From the man behind the football king to the football king

Saturday, August 25, 2012.

A week later, the Novara team went south to Tuscany again, but this time the destination was not Florence, but the small town of Grosseto. They will challenge Grosseto at the Carlo Cecchini Stadium on Saturday evening.

Unlike Florence, which they challenged a week ago, Grosseto is a team that has been in Serie B for many years. In the past two seasons, Grosseto was even a relegation team in Serie B.

Facing such a weak opponent, Novara's goal is naturally to get all three points to help the team get rid of the embarrassment of negative points in the standings as soon as possible.

In fact, the Italian gambling case last season involved 21 teams, which made many Serie B teams start with negative points this season. Novara's 4 points deduction is not the most, Bari was deducted 7 points, and Novara's first round opponent Grosseto was deducted 6 points.

Although Bruno, who has only joined the team for half a month, was included in the roster for this game, he did not get a chance to start and could only sit on the bench to watch the game for the time being.

After the game started, Grosseto played very actively at home, and in the 18th minute of the game, their center forward Sforzini scored a goal and took the lead early.

Sforzini, who is 1.93 meters tall, came from Lazio's youth training camp. After a short period of playing for Sassuolo, he was recruited by Udinese in early 2006. However, this powerful striker has never been able to gain a foothold in Udinese and has been loaned out for a long time.

Last summer, Sforzini chose to leave and transferred to Grosseto. He soon became Grosseto's main striker and was the main contributor to Grosseto's successful relegation last season.

This summer, Serie A teams took a fancy to Sforzini, but considering his wandering in Udinese in the past few years, Sforzini chose to stay in Grosseto. Now he has helped the team score the first goal of the new season, which makes the home fans very happy.

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For Novara and Texel, losing the ball early is not good news.

Sure enough, after taking the lead, Grossetto chose to retreat and defend, which put Novara, which lacked offensive power, into trouble.

Until the end of the first half, Novara failed to score.

What made Novara and Tesser even more upset was that only ten minutes into the second half, the team's midfielder Buzigori received the second yellow card of the game and was sent off, which made the team not only face the disadvantage of falling behind in the score for more than half an hour, but also had to play one less player.

At this time, it was time to test the head coach. Is it conservative to replace the defensive player to keep the current score, or wait and see, or let it go and simply replace an offensive player to try to equalize the score or even overtake.

Most head coaches will make the second choice, which is relatively stable; some head coaches will make the first choice, losing less is winning; only a few crazy coaches will make the third choice, which may bring a reversal, but more often it will cause a rout.

Tesser is a very ordinary coach, so he made the choice of most head coaches - wait and see.

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And the fact proved that this choice was considered to be relatively stable, and it made sense.

It took only 9 minutes for Tercel to wait for the result: Novara scored a goal through a counterattack by their Argentine striker Pablo Gonzalez, equalizing the score.

The 27-year-old Pablo Gonzalez was in his prime. He joined Novara at the last minute of the winter window in 2010 and was an important member of Novara's promotion for two consecutive years.

In January, Gonzalez chose to leave Novara, which was deep in the relegation zone, and joined Siena for 1.6 million euros.

However, in Siena, the Argentine was not acclimatized, so in the summer, he returned to Novara again for 1.1 million euros, which was also Novara's biggest signing in this summer window.

Seeing his favorite player score, Tercel was very happy, and he felt that his expectations were finally rewarded.

Then he returned to the coaching bench and sat down.

And Bruno's heart calmed down as Tercel sat down. He knew that he might not have a chance today.

In the end, Novara tied Grosseto 1:1 away, and Bruno sat on the bench for the entire game.

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Although he missed the chance to debut in the first game of the new season, Bruno seemed very calm and did not show any dissatisfaction.

After returning to Novara, he still participated in the team's training seriously and was one of the best players in the training match. His solid football foundation is textbook-like, which amazed the coaching staff and teammates.

