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Chapter 74 Coach Russell(1/2)

So, with the company of Emily, Chu Zhongtian's "summer intensive training" officially began.

Not to mention that one person has indeed increased efficiency, this is reflected in passing practice. He no longer needs to run to pick up the ball every time. If he can pass the ball to Emily, Emily will catch the ball and throw it to him - kick it to him. Emily doesn't have the strength, and the two of them are at least forty yards apart.

What surprised him was not only Emily's good penalties, but also her ability to catch some balls that were not too difficult to catch, and even use her chest... Chu Zhongtian sometimes guessed in his heart how Emily felt when he was hit by a football in the chest.

Emily seemed to be able to see Chu Zhongtian’s mind, and she took the initiative to pull off her collar: “I’m wearing a sports bra.”

She wanted Chu Zhongtian to see, but Chu Zhongtian was so scared by her bold move that he kept wavering his hands and retreated repeatedly. Afterwards, Chu Zhongtian regretted it again, and wanted to see it again but had no chance.

This episode makes the training full of fun, and Chu Zhongtian will not feel any boring feeling.

But if he didn't pass the ball correctly, he would have to run to pick up the ball by himself. Emily said that this was left to her, and Chu Zhongtian insisted on running by himself because it was a punishment - if a training without a reward and punishment mechanism, it would not achieve the desired effect.

The technical points of various long passes have been discussed in daily training. Even without a coach, Chu Zhongtian knew how to practice. After carefully recalling the technical points, he wrote them on the plan and followed the training.

A powerful high-altitude lob with a fast ball speed and a sudden small angle assist; a slow ball speed and high height, and a rotation can slow down the forward rushing speed after the football lands and facilitate teammates to catch the ball; a powerful high-altitude lob with a high-altitude lob with a fast ball speed and a high-altitude lob with a high-altitude lob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob with a high-altitude hob

These are all forty-digit passes, which are convenient for direct attack from the backcourt. When these are practiced, Chu Zhongtian has added close-range air ball practice. It includes allowing the football to cross the head of the defensive player from the air within a very small distance and landing behind the defense line. At the same time, after landing, it is not easy to rush forward due to the rotation of the football, which facilitates teammates to catch the ball and pass the ball over the top of the ball; there are also some passing techniques such as straight-line running-up kicks the volleyball and the volleyball in the lateral running-up kicks...

Emily's addition saved him a lot of trouble, and there were still people chatting during training. As the saying goes, men and women are not tired of working together, even after practicing for a whole morning, he did not feel tired.

When practicing shooting, due to Emily's existence, he no longer went to Kings Ranch for practice, and shot at the goal on the school court. If he hit the target, Emily would pick up the ball. If the shot missed or hit high, pick it up by himself as a punishment.

However, Emily doesn't come every day. Sometimes she has other things, so Chu Zhongtian can only practice it by himself.

It's okay to shoot when he's shooting, because he can't shoot forty yards away from the goal, right? When doing pass practice, especially long pass practice, he has to run to pick up the football every time he kicks the ball. In order to save time, he has to do a reversing sprint run of more than forty yards again and again.

This has trained his physical strength and explosiveness from the other hand...※※※Emily did not come today. She told Chu Zhongtian yesterday that her mother would take her to see someone. She didn't tell Chu Zhongtian who she saw, but Chu Zhongtian didn't ask. It was someone's private matter and he was inconvenient to ask.

So today he could only practice passing the ball alone on the huge court. He used his coat, changed jogging shoes, schoolbag, and water bottle in front of the goal to mark a square area, about eight yards x eight yards. He stood forty yards away and sent the football into that area.

After kicking the football out, he stood there and observed the final landing point of the football before rushing out to pick up the ball. If the football accidentally hits the marker, he will put them back in place.

Just like this, it's time and time again.

One set of ten feet, take a minute of rest after ten sets, think about what are useful and what are the trainings of the previous ten sets, and then summarize the experience and lessons.

Chu Zhongtian is not a fool who practices repeatedly. If he only knows how to repeat training mechanically and does not know why he needs to train like this, he will not be able to improve. Just like knowing the reason but not knowing why, what should he do if he encounters another situation on the court? These simple repetitive trainings before will not allow him to deal with all situations, and he will not be able to practice all situations that may happen on the court repeatedly. So he must know why he does this and why he doesn't do that, and find out the rules, so that he can directly apply to other situations.

