Fox in the Penalty Area

After the start of the second day's training, every international player felt the changes that coach Dillon said last night.

The training content is completely different from the previous national team.

The ball training section has been greatly increased.

At the same time, the importance of confrontation was also emphasized in the training.

for example:

In the past, when everyone practiced passing and catching, most of them passed to each other, it was as simple as that.

Or add some other requirements slightly, divide into two teams, the players of team A pass the football to the players of team B, and then start running, the players of team B pass the football to the players of team A who run to the position, and the players of team A pass the football to the players of team A. Soccer shot into goal.

The whole process is to run to catch the ball and then shoot. There is no confrontation at all, passing, catching, and shooting are all done by one person.

Now Dillon is asking to join the confrontation.

From the time when the players of team A pass the football to the players of team B, two players of team C must go up to defend the players of team A and team B respectively.

In this way, when the players of team B receive the ball, they will be personally interfered by the players of team C. He must pass the football accurately to the position of the players of Team A despite such interference.

Similarly, Team A players have to catch the ball and then shoot under defensive interference.

Of course, at the beginning, the players of Team C will not be arranged to defend with real knives and guns. They just run next to them and use their bodies to interfere and confront to a certain extent to create a sense of actual combat.

After the players adapt to this training method, gradually increase the size.

The same is true for shooting training. Defensive players are arranged to hold cushions as a buffer and constantly hit the shooting players-in the past, it was only used for targeted special training, but now it has become a daily training method.

In addition, Dillon also reduced the diameter of the "game" of grabbing rings and increased the number of people. Artificially create a dense defensive situation in a limited space, allowing players to practice passing and receiving the ball in a smaller space and more defensive situations.

Turn the lap grab from the previous warm-up game into a real confrontation training.

These changes caused the intensity of training to rise sharply. In order to avoid injuries during training, Dillon's coaching staff also increased the intensity of warm-up.

In addition, this high-intensity training method also puts forward higher requirements on the physical fitness of the players.

So physical training has become a top priority.

Dillon is not alone when he comes to the international team to coach this time. He brought his entire coaching team in the Golden Arrows to the national team - the annual salary of 10 million euros given by the Football Association to Dillon was not for him alone, but included the salary of everyone in Dillon's entire coaching team.

From the assistant coach to the fitness coach to the goalkeeper coach, they are all old guys who have worked with Jorge Dillon for many years.

There is no head of the Chinese coaching staff, and all Chinese coaches are coaches, who are only responsible for daily training and do not participate in team decision-making. To put it bluntly, "tool man".

The work of communicating with the players was handed over to the team leader Hong Renjie. In a sense, Hong Renjie is the head of the team's Chinese coaching staff, but he is not in charge of the team's training work, nor does he decide the details of the team's skills and tactics.

In fact, at the beginning, the Football Association hoped to set up a head of the Chinese coaching staff to take charge of the Chinese coaches like Marcel Wilson did before, and at the same time serve as Dillon's Chinese assistant coach.

On the one hand, their idea is to help Dillon better coach the team, and on the other hand, they also hope that Dillon can bring along Chinese local coaches-after Dong Jianhai, the Football Association also knows that Chinese domestic coaches are indeed similar to European coaches. There is a huge gap between really high-level coaches.

If it is possible to arrange a Chinese coach favored by the Football Association to work beside Dillon and learn from Dillon's advanced experience and skills.

Then after the contract between Dillon and the Football Association expires, the Chinese coach who has grown up may be able to take over.

This is a bit like the way we traded the market for technology in the early days of reform and opening up.

But was rejected by Jorge Dillon.

He said that he refused this proposal not because he wanted to hide his personal interests, because he was afraid that the Chinese coach would learn his skills. He just took over the team,

I don't want to set up another Chinese assistant coach to decentralize power, artificially increase the level, and create communication barriers.

Originally, if he had anything to communicate with the players and the Chinese coach, he could just talk to them directly. If they don't understand, add a translator Yu Jintao.

Now it is equivalent to going through the Chinese assistant coach to relay the report. Not to mention the low efficiency of turning a corner, it is also prone to poor communication and even the disadvantages of internal disagreement.

