Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Chinese and the Dutch
When the team returned to the Netherlands after training camp, Adrianse finally waited for news that made him happy. Young Dutch striker Robin van Persie, who he has always fancied, has officially joined Warrendam on loan until the end of the season.
The deal was actually won by Adrianse through personal connections, but for Feyenoord FC, they were eager to get rid of the baggage, the troublemaker.
Rice has only one sentence to say about Van Persie: "A genius full of variables." It means that this unruly player, because of his surname, is likely to become a stunning genius like Cruyff, and he is also likely to sink.
Because he once said: "Here [Feyenoord] they never treated me as a player, I deserve a lot of joy playing here, but I never did! He expressed his dissatisfaction with head coach Van Mawijk, who was listed by the Dutch media as "extremely difficult to deal with". Van Persie doesn't care what people think of him anymore, he just wants to play happily, but that demand is not met at Feyenoord. Because his relationship with manager Donny van Mawijk has become incompatible, he has basically lost the opportunity to play in the first team, and can only play for Feyenoord in the reserve and youth teams. This is hard to accept for someone who wears the number 10 shirt of the Dutch Olympic team, not to mention that he was named the Dutch Premier League Newcomer of the Year at the end of 2002.
However, for Adrianse, who is adept at discovering and developing young players, Van Persie's talent is clearly more appealing than his surname. And what he said at Feyenoord doesn't mean the same in Warrendam, Adrianse knows the crux of the problem and knows how to solve it, and despite the fact that some Volendamu fans protested the arrival of the "infamous" Van Persie outside the club's gates, Adrianse only believed in his own eyes.
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In his first training session back in the Netherlands, Adrianse introduced Van Persie to all the players, but when everyone saw the cold and expressionless face, everyone frowned. Only Zhang Jun smiled from the bottom of his heart when he heard the manager say that Van Persie was the main striker of the Dutch Olympic team, because the team is now lacking a playmaker up front, so much so that Adrianse often asks the two defensive midfielders of Kozel and Sarden to take turns to step forward.
Now the number 10 of the Dutch Olympic team is here, and everything is solved. Zhang Jun breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't notice the bitter-faced teammates around him.
Van Persie, who was standing next to Adrianse with a smile on his face, naturally saw the expressions of his "teammates", and he just snorted lightly and twisted his face to the side. It's the same everywhere, whether it's Feyenoord or Volendham.
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After training, Van Persie finished bathing and changing clothes alone and left early. He also had to drive back to Feyenoord's own home. Watching Van Persie close the door and leave, the people in the dressing room breathed a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere was much more lively than just now.
"Hey! Guise, what's on schedule for the evening? ”
"At night? I'm going to accompany Rowling. ”
"Oooh!" There was a heckling.
Zhang Jun looked at his teammates and felt that something was wrong. He touched Kozel beside him: "Seth, why are you so active?" ”
"Isn't Warrendam's locker room the way it was?" Kozel was a little strange.
"Oh, yes." Zhang Jun reacted, "So, it should be that everyone's performance just now is a little abnormal, why ......" Zhang Jun was puzzled.
"It's all because of this kid." Kozel said.
"Robin?"
"Yes, Robin van Persie." Kozel nodded, "He's a well-known bad boy in the Netherlands, and if there's one person in football who hates the most, it's him." ”
"You seem to know him well."
Kozel looked up at the air conditioning in the locker room. "Zhang, there is a story that I personally experienced, do you want to listen to it?"
Zhang Jun nodded, "You can talk about it." ”
"That was when I was at Ajax Youth, and in the first half of 2002, we met Ajax and Feyenoord in the semi-finals of the Dutch Youth Cup......
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It's just a youth cup game, but because the Ajax youth team is never short of talent, many die-hard Ajax fans rushed to the scene to cheer for the team. Because of these people, plus the two heavyweights of Dutch football, the atmosphere was tense and hard to breathe.
In the end, Kozel's Ajax youth team defeated Feyenoord youth team and reached the final. It was a very intense game, with the crowd turning over everywhere and the shouting of the fans outside the stadium, the referee was the busiest man, and after thirteen yellow cards, the game was finally over.
