But when we look at it, it’s mid-January and the league has been reopened for half a season. At this moment, coach McClaren still hasn’t given him any decent arrangements. In private, he is far less relaxed than he shows.
It’s been almost a month since I came here, and when I gradually adapted to the training here, Gao Shunyao gradually realized how big the gap between European football and Asian football is.
Training here is indeed better than Asian football-this advantage is not reflected in the greater training here, but also in the fact that training here is more scientific and attractive.
Physical training, strength training, ball training and technical training … During his stay in Wolfsburg, Gao Shunyao experienced various trainings, which was an eye-opener for him.
In terms of physical training, his training is mainly mountaineering, frog leaping and push-ups. Among all kinds of training, he is the first to adapt to physical training.
This is largely because physical training is not too heavy.
Wolfsburg physical training, like their scouting system, is said to have been established when Magat coached. The standard body is Magat, who is the most famous physical training madman in the world. He has extremely high requirements for physical training. In his coaching years, Wolfsburg training was said to be the first in the league, but it weakened a lot when he left. Although the training pattern was retained, the intensity was not as good as before.
After all, almost masochistic physical training is unbearable for many people. The original rule set by Magat in the period was to practice three times a day, but after he left, there was not enough force to force the team to automatically change to practice two times a day. More training patterns will reduce the total amount, and there will be no difficulty. Their intensity is still very large for ordinary Asian players, but for Gao Shunyao, he can still adapt.
His physical fitness is still very good. When he played football on Sunday, he always had his own habit of practicing privately. When he came to Germany, his training became more serious, which meant that it was not difficult for him to adapt to it.
People’s physical qualities are slightly different from race to race, just as blacks are always the protagonists in sprints and whites are exposed to light in swimming competitions. People of different colors have differences in some physical abilities, and some things are difficult to make up by training.
But in all kinds of physical qualities, the gap between people and physical fitness is not the most obvious. Yellow people can still get good results if they are willing to train hard. For example, Park Ji-sung is famous for being able to run. In this respect, the gap can be leveled by training. Gao Shunyao has been paying great attention to physical fitness training in recent years. His physical strength is strong, and he can adapt to it very quickly even when he comes to Germany.
Compared with strength training, it has changed a lot, and the new training methods have also made Gao Shunyao an eye-opener. In Japan, his strength training is mainly done by various strength equipment, but here the Germans have new ways to play.
The team has prepared many solid balls weighing five pounds. These big balls are the training for the players.
The team asked the players to lie on the ground, put their legs together at a 45-degree angle and hold them in the middle to hone their strength.
This kind of training is very torturous for people, especially for those who have never been in contact with anyone. Even Gao Shunyao asked himself that his physical quality was excellent, and he was also a player with outstanding strength before, but after such training, he found that he could do better after training.
Although he made great efforts, Gao Shunyao felt that it was very worthwhile, and this kind of training also had some merits. Strength training is very boring, and it is also very good to combine it with football training.
These trainings are very difficult, but he is not used to the method. He also believes that his level will make a qualitative leap when he practices like this for a while.
Compared with physical training and strength training, there is ball training in all kinds of training, which makes Gao Shunyao feel a little hard to imagine and simple.
Having the ball training is Gao Shunyao’s weakness. It will take him some time to get used to having the ball training when he arrives in Europe. However, there is hardly any particularly strict ball training in Wolfsburg these days. There are many ball training bases here, which is similar to that in Japan, and the events are even simpler.
Gao Shunyao doesn’t know if this is the habit of Wolfsburg or because the coach, an Englishman, doesn’t like training with the ball, and deliberately cuts back on training with the ball, but either way, it can be regarded as a blessing for him. His worst project is not taken seriously, which makes it much easier for him to adapt to training.
But even though many Bundesliga trainings are the same as those in Japan, there are still some events that make Gao Shunyao an eye-opener. For example, there is a special water polo training here, but you can’t see it in Japan.
This kind of training is similar to beach football, but the training ground is not on the beach, but in a shallow pool, where players change their swimsuits and caps and play football in the pool to better master soccer.
In Japan, Gao Shunyao came into contact with beach football. In his opinion, playing beach football in Japan has greatly promoted his football skills. Unexpectedly, he also saw new training methods when he came to Germany. According to the coach here, such training methods have not really started until about 8 years ago. That is to say, it is normal for football players to make things in Asia in recent years.
