Saturday, August 28, 1999, and the weekend.

The rules of the Ajax academy Detokmost, the younger players train two days a week, Monday to Friday at school, and only arrive at Detokmoste on Saturday and Sunday, with two training sessions a day in the morning and afternoon.

It's 9:15 a.m.

In Group E1, the 10-year-old players have only just started training for 15 minutes.

Detokmoste has gathered a total of nearly 200 players, but they are divided into six age groups: F, E, D, C, B, and A, each of which is divided into two groups, for example, Ye Qiu's group E is divided into two teams, E1 and E2, corresponding to the two age groups of 10 and 9 years old, respectively.

Unlike other training grounds, where coaches arrange players to run and pass and receive the ball under the traditional 433 tactical framework of Ajax, on the training ground where E1 is located, Ye Qiu is arranging players to play a small game.

In a 10 x 10 meter square court, the four corners are ABCD in the clockwise direction, 8 people are in a group, 5 of them stand in A, BCD each stands, and then start to serve from A's side and pass to B, and the server also runs to B at the fastest speed after the ball leaves his control, and B immediately passes to C after receiving the ball, and he runs to C, and C and D repeat B's action.

At the beginning of this kind of practice, there are still people standing, and after the practice starts, it basically becomes a cycle of running, changing, receiving, passing, and all the players basically catch and run, and then run again.

The whole process has high requirements for the player's basic skills such as stopping the ball and passing, especially to complete a touch of the ball in this kind of fast running, the advantages and disadvantages of stopping the ball, the strength and speed of the pass, and the level of accuracy, these aspects have high requirements, and this training has a strong practical nature.

The E1 group was exactly 16 people, and Ye Qiu divided the group into two groups to conduct similar games and training in two fields, while he himself stood on the sidelines and watched, but his mind was not on the training ground at all, but flew to the distant year 2013.

Ye Qiu, taken from the meaning of a leaf knowing autumn.

In 2013, he was just a very, very ordinary Chinese fan, he, like everyone, hated the Football Association, and even more mourned the misfortune of the national football team, angry with it, and he was like everyone, countless times convinced that the Chinese do not lack world-class stars, but lack the environment for stars.

After graduating from college, his life was all about looking for a job, going to work, being unemployed, and looking for a job again.

The cruel society and competition have worn away the edges and corners of his character, but they can't rub away the love and passion for football in his heart, on the contrary, it is precisely because of his setbacks in other fields that he has invested more in football.

Perhaps, only when watching the football game, he can feel a little fair!

Yesterday he stayed up late to watch Barcelona host Real Madrid in the second leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final, where Real Madrid beat Barcelona 3-1 thanks to a brace from Ronaldo and a goal from Raphael Varane.

Ye Qiu was so excited about this game that he even dreamed that he threw himself into the Camp Nou stadium and competed with this group of top stars, becoming the most dazzling star in this world-renowned derby of the century.

The dream was originally just a dream, but when Ye Qiu woke up, he found that he was no longer in the familiar snail rented house, but in a cheap hotel near the Arena Stadium in the southeast new town of Amsterdam, possessed by this young man also called Ye Qiu, who is also a 25-year-old young man.

This unlucky egg, also called Ye Qiu, is also Chinese, since he was a child, he was determined to contribute to the development of the motherland's football career, so he went directly to the Cologne Sports Institute in college, studying football-related majors, and then successfully graduated, got the A-level coach certificate recognized by UEFA, and entered the famous youth training hall Ajax's Detokmoste internship.

In the original Ye Qiu's heart, he was thinking that after Ajax became famous, he would return to the motherland and use his youth training strength and football level to change the status quo of football in the motherland, but he didn't expect that he would be unlucky and directly possessed by Ye Qiu, who had crossed over.

Ye Qiu is not the innocent idealist who has no experience in the world, he has seen the cruelty of society, and he also clearly knows that it is impossible to change the football of the motherland by himself, because this is not only about football and the Football Association itself, but also involves all aspects of society, even including the will of the high-level.

On the contrary, it was to make a career in European football, and this idea made Ye Qiu even more tempted.

Although he was just a very ordinary little fan in his previous life, although he had an A-level coaching certificate after crossing over, he wanted to coach a team alone, and his ability was really not enough, but he had a treasure, which was a gift from God when he crossed over, otherwise, how would he know how to arrange the E1 group for this new training today?

