Eight Hundred and Ninety-Four How Parallel Imports Are Made

During the training camp in the United States, basically every day in addition to training, it is still training.

Except for a very small number of players like Su Dong who attended some events on behalf of clubs or sponsors, all the other players basically train continuously and repeatedly every day.

As the saying goes: one minute on stage, ten years off stage.

The level that players show on the court is often accumulated over a long period of time through training.

In the training team that Manchester City brought to the United States this time, in addition to the regular players of the first team, there are also teenagers like Sterling and Trippier, and these players have also performed extraordinarily hard, trying hard to be in the first team. fight for a position.

Compared to other positions, the competition for goalkeepers is now heating up too.

There are three goalkeepers in Manchester City so far this season.

They are the England national goal, the local youth training Joe Hart, last season's backup goalkeeper Shay, and the Belgian teenager Thibaut Courtois who just joined this season.

The ages of the three goalkeepers are also interesting, Joe Hart is twenty-four, Shay is thirty-five and Courtois is nineteen.

From the perspective of age, Joe Hart is undoubtedly the main goalkeeper of the team in his current year, Courtois is a potential stock, and Shay is a veteran.

But the problem now is, everyone can see, Guardiola is not satisfied with Joe Hart.

This dissatisfaction mainly comes from two aspects, one is on the court.

In order to better train Joe Hart, Guardiola specially poached goalkeeper coach Vinsue from Spain and asked him to specially train Joe Hart, but the English goalkeeper did not seem to benefit from this. Still unsatisfactory, with lots of mistakes, and most importantly, poor passing ability.

Off the pitch, Joe Hart caused trouble for the club a lot. Last season, he caused a lot of trouble off the pitch, which also made Guardiola quite dissatisfied. His discipline requirements for the locker room are still very high.

It is for these two reasons that Manchester City have been planning to bring in a high-level goalkeeper this summer.

Many goalkeepers, including Buffon and Neuer, failed to make the trip, which led to Manchester City's goalkeeper signings have been suspended.

The teenager Courtois is actually not very in line with Guardiola's requirements. The reason is very simple. He is too tall and his characteristics are not very in line with Guardiola's requirements, but this young teenager is very hard in training.

More importantly, he is confident enough.

On the first day of the new season's training camp, when he was interviewed by the media, he didn't know if he was misled by reporters or if he was telling the truth. Anyway, he said in front of reporters that he wanted to be the main goalkeeper in Manchester City.

At the age of nineteen, he just arrived, and as soon as he arrives, he will move to the position of England's national gate. This kid is really crazy!

So much so that the British Sun later wrote an article taunting the Belgian boy, believing that the distance between him and Joe Hart was wider than the English Channel.

The implication is to say that your kid came out of the Bundesliga and has never seen the world. We don't blame you, but you have to recognize the facts. Joe Hart is the champion of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the Europa League. Cup champion, the main goalkeeper of the Triple Crown, and the national gate of our British Empire, why would you fight him?

This article caused a certain repercussions in British football at the time, but not many people took it seriously. However, in the Manchester City dressing room, the atmosphere has changed a little, and the smell of competition has clearly risen.

Sudong controlled the dressing room, but did not intervene in the competition between players. Even he and Guardiola believed that proper competition was a good thing, especially for Joe Hart, who was really hard to say last season. .

As for Courtois, Su Dong also wanted to know, how did this kid come to snatch the main goalkeeper?

As a result, in the United States, Courtois quickly gave the answer.

He worked harder than anyone else in training, and even took the initiative to train himself after training.

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"This kid is really crazy! Crazy like Ronnie back then!"

next to the training ground,

Pepe said to Su Dong with a smile.

Back then, Ronnie was also very mad when he was in Sporting Lisbon, but he was not arrogant, but a kind of arrogance that would not admit defeat.

He doesn't allow himself to lose to anyone, so he trains like crazy to try and catch everyone.

In this respect, Courtois is a bit like Ronnie.

Standing at the height of Su Dong, he also believes that behind all successful professional players, there must be such an unyielding energy, otherwise, it will be difficult for them to continue to improve.

On the training ground, Hazard played the ball on the side of the goal, and the goalkeeper coach Vinsue held the spring plate and kept changing the position according to the incoming ball, so that the ball was shot at different positions of the goal at a faster speed, and the distance was very long. close.

This training is a test of the goalkeeper's reflexes.

Courtois is tall, but reacts quickly, falling to the ground again and again and getting up again and again.

"What's Wen Sue's evaluation of him?" Su Dong asked.

"Good, better than expected."

"Oh?" Su Dong was a little surprised.

"The training he received in Belgium since he was a child is completely different from Vinsue's requirements. I don't know the specifics. I just heard that it seems that the training requirements of their Belgian goalkeepers are to take a step forward when saving, but Vinsue. The requirement is to move laterally before making a save."

