our champion dream

Chapter 158 Free Kick

After accepting the interview, Li Xiaoming walked into the locker room. In the locker room, most of his teammates had already adjusted their state in just one day. It's not that they are more heartless than Li Xiaoming, but that they experienced They have more lands and have experienced failures, so they know how to adjust their psychology. After all, there is only one champion, and it is impossible to be equal to everyone who works hard.

After Li Xiaoming greeted his teammates a little weakly, he walked to his place alone and changed into the equipment.

After the change, he took a sip of water, and the assistant coach Mullenstein called the players out of the locker room.

Start preparing for a day of training.

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"Li's mood is not very high. It is obvious that he has not come out of the shadow of defeat, and there is an obvious low ebb." Meulensteen said standing beside Ferguson.

Ferguson naturally took this into his heart, touched his chin and said: "Young people are always unstable, if he always looks like a young man, then I suspect that his body is a middle-aged person." Soul, I have already told David that at this time, he needs to be given to Li Yidianbangz. Well, let him go today. Anyway, today’s training is just an adjustment training.”

Meulensteen nodded, and the two turned their attention to other positions on the field.

On the pitch, Beckham also noticed that Li Xiaoming was in a bad mood.

For my little junior brother, although there is not much interaction on weekdays.

But Beckham still has a very appreciative attitude.

After all, such a talented young man, but also very conscientious, can always contribute wonderful performances on the court, which makes no one hate it.

Last night, Beckham received a call from Ferguson. Ferguson worried that this failure would make Li Xiaoming grieve, and also hoped that he would give Li Xiaoming some help when necessary.

As for why he is not someone else?
Ferguson's answer was this: "Cantona has also helped you. As the owner of No. [-], no one can understand the pressure behind this number better than you, so I hope you can help him in the way of someone who has experienced it."

Beckham readily accepted the task, but he did not adopt a didactic way of talking. In his opinion, such a way is very ineffective in front of a smarter player like Li Xiaoming, because they all have their own strengths. Thoughts, so he resorted to diverting attention.

When the official training ended, Beckham stayed on the training ground, and he signaled to everyone to practice free kicks.

, After each normal training session, Beckham will practice free kicks for half an hour.

This man, who is so handsome that God would be jealous, is very conscientious both on the court and on the training ground.

Beckham just stayed on the training ground.

Li Xiaoming stayed with him.

No one was surprised that Li Xiaoming stayed - almost every day after training, Li Xiaoming would stay for at least half an hour for extra training.There are a lot of training content, including shooting, dribbling, passing, or other physical fitness items. Everyone is used to it. These are the training plans specially prepared by Ferguson and Meulensteen to help Li Xiaoming gain a foothold in the professional league. It's just that the two of them didn't expect that Li's effect was so good that he quickly exceeded the requirements of the plan.

Although Ferguson and Meulensteen did not require much training from Li Xiaoming, they developed a good habit of training more.However, under the requirements of Mullenstein and the physical coach, his training content must be within a reasonable range.

Beckham was surprised that Li Xiaoming stayed for extra training. He pulled a basket of footballs and put them outside the penalty area, ready to practice free kicks.

Then he called to stop Li Xiaoming's training: "Li, come here."

Li Xiaoming glanced at Beckham suspiciously and ran over.

"Do you want to learn to play free kicks?" Beckham said straight to the point: "I know you are still brooding about losing the championship, but the responsibility is not on you. If you want to contribute more to the team, then Maybe you could try this?"

As he said that, Beckham pointed at the football placed on the lawn, took two steps towards the football, and took a strange posture to swipe towards the football. The football that was hit drew a beautiful arc in the air, bypassing human nature. Marker, hit the target accurately.

"Bezier's arc, full moon scimitar. Want to learn?" Beckham stepped on a football with one foot, crossed his arms and said.

Li Xiaoming was dumbfounded, the Bayesian arc, how strong Beckham's free kicks are, in fact, has already spread far and wide, and everyone wanted to explore the secret of the Bayesian arc.It's just that there are many people who want to learn, but very few people learn.But today Beckham chose to pass on his unique skills to Li.

