The Young Lion

After eating at noon, Aldridge took a short break, and then went to the hotel where the team was staying in the afternoon. He changed into swimming trunks and exercised by swimming.

The big indoor swimming pool is the only one, swimming back and forth in the swimming lane at a constant speed.

I don’t know when, when he was wearing swimming goggles, he saw someone standing by the swimming pool. Audric saw Naji from a distance, and he didn’t know the other person’s expression clearly. Still shouting: "Wait a minute, there are two more laps."

After swimming for two laps, Aldridge left the pool and walked to Najib to take a closer look. He was startled. Najib's eyes were covered with blood, and he looked worried.

"what happened?"

"I have something important to talk to you!"

"About the players?"

"No, it is the team, the future of Millwall!"

Aldrich’s face instantly became dignified, and his personality, such as Najib, determined that he wouldn’t joke, that what he said was always just right, neither exaggerated nor conservative.

After simply washing and changing clothes, Aldridge led by Najib to the conference room in the hotel, this is where they usually coach meeting.

Aldridge sat down and said, "Speak."

Najib first went to turn on the big TV in the conference room, put a edited video tape into the VCR and started playing.

He turned around and said, "Look first."

Aldridge sat straight, staring at the TV, and found that the picture was the League Cup final, Millwall played some clips of Aston Villa.

The video angles are various, and the combined clips shown in the picture are all Millwall players attacking, Aston Villa players are defending, and the offensive players and defenders are one-on-one.

Larson, Trezeguet, Pires, Schneider, Nedved, most of them in the lens.

After reading it again, Aldridge spread his hand and said that he did not understand Najib's intention.

Najib replayed the video, and then pressed the remote control to freeze the screen. He pointed to Larson, who was holding the ball in the screen, and said, "Henrick has the ball in this position. How many options do he have?"

Aldridge's expression was shocked, and he looked forward to it, his mind started to run fast.

In the picture, Larson faced Taylor's defense. He had a breakthrough space, and at that moment, after the central defender Simeka did not come close, Larson broke through, not saying that he scored 100%, but at least there was A good starting opportunity, and this is what Millwall is after, a direct scoring opportunity!

Najib continued to play the video. Larson chose to pass in the picture. Although he didn't lose the ball, he gave Aston Villa more time to set up a defensive formation.

In the next screen, Trezeguet took the ball on his back, Najib pressed the pause button again and asked, "What should he do?"

Audrey observed teammates were stared to death in the picture, and the team members inserted later were not in place. Trezeguet either returned or relied on himself, and because Eziogg was not posted, Trezeguet had room to turn around.

Aldrich said: "Turning around and shooting directly is the best option."

Najib played the following clip, Trezeguet turned the ball and tried to break through, and the ball was intercepted.

Najib said in a deep voice: "David made the right choice, but he did not do his best. As long as he dribble the ball horizontally, adjust the shooting action and the shooting space in one step, he can shoot directly instead of The ball continues to break forward. From the perspective of the picture, it is clear that there is space around him for him to make the best move."

Najib continued to play the rest of the clips. Although the action figures were different, Najib wanted to elaborate the same problem.

The players have almost no problem in handling the ball, but the details of handling the ball are not first-class.

After turning off the TV set, Aldridge solemnly said: "Naji, let's focus on it."

Winning the championship yesterday, Najib didn't celebrate. He returned to the club and asked the staff to send the footage of the scene to his office and immersed himself in the study all night. Until now, he has not closed his eyes and rested.

He sat down and stared at Aldridge’s eyes, and said in a deep voice: “Aldrich, yesterday’s victory was not about how well the players played in determining, but your tactics. Millwall played in the Premier League this season The excellent performance is not the top of the players, but three reasons, first, team tacit, second, tactical, third, physical fitness."

Aldrich replied: "Able to cooperate with teammates and implement coaching tactics, coupled with careful training and strengthened physical strength, does this not prove that the players are excellent?"

Najib shot the table with excitement and shouted: "No! In this way, Millwall's integrity will indeed be very strong, but there will be great limitations, because these players are only the product of Millwall's team tactics. , They can only adapt to this kind of football, and they don’t seem to be particularly outstanding. In other words, they are good players, but they can never become top stars! When our opponents adapt to our tactics, our physical fitness no longer has an advantage, then , We will be caught up by our opponents immediately, we need to strengthen the talents and rational use of the players, let them turn their talents into strength, and make the players be able to make the most correct one in the decision to handle the ball in an instant, and have the ability to do it the best!"

Aldridge was shocked, and Najib sadly said: "Did Larson score fewer goals than Hiller? No, but what does Larson most of the goals come from? The team's overall cooperation, and Hiller What is the goal? There are many that he can send the ball to the goal in the most reasonable way without being an absolute opportunity."

Aldridge was a little stunned and asked: "Doesn't this make us stronger? We don't highlight individuals, but the whole."

