Descartes arrived at the Pinati Sports Center and quickly met his new teammates and immediately joined the team.

Although this Italian national junior team was rated by the media as the most starless national junior team in history, their players are at least from the major giants of Serie A or Serie B, and they are still guaranteed in terms of strength.

In the previous qualifiers, Italy won the group with an excellent record of 7 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses in 10 games, eliminating strong teams such as Belgium and Norway and joining hands with Germany, the Netherlands and other teams, which also shows that although their players are not famous, their fighting power is not low.

And after Descartes arrived, how to solve the problem of Descartes' integration into the team became the head coach Francisco. The biggest problem that Mr. Rocca needs to solve.

The start time of this year's World Junior Championship in Peru is September 16 local time, which means that Italy only has half a month at most to adjust and run in the team, counting the formation of rushing to Peru early, they can use no more than 2 weeks to adapt to each other.

Since Descartes is recruited into the team, you can't just let him go to Peru to play soy sauce, right?

You must know that Descartes is currently the hottest fried chicken in Italy, and if Mr. Rocca does not let him play because of the run-in problem, the Italian media will definitely drown him with overwhelming saliva. If Italy's record is good, and if they make any mistakes in Peru, Mr. Roca is sure that the media will not hesitate to raise a shining guillotine against him.

In fact, Mr. Rocca did not recruit Descartes on a whim, he had two very important reasons.

First of all, because Italy's main midfielder Tomasi D. Anton Ma retired due to injury in an internal training match, and it was later found that he had torn his calf muscle and needed to recuperate for at least half a month, so he had to say goodbye to the Italian national junior team with regret.

So there was a vacant place in the national junior team.

The second reason is that Mr. Rocca also admired Descartes very much. As the hottest young player in Italy at the moment, how could it be that Mr. Roca didn't follow Descartes' game? He found that although Descartes was of average physical fitness, his ability to handle the ball was simply incredible, and many times even he thought that the attack was useless, but Descartes was often able to find the most correct path in the chaos and then send the football to where it should be.

This brilliant talent amazed Mr. Rocca, and he could not help but move the idea of taking Descartes under his account, and Antonma's departure gave him a suitable excuse.

And in Mr. Roca's mind, Descartes is more suitable to appear in his team as an organizational midfielder, what Italy lacks most at the moment is a player like him who can distribute the ball reasonably, and with his organization in the midfield, Italy's 433 formation will definitely play the most powerful.

So when Descartes joined the team, Mr. Roca put him in the midfield position of the main team in the first game.

In 2005, it was the peak of the "Black Swan" Rijkaard who led Barcelona's "Dream II Team" to sweep the European continent, and at this time, 433 began to become popular in European football and became the mainstream formation of many leagues.

Although Mr. Rocca is not a famous coach in Italy, he is also good at learning the advanced trends of world football, so under his leadership, the Italian national junior team has played the 433 lineup vigorously.

And the core of this squad is to have a playmaking midfielder who is good at distributing the ball, and if there is a striker like Ronaldinho who can control and shoot, of course, it will be even more perfect.

In Barcelona, Xavi is the responsibility of distributing the ball, but in the Italian national junior team, Mr. Roca has not been able to find such a core player.

The group of players under his command are all not famous, of course, not because these little guys are all jade and unpolished, but because there are no players with special abilities among them. Just by looking at the name, you can know which of these players came out later?

No, almost never heard their names.

So they may be a core group of players, but they are definitely not the core of Xavi.

That's why Mr. Rocca was desperate for either Balotelli or Descartes to join them.

Balotelli excelled in his individual qualities and later showed excellent playmaking talent in Milan, not to mention Descartes, Pavia was almost his one-man team, and his performance directly determined Pavia's performance.

These two players are the kind of building blocks that Mr. Roca dreams of.

Although Balotelli was temporarily unable to join Italy due to nationality, the fact that he was able to obtain Descartes was also something that made Mr. Rocca ecstatic.

So he arranged for Descartes to participate in the training match as the main midfielder, hoping that he would find a tacit understanding with his teammates as soon as possible and bring the Italian national junior team to a higher level.

Descartes' performance in the first training session did not satisfy Mr. Rocca.

Not only because of tacit understanding, but also because of the position of Descartes.

As the 3 midfielders of the 433 formation, this formation has very high requirements for them, not only to be able to attack and defend well, but also to have at least a certain ability to play the ball, and the most important thing is to have good physical fitness.

Remember that in the middle of the formation of the Galaxy in 2003, Beckham joined the Bernabeu with the attention of the whole world, but he did not play the right-back position that he was most accustomed to, but was transformed into a midfielder by Capello.

In a game at that time, Beckham ran a distance of more than 16,100 meters, and was exclaimed by the media as "the most diligent player hidden by flashy appearance", which shows that in football at that time, running distance was not an important indicator of public attention.

However, with the rise of Barcelona's "Dream II Team", their high pressing made the teams jump for a while, and even in the game against Barcelona, many teams will feel extremely difficult through the midfield.

