So accompanied by Emily, Chu Zhongtian's "summer intensive training" officially began.

Not to mention that having one more person is really much more efficient, and this is reflected in the passing practice. He didn't have to run every time to pick up the ball, if he could get it to Emily, Emily would catch it and throw it at him—kick it to him, Emily didn't have the strength, the two of them were at least forty yards apart.

What surprised him was that in addition to Emily's good penalty skills, she was able to catch some of the less difficult balls, even using her chest...... Chu Zhongtian sometimes guesses in his heart what Emily feels like being hit in the chest by a football.

Emily seemed to be able to see Chu Zhongtian's thoughts, and she took the initiative to pull open her collar: "I'm wearing a sports bra." ”

She wanted Chu Zhongtian to see, but Chu Zhongtian was so frightened by her bold move that he kept waving his hand and retreating again and again - Chu Zhongtian regretted it afterwards, and he didn't have a chance to see it again.

This kind of interlude makes the training full of fun, and Chu Zhongtian will not have any boring feeling.

It's just that if he doesn't get the ball right, he has to run to pick it up himself. Originally, Emily said that this kind of thing would be left to her to do, but Chu Zhongtian insisted on running by herself, because this was punishment - if there was no reward and punishment mechanism for a training, it would not be able to achieve the desired effect.

The technical points of various long passes have been talked about in ordinary training, even if there is no coach, Chu Zhongtian knows how to practice. He carefully recalled the technical points and wrote them down in the plan, and then followed the training.

A high-lob ball with a fast ball speed and a sudden small angle boost; The ball is slow, high, and has a spin that slows down the forward speed after the ball hits the ground, and the high-angle lob is convenient for teammates to catch the ball; The ball is fast, and the cut can draw an arc to go around the defender and reach the outside of the foot of the attacking teammate. Rise into the air quickly, with an arc that can bypass defenders and reach the feet of attacking teammates, and lob the ball vigorously from the inside of the foot that is easier to control than the outside of the foot.

These are 40-yard passes that are easy to use when attacking directly from the back. When these were practiced, Chu Zhongtian added close-range aerial ball practice. Including allowing the football to pass over the head of the defender from the air at a small distance, fall behind the defensive line, and at the same time not easy to rush forward due to the rotation of the football after landing, so that teammates can catch the ball and pass over the top; There are also instep volleys for straight run-ups and instep volleys for sideways runs...... And so on and so forth.

Emily's joining saved him a lot of trouble, and there were people to chat with during training, as the saying goes, men and women are not tired of working together, even if they practice all morning, he doesn't feel tired.

When he practiced shooting, Emily stopped going to the King's Ranch for practice and shot at the goal on the school court. If she misses the target, Emily picks up the ball, and if she misses or hits high, she picks it up herself as punishment.

However, Emily doesn't come every day, and sometimes she has some other things, and Chu Zhongtian can only practice by herself.

It's okay to shoot because he can't fire from 40 yards from goal, right? In passing practice, especially long passing, he had to run to pick up the ball with every kick he made, and he had to do more than forty yard turnaround sprints again and again to save time.

This is another way to exercise his physical fitness and explosiveness...... ※※※ Emily didn't come today, she told Chu Zhongtian yesterday that her mother was going to take her to meet someone. She didn't say to Chu Zhongtian who she saw specifically, but Chu Zhongtian didn't ask, it was someone's private matter, and it was inconvenient for him to ask.

So he had to practice passing on the huge pitch by himself today. In front of the goal, he had drawn a square area of about eight yards × eight yards out of his coat, jogging boots, school bags, and water bottles, and he stood forty yards away and carried the football into that area.

After kicking the ball out, he stood there and watched where it would land before rushing out to pick it up. If the ball doesn't happen to hit the markers, he has to rearrange them.

And so it goes, and so on.

In a set of 10 feet, take a minute break after doing the 10 sets, think about what was useful and what was not useful in the previous 10 sets, and then summarize the lessons learned.

