Although many people regard Enfield as a suburb of London, in fact, it is still a dense residential area.

You have to go north to the surrounding area of ​​Huancheng Expressway 5 to be considered a suburb. It has a vast land and sparse population, beautiful fields and a very wide view.

Get off Highway 5, walk north and enter Hertfordshire. Along the way, there are guidance signs of the White Wave Center of the Lie Valley, which will be one of the main venues of the London Olympics, and are competition venues for water sports such as surfing and rowing.

Tottenham Hotspur’s Theobord training base is not difficult to find, especially for those who have been here. Unless they are a road nerd, you can basically remember it once, because it is easy to find, and the scenery here is very beautiful and quiet, and it is definitely a good place to cultivate one's own character.

After visiting the Theobord training base, Pirlo fell in love with this place directly.

"Hello" When Pirlo's agent Tinti drove to the gate of Theobord training base, the security guard politely stopped the car, bent down, and saw Pirlo sitting in the car, "Sorry, Mr. Pirlo, foreign vehicles are not allowed in the training base, so please park the car in the special parking lot of the News Building, thank you for your cooperation."

Pirlo waved his hand to the security guard, indicating that he could understand, so the door slowly opened.

Like the first training class of every season, Tottenham Hotspur's training class this morning was still open to the public, so when Pirlo and his agent arrived at the parking lot of the News Building, many reporters who had arrived had already gathered here.

But what is interesting is that what Pirlo is worried about is similar to the Italian media. When he sees the player, he pounces on him like a wolf or a tiger. Everyone just keeps a certain distance, picks up the camera and takes pictures, and no one will rush up to ask him to accept an interview, which surprised Pirlo.

"I heard that this is the rule of Theobord," said agent Tinty.

Pirlo likes such rules very much, and he always thought that no team in the world could convince those omnipresent reporters, but now it seems that he is wrong because Tottenham Hotspur did it.

Walking inside along the main road of the training base, I quickly turned right to the first team's training area, and then walked in. I soon arrived at the first team's training building. The parking lot was just below the building, and there were many players talking.

Many international players participating in the Copa America have not returned to the team, but there have been reports that basically all Tottenham Hotspur players do not plan to take a vacation after playing Perfect Continental Cup, but instead go back to the team to participate in pre-season training | Even though the club still gave them two weeks of vacation as usual, they are obviously more active now.

The team's preparation for the summer will be divided into three stages, first in the training camp at Theobord for a few days, the team gathers and then goes to Qatar in the Middle East, where they will stay for four days, play a warm-up match, and then go to Asia, where they will play three warm-up matches in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Singapore in China.

The entire Asia tour will last for two weeks, and then the team will go to Amsterdam to participate in the Amsterdam Cup Invitational, which is also a traditional event for Ajax. Tottenham Hotspur is invited every year, and this will also be the last warm-up match before the Premier League Community Shield Cup against Manchester City.

In addition, when the tour to Asia ended, three Brazilian players in the team will participate in the 0 World Cup held in Colombia in August, namely Sandro, Coutinho and Lucas O Mora. Originally, the Brazilian Football Association wanted Neymar to participate in this event, but Ye Qiu said that Neymar will be an important member of the team's new season and refused to allow him to participate in this event.

Ye Qiu has always had a good relationship with the football associations of various countries, so this time he has tried his best to cooperate with the Brazilian Football Association's request and has allowed three players to participate in the event, especially Sandro, the captain of the Brazilian national team, who is also a midfielder Ye Qiu attaches great importance to this season. It can be said that he has done his best.

The Brazilian Football Association can only choose to accept this, after all, Neymar is now considered a big-name star.

In addition to players who want to participate in the national team competition, players participating in the Copa America may not be able to return to the team for training until late July. Therefore, for Tottenham Hotspur, the training and preparations for the whole summer will become very fragmented, and there is no way to start the training with a complete lineup |

But Tottenham Hotspur’s coaching staff have already had rich experience in dealing with this kind of training camp. After all, in the past few years, Ye Qiu’s teams have always had many international players and stars, so they have already accumulated a set of ways to adjust the status and preparation experience of the stars being affected by participating in national team competitions.

Tottenham Hotspur's performance last season shocked everyone. The league started with a stable and calm start, but in October, Tottenham Hotspur soared into the sky and directly scored a crazy winning streak, almost impressed the whole world. If it weren't for Yaya or Toure leaving during the winter break, Tottenham Hotspur would probably have won the Champions League in one go.

On the contrary, looking at other teams, including Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and other teams, obviously failed to adjust the state of the international players participating in the World Cup, resulting in either the league starts very well, but their condition declined rapidly afterwards, or they failed to show their strength and level well over a season.

Of course, the coaching staff can do it, and the players can trust it.

Before Pirlo came to Tottenham Hotspur, he had always heard that Tottenham Hotspur players had a strong sense of trust in the club, which also made the team's coaching staff easy to start working, so he wanted to figure out what the secret was here on the way to Theoborde.

