Author: Grayson Gudong

Everyone got together late, and Mourinho changed from a sharer at first to a listener later.

Listening to Riise recall the story of when he was playing football in Roma;

Listen as Helena explains why the German Sports University Cologne is the best sports university in Europe;

Listening to Wu Lei introduce the training model of Chongming Football Base guided by Xu;

Listen to Cesko's comment on which one is more popular, basketball or football, in Slovenia;

Listen to David talk about how the British football market 20 years ago is different from the current football market;

Listen to David's son excitedly talk about why he became a loyal fan of Chen Xiaoliang.

This group of people has different nationalities and different native languages. Everyone is engaged in different professions and has different identities, but the common language of football connects everyone together.

But unlike the holiday in Ajaccio with Gerrard's family at the end of last season, the older and more serious Mourinho was there, so the big guy just drank the bottle of red wine he brought.

Rome, which is adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea, is approaching summer, and it doesn't get completely dark until around 8 p.m.

It wasn't until 11 o'clock in the conversation and we started to feel sleepy that everyone said goodbye one by one and made an appointment to meet again in the new season.

Chen Xiaoliang and Helena had a long chat before leaving and had an in-depth exchange all night long.

The next day, the two set off separately.

Chen Xiaoliang and David flew to Glasgow together. Rangers chairman Dave learned that the cash cow was coming back and had already arranged the entire trip.

Although Rangers failed to successfully defend the Scottish Premiership title this season, Dave was still satisfied with reaching the Europa League final and losing on penalties.

The club relied on Chen Xiaoliang's share of personal image rights and the influence of the Red Country Youth Training Camp in the Red Country, and it continued to suppress its old rival Celtic in terms of season revenue.

Arriving at the long-lost training base, Chen Xiaoliang put on a Rangers uniform and met with the young players he had sponsored for the entire season.

He first watched the intra-team competition in the youth training camp for a while. Although he was in two age groups, 12 and 14 years old, after a season of rotation training, he clearly had a modern English football style in his playing style.

——Fast, concise, and courageous to confront.

The other thing is sports nutrition, which is what Chen Xiaoliang has experienced the most during his two years in Europe.

Many people believe that the gap in football is only reflected in the training system and tactical ideas. From the perspective of practitioners, the backwardness of the entire "sports industry" is the fundamental reason why some projects have never been able to advance.

Take basketball superstar Yao Ming as an example. When he was playing in Donghai City, his skills and basic basketball ideas had been finalized. This was due to his talent but also his hard work.

But after he first arrived in the United States, he had no advantage in confrontation. The Houston team formulated a long-term sports nutrition and weight gain plan for him.

Then many people will say, doesn’t this mean that you can practice technique first and then physical fitness?

Yao Ming's final regretful retirement just proves that both of them need to be paid attention to from the youth training period.

The long-term lack of bone density and muscle toughness training during the youth training period caused Yao Ming's bones to be unable to withstand the huge pressure caused by resistance after gaining weight in the later period, which eventually led to stress fractures. That is, as long as the foot bones are subjected to strong pressure

It may break.

On the other hand, Shark O'Neal obviously has a more exaggerated weight and exercise load. Even if there are some differences in congenital conditions due to racial factors, in American middle schools and universities, it is more scientific and modern "sports industry"

Cumulative injuries such as stress fractures are very rare.

The most basic aspect of sports nutrition is actually the intake of “meat, eggs, and milk.”

It is no exaggeration to say that the history of the Red people winning gold and silver in the Olympic Games is actually a history of the development of meat, eggs and milk.

In 1985, the annual per capita meat consumption in the Red Country reached 16.6 kilograms, an increase of 10.5 kilograms from 30 years ago.

By 1995, this figure had increased to 33.5 kilograms.

By 2020, it has exceeded 60 kilograms.

This is directly reflected in the height of teenagers in the Red Country.

According to statistics from The Lancet magazine, the average height of 19-year-old men and women in the Red Kingdom ranks first in East Asia.

In the past 35 years, the average height of 19-year-old men in the Red Kingdom has increased by a full 8 centimeters, currently reaching 175.7 centimeters;

For women, it has increased by 6 centimeters and now reaches 163.5 centimeters.

Across the country, the average height of people from the Red Country is equal to or even higher than that of Portugal, Italy, Spain and other European countries where people were considered tall a long time ago.

This “visible to the naked eye” increase is inseparable from the long-term intake of meat, eggs, and milk.

But in terms of sports nutrition, there is still a huge gap, because we are developing and they are also developing.

In European football 20 years ago, the emergence of 18-year-old Michael Owen in the World Cup would have been extremely surprising to the whole world.

And now in European football, Mbappe, Haaland, Joan Armene, Vinicius, Pedri, Greenwood, Saka, Bellingham, Garvey and so on...

These people have already started in the national team and big clubs when they are less than 20 years old. Looking at their physical fitness, endurance, and confrontation ability, they are no longer comparable to Michael Owen's group at the same age.

