[Football] I'm just a defender

Chapter 153 hapter 153

"In the 2012 European Cup final, both Spain and Sweden were eliminated in the group stage. It was an upset if most of Spain's Real Madrid and Barcelona lineup were eliminated, and the Swedish team revealed Francisco Alvarez after the first game of the group stage After the muscle is pulled, it seems that it is not likely to be qualified by default."

Forlan, who was eliminated early due to a muscle strain, has returned to Madrid. The injury is actually not serious, but it was caused by the tight schedule of Real Madrid last season and muscle fatigue after winning the Champions League.It is still very depressing to be eliminated early in the World Cup. After all, although Sweden does not have any ambitions for the World Cup championship if it wins the European Cup, Fran and Ibrahimovic still want to go as far as they can go.

But in the European Cup two years later, although Fran and Ibrahimovic will be able to play the main force in the first-class European national team when they are old, it will be a problem, but it will not be a big problem for the Swedish team.Not only is the problem not big, maybe it will be a key player.

After Real Madrid won the No.11 Champions League under the leadership of Ancelotti, there have been a lot of personnel changes after the new season, mainly in the midfield.After Kaka, Ozil, and Alonso left, Modric, Isco, Bale, Kroos, and Ronaldo came in two seasons, injecting fresh blood into Real Madrid.

Because of the World Cup, many of Real Madrid's main players were absent from the International Champions Cup before the season, and several people including Forlan were not brought to the competition by Ancelotti.Even Forlan was not included in the squad for the following friendly match, and he didn't officially play until the final Spanish Super Cup with Atletico Madrid before the season.

Real Madrid's opponent at home in the first game of the league is the newly promoted Cordoba. Ancelotti put new aid Kroos and Ronaldo in the starting lineup.Taking the stadium bus to the Bernabéu, Fran, who fell behind and listened to Casillas tell interesting stories about the warm-up match, had just boarded the bus when someone behind him suddenly raised his hand to call him over.

"Your son took a seat for you at the back." Ronaldo, who was sitting in the front row, smiled and pointed to the excited kid who was jumping up and down. This title aroused Ramos and Benzema There was a burst of laughter.Fran touched his chin, didn't care about the joking names of these people, and walked towards the kid who had already grown stubble with his bag.

While putting the bag away, Fran looked at the child with sparkling eyes, "So happy to be on the starting list?" His head hair, "Kick 352 today, but also play well, Isco."

Isco, who came to Real Madrid as the "European Golden Boy Award", is actually just a nickname for this kid. The name is taken from the second half of the bad street name "Francisco", which is exactly the same as the "Fran" taken from the first half.Everyone in the team knew that Fran's 'Sisko' was raised by him as his precious son. No matter how much he disliked Alaska's poor memory, he couldn't change his love for this dog.This led to a very interesting scene when 'Isco', who was very imaginative with 'Cisco', came to Real Madrid.

Originally, Isco's age was like a child to Fran, not to mention that although the Spanish golden boy is said to be famous for his 'calm personality', he likes to fight like a child in the Real Madrid team noisy.When Ozil came to Real Madrid at a young age, Forlan tried his best to help him integrate into the team because of his relatively introverted personality. Isco did not have the anxiety and restraint of traveling to other countries like Ozil, and Forlan was still willing to let these talents Full of small players who can adapt to the team.

Especially since the last season, Fran's previous flamboyance has become more and more restrained, and his youthful spirit seems to be gradually disappearing, becoming mature and gentle.It turns out that joy, anger, sorrow, and joy are always written on his face, and he is so frustrated that he is arrogant and self-exiled. Now people ridicule him, probably because he has been with Alonso for a long time, and regards the "gentleman off the court, butcher on the court" I have learned more than half of the introverted and free and easy.

As a result, after Alonso went to Bayern Munich in the new season, some fans saw the lessons learned and were speculating whether it was Alonso who changed Muller's style of painting, or Muller let Alonso 'completely' integrate into Bayern Munich.

Therefore, Fran and Isco, who had a certain fate because of their names, would occasionally be teased by Ronaldo for raising a son under this "care".And Isco's process of adapting to the team is exemplary. He joined Real Madrid as a European Youth Championship champion, and he was loved by Ancelotti, Zidane and Real Madrid fans from the beginning.Everyone in Real Madrid seems to be ups and downs, but he and Real Madrid still seem to be in the honeymoon period.

In Ancelotti's 352 lineup in the first game of the league, whether it is Ramos, Forlán and Marcelo lined up in the defense, or Modric, Kroos, Bale, J. Luo and Isco, no matter how you look at it, are a domineering layout of "attack or die".

From the perspective of the situation, the Real Madrid midfielder has completely crushed Cordoba, constantly providing shells to Ronaldo and Benzema on the forward line.In the first game of the league at the Bernabeu, Ancelotti showed the team's excellent offensive power to the Meilingers who almost filled the entire stadium.

Correspondingly, however, the 352 lineup has high requirements for the defense, especially when Marcelo and Ramos are not content with defense, the pressure on Forlan as a central defender is correspondingly greater.Ancelotti looked at his team's leading situation with a calm expression, and asked the assistant beside him, "Are there any people who haven't taken the pre-season physical fitness test?" The assistant coach paused, not knowing which player was on the field He showed fatigue in the first game of the season, maybe he ate and played wildly during the summer break.

