Chapter 319: Return to the Bernabeu
Although Li Mudi did not make much preparation for the possibility of Rosettini's departure, he always believed that with this reserve central defender with excellent speed ability, the team could have a lot of room to adjust when dealing with special situations, but when the defensive big man who helped the team a lot last season said that he did not want to be marginalized in the team, the Torino coach only agreed to the other party's decision with a little retention. With a group of centre-backs at the moment, the playing time of the other players is not guaranteed, which is indeed a bit difficult for Rossettini, who is not yet 32 years old and is at the end of his golden career.
And the ability of his agent is also good, in just four or five days, five or six teams have expressed strong interest in this central defender, who has a well-balanced ability in all aspects. Of course, a large part of this is also due to Rosettini's excellent performances in the past, such an experienced player who can be above the league average and not too expensive is something that many mid-table teams want to use as a pillar in the back.
In the end, Genoa, who had reached an initial partnership with Torino through the trade of Pieto Pellegri and Lianco, managed to stand out from the crowd of competitors and snatch the veteran for 3.5 million euros. In the new season, Juric will pair two players from the Red Bulls in a center-back combination, and in terms of ability and talent, Rosettini Gallianco will also be a better combination than the Griffins defenders last season, and his two signings have received praise from the outside world.
The veteran has not made any moves in the transfer market, but has promoted 1998-born Leonardo Rivoira from the Under-20s to the first team, and of course, like other players of the right age, will be ready to move between the senior and youth teams in the new season.
Born in Savillano, in the province of Cuneo, not far from Turin, the youngster joined the Red Bulls' academy early on, where he showed his potential. In 2013, Rivoya joined the then Italian U15 youth team, and since then he has been a regular member of the national youth team at all levels, and is still well-known throughout the country. Judging from the data probed by scouting tools, 142 has the potential to be the best centre-back in Torino's original academy, and is expected to grow into a quasi-first-class player at international level in the future. Now that he has been promoted to the first team, it is not only an encouragement, but also a hope that he can learn more from the veterans, and Li Mudi's team will soon become positive. It's too congregated.
Not to mention how having so many young players in the Torino team will affect the results of the new season, Li Mudi has attracted most of his attention in the two free days of his girlfriend's new album release.
Starting on July 26, Seoul time, the preview of Girls' Generation's 10th anniversary album started with Lim Yoona and started in the form of a short film with one person a day. On August 3, the MV trailer of the two title songs in the album was released; On August 4, the title song source was officially released; On the evening of the 5th, 8 members of the girl's active staff held a fan meeting to commemorate the 10th anniversary; On the 7th, this new album called "Holiday Night" was finally officially released to the outside world. In the following month, he began to launch a promotional period when he was young, and was scheduled to participate in many variety shows and singing stages, contributing to the final glory of the most successful girl group in East Asian history.
As Lin Yuner's boyfriend, Li Mudi has already booked a hundred albums in advance, except for some to leave as a souvenir, the rest are ready to be given as gifts to relatives and friends around him, but I don't know if they will like it. The company is really a bit excessive, this album so meaningful is actually made without sincerity, and the songs are all intended to be related to the night. The store is related, the members have ugly styling designs, and they all cry when they see it, and the MV shooting is all interior scenes, which is really money-saving to the extreme, no wonder it has been less than three days since the return, and the Internet is full of all kinds of complaints, so that this golden sign is finally a little late.
Among the eight members, Lin Yuna has been complained about the most, in addition to her appearance in the MV is really too different from her daily character design, some spicy eyes, and the historical romance drama "Wang is in Love", which began to be broadcast on MBC TV on July 17, also made her "scold" countless times. As mentioned before, due to the setting of the script itself, this TV series actually has a lot of slots and deficiencies in nature, which have become the object of criticism from the audience after being broadcast. Although the three leading actors, including a number of supporting roles, are all good-looking, and Lin Yuna has also attracted a wave of female fans because of many scenes of wearing men's costumes, but the evaluations of "acting skills have not improved" and "nothing but good looks" still fell on her head, which made her inevitably feel a little frustrated when she had always had a good attitude.
Fortunately, with the work of the team and the comfort of family and friends, it did not have a greater impact, but in the subsequent video connection, it is inevitable that he will complain to his boyfriend that the ratings are a little weak, and his efforts have not been recognized. And Li Mudi exerted his boyfriend power and kept finding some interesting jokes to make each other happy. And what makes the two of them happiest is that in the spare time of the publicity in the past few days, Lin Yuner has already recorded a sample of the solo song "If You Also Think of Me" in the two languages of Tianbao, and can start producing the official version after only a little modification.
These two songs, written by the two of them, not only carry the love between the two parties, but also the last formal job arranged by the company for the woman in this year's plan. According to the current schedule, after the release of this solo song that does not need to be on the charts in mid-September, Lin Yuna will not have a reservation notice in Kimchi Country in 2017, and in the next three and a half months, she can devote all her energy to European tourism and Tianchao Film and Television Company. The thought that two people will be able to meet in a little more than a month will make them feel extraordinarily good, and no matter how difficult they are at work, it will not matter.
It was the afternoon of August 8, when the Torino team boarded a flight to the Spanish capital for the Bernabéu Cup tomorrow evening, after breaking through a crowd of journalists.
As the name suggests, the tournament was created in honour of Santiago Bernabeu, the former president of Real Madrid, and has been held every year since 1979 in late August or September. With the exception of 2014, which was cancelled due to a conflict with the UEFA Super Cup schedule, there have been 37 successful editions until last season (the 2007 tournament coincided with the sudden death of Sevilla defender Puerta in the game, so the Bernabeu Cup was temporarily scheduled to be held in December and was not cancelled), and it is one of the warm-up events that Real Madrid fans pay the most attention to before the start of each season.
