Chapter 36
That evening, Jiang Xiaolin received a call from Yu Hai, who said that they were the only two players playing football in the Netherlands, and that they should move around more often, and asked Jiang Xiaolin to visit him in Arnhem when he was free.
The call must have been from Peng Zhijie to Yu Hai.
Jiang Xiaolin agreed, and also invited Yu Hai to come to Alkmaar when he was free.
The initial contact between the two was established, but in fact, both knew that it would be difficult for them to sit down and have a meal together in a short time.
Because the distance between Alkmaar and Arnhem is not short, more than 100 kilometers, and the situation of both is not good.
Yu Hai has to work hard to fight for the opportunity to play in the Vitesse first team, and Jiang Xiaolin is even worse. He must first gain a foothold in the youth team before he can talk about striving to advance to the first team.
The next day, Jiang Xiaolin made himself a breakfast at home and walked towards the Alkmaar youth training base.
In fact, the youth training base and the first-team training base are in the same place, but they are separated by a wall, so they can't see each other.
Of course, there are different doors for entering and exiting. A club staff member had brought Jiang Xiaolin to recognize the door before, and the guard also knew Jiang Xiaolin.
When Jiang Xiaolin arrived at the gate of the youth training base, other youth players from various echelons arrived one after another.
Some lived nearby and walked or ran here like Jiang Xiaolin.
Others lived a little further away and took a taxi or were driven by their parents.
There are very few people who can own a car and drive to training.
After all, the salary of youth training players is very low, not enough to buy a car.
And there are age restrictions. Many young echelon players are not even old enough to take a driver's license test!
When these people saw Jiang Xiaolin, they all knew that he was the Chinese striker signed by the team two days ago.
However, no one greeted Jiang Xiaolin, and no one smiled at him.
Because Jiang Xiaolin was only 16 years old, but he was paid by the first team. Even though his salary is the lowest among the first-team players, it is still higher than anyone else's in the youth training camp.
You know, there are many players around 20 years old in the youth training camp.
The oldest team in the youth training camp is the U19 youth team, which is usually referred to as the Alkmaar youth team.
As for the younger teams, they are called the Alkmaar U17 youth team, the Alkmaar U15 youth team, and so on.
If you stay in the U19 youth team until you are 19 or 20 years old and are not selected by the first team, you can only find another way out.
Therefore, those players who are already 20 years old don't know how jealous they are when they see the 16-year-old Jiang Xiaolin with the first-team contract.
In particular, Jiang Xiaolin is a yellow man, a Chinese, not a local Dutchman.
Jiang Xiaolin's unexpected appearance is equivalent to blocking a place for the youth team to be promoted to the first team.
No wonder no one treats him well.
Jiang Xiaolin is calm and doesn't care.
From childhood to adulthood, he didn't know how many times he had been looked down upon and discriminated against, and he had long been accustomed to it.
After being deceived into coming to the Netherlands, he became a homeless beggar, and then he failed the Ajax trial and didn't score a goal in Pulmès for two months.
Jiang Xiaolin, who grew up in this environment, hopes to be recognized by others, but he won't care too much if others don't recognize him.
Jiang Xiaolin walked into the gate of the youth training camp with a calm face and walked towards the football field where the U19 youth team was training.
Along the way, he heard the vague discussions of other players from time to time:
"Is this the Chinese striker who was transferred from the first team to the youth team?"
"Even after signing the contract, he still can't gain a foothold in the first team. He still has to come to the youth team to train. I don't know what the meaning of the club giving him a professional contract is."
"I heard that he scored 5 goals in 60 minutes in the training match during the trial of the first team. The efficiency is very high."
"Is it true? Even if it is true, I'm afraid it's mostly lucky goals, right?"
"I don't know, anyway, he didn't stay in the first team, it's probably either Most of them are lucky goals, or the rumors are false. "
"It must be false! If he could really score 5 goals in 60 minutes, why didn't Van Gaal keep him in the first team and take him to Amsterdam? You know, we were 6-1 bloodbathed by the opponent!"
"Yeah! I don't know who spread the rumor, it's so hateful! If you say that Chinese people are good at table tennis, I have nothing to say. But as for football, I will never believe it even if you kill me!"
"Yes, that's it!"
Jiang Xiaolin heard some of these discussions, but some of them were not heard completely.
No matter what he heard, his face was calm!
No matter whether these people were jealous of him or didn't believe him, they were destined to be wrong in the end.
Jiang Xiaolin, who was supported by the system,The youth team is just a transitional place to deceive people!
No matter what others think, he will upgrade, add points, and improve his strength step by step, and finally be promoted to the first team and play in the Dutch League!
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When he came to the U19 youth team training ground, there were already a few people, but most people had not arrived yet. Jiang Xiaolin was one of the early ones.
Probably because these people lived close to each other.
When it was close to 8 o'clock, other players of the youth team also arrived at the training ground one after another, and no one was late.
These are young players, and they are not qualified to be big names.
As soon as 8 o'clock arrived, the youth team coach Crofts and assistant coach Freeman appeared on the sidelines on time.
"Assemble!" Freeman shouted, and the players quickly stood together and stood in two rows.
Jiang Xiaolin consciously stood at the edge of the second row.
Crofts looked at all the quiet players and said to them:
"I believe everyone has seen that we have a new player today: Jiang Xiaolin. Jiang is from China and plays as a forward. I hope that everyone will help each other and improve together in training and competitions in the future, and strive to get a good result in the second half of the Dutch Youth League."
The players were expressionless and clapped perfunctorily, expressing their welcome to Jiang Xiaolin in a formal way.
However, in their hearts, no one was convinced.
Especially the forwards of the youth team, they were probably jealous of Jiang Xiaolin who had taken away their first-team promotion spots.
Next, Freeman arranged for everyone to conduct morning training, which involved physical fitness, strength, passing, breakthrough, dribbling, stopping, goalkeeper training and other content according to different positions.
Through a morning of training, Crofts found that Jiang Xiaolin was the same as what he saw in the first-team training match that day: good physical fitness and fast speed, but other aspects such as stopping, passing, dribbling, and breakthrough were very bad.
Moreover, he also found that the youth team players under him were not very welcoming to Jiang Xiaolin.
After thinking about it for a while, Crofts knew the reason.
