MTL - Starting with Real Madrid

Sometimes, playing football is very close to the workplace.

Joining a wealthy family is like joining a famous company, with a high salary that everyone envies. On the surface, it looks more glamorous than others, but the pressure also comes with it. The fierce internal competition is enough to crush countless people.

If you are not overwhelmed, then congratulations, with the help of the platform of famous enterprises, your career development is about to take off.

However, not everyone can adapt to the competitive pressure and work intensity of famous companies.

In the same way, not all players can adapt to the competitive pressure and training intensity of the giants.

Woodgate is one of those players.

From a technical point of view, Woodgate has almost no obvious weaknesses, and it is precisely because of this that Real Madrid will be willing to pay nearly 17 million euros for him, which is already very high among central defenders. price.

From a psychological point of view, Woodgate also has no obvious problems.

What really prevented him from gaining a foothold in Real Madrid was his fragile body.

In a team like Real Madrid, the competition is unprecedentedly fierce, and in many cases, training is even more tragic than actual combat.

Gao Shen still remembers that after retiring, Woodgate was interviewed by Marca and mentioned his bleak experience in Real Madrid. He said that language and injuries were the key factors for his failure to play value in Real Madrid, which caused him to be frequently injured. In addition to their own physical factors, the reason is the fierce competition within the Real Madrid team.

"When you enter such a big club, you can't even lose training, losing games is more like losing a world war!"

Unfortunately, Woodgate's start at Real Madrid can be described as appalling.

After a long-term injury, his debut was an own goal for the Bernabeu fans.

If it is said that a good start is half the battle, then Woodgate's bad start is doomed to his tragic fate.

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Gao Shen stopped Woodgate, who had just finished his examination, outside the medical room.

The face of today's English central defenders has long been invisible to the "bad boy" in the Premier League back then. Years of injuries and huge public pressure have worn away the spirit of Woodgate.

The argument with high emotional intelligence calls it maturity, and the argument with low emotional intelligence calls it lying flat after being repeatedly beaten by reality.

But to Woodgate's surprise, Gao Shen spoke to him directly in English.

From the day he joined Real Madrid, from Camacho to Raymond to Lusenberg to Carlo, no head coach could understand his English, which caused a huge language barrier between him and the coaching staff. .

It can be said that this is also an important reason for his frequent injuries.

Without communication, he did not understand what the coach meant, nor did the coach understand his thoughts.

After meeting and chatting for a while, Gao Shen took out an old photo.

The man in the photo looked a little green, wearing the England national team jersey, Woodgate recognized it at a glance, it was June 8, 1999, taken in Bulgaria, the European Cup qualifier, he represented England for the first time to fight.

In that match, he was next to Gareth Southgate and Campbell.

It was also in that game that Rio Ferdinand, who later created the world's most expensive central defender, sat on the bench.

That year, he was nineteen years old.

It was also in that year that Chelsea captain John Terry was still unable to play in the first team.

Woodgate stared at the photo in a daze for a while, then turned his head and looked at Gao Shen with full of wariness.

"what do you mean?"

This is not surprising.

The rookie head coach who was criticized by locker room bosses, fans and the media showed such a photo as soon as they met. What did he want to do? Does he want to say that he's my fan, and use that to set up close?

If he was a few years younger, Woodgate might have eaten this set, but now... hehe.

Gao Shen smiled lightly, "You know, I'm studying sports at Loughborough University. I have a classmate from Leeds. He is a fan of Leeds United and also your fan. This is one of his photos of you that he treasures, even if Even now, he still feels that you are the best centre-back in England, and in the world."

Woodgate didn't respond, because he didn't know where the high-level photos came from and whether the story was true.

But Gao Shen's subsequent words completely changed his face, revealing an incredible look.

"He's been watching you all the time, waiting for you."

I don't know why, when Woodgate heard this, he couldn't help but believe it.

Attention and expectation, this is what he longs for and what he lacks.

As a once-high-profile star, he once enjoyed countless attention and expectations, and even he once dismissed them, especially when he joined Real Madrid, he was ambitious to achieve himself in this team A new peak in his career and become one of the superstars that the world pays attention to.

But all of this has now left him.

In the past year and a half, he has completely lost joining Real Madrid, and even lost all the ambitions he has played for so many years. He knows that his career is like this.

Ferdinand and Terry, the two peers who were once left behind by him, have now surpassed him, and he will never catch up in his life.

