Chapter 453 Others can do it, but Su Dong can’t!
As night falls, the Joan Gamper Sports City is deserted after training.
The training building with scaffolding still under construction and the football field that has not yet been paved make the entire Joan Gamper Sports City look like an unfinished construction site.
There were bright lights in the gym of the first team's main training building.
Looking in from the huge floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall, you can clearly see Su Dong training on the equipment.
Around him, Nuno Cruz, Vitor Scala and other personal coaches were watching and recording data from time to time.
Grant Downing was preparing in another treatment and recovery room. After Su Dong finished his training, he would come here directly for massage and recovery.
This has become Su Dong's daily training routine.
Messi and Iniesta sat leisurely on the semi-reclining chairs that were probably moved from the players' lounge, looking at Su Dong who was sweating profusely during the training, but they had some complaints in their mouths.
"Just ignore those nagging guys. They are too demanding of you." Messi comforted with a complaint.
He felt that if the media outside criticized him in the same way as they criticized Su Dong, he would definitely go crazy.
Why?
Because Su Dong didn't score a goal in three games and was suspended for two games, he was directly criticized.
Although they are not authoritative newspapers, but rather tabloids that have no bottom line in exchange for sales, they are still too harsh.
Just yesterday, Su Dong missed the match between Barcelona and Racing Santander again. In this match, Barcelona drew 2-2 with Racing Santander away. In order to prepare for the away game against AC Milan, Rijkaard even only arranged three main players to play.
Su Dong was not among them.
So, today, some tabloids started to hype again, saying that Su Dong’s lack of self-discipline led to his decline in condition, and that Su Dong was busy with commercial activities to make money and had previously gone to Germany and so on.
But everyone in Barcelona knew that Su Dong went to Germany to film a United Nations public service film. What did it have to do with making money? In a word, Su Dong had missed or failed to score in five consecutive games, which was a heinous crime! "Leo is right. There is no need to get angry with those guys." Iniesta also advised.
Su Dong was still training breathlessly, but he heard what his two friends said, but he had no time to respond.
Nuno Cruz looked at Su Dong, then at Messi and Iniesta, and felt funny in his heart. These two little guys were too naive, or they cared too much about Su Dong.
Worry leads to confusion.
Does Su Dong really care what the outside media say? If he cares, how could he behave like this?
What Su Dong really cares about is his own performance. He can feel that he is at a bottleneck stage. He tries hard to break through and break through that layer of window paper, because he knows that it will be a new and broader world.
But before the window paper is broken, it is often the most suffocating.
This is the problem that Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are facing now.
But these two little guys also have good intentions, otherwise, the entire Barcelona team would have left on time after the training, and only they would have stayed to accompany Su Dong in training, and would have kept chattering non-stop.
Thinking of this, Nuno Cruz looked at Su Dong again and couldn't help but speak.
"Actually, what they both said is not wrong, but you don't need to blame the media."
"Why?" Messi felt very strange.
Why can't we blame them for being so demanding and prejudiced? "It's simple, because he is Su Dong!"
Messi and Iniesta looked at each other, both chewing on Nuno Cruz's words.
"If Su Dong was just an ordinary player, the media probably wouldn't be so harsh on him. If he was just a key player in Barcelona's first team, the media's expectations might be higher. But he is only 21 years old, so they will probably treat him the same way AS treated Robinho, and maybe even praise him a lot."
"But he is Su Dong, the winner of the Footballer of the Year award for two consecutive years. Naturally, everyone's requirements and expectations of him are different from those of ordinary people. They are higher and more demanding than others. Others can go a few rounds without scoring, but not Su Dong."
"Others can get injured and miss crucial games, but Su Dong can't!"
"Others can go on the field and lose, but not Su Dong!"
"But did you notice that they didn't make such high and demanding demands on Su Dong from the beginning? Instead, they gradually increased the standards bit by bit. As Su Dong performed better and better, the original standards were no longer suitable for him. People would then have higher expectations and demands on him based on the original standards."
When Nuno Cruz said this, he couldn't help but feel that the Soviet Union was indeed too difficult.
But this is not the hardest time.
"I can imagine that if you break the record this time, they will ask you to break your own record. When you fail to win the championship, the Golden Boot, are eliminated from the Champions League, or even if you make the national team in the future but fail to lead the Chinese team to the World Cup, you will become the focus of their criticism."
"To put it simply, their demands on you will become higher and higher, so high that it is unimaginable for all other professional players. This is human nature! You can regard it as pressure, but you can also regard it as motivation, because you are Su Dong! You are in this position and you have to bear such responsibilities."
