After leaving Kingston upon Thames, passing the Nl Expressway, we arrived at the Theobord Training Base in the south of Hertfordshire. The total distance is 60 kilometers, and the time is about an hour.

This distance is obviously half shorter than the distance from Kingston upon Thames to Southampton in the past, which basically takes about two hours to reach each time. Moreover, as the defending Premier League champion and the newly-established giant team that has won two consecutive Champions League titles, Tottenham Hotspur’s influence is not comparable to that of Southampton.

The only regret among the shortcomings is that Luke Shaw's whole family is a Chelsea fan.

Six years ago, when he was eight years old, Luke Shaw participated in the Chelsea talent selection at the Guildford Football Development Center, but the student selection did not like him that time. The reason was the same as David Silva encountered during the youth training camp in Real Madrid that year, and they both despise them for being too thin.

But it was also in this selection that Luke Shaw was selected by Southampton's famous scout Pride Barry and taken to Southampton. It took six years to go there until this summer. Southampton encountered trouble and fell into a bankruptcy crisis. Tottenham Hotspur scout Peter DeVisel approached Luke Shaw and persuaded the Saints to take him to North London.

This is his first time to come to Theobord training base this season.

Today is the first day of training for Tottenham Hotspur’s new season | When Ye Qiu called him before, he expressed his hope that he could come to the team in advance because he hoped to have a face-to-face communication with Luke Shaw.

"Hello" the security guard stopped Luke Shaw's father's car and signaled them to roll down the window.

"Hello, sir, I am Luke Xiao's father. Mr. Ye Qiu called and let us come and meet him."

The security guard had already received a notice and recorded the name Luke Shaw. After nodding, he said, "The first team is training, so we have no way to let you drive in. Please drive the car to the external parking lot behind the security room and walk in. Thank you."

Luke Shaw's father followed the security guard's instructions and drove into the gate of Theobord training base, turned right to the parking lot between the News Building and the security room, which was a venue dedicated to parking for external personnel.

After getting off the car, the father and son returned to the Lord's Road and walked inside.

"This place is like a garden, Luke." My father was a little surprised by the Grand View Garden.

Luke Shaw was a little speechless. He had never imagined in Southampton before that a training base could be built like a park. It was simply amazing, especially when he thought that Theobord training base was the most advanced super luxury and super five-star training base in the world.

In the future, I will have the opportunity to train and play football with Messi, Ribery, Fabregas and other world's top players in such a training base. This is a great encouragement for him.

Not long after, they arrived at the fork intersection, and immediately a security guard came up to lead the way and told them directly that the first team's training area turned right, but reminded them to be careful to keep quiet because the first team is in the training camp for the new season

When they entered the first team training area, they naturally felt a little more emotion. Soon, they arrived at the training building, which was full of BMWs, and then their attention was attracted by the people in the comprehensive training area in the distance.

Like the first training sessions of previous seasons, Tottenham Hotspur's first training session this season is open to the public in the morning, allowing all fans and reporters to come to the scene, but it is afternoon, and this training session is closed, so when Luke Xiao and his son entered here, they found that everyone was meticulously warming up on the training ground.

"Luke Shaw?" Just as they were hesitating who they should go to, someone called his name.

The father and son turned their heads and saw Ye Qiu, who was following several famous coaches next to him. This made Luke Xiao almost confused. He never thought that the first time he met Ye Qiu would be like this.

"Yes, Mr. Ye Qiu" Luke Xiao was a little nervous.

Ye Qiu smiled, turned his head to look at Tasotti, and suggested with a smile, "Mauro, aren't we missing a left-back? Why not let Yu Qian go up and try it? Anyway, it's also a training class."

Tasotti smiled, nodded in agreement, and looked at Luke Shaw, "Luke, how are you preparing? Do you dare to go up and try it?"

"First team training class?" Luke Shaw was a little surprised. He had just arrived.

"Yes, Marcelo participated in the Federation Cup final and will not be able to meet us tomorrow, so we will play in the team training this afternoon, and there will be one left back. You can play this position. Although you are only fourteen years old, give it a try." Mauro Tasotti also thought this was quite interesting.

The football club actually does not have much red tape, so it is not a big surprise for Luke Xiao to participate in training directly as soon as he arrives at the team. After all, it is very common for the first team to temporarily draw players from the youth team to participate in training, but today the youth team has not started training 丨A Luke Xiao has just been caught.

"Is there any problem?" Ye Qiu looked at Luke Xiao.

The latter looked at his father, who was about the same height as his, felt the joy and encouragement from his father, and looked at Ye Qiu again, nodding heavily, "No problem, I'm willing to try it."

Ye Qiu immediately called a staff member and asked him to take Luke Xiao to the locker room, change his clothes quickly, and warm up.

The dressing room in Tottenham's training building is very spacious. Luke Shaw swears that it is definitely many times more spacious than the stadium locker room in Southampton, and the various facilities are very complete, including a shower room, massage chair, projector, tactical board and other a series of equipment and props that are available in the stadium locker room.

