At the halfway point of the league, Dortmund are currently in sixth place, with too many draws being one of the reasons why they are not in a good position. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, there are also media analysis that Klopp's large number of young people is also the main reason for the instability of performance.

However, for the Dortmund fans, they are already satisfied, considering that last season Dortmund finished 13th.

After changing the head coach, the team can still finish sixth, which is already good.

And Dortmund fans are arguably the most loyal fans in Europe, and they have no complaints even if the team's results are up and down. Every home match day, the West**** Stadium is full of people.

Although Zhou Yi has not yet watched the Dortmund first team game, he already understands it.

For example, the family where he stayed was a loyal family of Dortmund fans, except for their freak daughter, the family, even Mark's mother was a die-hard Dortmund fan.

The Dortmund logo and yellow-black perimeter can be seen everywhere in the home.

The cup in which Mark brushes his teeth is the Dortmund logo, and the set of glasses of the old Wagner and beer are printed with the Dortmund logo, in addition, there are Dortmund alarm clocks, Dortmund bath towels, Dortmund hats, Dortmund floor mats, Dortmund gloves, Dortmund bed sheets, quilt covers......

The home is a completely Dortmund Club authorized merchandise exhibition.

Even their Mercedes-Benz sedan is yellow and black, as if they are afraid that others will not know that his family is a Dortmund fan.

When he first came, it was an eye-opener for Zhou Yi, who lacked the corresponding football culture in China.

But after staying for a month, Zhou Yi slowly got used to it, and the face towel he uses now is the yellow towel with the Dortmund logo. When he first used it, he was still worried about fading, but Mark comforted him: "Anyway, you are yellow, yellow-skinned, and you can't see it if you fade!"

Zhou Yi gave him a roll of his eyes: "Then why haven't you been dyed yellow?"

Mark retorted: "That's because our German goods are of good quality!"

Zhou Yi pointed to the German "Made in China" on the label of his towel and showed it to him, and he was silent.

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Zhou Yi hadn't seen Cortana since the Christmas family dinner that night, and according to her brother Mark, she had made an appointment with her classmates to go on a trip.

"Did I let your family travel fall through?" Zhou Yi asked.

"Of course not. Actually, we don't go outside every Christmas. Mark waved his hand.

"I'll believe you when you say that!"

"Of course it's true!"

So, during the Christmas holidays, Mark and his parents didn't go anywhere, they stayed at home.

And Zhou Yi's daily life is also very simple, self-learning languages, training physical fitness with Mark, and doing some excellent training together in the afternoon. In the evening, I naturally had a "special training" with Mark in the game.

Of course, the book Cortana gave him naturally threw it directly into the drawer and didn't even turn it over.

During this period, Zhou Yi and Tim Kitter had a meal together, and Kitter told him that he was going back to Japan, and Zhou Yi was a little surprised.

"I'm not a translator after all, I'm a scout, so I still have to go back to my job. And you shouldn't have any problems communicating in the language now, and you don't need me as a translator. ”

Zhou Yi was a little reluctant.

Kister smiled: "But I think I'll come back to Dortmund more often to see how you're doing." Next, it's up to you to live and train here, play abroad and most importantly have the ability to live independently. But many Chinese players ignore this, which is one of the reasons why they are not successful. I hope you don't follow their old path. ”

Zhou Yi nodded again and again at Keyster's advice and accepted them all.

Kister also knew that Zhou Yi was a sensible child, so he didn't say much.

After eating, Kitter drove Zhou Yi back to Mark's house, he waved his hand to Zhou Yi in the car, and drove away.

Zhou Yi had been standing outside, watching Keyter's car disappear completely around the corner of the street.

He is grateful to Mr. Keyter, although he says that he is a scout, but for Zhou Yi, he does more than just a scout's work.

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The Christmas holidays are over, and news is starting to appear on Dortmund TV station that the players have returned to Bracker's training base, which means that the first team has started training.

At the same time, the training of the youth team also began.

Zhou Yi and Mark return to Under-17s.

Physical training still occupies a very important part of Zhou Yi's daily training, and physical training is not just carried out in the gym with Bartlet, but is integrated into all training programs.

For example, a number of short short mini-games with a limited recovery time of two minutes and a very short break after the two minutes before resuming the game, four-on-four or smaller games where the players have more contact with the ball, penalty areas or smaller marked areas that force players to make quick decisions and require passing in quick runs.

Small races mean less rest, so the body must learn to adapt to the quick recovery from temporary fatigue caused by each sprint.

When it comes to endurance training, sports tend to involve more athletes and more space, while prescribing a longer period of exercise at a fixed pace. For example, fifteen to twenty minutes of training or eight-on-eight or larger matches are played on three-quarters or the entire field, while it is stipulated that all players must be in the offensive zone before shooting.

These trainings are excellent for physical recovery.

With Zhou Yi's physical fitness, when he first started this kind of training, he was very tired, and the two groups were tired and out of breath - the training intensity here is much higher than the training intensity of which team was temporarily put together for the purpose of filming a reality show, and it is based on the professional league.

However, after more than a month of physical training, Zhou Yi has gradually been able to keep up with such a training rhythm.

After the physical fitness can keep up, Zhou Yi's performance is also guaranteed.

