The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 377 Practice Makes Perfect
The next day, the media in the UK, Europe, and even around the world were hyping the incident that Tottenham Hotspur's team bus was mobbed and stoned by fans after Tottenham Hotspur's defeat at the Emirates Stadium last night. The move has also attracted huge attention, with mixed reviews, good and bad.

Early in the morning, a lot of reporters and media gathered outside the gate of the Zigwell training base, but they were all blocked at the gate of the training base and forbidden to enter the training base, and the hype outside was almost overwhelmed. However, the training of the first-team players in Zigwell's training base is business as usual.

Because they had just fought a tough battle last night, Tottenham Hotspur did not adopt any high-intensity training early this morning, but arranged more relaxation and adjustment projects, hoping that the players can recover as soon as possible.

Ye Qiu has never advocated high-intensity compact training during the intensive league, because in the intensive schedule, the physical condition of the players is not very ideal. Injuries, so unless necessary, otherwise, his high-intensity training is generally arranged at the beginning of the season.

Mauro Tassotti is an expert in organizational defense. During the few months since he came to Tottenham Hotspur, he has been conducting research with Ye Qiu. One of the most important topics is how to organize his defense. The organizational concept extends to the whole team, how to complete the construction of the team's defensive system through the orderly running and cutting of the whole team from front to back.

At present, Tottenham Hotspur has gradually established a certain framework, but the effect is still not reflected. On the one hand, there are problems with players in some positions of the team. For example, the No.3 midfielder is a big weakness. Yaya ?Toure's performance is mixed, and he is unable to give important tasks for the time being, while Davis is already very old.

Ye Qiu also admitted his mistake in the internal meeting of the coaching staff, but everyone knew that it was a mistake, but Ye Qiu couldn't be completely blamed, because no one could fully grasp the player's body and state.

After coming to Tottenham Hotspur, Mauro Tassotti felt that he had improved a lot, and many things and ideas became clearer. Among them, he felt that Ye Qiu's training on some training The high requirements for details have even reached an almost demanding level.

Tottenham Hotspur's daily training is ball training, and a lot of it is emphasizing the basic technical details of the players, and a very important part of it is stopping the ball.

Mauro Tassotti used to be teammates with Van Basten. He admired Van Basten's ability to stop the ball very much. It is a technical detail full of skills and art. You can't say in detail what he includes. There is a lot of technology in it, but what is presented on the football field is a very delicate ball-stopping action time after time.

Some people say that Van Basten is chic and elegant, and some people say that Van Basten is deadly and dangerous, but no matter what he is, in the final analysis, it is because he has one thing, that is, the shocking stop.

Because the North London Derby was finished yesterday, the training session this morning was still focused on recovery and adjustment. The players started various games, such as sliding monkeys, hitting the wall, etc., all of which emphasized technical details, and the rhythm was also different. Soon game projects, it is said that these game projects started when Ye Qiu was at Ajax.

And every break time, Meulensteen and Moniz will definitely become the busiest people, because they will go up immediately and tell this group of players who are resting, what mistakes they made just now, what mistakes did they make? Some places should be corrected, and they will even give opinions, saying that it will be better and so on.

In the last half hour, Ye Qiu even directly arranged training programs around stopping the ball. These have been used by everyone in the team in the past period of time, and sometimes Ye Qiu would even simply draw one. Small circle, let the players stand inside to stop the ball passed from the outside. If they stop outside the circle, it will be considered bad and they will be punished.

The content of the penalty is not tiring, but very boring. They are all very basic training on stopping the ball, which is very boring. I believe it is impossible to see it in other first-team training grounds, because these are small players. Those who have been practicing all the time, can become professional players, basically they are very good at this aspect, but Ye Qiu still insists on training in this aspect every day.

But don't think that Ye Qiu wants to train all the players to stop the ball to the limit. In fact, this is impossible.

Many delicate skills in the field of football are cultivated from an early age. After a certain age, it is basically very difficult to improve. For example, a professional player in his 20s compares his skills Poor, if he wants to practice at the same level as Ronaldinho, he probably won't be able to practice for a lifetime, and he doesn't even need to be like Ronaldinho, as long as he can reach the first-class level, it will be very, very difficult.

This is why the training of technical details is more concentrated in the youth training, that is, before the age of 14, because during that period of time, the players' technical progress is the fastest. After this age group, if you want to improve, you will get twice the result with half the effort .

And stopping the ball is undoubtedly the most difficult skill to practice, but it is the core of all football technical movements!

Perhaps it can be said that the most important measure of all top players is stopping the ball.

But stopping the ball is the same as all football skills. It not only includes the process of how you stop the ball to your feet when others pass it to you, but also includes many things. For example, for a striker, how does he judge the ball? The oncoming momentum of the ball, and then use the moment when the heel ball touches to change the direction of the ball, and directly pass the ball into a shot. In this, the striker's stopping and ball feel are very important. If these two aspects are not good, he Can't grasp the direction and angle of the ball at all.

