Fox in the Penalty Area

Lin Xueyi stood in front of the desk of the deputy editor Sun Yonggang, waiting anxiously for the deputy editor to read his proposal for topic selection.

In fact, the planning book is not long, but just an idea. He summarized his ideas into words, handed them to the leaders, and then waited for the leaders' instructions.

It is common to submit proposals for topic selection, but not every topic will be approved in the end.

The layout of the website is not unlimited, and the place that attracts the most attention is only that big. Everyone fights for this place, and if they don't show some real skills, or don't have some brain holes that others can't think of, it won't work. of.

Lin Xueyi felt that his topic selection was very interesting, but it is hard to say whether the leaders think so.

So he came here specifically to find Sun Yonggang.

Because Sun Yonggang has been in charge of campus football, from reporter to deputy editor-in-chief, and is still in charge of campus football.

And the topic he chose was just right for him.

After the Chinese team won the right to qualify for the World Cup again, everyone is riding on this enthusiasm. If you start from campus football, you will look different and more fresh and refined than those "coquettish sluts" outside.

He tried to find the reason why Chinese football can reach the World Cup finals for two consecutive times through the visit of campus football.

The names are all called "Campus Football: The World Cup Code of Chinese Football".

This is a gold-plated thing for campus football. I believe that Deputy Editor-in-Chief Sun, who reported on campus football, will like it!

Sure enough, after reading his proposal for topic selection, Sun Yonggang let go of the mouse, turned his gaze to Lin Xueyi, and said:

"Interviewing Li Ziqiang should not be a big problem. Dongchuan Middle School is a school that is very willing to promote itself. But... interviewing Hu Lixin..."

Having said that, Sun Yonggang frowned.

"He is a very low-key person. For so many years, many media have tried to interview him. Up to now, only the central media have succeeded... How do you persuade him to accept the interview?"

When Lin Xueyi saw that Deputy Editor-in-Chief Sun asked directly about the specific operation, he knew that in his heart, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Sun had already approved his topic selection. Now it's like defending a graduation thesis. He must answer the questions raised by his tutor before he can graduate.

So he cheered up and replied: "Boss, don't you have a WeChat account? I want to ask you to do me a favor..."

Sun Yonggang guessed what he was thinking, but shook his head: "You want to persuade Hu Lixin through nonsense? It's useless, the relationship between their father and son is very ordinary."

"No, it's not..." Lin Xueyi quickly explained, "I want to convey the interview request to Hu Lai's mother through Hu Lai, and then let his mother persuade Hu Lixin."

Sun Yonggang stared straight at Lin Xueyi and remained silent for a long time.

Lin Xueyi, who was watching, felt hairy: "Uh, boss, do you think it's feasible?"

"I think?" Sun Yonggang pointed at Lin Xueyi and said, "I think your mother is really a genius!"

For a moment, Lin Xueyi couldn't tell whether Deputy Editor-in-Chief Sun was praising him or scolding him, so he could only stand there and grin foolishly.

Sun Yonggang picked up the phone: "Okay,

Let me contact Hu Lai for you, and let him pass it on. "

Lin Xueyi's eyes widened - he knew that this meant that the leader agreed to his choice of topic!

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"Dad, people from "Goal" want to interview you... Oh, it's not an interview, but a micro-documentary for you."

At the dinner table, Hu Lai put his mobile phone aside, and then looked at Hu Lixin who was sitting next to him.

Before Hu Lixin said anything, Xie Lan asked first, "Fake documentary? Fake documentary?"

"It's not fake, it's 'Wei', a tiny Wei, just a short documentary." Hu Lai explained, and then continued to look at Hu Lixin. "If you don't want to be interviewed, I'll help you..."

He wanted to say, "I'll help you say no," because he knew his dad didn't like being in front of the media.

Perhaps it was because of Wang Xianke's incident back then that he always felt a little inferior in his heart, and he was unwilling to accept the scrutiny of others in front of the public.

But what Hu Lai didn't expect was that Hu Lixin nodded and agreed: "Yes."

Hu Lai was stunned for a moment: "Can... refuse, or interview?"

"Interviews are available." Hu Lixin replied clearly.

"what?"

This time Hu Lai and Xie Lan looked at Hu Lixin in surprise at the same time, the sun came out from the west?

Hu Lai confirmed to his father: "Then I'm going back home, and I can't change it this time."

"Go back." Hu Lixin replied firmly.

Xie Lan was still very surprised: "Old Hu, what do you think? Aren't you unwilling to be interviewed?"

Hu Lixin shook his head and said, "Because I found that there are some things that not only need to be able to do, but also need to be able to say."

Seeing his father's resolute attitude, Hu Lai simply replied to Sun Yonggang on WeChat: "Okay, my father said that he can accept the interview."

