After Yang Yang invited everyone in the team to enjoy a sumptuous lunch, the team set off again.

This time their destination was a small town on the Italian border, but unfortunately, the town's shops were not open that day, and everyone returned to Cannes in vain.

After an afternoon in Cannes, everyone returned to their hotel in Toulon with a lot of excitement.

The first thing Yang Yang did after coming back was to go out to train with the ball upside down, which made the coaches and players in the team very impressed.

They all found out that Yang Yang had gotten up early and returned from morning exercise before they set off in the morning.

In the evening, the team played all day, and many people were exhausted, but Yang Yang was still able to go out to train, which is not only strong self-discipline, but also obviously much better than the players in the team.

It wasn't until night fell that Yang Yang came back from outside.

After taking a shower, changing clothes, and having dinner, Yang Yang called Van Gaal and cared about his situation.

Van Gaal was in a good mood on the phone, and he laughed heartily, saying that he had also seen Yang Yang's performance in the Toulon Cup in the Dutch newspaper and affirmed Yang Yang's performance.

Regarding his own coaching of AZ Alkmaar, Van Gaal said that he has prepared a long-term plan and is very confident.

Yang Yang was a little reluctant, but still wished him good luck and said that he still wanted to play under Van Gaal when he had the opportunity.

"Then I have to work harder, you are playing better and better now, as you said, if you go to the big four leagues in two or three years, it will definitely be to join a strong team, or even a giant, if I don't come up with results as soon as possible, I'm afraid it will be difficult to become your head coach in this life." Van Gaal laughed.

Yang Yang also laughed on the phone, "Then you have to come on, it's better to be faster than me, and then buy me." ”

The two are no longer on the same team, but they can joke so easily.

For Van Gaal, Yang Yang admires and respects him from the bottom of his heart, because he has really helped Yang Yang a lot.

Sometimes when I look back, if it weren't for Van Gaal's words, how could Yang Yang be in the squad against Club Brugge?

If you don't make the squad, how can you come off the bench? How to behave? How do you get a foothold in the first team?

Of course, at that time, Van Gaal may not have the intention of promoting Yang Yang, it may be purely some personal emotional factors, but no matter what, the consequence is that Yang Yang took this opportunity to enter the first team and gain a firm foothold.

Yang Yang is convinced that if he is a thousand-mile horse, then Van Gaal is the first Bole he has ever met.

After calling Van Gaal, Yang Yang called his parents in China again.

Parents, cousins Shen Yuzhu and Wei Zheng were all busy, but they were very happy to receive a call from Yang Yang.

"In the past few days, domestic newspapers and TV have been reporting non-stop, and everyone around me has been praising you, and my ears are almost calloused." Mother Shen Lifang smiled proudly.

Yang Yang was also happy in his heart, he was very sensible, and knew that the Toulon Cup did not have much influence, but it was also a happy thing to make his parents and friends proud of him.

After Wei Zheng returned to China, he began to deal with the company's promotion of the brand, but Yang Yang didn't understand, mentioning what Wei Zhen said, there are domestic companies and brands that want to find Yang Yang's endorsement, Wei Zheng said that he can help to register a company for Yang Yang in China, but the specific things have to wait for Yang Yang to return to China to deal with.

After playing the Toulon Cup, going to the Asian Cup training, there is still a period of time in between, Yang Yang does not plan to go back to his hometown, after all, he has traveled a long way, and he will go back after the Asian Cup, during this time he considers living in Beijing.

His parents also agreed with him, after all, it is more important to stay in shape for the country.

Wei Zhen even proposed that he had a vacant house in Beijing, which could be lent to Yang Yang for temporary residence.

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The next day, the Chinese national youth team began to actively prepare for the semi-final match against Sweden.

As a Nordic team, the average age of the Swedish players is one year older than the national youth team, but the most important thing is that they are all very physical, with an average height of 1.85m, which will be a big challenge for the national youth team.

In addition to the physical advantage, the tactical level of the entire Swedish team and the individual skill level of the players are quite good, and the defense is the highlight of the Viking in this Toulon Cup.

In the three group games of Group B, Sweden drew 1-1 with Japan, defeated Portugal 1-0, lost to Brazil 0-2, won one and drew one and lost one, and only scored two goals in the three games, one of which was an own goal sent by Portugal.

That said, Sweden have scored just one goal in three games.

Sweden's defensive prowess is commendable compared to their lack of attacking strength, and they are a counter-attacking team.

And the national youth team is also good at defending and counterattacking, so many people feel that it will be a tough battle against Sweden.

The coaching staff also intends to strengthen the attack against Sweden, especially around Yang Yang, but it is unknown how much the players can play on the field.

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On the evening of June 8.

In order to better prepare for the upcoming game, the Chinese team arrived at the stadium two hours early.

