Chapter 1112 The new coach takes office and becomes a hit
After the start of the second day of training, every international player felt the changes mentioned by head coach Dillon last night.
The training content is completely different from the previous national team.
The ball training section has been greatly increased.
At the same time, the importance of confrontation was particularly emphasized in training.
For example:
In the past, when everyone practiced passing and receiving, most of them passed the ball back and forth to each other. It was as simple as that.
Or add some other requirements slightly, divide into two teams, the players of team A pass the football to the players of team B, and then start running, the players of team B then pass the football to the players of team A who run into position, and the players of team A pass the football Football shot into the goal.
The whole process is to run, catch the ball, and then shoot. There is no confrontation at all. Passing, catching, and shooting are all done by one person.
Now Dillon is asking to join the confrontation.
From the moment the players of team A pass the football to the players of team B, two players of team C will go up to defend the players of team A and team B respectively.
In this way, when the players of team B catch the ball, they will be personally interfered by the players of team C. He must pass the football accurately to the position of the A team players despite such interference.
Similarly, team A players also have to catch the ball and then shoot under defensive interference.
Of course, at the beginning, the players of team C will not be arranged to defend with real weapons. They will just run close to them and use their bodies to interfere and confront to a certain extent to create a sense of actual combat.
Wait until the players adapt to this training method, and then gradually increase the intensity.
The same is true for shooting training. Defensive players are arranged to hold up mats as buffers and constantly hit shooting players. In the past, it was only used for targeted special training, but now it has become a daily training method.
In addition, Dillon also reduced the diameter of the "game" of grabbing the circle and increased the number of people. Artificially create a dense defensive situation in a limited space, allowing players to practice passing and receiving in a smaller space and under more defensive situations.
Let's turn the circle grabbing game from the previous warm-up game into a real confrontation training with real swords and guns.
These changes caused the intensity of training to skyrocket. In order to avoid injuries during training, Dillon's coaching staff also increased the intensity of the warm-up.
In addition, this high-intensity training method also places higher demands on the physical fitness of the players.
So physical training became a top priority.
Dillon is not alone when he comes to coach the national team this time. He brought his entire coaching team from Golden Arrow to the national team - the 10 million euro annual salary given to Dillon by the Football Association was not given to him alone, but included the salary of the entire coaching team of Dillon.
From the assistant coach to the physical coach to the goalkeeper coach, they are all old guys who have worked with Jorge Dillon for many years.
There is no Chinese coaching staff leader. All Chinese coaches are coaches. They are only responsible for daily training and do not participate in team decision-making. To put it bluntly, "tool man".
The task of communicating with the players was left to the team leader Hong Renjie. In a sense, Hong Renjie is the leader of the team's Chinese coaching staff, but he is not responsible for the team's training, nor does he determine the team's technical and tactical details.
In fact, the Football Association initially hoped to set up a Chinese coaching staff leader like Marcel Wilson did before to take charge of the Chinese coaches and also serve as Dillon's Chinese assistant coach.
On the one hand, their idea is to help Dillon coach the team better. On the other hand, they also hope that Dillon can bring local Chinese coaches. After Dong Jianhai, the Football Association also knows that Chinese domestic coaches are indeed as good as European coaches. There is a huge gap between truly high-level coaches.
If we can arrange for a Chinese coach who is favored by the Football Association to work beside Dillon and learn from Dillon's advanced experience and skills.
Then after Dillon's contract with the Football Association expires, a Chinese coach who has grown up may be able to take over.
This is a bit like the way we traded markets for technology in the early days of reform and opening up.
But was rejected by Jorge Dillon.
He said that he refused the proposal not because he wanted to hide his personal interests, but because he was afraid that the Chinese coach would learn his skills. He had just taken over the team, and he did not want to appoint another Chinese assistant coach to decentralize power, artificially increase levels and create communication barriers.
Originally, if he needed to communicate with the players and Chinese coaches about something, he could just talk to them directly. If they don't understand, add a translator named Yu Jintao.
Now it is equivalent to having to relay it through the Chinese assistant coach. Not only is it inefficient, but it is also prone to miscommunication and even internal disagreements.
