The Young Lion

Adam gave Aldridge feedback on the news from the Netherlands on Wednesday night, telling him that the contact with Ricardo Moniz was smooth, but before talking about the basic treatment, the other party needed to have an in-depth discussion with Aldridge.

In this era, the club CEO personally dispatched to hire a training coach who is not the head coach, which is enough to show sincerity.

But for Ricardo-Moniz, the CM training he advocated has little room for survival in the Netherlands. The tactical flow seems to be kingly orthodox, and the technical flow is a bit evil. It is not tolerated by the mainstream, but also by the power. Suppressed, Moniz does not know whether he can implement his training policy when he goes to Millwall.

Aldridge was happy to call the other party. After exchanging names on the phone, Aldridge first apologized in a very humble gesture, saying that he could not fly to the Netherlands to meet him in person because he was preparing for the weekend league match. Discussed about work.

Even though the founder of CM training Gufren said wildly: geniuses can be trained.

But this is just a propaganda slogan. If you really think that CM training has the magic power to turn decay into magic, then the genius in this world is too worthless.

Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is an important factor. Talented young players will get quick results after training, while mediocre talented players, even if they have developed a certain technical ability through CM training, may not be able to meet the cruel standards of competitive football.

Aldridge explained his coaching philosophy to the opponent, and also introduced the situation of the team to the opponent.

In fact, when Adam flew to the Netherlands to meet Moniz, he had already brought a videotape of the club's player training and game highlights.

Moniz is very excited deep down, because the talents of Millwall players are beyond doubt. More importantly, this group of players is very young and extremely malleable, and most of them have not yet reached the age of technical finalization.

It is impossible for Aldridge to allow players to train only on skills every week. He will only add technical training to different players during training. The time is not much, twice a week, each time for two to three hours.

This is enough, because technical guidance is often one-on-one or one-on-two, one-on-three, and it is impossible for one coach to teach all players. After all, according to the characteristics of the players and the position on the field, the priority of the technical training is different. , For example, Trezeguet, his technical training is for shooting and shooting is the first priority, but if it is training Pirlo, shooting will definitely not be the primary goal.

Moniz and Aldridge talked on the phone for nearly two hours. During the conversation, the two argued and expressed their views on each other, but they were all about football, not digressions like salary.

Moniz handed in his resignation the next day and packed his bags for London in mid-March.

Aldridge got another piece of good news before the league started on the weekend. His news in London did not directly attract Meulensteen's attention, but in the Netherlands, someone in Meulensteen's circle of friends noticed, So he contacted the Millwall club and told Aldridge that Mullenstin is not in Europe now.

He is coaching in Qatar, leading the Qatar U18 echelon.

Aldridge made a phone call to the other side of the world, found Mullensteen, and had another long conversation.

In order to show Aldridge's sincerity, Aldridge directly gave Meulenstin an administrative position within the team, youth training technical director and coach.

The salary is also the same as that of the assistant coach Jensen, and a house is provided in the community.

He can live there as long as he likes, and unless he moves away from it, the house is his, even if he leaves Millwall for another job.

With such a great deal of money, Aldridge is also for the coaches that the team needs not only to teach the players, but also to teach other coaches scientific technical training methods.

After winning the League Cup, Aldridge's team was in good shape in March, playing an unbeaten record and only drawing one game.

In the standings, Millwall and Manchester United rushed forward together, shortening the point gap with Newcastle United bit by bit. Kevin Keegan's team became stumbling after the start of the second half of the league. , the wind direction of the media has also changed, thinking that Kevin Keegan and his team's ability to resist pressure is too fragile, and the leading advantage has changed from 10 points in the first half to 5 points by the end of the league at the end of March. Points, this is the difference between the two games.

The arrival of Moniz and Meulenstin has enriched Millwall's training. Both of them are senior researchers of the CM training system, and they can not only play the technical videos they sorted out to the players in the conference room , and with tactical diagrams to explain, and at the same time, the two can also give teaching demonstrations to the players on the training ground, which makes many talented players in the team very excited. guide.

The technical link is not only offensive, but also defensive. Aldridge used to focus on higher-level team defense, because defense has never been one-on-one, but relies on tacit understanding and team awareness. The core of Italy's world-famous chain defense is also the team. Tactical cooperation, while the offensive talents of the players are guided and improved, the pressure on the defensive players will naturally be greater during training, and it can also improve the defensive players at the same time.

This virtuous cycle made Aldridge very gratified. What is even more commendable is that within a week after Moniz and Meulenstin came to the team, they immediately began to shape the playing habits of young players.

Just like Ronaldinho, Meulensteen is very optimistic about him, but the weakness of Ronaldinho at this age is also obvious. He is used to using his right foot. Meulensteen began to train him to balance his feet, not to let him The ability of the left foot is the same as that of the right foot, but it is to make him more comprehensive and able to shoot left and right, which will make Ronaldinho's technical characteristics more unpredictable.

