Beast King Costa

Chapter 341 What is a world-class midfielder

Due to the lack of strength of the opponent, and the fact that the opponent's lineup in Lisbon is basically for sending points, Fernando Santos also deliberately recruited two players from the Benfica B team to the first team to train together.

Of course, because it is impossible to have players from the Benfica B team in the squad for the Europa League registration, these two players cannot enter the squad for the match against Liberec.

However, Fernando Santos will give these two players playing time in the next Portuguese League Cup game - if they perform well during the first team training together, they may even be directly given starting positions!

This made the two players who were transferred from the Benfica B team to the first team to practice together for a week, it can be said that they couldn't be more excited.

One of these two players who was promoted to the first team is Diego Sosa, a young Brazilian center who had high hopes from the Benfica club's top management.

Another player surprised Diego.

It’s actually Yu Dabao from China!
Ever since Yu Dabao was training with the first team, he was probably able to master the daily Portuguese language, and he was able to adapt to the training rhythm and life rhythm of Benfica. After that, he was sent to the B team by Fernando Santos to live alone——Diego is the football player after all. The team's main big center, instead of a full-time translator, should not let Diego consume too much energy, and has been training and living with Yu Dabao.

But fortunately, Yu Dabao lives next door to the apartment of Diego and David Louis. If there is any language trouble in life, Diego will patiently help Yu Dabao solve it.

It was rare that Yu Dabao got the chance to train with the first team, and Diego was very excited.

After all, after the Portuguese Super League and Europa League battles in the new season, Diego has put all his energy on training and competitions, and has no extra energy to care about Yu Dabao's situation in the Benfica B team.

At this moment, Yu Dabao has a rare opportunity to practice together with the first team, so Diego can test whether Yu Dabao has followed the training schedule he gave him during this period of time to strengthen his ability after switching to midfield Ability in all aspects.

"Thank you Diego..."

Yu Dabao said with great emotion: "Training according to the training schedule you gave me, I have improved rapidly during this period, and now I can basically adapt to the midfield position, and also because I performed well in the training of the B team, In the last game, I got 45 minutes of playing time in the second half. Most importantly, I sent 2 assists for the team. Coach Santos’s assistant just happened to inspect the players on the spot, so he fell in love with me as the assister, and May Diego Souza on the second try.”

"Wow! 2 assists in half game! Yes!"

Diego gave Yu Dabao a thumbs-up excitedly: "It seems that you have adapted to the foreign environment very quickly! You will soon be able to adapt to the rhythm of Team B and become the main player."

"I don't dare to think about the position of the main force for the time being..."

Yu Dabao shook his head helplessly: "I still have a big problem with the language barrier. In the training class, I still can't understand the many instructions given by the head coach. I can only follow the actions of my teammates. I did. In the last game, the head coach asked me to play halftime, mainly due to the injury of my teammates in the midfield, and this came suddenly."

"It's okay! Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared!"

Diego encouraged Yu Dabao: "Language skills require daily accumulation. I believe in you! If you work hard on language skills, you will soon be able to fully understand the head coach's orders from the sidelines. By then, you will be able to play B The main position of the team, he was even promoted to the first team as a regular rotation player!"

"Haha, I don't dare to think about regular rotation players for the first team for the time being..."

Yu Dabao was a little shy at what Diego said, he shook his head and said: "For now, for me, it is not bad to be able to gain a foothold in the B team, to be able to enter the main frame of the B team. As for being able to enter the first team... …Ah! Let’s talk about it next season, I don’t dare to think about it this season, after all, the midfield line of our Benfica first team is really too luxurious!”

"That's true. There are too many good midfielders in the team now. If you want to sit on the bench in the first team, it's better to accumulate game experience in the B team for the time being."

Diego nodded noncommittally.

Now, Benfica's midfield line is luxuriously crowded.

In terms of status and experience, the absolute representative of the golden generation of the Portuguese national team, Rui Costa at the old level is leading the young people on the bench.