"Several who returned to the team later, Ronaldo, Coentrao, Marcelo, Benzema..." The assistant coach circled the list one by one. The physical fitness test that Ancelotti said is different from physical training, more It's like an estimate of the limit of physical fitness.Ancelotti nodded silently, looked at someone on the court who was sweating profusely, and added, "Didn't Forlan not be tested after he recovered from his injury?"

"...Ah yes, Fran has no problem training with the team after training, so there is no arrangement," the assistant coach seemed a little surprised by Ancelotti's sudden mention of the name, "We have to... alone for Fran Physical fitness test?"

Ancelotti shook his head, "Arrange several people together to test together, and there is no need to really test the limit. The physical coach will have his own arrangements."

In the end, Real Madrid won the first game of the league 3-0. In the locker room, the former fitness coach ordered a few people to take a physical fitness test the day after tomorrow.The few people whose names were named uttered real or false howls. After all, exhaustion after each test is not a joyful experience.It's just that when Fran's name was read out, everyone fell silent for a moment, and looked at his position at the same time.

Fran was calming down his breathing, and he didn't think there was any problem when he heard his name being mentioned. After all, it was a kind of test after the injury.He rubbed his knees and nodded to show that he understood.

The people who had sorted out went out one after another. Fran thought of something from behind and went to the assistant coach, "Nacho, do you have the statistics of the running distance for the whole game?" The assistant coach guessed that he probably felt that he was deliberately picked up. It was a little strange to come out to test on the question of 'physical fitness', so I handed the statistics to him, "Don't worry, you must still be number one."

Fran, who heard the words "Your running distance is still the first", didn't show any happiness, but smiled at him politely, and then looked at the [-] running distance above with a slightly gloomy face.

After resting for a day after the game, on the third day, several people came to the training camp for testing earlier than the rest of the team.The physical fitness coaching staff has a test plan with a different number of targets for each person's physical condition. When it was Fran's turn, it gave them a headache. After all, at his age of 33, he is almost the same as last season The physical fitness of missing a game is really elusive.

The slight decline in starting speed and average speed is expected by the coaching staff. After all, although he is not as fast as Gareth Bell, who debuted as a guard, he still cannot be underestimated.It's just that when the lung capacity was tested, the fitness coach who recorded the data frowned slightly compared with his data last year. After Coentrao and Benzema finished the test, he signaled Fran to come back and test the lung capacity again.

It can be clearly seen that the lung capacity records in the statistical table for so many years have risen slightly until 2010, and have not fluctuated much in 10 to 13 years and tended to be stable. Every season can almost run a total distance that is unmatched by people. Therefore, Fran has long had the title of 'Iron Lung'.But the stats in the hands of the fitness coach are of course top-notch in the team, but for Fran himself, the decline is a bit exaggerated.

So much so that if the coach himself hadn't known Fran for so many years, he would have wanted to ask him if he had recently become addicted to alcohol and tobacco.

In any case, the test still has to continue, and the real running distance test is performed after setting up several machines.Before the test, Ronaldo joked with Marcelo more easily, and turned his head to show off Fran's god-like physical fitness, but he saw Fran's serious expression, and even seemed to be a little restless that was deliberately suppressed.

When he was playing for Manchester United, the Asian media always praised Park Ji-sung as "two hearts and three lungs", which means that his physical fitness is one of the best in European football, but after coming to Real Madrid and seeing Francisco Alvarez, Ronaldo is the real insight To what is a real fitness madman. Essien was loaned from Chelsea to Real Madrid during the tumultuous season of 1213. At that time, Essien, who was two years younger than Fran, no longer had the vigorous physical fitness when he was called "Buffalo", while Fran was still the No.1 defender. .

Last season, the 33-year-old teammates were still unstoppable. While Ronaldo was envious, he couldn't help but imagine what kind of state he could maintain at the age of 33.But the reality seems to be cruel after all, Ronaldo thought, and he didn't have the idea of ​​joking.

The machines started to come on, and the voices of the players' conversations died down.For a while, there was only the sound of the machine running and pedaling in the room. This was a boring and long test. Several players looked around boringly looking for the focus. gasp.

When Fran began to feel that he could not hold his breath, Marcelo was running beside him.He didn't pay much attention to what state Marcelo was in at this moment, because he knew that this was his own trial.I didn't leave the machine until I really felt the strain, and when I scanned it, I found that Marcelo had stopped the test.

Fran propped up his knees and looked at his feet, sweat dripped down his hair, and he could feel his knees trembling slightly.The fitness coach next to him glanced at the numbers on the machine, and before the record, he stopped looking at Fran, as if he wanted to ask "Did he not recover after the game?" After all, his current state is completely different from the past with ease.

Fran could feel the blood rising in his throat, and barely stood up straight without saying a word.What should he say?Could it be said that when he saw that the statistics were only [-] after the game, he vaguely realized that something was wrong?

The author has something to say: new season, new difficulties, new Fran...

Well our iron man is starting to go downhill.