8. Training arrangements with ulterior motives

If the name Leo Fernandez only swept Facebook, Twitter and major social forums on the night of the match, the next day, as Ronaldo predicted, Leo's name dominated the headlines and news reports throughout Spain and even the entire continent, especially Leo's home country of France.

"Team Newspaper": "Inheritance! Zinedine Zidane's son Camp Nou shines and is looking forward to Leo Fernandes' world fame. ”

The team newspaper is the most influential and impartial sports newspaper in Europe, with a circulation of more than 400,000 people, and the UEFA Champions League was first initiated by the team. Because Leo Fernandez has dual citizenship of France and Spain, he did not hesitate to choose France when choosing to represent the national team, and because of Zidane's influence at home. "Team Newspaper" and "French Football" are the only two newspapers in the previous "Captain of the B Team" scandal that did not criticize and ridicule Leo. This time, he did not hesitate to use beautiful words such as genius, golden boy, and future star of French football in the report, and properly praised Leo as his own son.

Daily Mail: "He came through Real Madrid's academy but made a name for himself in Granada – demystifying the story behind Leo Fernandez. ”

British tabloids have always been the most irresponsible, reporting mainly on curiosity, focusing on digging into the private lives of players - clubbing, **, friends' wives...... In order to attract the reader's eye.

Leo is browsing the electronic version of this report with his mobile phone, in fact, the content is also good, writing a lot of his training and life when he was a child, and with pictures, from childhood to adulthood, there is one, the little Leo in the photo looks only one or two years old, held in Zidane's arms, thick long brown hair on his forehead, round face, chubby little hands, soft and cute, Zidane looked down at his baby, his eyes were full of love.

And "World Sport" is worthy of being the most loyal patron saint of Barcelona's road to winning the championship, and they made enough excuses for Barcelona's defeat in their report: "The camp is full of injured soldiers and no one is available, and Enrique has trained the youngster to lose to Granada." ”

The word 'sorry for defeat' is used well, the mouthpiece of Barcelona has always been conscientious, as long as the reason for Barcelona's loss must be injury or multi-front fighting, if not, it must be that the Football Association has not protected Barcelona's 'beautiful football'. But if Real Madrid wins, then it can only be due to four reasons: the opponent is too weak, the luck is too good, Real Madrid cheats, and the referee is favoritic.

Barcelona have not been able to extend their six-game winning streak but are still top of the league with 15 points, with Atletico Madrid second on goal difference and Villarreal third, while Real Madrid are in fourth place after losing to the Submarine and Granada are finally out of the bottom of the table after winning three points away.

The game was followed by a day and a half of rest and a short 45-minute training session on Monday afternoon, before a new week of training and game planning began on Tuesday morning, with a relegation team like Granada, who do not have to play in the Champions League or a league to play, and the Copa del Rey game does not start until late October, and their main game at the moment is the domestic league. A week of singles is easier for both players and coaches.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Leo went out on time to go to the training base. He and Marchis are best friends and the apartment is close by. Coming to Granada, the two of them train together every day. However, Leo's schedule is too regular, he will never be a minute late when he goes out at 8 o'clock, and he will start formal training at 9:30, and the apartment where he lives is only a twenty-minute walk from the training base, plus ten minutes to change clothes, Leo added 1 hour of physical training to himself.

Within two days, Marchis couldn't stand his thunderous schedule, he thought it was too early, and he never went out with him again. Leo is back to living a solitary life.

When he walked not far from the club, he saw a lot of people standing outside the usually deserted gate, some holding cameras, and at first glance, they were media reporters. Most of the rest are girls, and they seem to be holding all kinds of gifts in their hands.

It's a sight he saw every day when he was at Real Madrid, and this is the first time he's been to Granada.

He was wondering if there was an open training session today? I heard a high-pitched female voice in front of me, shouting his name, and then I saw a beautiful girl with a hot body running in his direction, the girl's voice attracted the attention of everyone at the door, Lei didn't have time to dodge and ran to the fork in the road next to him, everyone chased his back and turned the corner and went to the side of the fork in the road, but they didn't even see his shadow.

Leo had run around the training base for most of the lap, and he was still gasping a little as he entered the locker room through another door. Zidane is right, this body's endurance is indeed Leo's biggest shortcoming at the moment. It was not for nothing that he gave himself more physical training. While Leo was changing his clothes, he thought that this morning's warm-up exercise would be saved.

Head coach Gonzalez has a schedule with him, and he comes to the office 1 hour early every morning, and while waiting for his work team to arrive, he stands by the window and watches Leo run alone for a while, which is the best way to train endurance, and he looks down at his watch every time he runs a lap, Gonzalez also looks, all within 1 minute and 30 seconds, he has to run 20 laps, and then push-ups, pull-ups...... Until teammates came to the training ground one after another.

