Preparations for the new season are about to begin!

July 21 is the time for all the players to assemble, and most of the players have already returned to Madrid.

On the day of the assembly, the club arranged some pre-season tests.

Ahead of the pre-season tests, the entire squad was assembled and all but Sergio Aguero had arrived in the 22-man first-team squad to await the new manager and coaching staff.

Except for those who have just joined the team, the other veteran players are more or less apprehensive.

In the summer, Atletico Madrid club has undergone a huge change, and the transfer of the Hill family's equity has almost transformed Atletico Madrid into a team again, with almost half of the players leaving and half of the new players in the team.

What will happen next, no one can be sure.

So when everyone was waiting on the court, they had less time to talk to each other, and some acquaintances just said hello to each other, and then they kept waiting.

A figure appeared at the end of the pitch.

Everyone looked at it.

Behind the figure, there were two more people, and after a while, everyone could already recognize the person who came, and the one who walked in front was the young Chinese coach who had just taken over Atletico Madrid - Wan Sheng.

Everyone knows the name.

Needless to say, Wansheng's fame in European football is related to the future coach of Atletico Madrid, and everyone has long remembered what he is like.

Behind Wan Sheng, he was followed by two assistant coaches - Diamares and Fan Zhiyi.

Seeing Wansheng coming over, the club's assistant coach Lionel immediately blew the whistle to signal everyone to gather, and soon everyone gathered together and waited for Wansheng to come slowly.

After coming to the players, Wan Sheng introduced himself with a smile, "Hello everyone, I'm Wan Sheng, probably you have all heard my name, from now on, I am the head coach of the team!" ”

"Maybe most of you are still familiar with me, but it doesn't matter, in the future, we can slowly get to know each other."

"Today is the first day of gathering, and I have a word to say to you in advance, for the training tasks I have set, each of you must complete it at all! That's my rule, can I do it? ”

"Can ......" the players said sparsely.

"Say it again!"

"Yes." It's a little louder.

Wan Sheng was still not satisfied, his face became serious, and he shouted, "Didn't you eat!" Can you do it, again! If the sound doesn't please me, then you guys are shouting all day! ”

"Yes."

"Yes."

"Can ......"

Everyone immediately became a lot louder, although a little untidy, at least the volume was enough.

Wan Sheng nodded, "Remember how you feel now, and you will have to answer like this in the future!" ”

"Now I'll introduce you to two of my assistants."

Wan Sheng pointed at Diamares and said, "This is Gael Diamares, you can call him Gale or you can call him coach directly." He will be directly responsible for leading the team's training. ”

"Fan Zhiyi. He's your training coach and he's going to do some warm-up games. ”

After the introduction, Wan Sheng glanced at the players and asked Lionel, "What about Aguero?" ”

"Sergio took two days off."

"What are you going to do?"

"He went on vacation with his girlfriend and returned too late, and he just bought a ticket to Madrid today!"

Wan Sheng pouted, "This is also a reason to ask for leave?" ”

"Huh?"

"When he comes to the club to report, tell him that if he wants more holidays, that's okay, I'm good at talking, I can give him a year off!"

Hearing Wan Sheng's words, the players were even more apprehensive.

Sergio Aguero is recognised as a world-renowned striker and is considered an indispensable member of the team by the media, even by Atletico Madrid's players, and it is for this reason that Aguero has some 'privileges'.

This is a well-established thing.

But now that the new coach has taken office, he seems to be very strict with Aguero, is this the 'three fires of the new official', or does he really want to do something to Aguero?

In the case of the former, Aguero will definitely be unlucky, because everyone knows that the Chinese coach in front of him is not easy to mess with.

He is not just a head coach, it is said that the Taiwan Development Investment, which bought the club, has most of his shares, that is, he has the absolute right to speak in the club.

However, most people think that it is the latter, after all, Sergio Aguero is really good, and what coach in the world doesn't like a great young star? Young stars have some privileges, and rightfully so!?

Wan Sheng didn't pay attention to what the players thought, he still had important things to say.

Under the gaze of a group of players, Wan Sheng took the captain's armband in Fan Zhiyi's hand, walked over and put it on Diego Forlan's arm, "Diego? I can call you that. You will be the captain of the team from today onwards! ”

"Vice-Captain ......"

Wan Sheng glanced at all the players, and finally fixed his gaze on Morris, and said, "Morris will be the vice captain in the future." ”

"Let's start the pre-season test as scheduled!"

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After a short gathering speech, the players of the first team all got to know Wansheng.

In fact, they already knew about Wansheng.

Needless to say, Wan Sheng's fame in European football has left two impressions on the professional football community.

The first is coaching ability.

He led Derby County and Manchester City to win consecutive Premier League titles, won many titles during the period, and led Manchester City two years ago to stand at the pinnacle of European clubs.

These results are enough to prove his coaching ability.

In the whole of European football, fans think that the only person who can compare to him is Real Madrid's new coach Jose Mourinho, who led Inter Milan to the top of Europe just last season, and this is the second team he has led to this level.

