Early the next morning, Wang Yi continued jogging laps around his fairly large home.
At around 8:00, while Wang Yi was training, Messi arrived at his home with several sheets of A4 paper.
"Wang, I've put together a preliminary training plan. We'll need to work around the kids' school schedules, though. Tell me when they have school or other activities, and I'll arrange the training times."
Wang Yi took the sheets of A4 paper and carefully read through the entire training plan.
He realized that once the kids' school hours were factored in, every moment of their day would be packed.
They'd have very little time left to play.
Aside from school and training, they'd only have time to rest.
When would they have time to play?
Given Wang Yi's nature, he felt that play was a child's instinct and kids ought to have plenty of time for it.
But when he thought of his son's talent, he decided to follow Messi's training plan.
With talent like that, failing to train him seriously from a young age would be a terrible waste.
Fortunately, his son loved soccer, too.
How much did he love it?
After finishing the exercises assigned by his school coach each day, he would even go out of his way to do extra training on his own.
Training was dull and monotonous to begin with. For a five-year-old to do extra practice after finishing his assigned exercises showed just how much he loved soccer.
And Wang Yi felt that compared with other kids in China, who had to spend their childhoods buried under piles of homework, his own children were already very fortunate.
When Wang Yi was young, after doing his homework every day, he spent all his remaining time training.
Wang Shiyu was much luckier, going