Almighty Coach

Chapter 322: Second-Rate Young Player

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

"There’s nothing wrong with the results?" Claude’s eyes glistened with astonishment.

"In terms of indicators, Feng Gao’s body was all right," answered Marla Rodney.

"How about Zheng and Sun?" Claude questioned impatiently.

"Uh, let me see..." Marla Rodney lifted his reading glasses and looked carefully at the other two reports. Then he raised his head and said, "The electrolyte test reports of Zheng and Sun are normal."

Marla Rodney was concerned that Claude would not believe the result, so he handed over the three reports to Claude. There were normal numerical ranges on the reports, so even if Claude was not professional medical worker, he could easily understand the report.

There are no issues with the electrolyte test, and all the indicators are in the normal range? How could that be? Is it true that they lost five kilograms in three days? Claude couldn’t help looking at Dai Li when he thought this.

"The results of the electrolyte test were normal, which means that these athletes were not in a dehydrated state. In other words, they actually lost five kilograms."

"Losing five kilograms in three days; I thought it was just an ’ideal situation’ sort of thing. It is surprising to me that it was achieved."

"There have been similar cases in the top training centers of Europe and the United States. But that was all done by top trainers. I am surprised that an Asian coach could do it."

"Who is the new physical coach? I thought he was just an ordinary coach, but his ability really surprised me."

Everyone turned their attention to Dai Li. Although they were all the top professionals in their sport, no one was better than Dai Li in terms of helping athletes lose weight.

Claude was very embarrassed. He had proposed an electrolyte test with the aim of making a fool of Dai Li and then firing him. But Dai Li was not a fraud as he had expected. And the electrolyte test reports in his hand had become the best evidence for Dai Li.

Claude knew that he had misunderstood Dai Li. But it would be quite embarrassing for him to apologize to Li in front of so many people.

Harman looked at Claude and was ready to relieve him of the awkward atmosphere, and then he smiled and said, "Coach Li has successfully finished his task, and it took him only three days to complete the task that usually would have taken a week to complete. Claude, congratulations, you have a good helper! Coach Li will be able to help you with a lot of work."

Claude recovered in time to nod and say, "I’m ready to arrange new training tasks for Coach Li, and I’m going to make him responsible for part of the physical training of young players."

Claude was quite realistic. He had questioned Dai Li’s ability, but now that he recognized Li’s talent in training, his attitude toward Li changed immediately. Moreover, he had a good helper, so why not?

But Chowtai Kim, not far away, frowned. He was apparently unhappy with the news.

Being in charge of the physical training of young players has always been my pursuit. D*mn it, it was taken away by Dai Li.

Unconsciously, Kim looked at Li, his eyes full of envy and resentment.

Older players, young players, less experienced players, injured players—there were always some athletes on a team who had special requirements for the frequency and intensity of training. The training level of these players was different from normal players.

In terms of training intensity, the daily training of those players who seldom had a chance to play was definitely more intense. For example, when the match day approached, the team’s main players and benches would mainly do warm-up exercises, or they would just do some relatively easy targeted training, because they needed to reserve physical strength for the match. The players who seldom had a chance to play, on the other hand, still had to receive high intensity training.

European soccer teams have always attached great attention to the cultivation of young players, and they have the best training system for young players. Now, the Dingtian Soccer Team had that too, thanks to Harman’s coaching team. So, training young athletes was also an important task for Harman’s team.

Before he left, Coach Franz had been responsible for the training of young athletes, but now he had returned to Europe for surgery. Therefore, who would take over the task was a question of great significance.

Chowtai Kim had traveled far to join the Dingtian Club, and given up his job as a physical coach in Quan Nan Tian Long. His purpose in coming here was not just for hundreds of thousands of yuan per year, because he could earn more in Korea.

Kim came here because he was attracted by Harman’s coaching team. He hoped that he could become a real member of Harman’s team and become an international level coach.

Therefore, Chowtai Kim was eager to take over Franz’s job. He even planned to ask Claude about taking over the physical training of young athletes several days later.

But nobody knew what was coming next. Before Kim put forward his request, Claude had made Dai Li responsible for the physical training of young players.

The physical fitness of the young players in the Dingtian Club is much worse than the main players! Dai Li looked at the testing results and kept shaking head.

It was true that the main players in the Dingtian Club were near-perfect. The Dingtian Club recruited first-class players in China and some of the world’s top players by investing lots of money. It wasn’t unusual for a national starter to be a bench in the Dingtian Club.

But the abilities of the young athletes in the Dingtian Club were terrible.

The youth training of soccer was a huge systematic project, which required much investment, but it took effect slowly. It took decades for strong European teams to set up perfect youth training systems, and the Chinese domestic youth training system couldn’t be compared with it.

What’s more, the number of young people in China who regularly played soccer was smaller than that of Europe. A good team could be established in a small town of Europe by choosing local lads. However, there wasn’t even a place to play soccer in a big city of millions of citizens in China. Therefore, although the youth training system was introduced in China, it was difficult to find enough young players.

Even the Dingtian Club couldn’t recruit young players with high levels of talent, let alone other clubs which joined in low-level leagues. So even though the Dingtian Club had back to back wins, their young athletes were not as impressive as their success would suggest.

"Their personal abilities are so weak, with low-level talent that is full of defects. They need to improve their physical energy in an integrated way." Dai Li looked down one A4 paper, filled with training goals and a general training plan. Of course, specific implementation depended on Dai Li.

"Maybe I should try the effects of Physical Energy Rampage!"