Outside the barbed wire fence at the training ground, a crowd of people gathered and surrounded the training ground.

Tottenham Hotspur's first-team players were split into five different training grounds and trained with 50 children from all over the UK, but what was meant was more of a football game.

Tottenham Hotspur have a clear plan for the training sessions for Talent Day, with all training sessions aimed at all aspects of the young player's qualities, including their passing belts, their sense of the ball, their physicality, their reaction without the ball, and so on.

To be honest, it is indeed difficult to complete an accurate analysis of a young player in three days, even if Tottenham Hotspur can use instruments and advanced equipment, it is difficult to be 100% accurate, and there will inevitably be some omissions, but Tottenham's attitude is to try to do the best

The training mainly revolves around Ye Qiu's time at Ajax and the new training method obtained from the coach development system, but in order to get different data, there will be some differences in the details of the training, which are basically some training movements.

Each team will have multiple coaches, and the coach will emphasize the focus of the training before the training, for example, the morning training session is carried out around passing and receiving the ball, the purpose is to observe the running of the players, judge the passing route, pay attention to the running of the defenders, and the technical details when passing and receiving the ball.

At the beginning of the training, the players of the Tottenham Hotspur first team took the lead in a round of demonstrations, and this group of players, who were already familiar with the training content, used an almost dazzling quick one-foot pass and catch to drive the atmosphere of the scene, winning the applause and screams of countless fans on the sidelines.

During the whole training process, all the players' running and passing and receiving the ball are completed within one foot, and as long as anyone makes a mistake, they immediately take the initiative to run to grab the ball, especially later, after the group is in a circle, the monkey game is played, but unlike the monkey game of other teams, Tottenham Hotspur's monkey game is monkey at the same time, but everyone also needs to move back and forth quickly at both ends of the field, which obviously has higher requirements for the players' cooperative operation and technical skills.

It is such a training program that makes everyone fascinated and praised.

Another obvious feature is that Tottenham Hotspur encourage all players to be creative on the pitch, especially after the last fifteen minutes of a training session, and they even allow players to make some impromptu moves when passing and receiving the ball, but there are time and technical details.

In addition to allowing the players to bring out their strengths, there is also a part of the training that is the interaction between the stars and the young players.

Tottenham Hotspur arranges first-team players to train with young players, in addition to relaxing the training intensity of first-team players and helping players recover, it is also to stimulate the young players' desire to perform, and at the same time, they also hope that the stars will give some professional guidance to the young players and increase the communication between the two sides.

Judging from Ajax's past experience, through this kind of communication and interaction between young players and first-team stars, it can improve the progress of young players and enhance the loyalty and sense of belonging of players to the team, because everyone has the psychology of worshipping stars.

The afternoon training session is a continuation of the morning, and it also revolves around the details of passing and receiving the ball and skills, but it is more about taking a small field training and confrontation method, and the coaching staff will also inspect each player during the training process, and once a problem is found, immediately call a stop, let all players stay still in the same position, and then explain the error.

The first day of training can basically be some of the details of the young players' skills, especially some of the processing of skills, as well as the ability to learn and improve their own shortcomings, and the coaching staff has also initially grasped some specific information about the players according to these situations, especially with the assistance of on-site video and monitoring analysis, the general situation of the players has been basically understood.

The next day's training began to emphasize the ability to work together, after all, some players are singled out to be awesome, but lack of teamwork, once he is put into the team, he is completely confused, I don't know how to play.

The training on the morning of the second day was still carried out in the form of a team, but including the warm-up, including the group confrontation, all of which were completed in the state of having the ball, and the test was the performance of the players in the group confrontation after yesterday's training and familiarization, attack and defense, with and without the ball.

The difference is that this time the field is larger, and the coaching staff will not call a timeout, but just watch and inspect from the side, testing the overall activities of the players in the game, as well as the cooperation with teammates, such as maintaining distance, timing and so on.

There is also a training game project is the wall game, where everyone is required to touch the ball with one foot, and the players take turns to be the wall, so as to further observe and understand the players' skills and actual combat ability.

In the afternoon of the second day, that is, the last training session, it was still a multi-person group confrontation form on a larger field, but there was one more requirement, that is, from the moment the players of the two teams got the ball, all the attacks must be completed within fifteen seconds, otherwise the coach blew the whistle and the ball changed hands.

This is an extension of the actual combat of the wall game, and the main consideration is the player's choice at the moment of the transition between attack and defense.

