If Wang Ai is asked to choose between defeating Argentina or winning the championship, Wang Ai will definitely choose the former. Although Wang Ai has never won the World Youth Championship, and the Chinese team has certainly never won it, its importance is still far lower than that of Beijing.
Olympic Games. Whether they can defeat Argentina, led by Messi, at the World Youth Championship will also be crucial to the Beijing Olympics three years later.
Most of the teammates in the youth team play domestic football, and some have only seen Messi's power on TV. Messi is currently only a substitute in Barcelona, so many teammates are not familiar with him at all.
Therefore, after the game, Wang Ai put aside everything, including the tactical research work of the coaching staff, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to leading his teammates in training. During the training break, Wang Ai spent a lot of time explaining Messi's technical characteristics to everyone.
Especially against defenders such as Feng Xiaoting, and midfielders such as Zhou Haibin and Zhao Xuri.
Wang Ai doesn't know how to defend, but he knows how to attack. He demonstrated it personally while comparing the few videos of Messi's games. Messi's footwork is outstanding and comprehensive, his power is hidden and his pace is excellent, especially his sense of rhythm and
It's different. In today's football, the average height of players is about 180 centimeters, and the corresponding steps are about the same size. However, Messi's steps are smaller than others. In this case, for others to take one step, he may take 1.5 steps, so the same
The preparation distance gives him more opportunities to adjust. More importantly, defensive players have adapted to the pace and rhythm of a 180 cm tall player. When encountering a player with a special rhythm, they often cannot adjust.
Therefore, many of Messi's shots make the fans look like the defensive players are cooperating. They are obviously very close, so why not block them? In fact, the defensive players' center of gravity is adjusted according to the general rhythm, and he shoots before he can move back.
, it’s so awkward no matter what. If you insist on keeping up with his rhythm, even if you can barely keep up, you are not as skilled as him and can’t play with him.
Although the disease of dwarfism has caused Messi a lot of suffering, it has also given him special talents. And he is different from ordinary short players, such as Maradona and Carlos. These short players have muscles.
Very developed, the pace and rhythm are actually similar to those of a big man.
To put it figuratively speaking, Messi is like an antelope with the physique of a lion playing chase with the lion. When Wang Ai played against the adult team when he was a child, he often took advantage of him because of his pace.
In other words, Wang Ai's unique technology of high-frequency running is actually similar to Messi.
After years of hard practice, this skill has almost become Wang Ai's instinct. It's just that most people haven't noticed these profound principles. Even football professionals mostly pay attention to his arbitrariness when evaluating Wang Ai.
Ball technology.
When Wang Ai used high-frequency running to demonstrate in front of teammates such as Feng Xiaoting, Zhou Haibin, Zhao Xuri, Guo Liang, Tan Wangsong, etc., the teammates were shocked. Not only because Wang Ai's high-frequency running was very weird given his current height.
, but also because the teammates knew for the first time that it was not just the boss who had this talent.
And Wang Ai said that for him, this kind of pace is mainly used for passing people, and Argentina's Messi is a passing person, and his shooting skills are all at this pace. Wang Ai's shooting skills at this pace are not as good as Messi
West. The goal against Brazil in the last game was a Messi-style goal, but it was far less good than Messi.
Although what Wang Ai said was a bit exaggerated, his teammates had developed a habit over the years and were very convinced of him, so they were easily deceived. They all practiced with Wang Ai, discussed and exchanged heatedly on how to defend.
Wang Ai did not interrupt and concentrated on being a sparring partner for his defensive teammates. He knew in his heart that Messi in the Argentine team was just like himself in the Chinese team, and his technical level was far ahead of his teammates. The outcome of this game against Argentina would be
To a large extent, it depends on how much your teammates can limit Messi.
Completely blocking? Wang Ai has never expected that. The only one who can block Messi is himself. When he is in poor condition, he can give the opponent a chance.
Just like Wang Ai doesn't think any defensive player in today's football can completely lock him down.
Wang Ai's extraordinary performance also attracted the attention of Lao Gao. After listening and watching for an afternoon, he decisively adjusted his defensive focus and made guarding against Messi the focus of the Chinese team's defense in the next game. If not
If there is no full-time man-marking central defender like Zhang Yonghai in the national youth team, Lao Gao will even split the lineup and send someone to guard him specifically.
From Wang Ai, Lao Gao has never seen a person who is so highly regarded. Compared with him, the only one who can compare with him is Ronaldinho, who was tricked by him in every possible way in the last World Cup.
So Lao Gao doesn't even need to go to Messi's video to know that this little guy who is the same age as Wang Ai is definitely extraordinary.
In the next two days of training, Wang Ai took an hour as usual to play Messi, galloping around the Chinese team's defense, making his teammates miserable. Because Wang Ai actually has better physical fitness than Messi.
Therefore, defensive methods such as collision are also ineffective.
However, both his teammates and Lao Gao can feel the improvement in the defensive strength of Feng Xiaoting and others. With three consecutive European Golden Boy Award winners as their sparring partners, is there any better treatment than this? With the whole team
Earth-wide?
So starting from the next day, Feng Xiaoting told everyone in private that he must cherish this opportunity. Usually the boss would accompany Chen Tao in the front to practice attacks and rarely come to pay attention to us. He could not tell when the next time would be.
In fact, what Feng Xiaoting didn't say was: It's uncertain who will be included in the next National Olympics or the national team.
Therefore, everyone has also been inspired to fight and be resilient. Even if two days are too short, the chance of successful interception is still very low, but at least they have been able to initially determine the main threat to players with technical characteristics such as Wang Ai or Messi.
and ball route.
Even goalkeeper Yang Cheng and onlookers Zeng Cheng benefited a lot.
Two days passed quickly, and the match day arrived. While waiting for the game to start in the locker room of Utrecht’s Haggewald Stadium, Lao Gao made a special speech: “Everyone’s attitude in preparing for the game these two days has been very good.
My confidence in each game has been strengthened a lot. Although our opponents are very strong, we are not weak either. Don’t forget, we are now in the top four, and we have defeated Germany and Brazil successively.”
Seeing that the tension of the team members had relaxed, Lao Gao regained his composure and said: "However, we cannot underestimate our opponents. Except for Messi, the other Argentine players are not bad either. Argentina has already won
We have won the World Youth Championship four times, and we haven’t won one.”
As both sides came on stage, fans inside and outside the TV cameras exclaimed: Wang Ai is starting.
