"Lionel, have you made a mistake? Why did I have a bad psychological evaluation? I worked very hard throughout the whole process. I didn't even stop for a moment during the fifteen-minute match." Ronnie looked very aggrieved.
Pontes nodded and said: "That's true, but concentration and devotion alone are not enough. Take a look at the comments."
Su Dong leaned over and looked at the comments with Ronnie.
"The concentration is acceptable, but he is too selfish when playing football. He is obsessed with expressing himself and is easily irritable."
Ronnie was immediately speechless.
This was his first training session with the first team, and his performance was indeed very poor.
If the player with the worst performance in the team is Su Dong, then he must be ranked second to last.
Ronnie has more chances to get the ball than Su Dong, because as a forward, Su Dong has been facing Brazilian veteran Cruz.
This defensive center back came from AC Milan. Although he is a little older, he has rich experience. It is not easy to deal with a rookie like Su Dong. The entire team game was frozen and he had no ability to struggle.
This is also the reason why all three categories of Sudong and Dong are poor.
The most important thing about Ronnie is the psychological level. He is too anxious to express himself.
"Sometimes the more anxious you are, the easier it is to have problems. This is a big trouble. You must try your best to overcome it," Pontes warned.
Ronnie nodded, not sure if he heard it.
He is still very proud deep down and doesn't think he will lose to anyone, but today's training with the first team made him feel inadequate.
"In the past, when I watched from the sidelines, I always felt that training with the first team was just the same thing. It was quite easy. Sometimes I even thought those mistakes were too stupid. But when I personally participated in it, my feelings were completely different.
Yeah." Ronnie said with a frown.
Obviously, the first training session with the first team had a great impact on him, or in other words, a blow.
"What about you?" Pontes looked at Su Dong.
"Me?" Su Dong smiled bitterly, "The only thing I feel is tired. I have tried every means to get rid of Cruise, but in the end there is still no way. I feel like he can guess what I am thinking, always
Being able to be one step ahead of me is very depressing, and I even feel like I want to collapse.”
"That's right." Pontes smiled.
Su Dong and Ronny both felt very strange, how could it be right?
Pontes knelt down in front of the two men and looked at the two immature young players in front of him. Even though they performed in a mess in the training just now, he still had full confidence in them.
"You know? Whether it is the media, fans, or youth team players, it is often easy to think of the first team too simply. It is so simple that when you are in the youth team and you are killing everyone, you will take it for granted that you have reached the first team.
The team can also do the same, but in fact, it is not the case at all.”
The expression on Su Dong's face began to become serious.
He is good at listening to other people's suggestions, which is a very good advantage of him.
"You may think that the gap between you and the first team is the strength gap between you and Quaresma, and a little more is the strength gap between you and Jardel, but what is the reality?"
Pontes didn't intend for them to answer, so he gave the answer himself.
"The gap between you and the first team is between you and the two dozen Quaresma and Jardel. There is a huge gap that many people cannot even cross in their lifetime."
At this moment, Su Dong suddenly thought of Edgar Marcelino.
He was a genius in the youth team, but he seems to be unable to stand firm in the first team and may be sent back to the second team at any time.
"The first team is never a place to train people. The youth team and the second team are. When it comes to the first team, whether it is training or playing, everyone will try their best to express themselves, every touch of the ball, every defense
, even every time they run, they are trying their best."
"So you will find that even when the first team is training, the pace is very fast. The ball is passed so fast that you can hardly catch it. The players run very fast. If you hesitate a little, the chance will be gone and the ball will be intercepted.
"
What Pontes said is indeed the personal experience of Su Dong and Ronnie.
"You are considered the best in the youth team, but when you get to the first team, you will find that you can only be at the bottom. Do you know why?"
Su Dong and Ronny both shook their heads.
"Strength is part of it, and the other part is that you are used to the way and rhythm of playing in the youth team. You need to integrate yourself into the first team and try your best to keep up with the teammates around you, keep up with the pace and rhythm of the whole team, and keep up.
The way other people play, and then integrate into it and show their own strength."
Su Dong understood.
Why did Marcelino and Quaresma enter the first team at the same time, but one shined and the other slumped throughout?
