Chapter 686: The Flag of the Premier League

After entering the 21st century, modern football tactics have increasingly higher physical requirements for players.

Modern professional players not only need to have solid basic skills and footwork, but also strong physiques. For offensive players in the front field, speed has become an indispensable and important weapon for them.

In fact, this phenomenon has been very obvious since the mid-to-late 1990s.

For example, Ronaldo, who became famous after coming to Eindhoven from Brazil, has an amazing speed. In addition, Michael Owen, who became famous in the 1998 World Cup in France, is also known for his speed. In addition, players like Shevchenko and Henry are also outstanding in speed.

According to authoritative statistics, in the past ten years, there have been many players with excellent speed. For example, Martins, who once played for Inter Milan, has a 100-meter speed of 10.4 seconds, which is called the first lightning in football. Later, players such as Roberto Carlos, Elton, Ronaldo and Bellamy are also very fast.

Henry's 100-meter speed is also among the top ten, reaching 10.9 seconds, while Shevchenko and Giggs are 11.2 seconds.

Of course, the statistics here are all the data when they were at their peak. For example, Ronaldo, who suffered from injuries and a belly, probably couldn't even run in eleven seconds. It was really embarrassing.

To some extent, the 100-meter speed has no meaning at all, because players often hold the ball on the court, and the sprint distance is not 100 meters, at most 50 or 60 meters, and more often short-distance sprints of about 30 meters. Therefore, in the field of football, the starting speed, which is the so-called explosive power, is more meaningful than the 100-meter speed.

No organization can get an accurate data of the player's 100-meter speed, because this is a secret of each club, but Ye Qiu has a 100-meter speed statistics of the players he coached. What surprised many people was that Van Persie's starting speed was also very fast, but the fastest was Robben during the Ajax period.

However, when Ye Qiu saw a young player wearing a white Tottenham Hotspur training suit sprinting on the field again and again, and even several times he curved around the defensive players and rushed to the back to overtake, Ye Qiu was surprised on the sidelines.

"How fast is he?" Ye Qiu pointed at the Ugandan descendant named Alex Kiwomya and asked. He was born in England and has dual citizenship of England and Uganda. According to the current situation, he should be naturalized in England.

Many fans who play FM games will think that the data in the game is very real, and then they will have an illusion that people with fast speed are like lightning on the field and can easily overtake, but this is wrong.

On the football field, when you are moving, you are one second faster or half a second faster, which is actually not so obvious, and one second faster or half a second faster is already a very big difference in the 100-meter sprint.

Therefore, the data cannot be accurate, it can only reflect part of the game.

But there is one situation that is very surprising, that is, when a player with a 13-second 100-meter speed meets a player who can run 11 seconds for 100 meters, the difference between the two is more than one second, or even two seconds, then your naked eyes can clearly see that difference, which will shock you.

Peter De Visser laughed after hearing Ye Qiu's surprise, "A year ago, he participated in the U15 Games in England and ran 10.98 seconds. According to my preliminary estimate, he should be faster now!"

Ye Qiu and Bobby Hams and others were all surprised after hearing this. My God, a year ago, when he was fourteen years old, he ran into ten seconds. At this time, his speed can catch up with Henry.

You know, Walcott is known as the fastest player among active players, but his 100-meter sprint speed at Kiwomya's age is about 11.5 seconds, and according to Walcott himself now, his 100-meter speed is about 10.3 seconds.

In other words, if we really judge by this standard, Kiwomya's speed is really faster than Walcott and Henry, and he even has the hope of surpassing all active players and becoming the fastest star in the future.

Although speed is only part of the football field, if there is outstanding speed, it is really...

"Where did you find this Flash?" Bobby Hams asked with a smile.

Peter De Visser also smiled proudly. He was still very confident in his ability in this aspect. With Tottenham's continuous investment in the past few years, his scout system has spread all over the world, and he can get a steady stream of scout information from all over the world.

"Alex Kiwomya's father, Andy Kiwomya, was brought to England by Barnsley when he was young, and was later poached to Sheffield Wednesday, but he never played in the English top league. Instead, he played in the Scottish Premier League for a season, and then played in the lower leagues of England until he retired."

"Comparatively speaking, Chris Kiwomya, Alex's uncle and Andy's brother, had a more brilliant career. He played for Ipswich in the late 1980s and came to Arsenal in 1994, but after Wenger took office, he moved to Queens Park Rangers."

"What's interesting is that all three members of this family are known for their speed, and this gene has been passed on to Alex Kiwoumya. He is now playing for Rotherham's youth academy. Last year he After breaking the record in the sports meeting, he attracted the attention of teams including Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, etc., but he hopes to join us, Tottenham Hotspur!”

