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Chapter 1227 This is unfair to me!

De Bruyne is obviously not a talkative person. Even when he wanted to answer Yang Yang's question, he suddenly found that he didn't know where to start. In the end, under the guidance of Yang Yang, he talked about his training experience.

There is no doubt that he was a leader among his peers since he was a child, and he was quickly spotted by Genk, the big Belgian team at the time, and became a member of the Genk youth training camp. At the age of 14, he came to Genk alone.

"I think I'm an experimenter, even an adventurous person at heart, and even though a lot of people don't think so, at the age of 14, I really made the decision to go to Genk."

"Moving from one side of Belgium to the other by myself and re-adapting to a completely unfamiliar environment was scary for my parents, but I decided to try it out anyway, and it turned out that all the inconveniences and problems with speaking with a local accent made me look different in Genk, and I felt very lonely."

"The school is two hours away from home. I can't go home every day. I can only go home to visit my parents every Sunday during the holidays. During the two years in the Genk youth training camp, I had no friends, no partners, no social interaction, and I was often teased by my teammates. Those two years were too long."

Listening to De Bruyne's words, Yang Yang kept nodding his head, and he also felt this way.

The year in Almere was really very, very long, and every day seemed like a year of suffering.

He has no friends. Although his uncle's family is taking care of him, they are not his parents after all. He has no way to talk about many things, and he can only bear many grievances and pains in his heart silently.

Because, choosing to play football in the Netherlands is his own decision.

"I like playing football. Whenever I play football, all my troubles, problems, troubles, bad feelings... all will disappear. I think playing football is a very beautiful thing, so during that period when I was the loneliest, football has always been with me, comforting me and understanding me."

"Later, something happened to me. The club gave me a better treatment and arranged me to live in a fan family. You know, this is a normal situation in the youth training of European clubs. Many foreign youth players will choose to live in a fan family to feel the warmth of the family."

Yang Yang understood, because Ajax also considered letting him stay with the fan's family, but he chose to live by himself, and he was already sixteen or seventeen years old at the time, slightly older than De Bruyne.

"But do you know? In fact, sometimes the host families are not pure. They accept you not only because you are a youth training player of the club, not only because of football, but also because of other things. In the semester of boarding, I was still alone. I was alone in the room on weekdays. I am not a person who likes to cause trouble, especially strangers I don't know well."

"That semester I had good grades and played football well. I didn't have any bad records. It seemed to be going well. But when I finished the semester and just returned home, I saw my mother crying. She said that the club had just informed her that the family I was staying with didn't want me to go back. They thought I was too quiet and withdrawn to communicate with them. They thought there was something wrong with my personality."

"I don't understand, because the moment before I went home, I said goodbye to them, and they let me enjoy the summer vacation, and I will see them again soon, but in a blink of an eye, they seem to have changed their faces. More importantly, they have never said anything similar to me face to face, and we have never had any conflicts."

"I was not a top student in school, and I was not an outstanding player in the youth team. After listening to the feedback from the host family, the club at the time also felt that I had become a problem. They told my parents clearly that they would not arrange for me a new host family. I could only live back in the dormitory, which is specially prepared for problem students."

Hearing this, Yang Yang feels somewhat empathetic. He has never experienced many things, but he has experienced similar ones.

Many fans read in the newspapers that young players live in fans' families. It seems so beautiful and pure, but in reality?
Could it be that the fan family accepts a strange young player just because they are fans?Because of the little subsidy from the club?

The problems encountered by De Bruyne are definitely not isolated cases. Every year, countless stars of hope fall on this problem.

"That summer vacation was very difficult, so I started to practice desperately. I practiced for hours every day. I trained almost crazily. I felt a raging fire in my body. It almost drove me crazy. I wanted to prove myself. I wanted to tell everyone that I had no problem."

