Amsterdam, Netherlands.

After getting off the plane, Qin Xiong and Freddy came to the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium in the suburbs, they didn't have time or heart to explore the city, they just wanted to see Ajax's home stadium for the first time!

When the magnificent modern stadium was presented in front of him, Qin Xiong raised his head and looked up, and there were many tourists around him to visit, but maybe it was the first two rounds of the new season of the Eredivisie, Ajax were all guests, and did not play here, so the atmosphere around him was not particularly fanatical, especially yesterday local time, Ajax defeated the weak team Rocinda away from home and won two consecutive wins in the league in the new season.

Qin Xiong's eyes seemed to be eager to take every bit of this stadium into his eyes, looking carefully and seriously, not wanting to miss any details, standing there for a long time.

Freddie looked at his watch and reminded Qin Xiong that it was time to leave, Qin Xiong's face became solemn and solemn, and he walked towards the city center with Freddie without looking back.

He silently said in his heart: Next time I come, I will wear the Ajax robe! Be the protagonist here!

The closest contemporary memory to Ajax is in 1995, when Louis van Gaal's Ajax reached the top of Europe and wrote the myth that the starting nine players in the final were Ajax's academy players, a record that may be difficult to break!

At the time, the mainstream voice in Europe believed that Ajax would open up a dynasty and rule an era of European football!

Because Ajax in the 95 generation except for a few players, such as Rijkaard, most of the other main players are very young, Overmars, Van der Sar, Kluivert and so on.

However, the emergence of the Bosman Act transformed European football, making players more and more powerful in negotiations with clubs, and eventually, the 95 generation of Ajax fell apart in the following years, and the stars moved to new homes, either because of treatment, or because of league competitiveness, etc.

However, Ajax did not stop there, and they have maintained a very high standard of academy training.

In less than a decade, that is, last season, in the 2002-2003 generation, the Ajax youth army under the leadership of head coach Ronald Koeman has created a youth storm in European football!

Just four months ago, in the San Siro battle, if it weren't for the last-minute strike of Dane Tomasson, it would have been this talented and young Ajax team that advanced to the semi-finals of last season's Champions League!

The Boseman Act changed the landscape of European football, making the circulation of players more frequent, especially those who rose to prominence in second-tier leagues, quickly becoming "locked in" by clubs in the top flight.

The new generation of Ajax failed to succeed, and suffered a double blow at the end of last season, the league title defense failed, and the two main players in the summer Zivo and Van der Meyde were brought to the Apennines by Serie A clubs, perhaps for Ajax, a club with a Jewish background, this is not a blow, and in the process of keeping pace with the times, Ajax has also begun to shake the tradition of the past: the goal of the academy!

In the past, Ajax always insisted that the goal of youth training was not to sell players for a good price, but to strengthen the team, for the championship!

However, in the post-Boseman era, with years of selling players to make huge profits, on the one hand, the club was helpless to keep the talent, and on the other hand, the board of directors was tempted by the attractive price offered by the owner, and the club also half-pushed and half-bowed to reality.

The departures of Zivo and Donny van der Meyde brought Ajax 30 million euros, and the club also brought back the meritorious coach Louis van Gaal as technical director for the sake of traditional dignity, but this decision caused a spark of contradiction within the club from the beginning.

In the era when Van Gaal was the coach of Ajax, he was the "king" of the club from top to bottom, from the first team to the youth team, from the technical tactics to the player training, he was in charge, and no one had more power than him, but now that Coman is the coach, the club has invited Van Gaal back as a strategic designer, which has an embarrassing situation that cannot tolerate two tigers.

The departure of two of the team's first team players has forced Ajax to make a huge change in the tactical system in the new season.

Current captain Van der Vaart, the Dutchman who now bears the halo of European talent on his head, was previously in the forward line, but Koeman pulled him back in the new season, triggering a tactical change for Ajax in the new season, which is not too good from the three games of the new season.

Ajax have played three games in the new season, three away.

