Disclaimer: This story is pure fiction and has nothing to do with actual individuals, groups, and events.

Zhang Jun and Yang Pan have already started training with the youth team, and it is no longer Mr. Li who drives them to pick them up every day, but Mr. Wang, who runs a local Chinese restaurant. Mr. Wang is a good person, and he is also a fan of Warrendam, so the club selected him to serve as a full-time translator for Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, in addition, in order to take care of the diet and daily life of the two more conveniently, Mr. Wang proposed to take the two to live in his own home, anyway, the child is in Amsterdam to go to college, and he can't come back a few times a year, and there are many empty houses at home. The club agreed to his request, so Zhang Jun and Yang Pan moved out of the hotel on the fourth day and moved into Mr. Wang's home. Of course, there is also a need to pay rent to live in, but the club pays for them, so they don't have to worry about anything. During training every day, Mr. Wang stayed by the two of them at any time, translating every instruction of Rice for them, so that they could understand the coach's intention at the first time, and then act according to the regulations. After the training, take the two to the restaurant they opened and let the two have a full meal. He knows what it's like to be away from home, and it's a great blessing to be able to eat the food of his hometown. But after Les found out about this, he was furious, blamed Mr. Wang, and instructed Zhang and Yang to have strict rules on their recipes in the future, and he was not allowed to touch anything he was allowed to eat! And gave the recipe to Mr. Wang, and asked him to prepare three meals according to what was written on it.

The staple food is generally pasta and rice, the meat is mainly beef, and there is a moderate amount of chicken, pork and fish, salad is essential, but seafood and fatty meat should never be touched. Anything that adds fat is not seen in Rice's recipes.

Zhang Jun looked at these familiar faces that were all the same, and frowned, at the beginning, it was very fresh, and the food was delicious. But it's like this every day, every day, and freshness has become an acquaintance, and no matter how good your appetite is, it will be difficult to swallow. He looked up at Mr. Wang opposite, and Mr. Wang shrugged at him, meaning: This is also your training project, and it must be completed.

Zhang Jun grinned, Yang Pan next to him had already begun to gobble up, Zhang Jun looked at him, and then picked up the spoon helplessly......

Chewing the chicken with the same taste as chewing wax, Zhang Jun began to miss the spicy chicken made by his father, the green peppers, the oily chicken, exuding a strong fragrance, diffused in the air for a long time. He sniffed, but didn't smell anything, so he had to bury his head in "training".

Adrianse looked at the two Chinese teenagers who were practicing the switchback run on the field, and asked Les on the side: "Old man, how are the two of them?" ”

"Very good!" Les nodded, "You've dug up two more big diamonds, I'm so envious of your good luck!" ”

"Hehe, that's not luck." Adrianse pointed to his nose, "I just have a nose as sharp as a hound!" ”

"However, the two of them have grown too much excess fat." Rice touched his chin, "Although Chinese food is delicious, it is extremely unsuitable for football players...... He glanced at Adrianse next to him, since he took in a Chinese player named Qiu Suhui in Zvaru in 1984, he has a strong Chinese complex, and he always has to go to a Chinese restaurant from time to time. The club was able to find Mr. Wang to be the guardian of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan in the Netherlands because Adrianse often went to Mr. Wang's Chinese restaurant to eat when he was coaching at Volendham. "I gave them a special nutritious recipe and told them to follow the recipe every meal every day. Remove the excess fat, and then combine it with the usual training to make their muscles stronger, otherwise they will not be able to last a season with their current body. ”

"Well, it makes sense. But......" Adrianse looked at Zhang and Yang, "your recipe must have made them suffer a lot, right?" Hehe, what a devil's recipe......"

"At first, there was a slight diarrhea, but it was normal, it was to clean their stomachs, if they couldn't even pass this level, I don't think they would be able to become dazzling pearls, right?"

"Indeed." Adrianse put away his smile, "In modern football, having a good body is the foundation. If they can't even beat well, then they might as well go home......"

Zhang Jun and Yang Pan have been gone for a week, because of money problems, Sophie and Zhang Jun can't talk by phone, international long-distance calls, which is not something that her working family can afford. The road is far away, and Pingxin has to walk on the road for more than a month. It's also unrealistic to go online, do people who have to train every day still have the time and strength to go online?

So, Sophie, who had been unable to contact her, began to write a diary. But her newly bought notebook always had the following in mind:

On Monday, the weather was fine.

There are a few blank lines below the date, and then below it is "Tuesday, the weather is sunny and cloudy." ”

……

And so on.

