Chapter 5 Gambling
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Chen Ai Ting
Chapter 5 Gambling
In the morning, the huge skate park was deserted.
Carrying a schoolbag, Yang Yang juggled the ball skillfully, entered from the residential area on the east side, and went straight to the center of the park along the winding path.
After two weeks of arduous and tedious basic training, his juggling skills have improved a lot. Even juggling the ball does not affect his walking speed at all, and he soon came to the core of the park.
As the name suggests, there is a skateboarding area in the core area of the skateboard park. I heard that there used to be many young skateboarders gathering every night, which was very lively. But after that wave of skateboarding boom passed, the skateboard park gradually became depressed, leaving only those deserted skateboarding facilities still reminding people.
Yang Yang's ball-jumping training can finally come to an end temporarily, but the next step of special training formulated by Lao Bing needs a wall.
The urban area of Almere is very large, but it is really not an easy task to find a wall that can be used for training. In the end, Yang Yang finally found a long-abandoned wall in the skate park, full of graffiti.
The location of the skateboard park is very good. To the north is Yang Yang’s school Bakken Academy, to the east is the residential area where his uncle Shen Ming’s family lives, to the west is the river, and to the south is the famous Dominican Garden Villa area, which is the most upscale residential area in Almere just built last year.
Further south of the villa area is Almere Auto City, which is the largest and most professional car sales and maintenance center in the south of Amsterdam. Uncle Shen Ming's Chinese restaurant is just north of Auto City.
The skateboard park is huge, and the skateboard area has been deserted for a long time. Even early morning exercisers rarely pass by here, so Yang Yang doesn't have to worry about affecting others or being disturbed when he comes to train here.
After putting down his schoolbag, Yang Yang bounced the ball to the wall and stopped three meters away from the wall.
His first training was in this position, kicking the ball towards the wall, waiting for the ball to bounce back, and then kicking back. The requirement is that he must touch the ball with one foot, and the strength of each touch should be controlled to keep the same as much as possible.
Five hundred strokes with the right foot, and another five hundred strokes with the left foot.
During the boring training against the wall, Yang Yang heard the sound of bang bang bang bang in his ears, but his body felt the similarities and differences of each kick, as well as the feedback every time the ball bounced off the wall.
The system Lao Bing also kept correcting his movements by his ear and giving suggestions for improvement.
After warming up with the ball all the way, Yang Yang was panting and sweating after a thousand passes, but this was just the beginning.
Stepping back five meters away from the wall, Yang Yang started the second training, bouncing the ball against the wall.
There are four parts, the inner instep and the front instep of the left and right feet, and each part takes 5 minutes, exactly 10 minutes.
Although Yang Yang has been training the ball for two weeks, there is still a big difference in bouncing the ball against the wall, especially after going through the reaction force of the wall, there are very high requirements for Yang Yang's first touch.
Lao Bing's requirements are still the same, there are four parts in total, and each part is qualified for [-] consecutive dribbles.
Although it was all the most basic training, Lao Bing had extremely high demands on Yang Yang. If there was a slight mistake, he would immediately point it out and ask for correction. In addition, the training itself required a high degree of concentration and intensity. Before he knew it, Yang Yang was already sweating profusely.
He was so focused on his training that he didn't even notice that at some point, on the park trail not far behind him, a middle-aged man and woman who were exercising in the morning stopped and looked at him curiously.
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"What's the matter?" Truss asked his boyfriend curiously.
"It's nothing, I'm just curious." The middle-aged Dutch replied calmly.
Truss followed her boyfriend's line of sight and looked at the teenager training against the wall in the skateboard area in the distance, "Is it weird?"
"Huh?" The middle-aged Dutchman obviously didn't understand.
"I mean, is it weird to train against a wall?" Truth repeated his question.
"No, it's not surprising at all, many people do it, like Bergkamp."
