Chapter 26 Professional Players

Beckham's presence on Fiorentina's training ground didn't cause much of a stir, even for the young players in the youth team, although in different training grounds they meet the best group of players in the world every day, even if they are Beckham is just a star in their eyes.

"Rod! Are you going to let Beckham start training today?" Marchena walked to Digan's side.

Degan looked at Marchena. In the Fiorentina team, he was the only one who had ever played against Beckham in La Liga: "What do you think of that guy?"

Marchena looked at Beckham who had changed into his training clothes and jogged over from the locker room, and said with a smile: "Others think he just has a handsome face, but I know more about him. Or his professional attitude! Rhodes! That's a great guy!"

Digan also smiled: "I hope so!"

Beckham arrived at the training ground, chatted with Prandelli for a few words, and then joined the big team. According to the requirements of the fitness coach, every training completed seemed to be meticulous.

Before Beckham came, perhaps many players in the Fiorentina first team hated Beckham very much like that senior football commentator.

That's right!

Just jealousy!

Beckham really got too many good things!

This kind of jealousy will make people make preconceived judgments, and regard Beckham as a vase who can only take free kicks, only create scandals, and rely on a pretty face to eat.

But looking at this old British man who is training hard and is 100% devoted to his work, everyone's opinion immediately changed. At least one player with professional spirit deserves their respect.

In fact, put aside that jealousy and look at Beckham again. He is definitely a legend in today's world football. Think about the career of this old man, the scenes he saw and heard one by one , That kind of feeling is like hearing a familiar and distant song. Some all-powerful players are destined to be just lyrics, while some players are like tunes.

With the passage of time, the lyrics are gradually forgotten by people, and many years later, people will still inadvertently hum those familiar tunes and think of those touching scenes.

There is no doubt that David Beckham may be such a tune. People will inadvertently think of the famous kick in the 1998 World Cup and the red card that was not calm, and think of the moment when Beckham became the all-England player. Sinner, people even wanted to hang him under the Tower of London.

After that, Beckham's career can even be said to have fallen to the lowest point in his entire life. His world was dark, and tears became a way to release pressure. However, as a professional player, as a man, he did not shrink back, he did not complain, on the contrary, he chose to persevere, still training hard, and persisting on the court Prove yourself.

Two years of hard work, let this... Let this once reckless boy fade away, Beckham quickly found himself, with his own strength, led England to the World Cup in Korea and Japan, revenged Argentina, while he endured Several times the ordeal that should not have been borne by him alone, he handed over a man's answer sheet with silence and facts.

In the 2006 World Cup in Germany, in the quarter-finals with Portugal, all fans should not forget the scene of Beckham fighting until he vomited in the game. The exhausted Beckham sprained in the game He lost his foot and had to leave the field, but he still wanted to persevere. He even waved to Eriksson, who wanted to replace him, and told him: I want to persevere, I can persevere!

However, the pain in his right foot still caused Beckham to walk off the field helplessly. At this moment, Beckham collapsed, and he burst into tears. In a blur, the whole world felt the pain without words, unable to fight until the last moment, This is the greatest tragedy for a fighter.

When he was off the field, 60,000 spectators stood up and applauded him, and the scene of Beckham, who was off the field due to injury, bursting into tears on the bench is still deeply imprinted in the hearts of the fans.

Degan could understand Beckham's mood at that time, as if he had to leave early because of a broken leg in the final match against Italy. At that moment, in his eyes, he was holding back the tears and Beckham is the same.

It's just that after that, Degan ushered in a rebirth in Florence, and Beckham's bad luck in the national team seemed to be brought to the club.

In Real Madrid, coach Fabio Capello put Beckham directly on the bench. Beckham also ushered in the most difficult moment in his life, but he always insisted on attending the team's training and meticulously gave the team The young players set an example. On the bench, people can only see Beckham's anxious and helpless eyes.

Beckham, who is unable to play, will still appear in the stands of the Bernabeu in casual clothes. He still has a smile on his face, but he insists on suffering in his heart.

The cold bench and the snub of the coach are nothing to Beckham. Serious training and serious playing are just for a slim chance. Although it is slim, Beckham will never give up.

Finally, in such a situation, Beckham waited for an opportunity through his hard work and persistent waiting. Capello, a stubborn iron commander, was moved by Beckham and decided to use Beckham again. Capello Luo said: Beckham is the most professional player I have ever seen, and the word "professionalism" also caught my attention and made me think deeply about its meaning.

Now, in order to participate in the World Cup in South Africa, Beckham is willing to pay his own money to play in Serie A Fiorentina. For that unfulfilled dream, a 33-year-old veteran has just finished the MLS, and then started again non-stop. The journey, this is the example that professional players should learn from, and this action itself is a display of professionalism.