"This is Marcelo's replacement training. You have similar figures. Let's try changing them." The staff found a training set and arranged a wardrobe for him to store his own things.

The iconic Adidas, but the logo on the chest is Vodafone, which is the sponsor of Tottenham Hotspur’s new season. The contract signed just recently, the total sponsorship fee is said to reach 10 million euros.

The sponsor of Tottenham Hotspur's chest advertising in the new season is Qatar Airways. The sponsorship fee they provide to Tottenham Hotspur is a sky-high sponsorship of 30 million euros a year. However, due to this huge sponsorship, Tottenham's plan to split the jersey sponsorship of the league and cup games was failed, and all of them were packaged by Qatar Airways.

As for the annual sponsorship fee of Adidas, the jersey sponsorship fee has also been raised by 35 million euros. This is the price increase given by Adidas after Tottenham Hotspur left Messi, because Tottenham Hotspur only sponsors a giant in the Premier League.

With the two major sponsors plus a jersey sponsor, Tottenham Hotspur's annual income in jersey and training was as high as 75 million euros. This income has exceeded Manchester United's 70 million euros, becoming the highest-paid team in the Premier League and the highest-paid team in Europe. This has a lot to do with Tottenham Hotspur's successful defending the Champions League.

As soon as he thought of this, Luke Xiao's tender face was filled with blood red of excitement and excitement. He quickly put on his jersey and shorts, led by the staff, walked out of the locker room, and ran quickly to the comprehensive training area. He didn't even say hello to his father when he was waiting outside.

Tottenham Hotspur's first day training丨There are many fresh faces, among which a few players who Ye Qiu was transferred from the youth team, such as Nastasic, Varane, Pogba and other players, Eriksson, who are planning to loan to Ajax, and Neymar, Coutinho, Lucas Jr., who are loaned to Santos, are also in the team.

It is said that they will also participate in this tour of the United States with the team and conduct a pre-season training camp with the team for more than a month |

However, many Brazilian and Spanish internationals in the team have participated in the Federation Cup, so Fabregas, David Silva, Thiago Silva, Alves, and Marcelo are not there. The captain's armband is on the arm of England's legendary superstar Beckham. After seeing Luke Shaw walk in, he immediately ran over and took him to find Peter Brandt for a warm-up.

Tottenham Hotspur’s warm-up is not a simple warm-up, but a targeted one, specifically designed for today’s training classes and the physical and technical characteristics of different players, so Luke Xiao felt very fresh when he arrived for the first time.

"Wait until you get on the court, don't be nervous, and use your strength as you please." Beckham patted Luke Shaw on the shoulder before leaving and encouraged him. He also said the same words to Kyle Walker and Phil Jones, who just joined the team.

After more than ten minutes of warm-up, Luke Shaw returned to the training team and began to train with the team.

When he was standing outside the court just now, he felt that Tottenham Hotspur's training was very focused on ball training. Everyone held the ball and conducted various basic movement training, as well as some quick passes and receiving cooperation. Many of them were even some difficulties, and the overall training pace was very fast.

Luke Shaw has good skills, is young and has a very flexible and quick hand and foot. Such training is a bit difficult for him, but he can barely deal with it. However, after he completed it, he was already sweating profusely.

It was only then that he realized that without fully activate his body when he warmed up just now, he would not have completed such a high-intensity training, and this also made him more clearly realize that everything about Tottenham Hotspur was very scientific.

Afterwards, two games were played, Monkey Slide and Fighting the Wall, which is also Tottenham Hotspur’s iconic game

With the rise of Ajax, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, these two games have been imitated and learned by countless teams. Even in Southampton, they have learned these two games, and Luke Shaw has also played them, but it is obvious that in Tottenham Hotspur's training ground, they are faster and more accurate.

"The common problems in England's youth training are very well verified by Phil Jones and Luke Shaw," Mauro Tasotti said with sighs while watching the training beside Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur’s scouts and coaching staff have made a summary of England’s youth training system. It is difficult to have specific advantages and disadvantages between the youth training in large courts and the youth training in ljhf, and the technical gap is not completely irreparable. After all, England has also begun to pay attention to the technical details of players in the past few years. Many people find it strange that why England’s youth training generally gives people a feeling that it seems rough whether it is offense or defense?

This is mainly because there is a problem with their own sense of game space.

A player's sense of space in the game is a comprehensive quality, including the judgment of the ball path and landing point during the game, whether the appropriate distance can be maintained with teammates, whether the loophole can be discovered in time according to the situation, or the empty cut to the ball, or help the teammates to respond to the transition, whether they can predict accurately and accurately reach the position that needs to be filled in when defending, etc.

England Youth Training has always done a bad job in this regard. Even Terry and Ferdinand, who are known as England's strongest central defenders, still lack space in the game. In other words, the biggest manifestation is that they have not been able to timely warning the danger signals during the defense process.

The most important reason why they can become top central defenders is that they rely on their physical fitness rather than their game awareness. Although they can also perform some extremely amazingly, they will also experience some reckless deductions from time to time.

