Chapter 253： Devil's preseason training

All the Napoli players found themselves devastated, as if they had underestimated the intensity of the summer training camp.

Whether it's Calejon and Parejo, the former Real Madrid players, or the players who played for the team last season, they all know that the intensity of high-level training has always been high. Each training session is 90 minutes, but training The items were so tightly arranged that they almost wanted to drain the last ounce of energy from them.

They can also benefit from such training.

But this time is clearly different.

The strength is higher.

More importantly, from the original two exercises a day to three exercises a day, this is definitely a life-threatening rhythm.

Buenaventura is like a big devil. He even told the players that the team's running distance this season is higher than before, and even a high center like Pellet has more than ten. kilometer.

Not to mention some full-backs and midfielders, who are almost all running for eleven or twelve, or even more running distance.

In order to achieve this goal, the team must have enough physical reserves during the pre-season training camp, so there is this devil training camp that makes all players feel collapsed, and even there is no lack of despair.

"How comfortable your vacation is, how painful it is now!" Buenaventura Jie Jie laughed.

Three training sessions a day, in addition to physical reserves, there is also a lot of training with the ball.

For example, before each training session, there will be a round of circling games, which is known to many people as monkey walking.

This is actually not new, even this is the regular training program of Barcelona and the Dutch team.

When Gao Shen was coaching Real Madrid, he often used it to adjust the training atmosphere, more like a game.

Callejon and Parejo thought they were familiar with the game, but they didn't expect to actually go to the training ground and find that it was completely different from the game they played at Real Madrid.

Naples' scramble game is mainly based on two tie-breakers.

As the name suggests, eight players pass each other in a circle, with two players in the middle to grab the ball.

This kind of training can improve the player's ball handling skills in a narrow range, and at the same time exercise the player's movement, allowing them to maintain an effective triangle position anytime and anywhere when dealing with players in the circle.

This is recognized as the most suitable position for passing the ball.

Players standing in the circle learn how to press the most efficiently, block the opponent's passing line, and predict the opponent's passing intention in advance, all of which simulate what happens in the real game.

It can be said that the circling game seems simple, but the effect is very good, especially for teams that press and pass the ball, it is an essential training item.

Whether it is the Dutch national team, Ajax, or Barcelona, ​​or the team coached by Van Gaal, it is basically inseparable from the training of the ring game.

In addition, the rush game can also adjust the intensity and purpose of training according to the ratio of the number of people. For example, two-to-six, two-to-five, and even one-to-three triangle robberies can achieve good results.

But Gao Shen put forward a higher level of requirements, so that this training is no longer just a game, but training.

That is, everyone must touch the ball with one foot, and the player must be left or right.

In other words, whether it is passing or receiving the ball, only one foot can be used.

This undoubtedly greatly increases the difficulty of the game of ring grabbing.

Coupled with the punishment mechanism, this training is not only fun, but also high training intensity and training value.

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As Spanish players, Calejon and Parejo are both familiar with the lap game, but they did not expect that Naples players are so familiar with this training, and even do it better and at a higher level than Real Madrid.

While the new recruits were still familiar with and adapting to this training, the old Naples players, led by Rakitic, Biglia and others, were already "playing" on the court very smoothly. Football was like a bullet. The same, shuttle back and forth between them, very fast.

Vidal and David Luiz, who were pressing in the middle, also had a great time. They almost grabbed the ball several times, and they screamed and screamed on the training ground.

This made both Callejon and Parejo put away their arrogance.

Not to mention anything else, just like this training method, in Real Madrid, basically no one can do it.

Of course, this is also because the old Naples players are very skilled in training, but it can also be seen that Naples' skillful pass and cut on the court is not accidental, but the strength of training.

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In addition to the circling game, there are shadow training methods that are specially responsible for training overall pressure, as well as some other targeted training, such as seven-on-four group confrontation.

Saying it's seven-on-four, it's actually four-on-four. There are three players who are neutral. Whichever side has the ball, they belong to that side.

This is mainly to train players to run off the ball.

All of these trainings were brought to Naples by Gao Shen last season, or slowly added in the middle of coaching.

