Beast King Costa

Chapter 258 "City of Sunshine" Valencia

Valencia is the third largest city in Spain and the second largest port. It is known as the "Sunshine City" in Europe. It is located in the southeast of Spain. It is called "a pearl on the west coast of the Mediterranean Sea".

It took less than 3 hours to fly from Braga to Valencia. After arriving in Valencia, Fernando Santos did not allow the players to leave the hotel where they stayed and go out alone to visit the "Sunshine City" .

"We will stay in Valencia for the next half month. Everyone has plenty of time to go out and hang out. Let's rest well tonight. Starting tomorrow, we will have a week of physical training!"

Physical training.

The first task of the professional team training period.

After all, during the vacation, not all players will self-discipline additional training or maintain daily training to maintain their physical condition and competitive state.

Therefore, after returning to the club and entering the training period, the coaches will take their players for some physical training. This is not only for the physical reserve of next season, but also to adjust the physical condition of most of the players. Help them get rid of the fat and fat that they raised during the offseason.

Diego and David Luis are in the Azores. They get up on time at 6:[-] every morning. After washing up and having breakfast, they go for a run on the beach outside the resort.

So physical training is not a problem for the two of them.

Even Moreto, Nelson, and Beto were amazed that Diego and David Luiz hadn't seen each other for more than half a month, and their bodies seemed to have become stronger.

"Aren't you two going to 'exercise' every night?"

"Oh, I'm going! Your waist strength seems to be better."

"It seems that the beauties of the Azores have helped you exercise a lot."

Regarding the ridicule from his teammates, Diego shrugged helplessly and said, "If it was such an exercise method, David and I would have been squeezed into scum long ago, right?"

David Louis also responded helplessly: "Ahem, I also want to exercise like this, but the Azores does not have this 'condition for exercise', just like a temple for monks."

indeed.

The Azores is not a famous tourist attraction, and the economic situation of this place can only be called ordinary, and there is no place for leisure and entertainment.

Therefore, many self-disciplined professional players are willing to choose this place for extra training during the offseason. After all, there will not be too many temptations, and it is quiet and comfortable.

Regarding the arrangement of the training period, Fernando Santos can be said to have filled his notebook.

At 6 o'clock the next morning, the whole team was woken up.

Players who live a disciplined life are fine. Although they are still a little sleepy, they are not unable to get up.

But for those players who have played the entire offseason, it is painful-usually it is three or four o'clock in the morning when they are almost drunk, and they go back to sleep with the Persian cat beside them. Why do they have to exercise their waist and abdomen before going to sleep? Strength, after exercising and taking a shower, it's almost dawn.

At this moment, the genius was woken up at Mengmengliang, which was really tormenting people to death.

But after all, it was the first day of the training period. Even if it was extremely painful to get up, no one dared to stay in bed - they didn't dare to risk their jobs.

After breakfast at the hotel, I took the bus to the beach in Valencia, which took about half an hour.

At less than 7 o'clock in the morning, Benfica's physical training officially began.

After this morning's physical training, it was clear to Fernando Santos what his players were doing during the offseason.

For self-disciplined players like Diego and David Luiz who are undergoing additional training, after their physical training in the morning, their faces are not flushed and they are not panting. Their energetic appearance can even kill a few tigers.

But those players who have been flying in the offseason are exhausted enough.

The team's main left back, Leonardo Bastos, almost vomited from running, and within 2 hours, he signaled that he was dying and had to slow down, otherwise his life would be lost in Valencia .

There are also some international players who played in the World Cup finals, and because of the short offseason, there is no way to train more, so the body can't hold up under the high-load physical training.

To Diego's surprise, team captain Pettit and offensive core Nuno Gomez were not among these unsustainable players.

These two absolute main players of Benfica, like Diego and David Luiz, completed the morning training task without blushing or panting. They even ran to talk to Fernando Santos when everyone was resting. Study the techniques and tactics of the new season, and take the initiative to integrate with the team's new head coach and coaching staff.

It can be seen that the reason why they can become the absolute core of the league giants and the national team is definitely different from ordinary people.

The situation of giant teams and small groups is more serious than that of small clubs.

Diego and David Luiz at least followed the team to China to play a friendly match, so they can be regarded as getting acquainted with some of the main players of last season, and they can be regarded as their small group.

It is not like the new players of other teams who are not familiar with any of the old players, and can only sign up with the newcomers to keep warm.