No one can understand the anguish and loss in his heart, and no one even pays attention to his every move.

At the beginning, the media would also report on Woodgate's injury, but gradually, no one was interested.

The media is like this, the fans are like this, and even the head coach is basically like this.

Sometimes Woodgate wonders if Real Madrid's coaching staff has forgotten that there is still a player like him in the team?

"In the UK, and even all over the world, there are many fans like my friends who have not forgotten you, they have been watching, they have been waiting, it's just that you don't know it."

When Gao Shen was talking, he noticed that Woodgate's hand holding the photo trembled slightly. He knew that he was right.

There is a Hawthorne effect in management, which means that when a person realizes that he is being noticed, he will subtly and deliberately change some behaviors.

The friend of this Leeds fan is real and the photos are real, but it is unknown whether he still pays attention to Woodgate.

Gao Shen's intention is obvious, to tell Woodgate one thing through this incident, that is, there are still many fans who are silently paying attention to and expecting him.

As for whether the friend Gao Shen is still paying attention, it is no longer important, and there is no way to verify.

Guiding through stories is always more effective than simple and crude preaching.

Especially when Goshen uses Woodgate's close English.

"I let them down, you know, my body..." Woodgate became frustrated.

Gao Shen shook his head, "I just asked the team doctor, your physical condition is not bad, but the pressure is too high and the tension is too tight, which causes you to become too nervous many times, which can easily lead to mistakes and injuries."

"You know, it's not like there are cases like you, let's not talk about it, just say Ronaldo, isn't he injured more than you? Isn't he recovering longer than you? But now, he is still the world's top Striker, isn't it?"

Ronaldo can, don't you have a chance too?

Woodgate figured out what he wanted him to understand.

And he was indeed a little moved.

"You know, Ramos will be suspended for accumulating yellow cards in this weekend's derby match. Our central defender has vacated a position. I hope you can replace Ramos and partner with Elgra."

"Me?" Woodgate was taken aback.

"Yes, and I'm sure you have seen it, there is a serious shortage of centre-backs, you are the best option for the team, but if you continue to get injured, or if you don't perform well at the weekend, I will reconsider other candidates. ."

Gao Shen once heard a very interesting little question: there are two options, one is to take 20 yuan directly, and the other is to guess coins. If you win, you will have a chance to win 100 yuan, and if you lose, you will get nothing.

Most people would choose to take the twenty dollars directly.

why?

Because when giving a choice, the chooser will automatically regard the twenty dollars as having already obtained it, so they will subconsciously feel that guessing the coin may cause them to lose the twenty dollars. Not even that hundred bucks.

Savvy management often uses this to motivate employees.

Gao Shen first gave Woodgate the position of the main center back, and then told him that if he didn't perform well, he would lose this position, which would make him feel a sense of disgust in his heart.

It's not the disgust for the high, but the disgust for losing the starting position.

Sure enough, after listening to Woodgate, he took a deep breath and said loudly, "Don't worry, you don't have such a chance!"

After speaking, UU read www.uukanshu. com England's central defender turned around and left.

By the way, I took the photo of Gao Shen's friend with me.

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After watching Woodgate leave, Gao Shen was relieved.

Personnel management in the locker room of a wealthy family is really a very brain-burning thing.

Each player has a completely different personality, and each player has a completely different experience and appeal. It seems simple to integrate these people into a whole, but it is actually very complicated.

Especially an unqualified rookie like Gao Shen, why should they be obedient?

All I can say now is that everything is just on track.

This is what *** said, fighting with people is a lot of fun.

After returning from the medical room, Gao Shen immersed himself in the office to prepare training materials for the afternoon.

In the tactics library last night, he focused on Benitez's double-back tactical play in Valencia and Liverpool, focusing on formations and positions, especially the construction of the defensive system, which involves too much. What a complicated thing.

What Gao Shen can do at the moment is to draw up a tactical framework in a short period of time, and play his combat effectiveness in the weekend derby as soon as possible, and then he will have time to gradually enrich and improve it.

But even so, Gao Shen still has a lot of things to do. The first is to let the players understand his set of ideas.

As a Real Madrid player, tactical literacy is not a problem. As long as they understand and are willing to implement it, this tactical style of play will definitely work, because it is part of the tactical literacy of professional players.

So the next challenge for Gao Shen is how to let the players understand his tactical requirements and how to adapt the team's tactical play.

The weekend is a derby, and there is really not much time left for him.