Chapter Ninety-Nine: National Team Training Camp

With the help of a private physical trainer in the United States, Stanti has just completed 4 kilograms of muscle gain, and has made great progress in physical confrontation, and now he has to face additional training, so he can only put his personal training aside for the time being, and soak in the court with his teammates every day.

The breaktime between the eyes shrank rapidly, and the layers of training made the players complain, but from the heart, no one was really bored, because they knew that only by continuing to walk could they touch the highest scenery, but what made them wonder was how the group of Brazilians persevered in the weekly double game day after day!

The answer is unknown, but in this case, Boca, who are in intensive training, will face Banfield FC in the 12th round of the Liga at the end of October.

Banfield FC is barely considered a strong team in the La Liga, and the last two seasons have been full of momentum, often making people sigh as if they will go straight to the top five of the La Liga. It's a pity that Banfield FC always missed out on the top five and stopped in vain at the last step, and this time against Boca was no different.

Banfield, who are currently sixth in the league, would have had an almost historic finish in the top five with a win over Boca, but in the end they were beaten 0-1 by Riquelme with a free-kick in the final moments.

After beating Banfield FC to seventh in the league, Riquelme and Santo Tiago's recent hot form was once again brought up by the media, although Santo Thiago did not have goals and assists on paper in this game, but the substantial help he brought to the team at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends is that everyone can not ignore, and the reason why media reporters want to talk about it is because the new national team of Lao Ma began to call.

What excites Santilago is that his brilliant performance has paid off, his excellent individual skills, growing physical ability and smooth combing of the team have made him receive a new national team once again after receiving unanimous praise from the media, and he will go to the national team in two days to report and may play in the warm-up match against France! You must know that this warm-up game is likely to be a preview of the starting lineup of the national team in the next World Preliminaries! All eyes are on you!

"Hello? Santy? I'm Diego Maradona, maybe you'll wonder why I would"

On November 2, when Santhiago returned home from training, he unexpectedly received a call from the new coach Maradona.

It turned out that according to Lao Ma's own words, it was a habit he developed when he was coaching the club to call the players one by one before the training camp, which allowed him to at least communicate with the players by phone, and if possible, to meet in person. He will explain his thinking to the players clearly and exchange views with the other side openly. This is an essential step before it can be determined whether or not to call the opponent into the national team.

There is no doubt that the conversation between the two is pleasant, selected for the national team, competing in the World Preliminaries, the World Cup, is one of Santiago's recent goals, and now a good opportunity is in front of Santigo Saintie will naturally not let go, not to mention that Lao Ma is his idol, Mr. Battista has also become the team's deputy coach, in this case, the national team configuration is simply the most satisfying.

But what Santi didn't expect was that when he went to the national team training ground to report as scheduled, he didn't see Riquelme, Romy is a punctual person and will never be late. In this regard, Santhiago wants to ask his teammates next to him, but looking at the players who have been called up at the moment, in fact, only a few play in the A-League, Messi is in the young batch of talents, Aguero has not arrived, Di Maria and Romi are not familiar with each other, and the rest are the predecessors, and Santiago doesn't even know who to ask.

Honestly handing over his mobile phone, he inexplicably had a bad premonition in his heart.

The first training camp of the national team soon began in a unique meeting between Lao Ma and everyone, and after a few simple opening sentences, Lao Ma did not say anything more, and began to personally lead the players to start warm-up activities. This scene was something that the players never expected, it was extremely rare for the coach to leave the game in person, of course, thinking of this master's status and character in the football world, everyone quickly regained their calm.

During the whole warm-up process, the old and new team alternated, and the national team, which was not too familiar with each other, did not have much conversation, which also gave Santhiago the opportunity to carefully observe each "new" teammate. In the goalkeeper position is Carrizo from Lazio and teammate Romero, Romero does not need to be mentioned, and Carriço, who was called up as the number one goalkeeper, had previously played for River Plate until this summer before moving to Lazio, and was a mediocre player in the eyes of the media.

