princely elegance

Chapter 274 Argentina with Gagohe at its core

"Raul Gonzalez, he scored the winning goal for Spain!"

"See, this is Raul, this is the flag, and Aragones cheered on the sidelines for bringing him on. Although he has been away from the national team for two years, as long as he plays, he can score. Villa It will take at least three years to surpass him."

"The game is over, the great Matador Legion lifted the second Delaunay Cup in their history because of this goal."

"Even if Raul quit the national team forever after this European Cup, it doesn't matter. He is already a legend, and the career of Lord of the Rings has no regrets."

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Seeing Raul lifted into the sky by his excited Spanish teammates, Gago smiled and applauded, and then left with his family. Next, he will work hard for the Olympic Games in August.

Although the status of the Olympic Games in the world can be compared with the World Cup, football has always been raised by the stepmother.The result of the game between the Olympic Committee and FIFA is that only players under the age of 23 are allowed to participate, and each team can have three overage players.

The football event in the Olympic Games is an event that starts the earliest and ends the latest, and due to age restrictions, the attention it receives is always mediocre.But this football project will waste another nearly a month. For the head coaches of major European clubs, the degree of disgust is second only to the rubbish event of the Africa Cup of Nations.

But sometimes they really have to let people go. Basically every player’s highest dream is to be able to wear the jersey of the national team and play for the country. It made the players under him even more chilling.

For example, the recently proud Real Madrid coach Schuster, because he led the team to win the double crown last season, not only the club renewed his contract and increased his salary.Whoever he wants in the new season, Mijatovic will politely nod and agree, and will do his best to help him get it.

But just as the German was so complacent, the tasteless Olympic football event made his good mood instantly become depressed.

Because two of his players were called up by the Argentine national team, Gago and Higuain.If it's just Higuain, he doesn't think it's a big deal, because the team's main forwards are Raul and Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Higuain is at most the third forward.But Gago's call-up made him feel uncomfortable everywhere.

Half of the credit for Real Madrid's double crown last season was on Gago, and the Argentine prince is now the well-deserved core of the Blancos.La Liga kicks off in September. Generally speaking, clubs will conduct training camps one month in advance, not only to adapt the players for the new season, but also to allow the players to adjust their state.

But after Gago was recruited for the Olympics, half of the pre-match training of the Real Madrid team was abolished, and the core was not there. How to adjust the tactics and train.

For this reason, Schuster also used his crooked brains, wanting to make the club active and let the Argentine Football Association not recruit Gago.But obviously, this kind of thing can't be done even with Real Madrid's all-powerful means.

Basile announced Argentina's 18-man roster for the Olympic Games with a smile on July [-], and Gago appeared in it as expected by fans around the world.In this regard, Gago himself has no dislike. When the Argentine prince was interviewed by the media, he smiled and said that playing for the country is his greatest wish, and he will definitely help the team defend the title.

Moreover, Basile is also very sincere this time. Among the choices of the three overage players, he gave up early to let out the news through the media. Riquelme, who wants to participate in the Olympics, obviously intends to use Gago as the core of the national team to cultivate.

If it's other players, it's really not worth such a heavy bet by Basile, but Gago's performance this year is really amazing, and he is already one of the top superstars in football.Even for the sake of stability, Riquelme is still the core in the adult team.But in the youth team, he has to plan for the future. After all, no matter how strong Riquelme is, he is already nearly [-] years old, and it is impossible to reach his peak in a few years. Gago's.

This time the Olympics should be considered as a rehearsal for Riquelme's tactics with Gago as the core after Riquelme quits the national team.

Basile's ideas are clearly understood by all the media experts. Sometimes, too many talents are also a problem. Don't you see that Mr. Ma Kaima is very powerful in the Bundesliga, but he can only be a fan in the Dutch national team. Ni's substitute, and has not even participated in a World Cup, can only participate in this Olympic Games as an overage player of the Dutch team, and live the addiction of being the main striker of the national team.

In the past few years, there were so many superstars in Brazil that Dunga had a headache. Kaka, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and other superstars thought that the core made all the Brazilian coaches have a headache.

And now it's Basile's turn to have a headache. Riquelme is at his peak, but Gago, who was originally considered the core of the next generation of Pampas, has become popular in the past two years.Sometimes, Basile really hoped that Gago would break out a few years later, and when Riquelme was old, then Gago could just take over.