The coach’s words made Gao Shunyao sigh that Europe really deserves to be a high-level football. The software and hardware conditions in Europe keep up with many times. They can develop some training methods by themselves, but compared with those in Asia who can learn from Europeans, it is difficult to have a time difference-and in football, a three-year time difference is almost a generation gap.
Moreover, some training programs are also determined by the national conditions of each country, so it is impossible to have such a long-term resource, and it is very tiring to play football like this. The means of recovery there are not enough for players to recover like this, and neither are they.
However, here in Germany, unlike in Japan, the means of recovery such as hydrotherapy and massage are better, and the players can recover physically faster. With these things, they can of course play football in the water.
Playing football in water is also a special training method, which is very helpful for players’ flexibility, muscle strength and reaction speed. Comparatively speaking, playing football on the beach in this way can be said to be a better training method. Because players are under less pressure on their legs in water, they can also train with greater intensity without worrying about causing trouble to their meniscus, which also greatly enhances the training effect.
Moreover, the resistance of the players in the shallow water pool has increased a lot, and because the water surface is not the ground, it needs better ball control skills to play well, which makes it much more difficult to control the ball, but it also makes the training more open and not afraid of injury.
Gao Shunyao likes this way of playing football after trying it several times. It is more interesting than playing beach football, and it is also good for his growth. He also likes it very much.
Although his level of this training is a little poor, his enthusiasm has been mobilized and he has played very hard.
It is true that he has mastered all kinds of training for a month, which is not bad, but it is enough for a player who is always strict and urges himself to adapt to the environment. He believes that even if there is a big gap between Asia and Europe, he can catch up.
The only problem for him is that the coach has not made any heavy plans for him. How long will it take for him to train by himself before he can attract the coach’s attention? Gao Shunyao has asked himself this question many times in his mind, but unfortunately he never has an answer.
This question has made Gao Shunyao feel quite bad during this period. Although he never knows this when talking, he is really in a bad mood during this period.
Section 22 Against the current
Sometimes when I think about my current situation, Gao Shunyao feels quite interesting. I have been surprised for a month when I came to the team, but what kind of person is team coach McClaren? Gao Shunyao still doesn’t know.
This month is the winter break of the team, and the team is also undergoing some training. It is reasonable to say that it is often the case that players meet their coaches during training. Gao Shunyao can see McClaren every day in the team, but it has been almost a month, and McClaren still gives him a very weak impression.
Gao Shunyao was impressed by this coach, except that he shouted at the training ground to direct the training. His record was poor, and fans outside the training ground could often be seen holding cards to scold him, while Gao Shunyao almost knew more.
After coming to the team for a month, there was no more communication between the two except the training ground. McClaren did not communicate with Gao Shunyao, which made Gao Shunyao very uneasy. In his own opinion, this was nothing, but for Gao Shunyao, the coach ignored himself for a long time, which was difficult for him to understand.
It’s been a long time since I came here, but head coach Steve McClaren has never talked to him about this situation. In Gao Shunyao’s view, it is not normal. In Japan, he talked about whether it was flowing through Tokyo or not.
It is reasonable to say that this is not a very correct thing. After a player is transferred, the coach usually has to communicate with the player, what ideas and requirements he has for how to kick the ball, where to play, what tactics he likes and what help he needs. The coach usually asks the coach to direct the team to fight the players, as if his will is extended and he doesn’t understand the players’ ideas, so it is very simple.
Gao Shunyao has experienced coaches who like to communicate with the players very much. The coach is a good coach when he flows through Nakano Yuji. He is a master of youth football training. He not only pays attention to the psychology of the players, but also understands the rebellious psychology of the teenagers. Gao Shunyao has always been very open in front of the university coach. He doesn’t have to care whether he is right or not, because even if he says something wrong, the coach won’t care. This attitude makes Gao Shunyao quite comfortable.
Cheng Fuhao, on the other hand, just became a coach. It was not long before he met Gao Shunyao, which was one of the greatest achievements of his career. He and Gao Shunyao helped each other and carried each other. He lectured Gao Shunyao more intimately than ordinary players. Although Gao Shunyao could not be reckless, he was also extremely favored.
Gao Shunyao, who is used to being favored by coaches, has always regarded it as normal for players and coaches to communicate with each other and get to know each other. Suddenly he met a coach who ignored him at all, which made him extremely uncomfortable.
Is the coach too busy to have time, or does the coach think that his strength is not enough and he is too important to pay attention? If the coach ignores the reasons behind the players, it will cause a lot of guesses among the players. Gao Shunyao has just come to the team and is not a star who has attracted much attention. It is difficult for him to think about it and fear that he has long abandoned his coaching tactics.
