"Hey, boss."

"Boss, you're getting younger."

"Chief, give, hometown specialty."

Everyone who walked to the training ground would greet Aldridge with a smile, and the senior players in the team would joke with Aldridge.

Aldridge was also very happy today, he himself was not used to not seeing the players for two months, and the smile on his face never faded when he saw them all come back in good spirits.

Larsson recovered from a thigh strain in his last game last season and has healed in two months, but to be on the safe side, his training will be arranged separately and not too intense.

Watching the players stand on the training ground, Aldridge smiled: "I'm glad, I still know you." ”

The new players didn't understand, and the other veterans laughed.

Trezeguet smiled bitterly: "Boss, how long is this joke going to be told?" ”

Everyone still remembers the appearance of his body when he came back from vacation two years ago, and he was almost unrecognizable.

In the past two years, the young players have grown rapidly and have a better professional attitude, so even if it is a holiday, there will not be a situation where a player will lose shape after overeating and lack of exercise.

After laughing, Aldrich said to the mature coach Fiona, "Coach, let's get started." ”

The veteran players followed the distance and Fiona to start warm-up exercises, stretching their muscles and muscles to completely stretch every part of their body and every muscle.

The new players follow the coach's movements and imitate them carefully, and Fiona deliberately takes care of the new players, and the movements are relatively slow. They will also verbally remind them to try to standardize their movements.

Aldrich and the other coaches followed. The hardest of all is Benitez. Usually he runs and jumps with the players, but this kind of difficult pulling action, just his big belly makes him unable to bend down

On the other side, separated by the building, is the training ground for the youth team.

Unlike the previous youth team recruitment, there are a lot of people coming, but the talent is average, this year's youth team expansion, there are many good seedlings, Najib felt the need to speak.

Everyone at all levels of echelon stood in a line on the training ground. Najib Nagy stood in front of them, with Muhrensteen and Moniz and other coaches standing in the back row, with the appearance of leading the parade.

Looking at the team of nearly 100 people, Najib said calmly: "Maybe you only started to hear about Millwall two years ago, or last year, this year, and your impression of this place comes from the media reports, I need to make you understand the development philosophy of this club, first of all, we value youth training. Extremely important, your training grounds. The equipment, as well as the number of coaches in the youth team, and the quality of coaching, are the best in England, and probably the best in Europe! See the four words carved into the youth team building behind me? ”

The youth team players looked up in unison, and there were four words carved into the front wall of the youth team building, not far behind Najib.

"Team! Will! Diligent! Talent! There is a sign in every dressing room at Millwall that says: Those who play for themselves play for their opponents play for their opponents, and those who play for the team play for themselves! It's not the football philosophy pioneered by Millwall, it's the famous quote of Herrera in the big international era, but it's the team essence of the sport! The team is the first, the next is the will, if you don't have a strong will, then you can't be a good player, hard work, it's no longer the time for Garrincha to fish and pick up girls to be successful on the green field! Do you want to be a good player? If you want to, you have to sweat more than others, otherwise, no matter how good your talent is, you will squander it yourself. The most is talent, there are many kinds of talents, professional football is not a streetball performance, skills are only one of many qualities, game reading ability, team awareness, rational use of the body, etc., these are talents, you are equal, don't feel that you can't compare to each other because you don't run as fast as your peers, and don't think that you are stronger than others because you have good ball control skills, everyone is unique, play your strengths, turn your advantages into your own talents, and take out a diligent attitude, The will not to admit defeat and always put the team first, then you will be successful here! ”

The players of the youth team held their heads high and looked resolute.

Hearing Najib's words made them feel inspired.

Indeed, over the past few years, these people have made new friends, and even in the games they play, it is clear that there is a lot of talent here, and some of them are seemingly unpretentious.

This puts pressure on them in the competition, and they are afraid that they will be looked down upon by their coaches.

But Najib's words dispelled their concerns.

In Millwall's youth training philosophy, more attention is paid to the inner cultivation of spiritual qualities.

Nagy continued: "Millwall is a club that has been successful in a short period of time, our manager Aldridge Hall has been recognised in England, he has been named Premier League Manager of the Year two years in a row, there are so many players who want to play under him, look at the players in the first team now, your predecessors, they were the most attacking firepower in all of Europe last season and the team with the best defence. You may have a question in your heart: Will Millwall have your place in the future? I tell you for sure, there is! But you need to fight for your chances and become the next Frank Lampard to go from youth to first team, Andrea Pirlo, Rio Ferdinand, Capdevilla, Gattuso, Glen Shire, all of whom came to Millwall before the age of 18 and have honed their skills in the youth team, and Millwall will still be pinning their hopes on you in the future! But what do you have to prove that you deserve to be in the first team? Because our worst performance in the last three years was the 96/97 season, when we only finished runners-up in the league! ”

Najib's words shook the teenagers.