According to internal analysis by the Football Association, Dillon may have felt that the Chinese assistant coach was here to monitor him and was a "supervisor" in a sense. That's why I refused.
However, the Football Association finally agreed to all Dillon's conditions, which naturally included the provision of no Chinese assistant coach.
As for how his foreign teaching team cooperates and communicates with the Chinese coaches, it is left to the translator Yu Jintao and the team leader Hong Renjie.
It can be said that after experiencing the Asian Cup, all the requirements made by the Football Association for Jorge Dillon have been met.
It's not that they blindly "worship foreigners", but the Asian Cup made them realize that Dillon's analysis of the situation for them was correct. Everything about the Asian Cup was right.
It's a pity that I didn't listen at first...
So even though Dillon asked for a relatively high price, the Football Association agreed.
After all, on the one hand, he has real skills, and on the other hand, he can indeed provide his solutions based on the current situation of Chinese football.
The latter is the most important. There are many coaches who are capable and very capable, but they are not suitable for Chinese football.
Dillon has coached in the Chinese Super League and is quite familiar with Chinese football... No, judging from his thoughts, it can be called "very familiar".
Even if hiring a head coach like this is expensive, it's worth it.
Besides, when Dillon and Golden Arrow terminated their contract, Golden Arrow Club did not ask for any liquidated damages, which was equivalent to saving the Football Association a lot of money - the liquidated damages were nominally paid by Dillon, but in fact they must have been paid by the Football Association. out.
Because of this, the Football Association has the ability to offer an annual salary of 10 million euros. If liquidated damages are required, it will definitely not be able to meet the salary requirements put forward by Dillon's team.
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Because the training is so intense, the physical therapy room becomes the most lively and busy place after training every day.
Almost all the international players lined up to come to the physical therapy room for a relaxing massage.
In fact, the current national team already has three physical therapists, but they are still too busy.
As a last resort, the next day the national team applied to transfer Master Feng from the track and field team to massage the national players.
Even so, the non-stop work of the four physical therapists has only just been able to meet the needs of the international players.
This shows how much training the Chinese team has done during this period.
There are even cases where players fall asleep directly on the massage table while being pressed.
When I was woken up, I thought it was dawn and I was going to train...
He muttered: "I slept so deeply this time. I just closed my eyes and opened them, and the whole day passed..."
It made everyone around him laugh, and then he realized that he had made a joke.
Of course not everyone struggles equally in training.
Some do slightly better, others are miserable.
Players who have studied abroad in Europe perform best and are relatively adaptable.
Especially Hu Lai who was the first to go out.
And everyone can also realize the gap in their abilities through their performance in training.
Why can Hu Lai perform so well in Europe?
Obviously, he has fully adapted to everything in European football, whether it is the intensity of the confrontation or the rhythm of the game. When it comes to the training of the national team, he is the most relaxed one and is simply comfortable.
Some people in the national team have also watched the documentary about Hu Lai just joining Leeds City. In the documentary, in the first few days after Hu Lai went to Leeds City, he would fall asleep while receiving massages from his agent after training every day.
At first, everyone thought it was an exaggeration - no matter how intense the training of this European team is, how intense can it be?
It must have been performed for the purpose of documentary shooting, right?
Now they feel... well, it's really that big!
Damn it, how did Hu Lai's little body survive in the first place?
Then think again:
No wonder they can succeed in Europe! No wonder he is the Premier League Golden Boot and the World Cup Golden Boot! Adapting to the training intensity of the Premier League so quickly is not something that ordinary geniuses can do!
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Team leader Hong Renjie and Dilong's translator Yu Jintao met in the corridor.
The latter greeted him: "Has Team Leader Hong come back from checking the room?"
Hong Renjie nodded.
"How is it?" Yu Jintao asked again.
"Everyone is asleep and there is no movement in all the rooms."
Yu Jintao raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "It's only half past ten...it looks like they are really tired. This shows that no one is lazy in training."
"Yeah, I'm totally exhausted."
Yu Jintao suddenly laughed: "I thought of something... If our training intensity was so intense more than 30 years ago, wouldn't the players have the strength to climb over the wall and go out to go clubbing? The negative aspects of Chinese football There would be a lot less news..."
