Many fans gathered outside the barbed wire on the training ground, and people rushed around, surrounding the training ground.

Tottenham Hotspur first-team players were dispersed to five different training grounds and trained with fifty kids from all over the UK. In fact, training is more about playing some football games.

Tottenham Hotspur has a clear arrangement for the training courses of Genius Day. All training programs have only one purpose, which is to comprehensively examine the young player's qualities, such as their pass and control belts, their sense of ball, their physical fitness, their reactions without the ball, etc.

To be honest, it is indeed quite difficult to complete an accurate analysis of a young player within three days. Even if Tottenham Hotspur can use instruments and advanced equipment, it is difficult to achieve 100% accuracy, and there will inevitably be some omissions, but Tottenham Hotspur's attitude is to try its best to do the best.

The training mainly revolves around Ye Qiu's new training method from the coaching training system during the Ajax period. However, in order to obtain different data, the training will also have some differences in details, and basically some training movements.

Each group will arrange multiple coaches, and the coach will emphasize the focus of training before training. For example, the morning training class revolves around passing and receiving, the purpose is to observe the player's running, judge the passing route, pay attention to the running of the defensive player, and the technical details when passing and receiving the ball, etc.

The beginning of the training was a demonstration by Tottenham Hotspur first-team players. This group of players who were already familiar with the training contents used a nearly dazzling quick pass and catch-up to drive the atmosphere on the scene and won applause and screams from countless fans on the sidelines.

During the entire training process, all players' running and passing balls were completed in one kick. As long as anyone makes a mistake, they will immediately run to grab the ball. Especially later, they will be grouped together and played the monkey-slide game. However, unlike other teams' monkey-slide games, Tottenham Hotspur's monkey-slide game, while running monkey-slide games, requires everyone to move back and forth quickly at both ends of the court, which obviously has higher requirements for the players' coordinated combat and technical skills.

It is this kind of training program that makes everyone fascinated and praise them.

Another obvious feature is that Tottenham Hotspur encourages all players to use their creativity on the court, especially in the last fifteen minutes of the training session, where they even allow players to perform some improvisational movements while passing and receiving, but with time and technical details.

In addition to allowing players to show their strength, there is another link in training, which is the interaction between stars and young players.

Tottenham Hotspur arranged for first-team players to train with young players. In addition to relaxing the training intensity of first-team players and helping players recover, it also aims to stimulate the desire for young players to perform. At the same time, it also hopes that the stars will provide some professional guidance to young players and increase communication between the two sides.

Judging from Ajax's past experience, through this kind of communication and interaction between young players and first-team stars, the progress of young players can be improved while improving the players' loyalty and sense of belonging to the team, because everyone has the mentality of admiring stars.

The afternoon training class is a continuation of the morning, and it also revolves around passing and receiving and technical details. However, it is more about small-field training and confrontation. The coaching staff will also inspect each player during the training process. Once a problem is found, they will immediately stop, keep all players stationary in their place, and then explain the errors.

The first day of training can basically reflect some technical details of the young player, especially the processing of technology, as well as the ability to learn and improve his own shortcomings. The coaching team also initially grasped some specific information about the player based on these situations, especially with the assistance of on-site video and surveillance analysis, the player's general situation has basically been understood.

The next day's training began to emphasize the ability of coordinated combat. After all, some players were awesome to pick out, but they lacked teamwork. Once they were put into the team, they were completely confused and didn't know how to play.

The training the next morning was still carried out in the form of a team, but all of them were completed in a ball state, which tested the players' performance in offense and defense, ball and off the ball in the group match after yesterday's training and familiarity.

The difference is that this time the venue is relatively large, and the coaching staff will not call for a timeout, but will just watch and inspect the players' overall activities in the game, as well as cooperation with teammates, such as maintaining distance, supporting opportunities, etc.

There is another training game event, which is the wall-to-be-hitting game. Everyone is required to touch the ball with one foot, and the players take turns to be the wall to further observe and understand the players' technical situation and practical ability.

On the afternoon of the next day, which was the last training class, it was still a multi-player group confrontation on a larger field, but there was an additional requirement, that is, from the moment the players of the two teams got the ball, all attacks must be completed within fifteen seconds, otherwise the coach would whistle and the ball would change hands.

This is an extension of the practical combat of the wall-to-blocking game, and the main consideration is the players' choices at the moment of offense and defense conversion.

As Ye Qiu said before, modern football tactics have actually developed to a certain level and have encountered bottlenecks. Whether it is Barcelona's pass-and-control system, Manchester United's pass-and-cut system, or Tottenham's pass-and-control-cut composite system, they have actually reached a critical point.

