Chapter 4: Training hard ()

After Mark finished calling, he fell into deep thought. Murong Momo quickly packed everything up easily, but he still needed to buy some things here. Anyway, this place was not far from Chinatown. Momo called Mark to go to Chinatown with him to buy some necessities in daily life. Now Mark has to take care of his life by himself. After all, he has become a 10% lady.

"Ah?" Mark, who was suddenly awakened silently in his contemplation, had not yet reacted: "Is there anything?"

"What are you thinking?" Seeing Mark's silly look, Momo also felt a little funny. She thought that since she became an agent, she had to understand everything about her players and take care of her. This is a necessary thing for an agent: "I think we should buy some necessities for life."

"You can do it," Mark nodded and stood up and walked out and said, "I want to go to the club to train my body now."

Seeing Mark running out like the wind and silently not chasing him, he knew that Mark was working so hard was a good thing. After all, seeing a signing player working hard in itself is a good thing.

His residence is not very far from Ajax. The security situation in the Netherlands is not very good now. Fortunately, Mark was not harassed. Soon Mark came to the training base and knocked on the door.

Ajax's youth training center is named "detoekomst", which means "future hope" in Dutch. Countless stars have emerged here and is recognized as the best youth training base in the world.

"What are you doing?" asked Gates, who was guarding the door. This Gates is not Microsoft's giant Bill Gates. No matter how poor Gates is, he will not come to the door.

"Hello, uncle." Mark was stunned when he heard Gates' Dutch language, because he didn't know how to speak Dutch. He could only gesture and say, "I am the player I signed today, I want to train now." However, Mark gestured for a long time and didn't understand what it meant.

"no, no, no" Gates waved his hands repeatedly and made the intention of letting Mark go. Mark had no choice but to return to his apartment. When he walked into the apartment, he saw that he had gone out silently and didn't seem to come back. Mark was bored and said to the cross with his bored hand, "Boss, hurry up and think of a solution for me. What if my father comes to see me being abused by others in the future."

Suddenly, Mark's eyes suddenly turned black and then when he opened his eyes, he had already entered the "dream space". Jesus was standing in front of him, but in Mark's view, Jesus' body was a little transparent.

"What's going on?" Mark asked in surprise: "Are you practicing invisibility?"

"Haha" Jesus said with a smile, "Mark, my body's energy is about to be exhausted, and you need to get honor as soon as possible, otherwise neither of us will disappear in this world."

"Damn it, right?" Mark exclaimed: "Why is it so fast? I just joined the youth team and haven't reported it yet. If you give me honors, you have to give me some benefits. With just my body, even if I practice without rest for twenty-four hours, how much can I improve?"

"Okay, I'll help you for the sake of our lives." Jesus raised up and said, "When I say it, I can only slightly transform your body so that you can train better potentials, but then you still have to work hard to develop these potentials. Everything will depend on you in the future. You don't have to enter this space in the future. I need to sleep. Goodbye."

After saying that, Mark's eyes turned black. When he opened it again, he had returned to reality. Now Mark found a sense of urgency. Since Mark now does not know Murong Momo's phone number, he was anxious to wait for Murong Momo to come back and take him to the club to report. He didn't want to waste time. If Jesus died, it would be equivalent to having him died.

Just when Mark was so anxious that he turned around, the door suddenly opened, and Momo moved things down the taxi. After seeing him, Mark pulled up without saying a word and took the taxi directly to the Ajax training base.

When he arrived at the door, Gates saw Mark coming again and wanted to hit people, but Mark's momentum had completely changed at this time. If Gates had seen Mark as a sheep before, he would be a tiger now, a tiger that wanted to break everything and achieve success.

As Mark's translator, Momo naturally saw that Gates, who was guarding the goal, wanted to block Mark. After Momo explained for a while, Gates also got a rough idea. Then, after verifying the situation with the youth team coach, he learned that Mark was really a player of the Ajax youth team and then apologized to Mark.

Mark doesn't have time to grind his teeth with him now. He now longs for training in the best youth training system in the world. This is a matter of his life and he can't tolerate any carelessness.

