Football No. 10: God's Perspective

Chapter 16 The New Team
Wang Po seems to have become the focus of the Dragon Stadium and has received the most enthusiastic pursuit!
Porto's local sports media even played the headline "The God of the East Comes to the Dragon Stadium".

Countless focuses have been focused on this core young player who led the team to create miracles.

Wang Po seems to be regarded by Porto fans as the hope of hitting the third Champions League trophy.

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Professional clubs have a strict training plan, with technical and tactical training in the morning and intra-team confrontation in the afternoon. This kind of training intensity for adult professional teams is a great test for newly promoted young players.

The head coach Ola is 49 years old this year. He has won the Portuguese domestic honor grand slam. Last year, he led the team to the league championship and the top 16 results in the European war.

Throughout the summer transfer, the Porto team did not have any starting-level players to add to the team except for three young players with good potential.

It can be said that Porto has not effectively strengthened the lineup compared to the previous season's European competition. In addition, the main players in the team are one year older. Strictly speaking, their strength has declined.

This has laid a hidden danger for Porto's impact on the quarter-finals of the European War, and it has also caused dissatisfaction among some fans. However, with the arrival of the media darling and new football star, everyone is focusing on this 16-year-old teenager.

First training session.

A huge club with a wide range of professional facilities requires professional coaching.

After the morning run, it was time for breakfast. At 09:30 in the morning, the whole team gathered at the club training ground on time.

Wang Po was the first to arrive at the training ground.

"Wang Po, that amazing Chinese boy, who beat Silva's team, I remember you!" Ola said, looking at Wang Po with great interest. "Welcome to my team!"

"I am very happy to join one of the best clubs in Portugal, I am very proud!"

"I hope you can integrate into the team as soon as possible!"

"Yes, Mr. Ola, I will."

During the brief exchange between the generals, the teammates had already arrived at the training ground in twos and threes.

Most of the teammates don't live in the club dormitory. Even if they are not locals, they will rent a house in the surrounding area for better rest.

After all, to be able to enter the Porto team, everyone's salary is already at a very high level in society, so there is no need to be troubled by this problem.

Under the introduction of Ola, the new players, Wang Po, Muto and Silva briefly introduced themselves.

Then, the daily training in the morning began. Under the guidance of the assistant coach, different subjects were trained according to the main substitute and position.

In fact, Wang Po has been exposed to these trainings every day. The difference is that the requirements are higher and the intensity is greater!

The division of labor of the coaching team is different. Generally speaking, the head coach is equivalent to the general manager. He mainly formulates tactics, directs on the spot, and maintains the stability of the locker room. Usually, the head coach will get the support of the club owner, and he has great power. After all, he needs to establish prestige in order to maintain a good team atmosphere.

The assistant coach is equivalent to the head of each department, responsible for daily training, intelligence collection, tactical analysis, etc.

The training in the afternoon was a group confrontation, and Wang Po's three newcomers were assigned to the substitute group to fight against the main players.

The star of the team is Essien, the main striker wearing the number 9. He is tall and tall, a standard column center, the core of the team's tactics, the current top scorer, and the silver boot of the last league. If he is five years younger, such statistics are definitely enough to land him in the European giants!
The training match was full of strong physical confrontation, which allowed Wang Po to experience the terror of the senior team. When he was already stuck in his position, facing Essien's physical confrontation, it was like being hit by a car. Not to mention his body flew out, his whole body seemed to be falling apart, panting heavily, and excruciating pain.

"Welcome to the Portuguese Super League. This is the intensity we are facing. The referee will not blow the whistle like you!" Essien said expressionlessly as he watched Wang Po fall to the ground in pain.

Enduring the severe pain, Wang Po climbed up from the turf, touched the grass clippings on his face and spat fiercely, "come on once again!"

In the afternoon training on the first day, the situation of being knocked into the air was staged all the time.

That night, lying on the bed in the dormitory, Wang Po didn't dare to take a big breath, as long as she moved, she felt that the muscles all over her body were in pain like being torn and pulled.

Waking up the next day, Wang Po grinned in pain, and the veins protruding from his face were almost bursting.

It took 20 days for Wang Po to adapt to the team's training rhythm. At this time, there are only ten days left before the start of the new season.

The team has started the final sprint.

Looking at the main players of the entire Porto professional team, the position of the weak point on the field, the left back, has more than enough defense and insufficient offense.

Another position is the defensive midfielder, who can organize offense, but limited by physical fitness, the ability to go back and forth between the two restricted areas can only last for 50 minutes. This leads to the fact that after 60 minutes in the second half, either the midfielder is not strong enough to support the team's offense, or the midfielder cannot stand. The coverage area is not enough and the defense line is precarious.

The problems exposed by these two positions can be made up for by relying on the strengths of other positions in the domestic league. But when it comes to the European competition, the players there are all the leaders of the leagues of various countries. Find your weak point and fight to the death. As a result, the team struggles very much on the stage of the European competition.

In terms of position and team needs, the B2B midfielder Silva is a good supplement. As for whether the 16-year-old can win a seat in the monstrous midfielder, it depends on his own ability.

As for Wang Po, the coaching staff positioned him as a front midfielder and an attacking midfielder, which has almost disappeared in modern football tactics. For Ola, a coach who pays attention to offensive and defensive balance, he is not interested in this type of player.

Compared with Muto, another young player who has been promoted to the first team, he can still gain some time on the front line in the new season. He is young and fast, and is suitable for rushing when he is exhausted in the second half.

On the whole, I am afraid that the first season of Wang Po's professional team is not destined to be so smooth.

Head coach Ola generally adopts a 442 formation, with Essien at the forefront of the tactical core, and the second striker assumes the functions of retreating and responding and part of the organization.

The dominance of the ball is mainly handed over to the team's old captain David in the midfielder position.

In the professional arena, unless there are special circumstances, the coaches will adopt zone defense, which requires the defensive players to have a very high tacit understanding and strong personal ability.

(End of this chapter)