But some fanatical Ajax fans stormed the pitch and provoked Feyenoord's players. And some of Feyenoord's players are also not calm, and they are holding back their anger after losing the game. The two sides engaged in a confrontation, and as a result, Chilean international Acuna was taken to the hospital by ambulance. And in this brawl there was a young man who was the most active, he was like a fighting dog, he went up to the people, and he did not flinch when he faced the other person and several people. He was hit in the head by a beer can and his face was covered in blood. In the end, he left the pitch under the "protection" of several Ajax players, and even so, his face was covered in blood, and he still turned around and yelled frantically at the fans who tried to catch up with him, no one could understand the language, like a mad dog.
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"That man is Van Persie." Kozel rolled his gaze back, "I'm among them, too. said that he was protecting him to leave, but in fact, he should have been forcibly dragged away. Looking at his posture, he didn't want to leave the 'battlefield' yet. He scolded and jumped, trying to break free of us. I was kicked by him too, and really, that kick was so bad......"
I really didn't expect him to have that kind of experience, Zhang Jun was stunned for a moment before asking, "Then he should know you, right?" ”
Kozel shook his head: "I don't know. In such a crazy situation, maybe he can only be angry, right? How can you remember the irrelevant things around you. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the door to the dressing room was pushed open, and Van Persie hurriedly turned back. Everyone suddenly fell silent, and one by one they were extremely unnaturally silent, doing irrelevant things.
Van Persie went to his cabinet, opened it, and took out a small bag. It turned out that I forgot something. Zhang Jun and Kozel watched him lock the door again, then turned to leave. But as the two of them passed, he unexpectedly stopped, and looked at Kozel with a cold gaze, and Kozel looked at him too.
Louis Link stood up quietly, he was ready, and as soon as the two men started fighting, he pounced on them and pulled them away, and equally nervous was captain Holvigin, who was about to scold Van Persie, but the other party had already spoken first.
"I said why is it so familiar, it turns out to be you, nosy." His tone was very unfriendly.
But Kozel smiled: "I'm just afraid that they will beat you as a normal person, which will be very bad for Ajax." ”
Everyone can hear that this is rhetoric, but it is actually satirizing Van Persie's abnormal head. Sure enough, Van Persie's face changed, and the faces of several people behind him also changed. But unexpectedly, Van Persie didn't pounce on Kozel to scuffle with Kozel as rumored, he just glared at Kozel, "Don't expect me to thank you and your nosy teammate, Seth Kozel. Then he turned and walked out again, leaving behind a room of breathing people.
"Nosy?" Cozel muttered to himself as he looked at the closed door.
Zhang Jun didn't quite understand that since Van Persie was a legendary bad boy, ...... "Why did you deliberately provoke him just now?" ”
Kozel lowered his head and put the t-shirt on his body: "I just want you to know that rumors are sometimes not credible. He stood up and said to Zhang Jun, "Are you going to dinner?" I'm in for a treat. ”
"You're in for a treat? Is there anything to be happy about? Zhang Jun also stood up.
"There's a great guy on the celebration team." Kozel laughed.
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Over dinner, Zhang Jun learned something about Van Persie from Kozel.
He is a child of a single-parent family who has always lived with his father, so it's no wonder that his temper is a little weird. At the same time, he also knows that the reason for his conflict with the Feyenoord coach is the position problem. Van Persie's favourite and favourite position is in midfield, but Van Mawejk has moved him to the left for tactical reasons, and even then he has not been the first choice, often competing with Dutch international Ruerling for a spot. The young Van Persie naturally didn't think about it so much, he only knew that he was not the main team and could not play, so he expressed his dissatisfaction by violating team rules and violating the manager's tactical intentions. Working against the manager, he gets fewer and fewer opportunities to play.
In May 2002, Feyenoord won the UEFA Cup, and the following season the team went to Turkey for a heavy training camp. But Van Persie is not used to living in a different place, and has repeatedly avoided the hard training. So when competing with Real Madrid for the UEFA Super Cup, Van Persie was driven back to the Netherlands by Van Mawijk. In this way, at the age of 18, he lost a chance to compete with the world's superstars. Van Persie's fortunes at Feyenoord have taken a turn for the worse, and in many cases he has been sent to play in the reserve team and the youth team. Even though he was named the Dutch Super League Newcomer of the Year at the end of 2002, the situation has not been completely improved.
