super storm

Chapter 1295
The opening day was a happy one.

After the players returned to the team to report, they went directly to the medical room for a physical examination. The results are obvious. Most players, including Marcelo, are not up to the physical fitness standard, but this is also a normal phenomenon.

In fact, when the summer training camp starts, there will always be a minority of those who meet the physical fitness standards, and most of them will not meet the standards.

Of course, it is very rare to be as fat as Marcelo's pig head.

The two training sessions on the first day were mainly about recovery and adjustment. The mentality of the coaching staff and players was relatively relaxed. Everyone was talking and laughing. People who didn't know what was going on thought that after Zidane took office, he would advocate playing gorgeous skills.

The real devil training starts on the second day.

All players have more or less heard the news that the team should focus on physical fitness in the new season, because last season the team had insufficient running due to physical fitness, and many games were devoted to physical fitness, so everyone can understand this.

But even with mental preparation, when they came to Valdebebas and saw the physical training plan posted by the team, everyone was still stunned.

Are you sure this is physical training?Wasn't intentionally abusive?
Who can withstand such high-intensity training?

For a while, before the training started, the locker room was already filled with dissatisfaction.

Yang Yang, Ramos and Marcelo have all reached a consensus in advance, so they quickly came forward to appease their teammates and let the locker room quickly reach a consensus that the team must practice hard.

The ability to successfully defend the Triple Crown last season is partly due to strength, but in fact, many games were won by Yang Yang alone on the spot. This is very unreliable. If Yang Yang does not perform well, Real Madrid will be over immediately.

Therefore, the team must train hard, practice hard, focus on physical fitness, and reduce injuries.

After the locker room reached a consensus, the real devil training began.

……

Pintus divided the team's training into different groups. Each group carried out targeted training tasks, and the training content was also different. From jumping to balance, it covered all aspects of physical fitness training.

This is indeed quite different from Real Madrid's past training.

But it’s okay if it’s just like this. What’s really terrible is that after each set of Pintus training, he has to do a running training that lasts for half an hour. Remember, it is after each set of training.

You know, after a group of training, although the Real Madrid players will not be overwhelmed, they are indeed very tired, because Zidane and the coaching staff require the players to devote 100% in training.

Just imagine, after 100% devotion to the training program, you have to run for another half an hour. Isn't this equivalent to killing people?

It can be seen how high the intensity of this training is.

In addition to regular training, Pintus also introduced a lot of strength training in training, such as weightlifting and other equipment training, which is miserable for many Real Madrid players, because technical players never like gyms.

Almost on the first day of training, Real Madrid players feared and even questioned this kind of devil training.

Hazard quit the court after only half an hour of training in the morning. He was worried that this high-intensity training would cause injuries to himself, but the team doctor who had been waiting on the sidelines immediately tested him and drove him back to the court in less than 5 minutes.

The Belgian winger is also notoriously lazy, and he has never liked this kind of high-intensity physical training.

As soon as the training session ended that morning, all the players protested around Yang Yang, Ramos and Marcelo, thinking that this kind of training would be fatal.

"With practice like this, how can we still have the energy to compete?"

"That's right, it won't work like this, it's too intense."

"Although I also support the team's hard training, isn't the intensity too outrageous?"

"Compared with this dead bald head, Ancelotti's so-called special forces training is just childish."

"Woo woo woo, I really can't stand it anymore, I definitely can't stand it."

Yang Yang and Ramos were also well prepared. After hearing the complaints from their teammates, they did not refute them, nor did they defend the coaching staff. Instead, they were enlightening and allowing them to vent their emotions.

The training sessions in the afternoon were relatively less intense, and the players were secretly relieved, and there were more training sessions with the ball, but they still had to continue running for half an hour after the training sessions.

This made Real Madrid complain one after another. It is said that Pintus was a track and field coach at the earliest!

Whether it's complaints, protests, or complaints, training must continue.

……

During Real Madrid's stay in Madrid, although they still practiced twice a day, the training intensity was extremely high. The players were tortured to the point of misery, and even a few young players were overwhelmed and couldn't help crying on the training ground.

What is surprising is that due to the adequate preparation of the coaching staff and the medical team, no player was injured during the entire training cycle despite the extremely high intensity of training. This is a big surprise.

