Having solved the problem at Lazio's left-back, Chang Sheng realised that he should go to the academy to see if there were any "good goods".

The academy is a place to focus on in the future, and when it becomes increasingly difficult to buy the player you want in the transfer market, you need the academy to help.

Prior to this, Lazio had already scoured the world for young players who were favored by the ever-winning man, and there should be some of them who have been trained by the same now, right?

So Chang Sheng took the time to go to the academy.

There, he met Academy director Stramaccioni.

"Did the Suns come out of the west and I saw the first team manager here?" Stramaccioni makes ever-winning jokes.

Chang Sheng smiled and gave him a punch.

"I'll test the success of your work, Andre."

"What, the first team is short of people?"

"No, it's not that there's a shortage of people. It's just that I think we should give the youngsters some experience of training and playing in the first team to help them improve their ......,' said Tsuna.

The training skills of Chang Sheng can only be used against the first team players, that is, the teams he directly coaches, and the training skills are useless for teams like the youth team that he is not responsible for training for.

Therefore, the growth of youth team players can really only rely on their own talent and the cultivation of youth coaches.

How well Stellamacioni and his coaching staff do is a direct difference in the quality of the young players in the Academy.

Stramaccioni laughed when he heard Chang Sheng's words: "It looks like all of Europe is boycotting you." You've got to pay a lot for all the players you fancie, right? ”

Chang Sheng rolled his eyes: "Let's be serious." Do you have any good player recommendations? ”

"It depends on where you want it?" Stramacioni said.

Chang Sheng thought about it, Roki is old, and although he performed very well last season, there are signs of excessive overdraft.

Roki's playing time will definitely be drastically reduced in the new season, and the Rocchi people are also taking coaching courses, apparently planning for retirement.

Maybe after this season, he will take a back seat.

Wu Lei can play as a striker and as a midfielder. Chang Sheng prefers to let Wu Lei play in the midfield, because as far as he knows, Wu Lei will also play in the midfield in the future.

In this case, the forward line needs to consider additional personnel.

So he said to Stramaccioni: "Forward. ”

Stramacioni nodded: "I happen to have a great lad to recommend to you." ”

"Who?"

"Mauro Kaldi. A young man of only 18 years old, with dual Argentine and Italian citizenship. We poached him from Spain's Vicindario three years ago and now he's the top scorer in the youth team. I also said that if you don't come again, I'll take the initiative to go to you, such a good player, it's time to play for the first team. ”

Stramaccioni goes into detail.

In fact, Stramaccioni had just said the player's name. Chang Sheng already knows who it is.

Because this person was recommended to Stella Magcioni by himself.

When Stramaccioni became Lazio youth director in 2008, Chang Sheng gave him a list of the names of many players who were young people who Chang Sheng knew they would later become famous and still unknown. Or relatively not so famous, Lazio can still start.

He asked Stramacioni to go all over the world to find the people on these lists.

There are some people they have successfully poached, such as this Mauro Kaldi. There are some that they didn't dig into, like Neymar and Isco......

Icardi, who was born in 1993, was just 15 years old at the time, and although he was a complete nobody in world football, he was already very well known in scouting circles.

He came to Spain from Argentina at the age of nine and trained for five years with island side Vicindario. In those five years, he has scored more than five hundred goals in all competitions.

His father described him as Batistuta.

At that time, he became a squirm for the whole of Europe.

Real Madrid scout Alphonso once excitedly commented on Icardi, thinking that if he could still improve at this pace. Then he will create an era.

When he was fifteen years old, there were many teams all over Europe who were pursuing him, with Spain being the most popular because they were close to the water.

Atletico Madrid, Valencia Espanyol. As well as Barcelona and Real Madrid, which are his suitors. In addition, outside of Spain, there are also big teams such as Liverpool and Arsenal that have also expressed interest in him.

Lazio is also one of them.

Coming to Barcelona is the most sincere. It is also the closest to signing Icardi.

However, the situation changed after Lazio joined the fray.

Icardi and his father chose Lazio for the simple reason that they came to Lazio for the sake of success.

They believe that with his winning ability and love for young players, Icardi will be able to get the best development at Lazio, and at the same time, he will become a future star of Lazio, playing under the winning team.

This is Icardi's dream.

It's not just Icardi's dream, either.

Being able to play under a winning team is the dream of many young European players.

So when Stramaccioni took this list and went all over the world to find people, many people agreed without hesitation as soon as they heard that it was Lazio.

Icardi is also part of it.

For this reason, he turned down Barcelona, who were more famous in youth training.

Such a young genius who was compared to Messi missed Barcelona like this, which made Barcelona very unhappy.

