Yale North Side Soccer Park Field, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

On the afternoon of the second week of April, it is now the second training session of the newly formed Yale women's football team, and there are less than two weeks left before the first league division game at the end of the month, and the test in front of Jiang Yelin and the coaching staff is very difficult. It's not as easy as you think.

The whole team ran around the field three times under the leadership of Mia and Audrey to warm up, and after doing 10 minutes of rhythmic exercises, it was not divided into three groups of attack, midfield and defense groups, last Friday night in Coach Django's apartment, Mia and Audrey and is a verbal and written crusade against the new coach, therefore, today's training plan from the previous unconventional to ordinary, after the warm-up, technical and tactical drills are carried out by the whole team, first of all, 60 meters between the two running and passing training.

32 players formed 16 pairs, starting from the bottom line of the court while passing the ball to each other while advancing to the middle line, almost 50 meters away, which is 15 meters less than the 65 meters from the left sideline to the right line, but it is more practically valuable, after all, most of the balls in the official game are not horizontal passes but forward diagonal passes and straight passes, the distance between the two passers is almost about 10 meters, and it is required that whether it is running or passing, the first thing is to keep a distance, only control the distance, so as not to leave a gap for the opponent.

20 minutes have passed, 16 pairs of players have obtained their own passing and receiving data, the fastest pair is Mia and Shanon, the two of them only took 15 seconds to complete the 50-meter pass, although the straight running distance is about 50 meters, but because the trajectory of the ball is a diagonal movement before the running route of the two people 10 meters apart, therefore, fast and good passing and does not affect the speed of running, 15 seconds is a good result, once there is a passing error, even if it is only a mistake, Waste at least 3-5 seconds of adjustment and recovery time.

The slowest pair of players took 30 seconds to complete the 50-meter pass and catch and run, not that these two female players can't run, the girls who can pass the 1200-meter and 30-meter tests have a sports and physical foundation, mainly because the control of the ball is too poor, a foot is heavy, the opposite one does not catch the ball or has to chase the ball and kick the ball back, the time is tight, of course, this kind of non-confrontation under the passing and receiving training brings endless fun to the new players, after all, Warm-ups and physical training are boring chores, but training with the ball is always fun and as engaging as a game.

"Girls, the old rules, the top 8 players in the training of passing and receiving the ball, the training allowance of this class is 10 US dollars per person, and the players who are ranked 9-16 will practice a group of passing and receiving the ball, and the top 4 after the additional practice will be counted, and the remaining 4 will practice a group of passing and catching the ball! The last two will practice the last set! Now Audrey leads the team to continue to pass and receive the ball and practice, and the others follow me into the next training subject, the offensive and defensive drill of corner kicks! Jiang Yelin is actually quite satisfied with the progress of the passing and receiving training subject, but if these rookies laugh all day long thinking that they can earn a training allowance of $100 per class just by kicking and playing, then it will definitely not work.

Audrey - Although Ben is a goalkeeper, but like other girls who have played football since childhood, they were all strikers and midfielders at the beginning, and this girl's foot work is definitely not bad, so after Jiang Yelin rebuilt the Yale women's football team, the first decision he made was to liberate Audrey's position from the goalkeeper and let the No. 22 substitute goalkeeper Amy Adinis guard the goal, the 176-year-old Amy Adinis is much worse than Audrey in all aspects, but if the defense only relies on the goalkeeper, this team will be finished long ago, Jiang Yelin and his coaching staff reached a consensus to use more goals and more tenacious defense to defeat every opponent on the field.

Although there are only 16 players in front of them, they are the top 8 players in the passing and receiving training just now, therefore, 14 of the 16 players are the old players of the original Yale women's football team, and the new players are like twin sisters Carrie Memphis and Carlis-Memphis, the twin girls were originally substitutes for the volleyball team, but they are not very interested in volleyball for some reason. The two sisters, who are 175 cm tall and have excellent physical fitness, seem to have found a new world.

For rookie newcomers whose football skills are still rough, the progress of the two classes of Carrie and Carlisle sisters is obvious to all, and the passing and receiving training may be because of the relationship between the twin sisters, and they are very skillful in matching, and they don't look like girls who are playing football for the first time at a glance, of course, the girls who can enter Yale will not be stupid in their brains, these two girls lack nothing more than experience and ball nature, but, at least in terms of passing and receiving the ball between the two, it seems to be a bit of a rapid progress, so today is only the second class, Carrie and Carlle are even mixed into the 16-man quasi-main lineup.

