Hard Steel, Shoveling is Genius!

Hearing the assistant coach put himself on the field, Velarde was instantly delighted, secretly saying that the opportunity had come.

The Hurricanes played a 352 formation with three center backs, one back, two forwards, two wingbacks, and two strikers, playing attacking soccer.

This makes for a naturally weak defense. And the importance of the back as a barrier in front of the three defenders, and only one of them, can be imagined.

Unfortunately there are now a full five backs in the squad and Velarde, who was only promoted from the reserves to the first team last season, came last in the order of appearance and so has only been given two appearances all season, adding up to less than 20 minutes.

As a result, Velarde is now getting the chance to play on the bench for the training match before Carrizo, the other back, does. Is this proof that the serious and hard working attitude and self imposed extra training over the past few days has gained the approval of the coaching staff to move up from last place to the fourth spot in the back position?

If he performs a little better in today's practice session, can he go even further and move up to third down and sit three and two?

The Hurricanes' main back is No. 5 Federico Bismara, 182cm tall, 78kg, mainly responsible for defense tasks. Although his height and weight are a little worse than Velarde, but people 31 years of age, professional experience is too rich, belonging to the Hurricanes midfield pin, the main back position of the iron do not move.

The first substitute is No. 8 Lucas Villarruel, who is 24 years old. However, he is only 173cm tall and is better at organizing attacks, similar to Juventus' Pirlo.

When the team needs to attack hard, Lucas may be sent in to play as an organizing back or center forward to participate in the attack.

As a result, Rolon, the third back who anchors the defense, is getting plenty of chances to play, often able to salvage a chance to make the roster as a sub for Bismarck or Lucas.

At this point Velarde has squeezed past Carrizo, the fourth back, in a training match to be the first to get a chance to play. If he can perform well enough to overtake Rolon and move up to the third string, the chances of an official game appearance would be considerable.

The thought of it gave Velarde more energy.

As soon as Lucas Villarruel stepped off the sideline, Velarde made a quick run onto the field, while his buddies Dahlia and Bonnie Fashaw, who hadn't gotten a chance to play yet, shouted from the sidelines, "Go Velarde, go Velarde!"

Velarde nodded at the two men in acknowledgement, and then immediately went into the match, very focused and with little extra mental activity.

He knows that as a defensive player, only with high concentration and consistent play can he get into the coach's eyes, not like offensive players who are always thinking about showing off their skills, shooting, scoring, and pretending.

There's a saying on the internet that men are dead by 30 and buried by 80.

Velarde, at the mental age of 36, has indeed seen a lot of reality and given up a lot of unrealistic fantasies.

Now, he was reborn as a 21-year-old boy, equivalent to 15 years of life out of thin air, and the system plug-in to help, a heavenly opportunity, not to focus on the cause of money, what are you waiting for?

Men, money is the big brother; no money, not to mention outsiders, even their own family members are disliked, including parents, wives, sons and daughters.

The game continues.

Lucas, who has just been replaced, is an organizational back, but is also very good defensively, or else he wouldn't be playing at the back, but would be going straight to the front.

That's why the Blue Jays were a bit wary of going one-on-one with Lucas when he was there, and would have been more likely to make passes and cuts, or simply attack from the side.

But once Villard came on in relief, the Blue Jays' starters felt they had found their chance.

Although Villard's training attitude has undergone a sea change since the start of the new season compared to last season, becoming very serious and hardworking, and even practicing for several hours in the morning and evening, it is not thought that there will be any sudden improvement in his strength.

With the Yellow Team having only him as a single back, the Blue Team's attackers up front began to step up in the middle of the field, taking turns pounding away at Velarde's defensive zone.

As a result, to the shock of his teammates and the coaching staff, Villard showed that his defensive stopping ability had simply improved by more than a point compared to last season. (More than a point, of course, from 56 to 68, a 12-point improvement)

The system randomly opens the first skill "defense", is a collection of many defensive skills, including defensive position, positioning, staring, grabbing, stealing, intercepting, reasonable charge, shoveling, from the long-distance cut off the passing route of the defensive position, positioning, to close contact with reasonable charge, stealing, shoveling and so on, each small skills are A boost of 12 points, the effect is still quite fierce.

After all, the Hurricanes' own players, who are only at the level of Argentina's second division, are generally only between 60-70 in terms of overall ability, with very few above 70.

As a result, Velarde's 68 combined defensive ability and the bulk and resistance to rushes that comes with his unimpressive height and weight can be a bit underwhelming against world-class players with 80 or 90 offensive ability, but it's pretty amazing against A-B teammates whose offensive ability isn't on par with, or even lower than, his defensive ability.

Velarde just came on the field not two minutes, also 21 years old but gifted, has long attracted the attention of the entire Argentine football world, the blue team front waist Gonzano Martinez in the ball facing Velarde, heart subconsciously contempt let him ignore the flank of the teammates inserted into the reception, did not pass the ball, but directly with the ball rushed to Velarde, trying to one-up, breakthrough.