Humans are wise creatures, and repetitive training is something that only mechanically does. You have to use your brain to make progress. To put it bluntly, football is a sport full of wisdom. Everyone who plays football needs to use their brains to play better. Those who think that football is just a simple and brute force sports are obviously not suitable for football... Chu Zhongtian took a break for a minute and carefully recalled the set of his own mistakes just now. Now he is doing high-snack training on the outside of his feet, which is the most rare type of long pass, because the control requirements for the ball are very high. He often cannot send football to the square area as he wishes. Compared with the outside of his feet, it is a part that is difficult to control the ball.

The main problem now is that he cannot guarantee that he will kick accurately at the hit point every time he hits the ball. As long as there is a deviation in the hit point, the ball that is finally passed may be outrageous. He must make his feet remember the feeling of hitting the ball correctly, and then constantly imitate and repeat during training.

After the rest, Chu Zhongtian stood up and continued to start training.

He stopped the ball in front of him, then supported his feet and stepped on the back of the football side, then straightened his right foot, swept from the outside to the inside, like a ping-pong ball chopping ball, and cut the middle and lower part of the football. Then he looked up and watched the football fly straight to the left, a distance of 108,000 miles from his goal... "Damn!"

From the moment he touched the ball, he knew that this would be the result. It was not because he had the ability to predict the future, but because he felt that his toes hit the football directly, rather than slashing the football on the outside of his feet. This was not unfamiliar with it. He had experienced it less than a hundred times in training... After the football deviated from the goal, he plunged into the bushes. Chu Zhongtian cursed and ran to pick up the ball. In order to exercise his physical fitness and explosive power at the same time, he did not choose to jog slowly, but used the speed of a hundred meters of sprinting.

And when he rushed into the woods, he found the football lying quietly at the feet of a man.

"You are so embarrassed..."

The man looked at Chu Zhongtiandao with a gloating smile on his face.

"Russell?" Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised, "You sissy, have you finally thrown away your crutches?"

"I've thrown away long ago, mad dog!" Russell replied.

Then Chu Zhongtian went up and punched him on the shoulder. Russell shook his body: "Be gentle, damn it!"

Seeing that he did not fall down, Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Well, the lower plate is more solid, it seems to be good."

It is early July now, and it has been more than three months since Russell was injured. According to the recovery process, he should be able to move by himself.

"What are you doing here?" he asked.

"I wanted to come to the school to see you, but I didn't expect to see you. I want to ask, what are you doing here?" Russell asked back.

"As you see, practice." Chu Zhongtian pointed to the four strange-shaped "markers" over there.

"Practice your big feet? Hahaha!" Russell laughed.

Chu Zhongtian could not refute. The kick just now seemed like a big kick, and it was even a crooked... "Okay, what are you practicing?" After mocking Chu Zhongtian enough, Russell asked again.

"High lob ball on the outside of the foot."

Russell whistled, then stepped back, stretched his legs outwards and swung his legs from the outside to the inside. After a few kicks, he hit the football with one of the four markers. He saw the football draw a clear arc in the air, flew out of the woods, and hit the water bottle, one of the four markers.

"You really disappointed me, Chu. I have taught you basic practices for so long, but you still haven't understood how to use them properly?" He waved his legs, looking dissatisfied with Chu Zhongtian, but in fact he was really proud of his beautiful hitting the target. "Did you practice dribbling the ball on the outside of your feet when practicing ball control?"

Chu Zhongtian suddenly reacted.

When dribbling the ball, Russell asked him to use the outside of his foot to draw the ball. The direction and movement of the swinging legs are the same as the lob on the outside of his foot. They swing the legs from the outside to the inside, stretch the instep, cross the instep, cut the ball sideways, and push the ball forward. The only difference is the amount of force used and the height of the touch point, but the technical movements are similar.

"Football is the basic movements, the key is how you use them. You must practice each technique as an independent movement, which is just a waste of time. Why don't you think about the most basic movements used in this kind of passing?"

Chu Zhongtian suddenly realized and laughed: "It seems that it is useless for a person to bury his head and practice hard. If your feet are well?"

Russell looked down at his feet and did not answer his question.

"From the kick just now, it seems that there should be no problem?" Chu Zhongtian continued. "You need to undergo recovery training anyway, right? Why don't we get together to practice well."

After hearing Chu Zhongtian say this, Russell laughed again: "If you want me to teach you, just say it."

Chu Zhongtian didn't say anything, just looked at him.

So Russell looked at him, and the two of them looked at each other.

After a while, Russell raised his hand to surrender, but he also changed the subject: "Do you practice here every day?"