As a master of free kicks, Beckham scored 30 free kicks in Manchester United, 7 free kicks in Real Madrid, and 6 free kicks in the England national team.Although he did not perform a free kick hat-trick like Uncle Miha, he has an even more astounding record: 7 consecutive games, scoring free kicks in every game.

"Well, of course I would. In China, everyone agrees that you are the best free-kick master."

"Then let's start." Beckham was obviously satisfied with Li Xiaoming's attitude, he said with a smile, "First of all, you need to kick a kick to show me. Set-pieces are different from long-range shots. He needs to be more skillful and deceptive. , and the long shot is more about a sudden."

Li Xiaoming stood in front of the football, and kicked the football according to his idea, but the football flew high into the sky...

Seeing his shot, Li Xiaoming turned around and spread his hands towards Beckham, and said helplessly, "It doesn't seem very good."

"If you could, I wouldn't be here," Beckham said with a smile.

"When I take free kicks I use the inside of my right foot to curve the ball, and I curve the ball around the wall, so when I kick it, I will do that..."

Beckham made a false kick and swiped his right foot past the football.

"Secondly, after touching the ball, the ankle should be opened outwards, which is like providing an initial track for the football so that it can fly according to the route you set. In this way..."

After saying that he was serious this time, he kicked the football, the football bypassed the wall props, drew an arc in the air, and then fell into the goal.

"If you want to make the arc bigger, you have to open your ankles a bit more... like this." Beckham demonstrated another kick. Passed the wall props and flew into the goal.

Li Xiaoming squatted on the court and carefully observed Beckham's shooting methods. In fact, Li Xiaoming also knows the curve ball. Some of his shots in the game are curve ball shots.But there is a reason why Beckham's curve ball has been able to dominate European football and even world football for so many years.Li Xiaoming's observations are very personal, from the position of the supporting foot of Mei's one-step run-up, to the angle of the upper body leaning to the left, the large and high-speed swing of the right foot, the super-high-speed explosive forward swing of the calf when the final force is exerted, and the way the foot touches the ball. position, the flat and fast flight trajectory of the ball, the super large arc and the perfect landing point.

In this way, Beckham demonstrated while explaining, and taught Li Xiaoming the most basic kicking arc.skills.

Li Xiaoming's talent had to surprise Beckham.Superman's comprehension ability, physical coordination and flexibility allow Li Xiaoming to easily pose for Beckham's weird free throw posture. You must know that this posture alone has stumped many players.

After learning from Beckham for half an hour, Li Xiaoming can already kick free kicks in a decent way.

But he still needs to practice more.

"There's actually no trick to taking a free kick. It's just practicing repeatedly until you remember this action in your heart." Beckham said and made a kicking action, kicking the football towards the goal. "Kick repeatedly, practice repeatedly, and your body will remember this action."

"Oh, by the way, there are actually some tricks... In training, if you don't have a human wall as a reference, then you can kick the football to the four corners of the goal. Where it is difficult to save, as long as you can kick the football to these four corners and hit it within the range of the goal frame, then the goal rate can be said to be [-]%. Those four corners are theoretically dead ends.”

Hearing what Beckham said, Li Xiaoming's eyes lit up. He turned his head to look at the goal, and his eyes moved back and forth on the four corners of the goal.

A theoretical dead end...

Li Xiaoming stared at it, as if he wanted to keep the positional relationship of these four corners firmly in his mind.

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Such a small episode, the fans and the media do not know.

After the league, everyone's eyes are naturally locked on the Champions League.

The current situation is that the Premier League and Serie A are over. Although there is still the last round of Serie A, Inter Milan has already won the championship trophy three rounds ahead of schedule. Their dominance and lead in Serie A this season are huge. scary.This season, Inter Milan is like a uniform army under Mourinho's training.

For those teams that do not participate in the Champions League final, after the last round of the league, they can have a holiday.

But because of the World Cup this summer, those players who want to participate in the World Cup cannot rest yet. They have to go directly from the club to the national team to report and participate in the final training camp.This year's World Cup started on June [-], and the major European leagues basically ended in mid-May, leaving less than a month for the national teams to prepare for the World Cup.

There was relative peace between teams, but among the fans, that peace no longer existed.Whether it is on the Internet in China, or in the big and small pubs in England.The final between Manchester United and Inter Milan has already caused fans of both sides to hype up the sky.