At this time, people began to be interested in the distance that the players could run in a Barcelona game, knowing that using such a high press meant that more runs were needed to make up for the space on the pitch.

In the end, people were surprised to find that in the season when the "Dream II Team" won the Champions League, their players ran an average distance of 12,000 meters! You must know that in a game at that time, the average running distance of each team was only less than 10,000 meters.

This is an important reason why Barcelona dominated the Europa continent at that time: God rewards hard work! The extra 2,000 meters were not run in vain.

Then with the gradual strengthening of the "Dream Three Team", other teams have followed suit, and the running distance of the players in a football game has also increased more and more, so far, according to statistics, the average running distance of players in a football game has reached 12,000 meters, or a benchmark has become a norm.

A player like "Brother Chic" who only runs more than 2,000 meters in a race, even if Lord Fu personally picked up the car for him back then, it can't prevent him from being swept away in the end.

And physical fitness is precisely Descartes' biggest life.

Descartes is not not diligent, in fact, as long as he is on the court, he will spare no effort to run and counter-rob, high pressing is not a strange thing to him, but for well-known reasons, such an intensity of the game, he can only support half the court at most, that is, 45 minutes.

Mr. Rocca had tried to use Descartes in the same way that Mr. Mankaard had done: he was only allowed to play 45 minutes, trying to use his individual abilities to solve problems during that time.

But playing time was only one of the problems facing Descartes and the team as a whole.

His place in the team is also a headache.

Mr. Rocca saw Descartes' brilliant playmaking talent, but he did not understand that Descartes was the type of player who threatened more the closer he got to goal.

While his physicality largely predestined him to be a great centre-forward in the box, his excellent ball handling and keen nose at the edge of the box made it almost impossible for opposition defenders to do anything to him in this area.

It's not that he can't be the core of Xavi's distribution of the ball, but unlike Xavi, Xavi is more accustomed to organizing attacks in the area of 60-30 meters from the goal, while Descartes likes to organize attacks in the 30-meter area of the opponent's goal.

Mr. Rocca put Descartes in the 433 midfield position, which actually took him out of the area he liked, so he felt awkward every time he got the ball.

Because when organising an attack in a 60-30 metre area, the players are more likely to take the ball to the opposing goal, and they can have plenty of time to observe the opponent's defensive position and then choose the right route to the ball, which means that even if the playmaker is a little slower in his thinking, he can have a buffer time to decide on his next move. On the other hand, while the player is organising the attack, the opposition backline is actually adjusting, and they also have a buffer time to rearrange their defence.

So we can see that in Barcelona's game, although Xavi is called a brain, when he receives the ball outside the 40-meter area, Barcelona's real threat to attack is actually not much, and more relies on Messi's surprise near the edge of the penalty area to create opportunities, so as to bring results.

The farther away from the goal, the more time you have for the opponent to react.

And Descartes' characteristics are precisely his super fast reflexes and instant processing of football, which allows him to pass and cut slowly and methodically away from the goal like Xavi, which really makes him feel like he has nowhere to go. In contrast, he is actually more like Messi, handling the ball quickly near the penalty line, solving the problem before the opposition player can react.

However, his breakthrough with the ball is indeed inferior to the king of plum balls.

However, Mr. Roca did not realize this problem, and he believed that the main reason why Descartes did not perform as well as he could have done was because of the run-in with the team, so he did not adjust this, but let Descartes continue to control the overall situation in the midfield.

But he didn't expect that Descartes' performance made the other members of the Italian junior team have an idea: invite this great god like praying to God and worshiping Buddha, it turns out that he is nothing more than that!

Although these players are nothing in the mouth of the media, which of them is not the pride of heaven in their respective teams? They once thought that Descartes was being hyped up in China, at least it should be thrown out of their street level, who knows that it is better to meet than to be famous, Descartes' performance made them have a kind of comparative thought: if Italy's "superstar" is this level, then can we also compete for this core position?

With superfluous thoughts, the performance of the players of the national junior team in the training match began to fluctuate, and sometimes it was obvious that they could cooperate with each other's attacks, but they often chose to go it alone; Or some attacks that can form a threat by passing the ball honestly, they prefer to play some difficult tricks, which leads to a delay in the opportunity to attack.

This performance made the team's attack look like a disjointed game, and it also made Mr. Roca angry, often interrupting the game and shouting at the players: "Pass! Pass! Pass the ball to Descartes and let him organize the attack! ”

But the more he gave this order, the more it aroused the rebellion of the other players: Descartes was just a newcomer, and his performance was not much better than ours, so why should he be the core and we could only pass the ball to him?

The young players of this age have a kind of adolescent rebellious mentality, since they believe that Descartes is just in name, they will no longer be full of a kind of awe for him as before, so they and Descartes are getting slower and slower, until the team leaves for Peru, Descartes has not finally established himself as the core of this team.

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