Chapter 82: Surprise
With only two weeks to go until the start of the Eredivisie season, Flasse has to get all his players up to game in such a short period of time, which is quite a challenge.
Considering that the players have gone through a long vacation and their bodies are still in a relaxed state, Fraser did not arrange ball training in the first three days of training sessions, but continued to warm up with low-intensity jogging, and ingeniously mixed some rhythmic music to fully mobilize everyone's excitement and maximize the activation of physical potential.
For players like Nakamba and Miazga, who completely slackened their bodies during the holidays, it will not be so easy to recover. Older players like Fan Xiaowolf, Kashya, and the newly recruited Castenio have a lot of self-discipline, at least touching the ball every three or five times, and their physical condition is easy to connect with the coach's training intensity.
Of course, not to mention a pervert like Wen Zhihao, the current training intensity has been completed after the first hour of his first day back to the team.
Fraser knew that Wen Zhihao's training progress was much faster than that of others, and directly arranged for his assistant Joergen to give Wen Zhihao a separate special training.
"Matt, why do you think Wen is in such good condition?"
Nakamba looked at Wen Zhihao's dribbling and shooting almost in the same state as the game, and felt completely incredible, and asked Miazga next to him.
Miazga closed her eyes and folded her hands.
"Hey, Matt, what are you doing, did you hear me?" Nakamba shook Miazga.
After a while, Miazga opened his eyes and replied, "I brought your question to God, but alas, his old man doesn't know either!" ”
Fraser heard the conversation between the two and promoted Wen Zhihao as a typical teaching material: "If you can all return to the team for training half a month earlier than the team, you can also do it like Wen." ”
“……”
In addition to training, Fraser also held a small meeting with all the players, reviewing and summarizing last season, and at the same time put forward the goal of this season's third-line operation.
Almost all European clubs will have such a pre-season session. On the one hand, it can make everyone feel the pressure brought by the results, stimulate everyone's motivation to continue to strive for better, and on the other hand, it can also help the new players to enhance their sense of responsibility to advance and retreat with the new club, and accelerate the speed of integration into the team.
Fraser was pragmatic and stressed that the league and the Dutch Cup are the team's key goals for the new season. As for the Europa League, just play at a normal level.
This strategy is also in line with the club's own strength positioning, and Wen Zhihao also feels that the club's goals are still very pragmatic in general.
However, there is a saying in China that if you ask for it, you can get it; Seek it, get it. The team's goals seem too low and too vague.
Sometimes a little bit of vision isn't necessarily a bad thing.
At the beginning of August, the Dutch Football Federation released the Eredivisie schedule for the new season on its official website.
As soon as the schedule came out, Frase breathed a sigh of relief. Wen Zhihao could not play in the first three rounds of the game, and the opponent's strength was not too strong. With the exception of Utrecht, who are in the upper echelons, The Hague and Willem II have been in the bottom half of the league for several seasons in a row.
However, Wen Zhihao still felt a little regretful when he saw this schedule.
At the end of last season, in the final result of the Best Newcomer Award, he was still disappointed to lose to Utrecht's rising striker Sebastian Haller. I finally tried my best to compete with him on the field, and it seems that this idea can only be realized in the second half.
Before the start of the season, Wen Zhihao took the time to move once, officially bid farewell to the days of living with Zhang Yuning, and moved into a new villa prepared by the club for himself.
When the teammates heard that Wen Zhihao had been treated so well, they expressed envy and jealousy. This time it was actually Fan Xiaowolf's happiest cry, and he asked to visit Wen Zhihao's new house, and the reason was quite sufficient: "Aren't you China particular about the joy of housewarming, and it is always appropriate to take us to visit the mansion of you, a local tyrant, right?" ”
Wen Zhihao rolled his eyes and said, "Ricky, don't pretend to be poor in front of me, don't think that I fool me at a young age, a player of your level, what kind of mansion do you have missing?" But well...... Your reasons are quite reasonable, so I'll reluctantly agree! ”
Wen Zhihao didn't know that when he turned around, Fan Xiaowolf and the others squeezed their eyebrows behind his back in a funny way, and made a gesture of victory, as if they were planning something.
As the weekend approached, Mr. Wen made good on his promise. Lashka, Fan Xiaowolf and several other buddies who have a good relationship, the eldest brother Zhang Yuning, including two new teammates Van Baker and Castenio were invited by him.
As for why the two new players were among Wen Zhihao's invitations, because he felt that both of them were very easy to get along with. The so-called friends, once born and twice acquainted, and these two people will be able to help themselves on and off the field in the future, so such an opportunity to close the distance should naturally be used well.
Wen Zhihao's new home belongs to a villa area composed of single-family villas, which are separated from each other by a certain distance, and there is no need to worry about affecting other people when having a party as before.
Several young people naturally have no scruples, including Van Beek and Castenho, who participated for the first time, are also in their early twenties, and they were a little restrained at first, but later they knew that several people often played like this, and the atmosphere slowly began to rise, and the two slowly let go of their temperament, and they didn't care about it when they went crazy.
"Huh? Milot, what is this, why don't you open it when you come to me to get something? Wen Zhihao pointed to an unopened bag on the sofa and asked Rashka.
"Ahem, open it right away, open it right away, but, Wen, you'd better turn around and close your eyes first." Rashkar suddenly made a request.
"Milot, Ricky, what the hell are you guys doing?" Wen Zhihao felt that the two of them were very abnormal today.
"Wen, you listen to him, I promise there will be a surprise." Castenio interjected, with a somewhat mysterious smile.
Castenio is seven or eight years older than Wen Zhihao, and he is a new teammate, Wen Zhihao must sell some face, so he replied: "Milot, if you can't make anything that satisfies me, hum ......"
Several people knew about Suosuo behind Wen Zhihao's back for several minutes, and Rashka kept reminding Wen Zhihao: "Yes, that's it, keep it!" I can't watch it! ”
Wen Zhihao really wanted to see it at first, but then Rashka always said this, but he was not very interested.
If you don't look at it, you don't look at it, I'll just sit and wait, oh no, stand and wait for you to come up with some tricks.
Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!
After a few soft sounds, the living room suddenly went dark, Wen Zhihao also heard the sound of a lighter behind him, and just wanted to ask what was going on, but before he could speak, Rashka said behind his back: "Okay!" Open your eyes and turn around! ”
Wen Zhihao was just about to say that you were finished, but as soon as he turned around, a cake with a candle was placed in front of him. A few candles are inserted in the center in the shape of the Arabic numeral "16".
"You ......"
Before Wen Zhihao finished speaking, the singing of his teammates rang out.
“Happy birthday to you!”
“Happy birthday to you!”
“Happy birthday to~ you!!”
“Happy birthday to~ you!!”
……
"Birthday boy, make a wish!" Zhang Yuning said.
A warm current surged into Wen Zhihao's heart, and he could receive the blessings of his teammates in a foreign country. These brothers, I really didn't say anything.
When he turned on his phone, Wen Zhihao saw several missed calls and WeChat messages, all of which were blessings from his parents, relatives and friends. He couldn't laugh or cry. It seems that he is the only busy person, and he doesn't even remember his birthday.
Wen Zhihao slowly closed his eyes and made a wish that had been hidden in his heart for a long time......