Chu Zhongtian is not a fool who blindly practices repeatedly, if he only knows how to repeat training purely mechanically, but does not know why he trains like this, it is impossible for him to improve. It's like knowing what to do but not knowing why, what if you encounter a different situation on the pitch? The repetition of these previous sessions would not have allowed him to cope with all the situations, and he could not have practiced all the situations that could happen on the pitch over and over again. So he has to know why he's doing it, why he's not doing it, and find out the patterns in it, so that he can apply it directly to other situations.

Man is an intelligent creature, and repetitive training is something that only machines do. You have to use your brain to make progress. Football is a sport full of wisdom, and everyone who plays needs to use their brains to play better. Those who think that football is nothing more than a purely brute force sport are clearly not suitable for playing football...... Chu Zhongtian rested for a minute and seriously recalled the mistakes of his own group just now. Now he is doing high lob training on the outside of the foot, which is the rarest kind of long pass, because the control of the ball is very demanding, he often can't send the ball to the square area as he wants, and the outside of the foot itself is a difficult part to control the ball.

My main problem now is that I can't guarantee that every shot is kicked exactly at the point of impact, and as long as the point of impact is off, the ball that ends up being passed out may be ridiculously off. He has to get his feet to remember what it feels like to hit the ball correctly, and then he has to repeat it in training.

After the break, Chu Zhongtian stood up and continued to train.

He stopped the ball in front of him, then put his support foot on the side behind the side of the ball, then straightened his right foot and swept it from the outside to the inside, like a slicing ball in a table tennis ball, slicing the middle and lower part of the ball. Then he looked up and saw the ball fly straight to the left, 108,000 miles away from his goal...... "Holy! ”

From the moment he touched the ball, he knew it was going to be like this. It wasn't because he had the ability to be a prophet, but because he felt like he was hitting the ball directly with the tip of his foot, rather than slashing it with the outside of his foot, which was not unfamiliar, and he had experienced it more than a hundred times in training...... After the football deviated from the target, it plunged headlong into the bushes. Chu Zhongtian scolded in a low voice and ran to pick up the ball. In order to exercise his physical fitness and explosiveness at the same time, he did not choose to jog slowly, but used the speed of the 100-meter sprint.

And when he rushed into the woods, he found the soccer ball lying quietly at the feet of a man.

"You're so embarrassed......"

That person looked at Chu Zhongtian Dao with a gloating smile on his face.

"Russell?" Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised, "You sissy, did you finally throw away the crutches?" ”

"Throw it away a long time ago, mad dog!" Russell replied.

Then Chu Zhongtian went up and punched him in the shoulder, and Russell's body shook: "Light, damn it!" ”

Seeing that he didn't fall, Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Well, the next plate is more solid, it looks good." ”

It's early July, more than three months after Russell's injury, and according to the recovery process, he should be able to move on his own.

"What are you doing here?" He asked.

"I wanted to come to the school to have a look, but I didn't expect to see you, I want to ask, what are you doing here?" Russell asked rhetorically.

"As you can see, practice." Chu Zhongtian pointed to the four strange-shaped "markers" over there.

"Practice driving big feet? Hahaha! Russell burst out laughing.

Chu Zhongtian couldn't refute it, this kick just now really looked like a big kick, and it was crooked...... "Okay, what are you practicing?" After laughing at Chu Zhongtian enough, Russell asked again.

"Lob the ball on the outside of your foot."

Russell whistled, then stepped back, swinging his leg from the outside to the inside, and after a few false kicks, he hit the soccer ball. The soccer ball made a distinct arc in the air, flew out of the woods, and hit the water bottle, one of the four markers.

"You've really disappointed me, Chu. I've been teaching you the basics for so long, and you still haven't learned how to use them wisely? He swung his legs, looking like he was dissatisfied with Chu Zhongtian, but he was actually proud that he hit the target so beautifully. Did you practice with the outside of your foot when you were on the ball? ”

Chu Zhongtian suddenly reacted suddenly.

