With the players who participated in the World Cup gradually returning to the team, Dortmund's squad is in full shape and training is becoming normal. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The whole team is training hard for the new season.

Of course, fitness is still important to Klopp, and there is a lot of running training.

Mountain climbing training is still arranged.

When Zhou Yi was chatting with Yang Muge, he learned that Schalke 04's head coach Magath also likes to take the first-team players to climb the mountain.

So the mountainous cities of Austria and Switzerland are popular training camps for Bundesliga teams.

Only then did Zhou Yi know that the German coach liked to climb mountains so much......

However, climbing a mountain is indeed a good way to train, not only to train the physical fitness, but also to train the players' will.

Because climbing the mountain to the end, in fact, it is not physical fitness, but the quality of will - when exhausted, when you look up and find the towering mountain tops and difficult to climb slopes, many people will have a sense of frustration, feeling as if the end is never out of reach.

At such a time, only those who do not give up can finally reach the end.

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After the physical training, it is the tactical training phase of the team.

On the first day of tactical training, Klopp arranged a closed intra-squad training match.

Divide the players into two teams for an eleven-on-eleven, ninety-minute match.

Kick off the tactical training with a game, and try to get the players as much feel as possible with this kind of intra-squad play that isn't too intense, while the coaching staff can take a good look at each player.

Especially the new players who have just joined the team.

Originally, Klopp wanted to observe more new players, such as Shinji Kagawa, such as Robert Lewandowski, such as those young players who were drawn from the second team.

But soon, his eyes fell on Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi conducts physical and strength training during the holidays, which is led by Klopp.

The results of Zhou Yi's training were also seen by Klopp during the physical examination report and the following physical training.

But he has never really seen the results of special training on the pitch.

Now he sees it.

Zhou Yi was more active in the training match, and his range of motion was much larger than before. In the past, Zhou Yi mainly moved in the middle of the court, or two ribs, and occasionally went to the second side.

His range of motion is a little less longitudinal than lateral, but he rarely gets into two restricted areas.

For a striker, in addition to not entering the opponent's penalty area very much, in fact, the activity area is almost enough.

But now, he's running a lot bigger, he's going to get into the opposition box, he's going to drop back to his own box, he's going to be on the wing, and he's going to be on that side.

After the range of activities is large, it feels like he is everywhere on the court, and he can participate in the team's attack and defense anytime and anywhere.

And it's not just that the running range has increased, it's really just an introduction. What really caught Klopp's attention was yet to come.

When the running range becomes larger and he can go to more places, Zhou Yi also needs to have the ability to send the football to any place on the field.

This is the basic requirement for a good midfielder.

So soon, when Zhou Yi ran to the corner of the defensive third to get the ball, and then turned around and passed a long pass to Grosskloitz diagonally opposite, Klopp's eyebrows jumped up.

Subsequently, Zhou Yi transferred more and more long passes like this, from the left side of the court to the right, the right to the left, and the back to the front......

Sometimes he fails, but it's not a big deal. Compared with short passes, the accuracy of long passes is much lower, and the success rate is not too high, and it is impossible to accurately pass to the destination with every foot.

The range of forgiveness for the accuracy of long passes is actually quite large.

As long as you can pass on eight or nine to ten, it's fine.

So what attracted Klopp's attention was not the accuracy of Zhou Yichang's passing, but his intention to start making frequent long passes.

You know, that's almost impossible to see last season. Last season, Zhou Yi would only make short passes, and occasionally make a mid-range pass. Sometimes, in order to connect the team's attack, he had to constantly run to meet his teammates and then pass the ball again. In this way, the physical requirements for him are naturally very high.

Klopp thought about it carefully, and he had the impression that there seemed to be only one game in which Zhou Yi took the initiative to try a long pass many times - in the last round of the league last season, Dortmund challenged Freiburg away, and when the two sides played 1:1 and the game was deadlocked, Zhou Yi suddenly made a long pass and accurately found Barrios, forming a great opportunity.

But in the end, Barrios wasted the opportunity.

As a result, Dortmund were not able to win the last game.

That game was not only Zhou Yi's only long pass, before that, he had also tried a few times, but it was not very successful.

Now seeing Zhou Yi's performance in the training match, Klopp reacted - perhaps since that time, Zhou Yi has consciously increased the use of long passes......

This shows that Zhou Yi is a young man with a clear mind, and he is not satisfied with his performance of fourteen assists in a season, but clearly recognizes his shortcomings. As a playmaker in midfield, it's really unreasonable not to be able to pass long passes......

Seeing Zhou Yi constantly changing positions on the field, moving the football back and forth, an idea suddenly popped up in Klopp's mind.

After Shaheen left the team, there seemed to be a solution to a problem that had been bothering him......

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So after the training, Zhou Yi was told by Chloe to go to his room at night.

Zhou Yi was surprised by this, and his friends were also surprised.