"I'll go, if I come, I will be safe, in my previous life, I dreamed of breaking through this football hall, and now that I have such an opportunity, I must not miss it!"

Ye Qiu rediscovered his purpose in life, his mood relaxed, stretched his waist, and burst out of the mantra!

"I can't see that you can still be in such a relaxed mood!"

Just when Ye Qiu was in a good mood, there was a gloomy sneer behind him, which suddenly made Ye Qiu's originally good mood directly turn cloudy, and when he looked back, it was De Tokmost's youth training director, Hans Westerhoff.

"It turned out to be Mr. Westerhoff!" After all, it was his superior leader, and Ye Qiu didn't dare to be angry, so he could only endure it.

This 49-year-old Dutchman is full of forehead lines, has a very thick mustache on his upper lip, and his short hair is also the most popular three or seven points, and a pair of deep-set eyes project disdain and cold arrogance, mixed with a seemingly kind, but ill-intentioned smile, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

A native of Amsterdam, Westerhoff has been in charge since 1982 and later as head coach and youth director at PSV Eindhoven before spending two more spells at Groningen before Michael van Praag invited him back to Ajax to take charge of Detokmost.

"You don't think this training has been approved by the technical department, right?" Westerhoff originally came to trouble Ye Qiu, and as soon as he came, he saw Ye Qiu arranging players to carry out this kind of training method that he had never seen before, and immediately grasped his mistake.

Although Ajax attaches great importance to the unity of youth training, so the requirements for youth training programs are very strict, and the entire youth training has a complete system, but each coach has his own methods and tricks, so as long as there is no problem, everyone is open and closed.

But the problem is that if someone wants to play on the topic, it can be big or small.

"A little trick I came up with myself!" Ye Qiu didn't care, he naturally couldn't tell his true origin.

Westerhoff stared at Ye Qiu, the forehead lines on his forehead became deeper, and he reprimanded: "Detokmostt has Detokmost's rules, who allows you to change the training program without authorization?" ”

"As a coach, do you have to report for approval every time you arrange a training program?" Ye Qiu was also unhappy in his heart, he always felt that this Dutchman was deliberately coming to trouble him, what was going on?

"It's the rule, the rule for decades!" Westerhoff sneered, as if he was happy to catch Ye Qiu's sore foot.

After finishing speaking, he was not ready to continue to entangle with Ye Qiu, "At 10 o'clock this morning, Detokmoste will hold a meeting of all the coaching staff, and the technical director and the technical director will come over, I will truthfully report this matter, how to deal with it, you had better be mentally prepared!" ”

Seeing Vesthoff turn around and leave without looking back, Ye Qiu wondered in his heart, how could he meet this kind of guy on the first day of work after crossing over? Could it be that his menopause has arrived, or is his aunt coming?

When Westerhoff was gone, an academy coach from the nearby field immediately leaned over, and Ye Qiu recognized him as the youth coach of the E2 team, Dutchman Ronald de Jong.

"You'd better be careful, I've heard that this meeting was requested by Waters on his own initiative, and now that the first team has won three consecutive league games, as the manager, Waters naturally wants to continue the tradition of Ajax in the past and take over De Tokmost, but Leo Ben Hack will definitely not give up casually, so ......"

De Jong didn't finish his words, but his expression of You Better Be Careful made Ye Qiu somewhat understand that he dared to feel that he was involved in the internal power struggle of Ajax, but what was his situation?

Ye Qiu looked at De Jong, he had also worked in many different companies before he crossed over, and he had not experienced similar power struggles, and even dared to say that there were such struggles in every company, so he felt that the most important thing for him now was to figure out what was going on.

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu greeted De Jong with a smile, "Ronald, tell me, what is the situation?" ”

"You can still laugh?" De Jong was devastated.

"Why can't you laugh?" Ye Qiu asked rhetorically.

De Jong pointed to the departing figure of Westerhoff, first wanted to speak and then stopped, and then under Ye Qiu's encouraging eyes, he leaned over and whispered: "Can't you see that Hans is preparing to fire you?" ”

"No, I didn't provoke him." Ye Qiu said so, but recalling Westerhoff's words just now, he had to believe that what De Jong said was indeed very possible.

"Anyway, you're doing it yourself!" De Jong didn't say much and continued to return to his training ground.

Ye Qiu stayed on the sidelines alone, thinking about something inexplicably.