Green Dragon

Chapter 13 One step away

The training ground of Ajax's first team and the youth team are only separated by a row of groves and barbed wire, but for those young players, few people can cross this isolation belt that symbolizes identity and strength.

Long Shute did it.

Those local Dutch players didn't even generate much jealousy and annoyance, because they all saw the efforts of this teammate.

Whether it is training or competition, Long Shute is always the most diligent one. Not only that, but the extra training items every day make these young Dutch players unimaginable. They even think that one will spend 16 hours in training Why haven't the people in the movie collapsed and gone crazy!
Perhaps only Long Shute can train himself in this way. He has the most special training assistance system, which not only provides him with the most standard diet, but also monitors his physical condition at all times to ensure that he can train himself as much as possible without excessive fatigue. Squeeze every possible potential of the body.

He didn't want to be so tired, but he knew he didn't have time.

It was already 2009, and it was only 19 months before I turned 3 years old.

Messi is already famous all over the world at this age, and he hasn't even got a professional contract yet!
At this age, Ronaldo is already the top scorer and best player in Brazil and the Netherlands, and he has been softened!And he was just an apprentice of a third-rate team!

Fortunately, now he is finally only one step away from being a professional player.
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"This is the midfielder of the youth team, Long Shute, and I will train with you in the future."

On the morning of the second day, Van Basten introduced the newcomers to the first-team players.

He didn't ask Long Shute to say hello to everyone, saying please advise, because they were about to start training and preparing for the battle.

Despite the recent poor record, with Van Basten's personal prestige, the dressing room of Ajax will not immediately rebel, and those first-team players have accepted the existence of Long Special very cooperatively.

Long Shute, who never paid attention to football in the previous life, does not know what the current player configuration of Ajax is. Suarez, van der Wiel, Vertonghen, Vermaelen, Emmanuel Sen He doesn't care what level he can reach in the future.

But after watching the first-team games for a season and a half, he actually has a certain judgment on these things: especially on the offensive end, even a fool knows how much this team relies on that unattractive, buck-toothed Uruguayan striker.

When the team's offense was in a quagmire, everyone only knew to kick the ball forward and let the omnipotent Suarez mess up the opponent's defense.

It has to be said that as a head coach, Van Basten does not have much to praise in terms of technical and tactical qualities. Like many Dutch compatriots, he pins the team's offensive hopes more on the individual performance of key players. .
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Training with the first team does not mean starting a career. At least the contract between Ajax and Longshut is still an apprentice contract, and he still cannot enter the squad for the competition.

——This is normal. After all, he is still far from getting used to the team. It takes a lot of time to get familiar with tactics and the style of his teammates.

Long Shute was also surprised to find that after entering the first team, the system not only didn't give him any rewards, but his overall rating dropped slightly - in the column of teamwork, the original 14 directly dropped to 0...

He has to run in and train with these first-team bigwigs from the beginning to cultivate a tacit understanding!

Before he integrates into the team's lineup and tactics, this team obviously will not have his place.Therefore, when Van Basten took the first team to the field to challenge the next opponent Fenerbahce, he was left in Amsterdam.

In the collective apartment rented by the club for the youth team players, Long Shute and those teammates who have known each other for 20 months watched the team's away game against Feyenoord.

Suarez scored twice to dominate the game, and Ajax also won 3-0. Feyenoord, ranked 11th, were defeated at their own home.

"This guy doesn't seem to be particularly fast, his technique is not particularly good, and his body is not particularly strong, but...how is he so good? Can he score goals?!"

A young player couldn't help asking.

"I think...he is much stronger than Huntelaar!"

These words made Long Shute roll his eyes.
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From the bottom of his heart, Long Shute really hoped that Ajax would return home in an away defeat. It would be best if he could be beaten bloody and full of holes by Feyenoord, so that he could force Van Basten to return I, who is better at defense, put myself into the main lineup as soon as possible.

But maybe it was my arrival that inspired the self-esteem of the main players. They felt how a youth team player could challenge their position. Everyone was more active than before in the subsequent training and games, which was unexpected. To the surprise of Van Basten and Long Shute.

In the following time, Ajax ushered in a small climax of four wins and one draw, and the ranking of points rose rapidly. With Suarez's continuous goals, they also returned to the No.3 position, second only to Alkmaar and Twente have sprung up this season.

In such a seemingly good situation, it is obviously difficult for Long Shute to expect that Van Basten will replace any of the main players who are in hot form in order to hone himself...

But he still trains with the first team.

Like the youth team, he is still the hardest-trained player in the team, or in other words, knowing that the opportunity is rare, he performed even harder than before.

Work so hard that other first-team players can't stand it.

The fitness coach even came to him specifically to advise him to pay attention to the reasonable distribution of physical fitness and not to overdraw too much, but when the kind coach saw that Long Shute was still alive and well in the training the next morning after undergoing a lot of training After the scene, he could only shake his head and say, "This monster!"

In the team training match, the teammates who played against Long Shute often worried about being accidentally injured by the murderous Long Shute—even though his interception actions were often very careful.

It's not that Long Shute didn't think about injuring his direct competitor during training, so as to get a chance to play in an official game, but... Van Basten and his coaching team are not fools.

After all, he has always been a good boy who has been training hard for the past few years, and he has never tried to be a bad guy. Suddenly he was asked to pretend to be an accident. The kind-hearted him may not be able to do it with ease and flawlessly. In case the coaches find out , the price I have to pay may be very heavy
In addition, if he wants to play, at least he has to abolish the three Ajax midfielders at the same time to have a chance, otherwise it will only make those substitute players cheaper, so he finally decided to give up this unreliable method.

Training with the first team is obviously more helpful to the improvement of Long Shute than the youth team. The level of Suarez, Vermaelen and others is of course much higher than those U19 friends.

In just two months, the comprehensive rating, which had stagnated before that, has finally risen again: from 68 to 69, the threshold of 70 seems to be in sight.

The system's evaluation of him has long been changed from "I have never seen such a rubbish player" to "If you make full use of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, you may be able to become a first-line player for a third-rate team."

Ajax... is just a third-rate team now.

(End of this chapter)