56 People Can't Be Appearing
The first conversation with Van Basten only lasted about twenty minutes.
This former legend, who just took the first step in coaching alone this season, seemed very patient. He told Yang Yang that many of his past playing experience had been known and raised his request for Yang Yang.
In fact, there is nothing strange about it. He hopes that Yang Yang can continue his performance in Almele's period and become a sharp knife on the team's right, opening up the situation for the team's offense.
After several players were transferred to the first team, the second team had a serious shortage of people on the right offensive end.
Afterwards, Van Basten called his two assistants and introduced Yang Yang to them.
Van Basten's assistant is also from Ajax, both of his teammates in the 1980s, John Vanschip who once played right winger and Robo Witzger who played midfielder.
The first impressions of Yang Yang were given by the two coaches were very good and very friendly. This was also what made Yang Yang feel the most.
As early as Almere, even though he performed very badly, both head coach John Rep and Dick Vanpur gave him enough respect, let alone in insults or even loud scolding, as if he was intentionally or unintentionally maintaining a relaxed environment that reassures young players.
This atmosphere is even more obvious when it comes to DeTok Most. From Van Basten to Van Schip and Witzger, everyone Yang Yang has seen often smiles on his face, and his tone of speaking is very calm, leaving him without any pressure.
However, when he came to the second team player lounge with Van Schip and met with other teammates, Yang Yang still felt some unfriendly eyes, and the first thing he had to do was the talented winger Ryan Babel.
Perhaps due to the influence of the match against Almere, the Dutch local talented winger did not perform particularly ideally in the subsequent amateur matches, and even failed to play in the finals. In the end, Ajax also lost the finals with regret.
Afterwards, although Babel entered the first team, participated in the summer training camp, and played two warm-up matches, the results were not particularly good. He was soon sent back to the second team by Ronald Koeman, which made Babel feel very unbalanced.
Now I saw the Chinese boy who made him embarrassed and became a teammate. How could he give a good face?
As soon as he saw Yang Yang walking in with Fanschip, Babel immediately stood up and left.
Another person who was not particularly catching a cold against Yang Yang was left defender Emmanuelson. He was also tortured by Yang Yang in that game. Naturally, he would not wink at others, but he would not turn around and leave like Babel.
It can be seen that his position in the team has not yet reached the level of being outstanding.
John Vanschip introduced Yang Yang to everyone present and handed Yang Yang over to the team's captain Robert Zwinkles. The 20-year-old goalkeeper is currently the captain of the second team and Ajax's youth training department.
Ajax's second team is really an international column. Central defender Nicklas Moysand comes from Northern Europe, Finland, central defender Las**** de Glen is from Sweden, central defender Thomas Fermall comes from Belgium, Jose Valencia on the left is from Ecuador in South America, and midfielder Michael Crohn Delhi comes from Denmark.
In addition, most of the Dutch local players are of African descent. Captain Robert Zwinkels should be considered a relatively pure Dutch white. It is said that he was born in a small town near The Hague, but he has been to Ajax since he was a child.
After an introduction, Yang Yang shook hands with his teammates one by one. The most familiar one was his roommate Fermuren, and Emmanuelson muttered when he shook hands with Yang Yang, as if he was saying that he wanted to find an opportunity to repay the favor.
Currently, there are only four players in the second team who are in their 1986 years old. Demoore is in March, Emmanuelson is in June, Yang Yang is in October, and Ryan Babel is in the end of December. It is already very clear that these four players can enter the second team at this age, and Babel is a recognized genius by everyone in the team.
He is the youngest, but he is the biggest player in the team. In addition, he is a bit introverted. It is said that he has been surpassing the level since the youth team and is very dissatisfied with anyone.
There are generally two communication languages in the Ajax team, one is Dutch and the other is English.
Yang Yang's Dutch language has no problem reading and writing, but English still needs to be strengthened, so he needs to enroll in an English class, and there will be a special English teacher coming to teach the class in a unified manner.
Many teammates heard captain Zwinkles mentioning cultural courses, and their faces were obviously dark and wailing, but Yang Yang was not stressed, because this has always been his strength, especially after having a super training ground, he found that he could not forget it, and it was naturally easier to learn.
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The afternoon training class was still the same as usual, except that there was one more person.
As early as during the Genius Day event, Yang Yang had already deeply realized the intensity of Ajax's training. In contrast, the training of the Almele Youth Team was like playing.
