The so-called Player Development Practice Center is, to put it bluntly, one of the data application departments of the research center.

But it is very different from other departments that rely solely on data for analysis and produce results in that this department has a low degree of dependence on data, and on the contrary, it attaches great importance to the experience of practitioners.

Interestingly, in the research centre, the Player Development Practice Centre and the Tactical Library are arranged in the opposite door, and although there is a garden in the middle, the two sides of the garden are completely different.

The tactical library is often noisy, and sometimes they even argue with red faces, just like the so-called parliament in Taiwan, China, and they can't wait to fight, and even many times as soon as you walk into the research center, you can clearly hear the roar from the tactical library inside the sealed doors and windows.

In Ye Qiu's ridiculous statement, where is this library, it is simply a vegetable market, so the tactical library also has an internal nickname, called the tactical vegetable market, which is specially used to ridicule the group of guys who are specifically for the purpose of quarrelling.

Of course, these people's quarrels are all purposeful, they are a group of guys with outstanding understanding and analytical skills of tactics, they are basically young, but the tactical theory is very solid, and they have their own unique set of opinions on the understanding of modern and past football tactics, which leads them to have their own set of ideas and concepts about the future of football tactics, so they quarrel all day long for their own set of ideas and concepts, to convince each other.

The end result is that after so much time, there have been many quarrels, but no one can convince anyone.

But this does not mean that the tactical library is meaningless, although their quarrels are sometimes very biased, but if you look at them from a more neutral perspective, you will find that they all have their own reasons, but there are also some weaknesses and shortcomings, so how to use them does not depend on the person who quarrels, but the person who makes them quarrel.

If the Tactical Library is a group of scholars and analysts who are immersed in the study of football tactics, but are largely unknown, then take a look at the Player Development Practice Center.

With only five people in the entire department, the Player Development Practice Center is the smallest department in the entire research center, but everyone here has a very prominent track record.

As the director of the Player Development Practice Center, Bobby? Needless to say, Harms's abilities, Peter? De Visser, who has also worked for Tottenham Hotspur for many years, is also very good, but there is another Italian with the same qualifications as him, Fimo? The 75-year-old man did not have a stellar resume as a player, but he spent 30 years as head of youth at Atalanta, Italy's leading academy club.

It can be said that since the nineties, Atalanta has been able to produce batches of stars, Philip Moh? Favini plays an indispensable role behind the scenes, and he is also a veteran Bobby from Ajax? Harms has a good relationship, and he was in Bobby in the first place? Harms led the way to Tottenham Hotspur.

Another old man who is also seventy-five years old, and his name is even more famous, and that is Eric? Harrison, the direct creator of Manchester United's Class of 92, has also worked as a youth instructor for FIFA and UEFA, and was the head of the FA's grassroots youth program a few years ago. Harrison was invited by Ye Qiu to Theobold.

It can be said that Manchester United's off-ball running system and the entire youth system are Eric? Harrison single-handedly created a photo of the 92 class with the coach back then, and the coach was mistaken for Ferguson by everyone, even reporters, but in fact the coach in the photo was Eric? Harrison.

This former Brian? After retiring from football, Clough spent almost a decade at Everton, before being replaced by Manchester United manager Ron in 1981. Atkinson invited Manchester United and has been with the club for more than a decade since.

There was also a very famous gamble in this process, that is, after Ferguson took over Manchester United, he wanted to abolish Eric with the idea of a son of heaven and a courtier? Harrison, but Eric? After Harrison was angry with him, the two sides made a bet, and then the birth of Class 92 was born.

Therefore, many players in the 92 class have repeatedly said in interviews that Eric? Harrison is the manager they have to thank the most in their lives, even ahead of Ferguson. The importance of Harrison to Manchester United.

Ye Qiu and Eric? Harrison's relationship has been around for a long time, and after the failure of the grassroots football plan, Ye Qiu invited the talent to Tottenham Hotspur and entered the player development practice center, specializing in player development practice research and working for Tottenham Hotspur's stepped youth training system.

Bobby? Harms, Peter? Devisel, Fimo? Favigny and Eric? Harrison is an old antique, and he plays for an old team, and they all have a lot of experience, and this experience is constantly accumulating and precipitating with age, so in terms of player development, they are definitely the most authoritative youth experts.

Sevilla is a youth team that has been in the limelight in La Liga in the past few years, and the general manager Monchi was interpreted by the media as the best general manager in Europe, and even attracted the attention of Florentino, but few people know that behind Monchi stands a man named Pablo? Sixty-year-old Spanish man from Blanco.

He was the head of youth at Sevilla FC and spent his career in Sevilla, and he had a deep affection for the team, and at the time, almost everyone in Sevilla knew that Monchi, who was in the limelight in the media, and his scouting system, although they were an important channel for the club's talent, their role was only to dig up the jade.

So how is jade carved into a brilliant gemstone?

Daniel? When Alves communicated with Ye Qiu once, he mentioned Pablo? Blanco, who is regarded as a craftsman in Sevilla, is the one who has nurtured and sculpted stars such as Alves, Baptista and Ramos from semi-finished products, and made them an indispensable and important member of the team's first team, and thus a first-class star.