"After returning to Genk, I successfully entered the second team. Then in a game, I came off the bench in the second half and got a chance. I completely entered a crazy state and scored five goals in a row. I entered the first team from the second team within two months and gained a firm foothold. I completely changed everyone's impression of me."

"The club was willing to find me a host family again, and my teammates began to recognize me and started dating me. My accent was no longer a problem. Fans began to ask me for autographs, and my original host family also found me again, trying to prove that it was a misunderstanding, but I rejected them unceremoniously."

"But you know, later they started to appear in the newspapers and kept receiving various media reports about my withdrawn personality and what happened to my host family. They were publicly exposed to the media by them, and I became an unpopular player, causing many people to have a preconceived impression of me."

Yang Yang listened silently, but kept nodding.

The media and football are interdependent, but many times, the media is really annoying to the players.

For example, James Rodriguez, when he first joined in the new season, the media hyped him in full swing, but after losing 8000-[-] to Real Sociedad and [-]-[-] to Atletico Madrid, he stepped into hell directly, saying that Real Madrid's [-] million euros was in vain, but then Colombian players began to perform well again, and the praise for him was overwhelming.

Now, even many media believe that he should replace Di Maria and qualify for the starting line-up. Therefore, if Real Madrid hadn’t won Barcelona [-]-[-] at home, in case the century derby lost, many media would definitely replace James Rodriguez with Di Maria to attack Ancelotti.

But is James Rodriguez really that good?

The answer is clear, no!

The simplest point of comparison is that he does not have the breakthrough ability of Di Maria on the right.

These are two different types of players, how can they be compared in the simplest, direct and crude way?

Players are generally relatively young, and everyone likes to see their names on newspapers, but if they read too many such reports, if they don’t have the ability to judge themselves rationally, and they start to blindly think how good they are and how important they are, what will be the consequences?
What happened to De Bruyne and what happened to James Rodriguez is not a special case, but the norm.

As a professional player, there is no way to change the public opinion environment, so you can only adapt and even use it.

While Yang Yang had mixed feelings in his heart, De Bruyne's story continued.

"When I came to Chelsea, I wasn't in the club's plans, they sent me to Werder Bremen on loan, I did really well there and then I came back to Chelsea."

"That summer, many clubs wanted to sign me, including Dortmund's Klopp. He took the initiative to call me, but Mourinho told me that they wanted me to stay and be part of the team. I was in his plan and I agreed without hesitation."

"But in the pre-season, I made some mistakes in the game. I was abandoned by the coaching staff. They didn't even have a chance to explain to me. Until December, Mourinho called me to his office. He gave me some documents and told me that one assist, zero goals, ten rebounds, this is my data for half of the season."

"He compared the statistics of many other offensive players with me, such as Oscar, Willian and Mata. Their statistics are much better than mine, maybe five goals, ten assists, etc., but I told Mourinho that they all got [-] to [-] games, and I only had three games."

"I think he can't do this. On the one hand, he doesn't give me a chance to play, but on the other hand, he blames me for my poor statistics. If he simply doesn't let me play, will he accuse me of not contributing to the team? It's unfair to me!"

"So, I told Mourinho that I hope the club will sell me, so I went to Wolfsburg during the winter break and played a good half of the season, and the reason why I persisted was football. I was eager to play football, eager to compete, and I was eager to prove myself with performance, to show everyone, let them understand me and understand me."

De Bruyne's last words were almost a cry from the heart, and his whole face blushed.

Yang Yang suddenly understood why he resonated with De Bruyne, because they are really similar.

At the same time, he also began to understand why De Bruyne is practicing desperately, because it has been difficult for him to get a chance to play in Real Madrid recently.

Ancelotti is not Mourinho, and there is Zidane in the coaching staff. What happened at Chelsea will definitely not happen in Real Madrid, but De Bruyne is not the same De Bruyne back then. He is eager to get more opportunities to play.

He came to Real Madrid not to sit on the bench, but to prove himself.

He needs Real Madrid to give him such an opportunity.

(End of this chapter)