Chapter 7 Koeman Watching the Game ()

However, Jack Ma did not stay in the Netherlands for long before returning to his home. Before Jack Ma left, Mark handed over all his signing fees of 18,000 euros to Jack Ma. Originally, there were 20,000 euros, but since Momo was Mark's agent, Mark's signing fees were ruthlessly deprived of 10% of them. However, Mark had no objection to this point. After all, Momo now has become Mark's full-time nanny. Even if Momo didn't ask for it, Mark would take the initiative to give her the part she should get.

At the beginning, Jack Ma refused to ask for Mark's money. Parents may be like that. They all hope that their children can live better in other places. Now Mark is still in a foreign country. Maybe they need money at any time, and it is good to respond to emergency responses at that time. However, Mark doesn't need this money at all. The club pays him every week, so he doesn't need this money at all. In the end, Jack Ma still accepted the money under Mark's insistence.

Jack Ma, who received the money, couldn't help but feel a little excited. He didn't expect that his son would sign a contract with Ajax after going abroad. At first he didn't believe it because his son was lying to him. However, after coming to the Netherlands, Jack Ma had to believe it. He thought that after he returned home, he could finally brag about it with his neighbors, and he also had a son who played football in the Netherlands.

"You have to train well in Ajax to be able to play in the first team in the future. Your mother and I will find ways to watch your game video in China," Jack Ma told the airport.

Since China does not broadcast the Eredivisie at all, let alone the lower-level youth team league. So now, it is basically impossible for Mark's parents to see Mark on TV, unless he can play in the League Cup or the Champions League. However, with such developed online consultation, Jack Ma can still find some videos of the Ajax youth team competition online to watch.

After sending off his father, Mark started his hell-style training again. When Jack Ma was here, he greeted Basten and temporarily stopped the extra training for a few days because he didn't want his father to see his practice climbing into bed like a dead dog every day. He didn't want his father to worry about him. Mark felt that he had suddenly grown up after coming abroad. He would consider things he didn't think about before now. However, the more Mark felt that his parents were doing too much for him. In the future, he must perform well and earn more money to repay his parents.

However, the road is step by step, the meal is eaten one bite at a time, and money is earned bit by bit. If Mark wants to get more money, he naturally needs to perform better. However, when his father left, he motivated himself. "I must be selected into the first team, I must participate in European competitions, and I must let my parents see my wonderful performance on TV." Mark set a higher goal for himself.

"How heavy are the boss's sandbags and leggings?" Mark came to a shop and asked the boss. Mark's Dutch language is now slightly better. On the one hand, he teaches silently. On the other hand, Mark can put down his face and communicate with others. In order to practice Dutch, Mark communicates in Dutch when he meets people. He often goes to the square to read Dutch newspapers aloud at night. Although everyone looks at Mark with weird eyes at the beginning, as Mark improves, Dutch language is getting better and better now no one looks at Mark with weird eyes.

"How heavy do you want?" asked the owner of the equipment store. "We have sandbag leggings ranging from 0.5 kg to 10 kg."

"Just come to the ten-kilogram one."

After the boss took out a 10-kilogram leggings, Mark paid the money and walked out of the store. After returning home, Mark tied the total weight of ten kilograms and five kilogram leggings to his legs. Mark immediately felt the pressure. This is worthy of training explosive power and speed. Mark's current speed is basically about one-third slower than not carrying a load, and his movements are not very flexible.

After arriving at the training ground, everyone found that Mark's equipment today was not very similar to everyone. They curiously asked Mark what he was doing.

"Nothing," Mark explained lightly: "It's just adding some weight to the load. I think the explosive power of my legs and the contraction of the legs muscles."

"Mark, you are so hardworking," Babel patted Mark's shoulder enviously and said, "If I had the perseverance of yours, I think I would be able to enter the first team."

Mark's relationship with his teammates in the team is still very harmonious. The first reason is that Mark's cheerful personality has been diligent and hardworking, which deserves the respect of these players. Now Mark has a good friend, such as Babel and Vermallen, who are his good friends. It's strange to say that blacks and whites in the Netherlands are always two conflicting individuals. However, after Ajax now has a third-man race, it seems that this rule has gradually been broken, and the three of them are having a happy chat together.

