Chapter 30
"Got it, Mom, don't worry, I'm not a child anymore." Leng Fei patted his chest and smiled.
"Well, that's good, call me when you get there, don't care about the time difference, call to report safety when you arrive!" Zhang Xiuhua continued.
"Be polite at Mr. Airul's house! Don't bother them! β
"It's cold these days, and it's particularly cold in the Netherlands near the sea, so wear a few more clothes! Cover yourself with a quilt when you go to bed at night! β
"Don't make a lot of mess abroad, you know?"
"Don't drink too much coffee, don't drink alcohol if you can, drink more milk or something!"
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If it weren't for the staff coming over to remind a few people that the plane was about to leave, it is estimated that Zhang Xiuhua's nagging would have lasted for several hours, but now, there is no time.
Sitting by the window, Leng Fei waved with his family and friends, and only then did Leng Fei withdraw his gaze and lie down on the seat of the plane to rest.
After 18 hours of flight, the flight finally landed safely at Amsterdam Royal Airport, it is now the morning of January 9 in the Netherlands, there is still a day and a half before the end of registration, Leng Fei quickly came to the headquarters of Ajax to report, so far, except for Suarez, Silva, ZvetaniΔ and other South American players have not returned to the club to report, the other players have basically returned to the club, tomorrow will start pre-match training, two days later there is a friendly match with Groningen.
The Ajax players seemed to be in a good mood and the arrival of the 2010 New Year gave the players a new look forward to their future, and everyone was full of confidence in the new year.
More than half of the league, Ajax is currently in the first place in the Eredivisie, 17 games, 14 wins, 3 draws, 45 points in the league, followed by Twente, who also 17 games, 14 wins and 3 draws, is currently in second place with a goal difference, Eindhoven is 17 games, 13 wins, 3 draws, 1 loss and 42 points in third, Feyenoord 10 wins, 4 draws, 3 losses and 38 points fourth, looking at the standings, the top four, except for the upstart Twente, are the traditional top three in the Eredivisie, This phenomenon makes one have to lament the fact that the Eredivisie is top-heavy.
After returning to the Netherlands, Van Holmst found Leng Fei and asked the question when he called Leng Fei some time ago, Leng Fei still didn't give Van Holmst a clear answer, and Van Holmst didn't ask, anyway, Leng Fei's career has just started, and he is not in a hurry to meet for a while.
Halfway through the winter break, Ajax ushered in their first warm-up game before the second half of the season, against Groningen, and Joel sent the full squad this time, of course, Jol's aim is not only to win, but more importantly, to restore the players' form.
The team's form was not good, and the opponent Groningen was no different, and the first half played more than 40 minutes, and the two teams did not have a decent attack, which made the managers of both teams very annoyed.
Until the 43rd minute, De Jong's through ball was pushed to Leng Fei on the side, Leng Fei suddenly accelerated with the ball and easily passed the defender next to him, but he didn't expect Stenman, who was lazy at the beginning, to suddenly run desperately, Leng Fei heard the footsteps behind him and was about to accelerate, but he didn't expect Stenman to rush up with a hook with his right foot and hook the ball from under Leng Fei's feet.
It wasn't a big deal, but Sternmann was perhaps a little reckless, and when he hooked the ball back, Stenmann's foot on the football suddenly slipped, and the whole person suddenly lost his center of gravity and staggered to the side.
Stenman fell, and Leng Fei next to him suffered for the first time, and he was kicked down by the crossed feet when he couldn't dodge, and Leng Fei also fell to the ground.
"What's going on! This guy fouls! Captain Suarez was the first to rush to Leng Fei and Stenman's side, Stenman had already stood up, but Leng Fei seemed to be lying on the ground with his right foot that had been hit in pain.
Sternmann hurriedly stepped forward: "Sorry, my mistake. β
Joel stood up on the sidelines, staring at Leng Fei on the field, who looked a little serious just now, hoping that Leng Fei would not be injured in this friendly match.
Suarez stood up, and the team doctor squeezed through the crowd around him and walked to Leng Fei's side: "How do you feel?" Does this foot hurt? As he spoke, the team doctor pressed Leng Fei's right foot and asked.