Of course, it is impossible for any central defender to be flawless. It can only be said that the sense of space in the game is a big common problem for English players, and this common problem makes the training received by English players in the youth training stage, such as irregular running position, insufficient awareness, relatively rough skills, etc., all of which are more vividly reflected during the game.

So we can see that in the Premier League, all teams that can play fast and smooth passes and receive balls are basically teams with more foreign players, such as Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. These two teams are almost all foreign players, and there are almost no teams with local players standing in the cone.

A very important reason is that English players will greatly reduce the smoothness of the team's pass and receiving cooperation. Tottenham Hotspur's Carroll and Ashley Young, and even Gareth Bale were all of this type.

So, is it said that this problem is completely unsolvable?

Ye Qiu thinks it is not, because from the past few years, Kyle Walker has made great progress. After the latter joined Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu and his coaching staff focused on passing and receiving cooperation, game situation observation and interactive support to help him improve, constantly reminding him to pay attention to changes in the situation, teammates' movements, and opponents' pressing.

It can be seen that he has made a lot more progress than in the past. He has become more confident and calm in handling balls on the court, and his application of technology is more reasonable. He has further optimized his sense of space, physical fitness and coordination, tempered offensive and defensive technology and overall awareness, and further crafted basic skills, which has made Kyle Walker's progress in the past few years.

Of course, it is impossible to make Kyle Walker a skilled player, but at least it can give him the conditions to become an excellent right-back in terms of technology, awareness and football maker, and even have the opportunity to become a top-level player.

To achieve this, whether it is Kyle Walker, Phil Jones or Luke Shaw, they need to quickly enrich their tactical qualities that they have been poor since childhood, and through more competitions and training, they can cultivate their own experience in dealing with complex and changing situations, and then gradually develop their sense of game space.

As the game ended, the two sides began to fight in groups. Ye Qiu deliberately arranged Phil Jones in the right back position, and at the same time let Luke Shaw play on the left and Kyle Walker play on the right back of the main team to further observe these three England players.

Two other new players Cointran and Romedal Falcao joined this season. The former was arranged by Ye Qiu to play as left-back in the main team, while Falcao was arranged to play as center in the substitute team.

During group training, both the main players and the substitutes played very openly, and neither side held back, not only because this was an internal training match, but also because this was the first training session in the new season | Everyone hoped to leave a better impression on the head coach.

Needless to say, everyone tried their best, and relying on the trident of Ribery, Cavani and Messi, as well as the combination of midfielders Ramsey, Yaya Toure and Beckham, they quickly established their advantage, launched waves of attacks, breaking through the substitute goal again and again.

The substitute side is losing streak, which is also related to the fact that the substitute side is generally young players. Neymar, Falcao, Eden Hazard form the trident, Eriksen, Pogba and Coutinho form the midfield, Phil Jones, Varane, Nastasic and Luke Shaw form the defense line, and Joe Hart serves as the goalkeeper.

The huge gap in strength between the main force and the substitute has caused the substitute team to be beaten frequently.

The substitute players have a strong fighting spirit, and they must compete for every goal, and they are very fighting spirit. After all, they are juniors in the team. They know very clearly that they can only have a chance to fight, so they are not timid at all and are directly facing the main team.

Neymar, Falcao and Eden Zaha also frequently created some opportunities to counterattack, especially the cooperation between Neymar and Coutinho. Neymar passed the ball over the top near the midfield and accurately landed behind Ziglinsky. Falcao used his speed to forcibly overtake, rushing into the penalty area before Ziglinsky, and shot into the net with a low shot.

Neymar's pass won the applause of Ye Qiu and the coaching staff. Don't underestimate this kick. What it shows is the insight of reading games. Falcao's performance in the first internal competition was also very eye-catching. He got five chances to kick the ball in total. As a result, he scored four goals, and his efficiency was terrifying.

What surprised Ye Qiu and the coaching staff the most was that Falcao's calmness in the penalty area and his handling of the ball, especially when handling the ball before the shot, made him very skillful and smooth from handling the ball to subsequent adjustments and kicking, without any blockage.

And everyone knows that as long as there is no blocking, it will be difficult for defensive players to stop him from shooting.

Fanny, Van Persie, Van Basten, etc., almost all top scorers have this quality, and Falcao is the same. This is an important factor in his ability to have such efficient scoring efficiency. More importantly, his left and right feet are very balanced. Although he is not tall, his heading ability is excellent. He is a very comprehensive and efficient shooter.

Ye Qiu is very satisfied with the team's current talent reserve. Neymar will not be eighteen years old next summer before joining Tottenham Hotspur, but he is now very familiar with the team's tactics. After all, he trains with the first team for a long time every year.

Although Gareth Bale left this season, Messi stayed. With Eden Hazard and Falcao, the frontcourt was almost not affected much. The biggest test for Ye Qiu was to help Falcao integrate into the team's frontcourt attack combination as soon as possible during the summer training camp and find an effective offensive routine.

Whether it is Cavani's main force or Falcao's main force, we have to see the progress of the warm-up match to know
Chapter completed!