As night falls, the buildings are deserted, and the Gamber Sports City where training ends is empty.
The surrounding training buildings with scaffolding are still under construction and the football fields have not yet been completed, making the entire Gamber Sports City seem like an unfinished construction site.
The gym in the main training building of the first team was filled with bright lights.
Looking through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall, you can clearly see Su Dong training with the equipment.
Around him, Nuno Cruz, Vito Scala and other personal trainers were observing and recording data from time to time.
Grant Downing is preparing in another treatment and recovery room. After Su Dong finishes training, he will come directly here for massage and recovery.
This has become Su Dong's daily training routine.
Messi and Iniesta were sitting leisurely on semi-reclining chairs that were probably moved from the players' lounge, looking at Su Dong who was sweating from training, but they were complaining.
"Don't pay attention to those gossips, they are too demanding on you." Messi comforted with complaints.
He felt that if the media outside used harsh criticism of Su Dong to criticize him, he would definitely go crazy.
Why?
Because Su Dong failed to score in three games and stopped playing in two games, he was immediately criticized.
Although they are not authoritative major newspapers, but some tabloids that have no bottom line in exchange for sales, they are still too harsh.
Just yesterday, Su Dong missed Barcelona's game against Racing Santander again. This time, Barcelona drew 2-2 away with Racing Santander. For the away game against AC Milan, Rijkaard even only arranged
Three main players appeared.
Su Dong was not among them.
So, today, some tabloids started to speculate again, saying that Su Dong's lack of self-discipline led to his decline in status, and that Su Dong was busy making money from business activities and had gone to Germany before.
But everyone at Barcelona knows very well that Su Dong went to Germany to shoot a public service video for the United Nations. What does it have to do with making money?
In a word, Su Dong has been absent or failed to score in five consecutive games, which is a heinous crime!
"Leo is right, there is no need to vent your anger on those guys." Iniesta also advised.
Su Dong was still panting and training, but he heard what his two friends said, but he just had no time to respond.
Nuno Cruz looked at Su Dong, then at Messi and Iniesta, and felt funny in his heart. These two little guys were too innocent, or they cared too much about Su Dong.
Concern leads to chaos.
What would Su Dong really say to the outside media?
If he cared, how could he behave like this?
What Su Dong really cares about is his own performance. He can feel that he is in a bottleneck stage. He tries hard to break through and pierce the window paper, because he knows that it will be a brand new one.
A wider world.
But before the window paper is punctured, it is often the most suffocating.
This is the problem Su Dong is facing now.
But these two little guys were also kind-hearted. Otherwise, the entire Barcelona team would have left on time after the training. Only they stayed, trained with Su Dong, and talked non-stop.
Thinking of this, Nuno Cruz looked at Su Dong again and couldn't help but speak.
"Actually, both of them are right, but you don't need to blame the media."
"Why?" Messi felt strange.
Why can't we blame them for being so demanding and biased?
"It's simple, because he is Su Dong!"
Messi and Iniesta looked at each other, both chewing on Nuno Cruz's words.
"If Su Dong was just an ordinary player, the media probably wouldn't make things so difficult for him. If he was just a main player in Barcelona's first team, the media's requirements might be higher. But he is only 21 years old, so he is probably no more difficult than Albany.
The Spanish newspaper treats Robinho the same way, and maybe even praises him very much."
"But he is Su Dong, the double Footballer of the Year winner for two consecutive years. Everyone's requirements and expectations for him are naturally different from ordinary people. They are higher and more demanding than others. Others can go several rounds without scoring, it doesn't matter.
Yes, but not Su Dong."
"Others can get injured and miss key games, but Su Dong can't!"
"Others can lose after playing, but Su Dong can't either!"
"But have you noticed that they did not put such high and demanding demands on Su Dong from the beginning, but slowly increased the requirements little by little, because Su Dong performed better and better, and the original standards were no longer
No matter how suitable he is, people will have higher expectations and requirements for him on the basis of the original."
When Nuno Cruz said this, he asked himself and couldn't help but feel that Su Dong was indeed too difficult.
But this is not the most difficult time.
"I can imagine that if you break the record this time, they will ask you to break your own record later. By then, you will not win the championship, you will not win the golden boot, you will be eliminated from the Champions League, and you will even be in the future.
He joined the national team but was unable to lead the Chinese team to the World Cup, which will become the focus of their criticism."
"To put it simply, their demands on you will become higher and higher, so high that it is unimaginable for all other professional players. This is human nature! You can regard it as pressure, but it can also be regarded as motivation, because you
It's Su Dong! In this position, you have to bear such accusations."