Mauro Tassotti thought of Ruud van Nistelrooy. This Dutch striker has a very special feature, that is, he is used to stopping the ball before playing. This is very, very rare among top strikers, because usually these are It is a skill that forwards like Henry and Ronaldo will use. For a center forward who catches murder in the penalty area, it is more of a direct shot like Crespo, Batistuta, and Inzaghi.

Because direct shooting is often faster and more sudden than shooting after stopping the ball, it is difficult for defensive players to react. Even for many players and coaches, they will try to avoid shooting after stopping the ball as much as possible, because it is easy to cause delays Fighter, missed the best and most suitable kicking opportunity.

So why isn't this an issue for Van Nistelrooy?

Mauro Tassotti had researched this question when he was in AC Milan, but he didn't get any results. After he came to Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu gave him the answer, which was Ruud van Nistelrooy's stop .

"If you study Van Nistelrooy's technique carefully, you will be able to find that his stop has a very important impact on his next kick and shot. It is not to stop the ball at the foot, but to stop the ball at a pre-set, the most comfortable position to hit the goal."

"So when we watch Ruud van Nistelrooy shoot, sometimes it feels like it is done in one go, stopping the ball, turning around, kicking, the whole movement is very coherent, even in the penalty area, he can use such a set of movements very skillfully, and in Stopping the ball, which is cumbersome for other forwards, became a technique for him to avoid defenders."

Van Nistelrooy's shooting percentage is high, why?Because he stopped the ball until the defender couldn't reach it before shooting, but he was in the most comfortable place. The next kick was naturally easy, and the hit rate was naturally high!
What Ye Qiu said at the beginning made Mauro Tassotti completely understand why Ye Qiu insisted on technical training in stopping the ball and details, because whether it is stopping the ball or other technical details, it must rely on long-term persistent training To ensure that feeling, which is what many people call the ball feel.

There is no way to say about the ball feel, only you understand it, but if you don’t practice it for a long time, it will retreat, and it will continue to retreat, until a skill that you were familiar with becomes very unfamiliar and unfamiliar , So why does Beckham have to keep practicing, because this is the only way to ensure his passing feeling.

Similarly, why Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Zidane and other players kept practicing at their peak is also to maintain their unique sense of the ball. Only in this way can they guarantee their performance on the court. If you stop, sooner or later the technical movements will become stiff and the performance will be poor.

Ye Qiu asked Van Persie to improve his physical strength to fight. At first, including the players themselves, they didn't understand it very well, but after watching Van Nistelrooy's performance and training, everyone understood, because Van Persie has a better and more delicate stop than Van Nistelrooy. Ability, and he has the imagination and the ability to play the ball that Van Nistelrooy does not have, but he lacks Van Nistelrooy's physical strength to fight.

Ruud van Nistelrooy dared to stop the ball in the penalty area because he had enough physical strength to support him. Otherwise, when someone hit him, he would be distorted. Why stop the ball and hit what goal?

The same reason also applies to some other players in the team. Ye Qiu always requires them to insist on at least a certain amount of technical detail training every day. For many players, including Gareth Bell, Carroll, Cavani, Ashley? Yang and other frontcourt players, as well as some players in the team whose ability to stop the ball is not very good, Ye Qiu gave very high training requirements.

Executing every technical action with purpose is the core concept of Tottenham Hotspur's football. However, Ye Qiu especially emphasizes two points when it comes to stopping the ball, that is, the second before stopping the ball and the time of stopping the ball. After a second.

The second before stopping the ball, it means to tell all the players that before stopping the ball, they must figure out why they want to stop the ball, what to do after stopping the ball, whether to pass, take or shoot, all these must be done before stopping the ball Think clearly.

The second after stopping the ball is to ask the players. The purpose of stopping the ball is not to stop the ball under their feet. This is a misunderstanding of many professional players. sex.

Being able to stop the ball steadily is the standard of a good player; being able to stop the ball and coherent with your next action is the standard of a first-class player; and when you can practice to stop the ball When you mix and play with other technical movements like flowing clouds and flowing water, then you are the top!
Ye Qiu mentioned two players who had played in the Premier League, and they both came from Arsenal, that is, Bergkamp and Nwankovo ​​Kanu. He believed that these two players had the top stopping skills, and Needless to say, Bergkamp, ​​if Kanu hadn't suffered from a heart attack, he would definitely become a top and best striker.

Of course, Ye Qiu is also very clear that top-notch ball-stopping skills are not only dependent on practice, but also talent and imagination, which can be encountered but not sought after, but the standard of first-class players' ball-stopping skills can be practiced.

This is another misunderstanding of many people about football, thinking that football is purely based on talent, but they don't know that football actually depends on practice.

The most important factor in cultivating ball feel is long-term training. Without long-term training, a genius cannot become a genius at all, but as long as he can maintain long-term training, the ball feel can be accumulated and developed. As the ancestors said, practice makes perfect.