Leng Fei was a little better, but he still frowned and said, "It hurts a little." β
The team doctor lifted Leng Fei's socks and decided to take Leng Fei to the sidelines for a simple treatment, and Joel immediately came over to ask about the situation: "How is it, Kim, is there any big deal?" β
Without waiting for Leng Fei to speak, the team doctor spoke: "It should be said that I am lucky, the moment after Dick lost his center of gravity before, it should be quite heavy, after all, the weight of the whole body instantly pressed on Leng Fei's body, and now it seems that Jin seems to have made a subconscious dodge action or his superhuman-like body helped him resist a major injury, but the phalanges were still hit and suffered some minor injuries, so it is best to rest for three weeks." β
Joel angrily threw away the water bottle in his hand, it was just a friendly match, and there was such a bad thing, three weeks is not long, not short, at least, before the start of the Europa League knockout round, Leng Fei has to rest at home for a while.
"Kim, you don't have to participate in the next games, and when you recover, you can go back to the club to train." Joel's face is not very good, Leng Fei's injury luck this time is too bad, Groningen's Stenmann really didn't mean to hurt people, but it was enough for many Eredivisie club managers who had suffered Leng Fei to snicker for a while.
Of course, injuries at the beginning of their careers are the most frightening, because after injuries, especially after injuries that require missing several games, many young players are hit by injuries at the beginning of their careers, and they can't get back to their pre-injury form after returning, so they are slumped...... This kind of thing is not uncommon.
Leng Fei was also a little embarrassed in his heart, after all, he had been playing football for half a year, and his body had always been very healthy, and this accident reminded Leng Fei of the big problem that professional players have to face - injury.
Although Leng Fei was a little at a loss for a while, he was a little relieved to think that his body was different from ordinary players after all.
Sitting on the bench, Leng Fei and Joel were talking about something, of course Yoel let Leng Fei see away from this injury, after all, accidents can happen at any time, this time the injury is in a friendly match, although it is not worth it, but if you really want to be injured, it is much better to be injured in a friendly match than in a league or something like that, after all, in a friendly match, the opponent will not work hard, and it doesn't matter if you win or lose.
Before the end of the first half, Suarez received a pass from Soleimani and scored to give Ajax 1-0 Groningen. In the second half, Joel replaced most of the main players in the dressing room, used up the remaining six substitutions in the friendly in one go, and almost replaced the full bench.
After a hearty second-half battle, Sweden's Bucky Schogp scored with a long-range shot, while Groningen scored a goal from Van Drake to end the game 2-1.
There are not many fans who came to see the game, but the news of Leng Fei's hand in this game spread quickly, Leng Fei's good performance in Ajax in the first half of the season made many Ajax fans like this Chinese boy, seeing that Leng Fei was actually injured in a friendly match, they scolded Stenman, the maker who caused this injury, although Stenman was also wronged, but after all, he was the one who caused the injury, and Ajax fans would not let Stenman go.
The next day, the official website announced the news that Leng Fei was injured and truceed for three weeks, as soon as the news was announced, his parents, who were thousands of miles away, immediately called to ask, Leng Fei comforted his parents, saying that this was a normal thing, Jin Dongmin didn't say anything, but Zhang Xiuhua was very worried about Leng Fei's health, and insisted on going to the Netherlands to take care of Leng Fei.
Leng Fei persuaded his mother not to use it, but Zhang Xiuhua refused to listen and insisted on coming to the Netherlands, but before she could leave, Zhang Xiuhua changed her mind again.
What made Zhang Xiuhua change her mind was Wanwan, because the Chinese New Year was on February 14th, just a few days after Leng Fei recovered from his injury, so Wanwan had time to come to the Netherlands to take care of Leng Fei, Zhang Xiuhua originally planned to go with Wanwan, but was stopped by her husband Jin Dongmin: "It's hard to let the Tang family girl stay with her son, what kind of fun are you going to make this old woman!" β
Of course, Kim Dongmin can't escape a meal of "domestic violence", but his "sacrifice" is worth it.
Van Holmst's family is still very worried about Leng Fei's injury this time, even Diane, who has always been cold, will come to the ward to visit Leng Fei after school, although there are not many topics to talk about, but it is finally the longest conversation between Leng Fei and Diany since Leng Fei lived in Van Homest's house.
During this time, in addition to Ajax's teammates, Lavinho, Liela, Van Meerberg and some friends who worked together in the "Xiyingmen" hotel came to visit Leng Fei.
Leng Fei didn't expect Van Melberg to come to visit him, although he was unexpected, he was very happy, this guy is a very righteous guy and a friend worth making.
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The next morning, Leng Fei was eating breakfast in the ward, when there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps at the door, and soon, the door was pushed open, and Liella walked in with a dusty face.
"Boy, you're glad you found such a good girlfriend, when I went to pick her up at the airport," Liella ignored Wanwan's "Don't say" look and said, "Wanwan hasn't closed his eyes for more than a day, alas, I really don't understand what's so good about you...... Alas, forget it, I won't be a light bulb, dear I'll go outside and buy you something to eat, bye! β
With that, Liella walked out of the room and closed the door to the room.