Then, if you want to continue to make breakthroughs, maintaining speed is an essential link.

But as Ye Qiu said, this speed is not blindly pursuing personal speed, not the speed of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, but the overall speed, the team's speed.

The most obvious speed is reflected in the offense and defense conversion. If the opponent takes ten seconds to turn from offense to defense, and only eight seconds to turn from defense to attack, then congratulations, you have a two-second time difference to play, which almost represents a goal.

Therefore, Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur’s youth training camp also emphasized one thing very much, that is, offense and defense conversion, which requires players to have relevant qualities, because many players have excellent personal skills, but once the team changes offense and defense, he becomes an idiot, completely lost, forgetting what he should do, and being away from the overall team.

Is such a player useful for a team no matter how good or excellent his skills are? It's useless at all

Of course, consciousness can be cultivated. After accumulating a certain amount of experience, consciousness will also improve. Therefore, when Ye Qiu planned to examine the weight of players, he considered all-round, and offense and defense transformation was only part of it.

It can be said that after the first two days of familiarity and training, the players' skills and tactical abilities have been almost fully understood, and the players' requirements for Tottenham Hotspur were basically understood. On the third day, the team began to truly compete in actual combat.

Before Ye Qiu took over Tottenham Hotspur, the highest glory of the North London team was associated with Bill Nigulson.

Since the latter became a youth training player for Tottenham Hotspur in 1936, in the next sixty-eight years, he has grown from helping first-team players shine shoes to the head coach who brings extremely brilliant to the team, and later became the chairman of the club. Even now, he is still the honorary chairman of Tottenham Hotspur.

In order to commemorate the honorary chairman who once brought brilliant honors to Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspur named the home court of the Youth Team at Theobord Training Base Bill Nigulson Stadium

At this moment, a fierce red and white battle was taking place at Bill Nigulson Stadium.

The two teams participating in the game are players from the Genius Day selection event, wearing red and white jerseys, and there are also jersey numbers on the jerseys. The front of the jersey is still Tottenham Hotspur’s team logo, Adidas logo, and the team’s chief sponsor Qatar Airways logo. Everything is like the official game jersey.

The only difference is that there is no player's name behind the jersey, only the number.

The stands were full and crowded. Because this was just a confrontation for the genius day selection event, no tickets were collected from the outside, but fans were directly allowed to come to the scene.

On the court, because of the young players, the game is very open, and from time to time there will be some scenes that make the fans on the sidelines excited. It may be from a flash of inspiration from a certain young player, or from an imaginative pass.

It was like the number eight of the red jersey who used his body to suppress the opponent's ball-holder. After snatching the ball with his back to the opponent's goal, he quickly dribbled the ball back and forth with his left and right feet. After passing the player who was fighting back, he passed the ball with his left foot and penetrated the white team's defense line.

The Red Team's No. 9 forward did not keep up, which directly led to a beautiful single pass being thrown by the opponent's last player, because according to the rules, the last player automatically transformed into a goalkeeper.

Although he failed to score, the pass from the No. 8 player was still very impressive.

If you look closely at the whole game, it is not difficult to find that the No. 8 player has good physical strength, is very stable in his possession, and has a characteristic passing. In the report of Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff, this English midfielder named Nick Powell received high reviews in the previous two days of training classes.

He comes from the English fourth-tier English League Two. This team is not very strong even in the English League Two, and may even be in the danger of relegation. Nick Powell has received several years of training in Crew丨Goods good performance, received the attention of Tottenham Hotspur scouts and recommended it to the team to participate in the selection activities of Genius Day.

This player is taller than his peers, not small in size, but his skills are excellent. The key is that he has excellent abilities in both feet and feet. It goes without saying how important this is for a player.

What impressed this player is his handling of the ball. In the past two days of training, the coaching staff has also noticed that no matter what kind of ball he faces, he can handle it well, and through his own sorting, he can turn the ball into a threatening or purposeful pass, which is very rare.

Just when everyone was still immersed in Nick Powell's imaginative straight pass, the White team also launched a counterattack, and the defender passed directly to the midfield and handed it to the White team's No. 7 player, but saw the No. 7 player stop the ball and turn away, and complete it in one go, directly passing one of the opponent's midfield defensive players.

The whole process was not dragged on at all, and the technical movements were well connected, and then they started quickly and the ball was promoted very quickly. Not long after, they crossed the center line, entered the opponent's half, and directly faced the defensive players.

