Chapter 775 The Future of Football Is Here!

When the players, led by the team leader Matthew Le Tissier, happily sat on the luxury yacht rented by the team, on the Tejo River in Lisbon, enjoying the charming scenery of the Tejo River, in the hotel, Bell Sa is receiving visiting Klopp, Tuchel, and the head coach of tonight's final opponent, Simeone.

If this scene is captured by the media, it will definitely be a surprise.

Some people will even suspect that Simeone is not here to discuss the tactical arrangements for the night with Bielsa, right?

Klopp has officially dismissed from Dortmund a few days ago, and will officially announce that he will take over Inter Milan in a few days.

As for Inter Milan and Mazari, Mazari resigned on his own initiative and ended.

It can be said that Fasone, Branca and others were still very strong in the process of handling this matter, and everyone was happy.

Bielsa didn't stay here specifically to greet the visitors, but because he wanted the players to relax more.

Visiting Lisbon, this was decided by Master Huan himself after the team temporarily adjusted the plan at noon yesterday.

Just for this, the team has to spend a lot of money.

At the same time, in order to avoid putting pressure on the players and allow them to have more fun, the coaching staff including Bielsa and Luis Borini did not participate, but the team leader Matthew Letici, who has the best relationship with the players Eyre led the team, accompanied by sports psychology consultant Dan Abraham.

I believe that at this moment, they should be on the yacht, having a great time!

Several professional European coaches got together, and the topic soon turned to football.

Klopp, Tuchel, and even Simeone all came here with a learned attitude, and Bielsa did not hide his secrets. After all, they will coach the team of Master Huan next, so he even Southampton's pre-match plans are all out.

As a result, this appearance made the other three people dumbfounded.

how to say?

Too much!

It is as thick as more than a hundred pages of A4 paper, and it records the physical and psychological data of each player in detail, marking all kinds of details that must be paid attention to and paid attention to, and even many details are so meticulous that it is unbelievable.

"Did you arrange so meticulously before and after every game?" Simeone was a little unbelievable.

He asked himself that he was also a coach who paid great attention to details, but compared with Southampton's cumbersome and complicated pre-match arrangements, he felt that his own was considered a child's play.

Just like the assessment of players' psychology, Southampton, in addition to specific time arrangements, also includes statistics on each player's past personality and psychology, and gives targeted pre-match encouragement plans.

And this kind of plan is not complicated. On the contrary, most of them are very simple, and some are even so simple that they only need a few words.

But who is Simeone?

He deduced from these targeted plans, and soon he could vaguely guess the psychological state of the players, and then came to a conclusion that these plans were all made by professionals, and they were quite targeted.

It is not difficult to understand why Southampton players walk onto the court with a strong spirit in every game.

Neymar, who switched from the Saints to Barcelona, ​​complained more than once, thinking that Barcelona did not give him enough help.

But what about Barcelona?

It's also very wronged, and I feel that I have done enough.

But if Barcelona can see this plan, they will find that they have done too little, too little.

Of course, it's hard to say whether they will learn from Southampton.

After all, how many professionals and how much investment are needed to make such a detailed plan?

After Bielsa heard Simeone's question, he shook his head lightly: "Usually not so many, because this game is the Champions League final, so it is about a quarter more than usual."

Simeone, Klopp and Tuchel looked at each other, and they all noticed the wry smile in each other's eyes.

In other words, even for the usual games, Southampton has done quite a lot of preparations.

"Actually, you are seeing paper, because we usually use computers to manage, so on computers, these things are just a little bit!" Bielsa even made a rare joke.

The other three couldn't help but smile too, but it was true.

The Saints have already fully implemented the digital management of the computer office in the club. This is what Yang Huan has vigorously promoted in the past four years after purchasing the Saints.

Not only in the Saints, but also in Atletico Madrid, Monaco and Inter Milan, Yang Huan is also vigorously promoting.

Even, it is foreseeable that Yang Huan will soon promote this set in other teams he bought.

In the past, like many media and fans, they thought that Southampton's advancement was more reflected in hardware and data management and analysis, but now, holding this heavy document in their hands, they realized that they mistake.

As professional head coaches, they clearly know that there are too many shocking things in it.

For example, the simplest meal.

The last meal before the game is very important. All professional teams attach great importance to it, but most professional teams do not pay much attention to nutrition distribution, and some teams equipped with nutrition experts will be relatively more professional.

They will arrange for players to consume carbohydrates the day before the game, and try to keep the proportion of carbohydrate intake in a reasonable ratio with the players' weight.

Just like Arsenal, the biggest change Wenger brought to the Gunners was a healthy diet, and that's what they did.