As soon as Liella left, Wanwan slowly walked to Leng Fei's hospital bed and threw herself into Leng Fei's arms.
Leng Fei wordlessly reached out and hugged Wanwan's body, this injury, although it was an accident, although it had nothing to do with himself, but it could also make his parents and friends in China miserable, of course Wanwan was no exception, during the time he returned to China, it may be the relationship with Tang Hui, Leng Fei and Wanwan have made a big breakthrough from the original delicate relationship.
Leng Fei was about to say something, when he suddenly found that Wanwan had fallen asleep lying on his body, remembering that Liella had just said that Wanwan had not closed her eyes for more than a day, and she was also very tired.
Leng Fei sat up, carefully helped Wanwan onto the bed, and then lay down again, hugging Wanwan's body, Wanwan seemed to feel something, rubbed her head against Leng Fei's chest, and fell asleep.
Liella returned to the ward with a lot of food, and saw that Wanwan was asleep in Leng Fei's arms, and Rao is such a cheeky girl also felt that she was a little redundant here, so she left some for Leng Fei and Wanwan, and quietly left the ward.
Leng Fei's accidental injury will inevitably cause the Ajax club to be a little nervous, but after being confirmed by the team doctor, it was proved that Leng Fei's injury was not serious, and they were a little relieved.
When a key player is absent, there must be someone on top, and there is no doubt that during Leng Fei's injury, the original right winger Romedahl replaced Leng Fei in the game for three weeks.
Romerdal, who regained the start, was very happy, originally, he was a little unhappy that Leng Fei secretly "stole" his main position while he was injured, in his opinion, this time Leng Fei's injury was completely God readjusted the balance of fairness back to the same level.
Can't play, and can't participate in the team training match, Leng Fei can only play with the ball boringly in the rest place during training, Leng Fei is very depressed, why is he injured? Why did that guy fall and fall, why did he still catch himself? That Stemmann is good, he fell and injured me, is he a spy sent by the opponent that Ajax will face in the next few games? Leng Fei thought nonsense in his head.
In 2010, the first game of the new year of the Ajax Eredivisie started, Ajax challenged Breda away, Leng Fei was injured and could not go to the Fergefilm Stadium with the team to watch the game, but Leng Fei watched the game in the rented house of Wanwan, Suarez made a dream start for the team in the opening 58 seconds of the first half, Breda defender Kwackerman casually returned to goalkeeper Roval was cut off by Suarez halfway, and then Suarez easily dribbled past Roviral and pushed the empty goal to score.
Rovillar, who was teased by Suarez, was furious, angrily pointed at the lawn and roared at Kvackerman, Kvackerman was a little aggrieved, he didn't know that Suarez had rushed to his side, but after all, the goal was caused by himself, and Kvackerman could only bow his head and admit his mistake.
After scoring the goal, Ajax quickly continued to attack, but the shameful Kwakman and the excellent Rovillar defused Ajax's sharp attacks again and again, and at the end of the first half, Ajax maintained a 1-0 lead.
At the start of the second half, Breda changed the defensive counter-attacking line-up of the first half from 4-4-1-1 to a highly attacking 4-3-3, and they were looking to play against Ajax.
I have to say that Breda's change of formation made Ajax a little unable to react, 5 minutes into the second half, Breda unexpectedly equalized, and scored the equalizer for the team was Ghana international Amosah, the Ghanaian goalscorer who made the Ghana national team successfully break into the 2010 World Cup in South Africa Mixed up in Breda, became a sharp knife on Breda's offensive line, and the goal scored by Amoah in the second half hung in the upper left corner of the goal, and Amoah almost thought the goal was gone the moment he kicked this goal.
After that, the Breda defense line quickly recovered and held on to the 1-1 scoreline.
In this way, just when Ajax fans were lamenting that the top spot in the league was taken away by Twente, there was good news at the Galgenwo Stadium, as Utrecht successfully stopped Twente from chasing the top spot at home and drew 0-0 with Twente.
Three days later, PSV Eindhoven's away match against VVV Venlo began, and after 90 minutes of play, PSV Eindhoven took three points away from home 1-0, which means that PSV Eindhoven is only one point away from Ajax and Twente, fourth-place Feyenoord is no longer a concern, and Feyenoord, one of the traditional top three in the Eredivisie with only 37 points from 18 games, has gradually moved away from the title race, that is, they have 8 points away from even qualifying for the Champions League.
