Chapter 12 Physical Training Program

Preparations for the new season are about to begin!

July 21st is the time for all players to gather, and most of the players have returned to Madrid.

On the day of the rendezvous, the club arranged for some pre-season tests.

Before the pre-season test, all the players gathered. Except for Aguero, the other players in the 22-man roster of the first team have already arrived. They gathered on the pitch and waited for the new coach and coaching staff together.

Except for those members who have just joined the team, other old players are more or less a little uneasy.

In the summer, the Atlético de Madrid club underwent great changes. The transfer of the Hill family’s equity made Atlético de Madrid almost a new team, with almost half of the players leaving and half of the newcomers in the team.

What will happen next, no one can be sure.

So when everyone was waiting on the court, they had less time to talk to each other, and some people who knew each other just said hello to each other, and then kept waiting.

A figure appeared at the end of the field.

Everyone looked over.

Behind the figure, two people followed. After a while, everyone could recognize the person who came. The one who walked in the front was the young Chinese coach who just took over Atlético de Madrid - Wan Sheng.

Everyone knows this name.

Needless to say, Wansheng's reputation in European football is related to the future coach of Atlético de Madrid, and everyone has long remembered what he looks like.

Behind Wan Sheng, there were two assistant coaches -- Diamares and Fan Zhiyi.

Seeing Wan Sheng approaching, Lionel, the club's assistant coach, immediately whistled to signal everyone to gather, and soon everyone gathered together, waiting for Wan Sheng to come slowly.

After arriving in front of the players, Wan Sheng introduced himself with a smile, "Hello everyone, I'm Wan Sheng, you may have heard my name, and from now on, I will be the head coach of the team!"

"Maybe most of you are still unfamiliar with me. It doesn't matter. In the days to come, we can slowly get to know each other."

"Today is the first day of the assembly. I have a word to tell you in advance. For the training tasks I set, each of you must complete them exactly! This is my rule, can you do it?"

"Can..." The players said sparsely.

"Say it again!"

"Yes." The voice was a little louder.

Wan Sheng was still dissatisfied, his face became serious, and he shouted, "Did you not eat! Can you do it, say it again! If the sound doesn't satisfy me, then you all keep shouting all day!"

"can."

"can."

"can……"

Everyone's voice immediately became a lot louder, although it was a little uneven, at least the volume was sufficient.

Wan Sheng nodded, "Remember how you feel now, and do this when you answer in the future!"

"Now I'll introduce you to my two assistants."

Wan Sheng pointed at Diamares and said, "This is Gael Diamares. You can call him Gael, or you can call him the coach directly. He will be directly responsible for leading the team's training."

"Fan Zhiyi. He is your training guide, and he will also do some warm-up work for the team."

After the introduction, Wan Sheng glanced at the players and asked Lionel, "Where's Aguero?"

"Sergio took two days off."

"What did you do?"

"He was on vacation with his girlfriend and returned too late. He just bought a ticket to Madrid today!"

Wan Sheng pouted, "Is this also a reason to ask for leave?"

"what?"

"When he comes to the club to report, tell him that if he wants more vacation, it's okay, I'm very talkative, I can give him a year's vacation!"

Hearing Wansheng's words, the players felt even more uneasy.

Aguero is a world-recognized striker genius. He is regarded by the media as an indispensable member of the team, and even Atletico Madrid players think so. Because of this, Aguero will have some "privileges".

This is an accepted thing.

But now that the new coach takes office, he seems to be very strict with Aguero. Is this the "three fires of the new officer's appointment", or does he really want to treat Aguero?

In the former case, Aguero will definitely be out of luck, because everyone knows that the Chinese coach in front of him is not easy to mess with.

He is more than just a head coach. It is said that the Taiwan development investment that acquired the club means that he has most of his shares, which means that he has an absolute right to speak in the club.

But most people think it's the latter. After all, Aguero is really good. What coach in the world doesn't like outstanding young stars? Young stars have some privileges, and it is only natural! ?

Wan Sheng ignored what the players thought, he still had important things to say.

Under the eyes of all the players, Wan Sheng took the captain's armband in Fan Zhiyi's hand, walked over and put it on Diego Forlan's arm, "Diego? I can call you that. From today on you are Captain of the team!"

"vice captain……"

Wan Sheng glanced at the players, and finally fixed his gaze on Morris, saying, "Morris will be the vice captain in the future."

"Then follow the arrangement and start the pre-season test!"

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After a short gathering to speak, the players of the first team got to know Wansheng.

In fact, they already knew Wansheng.

Needless to say, Wansheng's reputation in European football has left two impressions on the professional football circle.

One is coaching ability.

Led Derby County and Manchester City, won consecutive Premier League championships, and won many championships during this period. He also led Manchester City two years ago, standing at the pinnacle of European clubs.

These results are enough to prove his coaching ability.

In the entire European football, fans think that he can only be compared with Real Madrid's new coach Mourinho. Just last season, Mourinho led Inter Milan to the top of Europe. It was he who led the second team to this level.

