legendary player [football]

In fact, Leo and Mourinho are no strangers to each other. To be precise, Magic Bird and Leo's father Zidane are old acquaintances.As early as 2010, when Mourinho came to the Bernabeu to coach the Blancos, Zidane was his special consultant.It was only later that the two discovered that they had some differences in football philosophy and the way they faced the media, so the two parted ways in September 2012, and Zidane turned to start his coaching career in the Real Madrid youth team.

There are differences in football concepts and attitudes towards the media. It sounds like a fairly official and irrelevant rhetoric. The outside world has speculated that there has been a rift between the two for a long time. After two years of accumulation, this rift intensified and eventually broke out.But in fact, the problem is not so serious. Obviously, the media's inner drama is too rich.

When he was a player, Zidane served as an offensive midfielder. Whether in Real Madrid or in the French team, he was the absolute core of organizing offense on the field. His own football philosophy naturally advocated offensive football.

And Mourinho at that time, from Porto to Chelsea to Inter Milan, he tasted the sweetness of defensive counterattacks, and won various championships.The so-called "defensive counterattack" is just a nice name. To put it bluntly, Uncle Psy himself is a representative of utilitarian football.

Leo is the son of Zidane, and his father is his first teacher in football learning. The father and son are naturally in the same line in terms of technology and philosophy.It can be said that Leo's dedication to offensive football is better than that of Zidane.When Granada changed the head coach, he had already expressed his dissatisfaction with the defensive Paco, which is one of the reasons why he insisted on leaving the team.

However, after Mourinho returned to Chelsea, he has actually abandoned a lot of the bus-style utilitarian football. In the 20142015-[-] season, Chelsea can gradually see some shadows of Arsenal or Barcelona. Jun finally won the Premier League championship under the leadership of Uncle Psy.

Leo had carefully considered this issue before coming. Although Mourinho no longer insists on his offensive football, he once said that he is a conservative person, and his tactical system is still mainly defensive.Perhaps there will be some conceptual discord between Leo and Mourinho, but as a player, he will absolutely obey the head coach's technical and tactical arrangements, and hopes that they can spend each day in peace. a season.

However, when he really started training Leo, he realized that all his previous worries were unnecessary, because his head coach never gave him a chance to disagree.In all the press conferences and interviews, Pogba, Ibrahimovic, Musitalian and Bailly were full of praise, but when the reporter asked about Leo, his evaluation was only three words.

not bad what the hell

Since arriving at Manchester United, Leo has never added an additional training plan to himself, because it is not necessary.From the first training session, he did not have the opportunity to stay with his new teammates, but was assigned to the fitness coach alone by Mourinho.

"With your physique, you can't last half a game in the Premier League."

This is the first sentence Mourinho said to him.But Leo disagreed. Maybe a year ago he was indeed as Mourinho said, half a game in a league with the intensity of the Premier League could exhaust him physically, but now he is very different.In the European Cup final, he lasted for 120 minutes without recovering from a cough.

He just thought about it in his heart and didn't say it.But Mourinho saw through his thoughts as if he could read his mind, and added: "The Portuguese team played several overtime games in a row."

The implication is: "Is your physical strength comparable to others?"

""

Leo kept his good habit of keeping his mouth shut and silently followed the fitness coach to the track beside the training ground.

Manchester United's new fitness coach is named Carlos Larin. He has worked with Mourinho in Porto, Real Madrid and Chelsea. In addition, several other people in the coaching team are also Mourinho's old partners. It is natural to work There is a perfect understanding.

He opened the folder in his hand, then pointed to the day's training plan to Leo.There is only one task in the morning, and that is running.

This is the most basic endurance training, a 400-meter runway, 20 laps each time, and the average speed of each lap should not be lower than 2 minutes. Leo must complete two sets of training sessions in the morning.

The intensity of this run is very high. Generally speaking, players who usually have games will not perform such intense endurance training.Because the muscles will be very tired, the body may not be at its best during the competition.Moreover, this single training method can hardly train anything other than endurance.

Leo felt that he might not be here to play football but was planning to go to Brazil to participate in the Olympic marathon.Before he finished his warm-up and was ready to run, the staff asked him to carry an instrument on his back, saying that it was to collect his cardiopulmonary function and functional ability test.

When Carlos Larin was pinching the stopwatch and carefully recording beside him, Leo realized that the training he gave himself in Granada before was like a game, completely lacking supervision.Now, Leo felt like an amateur player coming to try out, watching from afar as the others fought in groups on the middle field, while he could only run endless laps.

