Kaiserslautern's summer is mild, with temperatures usually not exceeding 20 degrees. In the morning when getting up, it sometimes even feels cool and refreshing, and even at noon, the hottest time of the day, as soon as you walk to a place where the sun can't shine, it will immediately cool down.

  This is similar to Romania!

  Zi Wu was woken up early in the morning by a sudden rush of footsteps, and then he heard the doorbell ringing.

  "Christian, it's already 6:30, time to get up!" Bremer said as soon as the apartment door opened, then he ran off to wake others...

  Like Qi Wu and other newcomers, they will live in the temporary single apartment rented by the club. The apartment has two rooms and one living room, which is clean and simple but still comfortable. It was personally selected by Yang Cheng before the end of last season.

  As for the likes of Larsson, who has a family, the club has already started to help him find rental housing, with the goal being that he can settle down in Kaiserslautern as soon as possible and fully devote himself to the competition.

  Braemer is the team captain, personally came to call, Qi Wu did not dare to delay, because he was in Romania just a small club, unknown little son, even the first team did not play, but Kaiserslautern is willing to pay $250,000 for him, which makes him somewhat surprised and grateful.

  Every big club has its own rules, and Kaiserslautern is no exception. Here, you have to be extremely focused when playing football, while also following the club's rules, such as wearing the club sponsor's jersey, Nike, which signed a sponsorship contract with Kaiserslautern this season, aiming to enter the German market, Adidas' stronghold.

  After washing and dressing neatly, Qi Wu left the apartment and jogged towards a small hill opposite Autobahn Street.

  This is what Bremer and the old team members told them yesterday, because the head coach's habit is to start high-intensity training as soon as the training time arrives, so the players must warm up in advance. Therefore, from Autobahnstra?e to Tübingen, just to get their bodies warmed up.

  "Hey Lude, how was your summer?"

  "Hey Michael. I told you we should have gone to the beach for vacation, look at Kyle, he's all tanned!"

  In the locker room, this group of teammates who had not seen each other for a long time gathered together on the first day and immediately started discussing one after another. The topics were nothing more than how they spent their summer vacation.

  But the players who were excitedly talking in the group, however, didn't slow down their movements one bit. They continued to change clothes and tidy up their lockers while chatting, their actions incredibly smooth as if they did this every day!

  "Hey, Christian!" Bryce beckoned as soon as he saw Zhiwu reach the doorway, gesturing for him to come in.

  At this moment, everyone in the locker room fixed their eyes on this slightly shy-looking stranger.

  "Christian Zio?" As he walked past the first person, a slightly taller German man stretched out his hand and asked with a smile. After getting Zio's affirmative answer, he introduced himself, "Michael Barak, you can call me Michael like everyone else!"

  "You can also call him Big Mai!" A short, bearded man next to him shouted with a smile, instantly making everyone in the Copy Dog Shameless Changing Room laugh, but Barack's nickname was indeed Big Mai. "I am Gattuso, you can call me Ivan!"

  "Or butcher!" Barack retorted with a smile.

  The dressing room was filled with another burst of loud laughter.

  "My name is Hu Xin Bailong and they all call me a wizard!" Bailong smiled as he shook hands with Qi Wu.

  "Pavel Nedved, Iron Man!" Nedved also introduced himself.

  "Sebastian Kehl, everybody!"

  "What's wrong?" Ziwu La thought he had misheard himself.

  Who knew that his very cute inquiry expression would cause everyone in the locker room to burst out laughing, with Gatuso being particularly exaggerated, only Kyle and Daisler were embarrassed.

  "Yes, his nickname is Big Seb because we have two Sebastians on the team and he's bigger, so we all call him Big Seb!" Bremer explained with a smile, then pointing to Kiel next to Desler, "He's Little Bastian Desler, smaller in size, so we call him Little Seb!"

  Everyone suddenly burst out laughing again.

  "Come with me, your locker is here!" Bremer waited until everyone had seen each other's faces before leading Qi Wu to his locker, on which a card with the name "Kristy Qi Wu" was already attached for distinction.

  Schneider, Dede, Salihamizic, Frlings and Larsson, the new players of this season, came to the locker room one after another. Bremer, as the team captain, had met them yesterday and a few days ago, so he introduced his teammates and lockers to them one by one.

  "For now, we still have one player in our team, that is Denilson, he is currently representing Brazil to participate in the America's Cup, after a while he will return to the team and then introduce him to everyone!"

  After finishing the self-introduction, nearly half an hour had passed, and all the players had changed their clothes. Under Bremen's leadership, they came to Tillingen's restaurant for a collective meal.

  After finishing breakfast and resting for a while, at 7:45, the team arrived at Tübingen's first-team training ground.

  Yang Cheng had already led the coaching staff to set up the training ground and was waiting for the arrival of the players.

  "Hello there, buddies! ", Yang Cheng said with a smile.

