The temperature at the foot of the snow-capped mountains is very low, especially in the early morning, when the sun has not yet risen, it seems that it is still in a cold winter. The biting chill begins to invade your body from the moment you get out of the bed.

Of course, Yang Cheng didn't find a warm bed last night, but he slept well last night and it was very sweet. This was not because the hotel's heating facilities were perfect, but because he didn't have much pressure in his heart. He even saw the upcoming competition very lightly because he knew very well that he no longer needed to prove anything to anyone.

It was a very strange state, as if I was gambling. I had already secured my capital. No matter how I bet, it didn't matter. If I lost, I didn't lose. Just pretend that I had never won the money. If I won, I was happy, but I just won a little more and my mentality was very relaxed.

However, relaxing does not mean that he has not sought victory. On the contrary, although relaxing, he still wants to win. However, compared to when he coached the club team, he would no longer pay attention to winning or losing so seriously.

The water used for washing faces and brushing teeth comes from Xueshan. Yang Cheng is used to using cold things, which makes his teeth hurt, but he becomes energetic, especially after a comfortable and cold war, the feeling is so good that he feels home.

After putting on the mountaineering equipment that Paul Bayer had arranged before, when Yang Cheng walked out of the hotel room, he happened to see the players going out one by one, some with their families.

These days they get up early every day for training, so getting up early is already a compulsory course for them.

But today is a little different because each of them is wearing a set of hiking equipment.

Warm down jackets are specially used for mountain climbing, especially when climbing snow mountain. The warm layer uses high-quality duck down. The fabric is light and thin, easy to exercise, but very dense, waterproof and windproof, and are all bright colors. They are easy to identify in the white snow.

The shoes are made of mountain shoes, which are specially used for climbing ice and snow mountains. They have a light texture and are well warm and can also be waterproof and breathable, because climbing in snowy mountains requires higher requirements for shoes. In addition, there are leggings used for warmth and waterproofing, and crampons must be tied to the soles of the shoes.

Of course, climbing snow mountain is inevitable with hats and glasses, as well as props such as snow poles. These are specialized professional mountaineering guides from Tigne. They will be responsible for leading the team all the way from the ski resort and climbing the towering snow mountain in front of them, which looks very huge.

"Are you ready?" Yang Cheng walked downstairs and saw a group of guys hiding in the mountaineering equipment. He immediately laughed, but he didn't expect that in fact he was almost the same as the players.

"It's ready!" The players all seemed very excited.

To be honest, it’s not just them, but Yang Cheng himself is also very excited because this is his first time climbing such a snow-capped mountain.

When he was leading Kaiserslautern, he once climbed the mountains, but it was not as exciting as it is now. Because from them, all of them were snowy all year round, such training and training were very valuable to the team, because in such a harsh environment, the players' limits and willpower could be fully tested.

"Fatty, help us watch the car and luggage!" Tim Hank smiled and winked at Benitez.

This made everyone present laugh because everyone knew it. With Benitez's body, asking him to climb the snow-capped mountains was no different from asking him to commit suicide, so from the beginning, no one counted him in the plan.

"Okay, I will notify the ambulance team to be ready to go up and lift you down at any time!" Benitez counterattacked.

Yang Cheng smiled. "Okay, everyone, today is the first day of training after we are in place. If anyone is really carried down by the ambulance team, it will be really embarrassing. Thousands of people in the entire town of Tigne are watching, don't embarrass you!"

"I understand!" the players answered together.

It was the first time Yang Cheng climbed the snow mountain. He didn't understand it either, so he gave it to a professional, one of the most senior ski coaches in Tigne. It is said that his familiarity with this snow mountain is exactly the same as his own home, and the advice he gave to the German team was actually the same, "Just like returning to his own home, don't be nervous!"

In addition, some fans and mountaineering enthusiasts took the initiative to follow the German national team, and some of them brought various shooting instruments, which seemed to be specifically designed to capture the embarrassing scenes of the German international and then sent them to Youtubi.

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This Frenchman named Emile has a lot of experience in climbing. He is a famous skiing and mountaineering coach in the small town of Tigne and even the area near Mont Blanc. So since he left the hotel, he kept teaching Yang Cheng and the players some things to pay attention to when climbing.

"The mountain is sacred, go to get close to him, and don't always think about conquering him, otherwise it will take revenge on you!"

"People are small. Temper and protect themselves, and don't ignore their own lives!"

"In the snow-capped mountains, accidents may occur under any circumstances, so be vigilant and highly concentrated at all times!"

