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Thirty-one interviews to find answers

"Hello. Are you coach Chang?" A girl in a rose-red sportswear stood in front of Chang Cheng, with her pretty face wearing light makeup, her hair was simply tied behind her head, and the crisp sound was like a oriole singing, making people feel like the breeze in summer.

"It's me, you are Ye Qiu from Sports Weekly. Principal Gong told me that we can start anytime." Chang Cheng put away the notebook in his hand and looked at the girl. Chang Cheng was very resistant to this interview, and even planned to chat with him for a few perfunctory words. But when he faced such a girl, he was not so resistant. On the contrary, he felt much better and subconsciously wanted to talk more with this girl.

"Please, at two o'clock, my colleagues at Jiangcheng Sports Station are preparing equipment. Can we start at two half past two? You can be busy first, and you can't delay your affairs." The girl, known as Ye Qiu, saw the notebook in Chang Cheng's hand and knew that he was preparing for the afternoon training plan. She said her arrangements with apologies.

"Okay, you can go for a walk first, but there is nothing to go for this training ground." Chang Cheng was embarrassed, but he lowered his head and opened his notebook and continued to formulate an afternoon training plan.

Half an hour passed quickly. Chang Cheng put away his notebook, Ye Qiu also walked over, followed by a photographer and carrying a camera.

"Coach Chang, don't be so nervous. This interview is like chatting with an old friend." Ye Qiu looked at Chang Cheng who was straightening his body and smiled politely.

"Oh, the first time I've made this, I'm a little nervous." Chang Cheng-chan honestly, this is his usual style.

"I remember when I went to Moral Education Primary School for the first time on Monday, Coach Huang, Coach Fu, and Teacher Xiao Zhi talked about the most. They talked about your coaching career as a wonderful inspirational movie." Ye Qiu sat opposite Chang Cheng, talking about her experiences in Moral Education Primary School in a chat.

"It's not that exaggerated." Chang Cheng smiled embarrassedly, "I just like football."

"I heard from Teacher Xiao that you used to be a catering industry?"

"Why are you as tall and sophisticated as you said? I am like a giant in the catering industry. I actually just opened a small restaurant." Chang Cheng said self-deprecatingly.

"Then how did you become a football coach? Actually, I am also very curious about this." At this time, Ye Qiu's expression was like a curious baby.

"It's actually very simple, it's just like football." Chang Cheng said simply. There is no big reason, no lofty ideals, and no oaths that make people's bloody. The simple four words - like football.

This simple and realistic expression of Chang Cheng's thoughts, but for the reporter, it was a failed answer. Ye Qiu didn't expect that the reason why Chang Cheng became a football coach would be so simple. She was stunned for a moment. However, she reacted very quickly and immediately showed her unique smile: "I also heard from Teacher Xiao Zhi of Moral Education Primary School that you are a person who truly loves football. It was this love that made you choose football. But as far as I know, you have never had any experience in professional football or professional football before you became a football coach. How could you train a team that was on the verge of disband into a champion of the national and even international invitational tournament? Sorry, I had no intention of offending, I was just curious." Ye Qiu opened his eyes again, looking like a curious baby.

"Actually, I didn't expect it." Chang Cheng smiled, "When I accepted the invitation from my mentor, Lecturer Zhou Chaoyang, to go to Moral Education Primary School. I thought about the two years I spent in Italy, playing football with Italians in Italy, and seeing children training in their schools. I also saw domestic coaches training children in China. There are the same places and different places. I was wondering if I could learn from some excellent youth training methods abroad and combine my own situation to train these children."

"No wonder others say that the training methods of moral education primary schools are the most distinctive and the most obvious," Ye Qiu praised.

"In fact, the effect was not good at the beginning. At that time, these children were fine except for a few people, and the others basically said they couldn't play. I took them to practice for more than half a year before they were quite good. Besides, the training methods of training children will not remain unchanged. Different stages have different training methods. Moreover, I also learned a lot in several competitions and several exchanges with advanced youth training abroad. I found that the training methods are similar, but the concept of youth training is the most important. With the help of other coaches, I also had my own ideas."

"Can you tell me specifically?"

"It's actually very simple. Teaching according to your aptitude and focusing on cultivating good football habits."

"Playing habits? What kind of habit is a good habit? Is it the correct kicking action?" Ye Qiu was a little puzzled.

"No, you sports reporters should know that football tactics are based on time and space."

"Yes, I've heard from Teacher Huang. He is an excellent football commentator."

“The habit I’ve made the kids develop is simple, it’s to let them handle the ball faster, accurately, and correctly in game confrontations.”

"This sounds simple, but it's too difficult to do." Ye Qiu knew that what Chang Cheng said was difficult, and even few members of the national team could do it well.

