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In the morning, there was no one in the huge skate park.
Yang Yang carried his schoolbag and skillfully pulled the ball, entered from the residential area on the east side, and followed the winding path straight to the center of the park.
After two weeks of hard and boring basic training, his ball-pulling skills have improved significantly. Even if he is playing the ball, it will not affect his walking speed at all. He soon arrived at the core of the park.
As the name suggests, there is a skateboard area in the heart of the skateboard park. I heard that in the past, there were always many young skateboard enthusiasts gathering at night, which was very lively. However, after the skateboarding boom, the skateboard park gradually became depressed, and only those abandoned skateboard facilities were still reminding people.
Yang Yang's ball-fighting training can finally come to an end for the time being, but Lao Bing's next special training is required.
The city of Almere is very large, but it is not easy to find a wall that can be used for training. In the end, Yang Yang finally found a waste wall that had been abandoned for a long time and was painted with graffiti in the skateboard park.
The skate park is located in a very good location. Go north to the north is the Baken School in Yangyang, and not far to the east is the residential community where my uncle Shen Ming’s family is located. To the west is a river, and to the south is the famous Dominican Garden Villa District, which is the highest-end residential community just built in Almere last year.
Further south of the villa area is Almele Motor City, which is the largest and most professional car sales and maintenance center in southern Amsterdam. My uncle Shen Ming’s Chinese restaurant is located on the north side of the motor city.
The skateboard park is very large and the skateboard area has been abandoned for a long time. Even morning practitioners who get up early rarely pass here, so Yang Yang doesn’t have to worry about it affecting others or being disturbed when he comes to train here.
After putting down his schoolbag, Yang Yang rushed to the wall with the ball and stopped three meters away.
His first training was to kick the ball towards the wall at this position, and then kick it back after the ball bounced back. The requirement was to touch the ball with one kick, and the strength of each touch must be controlled, and try to keep the same as possible.
Five hundred strokes of the right foot, and another five hundred strokes of the left foot.
During the boring wall training, Yang Yang listened to the banging sound in his ears, but his body felt the similarities and differences of every time he made his feet, and the feedback he felt when the ball bounced back from the wall.
The system Lao Bing kept correcting his movements by his ears and gave suggestions for improvement.
After warming up the ball all the way and passing a thousand feet, Yang Yang was already breathing and sweating, but this was just the beginning.
Retreat to five meters away from the wall, Yang Yang began his second training and pushed the ball against the wall.
There are four parts of the inner instep and the front instep of the left and right feet, each part is five minutes, exactly twenty minutes.
Although Yang Yang has been doing ball-fighting training for two weeks, it is still very different to bump the ball against the wall, especially after passing through the reaction force of the wall, he has high requirements for Yang Yang's first touch of the ball.
Lao Bing’s request is still the same. There are four parts in total, and each part is qualified for 500 consecutive balls.
Although it is all the most basic training, Lao Bing has extremely high requirements for Yang Yang. He will immediately make and ask for corrections if there is a slight mistake. In addition, the training itself requires high concentration and strong intensity. Before he knew it, Yang Yang was already sweating profusely.
He was focused on training and did not notice at all. At some point, on the park trail not far behind him, a middle-aged man and woman who were practicing in the morning stopped and looked at him curiously.
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"What's wrong?" Truss asked his boyfriend curiously.
"It's nothing, I just feel curious." The Dutch middle-aged man replied quietly with a serious smile.
Trus followed her boyfriend's sight and looked at the boy training against the wall in the skateboard area in the distance. "Is it strange?"
"Hmm?" The Dutch middle-aged man obviously didn't understand.
"I mean, is it strange to train against the wall?" Truss repeated his question.
"No, it's not surprising at all, a lot of people do this, like Borgkamp."
Due to her boyfriend's professional relationship, Truss is also quite involved in football. In addition, her family's friends are related to professional football, so she naturally knows the stars, not to mention Borgkamp, who is so popular in Arsenal.
"He's like Borgkamp?" Trus asked tentatively.
With her boyfriend's eyesight, I'm afraid that this is the only way to explain why he stopped to watch during morning exercises and running.
But unexpectedly, the Dutch middle-aged man was obviously stunned after hearing this.
"He?" the Dutch middle-aged man shook his head, "is far from Borgkamp."
“Is it bad?”
"He should be about ten meters away from the wall now. This is the most commonly used pass distance in the professional league. It is also something that all professional players must master and possess, and they must touch the ball with one kick."
"But look..." The middle-aged Dutch pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboard area. "He used two feet, and he often didn't stop the first kick. It can be seen that this person's basic skills are very bad. He even trained alone. When he was on the court, it would be even worse. With his current level, he couldn't even play in the amateur league."
Trus rolled his eyes helplessly. His boyfriend has always been strict with football and speaks directly, but his eyes are very vicious. If he says that, he will definitely not be wrong.
"See he is only sixteen or seventeen years old, is it so serious?"
