Chapter 263 The Pain of the Golden Boot

At noon every day, Yang Yang can be seen in the swimming pool of De Tokmost.

From the landlubber, who was afraid of water like a tiger, to switch back and forth between various swimming styles such as breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle, backstroke, and shuttle back and forth in the swimming pool like a small white dragon on the water, Yang Yang's progress in the swimming pool is no slower than on the court. .

When Luther Carroll walked to the pool, he happened to see Yang Yang swimming out and changing his swimming style one after another. He was surprised, admired, and amused at the same time. How could it be like training? More like playing.

"There is no one at the scene, who is this going to show?" Luther Carroll asked with a smile.

Winston Bogard laughed, "Just get used to it, otherwise it would be really boring to travel alone every day."

Luther Carroll nodded again and again, and it was only at this time that he realized that Yang Yang was only an 18-year-old boy after all, but his performance in the team on weekdays gave people a feeling of maturity and stability, it was easy Makes people forget his age.

"How is his physical condition now?" Luther Carroll asked with concern.

"The progress has been great, and the physical confrontation has improved a lot, but you also know that the period from the age of 18 to 23 is a critical period for young players to build their muscles, and Yang Yang is now in the early stage, it is best to Don't overwork yourself."

"The coaching staff thinks the same way, so they won't let him participate in the Dutch Cup. Even the Eredivisie and the UEFA Cup will pay attention. You and Kluitenberg should always pay attention and strictly control." Luther Carroll solemnly exhorted.

He is a professional player himself, and he knows better than anyone that having a healthy and strong body is definitely a blessing for any professional player.

Yang Yang's physical fitness is relatively weak, and compared with his European peers, he is also a lot inferior, but his long-term hard training and the recent targeted strength training have made him improve very quickly. .

Luther Carroll is a coach who has watched Yang Yang come all the way. He is also very aware of how difficult it is for Yang Yang to reach today, and he is also looking forward to it. He wants to know how far Yang Yang can go and how far he can achieve. what an achievement.

But he is more aware that pulling the seedlings to encourage growth is not a good thing.

For the club, any player is destined to be just a passing pass.

Just like Robben's for PSV, PSV will not be responsible for Robben's future at all. They are more concerned about whether Robben can bring them benefits and victory. As for what will happen to Robben in the future ,who cares?

Therefore, they almost used the young Robben to death.

Not only Eindhoven, but even now Chelsea is basically the same.

Relatively speaking, Ajax will treat young players more warmly. In addition, Ronald Koeman and Luther Carroll are all professional players, so they will also pay special attention to the long-term players. develop.

Van Gaal's reform is to hope that Ajax will turn training players into a business from now on.

But in fact, some concepts have penetrated into the bone marrow, deeply into the soul of every Ajax person, and cannot be changed.

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After Yang Yang finished swimming, he climbed ashore, only to find that it was Luther Carroll who handed him a bath towel, and was a little surprised.

"How did you come?"

Luther Carroll laughed, "I'm your full-time coach. I heard that you practice here every day, can you come and have a look? If you accidentally get injured, I have to write a report, what a hassle. !"

Yang Yang smiled, of course he wouldn't believe it.

Ajax's coaches are really good with young players, it goes without saying.

"I heard that you want to compete with Kuyt for the shooter king?" Luther Carroll asked seemingly casually.

Yang Yang was taken aback, "You received the news so soon?"

"Heh, you little bastards are discussing openly on the training ground. Are the coaches and staff who set up the venues blind and deaf?" Luther Carroll asked back with a smile.

Yang Yang didn't care either, it wasn't a big deal.

"What do you think?"

"Fight! Of course we have to fight!"

Yang Yang was a little surprised by Luther Carroll's reaction. Didn't he come to persuade him to give up his thoughts?

"You know how many Eredivisie titles we've won in the last ten years?"

Yang Yang frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I didn't count it."

"Ten years, five, Eindhoven took four, Feyenoord only one."

Yang Yang nodded. He knew that although the Eredivisie has always had a traditional top three, but in fact, from the perspective of performance, Feyenoord has really fallen behind in recent years, PSV and Ajax are the best. is a real formidable enemy.

"Then do you know how many golden boots we have won?"

This Yang Yang knew, because he heard his teammates say in the morning, "It doesn't seem to be there."

Luther Carroll nodded: "Yes, no, not once."

When talking about this, Luther Carroll looked regretful, which is also the regret of all Ajax fans.

