Midfielder Ruler

In the two days before Christmas Eve, Tang Zheng was accompanied by Matteo Musacchio for training with the ball. In the words of youth team coach Igabe Fabianni: " Your personal basic skills are too poor, you need to practice hard."

So in these two days, Matteo Musacchio accompanied Tang Zheng in the boring basic training.

For example: passing and catching the ball, fast express delivery, protecting and holding the ball with personal interference.

Of course, Tang Zheng was an excellent striker in the past, so he didn't fail in shooting training.

The defensive midfielder may be the most suitable position for him, but who stipulates that the midfielder cannot complete the shot?

In terms of shooting training, Tang Zheng and Matteo Musacchio used more long-range shots after physical confrontation.

However, Matteo Musacchio, who was 1.8 meters tall and weighed 75 kilograms, was obviously stronger than Tang Zheng in terms of physical resistance, so the quality of the long-range shots he completed was very poor.

The two days of basic training passed quickly, and Tang Zheng ushered in his first Christmas Eve in Argentina, but as a Chinese, even if he lived in Shanghai, an international metropolis, he didn't like to celebrate this festival.

Christmas Eve is approaching, and it also means that all echelons of the River Plate Club will start a half-month holiday.

The formerly bustling dormitory area suddenly became extremely cold, and Tang Zheng didn't want to disturb Chen Zhonghua, so he refused the elder's invitation on the grounds of training.

The reason is that Chen Jia is now working hard in the United States, and no one plays with him.

Fabino Rodrigo also invited Tang Zheng to spend Christmas together, but Tang Zheng also refused.

As for the reason, he changed it to practice more!

Fortunately, the club's training base has not suspended operations, and the stadium and dormitory can still be used, otherwise Tang Zheng would be homeless.

Tang Zheng was destined to spend Christmas Eve alone.

But how to spend the long night?

It is obviously not Tang Zheng's style to complain to his parents, and besides... jet lag cannot be ignored.

It was 5:00 p.m. local time in Argentina, and it was still 4:00 a.m. Beijing time.

So...he turned on his laptop, logged into Tencent QQ, and checked to see if there were any friends online. At least it would relieve the boredom, wouldn't it?

But after looking around, there is no one online who can chat.

so boring!

Tang Zheng glanced outside the dormitory, it was still early in the morning, how about... going to practice more?

Thinking of this, Tang Zheng really left as soon as he said it.

"Hey, Tang... are you here for extra training?" Javier, the field manager, asked curiously when he saw Tang Zheng in a training uniform.

"Yes." Tang Zheng squatted and said while tying his shoelaces.

"But today is Christmas Eve."

"Hey, Uncle Javier, our country is only on Christmas Eve." After tying his shoes, Tang Zheng got up and patted Javier on the shoulder, then picked up the stadium key hanging on the wall.

"Yes yes yes, I remember that you Chinese seem to only celebrate that, what kind of festival? When people get old, their memory is lost." Uncle Javier is very talkative, and he can't stop talking when he opens the clip: "Just the festival of eating dumplings, yes Bar?"

"Oh, what you said is the Spring Festival, it's still early." After Tang Zheng finished speaking, the sound of 'swish' disappeared.

Apparently, he's also a little scared of this particularly chatty groundsman...

The basic training of one person is not as monotonous and boring as that of two people.

But dreams are destined to be a lonely journey, Tang Zheng knows it very well.

It is obviously useless to practice dribbling with the ball personally. The purpose of training is for the competition, but personal dribbling in place is useless without confrontation. Besides, Tang Zheng's personal ability to protect the ball is very good, the only difference is when he catches the ball. Physical confrontation would easily lead to conceding goals, so this training was automatically rejected by Tang Zheng.

This time, the content of his personal extra training is aimed at his own weakness - long pass!

These days of training,

Tang Zheng has a better understanding of the position of the back waist.