It is said that the Gunners players are on a strict diet of four grams of carbohydrates per kilogram.

But what about Southampton?

Not just adopting this one-size-fits-all ratio, but based on the physical characteristics of each player and the data accumulated from long-term tracking in the past, we can come up with the most reasonable and most suitable golden ratio for the players.

Not only that, but they also take their time very seriously.

For example, the digestion of carbohydrates in the stomach takes about two to three hours, so they will arrange players to eat three to four hours before the game.

The advantage of this is that it can ensure that the player's body can absorb as much energy as possible during the last meal before the game, but at the beginning of the game, it is just in a state of fasting suitable for the player to play.

But is it just that?

No!

Southampton will also formulate targeted plans based on each player's physical fitness, technical characteristics, position, game investment and consumption, and require players to strictly implement them.

But this is just before the game. During and after the game, Southampton also has a very detailed diet plan, and all of this relies on the strong team of nutritionists behind the Saints.

If we talk about diet and psychology, these are the links that many teams pay attention to. It is understandable that Southampton pays attention to it, but even the sleep that almost all teams do not pay attention to, the Saints have invested a lot. Blood and energy.

In the plan in Klopp's hands, the signature of a person named Nick Littlehalles can be seen on the pages about players' sleep.

People who don't know may not notice who he is, but Klopp knows.

Little Halles, the chairman of the British Sleep Association, used to be a professional golf player, and later went to a world-renowned bedding company as an executive. He has knowledge in two fields of sports science and sleep science.

He has coached countless British athletes, many of them Olympic medalists, and in football, he is most famous for teaching Manchester United's Ryan Giggs how to sleep.

A good night's sleep and yoga before bed are seen as reasons why Ryan Giggs has enjoyed such a long career.

And these all come from the guidance of Little Halles.

Previously, there were British media reports that Southampton hired a sleep coach to help players fall asleep, and even redecorated Stapletwood's player room for this purpose.

All of this was written by Little Halles.

Because he wants to create the best, most comfortable, and most scientific sleeping environment for players.

The most interesting thing is that he opposes putting water next to the bed, because he believes that it will leave psychological hints for players to get up and drink water, which will affect sleep.

But in this plan, he even arranged the players' sleep very carefully.

For example, when to eat dinner, if you can have a snack, when to eat it, and what routine before bedtime can help you fall asleep.

The strange thing is that he requires every player to go to the bathroom one hour before going to bed and every fifteen minutes, regardless of whether he wants to urinate or not, because this can ensure that he will not hold back his urine.

In addition, his sleep theory is that everyone's sleep cycle is divided into three stages: light sleep, deep sleep and rapid eye movement, and each cycle is exactly 90 minutes, so when planning sleep, it is best to use nine Units are ten minutes.

That is, you either sleep for five cycles, exactly seven and a half hours.

So what happens if you don't plan according to the cycle?

According to him, if you sleep for eight or eight and a half hours, theoretically you sleep an extra half or an hour, but in fact, you are more tired and sleepy.

And he doesn't encourage the practice of catching up on sleep because it doesn't help at all.

In the Southampton team, Little Hallers' role is to help every player sleep well every night.

He will even guide players how to use their spare time to rest, and help some players who have difficulty falling asleep find a sleep method that suits them.

On the surface, sleeping is a very simple thing. Everyone knows how to sleep well, especially for a player who is about to face a major event, how to sleep well is a profound knowledge.

Otherwise, Ferguson would not bombard the hotel in Rome after losing the Champions League final.

Simeone, Klopp and Tuchel looked through Southampton's plan, and they really had an incredible feeling.

They all knew that because they were about to coach Yang Huan's team, Southampton would disclose this plan to them, but even so, it was impossible for them to copy it.

Because that's not realistic!

Southampton's system, Yang Huan spent a total of four years, hard work, from scratch, slowly established bit by bit, and penetrated into every aspect of the club, and penetrated into every player. head to the heart.

Therefore, such a plan that looks extremely complicated to outsiders, even like a maze, can be carried out in an orderly manner in the hands of Southampton, and they can even arrange their time in a very compact and orderly manner.

Because they have long been accustomed to all this!

Moreover, it is entirely conceivable that for such a plan, how much money does Southampton have to invest in this area every year to maintain the operation of the entire system and to maintain the team's research and improvement in related aspects?

At least several million or even tens of millions of pounds!

This amount of money is enough to bring in a capable player!

But Southampton used it to do this?

Looking at the entire European football world, the saints are probably the only ones who can be so extravagant!

But Bielsa obviously didn't think so.

I saw him pointing to the document in the hands of the three with a slight smile, and said something very inscrutable.

"The future of football is here!"

The three people on the opposite side were suddenly stunned!

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