green shooter

Chapter 23 First Team
The training base of the Turin team is located in the current common home of the Turin team and Juventus, south of the Turin Olympic Stadium, a comprehensive sports center under Agnelli.

It is pitiful to say that, as a veteran Serie A team, the Turin club not only does not have its own stadium, it does not even have its own training center, and it has to wait until it has stabilized its Serie A seat and developed soundly for a few years before finally owning its own Feiladefia Sports Center.

Regarding the home court, there is an interesting story between Juventus and Turin, two clubs in the same city.

Many people may know that the pair of good friends in Milan, AC Milan and Inter Milan, have always shared the same stadium as their home court. Due to various historical reasons, they have two names, San Siro and Meazza.

Juventus and Turin also shared the Turin Municipal Stadium 90 years ago.

After the World Cup in 90, Turin built and used the Alpi Stadium, and Juventus and Turin moved there together.

In 2006, when Turin hosted the Winter Olympics, the old municipal stadium was renovated and renamed the Torino Olympic Stadium, and the two teams moved back.

After 6 years of arduous negotiations between Juventus and the Turin City Government, in December 2002, the Turin Municipal Council finally approved the Juventus club’s plan to transform the Alpi Stadium, which also wrote a new page in the history of Italian football.

The Juventus Arena, which was rebuilt and put into use in 2011, was built on the Alpi Stadium, Juventus's previous home stadium. Since the stadium was purely used for football matches, all track and field tracks were canceled and seats were reduced to make it a more professional football stadium.

At this point, the two teams in Turin City finally have their own home courts. After that, the Turin team can only use the Turin Olympic Stadium alone.

The first team's training ground is quite far from Zhu Hantao's home, and it is not realistic to ride a bicycle back and forth every day. Fortunately, you can take the No. 4 tram, which takes about half an hour one way.As long as there is no strike, it is convenient to go to training.

What?Transportation fee?If you want to ride the car every day, you will definitely get a Turin bus gtt annual card.Besides, even if you buy a ticket every day, it's only three euros a day, which is nothing compared to Zhu Hantao's current income.

The early morning in Turin in September was still a bit chilly, Zhu Hantao put on a coat before going out.He glanced at the time and left home on time at 9:07 in the morning.

Zhu Hantao came to the training base of the first team early. Before the other players arrived, the team assistant coach Giuseppe de Gradi made an appointment with Zhu Hantao and was already waiting here.

Usually the morning training starts at 9:30, and the players usually arrive here one after another around [-]:[-] and start preparing.

So Giuseppe made an appointment with Zhu Hantao to arrive at [-]:[-] in the morning, and then he would have enough time to deal with the things that needed to be done.

"Is it because I'm late?" Zhu Hantao saw that the assistant coach Giuseppe had arrived, and he obviously set off early.

"No, no, you're not late. I came early. My family lives nearby. Let's not talk about it. Today is your first day in the first team. I asked you to come here early to familiarize yourself with it."

"Okay, thank you." Zhu Hantao is very well-behaved. He is different from the general team's youth training. He joined halfway. In the first team, there is really no acquaintance.

Coach Grady first brought Zhu Hantao to the locker room of the team's training ground, pointed to a row of wardrobes with no names on the side and said, "There are no ones using them, you can choose one, and then you have to choose a number."

"Oh, okay." Zhu Hantao randomly chose an empty cabinet, then looked at the numbers that had already been selected, and frowned handsomely.

First of all, the main number in front must have been selected, and now he is not qualified to grab other people's number, so what should be chosen for the big number in the back.

"Have you thought about it?"

"Just number 99." Zhu Hantao thought for a while and said.

"Oh? Double number 9, okay, I'll register it for you."

Because in football, No. 9 often symbolizes the core of the team's offense, symbolizing the killer who pierces the heart with a sword.Players wearing the No. 9 jersey are generally the sharp knives and main scorers of the team's offense.

The current No. 9 in the team is Nicola Ventola, who just transferred from Atlanta to Turin this summer. To be honest, he is a bit unworthy of this No. 9. He has played in Turin for two seasons and scored 6 goals in Serie A...

After confirming his back number, Giuseppe took Zhu Hantao to walk around football fields, gyms, swimming pools and other training grounds for the first team players, letting him know where he can find them.

Time passed quickly, and the players of the first team arrived in the locker room one after another. Some people had already noticed Zhu Hantao, a newcomer.

However, Zhu Hantao didn't take the initiative to greet them, and they didn't understand, so they ignored this young man who seemed immature, and just chatted in twos and threes.