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Three photographers are working with the machine, each of them has a different division of labor, one is responsible for the panoramic view of the training ground, one is responsible for the medium and close-up shots, and the remaining one is more flexible and can move at any time.

A stadium with a standard 400-meter runway is divided into four areas with the same area, and four teams are training at the same time.

In the shot of the fourth photographer, Hu Lixin is introducing Lin Xueyi: "...the four teams in our third and fourth grades are training now. We are divided into AB teams in each grade..."

Lin Xueyi asked: "Team A is the stronger first team, is Team B the reserve team?"

Hu Lixin shook his head: "No, it's just because there are too many people, and training together will affect the effect, so they are divided into two teams AB. The two teams use the same training method and philosophy to train, and they will not deliberately compete because of the strength of the players. Detachment."

Lin Xueyi was a little surprised.

He knew that AB teams were very common in campus football, and one of the reasons must be because of the large number of people.

With the continued popularity of football in China, more and more parents are willing to let their children play football, so more and more children sign up for football teams in schools.

If there are too many people, it is normal to divide into two teams or even multiple teams.

But when dividing, almost all the schools he knew were divided according to strength. The strongest team will form one team, and the rest will form one team, or two teams.

This is especially common in high school, because there are national competitions in high school, which attract much attention, and everyone wants to pursue results, which is understandable.

Many elementary schools are also divided in this way, but the naming method is different. First team, second team, third team, or elite team, reserve team...etc.

Because elementary schools also have competitions, each district, city, and province organizes various competitions. It's just that there is no national competition.

Since they want to participate in the competition, they will naturally be divided according to the strength of the teams, and let the strong teams represent their schools in the competition, win the victory and take home the trophy, shining on the lintel.

This is also a matter of course, so Lin Xueyi has never felt that there is anything wrong with it.

It wasn't until he came to interview Hu Lixin's Nancheng Primary School in Dongchuan City that he discovered that Hu Lai's father didn't even divide his team into teams in the traditional way!

He asked in surprise: "Why? Don't you guys play games?"

"We have to play. We have a game the day after tomorrow, and you can watch it then."

"Then why..." Lin Xueyi didn't want to understand.

Hu Lixin asked him: "Mr. Lin, you watched our training for a long time just now, how did you feel?"

Lin Xueyi thought for a while and said: "I found that Hu coached you to train like there is no high ball...the football is always rolling around on the ground."

In fact, Lin Xueyi didn't care about this question at first, but the training session was almost over, and he never got up for football, which made him care a little bit. Even like obsessive-compulsive disorder, I will pay more and more attention.

But what does that feel like?

This is a pick, right?

Unexpectedly, after hearing Lin Xueyi's words, Hu Lixin nodded in satisfaction: "Mr. Lin observed very carefully, but we actually asked for this on purpose."

"On purpose?" Lin Xueyi's eyes widened.

"Yes. In Nancheng Primary School, whether it is the first grade team or the sixth grade team, golf is not allowed."

"You are not allowed...to play golf?" Lin Xueyi found it inconceivable.

"Yes, you are not allowed to kick the high ball. Whether it is a goalkeeper kick or a goal kick, you are not allowed to kick high. It is also not allowed to directly pass the long pass from the backcourt to the back. Low flat ball or ground ball." Hu Lixin further explained.

"When we play in the team, we will stipulate that whether the goalkeeper serves the goal kick or kicks the ball out of his hands, if the ball is not touched by others before halftime, then this kick-off is considered a foul, and then the goalkeeper The opposing player takes a free kick from the center line."

"This..." Lin Xueyi no longer knew what to say.

He wondered if this would be too extreme paranoia?

But this is Hu Lai's father, it's hard for him to say these words.

Hu Lixin seemed to have seen the other party's thoughts, so he continued: "I didn't make this rule, but my son told me."

"mess?"

"Yeah. He didn't know until he went to play football in Europe. Once he visited a local youth training game, and when he came back, he told me that there was a strange rule. This strange rule is the one I just mentioned."

Hu Lai told his father about this incident as a "Western view", but Hu Lixin was shocked when he heard it.

When he first started working as a grassroots youth training coach, he was only following the traditional football training syllabus to teach young players.

However, he compared the current youth training with the youth training he had received before, and found that after 30 to 40 years, there have been many improvements in technical means, but many of the ideas and ideas of the youth training are still the same as before. difference.

We have better hardware, but our grassroots coaches are still making children practice basic skills day after day...

"Isn't it good to practice basic skills?" Hearing this, Lin Xueyi couldn't help interrupting and asked.

