Chapter 5 Training and Progress

It was supposed to be a very pleasant welcome dinner, but because of the episode before the dinner, everyone ate the meal a bit dull.

Although Mark's parents, the Wagners, tried their best to create a relaxed atmosphere at the dinner table, but the Germans were not good at telling jokes, and Zhou Yi couldn't understand the language and couldn't understand it.

So the atmosphere didn't get better, or even a little bit worse.

After dinner, Zhou Yi returned to his room immediately. He also felt a little embarrassed, and it made him feel better to be alone.

But soon Mark knocked on his door. He came to invite Zhou Yi to play live football, and he also wanted to explain what happened tonight.

"Don't take my sister's words to heart." Mark said with a picture.

"Actually, I didn't understand either..." Zhou Yi also compared and drew.

"Then don't take her attitude to heart."

"Your sister doesn't welcome me?" Zhou Yi asked.

"No, it's not that you are not welcome, she is prejudiced against all athletes."

"why?"

"No reason, it's just that she doesn't like it. She thinks athletes are idiots with well-developed limbs and simple minds. Yes, I admit that what she said has some truth. There are indeed many scandals and jokes among athletes, but there are also examples of self-discipline among athletes. "Mark said indignantly, "She is biased for no reason!"

"But you are also an athlete, a football player." Zhou Yi felt strange.

"So she has always been against me playing football. She hopes that I can go to school honestly and get into a university... But I know that I am not suitable for school... Well, she always uses me as an example to show that athletes are simple-minded." Mark rubbed his forehead, obviously in an argument with his sister, he must have never won one.

"The relationship between your siblings is really... tense."

"No, in fact, it's usually very good, as long as it doesn't talk about sports and football." Mark defended.

"So your sister isn't a fan either?"

"No, she doesn't watch the game."

"There must not be many such people in Dortmund?"

"not much.

But there are always..." Mark was also very helpless. "Okay, let's not talk about this, go to my room to play live! "

When it comes to games, he finally has the spirit.

After Zhou Yi figured out that sister wasn't just targeting him. The mood is not as bad as before, football games can really stimulate his interest.

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When they went to training the next day, Mark's father Wagner Sr. drove them to the training base.

At the training base, Zhou Yi saw Kester again, and Kester asked him with a smile: "How does the new environment feel? Did you sleep well last night?"

"Uh, it's...not bad." Zhou Yi hesitated for a while, but didn't tell the other party the real situation.

He thought about it all night and decided that he should not change places to live.

Except for his sister, the Mark family is quite easy to get along with. And Mark told him that Cortana will not be at home every day, she is a college student, and she lives on campus most of the time.

Although he was a little dissatisfied with his sister, the relationship between Zhou Yi and Mark was still very good, and there was no need to be because of a woman. Losing a friend - if he offered to change places, I'm sure it would be Mark who would be the saddest.

"That's good. It's always a little uncomfortable at the beginning, especially when you don't understand the language. It will get better gradually. The club has already found a German teacher for you. I will start tutoring you from this evening. The place is Mark's house. All right?"

"no problem."

Zhou Yi also couldn't wait to learn German well, because he didn't understand the language, and it didn't feel good to feel like he didn't know what others were talking about.

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This day's training, in addition to the normal team training. Zhou Yi still has to do physical training under Bartlett.

After a night of research, Bartlett prescribed Zhou Yi a targeted physical training plan.

Mainly to improve his physical recovery ability in the game.

Based on Zhou Yi's playing style and way of playing in the game, considering that Zhou Yi has to keep moving during the game, sometimes he needs to sprint quickly to the pick-up location. So resilience is crucial. If Zhou Yi can't quickly recover his strength during the game, he will soon fall into a situation where he can't run. It can be said that it is useless for Zhou Yi who can't run to stay on the court.

In the last game against the La Masia youth team, he was forced to use his voice to direct his teammates, but that was a special case. We can't make this last resort the norm in future games, right?

Improve resilience. Bartlett's method is to let Zhou Yi do several sets of high-intensity training in a row during the training, fully squeeze his body, and let him rest after he is exhausted, but the rest time is very short, and then continue with high-intensity training The repeated training, so repeated, let Zhou Yi's body gradually adapt to this rhythm.

In the beginning, Zhou Yi practiced very hard. After several sets of training, when he only rested for half a minute and started training again, he couldn't exert any strength at all.

At this time, Bartlett would keep shouting next to him: "Keep going! Keep going!"

So much so that Zhou Yi learned these two German words without Kester's translation at all...

