Chapter 24: Gao Zheng's Story

Icardi joined Sampdoria Reserves and while they were unhappy with his performance on the first day, they had to be convinced by Icardi's ability to come out of the top academy at La Masia.

You must know that at the beginning, because of that incident, everyone was unceremonious to Icardi in training, and Bruni had no intention of letting his players take care of this newcomer.

But even so, after an initial day of discomfort, Icardi got better and better in the rest of the training session and quickly broke through from the rest.

The football field is a place where strength is spoken, no matter what your personality is and what your temper is, as long as you can give full play to your strength and be able to suppress others, then others will have to accept if they are not satisfied.

But no one knows the reason behind Icardi's performance.

Icardi, who didn't speak Italian yet, seemed a little lonely between trainings, but he didn't want to talk to anyone else, he just watched the tryout in silence.

He's chatting with his teammates.

"I went to check, and that Icardi is not small." Marcy said.

"Why isn't it small?" Everyone else was curious.

"It is said that he scored more than 500 goals in all junior teams before the age of 14! Barcelona, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Liverpool are all rushing for his ......"

There was a gasp in the crowd. Compared to them, that Icardi is indeed much better.

But just because they can't compare doesn't mean that no one can compare with him...... Someone set their eyes on Gao Zheng: "Gao, how many goals did you score before you turned fourteen?" ”

The others looked at him as well.

Gao Zheng didn't expect the topic to be led to himself, he shook his head and said, "I don't know, but it's definitely not that much." Before I left for AC Milan at the age of fifteen, I had been training at a football school in the country and the number of matches was limited. ”

"Damn, not at all......" someone grumbled with annoyance.

Gao Zheng smiled when he heard this: "What's the comparison with this? ”

"I'm still upset with him anyway......" Leto said with a grunt. The first time the two met, Icardi nearly hit him with a powerful volley, and he had every reason not to like the newcomer.

"yes, I can clearly feel that he looks down on us......"

"That's it, they are all from wealthy families, and you don't have that sense of superiority if you look high."

Gao Zheng smiled and didn't speak.

In fact, he can understand Icardi's mentality, and it is normal for him to feel that the young people here are not as good as himself when he comes to a small team like Sampdoria from a big club like Barcelona...... A talented player who develops smoothly most of the time will always be a little arrogant.

He also has pride, but after falling into the quagmire, he has learned to hide his pride, at least not as sharp as it was when he was proud of the spring breeze in the Milan academy.

Thinking of this, Gao Zheng turned his head to look at Icardi, and to his surprise, the other party was also looking at him. And after discovering his gaze, he did not look away, but stared at him nakedly.

The look in his eyes was like that kick back ball......

Gao Zheng scratched his head and took the initiative to avoid looking at Icardi.

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On the last day of Gao Zheng's trial with Sampdoria's reserve team, head coach Bruni announced that an intra-squad match would be scheduled in the afternoon.

For Gao Zheng, this is more like a college entrance exam.

So Alberto Marsi has been a little nervous before the game, he hopes that Gao Zheng can stay, but he can't call the shots in this matter, he doesn't know what the coaching staff will decide. This uncertainty has made him a little bit of a loser.

Compared with him, Gao Zheng is much calmer.

This made Marcy admire the "Great Demon King" even more.

"What's there to admire?" At lunchtime, Gao Zheng asked strangely after hearing Marcy express his admiration for him.

"This is a game related to your future, even I, an outsider, are nervous for you, but you ...... Well, you're so calm and calm. ”

Gao Zheng thought for a while and asked Marcy: "Alberto, do you want to hear the story?" ”

"Huh? What's the story? Marcy hadn't reacted yet.

"The story about me, about why I'm here."

"You didn't ...... because you were hurt"

"It's not just because of the injury." Gao Zheng then told Marcy the story of his departure from Milan and Italy because of the conclusion of the Milan experiment, plus everything he experienced in Sassuolo.

After listening to this, Marcy's mouth couldn't close for a long time, he didn't expect that there would be such a twist and turn story behind Gao Zheng.

"Your left foot...... It's really ......" Marcy turned his head to look at Gao Zheng's left foot.

"Hmm. That's what the Milan lab says anyway. ”

"Then you ......" Marcy wanted to speak again, he thought of what happened to Gao Zheng in Sassuolo, and if he thought about it like this, it was really hard to say whether Gao Zheng could finally stay in Sampdoria.

After training with Gao Zheng for a few days, he was already impressed by Gao Zheng's talent. He believes that if Gao Zheng's talent can't be seen by more people, and he dies halfway, it will be a pity, not Gao Zheng's regret, but Sampdoria's regret, and the regret of football.

"Of course, you don't have to worry, Alberto. I'll give it my all in the afternoon. Gao Zheng saw Marcy's thoughts, and he said. Even if I get rejected, it won't be because I didn't perform well enough. ”

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"Luciano, I heard you have an intra-team game scheduled for the afternoon?" In the office of the reserve team, Luciano Bruni met again with the sports manager Tosi.

"You're well-informed, Mr. Manager."

'You know, I'm very focused on developing young players.

"You're here to see Icardi, aren't you?"

"Not exactly."

"Not all?" Bruni was somewhat surprised.

"The guy who came to the trial, I went back and checked, he was trained at AC Milan and he won the best player of the Under-16s?"

"You're prepared, Doliano."

Tossi laughed.

"But the information you found must not tell you why he came to us."

"I've heard he's had a very serious injury, but that's okay, how many of the players didn't get hurt?"

"Did you know that he was asserted by the Milan lab that he couldn't adapt to professional football?"

The smile on Tosi's face froze.

Bruni then told him what Tossi didn't know, including how Gao Zheng went to Sassuolo for a tryout and how he was rejected by Sassuolo.

“…… He did very well in the tryout, but Sassuolo turned him down. For the budget-conscious Sassuolo, signing Gao Zheng was a risk, and they were not willing to take that risk. ”

Tossi was silent.

Signing players is not just a matter of training with the team, there are many things involved, and the team spends a lot of manpower and financial resources on each player, especially those extremely talented young people.

Tosi was quite happy, and suddenly there were two talented players, Icardi and Gao Zheng, is Sampdoria going to run in time?

But now it seems that he was too happy too soon.