As Ye Qiu said before, modern football tactics have actually developed to a certain height and encountered a bottleneck, whether it is Barcelona's passing and control system, Manchester United's passing and cutting system, or Tottenham Hotspur's passing and cutting composite system, they have actually reached a critical point.

So, if you want to continue to make breakthroughs, maintaining speed is an essential link.

But as Ye Qiu said, this speed is not a blind pursuit of individual speed, not the speed of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, but the overall speed, the speed of the team.

Nowhere is this speed more evident than in the transition between offense and defense, if the opponent takes 10 seconds to switch from offense to defense, and you only need 8 seconds to switch from offense to offense, then congratulations, you have a time difference of two seconds to play, which almost means a goal.

Therefore, Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur's academy also emphasized one point, that is, the conversion of attack and defense, which requires players to have relevant qualities, because there are many players with excellent personal skills, but once the team is switching between attack and defense, he will completely become an idiot, completely lost, forget what he should do, and be out of the team as a whole.

Is it useful for a team that such a player has good skills and skills? Completely useless

Of course, consciousness can be cultivated, and after accumulating a certain amount of experience, consciousness will also be improved, so when Ye Qiu formulated the weight of the players, he considered it all-round, and the conversion of offense and defense was only part of it.

It can be said that after the first two days of familiarization and training, the players' various skills and tactical abilities have been almost touched, and the players' requirements for Tottenham Hotspur are basically understood, and on the third day, the team began to play against the real battle.

Before Ye Qiu took over Tottenham Hotspur, the north London team's crowning glory was linked to Bill Nicholson.

In the 68 years since he became a Tottenham Hotspur academy player in 1936, he has grown from a boy who shines the shoes of first-team players to a manager who has brought glory to the team, and later became the club's president, and even now, he is still the honorary chairman of Tottenham Hotspur.

In honour of the honorary president who once brought glory to Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspur named the home of the youth team at the Theobold training base the Bill Nicholson Stadium

And at this moment, there is a fierce red-and-white battle going on at Bill Nicholson Stadium.

Both teams were made up of players from the Talent Day selection event, wearing red and white jerseys with the same jersey number on the shirt, and the front of the shirt still had the Tottenham Hotspur logo, the Adidas logo, and the logo of Qatar Airways, the team's lead sponsor, just like the official match shirt.

The only difference is that there are no players' names on the back of the shirts, only numbers.

The stands were packed, and because it was just a match of the Talent Day selection event, there was no admission fee, but it was open to the fans to come to the venue.

On the playing field, because of the relationship between young players, the game is very open, and from time to time there will be some pictures that make the fans on the sidelines addicted, whether it is from a flash of inspiration from a young player, or from an imaginative pass.

It's like the number eight in the red jersey, once using his body to suppress the opponent's ball, after breaking the ball with his back to the opponent's goal, he quickly dribbled back and forth with his left and right feet, and after passing the player who was counter-robbing, he made a through ball with his left foot and penetrated the white team's defense.

The red team's No. 9 striker did not follow, which directly led to a beautiful one-on-one through ball being saved by a player who was dragged behind by the opponent, because according to the rules, the last player automatically converted into a goalkeeper.

Although he couldn't find the back of the net, the pass from the number eight was impressive.

If you look closely at the whole game, it is not difficult to find that the No. 8 player has quite good physical strength, is very stable with the ball, and has a very characteristic pass, and in the report of the Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff, the England midfielder named Nick Powell has been highly rated in the previous two training sessions

He comes from Crewe, the fourth tier of the English league, the team in League Two, which is not very obvious even in League Two, and may even be in danger of relegation, while Nick Powell has been trained in Crewe for several years, and has been noticed by Tottenham Hotspur scouts and recommended to the team to participate in the selection for Talent Day.

This player is a little taller than his peers, not small, but his skills are excellent, and the key is that he is quite good on both his left and right feet, which is very important for a player.

The most impressive thing about this player is his handling of the ball, and in the past two days of training, the coaching staff have noticed that he is able to handle the ball well and turn it into a threatening or purposeful pass through his own combing, which is very rare.

Just when everyone was still immersed in Nick Powell's imaginative through ball, the white team also launched a counterattack, and the defender passed directly to the midfield and handed it to the white team's No. 7 player, only to see the No. 7 player stop the ball and turn around to get rid of it, and in one go, directly past a midfield defender of the opposing team.

The whole process was not the slightest bit of mud and water, the technical movements were very well connected, and then it started quickly, and the speed of advancing with the ball was also very fast, and it didn't take long to cross the halfway line and enter the opponent's half, directly facing the defenders.

