5 Gambling Rounds
In the morning, the huge skate park is silent.
Yang Yang carried his schoolbag on his back, skillfully flipped the ball, entered from the residential area on the east side, and went straight to the center of the park along the winding path.
After two weeks of hard and tedious basic training, his juggling skills improved significantly, even juggling the ball did not affect his walking speed in the slightest, and he soon reached the heart of the park.
As the name suggests, there is a skateboarding area in the heart of the skatepark, and it is said that there used to be a lot of young skateboarders gathering every night, which was very lively, but after that wave of skateboarding craze passed, the skatepark gradually declined, and only the abandoned skateboarding facilities are still a reminder.
Yang Yang's juggling training can finally come to an end temporarily, but the next special training formulated by Lao Bing needs a wall.
Almere is a big city, but it wasn't easy to find a wall that could be used for training, and Yang Yang finally found a long-abandoned wall in the skate park covered in graffiti.
The location of the skatepark is very good, to the north is Yangyang's school Bakken School Park, not far to the east is the residential community where his uncle Shen Ming's family is located, to the west is a river, and to the south is the famous Dominican Garden Villa area, which is the most upscale residential complex that Almere just built last year.
Further south of the villa area is the Almere Motor City, the largest and most professional car sales and repair center in the south of Amsterdam, and his uncle Shen Ming's Chinese restaurant is just north of the Motor City.
The skatepark is very large, and the skateboarding area has been abandoned for a long time, even early morning exercisers rarely pass here, so Yang Yang doesn't have to worry about affecting others or being disturbed when he comes here to train.
After putting down his schoolbag, Yang Yang came to the wall with the ball and stopped three meters away from the wall.
His first training was to kick the ball against the wall in this position, wait for the ball to bounce back, and then kick it back, the requirement was to touch the ball with one kick, and the force of each touch should be controlled and kept as much as possible.
Five hundred strokes with the right foot, and another five hundred strokes with the left foot.
In the boring training against the wall, Yang Yang listened to the sound of thumping in his ears, but his body felt the similarities and differences of every kick, as well as the feedback every time the ball bounced back from the wall.
The system Lao Bing also kept correcting his movements next to his ear and giving suggestions for improvement.
After warming up with the ball all the way and passing the ball with a thousand feet, Yang Yang was already gasping and sweating, but this was just the beginning.
Stepping back to five meters from the wall, Yang Yang began the second training exercise, bouncing the ball against the wall.
There are four parts of the left and right feet, the inner instep and the main instep, each part of the five minutes, exactly twenty minutes.
Although Yang Yang has been training for two weeks, juggling the ball against the wall is still very different, especially after the reaction force of the wall, Yang Yang's first touch of the ball has high requirements.
Lao Bing's requirements are still the same, with a total of four parts, and each part is qualified for 500 consecutive juggling of the ball.
Although it is some of the most basic training, Lao Bing's requirements for Yang Yang are extremely high, but whenever there is a slight mistake, he will immediately put forward and ask for correction, plus the training itself requires a high degree of concentration, and the intensity is not small, unconsciously, Yang Yang is already sweating profusely.
He didn't notice it at all, but at some point, on the park path not far behind him, a pair of middle-aged men and women who were exercising in the morning stopped and looked at him curiously.
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"What's wrong?" Truss asked her boyfriend curiously.
"Nothing, just curious." The middle-aged Dutch man replied lightly without a smile.
Truss followed her boyfriend's line of sight and looked at the teenager training against the wall in the skateboarding area in the distance, "Is it weird?" β
"Huh?" The middle-aged Dutch obviously didn't understand.
"I mean, it's weird to train against a wall?" Truss repeats his own question.
"No, it's not surprising at all, a lot of people do that, like Bergkamp."
Due to her boyfriend's professional relationship, Truce is also quite involved in football, and her family and friends are all related to professional football, so she naturally has a lot of love for stars, not to mention Bergkamp, who is red and purple at Arsenal.
"He's like Bergkamp?" Truss asked tentatively.
With her boyfriend's eyesight, I'm afraid this is the only way to explain why he stopped to watch during his morning exercise and running.
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged Dutch was obviously stunned after hearing it.
"Him?" The middle-aged Dutch man shook his head, "It's still far from Bergkamp." β
"Bad?"
"He should be about 10 metres away from the wall now, which is the most common passing distance in the professional league, and it is something that all professional players must master and have, and it has to be a touch of the ball."
"But you see...... "The middle-aged Dutch man pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboarding area, "he used two feet, and the first foot often stopped the ball well, which shows that this person's basic skills are very bad, even training by himself, and when he gets to the game, it is even worse, with his current level, he can't even play in the amateur league." β
Truss rolled his eyes helplessly, his boyfriend has always been strict with football, and he speaks directly, but his eyes are very vicious, if he says so, it must not be wrong.
"Seeing that he is only sixteen or seventeen years old, is it so serious?"
