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Doriano Tosi, Sampdoria's sporting manager, and Luciano Bruni, head coach of the reserves, waited outside the training ground building for the man they had been waiting for, a handsome young man.

Tosi first extended his hand to the young man: "Good morning, Mauro."

"Good morning, Mr. Manager."

Then Bruni shook his hand too.

Young people are still a little vain to be greeted by the club's sports manager and the head coach of the reserve team at the door-this fully shows that the other party attaches great importance to themselves, and that they are what they need.

In fact, it is true.

The Sampdoria club has been optimistic about him for more than a day or two. They have been observing him for a long time, and then they reached an agreement with their Barcelona club some time ago to rent him over.

He himself did not want to stay at Barcelona, ​​where he knew he couldn't make it. So he was eager to change to a new environment, maybe he could still play it?

"Sampdoria welcomes you, Groiano Mugnaini Sports Center welcomes you, Mauro, I hope you can spend a pleasant half-season here." Tosi said.

The translator next to the young man translated this sentence to him.

"I hope so too, Mr. Manager," he answered Tosi, slowly but clearly, in Italian, the second Italian he'd spoken since meeting the manager.

Tosi was surprised: "Have you started learning Italian yet?"

"It just started yesterday. Fortunately, Italian and Spanish have many similarities." The young man passed this sentence to the sports manager through a translator. He actually doesn't speak much Italian.

But Tosi was very satisfied with the attitude of the young man, and he nodded: "I believe you will succeed here. Come on, we will take you around and get acquainted with where you will be in the next half season."

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After a lap, Tosi and Bruni took the young people outside the training ground of the reserve team, where some early players had already entered the field first, and they were playing with the ball.

Then a football rolled across the field.

"Excuse me, trouble...coach?" The person on the field beckoned for the ball, but he didn't expect it to be the head coach, and then he saw the sports manager next to the head coach.

what's going on?

He was a little surprised, the club's sports manager doesn't often come to the reserve team...

The young man next to Tosi looked at the football that rolled in front of him, and suddenly wanted to show his ability in front of his future teammates, managers and coaches, so he jumped up the football with his feet wearing casual shoes, Then he started bouncing the ball, feet, thighs, chest, shoulders, and he let the ball rest on his forehead for a while.

As a young man from Barcelona's La Masia youth academy, he was in the youth academy of Sampdoria, a second-tier Serie A team, as if he came to the countryside from a big city, and he still had a strong sense of superiority.

Sampdoria's first team is not strong in today's Serie A. Although they finished fourth in the league last season, this season is about to fight for relegation.

Sampdoria's youth training is not well-known in Italy, so it is not worth mentioning.

The sports manager and the head coach of the reserve team greeted him in person, which further boosted his sense of superiority, making him unable to help but show off in front of this group of "bumpkins".

After showing his ability to control the football to his heart's content, the young man felt that he should have attracted everyone's attention to him, so he picked up the football again, and when the football fell to a suitable height, he swung it With a kick, the football in the air was drawn back to the field.

This is a powerful and heavy volley. It is not polite to return the ball in this way. The young man may not pay attention to his future teammates.

Who told him to come from La Masia?

The Sampdoria reserve team player who raised his hand to ask for the ball obviously did not expect that this inexplicable person would kick the football back in this way. He was even thinking about what it meant, and he froze on the spot without doing anything to catch the ball Prepare.

At this moment, a long leg suddenly stretched out halfway, stopping the roaring football.

The football hit his foot, but it didn't make any dull sound, and then bounced far away.

It's actually like the football is glued to that foot.

The person who intercepted the ball turned his body backwards after receiving the ball, and his foot catching the ball swung backwards along the direction of the football, completely unloading the power of the football. Roll up and down.

The powerful volley was taken lightly by the owner of this foot.

Then he raised his hand and waved to the young people outside, smiling and saying in Italian: "Thank you."

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The young man really didn't expect that such a kick he volleyed would be dispelled by the opponent in such a way. He believed that the ball was played by a first-team player. If he wanted to stop like this under the same circumstances, It is also very difficult and not everyone can do it.

But the opponent was so relaxed and freehand, there wasn't even any expression change on his face when he stopped the ball.

He couldn't help asking: "Who is he?"

The sports manager Tosi didn't know who this person was, so he turned his attention to the reserve team coach Bruni who had been silent by the side.

Bruni replied in a very casual tone with a smile on his face: "Tell him, his name is Gao Zheng, and he is here for a trial training."

After Icardi heard the translator say this, he looked at the coach in surprise: "Trial?"

Tosi was also surprised: "Trial training? Why don't I know?"

Bruni nodded: "Well, I just came here the day before yesterday, and it's still in the inspection period, so I didn't tell you."

The young people who came to this small seaside town from the big city of Barcelona began to doubt life a little-can a trial player catch his own foot so easily? Is there something wrong?

How could Luciano Bruni not know what the young man was thinking under the surprised expression, but he stopped talking, just put his hands behind his back, smiled and looked at Gao Zheng who was once again surrounded by his teammates in the stadium.

And sports manager Doriano Tosi also set his sights on Gao Zheng with great interest.

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Alberto Massi was the first to rush forward to express his admiration to Gao Zheng: "As expected of the Great Devil! The ball stopped so well!"

David Leto exaggerated: "You saved my life!"

He was the one who asked for the ball just now, and he was the one who was almost hit by the ball. If it weren't for Gao Zheng's "foot" to help him, he might be hit by the ball firmly, which would be uncomfortable.

On the one hand, the others were because of Gao Zheng's ability, and on the other hand, it was also because of the same hatred for that inexplicable young man-although Gao Zheng was here for a trial training, he had already trained with them for two days. Compared with the person on the sidelines, he is more familiar with everyone, and of course he is regarded as "one of his own" by the players.

"What is that kid here for? Is it a mess?"

"That's right, who is that kid! He also asked the coach to accompany him personally..."

"I think that kid was showing off in front of us, Demon King, you did a great job this time! Did you see the surprised expression on that silly boy's face? He was obviously frightened by your stop! Ha! It's so cool !"

"Demon King, you just said thank you to him? You don't need to be polite to this kind of person!"

"That's right, I don't know where it came from..."

Everyone began to speculate on the origin and identity of this person.

And they didn't have doubts for too long. Before the official start of training, coach Bruni made the answer public.

"Let me introduce you to your new team-mate, forward Mauro Icardi, who is on loan from Barcelona's youth academy La Masia. He will be with us for the next half season. I hope you all have a good time. get along."

The players of the reserve team couldn't control their expressions when they heard the words "Barcelona" and "La Masia"-whether it's the adult team or the youth training camp, they are all giants!

No wonder this person dared to do such a thing as soon as he came, no wonder the sports manager and head coach had to personally accompany him...

Facing the new teammates who were intimidated by his name, Icardi was unmoved, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the trial student in the team.