However, what everyone does not know is what Bruno paid for these. Since he came here at the end of July, he has not wasted a minute for more than a month. Every day, except for the time of eating, drinking, defecating, and walking, he is training even when sleeping.

At present, the basic training plan arranged by the system father for Bruno has been carried out from dribbling, stopping, passing, to dribbling.

Tesel was very satisfied with Bruno's performance. He planned to find a suitable opportunity for Bruno to come on the court to feel the atmosphere of the game and see Bruno's true performance.

Many players perform well in training, but once they appear on the field, their performance is very different, especially young players like Bruno who lack game experience.

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Entering the first day of September, Serie B ushered in the second round. Novara's game starts first, as they face Empoli at home.

In the first league home game of the new season, Novara performed very well at the Piola Stadium. In the 29th minute of the first half, the talented full-back Luca Gilingoli, who joined the AC Milan youth academy on loan in the summer, made a breakthrough for the team. The team opened the scoring and took the lead.

During the halftime break, after seeing Bruno warming up seriously on the court and thinking of Gilingoli who opened the scoring for the team, Texel decided to let Bruno come on as a substitute at the right opportunity in the second half.

Making your debut at home is a lot less stressful. Especially when the team is leading, fans are more tolerant of the performance of their young players.

However, the second half of the game took a turn for the worse. Saponara, a talented midfielder produced by Empoli's youth academy, first scored a goal in the 48th minute to equalize the score, and then scored twice in the 70th minute to overtake Novara.

Tessel was a little dumbfounded, then he glanced at Bruno quietly, and quietly changed his plan again: Young man, it's not that I don't want to give you a chance, the situation is really critical now.

Texel waited again, leaving Bruno on the bench again.

Fortunately for Novara, Argentine midfielder Gonzalez scored a goal in the 81st minute of the game to equalize the score.

The Argentinian received the warmest welcome from the home fans as a critical savior in two consecutive games. In the eyes of the fans, he is the hero and the savior of the team!

But no one knew that in the corner of the team's bench, there was a young man looking at the Argentine with envy.

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In the new week, Bruno is still training diligently. He is like a flower at the foot of the wall, quietly gestating, waiting for the opportunity to bloom.

This week, Bruno's basic training is tackling. Although he positions himself as an offensive player, the system father's requirement for him is to be a B2B all-round midfielder. He must train not only offensive methods, but also defense.

The systematic training is very effective, which has led to Bruno's defensive performance changing by leaps and bounds during the team's training. The team's head coach Tessel can see this most clearly.

As an Italian coach, Texel has his own opinions on defense. Although Bruno's defensive ability is still as poor as ever, at the moment of the steal, Bruno seemed to be a different person, and his shots were very accurate. Even Argentine midfielder Gonzalez, who is known for his excellent skills, was intercepted many times by Bruno who was assigned to the substitute side during training.

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When the weekend came, Bruno also celebrated his eighteenth birthday.

He was born on September 8, 1994, and officially became an adult on this day!

However, in distant and unfamiliar Italy, no one noticed this. He is just an ordinary young man. No one notices that this day is his birthday.

But in the evening, he received several calls from other places, including his mother and sister in Portugal, his father who was making a living in Switzerland, and his girlfriend who had just entered college.

Yes, before Bruno traveled through time, I had already dated a girlfriend, who was his junior high school classmate. The two established a relationship two years ago.

However, after Bruno traveled through time, he didn't know how to treat his girlfriend. In addition, Bruno later came to Italy and basically did not take the initiative to contact the other party.

On the phone, Anna was very dissatisfied with Bruno for often not answering her calls, but considering that Bruno was newly arrived in Italy and was troubled by Pepsi, she didn't get too entangled.

She asked about Bruno's situation in the team and expressed that she wanted to drop out of school and come to Italy to be with him. Bruno quickly gave up her idea and asked her to go to college.

He still needs time to seriously consider how to deal with this relationship.