Chapter 94: The Little Cows in the Team (4)

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  The only problem with this kid is that his height has always been a difficult issue to avoid, "He's too short, 1.63 meters is really too short, even if he jumps well, it can't make up for it. If he could be a little taller, even just 1.7 meters, he would definitely become the number one center back in Asia!"

  However, Bai Jiajun was still very young at this time, and his body was still developing, which ignited a glimmer of hope in Gao Jun, because he knew that Barcelona had used high-tech means to make Messi, who had stopped growing, grow taller again in history, and finally grew from 1.4 meters to 1.7 meters tall, so could Bai Jiajun do it too?

  However, after consulting a renowned orthopedic professor in Shanghai on this matter, Gao Jun realized that there was a fundamental difference between the two. Messi's short stature is due to illness, while Bai Jiajun's body is completely healthy and cannot be compared at all. However, the professor also provided some useful suggestions and opinions, mainly in three aspects:

  One is to pay attention not to eat those foods, health products and medicines that affect the development period of height growth. The latter includes many commonly used non-prescription drugs such as norfloxacin. As a result, after asking about it, Bai Jiajun and his parents had no concept of this at all, which made Gao Jun break out in cold sweat while also making him realize that the possibility of letting Bai Jiajun grow taller was still not small.

  Secondly, strengthen nutrition and promote Bai Jiajun's better growth and development. This high military has been doing it for a long time, but the effect is still uncertain.

  Three is to promote the growth of height through some specific physical exercise methods, among which the most effective are weightlifting and other strength training. For this suggestion, Gao Jun subconsciously wanted to ignore it at first, because young athletes should not engage in high-intensity strength training before their bodies have basically grown up, as this will deplete their future development potential, and once they wait until the end of puberty, they can't increase their height by exercising...

  However, at this time, Gao Jun suddenly remembered the special nature of the central defender position, because it requires constant physical confrontation with the opponent's player and cannot retreat at all. Therefore, the value of strength training for central defenders is much greater than that of other positions, while the requirements for aerobic endurance, ball control technology and other qualities are much lower. As a result, central defenders are better off starting strength training as early as possible. But in reality, because young players rarely fix their position thoroughly at a young age, even if they play center back, they should not start high-intensity strength training too early.

  However, Bai Jiajun's situation is different. As a crosser, Gao Jun knows that his potential in this aspect far exceeds other positions, so it's completely possible to fix him early and start strength training ahead of time. According to some data, weightlifting training throughout the growth period can help males increase their height by more than 10 cm on average. Although Bai Jiajun started weightlifting at the age of 11, he should still be able to grow at least 2-3 cm taller...

  Although it was initially difficult to persuade Coach Xu and the base's youth training coaches to let the short-statured Bai Jiajun play as a central defender, persuading Bai Jiajun to follow Professor's three suggestions was not a problem at all. The obsession with "height" of the short ones is unimaginable for the tall ones...

  Gao Jun's efforts eventually paid off, and by the summer of 2005, Bai Jiajun had grown to 1.67 meters tall. Although his growth had slowed down significantly, it had not completely stopped, and with a bit of luck, he might still grow a few more centimeters. Bai Jiajun's defensive skills also made significant progress due to being frequently pulled over by Gao Jun for one-on-one training. Later, he took advantage of a temporary vacancy in the 91/92 age group at the Chongming base and, on Gao Jun's recommendation, got an opportunity to play, stunning everyone with his outstanding performance. As a result, he secured his position as the main center-back in this age group and, within just one year, jumped three levels to become the main center-back and defensive core of the Dongfang Youth Team.

  Due to the early strength training, Bai Jiajun's body is much stronger than his peers, and with the super explosive power of almost all white muscle types, 14-year-old Bai Jiajun unexpectedly became the main defender of this U17 national youth team. He also became China's youngest ever national youth team player...

  Apart from his height, Bai Jiajun's historical downfall is also a lesson. However, Gao Jun, who knows history well, understands that this person belongs to the type of people who are not inherently bad but easily influenced by their environment. As long as he doesn't go to those teams with a bad atmosphere, he won't go astray. From this point of view, Xu's guidance and persuasion, or even coercion (who can forget Bai Jiajun crying and saying he didn't want to go? Perhaps he himself could also sense that going would lead him astray?), for Bai Jiajun to play for Hua Hua team for half a year should be the initial fuse. For Bai Jiajun's downfall, there is also some responsibility, although some fans say that at the time, Zhuang (the nickname of Xu) used government power to pressure Lao Shuai (Xu), and Xu had no choice at the time...

  But this time the Eastern team flew high, and Bai Jiajun still had a deep affection for the Eastern team. Therefore, before he fully grew up, he should not leave the team. When he really grew up, going abroad to play in the top five leagues was inevitable. The atmosphere of the top five league teams is obviously much better than that of the Shanghai Flower Team during the "Pig Head Three" period. So Bai Jiajun, who is "near vermilion and becomes reddened, near ink and becomes blackened", should not fall so easily...

  These four young players, in Gao Jun's view, all have the potential to grow into Asian Golden Ball level in the future. Wang Jia-yu may need to put in more effort, while Xie Wen-jun, this super-fast horse he personally cultivated (actually, he is not purely a fast horse, but "fast and tall"), has unimaginable potential. Perhaps he will really become Gao Jun's "Wind Son" as expected...

  Compared to the talents of these four hopefuls, Zhang Linpeng, who became an absolute mainstay of the Oriental team at just 16 years old, is slightly inferior, but his extremely high professionalism and unyielding fighting spirit are very much admired and valued by Gao Hong, and his good physical quality allows him to continuously improve himself through almost self-torturing hard training, and eventually grow into an indispensable absolute mainstay of the national team, whether in history or in this space.

  In fact, Zhang Linpeng also took a detour in his history. After joining Evergrande, due to the team's needs, he had to develop into a central defender from his original right-back position, which led to an overemphasis on strength training, affecting his flexibility and absolute speed, resulting in his performance at right-back not improving but rather declining.

  PS: The new book period has passed, and the update speed will slow down slightly. The disabled party can only write three chapters a day at most, and also need to spend extra time revising them once. The original draft has been used up by half, and it's necessary to store some for future recommendations. Hope everyone understands ^_^