Chapter 15: The Coach's Determination
The next day, Lin Quan got up early in the morning.
After breakfast, he took a soccer ball and rode his bicycle to the base for training.
Werder Bremen's training base is a short distance from the Weser Arena, which is a landmark in the city.
So even for a newcomer like Lin Quan, as long as he looks for the direction of the court, he won't get lost.
Because the team has been on vacation, the club's side is also on semi-vacation.
Uncle Greyor, the security guard guarding the base, was surprised that there were still players coming to train at this time.
"Hey, boy, are you really a player on our team?"
He glanced Lin Quan up and down, he hadn't seen him in the team before, and he didn't wear a Werder Bremen jersey, so he was very suspicious of Lin Quan's identity.
"If you don't believe me, you can call the club's management, Mr. Essien, Mr. Aloofs, or if you have the number of the club's president, Mr. Klaus Fischer, call him."
Lin Quan stood calmly at the gate of the base, not nervous at all in the face of the security guard's questioning.
Greif saw that he reported the names of several management members of the club in one breath, and he still looked calm, and he already believed seven or eight points in his heart.
However, the Germans are more rigid, and it sounds like rigorous.
He also really called the club manager Alofs to confirm Lin Quan's identity.
Alofs had only met Lin Quan yesterday and was very surprised to hear Greif's report that Lin Quan had come to the club to practice.
So he personally drove over and took Lin Quan into the team's training base.
"That's the training ground for the youth team, it's the home team's training ground, the dressing room is over here, it's ......"
After introducing the various facilities of the training base, Alofston paused and said earnestly:
"It's a good thing to take the initiative to practice, but you should pay attention to controlling the amount of training, and don't overdo it and injure yourself.
You're still young, you have time, don't rush! ”
Although he is not optimistic that Lin Quan can perfectly integrate into Werder Bremen's tactical system, he admires or likes a hard-working player like Lin Quan.
Especially when a player is still very young, it is a very valuable quality to be able to resist the temptation of the fancy world outside the court, calm down, consolidate his foundation, and work hard to improve his skills.
Lin Quan nodded, and after some contact, he felt that Alofs was still very easy to get along with.
It can be seen that he has feelings for the club, but looking at his preoccupied appearance, the rumors that he wants to leave are probably true.
In the plane before Lin Quan's crossing, Alofs left Werder Bremen in 2013.
Werder Bremen didn't survive relegation until the final game that season, and perhaps the poor results were the biggest reason for his decision to leave.
In other words, if the team's results improve this season, Alofs may not choose to leave.
However, this has little to do with Lin Quan, he is just on loan to play football for a year, and after the loan contract expires next year, he will most likely leave.
At that time, whether Alofs and head coach Thomas Love will leave or stay will have little to do with him.
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After a period of time, Lin Quan went to the club to train step by step every day.
The main content of training is divided into ball training and off-ball training, which are some of the regular training content of professional teams.
At the beginning, the amount of training was not large, mainly because I was afraid of injury.
Later, after the physical condition is adjusted, slowly increase the amount of training.
Wait until the training volume has increased to a certain level, then it will stabilize and no longer continue to increase.
At his age, he is at a critical stage of growing his body, and excessive training can cause irreversible damage to his body.
Every time Lin Quan trained, Alofs would quietly observe from the sidelines.
A week later, there was one more person on the sidelines.
Lin Quan didn't know this person, but seeing that the other party was familiar with Alofs, he had some guesses about the other party's identity.
The two of them didn't bother Lin Quan's training, they only came over occasionally to take a look, and then chatted a few words.
"Thomas, what do you think of him?"
Alofs has been observing Lin Quan for two weeks and already knows Lin Quan's technical abilities very well.
This is a young player with very solid technique, delicate footwork and full of spirit.
In him, Alofs sees the shadow of Xavi Iniesta and even Messi at the same time.
The other party seems to have a combination of the strengths of these three people, and has both organizational skills and finishing ability.
It is worthy of being produced by La Masia, and it is indeed a boutique!
However, it is a pity that there is no actual combat drill at present, and there is no way to verify his judgment, so he is not sure whether his judgment is accurate.
So he brought in his friend and partner, the club's head coach Thomas Scharf, and asked him to come over and watch Lin Quan's training together.
Shaff looked at it intently for a long time, and then replied faintly:
"The technique is very good, but too young."
There are a lot of potential stars in football, but not many can really play in the end.
Take the Golden Boy Award as an example, the players who can win the Golden Boy Award, during the period of the award, their performance must be unanimously recognized by everyone.
However, their future careers were not all smooth sailing, and many of them did not come out, and they were called super parallel goods.
For example, Anderson, the European golden boy bought by Manchester United at a high price, did not play at all at Manchester United, resulting in the 20 million euro recruitment being criticized.
And Anderson was 19 years old when he joined Manchester United, and Lin Quan is only 16 years old this year.
The risk of betting on him is probably greater than the risk of Ferguson's bet on Anderson.
Alofs apparently disagrees:
"I don't think you can deny the opponent because he is young, don't forget, Werder Bremen's record for the youngest appearance is held by you, if the coach also denied young players like you, then can you still come out?"
"Shaf, you have changed, you have become conservative, is it because of the team's poor record, you have become conservative, lost your previous calmness and self-confidence?"
Thomas Schaff was silent when he heard his friend's words, and he couldn't help but wonder: Is it really himself who has changed?
The club, which was in the league title contender three seasons ago, suddenly collapsed last season and fell directly into the relegation team.
Last season, the situation deteriorated further, and the team almost fell into the abyss of relegation.
This summer, 14 players, including the main goalkeeper Wiese, have left, half of them are the main players of the team.
In this situation, the team's relegation pressure in the new season is unprecedentedly huge, and he cannot afford to make any mistakes.
And he probably became conservative under such tremendous pressure!
"You're right, I shouldn't have been so conservative!"
"With our current lineup, no matter how conservative we are, there is no guarantee that we will be relegated, in this case, it is better to give it a go!"