In fact, since Van Persie's debut, he has always been a stunned young man. Feyenoord played Willem II at home in the second half of 2002 and won a free-kick towards the end of the first half. Normally, the free-kick is taken by the captain's free kick master Van Hujedonk, but at this time, Van Persie suddenly snatched the ball from Van Hujedonk and put it on the penalty spot to indicate that he was going to complete the free kick. Fortunately, Van Hujedonk is a good man, showing the demeanor of a general at this time, and he doesn't have much to say about Van Persie, who is not deeply involved in the world. But the fans outside the stadium couldn't stand it, and they were extremely disgusted by Van Persie's disrespectful behavior at such a young age.
Originally, Arsenal had planned to buy him during the winter break, but Feyenoord's reserve price of 8 million euros made Arsenal back down and are still in the wait-and-see stage. Van Persie was even more desperate for the club, believing that the club was deliberately embarrassed in terms of price and prevented him from going abroad. That's why he accepted Warrendam's loan deal, as he now only wants to leave Feyenoord. His treatment at Feyenoord was even his first professional contract when he was 16 years old.
Zhang Jun looked at Kozel in surprise, "How do you know so much?" ”
"It's no secret, it's in the newspapers! Now the whole of Holland knows that there is a super troublesome man named Robin van Persie, and he has come to Volendham. A lot of people are waiting to see what we do. They think the team will be full of uncertainties after a crazy first half of the season because of his arrival. ”
"Then why is the coach still on loan?"
"Because no one ever doubted his talent." Kozel replied.
When the two returned to their residence, they found that the former house of Ochu was busy with workers.
Kozel approached and said, "What are you guys up to?" ”
"Check the lines, tidy up the room. Van Persie is moving here tomorrow morning. So be sure to get it done tonight. The club only informed us in the evening, and some were busy! The worker hurriedly said a few words, and then went back to his work.
"Maybe we're going to have a fun neighbor." Kozel looked at the busy figure and said to Zhang Jun.
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At the end of training the next morning, Van Persie drove his car from the parking lot to the door of the apartment. The way he opened the door was different, and after unscrewing the lock with the key, he put his hands in his pockets and stomped the door open with his feet. Then returned to the car to retrieve the two bags and entered the room. But it wasn't over yet, and after a while he came out again, this time with a mini stereo out of the trunk of the car.
Zhang Jun and Kozel watched him go in and out right in front of their homes. Zhang Jun wanted to help, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw the other party turn his head to stare at him, and the rest of the words immediately retracted into his stomach.
"What do you want to say? Chinese Yankees. The tone is still unfriendly.
"The Chinese guy?" Zhang Jun was stunned for a moment, it was the first time someone called him like this. "Just wanted to say welcome, Dutch!" He also stepped back.
Unexpectedly, Van Persie smiled unexpectedly, his handsome face was really more suitable for smiling. "That's right, Yankee. We'll be neighbors from now on, but don't expect us to live together peacefully, and if you're not satisfied, you can always go to the old guy and complain about me. ”
"Why should I complain about you?" Zhang Jun was puzzled.
"Whatever you want." Van Persie dropped a sentence, then entered the house and closed the door.
At the far end, Kozel shrugged at Zhang Jun and smiled helplessly, and then the two planned to go back to their respective homes. At this time, a very loud, very energetic rock music came from Van Persie's house, which startled the two.
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Kozel covered his face and shook his head with a wry smile when he came to his senses, while Zhang Jun looked at the apartment in distraction.
"It's Blur's Song2." He muttered.
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Van Persie is indeed a genius, Adrianse has changed all the 442 parallel positions that the team has played for half a season, adding a striker, removing a defender, and changing to a 352 formation. Kozel and Sarden returned to their familiar defensive midfield positions, with Robin van Persie acting alone in attacking midfield, while Xavier and Wein continued to play on the left and right.
In terms of usual training, because Van Persie took the ball too much, the effect was not obvious. As a striker, he must not only dribble, but more importantly, he must create opportunities for his teammates, but as soon as Van Persie gets the ball, he single-handedly enters the penalty area and scores. Ignore Zhang Jun and Hena, who are in neutral.
Zhang Jun had a good temper and didn't say much. But Henak couldn't stand it anymore, and he yelled at Van Persie: "Hey, don't you kid have long eyes? Zhang Jun and I both ran out of space, why don't you pass the ball! ”
Van Persie plucked out his ears disdainfully: "Wait until you have the ability to pick up my pass." ”
"What do you say?! Brat! "Hena was a black player, he was grumpy, he burned like a lump of coal.
But Van Persie ignored him and turned away.
