The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 558 Messi II
A lot of fans gathered outside the barbed wire fence of the training ground, and the crowd was surging, completely surrounding the training ground.

Tottenham Hotspur's first-team players were broken up into five different training grounds, training with fifty kids from all over the UK, and it was more about playing football than training class of games.

Tottenham Hotspur has a very clear arrangement for the training courses of the talent day. All the training programs have only one purpose, which is to comprehensively examine the qualities of this young player in all aspects, such as their passing belt, Including their sense of the ball, including their physical fitness, including their reaction without the ball and so on.

To be honest, it is really difficult to complete an accurate analysis of a young player within three days. Even if Tottenham Hotspur can use instruments and advanced equipment, it is difficult to do it. With [-]% accuracy, there will inevitably be some omissions, but Tottenham Hotspur's attitude is to try to do their best.

The training mainly revolves around the new training method Ye Qiu got from the coaching system when he was at Ajax, but in order to obtain different data, the details of the training will also be a little different, basically Some training moves.

Each group will arrange multiple coaches, and the coaches will emphasize the key points of training before training. For example, the morning training session revolves around passing and catching the ball. The purpose is to observe the running of the players, judge the passing route, Pay attention to the running of the defensive player, as well as the technical details when passing and receiving the ball, etc.

At the beginning of the training, players from the Tottenham Hotspur first team took the lead in a round of demonstrations. This group of players who were already familiar with the training content used an almost dazzling fast pass and catch to drive the team. It improved the atmosphere of the scene and won the applause and screams of countless fans on the sidelines.

During the entire training process, all the players' running and passing and catching the ball were completed within one kick, and as long as anyone made a mistake, they immediately ran to grab the ball, especially at the end, after the group formed a circle, the Monkey game, but unlike other teams’ monkey game, Tottenham Hotspur’s monkey game requires everyone to move back and forth quickly at both ends of the court, which is obviously harmful to the players. There are higher requirements for coordinated operations and technical skills.

It was this kind of training program that made everyone mesmerized and full of praise.

It is also obvious that Tottenham Hotspur encourage all players to use their creativity on the pitch, especially in the last 15 minutes of the training session, they even allow players to improvise when passing and receiving the ball. Perform moves, but all limited by time and technical details.

In addition to allowing the players to show their strength, there is another link in the training, which is the interaction between the stars and the young players.

Tottenham Hotspur arranged for the first-team players to train with the younger players. In addition to relaxing the training intensity of the first-team players and helping the players recover, the other is to stimulate the performance desire of the younger players. Players provide some professional guidance to increase the communication between the two sides.

Judging from Ajax's past experience, through this kind of communication and interaction between young players and first-team stars, it can improve the progress of young players and at the same time enhance the players' loyalty and sense of belonging to the team, because everyone Everyone has the psychology of worshiping stars.

The training session in the afternoon is a continuation of the morning session, and it also focuses on passing and catching the ball and technical details, but more of it adopts a small-field training and confrontation method, and the coaching staff will also inspect each training session during the training process. Once a player finds a problem, he immediately calls a stop, makes all players stay still in their original positions, and then explains the error.

The training on the first day can basically reflect some technical details of the young players, especially the handling of skills, as well as the ability to learn and improve their own shortcomings. Information, especially with the assistance of on-site video and surveillance analysis, the general situation of the players has been basically figured out.

The training on the second day began to emphasize the ability to cooperate in combat. After all, some players were singled out as awesome, but lacked teamwork. Once he was put in the team, he was completely confused and didn't know how to play. .

The next morning's training was still in the form of teams, but including warm-ups and group confrontations, all of them were completed with the ball. And defense, performance with and without the ball.

The difference is that this time the venue is relatively large, and the coaching staff will not call a timeout, but just watch and observe from the sidelines, testing the overall activities of the players in the game, as well as the cooperation with teammates, such as maintaining distance and supporting Timing and so on.

There is also a training game project is the wall hitting game. Everyone is required to touch the ball with one foot, and the players take turns to be the wall, so as to further observe and understand the players' technical conditions and actual combat capabilities.

In the afternoon of the second day, that is, the last training session, it was still a form of multiplayer group confrontation in a larger venue, but there was one more requirement, that is, from the moment the players of the two teams got the ball, all attacks It must be completed within 15 seconds, otherwise the coach will whistle and the ball will change hands.

This is an extension of the actual combat of hitting the wall game. The main consideration is the player's choice at the moment of offensive and defensive transition.

