De Bruyne is obviously not a talkative person, and even when he wanted to answer Yang Yang's question, he suddenly found that he didn't know where to start, and finally it was under Yang Yang's guidance that he told his experience of practice.

There is no doubt that he was one of the best of his age from an early age, and was soon spotted by Genke, the big Belgian team at the time, as part of the Genke Academy, and at the age of 14, he arrived alone.

"I think I'm a person who likes to experiment, even adventure, and even if a lot of people don't think so, at the age of fourteen, I really decided to go to Genk."

"It was a terrible thing for my parents to be alone and move from one side of Belgium to the other to readjust to a completely unfamiliar environment, but I decided to take it a step anyway, and it turned out that the inconveniences of life and the problems caused by the local accent when I spoke made me feel very lonely in Genque."

"The school is a two-hour drive away from home, I can't go home every day, I can only go home every Sunday during the holidays, I can go home to visit my parents, and during the two years in the Genke Academy, I had no friends, no partners, no socialising, and even had to be teased by my teammates a lot, those two years were too long."

Yang Yang listened to De Bruyne's words and nodded his head, he also felt this way.

The year in Almere was 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, but it is not his own parents, he has no way to talk about many things, and many grievances and pains in his heart can only be borne silently.

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

"I love playing football and every time I play, all the worries, the problems, the troubles, the bad feelings...... It's all gone, and I think it's a very beautiful thing to play football, so when I was most lonely, football was always there for me, comforting me and understanding me. ”

"Later, I encountered an incident, the club gave me a better treatment, and arranged for me to stay in a fan family, you know, this is a kind of norm in the youth training of European clubs, many foreign youth players will choose to stay in the fan family, feel the warmth of the family."

Yang Yang understood that because Ajax also considered letting him stay in a fan 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 you know what? In fact, the host fan family is sometimes not simple, they accept you not just because you are a youth player of the club, not only because of football, but also because of other things, and in the semester of boarding, I am still alone, I am alone in the room on weekdays, I am not a stranger who likes to cause trouble, especially strangers I am not familiar with. ”

"I had good grades that semester, I played football well, I didn't have any bad records, and it seemed to be going well, but when I finished the semester and just came home, I saw my mother crying, and she said that the club had just informed her that the family I was boarding with didn't want me to go back, and they thought I was too quiet and withdrawn to communicate with them, and they thought I had a personality problem."

"I don't understand it, because the moment before I go home, I also said goodbye to them, they also let me enjoy the summer vacation, and I will meet them again soon, but in the blink of an eye, they seem to have changed their faces, and more importantly, they have never told me anything similar to my face, we have never had any conflict."

"I wasn't an honor student in school, I wasn't a good player in the youth team, and the club at the time, after listening to the feedback from the host family, also felt that I was a problem and told my parents that they would not arrange a new host family for me, and I had to go back to the dormitory, which was specially prepared for problem students."

When Yang Yang heard this, he felt a little empathy, he had not experienced many things, but he had experienced something similar.

Many fans read in the newspapers that young players are boarding with fan families, which seems to be a beautiful and pure thing, but in reality?

Could it be that the fan family accepts a young player who is not familiar just because they are fans? Because of that little subsidy from the club?

De Bruyne's problem is by no means unique, and countless stars of hope fall on this issue every year.

"It was a very difficult summer, so I started practicing hard, practicing for hours every day, I was training almost like crazy, I felt a fire in my body, it almost drove me crazy, I wanted to prove myself, I was going to tell everyone that I was okay."

'When I came back to Genk, I made it to the second team, and then in one game, I came off the bench in the second half and got a chance, and I went into a complete frenzy, scoring five goals in a row and going from the second team to the first team in two months, and I was able to get on my feet, and I completely changed everyone's impression of me.

"The club was willing to find me a new host family, my teammates began to recognize me and start socializing with me, my accent was no longer a problem, fans started asking me for autographs, and the original host family also came back to me and tried to prove that it was a misunderstanding, but I unceremoniously rejected them."

"But you know, then they started appearing in the newspapers and were constantly being covered by all kinds of media reports about my withdrawn personality and about what happened to me in my host family, and they exposed it to the media publicly, and I became an unpopular player, which led to a lot of people having a preconceived impression of me."

Yang Yang listened silently, but kept nodding.

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

For example, James Rodriguez, when he first joined the new season, the media hyped him hotly, but after losing 2-4 to Real Sociedad and 0-1 to Atletico Madrid, he directly stepped into hell, saying that Real Madrid's 80 million euros were wasted, but then, the Colombian players began to perform well, and the praise for him was overwhelming.

Now, there are even many media who believe that he should replace Di Maria and qualify for the start, so if it weren't for Real Madrid's 5-1 win at home to Barcelona, in case the derby of the century was lost, many media would definitely use Di Maria to replace James Rodriguez to attack Ancelotti.

But is James Rodriguez really that good?

The answer is clear, no!

The simplest comparison, he doesn't have the kind of breakthrough ability that Di Maria has on the right flank.

These are two different types of players, how can they be compared in the most straightforward and brutal way?

Players are generally young, and everyone likes to see their name in the newspapers, but if they read too much of this kind of coverage, if they don't have the ability to judge themselves rationally, they start to blindly think that how good they really are, how important they are, what are the consequences?

What happened to Kevin De Bruyne, what happened to James Rodriguez, is not the exception, but the norm.

As a professional player, you can't change the public opinion environment at all, so you can only adapt and even use it.

While Yang Yang has mixed feelings in his heart, De Bruyne's story continues.

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

'There were a lot of clubs that wanted to sign me that summer, including Jurgen Klopp from Borussia Dortmund and he called me but Mourinho told me they wanted me to stay and be part of the team, I was in his plan and I didn't hesitate to say yes.

'But in pre-season I made some mistakes in the game, I was abandoned by the coaching staff and they didn't even give me a chance to explain it until December, when Mourinho called me into his office and he gave me some documents and told me that one assist, zero goals, ten counter-tackles, that's what I was doing for the halfway point of the season.

'He compared a lot of other attacking players to me like Oscar, Willian, Juan Mata, and they were all much better than me, maybe five goals, ten assists or anything like that, but I told Mourinho that they all got fifteen or twenty games and I only had three.

"I don't think he can do that, on the one hand, he doesn't give me a chance to play, and on the other hand, he accuses me of being too bad, and if he doesn't let me play, is that another accusing me of not contributing anything to the team? It's not fair to me! ”

'So, I told Mourinho that I wanted the club to sell me, so I went to Wolfsburg during the winter break and played a good half season, and what kept me going was football, I wanted to play, I wanted to play, I wanted to show myself to everyone, to make them understand me, to understand me.

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

Yang Yang suddenly understood why he had sympathy for De Bruyne, because the two of them were really alike.

At the same time, he is also beginning to understand why De Bruyne is working so the ball, because he has struggled to get a chance to play at Real Madrid in recent times.

Carlo Ancelotti is not Mourinho, and there is Zinedine Zidane on the coaching staff, what happened at Chelsea will certainly not happen at Real Madrid, but De Bruyne is not the De Bruyne of the past, he is hungry for more opportunities.

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

He needs Real Madrid to give him that chance.

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