Chapter 659: Eliminating the Inner Demon

A training session lasts ninety minutes, which is not a short time and the intensity is very high. Therefore, when Luis Borini blew the whistle to end the training, many players on the training ground fell down exhausted.

But Yang Huan noticed that Kaka was standing there sweating profusely, with his hands on his hips.

Soon, two people were seen walking quickly from the sidelines. They turned out to be the team's Chinese medicine massage consultant, Huang Wenying.

"Master Huang?" Yang Huan was a little surprised when he saw who the person was.

Huang Wenying walked into the training ground with his assistant, carefully massaging Kaka's legs and asking about his condition, especially his knees and groin, which had been injured before. It could be seen that he had massaged them for a while.

Huang Wenying then went to find Luis Borini. With the help of his assistant's translation, Huang Wenying was obviously introducing Kaka's situation, while the latter kept nodding and then signaled Kaka to accept the punishment.

The so-called punishment is additional training, but it is not the kind of unreasonable training.

Considering that Tielemans and Prowse are both very young, and Kaka has just recovered from injury, the extra training looks more like relaxation, and it is all recovery training to stretch the muscles and relax the tendons.

This also made Yang Huan on the sidelines breathe a sigh of relief.

"It seems that these guys are really not doing anything 'messy'!" Yang Huan said with a smile.

Peter Kenyon, Ron Gourlay and others kept nodding.

Whether it is the administrative department or Staplewood, Southampton has formed a sound, orderly and reasonable operating mechanism. Everyone performs their duties and follows the system and procedures, so basically there will be no major problems.

"Let's go to the analysis center to find out the situation!"

After saying that, Yang Huan took the lead and turned away.

After bypassing the training ground and entering through the main door of the training building, Yang Huan headed straight for the research and analysis center.

When passing the massage area halfway, Yang Huan smelled a strong herbal smell, which made him feel a little strange.

Since Huang Wenying came to Southampton, his acupressure and massage have become one of the favorite recovery methods of Southampton players, and the effect is quite obvious, especially in the initial recovery stage of some injuries.

But it is rare to use Chinese herbal medicine.

"Let's go in and take a look!" Yang Huan changed his mind at the last minute and went straight to the massage area.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard Huang Wenying nervously instructing her apprentices, asking one to pay more attention to the fire, another to quickly prepare to soak the medicine bags, and another to hurry up and prepare the medicine oil...

"Old Huang, it really looks like a war is going on here!" Yang Huan walked forward with a smile.

The massage area is headed by Huang Wenying, who has seven or eight people including her apprentices and assistants. Is it really that busy?

"Master Huan?" Huang Wenying heard the voice and turned around. Seeing that it was Yang Huan, she was a little surprised. Then she smiled bitterly, shook her head and sighed, "Master Huan, you don't know that they are coming soon. We have to prepare quickly!"

"Are you so anxious?" Yang Huan felt strange.

Huang Wenying nodded and said, "Yes, I have studied it with the people at the Research and Analysis Center and found that acupressure and massage within half an hour after training and competition have the best recovery effect, so..."

As he was speaking, he saw the players outside rushing in one after another.

When the Saints players saw Yang Huan, they all respectfully called him "Young Master Huan".

But soon, Huang Wenying called him to the bed, and after a while, someone started shouting.

The process of acupressure and massage is indeed a little painful, but after the pain, I feel relaxed and the recovery effect is quite good. Otherwise, the research and analysis center would not have included it in the training plan.

Furthermore, the Research and Analysis Centre is currently carrying out more in-depth research into acupressure and Chinese massage, led by Marcus du Sautoy and top students from Oxford Medical School.

"Come on, let's go over there!"

Seeing how busy it was here, Yang Huan couldn't stay any longer and had to leave.

Walking to the research and analysis center, Yang Huan found that no one was idle here either. Everyone was doing their job diligently and responsibly. After all, the training class had just ended and now was their busy time.

Yang Huan did not bother them, but went directly to Marcus du Sautoy's office, only to find that Dr. Howard Hamilton was also there. The two seemed to be discussing something, looking worried.

"What's the matter? Are you in any trouble?" Yang Huan saw that the door was not closed, so he walked in with a smile.

"Young Master Huan?" The two turned around when they heard the voice and were both startled.

Then he quickly greeted Peter Kenyon and Ron Gourlay.

"What's the matter? Why do you look like you have a headache?" Yang Huan asked again.

Marcus du Satoy shook his head and smiled bitterly, turned the document in front of him over and handed it to Yang Huan.

"This is Kaka's data from the team training just now."

Yang Huan took it and took a look. The number of passes, success rate and so on were all good.

"Not bad, what's the matter?" Yang Huan was a little puzzled.

Marcus du Satoy smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Master Huan, don't stare at the commonly used data. Take a look at the following."

Yang Huan read the report and found a piece of data below which was a one-on-one confrontation, which said eight times, but the number of successes was zero.

This time, he finally realized the problem.