Crazy lion, what a madness!

It makes people's blood boil just by listening to it.

Runners-up in the league is the worst moment of performance!

Najib was playing with words, and in the first year, Millwall were indeed league champions. It's just League One with zero gold content for top teams.

"In the new season. Our first team will be in the Champions League. We will go to European countries to play against champions, and at the same time, the club will arrange friendly matches with foreign club youth teams, and on the itinerary, we will go abroad with the first team, but the list of each trip is only 16 people, but all players over the age of 15 have the opportunity to be selected, if you want to compete with the youth teams of other European giants. Convince me with your performance in training, let me take the initiative to write your name in the list, and at the same time, the two players who perform best in the weekly training of the echelon at all levels will receive tickets to the club's home games, these players can sit in the VIP stands to watch the game, if you want to go to the stadium for free and watch the game comfortably, then exchange the training results for tickets in my hand! ”

It's a way for the club to foster a sense of belonging and honour in young players, and Millwall is the opposite of what other clubs have been doing to cut back on free tickets to players in order to make money. I'd rather sell fewer tickets and give the players free tickets. Especially the young players.

However, if there is a situation like Terry's in the future where he gets free tickets from the club and sells them privately, the club will take penalties and cancel the free tickets.

The young players cheered excitedly, watching the game was enjoyable, but if you can travel with the team to play all over Europe, it will not only be a trip abroad, but it will be very exciting.

By the time Najib's lecture was over, the boys were all in high spirits and ready to start training, eager to rush to the first team immediately.

The training of the youth team's regular system officially kicked off, and the players of different echelons were scattered on different training grounds, and the coaches of the echelons at all levels also walked over to preside over the training.

After the warm-up on the first team's side, everyone was curious to find that the two coaches, Tolop and Craig, were directing the club staff to bring in two machines, which looked like two cannons, but the barrels were a little short.

"Boss, what's that?"

Vanney approached Aldridge and asked, Aldrich smiled and pulled him to the center of the field, leaving Vanney to stand there, and then he beckoned to Craig, who started the machine with a smile.

Suddenly, the "cannon" shot out a ball, not slow, in the direction of Vanney, who was startled and hurriedly dodged.

"Hahaha."

The players all understood that this is a ball machine similar to tennis training.

"Hey, Ruud, it's not for you to hide, for you to practice stopping the ball!"

Fanny found out that it was a false alarm, and cheered up and said, "Hey, this is fun, go on." ”

Craig continued to press the button of the machine, and every 15 seconds, the ball would be shot, although the machine did not move, but due to factors such as wind direction and rotation, the trajectory of the ball will be slightly different, and Vanney stopped the ball a little badly at first, but as he became more and more focused, he got used to the rhythm and behaved better and better.

Craig's task was simple, which was to put the ball in the back of the machine, and when a bag of more than twenty balls had been shot, it was only a few minutes later, but it was also a little difficult for Vanney, and then the task was simple, to pick it up.

When the other players saw this new thing, they knew that they could exercise their ball sense and stopping skills, so they all wanted to try it.

There aren't many machines, so everyone has to take turns, and Glenschare wants to try to practice his non-stop shooting skills.

Aldrich found the machine quite useful, at least more efficient than manpower.

Today's training is mainly relaxed, and the systematic training of physical reserves will officially start tomorrow.

Aldridge wanted the players to run first, so he started training in the half-court of the group, and the extra players went to experience the two ball machines.

Gudjohnsen was not on the training ground, he was still in his recovery phase, and rest was more important.

Klose, Van der Meyde, Duff, these three players were in high spirits when they heard that there was a half-time match, and they all wanted to show themselves to their teammates and coaches.

However, Aldridge did not arrange for the three of them to join the team, but let the three of them stand next to him first, observing the training of his teammates.

The training base has an indoor futsal field, a seven-a-side football field, but there are no outside.

The three rookies stood next to Aldridge and it was strange to see their teammates divided, the attacking team, the defensive team, and whether it was a horizontal or vertical half, there was only one goal.

"Boss, is this a game? There's only one goal, so it won't be the kind of game that plays in the basketball half, right? ”

Van der Meyde was born in Ajax and felt that he had received the best training in the past, but today he was really surprised by the fact that he saw it like this.

Aldridge smiled: "It's not the rule of basketball where two teams alternate offenses and play one side of the basket. Our rules are relatively simple, the attacking team wins when they score a goal, and the defending team wins if they don't concede a goal after 10 successful passes. ”

After understanding the rules, the three players began to watch their teammates play against each other. (To be continued......)