Chapter 82: Heading to the U20

Nerazzurri Under-20 head coach Gian Mario. Cody looked at Shi Hao, his brown eyes were full of seriousness, and he said very slowly: "Mr. Monty has talked to me, and he thinks you have the ability to stand in the U20 echelon. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Chinese boy, I don't care who recommended you, when you get to my territory, you have to show your best training state to impress me, otherwise you will go back from where you came, do you hear? ”

Shi Hao listened to his words with a guess, nodded and replied, "Okay sir." ”

If this serious-looking bearded man could understand Chinese, he would have said a few more words, patted his chest and expressed his position. Unfortunately, his Italian was just getting started, so he had to keep it short and to the point in order to avoid mistakes.

Cody waved his hand, as if to chase away an annoying fly: "Go to the training ground and join your teammates." ”

Shi Hao slid out of Cody's office and walked to the U20 echelon's locker room, which he had heard beforehand.

Because of the color of his skin, many people at the club have a serious prejudice at first sight of him. Questions such as "Chinese also play football?" "Didn't you spend a lot of sponsorship money to gild" and so on.

He had become accustomed to these contemptuous, distrustful glances, and these stereotypes could not be changed overnight.

All he can do is to perform his best on the training ground, at least let everyone know that "it turns out that this Chinese kid really knows how to play." ”

There were already a few people in the locker room. There was no familiar face, but Shi Hao still greeted in stiff Italian: "Hello everyone, I'm new here, my name is Shi Hao, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

Those people turned around together, looked at Shi Hao for a while, and then quickly exchanged a few words and laughed together.

Shi Hao didn't understand too much, but judging from their expressions, there should be no insult, at most they looked down on them.

After they laughed for a while, a lean and thin black guy who was about the same height as Shi Hao put down the clothes in his hand, stepped forward two steps and stretched out his hand to Shi Hao: "Hello, I'm Diam, and we're all guessing what nationality you are." Korean? RB people? ”

Like the routines in many novels, Shi Hao has become accustomed to this kind of wordless discrimination. In Europe, most people think that only Koreans and RBs can play football among East Asian people. As for the Chinese, oh God, don't the Chinese play table tennis?

"I'm Chinese, my name is Shi Hao."

"Thing...... Okay, your name is hard to pronounce. Diamm grinned, revealing snow-white teeth, "Let me introduce you, this is Besa, this blonde hair is Carlsen, and Knasmurna." Well, his name is also difficult to pronounce, read it to me, Ke-Na-Si-Mu-Er-Na. ”

Teammates burst into laughter. Shi Hao nodded to everyone, then found an empty cabinet and began to change clothes.

When he came to the training ground, Shi Hao looked around and didn't see the 18-year-old Brazilian genius Coutinho, who transferred to Inter this year, and it was estimated that he was training with the first team, which made Shi Hao envious. He genuinely believes he's no worse than Coutinho and all he needs is a chance to show himself.

But he quickly put away the emotion. The Facchetti camp and the Pinettina training base of the first team are not far away, only about a decade away by car. But for most of the players who came through the Inter Academy, it's a barrier to it, and they won't be able to train with the first team at Pinettina for the rest of their lives.

As for Shi Hao himself, he hasn't even obtained a professional contract yet, so it's better to focus on the present for the time being.

At the time of the assembly, assistant coach Vincenzo. Sosa briefly introduced Shi Hao and named the captain Luca. Caldirola assisted Shi Hao to integrate into the team as soon as possible.

Caldirola was a tall, silent man, half a head taller than Shi Hao, with a typical Italian sculptural face.

The other teammates were not introduced one by one, and they could only wait for Shi Hao to get acquainted with it himself.

The morning training session was mainly technical and tactical training, not much different from the U18 team.

The tactical class was personally taken care of by head coach Cody, and Shi Hao listened to it with little understanding, and could only figure it out by observing other people's movements.

The technical classes were carried out by several other coaches, and Shi Hao wrote down their names: There is Danili. Bonazzoli, Salvatore. Koneni, Luca. Facchetti, Antonello. Sartol, Sergio. Zanetti.

In addition, there is Mr. Court, who Shi Hao is familiar with, and Shi Hao has been in contact with him since he came to Inter.

However, he was not so friendly in training, keeping his face tight, and anyone who made the slightest mistake would be reprimanded loudly by him.

As for another youth coach that Shi Hao is familiar with, Mr. Bergomi is not in the U20 echelon.

The afternoon training was focused on physical training and was led by strength and conditioning coach Robert Brown. Nicolai is in charge. Shi Hao's performance is not as good as in the morning, although his physical dexterity and flexibility are still good, and his speed is relatively fast in the team, but his physical fitness and physical confrontation ability are hard injuries.

In the end, a 45-minute intra-team match was played, randomly grouped, and not distributed according to the list of the main and substitute groups. Shi Hao scored 1 goal with his personal ability, and had many wonderful dribbles, but there was little interaction with his teammates. His passing was sometimes subtle, but his teammates didn't grasp his intentions; He was also unfamiliar with his team-mates' passing routes, which left him almost outside the tactical system.

After the training session, the players left and the coaching staff of the Under-20 team held a short meeting as usual to discuss the gains and losses in training and the impressions of the young players.

"That new Chinese boy, tell me what you think." Cody said.

Bonazzoli recalled: "He was very skilled and stood out in the team. There are some small habits that are not so good that can be corrected. ”

Zanetti said: "There's a big problem with defensive awareness, and if he's on the pitch, we're one less man to defend. ”

Nicolai added: "Fitness is a problem and I doubt he will be able to play the full 90 minutes. The confrontation is very poor, worse than Besa. ”

Everyone smiled heartily. Daniel. Bessa, a 17-year-old Brazilian player, has just been promoted to the Under-20 squad. He has always been known for his good technique and poor confrontation ability in the team.

Courter remained silent before he said, "He's progressing very fast. ”

Cody looked at Curt in surprise: "Why do you say that?" ”

Court's face was stern: "As everyone knows, I discovered him in China in August, and it was observed that his ability should only barely gain a foothold in the U18 echelon. Physical confrontation ability, speed, etc., are much worse than now. But now you can see his performance, and it can be said that his ability has improved by leaps and bounds in these four months. ”

Cody nodded: "Keep watching." Nicolai, these days pay attention to recording his physical data. "This is to focus on Shi Hao.

As a professional footballer, technical ability is only one aspect, physical fitness is also quite important.

Whether a person is suitable to be a professional athlete is only one aspect, and whether he can be quickly improved through training is also an important item to be examined - this is the so-called "training potential".