During the training camp in the United States, basically every day was in addition to training.
Except for a very small number of players like Su Dong who attend some activities on behalf of the club or sponsors, all other players are basically training non-stop every day and training repeatedly.
As the saying goes: One minute on stage, ten years of hard work off stage.
The level a player performs on the court is often slowly accumulated through long-term and accumulated training.
In addition to the regular first-team players, there are also young players like Sterling and Trippier in the training team that Manchester City brought to the United States this time. These players also performed particularly hard and worked hard to be in the first team.
Fight for a position.
Compared with other positions, the competition for goalkeepers is now beginning to heat up.
So far this season, Manchester City has a total of three goalkeepers.
They are England national goalkeeper and local youth training Joe Hart, last season's substitute goalkeeper Given, and Belgian youngster Thibaut Courtois who just joined this season.
The ages of the three goalkeepers are also very interesting. Joe Hart is 24 years old, Given is 35 years old, and Courtois is 19 years old.
From an age point of view, Joe Hart is undoubtedly the team's main goalkeeper in this year, Courtois is a potential player, and Given is a veteran.
But the problem now is that everyone can see that Guardiola is not satisfied with Joe Hart.
This dissatisfaction mainly comes from two aspects, one is on the court.
In order to better train Joe Hart, Guardiola hired goalkeeper coach Unzue from Spain and asked him to train Joe Hart specifically. However, the English goalkeeper did not seem to benefit from this aspect. His performance
Still unsatisfactory, with many mistakes and most importantly, poor passing ability.
Off the court, Joe Hart has caused trouble for the club. He caused a lot of trouble last season and caused a lot of trouble. This also made Guardiola quite dissatisfied. He still has very high requirements for discipline in the locker room.
It is for these two reasons that Manchester City has been planning to introduce a high-level goalkeeper this summer.
Many goalkeepers, including Buffon and Neuer, have not been able to make the trip, which has led to Manchester City's goalkeeper recruitment being suspended.
In fact, the young player Courtois does not quite meet Guardiola's requirements. The reason is very simple. He is too tall and his characteristics do not quite meet Guardiola's requirements. However, this young player works particularly hard in training.
More importantly, he is confident enough.
On the first day of training for the new season, when he was interviewed by the media, he didn't know whether he was misled by reporters or told the truth. Anyway, he stated in front of reporters that he wanted to be the main goalkeeper at Manchester City.
He's nineteen years old, he's just arrived, and he wants to take England's national position as soon as he arrives. This kid is really crazy!
So much so that the British Sun wrote an article afterwards, ridiculing the Belgian kid, thinking that the distance between him and Joe Hart was wider than the English Channel.
The implication is that you are a boy from the Belgian League One and have never seen the world. We don’t blame you, but you have to recognize the facts clearly. Joe Hart is the Premier League champion, the FA Cup champion and the Europa League champion.
The cup champion, the main goalkeeper of the Triple Crown, and the national goalkeeper of our British Empire, why do you compete with him?
This article caused a certain reaction in the British football world at the time, but not many people took it seriously. However, in the Manchester City dressing room, the atmosphere changed a lot because of it, and the smell of competition was obviously aroused.
Su Dong controlled the locker room, but did not intervene in the competition between players. Even he and Guardiola believed that appropriate competition is a good thing, especially for Joe Hart, who was really hard to describe last season.
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As for Courtois, Su Dong also wants to know how this kid is going to steal this main goalkeeper?
As a result, Courtois quickly gave the answer when he arrived in the United States.
He works harder than anyone else in training, and even takes the initiative to practice more by himself after training.
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"This kid is really crazy! He's a bit like Ronnie back in the day!"
Beside the training ground, Pepe said to Su Dong with a smile.
Back then, Ronnie was also very arrogant when he was playing in Sporting Lisbon, but he was not arrogant and arrogant, but an arrogance that refused to admit defeat.
He didn't allow himself to lose to anyone, so he trained like crazy and worked hard to catch up with everyone.
In this regard, Courtois is a bit like Ronnie.
Standing at Su Dong's level, he also believes that behind all successful professional players, there must be such an unwillingness to admit defeat. Otherwise, it will be difficult for them to continue to make progress.
On the training ground, Hazard kicked the ball on one side of the goal. The goalkeeper coach Unzue held up a spring board and kept changing its position according to the incoming ball, allowing the ball to shoot to different positions of the goal at a faster speed and at a very short distance.
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This kind of training tests the goalkeeper's reaction ability very much.
Courtois is tall but reacts quickly, falling to the ground again and again and getting up again and again.
"What is Wensuai's opinion of him?" Su Dong asked.
“Very good, better than expected.”
"Oh?" Su Dong was a little surprised.
