Chapter 604: Special Class

Everyone in Ajax's De Tokmost knows that Jan Odd Ricklink has two nicknames. One is the "Eagle Eye" that he is familiar with and spread by the outside world, and makes him somewhat proud. This means that he has discovered and cultivated many stars for the team in the past years of Ajax.

Another nickname is called Spy. This is because in the eyes of many people, whether players or coaches, Ricklink is always sneaking around and watching from the sidelines, and then occasionally giving you some surprises, such as suddenly coming up to point out your mistakes, etc., and he always has a serious and cold face.

In Ye Qiu's words, Ricklink is a typical cold-faced but warm-hearted person.

After Ricklink entered the Theobald training base and took over the Tottenham Hotspur Youth Academy, he began to resolutely implement a series of rules and regulations formulated by Ye Qiu before, and even added some things himself.

Tottenham Hotspur's Youth Academy attaches great importance to scientific training, which is in line with Ajax.

You know, there are generally two youth training models in the world. One is similar to Brazil, South America, Africa and other countries. They adopt street youth training. Players play football in parks, streets and open spaces day after day and year after year. In this way, young players are trained. After they emerge, they will enter professional teams.

Another is similar to the Dutch youth training, which trains players in the most scientific way and then trains and hone players through high-level competitions. Therefore, in De Tokmost, which has the highest level of youth training in the Netherlands, the youth team never plays low-level warm-up matches.

As for the differences in Dutch youth training, such as the differences between Ajax's youth training concept and Guvern's scientific training, in fact, the foundations of both sides are the same, but one side pays more attention to tactical indoctrination, while the other side believes that personal skills are more important, but the fundamental things are the same.

Ricklink came to London with the title of Ajax youth training director. Not long ago, when he represented Tottenham Hotspur to attend the English youth training conference, Hugh Jennings, the founder of the British football youth training system and the director of Fulham Youth Training Academy, highly praised his ability and Ajax's youth training level.

"All modern ideas about how to train young players started with Ajax. They are the originators!"

Hugh Jennings wanted to use this sentence to call on more English youth training personnel to learn from Tottenham Hotspur and Ajax, and learn some advanced ideas from these two teams and professional youth training experts including Ricklink.

That time Ricklink also expressed his own views. He believed that the most important resource for youth training is youth training coaches. Only excellent youth training coaches can train the best players. In the Netherlands, many youth training coaches are professional players, even former internationals. This is a great tradition.

In addition, he also felt that youth training is not a game of fun. There should be competition and pressure, so that young players can be urged to study hard and make progress. If there is no pressure in youth training, they will no longer have the motivation to make progress.

After entering Tottenham Hotspur, Ricklink made some rules, such as the players of the youth training academy must undergo a fat content test once a week, players under the age of 17 must be below 13%, and those over the age of 17 must be below 12%. These two indicators are from Ajax.

Considering the geographical location, climate environment, and the style of Dutch football in Ajax, which are very similar to the Premier League and have many similarities with Tottenham Hotspur's football style, this standard can be shared.

And Ricklink is very strict. If the first inspection exceeds the standard, he only gives dietary advice, but if the second inspection exceeds the standard again, he will directly regulate the diet, arrange nutritionists to prescribe a diet plan, enforce it, and conduct special training every day to reduce fat in the shortest time.

Unlike Ajax, when he came to Tottenham Hotspur, Ricklink felt as if he had entered the vast ocean from a small lake that was struggling to make ends meet. He could give full play to his ideas, and many of Ye Qiu's ideas were very similar to his, such as emphasizing overall speed, so the physical fitness test in daily training was more of a 30-meter sprint and a round-trip run, which emphasized this speed.

Don't look at Ricklink's fierceness, in fact, his fierceness is only on the surface. In secret, he has formulated many strategies, such as young players' training sessions are only three times a week, and older players have five times. When there is no training, Theobald will hold some activities, such as group outings, or something else, which are all proposed by Ricklink.

Of course, Tottenham Hotspur is also willing to invest in youth training, so he and his team can implement it. In Ajax, the finances are not abundant, and it is difficult to do this.

In addition, Tottenham Hotspur attaches great importance to the help brought by high technology. For example, they have been using some high-tech equipment on the training ground for a long time, such as sensors, and almost every corner of the Theobald training ground has high-definition cameras to shoot and record a series of data and videos.

To reflect Tottenham Hotspur's emphasis on players, there is no need to mention common things such as jerseys, socks, and boots, because many teams use these things, but the most inconspicuous shin guards are obviously different.

Ergonomic design, hard plastic material with better breathability and excellent protection, equipped with ankle sleeves, adjustable straps, EVA foam padding and air hole design, etc. These shin guards seem to be very professional and high-tech in other people's homes, but they are very common on Tottenham Hotspur players, that is, the stuff used by the youth team.

