Chapter 400: Devotion and Sacrifice

Laying floor heating and renovating the dormitory of the training base, after Dick made such a request, Inter Milan Club began to do what he asked - this is indeed not a small amount, and the more than 10 million saved in the transfer funds is not enough to do everything, but under the lobbying of Facchetti, Moratti still generously met the request - after all, the player's salary expenditure has been reduced by a large margin, and the increase in club maintenance expenses is also acceptable.

Moratti has always been generous with the new manager, as long as he trusts the manager.

On 25 July, Dick said goodbye to Charlotte and flew straight from Monaco to Milan before preparing for the team's training camp – which was not much to do in the first few days, after all, this summer there will be a Copa America in addition to the Euros, as well as the Olympics – and the vast majority of Inter's current first-team squad will be competing in all three competitions.

Participating in the European Championship are Toldo, Materazzi, Cannavaro, Zanetti, Perrotta and Karagunis, except for Karagounis is a Greek international, the other five are all Italian internationals, Dick unexpectedly bought a lot of Italian players after taking office, like Perrotta, Toni, Maggio, Di Natale, but because he sold Vieri, so this point was ignored by many people......

There are a lot of people participating in the Copa America, Zanetti and Córdoba two captains, Recoba, Adriano and Cruise three forwards, plus a new Mascherano who has just joined the Olympics, Inter Milan now has a full 25 players in the first team, but only 13 players can immediately participate in this training camp, which is exactly a little more than half.

But Dick doesn't really care, the people who can participate in the training camp this time are basically young players, and it is just a good opportunity to get to know them, and at the same time give them a foundation to confirm what kind of status they will be in the new season.

Cesar was assigned to the club's goalkeeper coach as soon as he came, and the Italian goalkeeper coach is the world's first-class, especially when they train goalkeepers to pay great attention to training goal-line skills and saving actions, even Kahn has been despised by Italian goalkeeper coaches for a long time, thinking that his saving actions are extremely unreasonable, and Kahn does have such a problem, he is easy to get rid of......

Cesar's reflexes are quite outstanding, and as a goalkeeper who is not tall, his foot movement is also very flexible, and the defect is that the judgment and handling of high-altitude balls are slightly poor, which is also related to the environment of the Brazilian league, which pays more attention to the passing of the feet and rarely attacks high-altitude balls, and he naturally lacks experience in this area.

This year, Dick doesn't plan to use Cesar as the main player, but even if he is a substitute at Inter Milan, it is much better than being a substitute at Chievo, after all, he was on loan at Chievo, and the other party naturally did not train him very hard, but now at Inter Milan, it is different.

Maggio, Pasquale, Arbeloa and Andreoli will also be substitutes, but they will also have a lot of opportunities, Aberoa and Andreoli as versatile players at the back, they will not play too little, and Maggio and Pasquale are the two wings of the substitute, in some of the more extreme situations, they will also be the main force.

Such young players tend to be not too demanding, and Dick is also a manager who is used to using rotation, so he will not give them too few opportunities.

The positioning of Semioli and Farinos is obvious, that is, the substitute, or the kind of substitute at the end of the line, which is also something that cannot be helped, after all, Dick must first ensure the results.

The next few days of training will be dominated by physical recovery training, and Dick is not in a hurry – the first round of Serie A this season will not start until September 11, and there is still a long way to go, and tactical training can wait until the players are concentrated.

And it won't stay too long in Pinettina, the next training camp will be the location of Inter Milan's preparations - the whole team will go to the Middle East to train, one is that Inter Milan and the Middle East have cooperation, and the annual training is also a kind of commercial development, and the other is that Pinettina is now building infrastructure, which is not suitable for the team's training.

So during this time, Dick didn't seem to have any sense of existence, he didn't drive when he first arrived, and although the reporters blocked his people outside the training base every day, they couldn't get any words out of his mouth every time......

After five days of concentration, the team flew to the Middle East, where they prepared for 20 days of training, while the players of the European Championship and Copa America will go directly to the Middle East to join the team, except for Mascherano, who participated in the Olympics.

Dick didn't expect to be able to use Mascherano immediately, he knew that the final champion of the Olympic Games was the Argentine Olympic team, which means that Mascherano would stay in the Olympic team until the 28th, and then he would have to give people some time to rest, and it would be enough to be able to return to the team before the start of the season.

