With the quadrennial European Championship just over and the Copa America schedule requiring more time for players to recover, the teams are meeting a few days later than usual, with those who played for their national team in the summer reporting a week or even ten days late. However, Torino does not have any international players in the current squad, so at 10 o'clock in the morning on July 13, the players with contracts arrived at the training ground one after another, and no one was late, and no one wanted to be the target of the new manager.

Led by last season's vice-captain Giuseppe Vives, the players changed their gear in the dressing room and then teamed up on the first-team training ground, where Li Muddy was already waiting with all the staff.

On the player's side, with the exception of new signings Rajadzic and Boye, they all played in Torino last season, so they are very familiar with each other. However, there are few old faces on the staff's side, and only the chief scout Fabrini, the regular scout Benideti, Marcellis, the team doctor Gleco, the team doctor Fortunato and Orvieto are old acquaintances, and the rest are new acquaintances. Well, that's not a good thing to say, after all, the likes of Paul Scholes, Puyol and Abbiati have all been world-class stars before, and Torino is still familiar with this group of players.

The team's daily training and activities are inseparable from the cooperation between the staff and the players, so how to knead the two sides into a whole as soon as possible is the top priority for the new manager. Fortunately, there are a few old staff members who have stayed as the glue, and most of the new staff members are famous celebrities who can suppress those current players, so Li Mudi is not too worried that someone will turn the sky upside down, and he needs to worry about another thing: language.

Since the time left for him to recruit staff was so tight, they all came to Italy to report as soon as they negotiated the contract, and they were not prepared to learn Italian. The club is arranging a lot of Italian language courses for foreigners, but it will take a lot of time, so they will have to have an interpreter for the time being. Fortunately, most of the people who don't know Italian are concentrated in the scouting team, and their usual work is in the field, so they are not too eager to use Italian. De Boer and Anderson both had previous experience at Barcelona, so they knew some Spanish, plus Zamorano, who had played for Inter Milan before, at least Li Mudi had no big problem communicating with them. The club only need to have an English translator for Kevin Sumfield and Scholes and a Dutch translator for Ronald de Boer in the recent period. And because he had to urgently learn a foreign language, Scholes also complained to Li Mudi: "I knew that I would have to spend a lot of time studying, and I wouldn't have been seduced by you to Turin in the first place, and you have to give me a salary increase next year!" ”

Back in the training ground, the first meeting, as the team's big boss, Li Mudi naturally wanted to give a speech or something, but he didn't do much preparation. One reason is that I've been too busy lately to have time; Another reason is that he is indeed not the kind of natural leader who can conquer others with a clever mouth, and he can't even see a shadow of his mighty and domineering spirit, and he belongs to the defective products that are not attached to the crossing benefits described in the online article. The mouth is slightly stupid, a nervous and a little stammering, he really has no talent in language ability, if it weren't for the system plug-in, it's hard to imagine what his foreign language learning would be. Since I don't know what to say this time, I just have to find another way and try to play the good card, after all, there is a serious British assistant coach like Sumfield behind him, and the work of singing white face can be handed over to him.

Thinking of this, Li Mudi looked up at the Torino players who had automatically stood in a row, and after seeing that everyone had focused their eyes on their faces, he showed just the right smile and said, "I am your new head coach, Li Mudi." Note that I am a Celestial Empire with Spanish nationality, and I don't have a Latin name, only a Celestial Empire name, and the last name comes last, so you can call me Boss Lee, Mister Lee, or Boss Lee. Of course, judging from my age, it's not yet time to be called Daddy Li, so I'll skip this......" It seems that this joke is not funny, no one cheered for it, and the atmosphere was very embarrassing.

Seeing this situation, Li Mudi hurriedly used his brains and cleared the siege by himself: "Hehe, the team's vice captain Vivis is a few years older than me, or even twice the age of some young players, so he should be a veritable father, hehe...... "Okay, isn't the laughter of these people different from the people of the Celestial Empire?" If you look at Belotti's bewildered expression, no one will give you an indifferent emoji? And Vives, what do you mean by those piercing eyes? Isn't it true that you're not happy when you're old? Born in July 1980, he is 36 years old this year, and the left-back Buogiono, who has just been transferred from the U20 team, is only 17 years old.

Well, it looks like it's messed up, the manager thought to himself. He had already seen Abbiati beside him hold his forehead with his right hand, putting on a loveless expression there, hey, you are so naughty, do you know your parents?

The atmosphere at the scene was really embarrassing! Just when everyone stared at each other, not knowing whether to continue to wait for the big boss to continue to speak, or thinking about who should stand up and play a round at this time, a big drop of sweat flowed from the top of Li Mudi's brain, slid along the Yin Tang between the eyes to the root of the mountain, and then quickly flowed downward, attracting the attention of most of the players standing in the opposite direction, while Li Mudi himself was too nervous and kept thinking about how to break the game and didn't notice it at all. I saw that the sweat went down the straight bridge of his nose to the tip of his nose, and then quickly swiped the philtrum and upper lip, and flowed into his slightly open mouth. And the Turin coach, who had been unaware, did not react after the sweat entered his mouth, but subconsciously felt the taste of the foreign liquid with his tongue, and found that it was very salty, and his facial expression involuntarily brought out this sensory feeling: his brows furrowed, his eyes revealed a puzzled look, his lips pursed slightly, and his tongue stretched out to lick his upper lip. These micro-expressions came together to form an extremely special physical comedy, which instantly scratched the players' laughter. But because he didn't dare to be too presumptuous in front of the boss he met for the first time, he had to try to endure it until someone couldn't hold back his laughter, which instantly detonated the entire crowd, and almost all the players burst into laughter, making the team staff here confused.

