Zenit St. Petersburg's assistant coach Vladimir Borovecchia (vladimir_borovicka) took a closer look at Chen Yingying, who was standing in front of him.

At first glance he was satisfied, his body was quite strong, and his body was full of muscles, from which strength seemed to burst at any moment.

Ruslan Panchenko had already told him about what had happened at the CSKA training base in Moscow.

But he wasn't interested in the story, and it wasn't too surprising to score a goal over the heads of the Moscow youth team defenders, not to mention that the kid in front of him was more than 1.9 meters tall. He likes to "see is believing", so no matter what Panchenko says, he has to see Chen Yingying's performance with his own eyes before he can make a decision.

"Hello, hero." He greeted Chen Yingying in English.

"Hello, Mr. Coach." Chen Yingying replied without humility or arrogance.

Borovecchia is quite satisfied, this kid has a good attitude, but I don't know if his heart is strong enough. The psychology of a professional footballer is also very important. If he has a strong body, but it is a fragile heart that supports this strong body, then this person will not be able to go long on the road of professional football.

Chen Tao looked at the two of them with some excitement and some nervousness beside him.

Early this morning, they arrived in St. Petersburg in Panchenko's car. Originally, Panchenko wanted to take a day off before going to the club, but Chen Yingying told him that he was not tired at all and went directly to the training base. Panchenko looked at the time, it was past four o'clock in the afternoon, the team was training, or okay, if you go at this time, everyone is there. I drove straight to the Yudney Park training base (udelny_park, so named because of its proximity to the park), which is the location of the training base in Zenit, St. Petersburg.

Then they quickly met with assistant coach Borovecchia

Chen Tao is very happy with the attitude shown by this club, which is completely different from CSKA, and the coaches of Zenit seem to be more friendly and easy to get along with.

He thought that if his son could finally stay here, it would be much better than staying in Moscow......

"I've heard Ruslan tell you yesterday's story."

Chen Yingying grinned.

"I'm curious about your physical fitness, I guess how about let's take a physical test first?"

"No problem, Mr. Coach."

Borovecchia nodded and motioned for the strength and conditioning coach Valery Krzhakov (valery_kerzhakov) to come over.

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The physical test is actually very simple, first measure Chen Yingxing's height and weight, and then let him do five sets of 100-meter sprints, five sets of 30-meter sprint switchback runs, and 12-minute long-distance runs.

It's not quite the same as the physical fitness test, it's just to give the Zenit coaches a basic idea of the physical qualities of the big man in front of them - he looks tall and strong, but what is the speed and stamina? None of these coaches know.

Chen Tao stood on the sidelines, looking at his son, who was being tested on the court.

He is not at all worried about his son's physical fitness.

His own height is not high, and his wife Li Yun is not as tall as Lang Ping, but the son he gave birth to seems to have a genetic mutation, and his head has skyrocketed, which scares them as parents.

Chen Yingying is growing up fast, he likes football, Chen Tao sent him to play football, at first he really didn't want to train his son to become a professional player, but he just felt that since his son liked it, he would send him to play. Later, I found that my son still showed some talent for playing football, and then I began to seriously consider training him to become a professional player, at that time, China's professional league had just begun, and it was in full swing, and the enthusiasm of Chinese fans who had squeezed for many years was stimulated by our own professional league, and the media reported on the lives of professional players and professional leagues, and those stars frequently appeared in the newspapers, Chen Tao felt that there was nothing wrong with letting his son become a professional football player and engage in professional football.

Since childhood, Chen Yingying has eaten the best and most nutritious, and their family hardly eats pork, mainly beef, chicken, and fish. Milk and eggs are available every day, and they are never broken. At that time in the mid-nineties, there were not many families who could do this, and it was all up to Chen Tao to go to the sea to do business, and their family had the economic strength.

Chen Yingying did not live up to his father's hope of "hoping for his son to become a Chan" and those beef, milk, and eggs. Since the fourth grade of elementary school, he has been a head taller than all his peers, and his body has been growing rapidly, and it is not until high school that he gradually slows down. In this way, he is now 1.92 meters tall and weighs 93 kilograms, and his physical development has not completely stopped, and there is still room to move up.

In 1994, China's first professional football league kicked off in Chen Tao's hometown, and the football craze quickly swept across China, and many teenagers were sent to various football schools by their parents for training, and Chen Yingying was also one of these thousands of teenagers.

From a football school to a professional team, and then to the echelon of a professional football club, Chen Yingying has risen smoothly all the way up - of course, behind it is naturally the red envelopes that his father stuffed to those coaches.

Thanks to his excellent physical fitness, he still has a place in the club's youth team. But such a smooth experience seems to have made Chen Yingying's temper rise.

Just when he was about to become a professional footballer, that fight happened. It's all over, twelve years of childhood and youth, hundreds of thousands of yuan in expenses, those who have eaten beef, eggs and fresh milk...... It's all in vain.

What to do?

My son has been playing football since he was a child, although he also took cultural classes at a football school. But what can the kind of cultural class that only lasts half a day and often skips class play? At most, he didn't let his son become illiterate.

Except for football, the son will not know anything.

