In the north of downtown Florence, less than two kilometers east of the Stadio Franchi, to the north of a roundabout at a three-way intersection, there is a low Tuscan-style building covering an area of nearly half a football field, with red tiles and yellow walls.
It looks like it has been around for some time and has long been integrated with the surrounding residential buildings.
It's just that the sides and back of this large building are surrounded by football fields, making it extremely eye-catching.
Locals all know that this is the core of Italian football, the Covelciano training base.
With the suspension of Serie A, the national team regrouped and began preparing for the European qualifying rounds of the World Cup in South Africa, and the surrounding area suddenly became lively again.
Journalists, fans, and tourists who come here all make the north of Florence extremely lively.
This happens every time the national team gathers, and the locals are used to it.
This is because the training ground for the U21 national team is fixed in Rome, otherwise it would be even more lively.
Many foreign reporters and tourists are not familiar with it and cannot reach the gate of the training base, so they can only ask local residents for help.
These residents who live around the training base will always tell them with pride and pride, "You are on the wrong path. This is the coaching training base. Well, that big building is the football museum, and further north is the country."
The Covelciano training base where the team trains, that’s the main entrance.”
"However, if you want to watch the national team match, you can't get in from here. You have to go back. From the first intersection on the west to the north, there is a path that can go around to the front. There is a large piece of grass and grass at the entrance of the training base.
Opposite the woods is a Catholic church, which is very easy to spot.”
This has almost become a recurring thing for local residents every day during every national team training period.
Who would have thought that the gate of the national team training base is not opened on the side of the main road, but instead has to be taken around a small road to enter?
But today's situation seems a little different.
The national team is training to prepare for the upcoming games against Bulgaria and Montenegro, but there are still many people in the southern part of the training base, and many of them are foreigners.
For example, there were two foreigners in the crowd who were at least 1.9 meters tall. They looked particularly tall and burly. One of them in particular had a beard all over his face, and he looked like he was German.
Only Germans can be so tall and so slovenly.
"You are going the wrong way. The national team training base needs to go north from the intersection over there and take a detour to get in."
"What, not going to the national team training base?"
The local residents were surprised. He thought these foreigners who couldn't speak Italian couldn't even express themselves clearly in English.
"This is an Italian coach training base, a football museum, not a national team training base, understand?"
"Understood." The German, who was slightly thin and had a high hairline, smiled and replied, "We are here for the coaching training base."
"Don't you have a coaching training center in Germany? Why did you come to Italy?" the resident asked curiously.
Although our Italian coach training is indeed very good, it seems that it is not so good that you have to come all the way to receive training, right?
The German smiled and said nothing, thanked him, walked over, said something in German to the burly middle-aged man with a beard, and then the two of them walked towards the entrance of the football museum.
This made the Italian residents behind him very puzzled.
It's really strange. Why didn't these people go to see the national team today and went to visit the football museum?
Could it be that it is because of Italy’s football history that attracts them?
But soon, they discovered something special.
Not only the two Germans, more and more people came to the Covelciano training base.
There were Germans, Spaniards, Argentina, Portugal, England, France... and of course Italians... They were asking for directions in a variety of languages, but none of them were directed at the training camp preparing for the game.
The national team came, but they all walked into the football museum.
This made the surrounding residents very curious.
That doesn't make sense, does it?
Logically speaking, the national team is training nearby. Why don't you go see the national team and go visit the museum instead?
After living around the national team training base for a long time, they had a vague feeling that something unusual was going to happen today.
But there was no news on the news.
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Accompanied by Zidane and Lucas, Gao Shen walked out of Florence Airport lightly.
There were people waiting for the flight at the scene. As soon as they saw them, they were immediately picked up in the car and headed east.
"Are there many people here today?"
As soon as they entered the city of Florence, Lucas, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, asked gossiping.
The person who picked up the plane was a senior executive from Covelciano. After hearing this, he nodded excitedly and said, "There are too many. We are all worried now. Can the lecture hall be large enough?"
After saying that, he had a wry smile on his face.
"Is it that exaggerated?" Gao Shen was a little doubtful.
He was actually quite worried that there would be no one around.
"Why not?" The senior executive who picked up the airport was afraid that Gao Shen would not believe it, and then said: "Not to mention anything else, basically all the students who were originally trained in Covelciano are going to attend. There are nearly a hundred people, and there are also people from the next door country.
The team’s international players, I heard that even Lippi is coming to watch, and some of our domestic head coaches also want to come.”