"The cold in the snow is the biggest enemy of climbers. It can make your body's various reaction abilities very slow, so on the surface, mountaineering emphasizes durability, but in fact, there must be fast and slow, and the speed must be well combined, but one thing is very important, balance!"

"There are actually many things that are in common with mountain climbing and football, that is, keep the center of gravity of the body at all times. A small slope is enough to make you stagger, and there may even be a slippery drop, and dangers are everywhere, so you must keep the balance of the center of gravity of the body at all times."

"Don't be afraid of the snowy mountain in front of you that you don't know when you can reach the top of the mountain. You must believe me. Your biggest enemy is not the snowy mountain, but you yourself. Your fear, fear, relaxation, tension, and paralysis are all the biggest enemies of your mountaineering. This enemy comes from you. Overcome it, maintain strong fighting spirit and firm confidence, and have fearless spirit and courage, and then you will soon reach the end!"

Emile kept introducing the words along the way. Although he had already trained the players in the hotel before, he was still talking tirelessly. In fact, there were indeed some accidents in the team throughout the process.

For example, Hummels accidentally slipped under his feet and slipped down. Bad Stuber in front and Neuer behind him, one grabbed his safety rope and the other responded quickly enough to pull his clothes to avoid accidents.

Of course, for safety reasons, they did not deliberately choose the mountaineering trails that professional mountaineering enthusiasts would go. They chose safer mountaineering paths, so even if Hummels slid down, at best, it would be a distance like skiing. But nothing would happen.

Besides, each of them had radios installed on them, and there were small first aid helicopters at the foot of the mountain, which could be rescued as soon as possible to ensure that everything was foolproof, so Yang Cheng was willing to arrange such training programs.

"Is it okay?" Yang Cheng called the team to continue walking forward, and turned around and asked with concern.

"It's okay!" Hummels' lips were dry, and his face was a little pale in fear.

Seeing his appearance, Yang Cheng shook his head and laughed. He pulled down his warm mask, "Boy, be focused. If you step every step firmly, it will not be easy to slip, do you understand?"

Hummels breathed deeply, and the white air turned into smoke and soon disappeared.

After a small accident, the team continued to move forward. After everyone was taught by Hummels, they began to become cautious, keep their attention focused, and dare not be careless at all. Because no one knew, once it fell, how long it would take to slide down to get down?

Everything is the same. At the beginning, they are very excited and excited. With a passion and passion, they seem to be able to conquer this snow-capped mountain. However, when they climbed the mountain and climbed up the ski resort in a winding manner, especially after climbing some steep slopes, their physical energy consumption was severe, and people began to deflate and began to lose their fighting spirit.

But the snow-capped mountains in front of me seemed to be so high, and I still couldn't see them!

Yang Cheng clearly noticed the changes in the team, because at the beginning, the group of kids were still talking enthusiastically, but after more than an hour, they were all left with the strength to breathe and stopped talking, especially after Hummels almost slipped, they all seemed very careful.

Looking at Emil, Yang Cheng smiled slightly, "What else can I do, coach!" At this moment, Emil is the boss of the team.

I saw the coach in red clapping his hands hard, and he, who claimed to be a singer in Tigne, spoke directly.

The courage of men built distant dreams.

If you want to become a hero on the Green Field tomorrow, you must first become a man today.

Greetings to the warriors who came from afar, Coach Red from Tigne.

The white snow comes into view and achieves the hope of triumphant success in the future.

What are you pursuing?

A brilliant victory?

An unforgettable champion?

Or an agreement with history?

You are so unique, you are the hope of everyone!

Step forward, my warriors, you must believe that you can conquer everything!

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To be honest, Emile's voice is not good, and the melody of the song is also very ordinary, but it is very interesting. The Frenchman seems to be very fanatical and enjoys it. His song is made specifically for Yang Cheng and others, so he sang it very vigorously.

Yang Cheng and the others just listened, and no one told Emil that his singing was really bad, and they didn't have much strength to talk about him.

But as I listened, over and over again, in this vast snowy snow, in this snowy mountain where all the sounds of whistling winds could only be heard, the more beautiful the song was, especially the melody, the more moving and passionate it was.

Gradually, some people began to sing, gradually, more and more people sang it. In the end, everyone sang this song, composed by Emil himself, and did not even have the title of the song.

No one knows how far the song can spread in this vast snow, but everyone seems to be able to feel the teammates from the song, from the rope grasped in their hands, feel that they are not lonely, not facing everything alone, and feel what a team is.

Yang Cheng listened to the singing and sang along. Although he was a coach and was not young anymore, his physical fitness might not be lost to this group of professional players. So he always followed the team.

