In the morning, the winter break training began at Fort Volturno.
After last year's attempt, Buenaventura and Pintus carefully created a small training camp for the team during the winter break. The purpose is to allow everyone in the team to improve their physical fitness during the winter break and be in better condition.
Welcome to the second half of the journey.
Everyone knows that entering the second half, all fronts will start to sprint, which will be a huge test for Naples.
But everyone in Fort Volturno encountered something strange.
Head coach Gao Shen is still standing on the sidelines watching. He basically does not participate in the command training. He has never been shy about not being able to lead the team in training. He even once jokingly said: If the head coach can do any job, how many people will be unemployed?
?
But today, he looks very different.
During a break, although the players were very tired, they were all whispering to the side.
Carlo, Zidane and other coaching staff also came together.
"Zinedine, did something happen to him?" Carlo asked with concern.
Everyone also showed their concern.
"You also noticed?" Zidane is such a thoughtful person, "I have always been strange. Ever since I saw him last night, I felt that he was different from usual, but I can't tell what is different.
Come."
Zidane also scratched his head.
"Where did he go on vacation?" Carlo asked.
Everyone looked at Zidane again, and the French bald Qiang looked confused.
"I don't know. I went back to Spain as soon as I had a holiday. Has he gone out?"
No one could answer. They all vaguely noticed something strange, but they couldn't tell what was different.
"Hey, Fernando, come here."
Carlo saw Fernando Lucas coming from the front and hurriedly greeted him.
"What are you doing?" Lucas asked funny.
Zidane asked instead, "Have you noticed that Gao has been a little weird these past two days?"
Lucas chuckled and laughed, "You just discovered it now?"
Everyone was stunned, as if this man had noticed the clues a long time ago.
"I asked him last night. Look at his expression. He used to be expressionless and cool, but now, he smiles from time to time, with a smile on his face. Needless to say, he just answers."
"In love!" Zidane guessed.
"Bingo!" Lucas laughed triumphantly, "I tell you, I am the most accurate at seeing this kind of thing. Nine times out of ten, he fell in love during the Christmas vacation."
"That's a good thing!" Carlo clapped his hands. He had long thought that Gao Shen should fall in love.
Think about it, a grown man in his twenties, handsome, rich, famous, status and influential, will he be short of women around him?
Using what Lucas said, Gao Shen hooked his fingers slightly, and all the beauties in Italy eagerly came forward.
But it's not normal for such a person to be immersed in football all day long.
"By the way, Fernando, who is he in love with?" Carlo asked with concern.
He is the oldest and most advanced "master" here, so he naturally pays more attention to it.
"I asked, but he smiled and refused to say anything. But looking at his coquettishness, I guessed that ninety-nine percent of the time, it was Mourinho."
"Ah?" Everyone was dumbfounded.
Mourinho?
He and Mourinho...
"Oh, no, Mourinho belongs to Zidane, I'm talking about the girl who plays games with him..."
Before Lucas could finish speaking, Zidane next to him was about to rush up and tear him apart.
Damn it, it’s miserable enough that I was played into a game by Gao Shen, but you’re still trying to get me together with Mourinho?
How is that bad old man worthy of me?
Everyone fell down laughing.
Gao Shen really does a lot of weird things like this, and they have always known that there is a girl who has been playing games with him for two years, but he protects her very well and has always been
Not known to outsiders.
If a relationship is really established, that's definitely a good thing.
Carlo was greatly relieved and very happy in his heart.
"It's a good thing to fall in love. Although we are his assistants at work, we are also personal friends and partners. From now on, we will help him more and give him more time and space to work in our line of work. Let's fall in love."
It’s not easy.”
Everyone nodded.
Who says it’s not?
Many people look at the stars and see how glamorous the coaches are?
Earn so much money and gain so much fame, but who knows how much it costs?
Everyone knows that among all those who can play in the top league, which one is not the best since childhood? Which one is not the best among his peers in the world?
How many teams are there in the Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, plus the Bundesliga and Ligue 1? How many players are there in each team?
Is it easy to select just such a few people among the world's billions of people?
They have great skills, but who doesn't have scars all over their body?
How many people rely on drugs to maintain their health? How many people are so stressed that they can't sleep?
The team doctor must bring enough sleeping aids before each expedition. Why?
Because maybe everyone in the team is so excited that they can’t sleep!
This is true for players, isn’t it true for head coaches too?
