The Young Lion

Hi, boss.

Boss, you're getting younger.

Boss, here it is, a specialty from my hometown.

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Every player who walks to the training ground will take the initiative to greet Aldridge with a smile, and the senior players in the team will joke with Aldridge.

Aldridge was also very happy today. He himself was not used to the days when he did not see his players for two months. Seeing them come back full of vigor and vigor, the smile on his face never faded away.

Larson suffered a thigh strain in the last battle of last season and he has healed in two months, but to be on the safe side, his training will be arranged separately and the intensity will not be too high.

Seeing the players stand up on the training ground, Aldridge smiled and said, I'm glad, I still recognize you.

The new players couldn't understand, and the other old players laughed.

Trezeguet smiled wryly, Boss, how long will this joke last?

Everyone still remembered how fat he looked when he came back from vacation two years ago, and he was almost unrecognizable.

In the past two years, young players have grown rapidly and have a better professional attitude. Therefore, even if it is a holiday, there will be no players who overeat and lack exercise and lose their shape.

After laughing, Aldrich said to Fiona, the MILF coach, Coach, let's get started.

The old players followed Fiona step by step, followed Fiona to do warm-up exercises, stretched and stretched their muscles, allowing them to completely stretch out every part of their body and every muscle.

The new players imitated the coach carefully, and Fiona specially took care of the new players, and moved slowly. They will also verbally remind them to try to standardize their movements.

Aldridge and the other coaches followed suit. The most uncomfortable thing here is Benitez. Usually, he runs and jumps with the players. It's okay to do this kind of difficult stretching movement, and his big belly alone makes him unable to bend down.

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The other side separated by the building is the training ground of the youth team.

Unlike the youth team recruiting in the past, many people came, but the talents were average. This year the youth team expanded,

There are many good seedlings, and Najib felt that it was necessary to give a speech.

All echelons at all levels lined up and stood on the training ground. Najib stood in front of them, while Meulenstin, Moniz and other coaches stood in the back row, as if leading a reviewing team.

Looking at the team of nearly 100 people, Najib said calmly: Maybe you only started to hear about Millwall two years ago, or last year, or this year. Your impression of this place comes from media reports. I have to To let you understand the development philosophy of this club, first of all, we attach great importance to youth training. We attach great importance to your training venues, equipment, as well as the number of youth team coaches and the quality of coaches. They are the best in England, and may also be the best in Europe Yes! See the four words engraved on the youth team building behind me?

The players of the youth team looked up in unison, and there were four words engraved on the front wall of the youth team building not far behind Najib.

Team! Will! Diligence! Talent! There is a sign in every dressing room at Millwall with the words: He who plays for himself is playing for the opponent, and he who plays for the team is playing for himself ! This is not the first football concept of Millwall, it is Herrera's famous saying in the era of great internationals, but this is the essence of the team in football! The team is the first, followed by the will. If you don't have a strong will, Then you can't be a good player, work hard, now is not the era when Garrincha can be famous in the green field after fishing and picking up girls! Do you want to be a good player? If you want to, you have to pay more than others Sweat, otherwise, even the best talents will be squandered by yourselves. The last is talent. There are many kinds of talents. Professional football is not a streetball performance. Skills are only one of many qualities, such as game reading ability, team awareness, and reasonable use Body and so on, these are all talents, you are equal, don't feel that you are inferior to your partner just because you can't run as fast as your partner, and don't think that you are better than others just because you have good ball handling skills, everyone is Unique, give full play to your own strengths, turn your advantages into your own talents, show a diligent attitude, refuse to admit defeat, and always put the team first, then you will succeed here!

The players of the youth team all held their heads high with determination on their faces.

Hearing Najib's words made them very encouraged.

Indeed, in the past period of time, these people have met new friends. Even in the game of playing on the court, they clearly realized that some people here are talented, while others seem simple and unpretentious.

This makes them feel pressure in the competition, for fear that they will be underestimated by the coach.

But Najib's words reassured them.

In the concept of Millwall youth training, more attention is paid to the inner cultivation of spiritual quality.

Nagy continued: Millwall is a club that has achieved success in a short period of time. Our manager Aldrich Hall has been recognized in England. He has been awarded the best manager of the Premier League for two consecutive years. Players want to play under him. Look at the current first-team players, your seniors. They were the team with the strongest offensive firepower and the best defense in Europe last season. You may have doubts in your heart: the future, Will Millwall have a place for you? I tell you for sure, there is! But the opportunity needs to be fought for by yourself, and become the next Lampard, Pirlo, Ferdinand, Capdevi from the youth team to the first team La, Gattuso, Glenshire, these players all came to Millwall under the age of 18 and entered the first team after honing their abilities in the youth team. In the future, Millwall will still pin its hopes on you Body! But, you have to prove that you are worthy of the position of the first team, why? Because our worst performance in the past three years was the 96/97 season. In that season, we only won the league runner-up!