"Fuck you, stop me, look down on people less! Lao Tzu also scored 8 goals in the first half of the season, where are you kid? Reserves? Ha ha! Hoener laughed loudly at Van Persie, who seemed to deliberately stab the other in the sore spot.
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Sure enough, Van Persie stopped, but he only paused for a few seconds, then walked forward again, ignoring Hoena's provocation.
Zhang Jun looked at Van Persie's back, remembered the past events he heard from Cozel the night before, and suddenly felt that as a 20-year-old back, he was so lonely.
"He had no friends, only three people with whom he was closest to him. Other than that......" Kozel said beside Zhang Jun, "he doesn't have any friends. ”
"Aren't you friends?" Zhang Jun wondered why Kozel was so interested in Van Persie.
"Me?" Kozel couldn't help but laugh. "I'm just a nosy guy."
Because of the clash between Van Persie and Hena, the training was terminated early. Adrianse called everyone together, but he didn't criticize anyone, just told everyone that the day after tomorrow is the quarter-finals of the Dutch Cup, and Warrendam's biggest hope for this season's championship is this, and he asked the players to give it their all and must win.
"For those who get in the way of the team's tactics, I will not hesitate to replace him!" At the end, he added this sentence in a nutshell.
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In the quarterfinals of the Dutch Cup, Warrendam challenged the superteam Breda away. As the defending champions and have performed well on all three fronts this season, many rightfully place Warendamu as the favourites to win the Dutch Cup, behind the three traditional powerhouses of Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven at eight to one.
As the most promising tournament, the club does not allow it to give up casually, and the players are very confident, but ......
Breda's home stadium cheered loudly, and the home commentator was shouting in a very incendiary tone: "There are twenty minutes left in the Dutch Cup quarterfinals, and Breda leads Warrendam 2-0 at home!" Warrendam was surprisingly bad, with new signing Robin van Persie and the rest of the squad completely unlinked! It's only a matter of time before Breda reach the quarter-finals of the Cup! ”
The fans responded with cheers.
"Hold on! We're in the quarterfinals in 20 minutes! The home captain cheered his team-mates on as Warrendam launched a series of attacks and Breda tightened the back.
Hevel picked up the ball on the left flank, looked at the opponent's heavily defended penalty area, and then looked at Robin van Persie who reached for the ball. That bastard, if it weren't for him we would have been ahead a long time ago, and still have the face to reach out for the ball? Hevel gritted his teeth and rushed towards the opposition backline with the ball.
The sea rushed to the rocky shore without hesitation, but was shattered by the force of both sides. Warrendam's offense was like this tide.
"Warrendam's cross was pushed off the line by a defender again! Breda's morale is high! ”
Hevel ran to serve a corner. Why haven't the coach been replaced? Didn't he say that whoever would not hesitate to replace him if they hindered the team? But who are the two substitutions? Why is Van Persie's kid still on the field?
A corner is sent into the box, but it is directly won by the goalkeeper. "Next tactical corner!" Hoener shouted to Hevel as the rest of the team raced back to their own half.
Zhang Jun grabbed Van Persie, who was running back: "Do you still want to win?" Dutch! ”
Van Persie wanted to break free of Zhang Jun, but found that the other party was extraordinarily powerful. "Damn! Seventy minutes of running and still so powerful! He muttered, "What are you talking about?" Chinese Yankees. I'm a professional footballer and of course I want to win. ”
"Then you play the role of a forward midfielder!"
"I'm desperate. But the opponent's defense is too tight, and I can't break through......" Van Persie is still trying to break free of Zhang Jun.
"Passing, splitting, plugging, long...... You're the midfielder, I'm the striker. It's your job to get the ball to me and let me score, right? Zhang Jun interrupted the other party's "excuse".
"You ......"
"Don't say I can't catch your ball. You just pass the ball, it's my responsibility not to catch it. All you have to do is pass the ball! It doesn't matter where I am, get the ball where you can score! Zhang Jun said in a tough tone.
Suddenly he noticed that Kozel had made a successful tackle at the back, and he let go of Van Persie, "I don't care what you used to be, but you are now a player for Warrendam, we are teammates!" He turned and ran away.
"Ahh Warrendam's Zhang Jun and Robin van Persie seemed to have some arguments, and the two didn't know what to say up front...... Well, Warrendam steals and plays a counterattack! Breda is on the back defense, and it's fast! ”
Kozel passed the ball to the more skilled Sarden, who dribbled through the midfield and then to Hena, who then passed the ball to Zhang Jun, and turned and ran forward, trying to play a wall-hitting match with Zhang Jun.