When the media got the list, it was widely believed that Carrizo would move to Lazio, and although Carriso, who was not a good player there, was in the number one goalkeeper position, the old horse was likely to draw Romero into the main goal. Romero's quality has already been recognized, and the rising star goalkeeper will soon be called up by top clubs.

At the back, Inter Milan's Burdisso and Zanetti, Newcastle's Coloccini, Bayern's Demichelis, Getafe's Dias and Real Madrid's Heinze were on the back.

Zanetti and Demichelis, who are at their peak, are the cornerstones and backbones of the Inter and Bayern defenses; Although Coloccini is no longer at his peak, as the former central defender commander of La Liga powerhouse Deportivo La Coruna, he is still recognized by the media; However, the inclusion of the remaining three Burdisso, Dias and Heinze in the team made the media and Argentine fans very dissatisfied.

Dias and Burdisso are now unremarkable and are not considered to be worthy of the national team, while Heinze's debut season at Real Madrid was very good, and he was an absolute mainstay at the club as a left-back and centre-back, and was an important piece of the puzzle for the team to win the league title in 2007/08. But after the beginning of this season in the face of Barcelona's outstanding performance, Real Madrid seems more and more powerless, so far this season, Real Madrid has suffered many heavy blows, Heinze's back line is full of holes, and in the home game against Barcelona, Heinze is even more sleepwalking, resulting in the home team losing 2-6 to the sworn enemy at the Bernabeu!

In any case, such a performance is difficult to satisfy the Argentine fans!

Not to mention the Argentine media and fans, Heinze's call-up to the national team in such a state also surprised Real Madrid fans in Spain.

In midfield, Gago, Mascherano and Santhiago themselves, all three of whom are members of the Olympic team's winning titles, are among the best of young talent, so they deserve to be selected. Luis Gonzalez, who was born in River Plate and now plays for Porto, and Gutierrez, a versatile player who plays for Newcastle, are also recognized.

It seems that the selection of the midfielder seems to meet the needs of the people, but in fact, if you look closely, there is neither Veron nor Riquelme, there is no backbone in the midfield position at all, and Santi is also self-aware that he cannot control such a midfielder. So he knew that between Riquelme and Veron, there would definitely be someone who would end up in the national team, and he didn't know who it was, but he was biased towards Romy in his heart.

Finally, Messi, Aguero, who have not arrived in the front line, and Di Maria, Maxi Rodriguez, and Tevez who are now standing on the training ground are all acceptable candidates in people's minds.

Looking at this national team, except for some unsatisfactory flaws, it can be accepted by the Argentines, so in this way, after the warm-up, the team did not directly start to fight, but mainly started training with tacit passing and receiving cooperation. Obviously, the old horse has a unique advantage in this area, and he has also put in a lot of effort, and Santhiago and his new teammates have trained exactly according to his requirements.

Immediately after that, Santhiago and others began to train in the five-man confrontation, which is not only more entertaining, but also can relieve the tension of the players when they first arrive at the national team, and it is also more conducive to the players to get to know and understand their new teammates who are not familiar with them before.

Time flies, after intense training and just the right rest, the players entered the restaurant in turn, but just when Santo Thiago thought that the first day of his national team would be spent in such a calm, Tevez, who went back to the room first, suddenly returned to the restaurant in a hurry, directly turned on the remote control and quickly switched to a very famous Argentine TV show, and then watched it with great interest.

Everyone was puzzled when they saw this, just now Lao Ma just answered a phone call and left with an ugly face, you just take advantage of dinner time to watch TV, although there is nothing wrong with this, but it is still not good when the national team has just started training

Soon, however, the players were attracted by an acquaintance who appeared on the show, and even Saintie, who was sitting side by side with Di Maria and was feasting on his head, looked so disbelieving that the knife and fork in his hand fell to the ground and remained indifferent.

From the TV program of Argentina 13, there was a breaking news - Riquelme announced his retirement from the Argentine national team. The top midfielder spoke into the microphone and said in a firm tone: "My national team career is over, I'm ready to watch the World Cup on TV." The reason for withdrawing from the national team is: I don't think the same way as him [Maradona], we don't have the same morals. He's the current manager of the national team, so we can't work together. ”