For football players, good skills often attack in the front court, and those with poor foundation but body are guards, which is no different from the division of labor of everyone who played wild ball when they were children, and the height of Carrie and Kale sisters 175 is considered to be a tall person standing out from the crowd among the women's football players, therefore, in the corner kick attack and defense drill course, Jiang Yelin trained Carrie and Kalai as central defenders, that is, when standing in parallel, the two of them defended the middle with one left and one right, one defended at the near post at the front point, and the other was responsible for the defense of high-altitude balls in the central position.

Before the start of the formal corner kick attack and defense drill, first of all, the 16 players also carried out the header passing training in a team of two, that is, like a game, the two people took turns to use their foreheads to push the ball to each other within an interval of 3 meters, at first one side held the ball and threw it to the other party, and after the opponent used the forehead to push it back, this side also used the forehead to push back, naturally, Jiang Yelin asked the main players like Mia and Sharon to give the Memphis sisters a demonstration for the newcomers, but everyone coaxed me to coach Django's header, So then it was Mia and Jiang Yelin who partnered and showed the heading skills of high-level players very well, and now no one doubts that Coach Django is an excellent player with the national team level, of course, why Coach Django is so skilled and so good, but he has not participated in any well-known team and has not appeared in the sight of the national team, this is obviously a mystery.

"I'm personally responsible for the penalty corner, Mia, Sharon, Neil, Ollie, Josie, Lloyd, Fifi,, you 8 people are responsible for the attack as an offensive group, don't get together to have a level, first according to the previous Ronnie coach led the team when the corner kick offensive division of labor card position, pay attention to the action before I take the corner kick, the left hand is open to indicate the penalty before the low flat ball, the left hand fist means to send the middle of the high ball, the right hand is open to indicate the front of the penalty area to the horizon, the right hand fist means to send the small penalty area after the point of the leaf ball, everyone remembered? Don't blame the coach for punishing you for running in the wrong position later! ”

Jiang Yelin took the trouble to explain the hidden action instructions of the penalty players, and the girls blinked their eyes and repeated the words in their mouths a few times, and nodded their heads to indicate that they remembered that a team will have its own regular player position and point grabbing order when attacking from a corner, for example, Mia, who is 174 tall, is the team's top scorer, and her height bounce and header feet are excellent in all aspects, so in most cases, Mia is the core player in the corner kick offensive tactics, and the penalty and point grabbing will give priority to Mia......

In addition, in corner kick tactics, the central defender with height and header is the second point of attack in offensive tactics, but like the shooter, the tall central defender himself is also the key figure of the opposing defender, so there are running and covering, such as cross-switching, such as opening the opponent's defensive formation through the feint before the penalty kick, and grabbing a header or shot in the gap...... For a team that has been tactically well-trained, something like a penalty player kicking out, the ball flickering over everyone's head and falling into the back point of no man's land, is a brain-opening mistake, and it is definitely a move to be criticized by the coaching staff.

The members of the offensive team met in a circle under the leadership of Mia and whispered a discussion, as an assistant coach or as a captain or as the offensive core, Mia Suter gave the players in the offensive group the position in the corner kick attack, No. 9 Shanon is fast and controls the ball at his feet, and is responsible for grabbing the front point, Mia herself is responsible for grabbing the first landing point for the header, and the 167 cm tall main defender Lloys Fahanni is responsible for covering Mia and grabbing the second landing point, The other five players formed a semi-circular attacking position according to their positions on the field, and one of them, the fast No. 11 Maoli Raschel, who had a long shot, dragged behind to prevent the opponent from grabbing the first landing point and quickly counterattacking!

Among the 8 players in the defensive group, No. 2 Fanny Exon, No. 3 Halle Bailey and No. 4 Ann Marx, No. 13 Manman Nixon, plus No. 18 Lilith Wood and No. 19 Diana Chapudd are all veterans, among which Fanny, Hallie and Ann are still the original main backline, while the twins No. 16 Carrie Memphis and No. 17 Carle Memphis have become the biggest variables, Jiang Yelin let the 175 cm tall sisters be responsible for the high-altitude ball in the entire penalty area, however, because they are members of the same team, In fact, if the players in the defensive group can understand the code made by the penalty player, it is unfair to the offensive team, and it is not so good in official games.

The corner kick offensive and defensive drill finally turned into a two-person turn between Jiang Yelin, who took a corner kick, and Mia, who grabbed the point in the offensive group, maybe because Jiang Yelin called Mia to his side and took special care of the order of change in the penalty code, or maybe Jiang Yelin's footwork is outstanding, which is really amazing? Surprised, anyway, every time the ball comes out, it just finds the point that Mia grabbed! Carrie and the Carlle sisters couldn't suppress Mia's jump and grab points in the header scramble, and finally the two girls muttered that the coach cheated and didn't choose the landing point according to the gesture they said before!