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It used to be said that young people excessively abusing their speed would leave potential injuries in their careers.

But now I look at Mbappe and Haaland, one is sprinting on the court, and the other is carrying the opponent and running rampant.

Without early intervention of sports nutrition, no matter how good the technical training is, it is useless without physical fitness and without confrontation.

The children in the youth training team were all excited when they saw Chen Xiaoliang appear, and their performance on the court was also particularly energetic.

This kind of collective life in a foreign country for half a year is of great help not only to football, but also to the cultivation of children's character.

Dave accompanied Chen Xiaoliang throughout the whole process. As a businessman who was scheming every day, he took Rangers from a bankrupt club to an undefeated championship, reaching the Europa League final, and returning to the Champions League next season. Although he was a bit treacherous, he really put his hard work into practice.

All spent on the club.

At this time, Chen Xiaoliang is already well-known as a future superstar in Europe. It is impossible for the Rangers to invite him back to the club under the age of 38 or 39, so any business that can be related to Chen Xiaoliang will be given to the club.

Increase as much revenue as possible.

However, it happened that Chen Xiaoliang was in Glasgow this time. In addition to checking out the situation of the youth training camp, he was preparing to discuss with Dave the possibility of officially integrating the Red Country youth training camp into the Rangers youth training echelon.

In the UK, there is a labor certification system that is well known in football.

After all, the British Isles are sparsely populated. Once a large influx of foreign workers occurs, it will have a great impact on the working environment and competition of local residents.

After the UK leaves the EU, even players from EU member states who come to play in the UK will need to apply for a labor certificate.

For players from the red country, they must meet the requirements of "representing the national team in a certain proportion of A-level events in the past 24 months, and at the same time, the country's FIFA ranking is within X number."

The two changing conditions here will change depending on the country's ranking.

For example, Belgium, which is ranked among the top 10 in the world, only needs to participate in 30% of the national team games in the past 24 months to obtain a labor certificate unconditionally.

For national teams with less than 75 players, a participation ratio of 75% is required.

National teams other than 75 players cannot obtain labor certificates based on the national team's playing ratio.

In addition, players who fail to meet the national team participation ratio can also obtain points by meeting a certain ratio through league participation. If the points reach 15 points, they can also obtain a labor certificate.

The UK divides the mainstream leagues into 5 levels:

The first level is naturally the five major leagues;

The second level is the Portuguese Premier League, Belgian Premier League, Eredivisie, Turkish Premier League, and English Championship;

Some people may ask, why do you still need to apply for a labor certificate when you have already played in the English Championship?

Because this involves a large number of EU national players who originally obtained labor certificates through EU laws and now need to be re-evaluated after Brexit.

The fifth level is the Danish Super League, the Polish Super League, the Chilean Premier League, the American Major League and the Red Super League.

Although the Red Super League is included, low-level competitions cannot get 15 points by relying solely on the league, and they are not even satisfied with the 10-point requirement for manual appeals.

But the UK also retains the "genius clause", which was the clause Mourinho used when he signed Chen Xiaoliang from Tottenham and sent him to Rangers.

For example, when a Premier League club spends more than 10 million pounds to introduce a player from Europe (limited to Europe), the probability of the player obtaining a labor certificate will greatly increase.

Or the player's salary meets two conditional levels - 34,000 pounds per week or 43,000 pounds per week, which can also increase the probability of obtaining a labor certificate.

In addition, big clubs can appeal to the Football Association through high liquidated damages and use written materials to prove that the player cannot meet all the terms due to age, status, etc., but the club just feels that he will be a future genius.

Players can also obtain temporary labor certification, but the number of such places is extremely limited.

This is the path Chen Xiaoliang took.

What is more common is that in countries that allow dual nationality, if the conditions are met, young foreign players in the youth training system can apply for British citizenship to avoid the obstruction of labor certificates.

Sterling, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1994 and joined the youth training system of Queens Park Rangers in 2003, is one of the representatives.

Compared with Scotland and Wales, England has stricter requirements. Non-English players under the age of 18, even if they are 17 years old, have already become famous Mbappe and Haaland, even if the national team is 100%

Even if he plays, he cannot represent an English club.

This is an ironclad rule regarding age.

This is also the reason why Mourinho sent Chen Xiaoliang to the Scottish Premiership.

Of course, not having a labor certificate does not mean that you cannot sign a contract, just like Dong Fangzhuo who played for Manchester United back then. However, such players without a labor certificate cannot register to play in various competitions and can only be rented out to other national leagues to obtain points to meet the conditions.

Dong Fangzhuo obtained the Manchester United labor certificate through the genius clause after winning the Golden Boot in the Belgian Second League, and won the Champions League championship medal in 2008.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that if the Red Elementary School players in the Rangers youth training camp want to stay in the club, they can only sign a youth training contract and participate in the youth league.

According to the current situation of red country football, even if they reach the age of 18, this group of people has no hope of obtaining a labor certificate.
To be continued...