After being rejected, I became Shi Yijiao

Chapter 203 Pintus' Devil Training Method

Antonio Pintus, a 50-year-old Italian fitness coach, currently works for the Serie A Palermo team.

At the beginning of his career, he also played for big clubs such as Juventus, Chelsea, Monaco and Marseille, but he was really well-known when he joined Real Madrid and Inter Milan.

In the summer of 2016, Zidane invited Pintus to serve as Real Madrid's physical coach.

Pintus was very strict on players' physical reserve training during the pre-season training phase, and this played a decisive role in Zidane's rotation policy during the season and his efforts to win La Liga and defend the Champions League in the later stages.

At the same time, Pintus established a relationship of mutual trust with the players during the training process, and his professionalism has also won the love of all the players in the club.

In the documentary "The Heart of the Twelve Crowns", the old Spanish king Juan Carlos I personally entered the dressing room to thank Pintus in the documentary "Heart of the Twelve Crowns", which proves that everyone knows the existence of this physical coach A boost to Real Madrid.

After Zidane left Real Madrid, Pintus was also invited to Inter Milan, and then he won the Serie A championship with Inter Milan and won the Serie A best physical coach award.

In 2021, he returned to Real Madrid to assist Ancelotti.

During this period, he won the Champions League and La Liga double with Real Madrid.

This time, Pintus' devil training was also more scientific.

He designed different training and recovery methods, including strict work and rest time, eating habits, detailed running and sprinting, scientific analysis of body functions, etc.

These methods have rejuvenated the veterans in the team, such as Modric, Benzema, Kroos and others who are already in their 30s.

They can gallop all over the field and gallop at the last moment of the game. Benzema even played the best Ballon d'Or performance in his football career.

This Real Madrid, which can fight tough battles and is good at playing against the wind, has an interesting statistic after winning eight consecutive victories at the start of the 22-23 season:
They scored 6-5 goals in the first half and 16-0 in the second half!

Real Madrid couldn't be offended in the second half, and Real Madrid couldn't be offended in the last 20 minutes!
When the opponent is exhausted, Real Madrid can still sprint at full speed.

These changes were brought about by the physical coach Pintus, the hero behind the scenes.

It can be said that Pintus is the most famous fitness coach in the football world.

And now, he is still living in a small team like Palermo, of course Pan Yi has to find a way to pry it.

……

The success of workplace poaching is nothing more than two points.

One is money, and the other is career prospects. Specifically, in the football world, it is whether you can get honors.

After Pan Yi went to Italy to meet Pintus, he quickly started in these two aspects, making Pintus interested in joining Hamburg in the shortest possible time.

First is money.

In football, in most cases, the players earn the most money, and then the head coach, assistant coach, chief scout, chief team doctor, etc. The actual salary of the coach is not high.

Taking the current structure of the Hamburg team as an example, the weekly salary of the head coach Pan Yi is about 2 euros, while the two assistant coaches Inzaghi and Nagelsmann only have five or six thousand euros.

This is of course because they are still considered rookie coaches, but in this way, they are still on the same salary as the team's chief scout and chief team doctor.

The current weekly salary of the physical coach in Hamburg is 2500 euros, which is considered very low, not even as good as some ordinary team doctors and scouts in the team.

In fact, if you open the game FM2013 now, find Pintus, an excellent coach with the value of "Physical Training 20", and propose a contract for him, the salary he proposed is only 2000 euros per week.

This is also his current weekly salary in Palermo.

So Pan Yi came up and offered Pintus a price he couldn't refuse: a weekly salary of 4000 euros.

That is doubled.

What is the concept of 4000 euros/week?

In the Bundesliga in 2013, probably only giants like Bayern and Dortmund are likely to offer such a price.

In other words, this is already the most expensive class of all physical coaches in the football world-it is said that when Pan Yi was an assistant coach in AC Milan, his salary was almost the same.

Therefore, Pintus quickly felt the sincerity from Pan Yi.

He began to realize that the young Longguo coach came all the way to Italy, not just to chat casually with him, a bald old man, but because he was determined to win.

It also made him feel valued.

Pintus began to inquire about Hamburg and wanted to know about the club's plans.

For a coach of his level, it is important to go to a club to earn money to support his family, but whether he can gain a sense of professional accomplishment, whether he can improve with the team and win trophies are also important considerations.

