God of Greenery

The next day, after celebrating the lively Spring Festival in Chinatown, Jiang Xiaolin returned to Alkmaar to continue to participate in the training of the youth team.

On Saturday, February 2th, Alkmaar Youth Team played at home against Groningen Youth Team.

The match was a day earlier than the first-team match.

Alkmaar's first team game this weekend is an away game against Nijmegen tomorrow night.

Alkmaar is more than 100 kilometers away from Nijmegen, and there is no time to start tomorrow morning, so there is no need to go a day in advance.

Therefore, without the knowledge of everyone in the youth team, the head coach of the first team Van Gaal appeared in the corner of the stands of the U19 training ground wearing a big down jacket, a thick scarf, a hat, and a pair of sunglasses.

Whether it was coaches such as Crofts, players such as Jiang Xiaolin, or fans in the stands, no one recognized that it was Van Gaal.

Van Gaal came to secretly investigate Jiang Xiaolin.

The five-game losing streak of the first team after the winter break did put considerable pressure on Van Gaal.

Although he proposed to take the blame and resign after the poor record in the first half of the season, he was not approved and was jointly retained by the club and the players.

Now that he has decided to stay, Van Gaal has to focus on the second half of the season, or even the next season, and he doesn't want to take the blame and resign because of poor results.

His coaching contract in Alkmaar was signed until the summer of 2009.

But in the last five games, the team has only scored 2 goals in total. In Dutch football, which advocates offense, this attack power is really hard to compliment, so it is no wonder that they have lost five consecutive games.

Van Gaal can't wait for next season, and he hopes to add new aid to the striker immediately.

But now is not the transfer period, and it is impossible to introduce new players from the outside, so it can only be transferred in the youth team.

Coincidentally, the youth team also had Jiang Xiaolin, who was scoring goals like crazy, waiting for his call.

Scoring 10 goals in three games and one assist, Jiang Xiaolin's performance in the youth team really made Van Gaal's heart skip a beat.

However, this Jiang Xiaolin has never played in a professional league before, nor has he experienced formal youth training, and many of his skills are relatively rough.

Although Crofts said that Jiang Xiaolin has improved a lot compared to the trial training, but Van Gaal still needs to come to the scene to confirm.

Jiang Xiaolin's 16-year-old age is indeed difficult to make people completely reassured. Van Gaal must see is believing.

Anyway, the first team's away game will start tomorrow morning, and Van Gaal doesn't mind spending a few hours today to watch Jiang Xiaolin's performance live.

However, in order not to affect the performance of the players, and to understand Jiang Xiaolin's true strength, Van Gaal disguised himself to secretly observe Jiang Xiaolin's performance while hiding his identity.

It was winter, so it was natural for Van Gaal to wear a coat, scarf and hat. The fans around and the youth team players and coaches on the field did not expect that this person would be the head coach of the first team.

But what Van Gaal didn't know was that Jiang Xiaolin had a system cheat.

His appearance is no secret in front of the system.

Before the game started, Jiang Xiaolin suddenly received a new task issued by the system:

Mission 5: Transfer to AZ Alkmaar's first team
Task requirements: Help the Alkmaar youth team win the game and conquer the first team coach Van Gaal, and be allowed to be transferred to the Alkmaar first team
Reward: 2000 experience points + fried meatballs (special skill)
After receiving this task, Jiang Xiaolin knew that Van Gaal must be there.

Although he didn't see where the person was, Jiang Xiaolin firmly believed that the system would never lie to him, and Van Gaal must be in the stands.

Therefore, before the start of the game, Jiang Xiaolin, who was supposed to only add a little attribute value to each skill, took the risk to increase the attribute value of dribbling from 12 points to 14 points, basically reaching the level of ordinary professional players.

Other bouncing, stopping, and short passing only add 1 point, bouncing reaches 19, stopping reaches 16, short passing reaches 15, and the balance of attribute points is 40.

The stopping attribute of 16 points is already considered good.

In addition to the long-distance long pass in the air that may not stop well, the general ground pass will never stop two or three meters away.

In this way, Jiang Xiaolin does not need to pursue non-stop shooting, but can stop the ball at an angle before kicking to hit the goal when the opponent blocks the shooting route.

In this way, the probability of scoring a goal is higher than that of simply non-stop shooting.

If you only know how to shoot without stopping the ball, just like in the last game, if the opponent guesses Jiang Xiaolin's next move, it will be much easier to defend.

Everything is ready. At 2:9 on February 14th, with the whistle of the referee, Alkmaar Youth Team vs. Groningen Youth Team's Dutch Youth League officially started.

The game was kicked off by Alkmaar. Jiang Xiaolin and Cagle failed to make a rush, so they could only pass the ball back to Langlot, slowly organize the attack and move forward.

Now Alkmaar's opponents are already mentally prepared. It is basically impossible to start a sneak attack and score a lightning goal like the game against Ajax.

Alkmaar can only slowly organize the attack.

In the process of the team slowly organizing the attack, Jiang Xiaolin was not a complete outsider.

His teammates have noticed Jiang Xiaolin's recent improvement and know that Jiang Xiaolin's skills in stopping the ball, dribbling, and short passing have all improved a lot. Jiang Xiaolin is already fully capable of ordinary passing and receiving tasks.

Moreover, Jiang Xiaolin's full-value off-the-ball movement allows him to instinctively find the opponent's space even in normal running positions, putting himself in a relatively less defensive position and allowing his teammates to have a good time. Tee point.

Therefore, even though Jiang Xiaolin has not yet mastered the skills of stopping the ball, dribbling, and passing the ball, but because he often runs to unguarded empty positions to catch the ball, the defensive pressure is less and he can catch the ball more calmly , adjust, and then pass the ball out.

As a result, Van Gaal discovered that in the first few minutes of the game, Jiang Xiaolin seldom made a lot of mistakes when coordinating with his teammates' passing and cutting moves like when he first came to the trial training.

This shocked him very much.

As a professional football coach, Van Gaal knows how difficult and slow it is for professional players to improve their skills.

If everyone really improved as fast as Jiang Xiaolin, then there wouldn't be so many people who couldn't play in the professional league for the rest of their lives, or could only hang around in the low-level league for life if they played in the professional league.

Could it be that Jiang Xiaolin is really like what Alfred said, the football talent obtained by genetic atavism is much higher than that of ordinary people, even if it has not been fully discovered yet?

So, after joining the Alkmaar youth team and starting professional training, it seems that the progress has been rapid?

Van Gaal could only think of one explanation for Jiang Xiaolin's monstrous technological progress within a month.