But the problem is that Gago’s peak came a little too early, which caught Basile unprepared. This year’s Argentine prince’s performance at Real Madrid’s dominance level has spread the domestic rhetoric of “abolishing Riquelme and letting Gago take over” like a prairie fire. global.

In fact, from the bottom of his heart, Basile still hopes that the national team can continue as stable as it is now. After the World Cup in South Africa, he will let Riquelme gradually withdraw from the national team and establish Gago as the new core.Because Riquelme has been the core of the Argentine national team for five years, changing the core rashly will cause great fluctuations in the team's performance.

But Gago's performance this year couldn't help but be ignored by him. Fortunately, BJ's Olympics came at this critical time, so that this problem can be eased.

This time, Riquelme was not selected into the Olympic team, and Basile also had enough reasons.After all, it’s just a young people’s game, so don’t join in the fun. Although Riquelme knows the tricks, he really can’t give a reason to refuse. After all, Olympic football matches have always been a place for rich families to train young people. It really doesn't make sense for this midfield master to steal the limelight.

Besides, if Riquelme insisted on joining the Olympic team as an overage player, it would be fine if he won, but if he lost, he might be criticized by thousands of people.

After all, the recognized weakness of the Argentine national team is the defense. After Ayala withdrew from the national team, Pampas' defense lacked a pinnacle.On the contrary, the candidates in the midfield can be said to be extremely luxurious. Gago, Messi, Aguero, Higuain, Di Maria, and Lavezzi are all talented players who are closely watched by the giants. , The personnel arrangement in the midfield is already very crowded. If you come to join in the fun, won't this affect the growth of young players?

In the final analysis, the same sentence, in the Olympic team, there is Gago who can replace Riquelme, but in the defense, the younger generation of Argentina is extremely withered.So this time the three overage players from Argentina are all used in the backcourt. Mascherano is the midfielder and Demichelis is the central defender. Zanetti was also recruited as the captain of this Olympic team.

If this is another big-name star, maybe he really looks down on a small Olympic gold medal, but for Zanetti, who is of the same generation as Ayala, every national team's trophy is eager.You must know that before the Copa America, Argentina had not won a major championship for 14 years, and the only one was the Olympic gold medal in 04.

So in a way, the Olympics is the only event that Zanetti can talk about in his life.Since Ayala withdrew from the national team, the captain of Inter Milan has been the oldest senior in the Argentine national team, so he naturally has to take care of the juniors.So this time even if the new Inter Milan coach Mourinho said through the media that he hoped Zanetti would focus on the club and give up the small Olympics, it did not stop Zanetti's determination to play for the country.

Basile has been busy for a while, and finally straightened out the locker room relationship of the Argentine national team.As long as the Inter Milan gang headed by Zanetti is there, he no longer has to worry about civil strife. No matter how proud Riquelme is, it is impossible to fight against Zanetti.Moreover, Zanetti's personality is not domineering, he is very gentle towards young players, and he is also very self-disciplined, which can be used as a model of positive teaching materials for players.With him as the captain, there is no need to worry about two Ronaldos going to nightclubs to spoil a group of players like Brazil.

As soon as the list of the Argentine Olympic team was released this time, the whole world believed that Pampas had a [-]% success rate in defending the title.

Gago, as the most popular star in football this year, how to limit his development has become a recognized problem.With him as the core and Messi in the midfield, Aguero has proved his genius in La Liga. The other Higuain's sharpness in the second half of last year also made all experts optimistic.And Di Maria, known as the "Angel", has already said that the major European giants are eyeing him, and Benfica even yelled that no one can take him away with less than 3000 million.In addition, there is Lavezzi, who is called the "new Maradona" in Naples. Just arranging the appearance of these six talents has already made Basile scratch his head.

With Javier Mascherano, Liverpool's defensive general, and Javier Zanetti at the back, it would be a competitive lineup even for the World Cup, let alone a small Olympics.

"Even if Brazil has Ronaldinho, so what, we have Gago!"

This is the most frequently said sentence in Argentina. Indeed, based on the comparison between Gago and Ronaldinho this year, the two are indeed not at the same level of players.

Back then, when Gago first landed in Real Madrid, he was suddenly turned into a brush by Ronaldinho in the World War, but who knew that in just one year, the status of the two had been reversed.

(End of this chapter)