Fame with a ball

Lin Zhigao will stay in Turin for four years, so a fixed residence is a must.A good residence can not only give players a sense of belonging to the city where the team is located, but also help the players to relax and rest. Therefore, many professional players buy a building in the city they like to play in. house.

Anyway, they earn a lot and are not short of money.

The Juventus club has personnel who are responsible for finding accommodation for the players. After they learned that Lin Zhigao wanted to buy a house in Turin, they quickly found several good houses and villas for him from the intermediary. There are also single apartments.After Lin Zhigao inspected the environment and traffic of these houses, he chose a villa located in the suburbs of the city.

This villa is located in the affluent area of ​​Turin, with a beautiful environment, good law and order, and convenient transportation. It is only half an hour's drive from downtown Turin, and it is less than 10 minutes' drive from Juventus headquarters and the New Alps Stadium. It is also relatively close to Bardonecchia, Juventus' summer training base this year.

And the best thing is that this house is for sale by a couple of diplomats who will go to the United States to take office. The house is tastefully decorated and fully equipped, even professional fitness equipment. Lin Zhigao only needs to bring his own bag , you can move in immediately.

It took half a day to go to the agency to sign the housing transfer contract, and then went to the Turin branch of the Italian Football Association to register his identity as a Juventus player. Lin Zhigao was not in a hurry to report to the club at this time. There are still more than ten days before the reunion time. He has to apply for an international driver's license first.

When he was in the UK, because he rented an apartment and the transportation was convenient, he could travel freely by taking a taxi or a bus without taking a driver’s license test. Do you still need to hire a driver to buy a car with a driver's license?

Turin is one of the industrial centers of Italy and one of the four major automobile cities in the world. The most famous automobile brand company here is the Fiat Group.The Chinese may be a bit unfamiliar with this brand, because it has not developed much in Asia, but in Europe, it is a very old group brand, and even dominates Italy, which can be called one of the country's pillar enterprises.

Some of the subsidiaries and sub-brands of the Fiat Group are very familiar to the Chinese, such as Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati, Chrysler, Dodge, JEEP...these world-famous automobile brands all belong to the Fiat Group.

In Italy, most people buy the car brands owned by the head office, Fiat or Lancia.The car Lin Zhigao bought was a coupe in the Lancia series, which was comfortable, high-end, elegant in shape and cutting-edge in technology.

Of course, Jiang Shupeng is currently playing the role of Lin Zhigao's driver. He has an international driver's license. If Lin Zhigao wants to touch the steering wheel himself, he has to wait until he gets his driver's license.

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On July 7th, Lin Zhigao's physical examination report came out, and the Juventus sports coaching staff was very satisfied with his physical examination data. Can be picky - the data tested by the cold machine proves that Lin Zhigao has extraordinary physical strength and endurance, even better than most Juventus first-team players.

Moreover, his bones are strong, his blood is running well, and his muscles are very elastic. He has a physique that is not easily injured. This kind of physique is extremely rare in yellow people, and even many white people do not have it. Tricolor people Among them, blacks are actually the healthiest and most suitable for sports.

On the 23rd, Juventus officially held a signing ceremony for Lin Zhigao at the headquarters at No. 32 Ferraris Avenue in Turin.

More than 200 reporters and more than 700 fans participated in the signing ceremony.More than half of the reporters are from China, and some of the places are occupied by Italian media and English media. "Long guns and short guns" surrounded the entire press hall, which surprised the fans who were mobilized by the club. These Juventus fans usually seldom pay attention to news from other leagues, unless the team is a giant, and They often play in the Champions League, so many of them didn't even know who Lin Zhigao was before today.

Generally speaking, when a club signs an influential star, it will hold a press conference for it.The richer the family, the more they will do such face-saving projects.At the press conference, many fans will participate. Juventus will organize such an event on the official website, but the number of fans who come to the scene is beyond the control of the club itself.

If the star is famous all over the world, there may be tens of thousands of fans who come to welcome him-for example, Maradona and heartthrob Beckham. At that time, a small press conference can cause a major traffic jam in the city center.