That week, he was so angry that he didn't say a word to his son, and at the same time he was thinking about his son's future...... Pity the hearts of parents all over the world. No matter how sad his son is, he still has to think about him. After thinking about it, Chen Tao felt that he still had to continue to play. But he has seen a lot of dirty things in China's domestic football clubs over the years, and he thinks that if he is still in China, with his son's character, he may not be able to play at all...... Or try your luck in a foreign country? Aren't football leagues in Europe very developed? Then go to Europe!

In this way, Chen Tao, who made up his mind, secretly borrowed some money from his relatives and friends, scraped together 100,000 yuan, and took his son to Germany to watch the World Cup under the pretext of taking his son to Germany to watch the World Cup.

I didn't think that I came to Europe to see what it is like to have a real level of professional football, compared with those real professional clubs, my son may still be able to play in domestic clubs, but in Europe, people can't look down on it at all! Chen Yingying is not even qualified to be selected for his national team, how can he impress those picky Europeans?

In China, the strength is not enough, and the red envelope comes to make up. If your son's family doesn't want it, you can also send money to send your son in. In Europe, you can't find a way to send money if you want to!

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Chen Yingxing's physical fitness test made Borovecchia very satisfied.

The time of the five sets of 100-meter sprints is 11.79 seconds, 11.78 seconds, 11.95 seconds, 10.98 seconds, and 12.11 seconds.

Compared with speed players such as Ronaldo and Robert Carlos at his peak, his speed is not particularly fast, but it is definitely not slow. And it can be seen from this set of data that his speed has not decreased significantly. It is important to know that these five sets of 100-meter sprints are continuous behaviors of resting for only 30 seconds after each set is completed, and then starting the sprint again. With such a high-intensity sprint, the time spent is so small. Besides, the fact that a big man can run at such a speed is remarkable in itself.

From this, it can be seen that although Chen Yingying is not a pure speed player, his body continues to be explosive and his physical fitness is very good.

This was also confirmed in the 30-meter sprint switchback and the 12-minute run.

Chen Yingxing's 12-minute run time is 4,600 meters.

Borovecchia was very happy with this result, considering that his average 12-minute run was only 3,800 meters, and the 4,600 meters were already the best in the first team so far.

It seems that this Chen Yingying's physical fitness is indeed quite outstanding.

After testing his fitness, Borovecchia asked Chen to take a break and prepare for the test with the ball.

Chen Yingying sat on the sidelines, and his father immediately ran up to massage his legs and give him a thumbs up. He had been staring at the assistant coach, and the happy expression on the assistant coach's face when he saw Chen Yingying's results made Chen Tao happy.

A good start is half the battle, and hopefully this time my son can really win the favor of this coach.

"It's a piece of cake, Dad. It's not that you don't know. Chen Yingying's mouth seems to be modest, but in fact he is proud, this is his style.

After 12 minutes of running, he was a little out of breath, but not tired.

You must know that when AA did the 12-minute running test, the results of those professional players were visible to everyone. At that time, media from all over the country gathered at the Kunming Haigeng training base to report on the grand occasion of the body. For Chinese professional players at that time, 3,000 meters was the passing line, and only after running 3,000 meters in 12 minutes could they directly qualify for the registration of the new season A League. 2,800 meters will need to be retested. The 3,200m is another benchmark, which means that the player is in excellent fitness.

At that time, there were very few people who could run 3,200 meters, and there were some teams where no one in the whole team could run this result. Some of the players who were not physically fit ran 2,800 meters, and all of them were drooling and crying, and some even fainted on the track -- the media were like sharks smelling blood, swarming up and filming non-stop, while the poor "loser" could only curl up in a blanket and sob. So much so that "12-minute run" has become synonymous with hell, which has frightened many professional players and made coaches quite helpless. In 2002, due to the unanimous opposition of players and coaches, this physical test method, which was officially linked to competition results in 1992, was abolished after a full decade of persistence, and Chinese professional players no longer have to be scared to wake up from a dream at night. However, the good times didn't last long, and they soon discovered that Yoyo's physical test was not much cuter than running in twelve minutes...... Anyway, for those players who are not physically fit and have a bad attitude, no matter how scientific the physical test is, they will still feel painful.

And Chen Yingying's run today even surpassed the record set by Cassiano in the A-A 12-minute run test - Kasiano ran 4,400 meters at that time. Legend has it that Kasiano didn't do his best at the time, and there is also a legend that Kasiano knew to run stupidly when he took this kind of fitness test for the first time and didn't translate.

With this comparison, you can know how good Chen Yingying's physical fitness level is.

Of course, in China, a 12-minute run is a life-and-death test of whether a player can get a new season employment certificate. Now in Zenit, it's just a simple physical fitness test to find out how endurance Chen Yingying is, and it doesn't determine whether he can enter Zenit or not.

After a short break, the coaching staff also arranged that Chen Yingying was accompanied by the team's under-18 youth team, which was the same as yesterday's CSKA Moscow.

A coach with a whistle on his chest walked up to Chen Yingying and said to him, "Are you ready, young man?" ”

Chen Yingying nodded.

"The game is 50 minutes, 25 minutes in each half, and 10 minutes at halftime." Judging by this test, it is possible to see the difference between Zenit St. Petersburg and CSKA Moscow. A regular game is obviously more formal and respectful than finding four people to partner and bully one person.

The coach handed Chen a yellow vest and asked him to put it on.

Watching his son put on a vest and walk onto the court, Chen Tao couldn't help but get nervous......

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