On December 27, after Christmas, the seventeenth round of the Eredivisie was ushered in.

Ajax host FC Groningen.

In the 29th minute of the first half, Yang Yang scored a goal for Ajax.

After the rematch, Ajax played a wild attack, scoring four goals in the opening fifteen minutes.

Sneijder ushered in an all-out outburst with three assists, helping Yaya Toure, Charlie Steias and Pienaar to score goals, and he also received an assist from Yang Yang in the 56th minute to score a goal.

In the end, Ajax beat Groningen 5-0 at home.

In this round, PSV Eindhoven beat Nijmegen 2-0 away and Feyenoord beat AZ Alkmaar 2-0 at home.

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December 30, the eighteenth round of the Eredivisie.

Ajax take on Heerenveen away.

In the opening ten minutes, Yang Yang forced a breakthrough on the right side to create a corner, and Sneijder assisted Heitinga's header to score.

Ajax then continued to control the situation.

In the forty-second minute, an assist from Yaya Toure allowed Yang Yang to score!

After the second half of the rematch, it was Yaya Toure in the opening four minutes, a header from the edge of the penalty area, Yang Yang inserted a goal to score, and scored another goal for Ajax.

But after 60 minutes, Heerenveen scored twice in quick succession, with Huntelaar netting the first of those goals.

In the 87th minute, Sneijder assisted Heitinga's header again, and it was still a corner kick.

In the end, Ajax beat Heerenveen 4-2 away.

Yang Yang scored a brace and scored his 22nd goal of the season.

With 18 league rounds and 22 goals, Yang Yang's performance was significantly higher than last season.

But Huntelaar also scored seventeen goals in the first eighteen rounds, followed by Yang Yang.

Kuyt also had a burst out in this round, scoring a hat-trick and scoring his 14th goal.

As for Aviladze, after scoring consecutive goals in the opening period, he quickly ushered in a slump, scoring only thirteen goals so far.

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After 18 rounds of league play, the Eredivisie ushered in a two-week winter break.

Ajax still went south to Portugal for training as in previous years, but Yang Yang took two days off to participate in Nike's World Cup advertising shooting.

At the same time, other stars under Nike participated in the shooting, which allowed Yang Yang to take the opportunity to meet a few more friends.

During the winter break, good news also came from Raiola's side.

After half a month of negotiations, Raiola finally negotiated Armani's endorsement contract, and Yang Yang will serve as one of Armani's global advertising spokespersons for the next three years, alongside Shevchenko and other top stars.

This endorsement contract will bring Yang Yang an annual income of 3 million euros, which is enough to see how optimistic Armani is about the Chinese market, but both parties have agreed to keep it secret and have not disclosed the specific amount.

After signing Armani, Raiola showed her long-sleeved and good dancing side, and soon signed three endorsement contracts for Yang Yang under Procter & Gamble's Head & Shoulders Shampoo, Coca-Cola and McDonald's.

Each endorsement fee is 3 million euros per year, but the specific endorsement fee is still kept secret.

Whether it is Armani, or Head & Shoulders, Coca-Cola and McDonald's, they are all eager to advertise in the summer World Cup, especially China, which has once again entered the World Cup finals, so Yang Yang specially took two days off to fly to Italy to shoot Armani's advertisement, and then concentrated on staying in Portugal to prepare for the game.

After the team returned to Amsterdam after a week and a half of training in Portugal, Head & Shoulders, Coca-Cola and McDonald's arranged for a special staff to shoot the commercial.

Basically, it's very simple, the fastest is McDonald's, one-time, less than an hour to get it.

But the money will arrive in installments one after another!

Counting Nike's endorsements, there are a total of five endorsement contracts of fifteen million euros per year.

This is definitely an astronomical amount that Yang Yang dare not imagine.

With this large sum of money, he can almost be said to be lying at home and eating and drinking for the rest of his life.

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Dusk, Almere, exit 5 of the A6 motorway.

A Fiat slowly drove off the highway and headed north, through the Motor City and the villa area, to the skate park.

Parking the car in the parking lot on the side of the road, Yang Yang walked into the skatepark.

It's been a long time since I've been back, and it's become a bit here.

I heard that the city government intends to make this a tourist attraction, especially the skateboarding area in the middle.

The wall was still there, and it still looked so dilapidated.

Yang Yang stepped forward, reaching out and gently rubbing the pitted cracks on the wall, each one full of his memories.

It was here three years ago that he made up his mind that he wanted to play in the professional league.

