This Wednesday, the Madiburg youth team have a German Cup qualifier and travel to the 'far-flung city of Dortmund' to play a knockout match against an amateur team. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The preliminaries of the German Cup are a single-elimination competition in which all teams below the third division participate, with 56 teams selected by pulling the flagstick in the chopsticks, and then mixing and matching with 36 teams from the second division and the third division, playing a knockout round in twos and twos, winning 46 teams and 18 teams in the first division, a total of 64 teams. These 64 teams are the main competition of the German Cup, which is played in a home-and-away knockout system until the winner is decided.

Madiborg FC doesn't take this competition seriously, it's just an amateur team, and strictly speaking, it's not interesting to ask if it's in the eighth or ninth division. The team had to leave early in the morning, arrive at noon, return immediately after the afternoon game, and arrive home in the evening. Not only did Zhuo Yang not go to the competition with the team because of class, most of the main players did not go, Coach Klopp only took Mertesacker to press the lineup, and there was a group of perennial soy sauce for the youth team, a total of fifteen people went to play. The others, led by assistant coach Edwin Woolf, continue to train daily on the peninsula.

Madiborg first-team manager Stanley Fox is an old-school German coach who focuses on physical confrontation, formation and tactical discipline, and is particular about the limits of his style of play, and the limits of the playing space. This traditional style of play requires players to have strong impact and fighting ability, super physical fitness and tenacious will, but it does not require much skill and ball control, just enough.

There are a large number of veteran coaches like Stanley Fox who are very opposed to the current technologization of German football, believing that the technical stream is something that only the soft eggs in southern Europe, such as Spain, Portugal and France, play. And German football has always been synonymous with discipline and efficiency, and there was no technology before, Germany still won three world championships and three European championships, and still beat the southern European countries.

For this reason, Stanley Fox is completely dismissive of Jurgen Klopp's technical control-flow play in the youth team, and is very cold to Klopp himself. Xiao Young knows a hammer, and has only been a coach for a few days? It will only catch the fashion and sensationalize. Stanley Fox doesn't even look down on the youth team players, because they were all drafted by Klopp, and they are all as weak as little girls and can be used for anything.

Coaches like Stanley Fox like to use players who are physically and mentally mature, and believe that the age of the team's main squad is best in 27, 8, or even after 30 years old. The average age of the first team is 27 years old, while the main squad is more than 29 years old.

In fact, the two years 2002 and 2003 were a watershed year for German football coaches. Until then, German football had been dominated by old-fashioned traditional coaches. Since then, a new breed of young coaches has begun to emerge, with a large number of very young coaches like Jurgen Klopp, Worrall, Klinsmann, Loew, and so on. They are agile and receptive, and have a thorough understanding of advanced football concepts, quickly weeding out old antiques that cling to tradition.

Those who cling to the remnants and do not want to make progress will sooner or later be eliminated by the wheels of history and reality.

Yesterday morning, the club's chairman, Mr. Mullen, spoke to Stanley Fox and after learning about some of the first-team teams, he reminded him to keep an eye on the youth team Zhuo Yang and several other young players. However, Stanley didn't take it seriously at all. How can a Chinese play football well? However, the chairman of the club still has to give face. It's okay, just come and take a spin.

In the afternoon, the training is mainly based on adjustment, and some small-scale coordination exercises are done. Zhuo Yang still adheres to the principle that no one breaks through, and only does tacit passing, and even plays mostly with a few piglets. Looking at it this way, all the training seems pediatric, and Zhuo Yang is even more annihilated, without the slightest outstandingness.

Coach Stanley Fox looked at it for a moment, snorted coldly, turned around and left. "What the hell? Free and loose, no headers and no confrontations, such a player and such a team can play famously, unless God is blind. "He didn't realise that the youth team had no defeat in the league and his first team had no win.

Coach Stanley Fox is blind!

And all this, Zhuo Yang did not know.

Jurgen Klopp's team travelled away from home and won the game 2-0 with ease, with Karl Rand and Mertesacker heading in the game. After all, it's an amateur team, and the weak chickens are pitiful.

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On Sunday 3rd November 2002, in the 10th round of the regional league, Madiburg Youth took on Aurich away.

Zhuo Yang still started in this game, and in the eleventh minute of the game, he received De Jong's second pass, and after passing the defender, he scored a point first, and the score was 1:0.

Nine minutes later, Aurich won a corner, Zhuo Yang returned to the penalty area to participate in the defense, was pressed by the home team's high striker, and scored a goal above his head to make the score 1-1, and the Aurich team equalized.