According to the internal analysis of the Football Association, Dillon may feel that the Chinese assistant coach is here to monitor him, and it is a "supervisor" in a sense. That's why I refused.

However, the Football Association finally agreed to all of Dillon's conditions, which naturally included not having a Chinese assistant coach.

As for how his foreign teacher team cooperates and communicates with the Chinese coach, it is handed over to the translator Yu Jintao and the team leader Hong Renjie.

It can be said that after experiencing the Asian Cup, all the requirements of the Football Association for Jorge Dillon have been met.

They are not blindly "worshiping foreign countries", but the Asian Cup made them realize that Dillon's analysis of the situation to them was correct, and everything about the Asian Cup was right.

It's a pity I didn't listen to it at the beginning...

So although Dillon asked for a higher price, the Football Association agreed.

After all, on the one hand, he has real skills, and on the other hand, he can indeed give his solution based on the current situation of Chinese football.

The latter is what matters. There are many coaches who are capable and capable, but they are not suitable for Chinese football.

Dillon has coached in the Chinese Super League, so he knows Chinese football... No, from his point of view, it can be called "very familiar".

Such a head coach, even if it is expensive, is worth it.

Besides, when Dillon and the Golden Arrow terminated the contract, the Golden Arrow Club did not ask for any liquidated damages, which was equivalent to saving the Football Association a lot of money—the liquidated damages were paid by Dillon in name, but in fact they must be paid by the Football Association. out.

Because of this, the Football Association is able to offer an annual salary of 10 million euros. If there is a liquidated damages, it will definitely not be able to meet the salary requirements put forward by the Dillon team.

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Because the training intensity is too high, the physiotherapy room becomes the most lively and busy place after each training session.

Almost all international players lined up to come to the physiotherapy room for a relaxing massage.

In fact, this year's national team already has three physiotherapists, but they are still too busy.

As a last resort, the national team applied to transfer Master Feng from the track and field team the next day to massage the national football team.

Even so, the non-stop work of the four physiotherapists has just been able to meet the needs of the international players.

This shows how much training the Chinese team has had during this period.

There were even cases where players pressed and pressed and fell asleep directly on the massage table.

When I was woken up, I thought it was dawn and I was going to train...

Muttering in his mouth: "This sleep is really heavy, I really closed my eyes and opened it, one day passed..."

It made the people around him burst into laughter, and only then did they realize that they had made a joke.

Of course not everyone struggles equally in training.

Some fared slightly better, others were miserable.

The players who have already studied abroad in Europe perform the best and are relatively adaptable.

Especially Hu Lai who went out first.

And everyone can also appreciate the gap in their abilities through their performance in training.

Why is Hu Lai able to perform so well in Europe?

Obviously, he has fully adapted to everything in European football, whether it is the intensity of confrontation or the rhythm of the game, reflected in the training of the national team, that is, he is the most relaxed one, and he can do a job with ease.

Some people in the national team have also watched the documentary that Hu Lai just joined Leeds City. In the documentary, Hu Lai just went to Leeds City for the first few days, and he fell asleep while receiving a massage from his agent after training every day.

At the beginning, everyone thought it was exaggerated-no matter how intensive the training of this European team is, how big can it be?

It should be for the shooting effect of the documentary, the performance came, right?

Now they think... well, it really is that big!

Damn, how did Hu Lai's small body survive in the first place!

Then think again:

No wonder they were able to succeed in Europe! No wonder they are Premier League Golden Boots and World Cup Golden Boots! To adapt to the training intensity of the Premier League so quickly is not something ordinary geniuses can do!

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Team leader Hong Renjie and Dillon's head coach Yu Jintao met in the corridor.

The latter greeted him: "Leader Hong is back after checking the room?"

Hong Renjie nodded.

"How?" Yu Jintao asked again.

"They are all asleep, and all the rooms are quiet."

Yu Jintao raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "It's only half past ten... It seems that they are really tired enough. This shows that everyone is not lazy in training."

"Yeah, all tired and paralyzed."

