Handsome position is not easy

Chapter 6 Coach Garcia's Concerns
The Portuguese class and math class in the morning were very boring. The homework assigned by the teacher had to be completed after the training. All the children in the classroom were complaining. Jan woke up Pedeno, who was still drooling on his seat, and planned to go to the restaurant together. Have a meal.

The nutritionist of the youth training team has a rich menu, but there are few common dishes. Most of them are unseasoned athlete food. In addition to the most common boiled chicken, the combination of various meat and vegetable dishes also takes care of other special dishes. taste.

There are many children from poor families in the team. It is obviously unrealistic to rely on their families to provide nutrition for the rapid growth of the body, so the youth training team spends a high proportion of their budget on food and education.

This is exactly how Sporting Lisbon differs from those community clubs eager for quick success in terms of talent training. In order to make money back as soon as possible, they have chosen more cost-effective training methods, only focusing on basic quality And skills, as for the cultural knowledge and nutritional foundation of players, they can't be on the negotiating table when transferring.

As a traditional giant in Portugal, Sporting Lisbon, like the world-renowned Dutch youth training, has a youth training team that starts intensive training from the minimum age of 6-8, and the age of 10-12 is a very important interval for these children .

In Portugal, 10-15 years old is equivalent to the junior high school stage in China. The amount of cultural knowledge learning increases rapidly, and 10 years old is also the age threshold for young players to participate in 5-a-side or 7-a-side games. Naturally, the amount of training is also greatly increased, which is reasonable. Excellent educational resources give those children who have not shown their talents the opportunity to choose, and they can give up football and study hard.

Football geniuses and talent candidates who have enough talent will basically sign a youth training agreement with the club during this time period. You will be able to get your first professional contract in your life.

The young players of the U9 echelon in the Alcochet base are all talented children gathered from all over the world. If their physical fitness and basic skills are only evaluated like ordinary training camps and clubs, it can be said that Almost everyone can pass.

Sporting Lisbon will not allow that kind of careless selection mechanism to exist in its own youth training system. The annual exam is a very severe test for the little guys. In addition to the evaluation and assessment of various football indicators, the analysis and evaluation of the coaching staff , there is a strong performance against the competition, and even the results of the culture class are included in the scoring system of the big exam.

It may be difficult to understand the impact of the results of the culture class on the overall evaluation, but one only needs to think about the normal development path of European players to understand. Indeed, most ordinary players can only stay in their home leagues, but once transferred Going to other countries, players from different countries, and complicated languages ​​will make language barriers an important obstacle for players to integrate into the team.

Even for some outstanding players, after transferring to a non-native language league, they often experience a downturn. Imagine that it is difficult to communicate with teammates or referees on the court, and it is difficult to communicate with the coach off the court. Personal life and dealing with the media, such pressure will have a great negative impact on the state and mood of the players.

Although Portuguese and English in Portuguese basic education content can help players to communicate in the English-speaking area and South American area, it is also very necessary for professional players who need to break through in European and even global leagues to enhance their learning ability .If all these problems are handed over to the club and the translator, it will be difficult to integrate into the large group of the team, and in serious cases, it will even become a failed transfer in the career. Such examples abound.

Lavin Garcia is only in a marginal position in Paul Mensa's team. Although he graduated from the Lisbon Sports Academy, the key position under Mensa's men is not his.

Garcia's job at hand is to supervise this group of children in the U9 echelon, find out those who are talented, and submit a complete and detailed data report to the coaching staff of the youth training team in this year's big exam. The physical trainer and nutritionist share the tasks to help them pay attention to the status of the little ones. The workload is very heavy, and Garcia is often very busy.

The time is approaching August, and people are still discussing the results of the World Cup qualifiers, but the new season of the Portuguese League is about to start, and there is a lot of preparation work piled on the head of the club.

At this time, the Mensa team needs to focus more on the U19 team. They not only need to represent Lisbon in the youth league, but also be ready to send players to the first team and reserve team.

Paul Mensah had already clarified the focus of the team's work in the previous meeting, and he also greeted Garcia early, telling him that several other assistant coaches need to take on more tasks and have no time to help him manage the younger players cultivation.

Garcia also understands that Mensa's team came with him, and he was the only one who applied for the assistant coach position of Sporting Lisbon's youth team alone.Garcia has already identified a few outstanding little guys in the U9 age group, and the rest is the test and evaluation data explained by Mensa.

He stood on the platform on the second floor and watched the children eating lunch. He was about to go back to the office to sort out the previous materials, and when he looked up, he saw a familiar scene in the restaurant.