"Practicing basic skills is good. But only practicing basic skills and blaming all problems on poor basic skills...is not good." Hu Lixin said. "Our media, fans, and even professionals always say that Chinese players are not skilled enough, so they frequently concede the ball and make mistakes in the game, so they need to practice basic skills and practice hard. But I think this is wrong. "

"Wrong..." It was the first time Lin Xueyi heard that a football coach denied the idea of ​​practicing basic skills hard, which is almost "politically correct" in Chinese football.

He didn't even know how to answer the conversation.

Fortunately, today's Hu Lixin didn't need him to answer, but continued:

"When I received football training when I was young, I spent a lot of time on boring basic skills training. At that time, the coach also told us that we should learn football step by step, first practice the basic skills well, and then practice other things. Practice well. , and then practice tactics, first practice this simple tactical routine, and then practice a little more complicated tactical routine...just like this step by step, you can finally reach the level of playing in the game."

Hu Lixin continued.

"At that time, the whole of China practiced like this, and no one thought there was anything wrong with it. How could it be wrong? The basic skills are not solid, it's like wanting to fly before learning to walk, how is it possible, right? "

Lin Xueyi nodded reflexively.

"When it's time for the game, if there is a mistake in passing or catching the ball on the court, the coach will criticize that the basic skills are not well practiced and not solid enough. If you don’t die, practice to your death. Even if you get injured, you can’t stop and continue to practice. At that time, there were many people who retired early due to training injuries. Everyone thought they were too unlucky, but they never thought about why. Now We all know that because of unscientific training. But the unscientific training method is not only training when you are injured?"

Lin Xueyi felt that his three views had been greatly impacted, and he couldn't hold back a little rebuttal: "But Director Hu. Although we haven't entered the World Cup before, our performance in Asia is still good... If Our training level is really like what you said, how is it possible..."

Hu Lixin said with a smile: "What was the level of football 40 or 50 years ago? Thirty years ago, a player who ran 10,000 meters in a game was considered a top performer, but now a player's average The running distance is 11,000 meters. To put it bluntly, football in the past is not the same as football in the present. Football games in the past had a slow rhythm and less running, and static training can often achieve good results. But now football has developed rapidly for so many years, but our training still follows the old way, how can this work?"

"However, Guidance Hu, now our Chinese Super League club training philosophy is also moving closer to the advanced European concepts..."

"Yes, that's right. Our Chinese Super League clubs can spend money to hire European coaches, and they bring in European football ideas. But the problem lies in the youth training at the lowest level. Mr. Lin, you are a reporter. You have been to Having come into contact with various teams and people in many places, have you noticed that football in our country shows an upside-down phenomenon-the more top-level teams, the higher the training level and the more advanced concepts, while The lower the level, the more backward the level of basic training. At first glance, it seems correct, because the level of training is low and the concept is backward, so the level is low. But this is not true.”

Hu Lixin shook his head.

"Youth training is the foundation of a country's football, just like the foundation of a building. Such an important part uses the worst materials and the most perfunctory construction attitude. How many floors can the built foundation support? Logically speaking , Youth training, as the foundation of a national football building, should adopt the most advanced concepts to cultivate talents. But what about the actual situation? How about the salary of coaches in football youth training? Is there a way to receive advanced football training? Can you keep up with it? Following the trend of modern football development? How can they guarantee their own level? The youth training work in many places can only rely on the personal enthusiasm of the youth training coaches, but how long can this personal hobby last?

"So in elementary school, you'd see teams that were playing long balls and running games and winning games on the field. And then everybody thought that was the right thing to do and that's how it should be taught. Why was that? Because it was so important to It’s the easiest for a coach. It’s easy to teach, and you can still win, the parents are happy, the children are happy, and the school is also happy, how great it is.”

Hu Lixin spread his hands out, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

"So my team can't afford high balls. How easy is it to win if they play high balls? Especially in games under the age of ten, because the field is small, there is no offside. Just choose a strong forward to ambush in front of the opponent's goal, and the backcourt will directly It’s enough to open a big foot in front of the opponent’s goal. Because goalkeepers of this age are not strong enough and light in weight, it is difficult to control the air ball that flies more than ten meters. Mistakes are commonplace. Forwards can score many goals by waiting in front of the goal. Easily win the game.

"Even in games with offside rules like U12 and U13, there will be a lot of space behind you because you need to keep the formation compact. Just go to the two front and sideways, and then find a fast forward to run after the football... You see, winning in elementary school is as simple as that.

"But is this kind of training really good for the players? Now they can rely on their physical advantages to temporarily win many games and have fun. But as they grow older, when their strength advantages become less and less obvious, and even If there is no future, can we still win like this? What should we do if we have not developed the correct ability to read the game and can’t win the ball with our bodies? Quit? Stop playing? We spend so much money and energy on young players, and finally cultivate them in the middle of ten years And waste, has become a normal phenomenon of high elimination rate in football?

