On the second day off, Aldridge gave Adam the task of sending the club CEO to the Netherlands with his assistant to hire Ricardo Moniz, who was working as an assistant coach for the Dutch team.

He asked Andrew to look for Mulensteen in his company's football database, and Andrew's staff updated the database every three months, and they entered players and coaches from professional leagues in various European countries into the database, which took them two years to collect, and the last two years were a little easier, as long as they updated regularly, which helped Aldridge to find talent, and also allowed Andrew's agent to get first-hand information and facilitate the signing of players in the future.

However, Aldridge was disappointed that although there were some people with the same name as Mulenstin, it was not him.

Aldrich couldn't figure out where the man had gone.

In the morning, he gave an exclusive interview to the BBC, the topic of the interview was about Millwall winning the English League Cup, but Aldridge repeatedly digressed, he was talking about the feasibility of the CM training system, and he was very respectful of a coach named Muhrenstin, when the host asked who this person was, Aldridge only said that he was Dutch, he admired each other very much, and hoped to have a football academic exchange with him, if they could work together, it would be his honor.

Millwall is in the limelight, and Aldrich is going to use this momentum to make news.

The English media had hardly heard of Mulensteen's name, after all, they were self-centered and cared nothing outside of England by their sense of superiority, but the news would spread quickly.

In the football circle, European football is the center of world football, the mainstream league is the heartland, the news generated here will be the attention of the industry, the spread speed is extremely fast, the influence is not bad, although the Premier League is not as hot as Serie A, but Millwall's legendary script makes the media special, and will naturally become the focus.

Aldridge was very stupid in this way, and there was a feeling of waiting for the rabbit, but he could only do this, and at the same time asked Adam to inquire about the person in Mullensteen in the Netherlands, hoping that good news would come.

After the interview, Aldridge convened a meeting of the entire coaching staff, from the first team to the academy coaches, which lasted until the evening.

The next day, the players started to return to the team, and they returned to the training pitch with a relaxed state of mind.

After the New Year, the club hired a professional fitness coach, who will lead the players to do stretching warm-up exercises before training to ensure that every muscle in the players' body is moving.

And this fitness instructor is a woman, in her early thirties, with a slender figure, named Fiona, her husband's family has noble blood, her grandfather was once made a baron by the Queen of England, and her father has a knighthood.

But this is nothing, there are not many descendants of the British aristocracy, and unsatisfactory mixing can be seen everywhere, even the princes and sons of many European countries can only be a playboy who is happy and carefree and looking for fun everywhere, and the descendants of low-class nobles have long lost their noble halo.

When Fiona led the players to do the warm-up, Aldridge and his colleagues in the coaching staff would also do it, the movements were not fast, but they were a little difficult, and there were always some movements to stretch the body to the limit, which was really a test of the musculoskeletal ligaments.

After the warm-up, Aldridge led the players for a few more jogging laps.

Then get ready to start today's training.

Unlike usual, Aldridge called his players outside the box, sent Keller to goal, and then called Claude Makelele and Gareth Southgate out.

The two of them took up defensive positions inside and outside the penalty area, then he placed the ball three metres in front of Makelele, turned back to the confused players and said, "Who's coming over to show me your skills?" The request is simple, kick the ball into the goal, whatever way you use it. ”

The players looked at each other, Makelele in front of the ball had blocked the angle of the shot, and Southgate was also a layer of protection in defence, relying on individual ability?

The eager Pires came out first, standing in front of the ball, deliberately giving Makelele space to grab after touching the ball on his toes, and after Makelele moved forward, Pire immediately turned the ball and changed the way to pass, but as soon as he took a step, Makelele half-turned and stuck in position, and then kicked the ball back to Southgate.

Pire didn't admit defeat and did it all over again, this time with a faster pace at his feet, pretending to break to the left and then pulling the ball and turning to break through from the right, a bit like a Marseille slalom, with the same idea, but with different details of the action.

Makelele, who lowered his center of gravity, was not deceived by him, but kicked the ball directly out of the touchline.

Pire's attempt continued until the fifth time, when he feinted and then split the ball past Makellele, but Makelele went alongside him and was able to defuse the threat when Southgate stepped up.

After seven or eight more attempts, Pire shook his head helplessly and sighed: "Boss, if it's just Claude, I still have some chances, but there is a captain in the back, it's not easy to do, I don't think there are many people who can break through the two of them in a row, and it's when they start on the spot." ”

Aldridge smiled and patted him on the shoulder, then looked at the rest of the team, only to see Pirlo walk out, Aldridge was a little surprised.

In front of the ball, Pirlo flicked the ball horizontally on the spot and then fired a long-range shot.

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The ball bounced off the crossbar and into the back of the net.

Keller's vision was blocked, and by the time he saw the ball, it was too late to make a save.

Makelele crossed his hands on his hips and smiled bitterly: "This is Raipi, right?" ”

He was three metres away from the ball, and Pirlo flicked the ball on the spot to pull out a shot that was unexpectedly a long-range shot that scored, which really made Makelele laugh and cry.

