After solving the problem of Lazio's left back, Chang Sheng realized that he should go to the youth training camp to see if there was any "good stuff".
The youth training camp is the place that you need to rely on in the future. When it becomes increasingly difficult to buy your favorite players in the transfer market, you need the youth training camp to come out and help.
Prior to this, Lazio had searched all over the world for young players that Chang Sheng was optimistic about. Now there should be some who have been trained, right?
So Chang Sheng took the time to go to the youth training camp.
There, he met the director of the youth academy, Stella Maggioni.
"Is the sun coming out of the west? I actually see the head coach of the first team here?" Stramaccioni joked about his winning streak.
Chang Sheng smiled and punched him.
"Let me test the success of your work, Andre."
"What, the first team is short of players?"
"No, it's not that there is a shortage of players. It's just that I think we should give young people some experience in first-team training and competition, which can help them improve better..." Chang Sheng said.
Chang Sheng's training skills can only be used for first-team players, that is, the teams he directly coaches. For teams like the youth team that he is not responsible for training, the training skills are useless.
Therefore, the growth of youth team players can really only rely on their own talents and the training of youth training coaches.
How well Stramaccioni and his coaching team do will directly determine the quality of the young players in the youth training camp.
Stramaccioni laughed when he heard Chang Sheng's words: "It seems that the whole of Europe is boycotting you. Will all the players you like have to pay high prices?"
Chang Sheng rolled his eyes: "Let's be serious. Do you have any good players to recommend?"
"That depends on what position you want?" Stramaccioni said.
Chang Sheng thought about it and realized that Rocky was old. Although he performed very well last season, there were signs of overdraft.
Rocky's playing time will definitely be greatly reduced in the new season, and Rocky himself is also taking coaching courses, obviously making plans for retirement.
Maybe he will be relegated to the second line after this season.
Wu Lei can play forward and midfielder, Chang Sheng tends to let Wu Lei play midfielder, because as far as he knows, Wu Lei will also play midfielder in the future.
In this case, the forward line needs to consider adding personnel.
So he said to Stramaccioni: "Strike."
Stramaccioni nodded: "I happen to have a great young man to recommend to you."
"who?"
"Mauro Icardi is an eighteen-year-old boy with dual nationality of Argentina and Italy. We recruited him from Vicentario in Spain three years ago, and now he is already the number one player in the youth team.
Shooter. I also said that if you don’t come back, I will take the initiative to find you. Such an excellent player has reached the time where he can play for the first team.”
Stramaccioni goes into detail.
In fact, as soon as Stramaccioni said the player's name, Chang Sheng already knew who it was.
Because this person was recommended to Stramaccioni himself.
When Stramaccioni became the director of Lazio's youth training in 2008, Chang Sheng gave him a list with the names of many players on it. These players were all young people who Chang Sheng knew would later become famous and talented. Now,
They are all still unknown, or relatively not that well-known, so Lazio can still take action.
He sent Stramaccioni around the world to find those on the list.
Some people they successfully recruited, such as Mauro Icardi. Some people they failed to recruit, such as Neymar and Isco...
Icardi, who was born in 1993, was only fifteen years old at that time. Although he was a complete unknown in world football, he was already very famous in the scouting circle.
He came to Spain from Argentina when he was nine years old and trained with the island team Vicentario for five years. During these five years, he scored more than 500 goals in all competitions.
His father said he looked like Batistuta.
At that time, he became the hot favorite across Europe.
Real Madrid scout Alfonso once commented excitedly on Icardi, believing that if he can still improve at this rate, he will create an era.
When he was fifteen years old, many teams across Europe were pursuing him, with the Spanish teams the most because they were close to the water.
Atletico Madrid, Valencia Espanyol, as well as Barcelona and Real Madrid are all his suitors. In addition, outside of Spain, Liverpool, Arsenal and other wealthy teams have also expressed interest in him.
Lazio is also one of them.
Originally, Barcelona was the most sincere and the closest to signing Icardi.
However, after Lazio joined the competition, the situation changed.
Icardi and his father finally chose Lazio for a simple reason: they came to Lazio for its reputation of winning.
They believe that with his ability to win often and his love for young players, Icardi will be best trained at Lazio and will also become a future star of Lazio, playing under the ever-successful players.
This is Icardi's dream.
This isn't 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 around the world looking for people, many people agreed without hesitation when they heard it was Lazio.
Icardi is also part of it.
For this reason, he rejected Barcelona, which is more famous for its youth training.
Such a young genius who was compared with Messi just missed out on Barcelona, which made Barcelona very unhappy.