At that time, he never thought about what he would do in the future, he simply liked to play football and wanted to prove to everyone that he could also play.

For him at that time, Ajax was already an unattainable paradise, and every player who played for Ajax was a superstar of the time, and just hearing the name could make him excited for a long time.

He still vividly remembers the first time he passed by the Amsterdam Arena and was really excited.

At that time, his biggest dream was to one day be able to play a game in such a magnificent stadium and have more than 50,000 fans cheer him on.

But now, the cheers from the 50,000 fans in the stands seemed to make him numb.

He received countless cheers from the fans in the stands every game, who would scream his name, would boil over his every move, and would go crazy for every goal he scored.

Yang Yang slowly groped through every crack and pit in the wall, slowly retreated to the bench, and sat down.

This is where Van Gaal sits most often, and he sits here every time, silently watching Yang Yang train.

And at this moment, he sat here, as if he had seen what he looked like when he practiced against the wall.

He wanted to get back to that feeling.

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"Why did you come back here?"

In the super training ground, Lao Bing asked Yang Yang lightly.

Yang Yang smiled lightly and shook his head, "I don't know, it's just ...... Want to come back and see. ”

"It's as simple as that?" Lao Bing was a little unconvinced.

Yang Yang shook his head again, of course it wasn't that simple.

It was a long time before he spoke softly.

"I was stunned by the fifteen million euros."

It's not that Yang Yang hasn't seen money, but he really hasn't seen money come so quickly.

Fifteen million euros, converted into more than 100 million yuan, only a few days?

Sign a few words, shoot a few advertisements, and the money will be in hand, just like a dream.

"You know, I've never been a person who is very material in life, and I don't have the habit of squandering, this money is enough for me to live comfortably for the rest of my life, but playing football is such a hard thing......"

Yang Yang felt that he needed to think about it.

Lao Bing didn't speak, because no one could help him in this matter, only himself.

Fifteen million euros, which is indeed an astronomical sum, enough for the average person to squander in his life.

Anyone who suddenly gets such a fortune will inevitably have a sense of slackness.

It's human nature.

But this is again the natural enemy of professional footballers.

Yang Yang believes that there are countless seniors, when they have not experienced temptation, they must also have the ambition to make themselves the best players in the world through hard work.

But most of the people were on the way to the top of the pyramid, and they were pulled down by many temptations.

They may be more talented than Ronaldo, they may be better than Zidane, they may even be more handsome than Beckham, but in the end, it is Ronaldo, Zidane and Beckham who can stand at the top of the pyramid.

The road to success as a professional player is a path full of temptations.

Hard work is just the basics, and if you want to succeed, you need to make yourself stronger and more determined.

Yang Yang was really full of confidence in himself, and his goal was very firm.

But in recent times, he took time off to shoot commercials, came into contact with many people and many things, he signed several contracts, and got an astronomical amount of money that he spent his whole life on, and he found that he began to waver a little.

Subconsciously, someone was telling him that he could relax a little more and make himself less hard.

This is definitely not a good sign.

Definitely not!

Florentino is not right at all, modern professional football has made players less pure, and the temptation of professional players is also increasing, which requires Yang Yang to constantly be vigilant about himself.

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In the cold of winter, it gets dark quickly.

It's getting colder and colder in the park.

Yang Yang always sat on the bench, motionless, as if he was asleep.

In this kind of weather, no one will go out, and there is no sound around him, and his whole person seems to blend into the surrounding environment and into the darkness.

Suddenly, the park's street lights came on.

The sudden light made Yang Yang open his eyes, and the whole person stood up from the bench.

He walked over to the mottled and broken wall again, rubbing the cracks and craters on it, and exhaled heavily.

This is not a war that will end overnight.

This war will continue throughout his career, and as long as he doesn't retire a day, he'll fight it to the end.

This is also a war that belongs to him alone, and no one can help him.

Only by defeating it will he have a chance to climb higher and go further.

If he loses, he will become the object of everyone's eternal regret like many Fang Zhongyong in the past.

He can't afford to lose!

So, he had to win!

"Lao Bing, I didn't realize until now that the money came too much and too fast, and it was also a very painful thing." Yang Yang said teasing himself.

In the super training ground, I can't see Lao Bing's expression at this time, I don't know if he understands this humor, whether he will laugh.

But his next sentence reflected his dissatisfaction with the pen-loader.

"Hurry up and get back to practice!"

Yang Yang didn't think it was wrong, but walked out of the skatepark with a smile.