If you look further down, you will find that there was someone recording on the sidelines. In the eight one-on-one confrontations, Kaka avoided six times and hurriedly dodged twice.

In addition, he had five equal chances to steal the ball, but Kaka retracted his foot prematurely all five times.

Also, after being tackled to the ground by Prowse, Kaka's data in the next ten minutes was obviously much worse than before.

The on-site observer also described in the report that Kaka's expression as he lay on the ground was one of fear and anger.

"What does this mean?" Yang Huan had a vague guess, but still couldn't figure it out.

Dr. Howard Hamilton smiled helplessly, "I sent Kaka's physical data and recovery status to the United States and gave it to a very famous sports injury doctor friend of mine. He has performed surgery on many sports stars including Henry, Irving and Kobe, and has developed recovery plans."

Yang Huan nodded, waiting for him to continue.

"After he understood the situation, he also conducted in-depth discussions and research with me and Marcus. We all believe that Kaka's ligaments, thigh muscles, groin, meniscus and other parts have been injured repeatedly. It is impossible for him to recover to normal, and it is even quite difficult for him to continue playing football."

Yang Huan had already been mentally prepared for this.

To be honest, it is really not something that most people can bear to persist despite so many injuries in Real Madrid over the past few years, especially when facing the overwhelming accusations and pressure of public criticism outside the court.

"But after detailed discussions and research, we have developed a feasible plan. We have been following this plan for the past period of time, except..."

"Just what?" Peter Kenyon asked with concern.

You know, Kaka is a superstar in Southampton whose commercial value is second only to Ibrahimovic.

Even though he is no longer as glorious as he used to be on the court, he is still very attractive in the field of business operations.

Dr. Marcus du Sautoy then took over the conversation, "For this kind of repeated injuries, in many cases, what really troubles the players is not the physical pain, but the psychological shadow of the players, the fear in their subconscious mind."

"You mean, Kaka is afraid of physical confrontation?" Yang Huan was a little surprised.

If a professional player is afraid of physical confrontation, how can he play football?

Not to mention the fierce physical confrontation in the Premier League, even in La Liga, which protects technical players the most, can you survive without physical confrontation?

You know, although La Liga emphasizes technology and the physical confrontation is not intense enough, La Liga players are famous for their many small moves and dirty playing style. Many times, even players with excellent skills such as David Silva, Juan Mata, Iniesta and Xavi, small moves are enough to make you go crazy.

Of course, these are common tricks in professional leagues, and everyone is used to them.

So, if Kaka is really afraid of physical confrontation, how can he continue to play in the professional league?

"If he can't get over his inner demons, then even if we heal his injury and allow him to play like a normal player, he will still not be able to perform stably. He will still be like he was in Real Madrid, and he will even get injured frequently!"

Yang Huan had heard of this. Sometimes, it was a psychological factor at work.

"Is there no other way?"

Marcus du Satoy nodded and smiled, "We have discussed this with Lao Huang before, and we preliminarily estimate that Kaka's physical condition can withstand the intensity of normal matches and group training for about 20 minutes, and the maximum is 30 minutes."

"Then what?"

"So, we asked the coaching staff to arrange for Kaka to play half a quarter of group confrontation training in training, which is 25 minutes. In the game, he can only play as a substitute for the time being, and it would be best if he played continuously for about the last 20 minutes of the game."

"In training, we require all players to treat Kaka equally and give him the right moves. Everything is done strictly according to the intensity of training that is close to actual competition in daily life. The purpose is to help him overcome his inner demons!"

After hearing this, Yang Huan finally understood.

No wonder Luis Borini specifically called a timeout and reprimanded Prowse and Tielemans just now, so this is the case.

"But what if you get hurt again?" Yang Huan asked again.

Marcus du Satoy and Howard Hamilton looked at each other and laughed.

"It's not that easy!" Marcus Du Satoy turned on the computer and opened a series of data. "We have been monitoring Kaka's data and physical condition all the time from the time he started warming up to the time he participated in training."

"Before and after he goes on the field to participate in confrontational training, Lao Huang and the staff will test him to ensure that he will not get injured during training. The purpose of doing this is to gradually restore his confidence through this kind of training and help him get rid of his inner demons!"

Yang Huan finally understood everything.

Heart disease needs to be treated with heart medicine, and Kaka can only get rid of his inner demons by himself.

If you want to get rid of your inner demons, more training, more competitions, and more confrontations are undoubtedly the best medicine.

When he realizes that he doesn't have to worry about getting injured even if he tries his best and pushes his body to the limit, then his inner demon will be gone.

Only then will Kaka be qualified to say that he can play like an ordinary professional player.

Otherwise, he would always have to go to war with his inner demons.

Just imagine, how much strength can a professional player who is afraid of injury and physical confrontation exert?

When Yang Huan thought of this, he felt relieved.

He was very satisfied with the plan proposed by the Research and Analysis Center. If even such a detailed arrangement could not help Kaka overcome his inner demons and get rid of his injuries, then Yang Huan would be truly powerless.

I believe that when that time comes, Kaka will no longer blame Southampton!