Seeing Beckham working hard on the training ground, from him, Degan felt more the spiritual power brought by persistence and tenacity!

From Beckham, Degan saw his tenacity. He never gave up, never gave up, never realized his dream, never let go until he got what he wanted.

When it comes to professionalism, the first thing people think of is to work hard and give all of yourself to your career, just like Beckham did on the court.

For my own goal, that love, always focus on my career, try to avoid blindly listening to other people's opinions, blindly caring about the voices of the outside world, and doing my own thing, that's enough.

"I want people to see me as a professional player before seeing me as a public figure!"

This is a saying that Beckham often talks about. As early as his childhood, the son of an ordinary worker dreamed of representing the England team to win the gold cup. For this dream, the persistent Beckham began to practice hard and played in England. He stood out from the football school hosted by the famous football star Charlton and was named the most promising student in the school.

In 1990, Beckham, who was only 15 years old, was valued by the Premier League Manchester United Club and became a member of the Red Devils. In the first stop of his career, Beckham grew rapidly. His famous work was the 1996/1997 season with In a match against Wimbledon, Beckham's shocking shot made fans all over the world know him.

In the following years, Beckham gradually grew into Manchester United's main force by virtue of his accurate long passes and precise free kicks. However, Beckham's life is destined to be closely connected with the World Cup, and his sorrows and joys are recorded in the World Cup.

Beckham participated in the World Cup for the first time in 1998, an experience he will never forget.

In the group stage game against Colombia, he saved the team with an exquisite free kick to help England go out of the group, and this was his first goal at the World Cup.

But in the subsequent knockout round, Beckham made a big mistake. He kicked Simeone of the Argentine team in retaliation and was sent off with a red card. This caused England to lose to the opponent in the penalty shootout and was knocked out.

However, under pressure, Beckham was not knocked down. In the 2002 World Cup European qualifiers, Beckham came back again. He used a free kick to help the team finally beat the Greek team. I got the ticket to enter the World Cup in Korea and Japan, and this goal is also worth a thousand dollars.

In the World Cup in Germany, Beckham stood on the World Cup for the third time, and he became the focus of attention again. He has tasted glory and disgrace, experienced success and failure, and Beckham has grown up amidst twists and turns.

Although Beckham is old now, although the current England midfielder has Gerrard and Lampard, and the striker has Rooney, Owen and Crouch, Beckham is still full of dreams for the World Cup. When the team needed him most, he was able to stretch out his right foot on the court and help the team win.

No matter from which point of view, Beckham can be regarded as an idol star in football, but he is not the first generation of idol cultivated by the Premier League in the 1990s. Before him, the Liverpool Five Tigers occupied the headlines of the newspaper earlier , but where are they today?

McManaman and Redknapp, who are more star-flavored than him, have retired long ago, and Fowler of the same age has also disappeared. Even with a younger crowd, look at Ronaldo, Shevchenko, Guti who have lost any ability to decide games, does anyone remember Kluivert?

Beckham's 45-degree oblique long pass and free kick skills are still world-class in Britain, Spain, and the United States. Bobby Robson believes that Beckham is still the top player in the world today. One of the 25 superstars.

The public's memory is short and if there's one thing Europeans have in common it's that they love football and as long as Beckham is still good on the pitch it's impossible to kick him off the pitch.

Beckham has less spare time than any superstar, but he probably has more training time than any of his teammates. People really pay too much attention to the 560 million euro profit he created for the Galaxy Fleet during his four years in Real Madrid, and the 1 million No. 23 jerseys that Real Madrid sold within six months of his joining.

Whether it is Lalas, the chairman of Los Angeles, or Pakinwa, the executive chairman of Fiorentina, he has taken a fancy to his charm of increasing merchandise sales by 137% in Real Madrid. As the 1999 European Footballer of the Year Silver Globe winner, Beckham has been neglected.

In fact, Beckham, who has 1/4 Jewish blood, has been adhering to the rigor and self-discipline of Judaism in terms of professionalism, and practicing free kicks is a regular item in Beckham's daily training. After joining Real Madrid, he spent more time training.

After Real Madrid was eliminated by Monaco in 2004, the teammates chose various reasons to spend Easter. Only Beckham, accompanied by a physical trainer, insisted on practicing twice a day at the training base. Even during the period of being frozen by Capello, he still did not change his habits.

For his being left out, Beckham has a satisfactory explanation: "Players need games to maintain their form, but I work hard to maintain my form during training, and in the evening, I often I train alone in the evening, because my wife usually attends activities outside this time, so I do some extra training, although it is not too much, but the most important thing is my extra training."