As Ye Qiu said before, modern football tactics have actually developed to a certain level and have encountered bottlenecks, whether it is Barcelona's pass-and-control system, Manchester United's pass-and-cut system, or Tottenham Hotspur's pass-and-control system. Composite systems have actually reached a critical point.

So, if you want to continue to make breakthroughs, maintaining speed is an essential link.

But as Ye Qiu said, this speed is not the blind pursuit of individual speed, not the speed of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, but the overall speed, the speed of the team.

This speed is most obviously reflected in the transition from offense to defense. If it takes ten seconds for your opponent to switch from offense to defense, but it only takes you eight seconds to switch from defense to offense, then congratulations, you have a time difference of two seconds to fight, that is almost represents a goal.

Therefore, Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur's youth training camp also emphasize one point, that is, the transition between offense and defense. This requires players to have relevant qualities, because many players have excellent personal skills, but once the team is transitioning between offense and defense, He became a complete idiot, completely lost, forgot what he should do, and was out of the team as a whole.

Is such a player useful to a team no matter how good his skills are?completely useless!
Of course, consciousness can be cultivated, and after accumulating a certain amount of experience, consciousness will also improve accordingly, so when Ye Qiu planned to examine the weight of players, he considered all aspects, and the transition of offense and defense was only a part of it.

It can be said that after the previous two days of familiarization and training, the players' various technical and tactical abilities have been touched, and the players basically understand the requirements of Tottenham Hotspur. On the eighth day, on the third day, the team will start the real actual combat match.

Before Ye Qiu took over Tottenham Hotspur, the highest glory of this North London team was associated with Bill Nicholson.

Since the latter became a youth training player of Tottenham Hotspur in 1936, in the following 68 years, he has grown from a kid who helped the first-team players shine shoes to a master who brought great glory to the team. The coach later became the chairman of the club. Even now, he is still the honorary chairman of Tottenham Hotspur.

To commemorate the honorary chairman who once brought Tottenham Hotspur a glorious honor, Tottenham Hotspur named the home stadium of the youth team at Theobald Training Base as Bill Nicholson Stadium .

At this very moment, a fierce red-white battle is going on at the Bill Nicholson Stadium.

The two teams participating in the game are composed of players from the talent day selection event. They wear red and white jerseys respectively. There are also jersey numbers on the jerseys. The front of the jerseys is still the team logo of Tottenham Hotspur, the logo of Adidas, and The logo of the team's chief sponsor Qatar Airways, everything is the same as the official game jersey.

The only difference is that there is no player's name on the back of the jersey, only the number.

The stands were packed with people, because this was just a competition for the talent day selection event, so no tickets were collected from the outside, but fans were directly allowed to come to the scene.

On the field, because of the relationship between young players, the game is played very openly. From time to time, there will be some scenes that make the fans on the sidelines shout. It may be a flash of inspiration from a certain young player, or it may be From an imaginative pass.

Just like the No. [-] in the red jersey, once used his body to suppress the opponent's ball holder. After stealing the ball with his back to the opponent's goal, he quickly dribbled the ball back and forth with his left and right feet. Penetrated the white team's defenses.

The No. [-] striker of the red team failed to keep up, which directly led to a beautiful one-handed pass being blocked by the last player dragged by the opponent, because according to the rules, the last player automatically becomes the goalkeeper.

Although it failed to form a goal, the pass of the No. [-] player is still very impressive.

If you carefully observe the whole game, it is not difficult to find that the No. [-] player is quite good in physical strength confrontation, he is very stable on the ball, and his passing is very characteristic. In the report of the Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff, this The England midfielder named Nick Powell received high marks in the previous two days of training sessions.

He comes from the Crewe club in England's fourth tier, League Two. Even in League Two, this team's strength is not very obvious, and it may even be in danger of relegation. Nick? After several years of training, he performed well. He was noticed by Tottenham Hotspur scouts and recommended to the team, so he was able to participate in the talent day selection activities.

This player is taller than his peers, not small in size, but has excellent skills. The key is that he has excellent left and right feet. For a player, the importance of this is self-evident.

The most impressive thing about this player is his handling of the ball. In the past two days of training, the coaching staff also noticed that no matter what kind of ball he faces, he can handle it well. And through this sorting out of his own, it is very rare to convert the ball into a threatening or purposeful pass.

While everyone was still engrossed in Nick Powell's imaginative through ball, the white team also launched a counterattack. The defender passed directly to the midfield and handed it over to the white team's No. [-] player. Seeing the No. [-] player stop the ball and turn around to get rid of it, he passed a defensive midfielder of the opponent in one go.