"The training he received in Belgium since he was a child is completely different from the requirements of Unsue. I don't know the details. I just heard that the training requirement for their Belgian goalkeepers is to take one step forward when making a save. But Unsue
The requirement is to move laterally before making the save.”
Su Dong was confused, shook his head and said, "What's the difference?"
"How do I know?" Pepe smiled bitterly, "However, I heard that it can increase the speed of the save, which means that the speed of getting off the ground is faster."
After a pause, Pepe smiled again and said: "Then you see, Unsue's request is that the goalkeeper should move six to seven meters forward."
This is actually a problem that Manchester City has had since last season.
Maybe ordinary fans don't have much impression.
Take Joe Hart as an example. He was originally a goal-line goalkeeper and his position was usually on the goal line. However, whether it was Guardiola or Unzue, their requirements for him were to move his position forward.
, directly advance to six or seven meters.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The width of the penalty area is 5.5 meters, and the penalty spot is 11 meters. In other words, the normal position of the Manchester City goalkeeper is between the penalty area and the penalty spot.
time, which will bring great discomfort to the goalkeeper.
Joe Hart is very unsuited to this position, and many of his mistakes actually come from this unsuitability.
You must know that standing at the front of the small penalty area and standing at the goal line will face two completely different situations, and the judgments the goalkeeper needs to make are also completely different.
To some extent, this can even be said to subvert everything the goalkeeper has done in the past.
This is why the Manchester City dressing room has adopted a tolerant attitude towards the mistakes of Joe Hart and Given.
To put it bluntly, you have been playing like this since you were a child. Suddenly one day, the head coach asked you not to play like this and to use another way of playing. How many people can adapt?
"What do you think of Courtois?" Su Dong asked with concern.
The progress of Manchester City's introduction of goalkeepers is not ideal. This season, it is expected that they will continue to trust Joe Hart. If Courtois can perform well, he will be a strong complement to Manchester City's goalkeeper position.
"He is really determined to change, but you also know that not everyone can change."
If you can change it, you'll adapt; if you can't change it, you won't.
In the eyes of outside fans and media, if you adapt, you will perform well, and if you don't, you will perform poorly.
In fact, the player is still the same player, and the strength is still there, but the performance is completely different.
Sometimes players are criticized as parallel importers, and this is the reason.
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"Let me try it!"
Su Dong suddenly walked into the training ground with a smile on his face.
This surprised Vensue, Courtois and others.
"Didn't you go to attend a business event? Are you back?" Wensuai asked.
"That's right. I didn't do much training in the afternoon. How about I come and practice with you for a while?" Su Dong asked.
"Of course that's good. Everyone knows that your shooting is so tricky. It's a good thing that many goalkeepers don't even dare to think about asking you to practice with you." Of course there was no problem with Vensue, but he was in a good mood.
The coach gave the green light, and Su Dong looked directly at Courtois behind him provocatively.
"Boy, do you dare?"
Courtois was overjoyed. He knew this was a very rare opportunity, so he didn't hesitate and bent down directly, as if he was ready to save at any time.
The answer no longer needs to be said.
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The whole world knows that Su Dong's shots are varied and his shooting skills are extremely superb.
What's more important is that almost every shot he takes goes into the goalkeeper's blind spot.
The so-called blind spot does not actually mean blindly hitting those fixed positions, but moving according to the goalkeeper's center of gravity to hit some positions that are almost difficult for him to pounce on.
Sometimes Su Dong's shots are fast and urgent, but sometimes they are very clever. Occasionally, he will rebound on purpose. Anyway, he just scores goals.
According to the previous training, Sudong's shot was near the penalty spot and very close to the goal. This made it more difficult for Courtois to save. He did not save any of the ten shots in front of him.
After the Belgian goalkeeper got up from the ground, he looked directly at Su Dong, clapped his gloves hard several times, pointed at Su Dong, "Come again!"
Su Dong was very satisfied with his reaction and immediately moved towards Hazard who was passing the ball next to him, signaling him to pass the ball again and faster.
It's really depressing to say that no matter how Courtois saves, Sudong can find an angle to score.
Although it is a high probability that a shot near the penalty spot will be scored, Su Dong's penalty kick was not a penalty kick. Instead, he took the penalty kick directly after Hazard's pass. However, every one of his kicks hit the goal.
, never misses, and can hit blind corners that are difficult for Courtois to save.
Gradually, everyone clearly realized how terrifying Su Dong was.
This is the strength of the world's top scorer!
It's even possible that Su Dong hasn't tried his best.
Let me ask, if it really comes to the game, who can save Su Dong's shot?
Looking at Courtois falling to the ground again and again in front of the goal, Hazard couldn't bear it several times and wanted to call for stop, but when he saw that the goalkeeper coach Unsue didn't speak, he didn't dare to speak out.
I just don't understand why Su Dong looks so cruel today.
Do you think Courtois is too crazy? Do you want to kill his spirit?