Fortunately, those guys still know how much to save some face for the head coach, and after laughing for a while, they reined in, but there was a slight smile on their faces, and even the eyes that looked at Li Mudi were gentle—no, they were kind. Although he still didn't understand what was going on, he did feel that everyone's attitude towards him was full of kindness, and Li Mudi got through a big hurdle after joining the new team, and got off to a good start with the players.

Of course, the player's friendly attitude towards him was also thanks to Kevin Sumfield, and the assistant coach was the second to stand up and speak with the help of an interpreter, and what he said was very succinct, that is, too straightforward, too strict, and the whole process was straight face, and the meticulous appearance was really scary. With him as a comparison, the image of the team's new coach immediately became taller, comparable to Santa Claus, but a little funny. Li Mudi is now more and more appreciative of his first assistant, with good ability and excellent at being a person, knowing that the boss has just arrived to get everyone's support as soon as possible, so he is willing to turn into a black-faced god and take on all the responsibilities that are inconvenient for the other party. If it weren't for the fact that this Englishman was a man (again, the protagonist is not engaged in the base), too old, ugly, and married, Li Mudi said that he might fall in love with him. But he obviously thinks too much, Samfield has no consciousness of carrying the black pot for others at all, he is just born to be as old-fashioned and rigorous as the Germans, but at the same time has the tradition and conservatism of the British, meticulous in his work, absolute obedience to his superiors, and absolutely no one is allowed to disrespect his subordinates.

Behind is the new staff appeared in turn and then issued a few words of mutual encouragement, because the big boss looks very kind, so the overall atmosphere is still good, especially Scholes and Puyol and other big names of the year when they introduced themselves, they won a burst of cheers, the players are naturally very excited to see the opportunity to learn from these peerless masters, which also gave Li Mudi, who was later nicknamed "Collecting Crazy Demons", a great encouragement, In the future, the road of constantly recruiting retired well-known stars to his command is gone.

After the two new players also introduced themselves, the team officially began the pre-season training camp for the new season. The first task of the first day is naturally a medical examination, and all the players will go to the infirmary in the club's office building not far away to have their physical indicators tested. In order to speed up the collection of information, the players were divided into several groups, just like the elementary school students of the Celestial Empire went to the school hospital for physical examination, and started the tests on each major item at the same time in different rooms, and then proceeded to the next item in the arranged order. Li Mudi naturally doesn't know anything about these medical things, but he knows how to make good use of people, and delegates the specific work to the medical team and physical coaches, plus several staff members from the two youth teams to assist, before lunch starts at one o'clock in the afternoon, he got a detailed form of the physical condition of each player, and it is accompanied by professional advice.

At present, there are 29 players in the first team of Torino, but this will not be the final composition, for the few young players who have just been transferred from the U20 youth team, whether in terms of actual ability or psychological preparation, it is far from the standard of Serie A, and Torino's youth training is really useless at present. Li Mudi has long discussed with Valentino Cairo, the club will not make any requirements for the results of the two youth teams in the new season, so it will try to loan out as many potential young people as possible, Serie B or even Serie C. Although the head coach of the team has very low expectations in this regard, since there is no other benefit to keeping these people, it is better to gamble and not have any capital anyway.

Although there will be personnel adjustments in the future, these players will join the initial training camp for the time being, so their body side reports still need to be taken seriously.

What does it take for a player to become a star or even a superstar? The answer to this question can basically be boiled down to a few points: excellent talent (both technical and physical), strong psychological quality, excellent professional attitude and literacy, and being favored by the goddess of luck. While every superstar has a different path to growth, it is generally possible to become a god if you can gather all of the above points. Of course, this is all on paper, and what can be achieved in reality is a rare figure after all. However, if you want to ask what is the biggest obstacle to a player's growth, the answer given by Li Mudi is professional attitude and quality. It doesn't matter if the talent is not enough, the technique can be practiced, and the physical fitness can also be strengthened through exercise, with the progress of medicine, even the players with the vitreous physique can try to avoid the recurrence of the injury under the scientific management; The psychological quality is not too hard, it doesn't matter, practice! Haunted houses, horror movies, drug rehab centers...... What horror to look at - no, this is a training of courage. It should be to find a psychologist, after a series of treatment and strengthening, the glass heart can also become toughened; As for being lucky enough, as the old saying goes, luck is impermanent, and people who have not always made good luck are rare to always memorize the words, as long as you work hard enough and are sincere enough, you will one day be favored by God (this bowl of chicken soup is not boiled by the author, so it is not a pot, hereby declare). There is only such a thing as professionalism, which is very simple to say, but it is extremely difficult to do a good job, how many successors to the king of the ball have failed to step on the final throne, and the young genius has finally fallen to the point that even ordinary players are not as good as this, Best, Gascoigne, Ronaldinho, Adriano, Lee Sharp, ...... If you are not afraid of being scolded for hydrology, the author can make up a thousand words. And this kind of literacy is cultivated from a young age, and it is too difficult to change after the age of twenty, and few people can easily change from a bastard to a model worker without experiencing any major encounters.

Seeing the physical test report sent by the team doctor in charge of Greco, Li Mudi's brows furrowed, saying that the self-discipline of African and Brazilian players is very poor, and European players are generally quite ethical, this is really not a rumor, and he only knew the seriousness of the matter after seeing the various problems mentioned in several documents.