In this Middle East training, Inter Milan will play two friendly matches against local teams, but the time is before leaving the Middle East, which gives Inter Milan enough time to quietly conduct tactical training.

In the past few days, Dick has not been in vain, except for the fact that he rarely speaks on the sidelines of the training ground and is almost ignored, Dick has given full play to his long-sleeved and good dancing characteristics, and the assistant coaches of Inter Milan are very familiar with it, and they naturally know the tactical training that Dick is going to arrange.

"The success of a season is often determined before the season starts. What we need to do now is to determine the main tactics and stick to them all the way so that there is no confusion. ”

Dick told all the coaches: "This summer's signings, I'm completely based on my next tactics. In my opinion, the current personnel is enough to last me for a season, and there is a large number of plague-like injuries...... In that case, even I wouldn't have much to do. ”

The assistant coaches laughed wryly, in the past few years, Inter Milan in the winter has been almost a tradition, Cooper in the first year of the team in the winter injury did not have a striker available, as a result of the Caron has a chance to become famous, and in the last two seasons also because of injuries, Martins has become a reliable goalscorer for Inter Milan......

"But this time, we shouldn't have to worry about not having a striker available." Dick continued, and this time the assistant coaches started laughing, as Inter now have seven strikers in the squad......

"Mr. Dick, but I think if we follow the tactics of 442, we will now lack the main force on the wing of the back line, the lack of substitutes in the middle, the lack of midfielders, and the ...... forwards."

Assistant coach Kwadley made an opinion.

Dick laughed: "If you look at the formation alone, it's like this...... It's just that the tactics I want to play are not limited to any position. ”

"Running and linking up is what we need to do now, the previous physical reserves have made the players have enough fitness, and our players don't have any veterans, so now, what I need is to watch their condition, and in terms of specific tactical arrangements, that's what you have to do now."

With that, Dick took a thick stack of materials from Marina and sent them to the assistant coaches.

"It's all about what each player has to do on the pitch. Remember, don't give it out, or we'll have no secrets...... This is what Robert and I have given them tactical training based on the characteristics of all the players, I don't need a team with 11 men to play, I need a team where everyone understands their responsibilities and when I use them, they know what they should do! ”

The assistant coaches flipped through this stack of materials and couldn't help but start to be speechless - this is indeed an extremely detailed stack of materials, which clearly marks the direction of tactical training for all players and what they should do on the field, such as Adriano, what to do on the field is "retreat, take the ball on the left, and then choose to break through with the ball, when the opponent starts to block from the front, there are three directions to pass the ball - cross to the right side, pass diagonally to the left side and pass directly to the front", which is matched by, When Adriano begins to retreat to get the ball, whoever does not control the ball will be handed over to him as soon as possible, at the same time, the center in the penalty area will retreat out of the penalty area, to the right side of the penalty area to prepare to respond and help Adela empty penalty area of the defensive force, the left forward diagonally inserted into the penalty area, waiting for the opportunity to respond, the left back must be inserted at the moment, also attract the opponent's defensive attention, the right forward on the right side needs to be closer to Adriano, and the forward is at the front of the penalty area, Always be ready to draw the other person's attention.

Each offensive style will have a corresponding cooperation, and there are countless ways to combine it as a whole, and just watching this kind of training has already made all the assistant coaches feel big......

"Don't worry, first of all, it's just to let the players know what they should do, and when they all remember this, they naturally know how to cooperate on the field, and what we have to do is to adjust in the overall tactical drill, so that they are gradually familiar with this attacking method." Dick concluded.

The assistant coaches nodded their heads, if they just told the players what they should do on the field, then it was not too difficult, at least not from their point of view, the difficult thing was what kind of understanding the players had......

Dick doesn't mind this, according to the memory and understanding of later generations, Dick basically knows what is higher and what is low in these players in Inter Milan now, and it is basically more difficult for Adriano to arrange the content, but it is much less, and for players like Stankovic and Perrotta, there are more tasks to arrange, and Dick also believes that they can do a good job!

As for the roster flaws that the assistant coaches are puzzled about, that's what Dick has to do next.

As for the main formation for next season, he already has a series of drafts in his mind, but in order to become a reality, he also needs to let the players understand his intentions, and be willing to make sacrifices and sacrifices for the team.

The people he asked for dedication and sacrifice were the team's vice-captains, Argentine Zanetti and Colombian Córdoba.