Football: The Journey of a Coach
6. The Counter Attack Survives
Amy Traore and her cousin Joey Collins survive the end. Traore likes to play football too much, but unfortunately he is not very talented. He is now 20 years old. Although Daniel Ward threatened to adopt defensive counter-attacking tactics, he was excellent. However, he didn't have much free time, and I was worried that he didn't have much time to participate in the training, so I submitted in the end to explain.
Daniel Ward knew about the condition of the Traore family, Daniel's extended family in England was arguably a middle class family, and the Traore family could only be considered a poor family, indeed not much time to practice.
"Amy, I'm so optimistic about you!". Whatever happened, Daniel cheered before saying. "You're very fast and have a certain foundation, but I don't think you've found a very good position!".
"There may be a problem with the direction of your efforts, you may not be a strategic commander, but you can be a lightning-fast assassin!" The words of Daniel stimulate Traore's eyes to shine, as if he had found the same mentor. But in real situations, Daniel doesn't have a keen eye. How can he see Traore's future?. He only thinks of one man - Vardy, one of the Premier League's top future strikers.
It looks like Vardy is still in the amateur league now, Daniel is not sure, but Vardy and Traore have one thing in common, both very fast. In addition to coming up with defensive counter-attack tactics, Croydon always needed a lightning-fast killer, and Daniel needed Traore to play the role. Of course, according to Daniel, the advice he could give Traore was not nonsense.
"You, the usual training focus is to run and shoot. This is especially to be strengthened! Your body needs to be stronger. In a confrontation with an opponent, you cannot be as weak as you are in the season. Don't be afraid of confrontation!".
Traore's physical condition was really not bad, he was 1.83 meters tall, and his body looked quite strong. This may be related to long-term physical labor, but he is rather shy in confrontation. Traore also has an undisclosed problem. England's low-level league is more brutal than the Premier League, and there have been plenty of physical confrontations. He is the pillar of the family. Can he not care about his body? He was hurt and lost his job What brothers and sisters want to eat. It was hard to say, so he could only listen in silence.
“If you are afraid of confrontation, you will never be able to achieve higher achievements!”. Daniel never thought of the real reason why Traore did not dare to work too hard, and made a strong conclusion. But Traore was touched by this sentence. Yes, I did not dare to work hard for fear that I would be completely useless. Sooner or later, even Croydon will have no place of his own. I love football so much!
"Maybe I have to change!" traore said in his heart.
"About shooting, it should not be practiced at the training ground. You can practice whenever you have free time!". Daniel Ward continued, "You can also train your senses. There is an old saying in China that as long as you have deep kung fu, you can also make a good iron stick. The needle!. Amy, I'm sure you can improve a lot!"
“Danny, honestly, I don't even have many balls!” Traore's words left Daniel and Joey stunned.
Yes, I know you're generally poor, but I didn't expect to be so poor.
"I'll give you some balls this afternoon! If the ball breaks, you can come to me and I will personally sponsor you!". Daniel Ward patted Traore on the shoulder and said.
Traore was overjoyed, and thanked her hastily, of course she did not want to be liked by others, but she did not care now. As Traore left, Daniel sighed, "I never thought this guy's family would be so poor!" "
"I don't know either!" Joey shook his head and said. The two brothers did not return during the day, they had a simple lunch near the club and went to the sports store to buy a ball. Of course the club has football, but it is public. Daniel Ward said that sponsoring Traore is certainly not possible for the club. After buying the ball, the brothers returned to the conference room again.
Daniel Ward issued a carefully prepared training plan by himself after staying up late for several nights, and revised it again.After the revision is completed, the, he makes individual training plans and priorities for each player based on his own tactical observations and assumptions.
"I didn't expect the coaching job to be so complicated. I don't think Mr. Norwood has written so much!." Joey saw a thick training plan and was speechless.
"hm, what do you think ?! Training is not easy.Only by working hard and being careful can you succeed!. By the way, being a coach is no easier than playing football! "Answer Daniel calmly.
"Of course not!. Every coach has a different way, he may have just experienced something bad. After all, when a player doesn't want to win, the coach can do what." Daniel explains the ins and outs of the coach's difficulties.
"Now I increasingly believe that you can improve us!". Joey is increasingly convinced, someone who knows the limits of his own abilities. Very rare at the moment.
"Judging from your limited talent, you may not be very promising in football!. Hows it?. Do you want to be my maid now!." Daniel Ward said jokingly,
"Danny, you bastard!. Don't you want to hit someone like this?. I'm not interested in this! "Joy shrugged and lacked interest.
"Alright, let me give you a task, okay? !. If you help me, it is very inconvenient for me to do it myself. " Daniel Ward intends to use a step-by-step approach.
" Help? ! Doesn't matter! "
"You helped me do the statistics! ".
" Stats? ! ". Joy was a little confused.
"Do you not know the statistics? !. This is a very important job! ". Daniel Ward said strangely.
"No, I just don't know what to count!".
"In this afternoon's training class, I'll let you calculate some data, and then I'll teach you data analysis!". Daniel patted Joey on the shoulder, "Being a head coach is very busy".
Daniel Ward is telling the truth. The higher the level of UEFA coaching certificates, the more the coach needs to know. Needless to say, the design and setting of training courses, psychology, nutrition, management, etc. Must learn. To dabble, of course the most important thing is to have coaching experience, there are 24 teams in the Southern District, the season is very long, and there are trophies, every team plays a lot of games, every team plays a lot of games, and physical fitness is important for every Test team, this is why a low-level league will increase the number of substitutions, and the first-team lineup is rather large.Daniel Ward's training class physical training has also increased a lot, and he has also seen Norwood's training set-up The physical part is relatively small in his opinion, this is probably one of the reasons why the team almost collapsed last season.
According to Norwood's training setting, he had put a lot of effort into personal skill improvement training. Daniel had no idea how effective the training was, but he felt it was inappropriate to emphasize such a focus on Croydon's team.
In terms of the composition of the age of the players, the team does have a lot of young people, but we have to see what the material of the young people is, let alone the main players in their twenties and thirties, he said, the space for repairs is very limited. Even if there is an improvement, the process may be long.
Daniel's training plan can be said to be the opposite, the first is tactical training, training in formations and playing methods, the second is physical training, and the third is personal skill and tactical improvement. write a targeted training plan for each person, and let them take the time to practice on their own, and the training will be organized in small numbers.
And his personal training plan, frankly, also served a defensive counterattack tactical formation, everyone was a screw.
He very clearly did not train elementary school students, did not lead the junior team like he used to.
