Fox in the Penalty Area

Lin Xueyi stood in front of deputy editor Sun Yonggang's desk, waiting with some anxiety for the deputy editor to finish reading his topic plan.

In fact, the planning document was not long, it was just an idea. He summarized his ideas into words, handed them to the leaders to read, and then waited for their approval.

It is common to submit a topic proposal, but not every topic will be approved in the end.

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

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

So he came specifically to find Sun Yonggang.

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

And the topic he chose was just right for him.

After the Chinese team once again won the right to qualify for the World Cup, everyone was riding on the popularity. If you start to ride the popularity from campus football, you must appear different and more fresh and refined than those "coquettish bitches" outside.

He tried to find out the reasons why Chinese football has been able to reach the World Cup finals for two consecutive years through visits to campus football.

The name is "Campus Football: Chinese Football's World Cup Password".

This is something that gilts campus football. I believe Deputy Editor Sun, who reports on campus football background, will definitely like it!

Sure enough, after reading his topic plan, Sun Yonggang released his mouse, turned his eyes 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..."

Speaking of this, Sun Yonggang frowned.

"He is a very low-key person. Over the years, many media have tried to interview him. Until now, only the central media has succeeded... How do you convince him to accept an interview?"

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

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

Sun Yonggang guessed what he was thinking,

But he shook his head: "You want to persuade Hu Lixin through Hu? It's useless. The relationship between father and son is very ordinary."

"No, no..." Lin Xueyi explained quickly, "I wanted to convey the intention of the interview to Hu Lai's mother through Hu Lai, and then let his mother persuade Hu Lixin."

Sun Yonggang looked straight at Lin Xueyi and said nothing for a long time.

Lin Xueyi was shocked when he saw this: "Uh, boss, do you think it's feasible?"

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

Lin Xueyi couldn't tell for a moment whether Deputy Editor Sun was praising him or scolding him, so he could only stand there grinning silly.

Sun Yonggang picked up his cell phone: "Okay, I'll contact Hu Lai for you and ask him to convey it to you."

Lin Xueyi's eyes widened. He knew that this meant that the leader agreed with his choice of topic!

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

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

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

"It's not fake, it's 'micro'. Tiny micro is a short documentary." Hu Lai explained, and then continued to look at Hu Lixin. "If you don't want to be interviewed, I will help you..."

He wanted to say, "I'll just say no for you," because he knew his father didn't like to appear in front of the media.

Perhaps because of what happened to Wang Xianke back then, he still felt a little inferior in his heart and was unwilling to accept the scrutiny of others in public.

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

Hu Lai was stunned for a moment: "Can I... refuse, or can I be interviewed?"

"Interview is available." Hu Lixin replied clearly.

"ah?"

This time Hu Lai and Xie Lan looked at Hu Lixin in surprise at the same time. Is the sun coming out in the west?

Hu Lai confirmed to his father: "Then I will go back to my family. I can't change it this time."

"Go back." Hu Lixin replied decisively.

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

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

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

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Three photographers were working with machines. Each of them had a different division of labor. One person was responsible for taking panoramic shots of the training ground, one was responsible for taking mid-range and close-up shots, and the remaining one was more flexible and could maneuver at any time.

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

In the lens of the fourth photographer, Hu Lixin is introducing Lin Xueyi: "... what we are training now are our four teams in the third and fourth grades. 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 we are divided into teams AB. The two teams train with the same training methods and concepts, and will not deliberately compete because of the strength of the players. Detachment.”

Lin Xueyi was a little surprised.

He knew that it was very common in campus football to divide teams into AB teams, and one of the reasons must be because of the large number of people.

As football continues to be popular in China, more and more parents are willing to let their children play football, so more and more children are signing up for football teams in schools.

When there are more people, it is normal to divide into two teams or even multiple teams.

But when it comes to classification, almost all the schools he knows are divided according to strength. The strongest ones form a team, and the remaining ones are selected to form another team, or form two teams.

This is especially common in high schools, because high schools have national competitions that attract much attention, and everyone has to pursue results, which is understandable.

Many primary schools are also divided in this way, but they are named differently. First team, second team, third team, or elite team, reserve team...etc.

Because primary schools also have competitions, various districts, cities, and provinces organize various competitions. It’s just that there is no national competition.

Since they are going to participate in the competition, they will naturally be divided according to the strength of the teams, allowing the stronger teams to represent their schools in the competition, win the victory, take home the trophy, and shine on the lintel.

This is a matter of course, so Lin Xueyi never thought there was anything wrong with it.