The Red Team's defense was also very fast, but the No. 7 player faced the No. 4 left back of the Red Team on the right, with a skillful quick dribbling inward cut, and later facing the No. 5 player who assisted the opponent in defense, he stopped and changed direction. In the blink of an eye, he passed two defensive players in succession. This beautiful continuous dribbling won a cheer for the whole audience.

But after he passed by, he made a wrong judgment, which was to pass the ball.

Originally he should have driven the ball forward directly, but he chose to pass it to the forward, but the latter passed it back, which missed the best opportunity. However, the No. 7 player shot with his left foot after a beautiful emergency stop at the front of the penalty area. Although he was young and lacked strength, his shot was soft. Not only did he fail to hit the force, but the angle was ridiculously shaky, but the whole action was still eye-catching.

As if he was not satisfied with his performance just now, the White team quickly made a comeback. This time, No. 7 was transferred to the left, and took the ball under the double-team of four defensive players. With a 45-degree cut, he used his skillful ball control and passed four players in a row, and then passed the last defensive player in the penalty area. However, the final shot was not good and the ball was saved by the goalkeeper.

The two beautiful performances in a row made the No. 7 player win a lot of prizes, and many people in the stands screamed, thinking that the player's performance was really great and outstanding.

His name is Patrick Roberts. He was born in London and was twelve years old this year. His advantage is that his feet are very good and his basic skills are solid. He is very good at stopping and handling balls among his peers. Because he has his left foot, many people in the stands shouted Messi II's cheers. If you want to talk about shortcomings, it is just that his last shot is obviously lacking and his body is relatively thin.

After a period of performance, both sides gradually achieved their level.

The best player of the White Team is the No. 7. His personal ability is obviously much higher than other peers, his speed is excellent, and his sense of ball is very good. He is a skilled and delicate player who is rare in England. Therefore, he often plays a scene of driving the ball alone to break through multiple opponents in the game.

The most conspicuous time in the whole game was that after dribbled the ball from the right and dribbled past five players, he calmly pushed the ball in the penalty area against the goalkeeper. He also had many wonderful performances of being double-teamed on the sidelines and dribbled the ball, which surprised all the fans of the audience, and many people even shouted out the genius.

But the Red Team won the final victory, because the No. 8 of the Red Team organized the midfield offense and defense well in this game. Nick Powell showed his pretty good midfield organization, as well as his passing and technical skills in the game, and led the Red Team to defeat Patrick Roberts' white team.

After the game, there was an extremely warm applause and cheers in the audience. Although it was just a teenager competition, there were many wonderful scenes, especially the young people who performed many outstanding performances, which made people look forward to their future.

After this game, he played another game, and the red team and the white team were still there. This time, Dan Crowley from Birmingham, although he was also playing in the midfield, compared to Nick Powell, Dan Crowley completely lost both skills and physical fitness. However, considering that the two were two years apart, Dan Crowley had many creative attempts in the game, and his outstanding skills under his feet, which were very impressive.

If you want to use a more vivid metaphor, Nick Powell is a bit like Pirlo, while Dan Crowley is a bit like David Silva. Of course, this is just a metaphor. Both young players can't catch up with these two big stars now, and they are still so young now, but they just have some potential.

Another notable midfielder is Ryan Ledson. This twelve-year-old player has a strong fighting spirit, solid skills, and comprehensive offense and defense, which is somewhat similar to the English-style midfielder like Gerald or Lampard.

Two consecutive games made all the fans present excited, especially the performance of this group of young players. Although they will make many mistakes that first-team or adult teams will not make, from them, you can easily see their potential and talent, and you can easily feel the hope for the team's future.

Who says England lacks technical genius? Who says England players lack creativity?

Just like Ye Qiu often hears people say that China lacks football geniuses, these are nonsense. At that time, Ajax had only a few people around Amsterdam? He was able to cultivate so many historical superstars. Is it because China is so big and England is so big that there are no geniuses?

The so-called genius is actually not how high his talent is, but whether there is a soil and environment for genius cultivation around him, and whether he receives professional guidance and cultivation.

Seeing the performance of this group of young players, all Tottenham Hotspur fans present were full of hope for the future, and I believe that a considerable number of people even made up their minds that in the future, not only the first-team football matches will be watched, but also the youth team football matches.

Because I saw a young player gradually stepping into the first team, becoming successful, or even becoming a star, the sense of achievement and satisfaction, as well as the feeling of participating in creating history, is irreplaceable.
Chapter completed!