  "Hello! Head!" The players shouted in unison, only Larsen and other newcomers didn't make a sound.

  "Is your holiday going smoothly?"

  "It's okay!"

  "Not bad!"

  "Great!"

  The answers are all over the place, but it's clear that the players' moods were pretty good after the vacation ended.

  "Old rules, go for a physical examination first, and start training officially 15 minutes later. Is that okay?" Yang Cheng looked like he didn't have any airs about him at all.

  The players suddenly dispersed in all directions.

  Chris Schmidt personally brought Zhiwu to the club's medical room, where they will first conduct some simple physical examinations on Zhiwu. After the end of the first training session, he will be arranged to go to Kaiserlautern City Hospital for a detailed physical examination to determine his physical condition.

  While the coaches and staff were busy, Yang Cheng also brought his assistants to the team doctor's office. It was a single-story building with a fairly large facade, but there were only four people on hand, so they were somewhat overwhelmed.

  Seeing the team doctor and assistants recording some of their physical data in notebooks, a thought suddenly flashed through Yang Cheng's mind, but he didn't know if it was feasible.

  "Hey Chris!" Yang Cheng hailed Schmidt.

  "What's going on?" Schmidt stopped in front of him.

  Yang Cheng thought for a moment and asked, "Can't we just set up a database of players' physical examination data using computers to manage this aspect? Collect all the players' physical examination data from the time they joined the team, and organize it into a file so that we can understand their physical condition in the future."

  Chris Schmidt was originally not very concerned, but after listening to Yang Cheng's words, he suddenly brightened up.

  "Good idea, it can be done this way. However, that would require hiring one or two experts in this field. If a database like this is really established, it will not only help understand the physical condition of athletes but also track their physical changes before and after injuries for further research. Who knows, it may even help them better avoid injuries."

  "That's right!" Yang Cheng smiled and praised, "I'll take care of the employee's affairs, it shouldn't cost much!"

  Chris Schmidt smiled and patted Yang Cheng's shoulder, and happily went in to help the team doctors with things.

  Yang Cheng's three-practice-a-day training method is still the key to his pre-season preparation, but after last year's training, Yang Cheng has further strengthened the quality of his training this year with more control over the club.

  Before returning to China, Yang Cheng had secretly investigated some situations at the Tübingen training ground and then renovated the entire training ground, such as the length of the tartan track, the placement position of the peripheral fence, etc. In addition, he also specially set up an entertainment leisure room in the Tübingen training ground, where players can watch TV, play the latest video games, and play table tennis and other activities.

  Apart from this, after the first training session, Yang Cheng asked Paul to distribute a small booklet to each player, one for each person. The booklet contains his training requirements, pre-season training plan, and specific special training items for each position. Players can clearly understand their positions and responsibilities.

  As always, Yang Chen still uses Tim Hank's favorite training method, and almost all of the training is done with a ball, even anaerobic state training requires holding a ball.

  After the outstanding performance of the previous season, everyone has given a definite answer to Yang Cheng's training method, especially when Kaiserslautern's players' state was more outstanding as the season deepened. So the execution is also very thorough, and no one will make any concessions.

  As for the newly joined players, although they can't bear such a large amount of training in pre-season preparation, when they see the old players executing with conviction one by one, as new players, they dare not have different opinions.

  After completing the first training session, the trainees got a 1.5-hour break, and the second super-intensive training session started on time at 11 o'clock, which also lasted for 90 minutes. Moreover, each training item was arranged very tightly in advance, even between two non-adjacent training projects, Yang Cheng would arrange some leisure games.

  When Werner Mertz arrived at the training ground, he saw that the first team's training ground was filled with cheers and screams, and at first, he thought something had happened. It wasn't until he arrived on the scene that he discovered they were just playing a game.

  This is a kind of football game that he has never seen before, apparently newly formulated by Yang Cheng for this season.

  All players on the field were divided into two groups and played in each half of the court.

  The game was evenly matched with 12 players on each side, but it looked like they were all running around wildly. Melzer watched for a long time and couldn't figure out any strategy.

  "Andreas, what's going on here?" Bremer wasn't participating in the game but was standing at the edge acting as a referee.

  "Pass it to me!" Bremer said with a chuckle.

  "In each half of the 12 people, there are 3 people who are in cahoots with each other, and the other 9 people are scattered. The task of these three people is to chase after the other nine people, as long as they can use any method except their hands, if they can kick the ball out and hit any one of the nine people, it counts as their redemption, and the one who was hit has to join the group of three chasers."

  "Is it that simple?" Melzer thought it was funny.

  Braumer laughed and shook his head, "Of course not. Have you noticed that among the three people, there is only one football? That means among the three people, one is a kicker and the other two are passers. The responsibility of the kicker is to run and chase when he doesn't have the ball, while the responsibility of the passer is to follow the kicker and run. Once he gets close to the opponent, he passes the ball."