In the eyes of the media and reporters, when it comes to Sevilla, it must only mention Monchi, as if everything is the credit of Monchi, but in fact, it is not difficult to dig out the jade, there is no shortage of geniuses in this world, but how to make the jade into a gem is the key to the success of a team's youth training.

Ye Qiu used his connections to contact Pablo several times in a row? Blanco, who later visited Spain in person and explained his thoughts to him, made Pablo, who had not always had a good relationship with the domineering general manager Monchi? Blanco was impressed and eventually switched to Tottenham Hotspur.

Bobby? Harms, Peter? Devisel, Fimo? Favigny, Eric? Harrison and Pablo? Blanco, these five people are the five veterans of the Tigers in the Player Development Practice Center, and they are the only five people working in the entire department.

It is important to mention the division of labor between Tottenham Hotspur, the work of the five people in the Player Development Practice Centre is not to personally participate in the daily training of the players, but to personally supervise and guide the players' training, their job is to tailor a training plan for the players.

For example, Ramsey, after this player played the main team, he made great progress, and the Player Training Practice Center proposed after Ye Qiu considered letting Ramsey play the main role, Ramsey's running and coverage are very good, but the offense and defense are too dependent on running, resulting in a lot of running becoming useless, so they think that Ramsey should be allowed to improve his awareness.

But at the same time, they feel that a player who has a lot of range and is very aggressive and can run the whole 90 minutes can be very useful if he has great skills with the ball, and at the same time he can protect the ball, pass the ball, and have the ability to play the ball and penetrate the ball.

In fact, Tottenham Hotspur's development of Ramsey is now carried out in accordance with the direction and plan given by the practice center.

And Neymar, many people wonder why Tottenham Hotspur haven't focused on Neymar's physicality in the past few years? Even now, Neymar's physical fitness is still not strong?

This involves an analysis of the Player Development Practice Center, who believe that Neymar does not need to deliberately strengthen his physical training now, because in the case of physical disadvantage, Neymar will be easier to learn how to use his body better, such as improving anticipation, positioning, and even some simple but practical skills.

The most important thing for Neymar now is to adapt his skills and awareness to the Premier League, and to be more integrated into the existing Tottenham Hotspur tactical system, and when he is good enough in both aspects, his body can easily be trained, and even as the game accumulates, his body will naturally go up.

For a player's career, the body means the lower limit, modern football without the body you can't play at all, but on the contrary, the body is the easiest to train, consciousness is the upper limit of a player, he determines what height the player can reach, and consciousness is the most difficult to practice.

Therefore, many players, including Neymar, are under the age of 20, and the focus is on consciousness and technique, and the body is always at the bottom.

It is precisely because of the presence of this group of very experienced and sharp-eyed youth training experts that Tottenham Hotspur has been very targeted in the past few years for the development of young players, and they have drawn up targeted plans, and the following coaches are responsible for implementation, with the assistance of a series of high-tech training equipment at Tottenham Hotspur, as long as the players are willing to cooperate with the training, the progress and effect are very obvious.

There is no doubt that the heyday of Tottenham Hotspur's players, and even the emergence of talent, is not an accident, at least the team spends at least 10 million euros a year in this area, which is impossible for any other team.

If Florentino's introduction of superstars created a business model with high input, high risk and high output, then Ye Qiu opened up another set of models, that is, high investment, low risk and high output to cultivate stars, and it can also be operated on the assembly line.

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After Ye Qiu arrived at Theobald, he handed over his two children to the staff and took them to the club's specially opened playground for children, while he himself was accompanied by Rick Link and the veterans of the Five Tigers of the Player Development Practice Center, inspecting the various venues for the selection of talent days.

"Why are there so many people over there?" Ye Qiu noticed that there were a lot of people in one of the venues, "Go over and take a look!" ”

The appearance of Ye Qiu and the others immediately attracted the attention of the fans at the scene, but they saw a notice when they entered Theobald, and when they met the head coach and stars here, they were not allowed to ask for autographs and take pictures, and they were not allowed to come forward to harass them, so after they saw Ye Qiu, they all took the initiative to give up a space, so that they could watch the training ground with barbed wire.

As in previous Talent Day selection events, there will be several first-team players in each area, and they will practice with these young players, which is also an incentive for the players to participate in the selection event.

"Those three imps seem to be triplets!" Don't look at Peter? Devisel was very old, but the eyes hidden behind the glasses were very sharp, and he immediately saw the focus of everyone's attention.

There were three teenagers of twelve or thirteen years old on the training ground, who looked a little shorter than some of the British teenagers on the field, yellow skin, but not Asian, a bit like Latin American, and although they were shorter, they were very agile and had excellent skills on their feet, and the key was that the three of them worked very well with each other.

Ye Qiu and a few people watched outside the barbed wire, and from time to time there were fans cheering for the performances of the three brothers, and even many people introduced to Ye Qiu, thinking that these three star embryos should be signed, and it was at this time that Ye Qiu found out that the fans knew more about the situation than him, these three brothers were from Brazil, but they had been naturalized in England.

