With the approval of the head coach, and the additional training plan formulated by the coaching staff based on his personal situation, Velarde was very happy, thanked the head coach, and then went to assistant coach Andres Yalin to ask for additional training. Practice planning.
Yalin also first expressed his praise for Velarde's performance today, and then took out a piece of paper from the folder, which was filled with additional training plans for Velarde and suitable for his personal physical fitness and position. In the daily collective In addition to training, what items should be added to the training, how much time is appropriate for each item, how long should be practiced to rest, how long should be added to the training days and rest days, what should be paid attention to in terms of nutritional supplements, etc., are all detailed. listed.
Willard was immediately overjoyed. After thanking the coach, his extra practice that night became more scientific and effective, and he didn't have to practice so late. According to the coaches, practicing for too long can easily injure the body and affect the group training or official competition the next day. There must be a limit to additional training, and you cannot practice to death.
Before going to bed that night, the system indeed gave the highest A-level training evaluation. With 5,000 experience points, Willard's total experience suddenly rose to level 0, 13,000/10,000, and was automatically upgraded to level 1, 0.3 million/20,000. , received an upgrade reward of 10 skill points.
Unfortunately, even if there are new skill points, they cannot be added to the skills, and the skill attributes will not be upgraded until next Monday.
In the next two days, Willard completed the classroom training carefully and practiced additionally according to the personal training plan formulated by the coaching staff. He also successfully received an A-level evaluation every day, and his total experience reached level 1 13,000/ 20000.
On Monday, July 21, because he was worried about adding attributes, even though he was very tired after extra practice, Willard woke up in the middle of the night and immediately started adding points. Sure enough, this time it was possible to increase it. I successfully spent 2 skill points to increase the "Defense" from 68 to 69, leaving 8 skill points.
On the same day, the Hurricanes played a pre-season friendly match with a Class A team in the same city, and lost 2-3. They only lost one goal against the Class A team and scored two goals. The performance is very good.
In the defensive midfielder position, Federico Bismara got the chance to start, and Lucas Villaruel came on as a substitute in the 62nd minute of the second half and played for half an hour.
The remaining three defensive midfielders Rolon, Velarde and Carrizo failed to get a chance to play.
Although there was not much formal classroom training on this day because of the friendly match, Willard still conducted additional training by himself morning and night according to his additional training plan. However, the final evaluation he received was only B grade, which may have been affected by the lack of training time due to the competition.
The day after the warm-up match, after the additional training on the night of July 22, Willard received another 5,000 experience points with an A-level evaluation. The total experience increased to level 1, 21,000/20,000, and was automatically upgraded to level 2, 0.1 million. /30,000, and received an upgrade reward of 10 skill points, and because of the function of "a new skill can be randomly opened every 2 levels", a new skill "Physique" was randomly opened.
As soon as this random skill came out, Villard knew that he could only continue to be welded to the midfielder position. If you want to be a striker and steal the show, don't think about it in the short term.
"Physique" includes strength, resistance, physical fitness, injury resistance, strength, bounce, etc. The initial attributes are quite good, reaching 72. If it weren't for this physique, with his previous "defensive" level of only 56, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be a marginal substitute and would have to play in the C or D leagues.
"Physique" is now available, and you can add a little bit every week. When the season officially starts, getting a chance to play is no longer a dream.
When the skill attribute is between 70 and 80, each level requires 3 skill points, so Willard first spent 3 skill points to increase the "Physique" from 72 to 73, leaving 15 skill points.
The next time you add points will be next Monday. By then, both "Defense" and "Physique" can be added together, adding one point each.
After completing the upgrade and adding points, Willard’s skill attributes will change to:
Host: Alan Willard
Club: Hurricanes Athletics
Level: 2
Experience: 1,000/30,000
Skill points: 15
Defense: 69
Physique: 73
As the preparation time has lengthened, more offensive and defensive drills and tactical training have been added to daily training. Velarde's defensive ability has been increasingly recognized by the coaching staff, who unanimously believe that he is better than last season. Very big progress has been made.
Coupled with his serious and hard-working training attitude, his initiative to practice more and his perseverance, it is very rare in South America, a place with a relatively lazy atmosphere. The coaching staff unanimously believes that he should be rewarded with some playing time.
Therefore, on July 24, when they went to the southern suburban counties to play a warm-up match away from home against a D-level team, both Willard and Lucas got the opportunity to come on as substitutes.
Lucas came on as a substitute to play in the central midfield position, while Velarde came on to replace Federico Bismara and played as a lone defensive midfielder.
