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Sometimes, the atmosphere in the locker room of the Jax Empire made the older and more experienced people feel like it was funny.
In this small closed circle, open and covert fights were everywhere. The club's top management often had conflicts. Then, in the locker room, there were more young people who were impulsive, irritable, and unable to control their temper. Sometimes, they were just as willful as children. What was so strange about that?
This was the Netherlands, and Ajax was a Dutch club. The management, from top to bottom, was Dutch. Here, the Dutch players were born direct descendants. To put it nicely, they were Ajax's own flesh and blood.
Therefore, it was difficult for an outsider like Galasek to become the real master, no matter how well he integrated!
The Czech Republic's iron waist had a very unhappy summer.
It was hard to imagine that when he was supporting the Czech Republic's midfield with Nedved on the national team, he had been listed by the club three months ago!
The Czech Republic national team was particularly strong during this period, but Galasek was on the verge of being abandoned by Ajax. The reason was not that he was not good enough. If there was a problem with his strength, then he, who played an important role in the Czech Republic team, would not be able to assist Nedved in bringing the Czech Republic team into next year's UEFA European Championship in advance! Moreover, in the group stage of the qualifiers, the Czech Republic had defeated its competitors in the same group and advanced first. It was the Netherlands!
There could be only two reasons. First, he was old. In another two years, he could not be sold for a good price. Second, he had to give up his position to Ajax's direct descendant.
Yes, it was Derong, who was about to turn 19.
At one point, he was relegated to the reserve team, waiting for the fate of being sold at a discount. Fortunately, the manager, Comain, and the rest of the management insisted on keeping him, so the board of directors did not sell him for cash.
Although the veteran's position in the club was shaken this summer and became awkward, in the locker room, because of his age and experience, he was still respected by many Dutch players.
Galasek deeply understood that in the locker room, although it was not necessary to establish a new force to compete with the local forces, at least a certain amount of strength to avoid being crushed by the local forces!
Just like the scene in front of him now, the conflict between Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Qin Xiong had become more thunder than rain. But what if it was not Ibrahimovic? Was it Snede, Derong, Heitinga, or perhaps Captain Van Der Vaart?
In that case, Galasek was sure that when Qin Xiong said, "Let's go out and have a duel," he would get the chance to duel, but it would definitely be him taking on the entire Dutch gang alone!
As an outsider, Galasek hoped that the players with the same background could unite and form a force that the local forces could not be unscrupulous.
Or perhaps, there was an unreconciled anger in his heart!
He was almost sold off by the club. He hoped that the latecomers, the other foreign players, would not repeat the same mistake. He hoped that they could unite together and truly become Ajax's "master"!
Prove to the club's top management, accuse them of being unscrupulous, and fiercely strike back at their outdated "traditional thinking"!
Times have changed!
Ajax is nothing in the European football world if he only relies on his own people!
Without the power injected by us outsiders, Ajax can only live in the glory of the past, decaying, dying out!
Galasek walked between Qin Xiong and Ibrahimovic and extended his hand to Qin Xiong. "Welcome. He is Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He was just joking with you. Don't take it to heart. I am Tomáš Galasek, a Czech. You can call me Tomáš."
Ibrahimovic took advantage of the situation, shrugged, and turned his head to walk back. Qin Xiong shook hands with Galasek and said, "Qin Xiong, a Chinese."
After watching the farce, the captain, Van Der Vaart, tidied up his training shirt. He walked up to Qin Xiong with his head held high and his chest puffed out. He also extended his hand. At this time, he had a rather outstanding and elegant temperament. He smiled at Qin Xiong and said, "Welcome. I am Raphael Van Der Vaart, the captain of the team. If you need any help here, just let me know."
Qin Xiong could clearly feel from the other person's words and demeanor that Van Der Vaart enjoyed the glory of being the captain. In a few words, it seemed that he was also shouldering the responsibility of being the captain.
Qin Xiong nodded and shook hands with the other person.
Van Der Vaart then introduced him to the First Team teammates one by one. Qin Xiong nodded and greeted everyone. Only Ibrahimovic did not look directly at him, treating him as if he did not exist.
It was time for training, and everyone left the locker room together.
The coaching team, headed by Comain, was already waiting for them on the sidelines of the training ground.
With his hands behind his back, Comain gathered the players and then casually introduced Qin Xiong to everyone. After learning that Qin Xiong had a preliminary understanding of his teammates in the locker room, Comain did not say much and immediately started training.