"In addition, we sent the message to UEFA a week ago. As a result, in just one week, football federations from many countries came to us and asked for spectator quotas. I seriously doubt that the 300-person lecture hall was
I can’t sit down.”
After hearing this, Gao Shen looked at Zidane, and both of them laughed in unison.
He was finally relieved.
The Italian Football Association invited Gao Shen to attend summits and keynote speeches. They invited Gao Shen many times, but Gao Shen declined them all. But this time, Ulivieri personally came forward and invited him to give lectures at the Whampoa Military Academy in Italian football.
Invitation issued on behalf of the Italian Coaches Association.
It can be said that Gao Shen was really given enough face this time.
Such an opportunity can not only greatly enhance Gao Shen's influence in the professional circle, but is also a rare opportunity to communicate with everyone.
But frankly speaking, when Gao Shen was invited, he was still very worried. For this reason, he specially invited Zidane and Lucas to help out.
It's better to be embarrassed with three people than alone, right?
Now it seems that his worries are somewhat unnecessary.
"By the way, are there many people from foreign countries?" Zidane asked suddenly.
"Well, there are quite a few. According to the list I saw before, there are Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Argentina and Brazil, etc. There are people from many countries who want to come, and they basically fly over.
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When Gao Shen heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little secretly proud.
When he was in the tactical library, he saw someone flying all the way to Scotland to attend one of Ferguson's lectures. He admired him from the bottom of his heart and felt that Ferguson was the real top coach.
Unexpectedly, he is being treated like this now.
But he still lacks confidence.
"Isn't this the shill you are looking for?"
"How is that possible?" The other party laughed. He really didn't expect that Gao Shen, who usually seemed confident, would be so unsure about this kind of thing.
However, if you think about it carefully, it's no wonder.
too young!
Through the rear mirror inside the car, you can see Gao Shen's handsome face. If you don't mention his name and say he is a professional player, no one will doubt him, but if you say he is the head coach, everyone will probably
My heart was pounding.
I'm too young and have little qualifications, so I don't have much confidence in this kind of thing.
Moreover, this is the first time Gao Shen has spoken in public since taking charge of Real Madrid.
The whole world knows how advanced Gao Shen's tactical concepts are. From Real Madrid's double championship to Napoli's miracle of winning the newly promoted team's championship for two consecutive seasons, Gao Shen's coaching ability is beyond doubt.
What sets off his coaching ability is his advanced tactical concept.
Barcelona head coach Guardiola has mentioned Gao Shen's influence on him more than once, and even admitted that his philosophy has a deep imprint of Gao Shen's football.
Not to mention, in the peak showdown against Inter Milan last season, almost half of Italy's famous coaches gathered at the Sao Paulo Stadium, which shows how high the tactical content of that game was.
"Oh, by the way, Mancini will come too." The driver suddenly thought of the former Inter Milan coach.
Gao Shen was stunned, "Is he coming too?"
This really shocked him.
Mancini is notoriously arrogant, especially when it comes to dealing with senior officials.
Gao Shen wouldn't be too surprised if Lippi or anyone else came, but Mancini was really surprised.
"He has also been constantly increasing his self-esteem and recharging his skills recently." This senior coach of the Coaches Association is obviously very familiar with Mancini.
Gao Shen nodded silently.
How lucky he was now that all his efforts in learning all kinds of football knowledge in the tactical library over the past few years were not in vain, and now he was able to go to Covelciano so calmly and breathlessly.
Otherwise, even if he is a time traveler, how can Gao Shen dare to give a speech in front of so many famous coaches and so many professional head coaches?
This really confirms a sentence.
Time travel is not a panacea, knowledge is power!
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After arriving in Coverciano, Gao Shen and his party did not go through the gate of the national team base, but went directly to the Football Museum.
Many coaches who came here with admiration had already gathered here. As soon as they saw this welcome car, everyone immediately gathered around. They all guessed that the person sitting in the car must be Gao Shen.
Sure enough, when Gao Shen got off the bus, many people at the scene expressed surprise because he was so young.
But I don’t know who among the surrounding crowd started first, and there was a burst of applause.
This actually made Gao deeply flattered, and he kept thanking his colleagues present.
The courtesy was so high that he felt a little uncomfortable.
What shocked Gao Shen the most was that he saw a few familiar faces among the applauding crowd around him, especially the two tall men, especially the scruffy man with a full beard.
