Chapter 436 Youth Training Camp (Ninety-Three/One Hundred Thirty-Four)

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". M

The youth training camp is the place that needs to be relied upon in the future. When it becomes increasingly difficult to buy the players you like in the transfer market, the youth training camp needs to come out to help.

Prior to this, Lazio had searched all over the world for those 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 youth academy director Stella Maggioni.

"Is the sun coming out from the west? I actually see the head coach of the first team here?" Stramaccioni joked about winning.

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.

The winning 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 academy.

Stramaccioni laughed when he heard Chang Sheng's words: "It seems that the whole of Europe is boycotting you. All the players you like have to pay high prices, right?"

Chang Sheng rolled his eyes: "Let's be serious. Do you have any good players to recommend?"

"It 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 as a forward and midfielder, and the winning team tends to let Wu Lei play in the midfield. 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. An eighteen-year-old boy with dual Argentinian and Italian citizenship. We recruited him from Vicentario in Spain three years ago. Now he is already the number one player in the youth team. Shooter. I also said that if you don’t come, I will take the initiative to find you. Such an excellent player has reached the time to play for the first team.”

Stramaccioni details.

In fact, Stramaccioni just named the player. 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 who Chang Sheng knew would become famous and talented young people. It's 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 poached. For example, this Mauro Icardi. Some people they didn't dig out. Such as Neymar and Isco...

Icardi, who was born in 1993, was only fifteen years old at the 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. In 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. I think 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 Spain having the most teams because they were close to the water.

Atletico Madrid and Valencia Espanyol are among his suitors, as well as Barcelona and Real Madrid. In addition, outside Spain, giant teams such as Liverpool and Arsenal 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. The reason is simple. They came to Lazio for the reputation of winning.

They believe that with his ability to win often and his love for young players, Icardi will definitely be best trained in Lazio, and will also become a future star of Lazio, playing under the ever-winning hands.

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 to look for people all over the world, many people agreed without hesitation when they heard it was Lazio.

Icardi was one of them.

For this reason, he rejected Barcelona, ​​which is more famous for youth training.

Such a young genius who was compared with Messi missed Barcelona, ​​which made Barcelona very unhappy.

They thought Changsheng was deliberately targeting them-why didn't they hear that Lazio was interested in Icardi before? It was just when Lazio was almost about to negotiate with Icardi that they rushed out halfway and snatched Icardi?

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Changsheng knew more about Icardi from the future. Before he traveled through time, Icardi was already famous in Italian football. He was playing for Sampdoria at the time. He performed well and was recruited by the Italian U19 national team. However, Icardi, who was determined to serve Argentina, refused the opportunity to play for Italy. And finally chose to play for the Argentina U20 national team in the Eight-Nation Invitational Tournament of Valencia Superstar. As the main center forward of Argentina U20, he played all six games and scored three goals. He won the championship of the tournament for the Argentina U20 national team, and also won the top scorer of the tournament with three goals.

As for Icardi in this time and space, he didn't know much more than ordinary people.

After writing Icardi on the list of players needed to be recruited in the youth training camp, Changsheng didn't care much about it.

He had a lot of things to do every day. Naturally, he didn't have much energy to pay attention to the youth training camp. Anyway, he handed the youth training camp to Stramaccioni, and he was very relieved, so he didn't ask frequently.

After that, he forgot about Icardi...

Until now. He was highly recommended by Stramaccioni, and he remembered this little demon again.

When Lazio dug him before, he was just fifteen years old. Now he is already eighteen years old. Three years later, Icardi has also become the top scorer of Lazio Youth Team.

After listening carefully to Stramaccioni's detailed introduction, Changsheng thought that Icardi had reached the point where he could play for the first team.

In this way, the competition in Lazio's forward line will be more intense in the new season. If Cavani, who has returned from injury, is not in good condition, he may not necessarily be the starter.

Changsheng did not meet Icardi alone immediately, but watched the youth team training with Stramaccioni on the sidelines.

Offensive routine training is in progress. The coach in charge of training stands 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 in front of them, run diagonally, open up the passing angle, and the coach will pass the football back to him. After receiving the ball, the player will shoot.

A very simple offensive training.

Icardi showed his outstanding side in the training.

Whether it is dribbling over obstacles or running after passing the ball, Icardi stands out from the crowd in comparison.

Even if Stramaccioni did not tell Changsheng in advance who Icardi is, Changsheng could tell at a glance.

Because Icardi is so outstanding.

His last shot was also very accurate, decisive, reasonable, and at a tricky angle.

He hit all his shots and broke through the goalkeeper's ten fingers.

Seeing this, Changsheng nodded: "Not bad, it's him."

Stramaccioni planned to suspend training and let Icardi come down.

But he was stopped by Changsheng.

"Let him continue training, I'm not in a hurry for this moment."

Changsheng shook his head.

"I'll go somewhere else." He said and turned to go to other training grounds.

Stramaccioni followed: "I'll accompany you."

He is the director of youth training. The head coach of the first team came to his youth training camp, which is his territory. As the landlord, he naturally has to accompany him throughout the whole process.

In Lazio's youth training camp, there are currently four teams that have been training in Formello training base for a long time, namely U19, U18, U17 and U16. The younger teams are not in Formello. They are all receiving training in their respective schools or other places. When they reach the age, they can continue to stay in the Lazio echelon and be transferred to the Formello training base.

The U21 team, which is in the older age group, is the reserve team and trains with the first team in the first team's training ground.

The two walked around the youth training camp and finally came to the U17 training ground.

There was also training going on there. Young players under the age of seventeen were doing confrontational pass training under the guidance of the coach.

The so-called confrontational pass training is to add confrontation elements to the ordinary circle-grabbing training. The intercepting players in the circle can have physical contact and confrontation with the passing players or the receiving players, and can use reasonable collisions to interfere with the opponent's passing or receiving.

After success, the offense and defense will also be exchanged.

The purpose of this 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 the ball without being marked. There must be physical confrontation.

This kind of training is much more difficult than the general circle-grabbing training.

The coach, wearing training clothes, called out several players, arranged them in a circle, and then gave a demonstration himself. Then he asked the players to start training according to his demonstration.

A whistle blew, and the training officially began.

The coach was watching attentively from the side.

The coach was watching the players attentively, and Changsheng was watching him attentively outside the court.

Because he saw an "old acquaintance" here...

"The youth team under the age of 17 is in charge of Coach Gorka."

Stramaccioni said.

Changsheng turned his head to look at him, then nodded: "Yes, I know."