There is a dream called football

Arriving in Moscow, a heavy snow greeted the Arsenal players who came from afar.

"The snow is so beautiful."

"Haha, when you wear shorts and short sleeves and play football in the wind and snow, you won't feel that there is anything beautiful about it."

"Haha, can it be that bad? It's snowing in England too."

"It's different. The weather here can freeze the lawn into big marbles. I've been here once before."

But the person who has the most say on this is Belarusian Hleb.

"I can guarantee that even if the lawn here is natural, it will actually freeze into a cement floor at more than ten degrees below zero, so you should be careful when you jump to head the ball, and be careful when you drop it."

"Ha ha."

*****

Looking outside a five-star hotel in the suburbs through the glass window, it looks like an oil painting, and the white snow is the moving scenery in the frame.

Li Qiao looked at the snow scene, and then went to the gym to practice strength training. This is a required course every day. For players, the muscle content of the body is actually very important.

I remember that in the previous life, someone called Chinese players for nothing, and Li Qiao felt quite ashamed. Although many people also said that professional players are not necessarily muscular men, and some are not. For example, Rooney is not.

But look at Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, who doesn’t have 6-pack abs with their shirts lifted up? So for Li Qiao, being a muscular man is a must. This is also a professional attitude. Even in the late stages of his career, Li Qiao will never allow it.

Some people claim that they killed the chicken for nothing.

After training the muscles, today's training task is completed. Wenger did not let everyone go to the snow on the first day.

After all, the journey was tiring, so Wenger asked everyone to have a good rest and start playing football on the snow tomorrow.

Russian stadiums definitely have floor heating, so the possibility of snow accumulation on the stadium is unlikely, but it cannot be completely ruled out, because if the weather is particularly cold, snow accumulation is entirely possible. After all, in such an empty stadium, the effect of floor heating is limited.

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So Wenger practiced snow football in advance, and this can actually be used in the Premier League.

It doesn't necessarily snow heavily every year in the UK, but it may still snow every few years, which is more troublesome, especially for a technical Arsenal.

"I have been fully warmed up. If I neglect to warm up in this weather, I will basically be looking for death."

Wenger is very strict about this. He knows the importance of warm-up. There is a statistics that 80% of injuries are caused by insufficient warm-up, so we really can't be careless about this.

Moreover, the players all wore long pants and long sleeves for training, and some even wore hats and scarves.

Li Qiao just covered herself tightly, it felt really cold here.

Li Qiao didn't exert any force at first, he just did some passing training. His teammates passed the ball to Li Qiao, and Li Qiao distributed the ball, that's it.

After his body gradually recovered, Li Qiao began to try accelerating running and some simple passing movements.

Soon, everyone discovered that the speed of passing the ball in the snow should be slower, because the friction force is reduced. If the ball is passed with the usual strength, the pass will definitely be larger, so the passing force is generally reduced.

"It's not easy. For a team with our level of skill, this has a really big impact."

"It's useless to complain. This is how difficult it is to come to Russia to play football. We can only accept it."

The reason why football is called war is that it is an open-air sport. The change of venue also has a great impact on the game. Li Qiao still remembers the match in Trinidad and Tobago last year. The venue was very important to the game.

The influence of the Chinese team is huge.

*****

Kishav, who has a big beard on his face, is very distinctive. He looked very confident when attending the press conference.

A reporter asked, "Some people now say that CSKA Moscow will become the biggest dark horse in the Champions League this season. What do you think of this?"

Kishav chuckled, "I don't think so, I think we are capable. At present, we are just showing our normal strength. Dark horse? If we reach the top 8, then we can be said to be a dark horse, but now

no."

There were sporadic laughs at the scene. Of course many people disagreed, but it was hard to say. Judging from the current performance of CSKA Moscow, maybe qualifying for the group stage was not an unattainable dream for them.

"Some people complained that the lawn of CSKA's home court affected the games of other league teams. This means that CSKA relied entirely on the stadium to win games."

Keeshav sneered at this.

"Relying on the stadium? I think you are ignorant. The top 32 home stadiums of the Champions League have all been inspected by UEFA, and our stadium is qualified. How can you say there is a problem with our stadium?"

The reporter was speechless. It is true that the stadiums in the Champions League have strict standards. Even if many teams from small countries enter the Champions League, their home games will have to be moved to other venues because the stadiums are not up to standard.

For example, Eibar in La Liga has a stadium capacity of only more than 10,000 people. In this case, even if they can reach the Champions League, they can only borrow other people's stadiums to play.

Someone else asked about the departure of players. Among them, Akinfeev was involved with Bayern Munich, and Zhirkov was considered to definitely go to the Premier League, so this is a topic of great interest to everyone.

In this regard, Kishav was very generous, "The relationship between CSKA Moscow and its players is great. If our players have a better future, we will not block it. Of course, we must give us a reasonable transfer fee."

Russia is similar to China in this regard. It is a great honor for players to go to the five major leagues and is generally supported.

Someone asked about Arsenal and Wenger.

Kishav shook his head, "I don't know much about this. I rarely pay attention to the situation in other leagues."

This answer surprised many people. They wondered if they were pretending to be sexy, which is theoretically impossible, or if they were deliberately trying to humiliate their opponents?

When Wenger was asked the same question, he gave a completely different answer. He specifically named several CSKA players to show that he knew his opponent very well.

"Their goalkeeper Akinfeev is already Russia's national goalkeeper."

"There is also Zhirkov. I think he has similar characteristics to Hleb. They are both traditional Eastern European wingers, very fast."

"And some of their Brazilians are also very good. I think this game will be very tough."

Of course, Wenger also expressed his criticism tactfully, because in fact there is a better stadium in Moscow, namely the Luzhniki Stadium, but the game happened to be at the Lokomotiv Stadium.

When the Arsenal players stepped into the Lokomotiv Stadium, the feeling of hardship was even stronger because it snowed even more in Moscow today.