After the Spring Festival holiday, the Dongchuan Middle School football team resumed training.
The first five days of the ten-day second training camp will focus on physical training, mainly to allow the players' bodies to recover from the heavy eating during the Spring Festival.
After all, they are not professional players, so Li Ziqiang cannot ask them to strictly control their diet and work schedule during the Chinese New Year.
After these ten days of relaxation and rest, everyone's physical fitness will inevitably decline.
In order for the following training to proceed normally, of course, the players' physical fitness must first be restored to the level before the Spring Festival.
So the training volume needs to be slightly larger.
But this is not a big deal to the players of Dongchuan Middle School.
After all, they used to have two physical training sessions every morning and noon, so they have already adapted to the intensity of the head coach's training.
After the ten-day training camp is over, there are only a few days until school starts.
Li Ziqiang asked the players to take a good rest in the past few days.
Because after school starts, the team will return to practicing two or three times a day - training every morning and noon, and in addition there will be training in the afternoon three days a week.
At this time, there is not much time left before the national competition starts.
Because this year’s Spring Festival falls on February 12th, it will already be March 1st when school starts.
There are only two weeks to prepare for the national competition.
Time is tight and the tasks are heavy, but Li Ziqiang does not intend to continue practicing the team's tactics, but instead divides the training into various set-piece tactics.
After all, set pieces are a very important scoring weapon in the game.
Therefore, in addition to the unshakable physical training every morning and noon, three times a week, a total of six training times are spent on set-piece tactical training: offensive and defensive training on corner kicks, offensive and defensive training on free kicks, and penalty kicks.
There is no overtime in high school football games. If there is a tie during regular time, it will go directly to a penalty shootout.
So penalty kicks must be practiced.
At the same time, Li Ziqiang must also reorganize a list of penalty takers.
If a penalty kick is awarded during regular game time, who will take it?
In a penalty shootout, how should the order of penalty kicks be decided?
Last year, the penalty kicker during regular time was actually the captain Chu Yifan, but Chu Yifan is a talkative person. If someone really wants to take the penalty kick, then he will let it go.
For example, in the last national competition, the penalty kick Luo Kai scored to score his fourth victory was actually stolen from Chu Yifan.
However, Chu Yifan didn't take it to heart, and head coach Li Ziqiang naturally turned a blind eye.
Now both Luo Kai and Chu Yifan have left the team.
In the Anton Cup, Li Ziqiang did not think of fixing one person to take penalty kicks, but let the players decide for themselves.
It's just that Dongchuan Middle School didn't get a single penalty kick in the Anton Cup, so there was no situation where everyone was allowed to decide who would take the penalty kick on the court.
Later, Li Ziqiang thought about it and felt that it would be better to fix one person to take the penalty.
It may not be necessary for the Anton Cup, but it is absolutely necessary for the national competition.
Because when a penalty kick is awarded in a national competition, it is very important who takes the kick. To put it more seriously, it affects how far the Dongchuan Middle School football team can go in the national competition.
Maybe it was the quarterfinals or the semifinals in the end, and there was only one penalty that was missed.
Since he is the penalty kick taker in the national competition, what Li Ziqiang values more is not his skills, but his psychological quality.
Because taking penalty kicks in national competitions, you can imagine the pressure...
In front of the goal, the players from Dongchuan Middle School are conducting penalty kick training.
At this time, it was Hu Lai who was standing in front of the football, preparing to take the penalty kick.
Goalkeeper Meng Xi stood in the goal, baring his teeth and twisting his body, trying to interfere with him.
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Hu Lai looked at the funny Meng Xi and suddenly thought of the famous goalkeeper from another time and space, Zimbabwean Bruce Grobbelaar.
The former Liverpool goalkeeper helped the team defeat rival Roma in the 1984 European Champions Cup final and win the Champions League.
The way to decide the outcome at that time was penalty kicks.
Facing Roma's penalty kicker, Grobbelaar suddenly twisted his body on the goal line, as if he had an epileptic seizure. The Roma players on the opposite side were shocked and were at a loss. Conte and Graziani were like this
The famous players missed penalty kicks one after another, and Liverpool finally won the cup.
The noodle dance created by Grobbelaar has also become one of the psychological warfare goalkeepers will use in penalty shootouts.
In this time and space, there is no Grobbelaar, but it is obvious that similar methods have been invented. Otherwise, how could a high school team's goalkeeper think of using this method to interfere with Hu Lai?
In fact, after Hu Lai first traveled through time and space, he also thought about inventing those special skills in this time and space, such as "ox tail", "fried meatballs", "Marseille slalom" and "cycling"... But then he checked online and found out these moves
It's all up to you, except maybe not by these names.
This fully shows that the football players in this time and space are not idiots, and the football in this time and space is not making any progress after more than a hundred years of development, just waiting for the protagonist to pick peaches...
As a penalty kicker, Hu Lai wanted to try an equally famous way of taking penalty kicks. It already existed in this time and space. He could not invent it, but he could imitate it.
