Chapter 3 Chongming Football Base

  "Are you good at playing football?" The police officer with the surname Lin asked immediately after hearing Gao Jun say he wanted to go to Chongming Football Base. After all, although Chongming Football Base has the lowest fees in the country, it still charges fees, and Gao Jun doesn't even have a guardian now, where would he get the money to pay for tuition? Unless his talent is exceptionally outstanding, Coach Xu will only reach into his own pocket, after all, he didn't set up the base to do charity...

  "After watching on the big screen, I think the level of Jia A players doesn't seem to be that good either. I feel like I can also do it," said Gao Jun.

  "You really are fearless in your ignorance." Officer Lin chuckled, but as it happened, he had a soccer match to play that weekend, so he decided to bring Gao Jun along and have him try out. If he wasn't any good, no harm done; if anything, it would be a good way to talk some sense into him and get him to abandon this unrealistic dream of his. And as a die-hard fan of Chinese soccer, Officer Lin had always secretly hoped that China could produce a truly talented player...

  Although Gao Jun retired and rarely kicked the ball, after all, his foundation was deep. When he was over 40 years old, during training, a casual shot on goal could still make a world-renowned coach exclaim "Just like Su Ke", which shows how precise his shooting technique is. Although this young body is less than 1 meter 4 tall and very weak, and has just crossed over and is not yet familiar with it, Gao Jun still feels that there is no difficulty in dealing with some amateur-level uncles...

  Although the "ball flying in the air" commonly seen in amateur matches gave Gao Jun a lot of trouble at first, when he found that this new body had a very good movement frequency, Gao Jun, who was not known for his breakthroughs at the time, immediately came up with a "five passes and six kills", dribbling to the goalkeeper's feet and lightly pushing the ball, which went into the net from under the big fat man's crotch...

  "Awesome! Too awesome, that kid in my house isn't even half as good as you, no, not even a quarter... Even the best player on his team can't compare to you...". A middle-aged man who was watching his child practice soccer at Chongming Base sat down on the ground, panting heavily, looking at Gao Jun with an expression of utter disbelief. After catching his breath, he added another sentence, "If you don't play soccer, it's definitely a loss for Chinese football..."

  And at this time, Gao Jun was quietly savoring the comfortable feeling of continuous acceleration and direction change, which could manipulate the defensive player at will without any fake movements. "Is this what we call talent?"

  Until Gao Lin's breakthrough, the majority of Chinese coaches only focused on traditional physical qualities such as height, strength, speed, endurance, explosive power and jumping ability, with few emphasizing movement frequency or flexibility, as well as balance, which are not directly visible "hidden" physical qualities, this aspect is even inferior to many FM game players.

  But in fact, flexibility and balance are both very important, the latter being the foundation of dribbling confrontation. People with poor balance, no matter how strong their bodies are, will find it difficult to maintain technical movements under close defense from opponents, especially when dealing with balls at their feet. The most typical anti-example is Shandong's "China's first high school forward" Han Daren. Moreover, people with good balance are less likely to be deceived by fake movements and can make larger fake movements themselves, resulting in greater deception. Therefore, it is very important for both attacking and defending players.

  Gao Jun, when he was the head coach of the national football team, had specifically studied the Japanese team and found that although their players were not as tall and strong as those in China, they generally had better balance than Chinese players. As a result, they were very stable with the ball and not afraid of being pressed, and their passing and receiving coordination was particularly excellent in actual combat, which should have a great relationship with this. In addition, the unified style of the Japanese team is conducive to the formation of tacit understanding, so although the personal skills of Chinese players are not much different from those of Japanese players, the performance in the game looks like it's two grades apart. After all, this is because China's youth training coaches pay more attention to qualities such as height, strength and speed that can be seen at a glance when selecting materials, while ignoring "hidden" physical qualities such as balance.

  Compared to balance, the movement frequency of young players, especially stride frequency, is even more important. Because when they are young, their absolute speed may be fast, but as they grow up, they may not necessarily maintain this advantage. A child with a super-fast stride frequency will definitely not slow down in terms of speed as long as they don't have very short legs and their muscle type is not mainly composed of slow-twitch red muscles with poor explosive force.

  That's because a person's movement frequency is determined at a very young age, and can even be understood as innate. Therefore, if someone has fast movement frequency when they are young, they will still have it when they grow up (although their movement frequency may slow down relative to themselves when they were younger, compared to others of the same height, they generally retain the advantage they had when they were young). The situation with balance is similar. In contrast, shortcomings such as being short, having a small build, or being slow can change with age, especially in domestic youth players where the trend of falsifying ages has increased the possibility of coaches misjudging them. If we select players based on those qualities that are determined at a young age, the success rate of young players will undoubtedly increase significantly.

  So it's no wonder that Gao Jun was so happy when he found himself moving at such a high frequency, and the fact that his father wasn't short in memory further ensured Gao Jun's absolute speed in the future. Although for a forward, explosive power is more important than absolute speed at times, but having fast absolute speed does not contradict with having explosive power, on the contrary, they are complementary to each other, so for a player, the faster the better. Moreover, a considerable number of goals scored in football matches are scored during counter-attacks, and at this time, absolute speed becomes even more important...

  Upon learning of Gao Jun's incredible football talent, the director of the public security bureau was also delighted. Firstly, he himself was a football enthusiast, and secondly, he could finally get rid of this troublemaker. The director, in high spirits, even organized a donation within the bureau, helping Gao Jun raise two to three thousand yuan for living expenses. Moreover, he arranged for Officer Lin to escort Gao Jun to Chongming. Gao Jun repeatedly declined but ultimately had no choice but to accept the kindness of the police officers. Thinking that he could once again step onto the green field, his heart was filled with joy and excitement, and even the pain of possibly never seeing his parents, wife, and children again seemed to fade away somewhat...