All three have excellent technique on their feet and are flexible, but their characteristics are different.

One of them kicks the ball very fiercely, very passionately, and very imposing, although he is physically at a disadvantage, but his technique is quite good, and there is a shorter one, but the technique of his feet is very delicate, and his ability to handle the ball in a small area is very fine, and he is always glued to his feet, which is really impressive.

Another peculiar thing is that he is the smallest of the three and looks the thinnest, but interestingly, he has the most physical confrontations and a high success rate, which makes him look as if he is very physical.

"These three boys are really interesting!" Bobby? Harms laughed, "Especially that little man, who is so small and thin, but he is not at all inferior in the physical confrontation, while the physical confrontation, he can also maintain the use of technical details, it must not be from the field of football, but should be from the formal youth training!" ”

A lot of people have a misconception about physical confrontation, thinking that a stronger player with better strength can win the confrontation, which is wrong, as if you say that a taller player must be able to have an air advantage.

The physical confrontation and air superiority on the football field depend on a very important factor, space!

To give the simplest example, Thiago? Silva is not tall, but his aerial superiority is obvious, especially in recent years, and his aerial superiority has not become a weakness, because he can predict where the ball will land and stand in the most powerful position.

In the same way, physical confrontation also depends on the occupation of space.

Manchester United's Benzema, this player is not slow, the body is more flexible, the foot technique is good, he looks a little thin, not tall, but he plays the center forward position with the most power confrontation at Manchester United, and interestingly, he can also be the fulcrum of the team's attack with the ball in the frontcourt, why?

It's because Benzema is very smart in physical confrontation, he is very good at using his body, he can maximize his physical advantages, and he knows how to use his body to cover for his own ball and dribble, so he basically does not concede the ball, and can also become the fulcrum of the team's frontcourt attack.

Rick Link waved his hand at a staff member at the training ground through the barbed wire, and he quickly ran over.

"Where did those three boys come from?" Rick Link asked.

The staff immediately checked the number on the field, looked it up from the list in their hands, and quickly found it.

This is indeed the three brothers, and it is indeed from Brazil, the thirteen-year-old eldest is called Jie? Da Silva, that is, the kid who plays football very imposingly, the second is called Cole? Da Silva, the shortest but very good player with his body, is called Leo? Da Silva is the most delicate player, the second and third are twins, both 12 years old, and they come from the Luton Academy.

"Keep an eye out for them!" Rick Link admonished the staff.

Ye Qiu nodded at Ricklink, and the group left the scene and went elsewhere.

To be honest, although the Talent Day selection event is held by Tottenham Hotspur, although all visitors must have a Tottenham Hotspur membership card, it is inevitable that some scouts from other teams will be infiltrated, for example, they will enter the selection event through reporters and through some other ways and channels.

This group of people is an all-pervasive spy that cannot be guarded against.

"Peter, I've heard that you're recommending another overage player this year?" Ye Qiu and his entourage looked at it while walking, and asked casually, you know, Peter? The talents recommended by Devisel are all very good, such as that Yuri? Tielemans.

Devisel listened and nodded, "I found a Henry!" ”

"Henry?" Ye Qiu was a little unconvinced.

"At least Walcott!" De Visel is very confident, and looking at his posture, it seems that the lower limit of this player he fancy is Walcott, and the upper limit is Henry, and maybe even surpasses Henry.

If someone else said this, Ye Qiu would think it was a bit exaggerated, but when De Visser said this, he believed it a little, because the old Dutch scouts have always been very sharp, and they almost never look away, he said that if so, it is basically not there.

"Let's go see your Henry!" Ye Qiu was interested. The second and third twins, both 12 years old, hail from the Luton Academy.

"Keep an eye out for them!" Rick Link admonished the staff.

Ye Qiu nodded at Ricklink, and the group left the scene and went elsewhere.

To be honest, although the Talent Day selection event is held by Tottenham Hotspur, although all visitors must have a Tottenham Hotspur membership card, it is inevitable that some scouts from other teams will be infiltrated, for example, they will enter the selection event through reporters and through some other ways and channels.

This group of people is an all-pervasive spy that cannot be guarded against.

"Peter, I've heard that you're recommending another overage player this year?" Ye Qiu and his entourage looked at it while walking, and asked casually, you know, Peter? The talents recommended by Devisel are all very good, such as that Yuri? Tielemans.

Devisel listened and nodded, "I found a Henry!" ”

"Henry?" Ye Qiu was a little unconvinced.

"At least Walcott!" De Visel is very confident, and looking at his posture, it seems that the lower limit of this player he fancy is Walcott, and the upper limit is Henry, and maybe even surpasses Henry.

If someone else said this, Ye Qiu would think it was a bit exaggerated, but when De Visser said this, he believed it a little, because the old Dutch scouts have always been very sharp, and they almost never look away, he said that if so, it is basically not there.

"Let's go see your Henry!" Ye Qiu was interested.