After attending a high-level sports science seminar in Europe, Gao Shen discovered that domestic competitive sports were lagging behind in all aspects.
Of course, this is a very complicated issue, and if we dig into it more deeply, it will probably take a long time.
In European football, professional football is an industry.
What is an industry?
It is an industry with a very detailed division of labor and cooperation, a very high degree of specialization, and a very top level of scientific research.
How professional is it?
Why does Buenaventura attach so much importance to recovery after games and training?
He said that based on years of scientific research, more and more evidence shows that training does not actually improve players' performance.
Isn’t this subversive?
Training can't improve your level, so why train at all?
It's very simple. The purpose of training is to fully stimulate the athlete's body, and recovery after stimulation is the key to improvement.
And these are not only obtained by coaches through long-term practice, but also many universities and scientific research institutions are engaged in these studies.
For example, Loughborough University, the lofty alma mater, is world-famous for its sports science.
Gao Shen still remembered that before time travel, he had seen an authoritative analysis article that contained such data.
In 2018, Deloitte accounting firm announced that among the top five football club wealth teams, Real Madrid ranked first with only three people on the coaching staff and physical rehabilitation positions, and the position was physical coach
and sports physiotherapists.
Manchester City, ranked fifth, has two physical coaches, but assistant coach Buenaventura himself is an authority in sports physiotherapy, so strictly speaking, Manchester City also has three.
There are three clubs in the middle. Barcelona ranks second, with ten people working as physical coaches, sports physiotherapists and rehabilitation doctors. Manchester United has fourteen people, including physical conditioning directors, masseurs, and intensive physical therapy directors.
Bayern Munich also has twelve people, and they generally hold similar positions.
This can fully show that in terms of physical fitness and physical therapy, the breakdown in European football is already quite detailed.
But all of this is actually difficult to appear in front of ordinary fans, because the media does not report it, and most of them are not even qualified to sit on the coaching bench, but their role in the team is very obvious.
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Two major trends can be seen from this, namely physical fitness and energy.
Body means body, which is some traditional basic physical training, corresponding to physical fitness coaches.
Ability refers to sports performance and how to help players exert more energy on the court, which corresponds to physical fitness coaches.
These are two different positions, but they are often called physical coaches in China.
Gao Shen already has a world-class physical fitness coach like Buenaventura, and now he wants to recruit an equally outstanding physical fitness coach with a world-class physical fitness coach.
On the 27th, just after Christmas, Gao Shen took Buenaventura and couldn't wait to fly to Milan in northern Italy.
After receiving Zidane at Milan Airport, the three of them headed to Turin.
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In the past six months, Antonio Pintus has deeply felt an unprecedented panic.
middle age crisis!
At the age of forty-five, he began to be unable to find a job.
He did not come from a wealthy background and had received professional track and field training since he was a child. Unfortunately, he lacked talent in this area. A few years later, he began to study athletes' physical training courses and successfully completed a major in physical education.
With a graduate degree, he became a well-known track and field and judo coach in Turin.
At the age of twenty-four, he became the physical fitness coach of an amateur team called Sedimo in Turin. This was just a part-time job, but he did a pretty good job. Coupled with the strong football atmosphere in Italy, he began to concentrate on it.
We have done our best to tailor a personalized training program for each player, and have achieved outstanding results.
Five years later, in 1991, he received an invitation that no one could refuse, Juventus.
At that time, the head coach of Juventus was Trapattoni, and the fitness coach was Claudio Gaudino, who can be called the authority in Italian football. Yes, he later worked part-time at Inter Milan and the Italian national team, helping Italy win
Fitness coach to the World Cup.
Pintus' job at Juventus is to be Gaudino's assistant, which gives him another excellent learning opportunity.
Gaudino has been working at Juventus since 1981 and has very rich experience.
The two worked together, experienced the eras of Trapattoni and Lippi, and also witnessed the peak of Juventus' glory in the 1990s.
It can be said that the peak of the Bianconeri in the 1990s was inseparable from the silent contributions of the two of them.
In 1998, Pintus got an excellent opportunity. Italian Vialli coached the Premier League team Chelsea. Vialli, who had played for Juventus for many years, was very aware of Pintus' ability, so he invited Pintus.
Join his coaching staff.
In this way, Pintus began to have the opportunity to stand alone.