As soon as Klopp left, Mark leaned in: "Why did the coach call you to his room?"

Zhou Yi shook his head: "I don't know ......"

"I don't think it's a good thing!" Grosskloitz said pretendically, "Zhou Yi, you're going to be unlucky!"

"Kevin, don't go next Zhou Yi!" Mark hurriedly comforted Zhou Yi. "It could also be a good thing!"

"yes, at least a 50% chance is a good thing, it sounds like a high probability. Götze interjected.

Zhou Yi rolled his eyes.

He didn't care about anything good or bad, he just felt strange, and he waved his hand at Mark: "Don't worry, Mark." If anything bad happens, let Uncle Kevin and Mario treat us to dinner separately!"

"Hush. Grosskloitz snorted, "What if it's a good thing, you invite us to dinner?"

"If it's a good thing, shouldn't you invite me to dinner? Zhou Yi was surprised.

Grosskloitz patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder and praised: "Hey, I just like you to be so shameless, Zhou Yi!"

"Thanks for the compliment, Uncle Kevin. Zhou Yi happily accepted it.

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After dinner in the evening, Zhou Yi knocked on Klopp's door.

It wasn't Jurgen Klopp who opened the door for him, it was assistant coach Bouacchi.

Klopp then greeted him and motioned for him to sit.

After sitting down, there was no greeting, Klopp asked directly: "Zhou Yi, have you practiced long passes for yourself?"

After asking, both of them looked at him expectantly.

"Uh......" Zhou Yi definitely couldn't tell "I practice in my dream", he could only nod, "Actually, since last season, I have been practicing long passes for myself in private." ”

He's right, it's just that he's practicing in the virtual world.

Klopp didn't intend to ask Zhou Yi how he practiced for himself, but glanced at each other with Bwach, and there was a meaning of "sure enough" in it.

Next, the team's assistant coach, Gerlico Bouác, who specializes in tactics, looked at Zhou Yi again and said, "Why did you start practising long passes?"

"I just feel like I'm too one-size-fits-all, and if it's just a short pass, I'll miss out on some better opportunities. Zhou Yi honestly said what he thought in his heart. "When I need a long pass, if I can't have a precise long pass, I'm just staring. ”

'But you're a striker, you're very close to the goal, how often do you need to use long balls?' Bouacki continued.

"This ...... That being said, coach. But I don't think it's just one place, it should be on the pitch where you have time, and you should pass the football wherever you have the opportunity. Zhou Yi explained. "Besides, if I pass a long pass, if the opponent forces me in front of their penalty area and rushes me, I can take the initiative to retreat, open up the distance, and then directly use the long pass to attack......"

Klopp and Bovac looked at each other again. It's rare for a young player to have that in his head.

Many young people, in addition to playing football, only think about how to use the money they earn to pick up girls and buy cars. This kind of tactical thinking seems to be the business of the coaches, they just have to execute it on the pitch.

After listening to Zhou Yi's words, Bouacchi nodded and said, "Then Zhou Yi, how about playing the back?"

"Huh?" Zhou Yi was surprised, this question was asked too suddenly, and he hadn't reacted yet.

"From the front to the back, you get more space and vision, and you have a lot of use for your hard work. And...... Depending on the style of play you play, you can always cut forward if necessary. Anyway, your current physical strength can keep up. In modern football, it is already a general trend for the core of the organization to move backwards. Of course, you don't have to give an answer now, you can go back and ......"

But before Bwach finished speaking, he heard Zhou Yi say: "Okay." ”

"Huh?" it was Bwach and Klopp's turn to be surprised.

"I'm fine with playing at the back. Zhou Yi said again.

"This ...... Don't you think about it?" Bwach couldn't believe it.

"I've thought it through, coach. Since I have considered retreating to avoid the opponent's close pressing, why not change the passive retreat to the active retreat?" Zhou Yi spread his hand. "And I do often run to the midfielder position to ask for the ball in the game, so I think it's better to be a midfielder than to fight for a position with the midfielder. ”

Klopp, who had been silent beside him, finally spoke: "You have to think about it, Zhou Yi." I hope it was your own decision, not any pressure. ”

Zhou Yi shook his head: "No, coach, this is my own decision." ”

"But playing at the back is far from the opponent's goal. I remember people saying that the closer you are to the opposition goal, the more dangerous you are, so the farther you are from the goal, the less dangerous you are......" Klopp said.

"I think that's wrong in itself, coach. I'm not in one position on the pitch, I'm always running, I play in the back, not necessarily even in the half, right? I don't say anything about staying in front and not coming back, right? Besides, why can't I be a threat no matter how far away from goal?"

Hearing Zhou Yi's answer, Klopp slapped his face: "Okay! Then it's decided, from this season onwards, you play the back!"

In this way, Zhou Yi experienced the second position change since he played, from striker to forward waist, from front waist to back waist, his position is getting further and lower, but the importance is getting higher and higher.