It wasn't until he came to Nancheng Primary School in Dongchuan City where Hu Lixin taught for an interview that he discovered that Hu Lai's father actually refused to divide his team into teams in the traditional way!

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

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

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

Hu Lixin asked him: "Teacher Lin, you just watched our training for a long time, do you feel anything?"

Lin Xueyi thought for a while and said: "I noticed that Hu guided your training as if there was no golf ball...the football was always rolling around on the ground."

In fact, Lin Xueyi didn't care about this problem at first, but the training session was almost over and he still didn't play football, so he became a little concerned. Even like obsessive-compulsive disorder, you will become more and more concerned about it.

But what does it feel like?

Is this nitpicking?

Unexpectedly, after hearing what Lin Xueyi said, Hu Lixin nodded with satisfaction: "Teacher Lin observed very carefully. In fact, this was what we asked for intentionally."

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

"Yes. In Nancheng Elementary School, whether it is a first-grade or sixth-grade team, high football is not allowed."

"Not allowed to... play golf?" Lin Xueyi found it incredible.

"Yes, high kicks are not allowed. Whether it is a goalkeeper's kick or a goal kick, no high kicks are allowed. It is also not allowed to pass long balls directly from the backcourt to the back. It is forbidden to pass high balls from the two wings to the center. If you want to cross, you can only use Low ball or ground ball." Hu Lixin further explained.

"When we play in the team, we will stipulate that whether the goalkeeper takes a goal kick or kicks the ball out of his hand, if the ball is not touched by anyone else before halftime, then the kickoff will be considered a foul, and then the kickoff will be considered a foul. The opposing player takes a free kick from the halfway line."

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

He wondered if this was too paranoid?

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

Hu Lixin seemed to have figured out what the other party was thinking, so he continued: "This rule was not made by me, but was told to me by my son."

"mess?"

"Yes. He only learned about it after he went to Europe to play football. Once he visited a local youth training game and told me there was a weird rule when he came back. This weird rule is the one I just mentioned."

Hu Lai told his father about this matter as a "peepshow", 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 outline to teach young players.

But when he compared the current youth training with the youth training he received before, he found that after thirty or forty years, there have been many improvements in technical means, but many of the youth training concepts and ideas are still the same as before. difference.

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

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

"It's good to practice basic skills. But it's not good to only practice basic skills and blame all problems on poor basic skills..." Hu Lixin said. "Our media, fans, and even professionals always say that Chinese players have poor skills, which is why they often lose the ball and make mistakes during games. Therefore, they need to practice basic skills and work hard. But I think this is wrong. "

"Wrong..." This is the first time Lin Xueyi has heard of a football coach denying the idea of ​​practicing hard on basic skills, which is almost a "politically correct" view in Chinese football.

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

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

"When I was training for football 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. Develop the skills well. , and then practice tactics, first practice this simple tactical routine, and then practice slightly more complicated tactical routines... 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 were not solid. It was like you wanted to fly before you even learned to walk. How could it be possible, right? "

Lin Xueyi nodded reflexively.

"When the game comes and there are mistakes in passing and receiving on the court, the coach will criticize that the basic skills have not been practiced well and are not solid enough, so we still need to practice. We all also feel that we do not train hard, so we go back and practice hard. As long as we practice If you don’t want to die, you can’t stop training even if you are injured. If you continue to practice, there were many people who retired early due to training injuries. Everyone just thought they were so unlucky, but never thought about why this happened. Now we all I know, it’s because of unscientific training. But the unscientific training method is more than just training when you are injured?”

Lin Xueyi felt that his outlook on life had been greatly impacted, and he couldn't help but retort slightly: "But Director Hu. Although we have never entered the World Cup before, our performance in Asia is still okay... If Our training level is really what you said, so how could it be possible..."

Hu Lixin smiled and said: "What was the level of football four or fifty years ago? Thirty years ago, a player running 10,000 meters in a game was already a top performer, but now the average player's average performance in the game is The running distance is 11 kilometers. To put it bluntly, football in the past and football now are simply not the same sport. In the past, football games were slow-paced and had less running. Static training can often achieve good results. But now that football has developed rapidly for so many years, our training still follows the previous path. How can this be done?"

"But Director 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 European football concepts. But the problem lies in the youth training at the most basic level. Mr. Lin, you are a reporter who has been there In many places, you have come into contact with various teams and people. Have you noticed that football in our country shows an inversion phenomenon? The more top teams, the higher the training level and the more advanced the concepts, and the more The lower the level of training, the more basic it is. It sounds right at first glance, because the level of training is low and the concept is backward, so the level is low. But this is not right."

