While going to the training ground to prepare for training, Zhou Yi and Mark walked together. He leaned over to Mark and asked in a low voice: "Mark, have you seen Schneider?"

"No...yes, I didn't see it." After Zhou Yi asked this, Mark remembered that when Gotze introduced them to everyone today, there was no Schneider at all. "Isn't he from U19?"

"Hehe." Zhou Yi laughed. He could already guess what happened - Schneider was late for training!

"There's a good show," he said to Mark...

When Zhou Yi and Mark began to warm up with their teammates, someone hurried to the training ground.

This person is Schneider, whom he and Mark are very familiar with.

This made U19's head coach Peter Yebala very angry.

"Schneider! Why are you late for training?" he shouted at Schneider.

Zhou Yi hugged his chest with his hands, hit Mark, and looked like he was watching the show on his face.

Seeing the head coach getting angry, Schneider quickly explained with a correct attitude: "Uh, sorry, sir. I didn't mean to be late. In fact, on the way to Bracker, I met an old lady with her injured dog asking me for help, so I took them to the pet hospital first... I'm already driving very fast, sir, no matter how fast I'm afraid I will never catch up with the training..."

Although Yebala was angry, seeing that Schneider was so sincere, he did not go into it. He just warned Schneider not to take the example, so he signaled him to make up for the warm-up.

Unexpectedly, Schneider said: "Sir, I ran all the way from the parking lot. I just want to warm up..."

But this time Schneider didn't let him go: "Go to warm up!"

Schneider is so kind to warm up.

There was a burst of laughter about Schneider being scolded among his teammates.

But Zhou Yi was stunned: "I'm going, are the Germans so stubborn? Is this obvious lie so let him go? Can't the coach hear it?"

Mark said dissatisfiedly: "I am also a German, and I can see it too. Based on my understanding of him, Schneider is definitely not the kind of caring person. Whether it is for dogs or old ladies."

"Will the coach not see it?" Zhou Yi asked in surprise.

"Maybe... there are other considerations." Mark guessed.

While the two were gathering together and whispering about Schneider, Schneider also noticed them.

When he saw that Zhou Yi and Mark were also in the team, he was stunned for a moment.

Seeing that he was discovered, Zhou Yi waved to Schneider and said generously: "Hi, Schneider. I said it back then, I am your teammate."

This instantly evoked Schneider's not-so-good memory. In his opinion, Zhou Yi's words at this time were simply provocative!

So Schneider glared at Zhou Yi fiercely, without responding to him.

At the same time, he also noticed Mark standing next to Zhou Yi, and was also surprised - how did this waste come to U19?

Facing Schneider's unfriendly gaze, Mark did not lower his head this time, but looked at him in front of his eyes.

Schneider was not used to this kind of Mark, but now he was in such a public view of the situation, and he had no choice but to turn his head away and hummed disdainfully in his heart.

Anyway, they will be back to U17 soon, so there is nothing to pay attention to.

U19 is different from U17, boys who have not even grown all their hair!

Schneider couldn't think of how Zhou Yi and Mark came to U19. Since he left U17, he has never paid attention to that place again. Unlike Gotze, he still knew to say hello to his old teammates and reminisce about the past. Schneider was so arrogant that he had become a first-team star and looked down on his former teammates.

His idea is also very simple - those people are still at U17, which means they are all a group of poor people with poor strength. What reason does this person who takes the initiative to become a big star have to be mixed with them? Price drop!

So he naturally didn't know how outstanding Zhou Yi and Mark performed in the Ruhr derby of U17 just ended, and he wouldn't know how outstanding Zhou Yi and Mark performed in the previous series of warm-up matches.

Although the U19 and U17 locker rooms are only two minutes away, and the training grounds of U19 and U17 are separated by a barbed wire wall and a slope, for Schneider, it is as far away from Dortmund to Munich.

He didn't care how Mark and Zhou Yi came from U19, because in his opinion, the result was the same. It won't take long for the two of them to roll back to U17, where they should stay.

Rot there!

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The training in the morning of U19 is mainly about various training for the whole team. In addition to warm-up, it is about defensive training, offensive training, pass training and shooting training... and other regular training content.

There is no big difference between it and U17, but the strength requirements are higher and the pace is faster.

It can be seen that as the highest level in the youth team sequence, U19 training is already the strongest training that young players can receive.

Although U23 on the Internet has the letter "U", it is actually not the youth team, but the reserve team.

The reserve team of the German team is not called "Reserve Team" like England, nor is it called "Second Team" or something like Spain.

It's U23.

After the age of U19 players reaches U23, some of them will be promoted to U23, some of them will not meet the requirements of the team, and they will leave the team and play in other teams. Only a few of them will be transferred to the first team directly because of their outstanding talents and outstanding performance. Even if they go to the first team, they may not be able to play in the game immediately. Most of the time they follow the first team to train, but they still have to play in the reserve team for the game.

Such a genius, Gotze was directly transferred from U17 to the first team, and he could only train and could not play in the game.

Therefore, from the youth team to the first team, the gap between the middle is like a natural disaster. If you don’t make any efforts beyond ordinary people, your talents beyond ordinary people, and if you don’t have luck, you may be just a youth team player for the rest of your life.

During the afternoon training, Zhou Yi followed the team to complete some training tasks, and was then taken to the gym.

Zhou Yi is not unfamiliar with the gym. He has practiced his physical fitness here for two months.

And this time, he came here to practice... strength.

The one waiting for him in the gym is no longer physical coach Bartlett, but Florian Wanler, who is responsible for strength training in the physical coaching team. You can tell what he is responsible for just looking at his appearance, because he looks like a bodybuilder, and his upper body perfectly presents an inverted triangle shape.

