On Monday, July 13, Real Madrid's pre-season training starts.

With more than an hour left before the team reported, Yang Yang came to Valdebebas in advance.

His current identity is no longer just a player, he is also the chief assistant coach of Real Madrid's first team.

Although he has not passed the exam and received the coaching qualification certificate, it is only a matter of time and time. Real Madrid has not announced Yang Yang's specific position to the public, but this does not prevent everyone from recognizing this fact.

At most, he couldn't sit next to Zidane.

But this doesn't matter, because he is a player and he wants to play football.

Yang Yang has entered the pre-season training camp in advance in the past few days, which is also his always habit.

After arriving in Valdebebas, he went to the locker room and then went to the gym, and once again met Antonio Pintus, Real Madrid's physical fitness coach for the new season.

Pintus has a rich coaching experience. He worked for Juventus for seven years, and during this period he experienced two coaches, Trapatoni and Lippi, but he was respected by these two gold medal coaches. In 1998, he followed Viali to coach with Chelsea. Then he worked in England, Italy and Russia's national teams, with an extremely brilliant career.

In this summer, Pintus had already signed a contract with Lyon, but because of Real Madrid's strife, the Italian gold medal physical coach changed his mind and switched to Real Madrid. For this reason, Real Madrid also dispatched Manuel Redondo to negotiate with Lyon chairman Oras and compensated a penalty for liquidated damages, which allowed Pintus to come to Madrid.

Like Zidane, Pintus is also a bald man. At first glance, he looks a bit like a bald referee Corina. He is about 1.7 meters tall, and looks a little thin, with gray short beards, as if reminding everyone that he is in his fifties.

Earlier, when he saw Pingtus for the first time, Yang Yang was very surprised because he found that Pingtus was actually training equipment in the gym, and the training intensity was quite large, which was really the first time he had made it.

Over the years, Yang Yang has also insisted on equipment training, so he naturally felt close to Pingtus. Later, he heard from Valdebebas' staff that the first thing Pingtus did when he came to Real Madrid was to practice the training equipment at the training base himself, and they all looked very professional.

Yang Yang was a little disbelief of this, so after seeing Pintus in the gym, he competed with the Italian physical fitness coach. The final result was of course Yang Yang won, but he really began to admire Pintus.

At his fifties, it is never easy to maintain his training intensity and enthusiasm for training.

After the training, the two had a long talk. Pingtus not only had his own unique understanding of physical training, but also had his own unique features of the players' physical reserves and training methods. He had extremely rich experience and was able to pick up countless details at will. This proves that he not only knows how to teach, but also can do it himself.

Yang Yang has never encountered a physical coach who can come out to train with the players from Ajax to Liverpool and then to Real Madrid, which has further improved his impression of Pintus.

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Since today is the opening day, Pintus no longer exercises like before, but is preparing for training.

Yang Yang went to the gym alone for more than half an hour of strength equipment training, and not long after, Ramos and Marcelo also came. They were the team's chief and deputy captains, and both received calls from Yang Yang in the morning.

Ramos' contract renewal has not been agreed, but he has been performing the responsibilities of the team captain in recent days, such as attending the signing ceremony between Asensio and Vallejo, actively helping Casemiro contact the house, etc. These are all his responsibilities of the captain.

Marcelo returned to Madrid yesterday, and this kid became fat as soon as he was on holiday.

This summer is the year of the Copa America, but Marcelo was absent due to injury and was unable to participate. He also took a break for more than a month. As a result, the guy returned to the team and gained a lot of weight. It was obvious that he had no restraint during the vacation.

"You guy..." Yang Yang pointed at Marcelo and shook his head speechlessly and smiled bitterly.

Brazil's explosion head laughed indifferently, "Don't worry, I will definitely be able to get back to my best condition before the season."

This is a routine operation for him.

Almost every holiday he will exceed the standard, but he is very hard at training and can always recover quickly.

"This year is different from previous years." Yang Yang reminded kindly.

"What's the difference?" Marcelo was curious.

Before Yang Yang could answer, Ramos, who was standing beside him nodded and said, "Yes, I also read Pingtus' training plan, a typical Italian devil training, but it makes people feel terrifying when I look at it."

"Really or not?" Marcelo was a little suspicious after listening.

Yang Yang smiled, "He told me that he hopes that the average running average of players in every game in the new season will reach 13,000 per game. Are you real or not?"

"What? Ten Thousand Thousand?" Marcelo was completely confused.

Ten thousand kilometers, and it is average, this is definitely a life-threatening rhythm.

