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Chapter 488 Strong Opposition

The afternoon team meeting mainly discusses how to play against Parma's Serie A and Barcelona's Champions League group stage. Δe ğ1

Parma is no longer the seventh sister of Serie A when they were in the World Cup. They have just been promoted from Serie B and cannot pose any threat to Inter Milan. The focus of this team meeting is still the Champions League group stage with Barcelona.

The Champions League group draw was held before the Milan derby. At that time, Inter Milan was all in their energy and no one thought about the Champions League. Now they can finally transfer most of their energy to the Champions League.

Inter Milan has three opponents in the group stage, Barcelona, ​​Kazan Rubin, and Dynamo Kiev. In such a group, there should be no problem in qualifying normally. The key is to compete with Barcelona for the first place in the group.

Mourinho was once a young translator of Barcelona. This background made Mourinho always want to defeat Barcelona to prove himself. In addition, if he can defeat the defending champion in the group stage and qualify for the defending champion, it can greatly improve Inter Milan's self-confidence and play an important role in Inter Milan's competition for the Champions League championship.

In addition to his grudges and hatred with Barcelona, ​​the key to Mourinho's success or failure this season is not the league, but the Champions League. Mancini's three consecutive championships are gone because of the poor performance in the Champions League. If Mourinho does nothing in the Champions League, then even if he wins the Serie A championship again, he will have to leave in shame at the end of this season.

Therefore, in Mourinho's heart, the weight of the Champions League is far better than that of the league, but Mourinho did not say it, but asked the players and assistants to discuss how to play in these two games.

Etoo is a newcomer, but he still likes to show off as the boss. He is the first to stand up and express his opinions, saying that he cannot ignore the weekend league just because there is a Champions League in the middle of next week. If there is a problem with the league, it will also have an impact on the Champions League in the middle of the week.

African players and newcomers such as Montali and Mota felt it was reasonable and expressed their support, while the Argentine Gang and several old players were all there to sneer.

In the Champions League final last season, Gao Xiaodong led Porto to challenge Barcelona, ​​but was beaten to pieces. Gao Xiaodong also received a red card. Gao Xiaodong was resentful about this and had long been thinking about taking revenge. Now Barcelona has drawn a group with Inter Milan. Gao Xiaodong hopes that the team will defeat Barcelona in the best form and physical fitness, and of course they don’t want to be dragged down by the league.

Gao Xiaodong stood up and said that Parma is just a newly promoted team and is not strong enough to threaten Inter Milan. He can send a substitute to play and make every effort to prepare for the Champions League group stage between midweek and Barcelona.

Etoo immediately objected, saying that Barry's team brought a lot of trouble to Inter Milan as both a newly promoted team.

Gao Xiaodong then said that although the Barry team caused some trouble, they were finally defeated by Inter Milan 3-1, and the trouble caused by the newly promoted team was very limited.

Driven by Gao Xiaodong and Etoo, Inter Milan players had a debate on how to view the game with Parma, and of course no one could convince anyone.

Mourinho watched coldly, gained a clear understanding of the players' thoughts and psychology, and then gave his own decision.

"Parma is a newly promoted team, but it is not weak. It has won and draws in the first two rounds, but we don't need to exaggerate their strength. Compared with us, they are still far behind them.

In the game against Parma, I will send most of the main players and may conduct experiments in some positions. You need to do your best at the beginning, treat Parma as Barcelona, ​​play our own characteristics, lock in the victory, control the situation and fight back. Let me talk about the specific tactics below."

Mourinho's meaning is very obvious, that is, he treats the league with Parma as a warm-up match, mainly me, plays his own characteristics, and after locking in the victory, controls the rhythm and fights back, saving physical fitness.

Old players like Matrazi, Zanetti, and Etoo think it is a bit inappropriate. Although Parma is a new player, he may not give up resisting easily. However, the team just went through a cleanup and slaughtered Milan with a historic score. Mourinho's authority is at its peak, and no one dared to stand up and express doubts directly.

Mourinho arranged tactics, prepared to break up the meeting, and gave the players some rest, and there was a training class in the afternoon.

At this time, Balotelli stood up and said, "Coach, I have something to say."