This is not just for individuals, it extends to families.
Everyone sees the players traveling around with their families after the holidays. It looks great, but what happens behind the scenes?
Gerrard went to play an away game, and the mansion was broken into by knife-wielding gangsters. Only his wife and children were at home. How terrifying is this?
During training and training, I would be away from home for half a month or even a month.
Sometimes we play away games consecutively and stay away from home for a long time.
Children need to go to school, pick up and drop off, get sick, and the whole family has to do everything.
As for making money, yes, but not as much as fans imagined.
Real Madrid’s Galacticos are so awesome!
But apart from Zidane and Ronaldo, who doesn't live off the club's contract and annual salary?
Most of the commercial sponsorship contracts for stars such as Raul and Figo were obtained through Real Madrid's adjustment. In terms of commercial value, after Figo joined from Barcelona, in addition to getting a bank endorsement contract when he first joined,
It has almost no commercial value.
Others are even more so.
Mature people know how to invest something quickly while making money during their career to prepare for their life after retirement. Immature people squander it during their career and will be destitute after retirement.
I don’t know how many such people there are, some of them are even glamorous legendary players in front of them, but they are heavily in debt behind the scenes.
Others are simply media rumors.
For example, Pirlo is a super rich second generation.
In reality?
Their steel trading company only does business in a small town. At its peak, the turnover was only more than 70 million euros. What is the net profit?
One hundred and fifty thousand euros.
It's better for Pirlo to stand on the stage and show off and earn more!
Maybe some people will be surprised when they see this. This is impossible. Look at those stars on the rich list.
This is the illusion brought about by the information age.
When everyone sees that Beckham's business income alone is 20 million euros a year, they must think that even if Figo is not as good as Beckham, he must have half of it, right? Or even worse, 5 million euros is fine, right?
But they forget that commercial value has never meant that Figo and Beckham have similar strengths, similar performances, and similar rankings, so their commercial values are similar.
It's entirely possible, even, basically, that Beckham ate the whole thing and Figo couldn't even drink the soup.
This is called winner takes all.
During the Galacticos era, it is meaningless to only look at the commercial income of Zidane, Ronaldo and Beckham, because except for the three of them, the total commercial value of everyone else is less than a fraction of theirs.
This is true for a team, and it is still true when it is extended to the entire football world.
Making money is never easy.
This is true all over the world, in every industry, and for every person.
But the stars have great fame and status, so there are countless women eager to get close to the stars and become famous in one fell swoop. There are also countless scammers who are approaching the stars under various names, hoping to get what they want from them.
s things……
Therefore, what Carlo said is not wrong at all.
In this line of work, it's not easy to even fall in love.
The head coach is like this, and the stars are like that too.
…
Gao Shen didn't know what his assistants were thinking. He had things to consider of his own.
He never cares about training, he is only responsible for the overall situation.
Naples' current overall framework is very stable. Whether it is 4, 3, 3, or 4, 2, 3, 1, the team can handle it with ease, and the players are basically adaptable.
But as the season progresses, especially now, Gao Shen calms down, looks back, summarizes and thinks, and he still feels that the team is not doing well enough in some areas.
For example, goalkeeper Handanovic has adapted to the team's style of play and has also changed some of his own styles, but in the end he is still not good enough. There is also center Cavani, whether he is connected with the wings or the midfielder,
Still a little inconsistent.
Of course, they are all good enough and will not become the team's weakness or the focus of their opponents' attacks. Moreover, they all have their own advantages and characteristics.
It can only be said that from a sophisticated perspective, if Handanovic is replaced by a goalkeeper with outstanding footwork such as Neuer or Ter Stegen, and Cavani is replaced by someone else with more outstanding skills, personally
A very capable center, I believe the overall level of the team can be improved to a higher level.
But for the time being, Naples can only go so far.
If Gao Shen wants to try it and seek further self-breakthrough, he will have to wait until later.
After all, with Naples' financial resources, being able to reach this point is already a struggle.
There is no way he would go and tell De Laurentiis now to sell Handanovich and buy German Neuer.
This is simply unrealistic and not so willful.
After all, Naples is really not a wealthy club, and Gao Shen cannot do what Guardiola did in his previous life, exchanging Eto'oga's money for Ibrahimovic.
Gao Shen just feels that he can still try to seek breakthroughs in these directions, and maybe he can lead a stronger team, but these are things for the future.
He is now thinking about taking Naples better and further!