Due to her boyfriend's professional relationship, Truss is also quite dabbled in football. In addition, her family and friends are all related to professional football.
"He like Bergkamp?" Truth asked tentatively.
From the perspective of my boyfriend, I am afraid that this is the only way to explain why he stopped to watch during his morning exercise and running.
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged Dutchman was obviously taken aback after hearing this.
"Him?" The middle-aged Dutchman shook his head, "It's still far from Bergkamp."
"Is it bad?"
"He should be about ten meters away from the wall. This is the most commonly used passing distance in professional leagues, and it is also something that all professional players must master and possess, and it must be a one-touch ball."
"But look..." The middle-aged Dutchman pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboard area. "He used two feet, and he often didn't stop the ball well with the first foot. It can be seen that this person's basic skills are very bad. He even trained like this by himself. When it comes to the competition field, it will be even worse. With his current level, he can't even play in the amateur league."
Truss rolled his eyes helplessly. His boyfriend has always been strict with football and speaks directly, but his eyes are very vicious. If he said that, he must be right.
"Seeing that 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 12. Spain's training in this aspect is much more important than ours, especially..."
Halfway through the speech, the middle-aged Dutchman's expression suddenly darkened, as if his weakness had been touched.
Truss also noticed.
Since that incident happened half a year ago, he began to become depressed. Although everyone knew that it was not his fault, he still couldn't get out.
Seeing that her boyfriend stayed at home all day was not an option. A friend just bought a house in the Dominican garden villa area in Almere, and there was the largest golf course around Amsterdam nearby. So at the suggestion of Truss, his love of golf is second only to football, so he decided to live in Almere temporarily for vacation to avoid the disturbance outside.
It's just that I didn't expect that after two days in Almere, my boyfriend was attracted by this strange boy this morning.
"Since you think he is bad, why are you curious?" Truss immediately changed the subject.
The corner of the Dutch middle-aged mouth twitched slightly, looking at Yang Yang, who was sweating from training, as if he was muttering to himself: "I'm curious, how long can he last this kind of boring and useless work?"
"How do you know it's useless?"
"When he is at his age, doing this kind of basic training is extremely boring, and it's half the effort. At the beginning, he is greedy for new things, but he can persist. But after a long time, when he starts to realize that everything he has done is in vain, he will quit. What is it if it is not useless work?"
Truss heard the deep meaning of her boyfriend from the words, talking about this boy, but why not a portrayal of himself?
"I don't think so. I think it's useful or not. You have to try it to know."
"you are too naive."
"It's just that you are too pessimistic, why don't we make a bet?" Truss looked at her boyfriend provocatively, and she felt that she should find something for him to do, so as not to let him think about it.
"Bet?" The middle-aged Dutchman pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboard area, "Him?"
"Yes, I think he can hold on."
"No, Truss Opalmel, I can tell you with absolute certainty that you are doomed. He won't last a month." The middle-aged Dutchman said confidently.
He has seen and experienced too many such people and things.
"Then bet." Truss spread his hands.
"Okay, it's a deal."
…………
…………
Yang Yang didn't know that he had become someone else's gamble, he just focused on training.
After practicing the pass to the wall at 15 meters, he backed up the distance to 20 meters, [-] meters, and finally some other training items, but they were all the most basic.
With his current basic skills, he should start from the most basic things.
According to Lao Bing, ball juggling is the most basic, but it is not the purpose. With the gradual improvement of ball feeling, the ball bouncing training will be gradually reduced and replaced by other trainings with more practical value.
Yang Yang agrees with this very much.
After finishing the training in the morning, Yang Yang put on his schoolbag again, walked north while juggling the ball, and soon left the skate park.
Yang Yang's juggling seems to be random, but if you pay attention carefully, it is not difficult to find that he controls the rhythm and strength of each kick as much as possible, and keeps the distance of every step as much as possible, which makes him seem to have a certain rhythm.