No one was late, 09:30 was still 2 minutes away, the first team, including Zhu Hantao, now has a total of 27 members, all of whom have changed into training uniforms and arrived at the training ground.

The head coach Valtano Villino appeared in front of the players. Before starting today's training, he glanced at Zhu Hantao and said to everyone: "The game that just ended yesterday, we are tied again."

Most of the players don't seem to care, yes, many of them are old fritters who can't get up and down. Playing football is nothing more than a meal, and it doesn't matter whether you win or lose. Talking about ideals and pursuits with them is nonsense.

Coach Novellino is helpless. For a non-famous coach like him who coaches a small team, he can only look at the dishes and tailor the clothes. Simply put, he can use whatever players are available.

He also wants to be able to stick to his tactics like some famous coaches, throw away players who don't fit his tactics, and then buy players who suit his tactics at a high price.

The club does not have the funds to make big signings, basically relying on visa-free and loan players to maintain, such as Recoba on loan from Inter Milan, the 37-year-old veteran Eugenio Corini who is visa-free, and the main goalkeeper is also Mateo Cereni who is a free transfer from Lazio.

Then there are some young players in their own team who make do with a lineup. You say that with these uneven levels, old ones, young ones, plus a few bastards in their prime, what good results can they have.

The Turin team, which had just entered Serie A last season, struggled to avoid relegation. This season, some new players have also arrived, but few of them are useful. I don't know if the fate of the tragic relegation next season can be rewritten.

Fortunately, the young players who have just been promoted to the first team by themselves have good eyes, and they may be able to perform at critical times.

"Four consecutive draws, we are now only 2 points away from the relegation zone, our scoring ability needs to be strengthened, and I am not very satisfied with the defense."

In the four Serie A games that have been completed, the Turin team has scored a total of six goals, of which only one was scored by a genuine striker, No. 9 Ventola.

Another striker, Bilanovic, has not yet achieved anything, and striker Dimichele, who spent 380 million euros to introduce this summer, was suspended for three months because of illegal gambling before and cannot participate in the game.

In other words, Zhu Hantao will compete with such crooked melons for the starting position of a striker. It seems that it is not difficult, as long as he can grasp the opportunity.

"So I hope you can take training seriously. I will judge your state based on the usual training situation and decide who can play and who can't. Forget it, let's not say more, let's start training immediately."

Not all coaches can make players listen to him, and not all players are willing to listen to the coach. It all depends on the person and the situation. The first-team players of the Turin team started a new day of training like this.

After warming up, the first thing in the morning is training without the ball, running laps, circling poles, turning back and so on, but no one is obviously paddling. Of course, except for Zhu Hantao, who is participating in the first team training for the first time, no one is particularly serious.

On the contrary, the teammates watched Zhu Hantao, a newcomer, with great interest. Seeing how he meticulously completed the training tasks, they were a little moved, it's nice to be young.

"Did you find out that his physical fitness is not bad, his speed is not bad, and his stamina is not bad." Midfielder Simone Barone elbowed the right winger Alessandro Rossina.

"Didn't the Japanese seem to be doing well in training, but how did he perform in the competition?" Rosina pouted.

That's right, there is also a striker from Japan in the current Turin team Masashi Oguro. He has been in Turin for more than a year, only played 11 times, and failed to score a goal.

"No, it's different. Zhu came out of the Juventus youth training. How can the Japanese compare him to him. I know that he has been in a hot state in the Serie A recently and scored a lot of goals. The coach promoted him to the first team."

It was the Chinese boy who spoke—Recoba, a Uruguayan with a face resembling Hua.

Barone shrugged indifferently, since he is not in the same position as him anyway, and poses no threat to him, "Let's see how his skills are later."

……

During training, Zhu Hantao was quite satisfactory. His current skills are not outstanding except for shooting, especially compared with the veteran players who have played professionally for more than ten or 20 years in the first team.

They also only paid attention to Zhu Hantao's training for a while, and soon lost interest. They might as well chat and spank for fun.

Zhu Hantao could only try his best to keep up with the training of the whole team, and he did not dare to relax at all.

"Papa papa!" Coach Novellino clapped his hands, and the players stopped and looked at him, "Okay, let's play a training match right away."

Unsurprisingly, coach Zhu Hantao was placed on the substitute side. Looking at the yellow vest on the opponent's body, which symbolizes the main player, he thought to himself, I don't know how long it will take before I can be the main player.

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