Qin Xiong will soon have his first game for Ajax, but he is not representing the first team.

On Wednesday, he joined the club.

On Thursday and Friday, two days of training, he amazed his youth team-mates, and of course, those with malicious intentions were naturally angry.

Especially on Saturday morning, they play the youth team Under-18 league game in the afternoon, and when youth coach Danny Blind announced the squad for the game, Mopps and Yilmas were mad!

Ajax also has a tradition that other clubs envy, that is, they always bring back retired players with an Ajax background to continue their careers, such as youth team coach Danny Blind, who is a double Ajax and Dutch player, and is now in his early 40s, has become a youth team manager, which can be seen as a regular path to promotion.

In other words, if first-team manager Koeman leaves in the future, if the club does not hire a manager from outside, Blind will be promoted to manager according to tradition.

Blind is a dignified coach who understandably treats young players who are easily distracted and in a rebellious age group, always holding a stick in one hand to "intimidate" them.

What surprised Qin Xiong more was that in Saturday morning's training, he was not training with his teammates in the 18-year-old age group, but a temporary team of uneven ages, maybe not temporary, there are very few 16-year-old players here, most of them are 17-year-olds, and there are not many 18-year-olds.

This will be the team that Ajax will play in the U18 Youth League.

If Ajax's first team already has a 20-year-old captain, a 19-year-old main player, and an 18-year-old main substitute, then it is conceivable that the average age of their reserve squad will be very low, and the team playing in the youth league will naturally be even younger.

For example, 18-year-old Maduro told him that he was playing for Ajax's reserve team on Saturday afternoon, which would basically be made up of 18- and 19-year-olds.

The participating teams in the youth league are mainly players in the 17-year-old age group, 16-year-olds are promoted, and 18-year-olds are actually a bit behind their peers, and they are on the verge of being eliminated.

Because of this, the 18-year-old Mopps and Irmas are still playing for the youth team, in a sense, they have sounded the "alarm" on behalf of their careers at Ajax, and because of this, they are hostile to foreign competitors and are very sensitive to this.

Blind's announced squad includes the main team and substitutes, and the U18 Youth League, which opened two weeks ago, has played two games in a row, with Mopps and Yilmas both the main players!

However, in the upcoming game, not only were the two of them put on the bench, but even Emmanuelsson and goalkeeper Moisander were also put on the bench.

This may have something to do with the results of the midweek training match, many players in the red team are stronger, they are playing for the reserve team, and other players representing the youth team are also the main players, but because of the big score loss to the yellow team, many players of the yellow team have been qualified to start the youth team, which is a kind of reward for the coach's performance of the players.

However, the specific situation should also be analyzed specifically, like Vermaelen and Doon, fullback Moisander, still got the start, after all, the roles of defenders and midfielders are different, defenders need more experience to improve, and midfielders and forwards have a higher probability of being a blockbuster.

Mopps and Yirmas had gloomy faces during Saturday morning's training, and of course they didn't dare to argue with Blind, protesting their downmotion from the main team to the substitute, so the account was all on Qin Xiong's head again.

Qin Xiong is very serious in training, because he has to get acquainted with some new teammates, and the joint practice on Saturday morning is to get acquainted with each other, and Blind's tactics are formulated and practiced a little.

The good news is that Qin Xiong only needs to get familiar with and observe some of his teammates.

The main starting line-up of the youth team is as follows.

Goalkeeper: Ommel.

Defenders: Timisala, Doon, Vermaelen, Moisander.

Midfielders: Vertonghen, Qin Xiong, Shabalala.

Forwards: Cameron, Babel, Buhari.

All three of the Yellow's strikers were qualified to start, with the two 16-year-olds in the starting line-up being striker Babel and defensive midfielder Vertonghen (note: this man only dropped back later and is now a defensive midfielder who now plays for Tottenham. ）。

Qin Xiong focused on observing and understanding teammates Shabalala and Wiltongheng in training.

The rest of the team-mates were either familiar with each other in training, or had played or cooperated in a training match three days ago.

The morning was a light-hearted and non-exhausting lunch, and after a short break, the team headed to the train station under youth coach Blind to catch the train to the Arnhem area, southeast of Amsterdam.

By 3pm, they arrived in Arnhem and then took a bus to the Vitesse club's youth training ground.

Most of the youth league matches are mainly improvised, and as long as there is a stadium, it can be played.

This has to do with the domestic situation in Dutch football.

Although the Netherlands has a big club like Ajax that can make a name for itself in Europe at different times, the overall situation of Dutch football is that it is very slow to develop and very uncompetitive.

The Netherlands only has two leagues, no more than 40 professional clubs, and the Dutch second division has no relegation system, so the competitiveness of Dutch football cannot be compared with the five major leagues, and the long-term monopoly of the three giants seems to be a matter of course.

