Because of the journey and the transfer period, Gao Zheng has not had systematic training for several days. Usually, he can do strength training and physical training in the hotel gym at most, but nothing else can do.

In addition, the language is not clear, although Xu Xin is translating next to him, he also needs to train himself. He is not a professional translator, so he will always be unable to take care of him.

So Gao Zheng's first training class after joining Atletico Madrid was not good.

However, for Atletico Madrid players, they will not underestimate Gao Zheng because of his poor performance in training.

After all, they have seen what kind of strength Gao Zheng has in the game last season.

If someone denies Gao Zheng because of his performance in a training class, he may be ridiculed by all Atletico Madrid players.

In this way, Gao Zheng lived in San Raphael, and Simeone adjusted the accommodation and let Gao Zheng and Xu Xin live in the same room, in order to facilitate Gao Zheng to learn Spanish from Xu Xin.

Because of Gao Zheng, Xu Xin also became familiar with the first team bosses. She is no longer an ordinary youth team player. After all, if those first team stars want to communicate with Gao Zheng, they basically have to go through him...

This is the period when Xu Xin has been in the highest position in the team since joining Atletico Madrid.

Not only in the team, but also in the Chinese media, Xu Xin has also become a celebrity, which of course is still a blessing from Gao Zheng.

When Gao Zheng met with the team and started training, there were many Chinese journalists in the town of San Rafael.

Unlike when it was just revealed that he played football at Sampdoria, the Chinese media this time is more enthusiastic. On the one hand, it is because the influence of La Liga is much greater than that of Serie A, and Atletico Madrid is more influential than Sampdoria. On the other hand, it is naturally because the transfer fee of 75 million euros has increased everyone's appetite and made everyone full of expectations for Gao Zheng's career at Atletico Madrid.

As Gao Zheng's translator, although Chinese reporters do not need to pass Xu Xin when interviewing Gao Zheng, Gao Zheng always brings Xu Xin to the media reporters.

So when everyone was following Gao Zheng, they also followed Xu Xin.

Xu Xin is also a window for the media to understand Gao Zheng’s training and life situation at Atletico Madrid from the side. Some things are hard to ask Gao Zheng, but they can ask Xu Xin. Some things are hard to say, but Xu Xin can say them.

Through Xu Xin's story, everyone knows that Gao Zheng has a good reputation in the team. Although his language is not yet clear, it does not prevent him from often taking Xu Xin to chat with other teammates.

After the news was passed back to China, Chinese fans imagined that in this picture, the father took his children to visit him...

Fans on Weibo asked Xu Xin if she had asked for New Year’s money.

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As Gao Zheng became more and more familiar with his teammates and became more and more adaptable to the new environment, his performance in the training class was getting better and better, fully proving that the performance of the first training class was really just an accident.

After the whole team had seen Gao Zheng's performance in training, Simeone also began to design tactics. In the offense, Gao Zheng was the core, and while maintaining the Atletico Madrid fighting style, it increased the technical delicateness.

Before, everyone was worried that Gao Zheng and Simeone's Atletico Madrid style were incompatible, but through training, there was actually not much incompatibility.

Gao Zheng's defensive ability is indeed very poor, but Simeone will not ask Gao Zheng to defend with all his strength. His requirement for Gao Zheng in defense is to hold the position. In other words, as long as Gao Zheng can appear in the defensive position, he does not require him to go up and press or steal directly.

Gao Zheng's large range of football activities is actually very consistent with Atletico Madrid's overall tactics.

Because the simple summary of Atletico Madrid's tactics is "run, run, run to death." Every player is required to keep running, find opportunities and create opportunities.

Gao Zheng's way of playing without a fixed position in the game is just right in line with Atletico Madrid's original tactics.

The only problem is that Gao Zheng's physical training was done in Sampdoria. After coming to Atletico Madrid, he started to have ball training directly. Sampdoria's physical training requirements are definitely different from Atletico Madrid. Some people are worried whether Gao Zheng's reserved physical fitness in Sampdoria is enough for him to deal with Atletico Madrid's undead-running tactics. If there is a physical fitness problem in the later stage of the season, it may affect his performance in Atletico Madrid's first season.

