Li Liang didn't expect that Spinoli was really not scaring himself.

He thought that at this time almost a year ago, the days when he was entrusted by Xiaoyu to carry the big bear who drank too much home from the gate of the community every night was the biggest test of his body in this life.

Later, when he tried out at Manchester City, he was exposed to systematic and highly targeted top-level professional level physical training for the first time, and it did not make him feel like "challenging the whole cruel world by himself" when he was carrying a big bear.

Now he finally knows that there is nothing in this world that cannot be done, only unthinkable.

At the picturesque foot of the mountains in late autumn, roars and desperate screams echoed from the empty base of Latubi.

The youth players of Monaco's U18 and U17 stopped their training, looked at the open field not far away, Li Liang completed a group of sprints with a special parachute on his back, and finally fell to the ground exhausted.

Spinoli and Vieira shouted beside him: "Get up, you softass! That's not even 1/10 of the training volume! ”

Li Liang gritted his teeth and staggered up, looking in pain, he crawled to the front of the five footballs that had been placed, and began to dribble and circle the pole with great difficulty in turn, and then completed the shot in front of the penalty area.

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Parachute sprints were a universalized method of explosive power and balance, but Spinoli improved on them by asking Li Liang to shoot from set-pieces without pausing after completing the sprint.

This is just one of the "hell packages" that Spinoli and Vieira boasted about when they faced a terrified Li Liang on the morning after their match against Nancy.

After learning that Li Liang would not be called up by the national team for the time being, Yaldim's team has worked together to adjust Li Liang's training plan again.

The two-week cycle of the international break is just one of the dedicated training cycles.

Spinoli told Li Liang: "We have re-analysed all your match footage, combined with your current physical condition, and the two weeks have been mainly focused on your weaknesses. ”

Vieira also said: "Lee, we will meet more and more powerful opponents in the future, they are not only amazingly powerful, but the key is that they will also use the strong willpower of Binis and Saint-Etienne to fight us."

You're really at a very high level right now, at least in the attacking midfield of Ligue 1 as a whole, and you're in the top 15 to the top 20.

However, the cruel truth is that if you look at the whole European stage, and especially the terrible opponents we will face later in the Champions League, it will be difficult for even the highest teams in Ligue 1 to remain competitive enough against them. ”

Vieira's words caused a great shock to Li Liang, he couldn't believe that he could beat the team of Grand Paris and Tottenham at the new Wembley, which could only be regarded as second-rate in the entire European arena?

Spinoli nodded solemnly and said, "Antonio (Vieira) has said very politely.

Let's put it this way, Lee, what do you think would be the result of the game against Napoli in our best form right now? ”

Li Liang frowned and thought for a while, and said, "I don't think we will lose another 5 goals, right?" Should...... There is a chance to win, right? ”

Both Spinoli and Vieira laughed, and Spinoli shook his head and said, "Do you feel unsure?"

I'll tell you, Lee, if the real powerhouses are the top of the mountain, Napoli is at most more than halfway up the mountain! If you don't really face the order, the suffocating gap is something you can't imagine. ”

Compared with the so-called "hell package", this conversation made Li Liang feel real pressure.

The two coaches also told him that if you talk about the gap between you and the top players, speed, strength, foot technique, etc. are not the key.

There are some things, specifically some special awareness, game feeling and experience, that can only be accumulated bit by bit through a lot of high-level competition.

Vieira shrugged his shoulders and said: "For example, Lee, Ronaldo or Messi have played more games in the knockout stages of the Champions League alone than the whole team combined!"

This gap is simply impossible to make up for in a short period of time! ”

Seeing that Li Liang was starting to be a little depressed, Spinoli and Vieira met and smiled quietly.

The Italian added: "That's why we've prepared a two-week 'hell package' for you, and a follow-up training plan!"

Although some gaps cannot be bridged, we believe that as long as you can persevere, you will definitely become stronger. That way, at least you'll be getting closer to the top players, not farther away! ”

It was this conversation that successfully aroused all of Li Liang's mental strength, and what shocked Spinoli and Vieira was that this special training plan, which can be said to have reached the physical and mental limits of 18-year-old players, was actually insisted on by Li Liang through gritted teeth.

In addition to systematically improving Li Liang's speed, strength, and explosiveness, they also focused on strengthening the stability of Li Liang's technical movements under high confrontation, which made Li Liang miserable.

For the first week, Li Liang's training was spent in a state of non-stop vomiting, and the strong physical reaction once shook both Spinoli and Vieira.

However, the results of various examination indicators and laboratory tests the next morning showed that Li Liang was completely able to withstand such a training volume.

Spinoli candidly told Li Liang that Gaudino, the fitness expert of Lippi's team, had communicated with him, and many of his colleagues had come to the conclusion that the current Chinese players could not withstand high-intensity physical training.

Gaudino initially thought it was an Asian physical problem, but later found out that it was not the cause at all.

Spinoli said: "Gaudino told me that he thinks the key is that a lot of players don't work hard enough to get to the point where they need to talk about their innate constitution.

Lee, as a professional player, your innate conditions are not outstanding at all, and if you have to find out the strengths, your vision and reaction speed are really good.

By the way, thanks to your strict self-discipline, you have a body with strong recovery ability, so we dare to formulate such an 'exaggerated' special training plan for you.

But I think that the fact that you can reach the current level has more to do with your hard work! ”

If someone praised himself like this before, Li Liang would definitely feel ashamed in his heart, he once thought that it was the embarrassing system and the golden key that helped him go from the wild court step by step to the present.

But since he met Cristiano Ronaldo, saw the shocking performances of those geniuses in the European Cup, and saw the terrifying strength of Napoli's "geeks" at the Sao Paulo Stadium, and saw the amazing performance of Falcao, who has returned to the top, Li Liang has become more and more aware that there really is something in this world that is far beyond the system and golden key he has.

He thinks of this thing as talent and talent.

So now every opportunity to improve his ability, Li Liang will cherish it incomparably.

Even though the first few days of training made him feel more painful than ever, and made him want to give up every minute and every second, he didn't give up.

Every time he fell, even if he couldn't hear anything, he knew that Spinoli and Vieira must be around shouting at him.

But what shook my heart more than these shouts was the flashback of the past in my mind when I was about to lose consciousness.

How did you manage to take 10,000 penalties, 10,000 free kicks, 10,000 stops, and 10,000 juggling exercises?

How did you go from a rookie to the strongest of your wild football players?

How did you convince the national team member Big Bear that an otaku who only started playing football at the age of 25 could realize his dream?

How did you manage to save your dream of being a precarious professional footballer in the last five minutes of the game?

How did you get tens of thousands of people to cheer for you for the first time?

How did you work with your partners to completely defeat the ninth master who planned to destroy his dreams?

How did you win the genuine invitation from Jardim and Mourinho?

How did you get to where you are now?

He remembered the question he had asked himself:

"Why should I insist? Is it to live?

I have already told me that according to the established progress, it is no longer a problem to achieve the goal of survival.

So why do I keep making it harder for myself? Why so desperate? Why do you want to come here to challenge yourself?

Why is it that at my age, my blood still boils when I think of words like 'dream', 'perseverance', and 'hard work'?

Or is it like a teenager, still full of longing for this difficult world and the unpredictable future? Why? ”

He finally struggled to his feet again, squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying, and said to the stunned Spinoli and Vieira:

"Come on, I can still hold on!

Because I really love football! ”