Although he was very dissatisfied, Li Bin still accepted the contract to go to China to play the game: he had no choice but to lead the team over the contract that had been signed, and when the time came, he would play the game better, which was his only remaining idea.

And after that, he also prepared his vacation: his vacation location was to the United States.

2007 was a year without a major tournament for European teams. Although there are competitions in Asia and South America, neither the Asian Cup nor the Copa America is too high. Needless to say, the best team in Asia is at a level that strives to qualify in the World Cup, and the Copa America has not had much competitiveness since the group of people in Batistuta in 92, and the Brazilians have almost monopolized the Copa America, so it is not very interesting, and Li Bin has not done much preparation to appreciate, but is ready to do something of his own.

In fact, the work of football coaches is not particularly heavy, and after a year, the work of football players is heavy - at worst, it is also heavy physical labor - but the amount of exercise of football coaches can still be controlled. Although there are some coaches who like to play some masochistic work, such as Magath who maintains the same amount of training as the players all year round, most coaches do not have this idea.

Therefore, for coaches, the holiday is basically the preparation for the new season, the improvement and summary of their own ability, and then there is a break from the tense nerves. Of course, even if it's such a simple thing, there are people who can play tricks. The coach of Ligue 1 Lyon, Leguin, took part in a trekking through the Sahara in order to hone his will during his vacation.

Because he is not ready to stay after next season, Li Bin has not done too much preparation, although he has the idea of self-improvement, but Li Bin does not have a lot of masochistic spirit, he is still ready to take vacation, other things, just by the way.

What else he called was going to the U.S. and visiting some of the other coaches. It's just that most of these coaches are not football coaches, but coaches of some other sports, visiting them, Li Bin is of course not for technical training, but to see if there is any physical fitness, strength, and nerve training methods for themselves to learn, and whether there is any good way for players to recover their state.

The United States is one of the countries with the highest degree of professionalism in the world's competitive sports, and many of the sports they engage in are high-intensity and high-confrontation sports, so they also have some experience in terms of strength and physical training.

If someone has watched the training of rugby players, they will find that compared with them, the training gap between football players is indeed very large: football players, weight training is at the end, and running back with a 20-pound sandbag on their backs will already make people feel very heavy, but rugby players, their training is to run against a blower with three or four parachutes in their hands - that kind of training is completely the training method of livestock.

Therefore, in terms of strength training, they also have some things that football coaches do not necessarily know, and there is no harm in learning from them.

Li Bin is preparing to go to the Premier League next season: in several leagues in Europe, La Liga and Serie A are Latino countries, and the racism in these countries is deep-rooted in the bone marrow. Germany is the most anti-Chinese and anti-Chinese country in Europe, and it is difficult to find positive news about the United States in this country, and it is boring to go there, in contrast, the Premier League does the best: the Premier League is willing to accept foreigners - of course, mainly foreign funds - their business philosophy is different, the exclusion of foreigners is much better than other leagues, and the league bonus distribution system is more reasonable, so that there will be no poor hangers, therefore, whether it is the external environment or the internal environment, It's Li Bin's first choice there.

It's just that if you go to the Premier League, there are a few questions that have to be dealt with first: first, how much of the scouting network can you take away when you leave Parma? There is another one, that is, if you really want to go to the Premier League, then you have to prepare early, don't go to the Premier League and catch it blind.

The former is easy to do, and Li Bin is confident in the matter of the scouting network, especially when Balardi is gone, he is even more confident. The latter is because the Premier League has been banned from Europe since the early 90s, resulting in backward training concepts and a big gap with the mainland. At the end of the 90s, Ferguson began to realize the problem, Wenger arrived in the Premier League, they all wanted to reform, but the Premier League is difficult to return, even after the new century, Chelsea injected a lot of money, and it is difficult to solve the problems of the Premier League overnight. Many middle and lower-level coaches do not have a correct enough training concept, and earlier, the Premier League coaches' understanding of training was to divide into two-color vests and then let the players play games - this absolutely incorrect training method, if Li Bin takes over, it will definitely be reformed.

He now has Borg and Esposito by his side, but if he arrives in a new team, he also has to have some new preparations to do: the Premier League has a lot of training, the competition is fierce, only one physical coach is definitely not enough, he has to find a suitable coach to help the players recover from injuries, in addition, the team is big, he can no longer tolerate the practice of sending players out for treatment, he has to find a suitable physiotherapist to serve his team. These things are not needed when the team is small, but when the team is big in the future, it is not possible to raise the team doctor by yourself.

