The strongest blade in football

Chapter 121 Wang Nuo's Day (4500 words chapter)
City's clash with Tottenham attracted plenty of attention, but was quickly overshadowed by Chelsea's 6-0 thrashing of West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United's 3-0 thrashing of Newcastle United.

Only the major domestic forums continued to discuss Wang Nuo's one-on-one fight with Bell in the ten minutes.

Especially the long-distance raid that Wang Nuogang played was talked about by the fans.

Being able to block Tottenham's flying wings and run 40 meters, and then make a wonderful pass, this skill makes domestic fans very happy. It doesn't matter if you score or not, as long as you have "blowing points" !

Media such as NetEase and Sina also followed suit, writing endless news in ten-minute game clips, and they also found out the instantaneous speed ranking of the players in this round of the league.

Bell ranked first with 34.6km/h, his teammate Lennon ranked second with 34.4km/h, and Wang Nuo ranked third with 34.2km/h.

"shock!Wang Nuo's speed is third in the Premier League! "

"Capello watched the game bluntly: Wang Nuo surprised me! "

"The fastest horse in the Manchester City team, Wang Nuo conquered Mancini in 15 minutes! "

Wang Nuo, who is in Manchester, doesn't know how his Premier League debut is viewed in China. He received calls from some friends and interviewed several reporters.

Other than that, it's no different than usual.

After the start of the new season, everyone in Manchester City has been busy. After the game, everyone's eyes will only look forward.

A week later, Manchester City's schedule will become very tight. From August 8th to August 19th, the team needs to play two Europa League play-offs and two league games in 8 days!
After a day's rest, Wang Nuo resumed his regular daily life and got up early to train.

Every day when Wang Nuo went to "work", he experienced the same thing.

Get up at 6:30 in the morning, take a shower, eat something, and go for a morning run.

At 7:20, I went home to take a shower and reheat the breakfast that Jangresh Luya had prepared the night before.

7:40, sitting in front of the computer to process emails, messages, and browse the news.

At 8:00, go to the garage to start the new Mercedes-Benz sl350, and drive to Carrington.

At 8:15, follow the same road to the training base, and you will meet some fans waiting for autographs at the gate.

They held clothes, posters and some audio-visual products in their hands. Wang Nuo sat in the driver's seat to sign autographs for them, greeted them kindly, and stayed for three to five minutes.

At 8:20, I drove the car into the parking lot of the training base. At this time, the parking lot was very empty, and most of them were the cars of the base staff.

At 8:25, walk into the club reception hall, say hello to the staff at the front desk, and walk through a bright corridor.

There are some photos hanging in the corridor, there are Manchester City mascots, previous managers, and some photos of important moments.

One of them is a commemorative photo of the successful Super League in 02, with Sun Jihai on it.

After walking through the corridor and through many doors, you will come to the team's locker room. At this time, the administrator John will come out from somewhere and say to Wang Nuo, "You are so early."

It was the same sentence several times, and even the same expression and demeanor.

When Wang Nuo was in the Standard Liege youth team, he would train by himself an hour earlier, but after arriving in Manchester City, he restrained himself a lot, because Mancini's training intensity itself was already very high.

After staying in the locker room for a while, the teammates arrived one after another. Kompany, Richards, Yaya Toure, and Silva came in one by one.

"Hey Wang, is everything okay?"

Wang Nuo will also say hello to them. Before the start of training every day, all the players will gather in the locker room. This place is like a child's bedroom, and there are often some garbage scattered on the ground.

Cartons of sports drinks, magazines strewn about, and cardboard packaging for shin pads, next to training equipment, flip-flops, towels, whatever.

The small TV on the wall is usually on, notifying people when it's their turn to go up to the second floor for foot therapy, and the lunch menu is always displayed on it.

The Premier League schedule itself is intensive, and Manchester City has more game tasks this season than before, and in many cases it will be played every three days, so the dishes have been upgraded on the basis of previous seasons.

The club hired two new chefs, and carefully planned the players' training diet and post-match diet, although Wang Nuo still prefers the food prepared by Jangreshi Luya for himself.

There is an ipod base under the TV shelf. Wang Nuo heard from Kompany that when Coach Hughes was still in office last year, everyone liked to play music in the locker room. The players even provided one or two songs for each player. A playlist of common favorites.

After Mancini came, he brought strange rules. It was forbidden to play songs in the locker room, otherwise the Italians would get angry.

Therefore, compared with before, Manchester City's dressing room has a lot less exciting music, and sometimes it is quiet.

Wang Nuo's locker was in the corner, which was originally next to Ireland, but he disappeared in the past two days.