Vialli resigned after coaching Chelsea for three years and left Chelsea with Pintus, but the latter soon received a new invitation to become the physical fitness coach of Udinese in Serie A, but this time
He only worked this job for a year.
It's not that he didn't do well, but Deschamps, who was coaching Monaco in France, extended an olive branch to him.
Pintus stayed at Monaco for four years and helped Deschamps lead Monaco to the Champions League final. Although they lost to Mourinho's Porto, Monaco's level was obvious to all.
In September 2005, Deschamps was dismissed from Monaco, and Pintus also left.
This time, he took the initiative to take a year off work.
It was also during this year that he had plenty of time to rest, recharge and further his studies.
In 2006, Deschamps coached Juventus in Serie B. Pintus also returned with him and proposed a new physical training idea, "reduce strength confrontation and increase more running."
At the beginning of the season, this was actually very promising, because at that time Gao Shen shined in Naples, with amazing running and crazy pressure, high-altitude offensive football, sweeping the entire Italian football world, forming a strong storm.
Pintus' new ideas are undoubtedly in line with Gao Shen's style of play. Both Deschamps and Juventus are very much looking forward to the changes Pintus will bring, so he has received strong support from the club.
But Pintus suffered a tragic defeat.
Not only was Juventus repeatedly defeated by Naples, but also because last season, muscle strain became the most common injury for Juventus, and everyone knows that the main cause of muscle strain is training problems.
Juventus players are not used to Pintus' training methods.
In 2007, Deschamps led Juventus back to Serie A and then left.
Initially, Pintus was retained by the club, but Ranieri brought in his own fitness coach, Capana, a doctor of sports science.
If it's just like this, it doesn't really matter. The key is that when captain Del Piero renewed his contract, he publicly stated that he wanted to have a physical coach of his own because he didn't trust Pintus; Camoranesi also criticized Pintus because of long-term injuries.
Quite complaining.
As a result, Pintus was fired before the season even started.
From July to now, he has been idle at home.
Originally, he was ambitious last season and wanted to push his career to a new level, but who would have thought that what awaited him was a tragic Waterloo.
How great your ambition was when you took office, how painful your loss will be after leaving your job.
What's more, there are no secrets in this business.
Pintus' work at Juventus and the attitude of Juventus players towards Pintus have all made the Italian football community feel resentful towards Pintus. They all wonder whether this physical fitness coach is a real person.
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And you must know that in Italy, excellent physical coaches are not scarce.
Just like that, Pintus lost his job.
At the age of forty-five, there are older people and younger people. Being unemployed is such a scary thing!
Since July, he has called and contacted many people, but he has never been able to get a new job. He even contacted many foreign teams, but nothing happened.
Either he doesn't like him, or he just doesn't like him. If he can't do it well, he can't do it well, so he just sits idle.
A free period lasts for half a year.
Until the day before Christmas, Zidane suddenly called him.
"Someone is interested in you!"
So, on the afternoon of the 27th.
The whole of Italy, and even the whole of Europe, was still immersed in the atmosphere of Christmas, and Pintus had an interview.
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Gao Shen took Buenaventura and Zidane to Pintus' home.
In fact, his house is quite nice. It is in a good location in downtown Turin.
Football coaches, especially football coaches in the top leagues, have quite high salaries.
But he could feel Pintus's desire for a new job, because he was far from the stage of financial freedom.
Pintus was really excited about the visit of the Gao Shen trio. Even though he tried hard to suppress it, it still showed to some extent, whether it was the action of greeting them, the reaction of his family, or the tone of his words.
Revealing that he needs a job now.
More importantly, Napoli now has a good prospect and is second in the Serie A standings.
Gao Shen is now also a hot young coach in European football.
There was news before that Juventus wanted to fire Ranieri and recruit Gao Shen to Juventus. If he really joined Gao Shen's coaching staff, wouldn't he be back at Juventus?
Pintus couldn't imagine that scene.
But it is certain that Gao Shen has a very promising future now!
Gao Shen is no longer what he used to be. After all, when he approached Buenaventura and Borrell, he was just a fledgling kid. But now he is quite famous in European football.
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Especially this season, his team has topped the Serie A standings three times and was ranked second in Serie A before the winter break.
Being able to bring the newly promoted team to this level must be attributed to Gao Shen, and his reputation will naturally increase accordingly.
But now when facing Pintus, Gao Shen still acted like a friend even though he didn't hold back, but it was more or less like an interview.
