Chapter 162

Jiang Xiaolin couldn't pay attention to the heated discussions among domestic fans on the Internet, because he had left Alkmaar on the morning of April 14, went to Amsterdam, and then boarded a plane to Serbia.

He was going to Serbia to join the National Olympic Team. Accompanying him on the plane to Serbia was a staff member of Baker's agency named Hans.

Hans was sent by Baker to be Jiang Xiaolin's assistant. His task was to send Jiang Xiaolin to Serbia, and after joining the Chinese National Olympic Team, he could go back after everything was fine.

Mainly because Baker was afraid that Jiang Xiaolin would get lost at the airport because he didn't speak the language and was unfamiliar with Serbia.

Red Star Belgrade Football Club is the most successful football club in Serbia and Yugoslavia before its disintegration. It has won the most domestic top league championships and reached the peak of Europe in the 1990/1991 season, winning the European Champions Cup that season and the Toyota Cup (World Club Cup) at the end of the year.

This is far from what Jiang Xiaolin's current club Alkmaar has achieved.

Although the overall economic situation in Serbia is not good due to the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and Red Star Belgrade cannot reproduce the miracle of winning the Champions League, its historical aura is enough to dazzle people.

As for why the Chinese Olympic team chose to train in Serbia and Red Star Belgrade, it is naturally because the head coach of the Chinese Olympic team, Ratomir Dujkovic, is a Serbian himself, and was also the main goalkeeper of Red Star Belgrade, helping Red Star Belgrade reach the semi-finals of the Champions League in 1970.

Therefore, Dujkovic has a good network of contacts in Serbia, so he can contact Red Star Belgrade, a former Champions League champion, to provide the training base for the Chinese Olympic team, and will play a friendly match with the Olympic team in the future.

Another team in the friendly match is more valuable, which is the Serbian Olympic team, which is also one of the participating teams in the Beijing Olympics.

This friendly match was of high value. Both sides were playing a real friendly match before the Olympics to test the team's technical and tactical level and examine the players.

Both the training ground and the opponent of the friendly match were determined by the connections of head coach Dujkovic.

Therefore, Dujkovic was actually quite responsible for the Chinese Olympic team.

He also wanted to achieve results, and did not want to fail or be fired.

After 14:00 in the afternoon, the plane that Jiang Xiaolin and Hans took landed at Belgrade Airport in the north of the central city of the Serbian capital.

Then, when the two walked out of the airport, they saw a Chinese man in his 30s wearing a T-shirt with the Chinese national team logo holding a white paper in the reception hall, on which the three characters "Jiang Xiaolin" were written in Chinese characters.

There was another young man in his 20s standing next to him.

Jiang Xiaolin had called Yin Tieshen before boarding the plane, so he naturally knew that these two people should be here to pick him up.

Seeing Jiang Xiaolin, the middle-aged man holding the paper brightened up and waved to Jiang Xiaolin.

Jiang Xiaolin walked over with Hans and stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, I'm Jiang Xiaolin."

The man smiled and shook Jiang Xiaolin's hand, saying, "Hello, I'm Guo Bing, the logistics manager of the Olympic team."

Then, Guo Bing introduced Jiang Xiaolin to the young man next to him, who turned out to be the translator Jiang Xiaojun who accompanied the team.

Jiang Xiaojun did not shake hands with Jiang Xiaolin with one hand, but held Jiang Xiaolin's right hand tightly with both hands, shaking it constantly, and said excitedly: "My idol, I admire you so much! 17 goals in 9 games, third in the Eredivisie scorer list, awesome! You must leave me an autograph and a photo."

This made the 16-year-old Jiang Xiaolin quite embarrassed.

Although it seems that he is already quite famous, he has actually only played 9 games in the Eredivisie.

In Alkmaar, he has many fans, but adults usually just ask him for autographs and take photos. People like Jiang Xiaojun who express admiration are usually teenagers.

After all, Jiang Xiaolin himself is only 16 years old, and it is a bit reluctant for an adult in his twenties or thirties to express admiration to him.

Generally, they express appreciation and recognition.

Jiang Xiaolin could only smile awkwardly and said to Jiang Xiaojun: "Thank you for your recognition. We still have ten days to spend together, so there is plenty of time."

Guo Bing also said beside him: "Okay, okay, I know you admire Jiang Xiaolin, but there is no need to be so excited! There will be enough time to spend together later."

Then, Jiang Xiaolin also introduced Hans to the two of them, which surprised Guo Bing. He thought that the star who played football abroad was really awesome. He even brought an assistant with him to the National Olympic Team training camp.

Fortunately, Jiang XiaolinHe explained that his agent was afraid that he would get lost after flying to Serbia because he would not be able to speak the language or be familiar with the routes, so he sent an assistant to take him to the Olympic team training base and then he could go back if he was fine.

This solved Guo Bing's doubts, otherwise he really didn't know how to arrange Hans!

The Chinese Olympic team was staying at the training base of Red Star in Belgrade, so it was naturally not convenient to arrange food and accommodation for Jiang Xiaolin, the unexpected assistant, which would be quite embarrassing.

Guo Bing was relieved to hear that Hans only took Jiang Xiaolin to the training base and then went back.

Afterwards, the four of them left the airport together, Jiang Xiaojun stopped a taxi, and went to the Red Star team training base in southern Belgrade together.

At the base, Jiang Xiaolin met all the teammates who participated in the training camp of the Olympic team, as well as the team leader Li Xiaoguang, the head coach Dujkovic, and the assistant coaches Yin Tieshen/Su Maozhen.

There is no doubt that everyone has been waiting for Jiang Xiaolin for a long time.

Everyone was already full of curiosity about Jiang Xiaolin. In yesterday's 33rd round of the Eredivisie, Jiang Xiaolin scored twice and scored the 17th goal in the Eredivisie, breaking Yang Chen's record and ranking third in the Eredivisie scorer list. This expectation reached its peak.

After seeing Jiang Xiaolin in person, the visual impact of Jiang Xiaolin's physical fitness alone made everyone feel that Jiang Xiaolin's current achievements were not a fluke.

Whether in terms of height, weight, or muscle strength, Jiang Xiaolin is probably the one with the best physical fitness in the National Olympic Team, and much stronger than others.

Although goalkeeper Qiu Shengjiong is taller and heavier than Jiang Xiaolin, his body muscles do not look as tight and strong as Jiang Xiaolin's.

Although Jiang Xiaolin has not yet opened the physical skills directly related to physical strength, after the attributes of physical strength, acceleration, jumping, and balance are added to the full value, Jiang Xiaolin's physique will naturally be strengthened.

Judging from the surface alone, Jiang Xiaolin's physique is much stronger than that of domestic players. It is no wonder that he can gain a foothold in the European league and perform well.