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Chapter 44

For an adult player, it will be very difficult to change positions, because after all, there are only a few jack-of-all-trades who can play multiple positions, and human inertia is huge. If you change the position you have been accustomed to since childhood, most people will feel at a loss.

For young players, changing positions is a normal thing. First, they are still young and have full interest in trying new positions. Second, their technical movements have not yet been finalized, and they will be better adaptable to new positions. Third, many young players have not actually found their most suitable position. Just like work, except for a few geniuses, many people can only show their most brilliant light in the most suitable position.

Such examples are not uncommon in world football. The Italian goalkeeper Toldo was the first to play as a striker. Once he played goalkeeper because the goalkeeper was injured and no one could replace him. He has been playing goalkeeper for 20 years. The most outstanding center forward after Pace, even the two international players of the Chinese national team, left back Wu Jiying and right back Xie Feng, both played forwards at the beginning, because the competition for forwards was too fierce, so they changed to full backs.

It's just that this adaptation process is somewhat difficult for Long Bisheng.

He is not a smart person, although he is not stupid, but it is obviously much more difficult for such a person to make a change. During his year in Xi’an, except for basic training, his other training was for the position of central defender. For a simple-minded person, when he concentrates on doing one thing, he will do it more solidly than a person with a smart and complex mind, but when it comes to making changes, it is more difficult to change.

Fortunately, he has a good coach who never tires of himself, who gives him detailed instructions on every technical movement, and he also has several excellent and enthusiastic roommates, who always accompany him to do basic training on the days when extra training is allowed, and help him gradually improve.

If so, in the following days, Long Bisheng, who is physically excellent, will still be exhausted. His ability to accept is indeed not very strong, but he knows a word: hard work can make up for weakness.

The starting point is lower than others, the talent is not as good as others, and even the position is a new position, so let's use a lot of training to make up for these gaps.

So even though he was tired, Long Bisheng still gritted his teeth and practiced for himself for at least two hours every day. On weekends, when others were resting, he would still go to the training ground to train according to the courses arranged by Ding Yu.

Although they are in the same city, Azhati has already been transferred to Yunjiatianyu U-17 echelon. The place where he lives and trains is different from that of Long Bisheng. Moreover, Long Bisheng also asked other people about Azhati before school started, but no one knew that an XJ player named Azhati also played here.

What Long Bisheng didn't know was that shortly after he came to Yunjia Tianyu Football School, Azhati changed his name from a Han Chinese. Azhati means "liberation" in Uighur, and he chose "Li" as his surname, named Li Fang.

What he didn't even know was that Li Fang had already gained a firm foothold in the Yunjiatianyu U-17 echelon with his tireless running and accurate crossing ability, and he was likely to be directly transferred to the Yunjiatianyu reserve team, which meant that he might play in the first team.

Of the two children who played football on the grassland back then, the older Li Fang has already started to become a professional player, while the younger Long Bisheng is still working hard in the Yunjia Tianyu Football School.

It was nearly October, and although the hottest day of the year had passed, in Yunjia, a southern city, the afterglow of the scorching sun was still raging. Long Bisheng was sweating profusely under the sun, doing basic movements one after another.

Although all his roommates are also very diligent, and even those with poor physical fitness often practice extra, none of them honed their skills as cruelly as Long Bisheng. Day by day, these elite teenagers gathered from all over the country began to admire Long Bisheng sincerely.

No one knew that the reason why Long Bisheng practiced so hard was not only because he knew the gap between himself and others, but also because of the group competition in the class one week after the start of school.

In that game, Long Bisheng appeared in the forward position for the first time, and his opponent was Li Jie, a roommate in the [-] dormitory.

Long Bisheng lost in that game in a complete mess. Although he had the upper hand in terms of height and strength, Li Jie used good judgment and excellent positioning ability to make him useless on the field. His feet were not good, the ball was often blocked, and the pass would be resolved one by one by other defenders. However, Long Bisheng failed to win against Li Jie, who was five centimeters shorter than him!
After the game, Long Bisheng's data was a disgraceful zero - not a single successful breakthrough, not a single threatening pass, not a single shot, not even a successful aerial challenge!
How can it be!

The painful Long Bisheng is also puzzled. Even if he is poor in other areas, he is very good at headers. What's more, in terms of height and jumping ability, he is better than Li Jie. How can he fail to win headers once?

"You don't know how to block and use your body." Li Jie said to Long Bisheng after the game: "Your body is much stronger than mine. I am definitely not an opponent when I collide with you, but I will not deal with you like this. Whether it is defending around the front or blocking early, it is the way a defender who does not have an advantage in height against a high center forward. Aaron, if you want to beat me, you have to work harder in these aspects."

It was precisely because of Li Jie's words that Long Bisheng trained so desperately to solve his shortcomings in all aspects.

Know the shame and then be brave. As long as you understand this truth, you will not be knocked down by failure.

(End of this chapter)