Because next year is a World Cup year, the league and European competitions should be played in advance to allow enough time for the national team to train. The 38th edition of the Bernabéu Cup was originally planned to be held in the middle of the week between the first and second rounds of La Liga, and considering that this arrangement would have a negative impact on the players' fitness and even condition, the Real Madrid management changed the date of the match to the beginning of the year after discussing with the coaching staff. The Torino team will be the invited opponent today, which was made in early July when the two coaches communicated privately, and was formalized after being approved by Lafayette.
After arriving in Madrid in the evening, the Turin coach, who had taken a break in the hotel, set off alone and went to the villa of his friend Raul. The former King of the Bernabeu, who has just returned to Real Madrid and became the assistant to the club's general manager, will have a banquet at home for his friends, Zizou, Guti, Solari and other coaches of Real Madrid's various echelons, as well as Hierro's big brother, will all attend, which can be regarded as a gathering of Real Madrid's celebrities. After a night of joy for the guests and hosts, Li Mudi did not return to the hotel to rest, but stayed at a friend's house for the night, and did not say goodbye to the little princess Maria and other children until breakfast the next day and went directly to the training ground.
It was the first time since the Torino boss stepped down as head coach of Castilla in the summer of 2016 that he returned to the Valdebebas training base on a non-personal capacity, and a lot has changed here after just one year. In addition to some hardware facilities have been updated, the biggest difference is the personnel change. The Real Madrid squad that won last summer's La Liga B and Fed Cup titles has all but become unrecognizable after 14 months. Among the usual starting eleven of Li Mudi at that time, in addition to Mbappe and goalkeeper Yáñez, who were promoted to the first team, only central defender Jose Leon and full-back Tejero (previously translated as Tejero) remained in the team, and the rest of the young men were either loaned to his team for training or transferred away, which made the Torino coach have a lot of thoughts in his heart.
Since there is no competition between the two teams, and Li Mudi is an old acquaintance of Real Madrid, there is no confidentiality policy in the training during the day, everyone is preparing in the two adjacent fields, and the two coaches have also discussed the tactics used by both sides, and the atmosphere is naturally incomparable. In the afternoon, when the sun had sunk and the temperature was less high, Castilla played a closed 45-minute practice match with the Turin Under-20s, who were visiting with the first team. As a result, the home team won 4-2, but considering that the average age of the players on the field is at least half a year younger, the level of the two sides is relatively close.
After receiving the praise of Qi Zu and others, Li Mudi also thinks that the team's current youth training strength is still good, at least the basic part is still relatively solid, and as long as it can continue to increase investment and poaching efforts, I believe that there will be batches of young talents here to help the team gain a firm foothold in the ranks of Serie A and even European powerhouses.
At 8 p.m. sharp, the stands at the Bernabeu Stadium were full, as the tournament also marked the 60th anniversary of the Galacticos winning the second Champions League trophy in their history. On May 30, 1957, Real Madrid defeated Fiorentina 2-0 on their home turf thanks to goals from Di Stefano and Gento, winning the Champions League for the second year in a row, and starting the journey of the best club of the 20th century. When the replica of the St. Bride Cup was placed on the display stand on the pitch along with the original one kept by the club, the fans gave the fans a standing ovation for two minutes, giving the highest level of respect to the team's history.
And second only to this thunderous grand occasion was the cheers of Real Madrid fans when Li Mudimai entered the stadium. Everyone expressed that they had not forgotten what kind of contribution the Torino coach had made to the team's youth training in the previous years, and Li Mudi's eyes were red at that time, and he almost burst into tears.
However, as soon as the game kicks off, the home supporters begin to go out of their way to make their stance clear, and when the visitors commit a foul, they still boo in unison. Judging from Zizou's lineup and the performance of the Real Madrid players on the field, even in the last unimportant warm-up game, they will do their best to win.
Zinedine Zidane, who was just voted the best coach of La Liga last season, presented his highly-anticipated youth guard lineup in this game, in addition to the three veterans Casilla, Ramos and Nacho, Moroccan right-backs Achraf, Te'o, Marcos Llorente, Dani Ceballos, Asensio, Mbappe and Mayoral and other promising young talents have made their debuts.
On the other hand, Li Mudi did not play all the trump cards in his hand at the beginning, Belotti and Benassi and other cores were put on the bench, and four young players under the age of 22 such as Pieto Pellegri started in the 3-4-1-2 formation, making tonight's duel suddenly blow a storm of youth. What deserves special attention from the outside world is that Casillas, who has been closely watched by everyone, did not appear first, which made many people feel a little regretful.
However, in the 67th minute of the game, Li Mudi still did not let the fans' expectations come to naught, and St. Cassie appeared in front of the Bernabeu goal again after two years, causing the whole stadium to boil. At this moment, I believe that this former meritorious goalkeeper will be like the previous coach of Turin, his heart is full of excitement, and the close-up of his face has been shown on the big screen for a minute, and the flash in his eyes has made all the Meilinger feel a lot!
In this environment of revisiting feelings, the game itself seems to have lost its due appeal, and the outcome has become less important. However, the home team, which has many monumental significance, finally reversed the Red Bulls 2-1 with goals from Mbappe and Cristiano Ronaldo, and won the 12th consecutive victory in this competition. The fans enjoyed a battle of emotions that could be revisited many times, and Li Mudi and his team learned a lot from the top team in the world at the moment, and they were all happy.