Coaching career started as a college team coach

"Okay, just hang it there."

"Higher, higher!" Trossard stood below and directed Dendoncker, who was standing on the ladder, to hang the decorations.

Christmas decorations were hung one by one in the lounge of the club's training base. But what seemed a little different from the past was that this time the Christmas decorations had some Chinese elements.

For example, the dexterous Rodri actually cut out the image of Santa Claus with paper cutting.

"Dark-skinned sports student" Alphonso Davies wore Santa Claus's white beard and chased and played with Jota in the training base.

Today is December 24, which is the legendary Christmas Eve.

Wolves will basically set up two training sessions on non-match days, usually one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The day before the match, there will basically be training on the field and some easy training tasks, and basically there will be nothing in the afternoon.

If it is after the match day, it will become three training sessions a day, and the second training session in the afternoon is basically used to review the game and conduct tactical analysis.

In addition to this time, Wolves players can move freely in the club.

This is also the normal operation mode of most football clubs.

Reasonable training time can bring better growth. It does not mean that if a player spends 12 hours on the football field in 24 hours a day, he will definitely improve.

On the contrary, as long as one or two 90-minute training sessions a day are used well, the effect is not worse than 8 hours of crazy training every day.

It turns out that Chinese football does not understand this truth. Before, even a strange way of training physical fitness such as "10,000 meters a day" was created, but it was ineffective and ended in failure.

In the final analysis, it is because I have no understanding of the advanced research results in the field of physical fitness. I just copy and paste from other countries without thinking and changing at all, and lack a set of operating models of my own.

How can I do football well in this way?

Unfortunately, this training method still appears in some not very professional teams until recent years, especially youth training institutions and some not professional training classes.

Wei Le has heard that a few years ago, a football training camp composed of primary school students had killed people.

The coach was brought here to take care of children, and he had never taken care of young players around ten years old before. He had no idea how much intensity the children could bear, so he just kept increasing the amount.

It happened to be during the summer vacation, and the primary school students gathered to prepare for an important game and conduct pre-match training. In July and August in Beijing, the temperature can soar to more than 40 degrees.

Not only did they train twice a day, but they also chose to train at noon when it was the hottest, saying that they wanted to hone their willpower.

After the football part was over, the coach arranged for the students to run laps on the track to improve their physical fitness. This is actually not a problem. It is reasonable to arrange a jog to relax the older players after the training.

But these children are primary school students, how can they be as tough as those who specialize in sports training?

One child ran until his face turned pale and he couldn't stand steadily. He ran to ask the coach that he couldn't run anymore. As a result, the coach didn't notice that the child was wrong, and scolded the child, saying that he should emphasize willpower and let him go back to run.

He thought the child was lazy.

As a result, the child ran back and fell down. Later, he was sent to the hospital in time. The brain damage was already very serious. He was in a vegetative state after being rescued.

The parents were definitely unwilling to give up their child. They insisted on inserting a tube to keep the child alive, but they didn't see any improvement for a long time, so they decided to give up. In the end, he couldn't be saved. The cause of death was heat stroke, which is actually heatstroke.

Overwork, inappropriate training volume, and the coach's lack of experience and knowledge, missed the opportunity to save everything, which led to this accident.

There are actually many accidents on the football field, but many of them can be avoided.

This also shows that there are still very large system loopholes in China's grassroots football training and education. Every time he arranges a training schedule, Wei Le will think of this incident, and every time he thinks of it, he is full of regrets.

Although he doesn't know the family who lost the child, it is a sad thing that football, a sport that originally brought happiness, has brought death and pain.

Fortunately, the Wolves team where Wei Le is located has an excellent team of doctors and physical trainers. They monitor the physical condition of the Wolves players every day to avoid unnecessary injuries to the players due to inappropriate training intensity.

Today is the day before Christmas, so Wei Le directly canceled the afternoon training session on his own, leaving time for the players to set up the club and relax - why fight for life during the holidaysAh.

Professional football itself is a job with unstable working hours. Due to the game arrangement and ratings considerations, many games and training days are scheduled on weekends and holidays, so players will miss many important holidays.

For example, New Year, such as Christmas. For example, the Spring Festival, which is very important to Wei Le.

This is a difficulty that players must face. After all, in some ways, professional sports are also a service industry.

No one wants to miss the holidays. Everyone wants to get together with family and friends in the cold winter and enjoy a cup of hot tea. The next game day is December 26, the day after Christmas.

This is an away game, so the Wolves need to rush to West Bromwich in West Midlands, where West Bromwich is located, the night before. They will definitely miss Christmas night.

The players are actually not very comfortable. But after so many years, they have gotten used to it.

However, Wei Le thinks that the holidays should be celebrated. Therefore, the Wolves celebrated the holiday in advance at the club in the afternoon of the 24th, took a holiday on the morning of the 25th, and gathered again in the afternoon.

This also received a lot of responses.

While the players were decorating the room, what was Wei Le doing? The answer is: busy in the kitchen!

"What do you want to eat?" Wei Le asked.

"Chinese food!!" Everyone responded in unison.

"Of course I know it's Chinese food, but the Chinese food you usually eat is different from the real Chinese food." Wei Le said, "Don't think that Panda Express and the like are also Chinese food - that's not it!"

"Also, General Tso's Chicken doesn't exist in China at all. I can't make it if you want to eat it!" After Wei Le finished speaking, he saw someone close his mouth in dismay.

"Mapo tofu! Crispy shrimp! Sweet and sour fish!"

"I just knew it was these!" Wei Le rolled his eyes, "Don't say it, I won't cook these dishes that betray my teacher and ancestors even if you say it."

Wei Le said while tying an apron, "I want to make real Chinese food and show you the world."

"Real Chinese food!" Everyone's eyes lit up.

Although it is the 21st century, many Europeans and Americans still have the impression of China in the last century. Apart from Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, their impression of China is just a few Chinese dishes.

Under the instigation of some deliberate propaganda, Europeans and Americans actually have very contradictory impressions of China, which is essentially a lack of understanding of China.

The most explosive situation Wei Le has seen is two old men wearing colorful shrouds and bowler hats sitting in a Chinese restaurant, ordering two squirrel mandarin fish, and not ordering staple food, just eating face to face.

They don't know that shrouds are for the dead, and they think they are traditional Chinese clothes; they don't know that there is a big difference between Chinese and Western food, that is, the main course of Chinese food is eaten by everyone together, not placed in front of one person to eat alone.

Wei Le was stunned, but he couldn't say anything because they were happy.

He felt that although the Wolves players' impression of China was not so exaggerated, it should be similar. Although I don't know who told the Wolves players that he can cook, since they want to eat, then the head coach will cook and see.

After coming to Europe, he focused on football, and the house he rented didn't have a range hood, so he really didn't cook for himself for a long time. I've been in a bad mood recently, and it's really good to divert my attention.