Leng Fei watched three points turn into one point in front of the TV, and his heart was somewhat unhappy.
By the way, because of Leng Fei's injury, Wanwan pulled Leng Fei out of Van Holmst's house and lived in the house shared by himself and Liella, considering that Liella would definitely be restless at home, Leng Fei originally wanted to refuse this, but when he saw Wanwan's greeting to do so, Leng Fei had no choice but to admit it.
Staying at home until late and night, she was harassed by Liella, this Nizi is the master who can't stop for a moment except for eating and sleeping time, and she is of course happy that the house is lively.
Leng Fei has also pondered at home these days, and when he makes more than 25 appearances for the Ajax first team, the contract is automatically modified to reach a weekly salary of 12,000 euros, Leng Fei plans to rent it outside, and now, Leng Fei is an adult, there is no problem with living alone, and he is a reborn who has lived for a few more years, and he can still take care of himself in life, although he is also very happy in Van Holmes's family, the Fan family is very enthusiastic about himself except for Dianyle, Diane Li will actually help Leng Fei when he needs help, but this kind of life under the fence is not what Leng Fei likes, so Leng Fei plans to invite the Van Holmst family to have a good meal after getting a huge salary, and then go out to find a more suitable house to live in. Staying here late and late? Very creative suggestion, but Liella ......
After this game, although Ajax retained the top spot in the league, it was still questioned by the Amsterdam media, believing that Ajax's players were not fully prepared for the second half of the season during the winter break, and even the goal was won by a fatal mistake by the opposing defender, and the opponent in the next game was AZ Alkmaar, and the opponent would not make so many mistakes to send Ajax points.
In addition, another focus of the media is the absence of Leng Fei in this game and the replacement of Leng Fei Romedard, the media have accused the Danes of throwing all the state before the injury, indeed, after the injury, Leng Fei squeezed away Romedahl's starting position, and performed well in this position, Romedal had few opportunities to play after his comeback, this time Leng Fei was accidentally injured, and the Danish veteran came out to replace Leng Fei, it is normal to be in bad shape, but the team failed to win, more or less related to the Danish veteranIf it weren't for a one-on-one chance that Romedahl couldn't capitalise on, Ajax wouldn't have won just one point on the road.
A few days later, the second league game after the winter break began, AZ Alkmaar, who had a mediocre performance this season, challenged Ajax away, as the defending champions, AZ Alkmaar's performance this season can only be described as unsatisfactory, after 18 rounds of league games, AZ Alkmaar only achieved a record of 9 wins, 1 draw and 8 losses, ranking seventh in the league, even behind Heracles, a team who almost fell into the relegation zone last season.
At home, Leng Fei was of course going to come to the scene to cheer for his teammates, and the surrounding Ajax fans quickly noticed the Chinese kid who is expected to become the new favorite of the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium, and stepped forward to send blessings and greetings.
Joel's lineup has changed slightly, Ajax's deputy Wiltonghen was a little unwell yesterday morning, the doctor confirmed that Vertonghen had a cold and needed a few days of rest, his compatriots Aldreveld and Oleg United Indian defense, Anita also replaced De Zeu in the midfield, De Jong still started, and Romedahl, who did not perform well in the last game, was also in the starting lineup, although Silva can play the right winger position, but compared to Romerdal, the Danish international is more experienced and slightly stronger, It can also be a fluke that doesn't perform well in a game.
The first half was a goalless affair between the two teams, with both Ajax and the defending champions having some good chances, but Luis Suarez made a rare double hit in front of Argentina's Romero and AZ Alkmaar's leading goalscorer Hamdawi also looked a little smear in front of Stekelenburg, and the two teams went into the break 0-0.
At the beginning of the second half, Ajax made substitutions, Atoba substituted Anita to play left-back, Soleimani pushed forward partner Suarez, Emmanuerson Romerdal formed a double wing, Anita de Jong and the two guarded the midfield, and Joel boldly used 4-2-4!
Ajax's attacking line put a lot of pressure on AZ Alkmaar's backline, but the shortcomings of the weak midfield control were immediately exposed, and AZ Alkmaar seized on the weakness of Ajax's weak midfield and staged an offensive battle with Ajax at the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium!
Ten minutes into the second half, Joel on De Zeu down Eno, obviously to strengthen the control of the midfield, Joel's substitution was called a stroke of genius by the media after the game, De Zeou came on the field, directly intercepted the pass of Schals, and then sent a long pass, Soleimani's header was ferried to the feet of the unguarded Suarez, and the bucktooth swept away the haze of the empty goal in the first half, and a calm push shot into the lower left corner of the goal.