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Luciano Bruni stands on the sidelines with his hands folded over his chest, watching the team practice.

Beside him stood the newly arrived sports manager Doriano Tosi.

"Mr. Manager, you are the sports manager of the club, not the sports manager of the reserve team." Bruni complained.

Tosi had a smile on his face: "Gao is now our young talent. As the club's sports manager, isn't it natural for me to care about the growth of my club's talent?"

Then he leaned over to Bruni and asked in a low voice, "I heard he scored in yesterday's game?"

"You are really well informed. Well, you scored a goal when you came off the bench." Speaking of this, Bruni wanted to shake his head - he just let him play casually, didn't give him any tasks, and didn't have much expectation , but he did not expect Gao Zheng to bring him a goal, and his performance far exceeded his expectations.

This kid is really good at creating surprises...

"Hehe." Tosi rubbed his hands. "The next game is home, right?"

"Well, at home, the Lighthouse Derby."

Tosi turned to look at him: "Huh? Really?"

"Yes." Bruni gave him an affirmative answer.

"Then I want to watch this game even more!" Tosi looked very excited.

Then the two of them stopped talking and looked at the players who were training on the court.

As the head coach of the reserve team, Bruni may have to take care of the whole game and will not deliberately stay on a certain person for too long, but the sports manager has no such concerns. Tosi's eyes fall more on Gao Zheng. The lanky Chinese genius is doing offensive training with his teammates.

He pulled out of the penalty area, then took a pass from his teammate and shot the ball into the net.

Tosivi smiled and shook his head, thank God...for sending us such a genius.

As for why AC Milan gave up on him? Tosi didn't care, and the physical examination didn't find any injuries. You can't just shut him out now just because Gao Zheng may be injured, or even seriously injured in the future, right?

He's a sports manager who buys and sells people.

If he doesn't take advantage of this kind of bargain, then he is not a competent sports manager.

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Gao Zheng found that most of his teammates were high-spirited in training, which was very rare in previous training.

He's weird about it.

It was Alberto Massi who answered his questions.

"Gao, you scored a goal in the last game, I think you will definitely play in the next game, and maybe you will play more time..." During the rest of the training session, Alberto Massi expressed interest Said to Gao Zheng vigorously.

Gao Zheng saw the excitement of other teammates in Ma Xi, he was very curious, so he asked Ma Xi to find out.

"Oh, you said this... because the next game of the reserve team is the Lighthouse Derby!"

"Lighthouse Derby?"

"Well, the match between us and Genoa is called the 'Lighthouse Derby'." Alberto Massi, a native of Genoa, explained to Gao Zheng. "Because the lighthouse is the symbol of our city of Genoa, our game against 'Turkey' is called the 'Lighthouse Derby'."

"'Turkey'? Genoa?"

"Yes, isn't there a 'turkey' in their target?" Marcy said seriously.

Gao Zheng thought about it carefully: "Turkey doesn't look like that, does it?"

Marcy laughed: "Well, it's actually a griffin called a 'Griffin', but Sampdoria supporters call that a 'turkey'. It's no big deal, Genoa fans still call it a 'turkey'. We're 'cyclists'."

Gao Zheng is very familiar with this kind of insulting nickname given to rivals in the same city. When he played in AC Milan,

There is a similar sentiment in the annual game against Inter Milan's youth team. He immediately understood why everyone was so active in the recent training.

"'Turkey' I see, what about 'bikers'? Isn't our nickname 'sailor'?"

"That's why the Genoa fans don't see it—they think that only cyclists' shirts are so fancy. But I don't think our jerseys are fancy at all." Massy pouted, his tone full of love for Genoa Disdain.

Then he said to Gao Zheng: "It would be great if you could play, and our winning rate will increase greatly! Last October, we lost to them 2:3 in the away game. We must take revenge this time!"

Gao Zheng patted him: "Don't worry, we still have Icardi."

Massie curled his lips when he heard this: "How many shots did he shoot in the last game? How many goals did he score? If it weren't for you, it's not certain whether we could get three points in that game!"

His bad impression of Icardi is really deep-rooted. Even if some people in the team have begun to accept Icardi, he has not changed his original opinion. In particular, Icardi also blatantly regarded Gao Zheng as a competitor, which made Marcy even more upset.

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After training, Alberto Massi suddenly announced that he was going to celebrate.

"Celebrate what?" Gao Zheng was very surprised.

"Congratulations that you finally played in the official game of the reserve team and scored your first goal! Besides, after you joined us, you haven't held a welcome ceremony yet." Masi said.

Several teammates around him also nodded in agreement.

"Actually, you are just looking for an excuse to go to the nightclub, right?" Gao Zheng saw through them at a glance.

Marcy smiled: "That's just by the way, by the way!"

Gao Zheng nodded: "Okay, then I'll call someone again."

"No problem, you are the protagonist tonight, you have the final say." Marcy spread his hands.

Then he saw Gao Zheng turn around and call Icardi: "Hey, Mauro, there is a party tonight, do you want to come, let's go together!"

Masi and his companions widened their eyes, looking at Gao Zheng and Icardi with some horror.

They never thought that Gao Zheng would call that Argentine boy...

Damn it! Don't agree! Don't agree!

They kept shouting in their hearts.

Icardi was also very surprised. He saw Gao Zheng's smile, and also saw the expressions of Ma Xi and the others behind Gao Zheng.

He frowned.

He knew that the people behind Gao Zheng didn't like him very much, so why did Gao Zheng invite him?

"Are you going, Mauro?" Gao Zheng kept smiling and asked again.

So is this a challenge?

Icardi knew that Gao Zheng should be clear about his relationship with those people, why did he send an invitation to himself, to see if he dared to accept it?

At a time like this, how can you be cowardly?

So Icardi nodded: "Okay, I'll go."

Gao Zheng turned around and asked Ma Xi: "Is there any problem?"

Macy resisted the disappointment in his heart and nodded mechanically: "No...problem..."