Chapter 123 New People
Chen Rui soon knew that Xia Xiaoyu was not talking nonsense.
Because when the team trained again the next day, Coach Li told everyone the team's tactics.
The offensive core of this tactic, or the offensive terminator of Dongchuan Middle School, is Hu Lai.
The coach named Hu Lai directly.
What made the new team members a little uncomfortable was that their vice-captain's performance was too unstable when he was named as the core...
If someone else were to be the core, the head coach would definitely have to design tactics to specifically coordinate with the team's offensive core.
But when it comes to Hu Lai, the head coach's request is that everyone can play how they want. As long as the football can be passed into the space, the football can be passed to Hu Lai.
This sentence made everyone stunned for a moment - passing the football into the space is equivalent to passing it to Hu Lai's feet?
Such a dick?
You're not bragging, right?
Xia Xiaoyu knew that the head coach really wasn't bragging.
Hu Lai's ability to run without the ball is indeed very strong, so much so that the main function of Dongchuan Middle School's offensive tactics is not to pass the football to Hu Lai, but to create gaps on the court. As long as an opening is created, the football can be passed to Hu Lai.
There was no need to tell Hu Lai how to run.
In this tactic, it is others, not Hu Lai, who need to practice their movements.
It's no wonder that he saw the head coach using the time before morning reading and lunch break to conduct physical training and various shooting training on Hu Lai.
Because Hu Lai's weaknesses are mainly in shooting and physical confrontation ability.
In subsequent training, Xia Xiaoyu also discovered that Hu Lai had made rapid progress in shooting.
When he first watched the national competition, he found that Hu Lai would choose to stop the ball first and then shoot more often.
He thought this might be because his ability to shoot directly was not good enough, and it would be safer to stop the football first and then shoot. This is too limiting. Some shooting opportunities may be gone if you stop one more time.
But when Xia Xiaoyu joined the Dongchuan Middle School football team, he found that Hu Lai on the training ground was very different from the Hu Lai he saw in the national competition.
In training, Hu Lai's various shooting movements with his right foot became much more natural and smooth.
In fact, the sophomore and junior members of the Dongchuan Middle School football team felt this even more deeply.
Because they have all seen what Hu Lai looked like when he first entered the team.
That’s really a newbie...
What now?
When they look at Hu Lai's performance in training now, they will really have the illusion that "many years have passed."
Because the progress Hu Lai has shown is completely unlike what can be accomplished in just a few months...
Some people thought of the special training the head coach specially prepared for Hu Lai after the national competition.
Is special training really so useful?
Then should we also ask the head coach to do special training?
However, this thought only temporarily existed in their minds for a few seconds before they were thrown out of their heads.
Because they can't stand being treated like that by the head coach, and they can't bear the intensity and volume of special training.
The coach's usual training is very hard. It is not easy for them to persist. It is impossible for them to actively seek abuse...
Therefore, Hu Lai's progress today is indeed what he deserves.
Anyone who has watched how Hu Lai trained from his freshman year to his second year in high school will not have the slightest bit of confusion or jealousy about the head coach's decision to make Hu Lai the core of the offense.
Because they deserve this core.
Their teammates are neither as talented as Luo Kai nor as daring as Hu Lai. They can only do the tasks assigned to them by the coach and try their best to twist the team into a rope instead of removing the acid. "Why can Hu Lai be the core?"
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This year's Dongchuan High School football team did not have to change the head coach at the beginning, so it recruited new players very early, so it can prepare for the game with a full complement of players.
The advantage of preparing for the game early is that it allows the team to conduct tactical training earlier and cultivate the team's tactical understanding.
It won't be like last year where Luo Kai can only rely on Luo Kai to pull the team to the Anton Cup finals.
Without Luo Kai this time, the team can no longer rely on such a person with strong personal abilities, so it naturally has to pay more attention to integrity.
The advantage of this is that if Luo Kai is marked, the whole team will lose its scoring ability.
In fact, when Li Ziqiang does tactical training, he is not practicing the cooperation between Hu Lai and the team more often, but training the scoring ability of other people in the team.
After all, it is impossible for him to put all the scoring responsibility on Hu Lai. In that case, what is the difference from last year?