Whether it is the compactness of the training program, the coaching staff's emphasis on players' execution, or the requirements for players' training investment, they are completely different from those in the Almere period, and can even be said to be a world of difference.
Even in the second team, the training intensity is not inferior to a formal game.
In fact, the coaching staff also requires players to engage in training with almost practical combat.
At first, Van Basten was worried that Yang Yang would not be able to keep up with the team's training. After all, Yang Yang felt that he was thin, but after a training class, he felt relieved.
Yang Yang did not drag the team down. Not only did he persist to the end, but his level of commitment in training also made people admire him. He performed almost all the training programs arranged by the coaching team meticulously.
The only thing that makes people feel assured is the tacit cooperation between him and his teammates, especially on the right.
The main right back of the second team was also just drawn from the youth training camp this season. The 18-year-old African-American player Dwight Tiendali is from the local youth training in Ajax. He has good speed and solid footwork. Sudden forward on the right side is his specialty, but he is also a good player in defense, and he can be said to be both offensive and defensive.
Yang Yang was just a newcomer and failed to think of him as his teammates in the team practice of practicing tactical routines, and made many mistakes.
But both Van Basten and the coaching staff were very satisfied with Yang Yang's first training class. After all, he was just a newcomer. As long as he slowly integrates into the team, becomes familiar with his teammates' playing habits, it is only a matter of time before he develops tacit understanding.
After the training, Van Basten specially called Yang Yang over and encouraged him, and then left with the coaching staff.
Other players also returned to the locker room.
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"Why haven't you left yet?"
Seeing that everyone else had left, Yang Yang was still staying on the training ground to catch the ball, Thomas Fermuren turned back and asked strangely.
"You go first, I'll stay for a while." Yang Yang replied with his eyes fixed on the falling ball.
"No, right? Are you still tired after a training class?" Fermall asked with a wry smile.
Yang Yang laughed at himself, "My basic skills are too poor, I have to add some more to myself."
"Did you do the same with your previous team?"
"Well, but we're the youth team, and the training intensity is much worse than here."
"All of them are the same person? Haven't you ever tried it with someone?"
"No." Yang Yang was still burying his head.
Fermall smiled, "Then I will give you some good advice today."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Yang felt a figure flash in front of him. The ball that was originally stuck on his left foot was stabbed. He looked forward and saw Fermall stepping on the ball and looking at him with a giggle.
"It's not interesting to practice alone, then."
Only a bang was heard, a quick and urgent pass was quickly flew in front of Yang Yang from Fermulen's feet.
Caught off guard, Yang Yang had to instinctively stop the ball with his right foot, but the stop was a bit too big.
When Fermall in the distance saw him, he shook his head contemptuously, "It is indeed necessary to practice. The basic skills of stopping the ball are too poor."
Yang Yang didn't know that he was deliberately stimulating himself, so he became angry immediately. He immediately flew out and passed the ball back.
It's true that although Fermuren is a central defender, his ability to stop the ball was still very good and was quite solid. He stopped and kicked the ball back.
"I agreed that the ball will lose if it falls. Whoever loses will cook and wash dishes and clean up."
Yang Yang cursed inwardly, isn’t this cheating?
Everyone knows that the worst thing he has is stopping the ball.
But having someone to train is indeed much more fun and more motivated than having a single person to practice alone, so I agreed immediately.
The two of them were playing football back and forth on the training ground, and they were having a lot of fun in training.
Needless to say, Yang Yang must have lost.
When Yang Yang practiced crossing, Fermuren volunteered to practice heading and played the role of center in the middle.
"Don't think I'm kidding. There was a time when my youth coach really suggested that I play for the forwards. They all felt that my height was not suitable for playing as a defender, but I just didn't believe it."
"Is it true?" Yang Yang certainly didn't believe it.
"You'll know if you try it." Fermall provocatively said.
Soon, when Yang Yang kicked the ball into the penalty area with one foot on the right, Fermalen was indeed as he said, and could always accurately determine the landing point of the ball and show a good sense of grabbing points, which surprised Yang Yang.
He had just thought that Fermuren had outstanding defensive ability, but he didn't expect that his feet and offensive ability were so strong, even better than Emmanuelson with an offensive heart. It really proved that the saying that people should not behave like a person.
Chapter completed!