I heard that the club sold him, added money and traded with Aston Villa in exchange for Milner, the midfielder of the England national team.

It seems that the team has spent more than 1000 million euros.

The deals continue this summer and the money keeps coming from Manchester City, who have really turned into an incredible club.

Wang Nuo doesn't know what kind of big-name teammates he will welcome before the deadline for the transfer window closes.

Wang Nuo occasionally dreams at night. In the dream, he is still in Standard Liege, the coach is still Bologna, and he is about to start a new league.

After waking up, I realized that I was already in Manchester.

Sitting in this small dressing room changing clothes, surrounded by big-name players, Wang Nuo always felt unreal, unable to believe that he was so lucky to have come to this point.

Wang Nuo enjoyed this feeling very much.

He's a professional footballer and it's a great thing to play every day for a living and he's heard that some players don't like to train and he doesn't understand that.

The rules here are very simple: start training at 09:30, fine for being late, one and a half hours each in the morning and afternoon.

After starting the training, do what the coaches said, then eat at noon, and continue in the afternoon after the lunch break.

Today's training content is very simple, it is the most common "daily training".

Everyone was talking and laughing while doing preparatory activities. First of all, it was the first warm-up session - riding gently on the exercise bike for 10 minutes.

After that, everyone put on their sneakers and headed out onto the court.

An area has been drawn on the training ground for circle-scrambling training. Eight people form a circle to pass the ball, and two people scramble for the ball. There is no penalty.

Afterwards, the assistant coach will set up the training cones, and everyone will perform sprints within the prescribed distance, which is to activate the lungs and legs.

Then, there is Wang Nuo's favorite part besides running: the training game.

Wang Nuo never knows what type of training game he will play that day. Sometimes it focuses on ball possession, sometimes it focuses on tactics, and sometimes there is no requirement and everyone can play as they please.

The focus of today's training match is to study how to overcome the next opponent-Timisoara in the Europa League play-offs.

This is a Romanian club, and Manchester City players don't take it seriously. Wang Nuo thought that Boloni must know it better.

Mancini attached great importance to it. He stood on the sideline and directed the training very seriously. At one time, he asked everyone to speed up the pace and hit the ball quickly into the penalty area.

During the training match, everyone wants to win. This kind of eight-a-side game is no less intense than the League One. Everyone steals frequently, which is fierce and fast.

Today, Richards was a bit slow when marking Wang Nuo. He didn't reach the ball, but kicked Wang Nuo's ankle. Wang Nuo was in the penalty area at the time, but the referee's fitness coach Damian didn't say anything.

The team on Wang Nuo's side began to complain, and Wang Nuo was also a little angry.

Not long after, Richards violated Wang Nuo again in the same place. He raised his foot so high that the studs were exposed. This was a shameless foul, but Wang Nuo and the others still did not get a penalty.

Mancini was watching from the touchline, and suddenly, he stopped the game.

"Calm down guys, be careful with the tackling, I don't want anyone getting hurt!"

But his advice didn't seem to be of much use. After a while, Wang Nuo was pushed again while defending and fell to the ground, and there were some small frictions between other people on both sides.

Wang Nuo really got a little angry, he didn't care who was the big name on the court or anything, and when he got up, he yelled at the referee Damian, because he desperately wanted to win this game, even if it was just a training match.

Unsurprisingly, quarrels began to appear on the field. This kind of thing happened almost every day on the training ground.

Wang Nuo knew that it must be him who made the fitness coach Damian not to punish him for inaction!
He wants Manchester City's training to be the same as actual combat, damn it!

After a while, the game was over.

Wang Nuo was very angry because they lost the game and everyone went to rest, but he stayed on the court.

He kicked the ball to the goal one by one, and he played for about 15 minutes before giving up.

Assistant coach Andy kept passing the ball to him, Wang Nuo volleyed, shot from outside the penalty area, shot with a chest stop, penalties, free kicks.

Later, the coach asked him to stand with his back to the ball, and he passed the ball into the penalty area from any angle, and then called Wang Nuo.

Wang Nuo turned around to react and finished the shot as quickly as possible.

This helps him compete for the ball within 15 meters and speed up the frequency of adjustments before shooting.

This is part of his little extra training, and he knows he has a good chance of playing away in the Europa League on August 8.

Because that game is relatively "easy", the boss will give the main players a proper rest.

He plays late in the striker and has to be ready to play at all times.

Wang Nuo was not the only player who practiced extra. He looked around the training ground after practice and saw different players doing different training.