Bakken Academy is a one-stop school from kindergarten to high school, and it is also a famous private school in Almere.
Since two weeks ago, Yang Yang entered the school with Dianqiu, which has become an anecdote in the Bakken Academy, but more of it is ridicule and sarcasm.
Everyone knows that Yang Yang is good at reading, but he is a mess when playing football.
The fact that John Repp persuaded Yang Yang to quit many times has already been spread by Yang Yang's teammates, and everyone knows it.
But Yang Yang didn't respond at all to this, and still went his own way.
There is only one way to change the outside world's perception of oneself, and that is to pass the semester assessment and stay in Almere.
"This bastard really doesn't give up!"
At the gate of the school, Henk Dimmer watched Yang Yang walk into the campus with the ball dangling, and a flash of anger flashed in 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 lap game. Although he is still the worst performer in the team, it is difficult for everyone to tease him like before.
But he made progress, but Henk Dimmer started to get unlucky, and began to frequently enter the circle to grab the ball, and this was all thanks to Yang Yang. Even several times, Dimer couldn't help but want to beat him up.
"I heard the news that he has performed well in training recently, and the coaching staff intends to arrange for him to enter the squad on Saturday to participate in the game against Omnibas." Said a youth training player from Almere next to him.
"What?" Henk Dimmel was a little stunned.
"Nick is injured. I heard the coach asked him to play a defensive position."
Almere has been established for less than seven years, and neither the youth training echelon nor the first team is perfect, so the youth team cooperates with the private school Bakken Academy. Players in the sixteenth and 17-year-old groups represent the Bakken Academy to participate in the Saturday inter-school league in the south of Amsterdam.
Omnibas is also a team of Almere, and it cooperates with a fourth-level amateur team in this city for youth training. Its strength is not weak, and it is a hard nut to crack.
Henk Dimel narrowed his eyes. He is the captain of the youth team and the school team, but he hasn't received the notice yet.
"Then he should start praying for himself."
A new week has begun, please support us a lot!
(End of this chapter)
In the morning, the huge skate park was deserted.
Carrying a schoolbag, Yang Yang juggled the ball skillfully, entered from the residential area on the east side, and went straight to the center of the park along the winding path.
After two weeks of arduous and tedious basic training, his juggling skills have improved a lot. Even juggling the ball does not affect his walking speed at all, and he soon came to the core of the park.
As the name suggests, there is a skateboarding area in the core area of the skateboard park. I heard that there used to be many young skateboarders gathering every night, which was very lively. But after that wave of skateboarding boom passed, the skateboard park gradually became depressed, leaving only those deserted skateboarding facilities still reminding people.
Yang Yang's ball-jumping training can finally come to an end temporarily, but the next step of special training formulated by Lao Bing needs a wall.
The urban area of Almere is very large, but it is really not an easy task to find a wall that can be used for training. In the end, Yang Yang finally found a long-abandoned wall in the skate park, full of graffiti.
The location of the skateboard park is very good. To the north is Yang Yang’s school Bakken Academy, to the east is the residential area where his uncle Shen Ming’s family lives, to the west is the river, and to the south is the famous Dominican Garden Villa area, which is the most upscale residential area in Almere just built last year.
Further south of the villa area is Almere Auto City, which is the largest and most professional car sales and maintenance center in the south of Amsterdam. Uncle Shen Ming's Chinese restaurant is just north of Auto City.
The skateboard park is huge, and the skateboard area has been deserted for a long time. Even early morning exercisers rarely pass by here, so Yang Yang doesn't have to worry about affecting others or being disturbed when he comes to train here.
After putting down his schoolbag, Yang Yang bounced the ball to the wall and stopped three meters away from the wall.
His first training was in this position, kicking the ball towards the wall, waiting for the ball to bounce back, and then kicking back. The requirement is that he must touch the ball with one foot, and the strength of each touch should be controlled to keep the same as much as possible.