Perhaps at the moment they entered the first team, the two were of similar strength, but Quaresma integrated quickly, quickly improved his playing ability, and then showed his strength.
Unfortunately, Marcelino has done a poor job in this aspect, so that his performance so far is still poor.
For those who can enter the first team, the most basic strength is not a big problem, at least it is not out of reach. The key is to be able to integrate into the team, keep up with the pace and rhythm of the team, and exert one's own strength. This is the most difficult thing.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Do you know why the whole team, including the head coach, is so cold towards you?" Pontes asked.
Su Dong and Ronny both shook their heads again.
"The reason is very simple. From the youth team to the first team, there are always very few people who can cross this gap. Failure is a high probability event. Therefore, no one is optimistic about you. This is normal."
After Su Dong and Ronny heard this, they looked at each other again and saw the dissatisfaction in each other's eyes.
Their journey has never been easy, and they will never give up easily.
"Lionel, generally speaking, how long does it take to integrate into the first team?" Ronnie asked with concern.
"Not sure, some people are very fast, some people are very slow, and you came in in the middle of the season, which is very disadvantageous because the entire technical and tactical system of the first team has been established and is very stable, and everyone else has figured it out.
, but you are still confused, which is why many teams don’t like signings during the winter break.”
"Ricardo has an advantage, that is, he has nearly two months of summer training and warm-up matches to run in, but you don't have that at all, so there is no way to use his standards to measure and demand yourselves, but Edgar's lesson
It’s worth learning from.”
Although it is intuitive to use Quaresma and Marcelino as positive and negative examples, it is somewhat inappropriate, so Pontes spoke very quietly for fear of being heard by others.
"You should have half a year to train in the summer at the latest. If you still can't integrate..."
Pontes didn't finish speaking, but the answer was already very clear.
The first team has gathered Sporting Lisbon's best and highest-quality resources and given the players the best environment. It is impossible to keep players who cannot contribute to the team.
If by the summer training camp, Su Dong and Ronnie are still unable to integrate into the first team and prove their strength in training, Sporting Lisbon will certainly not give up on them, but they will only be able to send them back to the second team to be retrained.
And soon, the club issued a warning.
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On the morning of the first day of the team's winter break training, after the training session, Edgar Marcelino was called to the office of first-team coach Boloni.
Not long after, after returning to the dressing room, he silently walked to his closet, packed his things, and left.
Su Dong stood at the door of the locker room, watching him carry his backpack and cross the barbed wire fence, his back looking extremely depressed and defeated.
"I wonder if he can return to the first team after suffering such a blow?" Su Dong said with sadness.
Ronnie shook his head, "If it were me, I would come back even if I risk my life, but other people...who knows?"
After saying that, the boy from Madeira turned around and left.
Su Dong looked at the barbed wire fence. Marcelino was no longer there, but he seemed to see the African-American player's struggle and loneliness on the other side of the barbed wire fence.
If you don’t succeed, you will succeed!
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The first lesson of training was a wake-up call, and Su Dong's beautiful vision for the first team became clearer.
He even calmed down completely.
Although he has the help of being a ball champion, and although he has some advantages that others do not have, in the end, he is still not enough.
But what's interesting is that as the training level of the first team improves, his strength is also improving bit by bit.
Although it is slow, it is at least faster than at Sporting CP.
In addition, the championship value is gained faster, especially in his matchup with Cruz, the efficiency is not inferior to Ronnie at all.
After a training session, he can often earn several thousand or even over ten thousand points.
This is a very gratifying harvest for Su Dong.
The only trouble is that he still seems out of place with his first-team teammates and can never keep up with the rhythm.
Pontes comforted him that this kind of thing cannot be done in a hurry, and even the more urgent it is, the more likely it will be counterproductive.
"Keep calm and rational, keep a normal mind, work steadily and improve yourself step by step. Slowly, you will get there."
Although Su Dong was impatient, he also knew that Pontes was right.
After training with the first team for a week and being brutally abused by Cruz for a week, Su Dong forged ahead amidst the intertwining of pain and happiness, not daring to slack off at all.
After entering 2002, the Portuguese Super League quickly reignited the war.
Su Dong also ushered in his first game after joining Sporting Lisbon.
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