Chapter 334: Surprise on the Outdoor Training Ground
It didn't last long, and we got out of the training room very quickly after the game. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Out of the gravity training room, we were already sweating profusely and panting. However, the coach did not let us go, he told us that after gravity training, there is also a recovery from non-gravity training, and the main content of such a recovery is running!
In our Croatian team, fitness has always been a weakness. Through these two training sessions in the gravity training room, we don't know how much breakthrough we can make in terms of physical fitness. So our coach called us out to the training ground, just to let us try to run a 12-minute run, to see how much this kind of physical training would help us.
In the past 12 minutes of running, our Croatian team has not performed very well, the average player, running to about 3100 meters is already good, some physical difficulties even 2900 meters can not run, the best physical fitness can only run about 3400 meters, then it is already the first place in the team.
This kind of result is a big gap compared to the traditional European teams. Although we have a certain place in European football due to our technical advantages, our physical condition has always been criticized in European football, and it is often difficult for our players to run more than 10,000 meters in 90 minutes, which also limits our performance in the whole game. Compared to the physical powerhouses of Germany, Italy and England, our 12-minute run is generally about 200 meters slower than them, which is very inadequate.
We gathered on the track next to the football field, and after the coach's whistle, we started the 12-minute run. At the beginning, there were several young players at the front of the team, including Giarni, Bilic, and Stanic. Among them, Jairney was the fastest. While Giarni is the absolute fastest, his fitness is not the best. His strength lies in short sprints, not long runs. Jairni's 12-minute run is probably about the same level as mine. After about a minute or two, Giarni was ousted from the first place, and by this time, Stanic was the first place, and Jairni was slowly caught up.
I was at the back of the line. In the beginning, I was quite slow, but it was just a strategy of mine. My absolute speed is not slow, but my fitness is not very good either. In order to save energy, I divided it evenly among the 12 minutes, and I often ran slower at the beginning, and at the end of the day, the saved energy gradually became more effective.
After about 4 or 5 minutes, I slowly caught up and was no longer at the bottom, while Giarni slowly ran slower and slower to the middle. In front of me, there were Boban, Prosineschi and other midfielders, who were technical players and didn't focus much on physical fitness. They have always focused on enhancing the sense of the ball at their feet, and they do not pay much attention to the combination of strength and technique, and as for physical fitness, they are even less important, and they will often play a style of play that is too much to save physical strength, and strive to run less through good technique. They barely defend, and when attacking, they use their skillful foot skills to control the ball, mobilizing their opponents to run around, while they can move relatively slowly in the middle of the field - a style of play that allows Boban and Prosinetski to run between 8,000 and 9,000 meters per game, rarely 10,000 meters. As a midfielder, this kind of running is completely out of line with the development of modern football, but they have the best skills in Europe, and their movement allows them to tear apart the opponent's defence without having to run a lot, so they are no longer willing to practice fitness. However, without the support of a midfielder with sufficient fitness, our midfield attack is fine, but it is quite difficult to defend well, and it is full of holes. In particular, we play a double forward formation, but we do not have a strong back midfield, as a double forward formation in the back of the midfield to make up for it, we can only rely on the central defenders to lean forward slightly to strengthen the defense, which is a very big hidden danger for us. Just like when we played Tottenham Hotspur's second team before, due to the lack of a midfielder in the midfield and the lack of close connection between the midfield and the backline, Tottenham Hotspur seized the opportunity and scored a goal. Such an opportunity can be seized even by Tottenham Hotspur's second-team team, let alone those strong teams in the European Championship? Whether it's Germany, England, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, some of these teams, each of them has very strong strength. Their strikers are very fast, and if they can take advantage of the holes in our backline, they will attack our midfield with a strong midfield, putting pressure on our centre-backs to push them out. At this time, they can also hit us with a tough attack and score goals.
In any case, it is necessary for Boban and Boksic to practice their fitness, and I am the same as the number one star of the Croatian team. I'm a key player in charge of the whole Croatian team and it's part of my job to push my team-mates to work on fitness, I can't just improve myself, I have to improve my team-mates. Only a hundred flowers can make the Croatian team achieve success in the European Championship.
Eight or nine minutes passed, and by this time it was clear that our team had opened up the gap. At the front was Stanich, and at the rear, in addition to a few traditional households with physical difficulties, there were only Jairni and others. It was true that Jairni was running slower and slower, and his speed could no longer be raised.
But to my surprise, Boban and Prosineski gradually began to pick up their speed - they didn't seem to like to be immersed in the title of physically challenged, but practiced a lot of speed and strength through the gravity training room! In the final sprint, Boban even rushed to the top three positions at one point!
At the same time, I quickly rushed to the front. I was finally able to run at full speed in the final stage, and at this time, I suddenly climbed from the middle of the team to the top four.