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  In summer, daylight always comes especially early. Before 6 o'clock, the sky is already bright, and the coaches' figures have begun to appear on the Tübingen training ground.

  Yang Cheng arrived at the training ground with his coaching team early on and began arranging the facilities in advance.

  The coaching staff currently consists of six people, with Paul Baier responsible for the team's defensive training schedule; Tim Hunkes is in charge of the team's physical training schedule; Moniz and Moulson are in charge of the team's technical and offensive training; Schmidt assists Tim while also communicating with the team doctor to understand the current physical condition of each player, if there are any injuries, they also need to understand their recovery situation, and arrive at the training ground one hour in advance to arrange rehabilitation training for injured players.

  Yang Cheng had already communicated and contacted with each member of the coaching staff about their job assignments, and he also conducted multiple reviews with each coach to develop this 10-day pre-season training plan.

  Among them, the game of "Hanging Monkey" and many others were proposed by Yang Cheng based on his memories of his past life. They immediately received recognition and praise from other members of the coaching staff, who also looked at Yang Cheng with new eyes.

  After the training ground was set up, Yang Cheng and the coaching staff met again to emphasize that they must examine the technical and tactical characteristics of the players during training, make detailed records, and help the team blend better.

  At 6:30 pm, Yang Cheng stood with the coaching staff outside the dressing room in Tübingen, watching as the players returned one after another.

  Braemer and others also appeared on time. When they saw them, Yang Cheng nodded to the team captain, who walked into the locker room with a bland face.

  After changing clothes and taking a short rest, the team went to the canteen of the training base for collective meals.

  "Hey, is there any toast?" Lutz beckoned to the dining room staff.

  That staff member looked a bit timid and hesitated, unsure whether to walk over or not. On the contrary, Yang Cheng walked over after hearing that and shook his head.

  "I'm afraid, Rog, from today on, the team cafeteria will no longer allow alcoholic beverages, fried foods like chips, chocolate, pies and toasties. Instead, you'll have to eat more pasta, chicken and vegetables."

  Lu Zong felt somewhat annoyed, he was a hot-headed person and thought that Yang Cheng wanted to restrict even their meals.

  Yang Ben pretended not to see his expression, turned around and said to the players: "From today on, Chris Schmidt will be your nutritionist, responsible for planning meals during training and competition. I hope you all understand that scientific eating habits can guarantee better performance!"

  "Don't eat anymore!" As soon as Yang Cheng finished speaking, Lutz casually threw out the fork in his hand and heard a "clang".

  Yang Cheng gave a wink to the staff, "Nothing's wrong, put it away!"

  The staff had apparently been instructed by Yang Cheng long ago, and although they were a little intimidated by Lutz, they still did as they were told.

  "You have the right to choose not to eat, but I won't be polite to you, training will continue as usual. If you can't take it, then get out of my team and go to the second team!" After finishing speaking, Yang Cheng turned around and left the cafeteria.

  "It seems that taming them won't be easy!" Paul followed behind with a wry smile, they could still hear the players' murmurs of discontent from inside the dining hall.

  "It's arrived early, but it doesn't matter, they'll regret it soon!" Yang Cheng said with a sly smile.

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  Between 7:40-8:00, Yang Cheng had the players warm up under Tim Hank's lead.

  At 8 o'clock, the team entered the first training project on time, a 30-meter sprint back and forth run.

  If you think Yang Cheng's requirements were just these, then you're wrong!

  In each group's sprint shuttle run, Tim Hanks would use a stopwatch to record the time spent by each player, and then require these players to keep their time within the range of the first run in each subsequent shuttle run, only better, not worse, otherwise they would be penalized.

  They did 10 minutes of shuttle runs, with every player panting and looking exhausted.

  Yang Cheng let them rest for a while, then immediately entered the training of quickly circling around the cone obstacles with the ball. Moniz and Mulenshtein were watching every player in the training on the side, and making various records in their notebooks.

  15 minutes later, the players returned to the middle area of the training ground, divided into groups of three, standing in a triangular formation, and conducted one-foot passing drills. Yang Cheng had only one requirement for this drill, which was that they could only touch the ball with one foot, and anyone who broke the rules would be penalized.

  After the previous sprint and obstacle training, the players' physical strength was greatly consumed, and they made frequent mistakes when passing the ball, which made Moniz and Mullenstein shake their heads constantly.

  As a professional player, anyone can make an accurate one-touch pass under normal circumstances. However, being able to maintain accuracy and keep the technical movement unchanged even in situations where physical energy is severely depleted is Yang Chen's requirement, and undoubtedly, many players cannot meet this requirement.