The salaries of the two can also be compared.

Mourinho signed with Real Madrid and got a blockbuster contract with an annual salary of 10 million euros. The salary contract of Wansheng signing with Atletico Madrid has not been announced, but the media conservatively estimates that it has at least reached an annual salary of 10 million euros.

Wansheng's second impression on the professional football circle is to develop players, or to use players' abilities.

In the few years of coaching, Wan Sheng has produced a considerable number of stars, many of whom were not well-known before. Player training is one aspect. When Wan Sheng coached Manchester City, Silva, Ozil and Morris were able to Excellent performance is also quite good ability, because Mark Hughes failed to do this, Capello coached the England team, also failed to deal with the 'double Germany' problem, after all, the two players are in the same position and their abilities are also different. Almost, there is bound to be some conflict when playing together.

Now, the Atlético de Madrid players have a new understanding of Wan Sheng - a rather 'dictatorial' guy who speaks almost without question, and is ... very difficult to get along with.

In this case, no one would dare to touch the tiger's whiskers on the first day.

So everyone did the pre-season test step by step.

In the pre-season test, in fact, the most important thing is to do a physical fitness test to see how the players' physical fitness is after a holiday, and then the team will arrange the team's physical fitness training as a whole.

This is the team's first and most important training task.

The physical fitness of the entire team is directly related to the team's performance after the start of the season, so this should not be taken lightly.

There is a World Cup this year, which is good news for many big clubs, including Atletico Madrid, because those players who participate in the World Cup generally maintain a very good physical condition.

However, this is far from the standard required by Wansheng.

When Fan Zhiyi showed Wan Sheng the results of the player's physical test, he frowned and immediately sighed, "It seems that our physical training task is very heavy..."

"But today is much better than last year." Lionel whispered beside him.

Wan Sheng looked at Lionel, as a colleague working together, his eyes were no longer serious, "Leon, now the team has changed a lot, you can't follow the previous standards. My ball The team has very high requirements for physical fitness and training, I hope you can gradually understand in the future, you can communicate with Geldo in this regard..."

"Okay, Wansheng." Lionel nodded.

Lionel has been working at Atlético de Madrid, mainly in charge of physical training and also assisting the training of the youth team. During the nearly 10 years of working at the club, the head coach has changed constantly, but his position remains stable and his salary is still constant. The improvement is inseparable from Lionel's ability.

When the club changed, two coaches were assigned to the youth team, but Wansheng still kept Lionel. With Lionel's qualifications, no matter what kind of training and work, he could help himself. One point, just Diamares and Fan Zhiyi, the coaching staff is also a bit small, so he still values ​​Lionel very much.

After talking about the intensity of physical training, Lionel asked, "So I'm going to make a physical training plan?"

Wan Sheng smiled, "No, I'll just do this work."

"what?"

"The training plan has always been done by Wansheng." Diamares reminded.

Lionel still doesn't understand. In his opinion, the head coach is the head coach, who is mainly responsible for leading the team in games, tactics and other issues. The team needs to carry out physical training, and he must be directly responsible as the physical fitness coach.

Now your job content has been robbed?

Then what are you going to do?

Moreover, although this young Chinese has a strong coaching ability, physical training and leading the team are not the same field. Can he really make a physical training plan by himself?

Lionel didn't understand, but he couldn't refute it, and he felt a little bit of a joke in his heart.

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The next morning, Wan Sheng, Diamares, Fan Zhiyi, and Lionel gathered in the office again.

Wan Sheng piled up a stack of training plan books on his desk.

"Is this a physical training program? So much?" Lionel opened his mouth and looked at it, a little unbelievable. He opened a copy and saw "Physical Training Program - Raul Garcia" on it.

"Raul's?"

He opened it again, and it said 'Domingos', and then again, 'Reyes', 'Godin', 'Morris', 'Merida'... Lionel raised his head, surprised asked, "You have different training tasks for each player?"

Wan Sheng smiled and nodded.

Lionel checked the training content again. He found that the content regulations were very detailed, and some of the trainings were also very scientific, but some of the trainings he could not understand.

For example, this one, "After running 3,000 meters, stay in a half-squat position for 3 minutes and take 10 deep breaths." What is the use of this?

Lionel looked at Wansheng suspiciously, but Diamares said beside him, "Leon, in the field of football training, Wansheng is very authoritative, this is his old job!"

Lionel looked over.

Diamares continued, "I remember that when he was not the head coach at Derby County, he was in charge of the training of some players. Since he became the head coach, he has been in charge of the training content. A few years ago , When we were at Manchester City, the physical reserve of the entire Manchester City team was the best in the Premier League every time. This is the role of Wansheng training. So you don’t have to wonder, just follow it.”

Lionel finally nodded silently.

He has doubts about whether these training plans can work, but the head coach is Wan Sheng, and the other two assistant coaches also came to work with Wan Sheng at the club.

"Then see what he can do!" Lionel thought.

From his professional perspective, he is not very optimistic about these training plans. (To be continued ~^~)