The Young Lion

On the second day of the vacation, Aldridge gave Adam a task, asking the club CEO to go to the Netherlands with his assistants to hire Ricardo Moniz, who was an assistant coach in the Dutch team.

He asked Andrew to look for Mullensteen in his company's football information database. The staff in Andrew's company will update the information database every three months. They have entered the players and coaches of professional leagues in Europe into the information database. , This kind of information collection took them two years, and the last two years have been a little easier, as long as they are updated regularly, this will help Aldrich discover talents, and it will also allow Andrew’s agency to obtain first-hand information. In the future Signing players provides convenience.

But to Aldrich's disappointment, although there are some people with the same name as Mullenstein, they are not him.

Aldridge thought all night but couldn't figure out where this man went.

In the morning, he accepted an exclusive interview with the BBC. The original topic of the interview was about Millwall winning the English League Cup, but Aldridge repeatedly digressed. He admired a coach named Meulensteen very much. When the host asked who this person was, Aldrich only said that he was from the Netherlands. He admired him very much and hoped to have football academic exchanges with him. It would be an honor for him to cooperate.

Millwall is in the limelight, and Aldridge wants to use this prestige to make news.

The English media have hardly heard of Meulensteen. After all, the sense of superiority in their bones makes them self-centered and they don't care about things outside of England at all, but the news will spread quickly.

In the football circle, European football is the center of world football, and the mainstream league is the heartland. The news produced here will be the focus of the industry, the spread speed is extremely fast, and the influence is not bad. The legendary script performed by Wall has made the media write a lot, and it will naturally become the focus.

Aldridge used this method very stupidly, and he felt like he was waiting on the sidelines, but he had no choice but to do so. At the same time, he also asked Adam to inquire about Meulensteen in the Netherlands, hoping that there would be good news.

After accepting the interview, Aldridge held a meeting of the entire coaching staff, from the first team to the youth training coaches all attended, and the meeting lasted until the evening.

The next day, the players began to return to the team. After they returned to the training ground, their minds were relaxed, and they were all alive and well.

After the New Year, the club hired a professional fitness coach. The fitness coach will lead the players to do stretching warm-up exercises before training to ensure that every muscle of the players is active.

And this fitness trainer is a female, in her early thirties, with a slender figure, her name is Fiona, her husband's family has noble blood, her grandfather was once made a baron by the Queen of England, and her father has a knight title.

But this is nothing, there are not many descendants of British nobles, and unsatisfactory messes can be seen everywhere. Even the sons of princes and princes in many European countries can only be happy and carefree playboys. The descendants of low-ranking nobles have long since disappeared. Noble aura.

When Fiona leads the players to warm up, Aldridge and the coaching staff will also follow suit. The movements are not fast, but they are a little difficult. There are always some movements that need to stretch the body to the limit, which is really a test Musculoskeletal ligaments.

After the warm-up was over, Aldridge jogged a few laps with the players.

Then get ready to start training today.

Unlike usual, Aldridge called the players outside the penalty area, asked Keller to keep the goal, and then called Makelele and Southgate out.

Let the two put up a defensive position one behind the other inside and outside the big penalty area, then he put the ball three meters in front of Makelele, turned his head and said to the confused players: Come over and show me What about your technique? The requirement is simple, kick the ball into the goal, whichever way you use it.

The players looked at each other in blank dismay. Makelele in front of the ball had already blocked the shot angle, and Southgate was also a layer of defense. Does it depend on personal ability?

Pires, who was eager to try, came out first. He stood in front of the ball, and after touching the ball with his toes, he deliberately gave Makelele the space to grab it. Taking a step forward, Makelele half-turned and got stuck, then kicked the ball back to Southgate.

Pires refused to admit defeat, and started again. This time, he stepped faster, pretended to break through to the left, pulled the ball and then turned around and broke through from the right.

Makelele, who lowered his center of gravity, was not deceived by him, but kicked the ball out of the sideline directly.

Pires continued to try, until the fifth time, he passed Makelele by feinting and passing the ball, but after turning around, Makelele followed him to chase the ball. After that, the threat was steadily resolved.

After trying seven or eight times, Pires shook his head helplessly and sighed: Boss, if there is only Claude alone, I still have a chance, but there is still the captain behind me, so it's not easy. I don't think many people can. Breaking through the two of them in a row, and starting on the spot.

Aldridge smiled and patted him on the shoulder, then looked towards the other players, only to see Pirlo walking out, Aldridge was a little surprised.

In front of the ball, Pirlo dialed the ball horizontally on the spot, and then took a long shot.

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The ball bounced off the crossbar and into the goal.

Keller's vision was blocked, and when he saw the ball, it was too late to make a save.

Makelele put his hands on his hips and said with a wry smile, Is this rascal?

He was three meters away from the ball, and Pirlo dialed the ball on the spot to open the shot. He unexpectedly shot a long shot and scored, which really made Makelele dumbfounded.