"You are wrong, Aldridge! This is not a personal argument with the team. Rather, if you are given a Hiller and a Hiller that blends into Millwall team football, he will perform better than Larson. Still bad?"

Najib's voice is getting louder and louder. Aldrich doesn't like this usually, but today, instead, his mind is clear.

Yeah, give him a Hiller with an absolute chance to score, so how many goals can Hiller score?

Although this is an impossible fantasy, intellectually, Aldridge tends to Hiller's undisputed victory over Larson.

This is not a judgment of ability, but a hypothetical substitution on the subjective impression.

Because the bottom of the heart is a feeling, Hiller's threat is greater.

What went wrong?

Aldrich took out a cigarette and smoked a few, then whispered: "Naki, no matter what you want to say, calm down first, and then we will talk, I will listen to whatever you want to say. You first Tell me what you found to be the essence of the problem."

With a long sigh, Najib also lit a cigarette, and said sadly: "It's the Brazilian guy you sent."

"Ronaldinho? What's wrong with him?"

"He is too talented, I can't teach him."

"What do you mean? He doesn't listen to you?"

Aldridge frowned. From the coach's point of view, players who were not disciplined were always repelled from the heart, regardless of the player's fame, and Ronaldinho, who was not yet an adult.

Najib waved his hand and said: "No, it's not his reason, it's me, it's the youth coach's problem. We instilled in him team thinking, the concept of overall football, he is learning, and he is doing well, but he can Do more, you also know that he has incredible extraordinary thinking and technology, but the problem is that when he starts to excel on the court, we don’t have a coach who can tell him how to excel in different environments. The choice of the person’s perspective, and what kind of foot skills to connect to the team after the most reasonable passing action. This does not conflict with our tactical philosophy. Players don’t have to only pass the ball and run, passing is always on the football field. Technical requirements that will not disappear."

Aldridge rubbed his temples to make himself understand the issues that Najib explained.

"Aldrich, assuming the player takes the ball during the offense, the choice is nothing more than three, shooting, passing, passing. When not in the shooting area, naturally the remaining two are left, and our tactics emphasize the overall, with teammates running. And when there is a reasonable pass route, the player’s choice should be the pass, but when the player has no pass space and can’t shoot, then it can only be a breakthrough, Millwall is playing smoothly in the league, Because of our advanced tactics, the full-backs and midfielders alternate in assists. In some areas, we can always penetrate the opponent through a short-term advantage. However, when the opponents keep up with our pace, when our local number does not have the advantage, When our players want to change the game through foot technology, will they still have this ability? Do we still have this ability? Yesterday's game, we won, but it also exposed our biggest problem, personal one-on-one, which The players have the absolute upper hand? Larsen counterattacks the ball by speed. Nedved's breakthrough is also by speed. The only players who can barely dominate by foot technology are Piray and Schneider."

Nadji's words made Audridge look ugly.

Perhaps the person who needs a pot of cold water is himself.

He recalled yesterday's game. Indeed, in the case of equal numbers, Millwall has no players who can stand up to change the situation through personal ability. It is he who broke the deadlock by attacking the middle to create a number advantage.

After all, Aston Villa is not a top strong team. The two defenders on the back line are overwhelmed when they are left aside, but if they change to other top teams, I am afraid they can easily adapt.

Aldrich looked up at Najib and asked, "Why have you been here for so many months, only realized this problem today."

Najib smiled bitterly and said: "When I took over the youth team, the players on the team were like that. The arrival of Ronaldinho surprised me a while, probably because his talent is so outstanding, so I let I suddenly realized this problem, and, you know, I used to work in the national team, and the center of gravity was not to teach the player's skills. I checked the training videos of several players in the first team, and after comparing, I found out that you will Unhappy fact."

Aldridge nodded in understanding, the national team coach is not responsible for training players, but to adjust the status of the players, bring the existing players together, the focus of work and the club are two concepts.

"Let's say, if there are hidden dangers in team building, you will ask me to help me correct them. I will be very happy. I will not be happy until the problems are fully exposed in the future."

"Take Glenchart as an example. Over the past year, his physical indicators have increased, his team consciousness has increased, and his passing position has become more and more mature. However, his foot skills have hardly improved. Especially for his superior skills, a year ago he only accelerated the ball inside the foot. One year later, he still only did this trick. Fortunately, he is still young. If he is twenty-four or five years old now, he will Was eliminated, or stayed at Millwall as a substitute for a specific position, and the limitations are very large. Aldridge, the technology is developed, not born, the players on our team can pass a foot Good shot, Pirlo not only made good short passes, but also made more and more accurate long passes. This is all practiced, but in our training program, there is no targeted training, it sounds like a fantasy, yes In addition, other clubs will not spend time each week arranging special training courses. The superb technology seems to be the patent of smart technical players. However, the superb technology is a very important part of catching the ball, dribbling and shooting! "