Su Dong was confused, shook his head and said, "Does this make any difference?"

"How do I know?" Pepe smiled bitterly, "However, I heard that it can improve the speed of saves, that is, the speed of landing is faster."

After a pause, Pepe smiled again: "Then you see, Wen Sue's request is that the goalkeeper should be pushed forward by six to seven meters."

This is actually a problem that has existed for Manchester City since last season.

Perhaps ordinary fans are not too impressed.

Take Joe Hart as an example. He was originally a goal-line goalkeeper, and his position was generally on the goal line, but whether it was Guardiola or Vinsue, the requirement for him was to push his position forward. , directly advance to six or seven meters.

The width of the small penalty area is 5.5 meters, and the penalty spot is 11 meters. That is to say, the normal position of the Manchester City goalkeeper should be between the small penalty area and the penalty spot, which will bring great inconvenience to the goalkeeper. adapt.

Joe Hart is very uncomfortable with this position, and many mistakes actually come from this incompatibility.

You must know that standing at the front of the small penalty area and standing on the goal line will face two completely different situations, and the judgment that the goalkeeper needs to make is also completely different.

In a way, this could even be said to be upending everything the goalkeeper has done in the past.

That's why the Manchester City dressing room is tolerant of both Joe Hart and Given's mistakes.

To put it bluntly, you have played this way since you were a child. Suddenly, one day, the head coach asked you not to play this way, but to use another way of playing. How many people can adapt?

"What do you think of Courtois?" Su Dong asked with concern.

The progress of Manchester City's introduction of goalkeepers is not satisfactory. It is estimated that they will continue to trust Joe Hart this season. If Courtois can perform well, it will be a strong supplement to Manchester City's goalkeeper position.

"He is really determined to change, but you also know that not everyone can change it."

If you can change it, you will adapt, if you can't change it, you will not adapt.

In the eyes of fans and media outside, if you adapt, you will perform well, and if you don't adapt, you will perform poorly.

The player is actually the same player, and the strength is still there, but the performance is completely different.

Sometimes players are scolded for parallel imports, which is why.

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"I'll try it!"

Su Dong suddenly walked into the training ground with a smile on his face.

This surprised Vinsue and Courtois and others.

"Didn't you go to a business event? Are you back?" Vinsue asked.

"Yeah, I didn't practice much in the afternoon, I'll accompany you to practice for a while, how about it?" Su Dong asked.

"Of course it's fine. Everyone knows that your shot is so tricky. It's a good thing that many goalkeepers can't even think of to accompany you."

The coach gave the green light, and Su Dong looked directly at Courtois behind him defiantly.

"Boy, do you dare?"

Courtois was overjoyed, he knew this was a very rare opportunity, so he didn't hesitate, just bent down and made a gesture ready to save at any time.

The answer no longer needs to be said.

...

The whole world knows that Su Dong's shooting can be described as changeable, and his shooting skills are extremely superb.

More importantly, almost every shot he takes is chasing the goalkeeper's blind spot.

The so-called dead ends are actually not blindly hitting those fixed positions, but moving according to the goalkeeper's center of gravity to hit some positions that he is almost difficult to reach.

Su Dong's shot was sometimes quick and urgent, but sometimes very clever, and occasionally he even bounced off the ground on purpose.

According to the previous training, Su Dong's shot was near the penalty spot and very close to the goal, which made it more difficult for Courtois to pounce. He didn't save any of the ten shots in front of him.

After the Belgian goalkeeper got up from the ground, he looked directly at Su Dong, tapped his gloves a few times, and pointed at Su Dong, "Come again!"

Su Dong was very satisfied with his reaction, and immediately moved towards Hazard who was passing the ball next to him, signaling him to pass the ball again and pass it faster.

It's really depressing to say, no matter how Courtois makes a save, Su Dong can find an angle to score.

Although it is a high probability event that a shot near the penalty spot is broken, Su Dong did not take a penalty kick, but after Hazard's pass, he hit it directly, but he could hit every kick in the goal. , never misses, and can hit the corner where Courtois is difficult to save.

Gradually, everyone clearly realized how terrible Su Dong was.

This is the strength of the world's top scorers!

Even, maybe Su Dong hasn't done his best.

Let me ask, if it is really in the game, who can save this kind of shot from Su Dong?

Looking at the goal, Courtois fell to the ground again and again. Hazard couldn't bear it several times and wanted to stop, but seeing that the goalkeeper and coach Vinsue did not speak, he did not dare to make a sound.

It's just that I don't understand in my heart, why does Su Dong look so cruel today?

Do you think Courtois is too crazy? Want to kill his spirit?