Gao Zheng didn't stay at home for long.

He has already received emails and text messages from the club informing him that he has been selected for the first team's training squad for the new season, and that he will return to the Mugeneini training base in Boriasco on July 5 for the first team's pre-season training camp.

It means he's one step closer to becoming a true professional.

Since it was June 12 after last season's Reserve League Finals, he didn't have much time off for a long time.

Plus he stayed with the old man for almost a week.

So he stayed at home for only ten days and was ready to leave for Italy.

During this time, he watched a ball game with his father, the qualifying match for the final stage of the Asian qualifiers for the London 2012 Olympic Games, where the Chinese Olympic team faced the Oman Olympic team at home in Shanghai.

In this game, the Chinese Olympic team lost 0:1 to the Oman Olympic team and lost the lead in the first game of the two legs.

The second game is back at Oman's home stadium, and with the characteristics of West Asian football, the Chinese Olympic team will hardly have any chances.

Gao Zheng's father looked at this result and sighed: "Alas...... If you weren't hurt, you should be there by now. He pointed to the stadium on the TV.

He didn't care about lewdness.

In fact, Gao Zheng missed not only this National Olympic team game, he also missed the 2010 Asian Youth Championships held in Zibo, Shandong, that Asian Youth Championships, the Chinese U119 youth team performed well in the group stage and won the first place in the group, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals, missed the semi-finals, and lost the qualification to participate in the 2011 World Youth Championships.

In 2010, Gao Zheng was in a state of decadence, because of the conclusion of the Milan laboratory, he left the AC Milan academy, came to the old man to seek refuge, and disappeared into the vast sea of people.

In 2009, the year before, in the qualifying stage of the Asian Youth Championships, Gao Zheng had just returned from that serious injury, and his physical condition was not good, and his competitive condition was not good, and he had several frequent injuries.

As a result, he was also not selected for the Under-19 national team at the time.

In fact, if it weren't for the serious injury in 2008, Gao Zheng's life trajectory would be completely different from now.

When he first entered the AC Milan academy in 2005, there were media reports that he caught the attention of the Football Association from that time. In 2006, he was recruited into the national junior team to participate in a friendly match, but at that time, the coaching staff of the national junior team did not have a very high evaluation of Gao Zheng, although he was trained in AC Milan, but he and his teammates on the field could not cooperate, and he was more caught in a single fight, plus although he was tall, he was not strong, and he did not have an advantage in physical confrontation, so he only played a few games when he was in the national junior team, and he was not recruited.

Who would have thought that in 2007, Gao Zheng's U16 at AC Milan broke out in an all-round way, not only helping AC Milan win the national championship in this age group, but also being elected the best player.

But unfortunately, because the Chinese team did not qualify for the following year's World Junior Championship in last year's Asian Junior Championships, Gao Zheng, who performed well in AC Milan, lost a chance to prove himself on the world stage.

He was only able to play a few friendly matches with the U17 national youth team, and his performance was much better than back then.

If he keeps the momentum up and doesn't get injured, he should be able to join the U19 national youth team for the 2010 Zibo Asian Youth Championships. With him, the national youth team should be able to finish in the top four of that tournament and qualify for the World Junior Championships. What performance the national youth team with Gao Zheng can perform at the World Youth Championships is also very exciting. This national youth team led by Song Maozhen, in addition to Gao Zheng, also has domestic talented young players Wu Lei, Zhang Xizhe, Yang Yi, Hu Letian and others, and the strength is actually good......

But unfortunately, the serious injury in 2008 made all this a doomed failure.

Gao Zheng was silent.

In fact, after he left AC Milan, Director Feng, who is in charge of the youth department of the Chinese Football Association, called Gao Zheng's home to ask about Gao Zheng's situation.

The initial reply was "I don't know", after all, Gao Zheng didn't go home at that time.

Later, Gao Zheng's father directly said that Gao Zheng was seriously injured that could lead to retirement, and his mother hoped that Gao Zheng could go home to take the university entrance examination.

After hearing this, Director Feng over there sighed and felt sorry for the news. Later, he also said that if Gao Zheng wanted to be admitted to university, he could find him if he had any difficulties, and he could help him within his ability.

But Gao Zheng's father politely declined.

Of course, after the anti-gambling and anti-crime storm in football began, Director Feng also left the Chinese Football Association and is no longer responsible for any work related to the Football Association. Judging from the fact that he hasn't entered until now, he is indeed innocent in the drug trafficking and anti-crime operations that have led to the fall of many senior executives of the Football Association.

In the past, Director Feng had always been in contact with Gao Zheng, but after he left the Football Association, coupled with the great changes in the personnel of the Football Association, the Chinese Football Association had already cut off contact with Gao Zheng.

So although Gao Zheng has been playing in the Sampdoria reserve team for half a season, the Chinese Football Association does not know anything about Gao Zheng's latest situation.

Otherwise, maybe he would still be able to appear on TV today?

If so, will the fate of the Chinese Olympic team be changed as a result?

None of these issues are known today.

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Before Gao Zheng left, the Chinese Olympic team played the second leg away from home, and they could have beaten Oman at one point to advance to the final stage of the Asian qualifiers.

However, it suffered a biased penalty from Iran's black whistle Mohansin Doki, and the national Olympic team lost 1:3 to Oman and completely missed the London Olympics.