"It's the most basic thing, you have to master it at the age of twelve, and Spain has a lot more emphasis on training in this area than we do, especially ......"
Halfway through the words, the middle-aged Dutch suddenly looked gloomy, as if he had been touched on the soft underbelly of his heart.
Truss also noticed.
Ever since that happened half a year ago, he had been depressed, and although everyone knew that it was not his fault, he still couldn't get out.
Seeing that his boyfriend was at home all day was not a solution, a friend happened to buy a house in the Dominican Garden Villa area in Almere, and there was the largest golf course around Amsterdam nearby, so at the suggestion of Truss, he decided to go to Almere for a temporary holiday to avoid the disturbances outside.
It's just that I didn't expect that after coming to Almere for two days, my boyfriend was attracted by this strange teenager this morning.
"Since you think he's bad, why are you curious?" Trus immediately changed the subject.
The corners of the middle-aged Dutch man's mouth twitched slightly, and he looked at Yang Yang, who was sweating from training, from a distance, as if muttering to himself: "I'm curious, how long can he last with this boring and useless work?" β
"How do you know it's useless?"
"At his age, and then such basic training, boring to the extreme, but also half the effort, at the beginning of the greedy fresh, can still persevere, but after a long time, when he begins to realize that everything he has done is in vain, he will retreat, this is not useless and what is it?"
Truss heard the deep meaning of his boyfriend from his words, he was talking about this teenager, but why wasn't it a portrayal of himself?
"I don't think so, I think it's useful or not, you have to try it to know."
"You're so naΓ―ve."
"You're just too pessimistic, or should we bet?" Truss looked at her boyfriend defiantly, and she felt that she should find something for him to do and save him from thinking cranky.
"Bet?" The middle-aged Dutch man pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboarding area, "He? β
"yes, I think he can hold on."
"No, Trus Opamel, I can tell you with great certainty that you are lost, and he will not hold out for a month." The middle-aged Dutch man said with great confidence.
He has seen and experienced too many people and things like this.
"Then bet." Truss spread his hands.
"Okay, that's a deal."
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Yang Yang didn't know that he had become someone else's gamble, he just focused on special training.
After practicing the wall pass at 10 meters, he retreated the distance to 15 meters, 20 meters, and finally there were some other training events, but they were all the most basic.
With his current basic skills, he should start with the most basic things.
In Lao Bing's words, juggling the ball is the most basic, but it is not the goal, with the gradual improvement of the ball sense, the juggling training will gradually decrease, replaced by some other more practical value of training.
Yang Yang agrees with this very much.
After finishing the morning's training, Yang Yang put on his schoolbag again, walked north while juggling the ball, and soon left the skatepark.
Yang Yang's juggling seems to be casual, but if you pay close attention, it is not difficult to find that every kick of his juggling ball is controlled as much as possible The rhythm and strength are the same, and the stride distance of each step is kept as much as possible, which makes him seem to have a certain rhythm.
Bakken School is a one-stop school from kindergarten to high school, and it is also a prestigious private school in Almere.
Since two weeks ago,Yang Yang juggling to enroll,It's become an interesting story in Bakken School Park.,But it's more of a mockery and sarcasm.γ
Everyone knows that Yang Yang is good at reading, but playing football is a mess.
John Repp's many persuasions of Yang Yang have long been spread by Yang Yang's teammates, and everyone knows about it.
But in this regard, Yang Yang did not respond in the slightest, and still went his own way.
There is only one way to change the perception of yourself, and that is to pass the semester assessment and stay in Almere.
"This bastard really doesn't give up!"
At the gate of the school, Henk Dimel watched Yang Yang walk into the campus with the ball upside down, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes.
In the past two weeks of training, Yang Yang's performance in the team has become better and better, especially in the circle grabbing game, although he is still the worst performance in the team, but it is difficult for everyone to play him like before.
But he improved, but Henk Dimel began to be unlucky, and began to frequently enter the circle to grab the ball, and this was all thanks to Yang Yang, and even several times, Dimel couldn't help but want to beat him.
'I've heard that he's been doing well in training lately and the coaching staff are interested in getting him in the squad on Saturday for the game against Omnibas. Said an Almere academy player next to him.
"What?" Henk Dimel was a little stunned.
"Nick is injured, and I heard that the coach asked him to play in a defensive position."
Almere has been around for less than seven years, and both the academy and the first team are not perfect, so the youth team has partnered with the private school Bakken Academy, with players aged 16 and 17 representing Bakken in the Saturday Intercollegiate League in the south of Amsterdam.
Omnibus is also Almere's team, cooperating with an amateur team in the fourth division of the city's youth training, which is not weak, and it is a hard bone to gnaw.
Henk Dimel's eyes narrowed, he is the captain of the youth team and the captain of the varsity team, but he has not been notified yet.
"Then he should start praying for himself."