"Throughout history, almost all superstars have been like this, especially in the media and internet age. The only difference is that some people overcome it and turn it into motivation, while others can't handle the pressure and collapse."
Messi and Iniesta were both shocked when they heard this. Is this still a human being?
Will we be blamed for being eliminated from the Champions League?
Who can win the Champions League every season?
Should the Chinese team be blamed for not making it to the World Cup?
Even God would probably cry!
But on second thought, what Nuno Cruz said was not wrong.
As the saying goes, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.
This is the current situation in Eastern Europe.
The standards that many media and fans hold for Su Dong are obviously higher than those for others.
"According to you, Su Dong has to keep doing this and fight against this pressure?" Iniesta asked with concern.
Nuno Cruz also looked at Su Dong with sympathy and sighed, "What else? Give up? Competitive sports are like this, you are fighting all the time, the only difference is the opponent."
This is why people always say that for professional players to reach the top, it is no longer a matter of talent, but a matter of mental strength.
After the 1998 World Cup, Beckham's red card made him the target of public criticism. How terrible was the situation he faced at the time? But what was the result?
He survived and became a heartthrob in world football!
The continuous serious injuries made Ronaldo bear pressure that ordinary people could never imagine, but he survived and won his third World Footballer of the Year award.
Has Zidane never been under pressure?
No, in the first half of his transfer from Juventus to Real Madrid, he was the most expensive player in the world, but his performance was not ideal. How much pressure did he have at that time? How fierce was the criticism he faced? After he survived, he scored a magical goal in the 2002 Champions League final.
There is no rainbow without wind and rain! This is the simple truth that Nuno Cruz wants to express.
When Nuno Cruz finished speaking and Messi and Iniesta were still refusing to accept his words, Su Dong had already finished his training task. He took the towel from Vito Scala breathlessly and wiped the sweat off his face vigorously. At the same time, he looked at his personal trainer and two best friends. Su Dong couldn't help but shook his head.
"You guys are so noisy!"
After saying that, he got up and left.
We quarreled? Messi and Iniesta felt wronged.
The two looked at each other and chased after him to argue with him.
You are so kind-hearted that you get struck by lightning. We stayed with you because we cared about you, and you still say we were quarreling?
Too much! Too much! "Whatever, if you don't treat me to a meal, I won't forgive you!"
"Yes, yes, please have a feast."
The two shameless little guys chased after him.
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"Su Dong must pay attention!"
In the head coach's office at AC Milan's training base, Ancelotti was not as relaxed as outsiders imagined.
He was more worried than anyone else about Su Dong's goal drought.
"In a situation like his, he will either continue to be sluggish, but once he seizes the opportunity, he will explode immediately. The energy accumulated over the past period of time will burst out completely and it will be impossible to suppress it."
Ancelotti and Tassotti, who were born as professional players, know the situation of professional players better than anyone else.
The feeling is like a bachelor who has been solo since birth and finally gets a girlfriend after years of hunger and thirst. Wouldn't he be partying every night and having sex every day?
The energy that erupted was absolutely beyond anyone's imagination.
"Stam played on the right to defend Ronaldinho, which worked well in the first leg. Should we continue to play like this?" asked Tassotti.
Ancelotti nodded and said, "Nesta should still play, and let Maldini guard Messi on the left."
"What about Costacurta?" Tassotti asked with concern.
The veteran made a serious mistake in the first leg. If it weren't for Dida's heroic performance, the goal would have been broken by Su Dong long ago, and Su Dong's goal drought would not have lasted until now.
"Let's put Karaze on, it's safer this way." Ancelotti was a little troubled.
In fact, he was not sure whether the combination of Kaladze and Nesta could freeze Su Dong, because the two did not perform very well in the first round. But there was no way, these were the people he had at hand.
Judging from the performance in the first leg, AC Milan's defense was indeed difficult to defend against Su Dong, and was broken through several times, but Dida performed very bravely, even exceeding his level.
Judging from his performance in the first round alone, it is no exaggeration to say that Dida is at the world's top level.
But no one knows whether he can maintain the same level in the second leg as in the first leg. Ancelotti is confident in his ability and knows Rijkaard's coaching style well. He is confident that he can suppress Barcelona in terms of overall skills and tactics, or at least not fall behind. The key lies in the on-the-spot performance of the players of both teams.
The biggest unstable factor is Su Dong, who is in a goal drought.
He is the biggest suspense of this game!
(End of this chapter)
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