Hu Lixin shook his head.

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

"So in elementary school, you see teams that are playing long passes and running games and winning games. And then everyone thinks that's the right thing to do and that's the way it should be taught. Why is that? Because it's so important to them. 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.”

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

"So my team can't afford high balls. How easy is it to win if we play high balls? Especially in under-10 games, because the venue is small and there is no offside. Just choose a strong forward to ambush in front of the opponent's goal, and the backcourt is directly Just kick the ball in front of the opponent's goal. Because goalkeepers at this age lack strength and are very light, it is difficult to control the ball that flies more than ten meters in the air. Mistakes are common, and 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, because we have to keep the formation compact, there will be a lot of space behind us. When attacking, we just need to kick forward. At the same time, in order to prevent the goalkeeper from attacking and controlling the ball, you can also control the ball. Just play to the two frontcourt wings, and then find a fast forward to chase the football... You see, winning in elementary school is that simple.

"But is this kind of training really good for players? Now they can rely on their physical advantages to temporarily win many games and have fun. But as they age, their strength advantage becomes less and less obvious, and even Without the future, can we still win like this? What should we do if we haven’t developed the correct ability to read the game, and we can’t win the ball with our bodies? Quit? Stop playing? We spend so much money and energy on young players, and finally train them halfway through ten years. And abandonment has become a normal phenomenon with high elimination rate in football?

"So my team can't afford high balls. There's no point in playing 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 train very limited people. We use passing and controlling to teach children to play football, because passing and controlling 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 their attention at all times and move with the formation... Teacher Lin, you know, I went to Spain some time ago."

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

"I went to watch several training and games of their local under-10 team there. It was an eye-opener for me. I will only mention one detail: During the warm-up before a game, the two teams passed the ball. During the warm-up, four players form a rectangular position to pass the ball to each other. However, when our domestic teams of this age group warm up before the game, two players usually pass the ball to each other. At most, a little running is added. Dynamic interaction, for example, I pass the ball to you and run towards you at the same time. After you catch the ball, you pass the ball to the teammate behind me and run over at the same time to complete the change of position."

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

Then Hu Lixin asked him: "Which one 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 opponent or combining it with a two-on-one, it is just A very mechanical cooperation, the players hardly need to mobilize any subjective initiative. In the rectangular pass, the players will subconsciously have a knowledge of the direction and width of the attack, and can use the sign plate on the ground as a defensive player to make different moves. The movement simulates the reception in the game, thus generating more offensive 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, while multi-dimensional has multiple spatial dimensions up, down, left, front and back. Multi-dimensional is more complicated, but multi-dimensional creatures are born like this 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 it with the game when warming up, so their warm-up effect is also better. Let's go back to the basic skills. Our basic skills training is like this kind of pre-match warm-up, simple Mechanical repetition, never considering the actual application scenarios. Is it useful to practice more basic skills like this? Are our players not technically good? If you ask them to do demonstration movements without interference and confrontation, an 18-year-old youth The training players can do it perfectly for you, but when it comes to the game, they encounter confrontation and pressure, and they make frequent mistakes. Then they blame the problem on poor technique, and go back to continue this kind of mechanical training technique... A patient's fingertips Numbness is actually caused by cervical spine problems compressing nerves, but the doctor only treats the patient's hands. How can it be cured? If it is cured temporarily, it will definitely relapse 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 maintain fun. For children of this age, fun is the most important thing. Good teacher. We used to make football training very hard and scary, as if you can't train without hardship, and you can't become talented without hardship. Ten thousand meters a day, running more than twenty laps around the field, your physical fitness will be improved Isn’t it? Isn’t it the same as asking people to ‘black three minutes’ in the last few minutes of the game? Now we all know that this is not how physical fitness is trained, but technically, why do we still stick to the previous concept?”

Faced with such a question, Lin Xueyi could not answer.

He could only pretend to think and then set his sights on the training ground.

The four teams divided the field into four equal parts and trained at the same time.

A team was playing an intra-squad match. They strictly followed the coach's instructions and kept the football under their feet and on the ground. The young players ran back and forth on the field, constantly shouting for the ball.

On the field next to them, the young players were playing a game of hoops under the leadership of their coach, and laughter continued.

The setting sun in the evening shines on the court, the green grass turns yellow, and there are shadows of people.

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

He originally just wanted to come here to ride on the popularity of the World Cup and Hu Lai, so that his topic could be featured on the website.

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

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