"Hello, Andre" Beckham saw Pirlo and walked up. He was the team's deputy captain. He had also participated in Pirlo's franchise ceremony before. He took Pirlo to visit the entire Theoborde yesterday and introduced everything here to him. The team's captain Thiago Silva is competing in the Copa America with the Brazilian national team.

"Hello, David" Pirlo smiled and stretched out his hand.

Beckham is already thirty-six years old and is considered to be old, but he is in good condition and is still so handsome.

"Hi" Raul also came over, and he is also one of the three veterans of Tottenham Hotspur.

Pirlo also shook hands with Raul, then looked at Beckham, "I don't know if I need to do anything before training?"

After Beckham and Raul looked at each other, both of them laughed. Beckham turned around and waved to a young man in the parking lot who had been staring at them, "Hey, come here, Nick."

Soon, a slightly shy handsome young man ran over from the crowd. He was probably less than 1.8 meters tall, but he looked very young and probably had to grow a little longer in the future. He looked very good, a bit masculine and handsome like an English man.

"Nick o Powell, your fans." Beckham smiled and pulled the handsome guy and pushed him in front of Pirlo. "Before the training class, you have a very important task, Andre, that is, to meet the requirements of your fan."

After saying that, Beckham encouraged again, "Tell me, Nick, what do you have to ask for?"

The handsome guy giggled silly, and was a little excited when he saw his idol.

"Please, Nick, the training time is coming, hurry up," Raul also smiled.

Pirlo smiled and nodded when he heard this, "Okay, Nick, do you want it?"

After being encouraged, the boy suddenly raised his head and giggled, "An... Andre, I hope to take a photo with you, post it on Weibo and WeChat, and ask you to sign an autograph for me." But soon, he shook his head again, "No, it's not signing an autograph, it's signing several autographs. I have several friends who are your fans.

Pirlo was so happy when he heard this. His teammates became his fans. It seemed that he was really old.

While smiling, he took out the Cartier pen in his chest pocket and took the signature book handed over by Nick Powell. He found that the signature book was not just his signature, but also the signatures of almost all other players, one page for each person. It seems that this kid is not a simple star-chasing person.

"Give it to my teammates, future stars, Nick Powell, Andre Pirlo"

After Pirlo wrote down his blessings and signatures, Nick Powell excitedly took his signature book, and happily took a photo with Pirlo and posted his Weibo and WeChat. But just as he was about to hand over some of the signature books given by his other teammates, Ye Qiu appeared in front of them.

"Okay, star chaser Nick Powell, those guys who want to ask for an autograph let them find a chance to come to the first team by themselves, we're about to start training."

The sudden appearance of Ye Qiu scared everyone present. He had almost no sound, as if it had come out of the ground. Nick Powell was not afraid, but laughed shyly, "I know, head." After saying that, he ran away directly.

Not to mention, this kid is not slow to run, and he looks very flexible.

"Don't bother with that group of little kids, but many of them are your fans," Ye Qiu said with a smile after getting closer.

Almost as long as you play in the midfield, no one will not appreciate Pirlo. At least the calm command and dispatch of the Italians in the midfield are really second to none in today's football world. To a certain extent, Pirlo is even better than Xavi.

Of course, in terms of honor, popularity, and even influence, Pirlo is definitely not as good as Xavi, but this is more determined by the results and media attention. However, as long as the fans watching the game, no one will dislike Pirlo.

"Andre, wait a moment and you go to the research center. Meerceman will arrange a set of temporary training boots for you first. Don't worry, this is only temporary, and the boots are also from Nike, so there is no sponsorship problem. As for the training equipment tailor-made for you, it will take a while to deliver it, so you have to give it a try for the time being."

Almost every player's jersey, boots, leg guards and other training equipment are tailored through sponsors, and many are made according to the size of the players. Moreover, these trainings are specially equipped with various sensors and training instruments, with the purpose of helping the team collect some data on players' training.

These sensors will even be used in the game. For example, Raul and Beckham have appeared on the court many times, and there is a mini camera in the headband that captures the players' every move, their observation, vision, running, etc., which are some materials needed for team training in the future.

Pirlo will do the same. Ye Qiu has talked to him about this. He has a good relationship with Meer Seyman and agreed to cooperate with Tottenham Hotspur's research. After all, he is now a Tottenham Hotspur player.

Moreover, these will be kept confidential. Even Raul and Beckham will not know about it and will not announce any news to the public. Everything is confidential file, and the players will not disclose anything, no matter who it is to.

According to Ye Qiu's statement, Pirlo went directly to the research center and met Meerceman, Demikalis, Peterlante and others respectively. In fact, the reason why Ye Qiu was confident in introducing Pirlo was related to their recommendations, especially the efforts of Meerceman and Demikalis.

The two former heads of Milan laboratory know Pirlo's physical condition clearly. They both believe that the injury last season will not have any impact on Pirlo, and AC Milan will lose Pirlo if they let Pirlo go.

After returning to the training ground, Pirlo went directly to the locker room and changed into the training equipment, and then ran to the training ground.

