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Chapter 9 【】 Youth League
With the passage of time, Xiao Mian has been in the Vicenza youth team for nearly two months, and has been training with Baggio for almost two months. Xiao Mian has also learned a lot, although Baggio He said that, but in fact he was still very optimistic about Xiao Mian.From the moment he received information about this person, Baggio was very optimistic about him.The reason why I want to say this is that Baggio just set up a goal for Xiao Mian, so that Xiao Mian has a competitive heart.Some people will say, will this be too utilitarian, then let's put it another way, that is, Xiao Mian should have a lofty ideal and strive for this ideal.

In the past two months, Xiao Mian's skills are getting better and better, and he is also very sensitive to the position of the center forward. He asks Baggio to explain some game videos in his ears every day, and these are all center forwards. Videos of Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ibrahimovic and so on.Anyway, Xiao Mian watched these videos a lot, every day Xiao Mian was almost made out of shape by Baggio (exaggeration).Later, Xiao Mian occasionally appeared on Court No. [-] for joint training with the whole team, and this joint training was the so-called practice match. In these games, Xiao Mian's performance was better than the other. It was a mixed bag.

No, the coach of the youth team, Luca Andrett, has issued a call-up order to him, asking Xiao Mian to participate in the youth league with the team.For this reason, Baggio also made a big fuss with Luca Andrett.Baggio believes that if he is allowed to train for a period of time, Xiao Mian will definitely become the team's future hope.However, at this time, the team was already unable to make it. In the just-concluded 05-06 season, a major earthquake occurred in Italy. The "Phonegate" incident caused some Italian giants to suffer losses. The team believed that the 06-07 season was their breakthrough. Although they have such a strong opponent as Juventus, they are very confident.

"Phone Gate" refers to the incident in which the Serie A team Juventus led and some Serie A teams controlled the referee's match-fixing incident. Because the team's phone calls were recorded as evidence and exposed, they were widely reported, so it was called "Phone Gate" incident.And because of this incident, some teams were heavily fined, and Juventus was deprived of its 04-05 league title and its 05-06 league title.The new season started with Serie B and deducted 9 points, fined 12 euros, and deprived of three home qualifications.Former club general manager Moggi and former chairman Giraudo will not be allowed to participate in football-related affairs for 5 years.Of course, some Serie A teams have been punished, but these seem to have no direct or indirect connection with Vicenza.

Vicenza's top management attaches great importance to this year's league and hopes to succeed in the first division. Therefore, as the head coach of the youth team, Luca Andrett recommended Xiao Mian, the treasure they recently discovered, to the head coach Rolando Malan. .However, Rolando Malan thought that Xiao Mian's experience was too poor, and he refused on the grounds that there were few games. However, he also sent a message. If Xiao Mian performed well in the youth league, then he would mention Xiao Mian. Enter the first team, after all, the first team still lacks a good center forward.

Therefore, Luca Andrett quickly recruited Xiao Mian to participate in the youth league.However, the Youth League has just ended, so Luca Andrett led the team to participate in the Viagio Cup Youth League.The Viareggio Cup is a very famous youth league in Italy and the cradle of stars.

TorneodiViareggio was founded in 1949 and has a history of 60 years this year, becoming the oldest U21 club youth team international competition in history.Because of the place where it was originally held, it is customarily called the Viareggio Cup. In fact, some games are also held in Viareggio now, but due to the expansion of the scale, the game uses more regional courts.With the expansion of the geographical scope of participating teams and the improvement of the schedule, the Viareggio Cup has basically become the most authoritative event in this field.It is as famous as the Amsterdam Youth Championship in the Netherlands, the Catalonia Youth Championship in Spain, the Montague Cup Youth Championship, the Toulon Cup, and the Qatar Youth Eight Nations Championship.Because it is always held during the traditional carnival (hence the name Carnival Cup).

Since the time does not conflict with the League Cup, and the quality of the game is relatively high, it is the most important game for the Italian U19 echelon. De Rossi, Aquilani, Turan of Turkey, Vieira of France, Elber of Brazil, Macedonia Pandev, Frey, Del Piero, Totti and countless other stars emerged from this cup.Basically, players who can stand out in the youth team will perform on this stage. In [-], Del Piero led the Juventus youth team to play. In [-], Brescia trained Diana, Pirlo, and Bonazzoli. In [-], Bari had the genius prodigy Cassano. The three consecutive championships have cultivated a large number of players who will become the future pillars of the old lady, such as Palladino, Marchisio, De Qie Li, and Giovinco.

近十年的维亚莱乔杯冠军：1994尤文图斯、1995都灵、1996布雷西亚、1997巴里、1998都灵、1999AC米兰、2000恩玻利、2001AC米兰、2002国际米兰、2003尤文图斯、2004尤文图斯、2005尤文图斯。

This time, Vicenza did not have any goals in this league. It mainly found some capable players in the team, which is what the saying goes.In this Viareggio Cup, Vicenza's luck seems to be not very good. It happened to be a death group, with Fiorentina, AC Milan and Inter Milan in the same group.This is definitely a death group. The strength of the Inter Milan youth team is very strong, and these three are all Serie A teams, and their foundation is much stronger than Vicenza. The players are much stronger than Vicenza, so Vicenza is not favored at all, and it is necessary for the group not to qualify.

Obviously, in the battle for Xiao Mian, Baggio lost.For Xiao Mian's departure, Baggio just smiled helplessly. When he left, Xiao Mian was a little bit reluctant to part with this melancholy prince who didn't like him very much. After all, he learned a lot here.In fact, he also understood Baggio's intention later. When leaving, Xiao Mian said to Baggio: "Mr. Robert, no matter what time you are, you are my teacher!" bowed.

Not long after training with the youth team, Vicenza embarked on their Viareggio Cup match. Their opponent in the first round was the powerful AC Milan youth team, but fortunately, their game was home game. On the third Sunday of February, the Vicenza youth team welcomed their first opponent, the AC Milan youth team, at their youth training base.Today, not many fans come here to watch the game, after all, this is just a youth team game.However, the fans who come here are definitely hardcore. They are quite familiar with the situation of the Vicenza youth team, because this is the hope of their team, so they are very concerned about it.

But even so, when they saw an oriental face appearing in their youth team, they were also puzzled for a while. They really didn't know when their team actually introduced an oriental player.Although they were puzzled in their stomachs, they still gave the Vicenza youth team applause without hesitation.

Today, Luca Andrett played a 4-4-2 formation, the goalkeeper is the No. [-] goalkeeper Alberto Friesen of the reserve team, the back four are Chalegio, Ronaldo De Hoot, David Brivio and Mosa, these are the members of Vicenza's first team in the future.The midfield four are Nicola Rigoni, Pasquale Maiorino, Dika Salano and Barbotto, and the forwards are Xiao Mian and Alexis Carra!

Today, Xiao Mian is wearing a No. 9 jersey. This jersey was named to Xiao Mian by Luca Andrett. This is a signal. He is reminding his players that in this team, Xiao Mian's position is very important.At that time, Xiao Mian was very excited when he heard this. He definitely did not make a mistake in coming to Weiqiancha by himself.Now, even starting in his debut match, Xiao Mian was even more excited. Although it was only a youth league match, Xiao Mian could still feel the blood in his body boiling.

(End of this chapter)