At this time, Pan Yi's advantage was once again manifested.

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And Hamburg is second only to Bayern, ranking second in the Bundesliga standings!
The second-to-last pair is the second-to-last, and the judgment is determined.

And Pan Yi is now the hottest young marshal in European football.

He made his name in Italian football when he was an assistant coach in Milan, and now he has brought the relegation team of Hamburg to such a height, and he is even more famous.

For Pintus, he doesn't know whether it is suitable to go to Hamburg, but it is definitely very promising to hang out with Pan Yi!

After he learned that Pan Yi is almost equivalent to a football director in Hamburg, who can support all the coach's training ideas and provide corresponding equipment, his eyes are even more radiant.

This is what he dreamed of!

He is now in Palermo, and because of procrastination in the application of some electronic equipment, he has not been able to really realize his training plan, and he is feeling angry.

Now it's all right, Pan Yi sent him a pillow, allowing him to comfortably complete this dream.

In the following chat, Pintus realized that although the young coach in front of him was not a professional physical coach, he also had his own insight into the role of physical fitness in modern football.

"Without excellent physical support, the technical movements of the players and the team's passing and running cooperation are impossible to talk about. My team needs my players to have sufficient physical fitness."

"For two teams with similar competitive levels, it is physical fitness that widens the gap at the last moment, and the team that rushes forward will often be the winner."

"A master's game, the details determine success or failure, and physical fitness is also an important part of it. If two teams that focus on oppression and confrontation confront each other, then as long as one of the teams cannot maintain high-intensity oppression for 90 minutes, if they relax a bit, they will fail. Right in front of you."

Pan Yi said it very firmly, and this is exactly what Pintus thinks.

This made Pintus feel a feeling of meeting a confidant in his heart, and there was also a trace of longing in the eyes looking at Pan Yi.

Then Pan Yi chatted with Pintus about his specific responsibilities, and Pintus naturally talked about some of his own ideas, as if it was already a small discussion meeting of the Hamburg coaching staff.

For example, after Pintus takes office, he will be responsible for all the basic physical training of the team, and formulate targeted intensive training based on the player's court position and technical characteristics.

At the same time, he also needs to work with the team's technical coaches, masseurs, rehabilitation physiotherapists, and analysts to study and track the players' physical conditions, and adjust the training load and training programs at any time, so that the players can feel better in every game. Keep it in top shape.

Training must be scientific, not brainless, so that unnecessary injuries can be avoided as much as possible, so that more players can be active on the court.

Attrition is also a problem that a football team often faces during a long season.

Especially for a small club, when injuries often occur, the performance will decline rapidly.

Obviously, Pintus has a lot of experience in this regard.

He talked endlessly about his training plan, and even began to estimate how much training is needed to have enough physical reserves based on the Bundesliga schedule.

"I only played the first game after the winter break on January 1? Tsk tsk, the Bundesliga is really cool. That's no problem for me at all."

"Nearly three weeks is enough! I only need three or four days to find out the basic situation of the players in the team, and then combine the coaching staff's winter break training plan to give an intensive training plan and a specific training plan. .”

"As long as the players cooperate...will they cooperate?"

After getting Pan Yi's affirmative answer, Pintus nodded confidently:
"So, as long as my training plan is implemented in place, our players will quickly enter the best physical condition after the restart of the second half of the season, and can continue this state until the end of the season!"

Pan Yi noticed that Pintus was already saying "we" at this moment.

He also knew that his prying operation had achieved a complete victory!

"This season is just a small test for us in the Bundesliga." Pan Yi said seriously, "And next season, our goal is to win the Bundesliga!"

If this sentence is an act of "painting cakes" in an ordinary workplace, what Pan Yi is telling Pintus now is his true thoughts.

This is also the honor Pintus desires as a football coach!
Hearing this sentence, Pintus was a little surprised at first.

Of course he knows how strong Bayern Munich is now.

Including the defending champion Dortmund is not a vegetarian.

Hamburg was still a relegation team last season, and they want to challenge Bayern and Dortmund in the Bundesliga next season?
But when he saw Pan Yi's eyes, he knew that this young head coach was definitely not just talking.

Think about the current Hamburg team, who would dare to say that they are just a team fighting for relegation?
They have been in the Champions League for a long time in the league and even beat Bayern and Dortmund.

