Super training ground.

In the four-square-meter square white line area, Yang Yang is skillfully carrying out various push-pull movements.

Pendulum, cycling, ox tail, croquettes, Marseille slalom ......

Yang Yang's feet are constantly changing all kinds of technical movements, over and over again, and often even mixed with several technical movements in a row, mixed with the adjustment of the left and right feet and the change of rhythm.

This is a very boring training, you may feel fresh at first, but after a long time, you will inevitably get tired of it, and even resist, but Yang Yang always insists on training, plus he will not be tired at all in the super training ground, and he will forget the time when he practices.

These are some of the most practical technical moves on the pitch, but they are the same, and many of them are very close.

For example, Ronaldo's pendulum is very close to Brazil's famous cycling, and even to some extent, the pendulum is a variant of cycling, but Ronaldo has optimized it according to his physical condition.

Yang Yang's current pendulum is actually different from Ronaldo's, and it is also optimized according to his physical fitness, which is his own technical movement.

However, the situation on the football field is ever-changing, and the situation faced by the players is also changing all the time, which requires mastery and application of more technical movements to cope with a variety of different situations.

After entering the first team, Lao Bing in the super training ground asked Yang Yang to use this training as a daily warm-up event.

It is now a four-square-meter area, but it will gradually be narrowed down and the difficulty will be increased in the future.

As soon as the time came, Lao Bing shouted to stop.

Yang Yang felt relieved, and couldn't help but smile bitterly after stopping.

His body is not tired, but his spirit is tired.

Forcing himself to concentrate on this kind of boring training is very painful, but it is a huge help for Yang Yang to improve his performance on the court.

Not long ago, The Dutch Telegraph spoke to Manchester United's top striker Ruud van Nistelrooy.

The Dutch centre-forward mentioned in the interview that he continues to train for speed every day, but the strange thing is that the world knows that the worst thing he is at is speed.

"It's not my speed on the pitch that I want to improve, it's the speed that I have in my heart."

"Through this training day in and day out, year after year, I always feel like I'm improving, even if it's just a tiny, one-and-a-second improvement, but that's progress."

Ruud van Nistelrooy's words brought a lot of excitement to Yang Yang, and he very much agreed with the Dutch center's statement.

Many times people fail not because they can't do it, but because they don't believe they can do it.

This may be a bit mysterious, everyone has their own limits, but strong spiritual power can often help a person constantly break through their own limits, even if it is only an extremely small 0.001 second.

But in football, it can be the difference between success and failure in a pass, a stop, a shot, or a tackle.

Yang Yang is still extremely far from the height of Van Nistelrooy, but that is his goal.

And through the recent training, Yang Yang has also tasted the sweetness, that is, his [Ronaldo's assault] is more handy on the court, especially in the face of the opponent's tight defense.

"Lao Bing, what type of player will I be in the future?" Yang Yang suddenly asked on a whim.

He was reminded of Ruud van Nistelrooy, who is said to have played as a scavenger in the first place, then slowly moved forward, from scavenger to midfielder to midfielder to centre-forward, and finally reached the peak of his career in the position closest to goal.

Sometimes Yang Yang wonders if Ruud van Nistelrooy hadn't played as a central striker, would he have been just an ordinary Eredivisie centre-back, rather than the world's top goal machine?

"As I've told you before, bucket theory is a great way to assess the quality and potential of a professional player, and if Ruud van Nistelrooy hadn't played as a centre-forward, he would have been a very good player with his footballing intelligence and hard work, but it's certainly impossible to get to where he is now."

Yang Yang nodded, the so-called bucket theory is that the shortest wooden board determines how much water a bucket can hold.

The same is true for the strength and ceiling of professional players, so Yang Yang is desperately trying to make up for his shortcomings.

"So he's been figuring out his niche all the way from the amateur league to Den Bosch to Heerenveen?" Yang Yang asked again.

Ruud van Nistelrooy played as a sweeper in the amateur team and switched to midfielder in Den Bosch, but his goalscoring ability and physicality led to a central striker after joining Heerenveen.

When the Dutch center forward joined Den Bosch, it happened to be Yang Yang's current age.

"It's hard to say, maybe there are both active and passive factors." Lao Bing replied very objectively.

