At the post-match press conference after the fourth round of the Champions League group stage against Salzburg, Louis van Gaal announced the line-up for the away game against Willem II on November 6, and to the surprise of all local journalists, an unfamiliar name appeared in the starting line-up announced by Louis van Gaal: Ding Hongxing.

Chinese names are very difficult for Europeans, and although Ding Hongxing has been registered by Ajax Club in the Dutch Football Association, but due to the intensive competition in the past few days, the club has not had time to hold a press conference to announce Ding Hongxing's joining, so it is the first time that local Dutch reporters have heard this name.

When they heard that Ding Hongxing was from China, these reporters were even more surprised, how could a Chinese player who had never heard of a name before, how could He De replace Rijkaard and get on the starting lineup?

Reporters asked frantically questions at the reception, asking where Ding Hongxing came from, where he played before, what position he played on the field, what his technical characteristics were, why he could replace Rijkaard's position, and so on.

In addition to answering questions about Ding Hongxing's origin and location, Van Gaal had nothing to comment on other questions, but asked the reporters to see the scene for themselves when the time came.

This is also Van Gaal's usual style, he is not very good at dealing with journalists, so he has always had a bad relationship with journalists.

Although Van Gaal's words are unknown, but this makes reporters more interested in Ding Hongxing, although the Ajax team often has a new star coming out in the past, but these new stars are basically from the Ajax academy, and their upward trajectory is traceable, but where is this Ding Hongxing? Louis van Gaal says he has never played in a professional league before, so why did he get into Ajax's starting line-up?

It was only a few days before the match against Wilhelm II, if even the information of this Ding Hongxing could not be found, then these reporters were too failed, so they frantically searched for various information about Ding Hongxing, and finally a reporter found two Chinese on the sidelines of Ajax training, he asked them, only to know that they were reporters who followed Ding Hongxing to the Netherlands, so he asked Yan Xuelei and the two about some information about Ding Hongxing, so that they knew something about Ding Hongxing, and they would not hand over a white paper.

A Chinese player will start in an Ajax league, this news did not cause much repercussions among the Dutch locals, but in the Dutch Chinese circle has a great response, this is the first Chinese to play in the Ajax team, although there was a Winter with Chinese ancestry, but his Chinese blood is only one-eighth, when it comes to identity, of course, Ding Hongxing gave them a stronger sense of identity, so some Chinese agreed to go to Tilburg on November 6 to watch the game.

Anyway, the area of the Netherlands is not large, only more than 40,000 square kilometers, which is only equivalent to the area of two capitals, Amsterdam is more than 100 kilometers away from Tilburg, and it takes two hours to drive to it.

The news that Ding Hongxing will play for the first time in the Eredivisie was sent back to China by Yan Xuelei as soon as possible, and "Chinese Football" immediately reported it, and the response caused by this report was even greater, although Ding Hongxing signed with Ajax, but few people thought that he would be able to play so soon, and he was still a starter, for a time, this ordinary Eredivisie became the most concerned game by Chinese.

It's a pity that there is no TV station in China to broadcast the Eredivisie, and at this time, it is impossible to search for live broadcast signals on the Internet like 20 years later, no matter how unpopular the game can be found, so the live broadcast of this game, it is impossible for fans in China to see it, and fans can only wait for the report after the game, they hope that Ding Hongxing can be excellent in this game.

The domestic media were also unprepared for Ding Hongxing to play so soon, and they were caught off guard, and they urgently sent reporters to the Netherlands to cover the game, but there were many reporters whose visas were too late to get it, and it seemed that they couldn't catch up with the game, in this sense, "Huaxia Football" took the lead, they had a good relationship with Ding Hongxing in advance, and had already built a reporter station in Amsterdam, Liang Wei's foresight allowed "Huaxia Football" to seize this opportunity, and their rise was unstoppable.

Ding Hongxing was still very happy to get the news that he would start in this game, he called home and Lu Chaohui again, and told them the good news, of course they were very happy, and they all encouraged him to show well in this game.

On the afternoon of 5 November, the Ajax squad boarded the club's bus to Tilburg for the next afternoon's league match against Willem II.

Willem II is not a traditional strong team in the Netherlands, but this season their results in the Eredivisie are quite good, in the first eight rounds of the league, they won four, drew two and lost two, accumulated 14 points, ranked fifth, this time they are at home again, so the Dutch media is not one-sided optimistic about Ajax, after all, Ajax just played a Champions League game four days ago, and several players were changed in this game, especially the little-known Ding Hongxing.

Most of the Dutch media are not optimistic about Ding Hongxing's debut, he is from China, where football is not developed, he is not yet 18 years old this year, and he does not have any experience in the professional league, so he directly starts in the Eredivisie, even if he has excellent ability, but under such psychological pressure, it is difficult for a young player to play at a normal level.

On the bus to Tilburg, Seedorf, who was sitting next to Ding Hongxing, took a newspaper and said to Ding Hongxing: "Look, you are worthless here!" ”

Davis said disdainfully: "These bitch reporters, nonsense is their biggest ability, Ding, if you play better on the field, they will kneel down and hold you like dogs!" ”

Davis's words are vulgar, but they are full of the virtues of the media.

Rijkaard, who was sitting in the front row, turned his head to Ding Hongxing and said: "Ding, Willem II's players are definitely not your opponents in terms of strength, as long as you don't panic in your heart and show the level you usually have in training, it is enough to beat them." ”

Ding Hongxing nodded and thanked him, he started in place of Rijkaard in this game, Rijkaard was afraid that he would panic when he played the first game, and he kept reminding him, for which he was still grateful.