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On July 28, Atletico Madrid officially announced that they signed Real Sociedad French striker Anthony Griezmann.

This French scorer has been very popular in the past two seasons, and of course he is still different from Gao Zheng's popularity... As early as the 18-year-old in the 2009-2010 season, he played as the main player at Real Sociedad. At that time, Real Sociedad played in the second division. He played 39 times and scored six goals, helping Real Sociedad return to La Liga.

The 2010-2011 season was Griezmann's first La Liga season. He is still the main striker of Real Sociedad, scoring seven goals and assisting three goals in 37 appearances. As a nineteen-year-old striker, this performance is already great.

Griezmann continued his performance last season in 2011-2012, playing 35 times, scoring seven goals and four assists, and another goal in the Copa del Rey.

Starting from the 2012-2013 season, Griezmann increased his league goals to double digits, played 35 times in the league, scored ten goals, five assists, and scored one goal in the Cup of Rey. He helped Real Sociedad win fourth in the league and qualified for the Champions League qualifiers.

Last season was his best season at Real Sociedad. He played 35 times in the league, scored 16 goals and assisted four times. In addition, he played second in the Cup of Rey, scoring three goals. He made two appearances in the Champions League qualifiers, scoring one goal and assisting one goal, helping the team to reach the Champions League.

He played six times in the Champions League group stage but did not score.

With his outstanding performance this season, he has attracted the attention of many teams. But Atletico Madrid was not in the ranks of pursuing him at the beginning.

It was after signing Gao Zheng that Atletico Madrid suddenly accelerated its bid for Griezmann.

Therefore, many analysts believe that Atletico Madrid signed Griezmann to form a forward partner with Gao Zheng.

Because Griezmann is not a pure shooter, although he scored a lot of goals, he should also note that he also scored a lot of assists. Although Gao Zheng is good at scoring goals, he is also good at assists. It can be seen that he has 37 assists in three seasons with Sampdoria.

Both forwards who can score goals and assist both match up, which is completely a one-plus one-to-one-on-two effect.

Although neither Atletico Madrid nor Real Sociedad has disclosed more details of the transfer, "As" newspaper disclosed the transfer fee Atletico Madrid paid Real Sociedad a transfer fee of 30 million, which is exactly the penalty figure in the contract between Griezmann and Real Sociedad.

After Griezmann transferred to Atletico Madrid, the media quickly captured the scene of the Frenchman and Gao Zheng chatting and laughing on the training ground in the town of San Rafael. Of course, there must be a "translator" Xu Xin in this picture...

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This summer, Atletico Madrid lost the Champions League championship in the last two minutes, the team's top scorer, Diego Costa, the team's top hero who won the league championship, left the team, Courtois returned to Chelsea on loan, and with the main left back Luis Felipe, the three of them went to Chelsea. Last season's main striker David Villa made a free transfer to play in the Major League.

It can be said that there is a serious loss of personnel.

This situation makes Atletico Madrid fans quite pessimistic about the team's new season.

At that time, Diego Costa's successor was Bayern Munich center Mandzukic. Although Lewandowski joined Bayern Munich for free this summer, Croatian center lost his position in Bayern Munich and he wanted to leave. Atletico Madrid also intends to use him to fill the vacancy after Diego Costa's departure.

But the plan cannot keep up with the changes. Simeone's contract renewal condition made Atletico Madrid give up Mandzukic and go all out to compete for Gao Zheng.

Now after winning Gao Zheng, he signed Griezmann, and from Benfica, he also introduced Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak, which finally made the fans regain some confidence.

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After Griezmann arrived at the team, the entire Atletico Madrid team quickly set off and left Spain for the United States.

They will do overseas training there and warm up.

But not all first-team players went to the United States with the team. Griezmann, who just joined the team, did not. In addition, the team's three Uruguayan internationals, Diego Godin, Christian Rodriguez and Jimenes, also stayed in Madrid for their recovery training.

Gao Zheng, who cares most about Atletico Madrid fans and Chinese fans, went to the United States with the team.
Chapter completed!