"For example, take the pass and catch as an example. Nowadays, many players stop and watch the pass and pass the ball. When you stop the ball and then look up to find your teammates or find a breakthrough, will your opponent stand still? You will definitely surround quickly, which will waste time and lose space."

"Yes, domestic teams seem to have these problems now."

"But these are actually correct, just the order is wrong."

“The order is wrong?”

"Yes, the order is wrong, it should be a one-time view, two-time stops, three-time transmission."

“How to say it?”

"When you run without the ball, you have to start observing, that is, look at your opponent, look at your teammates, look at your neutral gear. After seeing all these, when you catch the ball, you already know where your teammates are, where your opponents are, and where there is a gap. You will handle the ball one step faster than others, and this step can shorten the time and use space. Do you always think that their pace of game is much faster than that of domestic leagues when you look at high-level foreign leagues?"

Ye Qiu held his chin and thought for a while: "It seems that's true."

“So the important criterion for my training is good habits to play football.”

"I remembered that yesterday I watched a moral education primary school exchange competition. Children in moral education primary school seem to play football like you said. They don't stare at the ball all the time, but instead look around."

"These kids are used to this way of playing football. These will affect their lives."

"By the way, I heard from Moral Education Primary School that there is a child named Colin, you trained him and now he plays football in Dortmund, Germany. Is that right?"

"That kid went to Germany to play football and performed very well."

"That's great, our players are just going out."

"Yes, but No. 1 Middle School is not happy anymore. I still complain about me when I meet." Hearing Colin's name, Chang Cheng thought of the black face of the coach of No. 1 Middle School.

"What does one middle school have to do with Colin?"

"Colin is the number one in moral education elementary school and was admitted to No. 1 Middle School. However, he gave up No. 1 Middle School and went to Germany to play football. No. 1 Middle School still retains his academic status."

"Ah!" Not only Ye Qiu was surprised, but the photographer next to him was also shocked and opened his mouth wide.

The two of them kept chatting, talking about their relationship between learning and football, and Ajax's youth training concept. In the blink of an eye, it was almost time for training in Jiangcheng U15. At this time, Mulin and Zhang Jun came to the training ground and saw Chang Cheng sitting in the pavilion next to the court and chatting with a beautiful woman happily.

Zhang Jun approached Chang Cheng from the side, but did not find the photographer next to the pillar. "Ha, catch it, date the beauty here! Ah~! Sorry, I'm disturbing!" Zhang Jun jumped out to scare Chang Cheng, but when he saw the photographer next to the pillar, he immediately understood that Chang Cheng was doing an exclusive interview. He felt that he shrank back. His funny appearance made Ye Qiu giggle. Chang Cheng was also a black line and smiled bitterly helplessly.

"This is Zhang Jun, our team's goalkeeper coach, and he is also a very excellent coach." Chang Cheng introduced.

"Hello." Ye Qiu stretched out his hand politely.

"Hello." Zhang Jun wiped his hands on his body twice before shook hands with Ye Qiu.

"He is very good, but his mind likes short circuits. When he leaves, he goes to get the equipment. It's not your interview." Mulin walked over and looked at Ye Qiu, nodded politely, smiled, and turned to pull Zhang Jun away.

"This is Mulin, Coach Mu. He is decent and rigorous. He is an excellent coach." Chang Cheng said as Mulin pulled Zhang Jun's back and introduced.

"Is this Mulin?" Ye Qiu said in surprise.

"Do you know him?"

"I don't know him, but Coach Fu told me that he was like a wood, well, that one was a little stupid."

"Fu Bin said he was stunned and angry."

Qiuye didn't speak and laughed.

"This Fu Bin doesn't even have a mouth." Chang Cheng also smiled, "He is not stupid, he has principles and is also a rare and good coach."

At 4:30 pm, Ye Qiu took the photographer to watch the training of Jiangcheng U15. The whole training was orderly and the child showed extremely high tactical qualities. Ye Qiu was shocked. She found that the young players of Jiangcheng U15 basically did not look at people when passing the ball, and they could pass the ball accurately when they received the ball. Whether it was the team of yellow vests or blue vests, it would be difficult for the opponent to break the ball as long as they got the ball. The cross from the bottom was made, the wall-to-wall type two passes, the short pass between the three players penetrated, and the short pass between multiple players controlled the ball, and only two quick counterattacks with touches. Various tactics were used casually. They were used just right.

"This team is very high. I don't know if it can play this level during the game." The photographer also lamented the training level of Jiangcheng U15. He has seen many youth teams, and many teams can make people shine, but what Jiangcheng U15 gave him was shocking.

"I also want to see if their game has this level. The next round seems to be against the Green Field U15," Ye Qiu said.

"The green field is also very strong, and it just happens to test this team."
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