Seeing Qiao Anchen complete 20 sets of shooting training with his own eyes, Diego Simeone, who performed outstandingly, even asked Oscar Ortega, Atletico Madrid's former physical coach, incredulously:
"What's going on? Joan Chen's shooting skills are so good, why didn't Manzano transfer him to the first team earlier to participate in La Liga games? Is it because he is young?"
"That's ridiculous."
Oscar Ortega smiled bitterly and said: "Maybe, Manzano didn't have enough courage to directly transfer Qiao Anchen from the youth training camp to the first team. Instead, he upgraded him level by level and played in every echelon.
It took three or four games before he was transferred to the first team."
Simeone shook his head disdainfully and said: "Forget it, I won't talk about the previous ones, but now we should focus on training Qiao Anchen."
Then, Simeone called all the members of the coaching staff together and said to them:
"You all saw Qiao Anchen's performance in the shooting training just now. His shooting feels really good, and his goal-frame hit rate is too high. I have never seen anyone with such a high goal-frame hit rate, even Messi and Ronaldo.
No."
"If trained well, Qiao Anchen will definitely become another super striker produced by Atletico Madrid, and he was trained by our own youth training camp from an early age."
"If Qiao Anchen is kicked out, it will have a very high strategic significance for the team's brand building, the cohesion of the fans, and the morale improvement of the youth training camp."
"We should focus on training him."
"But I have observed in the past two days that his height, weight, physique, confrontation ability, ball stopping, ball control, dribbling, jumping, heading, etc. are all just unsatisfactory."
"So, next, you come up with a plan to add weight to him, increase his physique and confrontation ability, and focus on training skills such as running without the ball, stopping the ball, controlling the ball, dribbling, etc., so that he can perform well in the game.
Get more shooting opportunities and try to take advantage of his superb shooting skills."
"If we make good use of Qiao Anchen's superb shooting skills, we may create miracles in the second half of the season."
Everyone saw Qiao Anchen's performance in the shooting training just now.
After listening to Simeone's instructions, everyone nodded and began to think about how to focus on cultivating Qiao Anchen based on their own work content.
After learning that Qiao Anchen rented a house alone and that he was the only one at home and usually ate in the base cafeteria with everyone else, assistant coach German Borges came up with an idea:
"Qiao Anchen is so thin. Is it because the food in the cafeteria is not good enough for him?"
"I don't think it's better to let him continue to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in the base restaurant, even during the holidays."
"But we need to ask a nutritionist to develop a weight-gaining diet for him, focusing on gaining weight but not fat. We will be responsible for training his increased weight into muscle."
After listening to Borges' suggestion, everyone applauded, and Simeone also nodded in agreement with the suggestion.
Later, Qiao Anchen was called over and told that he would have to eat all three meals a day in the base restaurant, including during holidays, and that he would be given a separate diet to gain weight.
Qiao Anchen was overjoyed.
This arrangement revealed a signal that Simeone was ready to focus on training him, and there was much less worry about being hidden because of his age.
Naturally, he immediately nodded in agreement, thanked the coaches for their concern, and said that he would work hard and strive to play for the team as soon as possible.
Everyone encouraged Qiao Anchen, and then Borges called the nutritionist in the base restaurant, told him about Qiao Anchen's situation, and asked him to come up with a nutritious meal recipe for Qiao Anchen today.
Starting from this afternoon, Qiao Anchen's breakfast, lunch and dinner were all taken care of by the base restaurant, and he was allowed to cook a small stove by himself.
Because he is the only one in the first team who has not yet fully developed.
In the next two days, Qiao Anchen, whose training intensity was already high enough, received intense attention from the coaching staff. He almost fell asleep when he returned home every day.
But he knows that such opportunities are rare. As long as he persists and satisfies the coaching staff, he should soon be given the opportunity to play.
On the afternoon of January 6, before the end of training, Simeone summoned more than 20 people from the team, and assistant coach Germain Borges announced the 18th round of the 2011/2012 La Liga away game to Malaga the next day.
National People's Congress list.
The eighteen-man roster consists of 11 starting players and 7 substitutes.
The first to be announced is the 11-man starting list, which includes goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, captain Gabi, Tiger Falcao and other absolute main players.
Naturally, Qiao Anchen cannot be on the starting list.
After all, he is not even 16 years old and does not have a second of professional game experience. Therefore, even if Simeone is optimistic about him, it is impossible to put him in the starting lineup.
However, after the eleven-man starting list was announced, when the seven substitute places were announced, the last name that came out of the mouth of assistant coach Borgers was: "Substitute forward, No. 10 Qiao Anchen."
Qiao Anchen was secretly happy and couldn't hide the smile on his face!
Even though the coaching staff assigned him a separate role as Xiao Zao, it can be seen that Simeone should value him very much. But at this time, Qiao Anchen was surprised to be actually selected into the squad and have the possibility of playing as a substitute.
Other players also expressed their congratulations to Qiao Anchen. Only a few fringe substitutes who did not make the roster cast envious glances at him.
Qiao Anchen also received an additional experience reward of 200,000 for "being selected into the 18-man La Liga roster for the first time", and the total experience increased to level 25, 240,000/800,000.
After announcing the squad, Simeone announced that today's training was over. Gabby and other big brothers all patted Qiao Anchen on the shoulder and congratulated him on being selected for the squad.
Qiao Anchen thanked everyone and returned to the locker room to shower and change clothes.
The next day, early on the morning of January 7, the eighteen first-team players, including Qiao Anchen, who were included in the squad, together with Simeone and other coaches and medical staff, took a flight to Madrid, a city in southern Spain that is more than 400 kilometers away from the capital Madrid.
Laga, preparing for the 18th round match of La Liga with Malaga that evening.
Malaga is not a traditional strong team in La Liga. Three seasons ago, it was still fighting in the second division!
But after being promoted to La Liga, especially last season when it was acquired by members of the Qatari royal family, the famous coach Pellegrini was invited, and Ruud van Nistelrooy, Demichelis, Baptista and Isco were introduced.
After adding powerful stars, Málaga's strength increased dramatically. In the second half of last season, they even humiliated the Spanish team with a score of 3-0 at Atletico Madrid's home stadium, the Calderon Stadium.