Yang Yang nodded understandingly, as a professional player, especially a young professional player, many times you don't have any decision-making power, because you have sold yourself to the club, and the head coach tells you to play whichever position you want.

To put it pessimistically, don't look at Yang Yang's momentum at Ajax now, but if Ronald Koeman adjusts the team's tactics one day and no longer needs his type of right winger, then Yang Yang will be pressed on the bench every minute, and he won't even be able to enter the squad.

"Football is a team sport of 11 people, everyone needs to integrate themselves into the team as a whole, you help the team, the team will naturally help you, it's a process of mutual achievement."

'To do that, you have to change your style of play depending on the needs of the team, for example if you partner with a centre-forward like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, with a striker like Wesley Sonk, or with a striker like Donny van der Vaart, it's obviously three different styles of play.

'Now the team needs you to attack on the right wing, so you can continue to improve yourself as the right winger is doing at the moment, but you need to be more well-rounded because you may change the manager one day, or sell a few players and change the overall style of play, you need to change your style of play, you have to be able to adapt to that change.

"A player's career is always about adjusting himself, Ruud van Nistelrooy playing as a sweeper in an amateur team, playing as a midfielder in Den Bosch, playing as a central striker in Heerenveen, that's certainly the team's arrangement and requirements, but his own adjustment is also very crucial, if he didn't adjust in between, then there wouldn't be Van Nistelrooy today."

'It's just a career plan, in terms of the players themselves, you're seventeen years old, you're still young, and of course it's okay to use your speed to attack on the wings, but you have to think about what if you lose your speed one day?

Lao Bing's reminder was like an alarm bell, ringing heavily in Yang Yang's ears, making him tremble.

One of the most vivid examples in the Ajax squad is Van der Vaart.

The Ajax captain was recognised as a world-renowned talent from the moment he debuted, and his talent was unbelievable to all, and many even thought he would become the world's top superstar, with his speed and technique being amazing.

But suddenly, an injury took off his meniscus and caused him to lose his speed and hit him so hard that he now had to drop back into the middle of the midfield and start playing more of a playmaker's role.

Yang Yang had trained with him, and he knew how good Van der Vaart's footwork, how good his technique was, and how strong his individual ability was, but without speed, all of this was useless on the court and could only be hidden.

And Van der Vaart's current situation is only due to that injury.

By the same token, if Yang Yang, like Van der Vaart, loses his speed, will he be able to successfully transform?

In Yang Yang's hometown, his parents often taught him a sentence, to be a thief to guard against grain and grass for three days.

The meaning of this sentence is to take precautions and prevent them from happening.

He is only seventeen years old, his career has just begun, and there are countless things to do and work hard.

After Yang Yang reaffirmed the direction of his efforts, Lao Bing quickly sent him a consolation prize.

The player who trains with him every day will be promoted from the original Eredivisie to the Eredivisie.

This made Yang Yang very happy, because he took another step.

But more often than not, I felt the pressure and hardship.

He feels very clearly that professional football is like a pyramid, and the higher you climb to the top, the more difficult and difficult it becomes.

This is evident from the length of time he has been upgrading his opponents each time.

Lao Bing also told Yang Yang that the higher the strength level of the player, the gap in technical strength is often no longer obvious, but the tactical literacy, the use of skills, the experience of the game and the player's own mental strength are the key.

Yang Yang also understands this point.

To say that he entered the first team from the second team, but it has only been a little more than a week, and it is impossible to improve so fast, but why is his performance on the pitch so different?

Quite simply, he was more confident.

Sometimes, the difference that a strong sense of self-confidence can bring to a player is transformative.

This is true not only of Yang Yang, but of the entire Ajax team.

After two consecutive defeats in the Champions League and the brink of elimination in the group stage, everyone is devastated, and everyone has a serious lack of self-confidence, which has led to Ajax's success on the pitch and even against Club Brugge to make a difference.

However, after beating Club Brugge and successfully emerging from the group stage, the team quickly regained its confidence in the Eredivisie and the Dutch Cup, and through one game after another, the team regained its self-confidence step by step.

This may not be obvious enough on the pitch, but Yang believes that in the second half of the season, Ajax will impress all teams.

Ronald Koeman's young squad is not lacking in quality, as evidenced by last season's Champions League quarter-finals.

With confidence restored, the young Guards will continue to surprise the entire European football world.

And Yang Yang will also become one of them.