In fact, he just had a preconceived idea that Pirlo would pass, but Aldridge didn't say he had to pass, he said he hit the ball into the net.

Andrea Pirlo walked back between his team-mates after scoring and Makelele shouted: "Hey, do it again." ”

Pirlo looked back and shook his head and said, "No need to try, I won't be able to beat you if you start on the spot, and you won't give me a shot angle again." ”

Aldridge applauded and then moved on to let the other players try it out.

Larsson walked up with a smile, Makelle was like a big enemy, Larsson's explosiveness and activation speed are among the best in the team, and he will not take it lightly.

But when Larsson didn't use his super-fast start to dribble the ball, Makelele's eyes widened and he exclaimed, "I'm grass!" Another cheater! ”

Larsson dribbled the ball horizontally, started slowly, and then the speed became faster and faster, and Makelele also chased laterally, and when Larsson stopped and turned sharply to bring the ball back to the middle, he used speed to eat Makelele raw, and there was not necessarily a gap between the two in terms of speed, but Larsson changed to that very fast, and during the game, Makelele also had fullbacks on the side of the defense, he now had to take care of the back and sides, and was shaken over without paying attention, Southgate couldn't keep up with Larsson because of the speed, after all, the lateral space was too big, Larsson can run with the ball as long as he wants.

Shake off Southgate in the sprint and Larsson fired a shot into the box that slotted into the near corner.

Piret slapped his head and exclaimed, "Why didn't I think of that? ”

Aldridge watched from the sidelines, although Larsson played very smartly and used the space, but from a technical point of view, he only relied on speed, and in the game, it was impossible to give him the opportunity to dribble the ball to the wing, and then change direction to run back to break through.

After a few more attempts, Makelele and Southgate exchanged and cooperated more tacitly, which is also different from the game, there are other teammates in the game to compress the space, and now there are two people, at the beginning of the defense is a little leaky, but the more attempts, it effectively complements each other.

By the fourth time, Larsson began to lose.

By the time of the seventh attempt, Larsson, who had sprinted several times, no longer had the speed advantage and he could no longer pose a threat to the goal.

Of course, the defensive combination of Makelle and Southgate was the key to freezing him.

Treserge came up to try, but he used his body more to protect the ball, pushing forward like a little tank, and a few times he squeezed Makelle next to him and then shot with his feet, all of which he couldn't bear to look at because of the angle or the harassment.

Andriy Shevchenko, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Phillips, Nedved and others all came up to try, and the defensive duo was replaced by Gattuso and Stam.

The players were very interested in training today and had a lot of fun in it.

Aldridge stood with the other coaches and said lightly: "See? Our players are not particularly outstanding in local one-on-one ability, either relying on speed or body, using the skills of controlling the ball to deceive the opponent to obtain offensive benefits, and the best ones are Pire and Schneider, but they are still not particularly good. ”

Jenson, Babu, Craig, Tolop and several other coaches frowned.

According to their previous experience of training players in the Netherlands, whether it's one-on-one or three-on-three, the method is very simple, give the ball to the players and the players themselves will learn to pass, or in other words, the players who are capable of passing will show such skills, and the players who don't have this kind of skills will not try, so as not to be seen by the coach and their evaluation will plummet.

In the training system of the tactical stream, there is no excessive emphasis on individual skills.

But that doesn't mean they don't practice their skills.

Stopping, dribbling, short passes, long passes, shots, etc., are all part of the technique, and mastery of these will enhance the player's sense of the ball.

However, foot skills are not only about ball feeling, but also about inspiration and experience.

In the traditional training system, the exploration of the players' outstanding abilities comes more from the players to explore themselves, just like a journey of discovery for explorers.

The player suddenly had a sense of celestial spheres and inspiration, and he had an epiphany and learned to pedal a bicycle to pass others, as if he had discovered a new star in the universe, and then gradually became familiar with it and integrated it into his own knowledge.

What Aldridge needs to change is to tell the players directly what stars are in the universe, and then teach them to understand and learn, and finally integrate them.

Football skills are ever-changing, and there are different strategies in different positions on the field, facing different defensive positions and numbers, which can be trained to strengthen the individual abilities of the players.

Jenson worries: "If the players start to show off their skills, it will ruin the team's tactics. ”

Aldrich said seriously: "This is based on talent, let's put it this way, if Larsson's skill talent value is 85, full value 100, then Balak's skill talent value may only be 70, but now the actual ability Larsson may only be 55, Ballack is only 40, turn their potential into ability, there will not be 11 players with a skill value of 100, enhance the individual skills of the players, and do not affect team tactics, tactical execution depends on team consciousness, they have team consciousness, Serve the team with better individual abilities, and the two complement each other. ”

The coaches looked at each other, and no one knew whether this kind of training was right or wrong until there was no actual effect, and if it turned out to be wrong, it would not only affect the growth of the team, but even more seriously collapse the team that had been so hard to form.