When the team was preparing to leave for Australia, many players looked back and reflected on the results of this period of devil training. They were very surprised by the results. Marcelo and Hazard had gained a lot of weight, but now they have lost weight, even more standard than before.

As the body gradually adapted to this kind of high-intensity training, the pressure on the players was not so great, and they gradually began to understand.

But what really convinced the Real Madrid players was Pintus' words and deeds.

He is completely different from other physical coaches in the past in that he teaches on the field with his own body.

For example, he asked Ramos to skip rope, but after watching it for a while, he felt that Ramos' rope skipping method was not good, so he went off to compete with him in person, and in the end he just beat Ramos on the rope skipping.

And running.

Running for half an hour after each set of training is a rigid rule for Pintus, but don't think that only Real Madrid players are running, and Pintus also runs with the team, and he persists to the end every time, and the results are still very good.

In addition, there is strength equipment training in the gym, and the Italians also follow the team, and even teach them hand in hand.

Gradually, Real Madrid players also felt the benefits of Pintus' training, especially with the increase in daily communication and contact, the relationship between the players and him became better and better, and they became more and more convinced.

Among Real Madrid's first-team players, the oldest is in his early thirties, and the youngest is in his early twenties, but Pintus is already 53 years old. How admirable is it that a 53-year-old middle-aged man can train with professional players like this?
If Pintus just blindly asks, but he can't do it, then the player must not be convinced. Now he has high demands, but he can do it, so what else can the player say?

Do you have to admit that you are not as good as an old man in his 50s?
Yang Yang, Ramos and Marcelo also played a role during this period of time, calming the emotions in the locker room, making the team complain, but at least everyone is doing their best in training and dare not slack off in the slightest.

However, ultra-high-intensity training also brings disadvantages.

……

A week after the training camp, Real Madrid went to Melbourne, Australia for the first warm-up match at the beginning of the season.

This is the first warm-up match of the International Champions Cup, and the opponent is Rome in Serie A.

Former Real Madrid right back Maicon is currently playing for this Roma team, and the atmosphere on both sides before the game was also very good.

The game went very flat. Real Madrid was still in the devil training in Pintus. The players were not in any form at all, and even their physical fitness was so bad that they were passively beaten in the game and could only rely on defense to stabilize their position.

During the intermission, the team made eleven substitutions, which can be said to have changed the whole team once, but the performance was still very bad.

This was expected by the Real Madrid coaching staff, because the players were seriously out of shape.

Even not only this warm-up match tonight, Real Madrid will not perform very well in the next few warm-up matches.

In the end, the two sides drew [-]-[-] and went directly to a penalty shootout, while Real Madrid lost [-]-[-].

……

During his stay in Australia, Real Madrid's devil training continued.

Pintus' training plan covers the entire season, and the pre-season training also covers the entire pre-season training, even including the arrangement and layout of the warm-up match.

After losing to Roma, Real Madrid ushered in the second game of the International Champions Cup against the Premier League Manchester City.

In this game, Real Madrid still performed very sluggishly, but Manchester City's performance was also very bad. The two teams can be said to have met in a trough. In the end, Real Madrid relied on Isco's outstanding performance to defeat Manchester City [-]-[-] with one pass and one shot.

But after the game, most of the media were still dissatisfied with Real Madrid's performance, because the team's overall performance was too sluggish. The Catalan media Daily Sport, which is close to Barcelona, ​​even broke the news that Real Madrid's various measures this summer have proved that this team has given up [-] to [-] seasons ahead of schedule.

"This season is purely for training Yang Yang and Zidane, so Real Madrid didn't make any big moves in the transfer market, including Pogba who took the initiative to show his favor to Real Madrid. This is completely different from previous years."

"Not only that, look at Real Madrid's performance in the two pre-season games. Although it has one win and one draw, the content is appalling. It doesn't have the demeanor of defending the Triple Crown at all, and it doesn't have the strong dominance of Ancelotti's coaching period."

Daily Sports Daily believes that, compared to Real Madrid, Barcelona has shown a strong aggressiveness and desire to compete in the new season.

"Luis Enrique's team has reached the critical moment of their last stand. All of them must fight for their honor and their jerseys, vowing to break Real Madrid's domination of La Liga and the Champions League."

"A rookie combination like Zidane and Yang Yang is undoubtedly the best opportunity for Barcelona!"

(End of this chapter)