Messi was so scared that he cried when he maxed out his header talent at the start of the game

Chapter 634

With Mario Balotelli in front, the players who came on stage to introduce themselves were very relaxed.

When it was Mandzukic's turn.

He even sang a Croatian pop song "Romeo i Julija".

"Julija~"

"Julija~"

"Volim te~Volim te~Volim te~"

The players applauded and cheered, and the self-introduction meeting seemed to have turned into a small party for the players.

Guardiola was naturally very satisfied with such an atmosphere.

This also reflects the advantage that most of the players in Manchester City are young people. Young people are always more friendly and more willing to make friends with their teammates.

Often, teams with serious aging and many stars are more likely to have various factions and locker room conflicts.

The players' self-introduction session ended.

Guardiola also began to introduce the coaching team for the new season to the players, including the first assistant coach, fitness coach, data analyst, personal training coach, goalkeeper coach, team doctor director...

Such a grand and formal introduction meeting.

It gave Su Fei a feeling of joining Manchester City on the first day.

And it was indeed the case.

This summer, Guardiola not only recruited 10 players, but also replaced more than half of the coaching team.

This is also a normal operation after the team changed coaches.

Every professional head coach actually has several coaching team members following him.

Just like Chelsea's current first assistant Rui Faria also followed the madman Mourinho all the way from Porto.

"Then the part of getting to know each other ends here."

"Next, we need to spend time with each other and get to know each other better."

"Time is tight. Starting this afternoon, we will have the first unified training and hold a team training match."

At the end of the meeting.

Guardiola used the above paragraph as a closing remark.

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Lunch time.

The players all came to Manchester City's player nutrition restaurant for lunch.

Except Modric and Sun Jihai.

Knight and Cassano, who hadn't seen each other for a summer, of course sat at Su Fei's table with their plates.

"Did you hear that?"

"The head coach will arrange a team training match in the afternoon! I have a feeling that this will be a mix of new and old players."

"I only have one request, I hope to be in the same team with our Manchester City's tall, rich and handsome guys."

Knight, who hadn't even sat down yet, smiled and started the conversation.

Su Fei didn't have time to deal with this guy.

His best friend Cassano, who was next to him, jumped out to join in the conversation while holding back his laughter.

"If Su is tall, rich and handsome, then what are you... short, poor and ugly?"

"Cazzo! Antonio, have you forgotten who paid for our trip to Queen before the offseason? I accept that I'm short and ugly, but you say I'm poor?"

"Okay, short, rich and ugly Phillips."

Su Fei and the other two were amused by the bickering between the two friends. Only Cassano dared to say that to Knight. They have such a good relationship. If it were someone else, Knight would definitely be really angry.

"Okay, Antonio. You'd better hope that you are not assigned to a different team from me. I will let all the new teammates know what it means to be a wingback with a gap."

"Come on. You should pray now that you don't get beaten by any new teammate on both offense and defense in the afternoon."

"Haha, even if you get beaten by a newcomer, that person won't be me, it will be you!"

The two of them were at loggerheads, neither of them would give in.

Su Fei was used to it.

I pretended not to hear anything.

Silently using a spoon, he ate the menu added by Manchester City in the new season, white rice soaked in seafood soup.

He couldn't help but look forward to the afternoon training match.

These 10 new teammates.

What kind of strength can they play, and whether they can quickly adapt to the intensity of the Premier League level confrontation, a preliminary answer will soon appear.

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In the afternoon, after an hour of warm-up, everyone was summoned by Guardiola.

Directly carried out the grouping of the team training match, both teams adopted three defenders, six midfielders and a single striker.Formation.

Blue team list.

Defenders: Bale, Kompany, Sun Jihai.

Midfielders: Di Maria, Modric, Pepe, Toure, Balotelli, Podolski.

Forward: Su Fei.

Goalkeeper: Substitute goalkeeper Weaver.

Pink team list.

Defenders: Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Alves.

Midfielders: Cassano, Rakitic, Martinez, Mata, Knight, Benzema.

Forward: Mandzukic.

Goalkeeper: James.

When the allocation list came out, some were happy and some were sad. The old players were of course regretful that they could not be assigned to the same side as Su Fei.

James was very regretful. He had to bear Su Fei's shot again.

The players' positioning skills.

Oliver next to Guardiola couldn't help but sigh.

"I remember that in the first two seasons, whenever the main players of the team were injured, it was difficult to find a reliable substitute."

"One summer has passed."

"The team has been able to put together two sets of starting lineups that look decent."

Oliver, once Stuart's assistant, stayed in Manchester City this season and continued to assist Guardiola.

On the court.

Manchester City's new and old players have different expressions.

Each of them has their own thoughts.

There is nervousness, excitement, expectation, and an urgent desire to show themselves in this training match and prove their determination.

Although Guardiola didn't say it.

But the friendly match with Bayern Munich will be held on the 22nd.

Before that.

Every training match may determine the starting lineup of the friendly match.

The old players don't want to be reduced to substitutes.

The new players are looking forward to being able to start in their first game since coming to Manchester City.

So.

This training match is destined to be different from Manchester City's previous training matches.

It is bound to be full of competitive gunpowder.

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Beep!

With the assistant coach's whistle, the first team training match of the new Manchester City officially began.

The pink team took the lead in attacking.

Mandzukic didn't expect that his first team training match would be as the center forward against Su Fei.

The young man was obviously very nervous.

He hesitated for two seconds before passing the ball to Knight behind him.

The pink team kicked the ball out.

The blue team immediately launched a high-pressure tactic under the leadership of Su Fei.

Knight observed his teammates' running positions.

A 1.89-meter-tall black man rushed in front of him aggressively.

It was Mario Balotelli.

In his self-introduction, he threatened to lead Italy to win the World Cup in the future. Needless to say, Balotelli was very enthusiastic.

He didn't care about the face of the old players at all.

He directly confronted Knight, who was much bigger than him, and made him lose his balance. Then he used a flexibility that was not in line with his size.

He stretched out his foot and passed the ball from under Knight's crotch.

Balotelli hit Knight at the beginning.

The ball was exchanged.

The first collision between the new and old players was a merciless collision.

Knight's expression also collapsed.

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