Ye Qiu listened to Peter Devisel's introduction, but what he paid more attention to was everything reflected on the court.

If he is just fast, then Ye Qiu will think that he is suitable to be a track and field athlete. Even if he is a type like Walcott who is very fast but has rough skills on his feet, Ye Qiu will think that he does not have much future, or even Even the Gareth Bale that he carved with his own hands actually failed to satisfy Ye Qiu.

Regarding Gareth Bale, Ye Qiu has one big regret, that is, he came to Tottenham Hotspur late.

Today, Kiwomuya is only fifteen years old, and more importantly, his basic skills are very solid. After all, his father and uncle are both professional players, and they have been trained in professional clubs since they were young. Therefore, his basic skills are quite good, and he has excellent skills on the training ground. Several times when he received long passes from the backcourt, he stopped them quite well, showing his technical skills.

You know, catching long passes, especially catching long passes while moving quickly, places high technical requirements on players.

"This player mentioned in my evaluation report that speed is his biggest advantage. His basic skills are very solid, but he still needs further refinement. Moreover, he is only fifteen years old. His biggest shortcoming or weakness is , but his running awareness is not smart enough, his route selection is often not optimal or even reasonable, and his passing and scoring abilities also need to be further improved.”

Peter de Visser's evaluation is very fair and objective. Don't look at the fact that after Kiwoumya starts now, he can surpass the defensive player by one position within two steps. This speed advantage is very, very obvious, but if If your timing of starting and your choice of route are not good enough, then the value of your speed will drop significantly.

Just like Walcott, everyone knows how to defend him, which is to block the position, squeeze the space, and fight physically to prevent you from getting up to speed. Therefore, Walcott's development at Arsenal is serious. Falling behind what others expected of him.

Of course, his speed advantage also ensures the lower limit of his football level.

"This kid has a future!" Ye Qiu praised with a smile. He also has a good eye for seeing people now.

To evaluate a player, we must look at it separately, separate out the strengths and weaknesses, and then find out from the shortcomings which ones can be improved through future growth and progress, and which ones are impossible to improve, and then use this to expectations to judge a player's potential, but even so, whether a player can become a talent is still limited by his own learning and progress.

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For some players, if you watch them play, you can see through everything in just three to five minutes, but some players cannot.

There is no doubt that the three da Silva brothers and Kiwomuya belong to that type of players. You can tell at a glance that they are star players, but such players are often still a minority, and most of them are that type of players. You must observe for a long time or detect through specific training methods before you can draw the final conclusion.

Tottenham Hotspur's Talent Day selection event lasts for three days. The purpose is to give all players participating in the selection a relatively long-term and stable opportunity and stage to show their strength.

In the final list selected this time, all three da Silva brothers were successfully selected. Alex Kiwomuya was also selected for the Tottenham Hotspur youth team. There is also a noteworthy small player. , Adam Armstrong, this 14-year-old English native is also very optimistic about the scout team.

Tottenham Hotspur's Theobald youth training camp will replenish a group of rookies every year, but it will also send away a group of rookies. This is an incentive mechanism of survival of the fittest, and the purpose is to make all youth teams Players can maintain sufficient self-discipline and learning ability, urging them to improve and become talents.

With the accumulation of experience in the past few years, Tottenham Hotspur has become familiar with preparations for the Talent Day selection event and the Christmas Carnival. The former is held twice a year, while the latter is held once a year, but in London. With the strong support of the municipal government and district council, the scale of the event is expanding year by year.

The preparations for this year’s Christmas Carnival also started after the end of the seventeenth round of the Premier League on the 22nd and continued until the 26th, the day after Christmas, and there were even some related activities going on in the follow-up.

Although the Christmas Carnival is still held in the name of Tottenham Hotspur, it is actually not just a matter of Tottenham Hotspur, it has even transformed into a common festival for the entire North London.

Ye Qiu was still involved in the Genius Day selection activities, but he was indifferent to the preparations for the Christmas Carnival. This was a matter that belonged to Peter Kenyon. The more important task for him and the first-team players was to prepare. Next winter break schedule.

You know, according to this year's Christmas schedule, in just eight days, all teams have to play three rounds of the Premier League. Such a compact schedule is enough to surprise everyone, and this does not include the devil's schedule. FA Cup match.

The Champions League also held a draw ceremony for the top 16 knockout rounds before Christmas. The Premier League suffered a tragic defeat in the Champions League this season. All four teams participating in the competition, including Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool, were eliminated and were eliminated. Forced to play in the Europa League, plus Chelsea, who was already in the Europa League, the Premier League giants gathered together to form a mahjong table.