Yang Yang walked into the stadium from the players' tunnel, looked back at the stands behind him, and found that there were more Chinese fans in the stadium tonight than in the group stage, all wearing red shirts, pulling banners, shouting slogans, and many fans also waved cards with Yang Yang's name written on them.

When the fans in the stands saw Yang Yang come out, they were very excited and shouted Yang Yang's name loudly.

Yang Yang also politely thanked the fans for coming to Toulon to cheer for the team.

If you're not a true fan, you're definitely not going to come to this southern town to watch the game.

"I didn't expect so many people to come tonight."

"yes, all of a sudden it feels like I'm back at home."

"As soon as they shouted like this, I couldn't help but burn, and I couldn't wait."

"Not only that, after entering the semi-finals, the national TV station in China has broadcast live."

"Really?"

"Really, it's just the time difference, it's early in the morning domestic time."

"Hehe, try to perform, focus on playing, don't let them down."

The players walked into the stadium one after another to warm up.

Due to the nature of the Toulon Cup as a warm-up match, there was no draw before the game, and according to the organizing committee, whoever enters the venue first will choose which side of the coach's bench and bench to use first.

The Chinese team has played one game in this stadium before, that is, the first round of the group stage against Colombia, when the team sat on the left side of the home team's coach's box, so out of habit, this time the team still chose the left side, and all the players went directly into the left half for warm-up training.

But just halfway through the training of the Chinese team, the Swedish team also came to the field, they didn't even say hello, and came directly to the left half for training, and the goalkeeper even walked to the goal line and blocked the goalkeeper of the Chinese team, Guan Zhen.

This sudden change surprised everyone inside and outside the stadium, and the team leader on the sidelines went up to negotiate with Sweden as soon as possible.

The situation on the field is very chaotic, the Swedish players have a physical advantage, the warm-up and training movements are relatively large, the Chinese team is more at a loss in terms of body, sometimes have to let the opponent to avoid injury.

"Team leader, coach, what's going on?" Yang Yang and the others quickly ran to the sidelines to inquire about the situation.

This should not happen, whoever arrives first has the right to choose, and the team that arrives late can only choose the other side, which is a tacit understanding.

Like Sweden, when he arrived late, he insisted on robbing others, not only did he ignore it, but he was also quite ungraceful.

"They said they wanted us to swap venues with them." Team leader Feng Jianming said indignantly.

"Why?"

"yes, why change?"

"Didn't you say that it was on a first-come, first-served basis?"

Feng Jianming scolded his mother angrily, "It's a first-come, first-served selection, but they insist on changing, saying that this side is their lucky half, they were sitting in this lucky half before, and they equalized the Japanese team at the last moment, and this time they will use this half." ”

"It doesn't make sense."

"Yes, didn't the organizing committee come forward to coordinate?"

Feng Jianming shook his head and said: "It's coordinated, it's useless, they won't give an inch, and the organizing committee doesn't dare to push too much, both sides are unwilling to offend, let us negotiate ourselves, but the other party is now making it clear that they want to rob clearly." ”

The head coach Tie Sheng was on the side, looking at the scene of dozens of people training in the half of the field on the training ground, and kept shaking his head, "It's not okay to continue like this, you will get hurt." ”

"They deliberately made the training and warm-up movements very big, which was threatening." Yang Yang also frowned, he was not angry, he was used to seeing off-court moves at Ajax.

In order to win, professional teams can be said to do everything they can, and this kind of trick of the Swedish team is not unusual.

"It's also a mental tactic to get rid of our spirit before the game starts, preferably to provoke us so they can play more comfortably in the game."

As soon as Yang Yang said this, not only the team leader Feng Jianming and the head coach Tie Sheng, but even the surrounding players also realized the problem.

Who's to say it isn't?

It's just a warm-up tournament for the Toulon Cup, so where is there any need to do something like that?

If nothing else, it will not sound good to Sweden if it gets out.

There is only one explanation for why they are doing this, and that is what Yang Yang said, psychological tactics.

"What do you think?" Feng Jianming asked the head coach Tie Sheng and the players.

But everyone was reluctant to speak at this time, because they were all worried about what if they gave in and lost the game.

Yang Yang looked at the embarrassed head coach and teammates, and sighed secretly in his heart, they were all burdened with too much psychological pressure.

"Let's go, I've never believed in a lucky half, even if they use this side, as long as we can calm down, we can still break the opponent's goal." Yang Yang stepped forward.

That's when someone should step up.

Feng Jianming and Tie Sheng glanced at each other, and they both nodded.

"Let's make it a unanimous decision from all of us." Tie Sheng didn't want Yang Yang to be responsible alone.

"Yes, Iron Coach, let the players go to the right side to train, I don't believe they can win the game in this half."

The national youth team was soon notified and packed up for the right half.

The Swedish players stayed where they were, proudly holding their heads high, playfully watching the players of the Chinese team change venues.

Although the players of the national youth team already knew that this was the opponent's psychological tactic, they still couldn't help but be angry in their hearts.