super storm

Chapter 56

The first conversation with Van Basten lasted only about 10 minutes.

The former legend who just took the first step of coaching alone this season is very patient, telling Yang Yang about his past playing experience, and putting forward his requirements for Yang Yang.

In fact, there is nothing unusual. He hopes that Yang Yang can continue his performance in Almere and become a sharp knife on the right side of the team to open up the team's offense.

After many players were transferred to the first team, the second team is seriously short on the offensive end on the right.

After that, Van Basten called his two assistants and introduced Yang Yang to them.

Van Basten's assistants are also from Ajax. They are all his teammates in the 80s, John Van Schip who once played right winger, and Rob Weitzger who played midfielder.

The first impressions given by the two coaches to Yang Yang were both good and friendly, and this is what impressed Yang Yang the most.

As early as in Almere, even if he performed very poorly, both the head coach John Repp and Dick Van Poel gave him enough respect, not to mention insults, even reprimanded him loudly.

This atmosphere is even more obvious in De Tokmorst. From Van Basten to Van Schip and Weitzger, everyone Yang Yang has met always has a smile on his face and speaks in a very peaceful tone, which makes him feel no pressure.

However, when he came to the second-team player lounge with Van Schip and met other teammates, Yang Yang still felt some unfriendly eyes, and the first to bear the brunt was the talented winger Ryan Babel.

Perhaps affected by the battle with Almere, the talented Dutch winger did not perform particularly well in the subsequent amateur matches. He even failed to start the game against Feyenoord in the final. In the end, Ajax also regrettably lost the final.

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, and he was soon sent back to the second team by Ronald Koeman, which made Babel feel very unbalanced.

Now he saw the Chinese kid who made him embarrassed, and he became a teammate. How could he give a good face?

Seeing Yang Yang walking in with Fanskip, Babel immediately got up and left.

Another person who is not particularly interested in Yang Yang is the left back Emmanuel Sen. He was also abused by Yang Yang in that game. Naturally, he would not look at people with good looks, but he would not turn around and leave like Babel.

It can be seen that his position in the team has not reached the level of showing off.

John Vanschip introduced Yang Yang to everyone present, and handed Yang Yang to the captain of the team, Robert Zwinkels. This 20-year-old goalkeeper is currently the captain of the second team and a direct descendant of Ajax's youth training.

The second team of Ajax is really an international column. The central defender Niklas Moisander is from Finland in Northern Europe, the central defender Lars Degren is from Sweden, the central defender Thomas Vermaelen is from Belgium, Jose Valencia on the left is from Ecuador in South America, and the midfielder Michael Kron Deli is from Denmark.

In addition, even among the local players in the Netherlands, most of them are of African descent. Captain Robert Zwinkels should be regarded as a relatively pure white Dutchman. It is said that he was born in a small town near The Hague, but he came 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 of course his roommate Vermaelen. Emmanuel Sen muttered something while shaking hands with Yang Yang, as if to find an opportunity to reciprocate.

In the current second team, there are only four players who were born in [-]. De Moore was in March, Emmanuel Sen was in June, Yang Yang was in October, and Ryan Babel was in late December. The fact that these four players entered the second team at this age already speaks for themselves, and Babel is a genius recognized by everyone in the team.

He is the youngest, but he is the biggest player in the team. In addition, he has a somewhat withdrawn personality. It is said that he has leapfrogged all the way since the youth team, and he doesn't fit in with anyone.

There are generally two communication languages ​​in the Ajax team, one is Dutch and the other is English.

Yang Yang's Dutch is not a problem in both reading and writing, but his English still needs to be strengthened, so he needs to enroll in an English class, and a special English teacher will come to teach it.

When many teammates heard Captain Zwinkels mentioning the cultural courses, their faces were obviously darkened and they wailed, but Yang Yang had no pressure, because this has always been his strong point, especially after having a super training ground, he found that he has a photographic memory, and it is naturally easier to study.

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The training session in the afternoon was still the same as usual, except that there was one more person.

As early as the Genius Day event, Yang Yang had a deep understanding of the intensity of Ajax's training. In comparison, the training of the Almere youth team was like playing.

Whether it is the compactness of the training program, the importance the coaching staff attaches to the players' execution, or the requirements for the players' training input, they are completely different from those in Almere, and it can even be said to be a world of difference.

