Chapter 287 Special Training Method

On October 26, the team resumed training.

Yesterday, taking advantage of the fact that there were no games in the past few days, Chelsea players had some fun. As a result, many players went straight home to lie down, including the team captain John Terry. This time they also made up for the celebration of their last victory over Manchester United.

These Chelsea guys really enjoy drinking. The players' lives outside of training are boring to begin with, and celebrating happily together can increase their friendship and solidarity in the locker room.

Even though they were easily drunk by Wang Li every time.

This morning, Wang Li got up early again. When the sun rose from the east, he had already struggled out of his gentle embrace, went to a restaurant next to the community to have some breakfast, bought some food to take home and put in the living room, and then trotted towards Chelsea Club.

Wang Li hadn't gotten up so early for a long time, and now he was used to this kind of enjoyable life. Although he knew he shouldn't indulge in this kind of life, insisting on getting up early every day would have some benefits for both his body and martial arts practice, he couldn't resist Angela's soft and hard persuasion. When he woke up from the dream, the feeling of having a beautiful woman in his arms was indeed addictive.

It was past 7 o'clock in the morning and there were already some pedestrians on the streets of London. Various horns were honking non-stop on the roads. These office workers were busy preparing for a new day's work, announcing the beginning of a new day.

Standing on the street and seeing this scene on the road, Wang Li felt a little sad that his current life is different from that of his previous life. Even though the snow scenery of Tianshan Mountain is indeed intoxicating, it is impossible to see so many people. Moreover, although he has not set foot in the martial arts world, that kind of life must be full of physical fighting and blood. How can it be as prosperous and peaceful as the people in this world?

Of course, there are definitely places of poverty and war in the world, but that has nothing to do with Wang Li. He is here to enjoy life, not to be a savior. Besides, even if he wants to maintain world peace, he does not have the ability to do so.

Walking to the first-team training ground, Wang Li sat on the sidelines, changed his jersey, adjusted his physical condition, and then found Rick John to ask him to help him do some free kick exercises.

Rick John is the son of old man John, the security guard. He dropped out of school after only finishing middle school. Although he loves football very much, he is not very talented and has not achieved much until he was 19 years old. Therefore, he could not go too far in this field and could not even enter the youth team of a small club.

Last year, Mr. John, relying on his decades of experience working at Chelsea, found the club's CEO, Mr. Peter Kenyon, and secured such a position for Rick John. Although Rick is also a staff member of the club, he is actually more like a caddy, because his job is to assist the first-team players in training and do some work such as placing footballs, props and miscellaneous items.

However, Rick worked very hard. He was the first person to arrive every day and did a good job, which at least satisfied the big-name stars in the first team. Last month, Mr. Peter Kenyon even gave him a raise on this basis - 1,100 pounds a week.

Although compared with the average players, this salary is nothing, not even a fraction of it, but compared with the average workers, it is a good treatment.

With the help of Rick, Wang Li completed 200 free kick shooting trainings. When he came to his senses, there were already many fans watching on the sidelines.

"The last time I heard that Alan was Chelsea's hardest-working player, I didn't believe it. I came here at 8 o'clock this morning, but I didn't expect him to actually be training," said a fan in surprise.

"Of course, Allen must have worked the hardest, otherwise how could he perform so well?" said another fan disdainfully.

"But, I come here every day around 8 o'clock, and Allen is never on the court?" a short fan asked puzzledly.

“He must have gone to eat.”

"Is it possible to do other training, such as going to the gym?"

"Anyway, Alan must come early every day. Didn't the newspaper say that last time?"

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Wang Li, who was very sharp-eyed and sharp-eared, could hear clearly what the fans were talking about, but he was sweating inside and thought to himself, "Luckily Rick couldn't hear these discussions, otherwise this guy would have laughed himself to death. He knows my training situation very well."

But what Wang Li didn't know was that ever since the last time the media had been reporting Wang Li's efforts crazily, Rick had told all the club staff the "secret" about his training situation, and now almost everyone knew about this unworthy "hard worker".

After a while, Chelsea's players gradually arrived at the first-team training ground. The first to arrive were naturally Thomas and Bridge. This pair of "partners" had similar interests and were almost promoted to partners. They always came to the training ground early to do some extra exercises. Of course, in Wang Li's opinion, these training programs were still very helpful for Thomas' goalkeeping ability, but forget about Bridge. Thomas was not a striker with strong dribbling ability. It was impossible to train his one-on-one defensive skills and his running support ability at the same time. This kind of extra training really had no effect at all.

Then at half past nine, assistant coach Clark also came to the stadium, and the other players also arrived at the stadium before 10 o'clock.