Ramos sighed, "There are too little training without the ball. I think this doesn't match our style."

As a Spaniard, although Ramos is brave on the court, in fact, his footwork is good, and he still has Spain's persistence in controlling the ball, especially in love with ball training.

"I have talked with Pintus in depth about this, and he thinks that the football training in recent years has been somewhat biased."

This topic is very big and unfamiliar, but it is closely related to professional players. Both Ramos and Marcelo are very interested.

"Since Guardiola coached Barcelona, ​​passing and controlling has increasingly deeply affected all aspects of professional football. This is an epoch-making change. We must admit this, but we must also pay attention to it. At the beginning, every team is talking about the right to the ball, emphasizing passing and controlling, even training emphasizes ball training, and small-scale cooperation is emphasized on the court. This is inappropriate."

"Every team has its own characteristics. Barcelona is suitable, but we, Real Madrid, and other teams may not be suitable. So what we need to do is to absorb nutrients that are beneficial to us, but at the same time we must maintain our advantages."

"Pintus also believes that the reason why Guardiola's Barcelona was strong back then was the key to the player's ability and pass and ball control system, but the excellent physical fitness of the players is the foundation. Without excellent physical fitness as a backing, Barcelona cannot run such excellent data in every game, nor can they run so many opportunities."

Both Ramos and Marcelo share this, which is a fact that professional fields have already agreed with.

Otherwise, how do you explain that after Xavi and Iniesta grow old, Barcelona's system advantages immediately weakened significantly?

"For football matches, physical fitness is the foundation of the foundation, and for teams like our Real Madrid, this is even more so."

After a pause, Yang Yang said again: "We have advantages in technology and strength. As long as we can run, not to mention more than our opponents, as long as we run as many as our opponents, we can completely defeat our opponents with our advantages in technology and strength."

"That's great!" Ramos couldn't help but slapped his thigh hard.

Yang Yang's words can be said to be concise, but they fully express the advantages of Real Madrid.

The reason why Real Madrid was at a trough last season was that almost every game was due to players' running, so many media criticized Real Madrid players' running distance. In terms of total number, it was nearly ten kilometers lower than their opponents, which was one person missing.

This is very telling.

The current football game depends on who can run, run more and run smartly. If you don’t want to run or run less, even a team like Real Madrid will still be forced into a mess by Valencia and even mid- and lower-level teams, and even a surprise defeat.

Yang Yang and Zidane both understand this issue very well, so they strongly demanded that Real Madrid management sign Pintus, and even paid him a penalty for liquidated damages, because physical fitness is the basis of football games and the key.

Signing an excellent physical coach is, to some extent, more valuable than signing a superstar.

Of course, this does not mean that Real Madrid will be invincible if they sign Pintus.

It can only be said that the arrival of Pintus lays a solid foundation for Real Madrid's physical fitness.

"The reason I took the initiative to make an appointment with you today is that we hope we can reach a consensus in advance." Yang Yang stared at the two Real Madrid chiefs and deputy captains in front of him, "We should set an example for the team and take the lead, at least we can't drag our backs, right?"

Ramos and Marcelo looked at each other and both nodded, but the Brazilian left-back looked bitter and even regretted it.

If I had known that he would have eaten less and drank less when he was on vacation, and took some time to practice every day.

With his current physical condition, needless to say, he will definitely be the worst one in the team.

"I can foresee that the training method of Pintus is more Italian, with more training without balls, more running, less training with balls, and a lot of high-intensity physical training will be conducted in the pre-season training camp. This will be a great challenge for our players, and there will definitely be many people complaining."

When Ramos heard this, he looked at Marcelo sympathetically, and the latter waved his hand immediately, "Don't worry, even if I practice until I vomit blood, I will definitely hold on tightly and I will never be embarrassed."

He is the team's deputy captain, so he is shameless!

If he can't even hold on, then will this deputy captain still have the attitude to be a good person?

Yang Yang and Ramos couldn't help but smile, but they also believed that Marcelo could do it.

He has rich experience in weight loss.

"During the pre-season training period, there will definitely be many teammates who can't stand it, can't stand it, and even have emotions. This requires us to do a good job and comfort the locker room. There must be no trouble, especially affecting the unity of the team."

Yang Yang has always put the unity and harmony in the team's locker room first, and he even did it well. If there is really a large-scale protest and if there is no choice, he will also suggest that Pintus adjust the training plan.

But before that, you must force yourself to squeeze out the potential and limits of the players as much as possible.
Chapter completed!