Champion’s Heart

Halfway through the league is over, and Dortmund is currently ranked sixth. Too many draws is one of the reasons for their low ranking.

Of course, there are also media analysis that Klopp uses a large number of young people, which is also the main reason for the unstable performance.

But for Dortmund fans, they are already very satisfied. You must know that Dortmund's final ranking was thirteenth last season.

After changing the head coach, the team can still get sixth, which is already considered good.

And Dortmund fans can be said to be the most loyal fans in Europe. Even if the team's performance has ups and downs, they have no complaints. Every home match day, the Westfalenstadion is packed with people.

Although Zhou Yi hasn't watched Dortmund's first-team match yet, he already knows about this point.

For example, the family he stayed in was a family of loyal Dortmund fans. Except for their freak daughter, the family, even Mark's mother, was a die-hard Dortmund fan.

Dortmund logos and yellow and black surrounds can be seen everywhere in the home.

Mark brushes his teeth with the Dortmund logo, and the old Wagner and beer set of glasses are all printed with the Dortmund logo. In addition, there are Dortmund alarm clocks, Dortmund bath towels, Dortmund hats, Dortmund floor mats, and Dortmund gloves at home. , Dortmund's bed sheets, quilt covers...

The home is completely a Borussia Dortmund club authorized merchandise exhibition.

Even the Mercedes-Benz cars in their family are yellow and black, as if they are afraid that others will not know that his family is all Dortmund fans.

When I first came, it was an eye-opener for Zhou Yi, who lacked the corresponding football culture in China.

But after staying for a month, Zhou Yi gradually got used to it. The face towel he uses now is the yellow towel with the Dortmund logo. When he first started using it, he was still worried about the color fading. Mark comforted him: Anyway, you are yellow, with yellow skin, and you can't tell if the color fades!

Zhou Yi rolled his eyes back at him: Then why haven't you been dyed yellow?

Mark retorted: That's because our German products are of good quality!

Zhou Yi pointed to the German Made in China on his towel label and showed him, but he remained silent.

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Since the Christmas family dinner that night.

Zhou Yi never saw Cortana again. According to her younger brother Mark, she made an appointment with her classmates to travel.

Did I make your family's travel plan fail? Zhou Yi asked.

Of course not. In fact, we don't go out to play every Christmas. Mark waved his hands again and again.

If you say that, I will believe it!

of course it's true!

So, during the Christmas holidays. Mark and his parents didn't go anywhere, they were at home.

And Zhou Yi's daily life is also very simple, learning languages ​​by himself, training physical fitness with Mark, and doing some excellent training together in the afternoon. In the evening, of course, I will have special training with Mark in the game.

Of course. He naturally threw the book that Cortana gave him directly into the drawer without even flipping through it.

During the period, Zhou Yi had a meal with Tim Kester, and when Kester told him that he was going back to Japan, Zhou Yi was a little surprised.

After all, I am not a professional translator. I am a scout, so I still have to go back to my job. And your language communication should be fine now, and you don't need my translator anymore.

Zhou Yi was a little reluctant.

Kist just smiled: But I think I will go back to Dortmund often to see how you are doing. Next, it is up to you to live, study and train here. Playing abroad is the most important thing. The most important thing is the ability to make a living. But many Chinese players ignore this point, which is one of the reasons why they are not successful. I hope you don’t follow their old path.”

Zhou Yi nodded to Kester's instructions repeatedly, and accepted them all.

Kester also knew that Zhou Yi was a sensible child, so he didn't say much.

After dinner, Kist drove Zhou Yi back to Mark's house, waved to Zhou Yi in the car, and drove away.

Zhou Yi stood outside all the time, watching Kester's car completely disappear at the corner of the street.

For Mr. Kiester, he is grateful. Although he said he was a scout, for Zhou Yi, he was not just a scout.

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The Christmas break is over, and Dortmund's television stations are starting to report players returning to Brakel's training ground. It means that the first team has started training.

At the same time, the training of the youth team also started.

Zhou Yi and Mark returned to u17.

Physical training still occupies a very important part of Zhou Yi's daily training, and physical training is not just carried out with Bartlett in the gym, but integrated into all training programs.

For example, there are multiple short-term small games with limited recovery time. The game time is two minutes. After the two minutes are over, the players take a very short rest before continuing the game; four-on-four or smaller games that allow players to touch the ball more; The penalty area or smaller marked areas force players to make quick decisions. And requires passing the ball on fast runs.

Smaller races mean less rest time, so the body has to learn to adapt to quick recovery with each sprint leading to temporary fatigue.

In terms of endurance training, sports tend to involve more players and a larger space, while prescribing movements maintained at a fixed pace for longer periods of time. For example, fifteen to twenty minute drills or eight-on-eight or larger games over three-quarters or the entire field, with the rule that all players must be in the attacking zone before taking a shot.

These workouts are excellent for physical recovery.

With Zhou Yi's physical fitness, when he first started this kind of training, he was very strenuous. After the two groups, he was so tired that he was out of breath. The training intensity is much higher, which is based on the standard of professional leagues.

However, after more than a month of physical training, Zhou Yi has gradually been able to keep up with such a training rhythm.