Thinking that Chang Sheng was deliberately targeting them - how could I not have heard that Lazio was interested in Icardi before, but after Lazio was almost ready to negotiate with Icardi, they only came out halfway and snatched Icardi?

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What Chang Sheng knows more about Icardi comes from the future, having already made a name for himself in Italian football before he crossed over, playing for Sampdoria at the time. He was called up to the Italian Under-19 squad for his outstanding performances. However, Icardi, who was determined to serve Argentina, turned down the opportunity to represent Italy, and eventually chose to play for the Argentina Under-20 national team in the Valencia superstar eight-nation invitational tournament, playing all six games as the main center of the Argentina Under-20 team, scoring three goals to win the tournament for the Argentina Under-20 national team, and also won the tournament's top scorer with three goals.

As for Icardi in this plane, he doesn't know much more than the average person.

After putting Icardi on the list of academy players in need, Chang Sheng didn't care much about it.

He has so much to do every day. Naturally, he doesn't have much energy to pay attention to the academy, anyway, he handed over the academy to Stramaccioni, he is very relieved, and naturally he will not ask too often.

After that, he forgot about Icardi as a person......

Until now, it was solemnly recommended by Stramaccioni. He just remembered such a little demon again.

He was only fifteen years old when Lazio poached him, but now he is eighteen years old, and three years later, Icardi has become the top scorer for Lazio's youth team.

After listening carefully to Stramaccioni's detailed introduction, Chang Sheng believes that Icardi has reached the point where he can play for the first team.

In this way, Lazio will be more competitive in the forward line in the new season. If Cavani returns from injury, if he is not in good shape, he will not necessarily be a starter.

Chang Sheng did not immediately meet with Icardi alone, but accompanied Stramaccioni on the sidelines to watch the youth team's training.

What is going on is an offensive routine drill, and the coach in charge of training is standing outside the penalty area. Players involved in training need to dribble the ball around a tapered barrel obstacle by themselves, and then pass the ball to the coach diagonally in front of them, running diagonally and opening up the angle of the pass. The coach will pass the ball back to him, and after receiving the ball, the player will shoot.

A very simple offensive drill.

Icardi has shown his outstanding side in training.

Whether it's coiling over obstacles. It's still the running after the pass, and in contrast, Icardi stands out from the crowd.

Even if Stramaccioni didn't tell Chang Sheng in advance who Icardi was, Chang Sheng could see it at a glance.

Because Icardi is in is too prominent.

His final shot was also very accurate, with a decisive shot, a reasonable force and a tricky angle.

All the shots, he hit the goal, breaking through the goalkeeper's ten fingers.

Seeing this, Chang Sheng nodded: "Yes, it's him." ”

Stramacioni was going to pause training and let Icardi come down.

But he was stopped by Chang Sheng.

"Let him continue training, I'm not in a hurry at this time."

Chang Sheng shook his head.

"I'll go somewhere else." As he spoke, he turned and headed for the other training grounds.

Stramacioni followed: "I'll accompany you." ”

He is the director of youth training, and the head coach of the first team came to his youth academy, which is his territory, and as a landlord, he naturally has to accompany him throughout the whole process.

There are currently four teams in Lazio's academy that have been training at the Furmelo training ground on a permanent basis: the Under-19s, Under-18s, Under-17s and Under-16s. The youngest teams are no longer in Vermelo, they are all training in their respective schools or other places, and when they are old, they can continue to stay in the Lazio echelon before they can be transferred to the Vermelo training base.

The higher age group of the Under-21s is the reserve team, training with the first team at the first team's training ground.

The two walked around the academy and finally arrived at the Under-17 training ground.

Training is also taking place there, with young players under the age of 17 working on counter-passing under the guidance of their coaches.

The so-called confrontation passing training is to add confrontation elements to the ordinary circle-grabbing training, and the interceptor player in the circle can have physical contact confrontation with the passer or receiver, and can use reasonable collision to interfere with the opponent's passing or receiving the ball.

After success, it will also make the offense and defense swap.

The purpose of this kind of training is to increase the practicality of the training, so that the training can simulate the situation in the game, after all, in the game, it is impossible for you to pass and receive the ball without being marked, you must have a physical confrontation.

This kind of training is much more difficult than the general training of grabbing circles and teasing monkeys.

The coach in the training uniform called a few players out, formed a circle, and then gave a demonstration himself, and then asked the players to start training according to his demonstration.

A whistle blows, and training begins.

The coach watched intently from the side.

The coach is looking at the players intently, and the winning players off the field are watching him very intently.

Because here he sees "old acquaintances"......

"The youth team under the age of 17 is in charge of Coach Gorka."

Stramacioni said.

Chang Sheng turned his head to look at him, and then nodded: "Yes, I know." ”