"Mark" Basten walked over and said, "What are you doing today? Why do you need to tie a sandbag for training? If you want to have strength, you can go to the equipment room."

"Coach, you're early," Mark explained with a smile: "I just want to train the explosive power and strength at any time. Don't worry, coach, I won't delay normal training."

Since Mark said that, it was hard for Basten to say anything. He felt that Mark was a training monster and could not evaluate him with normal thinking. Basten, who accompanied Mark to do training every day, knew that after training every night, Mark ran home exhausted and then came to the team to continue the full day of training. Basten had never heard Mark complain.

In this way, Mark added weight to himself for training. It would be impossible to say that the sandbags with a total of 20 kilograms of legs had no effect on Mark. Most people trained with sandbags of about one kilogram of each leg. However, in order to achieve the goal earlier, Mark directly challenged high difficulties. The weight of five kilograms of each leg made Mark's very easy training program that he had dealt with before made him feel a little difficult for the first time, but Mark gritted his teeth and persevered.

"How heavy are your leggings?" Basten asked during the extra exercise at night: "Can you take them down and let me see?"

Mark took off his leggings and handed them to Basten immediately. Basten flipped his hands and tied them to his legs and prepared to feel whether the difference in weight was very big. However, after helping the sandbag, he just raised his legs because he didn't master the balance well and almost fell to the ground all of a sudden. Fortunately, Basten's athlete's excellent balance ability allowed him to avoid making a fool of himself in front of Mark.

"Mark, you actually train with this thing," Basten asked in surprise: "You tied this thing and could you continue to train. Are you a monster?"

Not only was he not angry but was very happy when he heard Basten say this. He liked what he called him very much. He wanted to use monster-like training to improve himself. Now Mark feels that he should gradually become the main player of the youth team, but the growth level of like entering the first team is still not enough.

"Coach, I'm a monster," Mark shouted: "In the future, I will not only be a monster on the training ground, but also a monster on the court and an irresistible player."

"It's this kind of momentum," Basten nodded with satisfaction after hearing Mark's words, and said, "You must maintain this kind of momentum. Only such indomitable momentum can make your opponent feel scared."

In Mark's impression, Basten was an elegant shooter and the prince on the court. Unexpectedly, Basten would instill such a concept in himself.

After completing a series of actions today, Mark continued to go to Lao Sun's clinic for massage. Maybe Mark did it too hard today. After lying down on the massage chair, Mark felt his nervous nerves relax and fell asleep.

Mark may be too tired today. After Lao Sun recovered, Mark had not woken up yet, so Lao Sun had to cover him with a quilt and let Mark rest in his massage parlor for the whole night.

"Wow, it's so comfortable," Mark said in surprise after getting up, "It's dawn, did I sleep here all night last night?"

"Mark, you're awake." Lao Sun smiled after seeing Mark get up, "Come and have breakfast, it'll be cold in a while. Yesterday, I might be too tired, so I fell asleep directly with me."

After hearing Lao Sun's words, Mark felt a little embarrassed. He was here for massage but he didn't expect to stay here for one night. Mark felt that even if his exercise volume suddenly increased, it shouldn't be like this. This is very impolite in China. Lao Sun didn't say that you can live here.

"Thank you, Lao Sun," Mark said embarrassedly: "I really caused you trouble yesterday, I'm really embarrassed."

"Where are you talking, everyone is Chinese, you are so kind to say this, have a meal soon."

Mark quickly ate a few bites of rice and washed it briefly, then tied it up and ran to the detoekomst training base.

After entering the base, Mark's friends Babel and Virmullen rushed over. Virmullen said with an unfathomable look on his face: "Mark, do you know? Today the head coach of the first team will come to watch our youth team's game. We must perform well today. This is a good opportunity to be promoted to the first team."

"Where did you get the news?" Mark asked curiously: "Do you still have acquaintances in the first team? I remember that there seems to be no Belgian in the first team."

"What the youth team coach over there said," Babel next to him said, and then said nodded.

"Then we have to work hard in the competition, so that all three of us can be selected into the first team. Then we can go to a Chinese restaurant for a big meal."

When it comes to eating, both of them laughed. These three people like to eat very much. When it comes to eating, even Babel, who is usually taciturn, talks endlessly, and saliva flows out of his mouth. He looks so vague that he looks so funny. Vermalen, a central defender who considers himself a world-class foodie, has patronized all Amsterdam restaurants.