The main players of the Mesozoic Era, the Portuguese national team midfielder and Benfica captain Petit, the Greek national team midfielder Carter Solanis and Beto, are all plug-and-play players who are capable of playing in the midfield position. Candidate for the main waist position.

The backup candidate is Joao Kumbra, a young man with unlimited potential, and even the Russian Kalyaka is an excellent candidate to return to the midfielder position.

Now Yu Dabao is just a young player of the Chinese National Youth Team. He is not yet a future star of the Chinese national team. He is the core of the midfield and frontcourt. Even if Fernando Santos gives Yu Dabao the opportunity to play in the first team The roster is out, so he can only sit on the bench and watch the game dryly.

Of course, being able to enter the bench list to watch the game is still very good-at least there is the possibility of coming off the bench.

With the current crowded midfield line of Benfica and Yu Dabao's current age and ability, if he is accidentally promoted to the first team by Fernando Santos, there is a high probability that he will be a training partner for the first team. Squeeze in and say.

For Yu Dabao's current situation, sparring training has no meaning at all.

What Yu Dabao needs now is to play games!

Play more games in the Portuguese Liga and accumulate more game experience!
Waiting for Yu Dabao's game reading ability, and adapting to the Portuguese league and even the style of European football, and then let Yu Dabao enter the first team of Benfica, then, train hard in the training items carefully listed by Caesar After Yu Dabao, he will have the opportunity to play a main position in Benfica!

The core midfielder may not be realistic for the time being.

But being able to become Benfica's regular rotation like Beto, and making more than 20 league appearances in a season, can be considered very successful at this age.

As for the future.

Diego does not think that Yu Dabao will be fixed in Benfica, a traditional Portuguese Super League team in the future.

Because, whether it is Benfica, Sporting Lisbon in the same city, or even Porto, the dark horse of the Portuguese Super League in the 21st century, which counterattacked and won the Champions League, the midfield is occupied by the main force of the Portuguese national team, and foreign players are not given to become the team's midfielder. Opportunities for core brains.

Perhaps Yu Dabao will leave the Portuguese Super League in the future and seek opportunities to become the core of the midfield for other teams in the five major leagues?
I believe that at that time, Yu Dabao was mature enough to play his own role in the midfield. If he went to other leagues to seek opportunities, he would definitely become a hot existence, and Diego no longer needed to worry about his future development.

During Yu Dabao's joint training with the first team, Diego could clearly feel Yu Dabao's progress during this period.

Among them, the most visible thing is that under high-intensity physical confrontation, Yu Dabao can get the ball, and he knows how to prevent the opponent from launching a defensive counterattack after losing the ball!

Although, in the joint training with the first team, Yu Dabao was able to hold the ball under high-intensity confrontation, but he was still quite obvious, unable to distribute the ball to the feet of his teammates who had already run out of space.

For an excellent organizational midfielder, first of all, he must be able to protect the ball in the midfield under high-intensity confrontation. Even if the ball is lost, he must also know how to use necessary fouls or counter-robbers to delay the opponent's counterattack , and even launch a second offensive organization after stealing.

Yu Dabao has already fulfilled this first condition.

Secondly, Yu Dabao's next stage of improvement is to be able to have enough game reading ability under high-intensity confrontation, have a broad field of vision to see the movement of his teammates in the frontcourt, and pass the ball as soon as possible. Give it to the teammate who runs out of space!

This point, Yu Dabao can do it when the physical confrontation is not too intense.

In the case where the physical confrontation is not too strong, Yu Dabao can have more energy to observe the running positions of his teammates in the frontcourt, and there is also ample room for adjustment. The pass to the teammate who runs out of the open space is likely to be converted into an assist. The wonderful biography.

But if the physical confrontation is too strong, Yu Dabao's attention can only be concentrated on protecting the ball under his feet, and there is no way to allocate extra energy to observe the movement of his frontcourt teammates.