I think Chang Sheng is deliberately targeting them - why haven't I heard that Lazio is interested in Icardi before? However, after Lazio almost reached an agreement with Icardi, they rushed out halfway and snatched Icardi away.
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Chang Sheng’s understanding of Icardi comes more from the future. Before he traveled through time, Icardi was already well-known in Italian football. He was playing for Sampdoria at the time, and he received awards for his outstanding performance.
Called up by the Italian U19 national team. However, Icardi, who was dedicated to serving Argentina, refused the opportunity to play for Italy, and finally chose to play for the Argentina U20 national team in the Valencia Superstar Eight Nations Invitational Tournament. As the main center of Argentina U20,
He played all six games and scored three goals, winning the championship for the Argentina U20 national team and also becoming the top scorer in the event with three goals.
As for Icardi in this time and space, he doesn't know much more than the average person.
After putting Icardi on the youth academy's list of players in need of signings, Chang Sheng didn't care much about it.
He has so many things to do every day that he naturally doesn't have much energy to pay attention to the youth training camp. Anyway, he left the youth training camp to Stramaccioni. He is very relieved and naturally doesn't bother to ask frequently.
After that he forgot about Icardi...
Only now, after being recommended by Stramaccioni, did he think of such a little monster again.
When Lazio scouted him, he was only fifteen years old, but now he is eighteen years old. Three years later, Icardi has become the top scorer of Lazio's youth team.
After listening carefully to Stramaccioni's detailed introduction, Chang Sheng believed that Icardi was ready to play for the first team.
As a result, Lazio's competition on the front line will become more intense in the new season. If Cavani returns from injury and is not in good condition, he may not necessarily be the starter.
Chang Sheng did not immediately meet with Icardi alone, but accompanied Stramaccioni on the sidelines to watch the training of the youth team.
What is going on is offensive routine training. The coach in charge of the training is standing outside the penalty area. The players participating in the training need to dribble the ball around a cone-shaped barrel obstacle, then pass the football to the coach diagonally in front, and run diagonally.
By widening the passing angle, the coach will pass the football back to him, and after receiving the ball, the player will shoot.
A very simple offensive drill.
Icardi showed his outstanding side in training.
Whether it is overcoming obstacles or running after passing the ball, Icardi stands out in comparison.
Even if Stramaccioni didn't tell Chang Sheng in advance who Icardi was, Chang Sheng could tell at a glance.
Because Icardi is so outstanding.
His final shot was also very accurate, with a decisive shot, reasonable power and a tricky angle.
All his shots hit the goal and broke through the goalkeeper's fingers.
Seeing this, Chang Sheng nodded: "Yes, it's him."
Stramaccioni planned to suspend training and let Icardi come down.
But he was stopped by Chang Sheng.
"Let him continue training, I am not in a hurry."
Chang Sheng shook his head.
"I'll go somewhere else." He said and turned around to go to other training grounds.
Stramaccioni followed: "I'll accompany you."
He is the director of youth training. When the head coach of the first team comes to his youth training camp, it is his territory. As the landlord, he naturally has to accompany him throughout the process.
There are currently four teams in Lazio's youth training camp that have been training in the Vermelo training base for a long time, namely U19, U18, U17 and U16. The younger teams are not in Vermelo.
They all receive training in their respective schools or other places. Only those who are old enough and can continue to stay in the Lazio echelon can be transferred to the Formello training base.
The higher age group U21 is a reserve team and trains with the first team at the first team's training ground.
The two of them walked around the youth training camp and finally arrived at the U17 training ground.
Training is also taking place there, and young players under the age of seventeen are doing counter-passing training under the leadership of their coaches.
The so-called confrontational passing training is to add confrontational elements to ordinary circle training. The interceptor in the circle can have physical contact with the passing player or receiving player, and can use reasonable collisions to interfere with the opponent's passing or passing.
catch the ball.
After success, offense and defense will also be swapped.
The purpose of this kind of training is to increase the practicality and make the training truly simulate the situation in the game. After all, in the game, it is impossible for you to pass and receive without being marked, and there must be physical confrontation.
This kind of training is much more difficult than the ordinary monkey-catching training.
The coach in training clothes called a few players out, arranged them in a circle, and then gave a demonstration himself, and then asked the players to start training according to his demonstration.
The whistle blows and training officially begins.
The coach looked attentively from the side.
The coach is looking at the player attentively, and Chang Sheng off the court is looking at him very attentively.
Because he saw an "old acquaintance" here...
"Coach Gorka is in charge of the under-17 youth team."
Stramaccioni said.
Chang Sheng turned to look at him, and then nodded: "Yes, I know." (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)