But Zhang Jun directly made the ball to Van Persie in the back! Hena saw the ball pass to the kid's feet, and he couldn't run, he knew that a chance to counterattack was gone.
Zhang Jun quickly turned around and ran forward after passing the ball, Van Persie received the ball, looked up ahead, and passed to where he could score? The corners of Van Persie's mouth moved, his feet rubbed lightly, and the ball flew over the heads of the back line straight behind. The goalkeeper just wanted to go out, only to find that neither Zhang Jun nor Hena could receive the ball, so he allowed it to go out of the bottom line.
"Van Persie made another mistake and his overhead ball went straight to the bottom line!"
"What the fuck!" Hena scolded, "Is that kid deliberately causing trouble?" ”
Zhang Jun patted him on the shoulder: "Don't care so much, he is responsible for passing, we are responsible for running and responding, shooting and scoring." ”
Fifteen minutes remaining, but Van Persie, who is playing for Warrendam for the first time, is still squandering every precious opportunity! Maybe Adrianse made a big mistake by signing him on loan! Everyone knows what kind of person Robin van Persie is! "Because of the favorable situation, the home commentator actually has the leisure to care about Warrendam's buying policy.
Zhang Jun passed the ball to Van Persie again, and a striker took the ball with his back to him, and behind him was a ten-man backline, even the Golden Boot of the last Cup could not do anything. But to the puzzlement of the fans who came with the team, why did Zhang Jun have to pass the ball to the "master of chance-wastingism" Robin van Persie? Isn't it good that Kozel and Salden have taken turns to organise the attack for half the season?
Van Persie did not pass the ball this time, but moved laterally to the left side of the pitch to steal Hevel's way. Van Persie made a gesture to break through, and the opposing defenders immediately moved back, but he only wanted to free up space for the pass, and a curling ball was rubbed into the penalty area, straight behind!
The goalkeeper wanted to attack, but the ball was spinning out, which made him uncomfortable, and he chose the safest way. Because there are no Warrendam players on this passing route, and the back point is the world of Breda players, so leave everything to the defenders to solve!
'Van Persie crossed, but it didn't threaten...... Well, wait! Who's this? ”
The orange jersey and the striking number 11 resemble a fluttering flag. Zhang Jun kicked with his left foot, and his body rushed forward, and his right foot pierced the front like the tip of a peerless sword. In an unconventional position, he was in the air, his left foot was down, and his right foot was as far forward as he could to get past the terrible cross that seemed out of reach.
"Wait until you can catch my pass." Van Persie's words mocked Zhang Jun like this ball. Because Zhang Jun's right toe was still a little far from the intended landing point of the ball, as soon as he gritted his teeth and straightened his waist, his body rushed forward in the air!
"It just doesn't look like it's available!" Zhang Jun roared in his heart.
The sword was unsheathed, and it returned at the sight of blood.
"Ball...... The ball is in! The ball went in! The poor goalkeeper didn't react! Oh, my God! Zhang Jun scored an incredible goal with Chinese kung fu! He poked the ball on the tip of his right foot, and Van Persie's seemingly non-threatening pass went straight into the net! But it was just a face-saving goal! ”
Warrendam's fans didn't care so much, they sang "Zhang Jun bless Volendam" and cheered for this amazing goal.
Zhang Jun didn't care so much, he rushed into the net, snatched the football from the opponent's feet, ran to the middle circle with his arms, and didn't forget to give a thumbs up to Van Persie in the distance on the way: "Pass beautifully!" ”
Van Persie looked at Zhang Jun's thumb and didn't know what to say. He deliberately passed the ball that way, because it was the only way to avoid the opposing goalkeeper and defender, but he didn't expect any Warrendam player to receive his pass, it was too tricky. However, Zhang Jun actually used ...... Scored the ball with Chinese kung fu! That's an exaggeration, right? What's even more terrifying is that he can still move his body forward when he sees Zhang Junteng in the air!
Is it faith, or is his body structure different from ordinary people?! That guy! Van Persie spat on the ground, there are still ten minutes, let me see how powerful you are, Chinese Yankee!
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Scoring a goal at a critical moment can be a great demoralisation blow to the opponent. Especially when the opponent finds that he is only one goal ahead and the opponent is very aggressive, no one will believe the words of the commentary now.
What is just a face-saving goal? Shit!
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