Because of the travel, coupled with the busy transfer during this time, Gao Zheng has not trained systematically for several days, and he can usually do strength training and physical training in the hotel's gym at most, and nothing else can be done.

In addition, the language barrier, although Xu Xin is next to the translator, but people have to train themselves, and they are not professional translators, so there will always be a situation where they can't take care of it.

So in the first training session after joining Atletico Madrid, Gao Zheng's performance was not good.

However, for the players of Atletico Madrid, they will not look down on Gao Zheng because of his poor performance in training.

After all, what strength Gao Zheng has, they have seen it in last season's competition.

If someone denies Gao Zheng because of his performance in a training session, I am afraid that he will be ridiculed by all the Atletico Madrid players.

In this way, Gao Zheng lived in San Raphael, and Simeone made some adjustments to the accommodation, allowing Gao Zheng and Xu Xin to live in the same room, which was to facilitate Gao Zheng to learn Spanish from Xu Xin.

And Xu Xin is also familiar in front of the first-team bigwigs because of Gao Zheng, and he is no longer an ordinary youth team player - after all, those first-team stars basically have to go through him if they want to communicate with Gao Zheng......

This is the highest status of Xu Xin in the team since he joined Atletico Madrid.

Not only in the team, but also in the Chinese media, Xu Xin has also become a star - of course, this is still Gao Zheng's light.

When Gao Zheng and the team joined up and started the training camp, the small town of San Raphael had many more Chinese reporters.

Unlike when it was just revealed that he was playing at Sampdoria, this time the Chinese media was more enthusiastic. On the one hand, it is because La Liga has a much greater influence than Serie A, and Atletico Madrid is also more influential than Sampdoria. On the other hand, it is naturally because the transfer fee of 75 million euros has raised everyone's appetite and made everyone look forward to Gao Zheng's career in Atletico Madrid.

As Gao Zheng's translator, although Chinese reporters do not need to go through Xu Xin when interviewing Gao Zheng, Gao Zheng will always take Xu Xin to appear in front of media reporters.

So when everyone paid attention to Gao Zheng, they also paid attention to Xu Xin by the way.

Xu Xin is also a window for the media to understand Gao Zheng's training and life in Atletico Madrid from the side. And there are some things that Gao Zheng can't say, but Xu Xin can say them.

Through Xu Xin's narration, everyone knows that Gao Zheng is very popular in the team, although the language is not yet understood, but it does not prevent him from often taking Xu Xin to chat with other teammates.

After the news was transmitted back to China, Chinese fans made up such a picture in their minds - the father took the child to visit the door......

On Weibo, fans asked Xu Xin if he wanted to pay for the New Year.

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As Gao Zheng and his teammates became more familiar with each other and adapted to the new environment, his performance in the training session became better and better, fully proving that the rollover performance in the first training session was really just an accident.

After Simeone had seen Gao Zheng's performance in training with the whole team, he also began to design tactics. In the attack, Gao Zheng is the core, and the technical delicacy is increased while maintaining the fighting style of Atletico Madrid.

Previously, everyone was worried that Gao Zheng and Simeone's Atletico Madrid style did not match, but through training, there was actually no big incompatibility problem.

Gao Zheng's defensive ability is indeed very poor, but Simeone will not ask Gao Zheng to defend with all his might, his requirements for Gao Zheng in defense are to stand in the position, in other words, as long as Gao Zheng can appear in the defensive position, he is not required to go up to force or steal directly.

The characteristics of Gao Zheng's wide range of activities are actually very suitable for the overall tactics of Atletico Madrid.

Because Atletico Madrid's tactics can be summed up simply as "run, keep running, run to death". Every player is required to keep running, looking for opportunities and creating opportunities.

Gao Zheng's style of play, which does not fix a position in the game, can fit in with Atletico Madrid's original tactics.

The only problem is that Gao Zheng's physical training was done at Sampdoria, and he started training with the ball directly after coming to Atletico Madrid. Some people are worried about whether Gao Zheng's physical strength in Sampdoria is enough for him to cope with Atletico Madrid's run-and-run tactics, and if there is a physical problem in the late season, it may affect his performance in Atletico Madrid's first season.