Because of Hu Lai's technical characteristics, the requirements for the team are higher, and it is definitely not possible to fight alone.
And when the team is built into a team to adapt to Hu Lai's characteristics, more scoring points will naturally be solved.
Xia Xiaoyu was the star midfielder in the Anton Cup for the junior high school team last year. His arrival helped the team become a whole.
His ability to connect and run in the midfield, as well as his imagination and accuracy in the final pass, are Hu Lai's best partners.
Li Ziqiang was surprised by Xia Xiaoyu's arrival - this person was supposed to go to Jiaxiang, but he didn't know why he came to Dongchuan Middle School.
While strengthening the strength of Dongchuan Middle School, it also weakened its direct competitor Jiaxiang High School.
If this was a transfer in a professional team, it could be called the best transfer operation of the year...
With Xia Xiaoyu, the biggest shortcomings after Chu Yifan left the team have been filled.
Originally, Li Ziqiang planned to ask Tang Yuan to pass the ball to Hu Lai - anyway, his cross was good. Otherwise, why would he let Hu Lai practice heading? Isn't it just for the offensive routine of crosses from the wing and headers from the center?
Now Tang Yuan still has the ability to pass from the wing, and the addition of Xia Xiaoyu has given the team more changes and levels in organizing offense.
In addition to Xia Xiaoyu, one of the newcomers to Dongchuan Middle School is Shen Yulin, a forward who also performed well in the last junior high school Anton Cup.
He has excellent physical fitness and is especially good at heading the ball due to his height.
In other teams besides Dongchuan Middle School, talents like him should be the core of the team's offense and the main center.
However, after Dongchuan Middle School has Hu Lai, there is no need for this high center forward who can only header to be the main scoring point.
But he will be a very good addition to the offensive system of Dongchuan Middle School. At the same time, his physical advantage can also provide good cover for Hu Lai.
In addition, there is a defensive midfielder named Chen Rui in the midfield who has also shown good strength. He has a stocky body, strong confrontation ability, and excellent running ability. If paired with Xia Xiaoyu, he can provide protection for Xia Xiaoyu. With him in the midfield and backcourt, During the sweep, Xia Xiaoyu can also devote more energy to organizing the offense.
Generally speaking, this time Dongchuan Middle School has discovered several very outstanding talents among the freshmen of high school. Coupled with the original foundations of Mao Xiao, Meng Xi, Yan Yan, and Tang Yuan, Dongchuan Middle School will compete in this Anton Cup. The main lineup has basically taken shape.
During daily training, Li Ziqiang also continued to adjust to this lineup and tried more personnel combinations. Let the team have as many changes as possible.
For example, what should the organizer Xia Xiaoyu do when he is targeted by the opponent? At this time, Tang Yuan's high-speed breakthrough and precise pass from the wing, coupled with Hu Lai and Shen Yulin's offensive routine of competing for headers in the middle, came into play.
This simple and crude tactic can easily make people think that it has little technical content, but as long as it is used in the right place, it often has very good results. It is one of the most enduring classic offensive routines in football to this day.
If Huitang Middle School could have a high center forward who is good at heading the ball in the last few minutes of the last national competition, and then the whole team would try their best to sling the football in front of Dongchuan Middle School, then maybe it would really be possible. Did they smash one in?
In such training, time flies by.
A month flies by.
The qualifiers for the 7th National Competition and the 33rd Anton Cup will begin on Saturday.
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PS, there is an Easter egg chapter at the back.
It’s a collection of game videos about Zhang Jun that I made several years ago. I used the game FIFA 15 to create Zhang Jun’s character, and then edited his highlights into Zhang Jun’s character video.
However, because the Easter Egg Chapter can only contain a video of up to three minutes long, I just put the final plot clip of Zhang Jun’s retirement into the Easter Egg Chapter.
Because I mainly played Nottingham Forest at the time, Zhang Jun in the video sometimes wore a Nottingham Forest jersey. Don't be surprised.
You can see the complete version of the video about the character Zhang Jun by going to Station B and searching for "Zhang Junsheng is like a summer flower".
Okay, without further ado, please enjoy it - just turn the page and you will see the Easter egg chapter.
Hope you all like it. (End of chapter)