Chapter 366

The opening time of this UEFA Cup group match is 20:45 on December 16, but the players of both sides need to warm up for about half an hour before the game.

Therefore, the award ceremony was scheduled at 20:00 in the evening.

Quite a lot of media came to this game, not only from the Netherlands, but also from the whole of Europe and many media teams from Asia and China.

Before Jiang Xiaolin, no one had achieved such great success in European football. Therefore, not only China, but also other Asian countries attach great importance to Jiang Xiaolin's winning of the European Golden Boy Award.

Fans and media reporters have been looking forward to the award ceremony.

Time passed slowly, and after 20:00, the big screen on the scene began to play Jiang Xiaolin's goal collection of about 5 minutes, all of which were wonderful goals or key goals at key moments of classic games.

In the passionate commentary of the collection commentator, the enthusiasm of all reporters and fans was mobilized, and the atmosphere on the scene was very warm.

Finally, when the goal highlights were played, the AFAS stadium announcer, who served as the host, stood outside the player tunnel and shouted at the top of his voice:

"Now, let's welcome the Olympic champion, the top scorer in the Eredivisie, and the best player of Alkmaar - Jiang Xiaolin with warm applause!"

Amid the announcer's roar, more than 10,000 fans at the scene stood up, applauded, and screamed and cheered continuously.

When Jiang Xiaolin, who had been ready in the player tunnel, walked into the stadium, the applause and cheers became even louder.

Countless Chinese and overseas Chinese and Jiang Xiaolin's personal fans were so excited that they even shed tears.

They kept cheering and screaming, and worshipped Jiang Xiaolin.

Jiang Xiaolin applauded and thanked the fans for their support while he was on the stage. The surrounding media photographers rushed up and surrounded Jiang Xiaolin from front to back, left to right, and took photos and videos continuously. The flash lights went up and down, moving with Jiang Xiaolin's movements.

When Jiang Xiaolin came to the commentator, the AFAS stadium commentator named Dominic held the microphone and said excitedly:

"Nice to meet you, Jiang! Although you have played in the AFAS stadium for almost a year, and I have been the commentator at every home game, I have not had the opportunity to communicate with you face to face until today. Can I hug you first?"

Jiang Xiaolin would naturally not refuse such a request, and smiled and hugged Dominic. Dominic hugged Jiang Xiaolin excitedly for almost four or five seconds before letting go, and then laughed:

"Haha, so excited! Being able to hug you is my most memorable moment!"

Then the interview began, and Dominic took a microphone from his assistant. He handed it to Jiang Xiaolin, and then asked: "Jiang, as the protagonist of today's award ceremony, what do you want to say to everyone?"

Jiang Xiaolin picked up the microphone and said: "I am very grateful to the Turin Sports Daily and the journalists who voted for me, as well as the fans at the scene and around the world. Of course, the one I should thank the most is my mother."

"Maybe many people don't know that I am an orphan and have never seen my father since I was a child. It was my mother who raised me up by selling vegetables alone, and supported my hobby of playing football, so I have achieved what I have today."

"My mother is also here today, thank you, mother!"

After speaking, Jiang Xiaolin bowed to the stands where Jiang Liantao was. Jiang Liantao shed tears of excitement and seemed to be overwhelmed.

The fans at the scene also gave Jiang Liantao a warm applause for her arrival, thanking her for raising and cultivating Jiang Xiaolin, which allowed Alkmaar to get a player like Jiang Xiaolin.

Afterwards, on behalf of the fans, Dominic asked Jiang Xiaolin about the most memorable games and goals in the past year, and asked Jiang Xiaolin about the secrets of his current success. Jiang Xiaolin answered one by one.

Of course, Jiang Xiaolin would not talk about the system. He just evaded the question by saying that he was lucky and that the effect of genetic regression was strong.

Many fans also heard about genetic regression for the first time, and suddenly they felt enlightened and had some new explanations for the reasons for Jiang Xiaolin's rapid progress.

In fact, these are just excuses for the outside world, including Alfred, who was deceived by Jiang Xiaolin.

Jiang Xiaolin's physical fitness may be due to genetic regression, but Jiang Xiaolin's skills are completely trained by the system, and there is no talent.