The detoekomst center was completed in 1990, about 1 km from the Ajax home court, Amsterdam Athletic Stadium. The facilities are complete and look very large from a distance. There are 8 pieces of natural turf and 1 piece of artificial turf. One of the simple stands is the home court for Ajax youth teams at all levels to participate in the Youth League. There is also an indoor training hall, a restoration center and a sports restaurant. The physical training of the youth team is carried out in the training hall.

Mark directly found the youth team's head coach Van Basten to report that Ajax has 14 teams. In addition to the first team, all of them are contracted players, some of the reserve team's players also have contracts. The club did this to prevent other teams from poaching. In addition to the first team and the reserve team, all of the other 12 teams are youth teams. The specific classifications are a1a2 (under 18 years old), b1b2 (under 16 years old), c1c2 (under 14 years old), d1d2 (under 12 years old), e1e2 (under 10 years old), f1f2 (under 8 years old). These young players are all registered players from the club.

Basten is now the head coach of A1, which is the highest-level head coach of the youth team. Mark found him directly due to his age and value, and Mark's first words surprised Basten.

"Coach, please train me with the maximum intensity of training." Mark said firmly: "If possible, I hope this training volume can be twice theirs."

This sentence suddenly shocked Basten. You must know that the training intensity of the youth team is not small. This young Chinese player is twice as strong. Does he really have such perseverance? What an interesting child?

"It's okay if you want to practice more," Buster patted Mark's shoulder and said, "But you have to prove to me that you can do the training now. If you can't do the training now, there's no need to do the training now."

After hearing this, Mark felt it made sense. It was like building a building. As long as the foundation was laid, the building could be built. If the foundation was not laid, even if it was built, it would fall down. Mark was also scared by Jesus' words before. Now he calmed down and felt that he should try his best to do everything first. After all, he had never been exposed to Ajax's training programs, and Mark couldn't guarantee whether he could do these training programs well.

Basten directly summoned the players who were training to gather, "Listen, this is the newly signed player of our team. Let's get to know each other. Mark is now left to you."

"Hello everyone, my name is Mark." Mark spoke slowly in English. Because Dutch is better than English, Mark chose to introduce himself in English: "I am from China and I am very happy to join Ajax. I hope to join the first team with everyone."

The players around them burst into applause. It was not that everyone was not enthusiastic, but that these players basically couldn't understand English, and only a few international players could understand what Mark meant.

After Mark's introduction, Basten conducted group training. Today, because the wind was very strong outside, Basten chose to train in the city. The training content was a training method that Mark had never seen before, that is shuttlecock. Basten told Mark that the shuttlecock was small. If he could control it very flexibly, their accuracy in judging the football would be greatly enhanced. In addition, heading and instant force were beneficial to improving the football level.

Now Mark is a defender, so Basten does not have high expectations for him. He is the most forward-born and is not good at training defensive players. However, he has heard that the club has signed a Chinese player before, and has been highly recommended by chief scout Tom Plonk. He has become the only player who has been signed by the club without a trial, which has never been before. "It seems that the club's current excellent reserve player breaks down the club has made the club change."

Basten was not wrong. There is only one young team in the current youth team that has excellent potential, and all the remaining players perform very mediocrely, so the club is also looking for excellent talented players around the world to enrich the club. The young players here are undoubtedly the ones with the smallest investment returns.

However, after Basten's attention, he really didn't find any outstanding features of Mark. His skills were average, his body was average, his header, and his bounce was average. Why could such an ordinary player win the favor of the chief scout? However, Basten found that one thing Mark was indeed stronger than other players, that is, his hard work. Mark basically did not rest during training, and kept sitting in the same set of training movements. This was very boring. Basten gradually became interested in Mark.

Mark is the most special of these people. Because he doesn't understand Dutch, he always follows Murong Momo to translate. Because foreign universities are relatively easy, Murong Momo only needs to have enough credits to graduate smoothly. So now, with enough credits, Momo can help him translate at any time by his side.

After a day of training, the players of the youth team also returned to their homes. The youth team used the daytime work, but fortunately, most of the players were local Dutch, and some Belgian and foreign player clubs also provided accommodation.