He showed in his daily training why Jurgen Klopp had a crush on him in the first place.

The head coach of U17 was a little surprised, but what surprised him was not Zhou Yi's personal ability, after all, he commanded the team on the sidelines in that game, and he can be said to have remembered Zhou Yi's performance vividly.

What surprised him was the level of tacit understanding between Zhou Yi and his teammates.

It stands to reason that Zhou Yi has only been in this team for more than a month, and he and many people in this team should not know each other, they can only be regarded as acquaintances, and tacit understanding is not at all.

However, when the team practiced together, Zhou Yi seemed to have been training with this team for a year, and he knew very well what his teammates had to play in style, and as a midfield playmaker, this was reflected in his passing and finding openings.

He seems to know how his team-mates are used to how they move, where they are used to and what their style of play is, so he always gives the right passes.

As for his teammates, they were even more surprised, although some of them had fought against Zhou Yi in the original game, but the feeling of being an opponent and being a teammate was different, and the feeling of being a teammate was deeper and more detailed.

When they passed the football to Zhou Yi in training, and then ran forward empty, and turned around to remind Zhou Yi to pass the ball to themselves, they saw that the football had been passed by Zhou Yi!

They don't need to shout at all, and they don't need to raise their hands, they just run, as long as they are free, the football will be passed by Zhou Yi.

And Mark finally understood why Zhou Yi had set his vision to ninety-nine...... Such a strong ability to find vacancies is indeed worthy of the vision of ninety-nine!

In terms of the ability to find vacancies, the U17 coaching staff have seen Zhou Yi's ability.

Head coach Ecker began to think about whether to let Zhou Yi get the opportunity to play in advance.

Before, he thought that even if Zhou Yi's physical fitness passed, he still needed to increase the run-in with his teammates, so that he could integrate into the team.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi didn't seem to have to integrate into the team at all, he seemed to be born to play in this team.

In this way, the only factor restricting Zhou Yi's appearance is physical fitness.

So after more than a month of physical training, how is Zhou Yi's physical condition?

"It's hard to get used to the intensity of the professional league, but the youth team ...... You can try it. Bartlett told the Under-17 coaching staff with the stats.

How to try?

It's simple, put the game to the test.

Let Zhou Yi start, and then see how many minutes his physical fitness can last.

If you can hold on until after 80 minutes, then you can count as meeting the basic requirements of the game.

And during the training camp, there are a lot of such examples, because the U17 youth team also has warm-up matches.

What are the warm-up games for? Isn't that what they're for?

"I decided to start the next game against Fortuna Dusseldorf. Ecker announced the decision at Monday's coaching staff meeting, with no one on the coaching staff objecting.

What Zhou Yi showed in training is in everyone's eyes, this kid has a super ability to read the game, he may read the game one to two seconds faster than the average player.

If it weren't for his fitness, he would have been able to play in the team a long time ago

Since it is to test his fitness, it is normal to start the next game.

Seeing that there were no objections, Ecker continued: "Then let's identify the other starters. ”

Starting from the goalkeeper, it didn't take much effort to arrange many positions, the coaches have been with this team for a long time, and they are very familiar with the team, and what players should be arranged in the starting line-up will not be considered for too long, unless it is a large-scale injury, it will be a little troublesome.

But that's not the case now.

After such a smooth arrangement, he came to the position of starting striker.

"Let's let Hank go here......" the assistant coach said as he put his name on the list.

But head coach Eker suddenly stopped him: "Wait. ”

The assistant coach looked up at Ecker strangely, after Schneider was promoted from the U17 to the U19, Hank has been the main striker of the U17, he is not injured at the moment, and his fitness is also good, why do he need to hesitate to start?

"Replace it with Mark Wagner. Eckel spoke.

His decision surprised the entire coaching staff.

"Why?" the assistant coach asked directly.

"Don't you all notice that he and Zhou Yi have a much better understanding with each other than the rest of their teammates?" Ecker asked his coaching staff.

As soon as he said this, the rest of the coaching staff pondered, and when they looked back on it, they realized that Ecker had a point.

Although Zhou Yi seems to be completely free from the whole team on the court, there is still a gap between the lack of barriers and cooperation. There is indeed a bit of a "seamless" feel between him and Mark.

In the team's offensive drills and intra-team games, it can be seen that Zhou Yi consciously went to Mark to cooperate, and Mark is also the player who can best understand Zhou Yi's passing ideas in the whole team.

Zhou Yi has no barrier with other players, what he said is that he cooperates with those teammates, but it does not mean that other teammates can take the initiative to cooperate with Zhou Yi.

Mark was the best performer.

There is an obvious but always overlooked fact in training, and that is that when Mark is in a group with Zhou Yi, he performs better than if he is not in a group with Zhou Yi.

The coaching staff has always ignored this point before, because it is impossible for Zhou Yi to get the opportunity to play, and when arranging the starting lineup, without Zhou Yi, there will naturally be no Mark.

But now in this game, if Zhou Yi is to start, can Mark also get the opportunity to start accordingly?

It's really a ...... Something worth considering.

"It's okay to take the opportunity to look at more players as well. The assistant coach didn't insist on his choice and filled in Mark Wagner's name.