Although many people were still a little confused due to yesterday's excessive drinking, and walked groggily, obviously without any energy, and even Terry's eyes were red, which looked a little scary, but yesterday coach Mourinho repeatedly warned them not to be late, so these players arrived at the stadium on time despite being exhausted.

Sure enough, just when Clark was leading the players to do some warm-up exercises, head coach Jose Mourinho came to the first-team training ground with an Oriental man in a suit and tie. At this time, all the players gathered around, and everyone looked carefully at the legendary judo master.

"Let me introduce you. This is the club's new confrontational training coach, Mr. Saburo Ono." Mourinho cleared his throat and introduced.

In fact, the purpose of the Portuguese inviting judo masters is not to let the players learn judo, but many of the judo techniques can allow the players to learn some professional movements in physical confrontation to increase their confrontation ability in the game, making them more flexible and changeable on the court and gain the upper hand.

For these Chelsea stars, they don't need to do any technical training at all. Most of them have mature skills. Only restorative physical training, confrontational training and cooperation are more necessary.

Although Mourinho did not hold out much hope, if it could be of a little help, then hiring this coach would definitely not be a losing deal.

Being watched by so many big-name stars with curious eyes, the 35-year-old Ono Saburo was a little timid. He calmed down and introduced himself in fluent English: "My name is Ono Saburo, and I am the owner of the London Judo Hall of the Japanese Embassy in the UK. I hope that in the next month, I can help you improve your physical confrontation."

Mr. Saburo Ono was very polite. After introducing himself, he immediately bowed deeply. This traditional Japanese etiquette made the players feel somewhat favorable towards him.

After they got to know each other, Jose Mourinho announced that for the next month, everyone would have to do one hour of judo confrontation-related training every day, and then returned to the office building to continue his professional research work.

The reason why Jose Mourinho can always give his team a tactical advantage is definitely inseparable from his hard work. Before each game, he carefully studies the detailed information of his opponents and then arranges the most suitable tactics to increase the team's chances of winning. Hard work every day is the key to his success.

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Saburo Ono was Japan's judo champion in the 1990s. It is said that he once won a silver medal in the Olympics. At least in judo, he is definitely a professional.

However, since the 21st century, the era when Japanese judo dominated the world has long passed. Judo players from other countries are also very strong, especially China, which always performs very well in this event. Perhaps this is a blow to Japanese judo, but perhaps it is also a mutual promotion.

In 1999, Saburo Ono came to London and became the owner of a judo hall under the Japanese Embassy in the UK. The judo hall was very popular and many young English people went there to learn martial arts. During an exchange, he met Mourinho and discussed the relationship between football and judo.

Mourinho also thought that Saburo Ono's idea was very good, so he specially invited this Japanese to do this special training for these big-name stars.

Although the 35-year-old Saburo Ono's strength is no longer at the world's top level, he should never be underestimated. At least it is enough for him to guide these Chelsea big-name stars to do some standard judo moves and increase their ability to compete on the court.

Judo is a fighting style that mainly relies on wrestling and ground techniques, among which the main techniques are kicking, punching, throwing, grabbing, etc. through physical contact. Of course, it is impossible to perform these moves on the football field, but in Mourinho's view, one can absorb various small methods from them to make himself invincible when making physical contact with the opponent.

If you want to improve the players' abilities, it is really not possible to just do boring training on the football field. There are many strange ways in Europe to increase the abilities of football players, such as fencing, ice hockey, etc. Of course, for football, these are just auxiliary.

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"In the next few minutes, let me teach you how to fight against your opponent in a judo match."

After saying that, Saburo Ono asked the players to stand separately on the court, first do some judo starting poses to adapt themselves, and then practice elbow pressing and waist twisting movements.

These Chelsea players usually do tactical training, either football or soccer, they have never done such strange training. Almost everyone followed the movements with great interest, and of course Wang Li was among them.

Wang Li studied Chinese internal martial arts and of course dabbled in external martial arts, but he had never come into contact with judo, which was passed down from Japan. As the saying goes, "A stone from another mountain can polish a jade", absorbing the strengths of all schools might be helpful to his martial arts.

At this time, a strange scene appeared in Chelsea's internal training ground. A bunch of world-class superstars were doing all kinds of strange movements. The scene even made people feel a little ridiculous. Of course, these would definitely not be seen by fans and the media. Regardless of whether this method has practical use or not, Mourinho would not let competitors see their internal training methods.

"No, it should be like this." Saburo Ono walked to John Terry, turned his body and corrected him.

Lampard was right next to Terry. He now spread his legs a little, trying to imitate the position demonstrated by Ono Saburo. However, Ono Saburo was still a little dissatisfied. He walked over to him and said, "Spread your legs a little. This will increase the stability of your body and prevent you from being knocked down easily by your opponent."

