Reporter Han Bing reported on the panoramic 360-degree large-scale flight simulator, I believe fans are very familiar, in film and television dramas and news is not uncommon, but also a necessary training facility for the aviation industry in various countries. But the panoramic 360-degree football training simulator is probably little known. But with Rangnick, known as the "father of the 21st century" of German football, coaching Manchester United, the secret weapon of "black technology" that he began to use and succeed in Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg four years ago will also benefit Manchester United.
Red Bull Leipzig has jumped from a German 4th tier team to a third-best Bundesliga club after Bayern and Borussia Dortmund in a short period of time, and Rangnick's introduction of the SoccerBot 360 simulation training facility has been instrumental. Although it is not yet known whether Manchester United will buy this set of "black technology" training equipment, but with Rangnick's "perfectionist" personality, I am afraid that C. Rowe, Pogba and B. Fei will soon "appreciate" the power of high-tech training simulators.
Live-action version of pro evolution soccer
SoccerBot 360 was developed by Umbrella Software in Leipzig, with the original aim of allowing children addicted to video games and social networks to complete various soccer technical practice tasks set by the software in this virtual 360-degree projection world, thereby increasing children's interest in participating in football. At the same time, such training, which is close to the real environment but high-tech enough, allows children to make faster and better technical and judgments in real competitions.
Originally a "game" for children to experience a 360-degree virtual football environment, how did it become a secret weapon of "black technology" for top clubs to train professional players? This also starts with the former Head of Red Bull Sports, the current Manchester United manager Rangnick. Rangnick left Red Bull Salzburg in 2015 to red Bull Leipzig, where the club's budget and league level were higher, and established red Bull Salzburg, which was originally the home team, becoming the Red Bull football of Leipzig's "blood transfusion" club. Through floyd (Sports Director Of Red Bull Salzburg), who was promoted in Salzburg, the two clubs have synchronized in making full use of football's high-tech facilities.
In addition to equipment designed for sprint training (which provides different levels of resistance through a cable winch, allowing players to find the most suitable sprint muscle load in training), anti-gravity treadmills, and the most accurate motion tracking system LPM (100 times more accurate than GPS positioning, which can record everything from the correct movement posture of the legs to the skin temperature), the soccerBot 360 device is really valued by the Red Bull series. The ultimate power of this device is to help players improve their decision-making speed in a variety of real-world virtual scenarios through 360-degree training tasks, so as to gain an advantage in the game.
The SoccerBot 360 system plays an important role in assisting Rangnick's high-pressure and efficient football tactical concept. Rangnick stressed that efficiency comes first, and players must have excellent physical fitness, speed and judgment to ensure that the high-pressure tactics of individuals and teams can be carried through in 90 minutes. This means that traditional group team passing and group playing practices, as well as team training matches, are not strong enough to meet Rangnick's requirements. The training ground set a countdown clock, requiring players to regain the ball within 8 seconds, scoring goals within 10 seconds is only the first step, the introduction of the SoccerBot 360 system, so that players are computer-controlled machine training is the key.
Rangnick thinks it's a "live-action version" of pro evolution soccer, not by manipulating the gamepad with your hands, but by using your own feet to complete the training instructions given by the simulator: "The players love it so much that we can't even get some of them to stop. ItV reported that although the coaching time is only half a year, Rangnick will start the full high-tech development of the Carrington training base, and it is only a matter of time before the SoccerBot 360 training simulation facility is introduced.
Simulator revolution
Scheler, commercial director of Umbrella Software, believes that SoccerBot 360 will surely take the world by storm, which is "the way of the other to give back to the other", with a virtual video game environment to resist the temptation of video games to children. Moreover, this SoccerBot 360 device does not cost much. Norwich were the first Premier League club to introduce this high-tech training kit for just £750,000 (860,000 euros). As early as 2017, the local Red Bull Club in Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg were already training with this high-tech equipment. However, the equipment was more expensive at the time, and the two clubs each spent $1.3 million (1.1 million euros) to purchase it.
Leipzig Red Bull's German international defender Krostermann, recuperating from injury, trained on the club's SoccerBot 360. At present, the SoccerBot 360 equipment is already available in 7 places around the world, in addition to Leipzig, Salzburg and Norwich, there are many clubs in Germany that share the "public" SoccerBot 360 equipment. It was also sold to Switzerland and Egypt, and the numbers are increasing. Swiss FC Zurich players have been training with the SocceBot 360 simulation system since May, and Norwich joined in October. Commercial director Scheler said the company plans to produce more than 20 sets of equipment in 2022 and sell them to more countries.
The power of the SoccerBot 360 is that it can reproduce the game in full coverage, allowing players to continuously practice their skills and make judgments in the virtual environment created by the projector. Rangnick believes that the essence of football is "faster", not only in the fields of offense, offensive and defensive conversion, defense, but most importantly, to judge the situation on the field and the technical actions that are about to be made. This requires higher intensity, higher frequency of repetitive scene training, and the SoccerBot 360 system came into being.
The 8-foot-tall (consistent with the goal height), together with the dome-covered net that extends upwards, is an 80-square-meter artificial turf soccer field enclosed by a circular projection wall, and will lead a "high-tech revolution" in soccer training. The soccer ball that is kicked around bounces off the wall to where the players are waiting in the center of the court. Together with motion sensors and high-speed cameras, as well as accompanying data collection and analysis software, analysts use this to improve the player's technical and responsiveness.
For C. Rowe, who has been banned by Rangnick from driving his favorite super luxury sports car into the training base, perhaps he will buy a SoccerBot 360 facility for further training. After all, when he was at Real Madrid, he was the first football player to privately own an ultra-low temperature treatment cabin. For the "black technology" that can prolong his professional life, C. Luo has always been eager.