For example, Vitesse, who survived in the First Division, has recently encountered the worst troubles, and the former director was involved in a tax evasion case in 2000, which made the club's situation worse, and the club continued to slide from the ranking of the First Division.

The instability of the superstructure also shakes the foundation of the bottom.

Vitesse youth team does not have many talents coveted by other clubs, and with the turmoil of the club, there is a lack of attention to the youth team, and there is quite a posture of resignation.

But the days still have to pass, the game, and the fight.

Ajax youth arrived at Vitesse youth and there was nothing to say before the game, Blind clapped his hands to encourage the young lads and let the players get ready for the game.

Based on Van Gaal's personal relationship with Blind, Van Gaal asked Ricklink to pass the word, and Blind obeyed without the slightest question.

In itself, the youth team does not have much autonomy, and the work is all around the upper echelons of the team, who needs to be cultivated above, and the youth team is not qualified to ask why? Or come up with your own ideas.

Before coming, in the morning joint practice, Qin Xiong was established as the core of the team's midfield, which was said by Blind himself, no one in the youth team dared to question it, and he could only obey!

Qin Xiong is wearing a brand-new jersey, wearing brand-new sneakers, and with a round-inch hairstyle, he looks extraordinarily energetic, giving people a vigorous and upward mental outlook.

Before kick-off, Qin Xiong looked around the side of the court, to be honest, the field conditions were relatively bad, the turf was incomplete, and in some areas it was bare land, and there were no other spectators on the sidelines except for the coaches and substitutes of the two clubs, and the scene was extremely deserted.

Retracting his gaze, Qin Xiong didn't think about anything else, emptying his head and concentrating all his attention on the game.

The referee blew the whistle and the game began.

Babel tees off in the middle circle, and Buhari passes the ball back to Qin Xiong.

When the football rolled over, the opposing striker immediately pounced, Qin Xiong slowly started to meet the football, and then suddenly accelerated when he was about to meet with the opponent's striker, changed direction and passed by the opponent, and then he flew forward with the ball!

The forward trident spread out the running position forward, ready to meet Qin Xiong at all times, and Qin Xiong was joined by teammate Shabalala, who advanced from midfield.

Through the observation of the morning joint practice, Qin Xiong already has a general understanding of Shabalala.

The South African's physical condition is so good that it explodes!

The sense of teamwork is also the best in the youth team, and in the technique, his best is dribbling, that is, the combination of man and ball, but other aspects are slightly inferior, such as the outrageous poor shooting footwork, the middle and long distance passing is not in place, and so on.

When Shabalala and Qin Xiong ran forward in a parallel line, Qin Xiong appeared in front of the captain of the Vitesse youth team, La N Sana, what is the ability of this Guinean, Qin Xiong doesn't know yet, so Qin Xiong did not rashly choose to break through, but passed the ball to Shabalala, consciously giving the opponent an advance amount, and being able to receive the ball safely without slowing down Shabalala.

After passing, Qin Xiong immediately rushed forward, to his surprise, La N Sana was rushed head-on by him, and it was only two or three steps away after turning around and chasing back, Qin Xiong actually threw him away!

Qin Xiong immediately wrote down this detail: his speed is not good!

When running forward, Qin Xiong always kept a distance of 5 to 8 meters from Shabalala, because he knew that Shabalala's mid-to-long-range passes were unreliable.

Vitesse's double midfielder stood in the defensive zone.

But Shabalala is too fast!

His speed advantage combined with the man-ball dribbling advantage is simply the strongest among his peers, especially his body is obviously stronger than Qin Xiong!

In contrast, Vitesse's two defensive midfielders are noticeably less fast and explosive.

Shabalala passed the ball horizontally to Qin Xiong in front of Millsman, one of the backs of Vitesse, after the pass, he continued to step forward, Qin Xiong took a step horizontally, the back Brondell made a steal error, Qin Xiong immediately took the ball forward and brushed him, at this time Shabalala and Babel had been strongly pressed in front of the opponent's back line, Qin Xiong came with the ball, and passed the ball to Shabalala at a distance of less than three meters, and he pointed to the gap between the defender and the fullback to that place, Shabalala kicked the ball out and sent the ball to Qin Xiong's front.

Qin Xiong's speed did not decrease, and the frontal ball cut into the penalty area from the ribs of Vitesse's backline, forming a one-knife ball from the side to the goal!

Although the angle is not particularly good, Qin Xiong did not hesitate at all, he slammed the goal with a heavy kick with a cold face, and the football shot into Vitesse's goal from the bottom up, like a cannonball, from the top of the left arm of goalkeeper Van Deng** into the dead corner!

Everyone in Vitesse Youth Team was stunned!

In the opening 10 seconds, the Ajax youth team attacked head-on in the first positional battle and destroyed them!

And from beginning to end, if the initiation of the attack is counted from Qin Xiong's touch of the ball in the midfield and backfield, the entire attack, from advancing to breaking the goal, only two people touch the ball!

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