Five hundred strokes with the right foot, and another five hundred strokes with the left foot.
During the boring training against the wall, Yang Yang heard the sound of bang bang bang bang in his ears, but his body felt the similarities and differences of each kick, as well as the feedback every time the ball bounced off the wall.
The system Lao Bing also kept correcting his movements by his ear and giving suggestions for improvement.
After warming up with the ball all the way, Yang Yang was panting and sweating after a thousand passes, but this was just the beginning.
Stepping back five meters away from the wall, Yang Yang started the second training, bouncing the ball against the wall.
There are four parts, the inner instep and the front instep of the left and right feet, and each part takes 5 minutes, exactly 10 minutes.
Although Yang Yang has been training the ball for two weeks, there is still a big difference in bouncing the ball against the wall, especially after going through the reaction force of the wall, there are very high requirements for Yang Yang's first touch.
Lao Bing's requirements are still the same, there are four parts in total, and each part is qualified for [-] consecutive dribbles.
Although it was all the most basic training, Lao Bing had extremely high demands on Yang Yang. If there was a slight mistake, he would immediately point it out and ask for correction. In addition, the training itself required a high degree of concentration and intensity. Before he knew it, Yang Yang was already sweating profusely.
He was so focused on his training that he didn't even notice that at some point, on the park trail not far behind him, a middle-aged man and woman who were exercising in the morning stopped and looked at him curiously.
…………
…………
"What's the matter?" Truss asked his boyfriend curiously.
"It's nothing, I'm just curious." The middle-aged Dutch replied calmly.
Truss followed her boyfriend's line of sight and looked at the teenager training against the wall in the skateboard area in the distance, "Is it weird?"
"Huh?" The middle-aged Dutchman obviously didn't understand.
"I mean, is it weird to train against a wall?" Truth repeated his question.
"No, it's not surprising at all, many people do it, like Bergkamp."
Due to her boyfriend's professional relationship, Truss is also quite dabbled in football. In addition, her family and friends are all related to professional football.
"He like Bergkamp?" Truth asked tentatively.
From the perspective of my boyfriend, I am afraid that this is the only way to explain why he stopped to watch during his morning exercise and running.
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged Dutchman was obviously taken aback after hearing this.
"Him?" The middle-aged Dutchman shook his head, "It's still far from Bergkamp."
"Is it bad?"
"He should be about ten meters away from the wall. This is the most commonly used passing distance in professional leagues, and it is also something that all professional players must master and possess, and it must be a one-touch ball."
"But look..." The middle-aged Dutchman pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboard area. "He used two feet, and he often didn't stop the ball well with the first foot. It can be seen that this person's basic skills are very bad. He even trained like this by himself. When it comes to the competition field, it will be even worse. With his current level, he can't even play in the amateur league."
Truss rolled his eyes helplessly. His boyfriend has always been strict with football and speaks directly, but his eyes are very vicious. If he said that, he must be right.
"Seeing that 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 12. Spain's training in this aspect is much more important than ours, especially..."
Halfway through the speech, the middle-aged Dutchman's expression suddenly darkened, as if his weakness had been touched.
Truss also noticed.
Since that incident happened half a year ago, he began to become depressed. Although everyone knew that it was not his fault, he still couldn't get out.
Seeing that her boyfriend stayed at home all day was not an option. A friend just bought a house in the Dominican garden villa area in Almere, and there was the largest golf course around Amsterdam nearby. So at the suggestion of Truss, his love of golf is second only to football, so he decided to live in Almere temporarily for vacation to avoid the disturbance outside.
It's just that I didn't expect that after two days in Almere, my boyfriend was attracted by this strange boy this morning.
"Since you think he is bad, why are you curious?" Truss immediately changed the subject.
The corner of the Dutch middle-aged mouth twitched slightly, looking at Yang Yang, who was sweating from training, as if he was muttering to himself: "I'm curious, how long can he last this kind of boring and useless work?"