The Chinese-Portuguese man, named Jan Rodriguez, was once again surrounded by Davral's group.

Another bad conflict, Garcia thought, this group of children really don’t worry about themselves, they should make less trouble and practice their basic skills more, and they will get better grades in the big test. Parents, coaching staff and The faces of the club are good.

He was about to go up and reprimand Yitong to separate the children as before, but he suddenly recalled what the old fritter Barry of the coaching staff had mentioned to him.

The director of Sporting Lisbon and a famous entrepreneur in Lisbon, Mr. Luigi, loves his only son Davlar very much. The ten-year-old boy has a special driver to pick him up when he comes to the training base, and a physiotherapist is hired to take care of him. His physical strength has recovered. It is no exaggeration to say that he held it in his mouth for fear of melting, and put it on his head for fear of falling.

Barry told himself very seriously that when managing this group of children, he must be very careful not to provoke that Davral.Although it's not a vengeance, but as long as he sues his director father, it will be difficult for you to stay in the club.

Garcia cherishes his job very much. Although he is often ridiculed by outsiders as Sporting Lisbon's kindergarten teacher and diaper assistant, he still handles the tasks assigned to him by Mensa.

Garcia's family is not rich, and even when he was studying at the Sports Academy, he had to rely on odd jobs to meet his living expenses.After graduation, he found that it was too impractical for him who just graduated in his 20s to join a good coaching team.

Garcia has traveled to many places, and also tried to work as an assistant coach in some community clubs. The promotion mechanism that relies entirely on popularity and background, as well as the harsh working environment, almost made him lose confidence in continuing to work in the sports industry.The tactics in community clubs are relatively simple and primitive. In many cases, the coach needs to actively seek the wishes of the players, or even worse.

Once, when Garcia was discussing tactics with the head coach in the locker room, he was stunned by the team boss, a fat forward, and foul language was inevitable. Later, the players felt that the new college coach was a bit weak It's deceitful, and it intensified, messing up his work plan.

After coming to the Athletic team for a while, Garcia gradually realized one thing. He has too little qualifications and experience, and he is recruited by the club. It is almost impossible to enter the core team of Mensa. .

But he also knows that as long as he can work in the youth training base of Sporting Lisbon, he can learn things that are not accessible outside.The longer the rich club with a long history, the more important it is to maintain the inheritance of the youth training system. On the one hand, the team style must be firmly imprinted in the hearts of young players who are growing, and on the other hand, it is easier to obtain the support of the local fan base.

Paul Mensah's team is very professional in this area, and he himself has a UEFA A-level coaching qualification certificate. It can be said that there is no problem in coaching any team in the current Portuguese League.

People who don't know Sporting Lisbon may be surprised that an A-level coach is not the head coach nor the head coach's assistant. Instead, he is the director of the youth training base, leading U19s, and working as a B-level coach. !
Hearing such an ignorant statement, Garcia laughed it off. Anyone who knows that the respectable old man is the coach of Sporting Lisbon will keep their guessing mouths tightly shut. After all, that is England's famous coach - Bobby Rob sir sen!

Being able to become Robson's nominal subordinate also made Garcia excited for a long time. Once the neighbor uncle Dom asked who the current coach of Sporting Lisbon was, and he stood at the door and talked for half an hour.

Robson became the coach of the League One team in 69, and later led Ipswich Town to defeat the Gunners Arsenal to win the FA Cup, and also won the UEFA Cup in 1981, which is second only to the European club championship. cup heavyweight trophy. In 82, he became the coach of the England national team, won the semi-finals of the World Cup, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.If it weren't for Eindhoven's dissatisfaction, maybe the old man would not have come to Lisbon...

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A loud noise made Garcia wake up from his fugue. He shook his head, only to remember Yang being pushed and shoved in the crowd.

Firstly, I don’t want to offend Davlar, and secondly, I can’t watch the U9 team I’m leading in a mess. Garcia feels his head is getting bigger. He just thought about other things for a long time and didn’t hear what they were arguing about. This makes things more difficult to solve.

Anyway, I am also a coach, so I can't ignore the team's problems. Besides, Yang is also a talented kid, and it's not a problem to watch him being bullied.As Garcia thought to himself, he pricked up his ears, intending to hear what they were talking about.

"Rodriguez, it turns out that your father is the cleaner of the stadium, so what are you waiting for in Alcochete? Follow your father to sweep the floor, poor man! If you are lucky, you may be there when I play Be recognized by me, and you will have a long face by then!" Speaking of this, Davlar looked at the fans around him proudly, shrugged his shoulders, "After all, it is an honor for you to have a star know you , Chinese bastard!"

　Happy New Year everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)