Chu Zhongtian nodded.

"Apart from working hours?"

Chu Zhongtian nodded again.

"You are really hardworking." Russell sighed after hearing Chu Zhongtian's training time.

"I'm not like you, I have received so many years of high-level training. I don't have much time and want to help the team offensively at the beginning of next season. If I didn't only know how to defend last season, maybe..." He didn't continue. This matter was not a good thing for him, and Russell wouldn't feel good after hearing it, because it was his goal, and it was because of his injury that the team collapsed. Saying this in front of Russell is equivalent to revealing his scars.

Chu Zhongtian shut up, and Russell was silent.

He also learned the news that the team failed to upgrade in the end. Two months have passed, and it is difficult to describe the feeling he felt when he heard the news. Regret, unwillingness, or relief, or are there any?

"Okay, I need to do some recovery training to return to the court anyway." Russell accepted Chu Zhongtian's invitation.

Chu Zhongtian laughed and reached out to him: "Happy cooperation."

With a crisp "bang", Russell slapped his hand hard on Chu Zhongtian's palm.

※※※The father, who was about to go out to work, saw his son sitting at the door with a sports backpack next to him, and was wearing shoes.

In the bag that had not been zipped up, he caught a glimpse of a pair of sneakers... "Where are you going?" he asked strangely.

"Play football." The son's answer was very straightforward.

"Hmm?" My father thought he had heard it wrong.

Russell stood up from the ground, picked up his backpack and repeated to his father: "I'm going to play football, dad."

"Your feet are just right."

"It's not a fierce game, and I'll do a good job of warming up." Russell pulled the zipper of the backpack and carried it on his back.

"But you said you won't play football anymore."

Russell shrugged: "I promise you that this summer is my last time playing football, Dad." After that, he pulled the door and ran out.

※※※Emily was surprised when she saw Russell and Borger on the court. She knew Russell was injured and hadn't seen him for several months.

"I'm here to do recovery training. Some training is inconvenient for one person, so I'll find a partner. Gavin is here to help us." Russell pointed to Borger beside him.

Chu Zhongtian is naturally welcomed by Borge's arrival, and it is easier to have one more person.

"It's you, Emily. Why are you here?" Russell looked at Princess Duns, who was wearing a ponytail and dressed in a sporty dress.

"I am Chu's coach now, hehe!" Emily raised her head and said proudly.

"Wow! When did you get so close?" Borger whistled beside him.

Chu Zhongtian was a little embarrassed by him, and Emily smiled generously. "Are you jealous, Borger?" She also deliberately hugged Chu Zhongtian's arm and leaned her body up. Chu Zhongtian could clearly feel his arm was pressing against Emily's chest... His face became more and more awkward.

Russell coughed twice: "I said, let's start?"

He lifted Chu Zhongtian's siege, and Chu Zhongtian quickly broke free from Emily's "Gentle Land".

"Then let's start practicing!" he shouted.

※※※It must be said that after two more people, and two professionals, Chu Zhongtian's practice efficiency has improved a lot. Although Emily can bump the ball and can still stop some balls that are not difficult, she is a typical person who "knows the truth but not the reason". To see his problem from every move of Chu Zhongtian, she is not at this level.

So in the past, Chu Zhongtian always recalled those key points alone, and he couldn't be sure whether he was wrong when he was training. After all, he was a "spite of the authorities".

But Russell and Bolger are different. After all, they have received more than ten years of training at Wimbledon Professional Football Club, and their level is much better than Emily.

Russell said that he was here to resume training, but that was just an excuse. He was actually here to teach Chu Zhongtian.

Borger is the trainer... As for Emily, she has now completely become a role to watch the fun.

After having Russell, Chu Zhongtian had many problems that he had not paid attention to in training before. Moreover, Russell was more strict than when he taught him before. He had to stop training for a slight mistake, and then he explained in detail what the mistake was, why it was wrong, what was the result of it, and how to avoid such mistakes... Chu Zhongtian even thought that this was not Russell, but coach Paul Braham who pretended to be Russell.

You should know that Russell taught Chu Zhongtian this way before - explaining the technical movements of the training, then giving the precautions, then doing a demonstration, and then giving the football to Chu Zhongtian for him to practice. He sat aside and read the magazine, occasionally looking up to watch for a while. If Chu Zhongtian made a mistake during that period, he would be stopped, otherwise he would continue to do so.

It's different now. Russell frequently stopped the training, which made it impossible for Emily to watch it.
To be continued...
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