This week, Van Gaal is very troubled, just when the schedule is the tightest, and it is the national team match day, the national teams of all countries have to play two games in these ten days, and the main lineup of the Ajax team is basically internationals from all countries, and even there are several internationals in the substitute lineup. ∵ Eight ∵ Eight ∵ Read ∵ Books, .↗.▲o

In order to make up the number of people to fight in groups, Van Gaal had no choice but to transfer more than a dozen players from the youth team to train with the rest of the first team.

Among the remaining players, Ding Hongxing is the one with the best ability and condition now, and only Ding Hongxing's excellent performance in training can make Van Gaal dispel some melancholy.

Ding Hongxing's consistent excellent performance and conscientious training and competition attitude have also made Van Gaal's impression of him better and better.

Van Gaal also has his own ideas on how to use Ding Hongxing.

Van Gaal debuted in the Ajax academy, his tactics and Ajax's traditional all-attacking and all-defensive tactical concept is in the same vein, Ajax at all levels of youth, youth teams and the first team are exactly the same four-three-three tactics, and among the eleven players on the field, the most important is a central defender or midfielder who can organize the attack with long passes, and now he is holding this role under Van Gaal, Rijkaard, he can play both as a central defender and a midfielder, with a wide field of vision, excellent long passes, and he looks at the overall situation in the backfield, When he sees an opportunity, he can easily deliver an accurate long ball from the back to tear through the opposition's defence.

However, Rijkaard will retire at the end of the season, and Van Gaal has been trying to find his successor, but the results have not been satisfactory until the arrival of Ding Hongxing has given him hope.

Ding Hongxing's appearance in these two games is almost the same as Rijkaard or Gullit at his peak, both are the kind of players who are tall, full of energy, excellent confrontation, wide vision, accurate long passes, and his attack power even exceeds that of the two.

So, Van Gaal is ready to focus on cultivating Ding Hongxing, and in these few days of training, he even often pulls Ding Hongxing back to the back line and lets him play center back, so that Frank. De Boer went to play left-back, and the midfielder could bring Rijkaard, Davies, and Seedorf together, and when he really needed to rotate, there was also a Ronald . De Boer, if necessary, can also play a three, four, three lineup.

What makes Van Gaal happy is that Ding Hongxing is also not unfamiliar with the central defender position, his strength, physical confrontation, bounce and other central defenders are all top-notch, and his sense of position is also very good, and his headers, tackles and other central defenders are not inferior to the vast majority of central defenders in the Eredivisie, because he is still young, there is still a lot of potential to be tapped in these skills, and in terms of recovery speed, it is estimated that there is no central defender in the world who can compare with him.

Such a comprehensive and good professional attitude has made Van Gaal's dislike for Ding Hongxing disappear because of contract problems, and in his plan, Ding Hongxing will be the most important person for Ajax in the future, the offensive and defensive hub of the team.

Ding Hongxing himself also feels very comfortable with such a role change in training, anyway, no matter what position he is in, he is like this, just play hard, stay in Ajax these days, he feels more and more that the future Barcelona has the shadow of the current Ajax, the tactical system of the two teams is almost identical, of course, this is also normal, after all, Barcelona's godfather Cruyff debuted from Ajax, and Barcelona's La Masia academy was also established by him.

Ding Hongxing feels that the current tactical system is still very suitable for his own play, of course, with his current historical-level physical elements, coupled with comprehensive technical ability, he can be like a fish in water in any system, if there is any tactical system that is not suitable for Ding Hongxing, it is not Ding Hongxing's problem, but the tactical system itself has a problem.

Ding Hongxing was able to perform well in the league so quickly, also because Ajax's tactical system is very mature, and every player is just a part of this tactical system, and Ding Hongxing is a high-quality part that adapts to almost every link, which is naturally plug and play.

In this way, when almost all the main forces of Ajax were gone, Ding Hongxing quietly became the tactical core of Ajax.

However, Ding Hongxing also felt the weakness of Ajax's follow-up in the glory of this season, among the more than a dozen youth team players who were transferred to the first team to participate in training, Ding Hongxing did not find a player he was familiar with, it seems that the past few years have been a fault period in the Ajax youth training system, no wonder the Bosman Act has been implemented, after the golden generation of Ajax has been poached, Ajax has never been able to reproduce the glory of these seasons.

On the afternoon of the 16th, Ding Hongxing finished a day's training and returned to his apartment, not long after freshening up and changing, Liao Minghua drove a car to pick him up, and Yan Xuelei and Xia Yang also sat in the car, and he was going to interview the activities of Ding Hongxing's fan club today.

got into Liao Minghua's car, and within a few minutes, he drove two blocks and came to the entrance of Harris Lane, Liao Minghua parked the car, Ding Hongxing, Yan Xuelei and Xia Yang also got out of the car and followed Liao Minghua into the alley.

Within twenty meters of walking, Ding Hongxing saw a bar, the name of the bar was Harris Bar, and there was a signboard hanging outside the door of the bar, and the pattern on the signboard was the emblem of Ajax, the Greek hero of ancient Greek mythology.

The Greek spelling of Ajax, Ajax, is the name of the Ajax team, and the legendary hero of Never Say Die also represents the spirit of Ajax.

And the sign hanging at the door of Harris Bar also shows that this is an Ajax fan bar.

In the Netherlands, there are many such fan bars, and the customers who usually come are mainly fans, who chat, watch football and, of course, drink in the bars, which is also a unique bar culture in the Netherlands and Europe.

If you haven't been to this kind of fan bar, you can't say that you know the fan culture in the Netherlands.

There is also a sign hanging on the door of the bar, which says that it is temporarily closed, and today is the Ding Hongxing Fan Club for fan activities here, so it is closed to the public.