The first was a qualifying match for the UEFA Champions League, where they challenged Austria's AK Graz, but Ajax could only be held to a 1-1 draw away from home.

In the new season, the league has two consecutive away games, Vidis and Rocinda, both are in the middle and lower reaches, and even a team with relegation strength, Ajax can only win by a difficult goal, compared to last season's solid tactical system, they play smoothly, and the new season is faltering in the midst of change

Freddie and Qin Xiong came to the place they had contacted before they came, it was close to the Amsterdam Arena, and the rent was cheap, so they didn't go to stay in hostels or hotels, and the cost of accommodation in Amsterdam was too high.

The landlord is a widowed local old man, who seems to be in a leisurely state, without the desolation of being a lonely widow in his later years, quite self-satisfied, drinking and chatting with the other two old men in front of the apartment, after seeing Freddie and Qin Xiong's documents, he gave them the room key, and told them to put the rent and deposit on the table in the living room on the first floor, and the rules to be followed in renting a house are posted next to the refrigerator, you must look at it before moving in, if you don't want to rent, then leave directly.

Freddie and Qin Xiong walked into the three-story apartment, which was actually a detached apartment, and there should be guest rooms on the second and third floors.

Next to the refrigerator on the first floor, Freddie and Qin Xiong carefully looked at the tenant rules posted by the landlord here.

Roughly speaking, some are not allowed to recruit -JI, noisy noise, hygiene requirements, and the right to use the items in the apartment is clearly planned, such as tenants are not allowed to use the landlord's washing machine, can not cook here, etc., as for how to solve these problems for tenants, the landlord is still very considerate to write a guide on another piece of paper: where to eat cheaply, where to have a laundromat

Qin Xiong finished reading the tenant rules, frowned, and said, "It seems that it is very inconvenient." ”

Freddie took out a calculator from his suitcase, tapped it for a while, and then sighed: "But it's still very cheap here, go to other places, either it's far from the stadium and the transportation is not convenient, or the rent is more expensive, let's stay here first, maybe you can sign a contract with Ajax, and the club will provide you with better accommodation." ”

Qin Xiong had no room to refute, he was penniless when he came out this time, and as for how much money Freddie brought, he didn't want to ask, because he didn't want to rely on others anymore.

Carrying the luggage to the third floor, Freddie and Qin Xiong assigned their own rooms, the room was quite clean, but the furnishings were really shabby, a bed, a table and chairs, a wardrobe, gone

Fortunately, Qin Xiong's requirements were not high, he put away his luggage and went to Freddie to borrow some money, and then went downstairs to go out, on the way here, he remembered that there was a small shop not far away.

He went to the store and bought the cheapest alarm clock.

For him, it is also a race against time, he has to reverse the jet lag in the shortest possible time, and adjust his physical condition to the best in the shortest time!

Because there are only two days before the date of his trial!

Took the alarm clock back to the room, Qin Xiong first went to the shared bathroom on the third floor to wash, and then went back to the room to take off his sportswear, he had eaten before coming here, he lay directly on the bed, picked up the alarm clock and set the time, it was not yet 8 o'clock in the evening, but he planned to sleep, at least, until 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, ten hours of adequate sleep, and at the same time reversed the jet lag.

I tried the alarm clock of the alarm clock, and it was no problem, and then I set the alarm clock to six o'clock the next day, and put the alarm clock next to the pillow, this landlord is really stingy, and he doesn't even give a bedside table!

To do this well, Qin Xiong closed his eyes, emptied his head, didn't think about anything, and carried out "self-hypnosis" to fall asleep with steady and rhythmic breathing, for an energetic person like him, in the Jiangcheng Youth Football Home, coaches, and doctors will teach some methods to help you fall asleep, and over time, you have also developed good habits.

The soundproofing effect of this room is very good, isolating the hustle and bustle of the outside world, and it is silent.

Tick, tick, tick

There are 52 hours left before Qin Xiong goes to Ajax for a trial