Although he helped me to interpret, Mark felt that he was still very distant from these people. After all, he could not communicate with the players in person. When these players were joking, they knew what they meant through silent communication. After they wanted to cooperate and say something, the right time had passed. Mark discussed with Momo whether he could give him some Dutch tonight and make it easier for him to communicate with others?

Momo naturally agreed to Mark's request very readily. He could reduce his job and work on other things. Although Momo is Mark's agent, he still has a lot of personal matters to deal with. The two finally agreed to wait for Mark to finish training in the evening and then start making up for the lessons in his dormitory.

Now all the players have left, and only Mark and Momo are left on the entire court. Naturally, Mark cannot complete the training matters by himself. He needs to help himself. After a day of observation, he has basically understood these training events. Although he is not doing well, he can still assist Mark in training.

After the training, Basten returned to his office and summarized today's training results and arranged the content of tomorrow's training for more than an hour. When he was about to go home, he found that there were two people training on the court.

After the curious Basten walked over, he found that it was Mark who was silently assisted in training. Basten looked at Mark's sweating and couldn't help but admire Mark's hard work in his heart. He practiced himself on the first day of training. If such a player can keep doing this, it would be unreasonable to fail.

In fact, he didn't know that Mark forced himself to train now and wanted to succeed faster, so that his honor would be converted into energy, and Jesus would not have to die, and he would be safe.

"Mark, you are very hardworking," Basten walked to Mark and said, "The training intensity today is already very high. If you force your body to train, you will be unable to bear it."

"It's okay coach." Mark didn't stop after hearing Mumo's translation to himself: "My current qualifications are far worse than those of Babel. The only thing I can do is to work harder."

"Okay, then I'll train with you." As he said that, Basten took off his coat and trained with Mark. As the training deepened, Basten liked this young player more and more. Moreover, Basten found that Mark's skills were very good and his physical fitness was abundant. It would be a pity to put it on the defense line. If he could train him well, he might be another Davis-like character.

After the last set of training, Mark lay directly on the grass and rested for about two minutes, Mark stood up. In fact, the intensity of this training was really great. If it weren't for the huge motivation to support Mark, Mark might not have been able to hold on.

"Coach, thank you for being able to train with me, so see you tomorrow." After that, Mark ran to the locker room to change his clothes and prepared to return home.

Basten did not go home with Mark. He now has a question to consider, that is, his thinking about Mark's position. He was thinking about whether to transform Mark. The central defender and the midfielder are two completely different concepts. Although they both seem to be defensive, the defensive pressure of the midfielder is even greater. Players in this position not only need to be physically sufficient, but also need to have a very high sense of position. Mark is now 18 years old and many technical movements have been finalized. If he is rashly transformed, will it be detrimental to his career?

However, Mark didn't know what Basten was thinking. After he and Momo returned home, he felt like they were about to fall apart. Momo had a suggestion at this time, which was to go to a Chinese medicine clinic in Chinatown for massage and acupuncture to restore physical strength. And while Mark did acupuncture and massage, he could also teach Mark Dutch at the same time. This is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

Of course, Mark had no objection. Now he wanted someone to help him with a massage, so the two of them soon came to the Chinese medicine clinic in Chinatown. Since the Netherlands does not recognize the profession of traditional Chinese medicine, many Chinese medicine clinics are listed in the name of health care, and Mark came to a health care center.

As an "old man" who has been in the Netherlands for more than three years, Momo is naturally familiar with this place. Soon she took Mark to the second floor and met the owner of the health center. The boss's surname is Sun. Most people call him Lao Sun. After explaining the situation, Lao Sun nodded and immediately took Mark into the room. Lao Sun first gave Mark a massage, then cupped, and then acupuncture. Mark also used this time to learn English with Momo. It can be said that Momo is really a good teacher. Her educational method is very suitable for Mark. Mark feels that his Dutch language has really improved a little.

However, what surprised Mark even more was that after a series of tossing and trouble by Lao Sun, Mark felt that his physical fatigue had indeed weakened a lot and his body was normal. Mark felt that this traditional Chinese medicine was really amazing. Mark had never been exposed to this thing before in China. He did not expect that he had seen the power of traditional Chinese medicine in the Netherlands. This is a big irony.
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