The salaries of the two can also be compared.

Mourinho signed Real Madrid and got a blockbuster contract with an annual salary of 10 million euros, and Wansheng's salary contract for signing Atletico Madrid was not announced, but the media conservatively estimated that it had reached an annual salary of at least 10 million euros.

The second impression Wansheng left on the professional football circle is to develop players, or the ability to use players.

After a few years of coaching, Wan Sheng has a considerable number of 'produced' stars, many of which were not famous before, and cultivating players is one thing, when Wan Sheng coached Manchester City, let Silva, Ozil and Morris perform well, and it is also quite an excellent ability, because Mark Hughes failed to do this, and Capello's England team also failed to deal with the 'double Germany' problem, after all, the two players are in the same position and have similar abilities, and there will definitely be some conflicts when they play together.

Now, the Atletico Madrid players have a new understanding of Wan Sheng - a rather 'dictatorial' guy who speaks almost without any question, and ...... It's hard to get along with.

In this case, no one will dare to touch the tiger's whiskers on the first day.

So everyone did the pre-season test step by step.

Pre-season testing, in fact, the most important thing is to do a physical fitness test to see how the physical condition of the players is after a holiday, and then the team will arrange the team's physical training as a whole.

This is the team's first and most important training assignment.

The fitness of the whole team is directly related to the team's performance at the start of the season, so this is not to be sloppy.

This year's World Cup is good news for many big clubs, including Atletico Madrid, because the players who participate in the World Cup are generally in good physical condition.

However, this is still far from the standard required by Wansheng.

When Fan Zhiyi handed the results of the player's physical test to Wan Sheng, he frowned directly, and immediately sighed, "It seems that our physical training task is very heavy......

"But today is much better than last year." Lionel whispered from the side.

Wan Sheng looked at Lionel, as a colleague working together, there was no seriousness in his eyes, "Leon, now that the team has changed a lot, you can't follow the previous standards." My team is very demanding in terms of fitness and training, and I hope you will get to know it in the future, and you can talk to Gerdor about it......"

"Okay, Wansheng." Lionel nodded.

Lionel has been working at Atletico Madrid, mainly responsible for physical training, but also to assist the youth team training, in the club for nearly 10 years, the head coach has changed constantly, but his position has not been stable, and his salary has been increasing, which is inseparable from Lionel's ability.

At the turn of clubs, two coaches were sent to work in the youth team, but Wansheng still left Lionel, with Lionel's qualifications, no matter what kind of training and work, he can help himself a little, just Diamares and Fan Zhiyi, the coaching staff is also a little less, so he still values Lionel very much.

After talking about the intensity of the workout, Lionel asked, "So I'm going to make a workout plan?" ”

Wan Sheng smiled, "No, I'll just do this work." ”

"Huh?"

"The training plan has always been done by Wansheng." Diamares reminded next to him.

Lionel still doesn't understand, in his opinion, the head coach is the head coach, mainly responsible for leading the team's games, tactics and other issues, the team has to carry out physical training, and he must be directly responsible as a physical coach.

Now your job has been robbed?

So what are you going to do?

Moreover, this young Chinese, although he has strong coaching ability, is not an area in physical training and leading team competitions, can he really do a physical training plan by himself?

Lionel didn't understand, but he couldn't refute it, and he also had a bit of a joke in his heart.

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The next morning, Wan Sheng, Diamares, Fan Zhiyi, and Lionel gathered in the office again.

Wan Sheng piled a stack of training plans on his desk.

"Is this a workout program? So much? Lionel looked at it with his mouth wide open, a little incredulous, and he opened a copy to see that it read 'Physical Training Plan - Raul Garcia'.

"Raul's?"

He flipped through another one, and it read 'Domingos', and then 'Reyes', 'Godin', 'Maurice', 'Merida'...... Lionel looked up and asked in surprise, "You have different training tasks for each player?" ”

Wan Sheng smiled and nodded.

Lionel checked the training content again, and he found that the content regulations were very detailed, and some of the training was very scientific, but some of the training he couldn't understand.

For example, what can be the use of this one, "After running 3,000 meters, hold a half-squat position for 3 minutes and take 10 deep breaths"?

Lionel looked at Wan Sheng suspiciously, but Diamares said beside him, "Leon, in the field of football training, Wan Sheng is very authoritative, this is his old business!" ”

Lionel looked over.

Diamares continued, "I remember when he wasn't the manager at Derby County, he was in charge of training some of the players, and since he became the manager, he has been in charge of the training content, and a few years ago, when we were at Manchester City, the fitness reserves of the whole team at Manchester City, every time it was the best in the Premier League, and that's what Wansheng training does. So you don't have to wonder about anything, just follow it. ”

Lionel finally nodded silently.

He has doubts about whether these training plans can work, but the head coach is Wan Sheng, and the other two assistant coaches also came to work at the club with Wan Sheng, so he can only keep his doubts in his heart.

"Then let's see what he's capable of!" Lionel thought.

From his professional point of view, he is not very optimistic about these training plans. (To be continued.) )