The whole process was not sloppy at all, the technical movements were connected very well, and then he started quickly, and the speed of dribbling was also very fast. It didn't take long for him to cross the center line, enter the opponent's half, and directly face the defensive player.

The red team's defense is also very fast, but the No. [-] player faced the red team's No. [-] left back on the right, and made a skillful quick cut inside. Xiang, just in the blink of an eye, passed the opponent's two defensive players consecutively. This beautiful consecutive dribble won the audience a burst of cheers.

But after passing, he made a wrong judgment, which was to pass the ball.

He was supposed to go straight forward with the ball, but he chose to pass it to the striker, who then passed back, which missed the best chance, but the number seven made a beautiful emergency stop at the front of the box and hit the goal with his left foot , Although because of his young age and lack of strength, the shot was soft, not only lacking strength, but the angle was too crooked, but the whole movement was still very eye-catching.

As if dissatisfied with the performance just now, the white team quickly made a comeback. This time, No. 45 switched to the left side, and was forced to get the ball under the double-team of four defensive players. Controlling the ball, after passing four people in a row, he passed the last defender in the penalty area, but in the end he didn't hit the goal well and the ball was saved by the goalkeeper.

Two consecutive beautiful performances won the No. [-] player a lot of applause, and many people in the stands screamed, thinking that this player's performance was really great and outstanding.

His name is Patrick Roberts. He was born in London. He is 12 years old this year. His advantage is that he has excellent foot skills and solid basic skills. Messi II's cheers, if you want to talk about shortcomings, it's just that the last shot is obviously lacking, and the body is relatively thin.

After a period of performance, the two sides gradually reached their level.

The best player of the white team is No. [-]. His personal ability is obviously much higher than that of other players of the same age. He is also very fast and has a good sense of the ball. In the game, there is often a scene where one person dribbles the ball and breaks through multiple opponents.

The most conspicuous time in the whole game was that after he dribbled the ball past five players from the right, he calmly pushed the goalkeeper to score in the penalty area, and after being double-teamed many times, he used The wonderful performance of dribbling with his feet and abruptly killing a bloody road made all the fans in amazement, and many people shouted the voice of genius.

But in the end it was the red team that won, because the No. [-] of the red team organized the attack and defense of the midfield very well in this game. Nick Powell showed his pretty good midfield organization in the game, as well as passing the ball and Technical skills, and led the red team defeated Patrick Roberts' white team.

After the game, there was a burst of warm applause and cheers from the audience. Although it was just a youth game, there were some wonderful scenes, especially the outstanding performances of young people, which made people look forward to their future .

After this game ended, another game was played, and it was still the red team and the white team. This time, Dan Crawley from Birmingham, although he also played in the midfield, compared to Nick Powell, Dan Crowley was completely defeated technically and physically, but considering the difference of two years between the two, and Dan Crowley had many creative attempts in the game, as well as his excellent foot skills People are very impressive.

If you want to use a more vivid metaphor, Nick Powell is a bit like Pirlo, and Dan Crawley is like David Silva. Of course, this is just a metaphor, and the two young players can’t catch up now. These two big stars, and they are still so young, only have a little bit of potential.

Another noteworthy midfielder is Ryan Ledson. This 12-year-old player has a very strong fighting spirit, solid skills, and comprehensive offense and defense. It is a bit similar to Gerrard or Lampa. An English midfielder of that type.

The two games in a row made all the fans present enjoy watching, especially the performance of this group of young players. Although they will make many mistakes that the first team or the adult team will not make, but from them But you can easily see their potential and talents, and you can easily feel the hope for the future of the team.

Who said England lacked technically nuanced talent?Who says English players lack creativity?

It's like Ye Qiu often heard people say that China lacks football talents. These are all nonsense. How many people were there in the area around Ajax and Amsterdam back then?So many historical superstars can be cultivated. Is it true that China is so big and England is so big that there are no geniuses emerging?

The so-called genius is not actually how high his talent is, but whether there is a soil and environment around him that cultivates genius, and whether he accepts professional guidance and cultivation.

Seeing the performance of this group of young players, all the Tottenham Hotspur fans present are full of hope for the future, and I believe that quite a few of them have even made up their minds that not only the first-team matches will be played in the future. Look, the youth team's game is also coming to watch.

Because watching a young teenager gradually enter the first team, achieve success, and even become a star, the sense of achievement and satisfaction, as well as the feeling of participating in making history, nothing can replace.

(End of this chapter)