Chapter 158: The Flying Donkey
After Bailey finished his last words, the show finally came to an end. With Allah's wonderfully worded conclusion, Liu Feng stood up again to shake hands with Bailey and thanked the other party for his high expectations for him, and then left the show with Wang Nan.
Because Rai TV is located in Rome, it was already very late at the end of the program recording. So Li Peng, who was waiting outside, took the initiative to invite Liu Feng and Wang Nan to have a midnight snack in a local restaurant that is open 24 hours a day.
After dinner, Wang Nan was driven back to the hotel she booked when she arrived in Rome by Li Peng. As for Li Peng and Liu Feng, because they had to train for the team tomorrow morning, they drove back to Piacenza overnight that night.
It was more than three hours' drive between Piacenza and Rome, so when I returned to Piacenza it was already early in the morning. After Li Peng sent Liu Feng back to the restaurant, he went to bed in another room arranged in advance by Chen Xu. After a simple washing up, Liu Feng quickly went back to the house to fall asleep.
The next day, Liu Feng gave up a rare morning exercise and slept for an extra hour to replenish his energy. After getting up, he washed up and ran directly to the training base.
In the 21st round of Serie A, Piacenza will go to the away game to challenge the Feilu Chiwo. The game will be held in three days. Liu Feng needs to devote all his energy to training.
On that day, Conte changed his training method directly after the players arrived. After a day of restorative training, no matter how the players' condition was, he had to prepare for the next round of the game, so Piacenza's team entered the combat readiness state from that day on.
With Conte joining the team for more than half a season, the players gradually adapted to the coach's training rhythm. After Conte directly increased the training intensity, there was no complaint. After all, everyone is for the team's performance.
"Feng, what does it feel like to shake hands with Bailey?"
During the training, many players asked about Liu Feng’s interview yesterday. Among them, Wolfl, who came from Brazil, was the most excited. As a Brazilian player, in his heart, Pele is the god of football. Whether it is the glory he brought to Brazil or the status he established for Brazil in the football world, it cannot be ignored.
"He is a very kind old man, well, he doesn't have the airs of a king of football." Liu Feng smiled and responded simply.
After coming to Italy, when the stars he once loved and looked up to became close to, and even defeated them for a while, Liu Feng no longer had much illusion for those out of reach. Looking back on his communication with Bailey last night, he seemed not very excited.
"Well, Mr. Bailey is indeed the case, and Maradona, who always makes trouble, is more like an elder than him."
Wolfle nodded for granted, and then seemed to think of something and smiled at Liu Feng: "But Feng, Mr. Bailey seemed to have made a prediction last night? Haha, you have to be careful."
"Uh..." Well, even the Brazilians knew very well about Bailey's crow mouth. Liu Feng knew that nothing was useful to say now, so he could only shake his head with a hilarious look: "I understand."
"Okay guys! Let's start the next item now!"
In the end, Conte's call to change the training program interrupted the players' curiosity and inquiries about Liu Feng. Everyone knew what was important at this time, so they quickly turned around and gathered towards the place where the coach was standing.
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Trivial training, various tactical drills, strengthening training in different positions, and daily repetitions. This is the life of professional players day by day. They use countless daily trainings to please their fans on the day of the weekend games, and then win the rewards they deserve. This is called profession.
In a blink of an eye, the three-day training time ended, and Conte rescheduled the team's starting lineup the day before the game.
Since Piacenza and the main players who had the chance to rest after the last round of the league have recovered well, Conte directly decided to redesign their strongest lineup and make other arrangements only for individual selections.
One is the center position. Cassia, who performed well in the last round of the league, continued to squeeze out Flocari as the starter; the other is Vitale, who performed very stably in the last round of the league. He also successfully squeezed out Piacenza's original starting full-back De Silvesteri with his stable performance in the last round, and successfully entered the starting list of this round of the league.
For a team, no matter how excellent the players are, there are only eleven starting players, so competition is inevitable. Flokari and Westerry are still placed on the bench when they are not in bad shape, but all they can do is follow the arrangements.
Maybe they will regain their starting position with the opportunity to play in the future, but there is no need to think about this round of games.
Early the morning after the announcement of the lineup, Piacenza took the team bus on the journey to Chivo. Since the game was held at 11:00 noon in Italy, this means that the players have very limited rest time after arriving at the Bentgoti Stadium, so as soon as they got on the car, Conte asked all players to rest as much as possible instead of consuming their energy in the car.
The team members naturally obeyed the command of the coach. Everyone quietly took their headphones or leaned against the seat to watch the scenery outside the window, or directly placed the lounge chair and fell asleep.
This round of the league is not a tough battle for Piacenza. Although Chivo, who was unstoppable in Serie B, could only be the existence that Piacenza looked up to, but now is different from Piacenza's stable fourth-place league. Chivo is now ranked fourth-last in the league.
It has to be said that the storm on the football field is often unpredictable. Piacenza's major blood change after entering Serie A directly turned this newly promoted team, who should have struggled to relegate like Fei Du, into a strong team that is fighting for the Champions League qualification.
Time passed quietly, and the Bentgoti Stadium appeared in everyone's sight. Amid Conte's shouts, the players gradually woke up and their eyes gradually became sharper from sleepy.
After the winter window, Piacenza's opponents in five consecutive rounds were not strong teams. They must seize the opportunity to score as much as possible in these five league rounds. Only in this way can they lay a solid foundation for any problems that the subsequent team may encounter.
"Okay, guys, get off!"
Chapter completed!