Chapter 20:

In the entire youth team, only a few players have professional football agents, such as Coker.

Most players do not have a professional agent. When signing a contract, they usually bring their guardian and a lawyer: Zhou Liran is like this now. He does not sign a professional agent. The contract with the team is made by Carter and his lawyer. Came here to sign.

Professional football agents will negotiate a share with you. Youth team players like them who don't make much money will naturally not be favored by professional football agents.

Without him, you can't make money.

An agent like Coker signed Coker not to make money, but to make an investment. He is optimistic about Coker's future.

After Zhou Liran became famous, several professional agents came to him and said they were optimistic about him. Zhou Liran was very excited at first. When he heard that their plan was to accept advertisements now, and the best share would only be three cents. At seven points, Zhou Liran didn't want to talk to them at all.

It's not impossible to invest in him, he is happy to accept investment, but you can't be too picky!

"I heard from Jose that you want to continue training during the holidays but lack professional football coaches? You know, I have signed many football players, and there are also many people who want to continue training during the holidays. My coaching staff There is no shortage of it. If you want, I can help you arrange training now."

"No, Ritter, you can think of it as a small help to my friend. Jose is the best in my name. Coach, you are his favorite goalkeeper now, of course I will help you. Even if I fail to become your agent in the end, I will still be willing to help you. It is an honor for me to be able to help a future goalkeeper."

"Yes. "Hey, what kind of house do you like? When I helped Jose rent a house here, I took a fancy to several good houses. If you want to move out, I think I can help you recommend them."

"It's already very late, so I won't disturb you. You go to bed early."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Liran stared at the phone for a few seconds and gave a slight tut with a complicated expression: Mendes is indeed the most famous person in the future. Football agent, this speaking skill is really... I got straight to the point and confirmed that he didn't have a professional football agent, so I started to care about him. If he hadn't lived an extra life, I'm afraid he would have agreed to Mendes on the phone right then and there. His agent.

...

After Abramovich took over at Stamford Bridge in 2003, he spent tens of millions of pounds to build the Cobham training base. The entire training base covers an area of ​​130 acres and has 15 football fields and an indoor football field for winter training. .

The Cobham Training Base is the backbone of Chelsea Club. The first team, reserve team, and youth echelon all train in this training base, and Zhou Liran is the first batch of students in the youth training camp of the Cobham Training Base.

For Zhou Liran, the biggest difference after being promoted to the home team is that he changed to a single dormitory and went to a new, bigger and better training venue to train, where he can receive better player rehabilitation services, medical and media services... Well, actually the difference is quite big. Although they are all in the same place, but when you switch from the youth team to here, the quality of the jerseys is different from that of the youth team.

The jersey numbers that players who have just joined the team can choose are all relatively high, and they can't pick out anything, so Zhou Liran closed his eyes and picked up a jersey at random: No. 35?

Well, it's pretty good. Together they are 8, which is very auspicious.

In the new locker room and the new ball cabinet, after changing the jerseys, Zhou Liran saw Mr. Mourinho wearing a black suit.

"Let's go and do a comprehensive examination first."

First check whether there are any injuries, and then test the limits of each item. After all tests are completed, Mourinho also said to the checklist like the original coach, " Comments like "Zhou Liran is very healthy", "He is as strong as a cow" and so on were silent for a long time, and finally his eyes fell on his face.

"Has your face been injured?"

Zhou Liran shook his head.

Mourinho took a deep breath, "Is this why you dare to keep catching the ball with your face?"

After saying this, Mourinho's fingertips moved, and he really wanted to touch Zhou Liran's face. Impulse: Could this guy's face really be made of iron? Is this iron sheet very hard and sharp? Can it cut a football directly?

"Coach, I actually didn't want to catch the ball with my face, but I couldn't help it. I wasn't capable enough, so it ended up like this. Although I caught the football, it still hurt every time I hit it in the face. "

Hearing what Zhou Liran said, Mourinho felt relieved: He knew that he was inadequate and thought that it would be okay if he continued to train hard. If he doesn't want to continue to train hard just because he is enlightened and talented, then what he said before if he can't leave the game without a clean sheet is not to comfort the other goalkeepers in the team, but to leave Mourinho with a way out for himself. .

"Okay, let's go, let's go to the stadium now."

There is no need for special arrangements for physical fitness training, because the team has already had a complete training system over the years. The items of endurance training and explosive strength training are both universal, including long-distance running and other aerobic exercises, sprinting, jumping and other explosive strength-improving exercises. In addition, there is flexibility training specifically for goalkeepers. Daily stretching training and yoga are necessary - Zhou Liran has been practicing this since he was thirteen years old.

This is a step-by-step, steadily improving training content that only results in qualitative changes due to the increase in training time. Haste makes waste.

Skill training is mainly divided into catching and passing. Zhou Liran rushed to the goalkeeper as soon as he entered the youth training camp. In the past four years, he has basically learned all kinds of skills, and also found the most comfortable one that suits him. Passing and catching skills. If you want to improve in this area, you either need to learn new and better skills, or you need to work deeper on the original skills.

Zhou Liran has been studying for four years, and his habits have long been formed. It is too late to learn new skills in two months, so Mourinho asked Zhou Liran to do his favorite and best passing and receiving skills first, and then do his own thing. If you don’t do it often, your proficiency is not very high.

"Test your reaction speed again." Mourinho quickly wrote down Zhou Liran's situation on the paper, and then continued to arrange the test, "Yesterday afternoon's training already showed me your reaction speed, now you do a Hand-eye coordination training is enough. "

The hand-eye coordination training for goalkeepers is to take out two balls, hold one football in your hand, throw the other ball into the air, catch the ball in the air, and then throw the ball up in your hand. This cycle continues until the football lands on the lawn.

When 13-year-old Zhou Liran started training, he often got hit and had a nosebleed. Now, Mourinho can stand by with a stopwatch to see how long he can hold on before the football falls.

"In terms of psychological quality," Mourinho tapped the pen on the paper a few times, "this also needs to be practiced. Have you ever thought about what you are going to do if you encounter a penalty shootout?"

There was a big question. Heart is very important for players, especially goalkeepers. No matter how well you perform in normal training and games, if you perform abnormally due to nervousness as soon as you stand on the court, then you can't even be a substitute for the first team.

Players with such a big heart may be born with this kind of mentality, and some may develop it through training.

"Which one do you think you belong to?"

In his previous life, it should have been acquired through practice. When he first saw the football flying over when they were giving rewards, he would subconsciously hide for fear of being hit in the face by the ball. Finally, he slowly practiced and practiced. Not anymore.

"Coach, I should be the kind of player in the front."

In this life, he wanted to practice it the day after tomorrow, but unfortunately, he just continued it. When he saw the football, he not only did not hide, but also directly faced it.

It's even more powerful now, because he knows that with the system close by, he won't be hurt, so it doesn't matter, just hit him if he needs to, and hit him if he likes.

It’s not like he’s never been hit before. Now he’s being hit every day. Is he proud?