Najib's words shocked the teenagers physically and mentally.

Wild Lion, what a fucking madman!

Listening to it makes people's blood boil.

The league runner-up is the worst moment of performance!

Najib played a game of words. In the first year, Millwall was indeed the league champion. It's just a League One league with zero gold content for top teams.

In the new season, our first team will compete in the UEFA Champions League. We will go to European countries to compete with championship-level teams. At the same time, the club will arrange friendly matches with foreign club youth teams. On the itinerary, we will follow the first team. Going abroad, but there are only 16 people on the roster for each trip, but all players over the age of 15 have a chance to be selected. If you want to compete with the youth teams of other European giants, use your performance in training to convince me and let me Take the initiative to write your name in the list. At the same time, the two players with the best performance in the weekly training of all echelons will get tickets for the club's home games. These players can sit in the VIP stands to enjoy the game. If you want to go to the field to watch the game comfortably for free, then use your training results to exchange for the tickets in my hand!

This is the club's way of cultivating young players' sense of belonging and honor. Compared with other clubs' practice of continuously reducing free tickets to players in order to make money, Millwall is doing the opposite. Would rather sell less tickets, but also give free tickets to the players. Especially the young players.

But if there is a situation like Terry in the future who gets free tickets from the club but sells them privately, the club will take punitive measures and cancel the gift of free tickets.

The young players cheered excitedly. Watching the game is a pleasure, but if they can go to various parts of Europe with the team, it will not only be a trip abroad, but also very exciting.

After Najib's lecture, these boys were all motivated to fight, and they were about to start training, eager to rush to the first team immediately.

The formal and systematic training of the youth team officially kicked off. Players of different echelons were scattered on different training grounds, and coaches of all echelons also walked over to preside over the training.

After the warm-up activities for the first team were over, everyone was curious to find that the two coaches, Tolop and Craig, directed the club staff to move two machines, which looked like two cannons, but the barrels were a bit short.

Boss, what's that?

Van Nistelrooy approached Aldrich and asked, Aldrich smiled and pulled him to the center of the field, let Van Nistelrooy stand there, then he waved to Craig, and the other party started the machine with a smile.

Suddenly, the cannon shot out a ball, the speed was not slow, and it was in the direction of Fanny. Fanny was startled and hurriedly dodged.

Hahaha.

The players all understood that this is a serving machine similar to tennis training.

Hey, Rude, I didn't ask you to hide, but to practice stopping the ball!

Fanny realized that it was a false alarm, so he cheered up and said, Hey, this is fun, keep going.

Craig continued to press the button of the machine, and every 15 seconds, a ball would be shot out. Although the machine did not move, due to factors such as wind direction and rotation, the trajectory of the ball would be slightly different. It's kind of bad, but as he gets more focused and gets used to the rhythm, he gets better and better.

Craig's task is very simple, that is to put the balls in behind the machine, and after a bag of more than twenty balls are all shot out, it only takes a few minutes, but it also makes Van Nistelrooy feel a little uncomfortable, and then the task is Easy, go get the ball back.

The other team members saw this new gadget and knew that it could improve their ball sense and stopping skills, so they all wanted to try it.

There are not many machines, so everyone has to take turns to come, and Glenshire wants to try to practice his shooting skills without stopping the ball.

Aldridge thinks this machine is quite useful, at least in terms of efficiency, it saves more time than manpower.

Today's training is mainly relaxed, and the systematic training of physical reserves will officially start tomorrow.

Aldridge planned to let the players run first, so he started the half-court confrontation training in groups, and the extra players went to experience the two ball machines.

Gudjohnsen did not appear on the training ground, he is still recovering, rest is more important.

Klose, Van der Meyde, and Duff, the three players were immediately excited when they heard that there was a half-time match. They all wanted to show themselves to their teammates and coaches.

However, Aldrich did not arrange for the three of them to enter the team, but let the three of them come to stand beside him first, observing the training of his teammates.

The training base has an indoor five-a-side football field and a seven-a-side football field, but there is no outside.

The three rookies stood next to Aldridge, and it was strange to see the teams of their teammates. The offensive first team and the defensive first team, and whether it was a horizontal half or a vertical half, there was only one goal.

Boss, is this a game? There's only one goal, isn't it a half-court game?

Van der Meyde was born in Ajax, and he felt that the training he had received in the past should be the best, but seeing it like this today really surprised him.

Aldrich smiled and said, It's not the basketball rule where two teams alternately attack and hit the basket on one side. Our rules are relatively simple. The offensive team wins by scoring a goal, and the defensive team wins by passing the ball ten times without losing the ball after successfully defending. .”

After the three players understood the rules, they began to watch the rivalry between their teammates. (to be continued..) ()