Yaya Toure was practicing with a header, goalkeeper Joe Hart was dealing with a cross and new signing David Silva was practicing with a free-kick.

Some fans always categorically believe that the training of professional players is just to "maintain their form", saying that everything is basically "shaped" at the age of eighteen or nineteen. Wang Nuo has heard this kind of voice too much.

People talk endlessly about the art of scoring goals, whether they come from instinct or from practice.

To be honest, Wang Nuo feels that he has both. Some scoring methods can be taught through continuous training, and of course some require talent.

Talent is something you either have or you don't.

Wang Nuo once thought that his talent was not top-notch, but people around him always used titles such as "new star" and "genius" to describe him. Over time, even he himself swelled up.

Maybe I really have talent.

In fact, when Wang Nuo played at the "United Nations Stadium" at the age of 10, he was very sensitive to the movement of football. He had an instinct to seize every opportunity and subconsciously predict every move of the opponent.

In the face of ball possession and defensive mistakes, he will also instinctively observe, act, and think about how to move.

Coupled with his excellent explosive power, dribbling skills, speed, and rarely injured body, combined, it should be the embodiment of all his current talents.

Of course, there is also absolute self-discipline and the ambition to constantly challenge myself and become stronger.

Through years of continuous training, Wang Nuo's muscle memory has been developed. He can use his physical instincts to make many smooth movements, how to pass others, how to adjust and how to shoot.

The reason why it is smooth is because the brain has been exercised in the usual training, making those movements a matter of course.

However, he has been secretly watching the way Tevez and Adebayor play these days and has to say, they are really good, when Wang Nuo played with them, he really didn't know these two people What to do next.

After training in the morning, everyone basically eats in the team restaurant.

The team expects everyone to eat breakfast here and take home a club-issued dinner after training in the afternoon.

This makes it possible to monitor players eating meals according to the nutritional plan and collect relevant nutritional data.

Before going to the United States for training, the physical coach and nutritionist have conducted a physical test on the whole team. Now that the season has started, the diet has been adjusted.

Typically, the team's breakfast is a variety of porridge, milk, bananas or berries, whole grain bagels with nut butter, or eggs.

Most of the lunch is still based on carbohydrates, with some fish, cheese, ham, low-fat yogurt, etc. added to supplement protein. There are not many tricks, and Wang Nuo thinks the taste is very ordinary.

Of course, the diet before the midweek and weekend games will be different, and after the game, some extra meals such as burritos, chicken strips, sweet potato wedges and special drinks will be arranged.

After eating at noon, Mancini will arrange training in the afternoon after the break, which made some people in the team very resistant, but the Italian insisted on his own approach.

Even with the occasional absence of training in the afternoon, there are some outlandish events and meetings, with players basically not leaving the training base until after 3pm.

But oddly enough, today's situation is a little bit special.

Mancini was a little absent-minded in the afternoon, and the day's training ended after two o'clock.

Wang Nuo will not stay too much at the training base, because around five o'clock in the afternoon, Mino's personal trainer Ndrej will arrive at his home, and he will receive about two hours of private guidance.

Wang Nuo, like his teammates, walked through the corridor after training, changed in the locker room, and then greeted the staff in the reception hall and left.

When Wang Nuo drove the car out of the training base, he would see more people standing outside asking for autographs.

Before the match against Tottenham, there were not many Chinese faces, but today, Wang Nuo saw many compatriots.

They may be overseas students or work in Manchester. When they saw Wang Nuo coming out, they erupted into a commotion, which shocked other fans.

Some people even held the five-star red flag and organized everyone to shout in unison, "Wang Nuo! Wang Nuo! Wang Nuo! Wang Nuo!"

Wang Nuo showed a bright and kind smile, and patiently signed autographs and took photos with everyone.

He is no longer as excited and excited as he was half a year ago, and his signatures have become more and more proficient, but his patience has remained the same, and he will briefly chat with the fans when signing.

About 5 minutes later, he returned to his Mercedes-Benz convertible and waved goodbye to the fans.

Just as he was about to step on the accelerator, Wang Nuo saw Mancini in the rearview mirror.

The boss usually drives a Land Rover to work. Of course, if the weather is good, he will ride a road bike.

But Wang Nuo saw Mancini sitting on a Bentley Flying Spur in the rearview mirror.

The car was not far behind him, Wang Nuo squinted his eyes, and vaguely saw the dark-skinned guy in the driver's seat, talking and laughing with Mancini with his big white teeth grinning.

In an instant, Wang Nuo understood why the boss was in such a good mood this afternoon. It turned out that Balotelli came to the training base sometime!
He's finally in Manchester!
(End of this chapter)