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  That night after the meeting, Yang Cheng and Tim stayed in the office for a long time to discuss the tactics seminar today and arrange the next training project.

  In terms of training, Yang Cheng gave Tim and others as much freedom as possible because he was indeed not authoritative enough for these people.

  Yang Cheng didn't return to his dorm until it was late at night, exhausted, and fell asleep as soon as he lay down.

  The training on the second morning went relatively smoothly, apparently after yesterday's knock and with Bremer's cooperation, the players didn't make any trouble, only making a few more mistakes during training, which made Yang Cheng somewhat dissatisfied.

  After finishing the two high-intensity training sessions in the morning and at noon, Yang Cheng did not have time to rest at noon, but instead received Gerald Ellman in his office.

  This 37-year-old veteran goalkeeper was born in Cologne and, according to his own account, was already with the team when Cologne won the Bundesliga title in 1977/78, although he did not get any playing time.

  Later in the 1980s, he still couldn't get a chance and only played once for Cologne in Bundesliga in the 82/83 and 83/84 seasons before joining Kaiserslautern.

  In the Red Devils, Gerd Elmann became a mainstay of the team and was also instrumental in winning the championship in the 90/91 season. However, with increasing age and declining physical function, he began to lose his starting position, especially after Reinke joined from St. Pauli, he lost his starting position in the team, and later fell to the second team.

  When Gerald Ellman heard that Yang Cheng was looking for him, he was full of surprise, because he was already 37 years old and had long passed the age to continue playing for the team. What did Yang Cheng want from him at this time?

  "I heard you're leaving?" Yang Cheng's first words when he saw Elman were these.

  The latter looked at the Chinese man in front of him, thinking that he was deliberately trying to make fun of himself, and suddenly became angry. "What's the point of not leaving? Are you going to stay in the second team as a substitute goalkeeper?"

  Yang Cheng sighed, Elman was the club's former hero after all, but Frederic didn't take this into consideration at all and directly demoted him to the reserve team, isn't this burning one's bridges?

  If it wasn't for his timely appearance, who knows what would have happened to him afterwards!

  Yang Chen naturally did not know that if he had not appeared, Elman would also join Kaiserslautern's youth training camp soon after, serving as the goalkeeper coach of the youth team, responsible for cultivating young goalkeepers for Kaiserslautern. Later, Werder Bremen's main goalkeeper Weise was one of the masterpieces carved out by Elman after joining Kaiserslautern!

  Yang Cheng knew he was upset and smiled, "Have you ever thought about staying with the team?"

  A'erman was taken aback, "What does that mean?" His tone was still not very friendly, obviously full of suspicion towards Yang Cheng.

  Yang Chengxin knew that he, like the vast majority of Kaizer Chiefs players, was not very confident in himself and was not very satisfied with himself, so he didn't care much and directly put the contract in front of him.

  "This is a goalkeeper coach contract, our team currently lacks a goalkeeper coach, you used to be an excellent goalkeeper, I believe you can become an excellent goalkeeper coach, so consider it, the contract period is one year, same as mine."

  Yang Cheng smiled and stood up, "I can guarantee that as long as I'm still coaching this team for a day, your contract will continue to be effective. However, if unfortunately, I get fired midway, whether the club is willing to renew with you after a year, I don't know!"

  Ailman was slightly surprised and immediately opened the file in front of him, finding that it was indeed a contract and Yang Cheng had already signed his name on it.

  Based on what he knew before, the coaching staff of Kaizer Chiefs, apart from some original club members, are currently all brought in by Yang Chen himself. Now that he has invited him to join, is this a signal or not?

  To know, Elman is the club's former meritorious service, has a very high status in the hearts of fans and players, especially Bremer, Lutz and other players, are his old teammates for many years, with a very close relationship, have been indignant about his treatment in the club, and Yang Cheng's move at this time, is it suspected of winning him over and the relationships behind him?

  Can't help but say, Gerald Elman really thought too much, Yang Cheng just knew his attributes from the Super Coach System and knew he was a top-notch goalkeeper coach, so he wanted to use him.

  Let's not say Yang Cheng doesn't know his relationship with these people on the team. Even if he does, he won't take advantage of it. That's just not Yang Cheng's style.

  "Think it over carefully, I really hope you can stay!" Yang Cheng said with a smile.

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  After seeing off Gerd Ehlers, who had indicated that he was willing to consider it, Werner Melzer walked into Yang Chen's office again, only this time his arrival was not for anything else, but because Yang Chen had previously asked him to prepare some training equipment.

  Knowing that Kaiserslautern didn't have a lot of money, Yang Chen naturally couldn't go to the United States to buy a whole set of advanced equipment and instruments like Tim Hank and Chris Schmidt said. He just let Melzer prepare some cheap but practical facilities, such as some footballs much smaller than normal ones.

  "What's the use of these balls?" Melzer found it strange.

  He has been kicking a ball for so many years, but he really hasn't heard of anyone using such a small football to train players.

  Yang Cheng smiled and picked up a small football, weighing it in his hand, which was roughly the same weight as an ordinary football, and he was basically satisfied.

  "Don't you think it's interesting to train with this ball?"

  Mellor was perplexed, but he had also seen Yang Cheng's many eccentric ideas over the past few days, so he humbly asked for advice. It can be seen that he and the board of directors as well as Frederic are not on the same page.

  "Training with small balls can improve a player's ball control and feel for the ball. Imagine when you can control small balls freely, won't your control be even stronger when switching to slightly larger footballs?"

  Mei Zhe's eyes lit up and he slapped his thigh with both hands, "Right! How could I have forgotten that?"

  Yang Cheng smiled slightly, thinking to himself, there are still many things you haven't thought of!

  "Besides practicing ball control and feeling, small balls can also be used to practice shooting, and correspondingly, goalkeepers can practice defending the goal." Yang Cheng said with a smile.

  The ball is smaller, and the accuracy of shooting is weaker, which has a great help in improving shooting skills.

  Mei Zhe listened and only then realized that the small footballs he had obtained were actually very useful, and when he thought about Yang Cheng's training being so varied but also having a factual basis, he couldn't help but feel a few more points of admiration.

  Maybe he is a very capable head coach and can really lead Kaiserslautern back to the Bundesliga!