"This is the most basic thing. You must master it at the age of twelve. Spain pays more attention to this aspect of training than we do, especially..."
Halfway through his words, the Dutch middle-aged man suddenly looked dark, as if he had been touched by the weakness in his heart.
Truss also noticed it.
Since that happened half a year ago, he has become depressed. Although everyone knows that it is not his fault, he still hasn't been able to get out.
Seeing that my boyfriend stayed at home all day was not a solution, a friend happened to buy a house in the Dominican Garden Villa in Almere, and there was the largest golf course near Amsterdam. So at Trus' suggestion, he loved golf only second to football, and then decided to stay in Almere for a temporary vacation to avoid the troubles outside.
But unexpectedly, two days after coming to Almele, my boyfriend was attracted by this strange boy this morning.
"Since you think he's bad, why are you curious?" Truss immediately changed the subject.
The corners of the Dutch middle-aged man twitched slightly, looking at Yang Yang who was sweating profusely from afar, as if he was muttering to himself: "I'm curious, how long can he last such boring and useless work?"
"How do you know it's useless?"
"At his age, if you do such basic training, it will be extremely boring and you will get half the result with twice the effort. You can still persist when you start to be greedy for freshness, but after a long time, when he begins to realize that everything he does is futile, he will give up. Isn't this useless work or what is it?"
Truss heard the deep meaning of his boyfriend from his words, saying that he was talking about this young man, but wasn’t that a portrayal of himself?
"I don't think so. I think it's useful or not. I have to try it to find out."
"You're too naive."
"You are just too pessimistic, why don't we bet?" Truss looked at her boyfriend provocatively. She felt that she should find something for him to do so that he could not think about it.
"Betting?" The middle-aged Dutch pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboard area, "He?"
"Yes, I think he can stick with it."
"No, Truss Opamel, I can tell you with great certainty that you will lose and he will not last for a month." said the Dutch middle-aged man with great confidence.
He has seen and experienced too many such people and things.
"Then let's bet." Truss spread his hands.
"Okay, one word is certain."
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Yang Yang didn't know that he had become someone else's bet, he just focused on special training.
After practicing the wall pass training at ten meters, he retreated to fifteen meters and twenty meters. Finally, there were some other training events, but they were all the most basic ones.
With his current basic skills, he should start with the most basic things.
In Lao Bing's statement, the most basic thing is to slam the ball, but it is not the purpose. As the ball feels gradually improves, the slam ball training will gradually decrease, and replaced by other trainings with more practical value.
Yang Yang agrees very much with this.
After finishing the morning training, Yang Yang put on his schoolbag again, walked north while pulling the ball, and soon left the skate park.
Yang Yang's ball bump seems casual, but if you pay attention carefully, it is not difficult to find that every ball bump bump controls the rhythm and strength as much as possible, and keeps the same pace as possible at every step he takes as much as possible, which makes him seem to have a certain rhythm.
Bakken Academy is a one-stop institution from kindergarten to high school, and is also a private school in Almere.
Two weeks ago, Yang Yang's admission to the school has become an interesting story in Bakken Academy, but it is still more ridiculed and sarcastic.
Everyone knows that Yang Yang is good at studying, but playing football is a mess.
The incident of John Rep persuaded Yang Yang to withdraw from many times has long been rumored by Yang Yang's teammates and is well known to everyone.
But Yang Yang did not respond at all to this and still did his own way.
There is only one way to change the outside world’s view of himself, that is, to pass the semester assessment and stay in Almere.
"This bastard is really unwilling to give up!"
At the school gate, Henk Dimmel watched Yang Yang walk into the campus with the ball rolling, and a trace of anger flashed through his eyes.
In the past two weeks of training, Yang Yang's performance in the team has been getting better and better, especially in the game of scrambling the circle. Although he is still the worst performer in the team, it is difficult for everyone to play with him like before.
But as he improved, Henk Dimer began to be unlucky and began to frequently enter the circle to grab the ball. This was thanks to Yang Yang. On several occasions, Dimer couldn't help but want to beat him up.
"I heard the news that he has performed well in training recently. The coaching staff intends to arrange him to the roster on Saturday to participate in the game against Omnibas." said an Armele youth training player next to him.
"What?" Henk Dimmel was a little stunned.
"Nick is injured. I heard that the coach asked him to play in the defensive position."
Almere has been established less than seven years ago, and neither the youth training echelon nor the first team is perfect enough. Therefore, the youth team cooperates with the private school Bakken Academy, and players of the 16th and 17th age groups represent Bakken Academy in the Saturday Intercollegiate League in southern Amsterdam.
Omnibas is also Almele's team. He cooperates with amateur team in the city that competes in the fourth level in youth training. His strength is not weak and he is a tough problem that is difficult to chew.
Henk Dimmel narrowed his eyes. He was the captain of the youth team and the captain of the school team, but he has not received any notice yet.
Chapter completed!