During a short break before his next training program, Pogba stood aside with his hips akimbo and teased him: "The marathon is usually the finale of the Olympics, so you still have time."

Because the transfer matter has not been settled, Leo has spent nearly a month of vacation this summer, which is twice as much as some players who returned to the team earlier.Originally, due to lack of training due to various chores this holiday, his physical fitness has dropped a lot.Now without any recovery training, he directly enters high-intensity physical training. This made him a little panting at the end of the 20 laps of the first group, but he was still able to persist smoothly.

He stood next to Carlos with a normal expression and looked at the notepad in his hand, which recorded his time for each lap, which was almost kept at about 1 minute and 50 seconds. He was quite satisfied with his performance.

However, in the second group of [-] laps, Leo seemed to be struggling a lot, and the average speed of each lap became slower, and even at the end Carlos had to kindly remind him: "If you slow down, you will not meet the standard. "

"" He could only drag his heavy feet to speed up.

By the time Leo gritted his teeth and finished the morning training plan, the training clothes on his body, which claimed to be able to wick sweat instantly, were already soaked.The teammates had already finished training and returned to the locker room to take a shower. Carlos closed his notebook, smiled and said to him: "Let's continue in the afternoon."

"Continue in the afternoon" made Leo wipe his sweaty hands.The other party smiled maliciously: "Continue strength training in the afternoon."

Strength training is carried out in the gym, including upper body, waist and abdomen, and lower body training.Although it felt better than running in the morning, but after the same one and a half hours of training, student Leo felt that he didn't even have the strength to move his fingers on the carpet, so he let the rehabilitation therapist fiddle with it for muscle relaxation massage.

After the training, he finally returned to the locker room to take a shower. He didn't quite remember how he got home from the training base. In short, when he lay down on the bed, he felt that his limbs were no longer his own.I slept until dawn, and I saved the morning run. Anyway, the morning training is still running, so it’s better to save some energy for myself.

Leo suddenly realized a serious problem. With such high-intensity physical training, will he still be able to participate in the first round of the away game against Bournemouth on the weekend?

This question was quickly answered. Obviously, Leo was too worried. Mourinho has his name in the squad, but he is not in the starting lineup.What is more surprising is that Pogba failed to enter the squad, because he was suspended for accumulating yellow cards when he was in Juventus and missed the first round of the Premier League.

Leo recalled the first sentence of the only two sentences that Mourinho had said to him in the past few days, "With your physique, you can't hold on to halftime in the Premier League."

He felt that this was true. After 4 days of physical training of this intensity, no one could last half of the game.

When the team bus came to Bournemouth's home stadium, Deancourt Stadium, the moment Leo got out of the bus behind Martial, he heard a burst of high-pitched cheers and screams. Wearing a Manchester United home jersey and holding a red scarf.They are all Red Devils fans who came all the way from Manchester with the team.

For a club like Manchester United with a huge number of fans, the home team will at least set aside one stand for their fans in their away games.Manchester United also has very strict regulations on the sale of away tickets, that is, only one ticket can be purchased for one ticket, and only one person can watch the game, and it cannot be transferred or watched by others.In this way, the interests and fairness of the fans are guaranteed to the greatest extent.

Although Manchester United fans don't know much about Leo, a young player from the middle and lower reaches of La Liga, the deepest impression is probably that he performed well in the European Cup and Zidane's son played.But they have given the greatest enthusiasm and support to the new No. 7 of their home team, especially the No. 7 who is still so cute, and have high hopes for his performance in the Red Devils.

If Leo hadn't been exhausted by the harsh physical training these days, if he could spare a little time to browse the Internet, he would know that the Red Devils fans talked about him far more than his compatriot Pogba.

After all, this is an era of looking at faces, and he is wearing Manchester United's No. 7 jersey.

Martial whispered in his ear: "How does it feel to play here? You can experience the treatment like a king. It feels wonderful."

Leo didn't expect much from this "king-like treatment". He actually wanted to remind his teammates to focus more on the game itself.However, this is just a thought. Martial is not Marquis, and he doesn't need to make such remarks to make people unhappy.

As a relegation team that has just played in the Premier League for a season, Bournemouth does not pose much threat to Manchester United.Mourinho's tactical arrangement in the first round is obviously to run the team with weaker opponents and let the players get back to their status.

Leo sat quietly in the corner of the bench, the game itself was not so exciting, and his attention was more on Mourinho on the sidelines.