But if the star is still young and unknown, the reception to welcome him will not be so grand. For example, Lin Zhigao is now almost unknown in Serie A, so the only ones who come to his press conference are There are only a few hundred meters of fans organized by the club.

However, even such a battle has satisfied many Chinese reporters present. No matter what the fans think, having such a scale has proved that Juventus still value Lin Zhigao, doesn't it?

Juventus club general manager Giuseppe Marotta personally presided over the press conference. He praised Lin Zhigao's achievements in the Premier League last season and wished him success in this season. In the Serie A league, he strives to be as brilliant as last season. During the whole press conference, he was all smiles, amiable, and his friendly attitude made the Chinese reporters present sigh: the top management of the club pays so much attention to Lin Zhigao, so the domestic media follow him. Fans imagined that Lin Zhigao would be discriminated against in the giants, and the frequency of occurrences should be reduced. At least those bosses in the locker room will always give the general manager some face when they see that the top management attaches great importance to Lin Zhigao, right?

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are people, there are factions, especially for professional players.There are dozens of players in the locker room of a team, including main players and substitutes, and they come from all over the world. Naturally, some people will walk closer, and some people will not be so gregarious. Over time, every locker room They all have their own power divisions. Some locker rooms have a boss, while others have several gangs. Each sphere of influence has its own speaker.

Especially for giant clubs like Juventus, the fight for power in the locker room is even more fierce, because the giant clubs have a large number of high-quality foreign aid, local players generally form their own, and then players from other countries form a variety of players according to their personal friendship. Various small groups.

Just like the wealthy club Real Madrid, the locker room has been turned into a Spanish gang and a Portuguese gang.The vast majority of Juventus' main players are from Italy, so in the Juventus locker room, there is only one unambiguous and absolutely dominant group: the Italian local gang.

Those foreign aids from other countries?Either obey the local players and attach to them, or resist and be excluded.For example, Grigera, a player who left Juventus on a free transfer this season and went to Fulham in England, is a foreign player. He was introduced to the team three years ago and had high hopes from the fans. But because he couldn't handle the relationship in the locker room well and offended almost all the local Italian gangs, he was isolated and excluded. No one passed the ball to him on the court, and he didn't talk to him. He was fighting alone, and because he had no achievements in the game, he was also disgusted by the head coach, and finally had to apply for a free transfer to leave.

Although many domestic media and fans are happy that Lin Zhigao can go to the giants to play football, they are also worried that Lin Zhigao will be young and vigorous, and will not accept certain power groups in the locker room, and will have conflicts with them. The same treatment is almost certain, although he can still be transferred back when he is still young, but if that is the case, the best years of his life will definitely be wasted.

So a Chinese reporter worriedly asked a question: "Lin Zhigao is a Chinese player. As we all know, there is a huge cultural gap between the East and the West. Will the club help Lin Zhigao integrate into the locker room? Will the club ask a teacher to teach him Italian? "

Marotta was about to answer with a smile on his face, when Lin Zhigao said in proficient Italian into the microphone: "I started to learn Italian by myself a few months ago, and now simple communication is not a problem for me at all."

This is undoubtedly a surprise, whether it is for the club or the Chinese reporters, even those native Italian reporters, when they heard that Lin Zhigao was already working hard to learn Italian, they couldn't help feeling a little bit about him. Good impression, they think this young Chinese player is very motivated and very good.

Finally, Marotta showed the jersey number Lin Zhigao would wear when he played for Juventus: No. 16.

All the Chinese reporters breathed a sigh of relief again - the No. 16 jersey has a profound meaning, and European players generally love this number.When Polish international Rato won the top scorer in the World Cup, he wore the No. 16 jersey. At the same time, the stars who wore this number jersey also included Walter and Maradona.

Although this number is not often awarded to the absolute main force of the team, it is at least a symbol of the rotation of the main force.They pointed their guns and short cannons at the jersey for a while, and at the same time, they had already thought about the headline in tomorrow's newspaper: "Lin Zhigao is wearing a black and white swordsman shirt No. 16, and his main position cannot be shaken" Let the reporters talk about the jersey After enough, Marotta handed the jersey to Lin Zhigao, and then said to him with a smile: "Welcome to Juventus, I hope you can adapt to the team as soon as possible and score goals for us."

