Chapter 52: Free kicks don't seem to be difficult
"Zhang, you try again. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Baggio passed the ball kicked back by Mattia to Zhang Shu.
Zhang Shu carefully placed the football at his feet, he recalled Baggio's free kick technical action just now, with the help of the system, just now he clearly saw Baggio's power and hitting part. All he needed now was to replicate the memories in his mind once again with his body.
He dropped a few metres away and shot the ball towards the goal after a few steps.
Watching Zhang Shu's shooting, Baggio's eyes were full of shock.
"Did you learn it after just watching it once? How did he do it! ”
The ball also crossed an inner arc, fell sharply in front of the goal, and then hit the crossbar with a "bang", bounced high and flew out of the bottom line.
"Ah~~!!!" Zhang Shu hugged his head and shouted regretfully, as if he had kicked a penalty kick in the last minute of the game.
However, Baggio did not regret it at all, he applauded on the side and said: "Zhang! You're amazing! He never imagined that someone would be able to learn the trick of his own falling ball just by watching his free kick once, such a learning ability is simply terrible.
But Zhang Shu was still not satisfied, "Why didn't I score this goal?" He turned to Baggio and asked.
"You're just unlucky, Zhang, and I don't hit every ball in the pursuit of angles." Baggio smiled and reassured, "You've mastered the way I take free-kicks, now you just need to keep practising." Free kicks are actually not difficult to practice, it is a practice makes perfect technique, kick more and cut more, constantly adjust your power and hitting position according to the line of the football, find the most correct point, and then let your body remember this feeling through a lot of practice, forming muscle memory. ”
"All you're missing now is practice, and I don't have much more to teach you technically."
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Zhang Shu kept putting down the football, running, and shooting. In the repeated practice, he constantly made subtle adjustments to his movements. The average player may need many repetitions to achieve the accurate shot, which is not too difficult for Zhang Shu, he adjusts the power of his shot again and again, moving the position where he hits the ball millimeter by millimeter, and when he finds the best match, he writes it down in his mind, and then starts the step again with a different penalty position.
Baggio stood aside and watched Zhang Shu's practice, completely shocked by Zhang Shu.
He had never seen such a way of practising a free kick, and it was not so much that Zhang Shu was practicing, but that he was doing the surveying work. In various positions on the field, Zhang Shu constantly calibrated the alignment of the target, each time the position where the ball fell into the goal closer to the corner of the goal, and once the best route was determined, the last three balls he took will be transferred from the same position of the goal to the goal in the same way. He is like a sniper rifle with accurate workmanship, as long as he experiments with the error caused by the speed of wind and gravity, and after correcting the error, each shot can hit the same position of the target.
After the World Cup, there was a video of Xiao Luo on the Internet, in which Xiao Luo hit the crossbar with a football four times. This video has caused a huge stir and people are talking about the authenticity of this video. Baggio didn't think it was likely to be true, but he began to doubt his judgment after watching Zhang Shu's performance today.
Maybe there really is a genius who can control football to such a precise degree?
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Zhang Shu's crosshair calibration project did not take much time, and Madame Andreina took Valentina out and called them in for dinner.
Christmas dinners in Italians are different from those in the United States, and on Christmas Eve, most traditional Italians don't eat meat. Zhang Shu had also heard about it before he came, and he was fully prepared for this, isn't it just a vegetarian and follow the local customs, although he is a carnivore, but it is still okay not to eat meat for a meal.
So when he sat down, he was stunned when he looked at the seafood feast in front of him.
He didn't know that in Italians, they don't eat meat, they just don't eat pork, beef and mutton, and seafood and fish are not included.
"Merry Christmas!" Baggio and Andreina raised their glasses, and Zhang Shu couldn't drink, so he could only raise the drink in his hand with Mattia Valentina.
"Don't be inhibited, Zhang." Mrs. Andreina prepared a lot of food today, and everyone had seven dishes in front of them, seafood salad, squid, pasta and clams, shrimp, grilled fish, etc., which looked appetizing. Zhang Shucai will not be polite, as a foodie from China, he feels that he is so happy to come to Italy, if he is in the UK... Thinking of those dark dishes of the British, Zhang Shu couldn't help but shudder.
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After dinner, Baggio's family took Zhang Shu and drove to Brescia, where they planned to take their children to Brescia Cathedral.
Speaking of which, Christmas is actually a religious holiday, but Baggio's Christmas has no religious atmosphere, but is more similar to the Chinese New Year, which is a festival for the whole family to gather to welcome the New Year.
Because Baggio's faith was not the traditional Catholicism of Italy, but the Mahayana Buddhism of Japan.
Compared with other religions, Japanese Buddhism focuses on one's own inner practice, and there are fewer secular restrictions on believers, who can get married, eat meat, kill, and participate in the religious activities of other religions.
Zhang Shu was not religious, and he received an atheistic education from an early age, but this did not stop him from taking an interest in Italian Christmas celebrations.
Young people, who cares about the difference between Christ and God, the New Testament and the Old Testament, just like to have a good time.
Every year at midnight on Christmas Eve, the Cathedral of Brescia holds a grand Christmas Mass, which most Italians bring their children to attend. There will also be a lot of celebrations and vendors outside the church, which feels a bit like a Chinese temple fair.
"Goodbye, Zhang, I hope you have a nice night."
Zhang Shu and the Baggio family parted ways in the small square in front of the church. Next should be the family time of Baggio's family, and Zhang Shu is embarrassed to follow them all the time. He hugged Lady Andreina, Valentina, and Mattia one by one, waved his hand to Baggio, the daddy holding Leonardo, and turned into the crowd.
Next I'm going to explore Christmas night in Brescia on my own! Zhang Shu embarked on his journey with great ambition.