The RED team's defense was also very fast, but the No. 7 player faced the RED team's No. 4 left-back on the right side, a skillful sharp buckle inward cut, and then the No. 5 player facing the opponent's defense was another emergency stop change of direction, and in the blink of an eye, he passed the opponent's two defenders in a row, and this beautiful continuous dribbling won a cheer from the audience.

But after he passed, he made a wrong judgment, which was a pass.

Originally, he was supposed to rush forward with the ball, but he chose to pass to the striker, but the latter passed back again, delaying the best opportunity, but the No. 7 player hit the goal with his left foot after a beautiful emergency stop at the edge of the penalty area, although because of his young age and lack of strength, the shot was soft, not only did not hit the force, but the angle was also ridiculously crooked, but the whole action was still very eye-catching.

As if dissatisfied with the performance just now, the white team quickly made a comeback, this time No. 7 changed to the left side, took the ball under the bag of four defenders, in the case of 45 degrees of inward cutting, using his skillful control, after connecting four people, and then shook the last defender in the penalty area, but the most difficult back shot did not play well, and the ball was saved by the goalkeeper.

Two beautiful performances in a row earned the number seven a full house, and many people in the stands screamed that the player's performance was really good.

His name is Patrick Roberts, born in London, 12 years old this year, the advantage is that the foot skills are very good, the basic skills are solid, the ball and handling the ball are quite outstanding among his peers, because it is the left foot, there are many people in the stands shouting Messi II cheers, if you want to talk about the shortcomings, but the last shot is obviously lacking, and the body is relatively thin.

After a period of performance, the two sides gradually played to the level.

The best player on the white team is the number seven, whose individual ability is obviously much higher than that of other peers, his speed is also excellent, and he has a good sense of the ball, and he belongs to the kind of player who is very rare in England and has delicate skills, so he often plays a scene in the game where one person dribbles the ball and breaks through multiple players on the other side.

The most conspicuous time in the whole game was that after he dribbled the ball from the right side and shook five players in a row, he calmly pushed the goalkeeper in the penalty area, and there were many times after being caught on the side, he used the dribbling at his feet to make a bloody performance, which amazed the fans of the whole stadium, and many people shouted out the call of genius.

But in the end, it was the red team who won, because the red team's number eight was very good at organizing the attack and defense of the midfield in this game, and Nick Powell showed his quite good midfield organization, as well as passing and technical skills, and led the red team to defeat Patrick Roberts' white team.

After the game, the audience burst into a burst of warm applause and cheers, although it was only a youth game, but there was no lack of some wonderful pictures, especially the young people have a lot of outstanding performances, which make people look forward to their future.

After this game, another game was played, and it was still the red team and the white team, and this time Dan Crawley from Birmingham, although he also played in the midfield, compared to Nick Powell, Dan Crawley was completely defeated in technique and body, but considering that the two are two years apart, and Dan Crawley has had many creative attempts in the game, as well as his excellent foot skills, which are very impressive

If you want to use a more figurative analogy, Nick Powell is a bit like Andrea Pirlo, Dan Crowley is like David Silva, of course, this is just a metaphor, the two young players can't catch up with these two stars now, and they are still so young, just a little bit of potential.

Another notable midfielder is Ryan Lederson, a 12-year-old with a lot of fighting spirit, solid skills and a well-rounded attack, somewhat similar to the English midfielders of Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard.

Two games in a row made all the fans in attendance fascinated, especially the performance of this group of young players, although they will have a lot of mistakes that the first team or the senior team will not have, but from them, you can easily see their potential and talent, you can easily feel the hope for the future of the team.

Who says England lacks a skilled genius? Who says England players lack creativity?

It's like Ye Qiu often hears people say that China lacks football talents, these are all nonsense, how many people were there in the area around Amsterdam at Ajax back then? can cultivate so many historical superstars, is it possible that China is so big, England is so big, there are no geniuses emerging?

The so-called genius is actually not how high his talent is, but whether there is any soil and environment around him to cultivate genius, and whether he accepts professional guidance and cultivation.

Seeing the performance of this group of young players, all the Tottenham Hotspur fans present were full of hope for the future, and it is believed that quite a few people even made up their minds in their hearts to watch not only the first-team games, but also the youth team games in the future.

Watching a young player gradually step up to the first team, succeed, or even become a star of the game, the sense of achievement and satisfaction, and the feeling of being part of making history, cannot be replaced.