Chapter 1: A warm-up race for someone else who changed their lives
July 15, 2010. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Netherlands, Amsterdam. Ajax Academy.
The base is located on the outskirts of Amsterdam in a place called Toekomst, which means "future" in Dutch, and the core building of the base is named after the place name - the future stadium. Located just 600 metres from the Amsterdam Stadium, Ajax's home stadium, it is dedicated to training for Ajax's second-tier squad and the under-12 youth teams in four categories. For Ajax, who have been supplying the Orange and Europa continent with a steady stream of young talent and top stars, this is where the dreams of countless young Ajax players begin.
At half past four in the afternoon, the sky was cloudless, and the stadium was already full of about 4,000 spectators.
The stadium, which is often used for second-team training and matches, was to be played today with a warm-up match for the first team, against Ajax and Horst. It was supposed to be a game that no one cared about in the history of football all over the world, but years later, people will continue to talk about it because it was a miracle.
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For Ajax, Ding Yue is naturally no stranger. As for the Horst team, Ding Yue and the young players who participated in the training only learned through the introduction of the Ajax officials who accompanied them that this is actually an amateur team, but one of the most distinctive characteristics of this team is that their players are die-hard Ajax fans.
Therefore, in order to repay and win over the fans, Ajax arranged such an opponent in the team's pre-season warm-up match. The venue of the game was also arranged in a futuristic stadium that would allow fans to watch the performance of the team's stars more closely, and it can be said that Ajax's management has put a lot of effort into building a good relationship with the fans.
Ding Yue and the other 17 young players and accompanying staff have been in the Netherlands for more than a week. Since receiving the call in January inviting him to the "Football Dream" project, Ding Yue has been looking forward to this trip.
It's just that after arriving in the Netherlands on July 5th, there was a jet lag, and in the next few days, except for training with the Ajax coaches in the training base and then recording programs with the film crew like making movies, Ding Yue had almost no more opportunities to show himself.
After more than a year of development and training, his body has grown to 178cm, and his weight has reached 67kg. So in training, Ding Yue's speed, technique and body completely crushed those fourteen or fifteen-year-old players, but because there was no obvious relative comparison and an official game, Ding was completely unable to show his strength.
Depressed, he buried his desires/desires, while diligently absorbing the advanced training methods and more high-end football concepts of these coaches, and Ding Yue actively asked the coaches for advice whenever he had spare time, which also left a good impression in the heart of Ajax's academy director Jan Clink.
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"Hey, yue! this way!" Ding Yue was chatting with a few young players who were more familiar with each other these days, and Clink sat on the Ajax bench and looked back, saw Ding Yue, waved his hand, and shouted at him.
Since he also took a training video for the young players and coaches in the base in the afternoon, Ding Yue was still wearing sneakers, jerseys and pants like everyone else.
Ding Yue's English may still have some problems with writing test papers in the domestic examination room, but there is no problem with speaking at all, which is also an important reason why he can quickly get acquainted with Clink, but at a deeper level, it should be related to Clink's recent relationship with the Chinese Football Association. Through the memories of his previous life, Ding Yue knew that in August 11, Clink would be hired as a youth training expert of the Chinese Football Association and serve as the head coach of the national youth team. Therefore, these days, Clink also asked Ding Yue, who is fluent in English, about a lot of information about Huaguo.
"Come here, come and sit next to me!" Clink shouted to Ding Yue as he pointed to a spot beside him.
The little player next to him looked surprised, the youth training director and Brother Ding have been chatting happily these days, just look at this action, he actually asked Brother Ding to go to the front row to watch the game with him? Everyone was jealous.
Ding Yue smiled and patted Lu Xiaofei's head beside him, and then explained to Leng Zhengfeng, the biggest staff member of the team, and squeezed away the few brothers standing in front of him, climbed over the fence of the court, walked to Clink, and sat down.
The appearance of the future stadium looks very ordinary, but the architectural design inside is more modern and professional than the domestic university stadium, and the audience can even stand on the sidelines, but there is a waist-length iron fence from the stadium, if a player goes to serve the sideline, the audience can even have zero contact with him.
Leng Zhengfeng's usually serious face became gentler, and then he couldn't help laughing, Ding Yue, this kid, doesn't talk much on weekdays, but he is really a likable child, but he is also surprised that he can be so familiar with Clink.
Ding Yue just sat down, the referee blew a whistle, and the two sides, who had warmed up for almost an hour, finally started to play.
As the game began to get louder, the fans shouted for their favourite stars and hoped they would make some good combinations and goals today.
Ding Yue looked at the serve of the players on the court, and then poked his head to look at the starting list in Clark's hand, but after looking at it twice, his mind was confused, because he couldn't read Dutch characters.
Through Clark's relevant explanation, Ding Yue learned that Ajax sent a not very complete starting lineup today, the goalkeeper is Marten Stekelenburg, needless to say, although he did not become the world's top five goalkeepers, but he also became a famous general, the four defenders are Gregory van de Wield, Toby Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Emmanuelsson, Ding Yue thought about it, I'll go! Isn't this the Tottenham double central defender later, it's a pity, but it's a pity that these two fullbacks didn't kick out.
The midfield is composed of Christian Eriksen, Eyon Eno, and Geoffrey Sapang, another future Tottenham player, this Tottenham is Ajax's excavator.
The three forwards are Sim de Jong, Shi Xuanjun, and Marvin Zehlar, De Jong is a temporary guest striker, and the latter two are young players, among which Clark Special and Ding Yue pointed out Shi Xuanjun, a young Korean player who only signed with the team on January 1, 10, and is a more talented type of player in the team. As soon as Ding Yue heard this old ke's words, who called the Chinese people not to be angry, and finally everyone was looking forward to Artemisia Junmin, after Schalke 04 was transformed into a fullback, he gradually lost the trust of the head coach and slowly couldn't play.
The players on the pitch were getting into shape quickly, and the Ajax pros didn't seem to show mercy in the face of a group of amateur players. Vertonghen received a return pass from De Jong after kick-off, and after a while, his teammates ran to the front of the net, only to take two steps, and a straight kick to pass to Elkeson.
Elkeson gave the two midfielders on the opposite side a clean and beautiful dunk, and then a long-distance diagonal pass to Zehlar, who was extremely fast, and threw off the opponent's left-back with an acceleration and crossed near the baseline. De Jong, who played as a cameo center forward in the small penalty area, relied on his height of 1.85 meters and strong bounce power to whisper between the two amateur central defenders.
1:0.
Some viewers haven't even finished shouting the names of their favorite stars, and that's the goal!
Clark applauded and shook his head and said to Ding Yue: "Amateur teams are difficult to compete with professional teams. ”
Ding Yue smiled, nodded, and said in Chinese: "Yes, Lao Ke, you are right." ”