In the thirtieth minute, Zhuo Yan once again staged a good show of long-distance running, connecting three people, and scored the second goal single-handedly. The score was rewritten to 2:1, and the Madiburg youth team took the lead again.

In the 41st minute, Montolivo broke the ball in the middle of the field, and passed back to Zhuo Yang after going down, Zhuo Yang made a light through stopper, De Jong cut diagonally, and pushed the far corner in the face of the goalkeeper, and then went to the next goal. The score was 3:1, and the Madiburg youth team extended the score advantage.

In the second half of the game, in the fifty-second minute, Zhuo Yang and the little pig played a series of two and one, and the shot in the big penalty area was saved by the goalkeeper, and the quick reaction of the little pig Schweinsteiger deftly made up the goal. The score is 4:1, and the overall situation of the game has been decided.

In the 63rd minute, Zhuo Yang did not hit the right position when he was competing with the opponent for the ball in the midfield. The football was snatched by an Orich player for the second point, and a quick counterattack was played, and the right winger pulled a point back with a long-range shot from outside the penalty area, 4:2.

Zhuo Yang was then replaced by Duke Mottley.

There was also an unpleasant scene when he left the game, Zhuo Yang stretched out his hand and was about to high-five Duke, but Duke pretended not to see it and ran straight into the field. Zhuo Yang shrugged his shoulders indifferently, but Klopp, who saw this scene, frowned.

After the game, Zhuo Yang didn't say a word, and sat silently, not knowing what he was thinking. His performance today has been very good, with two goals and two assists, which is completely star-level, but Zhuo Yang is still a little sullen.

After Zhuo Yang went off, Madiburg Youth scored two more goals. In the 77th minute, Montolivo scored with a volley from a tight angle. In stoppage time, Scar Ribery received a free kick from Piggy in front of the court, turned and volleyed the goal, and fixed the score at 6:2.

Another big win.

On the bus on the way back, Zhuo Yang was still not very interested, and the six gentlemen in the nightclub did not know why. The little pig leaned over and asked, "Zhuo, what's so deep?" Is it because of the Duke bastard? Why don't I talk to Pell and the others, and go back and find an excuse to beat him up? ”

"What happened to Duke?" Zhuo Yang has forgotten all the unpleasantness of the substitution.

"......" Piggy is a little confused. Didn't that grandson set the score for you? ”

"Hey, that's what you're talking about!" Zhuo Yang then remembered that there was another one.

"And why are you? Discord with Ressa? She won't let you go to bed? "The fire of the little pig's lewd gossip is blazing.

"I'm okay with Ressa." At the mention of Ryshakova, Zhuo Yang suddenly became happy. "Don't talk about it, come on, little pig, come and laugh at the uncle!"

Only Klopp looked at Zhuo Yang and smiled thoughtfully, like a magic stick.

In fact, Zhuo Yang's dullness was entirely due to the fact that in the game just now, he found that his heading skills were too poor, and the two goals conceded by his team were related to his own header mistakes. Zhuo Yang, who was born in a wild ball, has never practiced heading, because he can solve all problems with his feet until this game.

Zhuo Yang was thinking that it was time to train his head. Professional things to find professional people, he decided to go back and ask Klopp for advice.

It's too late today, and the team will be disbanded when we go back, and we will wait until tomorrow when we resume training. Zhuo Yang thought so, he was not a person who couldn't hold his breath.

This week is a double tournament of the week, with Madiborg youth at home to Barnstov on Thursday and then at home to the Braunschweig Red and White youth team on Sunday. So this week's training is also a bit messy. There is no holiday on Monday, regular adjustments, tactical training on Tuesday and Wednesday, games on Thursday, rest on Friday, adjustment on Saturday, and then play again on Sunday.

After returning to the dormitory in the evening, Zhuo Yang and Ryshakova made porridge on the phone for half an hour, and after being full of tenderness and sweetness, they fell asleep sweetly.

The next afternoon, coming out of the locker room, Zhuo Yang first found Klopp and told him about his problem.

