Green Dragon

Chapter 40 Ajax's ban
2009 8 Month 8 Day.

The sky above the Amsterdam Arena was once again thundering with cheers.

"Ajax I love you" chants once again filled the stadium.

Amidst the cheers of more than 4 fans, the black-haired player in the red jersey was celebrating in the corner flag area.

Behind him are ten teammates who are also young and energetic, and everyone's face is filled with the joy of victory.

Behind the eleven players, an electronic screen in the corner of the court displayed time and scores.

90+1 minutes, injury time, 4:1.

The home team Ajax is in front and the visiting team Wahlwijk is behind.

Van Basten on the coach's bench had a calm expression of "it should be so", his smile was full of confidence, but with a hint of pride and reserve of a winner.

Not far away, Wahlwijk coach Luther Bruder didn't even feel unwilling and struggling after falling behind. He just sighed helplessly, took two steps forward, stretched out his right hand towards Van Basten, and smiled wryly. shaking his head:

"I lost to you, Marco."

Although he knew that his opponent could not be compared with himself in Dutch football, Van Basten also maintained his demeanor. He extended his right hand to shake the opponent, and then gave a polite word of comfort.

Before his voice could reach Bruder's ears, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

"Drip! Drip! Drip!"

"Ajax won this league victory without bloodshed. Congratulations to Van Basten!"

Dutch TV guest Storm Jansen exclaimed:
"Since the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League is only three days away and the players' physical fitness has not yet fully recovered, Van Basten decisively adopted a large-scale rotation lineup. Soleimani is the only one in the starting 11 for this game. He played first in the previous game. This adjustment is undoubtedly very scientific, the main players have got enough rest, and the substitute players have also got the opportunity to show their abilities..."

"Your comment is too one-sided, Storm," the commentator Hans Kudel sneered, "This game only proves one thing... If you really rely on these substitute players, Ajak I'm afraid even a newly promoted like Wahlwijk can't solve it smoothly! Until the 60th minute, they still couldn't break through the opponent's goal. Do not go into battle..."

Although Kudel was not euphemistic enough, it was a true portrayal of the whole game: perhaps due to a lack of tacit understanding, these substitute players seemed to be enthusiastic but lacking in thinking most of the time. The underdogs who have been promoted from the first division league, although they can attack three times as much as their opponents, they have never been able to form a real threat.

After Wahlwijk broke the deadlock in the second half, Van Basten could no longer pretend to be calm, and sent three frontcourt generals, Snow, Suarez and Essati, in succession.

This kind of adjustment really had an immediate effect. It took only 20 minutes for Suarez to kick his head and kick his head, staged a hat-trick, helping the team win two consecutive league victories in the new season, and it also made Van Basten's rotation tactics unstoppable. As for just starting to implement it, it died halfway.

If you just look at the results, Ajax not only scored all three points, but also gave most of the main players a rest, and trained the bench players, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

But to zoom in on the background of all this, a traditional giant like Ajax, facing an unknown newly promoted team with a semi-main lineup, has no way to gain an advantage... This reality may make some old fans feel hurt bosom.
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But the most sad thing is not those fans, but Long Shute who enjoyed the 90-minute game in the stands.

This game...he didn't make the team's roster.

The reason is simple...Assistant coaches Fanzkipp and Weitzger, fitness coach Bertrand, and team doctor Van Talde unanimously determined that he was physically and mentally unable to play the game!

In other words, the training madman who trains himself every day is special...he was banned from the team!
As a representative of the coaching team, Fanzkipp warned him very unceremoniously: "If you ignore the training plan we made for you, still don't cherish your body, and give yourself unlimited extra training, Aja Max wouldn't mind disqualifying you from official competition at all echelons."

Team doctor Van Tanger still forgot to add: "Don't try to secretly train in private without telling us, your body will not help you hide it together."

Even the coach Van Basten left a sentence viciously: "A player who doesn't know how to cherish his body, even if he is a once-in-a-century genius, I will not reuse it!"

The besieged and helpless Chinese teenager immediately gave up. The original plan to practice [-] more shots in a week was directly cancelled. Even the intensity of the dribbling event that has been practiced recently has been reduced a lot.

That's right, his system can indeed help design the highest-intensity training plan that the body can bear, but that kind of devil training will inevitably squeeze most of his energy. Although the damage caused to the body can be gradually recovered with time, but It takes time and rest after all, doesn't it?

More importantly, the coaching staff believes that he has consumed a lot of physical energy in a high-intensity game such as the Champions League qualifiers. After additional training, it is only a matter of time before his body collapses.

This can’t be blamed on them. Van Basten and his colleagues didn’t know that there was a system around Long Shute that could tailor a training plan for him. They were just fulfilling their due responsibilities to stop a “ Young people who "blindly practice more in order to quickly improve their technical level" embark on the road of "self-mutilation".

So Long Shute could only obediently listen to the good intentions of the coaches, but even so, his training intensity was still much higher than the second hardest player in the team...

Under the current situation of Ajax, the club needs the players to concentrate all their energy on daily training and competitions. Since Long Shute has "got his way back", the coaching staff is also willing to let him, who is active and diligent, Be a role model for all the young people in the team.

The enthusiasm of young people comes quickly, but also fades quickly. There is such a young player between the main force and the substitute who appears by his side every day in full swing, and the enthusiasm and competitive spirit of his teammates will also be stimulated accordingly.

Therefore, they finally stopped suppressing the young man's enthusiasm for training.

The first leg of the fourth qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League is less than a week away.

But before Fiorentina... Ajax have another game.

On August 8, just three days before the qualifying match, Van Basten took his disciples to the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven.

They want to challenge away from Eindhoven, who is tied with themselves among the three traditional giants of the Eredivisie.

It is the one who trained Ronaldo the "alien", Romario the "lone wolf", Ruud van Nistelrooy the "King of the Small Zone", Gullit the "braided" of the "Three Musketeers of the Netherlands", and "Peter Pan" Robben's Eindhoven.

This is a contest between two declining giants, but it is also a rare peak duel in the declining Eredivisie league.

(End of this chapter)