon as he came, no wonder the sports manager and the head coach had to accompany him personally......

Icardi was unfazed by his new team-mates who were intimidated by his name, his eyes fixed on the team's probationee.