Of course, in order to obtain higher training and game performance ratings, Jiang Xiaolin's training and games are the most serious and aggressive in the team.

Even when leading by a large score, Jiang Xiaolin will fight until the last minute of the game.

This is seen by everyone, and it is not a well-known thing.

Therefore, with such a high "talent", coupled with hard training and active competition, Jiang Xiaolin's success naturally won the understanding of everyone.

After the interview with Jiang Xiaolin, the editor-in-chief of "Torino Sports Daily" came out, shook hands with Jiang Xiaolin, took the microphone and first praised Jiang Xiaolin's performance in the past year, and then expressed his expectations for Jiang Xiaolin's future.

Finally, with the witness and applause of more than 10,000 fans at the scene, Jiang Xiaolin took over the Golden Boy Award trophy from the editor-in-chief of "Torino Sports Daily", which was almost the same as the European Golden Ball Award, but a little smaller, and won his most important personal award in European football so far.

Of course, the Golden Boy Award, known as the European Youth Version of the Golden Ball Award, looks like the Golden Ball Award, but it is not the real European Golden Ball Award after all.

In the future, Jiang Xiaolin needs more and more lasting wonderful performances, and needs to conquer the Champions League to win the real European Golden Ball Award.

After the award ceremony, the players of both sides warmed up and then started the game.

At 20:45 in the evening, with the referee's whistle, the last round of the UEFA Cup Group D in the 2008/2009 season, Alkmaar vs. Udinese, officially started.

The other game was Tottenham Hotspur vs. Spartak Moscow. Dinamo Zagreb had a bye and had been eliminated in advance.

In this game, Udinese played away. In the case of early qualification, they not only rotated most of the main players, but even these rotated main players did not even go to the bench, but stayed in Italy to train and rest.

On the Alkmaar side, although they also qualified in advance and had no pressure to win or lose, they played at home after all, and Jiang Xiaolin's European Golden Boy Award ceremony was held before the start of this game.

If they lost to Udinese in the end, it would be a bit ugly.

Therefore, although knowing that Udinese played almost entirely with a substitute lineup, Van Gaal was still not careless and sent out a half-main and half-substitute lineup.

Of course, Jiang Xiaolin is still the ironclad starting center forward, and he is even more qualified in today's situation.

After the game started, Alkmaar was the main attacker and Udinese was the main defender.

Udinese is originally an Italian Serie A team, and is better at defensive counterattacks. In addition, most of the players are substitutes, so they will not fight against Alkmaar.

As for Alkmaar, although they have already qualified in advance, this is a home game, and the players naturally have to show a certain fighting spirit, otherwise how can they live up to so many home fans.

What's more, the team that has already qualified in advance does not care about the win or loss of this game as a whole, but the substitutes still want to perform well and cherish the rare opportunity to start the game.

As for Jiang Xiaolin, it goes without saying.

Just won the European Golden Boy Award amid everyone's applause, so naturally he has to perform well. Moreover, there are much higher experience rewards than the league, so Jiang Xiaolin naturally wants to score goals to gain more experience.

However, as a Serie A team, defense is an instinct rooted in the genes of Italian teams.

The same is true for Udinese.

They are ranked 9th in Serie A so far this season, ranking in the middle, and they are still doing well in defense.

Moreover, Italy's defense is very different from the Eredivisie.

The defense of the Dutch team is almost one-on-one. Even if there are two or three people double-teaming together, the coordination is not very good, so Jiang Xiaolin has a lot of space to break through and pass.

But Udinese is different.

They are Italian-style chain defense, not Dutch one-on-one defense. In terms of defensive formation maintenance and defensive experience, they are much more sophisticated than the Dutch team.

If the Dutch team is good at attacking, then the Italian team is good at defense.

After playing for a while, Jiang Xiaolin found that Udinese's defense was quite good. No matter where Jiang Xiaolin went, there would be at least two players double-teaming him, and another player would be ready to assist at any time about four or five meters around him.

Once he stopped the ball and adjusted it, he might face three or four people's defense.

Even if Jiang Xiaolin passed the ball, his teammates would not get too many good shooting opportunities because Jiang Xiaolin had attracted the attention of three or four opponents.