In the end, the team relied on its strong overall strength and offensive power to beat its opponent 5-1 in the away game and won a hearty victory.
The goal conceded was also conceded before Willard came on as a substitute and had nothing to do with him. After he came on the court, with his strong physique and stable defensive style, he stopped most of the attacks that passed through his defensive zone.
Even if the opponent uses teamwork to bypass him and attack, he can block the opponent's passing route by blocking the position, or return to defense in time to prevent the opponent from easily shooting in the penalty area.
This performance made head coach Mario Binco quite satisfied. When discussing with his assistants privately, he had been positioned as the third pick in the midfield, ahead of Rolon.
Moreover, although the game on this day was an away game, so Willard was unable to return to the training base for additional training, the system was still quite user-friendly. Substituting Willard on for a real warm-up match was a good performance. It is equivalent to A-level daily training, giving him 5,000 experience points.
At the same time, this real-life combat also won Willard a higher level of recognition from the coaching staff.
After training on the afternoon of July 26, Mario Binco called everyone together and announced the 18-man roster for the Argentina Cup 1/16 finals the next day.
Naturally, Alan Willard's name will not be among the starting 11 people. However, his name appeared on the substitute list of 7 people.
Dalia and Bonnie Fashaw expressed their congratulations to Willard with envy and admiration.
Those players who did not make the roster will have to go to the stands to cheer for the team with the welfare tickets provided by the club.
Of course, Villard and other players who have made the roster also have welfare tickets, which they can give to their family and friends so that they can go to the scene to cheer them on.
Willard also got one.
Back home that night, when Willard took out his ticket and told his sister that he was on the roster, Krisna jumped up with joy and said excitedly:
"Brother, you are great."
"You have worked so hard and worked so hard during this period, I know you will succeed."
"I hope you can get the chance to come on as a substitute tomorrow, and I will cheer you on in the stands."
Willard smiled and nodded. Seeing his sister who rarely smiled during this period, he felt much better.
Of course, it is necessary to call Dalia and Bonnie Fashaw and ask them to take care of their sister in the stands tomorrow.
Dalia and Bonnie Fashaw naturally agreed wholeheartedly.
The next day, Alan Willard and other players who made the roster gathered at the base with their coaches, team doctors, equipment administrators, etc., and then took the team bus to Boca Youth's home stadium. Players who did not make the roster I went there on my own according to the game time.
Boca Juniors is one of the two super giants in Argentina. It is located in the Boca District in the center of Buenos Aires. The Hurricanes take the team bus from their training base in the northwest suburbs about 15 kilometers away.
The Candy Box Stadium, the home stadium of Boca Juniors, is located on the banks of the Rio de la Plata. It is named after its appearance that resembles a candy box. Not many people remember its real name "Estadio Bombonera".
If we were to play El Clasico against another super-rich Argentine River Plate team, it goes without saying that not only would the 49,000 seats in the stadium be filled, but also the outside of the stadium would be packed with enthusiastic fans.
But in this Argentine Cup 1/16 finals game, no one thought there was much suspense.
With the strength of the super-rich Boca Juniors, playing a second-division team, isn't it easy to win?
Therefore, although this game was Boca Juniors' home court, their fans did not fill the stadium because many fans did not bother to come to this unsuspicious game. There were only more than 20,000 home fans.
The same goes for Hurricanes fans. Most of them feel that they will definitely lose against Boca Juniors and there is no suspense, so they don't go to watch the game live to avoid being abused.
In the end, there were only more than 1,000 die-hard Hurricanes fans who went to the away game.
This is quite a lot. If it were Spain, even a first-division team would probably not be able to gather 1,000 people to play an away game with such a disparity in strength and no suspense. If it is the domestic Chinese Super League and a team with lower cohesion plays away games, there may only be a few or dozens of die-hard fans following, and they are still sponsored.
An Argentine second-division team can have more than 1,000 die-hard fans accompanying the team on away games to challenge the super giants and giants of the first-division league. This is enough to prove how strong the football atmosphere here is.
Despite this, even among these die-hard fans, few believe that the Hurricanes can overthrow Boca Juniors, not even the Hurricanes' own players.
Everyone felt that this game was bound to be lost.
What was unexpected was that just as the two sides finished their pre-match warm-ups and entered the locker room to make final preparations, Mario Binco actually made temporary adjustments to the starting lineup announced yesterday in the locker room and removed one player. Forward, a defensive midfielder was added, changing from 352 single defensive midfielder to 361 double defensive midfielder, or 3241 formation.
The double defensive midfielder is partnered by No. 5 Federico Bismara and No. 8 Lucas Villaruel.