The shin guards of Tottenham Hotspur's first-team players are all tailor-made. They invited Adidas's R&D personnel to divide the player's legs into three rigid parts: thigh, calf and foot. Then, with the two points in the middle of these three rigid parts as the origin, the principle of the physical pendulum vibration center is used to accurately calculate the length of the shin guards that the player needs to protect, and the shin guards are designed in combination with the player's leg shape, length, muscles and other aspects.

To put it bluntly, the money invested in a shin guard of Tottenham Hotspur can allow other teams to buy the shin guards needed by a team, and you can't feel this thing at all. Only the players themselves know whether it works for you.

Many people say that Ye Qiu is stingy in the transfer market, but Ye Qiu is very generous in this regard. He often says that the money invested in reducing the injuries of players is more cost-effective than transfers.

So, Tottenham Hotspur has so many technical players, and they are constantly violated in every game, why is the injury rate not high? Arsenal is also a technical team, but it has frequent serious injuries and major injuries?

Blaming the fierce and fast-paced confrontation in the Premier League makes sense, but isn't it also the reason that I didn't take good self-protection measures?

Ricklink walked around the training ground of the youth training camp and did not find any major problems. Many of the current youth training coaches were brought by Ajax's De Tokmoster and were very experienced, while some were trained by Ye Qiu in the past few years, so the problems were not very big.

After leaving the youth training area, Ricklink passed the Central Park and walked to the first-team training area.

At this time, on one of the training grounds of the first team, several staff members and coaches were conducting individual training with Cavani, which is what many fans commonly call "opening a small class".

Cavani faced the goal, and Courtois stood in front of the goal to guard the goal. This was also an opportunity for the Belgian teenager to exercise, so Frans Houck asked him to guard the goal. Behind Courtois, there were several high-definition cameras set up by the staff facing different angles, and several others were placed on the left and right and behind Cavani, some of which were specifically aimed at his lower part, that is, to shoot the contact between the heel and the ball when kicking and shooting.

There were coaches who kept kicking the ball on the left and right sides. Their passing angles and strengths were different, but they basically passed it into Cavani's area for the Uruguayan to grab. But there was a requirement, that the ball must be touched with one foot. If it can be kicked directly, it should be kicked directly. If it cannot be kicked directly, the ball must be passed directly to the coaches who kept changing positions around.

In Tottenham Hotspur, this kind of special training is jokingly called a torture chamber, because the players who are given special training are equivalent to being abused by several coaches in turn, but this training method is still very effective in improving players, provided that you have to learn something from it.

Ye Qiu hopes that Cavani will learn the feeling of the first shot, as well as the ability to quickly identify the position of teammates under dense defense in the front field and pass the ball with one foot. These are undoubtedly aimed at Cavani's weaknesses. For example, his stopping skills are not solid enough, and he cannot do the same as Van Persie's stopping and then shooting or passing, so he can only go this way.

Ricklink watched several coaches abuse Cavani, and he also found it funny. Many fans think that stars are easy, such as Falcao last season. In fact, Tottenham Hotspur's coaching staff also gave Falcao special treatment. His progress in Tottenham Hotspur is also very obvious, which is why he has such a crazy number of goals.

Now the trident that Tottenham Hotspur focuses on cultivating is the trident of Cavani, Messi, and Ribery, as well as David Silva and Fabregas who are inserted in the midfield. Especially Fabregas, he has a stronger and better scoring ability. He has scored double-digit goals and assists for two consecutive seasons.

Ricklink walked into the research center next to the training building, which belongs to Peter Brandt's territory.

"You are here!" What surprised Ricklink was that Ye Qiu, Mauro Tassotti, Roland and other first-team coaches were also there. The control room of the meditation house was full of people, and Bobby Hams was concentrating on the display screen above.

The display screen is playing a player's imaginative running and observations during the game from a first-person perspective. If Ricklink is not mistaken, this video should be shot by the player wearing the camera on his eyes or forehead, because only in this way can the player's observation and the surrounding situation be better reflected.

For example, the player twists his head, and what he observes is captured by the video, which is very clear and clear at a glance.

"Raul?" Ricklink asked Luo Pangzi beside him.

"Yes!" Luo Pangzi nodded, "During the national team training, we organized several internal games to shoot, thanks to Raul's cooperation, and several miniature cameras were broken. The coaching staff and technical team worked overtime overnight to select and edit them."

Ricklink could think that this short video of about half an hour was full of essence, which not only cost the team money, but also cost everyone a lot of energy and brainpower, not to mention time.