That's the spoon penalty.
In the time and space where Hulay came from, the inventor of the spoon penalty belonged to the Czechoslovakian player Palenka. In the 1976 European Cup final, he used a rub shot to lightly kick the football into the West Germany goal.
, the first spoon penalty kick in the history of world football was born.
Since then, many players have scored spoon penalty kicks in games, but there are very few players who dare to use spoon kicks to kick penalty kicks in major games.
After all, if you take it off for fun, it will be self-defeating and you will be laughed at by countless people - and some people actually missed the penalty kick with the spoon during the game.
In this time and space, Hu Lai also checked that the first spoon penalty occurred much later than in another time and space.
During the 1998 World Cup, the famous Argentine star Gabriel Nicolás Guzman hit a beautiful penalty kick in the quarter-finals of the World Cup. He deceived the England goalkeeper at the time.
When this penalty kick method first appeared in front of the world, no one knew what to call this strange penalty kick method.
It was Giuseppe Gasparoni, the commentator on Italian national television at the time, who shouted: "Spoon! Spoon! Spoon penalty!!"
So this weird way of kicking penalty kicks officially got a name.
The reason why the Italian commentator named the penalty kick of an Argentinian player is because there is a very excellent tradition of lob shots in Italian football. This method of scoring goals is not uncommon in the Italian arena, and there are also Italian players.
He is famous for being good at picking shots. But by combining this shooting method with penalty kicks, Gabriel Nicolas Guzman is indeed the number one player in world football.
The kicked football drew a beautiful arc in the air, which also resembled the arc of a spoon. The penalty kick was named after "spoon", which was very descriptive and vivid, so the name followed the World Cup TV broadcast.
It was broadcast and spread all over the world in an instant.
Hu Lai wanted to give it a try.
The spoon penalty looks very simple, but in fact it is not easy to successfully kick it. After all, it requires better control of the football. The force cannot be too large, otherwise it will easily pick the crossbar; the force cannot be too small, too light and the crossbar will be picked out.
Give the goalkeeper time to react and save the football...
The most important thing is to keep your mind calm and not impatient.
"Hey! Hu Lai, what are you doing standing there stupidly? Are you frightened by the murderous intent of the door god like me?" Meng Xi twisted around for a while in front of the door, but found that Hu Lai was indifferent, so he shouted.
In this penalty kick practice, he just saved three penalty kicks in a row. It was when he was at his strongest and his confidence was overwhelming.
Seeing Meng Xi's triumphant look, Hu Lai chuckled and started to run.
His approach speed is not slow, and it gives the impression that he is trying to use the power of sprinting to launch a powerful volley.
Meng Xi in front of the door no longer twisted, but leaned down. While opening his arms, he exerted force on his left thigh, tightened his knees and ankles, and was ready to kick out and pounce on the right at any time - he predicted that Hu Lai would
Kick the football to the right, because Hu Lai is a right-footed player. Generally speaking, those who are good at which foot will subconsciously kick the football to which side.
But when he pounced out, he found that the football was coming towards the center where he was standing just now!
Instead of a powerful volley, it drew a parabola in the air and fell into the goal!
Spoon penalty!
“wooooooooooooooooow!!!”
"Holy shit, shit, shit!!"
"Haha! Meng Xi is exhausted!"
"Deputy Hu is awesome!"
On the court, all the players were in an uproar.
Although spoon penalty kicks are not unfamiliar, there are indeed not many people who have the courage to kick them like this.
Li Ziqiang, who saw this scene from the side, narrowed his eyes. He had already made a decision in his mind regarding the candidate for the penalty kick taker.
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"Eh? I'll take the penalty kick?" In the queue, Hu Lai pointed at himself in surprise.
Other teammates also turned their attention to him, but they were not surprised or dissatisfied. In everyone's mind, the head coach made a wise decision.
"Yes, why? Not happy?" Li Ziqiang asked with a straight face.
"No, no, I'm quite happy! The coach is wise!" Hu Lai smiled broadly and agreed without any pretense.
Maybe for some people, scoring a penalty kick is too simple and they don't bother doing it. But here in Hu Lai, there is no such pedantic idea at all.
He doesn't care whether it's easy or difficult, as long as he can score goals, that's fine. As a forward, of course, the more goals the better.
Even if the penalty kick is relatively simple, he doesn't think there is anything wrong with it. He even wishes that all goals were so simple...
Seeing Hu Lai so happy, Li Ziqiang added: "But don't think about cheating for a penalty kick in the penalty area..."
"No, no, of course not! Coach, who do you think I am? Am I the kind of person without sportsmanship? If I fall in the penalty area, it must be a foul!" Hu Lai said repeatedly.
Yell.
Li Ziqiang raised his hand to signal Hu Lai to shut up.
Look at how shameless this kid is...how could he be nervous when taking a penalty kick?
With his thick skin, he is certainly the first choice to take penalty kicks.