Compared to him, Zhou Yi is like a little bean ding.

"Hello, Chinese boy, I'm the number one macho in the Dortmund club." Wangler teased while shaking hands with Zhou Yi to introduce himself. "You can call me 'coach', but I'd be happier if you call me 'macho'."

He is only twenty-eight years old, but he is more lively than Bartlett, who is almost forty.

"Okay, macho coach." Zhou Yi said, holding his hand.

Hearing Zhou Yi called him that, Wanler laughed happily: "I promise you will have great prospects in Dortmund!"

"Is it because I called you that, a macho coach?" Zhou Yi asked.

"Not exactly." Wanler waved his hand and took a little serious. "You are a young man who is highly valued by Jurgen. I have never seen anyone he has put such effort into. You know, Oliver and I are both members of the first team coaching team, but now we are here to give you a small meal. Do you know the expectations you are entrusted with?"

Zhou Yi nodded.

"So are you scared now, Chinese boy?" Wangler blinked playfully again. "If you want to give up now, it's still time."

"It's okay." Zhou Yi shrugged. "If I want to give up, I'd give up long ago and I won't wait until now."

Wanler whistled: "I ambitious, I admire you, Chinese boy!"

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After making fun of it, the formal training began.

Or the prologue of formal training has begun.

Wangler was not in a hurry to start training with Zhou Yi on equipment.

Instead, he asked a question that Zhou Yi was very familiar with.

"How do you understand power, Chinese boy?"

Zhou Yi even doubted whether Wanler had colluded with Barthley...

This time he did not say nonsense like "power is strength". He thought for a moment, considered this issue from a football perspective, and then gave his answer: "I understand the ability of physical confrontation, so I understand it."

After seeing the smile on Wanger's face, Zhou Yi quickly said, "Are you wrong again?"

Wanler smiled even brighter: "It's not exactly right."

Zhou Yi looked like "I knew it".

Wanler continued: "Strength does include the concept of physical confrontation, but for football players, it's not just that. You came to me because of insufficient physical confrontation ability. I will naturally help you gain basic physical confrontation ability. But strength training is not just about turning you into a muscular man. Although I don't think there is anything wrong with muscular man, you are a football player and being wrapped in muscles is not necessarily a good thing."

"Because that will affect the flexibility and balance of the body?" Zhou Yi asked.

Wanler snapped his fingers: "Yes. So the strength of a player and the strength of a wrestler are two concepts. The physical ability to fight is only part of it, and the other part refers to the strength of your muscles. This part of the power is not used to fight against others, but to increase your other aspects of your ability, such as...speed, bounce, balance, and can also protect you and prevent you from injuries."

The last statement is that strength training can protect himself from injuries, which makes Zhou Yi very curious. This is the first time he has heard this statement.

"Can I protect me from injury?" he asked.

"Of course. Just imagine - when you jump up and compete with your opponent for the top, you fall from the air and hit the ground, which parts will bear the impact? Are you bent your legs right?"

Zhou Yi nodded. Isn’t that an instinctive action?

"This is a subconscious protection mechanism of the human body. If your legs do not bend and fall straight down, what will happen? Without buffering, the force will all act on your bones and joints, and then your legs... are ruined. But it is precisely because of the bend of the knee that buffers a large part of the impact force, which protects your joints and bones. If you have strong and powerful leg muscles, you can better control your knees to achieve better posture control and effectively avoid injuries."

"Of course, in football games, not every landing is done with you being able to control it. Sometimes, you have to use some unconventional and dangerous movements to land. At this time, if your hamstrings are too weak to better control your knees, you will land in a stiff straight leg way, which will cause your tibia to move forward, which will cause pressure on the ACL, that is, the anterior cruciate ligament. When the knee is close to a straight line, the hamstrings will be at a structural disadvantage when stabilizing the anterior tibia, which will cause anterior cruciate ligament injury. Conversely, when the knee is bent, the impact force will not cause anterior tibia to move forward. The stronger the flexion ability of the knee, the lower the probability of anterior cruciate ligament strain."

Zhou Yi found that no matter who he was, when talking about his professional aspects, there was no difference between Wanler and Bartlett... He was serious and responsible, and was full of professional terms, giving him a feeling of "unclearity".

Seeing that Zhou Yi's expression became more and more confused as he listened to it, Wangle knew that Zhou Yi still had difficulty understanding so many professional terms he said in one breath, so he gave a simpler example.

"When you warm up, have you done this kind of warm-up action?" Wangler said as he signaled Zhou Yi to come over. Then he held Zhou Yi's arm, lifted his left leg, bent it and hung it in the air. His upper body kept straight, and his right leg slowly bent down. When it was almost ninety degrees between his thighs and his calves, he slowly straightened it.

Then it bent and straightened, and repeated several sets.

Of course, Zhou Yi did this warm-up move. He and Mark supported each other's arms, then squatted one leg ten times in a set, do it once, and continue with one leg. This kind of warm-up is relatively difficult because the required depth speed is slow, and at the same time, it is a single leg. The two of them pull each other, and sometimes it is difficult to maintain balance, and their bodies will sway. At this time, the assistant coach will loudly remind them to straighten their upper body and maintain balance.

"This warm-up will train a lot of muscles, including the hamstrings." Wanler pointed to the muscles on the back of his thighs. "The hamstrings extend from the gluteus maximus, like twisted ropes connecting your knees. They are the main muscles that control the knee joints. This warm-up is an effective training for your hamstrings and can help you strengthen your knee control. When you are training, will the coach remind you to maintain balance?"

Zhou Yi nodded.

"If you sway around, it means you don't have good knee control. On the one hand, it will not achieve the training purpose, and on the other hand, it may cause knee ligaments to be injured."
To be continued...