"You must be mentally prepared. The closer you get to the top of the mountain, the lower the temperature will be and the worse the environment will be. It may even reach more than ten degrees below zero. Be careful and be sure to stay focused!" Emil loudly reminded the team.

Everyone can feel it because the mountain wind is getting stronger and stronger, and even snow is mixed with. Sometimes when you sweep towards me, your cheeks are beaten to hurt. Even if you don’t have snow, the wind seems to be about to cut your cheeks open.

Yang Cheng's face was also very cold, especially the skin exposed outside hurts, but he did not stop.

He believed that at this moment, all the players, including Emil, were looking forward to the moment they reached the top of the mountain, but how far they were from that moment. No one knew, and no one knew whether they could hold on, so they could only grit their teeth and persevere.

Step by step, climbing up the rope one after another. No one will give up at this time because they all know that the destination is ahead and not far away from them.

Success and failure are often just between one step, and you take it over. You succeed and you retreat. I'm sorry, no matter how hard you work ahead, you are a loser!

When they reached the top of the mountain, everyone stood. The sun facing the above head seemed to want to feel its heat in the snow and ice. Although it seemed insignificant, they could all feel a little warmth.

No one speaks, just stand silently.

There is no heroic spirit on the top of the mountain as if it is small, because it is not high and there are higher peaks around it, which are also covered by snow, looking white, and their location is actually very low.

If it were normal times, some people might be disappointed by this because they worked hard to climb to the top of the mountain, but in the end they found that they still could not reach the highest point because there were mountains around them higher, steeper and harder to conquer. Why bother with the previous hard work?

But at this moment, Yang Cheng believed that everyone felt the same as him, that was satisfaction, they did it!

But while feeling satisfied, they also feel hungry from the heart, because they have only conquered the shortest mountain. They hope to challenge higher, and it is best to challenge Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps directly!

They rested on the mountain for a short while, took the cable car directly down the mountain, and took a ride to one of the four of them. The whole process was very easy.

But Yang Cheng was wondering, is climbing a mountain the same as being a human being?

After working hard for a morning, I gritted my teeth and supported it. I finally reached the top of the mountain, but at the end, I found that what I climbed was only the shortest mountain. The surrounding mountains were higher and harder to conquer. Is that feeling of gap very similar to what people feel at some point?

But then I thought about it, is climbing a mountain just to challenge the highest and most difficult mountain?

So what if you are allowed to climb Mount Everest?

Perhaps, as Emil said, climbing a mountain, don’t think about conquering it, but thinking about getting close to it, feeling its spectacularity, feeling its incomparableness, feeling everything about him, and challenging his limits while honing and learning to protect himself.

Isn’t it the same as being a human being?

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We returned to the foot of the mountain, it was noon. After a while, the players started to eat and then took a break.

During this process, the coaching staff at the foot of the mountain have already prepared a brand new restorative method for them, called a spa.

The expert team specially put a full of ice water in the hotel swimming pool, allowing the players to move in this ice water. The water is very cold, but it is not as cold as snow-capped mountains. Moreover, after enough warm-up, the players went down to move and jump, which was good for their physical recovery.

In the afternoon, the team held a high-intensity training class, including in 90 minutes, the team was divided into three groups and took turns to perform a total of 30 minutes of group competition. It was the whole game. All players had to do their best and then take turns to conduct high-intensity physical training at the interval.

After conquering the snow-capped mountains, their physical fitness has not been fully recovered, and they have invested in such high-intensity training, the players' bodies can be imagined, but after they have survived this training class, they find that the training arrangements have not been completed yet. They were taken to the hotel by the coaching team, and each person can be assigned a bicycle that was already available in the hotel, and then they are asked to circumvent the road on the shore of Lake Sharifri near the town of Tigne. Those who cannot complete it within the specified time will be punished.

Follow the lakeside road all the way down the mountain, about 10 kilometers, and you can reach a hotel downstream, and the players temporarily put their bicycles in the hotel.

The whole road is almost downhill, which is very easy to walk, but it is a lot of winding and twists, which is quite a test for the players.

After arriving downstream, the last test of the training class in one day came. The players were asked to take a kayak, use manual rowing, and go upstream, grouped with 6 people, divided into 5 groups in total. The rowing boats returned to the Tigne Dam near Lake Sharifri near Tigne, and then rowed back to the hotel in Tigne on a bicycle.

After the whole process, the day's training session ended just before sunset.

Yang Cheng and others were all taking the bus and didn't feel anything, but when they returned to the hotel, the players were so tired that they almost fell to the ground, but they had to go to the expert team to undergo physical examinations and have a spa recovery.

If you get tired on the first day, how can you do it in the next few days? (To be continued)
Chapter completed!