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Chapter 40 Differences
On a standard playground with a 400-meter runway and various sports facilities (this playground is not included in the six training lawns), a total of nearly 500 people from ten age groups of Yunjia Tianyu Football School have stood neatly on the playground.

It is now 10:[-], and within the stipulated [-] minutes, everyone has arrived, including the children who are only six years old, Xia Liquan standing on the rostrum, and another gray-haired and gray-eyed foreigner nodded in satisfaction at the same time.

That foreigner is the former head coach of the Chinese Olympic team and the current head coach of Yunjiatianyu youth echelon, Ladd. After retiring from the position of head coach of the 96 National Olympic team, the Yugoslavian old man has been devoted to the training of young players in China. Yunjiatianyu's echelon training can have today's scale and achievements, and Ladd has contributed a lot.

"The new semester is about to start." Ladd raised his voice and said that Ladd, who has been in China for five or six years, can speak standard Beijing movies. The elimination rate is the cruelest, especially for professional players. I think you all should know that Yunjia Tianyu Football School has the highest success rate in all of China, but do you know that even our school has the highest success rate for each batch of students? 500%! In other words, only three out of ten people can finally become professional players! In other similar schools, this ratio will be reduced! Even in Europe, the ratio will not be much higher than this. I think, now you should understand what kind of situation you are facing. right?"

The new students who just entered the school were terrified. For young people, they are often fearless because of ignorance, and the closer they are to their goals, the more they will understand the gap and cruelty.

Veteran students have personally experienced such cruelty. Every year, Yunjiatianyu Football School recruits nearly 500 new students, and the number of 20 students in the school remains basically the same. Except for about 17 outstanding players who successfully enter the U-80 echelon in the third day of junior high school every year, nearly [-] players will be eliminated every year. What a cruel elimination!
Among these eliminated students, except for a small number who can find their own positions in other clubs—especially the students who can persist until the third year of junior high school. They are the goal of other clubs to supplement young players—others can only silently bury their dreams of becoming professional players in their hearts, start to continue their studies like other students of the same age, or enter technical schools to learn the skills they will rely on in the future. For them, the road to professional football is over.

So even though the veteran students have heard what Ladd said several times, they still didn't make any noise of impatience, but continued to listen intently. For them, these words that Ladd said every year will become the driving force for them to move forward.

People are sometimes forgetful, which is why Ladd repeats these words tirelessly every year at the beginning of the new semester, constantly using facts to prove to these young people that there is absolutely no chance of success if they want to succeed.

There is pressure to make progress, as the saying goes.

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Ladd's speech lasted only 1 minute, and then he immediately announced the start of the morning run. Students of ten age groups started the morning run in an orderly manner under the leadership of their respective coaches. 500 people ran in a circle on the 400-meter track.

"Pay attention to the rhythm of running and breathing! Take a breath, run two steps, exhale, and run two steps! This will prevent your physical energy from being consumed quickly!" Some coaches shouted loudly, pointing out the way for newcomers to run in the morning.

From 10:10 to [-]:[-], it is exactly [-] minutes. During these [-] minutes, according to the age of the students, the coaches have formulated a journey that can allow their physical fitness to reach a critical point, and then gradually improve.

For football players, physical fitness and technique are like two legs of a human being, and neither of them can do without one. If someone insists on clearly distinguishing between physical fitness and technique, it will be like the battle between Huashan Sword School and Jianzong Qizong in Mr. Jin Yong's "Smiling Proud Jianghu", which will make people laugh out loud.

If you only practice physical fitness, you can only train a group of reckless men who can only run around like headless chickens on the field, and you can train them to be long-distance runners;

Yunjiatianyu wants players, not long-distance runners and street freestyle football players.

After a 10-minute long-distance run, the trainees, who were out of breath, went to the cafeteria to have breakfast under the leadership of their coaches. They had everything from milk, eggs, noodles, steamed buns, and fruits. For these children who are in the growth and development period or are about to enter the growth and development period, malnutrition in adolescence may lead to physical insufficiency in the future.

As soon as the new semester started, Long Bisheng immediately felt the huge difference between Yunjia Tianyu Football Academy and Xi'an Hope Football Academy where he stayed last year.

Xi’an Hope Football School will not arrange such a good accommodation environment for the students. When I was in Xi’an, the students rushed to wash their heads every morning. When I was in Xi’an, the coaches there would not tell you what to do. They just arranged a training plan and asked you to follow it.

In Xi’an Hope Football School, neither the coaches nor the teachers care about what you usually do, even if you don’t participate in training, as long as there is a reasonable reason, they will not care about you. In Yunjia Tianyu, even if you get up slowly, you will be punished if you are late for assembly at the playground. Where orders are prohibited, Long Bisheng feels a familiar kindness.

Just like in the army.

What will the next training look like?How will the training of real professional football be different from before?Long Bisheng looked forward to it enthusiastically.

(End of this chapter)