"Heading is a very important technique in football." Klopp began a tirade. "There's not a single professional player who doesn't know anything about heading, not even the top players who are known for their skills. And the heading technique, including individual technique and point-grabbing technique. Individual techniques are divided into front and side, in-situ and run-up, while point-grabbing techniques are divided into judgment and positioning. Zhuo, your bounce explosiveness is very good, the bounce height is high, and the ability to stay in the air is also very strong, but because you have not trained your header skills, you have not fully played this advantage. “

"What you have to do now is to start with the basics, just like you train your foot technique, starting with the head bouncing the ball, then ferrying, rushing to the top and so on. Take it one step at a time, don't be in a hurry. Train as hard as you would if you were doing physical fitness, and then gradually improve it. I believe that headers will become another killer feature for you in the future. ”

'In terms of basic training, you can ask Pell to help you, his headers are good and very standardized. Mertesacker is a specialist centre-back and has certainly honed his header skills.

"Pell, come over here." Klopp called Mertesacker. "You show Zhuo how to bounce the ball with his head."

Ten minutes later, Klopp and Mertesacker looked at Zhuo Yang in horror, just like the six soldiers on the playground of the military academy when Zhuo Yang was four years old.

Zhuo Yang is using his head to flip the football, and he is taking turns to use three parts, forehead, left side, and right side. Just jolted from one part to another, and the ball was very obedient, jumping in three parts. Zhuo Yang's head swayed back and forth, like a skunk on a lookout.

"You really ...... Never...... Haven't practiced heading before? ”

Klopp and Mertesacker, who recovered from the shock, immediately made a decision, and Mertesacker continued to accompany Zhuo Yang to train the basic movements of heading techniques and teach him the relevant basics. Klopp went to find some game footage of a star in world football who is famous for his heading ability, and handed it to Zhuo Yang to ponder for himself.

From this day on, Zhuo Yang's training has added another content.

The next day, Jurgen Klopp brought a video with information about the three stars. Oliver Bierhoff, Miroslav Klose, Philippe Inzaghi!

Oliver Bierhoff, a former German international, is 1.91m tall and weighs 87 kilograms. Bierhoff scored the Golden Goal in the final and beat Ronaldo in the prime of life.

Miroslav Klose, an active German international, is 1.82m tall and weighs 81kg. In the World Cup in Japan and South Korea, which just ended in the summer, Klose scored five goals for Germany, all five of which were scored with headers. Are you afraid?

Filipe Inzaghi, an Italy international with a height of 1.81m and a weight of 74kg, roams the offside line and survives on the razor's edge. His genes contain a unique sense of smell for the running lines of football. Inzaghi is a genius in football!

The three stars introduced by Jurgen Klopp to Zhuo Yang represent the pinnacle of the header level of attacking players in contemporary football. Bierhoff has the best overhead technique, Inzaghi is the best point-grabbing grandmaster, and Klose's body is closer to Zhuo Yang, which is the most referenced.

That night, Zhuo Yang returned to the dormitory, turned on the computer, left a message and replied one by one to report safety, stuffed the video disc into it, and began to watch it carefully.

Oliver Bierhoff is most obviously domineering. His headers tend to be powerful and hard-hitting. Bierhoff would rise to the ground in the middle of a group of defenders, knock the opponent staggered, and then hit the header unstoppably. The whole action is arrogant, brave, and vigorous.

I want to win the world, who will compete? - Bierhoff's Overlord Gun.

Miroslav Klose's header was even lighter. He used the early position to force his opponent to jump comfortably, and used his waist and abdomen strength to stay in the air. Klose's headers often hit the corner or bounce off the ground, making it extremely difficult for the goalkeeper to make a save. His movements are chic, atmospheric, and graceful.

Lupine scarf, talking and laughing, the canopy is gone. - Klose's Immortal Sword.

Philippe Inzaghi's head-to-foot skills are well-balanced, and he doesn't score many goals with headers, but in his few headers, he can be described as 'ghost' in two words. No one can know when and where he will appear. Inzaghi's header is dexterous, ghostly, and elusive.

The lantern has no light and slanted water, and the angry ghost head burns the ghost marrow. - Inzaghi's parting hook.

This night, Zhuo Yang slept late, he looked at it carefully, and then fast-forwarded and walked again from the beginning, until it was determined that every detail of the information was engraved in his brain, and he could dispatch his memory at any time when needed.

Lying on the bed, Zhuo Yang played every shot repeatedly in his mind, and then imagined himself to be these three people, using his body and head to handle these balls, starting to imitate every detail. How to run in place, how to get stuck in position, and then what kind of heading technique to deal with. As he thought about it, the musculature was remembered.

It's that simple to train a genius. Are you convinced?

In the next day's training, when Zhuo Yang showed the heading skills he had just learned, everyone was already surprised.

Demons, absolute demons!