As a result, Velarde had no intention of going one on one with him, but instead pulled back while stuck in position and used the rest of his eyes to observe his surroundings, thus adjusting the speed and position of his retreat to prevent Martinez's sudden passes from causing the defense to be broken.

This is where the "defense position" and "jamming" come into play.

The players didn't see much in the way this was handled, but head coach Mario Binko, who had a good view of the situation from the sidelines, saw it clearly.

For a Yellow team with only a single back and only three center backs behind them, Velarde's handling made the most sense.

But it remains to be seen whether this is coincidental or intentional, whether it is a fear of being breached by the opposition or an active tactical retreat.

Gonzano Martinez, who was advancing with the ball on the field, didn't think Velarde was voluntarily dropping back to maintain the stability of the defense; he felt Velarde was afraid to go one-on-one with him.

After all, he is a famous Argentina's talented front waist, has attracted the attention of a number of A League giants, sitting in the front of the Hurricanes organizational core position, but the same 21-year-old Velarde is still just a fringe replacement, afraid of one-upmanship with him is supposed to be.

Unfortunately, he was too young and too inexperienced to analyze Velarde's movements and demeanor, and didn't judge that Velarde wasn't afraid to go one-on-one with him, but rather, he was calmly and tactically retreating.

Martinez, who had made an error in judgment, was so confident that he took two steps forward with even more determination, closing in on Velarde, and even in his mind, he had already thought of the script of shaking down Velarde with a magnificent bicycle stomping fake, and killing him with a shot directly near the line of the penalty box to score a goal.

Then, just as Martinez was just about to make a bicycle stepping action, the last trip before the bicycle stepping a little too much strength, it seems to be lowering the center of gravity to retreat Velarde suddenly stopped, supporting foot to the back of the pedal, to seize this fleeting opportunity to instantly power on the grab.

By the time Gonzano Martinez saw Velarde's movement and was so alarmed that he tried to reach out and regain control of the ball, it was too late.

Velarde not only went up for the ball, but also made a decisive undercut that managed to get the ball away before Martinez and shoveled it to Ferrero, the Yellow Team's front man who was following back on Martinez's flank.

Martinez, who couldn't see to touch the ball, could only helplessly jump over Velarde, who also kept his feet on the ground, with no contact between the two sides, much less anyone getting hurt.

Head Coach Mario Binko's eyes lit up on the sidelines, and he couldn't help but applaud and yell "yes".

Judging by the fact that Villard seized the opportunity to make a decisive downward shoveling move without hesitation, Villard's backing up just now was indeed a tactical retreat rather than a fear of going one-on-one with Gonzano Martinez.

Velarde finishes a nice defense and leaves the rest to the offensive players.

On the flank, after getting the ball shanked over by Velarde, Yellow front man Ferrero also immediately picked up the ball, turned around, and launched a counterattack in the process.

Although the overall strength of the yellow team is weak, but may be the blue team is too lightly careless, failed to organize the defense line in time to defuse this counterattack of the yellow team, and finally by the yellow team's other front waist Giman Mandarino a diagonal kick, the ball tucked into the blue team's big box in the right rib of the gap.

Yellow team striker Triverio tapped the ball into the far corner of the goal before a Blue team defender, who was trying to clear the ball, could do so without stopping the ball.

Goalkeeper Gonzano Marinelli was unable to react to the ball and could only watch as it flew into the far corner.

The substitutes' side, wearing yellow undershirts, finally launched a counterattack through Villard's back-post shove, assisted by Mandarino's diagonal pass to Trevirio's pumped shot from inside the penalty area, making it 2-1 and only one goal down.

Excited by the goal, Triverio found Giman Mandarino, who gave him the assist, to hug and celebrate, and then returned to his own half of the field with the intention of taking a few extra steps to give Velarde a high five.

Apparently, he remembers that the goal was a counterattack initiated by a Velarde shovel break, and Velarde gets credit for that.

On the sidelines, Head Coach Mario Binko and Assistant Coach Andres Yarin both applauded, clearly quite pleased with this performance by the Yellow Jackets.

Unfortunately, due to the overall strength of the team, the Yellow Team was unable to score any more goals in the following matches, and was attacked once more by the Blue Team in the 53rd minute before the end of the practice match.

In the end, the Yellow Team, representing the bench, lost the intrasquad practice match 1-3 against the Blue Team, representing the starters.

But Velarde's 20-plus minutes on the field were there for all to see, not only playing a key role in shoveling in that counterattack that turned from defense to offense and resulted in a goal, but also defusing the Blue Jays' offense on several occasions, either directly or indirectly, in an outstanding performance.

So at the end of the game, head coach Mario Binko even made a point of finding Velarde and patting him on the shoulder, saying, "Velarde, you did well today, and you've made a lot of progress compared to last season, so keep up the good work. In addition, your extra training program coaching staff has already discussed, later you go to find Yalin, let him give you."