Chapter 40 The first league
With Diamares' help, Wan Sheng's work has become much easier. Every day, Diamares will follow the training plan to supervise the players' respective training, and then he will work with Wan Sheng to conduct tactical training on the team.
As it turns out, training with the Youth Army is quite effective.
No first-team players want to lose face in front of the rookies of the youth team. They will put in 100% effort in defense. Each of the youth team players wants to work hard in front of the first-team coaches, so they put in 100% enthusiasm to participate in the offense. In this way, both sides work hard, the intensity of the confrontation has been improved, and the training effect has also been improved a lot.
However, the strength of the youth team is indeed very large.
Although there are Ian Taylor and Burton Reit in the team, when the first team is serious, it is very difficult for them to break through the first team goal. The next day and the third day, the "Miscellaneous Brands" failed to complete a goal in training, even if Wan Sheng changed several players on the defensive side one after another.
This satisfied Wansheng.
He hoped that the defense side could do better, which was also the ultimate goal of training. On the third day, Wan Sheng re-arranged Reit and Ian Taylor into the first team lineup, and the training match became a real confrontation match.
The outstanding players in the youth team and the first-team substitutes form a team together, while the other side is the main lineup that Wan Sheng thought was a good idea. The strength gap between the two sides is a bit big, and the main lineup is still very good, at least it can completely suppress the opponent.
However, Wan Sheng changes requirements almost every day, such as letting one of the main players not be too far ahead, for example, to complete two steals to be considered as a defense success, and for example, to make two shots and score all of them before they can be considered a goal... Various strange requirements make many people unable to touch their minds, and also make the players on the main players very depressed.
In this way, both sides can barely hold a training match.
Wan Sheng didn't have much thought. In fact, he just wanted both sides to play more balancedly and could not give one of the main players too much advantage, so that the training effect would be obvious. However, the main players were so depressed that when they were in the real game field, it might be possible to have good results if they could play at will.
This is also secondary, the key point is that the team is very fast to adapt to the new formation.
Wansheng is very satisfied with this.
In addition, for individual players, Reit's performance is getting better and better. His speed advantage in counterattack can be clearly reflected. His shooting skills have also improved a little in a few days, which has given Wan Sheng more confidence in the team.
Rett was grown up by Wan Sheng. It should be said that he was trained by Wan Sheng. In the past few days, Wan Sheng has only seen a little bit of progress in Rett. That is Rett's shooting data in the world of football masters. He has to complete a shooting training every day, and the shooting evaluation value is also improving every day.
This is what Wansheng sees most clearly, and what he is pleased with is Reit's efforts.
However, in the eyes of others, Rett's progress is not a little bit. Before, Rett was just a player on the sidelines of the team, but now Rett's performance on the court is not worse than Ian Taylor at all. The speed, confrontation, explosion and shooting are a bit surprising. They compare Rett's performance three months ago, not data, and now Rett seems to have changed his individuals compared to three months ago.
At the same time, they are more concerned about personal training.
Everyone in the team knows that Reit has been training with Wan Sheng every day in the past three months, so he has improved so much, from a marginal player on the team to a striker who can now have absolute main strength. If it were them, maybe they could have done it?
There are quite a few players with this mentality, especially those young players under the age of 25 who think so.
No one wants to take their career a step further. With such a real example as Reit before them, their confidence in the personal training formulated by Wansheng has increased greatly.
Baker Alfred, who was promoted by the youth team, also performed very well. It should be said that his performance at the centre-back is becoming more and more calm.
When Alfred appeared in the first two days, he often made mistakes, but then he made fewer mistakes and his performance became more and more calm. What the central defender players need is stability. Alfred showed this state, and he also did a solid job in defense, and his cooperation with captain Marcus became better and better.
Many people admire Wan Sheng's vision for this.
Now Alfred needs more growth if he wants to play as the main player of the first team, but at least he can be a qualified substitute. With this steady performance, many people expect him to have more growth and become the team's stable main player of the defense in the future.
Wan Sheng was not stingy with the idea of developing a personal training plan for Alfred, mainly to improve his defensive interception ability. Perhaps in other teams, this does not mean anything, but in Derby County, everyone knows that this means that Alfred has been officially promoted to the first team.
Many people congratulated him.
Alfred was still confused and didn't understand. After others explained to him, everyone in the first team had such a training plan, he really realized that it meant that head coach Wan Sheng had accepted him!
This made Alfred sigh.
A week ago, he was just a marginal player of the Derby County youth team, and he was even considering whether to give up becoming a professional player and was confused about his future. Unexpectedly, he became a first-team player in just one week. Although he did not have a formal professional contract, this opportunity would not be available to ordinary people.
He was extremely grateful to Wansheng.
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A week passed quickly, and the entire team's preparations were also progressing step by step.
Now many people in the team's views on Wan Sheng have changed. For example, Bridge and Jim admire Wan Sheng very much. They are watching the team's preparation step by step in a few days.