  "The key is that, whether it's the kicker or the passer, as soon as the ball is at their feet, they cannot dribble or carry the ball. They only have one chance to stop the ball and then stay in place without moving; if they can't hit the opponent, they can only wait until the ball is passed out again before continuing to run."

  "According to the rules, after the hitter hits the target, he is freed from suffering. The passer who passed the ball to him automatically becomes the new hitter, and the hit target becomes the new passer, and so on."

  M?ller only started to find it interesting when he understood the rules, and then looked at the players chasing each other on the field with great enthusiasm, suddenly realizing the purpose of this game.

  It can train the players' passing and receiving skills, as well as their sense of timing for passing. If the passer fails to deliver the ball at the moment when the shooter is approaching the target, the ball will either arrive too early or too late at the shooter's feet, making it difficult for them to hit the target.

  As for the kicker, his best move is to stop the ball with one foot and then kick it directly at the person. If he's skilled enough, he can even kick the ball in mid-air. Otherwise, if he stops the ball again and hesitates, he'll miss the opportunity.

  The other 9 people seem to be running around randomly, but in fact they are also judging the situation on the field. The opponent's three people have enough movement, coordination and so on, otherwise it is easy to be forced to death.

  When the 3-man team determines the target and passes the ball, the goal is to calmly replicate the opponent's route and direction of the ball, and dodge it, so that they can narrowly escape.

  It can be said that such a seemingly simple game, in addition to activating the atmosphere on the training ground, also strengthens the players' various competitive consciousness. With the smaller venue, the requirements for each item are higher, and the purpose of training is achieved.

  "This is the head's research result, it says that it's based on some training projects from other sports combined together, we all like it, except for a certain someone!"

  Following Bremer's gesture, he saw that Gattuso, the Italian butcher, was almost killed. He could only be a thorn in the side, constantly chasing and running, with teammates changing one after another, but he remained unchanged.

  When Yang Cheng waved his hand and Bremmer blew the whistle for the end of the game, Gattuso was so angry that he almost hanged himself.

  "I'm not playing anymore, I'll never play again! You just know how to bully an honest person like me!" Gattuso complained loudly.

  Koscielny, walking alongside him, was another half of the worst performing duo, and the two commiserated with each other as they walked, causing everyone in the stadium to burst out laughing.

  "I told you earlier, follow Coach Moniz and Coach Mullen's special training, start with the basics, practice solidly, otherwise, you might have to be a passer forever, they will definitely chase you!" Yang Cheng walked over from the sidelines, laughing loudly.

  Gatuso curled his lip and muttered: "A bunch of guys who only know how to squeeze soft persimmons!"

  Everyone laughed even harder.

  "Alright, comrades, today's second training session is over here. Take a break for a while, have lunch together at 1:30 pm, then take a three-hour nap, and resume training at 6:30 pm!"

  As Yang Cheng waved his hand, the players suddenly dispersed with a loud noise.

  Yang Cheng's training sessions are extremely intense, with every training item arranged very tightly. Although many games were set up to relieve the mood, in reality, no one felt that they were playing games because there was also a high intensity inside, even for something like Gatuso's wild running around. The physical exhaustion is very serious.

  As he walked out of the training area with the players, Yang Cheng noticed Werner Mertz waving at him from a distance. After saying goodbye to the players and assistants, Yang Cheng walked towards Mertz.

  "How come you have time to watch our training today?" Yang Cheng asked with a smile.

  Mei Zer smiled wryly, "You don't know the value of rice when you're not in charge. I've been busy running around for sponsorships and negotiating contract extensions with players' agents. You think it's easy?"

  Meizter is a footballer-turned, later studied management qualifications, currently the team's vice chairman, the board intends to cultivate him, so many things are entrusted to him. Not the team's chairman Frederic, after all, the latter is just a superficial glory. But in fact, it is the club's moth, buying and selling players for kickbacks, answering sponsorship for rebates, and living as a golden jade outside, a defeatist inside.

  It was actually Melzer, who came from a football background and had a good family environment, had feelings for Kaiserslautern, and received support from Yang Chen, Bremer and others. He also had a certain level of management skills, but the real reason he cooperated with Yang Chen happily was that he knew how to compromise.

  Yang Chen is often very strong-minded and stubborn in his stance, if he encounters a strong-willed club boss, there will be countless troubles and conflicts. However, Melzer knows how to compromise, he would always try to understand Yang's thoughts and ideas first, so the two can cooperate happily.

  This is what they call a strong leader favoring a weak manager, that's just how it is!

  Of course, it is also related to the fact that Melzer's rise to power was supported by Yang Cheng and others. At least in the presidential election 5 years ago, he needed Yang Cheng's support.

  "Go on, what brings you here?" Yang Cheng asked with a smile.

  "Ran into a headache!" Melzer said with a wry smile, whenever there was a tricky situation, he would find Yang Cheng at the first time, and the latter always had a way to solve it.

  This seems to have become Melzer's habitual thinking!