Chapter 240: Worst season

"Hi, boss."
"Boss, you are getting younger."
"Boy, give, hometown specialty."
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Every player who goes to the training ground will take the initiative to greet Aldridge with a smile, and the senior players on the team will joke with Aldridge.
Aldrich is also very happy today. He is not used to seeing players for two months. Seeing them all coming back in a spirited spirit, the smile on his face has not dissipated.
Larson had a thigh strain in the last game of last season and healed in two months, but for safety reasons, his training will be arranged separately and the intensity will not be too high.
Watching the players stand on the training ground, Aldridge smiled and said: "I'm glad, I still recognize you."
The new players did not understand, and the other old players laughed.
Trezeguet smiled bitterly: "Boss, how long will this joke be told?"
Everyone remembers the appearance of his blessing when he came back from vacation two years ago, and he almost couldn't recognize it.
In the past two years, young players have grown rapidly and their professional attitudes are better. Therefore, even during the holidays, there will be no situation where players overeating and lacking in shape after exercise.
After laughing, Aldridge said to mature coach Fiona: "Coach, let's get started."
The old players step by step, opened the distance and followed Fiona to start the warm-up exercise, stretched the muscles to move the muscles, and completely let them stretch each part of the body and each muscle.
The new players follow the coach's movements and imitate them carefully. Fiona takes care of the new players deliberately and moves slowly. He also reminds them to standardize their movements as much as possible.
Aldridge and the other coaches followed along, and the most uncomfortable thing was Benitez. He usually followed the players to run and jump for exercise. This kind of difficult pull movement is just his big belly. He couldn't bend down.
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The other side separated by the building is the training ground of the youth team.
Unlike the previous youth team recruiting new people, there are quite a lot of people, but the talents are average. This year the youth team expanded and there are many good seedlings. Najib felt that it was necessary to give a speech.
The echelons of all levels lined up on the training ground, and Najib stood in front of them. Mullensteen and Moniz and other coaches were standing in the back row. There was a post of a leader reviewing the team.
Looking at the team of nearly 100 people, Najib said calmly: "Maybe you only heard about Millwall two years ago, or last year, this year. My impression of this is that I have come through media reports. Let you understand the development philosophy of this club. First of all, we attach great importance to youth training, your training venues, equipment, and the number of youth team coaches, coach quality, is the best in England, and may be the best in Europe. Yes! See the four words inscribed on the youth team building behind me?"
The youth players looked up in unison, with four words carved on the front wall of the youth team building not far behind Najib.
"Team! Will! Diligence! Talent! Millwall has a sign in each dressing room that says: The person who plays for himself is playing for his opponent, and the person who plays for his team is for himself. This is not the football concept pioneered by Millwall, it is the famous saying of Herrera in the international era, but this is the essence of the team of football! The team is the first, then the will, if you do not have a strong will, Then you cannot be a good player, diligent, it is no longer an era when Galincha fishing girls can be famous in the green field! Do you want to be a good player? If you want, you have to pay more than others Sweat, otherwise, even the best talents will be squandered by yourself. Finally, there are talents, there are many kinds of talents, professional football is not a streetball performance, technology is only one of many qualities, game reading ability, team awareness, reasonable use Body and so on, these are talents, you are equal, don’t think you’re inferior to the opponent because you don’t run as fast as you are, and don’t think you are stronger than others because you have good ball control skills, everyone is Unique, use your strengths, turn your strengths into your own talents, take a diligent attitude, refuse to lose your will, and always put the team first, then you will be successful here!"
The youth team's players all held their heads with a firm face.
Hearing Najib's words encouraged them.
Indeed, in the past, these people have met new friends, and even in the game of playing on the court, they clearly realized that there are talents here, and some seem unpretentious.
This makes them feel pressure in the competition, for fear that they will be despised by the coach.
But Najib's words dispelled their concerns.
In Millwall's youth training concept, more emphasis is placed on the internal cultivation of spiritual qualities.
Najib continued: "Milwall is a club that has achieved success in a short period of time. Our head coach Aldridge Hall has been affirmed in England. He has won the Premier League's best coach for two consecutive years. There are countless Players want to play under him. Look at the first team players. Your predecessors. They were the most aggressive offensive team in Europe last season and the best defensive team. You may have questions in your heart: the future, Will Millwall have your place? I’m sure to tell you, yes! But the opportunity requires you to fight for yourself and become the next Lampard, Pirlo, Ferdinand, Capdevi who will go from the youth team to the first team. La, Gattuso, Glenshare, these players all came to Millwall under the age of 18, entered the first team after the youth team hone their ability, and in the future, Millwall will still pin hope on you Body! But, you have to prove that you deserve the position of the first team, why? Because the worst performance of our past three years is the 96/97 season, that season, we only won the league runner-up!"
