There is a dream called football

Chapter 419 Snow in Moscow

When I came to Moscow, a heavy snow greeted the Arsenal players who came from afar.

"This snow is so beautiful."

"Haha, when you play football in the wind and snow in shorts and short sleeves, you won't feel the beauty of it."

"Haha, will it be that bad? It's snowing in England too."

"It's not the same. The weather here is the kind that can freeze the lawn into a big marble. I've been here once before."

However, it is the Belarusian Hleb who has the most say.

"I can assure you that even if the lawn here is natural, it's actually frozen like a concrete floor at minus ten degrees, so you should be careful when you jump up and head the ball, and pay attention when it falls."

"Haha."

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A five-star hotel in the suburbs looks like an oil painting through the glass window, and the white snow is the moving scenery in the frame.

Li Qiao took a look at the snow scene, and then went to the gym to practice strength. This is a compulsory course every day. For players, the muscle content of the body is actually very important.

I remember that in the previous life, some people called Chinese players for nothing, and Li Qiao felt quite ashamed, although many people also said that professional players are not necessarily muscular men, and some are not like this, for example, Rooney is not.

But look at Ronaldo, Messi, which one does not have 6-pack abs when you lift your shirt, so for Li Qiao, a muscular man is a must.

After training the muscles, today's training task is completed. Wenger didn't let everyone go to the snow fight on the first day.

After all, the journey is very tiring, Wenger asked everyone to take a good rest for a day, and will officially play football on the snow tomorrow.

Russian stadiums must have floor heating, so the possibility of snow accumulation on the stadium is unlikely, but it cannot be completely ruled out, because if the weather is extremely cold, snow accumulation is also possible. After all, the effect of floor heating is limited in such an empty stadium.

So Wenger practiced snow football in advance, and this is actually available in the Premier League.

It doesn't necessarily snow every year in the UK, but it can happen every few years, and that's troublesome, especially for a technical Arsenal.

"It's enough to warm me up. If you neglect to warm up in this weather, you will basically be courting death."

Wenger is very strict about this. He knows the importance of warm-up. There is a statistic that 80% of injuries are caused by insufficient warm-up, so we really can't be sloppy about this.

And the players are training in long trousers and long sleeves, and some are wearing hats and scarves.

Li Qiao just covered her tightly, it feels really cold here.

Li Qiao didn't make any effort at the beginning, but just did some passing training. His teammates passed to Li Qiao, and Li Qiao sent the ball out, that's it.

After the body's feeling gradually recovered, Li Qiao began to try to speed up running and some simple extraordinary movements.

Soon, everyone found that the speed of passing the ball on the snow is a little slower, because the friction force is reduced, and if the ball is passed with the usual strength, it must be passed larger, so generally the passing force should be reduced.

"It's really not easy. For a team with our skill level, this has a really big impact."

"Complaining is useless, this is the difficulty of coming to Russia to play football, we can only accept it."

The reason why football is called a war is actually because it is an open-air sport. The change of the venue has a great impact on the game. Li Qiao still remembers the situation in Trinidad and Tobago last year. The venue had a great impact on the Chinese team.

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The bearded Kishav was distinctive, and he appeared confident in his press conference.

A reporter asked, "Now some people say that CSKA Moscow will become the biggest dark horse in the Champions League this season. What do you think?"

Kishav chuckled, "I don't think so. I think we are capable. At present, we are only showing our normal strength. A dark horse? If we reach the top 8, we can be said to be a dark horse, but not now."

There were sporadic laughter at the scene. Of course, many people disagreed, but it was hard to say. Judging from the current performance of CSKA Moscow, maybe it is really not a distant dream for them to qualify for the group stage.

"Some people complain that CSKA's home turf affects the games of other league teams, which means that CSKA wins games entirely on the pitch."

Kishav scoffed at this.

"Relying on the stadium? I think you are ignorant. The home stadiums of the top 32 of the Champions League have all passed UEFA's inspection, and our stadium is qualified. How can you say that there is a problem with our stadium?"

The reporter was speechless. This is true. The stadiums in the UEFA Champions League have strict standards. Even if many teams from small countries qualify for the UEFA Champions League, their home games will have to move their venues because the stadiums are not up to standard.

For example, Ebar in La Liga, their stadium capacity is only more than 1 people. In this case, even if they can enter the Champions League, they can only borrow other people's stadiums to play.

Someone asked about the departure of the players. Among them, Akinfeev was involved with Bayern Munich, and Zhirkov was believed to definitely go to the Premier League, so this is a topic of great interest to everyone.

In this regard, Kishav is very generous, "The relationship between CSKA Moscow and the players is great. If our players have a better future, then we will not obstruct them. Of course, we must give us a reasonable transfer fee."

Russia is similar to China in this regard. It is an honor for players to go to the five major leagues, and they are generally supported.

Someone asked about Arsenal and Wenger.

Kishav shook his head, "I don't know much about this, and I rarely pay attention to the situation in other leagues."

This answer surprised many people. I don’t know if they are pretending to be X, which is impossible in theory, or are they deliberately trying to humiliate their opponents?

When Wenger was asked the same question, he gave a completely different answer. He specially selected a few CSKA players to show that he knew his opponent very well.

"Their goalkeeper Akinfeev is already Russia's national goalkeeper."

"There is also Zhirkov. I think he has similar characteristics to Hleb. They are both traditional Eastern European wingers with high speed."

"And they have some Brazilians who are also very good. I think this game will be very difficult."

Of course, Wenger also expressed his criticism very tactfully, because in fact Moscow has a better stadium, that is the Luzhniki Stadium, but the game happened to be at the Lokomotiv Stadium.

When the Arsenal players stepped into the Lokomotiv Stadium, the feeling of hardship was even stronger, because today's Moscow has more snow.

(End of this chapter)