Under the news of this game, in addition to the fans' anger at the black whistle and West Asian football, a very small number of people mentioned Gao Zheng's name: If Gao Zheng was still there and not injured, would this scene not have happened?

But this is destined to be just a beautiful dream of the fans, and it is absolutely impossible to realize.

Gao Zheng himself didn't know anything about these sporadic voices.

After a few days of rest at home, he packed his bags again and prepared to leave again.

Leaving home this time made Gao Zheng's parents feel a little different from before.

They used to think that their children were not the material for professional football, but the son proved that he could establish himself in European football.

Parents don't feel like they've been slapped in the face.

They just want their children to get ahead, but they also have a hint of worry.

Mom repeatedly told me not to get hurt and to hide if I could on the court.

When the father asked directly: "Your left foot ......"

Gao Zheng moved his left ankle: "I have never had any problems in Sampdoria for half a season, I think maybe it's good." ”

"Or pay attention to some ......"

"I know." Gao Zheng shook the mobile phone in his hand. "Anyway, you all have this, contact me on WeChat if you have something."

When he returned home, he bought the same smartphone for his parents.

Although Dad said that it was too wasteful and unnecessary, but on the day he got the new mobile phone, he went downstairs for a turn, and in the process of greeting and chatting with the neighbors, he took out the shiny Apple phone from his pocket to look at the time, and then caused everyone to exclaim with envy.

Don't mention how cool it is to be a father.

The mother complained to her son that her husband was stinky, and she did the same thing when she went grocery shopping......

Seeing his parents doing the same thing but complaining about each other's stinky beauty, Gao Zheng laughed.

Although he now has a professional contract with Sampdoria, it is the lowest contract, and the salary he receives is not high, so he can't directly change the house for his parents.

Despite this, in the eyes of his parents, their son is already a person who makes a lot of money.

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Bidding farewell to his parents, Gao Zheng returned to the city where the old man and Zhao Ju were located, where he would fly directly to Milan, Italy.

He arrived a day earlier to see the old man again and see if there was anything wrong with his smartphone.

I had another meal with Zhao Ju.

The next day, Zhao Ju drove his Iraqi "magic car" to send Gao Zheng to the airport.

"I'll buy you a new car, Lao Zhao. Since you want to pull goods, you have to use a good car......" Gao Zheng said to Zhao Ju on the way to the airport.

But Zhao Ju very resolutely rejected Gao Zheng's kindness: "No need, Brother Zheng." I'm embarrassed that you bought me a phone. Although this car is broken, it can still be driven, and the cost of maintaining the car is also very low. When I make money, I'll change the car myself. ”

Seeing that his friend was so determined, Gao Zheng no longer persuaded him, but just smiled.

Lao Zhao has become sensitive since his legs and feet are not good, and he will always understand the kindness of others as "charity", and will subconsciously refuse the help of others.

He could accept the mobile phone given by Gao Zheng, or Gao Zheng came up with a reason that he really couldn't refuse.

When Lao Zhao's tattered Wuling Rongguang just stopped at the international departure entrance of the airport terminal, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone around.

A Volkswagen taxi honked its horn hard behind the side of their car, seemingly unhappy that the Wuling Rongguang had robbed him of the parking space he had favored.

A traffic policeman in charge of maintaining order also walked up.

Zhao Ju hurriedly poked his head out of the driver's seat, first waved his hand to apologize to the taxi behind him who honked his horn, and then said respectfully to the traffic police: "Comrade policeman, I will send someone, I will leave immediately......

"Giving it away?" The traffic police were puzzled, and saw a handsome guy in the co-pilot grinning at him.

"I'm sorry, I took my luggage and left."

The handsome face made the traffic police a little dizzy - this broken car and handsome face were so incompatible that he wondered if he had a delusion.

Zhao Ju jumped out of the car, opened the tailgate, and took down the suitcase and backpack and handed them to Gao Zheng.

"The journey was safe, and it was ...... Wechat. He was ready to say a text message, but fortunately he quickly reacted that it was not a text message but WeChat.

"Good. You take care of yourself, and go and see the old man for me when you have time. ”

"Don't worry, that's my coach too."

Zhao Ju stretched out his hand and planned to shake Gao Zheng, but Gao Zheng opened his arms and hugged him.

"I'm leaving, Lao Zhao, take care of yourself."

After speaking, Gao Zheng put on his backpack, pulled up his suitcase, turned around and walked to the entrance of the terminal without looking back.

Zhao Ju stood in place, watching Gao Zheng's back disappear into the brightly lit terminal entrance.

The taxi didn't rush him.

Because both people in the car, including the driver, were in a daze as they watched the scene happening in front of them.

A broken car, a handsome guy, a hug.

The female passenger sitting in the back seat looked at this scene and muttered: "Big handsome guy, it's a pity that it's a GAY......"

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PS, yesterday England and Sweden were uneventful and England won easily.

But the match between Croatia and Russia can be described as tragic – although both teams played not very dirty, it was very brutal, with multiple players injured and fighting to exhaustion, taking the lead in extra-time to equalising and finally a penalty shoot-out...... There weren't many goals in the game, but it was very intense and beautiful after going into extra time.

Croatia were more secure in the final penalty shoot-out than Russia.

I'm very happy that Croatia have reached the last four because Croatia have Luka Modric that I like and I still hope they can go further......

There were no games for the next three days, so everyone could continue to rest.

And the World Cup is getting closer and closer to the end.

It's a little reluctant......