Najib's words shocked the group of teenagers.
Mad lion, so crazy!
Listening makes people bloody.
The league runner-up is the worst moment!
Najib was playing a word game. In the first year, Millwall was indeed a league champion, but it was a Premier League with zero gold content for top teams.
"In the new season, our first team will compete in the UEFA Champions League. We will go to European countries to compete with championship teams. At the same time, the club will arrange friendly matches with foreign club youth teams. On the itinerary, we will follow the first team together. Go abroad, but the list of each trip is only 16 people, and all players over 15 years old have the opportunity to be selected. If you want to compete with the rich youth teams of other countries in Europe, use the performance in training to convince me and let me Actively write your name on the roster, and at the same time, the two best players in each level of echelon training every week will receive tickets for the club’s home game. These players can sit on the VIP stand to enjoy the game. If you want to watch the ball comfortably on the spot for free, then use the training score to exchange the tickets in my hands!"
This is the club’s practice of cultivating a young player’s sense of belonging and honor. Compared with the practice of other clubs continuously reducing the free tickets for players to make money, Millwall does the opposite, preferring to sell fewer tickets and give them Free tickets for players, especially young players.
However, if there is a situation where Terry gets a free club ticket in the future but sells it in private, the club will make punishment measures and cancel the free ticket.
The young players cheered with excitement, watching the ball was a pleasure, but if they could go to Europe to fight with the team, it would not only be a trip abroad, but it would be very hard.
After Naji's training was over, the boys started to fight, and they started training immediately. They wished to rush to the first team immediately.
The training of the youth team's on-track system officially kicked off. Players of different echelons were scattered on different training grounds, and echelon coaches of all levels also went over to preside over the training.
After the warm-up activity on the first team side, everyone was curious to find that the two coaches of Torop and Craig directed the club staff to move the two machines, which looked like two cannons, but the barrel was short.
"Boss, what is that?"
Fanny leaned in front of Aldridge and asked, Aldridge smiled and dragged him to the center of the field, letting Fanny stand there, and then he beckoned to Craig, who started the machine with a smile.
Suddenly, the "cannon" shot a ball, and the speed was not slow. The direction was Fanny. Fanny was startled and hurried away.
"Hahaha."
The players understand that this is a tennis machine similar to tennis training.
"Hello, Rud, it's not for you to hide, for you to practice stopping the ball!"
Fanny found out that it was a false alarm and summoned the spirit: "Hey, this is fun, continue."
Craig continued to press the button of the machine. Every 15 seconds, the ball would be ejected. Although the machine did not move, due to factors such as wind direction and rotation, the trajectory of the ball will be slightly different. Fanny stopped the ball at the beginning. Somewhat bad, but as he became more focused, he became better and better after adjusting to the rhythm.
Craig’s task was simple. It was to put the ball in the back of the machine and wait for a bag of more than twenty to be shot. The time was only a few minutes, but it also made Fanny feel a little uncomfortable. Then the task It's easy, get the ball back.
The other players saw this new thing and knew that they could exercise the ball sense and stop technique, so they all had to try it.
There are not many machines, so everyone has to take turns, and Glennshire wants to try out the non-stop shooting technique.
Aldrich thinks this machine is quite useful, at least it saves more time than manpower.
Today's training is mainly relaxed, and the systematic training of physical fitness reserve will officially start tomorrow.
Aldridge planned to let the players run first, so he started the group half-time confrontation training, and the extra players went to experience the two serving machines.
Goodjohnson did not appear on the training ground, he is still in recovery stage, rest is more important.
Klose, Van der Mede, Duff, these three players had a half-time match, and they were immediately excited. They all wanted to show themselves to their teammates and coaches.
However, Aldridge did not arrange for the three of them to enter the team, but let the three of them come to stand next to him and observe the training of his teammates.
The training base has an indoor five-a-side football field and a seven-a-side football field, but there is no outside.
The three rookies stood next to Aldridge. It was strange to see their teammates. The offensive team and the defensive team had only one goal both in the horizontal half and in the vertical half.
"Boss, is this a game? There is only one goal, won't it be the half-ball game?"
Van der Mede was born in Ajax, and felt that the training he had received in the past should be the best. But today's look really surprised him.
Aldridge smiled and said: "It's not the rule of basketball that the two teams alternately attack and play one basket. Our rules are relatively simple. The offensive team scores a win, and the defending team passes the ball ten times without losing the ball. ."
After the three players understood the rules, they began to watch their teammates play.