"The captain and Nuno seem to have no holidays during the offseason..."

Looking at the muscular curves of Pettit and Nuno Gomez compared to last season, Moreto couldn't help feeling: "Every offseason, Pettit, Nuno, and Luigi They will still maintain their daily training, and even continue to strengthen the training of their technical weaknesses-they are the guarantee of Benfica's performance. If they are injured, then Benfica's midfield will collapse. gone."

"It's okay, I'll hold on!"

Diego showed his white teeth and said with a smile: "You just make a long pass to me, and you don't need midfield organization. It's simple and rough, and you can score goals."

"Haha! I think so too!"

Moreto said with a wry smile: "In the new season, I want to secure my position as the main goalkeeper. It is very difficult!"

Beto asked with a mysterious smile: "Moreto, I heard that after you returned to Brazil, you deliberately found a technical coach and practiced your footwork for half a month?"

"But, there is no progress!"

Moreto shook his head helplessly and said: "I am 1 meters tall, and I have been training as a goalkeeper since the youth training period. Let me start practicing footwork now. How can I be able to do it in a short period of time?" Making progress? Impossible! I'm 93."

After all, Moreto lowered his voice and pouted in the direction of Quim: "In the new season, Quim seems to be the main goalkeeper of the team. But I have to say, this guy's feet The method is really good. He played in the midfield position when he was in the youth training, and then he changed to goalkeeper for some reason."

"Quim's footwork is really good, even better than many midfielders, but his goalkeeping skills are far behind..."

Assis shrugged helplessly and said, "I've always thought that Quim wouldn't even be able to play in Portugal in terms of goalkeeping skills alone. I don't understand why Scolari would pick him to play in the World Cup in Germany." Woolen cloth."

Nelson spread his arms and shrugged, "Good luck!"

It has to be said that after Quim was basically determined to become Benfica's main goalkeeper in the new season, his attitude towards his teammates became more and more arrogant.

He even trained newcomers, as if he was a coach.

Of course, the rookies haven’t integrated into the team yet, and they are still obsessed with Quim’s words—after all, they are the main goalkeepers for the new season handpicked by the new head coach Fernando Santos. Quite upset, but did not dare to offend the team's main player.

Diego and David Luiz are quite familiar with the regular main players such as Moreto, Nelson, Beto, and Assis. Even if Quim wants to provoke Diego, he will taboo Moreto, Nelson , Assis, these Brazilian players.

When Brazilian players play in Portugal, they are united into cliques.

Although Luizon is the most famous Brazilian player in the Benfica team and even the starting defender of the Brazilian national team, he is not willing to mingle with his teammates because of his rather withdrawn personality. Therefore, Benfica's Brazilian "Big Brother" It's always been Moreto.

With Moreto, the "big brother" of the Brazilian gang in the team, covering him, Diego is temporarily out of trouble.

But judging from the unfriendly eyes that Fabrizio Milico and Quimna often cast, it was only a matter of time before Diego had an "accident" with them.

I thought Pettit and Nuno Gomez would talk to me about something important.

As a result, it has been almost a week since I came to Valencia to practice. Apart from communicating and discussing with the regular main players of last season, Petit and Nuno Gomez spent the rest of the time immersed in the new head coach Fernando Santos. , as well as the coaching team of the Portuguese coach to study the skills and tactics of the new season.

Didn't talk to Diego at all.

After a week of physical training, those "physically difficult households" who had to fly in the offseason were finally able to get back to their proper state, and a lot of fat on their bodies disappeared.

Of course, it is still far from entering the best competitive state.

Fernando Santos saw that the team's state was at least gradually recovering, and he officially announced: "The first round of physical training will end in three days! Next, the team will start playing friendly matches with local teams in Spain. Our The first opponent will be Tenerife in West C!"

In the warm-up match during the training period, starting from low-level teams and playing to high-level teams can be regarded as a relatively scientific schedule.

You can't find the highest-level team to warm up as soon as you come up. If you are beaten 8-0 or 10-0 because you haven't entered the state yet, will you still have the confidence to play football in the new season?

Knowing that Valencia was the team's last warm-up teammate, Diego felt a little regretful.

But Diego also understands very well that he has to show his best form in the first four warm-up games and secure the team's main arrow position, so as to ensure that he can compete with David Silva in the warm-up match against Valencia. , David Villa officially played against each other!

(End of this chapter)