  Moniz and Mullenstein also realized their great responsibility, as next they had to schedule appropriate projects in training to help players improve this point as soon as possible.

  After completing the passing training, Yang Cheng gathered the players and conveyed his pros and cons from Moniz and Mullenstien to the players. He then commented on their performance in the training, pointing out that many players made mistakes in the passing exercise, and then had Moniz and Mullenstien demonstrate how it should be done separately.

  Yang Cheng is definitely not capable of doing things by example and teaching others through his actions.

  After two coaches demonstrated, Yang Cheng walked out and stood in front of the players.

  "I don't want to say more unnecessary words, I'm taking advantage of today's training session to tell all of you that the upcoming training will be hellish. Every single one of you must prepare yourselves mentally, because I've always believed in the principle of suffering first and enjoying later. Once the season starts, you'll definitely understand that today's hard work is worth it!"

  "My football philosophy is attacking, I pay attention to technical details, emphasizing one-touch ball control. I don't care how you played before or what your previous playing habits were. From today on, I, Yang Cheng, am your head coach and you can only follow my instructions and arrangements!"

  "Of course, I'm not that kind of unreasonable person, my office is just over there!" Yang Cheng pointed to the office on the top floor of the locker room building, "You can go there at any time to find me, if you have any questions or encounter any difficulties, you can tell me and I will do everything in my power to help you solve your problems, whether it's on or off the court, I welcome you all!"

  "But as soon as you step onto the training ground, onto the football field, I'm sorry, everyone can only listen to me!"

  Yang Cheng took another glance at this group of players, walking in front of each person one by one, and he could already call out each person's name with great familiarity.

  "I believe you should have understood me, in my team there is no distinction between main players and substitutes, no difference between big names and newcomers, nor any difference between German native speakers and EU players outside of Germany. The reason I require everyone to speak German in the team is because German is the official language of Kaiserslautern, that's all."

  "I don't care if you were a starter or a substitute at Kaiserslautern or another team, I don't care if you are now a famous European star or an unknown newcomer. What's important to me is what my assistants and I see on the training ground and on the pitch!"

  "Whoever behaves badly and has a bad attitude will be sent to watch from the stands!"

  After finishing speaking, Yang Cheng clapped his hands loudly and blew the whistle, indicating that today's first training session had officially come to an end!

  The players all clapped their hands in exhaustion one by one and then dispersed back to the locker room.

  This is just the first training session, but all the content is arranged very tightly, with short breaks and high intensity, making these players who have just returned from vacation one by one cry out that they can't keep up. Lutz, who didn't eat breakfast in the morning, was even more pale, fortunately, he drank a little more water with Schmidt's help earlier, otherwise he would not be able to keep up at all.

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  The two training sessions in the afternoon were also very intense, all the training projects were arranged in an orderly manner, obviously Yang Cheng had communicated with the coaching staff before, and the order of each training was arranged very reasonably, one after another, the intensity gradually increased, until finally, the players almost couldn't bear it.

  It's like running, although it's jogging, but Yang Cheng requires every player to bring the ball, run and kick, and in the process of running, he also requires players not to leave the ball. From this point, it's not hard to see that he attaches great importance to training with the ball.

  Originally thought it was just a game of teasing, the introduction was simple, and the players were secretly celebrating, thinking that as long as they didn't go into the circle to grab the ball, nothing would happen. But unexpectedly, Yang Cheng still managed to make it interesting.

  Apart from Meng Rao, Lei Ke and Yang Chen, the team has a total of 21 players. Yang Chen divided these 21 players into three groups, each group forming a circle with exactly seven people, then had them play games of two chasing five and three chasing four.

  This kind of game is undoubtedly more difficult than one-on-one, requiring faster passing speed from players and naturally more mistakes. However, Yang Cheng's punishment for those who make mistakes is very severe.

  As for the 7-man group ban on football landing running circle game, the players were all miserable because they lacked tacit understanding with each other and could not achieve uniform action, always running inconsistently, but due to holding hands together, causing the ball to keep falling.

  So in the end, the players found that what they thought was the easiest game turned out to be the one that tortured them the most.

  It was the afternoon confrontation that was relatively simple, but due to Yang Cheng's adherence to small-scale confrontations, the intensity of training was also extremely high, making it a whole day of training. The players were all complaining bitterly, and some with poor physical strength almost collapsed.

  But even so, every one of them still attended the tactical discussion meeting that night on time.