"During the warm-up match against Poland, I couldn't get enough in the dugout, so I had to bring in my fellow coaching staff and ask him to block me and hide behind and smoke two cigarettes. It's a torture thing to not be allowed to smoke in the stadium! After the match, Batista laughed at the regular press conference, and the interview began in such a relaxed atmosphere. Of course, during the conversation, Batista never lit a cigarette.

Coach Batista is slightly less well-known than the team's star-studded team, but he was also a member of Argentina's 1986 World Cup-winning team and is known as Argentina's "pipe coach" who is known for smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes a day.

This is the happiest time to reach China, no, it should be the start of the National Olympic team's training camp, and Batista laughed the most, this time he finally proved that Messi and Riquelme do not conflict.

"This time, I'm just trying to find a way to get the most out of them at the same time. They are all my core players, Romy is the playmaker in midfield and Leao is the finisher up front. Specifically, Riquelme's task is to deploy in midfield, use his passes to organize the attack, and once the offensive is formed, it is Messi who leads the team to start charging. It's an attacking model that I've designed for the team, and in that mode, Romy and Rafael Leao have different divisions and positions, so I never felt like there was any conflict between them. “

The head coach of the Argentine Olympic team, Batista, has a dream that he hopes to use his success at the Olympics to get the opportunity to coach the national team. And the Argentine Football Association also said that if Batista can lead the Argentine team to win the Olympic gold medal, then he will have great hope of succeeding the current national team coach Basile.

According to Argentine media, Batista's current situation is a bit like a Fiat car driving directly into a Ferrari before it has been stopped. He has been promoted all the way from the second division team to the national youth team, and from the national youth team to the national Olympic team, and now he hopes to go to the next level to become the head coach of the Argentine national team. However, before he can achieve this goal, he must first lead the Argentine Olympic team to play well.

If it is predictable that Batista can manage the big-name players of the national Olympic team well, and at the same time successfully solve the problem of the coexistence of Messi and Riquelme, which will also be encountered in the national team, and finally win the gold medal in the Olympic Games, then it is natural for him to transition from the national Olympic team to the national team; But if the opposite is true, then Batista may not be able to fulfill his dream of becoming the head coach of the national team.

"Olympics, how about you take the team to play?" At the end of last year, the president of the Argentine Football Federation, Grondona, suddenly said this to Batista. This took Batista by surprise, because according to convention, the head coach of the national team, Basile, should lead the team to Beijing, but Batista quickly calmed down, "Why not?" Grondona then told him that he was the only one who knew the news, and Battista smiled, "Then please hurry up and release the news." ”

So on January 14 this year, Grondona officially announced that due to the conflict between the Olympic Games and the World Cup qualifying schedule, Basile could not lead the national Olympic team, and the head coach of the Argentine national team under 20 Battista will serve as the head coach of the Argentine Olympic team. The news broke that many media outlets believed that Grondona was already looking for a successor for Basile, and that the Olympics could allow Batista to gain experience.

Batista has a good relationship with the president of the Argentine Football Federation, Grondona, who found his successor less than 24 hours after the former national youth coach Tocari had a conflict with the Football Association and resigned as coach. Subsequently, Batista was also promoted to the position of general coordinator of the youth teams at all levels, which in the eyes of the Argentine media was a position created specifically for the control of the youth team, and soon Batista was given the opportunity to lead the team to the Olympics.

However, the happy coach of the national Olympic team did not expect that in the locker room celebrating the victory of the game, the team would be in a different situation at this time.

After the game, a special visitor came to the locker room, breaking the atmosphere that was still very harmonious on the surface, and the president of the Football Association, Grondona, actually appeared in Shanghai and came to the locker room of the National Olympic team!