Yu Jintao laughed suddenly: "I think of something... If our training intensity was so high more than 30 years ago, wouldn't the players have the strength to climb over the wall and go out to clubs or something? The negative aspects of Chinese football There can be a lot less news..."

In the past, there were always rumors in Chinese football that players climbed over the wall to go clubbing, drink, and find women during closed training camps. At that time, Chinese football was growing wildly. Chinese players went from a professional system to a professional system. It was just a change of status, but in fact they were not professional at all.

Inadequate training, bad attitude in games, irregular life schedule, chaotic private life, smoking, drinking, fighting and picking up girls, involvement in gangsters and pornography...Probably half of the negative news in the Chinese sports world is contributed by professional football players.

Yu Jintao was not in the football circle before, he was just an ordinary fan, and he heard various negative rumors about Chinese football.

Hong Renjie has always been an insider and knows more about the inside story than Yu Jintao. He smiled wryly and shook his head: "You have a good idea, Old Yu. Let me tell you, if any head coach dared to give the team With this amount of training, within a week he will be forced to leave by the players, don't you believe it?"

Yu Jintao nodded, he really believed this.

At that time, Chinese football, although compared with the later dark ages, the national team's performance was better - those who shouldn't win can't win, but those who should win can win steadily. Unlike those who shouldn't win and can't win later, those who should win can also win by luck-but that's just relying on the foundation laid by professional football in the past few decades, more like a prodigal son who squandered his ancestors' family fortune.

After the squandering, Chinese football collapsed, ushering in a decade-long dark age.

It was not until 2015 that Chinese football made up its mind to carry out a top-down reform. After more than ten years of hard work, it has achieved today's achievements and situation.

"So... now this group of players is indeed quite professional..." Contrasting before and after, it is not what it used to be, which made Yu Jintao express such emotion.

"Well, the performance of the players is impeccable. But I have a question..." Hong Renjie frowned and said, "I always feel that Dillon is a little anxious this time. As soon as the players arrived at the hotel, he called them one by one to talk. , and then immediately after dinner, a tactical meeting will be held... This work is so active that I am surprised. Now the training is also done at this level, and there is no meaning of step-by-step at all. Isn't he afraid of... getting injured?"

Yu Jintao said with a smile: "That's why we have a professional and huge medical team? In addition to the four physiotherapists, there are also the entire team medical team and physical coaches who are closely monitoring the players' physical conditions and adjusting them every day according to their physical conditions. Training plan. And, Team Leader Hong, what do you think most of these players will be doing when they return to their respective Chinese Super League clubs after this week and a half of national team training and competition?"

Hong Renjie froze for a moment, and then understood what Yu Jintao meant.

The training level of most Chinese Super League teams is obviously not comparable to that of the current national team.

As far as he can see, Dillon's national team training is completely at the European level.

And the training of the Super League team... is the Super League level.

Why is Dillon in such a hurry?

Because he knows that he is only the head coach of the national team and cannot manage the Chinese Super League, so once these international players return to their respective clubs, they will return to the club's low-level training.

Not to mention the slow improvement, thank God if you don't regress.

Dillon wants to take advantage of the opportunity for the international players to train and compete in the national team to give them extra lessons...

Thinking of this, Hong Renjie sighed: "Chinese football... has a long way to go!"

Yu Jintao patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be too pessimistic, team leader Hong. Dillon once said to me that the change of a country's football level does not happen overnight, but a long-term effort. Wait until we have more players Europeans study abroad to play football; wait for them to spread the advanced European football concepts to the national team, the Olympic team, and domestic clubs; wait for these advanced football concepts to become a habit; wait for some of them to become coaches...the change is like that It happened little by little. In the end, everything will be fine. Just like this training camp, look at the players who have been trained in Europe for most of the season, don’t they perform much better than domestic players?”

Hong Renjie nodded slowly.

He knew that Yu Jintao was right.

It's just that dripping water wears away rocks... Who knows if he is still the team leader when the Chinese team benefits from this.

He is still selfish, and always hopes to have his own figure in every stage of Chinese football history.

The shadow of a tree, the name of a person.

He, Hong Renjie... is someone who wants to write his name into the history of Chinese football.