After the physical fitness can keep up, Zhou Yi's performance is also guaranteed.

He showed in his daily training why Klopp saw his qualities in the first place.

The head coach of u17 was a little surprised, but what surprised him was not Zhou Yi's personal ability. After all, he was directing the team from the sidelines in that game, and Zhou Yi's performance can be said to be vivid in his memory.

What surprised him was the tacit understanding between Zhou Yi and his teammates.

It stands to reason that Zhou Yi has only been in this team for more than a month. He and many people in this team should not know each other well, so they can only be regarded as acquaintances. Tacit understanding is out of the question.

But when the team was training together, Zhou Yi seemed to have been training with this team for a year. He knew the playing style of his teammates very well, and as a midfield organizer. This shows in his passing and finding space.

He seems to know how his teammates are used to running, where they are used to appearing, and what their playing style is, so the passes he gives are always just right.

As for his teammates, he was even more surprised, even though some of them had confronted Zhou Yi in the original match. But the feeling of being an opponent is different from being a teammate. The feeling of being a teammate is deeper and more detailed.

When they passed the football to Zhou Yi during training, then ran forward and turned around to remind Zhou Yi to pass the ball to themselves, they saw that the football had already been passed by Zhou Yi!

There is no need for them to shout or raise their hands, they just run, and as long as they have time, the football will be passed by Zhou Yi.

And Mark finally understood why Zhou Yi set his field of vision to ninety-nine at the beginning... Such a powerful ability to find space is indeed worthy of the field of vision of ninety-nine!

In the ability to find openings. The u17 coaching staff have all seen Zhou Yi's ability.

Head coach Eckel began to consider whether to give Zhou Yi a chance to play in advance.

Before, he thought that even if Zhou Yi's physical fitness passed the test, he still needed to increase his running-in with his teammates so that he could integrate into the team.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi seems to have no need to integrate into the team at all, he seems to be born to play in this team.

In this way, the only factor that restricts Zhou Yi's appearance is his physical fitness.

So after more than a month of physical training, how is Zhou Yi's physical condition?

It is still difficult to adapt to the sports intensity of the professional league, but the youth team... you can try. Bartlett said to the u17 coaching staff with the data.

How to try?

Very simple, take the game to test.

Let Zhou Yi, and then see how many minutes his physical fitness can last.

If you can persist until after 80 minutes, it can be regarded as meeting the basic requirements of the game.

And during the training camp. There are just a lot of such examples, because the u17 youth team also has a warm-up match.

What is the warm-up match for? Isn't that what it's for?

I decided to let Zhou Yi play in the next game against Dusseldorf. Eckel announced the decision at the coaching staff meeting on Monday, and no one in the coaching staff raised objections.

Everyone saw what Zhou Yi showed in training. This kid has a super ability to read the game. He may understand the game a second or two faster than the average player.

If it weren't for his physical fitness, he might have been able to play in the team long ago

Since it is to test his physical fitness, it is normal to play in the next game.

Seeing that everyone has no objection, Eckel continued: Then let's identify other players.

Starting from the goalkeeper, the arrangements for many positions did not take much effort. The coaches have been with this team for a long time and are very familiar with the team. They will not think about which players should be placed for too long, unless it is a large-scale injury, which will make people a little troubled.

But that is not the case now.

After such a smooth arrangement, he came to the forward position.

Let Hank play here... the assistant coach said as he was about to write his name on the list.

But head coach Eckel suddenly stopped him: Wait.

The assistant coach looked up at Eckel strangely. After Schneider was promoted from u17 to u19, Hanke has always been the main striker of u17. He is not injured at present and his physical fitness is also good. Why should he hesitate?

Switch to Mark Wagner. Eckel spoke.

His decision surprised the entire coaching staff.

Why? the assistant coach asked directly.

Haven't you noticed that his tacit understanding with Zhou Yi is far better than other teammates? Ecker asked his coaching staff members.

When he said this, the rest of the coaching staff began to ponder. When they recalled carefully, they realized that what Eckel said made sense.

Although Zhou Yi seems to have no barriers with the whole team on the court, there is still a gap between no barriers and seamless cooperation. There really was a bit of a fit in between him and Mark.

In the team's offensive drills and intra-team games, it can be seen that Zhou Yi consciously went to Mark to cooperate, and Mark is also the player in the team who best understands Zhou Yi's passing ideas.

What Zhou Yi said without any barriers with other players is that he cooperates with those teammates, but it does not mean that other teammates can take the initiative to cooperate well with Zhou Yi.

Mark is the best performer.

There is an obvious fact that has been ignored in training, that is, when Mark and Zhou Yi are in a group, his performance is better than when he is not with Zhou Yi.

The coaching staff had always ignored this point before, because it was impossible for Zhou Yi to get a chance to play in the game. When arranging the lineup, without Zhou Yi, naturally there would be no Mark.

But now in this game, if Zhou Yi is to be allowed, can Mark also get a corresponding opportunity?

This is indeed a... worth considering.

Alright, take this opportunity to inspect more players. The assistant coach did not insist on his choice, and filled in Mark Wagner's name. (~^~)