This suggestion was made by Bobby Hams, and Ye Qiu also thought it was feasible, so he tried it.

Lying in the meditation room was Messi, who was connected to some testing instruments, including heart rate test, which were also used in the training grounds of the first team and the youth training camp, in order to understand the training level of a player, such as whether he was tired.

At this moment, Messi was lying on an ergonomic recliner in the meditation room, wearing a helmet with his entire head covered in the helmet. After a short period of hypnosis before, he entered a semi-hypnotic state. Now he can observe Raul's most creative and insightful running connection in the past few training games in the most intuitive way, as well as how Raul observed the surrounding situation and made judgments.

Ye Qiu thinks highly of Raul, thinking that he knows the situation around him very well, just like watching a video. However, this does not mean that Raul is born with a third eye, but that he has the ability to observe the surrounding environment, which is reflected in his every move on the court.

The meditation house has always been used to help players improve their own defects and shortcomings, but now Bobby Hames and Ye Qiu want to use it to try to train the players' brainpower and spirit, such as developing some players' game awareness, and improving their game space insight through some methods, etc., which are things that are difficult to learn in training.

Next, the team will continue to shoot running videos of Raul and some other positions and types of players in the team, and then transform them into some data of the team, extract the essence of them, and keep them for future training and guidance of players.

This first-person perspective, coupled with the role of the helmet in the meditation house, allows the players who receive training in it to get the maximum sense of substitution effect, and then through the semi-hypnotic state, the players will have a more personal experience and will definitely be able to learn more from it.

Of course, this kind of training is really troublesome and requires a lot of investment, but Ye Qiu seems to be more ambitious.

"If the effect is good, we will make it into 3D effect someday, just like Avatar!" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

Avatar, the biggest box office movie in the United States and even the world in 2009, the biggest selling point is the most gorgeous and best 3D effect in history created by James Cameron. The reason why Ye Qiu wants to make the training video into 3D is actually to further enhance the players' experience during the training process.

"Avatar invested more than 200 million US dollars, are you willing to spend it?" Peter Brandt said with a smile. He swore that if Ye Qiu was willing to increase the investment, it would not be a problem to make it into 3D effect. He was confident enough.

Ye Qiu smiled and did not answer directly, "Let's see the effect first!"

Peter Brandt knew that Ye Qiu said that, there was hope, and if you just want to make the video shot on the training ground into a 3D effect, there is actually no need to invest hundreds of millions or tens of millions, that is, one or two million US dollars to introduce equipment and some simple processing technology, or hire professionals to record and post-produce.

Of course, this one or two million US dollars is nothing to Ye Qiu, or even to Tottenham Hotspur.

You know, Ye Technology is negotiating a sponsorship business with AXA Insurance from France recently. That is, in addition to providing insurance business for Tottenham Hotspur, the world's largest insurance company also sponsors Tottenham Hotspur's jerseys, but it is neither training uniforms nor chest advertisements, but the inside of the jerseys.

Last season, Tottenham Hotspur realized that advertising could also be placed on the inside of the jersey. Because Tottenham Hotspur scored many goals, sponsors advertised on the inside of the jersey. After each goal, the players pulled up their jerseys, and at that time, all the fans in the world paid attention to the players, and it was a close-up.

Of course, the premise of doing this is that the pulled-up jersey cannot cover the chest advertisement, so this requires coordination of the position.

If this deal is successful, it can bring in 5 million euros in revenue a year!

In addition to the advertisements on the inside of the jersey, Tottenham Hotspur will also add advertisements on the cuffs of the jersey. At present, many companies have expressed interest, and the annual sponsorship income is expected to reach 3 million euros. The team's training suit sponsorship will also increase in price, but Vodafone is very interested in continuing to add sponsorship, and the annual sponsorship fee is expected to increase to 10 million euros.

Peter Kenyon's business operation team is undoubtedly very successful and is on the road to greater success. According to the current business situation, it is expected that by 2011, Tottenham Hotspur's total operating income will once again hit a new historical peak.

According to the predictions of Ye Qiu and Bobby Hams, with the current situation of Tottenham Hotspur's players, it will take at least two seasons for this team to show the combat effectiveness of a top team again, especially the multi-line combat capability that a giant must have, which means that Neymar, Ramsey and others will grow up to about 20 years old.

By that time, after reorganization and tactical adjustments, Tottenham Hotspur will once again show its powerful strength to dominate Europe and be invincible. In the two years of adjustment, Tottenham Hotspur's main battlefield is still in the Premier League.

For Tottenham Hotspur now, securing the qualification for the Champions League and the dominance and leading position in the Premier League are the top priorities for Tottenham Hotspur, and whether they can win another Champions League is a bonus question.

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