In addition to needing to be able to defend, the defensive midfielder is extremely important to distribute the ball, otherwise the team will lose one person in the offense.

With the development of modern football, a midfielder who can only defend is no longer suitable for modern football. In addition, Tang Zheng used to play as a forward and had a strong desire to attack. It is uncomfortable for him to stay honestly in the backcourt.

The modern models of successful defensive midfielders are Gerrard, Ballack, Pirlo, Cambiasso, Xavi Alonso...

Each of these players has a strong offensive ability, especially the ability to pass long passes, which can enrich the team's tactical play.

Without sparring, Tang Zheng used the crossbar of the south goal of the youth team's training ground as the receiving point, and then placed the ball anywhere on the court to make a fixed-point long pass.

As for why the south crossbar is used as a support point, the reason is very simple. Behind the south goal is a nine-meter-high hanging net. You don’t have to worry about kicking to the La Plata River behind, and the hanging net is about three meters away from the goal line. Tang Zheng All you have to do is kick the ball into the space between the 7.32m long beam and the hanging net.

Of course, the distance must not be short, but it cannot be long, otherwise it would be meaningless.

Tang Zheng chose to start at thirty meters.

The commonly used footwork for long passes is the inside of the instep, Tang Zheng is also the same, but the effect of the first attempt is not satisfactory, not to mention the use of too much power, the football is still a bit floating in the air.

This kind of long pass loses its suddenness, which is equivalent to leaving time for the opponent to judge the landing point and even stabilize the defense line.

Come again!

After more than ten attempts, the effect is good, but the front sight is gone.

After a while, the footballs in the iron frame were scattered all over the ground, Tang Zheng didn't continue to try, but sat on the ground, thinking whether he used his footwork wrong?

He used to play as a striker, and the team was not a strong team. The reason why he was able to win the national high school football league championship was because he had a mature set of quick counterattack tactics, coupled with Tang Zheng's super personal ability, he won the championship in the national high school football league. In football, it is invincible.

Even if he passed the ball to his teammates, it was all short passes.

long pass?

Not at all.

After calming down, Tang Zheng realized that there was nothing wrong with the position of his long pass. What was wrong was the point of force. The dozen or so long pass attempts he made just now were all rehearsed from his previous shooting habits.

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Diego Simeone stretched his waist. He realized that it was getting dark outside the window, so he looked at his watch. It was already half past six in the evening.

"Damn it." He slapped his thigh violently while packing his things: "I forgot the time again. I promised Carolina to have dinner with the children before going out today."

There was still half an hour before the agreed time at seven o'clock in the evening. Diego Simeone simply packed his things and walked out of the office area with the car keys.

When he was walking along the street lights towards the parking lot, he found that a training ground was still lit, and there was still the sound of 'bang', 'bang' touching the ball from time to time.

Isn't today Christmas Eve? Why... is there anyone who is not on holiday?

With this question in mind, Diego Simeone turned a corner and walked towards the youth team training ground.

"This...isn't this the Chinese Tang who I hand-picked to join the team?" Diego Simeone looked at the familiar figure from behind, feeling a little ashamed. He had nothing to do with bringing Tang Zheng to the youth team last week.

Tang Zheng stood on the left side of the arc in the middle of the half, about forty-five meters away from the goal crossbar. He stomped on the football with the sole of his foot, then glanced up, ran up, and made a long pass.

shoot?

This idea was quickly denied by Diego Simeone. What's the use of practicing shooting from such a long distance?

So this possibility was denied by him, but he didn't bother Tang Zheng, but watched at the entrance of the youth team training ground to observe what Tang Zheng was practicing.

Soon, he could tell from Tang Zheng's continuous attempts.

Tang Zheng was practicing long pass.

It is normal for defensive midfielders to practice long passes. After all, in the history of modern football development, it is very common for defensive midfielders to launch counterattacks with long passes. Time to initiate.

When a team has a player with accurate long passes, the technical and tactical style of play will also become richer.

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