Pan Yi shouted the slogan of winning the championship, but he actually has the confidence!
Thinking about it this way, Pintus was immediately filled with pride, and he slapped his chest:
"No problem, I will do my best to provide support for the team, let us realize this dream together!"

Pan Yi reached out his hand at the right time and held Pintus's hands tightly:
"Then, you are welcome to be a member of the Hamburg coaching staff, and you are welcome to be a member of the future champion team!"

……

2013 1 Month 3 Day.

The day the burger clubs regrouped.

When everyone gathered at the training ground, Pan Yi first introduced the three new aids introduced in the winter window: Robertson, Paulinho and Pintus.

Then, various tasks began to be carried out in an orderly manner.

Inzaghi first took the players to do some simple recovery training, while Nagelsmann provided Pintus with various data and information collected in previous training and games.

When Pintus saw the detailed information in front of him, his eyes widened brighter than his bald head.

"So professional! So you guys are already using all kinds of smart devices to monitor player data?" Pintus sighed, "Then I really came to the right place. My scientific training method has finally come into play. landed!"

And with these data reports, Pintus is of course able to get twice the result with half the effort to understand the situation of Hamburg players.

In fact, it only took him two days to figure out the general physical condition of all the first-team players.

Then, he began to divide the players into different groups according to their different positions, roles, and tactical roles, and made different training plans for each group.

And on the fourth day, the players in Hamburg began to "enjoy" the devil training brought by the world's number one physical coach.

Because no matter what the group is, no matter what the training plan is, the difference between them is mostly the difference in some training methods, but they all have one thing in common: that is, the amount of training is super large!
This is big, what is the concept?

For example, the player with the best physical fitness in the team is the captain Westman, and he can't stand it.

The physical training that Pintus arranged for him today is something called "hypoxic mask training method".

The mask has an intake regulator that measures heart rate, pulses per minute, each player's aerobic capacity at peak performance, and more.

The material of the design mask is neoprene, which can be adjusted according to the athlete's head, absorbs sweat and is easy to clean.

Its fixation is also very simple, just use the Velcro on the back to tie it - of course, in the future, a flat panel can be placed on the back to display data more conveniently, but it is not so advanced at this time.

And these equipments were all purchased by Pan Yi according to his needs before Pintus officially joined Hamburg.

Specifically, during the test, the players are asked to run back and forth at high speed until the requirements are met.

It is a method of simulating a high-intensity game that pushes players to their physical limits to assess each player's physical performance.

But Westerman was out of breath before running a few rounds.

"This... this training is too outrageous, it's impossible to complete!" Westerman complained, waving his hands heavily.

"Really?" Pintus smiled, but began to wear the equipment on his body, and then began to sprint with all his strength.

One back and forth, two back and forth, three...

Everyone was dumbfounded.

This is a 50-year-old man!
Is it really possible?

It seems that to this lunatic physical coach, he really can't say "you can do it"...

Because he is really good, really good!

As a result, Westerman had nothing to say, and all the players were convinced, obediently training according to the plan made by Pintus.

Everyone is a professional player in their 20s, there is no reason to lose to a little old man, right?
And as the days went by, everyone felt more admiration for Pintus.

He is very "ruthless" to the players, even himself.

Every morning Pintus would come to the Hamburg training ground a little earlier, park his car and start running around the streets of the training ground.

The distance of this circle is about 9 kilometers.

In other words, he has to run the 9 kilometers every day before starting to "torture" the Hamburg players.

In the usual physical training, Pintus has also been instilling in the players the concept of "talking with the strong, the one who can run wins" and gradually increases the training intensity according to the current physical reserve of the players.

At the beginning, everyone was a little uncomfortable, and some even practiced until they cried and vomited—such as Wu Lei, Lin Zhijian and others who had physical difficulties.

However, everyone persisted in the end!
Because everyone gradually began to believe that the fitness coach Pan Yi specially hired from Italy has something!
After all, I know my own body best. After this period of time, everyone obviously feels that there are good changes taking place!

Of course, they had no way to express any dissatisfaction with Pintus.

Because, this bald old man always leads by example and always runs first in the team!
As for Pan Yi, he never intervenes too much in the team's daily training. As for Pintus, whom he trusts the most, of course, let him do it.

Pan Yi knew that this would be a bittersweet process.