In fact, he just preconceived that Pirlo would be extraordinary, but Aldridge did not say that he must be extraordinary, what he said was to hit the ball into the goal.

After Pirlo scored the goal, he walked back to his teammates, and Makelele shouted: Hey, do it again.

Pirlo turned back and shook his head and said: Don't try, I can't pass you by starting on the spot, and you won't give me the angle of the shot anymore.

Aldridge applauded, and then continued to let other players try.

Larson walked up with a smile. Makelele was facing a formidable enemy. Larson's explosive power and starting speed were among the best in the team, and he would not take it lightly.

But when Larson didn't use the super fast starting speed to dribble the ball, Makelele widened his eyes and shouted: Fuck! Another shameless!

Larson dribbled the ball laterally, started slowly, and then became faster and faster, Makelele also chased laterally, and when Larson made a sudden stop and turned to bring the ball back to the middle, he used his speed to eat Makelele raw Lai, there is not necessarily a gap between the two in terms of speed, but Larson's change of direction was extremely fast, and during the game, Makelele assisted in the defense and was also flanked by full backs. Pay attention to being swayed, and Southgate can't keep up with Larson because of his speed. After all, there is too much lateral space, and Larson can run with the ball casually.

Ditching Southgate during the sprint, Larsson pushed the ball into the near corner of the goal with a kick in the penalty area.

Pires slapped his forehead and exclaimed, Why didn't I think of that?

Aldridge watched from the sidelines. Although Larson was very smart to play this way and used the space, but from a technical point of view, he only relied on his speed. In the game, it was impossible to give him the opportunity to dribble the ball to the side and then change direction. Run back and break through.

After trying a few more times, Makelele and Southgate communicated and cooperated more tacitly. This is also different from the game. During the game, other teammates squeezed space. Now there are only two people. There were some loopholes in the defense at the beginning. But with more attempts, they will effectively complement each other.

By the fourth, Larson was starting to fail.

By the seventh attempt, Larson, who had sprinted several times, no longer had the speed advantage, and he could no longer pose a threat to the goal.

Of course, the defensive cooperation between Makelele and Southgate in tandem is the key to freezing him.

Trezeguet came up to try. He used his body to protect the ball more, pushing forward like a small tank. Several kick shots after Makelele was squeezed by his side were all due to the angle or being blocked. I can't bear to look directly because of the harassment.

Shevchenko, Solskjaer, Phillips, Nedved and others all came up to try, and the defensive duo was replaced by Gattuso and Stam.

The players are very interested in today's training, and there is a sense of fun in it.

Aldridge stood together with other coaches, and said indifferently: See? Our players are not particularly outstanding in local one-on-one abilities. They either rely on speed or body, and use ball control techniques to deceive opponents. For the offensive benefit, Pires and Schneider did the best, but they are still not particularly good.

Several coaches including Jensen, Bob, Craig, and Tolop frowned.

According to their previous experience in training players in the Netherlands, whether it is one-on-one or three-on-three, the method is very simple. Give the ball to the players, and the players themselves will learn to surpass others, or in other words, have the ability to surpass others Most players will show such skills, and players without such skills will not try to avoid being judged by the coach to see their mistakes and plummet.

In the tactical training system, personal skills will not be overemphasized.

But that doesn't mean they don't practice skills.

Stopping the ball, dribbling, short passing, long passing, shooting and so on are all part of the technique, proficiency in these will enhance the players' sense of the ball.

But the technique at the feet not only depends on the ball feel, but also requires inspiration and experience.

In the traditional training system, the discovery of players' extraordinary abilities comes more from the players' own exploration, which is like a journey of discovery for explorers.

The players suddenly had a sense of the celestial sphere and inspiration came. Epiphany learned to ride a bicycle to surpass others. It was like discovering a new star in the universe, and then gradually became familiar with it and integrated it into their own knowledge.

What Aldridge needs to change is to directly tell the players which stars are in the universe, and then let them understand and learn through teaching, and finally master them.

Football skills are ever-changing, and in different positions on the field, facing different defensive positions and numbers, there are different strategies. This can be trained to strengthen the players' personal abilities.

Jansen worried: If the players start to show off their feet, it will destroy the team tactics.

Aldrich said seriously: It depends on talent. Let's put it this way, if Larson's skill talent is 85, which is a full value of 100, then Ballack's skill talent may only be 70, but now the actual ability is less than 100. Ersen may only be 55, and Ballack may only be 40. Turning their potential into ability, there will not be 11 players with a skill value of 100. Enhancing the individual skills of the players will not affect team tactics. The execution of tactics depends on the team Consciousness, they have a sense of teamwork, and serve the team with better personal abilities, the two complement each other.

The coaches looked at each other in blank dismay. No one knew whether this kind of training was right or wrong until there were no actual results. If it turned out to be wrong, it would not only affect the growth of the team, but even more seriously cause the collapse of this hard-fought team. .