Even though he has already moved to the American major leagues, during the winter break last year, Beckham also chose to train with the team at Arsenal to maintain his form.

Looking at Ronaldo, who also trained with Flamenco, has recovered for half a year and has not yet lost weight, I believe most people will have a comparison of their professional attitudes.

To some extent, Beckham has more religious self-discipline, which is also the key to his ability to maintain a first-class level at the age of 33.

For Beckham, Ferguson may have the most say. The "secret" that Beckham had to practice 100 free kicks after every training session at Manchester United was revealed to the media by Sir Alex Ferguson. According to the words of the old Scottish man: "This When there were no cameras around, people couldn't see his efforts."

In an interview in the United States, Victoria also revealed that Beckham still maintains the habit of training at home in the evening. Even when on vacation, Beckham still maintains a standard physical exercise of two hours a day.

Even before coming to Italy, Beckham still maintained systematic training. Yesterday, when Beckham first arrived in Florence, after Florence had a physical examination on him, some team doctors asserted that Beckham could be like many Italian players, such as Costa Coulthard and Maldini played until the age of 40. At least, Beckham has no problem maintaining his cross accuracy and free kick skills.

Unlike other stars who became famous at a young age, Beckham has always maintained his enthusiasm for football. A La Liga title, six Premier League titles and a Champions League did not dampen his ideals. Beckham has publicly stated many times over the past ten years that he hopes to match Bobby Charlton and win the World Cup for the England national team.

Looking at Beckham who is putting in all his strength in training now, anyone can see that compared with spotlights and commercial activities, football is Beckham's life, and no one can replace it as the protagonist.

Maybe someone will mention the Spice Girls. In fact, this is a very difficult multiple-choice question. In fact, during the 10-year history of intimate relationship between Beckham and the Spice Girls, he has always been balancing the levers of career development between husband and wife. From the golden boy and jade girl back then to the present, it is precisely from the other side that he helps this heartthrob keep a clear head between the fish and the bear's paw.

Before meeting Victoria, Beckham, who was obsessed with football since he was a child, had a very poor love life. None of the five hot girls' exes could bear Beckham's nagging about Manchester United and football. They didn't have much in common. David, who is the number one idol star in England, has never even watched the popular love movies "Pretty Woman" and "Pleasure Deal" which have been popular in the UK for many years. This makes it difficult for romantic ex-lovers to find a topic.

Meeting Victoria was a coincidence, but it was inevitable for Beckham. What he needs is a wife who will not interfere with his football life. Victoria, who is the worst singer in the Spice Girls, but the most beautiful, of course knows that she She can't rely on the sisters in the group for a lifetime, she needs exposure in another field.

The 1998 World Cup was Beckham's first test. After becoming a condemned sinner, he healed alone with his fiancée in New York.

After the Triple Crown in 1999, enjoying the cheers of the fans again instead of boos, Beckham finally understood that everything for him was built on the pitch. After that, he married Victoria, who officially became his off-pitch life the master.

At this time, the contradiction between football and business was fully exposed. Ferguson refused Beckham's request for a long vacation. Until the flying boot incident in 2003, the Spice Girls were always identified by Sir Alex Ferguson to keep Beckham in a state of exercise. number one enemy.

Indeed, the Spice Girls had disintegrated at this time, and Victoria's entertainment career must have the support of Beckham. But on the one hand, the shrewd Spice Girl appointed her husband an sfx agency that has been packaging herself, on the other hand, she did not interfere with Beckham's training.

So much so that Beckham still maintains the habit of practicing free kicks in his own garage. Of course, the chips from Victoria continue to increase. The proportion of the commercial field in Beckham's life reached its peak in the 2002 World Cup.

Beckham, who has always followed the rigid professional discipline, began to be late for caring for a sick child, and was fined for attending the party of the Spice Girls. Faced with Beckham's explosive growth in global business development, Victoria relied on Beckham to save her declining entertainment career , I hope he can find a home in fashion capitals like London, Milan or Madrid.

As early as 2002, when Manchester United got nothing, the Spice Girls had already started to find support from Milan and London for Beckham. When Manchester United was eliminated from the FA Cup by Arsenal in early 2003, the contradiction between Beckham and Ferguson rose to the apex.

Subsequently, Beckham's balance tended to be the Spice Girls, he chose Real Madrid, but in Real Madrid, Victoria let the balance return to Beckham's side.

The Spice Girls did not find a second spring in their career, and could only hope for a new rap album produced in New York. And the scandal of Beckham in early 2004 became a crossroads for Beckham to re-examine his life balance.