When dribbling the ball, Russell asks him to dribble with the outside of his foot, swinging his leg in the same direction and movement as the outside of his foot lob ball, swinging his leg from the outside to the inside, straightening the instep, turning sideways, slicing the ball sideways, and pushing the ball forward. The difference is only in the amount of force and the level of the contact point, but the technical movements are similar.

"Football is all about the basics, it's all about how you use them. You have to practice each technique as a stand-alone movement, it's just a waste of time. Why don't you want to think about what is the most basic movement used in this pass? ”

Chu Zhongtian suddenly opened his mouth and laughed: "It seems that it is useless to bury one's head in hard practice. If your feet are healed? ”

Russell looked down at his feet and didn't answer his question.

"Judging from that kick just now, it seems that there should be no problem, right?" Chu Zhongtian continued. "You need to do recovery training anyway, right? It's better for the two of us to get together and practice. ”

Hearing Chu Zhongtian say this, Russell laughed again: "If you want me to teach you, just say it directly." ”

Chu Zhongtian didn't say anything, just looked at him.

So Russell looked at him too, and the two of them just looked at each other.

After a while, Russell raised his hand in surrender, but he also changed the subject: "Do you practice here every day?" ”

Chu Zhongtian nodded.

"Except for part-time jobs?"

Chu Zhongtian nodded again.

"You're so hard." After hearing Chu Zhongtian's training time, Russell sighed.

"I'm not like you, I've had so many years of high-level training. I don't have a lot of time and I want to be able to help the team more offensively at the start of next season. If I didn't just defend last season, maybe ......" he didn't continue. It wasn't a good thing for him, and Russell wouldn't feel good about it, because it was his goal, and it was because of his injury that the team collapsed. To say this in front of Russell is to uncover his scars.

Chu Zhongtian shut up, and Russell was silent.

He also learned the news that the team would eventually fail to be promoted. Two months have passed, and it is difficult to put into words how he felt when he heard the news. Regretful? Unwilling? Or is it relief? Or are they both?

"Well, I need to do some recovery training anyway to get back on the pitch." Russell accepted Chu Zhongtian's invitation.

Chu Zhongtian laughed, and he stretched out his hand: "Happy cooperation." ”

There was a crisp sound of "pop", and Russell slapped his hand on Chu Zhongtian's palm.

The father, who was about to leave for work, saw his son sitting in the doorway with a sports backpack next to him, hunched over and wearing shoes.

In the bag that had not yet been zipped up, he caught a glimpse of a pair of sneakers...... "Where are you going?" He asked curiously.

"Kick the ball." The son's answer was very simple.

"Huh?" My father thought he had misheard.

Russell got up from the ground, lifted his backpack and repeated to his dad, "I'm going to play football, Dad." ”

"Your feet are just right."

"It's not a tight game, and I'm going to warm up." Russell zipped up his backpack and slung it on his back.

"But you said you wouldn't play football anymore."

Russell shrugged, "I promise you, this summer is the last time I'll play, Dad." With that, he pulled the door and ran out.

When Emily saw Russell and Borger on the court, she was taken aback. She knew Russell was injured and hadn't seen him in months.

"I come to do recovery training, and some training is not convenient to do alone, so I find more companions. Gavin is here to help us. Russell gestured to Bolger beside him.

Chu Zhongtian naturally welcomed Borjie's arrival, and it would be more convenient for one more person.

"It's you, Emily. Why are you here? Russell looked at Princess Dons, who was dressed in a sporty outfit with her ponytail tied up.

"I'm Chu's sparring partner now, hehe!" Emily looked up and smirked.

"Wow! When did you become so close? Bolger whistled beside him.

Chu Zhongtian was a little embarrassed by him, and Emily smiled generously. "Are you jealous, Borger?" She also deliberately hugged Chu Zhongtian's arm and leaned her body up. Chu Zhongtian could clearly feel that his arm was pressing against Emily's chest...... His face grew more and more embarrassed.