Moreover, Ye Qiu kept asking Moniz and Meulenstein to give tips and refine the players' ball-stopping and technical movements during training. What he asked the most was not for every player to become the best ball-stopping master. , but I hope that everyone on the team can have the skillful ability to stop the ball, at least to be able to complete the stop and the next move coherently.

Mauro Tassotti stood on the sidelines of the training field, watching the first-team players on the field training under the leadership of the coaching staff. He could feel the progress the team had made in the past few months, and All the players in the team can feel it equally, which is something that others can't understand.

It’s like the player’s sense of the ball. Fans, reporters, and spectators can’t see the improvement, but only the player can understand that every time he touches the ball and handles the ball on the court, he can feel whether it is good or not. Progress or regression.

It is also because the players can clearly see the progress of themselves and their teammates, so even if Tottenham Hotspur's results are not very satisfactory now, everyone is full of confidence and expectations for the future, because they see everything is going well. Developing and progressing in a good direction.

Mauro Tassotti is also full of expectations for the future of this team. He doesn't know that when a team has an incomparably skillful combination of passing and receiving the ball similar to the era of Manchester United's golden four midfielders, and holds high The appearance of Tottenham Hotspur, which combines offensive football and technical style banners, and many other elements and styles, will bring changes to the Premier League.

Perhaps, the most direct and most likely change is to further promote the technicalization of the Premier League and the continentalization of tactics.

With Roland's whistle, the training ended.

However, the players on the training field did not leave in a hurry. Instead, they were discussing some details with the coaching staff and teammates. Many people even demonstrated some of the technical moves in person. Vani, Van Persie and others demonstrated the technical details of hitting the goal after turning around after stopping the ball.

Don't underestimate such a very simple technical action, which contains very, very complex things, such as ball-stopping techniques, such as the length of the legs, the range of swinging the legs when exerting force, etc., all of which affect the player's kick to hit the goal quality and completeness.

Football is a very, very complex system engineering, so complicated that it is impossible for anyone to use data to complete its research, because it contains too many things, and any of them may change everything.

Mauro Tassotti heard that Ye Qiu decided to set up a football research center in the new Theobald training base. I heard that he also planned to develop a series of applications in the research center, either imported or developed by himself. High-tech training methods, hoping to help players improve their strength.

This is full of temptation for Mauro Tassotti, who is from AC Milan and has personally experienced the magic of the Milan laboratory, because he really wants to know what new tricks Ye Qiu will come up with in the research center. .

"What are you laughing at?" When Mauro Tassotti couldn't help laughing when he thought about the future, Ye Qiu appeared beside him with a puzzled look on his face.

Mauro Tassotti chuckled, "I heard you had a fight with your wife last night."

"Nonsense!" Ye Qiu had a ghost in his heart, but his mouth was firm, "Who said that?"

"The Sun!" Mauro Tassotti laughed.

"I'm going to fuck the Sun!" Ye Qiu cursed angrily, "Which of their eyes saw me quarreling with my wife?"

The Sun newspaper’s reporting methods are notorious. It’s nothing more than ambiguous words such as disclosure by a certain insider, or speculation, but it uses the sentences before and after to make readers believe that it’s true. It’s really vulgar. !

Mauro Tassotti laughed out loud. That's the disadvantage of being a celebrity. You have to face everything that Ye Qiu is facing now. Who made you a celebrity?
"Head, it's okay, I'll let Wahiba go to your house later, tell your wife, it's okay, she will forgive you!" Ribery, that bastard came out of nowhere, with a look of "I sympathize with you" He looked like he walked past Ye Qiu and dropped this sentence.

"I" Ye Qiu is very innocent and needs to defend himself.

But Fanny also walked past him, nodded and said: "Yes, we all know that it is very difficult to admit such a thing, so we can only give you sympathy, but you must take heart and don't give in to women! "This guy even made a gesture of clenching his fists to cheer, almost speaking of Ye Qiu as if it represented the dignity of a man.

But when Ye Qiu flew out, he was already running fast.

"I've never seen you run so fast on the court!" Ye Qiu angrily cursed behind Fanny's back.

All the players around burst into laughter. If they were on the court or on the training ground, they would be afraid of Ye Qiu, but off the court, they were not afraid at all. They even dared to make fun of Ye Qiu. In the player area of ​​the training building, gradually, after Franck Ribery and Ye Qiu's old generals made a start, they gradually followed suit.

Ye Qiu was puzzled and helpless, because he was too young at Ajax, and got along well with the players. Later, when he came to Chelsea, Maicon and others also brought this atmosphere to Chelsea. Turnham Hotspur, Ribery and others have brought to White Hart Lane again, so innocent!
But just a week after Ye Qiu almost shouted his innocence, when Alan Pardue faced the media, he also shouted his innocence, and his expression was full of the desolation after being tortured.

(End of this chapter)