In China, there are many people who support Li Xiaoming, but not [-]%. There are always some people who don't care that Li Xiaoming can win the award, but care more about whether their favorite team can win the championship.So supporters of both sides broke up online.

This kind of debate on the Internet is always the most eye-catching.

Generally speaking, those who support Li Xiaoming have the upper hand.This is also normal. If you think about it carefully, this is a Chinese network, and the people who surf the Internet are basically Chinese. Of course they will support a Chinese player, even if these people don’t know where Manchester United is from, as long as they And Chinese players, then unconditional support.What's more, in China, there are many more fans of Manchester United than Inter Milan, and most of the fans who like Inter Milan are old fans. They are not good at using social networks, and they don't even know that there has been arguing about this matter on the Internet sky.

So those diehard fans who still support Manchester United are really rare-under such a public opinion environment, they still support a team without Chinese players. This is true love.

In addition to the hype on the Internet, the traditional media is also very concerned about this game.

CCTV, which has the right to broadcast the UEFA Champions League, will not only broadcast the game live, but also send a commentary team to go directly to the scene to explain the game-this kind of treatment is not common, although the UEFA Champions League final is held every year, it is not CCTV every year. There will be on-site commentary.

The feeling of live commentary is completely different from that of watching a big-screen TV commentary in a studio thousands of miles away.The commentator will be affected by the atmosphere of the environment. In that noisy environment, it is easy to get excited, and the commentary will naturally be more passionate and exciting.

In addition, CCTV has been conducting follow-up reports since the week before the finals.

Every day there are 15-minute shows that report on the preparations of the two teams.

There are CCTV reporters and film crews already stationed in Manchester United and Milan.

In addition, they traveled all over Europe and interviewed Li Xiaoming's teammates in other clubs in Europe.Su Ye, Chen Bin, Xiao Xiao, Pan An, and Wen Ziming appeared in the countdown program in order, and talked with the audience and fans in front of the Chinese TV about Li Xiaoming in their eyes.The players here are all the hottest young players in China right now.

"Of course I hope that Li Xiaoming can win the championship. He went there with the dream of our group. And his performance is beyond doubt." Chen Bin said with a smile.Although Juventus's record this season is not outstanding, but his excellent man-ball combination ability and hard-working style of play allowed him to score 15 goals in Serie A. You must know that Serie A is the best defensive team .And this result is the result of most of his appearances as a substitute.

This kind of follow-up report, which is similar to a countdown, makes people feel that "the mountain is about to come and the wind is full".

It also made everyone look forward to this Champions League final.

This is a treatment that has never been enjoyed in previous Champions League finals.

The reason for this kind of treatment is, of course, that there will be a Chinese player in this UEFA Champions League final. This is the first time in history that a Chinese player has participated in the UEFA Champions League final.

The influence and significance are very large.

Even UEFA's official website posted an article about Li Xiaoming before the final, talking about Li Xiaoming's participation in the Champions League final.This is the first time the Chinese has participated in the Champions League final, and this is his first four-tier.

Because of Li Xiaoming, this Champions League final has attracted more attention.

Of course, Li Xiaoming was able to pay such attention not only because he is a Chinese player.It is of course very rare for a Chinese player to appear in the Champions League final.But before him, Park Ji-sung became the first Asian player to appear in the Champions League final. Arguably, wouldn't that be an even more remarkable achievement?
Li Xiaoming only represents China, while Park Ji-sung represents the whole of Asia.

Then why is there no such sensational effect on Park Ji Sung?
Because Li Xiaoming is not just a player for Manchester United to participate in the Champions League final, he is also the core of Manchester United and an important contributor to Manchester United's ability to reach the Champions League final.His importance to Manchester United is incomparable to Park Ji-sung. Park Ji-sung is only a rotation player in Manchester United this season, and his importance is self-evident.

In fact, the only time that Park Ji-sung won the Champions League trophy was the only time that an Asian player won the Champions League trophy. He was not selected for Manchester United's Champions League final squad.Manchester United can win the Champions League final without Park Ji-sung.

But if this Manchester United does not have Li, they may not be able to find a direction to attack. .

(End of this chapter)