Udinese had studied Jiang Xiaolin. Although the study was not very detailed, the defensive skills rooted in the players' instincts were enough to make Jiang Xiaolin feel very uncomfortable.

In the 4th minute, Jiang Xiaolin received a pass in the penalty area with his back to the goal, ready to act as a tactical center forward to send the ball to the other side of the penalty area, and his teammates would shoot and score.

As a result, at the moment when Jiang Xiaolin passed the ball, the player next to himHe stretched out a foot and blocked the ball, so Jiang Xiaolin's pass was naturally destroyed.

In the 7th minute, Jiang Xiaolin received a pass from his teammate outside the penalty area and faced the defense of the back midfielder Aishamoya to pass through the crotch.

As a result, although Jiang Xiaolin successfully passed through the crotch, Aishamoya did not panic and close his legs to try to block Jiang Xiaolin's ball when he was passed through the crotch. Instead, he stared at Jiang Xiaolin's moving body and directly hit him.

Although Jiang Xiaolin's strong physique and perfect balance prevented him from being knocked down by Aishamoya, he still successfully broke through.

However, the collision with Aishamoya still made Jiang Xiaolin deviate from the route and run two more steps.

Because of the time he had to run two more steps, the ball that Jiang Xiaolin passed through the crotch was kicked away by another Udinese player, making Jiang Xiaolin's crotch pass halfway through.

In the 15th minute, Jiang Xiaolin ran out of a short gap on the left side of the top of the penalty area. Maarten Martens, who was holding the ball, also saw his running position and passed the ball to him.

As a result, Jiang Xiaolin's running position and Martens' passing intention were both seen through by Udinese defender Dennis, who made a timely flying tackle and shoveled Martens' pass away midway.

A good shooting opportunity was lost just like that.

The game had started for 15 minutes, and Alkmaar had not yet made a shot within the goal frame, and Jiang Xiaolin had not even made a shot.

It can be seen how good Udinese's defense is.

Moreover, Udinese is not just defending the bus, they will also counterattack.

In the 17th minute, Udinese seized Alkmaar's passing error and launched a quick counterattack. Fortunately, goalkeeper Sergio Romero played well and blocked the opponent's long shot from a very tricky angle.

In the next corner kick, Udinese was also quite cautious. They did not send too many players into the penalty area to compete for headers, but left most of the defensive players behind to prevent Alkmaar from counterattacking.

With only two or three people entering the penalty area to compete for headers, the probability of grabbing the first point was naturally quite small.

The ball was grabbed by Alkmaar's defender Hector Moreno and headed into the penalty area, and then Moussa Dembele, who grabbed the first point, kicked it to the midfield to clear the siege.

Of course, under the pressure of the opponent's players, Dembele could not control the ball path and landing point. It was just a simple clearance, which was too far away from Jiang Xiaolin. Jiang Xiaolin also failed to grab the first point. After being unloaded by the opponent's defender, he passed it back to the goalkeeper's feet, and Alkmaar completely lost the opportunity to counterattack.

It was not until the 26th minute that Jiang Xiaolin got a proud shooting opportunity since the start of the game.

This was a corner kick opportunity won for Alkmaar by Maarten Martens who broke through the front of the penalty area with the ball and caused the opponent to foul.

This free kick is a bit far from the goal, about 31 or 32 meters.

If someone else were to take the shot, let alone whether it could be hit within the goal frame. Even if it was hit within the goal frame, it would most likely be saved by the goalkeeper.

Because the distance is too far, there is too much time for the goalkeeper to make a save.

But Jiang Xiaolin is not like others.

His long-range shooting skill is full, which will give him strong shooting power and accuracy.

Then, his shooting skills are full, which allows him to hit the ball within the goal frame as much as possible.

Finally, his arc skill is also full.

This allows him to kick out the arc he wants, and the arc and the point of the goal can also be controlled within an extremely precise range.

Of course, a free kick of more than 30 meters, plus the arc, can no longer be hit wherever you point, and a certain amount of luck is required.

But on the football field, luck is also part of the game, both for the shooter and the goalkeeper.

Now, it depends on who performs better between Jiang Xiaolin and Udinese goalkeeper Berardi!