Russell coughed twice, "I say, let's get started, shall we?" ”

He relieved Chu Zhongtian's siege, and Chu Zhongtian quickly broke free from Emily's "Gentle Township".

"Then let's start practicing!" He shouted.

※※※ It must be said that after two more people, and they are also two professionals, Chu Zhongtian's practice efficiency has improved a lot. Although Emily can juggle the ball and stop some less difficult balls, she is a typical "know what it is, don't know why" person. To see his problems from Chu Zhongtian's every move, she didn't have such a level.

So in the past, Chu Zhongtian was recalling those points alone, and he couldn't be sure whether there was anything wrong with the training, after all, he was a "fan of the authorities".

But Russell and Borger are different, they have also been trained at Wimbledon for more than ten years, and their level is much higher than Emily.

Russell said that he was here to resume training, but that was just an excuse, he was actually here to teach Chu Zhongtian.

Borger is the one who sparring...... As for Emily, she's now completely a character who starts watching the fun.

After having Russell, Chu Zhongtian had many problems that he hadn't paid attention to in his previous training and were found out. And Russell is even stricter than when he taught him before, the slightest mistake must stop training, and then he will explain in detail what the mistake is, why it is wrong, what are the consequences of the mistake, and how to avoid this mistake...... Chu Zhongtian even thought that this was not Russell, but Paul pretending to be Russell. Coach Breham.

You must know that Russell used to teach Chu Zhongtian like this - explain the technical movements of the training, then tell the precautions, and then do a demonstration, and then hand over the football to Chu Zhongtian for him to practice, and he sat on the side and read the magazine, occasionally raised his head to read for a while, if Chu Zhongtian made a mistake during that time, he would be stopped, otherwise he would continue to do so.

Now it's different, Russell's frequent stops make it impossible for training to go smoothly at all, which makes Emily a little unbearable.

"Another pause? I remember you just blew your whistle to signal the start! Emily crossed her waist and expressed her displeasure at Russell as he walked past her.

"If Chu didn't make a mistake right after I blew the whistle, why should I pause?" Russell's answer was unceremonious. After he started training, he surprised everyone, he was strict, meticulous and not only enthusiastic. Nothing like this had ever happened to him...... At the very least, he had never spoken to Emily in such a cold tone before.

"Did he make a mistake?" Emily is a little unhappy with Russell's attitude.

"The angle of the kicking foot swing is a little bigger." Russell replied.

"What is this? You're too harsh! ”

"Harsh?" Russell looked back at Emily. 'When he squandered what was supposed to be a great counter-attacking opportunity on the pitch because of such a slight angle deviation and the team lost, hopefully you won't say that the game was too harsh.

After speaking, he strode towards Chu Zhongtian.

"The different points of your toes will cause the football to fly in different directions, and if you are a little cheaper here, you may end up in two completely different directions." He squatted down and grabbed Chu Zhongtian's foot, and then pulled it. "That's right. You should also pay attention to the angle of the swing when kicking, and if you want the ball to hit the target accurately, start with the leg swing. ”

Then Russell gave a demonstration, and the football fell to Bolger.

"Go on."

With that, he turned and walked back, standing beside Emily again.

"It's strange that that injury changed your temperament, Russell?" Emily stared strangely at Russell next to her. "I don't think Russell is so eager to help others, let alone so serious......"

"It's simple." Russell chuckled, "I like to take this opportunity to torture that kid. ”

Emily snorted and wrinkled her nose.

Chu Zhongtian didn't feel that Russell was torturing himself, but he was very grateful to Russell for being so serious and allowing him to discover some problems that he usually didn't notice at all. He's more confident about the new season now, and he's confident he'll surprise everyone by then, whether it's his team-mates, the fans at the Dons Bar, or the ...... His opponents!

(To be continued)