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 part 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 ran into position, and the players of team a pass the football to the players of team a.
Football shot into 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 must go up to defend the players of team a and team b respectively.
In this way, when the player of team B receives the ball, he will be personally interfered by the players of team A. He must resist such interference and accurately pass the football to the position of the player of team A.
Similarly, team A players also have to receive the ball and then shoot under defensive interference.
Of course, the team players will not be arranged to defend with real weapons at the beginning. 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 pads 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. It artificially created a dense defensive situation in a limited space, allowing players to practice passing and receiving in a smaller space and under more defensive situations.
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Let the circle grabbing game change from the previous warm-up game into a real confrontation training with real swords and guns.
These changes caused the intensity of training to rise sharply. 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 has become a top priority.
Dillon came to the international team to coach this time, and he was not alone. He brought his entire coaching team from Golden Arrow to the national team. The annual salary of 10 million euros given to Dillon by the Football Association was not given to him alone, but included
The salaries of everyone on Dillon’s entire coaching staff.
From the assistant coach to the physical coach to the goalkeeper coach, they are all veterans 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, they are "tool men".
The task of communicating with the players is 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 techniques and tactics.
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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 those in Europe.
There is a huge gap between the levels of 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 grown-up Chinese coach 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 his rejection of the proposal was not because he wanted to hide his secrets and was afraid that the Chinese coach would learn his skills. He had just taken over the team and did not want to appoint another Chinese assistant coach to decentralize power, artificially increase the level and create communication barriers.
Originally, if he had something to communicate with the players and Chinese coaches, he could just talk to them directly. If they didn't understand, he would add a translator, Yu Jintao.
Now it is like having to relay the information through the Chinese assistant coach. Not only is it inefficient, but it is also prone to poor communication and even internal disagreements.
The Football Association has conducted internal analysis and found that Dillon may have felt that the Chinese assistant coach was here to monitor him and was a "supervisor" in a sense. That's why he refused.
However, the Football Association finally agreed to all Dillon's conditions, including the fact that there would be 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 put forward 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 the situation Dillon analyzed for them was right. 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 said to be "very familiar".
Such a head coach, even if it is expensive, is worth it.
Besides, when Dillon and Golden Arrow terminated their contract, the 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.
For this reason, the Football Association has the ability to offer an annual salary of 10 million euros. If it has to pay liquidated damages, it will definitely not be able to meet the salary requirements put forward by Dillon's team.
Because the training intensity is too high, after every training session, the physiotherapy room becomes the most lively and busy place.
Nearly all the international players lined up to come to the physiotherapy room for a relaxing massage.
In fact, the current national team already has three physical therapists, but they are still too busy.
Having no choice but to do so, the national team applied for transfer of Master Feng from the track and field team the next day to massage the national football team.
Even so, the four physical therapists working non-stop have only just been able to meet the needs of the international football players.
This shows how heavy the training volume of the Chinese team was during this period.
There have even been cases where players fell asleep on the massage table while being pressed.
When I was woken up, I thought it was dawn and I was going to train...
Muttered in his mouth: "I slept so deeply this time, I just closed my eyes and opened them, and the whole day passed..."
It made the people around him laugh, and then he realized that he had made a joke.
Of course not everyone struggles equally in training.
Some people fare better, others are miserable.
The players who have already studied abroad in Europe perform the best and are relatively adaptable.
Especially Hu Lai who was the first to go out.
And through their performance in training, everyone can also realize the gap in their abilities.
Why can Hulay perform so well in Europe?
Obviously, he has fully adapted to everything in European football, whether it is the intensity of 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.
Someone in the national team has also seen the documentary about Hulay just joining Leeds City. In the documentary, in the first few days after Hulay went to Leeds City, he would fall asleep while receiving massages from his agent after training every day.
At the beginning, everyone thought it was exaggerating how intense the training intensity of this European team could be.
It should be performed for the purpose of documentary shooting, right?
Now they feel... well, it's really that big!
Holy shit, how did Hu Lai's small body survive in the first place?
Then think again:
No wonder he was able to succeed in Europe! No wonder he won 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!
Team leader Hong Renjie and Dillon’s head coach Yu Jintao met in the corridor.
The latter greeted him: "Have Team Leader Hong come back from checking the ward?"
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 seems 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 rumors in the Chinese football world 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, and Chinese players only moved from the professional system to the profession.
It's just that my identity has changed, but it's not professional at all.
Lack of seriousness in training, improper attitude in games, irregular daily routine, chaotic private life, 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 a member of 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 have a beautiful idea, 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 in this.
In Chinese football at that time, although the performance of the national team was better than that of the later dark ages, those who should not win could not win, but those who should win could win steadily. Unlike later, those who should not win could not win, and those who should win could not win.
Winning by luck is just relying on the foundation laid by professional football in the previous decades. It is more like a prodigal who wantonly squandered the 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 immediately held a tactical meeting after dinner... I was surprised by how active this work was. Now that training starts with this level of intensity, there is no intention of going step by step at all, isn't he afraid of... getting hurt?"
Yu Jintao laughed 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 finish this week and a half of national team training and competition and return to their respective Chinese Super League clubs?"
Hong Renjie was stunned for a moment, and then he 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... is also at 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 players 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 a country's football level does not change 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 Europe's advanced football concepts to national teams, Olympic teams, and domestic clubs; wait for these advanced football concepts to become a habit; wait for some of them to become coaches...that's the change.
It happens bit by bit. Everything will be fine in the future. Just like this training camp, look at those players who have gone to Europe to receive training for most of the season. Aren't their performances much better than domestic players?"
Hong Renjie nodded slowly.
He knew that Yu Jintao was right.
It's just like this, a drop of water can penetrate a stone... Who knows that when the Chinese team benefits from this, I 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 a tree, a person’s name.
Hong Renjie... is someone who wants to write his name into the history of Chinese football.