In addition, he arrived in the new team, but he didn't have ten years of effort for him to squander, he had to take into account that if the environment of the new team was very poor, he had to adjust those coaches in a short period of time, so he couldn't lack any abilities in all aspects. In terms of physical training, although he has Borg as his assistant, it has always been his weakness, and he has to learn more on his own.

This time I came to the United States, saying that I was on vacation, but in fact, it was also a difficult task. It's just that because there is at least one year left in the future, he doesn't have to make any progress and choices very quickly, just remember to swallow dates, go back and digest it slowly, and delineate a range for his future partner, and then do an investigation in the future, these things don't have to be too anxious.

He has been here to study in the United States before, and he has indeed learned something: for example, if the gluteus maximus muscle is too developed, then it will affect the lateral movement speed and the change of the center of gravity, and it is necessary to stretch to adjust - these things, everyone knows the way, but the ice hockey coach reminded him that if before stretching, use a foam roller, put it under the thigh, and roll back and forth several times, you can destroy the sticky tissue in the muscles, which is very good for training.

For example, from baseball, he also learned that for athletes to practice shoulder pushing, it is best to use a standing position, rather than a seated dumbbell to push the shoulder, because the standing shoulder press can better promote the strength of the muscles of the whole body during practice, while the sitting position is only suitable for bodybuilders, because it is safer to practice this way, but for other athletes, it is almost useless.

Li Bin has not heard of these things in the football world, but in the United States, the coaches of these four major leagues have paid more attention to them. They have a lot of training and have higher requirements for strength, so there is no harm in learning this from them.

"If the first exercise is a compound movement, you should train the large muscle groups first, and then the small muscle groups. Squats, deadlifts, jerks should be placed before various types of curls and flexions......"

This time, Li Bin visited the physical trainer of the Boston Celtics, as the NBA's premier physical trainer, Coach Doo also gave him a lot of advice.

"These trainings are not particularly important, the important thing is to train the control of the players, there is explosiveness but no control, you can't control yourself at all, such players are very good at interception, you have to train the control to ......"

Coach Doo was talking to Li Bin in detail about his experience.

Li Bin also knows this: people have an inertia, and when they do things, they will always bring it out: for example, if you stretch out your left fist, your body will definitely lean to the right, and the cross nerve determines that people will have a related action. And with such trouble, it is difficult to do feints.

"How to train? Swiss balls? This is the best way for me to know the Tao. Li Bin asked rhetorically.

"Going up the stairs slowly, at the slowest speed, works best, better than the Swiss ball. It's not very easy to control, but it's good to stick to it, practice once a week, it's a great help to people......" Looking at Li Bin's record, he laughed, "It's really rare for a football coach like you to be seen." It's rare for someone to put aside their sports preconceptions and visit coaches in other sports. ”

"The internal principles of sports are all the same, and if you don't learn it, you will be confused." Li Bin said, "I have always felt that maybe, some other sports, there are also places to learn from. Over the years, I have summarized a lot of training experience by myself, and when I integrate it with your experience, I have gained a lot, and I have memorized all these things, which is very helpful for my future development. ”

"What are the similarities between the football philosophy and the basketball philosophy?"

"Of course, it's not just the physical training of the players. In fact, any sport, if you look at it from a macro perspective, is a game of space and time, and being able to understand the essence of other sports is definitely helpful for my future. ”

Since figuring out the truth that he has never understood, Li Bin has realized what he needs to do: his roots are solid, but his horizons are not broad enough. Tactical changes require some imagination, and if you understand the principle, then you have to open your eyes, look more, think more, and think more to make yourself better.

This is also another purpose for him to come to the United States: he wants to focus on everything that can diverge his thinking, expand his horizons, and increase his knowledge. It is impossible to say that these things can directly help him to form his tactical thoughts, but if it helps to expand his thinking and help him think about more things, then it is for sure. Any movement is made up of people, and it is the same in terms of using space and distance and using time differences, and it is not harmful for him to absorb some other ideas.

Li Bin never thought that he was a traverser and could crush everything, but he believed that he could have a bright future if he kept learning and making progress.