This has also become a major sign of the decline of the Premier League in the eyes of many people. Many Premier League professionals have called for the Premier League to appropriately adjust its schedule. Moreover, with the current fierce competition in the Premier League, the competitiveness of the Premier League teams in the European war is indeed a problem. A big dent and loss.

However, when the Football Association was interviewed, it rejected the proposal made by many people to postpone the League Cup and FA Cup matches of Premier League teams participating in European competitions, believing that this would be very harmful to other teams. unfair.

"In the same number of games, Tottenham performed very well in the League Cup and reached the quarter-finals. The Premier League is currently in the leading position. They are also the most eye-catching team in the Champions League group stage. They can Such an outstanding performance is because they are good enough!”

This is the reason used by the Football Association to prevaricate those teams that want to participate in the European competition. At least they do not believe that the schedule is an excuse for a team to lose or be eliminated. The key is that skills are inferior to talent.

Originally the four strong teams were ambitious to make a difference in the Champions League, but after the group stage, the top four became the only show, and Tottenham Hotspur naturally became the hope of Premier League fans. Tenham Hotspur can go further in the Champions League and compete for the Premier League.

At the very least, when fans in other countries, such as La Liga and Serie A, are ridiculing the Premier League, they can proudly say that we still have a Tottenham Hotspur team.

Serie A has three participating teams in the Champions League knockout rounds this season, namely AC Milan, Inter Milan and Naples. La Liga has two teams, namely Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and the other teams are basically from France. There are teams from the A and Portuguese Super Leagues, and even teams from Switzerland, Russia and Cyprus.

In the draw for the knockout round of the top 16, Tottenham Hotspur had the most unlucky luck among the eight second-placed teams in the group. After avoiding Bayer Leverkusen of the Bundesliga in the same group, they were drawn to Napoli of Serie A. This has caused a large group of Premier League fans to accuse UEFA, believing that they are jointly trying to destroy the Premier League.

You know, Tottenham Hotspur's Champions League record in the past two years was the semi-finals and the semi-finals respectively, and many people believe that Tottenham Hotspur's knockout rounds this season may not be smooth because of this team. The team has many problems, such as the single defensive midfielder and the two midfield players Ramsey and Vidal who are not as big as Cesc Fabregas and David Silva.

Pirlo, the only big midfielder, is also old now.

Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur lags behind teams such as Barcelona and Real Madrid in the odds of winning the Champions League.

After learning about the draw results, Ye Qiu smiled in an interview with the media and said that Tottenham Hotspur has never been worried about their opponents, "I think the teams that drew us should cry and call unlucky, because This means their Champions League promotion journey is over!”

Ye Qiu also acknowledged the team's sluggish performance in the past two seasons.

"Yes, we have to see the problem clearly. After we reach a certain peak, the team declines, and the players inevitably lose their hunger for honor, or the desire is not strong enough, and then you will be beaten by those who compare with you. "I think it's normal to beat teams you want more, like Manchester United."

"But for our current team, I can feel that the players are full of desire, because when we came down from the peak, they all received a lot of criticism and criticism, and many people began to doubt us. I think Tottenham Hotspur is no longer good, and I think this group of Tottenham Hotspur stars have begun to go downhill!”

"But what I want to say is that we are one of the youngest teams in the European competition and the knockout round of the top 16. I don't think we are going downhill because I can feel that my players are The competition re-energizes us with the desire and desire to win, which is a good thing because it can make us more eager to win!”

Ye Qiu denied the claims of many Premier League teams that Tottenham Hotspur should represent the Premier League.

"I don't think we can represent the Premier League. No team can represent the Premier League, because in the Premier League, there are many teams with different characteristics and styles. When we play in the league together, we can bring different excitement and excitement to the fans every day. Freshness, I think this is the core competitiveness of the Premier League and the most fascinating part.”

"Of course, I will try to tell my players that we are the only team in the Premier League to get out of the group stage, we are the only team in the Premier League to reach the knockout stage, and now all the fans around the world are watching Looking at us, they will want to see how the originally powerful Premier League was eliminated and humiliated. "

"I will tell my players that we cannot represent the Premier League, but since we are playing in the Premier League and playing in the Premier League, then we should fight for the honor and disgrace of the Premier League. We must use practical actions and use it game by game. The game proves that there are no weak teams in the Premier League. Even if there is only one Premier League team left, it will be a nightmare for all other competitors!”

Ye Qiu's words were recognized by almost all Premier League fans. They all shouted that it was exciting and began to cheer for Tottenham Hotspur. They all hoped that this team could embody the spirit of the Premier League and show the momentum of a Premier League team.

That kind of momentum, even if there is only one person left, they will fight to the end!