At first they felt that this young man could not handle so much work. Unexpectedly, in a week, there was no problem in any aspect. The young man also made some suggestions to make the training look better than when Gregory was there, and the whole team was more fighting spirit than before.
Although the official game has not been held yet, they all feel that Wansheng did better than Gregory in terms of training.
They breathed a sigh of relief, too.
The two of them worked in the club for a long time and are also Derby County locals. They have been Derby County fans since childhood. Although their abilities are limited, they are really from the Derby County club they love. They don’t want Derby County to be in a mess and then be relegated.
Now they see hope.
Diamares was not in a good mood. He was thinking about seeing where Wansheng was better than himself, but seeing that Wansheng handled things in an orderly manner, he felt a contradiction in his heart. On the one hand, he saw it, and on the other hand, he might hope that Wansheng could not do well.
That proves that Mr. Smith and Mr. Wilcox have wrong visions, and they may be better than Wansheng.
But that's not the case now.
At least in terms of training and daily trivial matters, this young man really couldn't do it. At least Diamares knew that he couldn't do it better.
But he was still a little unhappy.
These can only prove that you will be a good assistant coach, but if you want to succeed in the head coach's work, it depends on your true team results. Only this can determine the future fate of Derby County.
Then let me see how your team leader is doing!
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Wansheng will soon usher in the first game to lead Derby County, and it will also be the first professional league game he led.
This is the battlefield to prove oneself!
The media has been looking forward to the game for a long time. This is Wan Sheng's first game since taking over Derby County. Not only that, Wan Sheng is a Chinese, he is also the first Chinese coach in the English League. As England's first Chinese coach, he has gained a lot of attention, and there are also many people paying attention to the first game.
There have been a lot of speculation around Wansheng this week.
After understanding some basic information about Wansheng, the media will also conduct some in-depth exploration. Wansheng's previous experience was fully analyzed by them, and his resume also surprised many people - proficient in seven languages, which is very few people in the coaching industry. With this ability, at least he will not encounter any language obstacles when coaching; Manchester United's youth team coaching experience, although he doesn't know why he left Manchester United, it can prove that he has coaching experience and being able to enter Manchester United club is a bit extraordinary; in addition, he also has a Level A coaching certificate from FIFA, which proves that he is a qualified coach who passes the exam, not a person who has nothing to do with football.
Many people did not expect that this young Chinese could have such a gorgeous resume.
However, resume does not mean anything. Wansheng's performance at the press conference disappointed many people. What outstanding abilities can such a guy who can only speak big and speechless and asked by the media?
They never thought about what questions they asked at the press conference, nor did they think about whether Wansheng would say something else if Wansheng had a stronger verbal talk. In short, they just stubbornly believed that Wansheng would not lead the team to achieve good results.
What they say is reasonable and well-founded.
Not only were they guessing, they also interviewed Manchester United youth team head coach Mike Guinness. McGuinness had a bad impression of Wan Sheng. He could almost guess that the person who revealed that he and his female subordinate "**" was Wan Sheng. He gritted his teeth when he heard Wan Sheng's name.
Of course it would be strange if he could say anything good.
"Yes, he coached at Manchester United, and I gave him the opportunity to coach Manchester United junior team, but he had no ability at all, and made the junior team mess..." McGuinness said.
In the football circle, the head coach of the Manchester United youth team is also considered the number one figure. McGuinness, the former Wan Sheng's immediate boss, even more affirmed that Wan Sheng had no ability - if he had the ability, why would he be fired by Manchester United?
This is enough to illustrate some problems.
Now everyone is watching Derby County's performance. If they lose the first game, they will have more to say. They are even imagining that under their criticism, the young Chinese had to give up the position of Derby County coach and admitted frankly that he had no ability. At the press conference, what he said, "I will definitely lead Derby County to relegation" is a scam.
They felt a little proud when they thought of this.
Wan Sheng didn't know what these media thought, nor did he pay attention to what they said. This was his first game in coaching Derby County, and he only knew that the team had to win.
There are still ten rounds of leagues, and the first round is very important.
There is a saying that, "A good start is half the success." It is the same in the league. If you can win the first round, the team will have a lot of confidence. If you fail, then all kinds of doubts, and even within the team, it will be more difficult to play in the next game.
He carefully prepared for the game and tried hard to defeat his opponent.
Bradford is not an easy opponent. They are currently only ranked tenth in the league, but their performance in the league has always been very stable, defeating weak teams and losing to strong teams. This is Bradford, and Derby County is definitely not a strong team.
Although he is at home, it is not easy to successfully score three-pointers to defeat Bradford.
But Wan Sheng doesn't want to lose. His bottom line is the last ten rounds. He can have two draws, at least not lose. As long as he can get more than twenty points, Derby County will definitely be able to relegate.
This is the bottom line in my heart.
In his heart, he has a higher goal, that is, to lead Derby County to win ten rounds of consecutive victories and get thirty points by then. Relegation is not the ultimate goal. He wants to lead the team to a higher ranking.
As long as that is the case, he can eliminate doubts and get affirmation!
Chapter completed!