Chapter 5: gambling

In the morning, the huge skate park was silent.
Yang Yang carrying a schoolbag and skillfully deflecting the ball, 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 ball-turning skills improved significantly. Even if he turned the ball, it did not affect his walking speed at all, and soon came to the core of the park.
As the name suggests, there is a skateboarding area in the core of the skatepark. I heard that every night before, there are always many young skateboarders gathered, very lively, but after the wave of skateboarding passed, the skatepark gradually declined, leaving only Those abandoned skateboard facilities are still reminding people.
Yang Yang's ball training can finally come to an end, but Lao Bing's next special training requires a wall.
The city of Almere is very big, but it is really not an easy task to find a wall that can be used for training. Finally, Yang Yang finally found the deserted in the skate park for a long time, painted with graffiti. Waste wall.
The location of the skate park is very good. Going north is Yangyang ’s school Bakken School, not far east is the residential area where uncle Shen Ming ’s home is located, to the west is a river, and to the south is the famous Dominica Garden Villa, which is Al Mailer's most upscale residential complex just completed last year.
Further south of the villa area is Almere Automobile 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 Automobile City.
The skate park is huge and the skate area has been deserted for a long time. Even early morning exercisers rarely pass here, so Yang Yang does not need to worry about affecting others or being disturbed when he comes here to train.
After putting down his schoolbag, Yang Yang turned to the wall with a ball 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 the ball must be touched with one foot, and the strength of each touch must be controlled to keep the same as much as possible.
The right foot is five hundred, and the left foot is five hundred.
During the boring training against the wall, Yang Yang listened to the banging in his ears, but his body felt the similarities and differences of every kick, and the kind of feedback every time the ball bounced back from the wall.
System Lao Bing also kept correcting his movements by his ears and gave suggestions for improvement.
After a long ball warm-up, Yang Yang has been sweating after a thousand-foot pass, but this is just the beginning.
Backing up to five meters away from the wall, Yang Yang started his second training, scoring the ball against the wall.
There are four parts of the inner instep and the instep of the left and right feet, five minutes for each part, exactly 20 minutes.
Although Yang Yang has been training for the ball for two weeks, the ball is still very different against the wall. Especially after passing the reaction force of the wall, Yang Yang has a high requirement for the first foot to touch the ball.
Lao Bing's requirements are the same as before, with a total of four parts, and each part will be qualified if the ball is continuously scored five hundred times.
Although they are some of the most basic trainings, Lao Bing's requirements on Yang Yang are extremely high. However, whenever there is a little mistake, he will immediately propose and request correction. In addition, the training itself requires a high concentration of attention and the intensity is not small. Unconsciously, Yang Yang was dripping with sweat.
He, who was focused on training, did not notice at all. Somehow, on a park trail not far behind him, a pair of middle-aged men and women who practiced in the morning stopped but looked at him curiously.
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"What's wrong?" Truss asked his boyfriend curiously.
"Nothing, just curious." The Dutch middle-aged replied lightly and unsmilingly.
Truss followed her boyfriend's gaze and looked at the teenager who was training against the wall in the skateboard area in the distance. "Is it weird?"
"Huh?" The middle-aged Dutch obviously didn't understand.
"I mean, is it strange to train against the wall?" Truth repeated his question.
"No, it's not surprising at all. Many people do this, such as Bergkamp."
Due to her boyfriend ’s professional relationship, Truss is also quite involved in football. In addition, her friends at home are all related to professional football. She is also a treasure trove of stars, not to mention the red-haired Bogkan in Arsenal. General.
"He looks like Bergkamp?" Truth asked tentatively.
With his boyfriend's eyesight, I'm afraid this is the only way to explain why he stopped to watch during the morning exercise.
Unexpectedly, the Dutch middle-aged was obviously stunned after listening.
"He?" The Dutch middle-aged 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 pass distance in the professional league. It is also what all professional players must master and possess, and it must be a touch of the ball."
"But you see ..." The middle-aged Dutchman pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboarding area. "He used two feet, and the first foot often didn't stop. It can be seen that this person's basic skills are very bad. In this way, when it comes to the game, it will be even worse. At his current level, he can't even play in the amateur league. "
Truth rolled his eyes helplessly. His boyfriend had always been strict with football and spoke directly, but his eyes were very venomous. If he said that, he would have been wrong.
"Isn't he as serious as he was 16 or 7 years old?"
"This is the most basic thing. You have to master it at the age of twelve. Spain's training in this area pays more attention than we do, especially ..."