When Zhang Jun was by his side, he felt that every day was very ordinary, and there was nothing to write about, so he never wrote a note at the age when girls like to remember it. Now that Zhang Jun is no longer around, he feels a little empty in his heart, so sometimes he wants to write something, but whenever he picks up the pen, he suddenly doesn't know what to write in the face of the brand-new notebook. A very strange feeling stuck in my heart, I can't say it, I can't write it.

But she still stubbornly wrote down the date and weather of the day in her notebook every day, and then left a few lines blank.

A few days ago, she met Li Shuai in Erjiao, who was on crutches. Sophie was a little embarrassed, and was thinking about whether to go up to say hello or pretend not to see it and turn to leave, but Li Shuai saw Sophie first, and he left the hall in a hurry, Sophie didn't chase him, just watched him disappear outside the door, and then she never saw him again.

Zhang Jun and Yang Pan went abroad to play football, which caused a sensation in the school, although the annual rate of going abroad is high in colleges and universities in the country, but it is the first time that they have gone abroad because of football. Of course, the school did not announce it, but the news had already spread among students and some teachers. Because Zhang and Yang wrote a letter to their roommate and school coach Zhao Yu in the 701 dormitory before leaving, explaining that they had officially dropped out of school and would go to the Netherlands to play football, they were very grateful for their help and guidance in the past year, and wished the school team and friends all the best.

"What a fart!" Zhang Fan slapped the letter on the table and scolded loudly, "Damn! I went abroad to the scenery, and I wrote a letter and said a few nice words without pain...... Lao Tzu doesn't eat this set! A year's roommate is for nothing! ”

"Anyway, people have written a letter and left without saying a word, which is already very worthy of you. Let's think about what to do with this year's league, the two main forces have gone at once, Lao Zhao must be worried! There are not many good ...... in this class of freshmen," Zhu Hui said.

"Nonsense, after watching Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, no matter how good people are...... they can't be interested," Lele said, "Professional players...... I envy them! If only we could become a professional footballer......"

"Don't even think about it!" Zhang Fan said loudly, "China's professional football environment, hum...... It's a genius who can turn you into a mediocre talent, not to mention us ordinary people, I have thought about it, after graduating from university, you can go to a middle school to be a physical education teacher, anyway, you can still get in touch with football, it is very satisfying...... Hey! Those two guys are so lucky......" he said this, looking out the window with an indescribable expression on his face.

Lele looked sideways at the two empty bunks and sat weakly on the edge of the bed.

Zhu Hui didn't speak again, and no one knew what he was thinking.

There was no sound in the room for a while, and the sun was sinking in the west, and the room was getting darker.

After reading the letter that the two of them had written together, Zhao Yu silently lit a cigarette - he hadn't smoked in a long time since Zhang Jun and Yang Pan came to the school, and he had planned to do a big job in the league this year - and now he turned the cigarette out of the drawer.

Spit out a cloud of smoke, Zhao Yu squinted his eyes and looked at the player registration form for this year's college league on the table, and after reading it for a long time, he finally picked up his pen and crossed the names "Zhang Jun" and "Yang Pan" off the list.

It was getting dark, and there was no light in the room, only the little red light that appeared and disappeared.

The summer of 2002 was a mixed summer for Chinese football. The Chinese national team suffered a heavy defeat in South Korea, conceding nine goals in three games, not scoring a goal, not winning a game, and not scoring a point, thus ending its first World Cup journey in 44 years. After returning to China, it caused a round of controversy about Chinese football, boiling like goose feathers and snow, reflection, and in the end it was still over.

On the other hand, the tide of Chinese players staying abroad seems to have ushered in a new spring after experiencing a low ebb. Wang Hui, who went off injured in the first game of the 2002 World Cup and has been absent for the remaining two games of the World Cup, has been promoted to the Premier League by Manchester City FC, and it is expected that Wang Hui will also show the style of Chinese players in the Premier League.

Also from the news of the Premier League, the main defender Li Yi and central defender Wang Bin of the Chinese national team in the World Cup were also officially loaned to the Premier League club Everton (EvertonFC) with the sponsorship of a domestic company. At this moment, there are three Chinese players in the Premier League, and the new season of the Premier League has attracted the attention of Chinese.

When all the media and fans were looking excitedly to the United Kingdom, thousands of miles away, in the Netherlands, a sea away from the United Kingdom, there were two Chinese teenagers working hard for their future, eating tasteless nutritious meals every day, training hard, and learning Dutch from the Dutch teacher invited by the club at night...... No one pays attention, like a seed buried in the soil, growing silently.

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