The sfx agency that contributed the most to Beckham's business empire was fired and replaced by Simon Fowler, whose main business is in the United States. distraction.

This is why, until Capello ushered in in 2006, Real Madrid experienced a three-year low tide, but Beckham did not lower his competitive level.

It should be said that every choice of Beckham's career, every tilt of the balance, has Victoria's shadow behind it.

However, even in the Real Madrid era when Beckham's football business empire was in full swing, his football time was still far more than the time under the spotlight.

It was Victoria's idea to play in the MLS, but in the end Beckham couldn't bear the loneliness, and he was wronged in the low-level MLS for a long time, which made this proud Briton always psychologically unbalanced, let alone in the national team. He has been questioned by fans about "counting the number of appearances".

Pakinwa also couldn't bear the loneliness anymore. In Florence, people only knew that there was Degan, and even the club's transfer book was in the hands of Degan. Although the team won the Triple Crown last season, But in the eyes of those wealthy families, Florence is still a nouveau riche. In the eyes of many people, Florence still does not have the temperament of that kind of wealthy family, so this time Pakinwa snatched Baker from AC Milan desperately. Ham, on the one hand, came to brush up his own sense of existence, and on the other hand, he also came to improve the image of Florence.

The current business cooperation emphasizes mutual benefit, and the pursuit of a win-win situation is king. The same is true for Beckham's transfer to Florence. It is still the huge commercial value of Beckham.

Frankly speaking, Beckham was not happy in the MLS. Although there was his good friend Tom Cruise, there was no football at the highest level.

The transfer to Fiorentina was Beckham's pursuit of his own career, and it was also stimulated by the boos of some fans. Fate is always so wonderful. Capello, who suppressed Beckham in Real Madrid, gave Beckham enough respect in the England national team.

It's just this kind of respect that the seriousness of the fans in England has turned into "charity" and "number of appearances". The British are proud, and Beckham does not allow himself to be insulted like this. The only way to prove himself is to transfer to a competitive team to prove himself again. Thus, the move to Florence was a matter of course.

The reason why Beckham was favored by Parkinwa is of course the most important reason for Beckham's commercial value, and this is precisely the important reason why Real Madrid bought Beckham back then.

When Beckham enters Real Madrid, Real Madrid immediately becomes the richest club in the world. Similarly, when Beckham enters Fiorentina, the increase in Fiorentina's income will also be obvious.

Beckham is not old, he is still the number one handsome guy in football, his commercial value is still there, plus the world's number one player Digan, Fiorentina has two handsome football men, two super idols, and commercial value Development will go much smoother, and there is hope that it will even overtake Manchester United and Real Madrid.

Exchange "money and future" for "future", Beckham's choice is worthy of respect, at least he still loves football, at least he is willing to sacrifice a lot of dollars in the United States, just for his football dream.

And choose Florence, but not Milan. Obviously, this is not Victoria's opinion. Although Florence is the capital of the Renaissance, in today's world entertainment industry, its status is obviously not as high as Milan, the fashion capital.

According to Victoria's idea, going to Milan is the best choice, but Beckham wants to participate in higher-level competitions. If he goes to AC Milan, he can only play in the UEFA Cup, but if he is in Florence, he can participate in the top European championship. league.

So when Parkinwa approached Beckham, he agreed immediately without any hesitation.

For Beckham to join Fiorentina, England national team coach Fabio Capello is also happy to see the success. In an interview with reporters, he also said: "I am very much looking forward to Beckham's appearance on the stage of the Champions League on behalf of Fiorentina. He's always been a champion!"

Having found a new platform, Beckham is also very clear that although Fiorentina's reputation is not as good as the Manchester United and Real Madrid he played for before, playing here is not easy at all.

Fiorentina's training can be said to be the hardest among all Italian clubs, because most of the team are young people. It is when the room for improvement is the greatest and the physical fitness is the best. Naturally, Prandelli also increased the amount of training. , Efforts to cultivate these players under his command.

Although Beckham is here, it is clear that Prandelli has no intention of changing the training plan for him, and everything is still proceeding according to the previous plan.

Beckham has just finished the MLS game. Although he has been training by himself during this period, it is not systematic after all, and his physical fitness is obviously not enough to cope with Florence's heavy training tasks, but he is persisting.

Prandelli could see Beckham's insistence, and so did Degan.

After a day of training, Beckham felt that his legs had become heavy for two days, and then he followed the team to the physiotherapy room and let the team's masseur help relax his muscles.

Finally, when everything was over, Beckham was about to go home when Digan came over: "David! Let's have a drink together!"