Physical training is the last item of the day's training content, and the previous training intensity was not low. Zhou Yi spent a lot of physical strength at that time, and now there is really no extra strength in his body for him to carry out physical training, but Bartlett Without considering this situation at all, he squeezed Zhou Yi's body mercilessly.

Zhou Yi also had to grit his teeth and insist. He knew that he had no way out here. When he was in China, he could still complain. No one responded to his complaints here, and it would only make people laugh.

In one year, he must make himself a qualified player and be able to sign a professional contract with the club, otherwise it means failure.

He's seventeen and he knows what it means to be a football player.

It means that he is not as good as others in many basic things, which means that he has little time to squander. If you don't hurry up and train, what's the point of this opportunity you won?

At the end of the day's training, Zhou Yi asked Kester to help him to the parking lot, where Mark and his father were waiting for him. Seeing Zhou Yi's exhausted appearance, Mark was very surprised: "It's just physical training. what……"

"His physical training is different from what you imagined." Kester said, and then called Zhouyi into Mark's hands, and warned at the same time. "If he falls asleep on the way back, wake him up for dinner. You can't be hungry, and he has German lessons in the evening."

"I understand, sir." Mark took Zhou Yi. The tentacles are all cold - that's the feeling after the sweat has cooled.

As Kister said, on the way home, Zhou Yi fell asleep in the car.

Seeing that Zhou Yi beside him was already snoring, Mark couldn't help shaking his head—this kid is really hardworking!

"Dad, drive slowly." He said to his father who was driving in front.

"Okay." Old Wagner nodded. The accelerator was released, the speed of the car gradually slowed down, and it slowly moved forward on the way home.

There is more time left for Zhou Yi to sleep...

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When Zhou Yi was woken up, the car had already arrived at Mark's house. Although he was still a little tired after waking up, his spirit was much better. He went to take a hot shower first, and then went downstairs to have dinner with Mark's family. I didn't watch it today. To that poisonous tongue sister. Looks like Mark was right, Cortana doesn't come home very often.

After dinner, Zhou Yi waited for the language teacher the club had found for him. In his room, he studied German for an hour and a half under the guidance of the teacher.

After seeing off the German teacher, Zhou Yi went to Mark's room to play a few games of live football. They talked in German while playing games. This was also a good oral and listening practice for Zhou Yi. Mark also considered Zhou Yi's language situation, and spoke at a slower rate so that he could understand.

After playing a few games. Zhou Yi bid farewell to Mark, yawned and went to wash and sleep.

The day was over, he slipped under the covers and entered the world of the world. Seeing Chu Ling, he continued his training.

"The first day of physical training, how do you feel?" Chu Ling asked.

"Professional." Zhou Yi said the feeling of two words.

It is indeed professional, even more professional than the physical training I received in the temporary Chinese team, and the requirements are naturally stricter.

"Professional is right, this kind of training will benefit you a lot." Chu Ling said.

"By the way. Has my physical attributes improved?" Zhou Yi asked.

"It's just one training session, no matter how professional it is, it won't have such a magical effect. Physical fitness is an attribute that is accumulated by quantity. Don't think about how much you have improved now, just practice."

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In this way, Zhou Yi was trained like a dead dog every day in the Brakel training base, and then he was handed over to Mark by Kester, and then he had a good sleep in the old Wagner's car, and took a shower after waking up. Eat, learn German in the evening, and use the time to play games with Mark to practice speaking and listening.

In the first week of coming to Germany, Zhou Yi spent his time in such a very regular way, like a German.

In this week, except for seeing Mark's sister on the first day, he really hadn't seen her since. If he hadn't left a deep impression on him on the first day, he would even doubt whether Mark was real or not. I have such a sister...

In addition, during this week's training, Zhou Yi never met Mario Gotze once.

According to Mark, Gotze has been mentioned to the first team to train with the team.

Another person who is only one step away from professional football!

Zhou Yi thought of Thiago from La Masia.

You have to work harder yourself.

It is gratifying that the results of this week's hard training and study have gradually appeared.

In terms of physical training, Zhou Yi no longer felt difficult training as in the first few days, and Bartlett shouted "keep going" much less frequently.

In terms of language learning, Zhou Yi has also made rapid progress, and his communication with Mark has less and less use of gestures.

As his high school class teacher Zhai Liying said, Zhou Yi is a very smart student in essence, but he is unwilling to use his intelligence on studies and exams. If he is willing, it is not an unattainable dream to rely on key universities.

But now, Zhou Yi has used his intelligence to learn German, and it is normal for him to make significant progress.

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PS, because a new leader was born last night, today is also the third watch!

It's still old time! (To be continued.)

PS: Because a new leader was born last night, today is also the third watch!

It's still old time!