After some encouragement and congratulations, the president of the Football Association came straight to Messi and announced loudly: "Child, come on!" This team is yours, you are the leader of the national team. ”

After saying this, the whole dressing room fell silent, Santhiago was dumbfounded, Banega almost squirted out a mouthful, and even Zabaleta wanted to say something. As the president of the Football Association, Grondona spoke like this, which is equivalent to directly putting Messi on the throne, and I don't know if he noticed that although Riquelme on the side did not speak as always, the expression on his face was very ugly.

Even if the replacement of the old and the new is inevitable, even if Messi is a rising star and an Argentine darling, you can't say that in front of Riquelme!!

Messi and Riquelme's lack of cooperation on the pitch is actually not accidental, most of the Argentine media in the past two days have reported the news of the stalemate between the two stars in the national Olympic team, a pair of conflicting players, how can they reach a tacit understanding on the field? Riquelme and Messi are not compatible, and there are personality reasons. Both players are introverted players who both have a lot of self-esteem and are also very sensitive.

Messi and Riquelme originally belonged to two different generations of players, and there was little in common, and it was Aguero and Ustari who were closer to Messi and their former teammates in the national youth team. Originally, Messi and Riquelme didn't talk to each other much, but after the conflict increased, they ignored each other even more, and the resentment between them was more difficult to eliminate than other players.

The dispute between Riquelme and Messi also involves the status of the team, Messi is now in full swing, and Riquelme has been doing well in Boca since leaving Europe, but he always gives people a discouraged image. Riquelme is still static on the pitch, does not run much, rarely participates in defense, and passes mostly horizontally or back, Messi is lonely in the front line, and gets few and few opportunities.

Messi's status in the Olympic team, and even in the national team, has risen rapidly after the World Cup in Germany, and Riquelme feels that his authority has been challenged. The president of the Argentine Football Association, Grondona, strongly supported Messi, the previous World Youth Championships and the German World Cup, it was after Grondona put pressure on the coaching staff that Messi gradually got the opportunity to play, and after this game, Grondona directly confirmed Messi's leadership position in the Argentine Olympic team, which made Riquelme very dissatisfied.

The dumbfounded Santhiago looked at everything and fell into a complete state of stupor, as a player who fed Messi directly on the field and had an excellent relationship with Riquelme, he knew very well that although the relationship between the two was stiff, they were both restraining each other for the sake of the overall situation. What's more, the reason why there is a stiff relationship is also because of the difference in technical styles, and Argentina is at the time of the replacement of the old and the new, so there is nothing unpleasant about the two in the real sense.

But now? The president of the Football Association pushed the two into the ring at the same time with a word, and Messi, who had his support, now has to fight if he doesn't want to, and what about Riquelme?

Coach Battista made a promise when he invited him to participate in the Olympics as an overage player, but he is definitely the core and leader of the thunder! And now Grondona's support has embarrassed him very much!

Seeing Riquelme's ugly expression in such a situation, Santhiago could only bite the bullet and change the subject: "Well, Monsieur Grondona, how did you end up in Shanghai?" What about Mr. Maradona? Didn't he promise to come and cheer us on at the barbecue? “

Saying that, Saint-Tiago showed an expression of a little fan, with a look of admiration for Maradona, many football bigwigs have cheered for the national Olympic team before the trip, and Maradona even said at the barbecue party that he would be there in person. However, he made it very clear at the time that he would be in the semi-finals and he was confident that the lads would not let him down.

Of course, Saint-Tiago will not forget this sentence, but now it seems that he can't care so much, and Saint-Tiago's words quickly aroused the "resonance" of the players, and everyone changed the topic for a while, and even Aguero stood up to arrange his father-in-law.

"Come on, the last time he knew I was with Giannina, he threatened to fight me! At that time, I had been with Giannina for more than a year, and he didn't even notice it, and I think if it wasn't for the paparazzi who took a picture and published it in the newspaper, I think he would have forgotten about his daughter. “

"Hahaha......"

There was an awkward laugh, although everyone thought it was not funny, but for the sake of Aguero's hard work......