Ajax's First Team lineup was not as thick as the other European powerhouses' with many players and generals. It was mainly streamlined, which had something to do with the low intensity of the Dutch league matches and the loose competition schedule.
The Eredivisie only had 34 rounds of league matches, while the level of the teams participating in the Dutch Cup was uneven and the gap was huge. For example, Ajax's youth team would also participate. Ajax's main focus was on training the players and would not put too much energy into it. After all, there were less than 40 professional clubs in the Netherlands, unlike England, which had more than 80 professional clubs and two cup competitions.
With Ajax's current lineup, it was enough to cope with the Premier League and European matches. If there really was a time when the lineup was stretched, countless players from the reserve team and youth team were on standby at any time. They were not just there to make up the numbers. They had the ability. At the very least, it gave the manager a certain amount of confidence when he took a risk to use them.
Other than some unpleasantness with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Qin Xiong had just arrived in the First Team. The foreign players, represented by the captain Van Der Vaart and the veteran Galasek, all had a good attitude towards him. It was not a warm welcome, but at the very least, they were at peace and respected each other.
Qin Xiong was a nobody to them. Even the 20-year-old Van Der Vaart would look at Qin Xiong as if he were a junior. Occasionally, he would give an inexplicable look of encouragement, which made Qin Xiong feel very awkward.
During the daily training, Qin Xiong thought in hindsight: No teammates have asked me what position I play?
Defender, midfielder, striker, wing or middle?
No one had asked him.
This made Qin Xiong suddenly realize.
Most of the players here were "pampered" and did not see him as a competitive threat!
No matter what position you play, you will definitely be at the bottom of the team's ranking!
However, after the training began, Qin Xiong began to surprise them.
For some simple basic training, Qin Xiong's level of completion was not higher than theirs. It seemed that everyone was on the same level.
In the afternoon, when some of the players needed to rest due to physical problems, such as Van Der Vaart, his physical strength was a big problem. However, Qin Xiong, whose training shirt was soaked through, still persisted in training without a change in expression.
At first, many of his teammates laughed at Qin Xiong in their hearts for being stubborn!
They had seen too many players train as if their lives depended on it during training. It seemed that they wanted to use this method to impress the manager and leave a deep impression on the manager. The result? The training progressed step by step. When the next training program began, the players who stubbornly refused to rest were so tired that they collapsed. They became a laughing stock of their own making.
However, when Qin Xiong maintained a very steady training vitality throughout the afternoon and completed the training program outstandingly, it really shocked many of his teammates!
It was as if his body contained infinite power.
Before the end of the afternoon training, Sikora sat next to Ibrahimovic and looked at Qin Xiong, who was not far away, using various parts of his body to play with the ball. He said with a smile, "Look, his skills are not bad."
Ibrahimovic had a good relationship with Sikora for a simple reason: Sikora would take the initiative to play for him during the game.
At this time, seeing Qin Xiong, Ibrahimovic said disdainfully, "I can do any of the technical moves he makes with the football with the orange."
Sikora smiled and said nothing.
When the training was over, except for Qin Xiong, the other players returned to the locker room to shower and change their clothes before preparing to leave the club.
When Sikora and Ibrahimovic changed into their casual clothes and walked toward the parking lot together, they passed by a training field. They usually did not pay much attention to it, but Sikora inadvertently saw the scene on the field and pulled Ibrahimovic.
He pointed to the field for Ibrahimovic to see.
After the training was over, Qin Xiong went to Van Basten to report to him for additional training.
Van Basten continuously passed the ball from the sidelines of the training field, while Qin Xiong ran back and forth to prepare to receive the ball. The difficulty of such training was not low, and it was more in line with the requirements of the game. In a game, if a player could only use his eyes to see the ball before running, then it would be too late!
In the process of running, Qin Xiong needed to further improve his ability to make short self-adjustments to the flying football in the air and use the best way to handle the ball.
When the ball flew over, Qin Xiong adjusted his footwork and then used the outer instep of his right foot to lightly tap the ball when it fell to the right side of his body. The football was not completely deflected, but was pushed forward by Qin Xiong. Then the football bounced to a meter in front of Qin Xiong. Before it landed, Qin Xiong followed up with a volley shot!
The football drew a low trajectory and flew straight into the empty goal.
Today, they were going to practice Qin Xiong's technical ability to connect and shoot at the first moment after receiving a difficult ball during a game!
Sikora, who happened to see this scene, turned his head and asked Ibrahimovic, "Can you do it with the orange?"
Ibrahimovic ignored Sikora and quickened his pace toward the parking lot …
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