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Zhou, starting tomorrow, your physical fitness strengthening training can be stopped.

Just after New Year's Day, Zhou Tiancheng returned to the training camp. Lin Kong told him the good news after testing his current physical condition.

Zhou Tiancheng was a little surprised: Huh? That's all right?

Lin Kong nodded: Otherwise? For you, your current strength and explosive power are already sufficient at the U19 level. If you gain more weight, it may increase the additional burden on your body.

But my goal is the first team.

Lin Kong spread his hands and smiled. He knew what Zhou Tiancheng meant, but he still said: Then...it has nothing to do with me! I am only responsible for you at this stage. But I have some suggestions, um, they are personal insights, you Would you like to hear it?

Zhou Tiancheng nodded immediately, as if he was listening attentively.

Lin Kong's tone slowed down, and said: Zhou, you have never experienced the intensity of the Bundesliga, so you take it for granted that the Bundesliga requires a lot of physical fitness. In fact, the Bundesliga's physical requirements are far lower than the Premier League. And the most important thing is, If you want to stand out in the top five leagues like the Bundesliga, you must form your own distinctive characteristics. And your own strengths lie in the skills at your feet. Therefore, working hard to improve your skills at your feet is the way you should go, to be a big man who can thread a needle, Just remember not to chase the end.”

Zhou Tiancheng's understanding is very strong, and he seemed to realize something at the first moment.

Lin Kong saw that Zhou Tiancheng had listened, and said with a smile: Get up, I just followed Norbert these years, and I have seen a lot of young players. You'd better ask Norbert to give more advice on this aspect. Not an expert.

This has already helped me a lot. Zhou Tiancheng quickly thanked him, and at the same time, this was also from his own heart.

After Lin Kong's advice, Zhou Tiancheng also figured out his own improvement direction, and worked hard to further improve his skills in all aspects.

For example, for set kicks, Zhou Tiancheng deliberately lengthened the penalty distance for set kicks, gradually extending from 30 meters to 35 meters to about 40 meters. After half a season of training in the Youth League, Zhou Tiancheng also understands that in a real high-level confrontation, there are very few opportunities to directly threaten the goal within 30 meters. If you don't further expand the range of firepower, this skill may be completely useless in the game.

After deliberate strengthening, Zhou Tiancheng's set-piece ability has become the first technology in his system's personal data to break through 80. At the same time, due to the hard intensive training some time ago, Zhou Tiancheng has improved in explosive power, jumping and other hard indicators of physical fitness. The improvement has also been huge. Zhou Tiancheng was filled with a sense of accomplishment when he saw the ability value highlighted in yellow font appear in his ability data. Moreover, the new system administrator Qidan Harvey brought him some good news with great reference value by the way: Congratulations to the host Zhou Tiancheng, after hard training, the ability has improved rapidly, but the host still needs to make persistent efforts, as long as the host has more than six items If the ability value is above 80, then even in the first team of Schalke 04, they can have a pivotal position.

Be clear, can you be the main force? Zhou Tiancheng asked.

Zidan Harvey answered truthfully: I have great hopes, at least as the main substitute.

That's okay.

Zhou Tiancheng didn't want to work hard to go to the first team, and in the end he just played the role of guarding the drinking fountain. But fortunately, this systematic explanation made him understand that he is not far away from the first team. At least keep motivated and jump on tiptoe. His future is still very promising.

As for the team, as long as Zhou Tiancheng's state is normal, Jiang Hao's scoring state will also be guaranteed, and Schalke U19's offensive firepower will be guaranteed.

Although Hewedes is missing on the defense line, there are still Matip and Fellman, two players whose abilities exceed the average level of the youth arena, and Elgort has always emphasized overall discipline.

Schalke's U19 defense never fluctuates greatly because of the lack of a certain player.

Both offense and defense can maintain a relatively stable high level. Schalke U19's performance in the second half of the entire division is still triumphant all the way: two rounds of the youth derby in the Ruhr area, double-killed Dortmund U19, unbeaten in the first 33 rounds of the season, and even had only five draws, four rounds ahead of schedule Lock the place of the national semi-finals.

This season Schalke U19 has performed particularly fiercely, which is inseparable from the role of Zhou Tiancheng, a B2B midfielder. He averaged about 10,000 meters per game and 8.7 steals. In addition, in the 33 league rounds that have ended, Zhou Tiancheng scored seven goals and 10 assists. From this data, it can be seen that Zhou Tiancheng absolutely has absolute dominance on both offensive and defensive ends. Without his central role, the Schalke U19s would never have had such an easy time.

But when he thought about the next big semi-final match that would really test him, Elgort was considering whether to hand over the captain's armband to Zhou Tiancheng. Although Fairman is also a qualified big brother on the field, he is a goalkeeper after all. In terms of responding to his teammates in a timely manner, he is obviously not as timely and effective as Zhou Tiancheng, a midfielder.

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In the final round of the Western League against Cologne at home, Elgort naturally rotated most of the main players. Except for Fellman, the main players such as Zhou Tiancheng, Jiang Hao, and Matip took turns to prepare for the next national semi-finals.

As a result, Schalke U19, who played on the bench, had the upper hand, but failed to score on the field. Instead, it was because the young defender did not hear Ferman's call, and a misunderstanding between the goalkeeper and the defender led to a sneak attack by the opponent.

The unfavorable ending is actually not harmful, but it has strengthened Elgort's determination to change the captain.

When Elgort announced this decision in front of everyone in the team, everyone applauded and nodded sincerely, indicating that everyone believed that Zhou Tiancheng deserved this responsibility. What's interesting is that not only was Fellman not displeased, but he showed a relieved smile. Zhou Tiancheng was secretly amused when he saw his expression, he must have been overwhelmed already?

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Zhou, do you know what responsibilities you need to fulfill as a captain? It's not enough to just perform well, you need to influence and infect your teammates on the field.

Zhou Tiancheng nodded: I understand, boss, since you believe in me, I will try my best.

Elgort narrowed his eyes and nodded with satisfaction: You know? What I like the most is your attitude of being neither impatient nor overbearing. In the professional field, what kind of height a player can reach depends not only on skills, And everything. So I thought I should tell you that I'm bullish on you.

Zhou Tiancheng interrupted with a smile: Boss, let's stop talking about that! Aren't you afraid of my pride?

Elgort laughed loudly: As long as you have the ability, why not be proud? Do you know why I have to tell you now? Because I'm afraid I'll forget, it's hard to say whether you will be here next year or not!