Mourinho said in surprise, "Oh" and said, "Mario, just say whatever you have."

Balotelli said passionately: "Our team now has a captain and two deputy team members, and I think another deputy team leader should be added."

"Oh, then tell me who is suitable to be the deputy of this team."

Mourinho did want to add a captain, and he also told the assistant coaches, but he didn't find a suitable candidate for a while and wanted to wait for the new players to get together before talking about it. Unexpectedly, Balotelli took the initiative to mention it, which surprised Mourinho. He secretly speculated that who taught Balotelli to say this, and he didn't believe that Balotelli would suddenly care about the team's captain candidate.

The Inter Milan players in the conference room also looked at Balotelli incredibly as if they were looking at the giant pandas. I wonder which one this live-boy played today.

Balotelli said: "I think Gao Xiaodong is the most suitable. He is very good. Milan Derby scored a hat trick."

Balotelli just finished speaking, and the conference room was in an uproar. Except for Sanetti and Quaresma, everyone else burst into laughter.

"Damn it, let Gao Xiaodong be the deputy team!"

"How old is Gao Xiaodong? He is 19 years old! Are there any captains under 20 years old in our history?"

"Why didn't Balotelli recommend himself as the captain?"

"What's this guy's nerve today?"

Gao Xiaodong saw that Sanetti was silent and quickly kicked Sanetti's chair from behind.

Sanetti can no longer pretend to be invisible. He smiled bitterly and stood up and said, "Actually Mario said it well. Gao Xiaodong is also good as the deputy captain. He is the main force of the team and is very young. He can be trained as the captain."

Sanetti said it was not loud, but the content was too amazing. In an instant, the entire conference room was silent. Everyone, including Mourinho, was stunned. No one expected that Sanetti would actually support Gao Xiaodong as the deputy captain.

However, just when everyone was surprised, Quaresma also stood up and said, "I also support Gao Xiaodong as the deputy captain. He is capable, responsible and courageous. Although he is a little younger, he is just the deputy captain. I think he is fully qualified."

Mourinho looked at Zanetti, Quaresma and Balotelli who stood up and immediately confirmed that this was Gao Xiaodong's trick. But what he didn't understand was that it was normal for Gao Xiaodong to persuade Balotelli and Quaresma, but how could he tell Zanetti to support him?

Just when everyone was shocked by the scene in front of him, Gao Xiaodong also stood up and waved his hands repeatedly, "Why do you guys always show me so much? I think Mario Balotelli is more suitable to be the deputy captain than me."

"Puff!"

"Ha ha!"

After hearing Gao Xiaodong's words, almost everyone in the conference room couldn't help laughing.

Balotelli is the deputy team? This is so ridiculous. Even if you lead a dog to be the deputy team of Inter Milan, it is better than Balotelli. At least the dog will not cause trouble. Is Gao Xiaodong here to make fun of it?

Mourinho's smile flashed, he suppressed his smile and said to Gao Xiaodong with a calm face: "Nonsense, what do you think of this place? This is the conference room."

Gao Xiaodong fulfilled his promise to Balotelli, of course he didn't say much, and sat down pretending to be embarrassed.

Of course, no one took Gao Xiaodong's words seriously. Everyone was considering whether Gao Xiaodong was suitable for being a captain.

At this time, Lucio stood up first and said, "I object that Gao Xiaodong is too young, only 19 years old. Not to mention that there is no such precedent in Inter Milan's history, no giant in the five major leagues has ever had such a precedent."

Lucio also wants to be the team's deputy and thinks that the team's deputy must be himself. Unexpectedly, someone suggested that Gao Xiaodong be the team's deputy, and Sanetti actually supported it.

Etoo also wanted to be the team deputy. He stood up with Lucio and strongly opposed: "I firmly oppose, is this captain just casually? In addition to ability, he also needs prestige and qualifications."

Matrazi said: "I think Captain Sanetti is not considerate. Gao Xiaodong is too young and is too young. He really makes him the captain. What do fans think and what the media say."

Cordoba said: "Yes, we are a wealthy family, not an ordinary team. If we let a 19-year-old young man be the captain, we will not be laughed at by others."

Toldo said bluntly: "Choose a captain is not a child playing house."
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