Halfway through the words, the Dutch middle-aged suddenly looked dull, as if he had been touched.
Truss also noticed.
Since the incident happened six months ago, he has become depressed. Although everyone knows that it is not his fault, he still has not been able to come out.
Seeing her boyfriend nesting at home all day is not a way to go, just a friend bought a house in the Dominican garden villa area of ​​Almere, and there is the largest golf course around Amsterdam nearby, so on the advice of Truth, I love golf After the football, he decided to stay in Almere for a holiday to avoid the disturbances outside.
I just didn't expect that when I came to Almere for two days, 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 middle-aged Dutch mouth twitched slightly, looking far away at the sweaty Yang Yang, as if muttering to himself: "I'm curious, this boring and useless work, how long can he persist?"
"How do you know it's useless work?"
"When he was his age, he would conduct such basic training again. It would be boring to say nothing. It was half the effort. It was greedy and fresh, and he could persevere for a long time. When he began to realize that everything he did was in vain, He will retreat from difficulties, what is this useless work? "
Truss heard the boyfriend's deep meaning from the words, talking about this young man, but could it not be his own portrayal?
"I don't think so. I find it useful and useless. I have to try it before I know it."
"you are too naive."
"You are too pessimistic, or should we bet?" Truss looked at his boyfriend provocatively. She felt that she should find something to do to save him crankiness.
"Betting?" The middle-aged Dutchman pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboarding area. "He?"
"Yes, I think he can hold on."
"No, Truth Opalmer, I can tell you with certainty that you have lost, and he can't persevere for a month." The Dutch middle-aged said confidently.
He has seen too many such things and things.
"Then gamble." Truth spread his hands.
"Okay, one word is final."
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Yang Yang didn't know that he had become someone else's gamble, he just focused on special training.
After practicing the wall pass training at ten meters, he backed the distance back to fifteen meters and twenty meters, and finally there were other training programs, but they were some of the most basic.
With his current basic skills, he should start with the most basic things.
In Lao Bing's words, the ball is the most basic, but it is not the purpose. With the gradual improvement of the sense of ball, the ball training will gradually decrease, and it will be replaced by some other training with more practical value.
Yang Yang agrees with this.
After finishing the morning training, Yang Yang carried his school bag back again, and walked northward with the ball, and soon left the skate park.
Yang Yang's ball is seemingly random, but if you pay close attention, it is not difficult to find that every ball of his foot controls the rhythm and strength as much as possible, and the pace of each step taken is as much as possible. It makes him seem to have a certain rhythm.
Bakken Academy is a one-stop institution from kindergarten to high school, and it is also a private prestigious school in Almere.
From two weeks ago, when Yang Yang entered the school, it became an anecdote of Bakken Academy, but more of it was ridicule and sarcasm.
Everyone knows that Yang Yang is a good student, but playing football is a mess.
The fact that John Rep has repeatedly dismissed Yang Yang has already been spread by Yang Yang ’s teammates, and everyone knows it.
However, Yang Yang didn't respond in the slightest, and still acted on his own.
There is only one way to change the external perception of yourself, that is, to pass the semester assessment and stay in Almere.
"This is really unwilling!"
At the gate of the school, Genk Dimer watched Yang Yang enter the campus upside down, and his eyes flashed with anger.
In the past two weeks of training, Yang Yang's performance in the team has been getting better and better, especially in the game of lap competition. Although it is still the worst performance in the team, it is difficult for everyone to play with him like before. .
But he improved, but Genk Dimer began to be unlucky, and began to enter the circle frequently to grab the ball, and this was thanks to Yang Yang. Even a few times, Dimer could n’t help but want to beat him. A meal.
"I heard news that he has performed well in training recently. The coaching staff intends to arrange for him to enter the big roster to participate in the game against Omni Bass on Saturday." Said an Almere youth player next to him.
"What?" Genk Dimer was stunned.
"Nick was injured. I heard that the coach asked him to play defensive position."
Almere was established less than seven years ago, neither the youth echelon nor the first team is perfect, so the youth team cooperates with the private school Bakken Academy. Players in the 16 and 17 age groups represent Bakken Academy Participate in the Saturday intercollegiate league in southern Amsterdam.
Omnibas is also Almere's team. It cooperates with a fourth-level amateur team in the city to develop youth training. It is not weak and is a hard bone to eat.
Genk Dimer narrowed his eyes. He was the captain of the youth team and the captain of the varsity team, but he had not received the notice for the time being.
"Then he should start praying for himself."