The morning training was only an hour, the defenders, midfielders, and forwards had regular training respectively, and Leo was assigned to a group with the strikers, which made Leo a little puzzled, although he was an attacking midfielder, he was always a midfielder, and there had never been such a situation before, why did Gonzalez put him in a group with the striker today?

The intensity of the training was not great, and the teammates still had time to discuss the media and fans who flocked to the door, saying that Granada was finally going to give birth to a superstar, and Leo's face was too popular with female fans. If you don't play football anymore, you can change careers and become an actor...... The people waiting at the door are all beautiful women with gorgeous faces and hot bodies.

Leo was focused on training and didn't pay much attention to what they were saying. But Marchis began to feel depressed, and the rest of the training was a little absent-minded, and was named by the coach several times. During lunch, Leo noticed his friend's strange appearance, patted him on the shoulder and asked, "What's wrong?" Bad form today? It's not very exciting to watch. ”

Originally from Venezuela, Marchis is two years older than Leo, but much shorter at 174 CM. It belongs to a striker who can count the number of appearances on two hands in a season, or the kind that comes off the bench. Before the game against Barcelona, Leo was on the same level as him in the team, and the two of them can be described as bad brothers. Coupled with Marchis's enthusiasm and simplicity, Leo quickly became good friends with such a cold personality.

Marchis looked up at Leo from the soup bowl and asked, "Are you going to leave Granada in the winter transfer window?" ”

Leoch said: "Why do you ask? ”

Marchis said: "You played so well against Barcelona, the newspapers say you will be a superstar like your father, and there will be many big clubs who will rob you. ”

Leo doesn't want to explain that not all big clubs are stupid and have a lot of money, no one will decide whether to buy a player just because of a game, and there are at least four months left in the winter transfer window. But the little friend will be unhappy because of his departure, which makes him feel that this friend has not been made in vain, and plans in his heart that if he can play at the same time, he must do his best to help his good friend score a goal.

Leo replied simply: "No, at least I won't be leaving until the end of the season." ”

Marchis nodded reassuringly and swept the chicken off his plate.

In the afternoon, during the unequal (8vs10) defensive practice, Gonzalez put Leo in the defensive team and asked him to mark the team's other main striker, Horn Córdoba, in addition to Peaty.

Leo is holding the ball with a confused face, and the worst thing he is good at is defense, the right striker of Colombia is 190cm tall and weighs 90KG. ALTHOUGH LEO IS ONLY 4CM SHORTER THAN HIM IN HEIGHT, HE WEIGHS 20KG LIGHTER THAN HIM, AND HE IS NOT IN THE SAME WEIGHT CLASS AT ALL.

Before training began, Horn patted Leo on the shoulder, and the corners of his mouth hooked into a somewhat defiant smile: "I won't let you just because you're a future superstar." ”

Leo smiled and replied, "Just don't knock me off." ”

At the beginning of training, Horn used his physical advantage to confront Leo head-on, Leo really couldn't carry him, and the ball was vigorously pushed aside before it touched.

After such a few confrontations, Leo was really knocked out by him in a collision, and Horn stepped on it and looked at Leo condescendingly: "I said I wouldn't let you." ”

Leo stood up from the grass with his hands propped up, quietly tugged at the corners of his mouth, and raised his hand to signal the training to continue.

Horn rushed over with the ball again, this time Leo did not collide with him head-on, but dodged out of the way, and the moment he touched the ball on his toes, the whole person stuck into the gap between him and the ball like lightning, and forced the ball to pass to his teammates.

Although the strength of the large man is like that of a tank, his feet are not delicate and he lacks dexterity. Leo found that in the process of dribbling the ball, as long as he used the speed to get in a good position, he could break the ball successfully, and it was indeed feasible after a few trial and error, although Leo may not be able to get the ball by himself every time, and he will often be vigorously knocked away by the opponent, but the opponent will lose the ball to a certain extent, which depends on the tacit understanding and support of his teammates during the game.

Horn was a little annoyed by him, and every time he dribbled the ball a little bigger, he could see the stitch get in and intercept the ball. Every time he can accurately grasp the best time of a few tenths of a second, his body is as fast as light and shadow, which is simply incredible, how did he do it?

It may not be possible for an ordinary person to do this, but for an Assassin with keen insight and swift stature, he can take someone's life invisibly in the blink of an eye, and break the ball from the feet of an inflexible person.

Gonzalez on the side has a full view of the training on the field, Leo is very smart, and people who are good at thinking on the court can always create more opportunities. He knows how to be flexible, rather than blindly fighting brainlessly. Find the weaknesses of the other party, formulate the most effective plan, and put it into action to contain the other party.

The young man in front of him, consciousness and mind are not below his father, and he still has the speed and explosion that his father is not good at, what he lacks is only experience and actual combat, and his physical fitness seems to have some problems, but he is very hardworking, physical fitness, no matter who can achieve the ideal level of reasonable training, this is not a difficult thing. Experience and actual combat must be accumulated and summarized in every competition.

In time, the name Leo Fernandez is sure to shake up the world of football.