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In the restaurant of the training base, the players are sitting at a table in twos and threes, eating.

Icardi and Gao Zheng sat at the same table, and the Argentine lowered his voice and said to Gao Zheng: "I think you were really targeted by the coach! I swear!"

Speaking of which, Icardi put one hand on his heart, and raised the other arm to make an oath.

Gao Zheng quickly pressed his hand.

"Mauro, there is an idiom in China called 'kill a chicken and show it to the monkeys', do you know what it means?"

Icardi looked confused: "Kill the chicken? Show it to the monkey? What is the relationship between the chicken and the monkey? Why kill the chicken?"

"Because it is said that monkeys are most afraid of seeing blood. In order to make the monkey obedient, the monkey trainer will kill a chicken in front of the monkey and use the monkey to see how powerful it is. This is convenient for training the monkey."

"Why kill a chicken instead of another monkey?" Icardi was very surprised.

"Because chickens are easy to get, but monkeys are not easy to get, so the cost of killing a chicken is lower than killing a monkey." Gao Zheng explained. "And what I mean by that is not why you kill chickens instead of monkeys, Mauro."

Icardi finally reacted, he was very surprised: "So, we are monkeys and you are chickens?"

"You are the chicken!" Gao Zheng gave Icardi a white look, "I was treated as a chicken, and I was punished to scare you monkeys."

"The new coach wants to stand up?"

Gao Zheng picked up his mobile phone and said to Icardi: "I checked just now, Gianluca Atezori has coached three teams before coaching us, the longest coaching season is one season, and the shortest is five months. No outstanding coaching experience, no outstanding results, came to a completely unfamiliar team, wanted to gain a foothold quickly, wanted to establish his own authority, so that's what he did."

"But why are you a chicken?" Icardi is still very surprised. Now there are more than 30 people in the team. If they want to stand up, why did they choose Gao Zheng?

"I said it was treated like a chicken!" Gao Zheng corrected Icardi and said, "Perhaps in the eyes of Atzori, it is the lowest cost to find trouble for a young man promoted from the reserve team."

After listening to Gao Zheng's analysis, Icardi bowed his head and cursed: "Damn it!"

He knows how uncomfortable it is to be targeted by the coach.

Because in the team, the head coach holds the power of life and death. If he doesn't like you, it's useless no matter how well you perform. All your efforts are useless.

In many cases, whether a player can become the main force in the team is often not determined by his strength, but whether he likes the head coach.

There are many ways to get the favor of the head coach, such as the players brought by the head coach himself, the same temper as the head coach, the playing style in line with the head coach's tactical style... and so on.

So we often wonder that a player who is obviously excellent can't win the favor of the head coach, so he can only sit on the bench, or even can't get into the bench.

As a head coach, of course he is willing to use players he trusts and likes.

And the new coach took actions against Gao Zheng when he first arrived, which made Icardi a little worried about Gao Zheng's future in the team.

"Why don't you... bow your head to the coach? Doesn't he want to use you to stand up? You just let him stand up..." Icardi made an idea.

Gao Zheng spread his hands: "Why do you bow your head, Mauro? It's not just a matter of bowing your head. Have you heard his understanding of the position of 'center forward'?"

Icardi nodded.

"The center he talks about is the traditional big center, but I am not that kind of center. I will never be the kind of center he asked for." Gao Zheng shook his head.

Icardi felt that Gao Zheng was right. He and Gao Zheng had trained together in the reserve team for half a season. Out of a sense of competition, he paid close attention to Gao Zheng, so he naturally understood it well.

Although Gao Zheng is tall, all his points are on his feet. He has an excellent sense of the ball and his body is flexible and flexible, which allows him to make unimaginable ball-handling moves. At the same time, his long legs also increase his ball-handling skills. Ball range, allowing him to easily control the ball beyond the reach of smaller players.

His lack of physical strength is not a fatal factor, because he can make up for it with his excellent technique and flexible body, so although he will be stumbled by defenders on the field, he can always control the football , or pass the ball around and shoot it before it's off balance.

He is indeed not the kind of powerful center that people think.

No, he is strong, but not strong. But the latter does not prevent him from having the performance of the former...

"If you want me to bow to him, don't you have to train me to be what he wants? Let alone whether I can become that kind of center forward, even if I can, I don't want to. I give up my accumulation of more than ten years of football training Why? And now the traditional big center is getting harder and harder to mix. I waste time to follow his ideas. In case he pats his ass away after half a season, I How to do?"

Gao Zheng's words reminded Icardi of his Argentine compatriot, Fernando Ruben Gago.

When he debuted, because of his flowing long hair and chic way of playing, he reminded people of Argentine football legend Redondo on his lower back.

This makes many people think that Gago is Redondo's successor.

For this reason, he was bought by Real Madrid, which once owned Redondo.

But how easy is it for young people to get a chance to play in a wealthy team?

In order to get a chance to play, Gago had to try to transform, from the unrestrained and elegant Redondo's successor, to an engineer who ran tirelessly and swept the defense in the backcourt.

Although he got the opportunity to play, he also lost his natural skills.

In the short term, it seems that he has become a starter at Real Madrid, but in the long run, it is not conducive to his growth.

After all, there are many defensive midfielders with excellent physical strength and tough defense, and it is easy to find a replacement.

However, there are not many players who are good at organizing offenses at the midfielder position and play like Redondo.

In order to meet the coach's requirements and the goal of playing, Gago gave up his specialty and eventually became mediocre.

Among the "Three Young South Americans" who joined Real Madrid together at the time, Marcelo and Higuain grew up better than Gago.

Trying to toughen up has only increased his chances of getting injured, and multiple injuries have cost him his position.

Real Madrid are said to be ready to give him up.

The lesson from the past is here, Icardi really can't persuade Gao Zheng to become what the head coach hopes.

He sighed, feeling distressed for Gao Zheng.

Seeing Icardi like this, Gao Zheng became happy: "Why do I feel that you are the chicken that was slaughtered, Mauro?"

"Are you still joking?" Icardi said dissatisfied. "Aren't you worried?"

"There's nothing to worry about, Mauro. Judging from his demands on me, his tactical concept is too outdated-who said that the center forward must be nailed in front of the goal and fight with the defenders? I don't think he is of such a level. How long can I stay here. Sampdoria is going to be promoted. If it is found that he has not led the team well, I want to fire the coach. The club will not show mercy." Gao Zheng cut the steak with a knife while Say.

"So sure?"

"I'm not sure. I just made a logical guess based on some facts. The iron-fisted coach's strict management of the army will generally arouse the resistance of existing players. After all, many of the original habits will be broken, and anyone will feel unhappy. If he can Leading the team to victory, you have to keep all the grievances in your heart. But if the results are not good, guess what? Do you think our new head coach is a person who has the ability to bring victory?"

After speaking, Gao Zheng used a fork to send the cut meat steak into his mouth. When he bit down, the meat juice burst in his mouth. He chewed slowly, enjoying the wonderful taste.

Icardi, on the other hand, was lost in thought.

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PS, the last day of the World Cup, the final!

After this game is over, our X**C activities will also end.

I'm really a bit reluctant...

For the game between France and Croatia, of course I am optimistic about France.

There are almost no shortcomings in the three lines. There are both experienced players and talented young talents with outstanding physical fitness and proper tactics.

It is simply unreasonable for this French team not to win the championship...

Croatia has made history, but it is too difficult to beat this French team.

I predict that France will beat Croatia by two goals and win the championship!