"Five championships in ten years, but there is no Eredivisie Golden Boot in the end. This has always been a place where many opponents look down on us. We have trained Van Basten, Bergkamp, ​​Litmanen, Crewe Yvette and other well-known attackers in Europe have not won a golden boot for ten years."

"But you may not know that ten years ago, starting from 1991, we won the Eredivisie Golden Boot for four consecutive years, Bergkamp won the first three years, and Litmanen won the gold in 1994. Boots, among them, Bergkamp tied for the Golden Boot in 1991 with Eindhoven's Romario."

Luther Carroll introduced this with a bit of pride.

"Eindhoven has been winning the Eredivisie Golden Boot since ten years ago, from Ronaldo to Nellis to Ruud van Nistelrooy to Kežman, only Feyenoord has relied on Van Huydonk and Witte for ten years. Relying on Mahras to get one each."

"In the past ten years, whether it is Kluivert, or Van der Vaart, or Zlatan Ibrahimovic, failed to bring a golden boot to the team, and the lack of a good striker has also been It's a big concern for the club."

Yang Yang understood what Luther Carroll meant.

It turned out that Ajax also hoped to fight for the top scorer.

"Before, when Marco visited, he told me and Ronald that he thought you would become a killer with a keen sense of smell." Luther Carroll smiled.

"Oh?" Yang Yang really hadn't heard Van Basten mention this.

"Speed, explosiveness, these are the advantages that a killer must have, but the most important thing is your excellent running off the ball, but your stopping the ball was not good enough at that time, he regrets it, but looking at it now , as soon as you stop the ball and get better, the number of goals and assists immediately rises with the tide, which shows that Marco's vision is not wrong at all."

Yang Yang really didn't know that Van Basten gave him such a high evaluation behind his back. He thought to himself that he really had to find a chance to thank him.

"What did the boss say to Kluitenberg?" Yang Yang asked with concern.

"I can come here. You should know what Ronald means. The team will try to help you at the tactical level, but Kluitenberg will continue to strictly control it. This is not negotiable."

Seeing Yang Yang's expression, I knew it would be like this, and Luther Carroll laughed.

"Yang, all of us are very happy to see you have such enterprising spirit, but you have to remember that the archer king can't compete this year, and can continue to fight next year, but once your body breaks down, you can't recover if you want to. It's easy."

After a pause, Luther Carroll continued: "I specially analyzed for you, Kuyt's goals this season, he is an iron man, playing almost every game for 90 minutes, but He's not consistently scoring goals, and there were consecutive goals droughts in September and December, so you still have a good chance."

"I still say the same thing, try to keep your composure. The easier you look at it, the more chances you have to score goals and the stronger your ability to seize opportunities. Also, you have to work hard to maintain stability. Continuous and stable goals are better than hat tricks and A brace is better for the Golden Boot and it's more helpful for the team."

Watching Luther Carroll leave, Yang Yang, who was sitting by the pool, couldn't help but smile.

It seems that even the coaching staff supports him to compete for the Eredivisie Golden Boot.

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On the evening of February 16, Amsterdam Arena.

Ajax host AJ Auxerre in the UEFA Cup round of 32 knockout.

Players from both sides came to the player tunnel one after another. The Czech referee, Yarosov Yara, was conducting the final inspection before the players from both sides played. When he saw Yang Yang, he obviously stayed for a while, and then nodded slightly.

He has also been admired for this Ajax rookie who has recently become famous in European football. Many people say that he is another young talent in Ajax after Van der Vaart and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Yang Yang smiled politely back.

Auxerre is a relatively mature team with an average age of 25 or 6, but there are also players like the 22-year-old right back Sagna, the 19-year-old central defender Kabul, and the 18-year-old. A young rookie like midfielder Diaby.

This match against Yang Yang is the 27-year-old left-back Sebastian Jores, and next to him is the 23-year-old French central defender Mignot. Yang Yang knew the strengths and weaknesses of famous players from the information provided by the coaching staff long before the game.

Although Mignot is only 1.82 meters tall, he is physically strong and weak in speed and flexibility.

As for Jorez, the defense is good, but there is a serious problem, that is, lack of concentration, often distracted in the game, this is his long-standing problem.

One of the main points that the coaching staff told Yang Yang before the game was to make good use of the opponent's problem.

Yang Yang also competed with two opponents in the super training ground last night, and he is familiar with their situation.

Less than six minutes into the game, he seized an opportunity on the right, quickly ran out of space, and got a chance to counterattack.