"Of course I will." Lin Zhigao also replied in Italian.

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Juventus is usually referred to as the "old lady" or "Bianconeri" by fans in China. When Lin Zhigao settled down in Turin and began to learn about Juventus in various ways, he It was found that the translation of the name of Juventus by the domestic media was obviously wrong.

Juventus originally means "Goddess of Youth" in Italian, because the original Juventus team was formed by a group of young people.Then because the pronunciation of Juventus is a bit like "old lady" in Italian, some fans who love Juventus think that the Juventus team has noble moral sentiments, and is gentle and polite, so they say Use "Old Lady" to honor it.

But later, fans of other teams were dissatisfied with Juventus' conservative style of play, and felt that their games were too utilitarian, and everything was for victory rather than passion, so they called Juventus a "old man" with a bit of contempt. woman".This title, there are praises and criticisms, it depends on how everyone looks at the Juventus team.

When Lin Zhigao officially joined Juventus, the team's summer training period will end in more than half a month. Lin Zhigao pushed back the day of the driver's license test, and rushed to Paris non-stop with his luggage. Donecchia base, this is the training base of Juventus this year.

It is impossible for Lin Zhigao not to participate in the team's summer training. He can't just join the team and want to play an official game, and count on his teammates to pass the ball to him, right?Therefore, before Juventus officially started the season, the closed recovery training for the players became the best time for Lin Zhigao to enter the team atmosphere.

As long as he can gain recognition in this half a month—at least he can't be hated by others, and it would be even better if he can make friends.In this way, when the season officially starts, Lin Zhigao will not become an abrupt individual in the team. He will establish his own social circle and have his own interest groups on the field. Under the outstanding performance, while winning honors, you can also increase the weight of your words in the locker room, and sooner or later, you will become one of the "leaders" in the Juventus locker room.

Lin Zhigao's personal goal is also to become a person with the right to speak in the Juventus locker room.It's not just because he's not used to being low-lying, but because he's a striker - a striker is more sensitive than other positions on the pitch, because a striker has to score goals if he wants to prove himself, and if he wants to score goals, he has to score goals. Rely on the passing of teammates.

Without the cooperation of teammates and exquisite passing, the striker is a useless decoration.If Lin Zhigao was an organizational midfielder or a defender or even a goalkeeper, then he would not have to do anything, just wait for others to draw him in, but he is a striker.Anyone who is in the same position as him will not be so stupid as to give up the shot opportunity to others, so if you want to be the boss yourself, you have to climb up step by step.

Although he has ambitions and plans, Lin Zhigao also understands the reason why he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. What's more, he is a rookie, young and immature, without a huge reputation as a support. At the beginning of integrating into the team, he must To gain the favor of others first.It’s not okay to be too proud and conceited, so even if you are the rebirth of Maradora, you will be isolated by your teammates and you will not be able to score a single goal.

Under the leadership of the assistant coach, Lin Zhigao came to the stadium of the Bardonecchia training base, where all the Juventus first-team players are practicing against the game.The current score is 3:1, the main lineup completely beat the substitute lineup.

Because it was just to resume training, the Juventus players on the field played very casually. Everything was focused on recovering the sense of the ball and restoring their physical strength, so they quickly noticed the one standing next to the assistant coach, the one wearing the No. 16 jersey Asian Teenager.

Simone Pepe, who is currently the captain of the team, was touched on the shoulder by his teammates. When he looked up, he also saw the teenager standing on the sidelines.

Teammate Marchisio asked him: "That kid is the Chinese player that Mr. Marotta insisted on signing? Doesn't he look very strong?"

"He was bought by the club for 2000 million, and he was the winner of the Premier League Golden Boot last season. Neither Drogba nor Van Persie has robbed him. He should have some strength." Pepe said to Lin Zhigao briefly. After looking at it, he said casually.

"Do you want to show him off?"

"We'll wait until we see his performance and... the attitude of Gianluigi and his group."

Marchisio nodded yes.