"How do you know it's useless?"
"When he is at his age, doing this kind of basic training is extremely boring, and it's half the effort. At the beginning, he is greedy for new things, but he can persist. But after a long time, when he starts to realize that everything he has done is in vain, he will quit. What is it if it is not useless work?"
Truss heard the deep meaning of her boyfriend from the words, talking about this boy, but why not a portrayal of himself?
"I don't think so. I think it's useful or not. You have to try it to know."
"you are too naive."
"It's just that you are too pessimistic, why don't we make a bet?" Truss looked at her boyfriend provocatively, and she felt that she should find something for him to do, so as not to let him think about it.
"Bet?" The middle-aged Dutchman pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboard area, "Him?"
"Yes, I think he can hold on."
"No, Truss Opalmel, I can tell you with absolute certainty that you are doomed. He won't last a month." The middle-aged Dutchman said confidently.
He has seen and experienced too many such people and things.
"Then bet." Truss spread his hands.
"Okay, it's a deal."
…………
…………
Yang Yang didn't know that he had become someone else's gamble, he just focused on training.
After practicing the pass to the wall at 15 meters, he backed up the distance to 20 meters, [-] meters, and finally some other training items, but they were all the most basic.
With his current basic skills, he should start from the most basic things.
According to Lao Bing, ball juggling is the most basic, but it is not the purpose. With the gradual improvement of ball feeling, the ball bouncing training will be gradually reduced and replaced by other trainings with more practical value.
Yang Yang agrees with this very much.
After finishing the training in the morning, Yang Yang put on his schoolbag again, walked north while juggling the ball, and soon left the skate park.
Yang Yang's juggling seems to be random, but if you pay attention carefully, it is not difficult to find that he controls the rhythm and strength of each kick as much as possible, and keeps the distance of every step as much as possible, which makes him seem to have a certain rhythm.
Bakken Academy is a one-stop school from kindergarten to high school, and it is also a famous private school in Almere.
Since two weeks ago, Yang Yang entered the school with Dianqiu, which has become an anecdote in the Bakken Academy, but more of it is ridicule and sarcasm.
Everyone knows that Yang Yang is good at reading, but he is a mess when playing football.
The fact that John Repp persuaded Yang Yang to quit many times has already been spread by Yang Yang's teammates, and everyone knows it.
But Yang Yang didn't respond at all to this, and still went his own way.
There is only one way to change the outside world's perception of oneself, and that is to pass the semester assessment and stay in Almere.
"This bastard really doesn't give up!"
At the gate of the school, Henk Dimmer watched Yang Yang walk into the campus with the ball dangling, and a flash of anger flashed in 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 lap game. Although he is still the worst performer in the team, it is difficult for everyone to tease him like before.
But he made progress, but Henk Dimmer started to get unlucky, and began to frequently enter the circle to grab the ball, and this was all thanks to Yang Yang. Even several times, Dimer couldn't help but want to beat him up.
"I heard the news that he has performed well in training recently, and the coaching staff intends to arrange for him to enter the squad on Saturday to participate in the game against Omnibas." Said a youth training player from Almere next to him.
"What?" Henk Dimmel was a little stunned.
"Nick is injured. I heard the coach asked him to play a defensive position."
Almere has been established for less than seven years, and neither the youth training echelon nor the first team is perfect, so the youth team cooperates with the private school Bakken Academy. Players in the sixteenth and 17-year-old groups represent the Bakken Academy to participate in the Saturday inter-school league in the south of Amsterdam.
Omnibas is also a team of Almere, and it cooperates with a fourth-level amateur team in this city for youth training. Its strength is not weak, and it is a hard nut to crack.
Henk Dimel narrowed his eyes. He is the captain of the youth team and the school team, but he hasn't received the notice yet.
"Then he should start praying for himself."
A new week has begun, please support us a lot!
(End of this chapter)