In the past, there were always various legends circulating in Chinese football about players climbing over the wall to go out to bars, drink, and find women during closed training camps. At that time, Chinese football was growing wildly. Chinese players moved from the professional system to the profession. They only changed their identities, but they were not professional at all.
Lack of seriousness in training, improper attitude in games, irregular daily schedules, chaotic private lives, smoking, drinking, fighting and picking up girls, involvement in gangs and pornography...Probably half of the negative news in China's sports world is contributed by professional football players.
Yu Jintao was not in the football circle before. He was just an ordinary fan, and he had heard many negative rumors about Chinese football.
Hong Renjie has always been an insider and knows more about the inside story than Yu Jintao. He smiled bitterly and shook his head: "You think so well, Old Yu. Let me tell you, at that time, if any head coach dared to give the team With this amount of training, can you believe that he will be forced out by the players within a week?”
Yu Jintao nodded, he really believed this.
In Chinese football at that time, although the national team's performance was better than that of the later dark ages - those who shouldn't win could not win, but those who should win could win steadily. Unlike later, those who shouldn't have won were not able to win, and those who should have won had luck - but that was just relying on the foundation laid by professional football in the previous decades, more like a prodigal who squandered his ancestors' family fortune.
After the squandering, Chinese football collapsed and ushered in a decade-long dark age.
It was not until 2015 that Chinese football made up its mind to carry out a top-down reform. After more than ten years of hard work, it has achieved the results and situation it has today.
"So...this group of players now are indeed quite professional..." Comparing the before and after, it was different from the past, which made Yu Jintao express such emotion.
"Well, the players' performance was impeccable. But I have a question..." Hong Renjie frowned and said, "I always feel that Dillon is a little anxious this time. As soon as the players arrived at the hotel, he called them one by one to talk. , and then held a tactical meeting immediately after dinner... I was surprised by how active the work was. Now that training is done at this level, there is no intention of doing it step by step. Isn't he afraid of... getting injured?" br>
Yu Jintao smiled and said: "That's why we have a large and professional medical team? In addition to four physical therapists, there is also the entire team medical team and physical coaches who are paying close attention to the physical condition of the players and making adjustments every day according to their physical condition." Training plan. And, Leader Hong, what do you think the training level of most of these players will be when they return to their respective Chinese Super League clubs after completing this week and a half of national team training and competition?"
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Hong Renjie was stunned for a moment, and then understood what Yu Jintao meant.
The training level of most Chinese Super League teams is obviously not comparable to that of the current national team.
From what he saw, Dillon's national team training was completely European-level.
And the training of the Chinese Super League team...that is, the Chinese Super League level.
Why is Dillon so anxious?
Because he knows that he is only the head coach of the national team and cannot control the Chinese Super League, so once these international players return to their respective clubs, they will return to the club's low-level training.
Not to mention that the improvement is slow, but I am thankful that I have not regressed.
Dillon wants to take advantage of the opportunity of the national football team to train and compete with the national team and give them extra lessons...
Thinking of this, Hong Renjie sighed: "Chinese football... still has a long way to go!"
Yu Jintao patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be too pessimistic, Team Leader Hong. Dillon once said to me that the change in a country's football level does not happen overnight, but is a long-term effort that takes a long time. When we have more players to go Europeans study abroad to play football; wait for them to spread European advanced football concepts to national teams, Olympic teams, and domestic clubs; etc. These advanced football concepts have become a habit; when one of them becomes a coach... the changes will happen little by little. Just like this training camp, you see those who have gone to Europe to accept it. Aren’t the performances of players who have trained for most of the season much better than those of domestic players?”
Hong Renjie nodded slowly.
He knew that Yu Jintao was right.
It's this drop of water that penetrates the stone... Who knows that when the Chinese team benefits from this, he will no longer be the leader of this team.
He still has selfish motives and always hopes to have his own presence in every stage of Chinese football's creation of history.
The shadow of the tree, the name of the person.
He, Hong Renjie... is someone who wants to write his name into the history of Chinese football. (End of chapter)