Even in the second team, the training intensity is not weaker than a formal game.

In fact, the coaching staff also used almost actual combat to require players to invest in training.

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 seemed thin and weak, but after a training session, he was relieved.

Yang Yang did not hold back the team. Not only did he persevere to the end, but also his devotion to training was impressive. He carried out almost all training programs arranged by the coaching staff meticulously.

The only thing that is not reassuring is the tacit understanding between him and his teammates, especially on the right.

The main right back of the second team has also just been transferred from the youth training camp this season. The African-American player Dwight Tindali is from Ajax’s local youth training.

Yang Yang had just arrived, and he hadn't been able to get together with his teammates during the practice of practicing tactical routines in the team, and made a lot of mistakes.

But both Van Basten and the coaching staff are very satisfied with Yang Yang's first training session. After all, he is just a newcomer. It is only a matter of time before he gradually integrates into the team, gets familiar with his teammates' playing habits, and develops a tacit understanding.

After the training was over, Van Basten called Yang Yang over to encourage him, and then left with the coaching staff.

The other players also returned to the locker room.

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"Why don't you leave?"

Seeing that everyone else had left, Yang Yang was still on the training ground juggling the ball. Thomas Vermaelen turned back and asked strangely.

"You go first, I'll stay for a while." Yang Yang stared at the ball falling and falling, and replied.

"Isn't it? After a training session, aren't you tired?" Vermaelen asked with a wry smile.

Yang Yang laughed at himself, "My basic skills are too poor, so I need to improve myself."

"Did you do that on your previous team?"

"Well, but we are a youth team, and the training intensity is much worse than here."

"They're all alone? Have you ever practiced with someone?"

"No." Yang Yang was still immersed in juggling the ball.

Vermaelen chuckled, "Then I'm going to give you some pointers today."

As soon as the words fell, Yang Yang felt a figure flash in front of him, and the ball that was originally bumped on his left foot was stabbed off. Looking forward, he saw Vermaelen stepping on the ball and looking at him with a smile.

"It's not interesting to practice alone, let's go on."

There was only a bang, and a quick and urgent pass flew from Vermaelen's feet to Yang Yang's front.

Caught off guard, Yang Yang had to instinctively stop the ball with his right foot, but it turned out to be too big.

Seeing Vermaelen in the distance, he shook his head contemptuously, "It really should be practiced, the basic skills of stopping the ball are too poor."

Yang Yang didn't know that he was provoking himself on purpose, and immediately became angry, and immediately flew out and passed the ball back.

Needless to say, although Vermaelen is a central defender, his stop kick is still very good, quite solid, once stopped, kicked again, and kicked the ball back.

"It's settled. If the ball hits the ground, you lose. Whoever loses cooks, washes dishes, and cleans up."

Yang Yang cursed secretly, isn't this a scam?

Everyone knows that his worst thing is to stop the ball.

But it is indeed much more interesting and more motivated to practice with someone than to practice alone, so I immediately agreed.

The two just played back and forth on the training ground, having a great time training.

Needless to say, Yang Yang must have lost.

Later, when Yang Yang practiced crossing, Vermaelen took the initiative to ask Ying to practice heading and play the role of center forward in the middle.

"Don't think I'm joking. There was a time when my youth coaches really suggested that I play as a striker. They all thought that my height was not suitable for playing as a defender, but I just didn't believe it."

"Is it true?" Yang Yang definitely didn't believe it.

"Just try it and you'll know." Vermaelen provocatively said.

Soon, when Yang Yang kicked the ball into the penalty area from the right, as he said, Vermaelen could always accurately judge the ball's landing point and showed a good sense of grabbing points, which surprised Yang Yang.

Before, he only thought that Vermaelen's defensive ability was outstanding, but he didn't expect his footwork and offensive ability to be so strong, even better than that Emmanuel Sen who has an offensive heart, which really confirmed the sentence.

But being able to train with such an outstanding teammate with him really aroused Yang Yang's fighting spirit, and the training was also very vigorous, and for the purpose of hitting his teammates, he deliberately created some troubles for Vermaelen who was grabbing spots from time to time, which also added some fun to the boring training.

　Came to a new team and started a new journey, please continue to support [Super Storm], thank you!

　　
　
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