Even if Li Ze once told him that McClaren was afraid that he would have to take classes in the season for a long time, Gao Shunyao still hoped to get his approval. The first European coach who coached himself felt that he was indifferent to himself.
When he was in Asia, Gao Shunyao was the darling of the team and the coach’s magic weapon. Several pairs of eyes were fixed on him, and the team coach praised him from time to time. He was very used to these situations. If the coach now treats him like an angry psychological gap, it is difficult for him to accept it.
Of course, he understands that Steve McClaren may not care about him. He is used to it in Germany these days. He has some doubts about how unpopular Steve McClaren is with the fans. But if a coach cares about the players’ feelings because of the pressure of performance, isn’t it surprising that the coach’s performance is not good?
The coach doesn’t care what the players think. What should the players care if the coach is a class?
What McClaren did made Gao Shunyao quite uneasy or contemptuous, and there was nothing wrong with it. McClaren turned a blind eye to all this. What he could do was to train the coaches hard, and those thoughts could make him feel bored.
Of course, Gao Shunyao is very bored these days, not because of McClaren, but also because of problems in his own life. Although his training environment in Germany has been completely adapted, there is a problem that he needs to solve when Gao Shunyao finishes his language.
Gao Shunyao is not a language idiot. He was able to learn a language after several years in Japan, although he was not a language genius. However, it took him about a year to master everyday Japanese from the time he began to learn Japanese in China to the time he went to the Japanese language school. Even so, when he wanted to play football, he still had some words that he couldn’t understand. Fortunately, at that time, he played in college football and the team didn’t get any results. The coach was required to be patient and teach him, which made him gradually adapt to the Japanese football environment.
But such a thing can be done in a college football team, but it is impossible in a professional team or a foreign professional team. Where does the team coach have so much kung fu nonsense? I need you to say it briefly at the scene. If you don’t understand it, just find someone else to perform it. When the game is so precious, where can I bring it to the translator?
The professional football team has had great competition since its inception, and he is in the wind because of the language problem.
Gao Shunyao didn’t want to solve this problem. After he arrived in Germany, he found an interpreter and a tutor to teach himself to speak German. Because he played football, he was worried that he couldn’t speak it well. He also specially asked his agent to find an interpreter who had amateur football experience so that he could understand it better.
However, all kinds of means have affected his German learning process, which is still not very fast-although he also knows that it is too high for him to learn German in one month, but he is worried when he sees that his training is gradually on the right track, but his language has not improved.
Once in Japan, Li Ze suggested that he start reading some German early to prepare for the future transfer, but at that time, the team game was heavy, and now he thinks that Li Ze was right.
It’s a pity that I didn’t listen to him. What’s more, I can’t remedy it now.
For Gao Shunyao, the most depressing thing is that in Germany, he is in a hurry when he has a problem. He doesn’t have anyone to discuss with himself. No matter what happens in Japan, he will go to discuss with Li Ze. Sometimes he will help him make up his mind when he has a problem, but in Germany, Li Ze naturally can’t come all the way to help, which also makes him have a problem and don’t know how to solve it.
Playing football in the team brings anxiety, learning German does not bring boredom, and after being away from friends, it is difficult for Gao Shunyao to feel better after a month in Germany, and some other problems seem to be magnified a lot, such as the different weather and diet in Europe and Asia, and the adaptation problems are also magnified a lot. He suspects that if he goes to his own problems like this, he may not be able to help solve them, or it may be better to see Tian Ying directly.
Of course, he knows that this kind of mood is wrong. He has heard that many European players can’t play well because they can’t resist this feeling of being alone in a foreign land. Finally, they have no progress and returned to Asia awkwardly-he competed with him for a position when he first debuted. Hirayama was such a player.
Gao Shunyao certainly doesn’t want to be that kind of player. He didn’t come to Europe for a trip to Europe, and then he went back to bully children. He hoped to establish himself in Europe, so he also knew that he had to overcome his psychological problems.
He doesn’t have a very good way to do this, although he has heard Tian Ying say that talking is the best way to relieve psychological pressure. He always thinks that the best way is not to talk, but to change the status quo. If he plays the main role, he will not be upset anymore. If he learns German, he will not be bored. Compared with talking to others, he prefers to change his reality and thus change his cognition to make himself feel better.
It may be difficult to do so, but sometimes it’s not a bad thing to meet difficulties.