"Okay, boys, listen to me before training," said Basten, the head coach of the youth team, after coming over, he said to all the players: "The head coach of the first team will also come to watch the game today. I believe you know what this means, and I look forward to your performance."

Although Mark had known this news before, Mark was still very excited after hearing Basten's words. He trained hard every day just to have the chance to be selected for the first team? Now that this opportunity has come, Mark must seize this opportunity to be selected for the first team, and then gain the main position to become famous in the Netherlands.

The opponent of the Ajax Youth Team in this youth team is Feyenoord Youth Team. The current situation of the Feyenoord Youth Team is not very good. Because the club sold a large number of first-team players, the team's lineup has been weak, so some of the potential players of the youth team have been transferred to the first-team. Now there is no player in Feyenoord's youth team that can show off. This is undoubtedly good news for players who want to show their strength.

The first team coach Koeman indeed appeared on the coach's seat on the court as Basten said. The young players of the Ajax youth team secretly vowed in their hearts to show their best side to Koeman, including Mark.

In this game, Basten still arranged the traditional 433 formation as always. Mark continued to start and sit in the middle position of the third midfield. His partners were Emmanuelson and Joan. Now Mark is gradually familiar with this new position. Although Mark is the oldest player in this group, he is just a newcomer and does not feel that he must be the boss when he is old. The boss on the court cannot be a ball boss. Everything depends on strength. If you perform well, you will respect you even if you don’t speak. On the contrary, if you don’t perform well, you can’t stay long by relying on your old qualifications.

After the opening, he mainly played the Ajax team on the offense on both sides, so in addition to defense, Mark also had the opportunity to get a long shot. It can be said that Mark did a good job of completing Basten's pre-match arrangement in this game, with a strong aggressive defense and a good overall view of the situation. They are all the achievements Mark achieved during the hard training during this period.

"Is this the player you recommend?" Koeman asked Basten beside him. After Basten nodded, Koeman said: "This young man is pretty good. The range of movement on the field is very large and his physical strength is also very strong. If he can standardize his defensive technology, improve the quality of passing a little, and strengthen his personal skills a little, I think he should have a good development prospect."

Basten did not say anything after smiling, but if Mark heard this, he would definitely say in tears: "Brother, do you say that I have any prospects for development?"

However, Mark is only focused on the game and has not noticed the conversation between Basten and Koeman. However, even if Mark notices, he cannot hear it, because the two head coaches are too far away from Mark, and Mark does not have the skill of "Shunting the Wind Ear".

But Mark is not only good at defending, he can also attack, but his previous shots were all fired anti-aircraft guns. However, as a player from a central defender, heading is naturally one of his strengths. No central defender can't head the ball. Even the central defender of the Celestial Dynasty has better heading skills than foot skills.

After Babel's ball in the frontcourt, he forced the opponent's defender to foul and got a free kick from the left side of the frontcourt. Basten signaled Mark to quickly press on the attack and compete for a header. Now Mark's strength has changed drastically than when he first joined Ajax. Mark was no longer so scratching his head when he was hitting his body. He rushed forward decisively and then saw his teammates making a No. 3 gesture.

Mark understands this gesture very well. This is a tactical cooperation, which means that Mark grabs the front point and then lets the responding players shoot and score. Now Mark has become an important piece of the tactical arrangement of Basten. It is not that Mark's body is now strong enough to be a power player, but because Mark's movements are much more flexible than ordinary players. Mark's 1.85-meter tall now has almost more flexible reaction speed than some players 1.88 meters tall.

After Babel drove the football out, Mark directly grabbed the front and headed the ball according to the tactical arrangement. Vermallen rushed over and headed the ball to the top. The football flew out to the goal of the Feyenoord youth team like a white shell fired on Vermallen's head. Feyenoord goalkeeper Dede made a world-class save and directly saved the football, but the football did not go far. At this time, the players of the Ajax Youth Team and the players of the Feyenoord youth team ran up to win the football. Ajax wanted to get the football directly or pass the ball. The players of the Feyenoord youth team hoped to drive the football directly to destroy the Ajax Youth Team's offensive opportunity.
Chapter completed!