"That's why my team doesn't play high balls. It's not interesting to play high balls. Teacher Lin, you can think about it. When the football is kicked into the sky, what are the players on the field doing? Is it except for one or two players near the landing point?" , Everyone else has temporarily become a spectator? This way of playing football can exercise very limited people. We use pass control to teach children to play football, because pass control is a whole, not simply you pass the ball and I catch the ball .Only in this way can all players participate in the game. Even players without the ball need to keep paying attention and move with the formation...Mr. Lin, you know, I went to Spain some time ago."

Lin Xueyi nodded. Everyone knew about it. Hu Lai invited his parents to watch the UEFA Champions League final live, and the TV broadcast showed them many times.

"I've been there a few times to see their local under-10 teams train and play. It was eye-opening. I'll just say one detail: In the warm-up before a game, both teams pass the ball During the warm-up, four players form a rectangular position to pass the ball to each other. However, in our domestic teams of this age, when warming up for passing and catching the ball before the game, two players usually pass each other. At most, add a little running Movement interaction, for example, I pass the ball to you and run towards you at the same time, you catch the ball and then pass the ball to the teammate behind me, and at the same time run over to complete the change.”

Hu Lixin described it with gestures, and Lin Xueyi nodded to show that he understood.

Then Hu Lixin asked him: "Then which of these two warm-ups do you think is better, and why?"

"Uh... well, it should definitely be better in Europe. As for why..."

While Lin Xueyi was still wondering why, Hu Lixin had already given him the answer:

"Because compared to our team's pass between two points, the European team's rectangular pass can better simulate the game. Whether the pass between two points is simply passing the football to the opposite side or combining two to one, it is just A very mechanical coordination, the player hardly needs to mobilize any subjective initiative. In the rectangular pass, the player will subconsciously have a cognition of the direction and width of the attack, and can use the logo disc on the ground as a defensive player to make a difference The movement simulates the response in the game, resulting in more attacking options...”

When Hu Lixin said this, Lin Xueyi understood: "It is equivalent to the difference between one-dimensional and multi-dimensional. One-dimensional has only one direction, and multi-dimensional has multiple spatial dimensions. Multi-dimensional is complicated, but multi-dimensional creatures are born in this way." In a complex environment, they have more complex thinking abilities. Since one-dimensional creatures only need to consider one direction, they naturally do not have more complex thinking abilities..."

Hu Lixin nodded: "So European teams pay great attention to combining with the game during warm-up, so their warm-up effect is also better. Back to the basic skills. Our basic skill training is like this pre-match warm-up, simple Mechanical repetition, never considering the actual application scene. Is this kind of basic skill training more useful? Are our players not good at technology? You let them do demonstration actions without interference and confrontation. An eighteen-year-old youth The training players can do it perfectly for you, but when it comes to the game, when encountering confrontation and oppression, they make frequent mistakes. Then blame the problem on poor technique, and go back to continue this mechanical training technique... A patient's fingertip The numbness is actually caused by the compression of the nerves caused by the cervical spine problem, but the doctor only treats the patient's hand, so how can it be cured? It is cured temporarily, but it will definitely recur after a while.

"So my team does not do simple mechanical basic skills training, all technical training must be combined with actual application scenarios. On the one hand, it is close to actual combat, and on the other hand, it is also to keep fun. For children of this age, fun is the most important thing. Good teacher. We used to make football training very hard and scary. It seems that if you don’t suffer, you can’t train people, and if you don’t endure hardship, you can’t become talented. If you run 10,000 meters every day and run more than 20 laps around the field, your physical fitness will be good. Isn't it the same as letting people "black for three minutes" in the last few minutes of the game? Now we all know that physical fitness is not practiced like this, but in terms of technology, why do we still insist on the previous concept?"

Faced with such a question, Lin Xueyi couldn't answer.

He could only pretend to be thinking, and then cast his eyes on the training ground.

The four teams divided the field into four equally and practiced at the same time.

Some teams are playing intra-team games. They strictly follow the coach's instructions and control the football under their feet and on the ground. The young players are running back and forth on the field, constantly yelling for the ball.

On the field next to them, under the leadership of the coach, the young players were playing a game of scrambling, and the laughter kept ringing.

The setting sun in the evening sprinkled on the court, the green grass turned yellow, and there were many people.

For some reason, this scene made Lin Xueyi see the scene of "pastoral pastoral"...

Originally, he just wanted to come here to take advantage of the popularity of the World Cup and nonsense, so that his topic selection could show his face on the website.

Now he vaguely felt that the development of the matter had deviated from his original idea.

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