After the practice in Naples, the effect is very ideal. All the coaching staff will further dig and increase the difficulty on this basis, so that the players can achieve the best training effect.

In addition, at the end of each day's training session, players will get a detailed training report, which includes not only their own training, but also the team as a whole, with some good performances or mistakes. place.

For example, the striker will even analyze the reason why a shot in training failed to score.

That's all thanks to Naples' commitment to this.

The Fort Volturno training center has limited space, but they were all remodeled and upgraded this summer, with cameras installed, and even the training is filmed and transmitted in real time to Lucas' analysis department, and then they will immediately carry out various Analyze, summarize and organize.

After the players get the analysis report, they basically have a preliminary understanding of some mistakes of themselves and the team. Their task is to think about why they have this problem first, and how to solve and avoid such problems repeatedly?

Before training the next day, the coach will meet with the players one by one, discuss these issues with them, and give suggestions for improvement to help them improve.

If it is some recurring chronic illness or a general problem, the coaching staff will also arrange special intensive training sessions as soon as possible.

I have to say that this is not only the only one in Serie A, but even in European football, this is quite advanced.

The investment is not very large, the most important thing is the introduction of advanced technology and the emphasis on advanced talents.

Lucas' two assistants were carefully selected by Gao Shen, Lucas and the club. Although they have never engaged in such a job before, they are quite potential.

And these are unknown to outsiders.

But all the Napoli players at Castel Volturno feel novel and at the same time enjoy the benefits of this technological advancement, especially when each of them has an analysis report and is more aware of their own problems and mistakes. It's all obvious.

This is very helpful for everyone.

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Since last season, Gao Shen has been aware of a problem.

That is how to better regulate the psychological changes of players.

After all, football is a game of people.

Benitez said he could win all games if he was given eleven robots.

The reason is simple, the robot has no emotions, no mood changes, and remains 100% focused.

Training can do a lot, but some can't, such as a player's mood changes.

Young players, in particular, stand out in this regard.

To give the simplest example, which is recognized by everyone, that is, in a game, after a goal occurs, the probability of scoring another goal in the next ten minutes is the highest.

That's how the player's mood changes drastically because of the goal.

Gao Shen discovered a very interesting phenomenon last season, that is, the emotions of players will also change with the trend of the game. If you go up, you will be very excited, and sometimes you will even get hot-headed and get carried away.

However, when the team loses the ball when organizing and attacking, and transitioning from offense to defense, the players' emotions will go down, they will become very disappointed, they will complain about the teammates who made mistakes, and even become discouraged and have negative thoughts.

This is actually human nature.

Not to mention young players, even adults, it is basically impossible to avoid such positive or negative emotions.

But in a high-level game, this emotion is likely to lead to mistakes, which in turn lead to conceded goals.

Too excited will make mistakes, too negative will make mistakes.

Therefore, Gao Shen was thinking, is there a way to guide and control the players' emotions within a reasonable range as much as possible, so that they will not be too excited or too disappointed?

To this end, Naples specially hired a famous Italian psychological expert to come to the team. He believes that this requires accumulated psychological construction and training, so that the players can develop a psychological mechanism.

But how to do it specifically, and whether it has any effect, is not very clear for the time being, and we need to continue to explore.

At least in this area, I am afraid that there is no other team in European football today.

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Whether it is high-intensity physical training high-level ball training, whether it is training analysis or psychological mechanism construction, all of these have only one purpose, which is to let the team play on the court. to a stronger level.

But before the league starts, all players have to go through an almost devilish hellish training.

There are three classes a day, each class is 90 minutes, plus some other class schedules, the players' pre-season training can be said to be very compact, and everyone has been drained of all their energy every day.

To use Paul Cannavaro's complaints in the locker room: "I don't even have the idea of ​​applauding my wife for love when I go home!"

This is not surprising.

Because when everyone leaves the training base every day, almost all of them are soft.

But they are also in such cruel training, constantly adjusting their physical state, constantly recovering and improving.

After two weeks of devil-style training in Fort Volturno, the team officially ushered in an intensive summer warm-up.