"Throughout the ages, almost all superstars have been like this, especially in the age of media and the Internet. The only difference is that some people have overcome it and turned it into motivation, while some people can't bear the pressure and collapse.
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Messi and Iniesta were shocked when they heard this. Is this still a human being?
Will you be blamed for being eliminated from the Champions League?
Who can win the Champions League every season?
Will the Chinese team be blamed if they can't make it to the World Cup?
That would probably make even God cry!
But thinking about it again, Nuno Cruz is right to say that.
As the saying goes, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.
This is the current situation in Su Dong.
Many media and fans treat Su Dong to a higher standard than others.
"According to your opinion, Su Dong will always be like this, fighting against this kind of pressure?" Iniesta asked with concern.
Nuno Cruz also looked at Su Dong with sympathy and sighed, "What else? Give up? That's how competitive sports are, fighting all the time, the only difference is that the opponents are different."
This is why people always say that when professional players strive to reach the top, they no longer compete for talent, but for mental strength.
After the 1998 World Cup, Beckham's red card made him the target of a lot of criticism. How terrible was the situation he faced at that time?
But what’s the result?
He survived and became a heartthrob in world football!
Continuous serious injuries put Ronaldo under pressure that ordinary people could never imagine, but he survived and won the third World Footballer.
Has Zidane not been under pressure?
No, in the first half year of his transfer from Juventus to Real Madrid, he had the aura of being the world's most expensive player, but his performance was not ideal. How much pressure was he under at that time? How fierce was the criticism he faced?
After he survived, he had that extraordinary kick in the 2002 Champions League final.
If you don’t experience wind and rain, you won’t see the rainbow!
What Nuno Cruz wants to express is such a simple truth.
After Nuno Cruz finished speaking and Messi and Iniesta were still rejecting these words, Sudong had already finished the training task, panting, took the towel from Vito Scala, and shook his head with all his strength.
Wiping his sweat on the floor, Su Dong also looked at the personal trainer and his two best friends. Su Dong couldn't help but shook his head.
"You guys are so noisy!"
After saying that, he got up and left.
Are we noisy?
Messi and Iniesta were immediately aggrieved.
The two looked at each other in shock, and immediately chased after him to argue with him.
Your kindness was struck by lightning. We cared about you and that’s why we stayed with you. You still said we were noisy?
Too much! Too much!
"Never mind, I won't forgive you if you don't treat me to dinner!"
"Yes, yes, please have a feast."
Two shameless little guys gave chase.
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"Su Dong must pay attention!"
In the head coach's office at the AC Milan training base, Ancelotti was not as relaxed as the outside world imagined.
Su Dong's goal drought made him more worried than anyone else.
"In a situation like his, he will either continue to slump, but once he seizes the opportunity, he will immediately explode. The energy accumulated in the past period will completely explode, and it will be impossible to suppress it."
Ancelotti and Tassotti, who are professional players, know the situation of professional players better than anyone else.
It feels like a bachelor who has been solo since his mother's womb and finally gets a girlfriend after being horny for many years. How about having sex night after night?
The energy that burst out was definitely beyond anyone's imagination.
"Stalm played on the right to guard Ronaldinho. The effect in the first round was good. Will he continue to play like this?" Tassotti asked.
Ancelotti nodded, "Nesta still has to play, let Maldini guard Messi on the left."
"What about Costacurta?" Tassotti asked with concern.
This veteran made a serious mistake in the first round. If Dida hadn't played bravely, the goal would have been broken by Su Dong long ago, and Su Dong's goal drought would not have ended until now.
"Let's go to Kaladze, it's safer this way." Ancelotti was a bit confused.
In fact, he was not sure whether the combination of Kaladze and Nesta could freeze Sudong, because the performance of the two in the first round was not very satisfactory, but there was no way, he only had so many people on hand now.
Judging from the performance in the first round, AC Milan's defense was indeed difficult to defend Sudong and was broken through several times. However, Dida performed very bravely and could even be said to have performed at a super level.
Judging purely from his performance in the first round, it is not an exaggeration to say that Dida is at the top level in the world.
But no one knows whether he can maintain the level of the first round in the second round?
Ancelotti is confident in his own abilities and knows enough about Rijkaard's coaching characteristics. He is confident that he can suppress Barcelona at the overall technical and tactical level, at least not to fall behind. The key is the on-the-spot performance of the players from both teams.
The biggest unstable factor is Su Dong who is stuck in a goal drought.