In the ultimate stage, it can also be said to be a world-class midfield master-level organizational midfielder!
That is to be able to protect the ball under high-intensity physical confrontation, and to be able to hold the ball and bring the defensive players' attention to themselves, and use various weird running positions to create offense for the frontcourt teammates space!Give the offensive players in the frontcourt a chance to shoot with the ball "out of nowhere"!
This kind of ability can only be achieved by Rui Costa, a well-known veteran in the five major leagues in the Benfica team.

Even Benfica, the core midfielder of the Portuguese national team, and team captain Pettit can only play a few times in a flash of inspiration when he is in excellent condition.

As for Carter Solanis, Fernando Santos' direct descendant when he was coaching in the Greek League, he could only reach the second stage, and there was no way to create "out of nothing" opportunities for his frontcourt teammates.

If Yu Dabao can grow to the final stage, then the Chinese national team will directly ascend to the ranks of the top Asian teams because of his existence alone.

Even if the frontcourt striker is keen on masturbating, and the backcourt defender is keen to clear the siege and send it to his own door, that's not a problem!
A world-class midfield master sitting in the midfield can make up for so many things!

Just like the Kobe Victory Ship in the J-League, after the arrival of "Xiaobai" Iniesta, who has reached the end of his career, the team immediately transformed.

Originally, it was only a team in the middle and lower reaches of the league, or even relegated to relegation. Because Iniesta, a master-level midfielder, takes the ball and distributes the ball, the pressure on the defenders is much less in an instant. , After training with Iniesta for a long time, I got the idea, and started to know how to move and catch the ball.

Even, the unknown young player Furuhashi Kougo, who originally only played for Gifu FC in the J2 league, has made a qualitative leap after playing with Iniesta for more than a season. The main players have even become the sideline pioneers of the Japanese adult national team!
However, it is a pity that the Chinese national team has basically never had such an ultimate world-class midfield master in so many years.

Even Zheng Zhi, the former Asian football player, returned to the Chinese League frustrated after his overseas study, and rejuvenated his career in the second spring of his career when he changed to the midfielder position at Evergrande, he can only reach the second stage.

Hao Junmin, the core midfielder of the Chinese national team in the post-Zheng Zhi era, also has no ability to create offensive space for his teammates - even compared to Zheng Zhi's dominance in the midfield, Hao Junmin's defense has always been a surprise to the fans. Although criticized, Hao Junmin, a player who has been physically challenged throughout his career, has been working hard to use active running to make up for his lack of defensive interception ability after wearing the national team captain's armband.

However, the third brother is already 33 years old, and his career has been plagued by injuries, so how can it be possible to ask him to play like the golden period of his career?
In the end!
If young people can't stand it, nothing they say will be of any use!
At present, many of the so-called "successors" in the midfield of the Chinese national team are unable to hold the ball in the midfield under high-intensity physical confrontation!
This resulted in the defenders being at a loss. They were often made mistakes by the opponent's midfield defensive counterattacks and did not even have time to breathe.

Since they can't even hold the ball in the midfield, let alone expect them to create decent offensive opportunities for the frontcourt.

The qualifications of these players are just this. Don't expect that after the arrival of some world-famous coach, he will be able to help Chinese football achieve a "qualitative leap".

It's better to let the local coach who understands the general environment of Chinese football and knows where the qualifications of young Chinese players are now lead, and start working hard from the basic skills!
At least, the midfielders must be able to hold the ball in the midfield. Only then can we have a formed tactical system, right?
The midfielder can't even hold the ball, so what about the tactical system?It is useless to introduce any world-class tactical system!

and so!
Diego very much hopes that Yu Dabao can play in Benfica as soon as possible, at least he can become the core of the Chinese national team midfielder who can hold the ball and distribute the ball, to help the Chinese national team in this world break the curse !
As for whether Yu Dabao can grow into a world-class midfielder in the end, it depends on fate.

(End of this chapter)