At this time, Ono Saburo turned his head and saw the movements of a black-haired boy. Unlike the crooked movements of ordinary players, the movements of this black-haired boy were very standard, almost like a textbook. He watched carefully for a long time, but could not find any shortcomings. Moreover, there seemed to be a hint of momentum, which made Ono Saburo a little puzzled.

'Has this guy ever practiced judo?'

However, Saburo Ono immediately put this idea behind him. These big-name Chelsea stars have all started football training since childhood. They don't have the time to learn judo techniques, let alone learn them in depth.

Having worked in London for several years, Saburo Ono was of course directly interested in this English dance master, who was said to be a descendant of overseas Chinese from China. "Will the offspring of marriage with the British be more talented in football?" Thinking about the fact that Japan has been working hard to develop football in recent years, but has invited many internationally renowned coaches to train, and spent a lot of money to let these potential new stars go to Europe to participate in competitions to improve their abilities, but the results are average, Saburo Ono's thoughts also drifted away.

"If we can spend some money to let those kids come to a big club like Chelsea to train for two years, the results will be remarkable." Ono Saburo couldn't help but think that although the Chelsea players in front of him had very "weird" postures when they performed consecutive judo moves, they were completely laymen, and it could even be said that most of them did not have the qualifications to learn judo, but their football skills were indeed world-class.

Judo and football are two different sports after all.

At this time, Wang Li carefully experienced this kind of Japanese judo, but he felt very disdainful in his heart. Before he had practiced for half an hour, he felt that it was meaningless.

This kind of judo moves is really not that good, not to mention compared with his master's martial arts, even compared with many external martial arts, it is far worse, and it is really useless for his own improvement.

Wang Li even found some traces of external martial arts in it, which made him feel a little strange. Could it be that judo was an ancient Chinese martial art that was spread to Japan and then improved?

It is possible that Chinese martial arts are getting weaker with each generation. When it was passed down to the Song Dynasty, it still had the ability to fly over eaves and walls, move objects and break stones. If we trace it back to the Five Dynasties or even the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, even if there were immortals, Wang Li would not find it surprising.

It is very likely that at some point in time, some inferior martial arts techniques were transmitted to neighboring Japan.

As Wang Li was thinking, he stopped his moves. At this time, Saburo Ono finally saw that the black-haired boy's posture was incorrect, and hurried over to correct him, saying: "Alan, your posture is wrong, your hands should be like this..." While gesturing, Saburo Ono enjoyed the pride of coaching these big-name stars.

Unfortunately, Wang Li's next words pulled Ono Saburo out of his intoxication.

"Oh, sorry, I don't think this will help me at all, I'll go do other training."

Wang Li had no interest in continuing this meaningless training and unattractive movements. For him, this was really a waste of time. After Wang Li left a message, he took his follower Rick John to do free kick training.

The assistant coach saw Wang Li stopped training and didn't say anything.

In the club, this black-haired boy is a privileged person. Neither the team chairman Mr. Abramovich, the head coach Mr. Mourinho nor the CEO Mr. Peter Kenyon will interfere with his training.

Most of the time, the players were doing physical training, and this black-haired boy was the only one sitting alone on the sidelines, not knowing what he was doing. Thomas said he was practicing Chinese Kung Fu, but is Kung Fu practiced while sitting?

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While the Chelsea players were doing all sorts of strange moves over there, Wang Li was already doing free kick training on the other side of the field. Recently, he felt that his free kick skills were getting better and better, and this feeling of continuous improvement was truly intoxicating.

Wang Lineng is sure that as long as he practices like this for a few months and has inner strength as a foundation, his free kick skills will definitely surpass David Beckham.

Of course, this is not Wang Li's goal. It is said that "Little Li's flying knife will hit the target once it is fired". He hopes that his free kicks can reach that level. At that time, as long as he participates in the game, a foul at the front of the penalty area will almost mean a goal...

But that is only a matter for the future. At least for now, his level is still a long way from that.

Just when Wang Li was still thinking about what to do in the future, he saw a Russian with short hair and muscular body jogging towards him. Wang Li had seen this man before. He was one of the personal bodyguards of the club chairman Mr. Abramovich. "What does the chairman want to talk to me about?"

Before Wang Li could think about it carefully, the Russian ran up to him and said directly: "Hello, Allen, Mr. Abu wants to see you."

"See me?" Although he was mentally prepared, Wang Li was still a little surprised.

At Chelsea Club, all external operations are led by CEO Peter Kenyon, while matters concerning team matches and transfers are the work of head coach Jose Mourinho. Although Abramovich has great power, he never uses it. It is more like a sinecure.

"So, what on earth does he want to talk to me about?" Wang Li wondered.

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