At this time, many media reporters from all over the world gathered around the training ground, and even Tottenham Hotspur's own interview team was included, because Tottenham Hotspur has now launched its own TV station and official magazine.

Unlike other public training classes, who are always perfunctory and use some sparse and ordinary training programs to deal with the media and reporters, Ye Qiu took out real materials in his first training class, which can be seen clearly from the layout on the court.

On a comprehensive training field with a larger area than a standard football field in the first team, it is divided into different training areas according to the training items. After the players complete a certain training program here, they directly run to the next training area to conduct the next training area, and then go to the next one after completing it.

Moreover, unlike other teams who conduct the same training sessions, Tottenham Hotspurs starts all training events at the same time, but different players carry out different events, and almost no one is standing on the sidelines watching.

The whole process was very compact and the content was very interesting.

Like all training sessions, they start with relatively light exercise events, Tottenham Hotspur’s first training was running.

They were divided into two groups to run. One group ran from the middle circle to the penalty area of ​​the goal on one side, but during the running process, the coaching team set up some obstacles, such as some obstacles that players need to avoid, and some are circles placed on the grass. Players need to accurately control their legs, step into the circles every step, and then there are some hurdles to practice bounce.

If you just look at it this way, it seems very simple, but if you participate in training yourself, you will find that these trainings will put your body in a very strange state, such as avoiding obstacles, which requires your body to adjust and balance sufficiently adjust and balance. When stepping on the circle, the legs must be flexible enough, and the balance and coordination of the body is also very important, because every step you step on, the body will change into another posture. If the balance and coordination are not strong enough, the whole person will be tilted.

After finally running to the outside of the penalty area, another teammate also happened to run from the side of the penalty area and pass the ball in front of you from the top of the arc. The pass is about twenty meters away. After the player who rushed through the middle circle receives the ball, the passer will defend one-on-one in the area of ​​the arc and then shoot, which is also part of the training.

Generally speaking, offensive players catch the ball and attack, and defensive players pass the ball and defend, which is very targeted.

After completing this project, there are other projects, which are very practical training events, basically one-on-one. When the players complete these events one after another, they almost circle around the training ground and return to the middle circle, and immediately start the next cycle.

The entire training event lasted for 30 minutes, and almost all players were running without a stop. The entire event included everything that might happen in a football game, such as back-and-running, high-speed dribbling, one-on-one, getting out of the ball... etc. The content is very rich and practical.

Many people wonder why Tottenham Hotspur players are so one-on-one? Why are they so good at passing and receiving a quick pass? If they come to watch Tottenham Hotspur training, they will find that when they are well-trained in all training programs, they can do it.

Ye Qiu is not afraid of being learned at all. To be honest, these trainings are just some relatively basic training for Tottenham Hotspur. The key is to look at the team's technical and tactical training, especially tactical training, which will not be announced to the public.

After thirty minutes of high-intensity training, the team immediately moved to the next training ground and took the opportunity to rest during the transfer. The next major training event was multi-player confrontation, two-on-two, three-on-two, or multi-player roaming around monkeys, which were arranged very reasonably and in an orderly manner, and very compact.

The last training event is to conduct a six-to-six free confrontation training in a small field next to it. This confrontation training has almost no offense and defense requirements. The only rule is that each team can not touch more than three times, and the final third touch must be a shot, otherwise it will be considered an violation.

This also has very high requirements for players, but all the reporters who came to the scene were surprised to find that Tottenham Hotspur is not just those offensive players, such as Raul, Ribery, Ramsey, Coutinho and other players perform well, and even defensive players such as Kompany, Kyle Walker, Varane, and Nastasic on the defense line performed very well.

Some people say that competitions are a reflection of training results, and what kind of training can create what kind of competitions.

In fact, everyone is praising Ye Qiu's star-making ability, but no one has noticed that Tottenham Hotspur's entire training system, even the staffing configuration of the coaching staff, is second to none in today's football world.

They use this most scientific and effective training program to build their own players.

But it is very regrettable that these will not appear in the news media the next day, because no one will pay attention to how they train, and more people will care more about these stars.

As for those who want to learn, you can arrange to participate in Tottenham Hotspur coaching class, you can learn these training programs because these are not profound things, and they are formulated by Tottenham Hotspur to create its own tactical style. Other teams will practice this way, but they play defensive counterattacks. Is it effective?

In other words, if your player level does not meet this requirement, you will have no use in training, but it will be a kind of weakening.

Ye Qiu has always said that Tottenham Hotspur has found its own style and has a mature and stable tactical system, which includes this training system because it is this system that has cultivated one star after another for Tottenham Hotspur.

So, as long as you have this system in and continue to improve and improve, you can continuously create stars. What should you worry about selling Fabregas, selling David O'Silva, or even selling anyone?

After only a ninety-minute training session, Pirlo felt that he had begun to trust the club.

Perhaps it was just this training session. Although he was exhausted, he deeply felt that if such a team could not succeed, then who else in today's football world deserves success?
Chapter completed!