And Joe Cole's right foot is his preferred foot, but he has good ball control skills with his left foot. The coach's guidance to him is to let him sharpen his ball sense skills and teach him the most practical way of dribbling and dribbling.

Such corrections or pointers have benefited the players a lot after trying for a period of time, and they have an intuitive feeling.

Especially when Meulensteen began to guide Van Nistelrooy, Van Nistelrooy entered the country like flying. He used to just rely on his sense of smell to find opportunities in the penalty area, but now, Meulensteen taught him to swing out through the simplest movements in the penalty area. The angle of the shot, the movement does not need to be too big, a push and a buckle or a half-turn of the body to protect the space, etc., can make Van Nistelrooy not only grab points in the penalty area, but also increase the threat after stopping the ball.

The players can feel their improvement, feel happy, and focus on training and games. This phenomenon is very good, and Moniz and Meulensteen who came to Millwall are also often excited and sleepless , The two have been engaged in the coaching industry for more than ten years together, but they have never taught so many outstanding players, which makes them full of a sense of accomplishment and expectation. They want to witness the power of these players when they step on the field in the future.

This is the mentality of the coach, he does not necessarily have to be famous. Of course, the sense of accomplishment of winning the trophy is unparalleled, but seeing his players become famous is also a sense of satisfaction that laymen cannot understand.

After entering April, Millwall began to be distracted by the FA Cup. Even though he had the hope of winning the standings, Aldridge remained unmoved. The main players in the cup match, the cup match and the league collided. It depends on the opponent to decide whether to rotate , but the premise must be to ensure that the main force has sufficient rest time.

The road to the League Cup promotion can be described as easy. From the beginning to the end, Millwall did not encounter a particularly strong opponent. This is also related to the fact that traditional tycoons pay little attention to the League Cup.

If the ranking is based on the importance of the English arena, then the league is greater than the FA Cup and the League Cup.

But when it came to the FA Cup, Millwall began to encounter strong enemies in a row.

First beat Blackburn, and then met Newcastle United. The result of the draw was announced before the game with Newcastle United. If Millwall advances smoothly, then the opponent in the semi-finals may encounter another giant: Manchester United.

In early April, Millwall ushered in the East London derby in the second half of the league at home.

East London was once again on the mend, with riot police on guard against riots and the provocative mood of Millwall set to explode.

Aldridge will not defend anything for the Millwall fans. They are more emotional than other fans and like to make trouble, especially physical conflicts are commonplace.

But as he has promised in previous interviews, if there is a major disturbance on the stadium, he will ban rioting fans from setting foot on the Lion's Den.

Redknapp brought West Ham United to the Lion's Den as a guest. They heard provocations and curses all over the court. Feng Shui took turns, and it was time for them to feel hell.

At home, Aldridge doesn't need to be intimidated by the formation, especially when playing on a pitch with high-quality turf.

When the hot East London derby started, Aldridge stood on the sidelines to supervise the battle, and Redknapp also stood on the sidelines, looking a little nervous.

West Ham United played very fiercely and brutally in this game, with frequent fouls and rough moves.

One time, two times, three times, four times, five times, Mr. Assistant Referee, I don't want to count any more, but please understand that this is our home field! Why didn't the opponent have a yellow card? It was in Encourage West Ham to continue interrupting the game with savage fouls?

Aldridge couldn't stand it any longer. He walked up to the fourth official and complained bitterly about the referee's inability to control the game.

The fourth official was a little afraid to face Aldridge, and could only pretend that he hadn't heard anything.

Redknapp also came over and said loudly: Our players did not foul maliciously. Don't try to influence the referee by complaining!

His words were directed at Aldrich.

As soon as the words fell, Aldrich turned his head and yelled at Redknapp with a stern look on his face: Fuck you-damn! If you want to play football, you can play football. If you want to play rugby, no one will accompany you. If your team doesn't want to play football Want to fight, now, let's go to the parking lot, if it doesn't come, it's the shit, the grass-mud horse hammer gang!

Redknapp was stunned, watching Aldridge with a grim face pointing to the player channel, he turned around and walked back to stand in front of the visiting team coach's bench after murmuring.

The Millwall fans in the nearest stand applauded and cheered for Aldridge, and some taunted and insulted Redknapp, calling him a coward and a coward.

Aldridge couldn't stand the opponent's killing tactics anymore.

It's not surprising that there are villains on the field, but if you make up your mind to hurt your opponent from the very beginning of the game, this is beyond the bottom line, not only the bottom line of football, but also the bottom line of morality.

He had just walked back to his place when there was a huge uproar from the stadium.