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On July 28, Atletico Madrid officially announced that they had signed Real Sociedad's French striker Anthony Griezmann.

The French striker has been hot in the last two seasons, and of course it is not the same as Gao Zheng's popularity...... As early as the 2009-2010 season, at the age of eighteen, he played a regular role in Real Sociedad, which was still playing in the second division at that time. He made 39 appearances and scored six goals to help Real Sociedad return to La Liga.

The 2010-2011 season was Griezmann's first La Liga season and he remained a regular striker for Real Sociedad, scoring seven goals and providing three assists in 37 appearances. For a 19-year-old striker, that's a great performance.

The 2011-2012 season continued last season's performance, scoring seven goals and providing four assists in 35 appearances, as well as one goal in the Copa del Rey.

Since the start of the 2012-2013 season, Griezmann has pushed his league goals to double figures, scoring 10 goals and providing five assists in 35 league appearances, including one in the Copa del Rey. Helped Real Sociedad finish fourth in the league and qualify for the Champions League qualifiers.

Last season was his best for Real Sociedad, scoring 16 goals and providing four assists in 35 league appearances. In addition, the Copa del Rey appeared second, scoring three goals. He made two appearances in the Champions League qualifying round, scoring a goal and assisting a goal to help the team reach the main stage of the Champions League.

Six appearances in the Champions League group stage but no goals.

With his outstanding performances this season, he has attracted the attention of many teams. But Atletico Madrid was not in the ranks of those who pursued him at the beginning.

It was only after the signing of Gao Zheng that Atletico Madrid suddenly accelerated its bid for Griezmann.

Therefore, many analysts believe that Atletico Madrid signed Griezmann in order to form a forward partner with Gao Zheng.

Because Griezmann is not a pure goalscorer, although he has scored a lot of goals, it is also important to note that there are also a lot of assists. Although Gao Zheng is very good at scoring goals, he is also good at assisting, as can be seen from his 37 assists in three seasons at Sampdoria.

The pairing of two strikers who can score goals and assist is completely one plus one is greater than two.

Although neither Atletico Madrid nor Real Sociedad have released more details about the transfer, the newspaper "As" revealed the transfer fee - Atletico Madrid paid Real Sociedad a transfer fee of 30 million, which is the liquidated damages figure in Griezmann's contract with Real Sociedad.

After Griezmann's transfer to Atletico Madrid, the media quickly captured the Frenchman and Gao Zheng chatting and laughing on the training ground in the small town of San Rafael. Of course, there will be a "translator" Xu Xin in this picture......

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This summer, Atletico Madrid lost the Champions League title in the last two minutes, the team's top scorer and the team's leading contributor to the league title, Diego Costa left, Courtois returned to Chelsea on loan, and the main left wing-back Luis Felipe made it to Chelsea. Last season's main striker, David Villa, went on a free transfer to play in the MLS when his contract expired.

It can be described as a serious attrition.

This situation has made Atletico Madrid fans quite pessimistic about the team's new season.

At that time, Atletico Madrid's Diego Costa's successor was Bayern Munich center forward Mandzukic, although Lewandowski joined Bayern Munich for free this summer, the Croatian center forward lost his position in Bayern Munich and wanted to leave, and Atletico Madrid was also interested in him and was ready to use him to fill the vacancy after Diego Costa left.

But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and Simeone's contract renewal condition made Atletico Madrid give up Mandzukic and go all out to compete for Gao Zheng.

Now after winning Gao Zheng, he has signed Griezmann, and Slovenian international Jan Oblak has also been brought in from Benfica in the goalkeeper position, which has finally regained some confidence among fans.

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After Griezmann arrived, the whole Atletico Madrid team left Spain for the United States.

There they will have overseas training and warm up at the same time.

However, not all first-team players have travelled with the squad to the United States, including the newly joined Antoine Griezmann, while three Uruguay internationals, Diego Godin, Christian Rodriguez and Jimenez, have also stayed in Madrid for their recovery training.

And Gao Zheng, who is the most concerned by Atletico Madrid fans and Chinese fans, went to the United States with the team.

Of course, as his "translator", Xu Xin also became the lucky one of the seven who were transferred to the first team at the beginning, and as the only representative of the youth team players, he and Gao Zheng took a flight to the United States......