The physical reserves in the early stage will inevitably be very difficult; but in the middle and late stages of the season, Pintus' devil training method will make Hamburg explode with powerful energy!
Just like in Pan Yi's previous life from 2016 to 2018, Pintus practiced the Real Madrid stars until they cried and vomited, but after hard training, the running ability was enhanced and muscle injuries were reduced.

After hard training, the physical fitness of the Real Madrid team has been greatly improved, and it has become one of the best running teams in Europe with the least muscle injuries.

In the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons, Real Madrid, which was constantly reversing and addicted to lore, also won consecutive Champions League titles.

After Pintus left Real Madrid to join Inter Milan, Inter Milan immediately became the team with the fewest muscle injuries and the most points in the second half of Serie A.

Sufficient physical fitness is the cornerstone for Inter Milan to win the Serie A championship in the 2020-21 season.

Therefore, Pan Yi has reason to believe that Hamburg will become such a tough team under Pintus' devil training!
Of course, Pan Yi himself was a little lucky.

It is that he became a coach after time travel, not a player.

He doesn't want to be tortured to the point of sticking out his tongue and being exhausted like those poor players...

……

Almost 10 days later, Hamburg ushered in a warm-up match at home against the Austrian Vienna team.

The opponent was not strong, and Hamburg played well. In the end, Sun Xingmin and Wu Lei scored a goal in the second half and defeated the opponent 2:0.

This victory is nothing, and Pan Yi will not take it to heart.

But what pleased Pan Yi was that Wu Lei's physical condition was obviously very good in this game. He played the whole game in the first game, and the goal was scored by a long-distance journey after 85 minutes.

This fully shows that Pintus' physical training is already having a positive effect.

In this warm-up match, Pan Yi also let new aids Robertson and Paulinho play for half a game each to get in touch with his teammates in actual combat.

The result also satisfied Pan Yi.

Especially Paulinho, he seems to be able to plug and play, and quickly integrated into Hamburg's tactical system.

In the process of partnering with Casemiro as a defensive midfielder, the two cooperated very well, and the defense was impeccable. Paulinho even took advantage of an opportunity to go forward and sent a through ball, which assisted Sun Xingmin with a strong shot.

And Robertson may be a little cautious on the court because of his relatively young age.

However, he still has the characteristics of strong running ability, fast speed, and stable crossing. He is also meticulous in defense and can complete the tasks assigned to him by the coach.

The abilities of the two new players were quickly recognized by the teammates. During this period of time, everyone has become one with each other, as if they have been friends for many years.

After the game, Pintus readjusted the training plan according to the physical consumption of the players during the game.

This physical training master is like this. He will make fine-tuning according to the actual situation at any time. After all, training, competition, and recovery are indispensable.

Then in such constant adjustments, slowly let the team's overall state reach its peak.

Pan Yi understands that the ups and downs of players' status exist objectively and cannot be changed.

The coaching staff, including the physical fitness coach, is to adjust the player's state as much as possible under the premise of following the objective laws of the human body, or let a good state appear in the game.

Now with Pintus, it is clear that such a goal is more easily achieved.

……

During the period of training and warm-up matches, Hamburg also received some official offers for the players in the team.

It's not just against De Bruyne and Sun Xingmin who have performed well.

Players such as Jansen and Mancien, who currently have relatively few opportunities to play in the Hamburg team, have some teams that have successively put forward trading needs.

But Pan Yi refused all of them, and only agreed to loan the midfielder Tesher to Dusseldorf.

This is mainly because the current midfielder position is indeed a bit overstaffed. Makoto Hasebe, Jakopo Sara, Shelbrey, and captain Westerman are all ahead of him in the starting lineup. no more.

But Pan Yi still did not sell him, and even added a clause that the lease could be terminated at any time.

Although the current lineup thickness of Hamburg has improved, it is not rich enough to let people go casually.

25 first-team players, that's not a lot, but it's really not that many.

At the end of the season, if there are any injuries and shortages, the coach will suffer.

So just in case, Pan Yi didn't sell anyone.

When this season is over and the summer transfer window opens, Pan Yi can consider trading some players who can't play in the game when the transfer market is replenishing personnel, which is good for all parties.

But now, Pan Yi spends more time preparing for the battle.

That's because the second half of the Bundesliga season is about to start!

(End of this chapter)