Chapter 241 We must believe in science!
Morning, Southeast New District, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
When it was time for training, Ajax players arrived at the De Tokmost training base one after another.
The players were changing clothes and packing in the locker room, preparing for the upcoming training session.
Captain Van der Vaart walked slowly into the locker room with an ugly look on his face, as if he had just been in a serious car accident, which made everyone else in the locker room feel very puzzled.
"What's going on?" teammate Wesley Sneijder asked with concern.
Van der Vaart shook his head, did not answer, and walked towards his closet with his head down.
"What's the problem?" Center back Heitinga also came closer.
Not only him, but also Dutch players such as De Jong and Babel gathered around and stood behind Van der Vaart.
Everyone knows that the Ajax locker room is divided into two factions. Van der Vaart is the leader of one faction. He is also the captain of Ajax and a local Dutch rookie, which makes him very influential in the Ajax locker room.
Seeing Van der Vaart like this, the other players who followed his lead also frowned.
"Don't worry about it, Raphael, it's just an award."
Veteran Litmanen came over and gently patted Van der Vaart on the shoulder to comfort him.
After Finnish Ice Skate said this, everyone came to their senses.
"Has the European Golden Boy Award been announced?" Sneijder asked Litmanen.
Litmanen nodded. "It was revealed last night and reported in the media today."
"Is it really Su Dong?" Sneijder asked.
Litmanen nodded and said nothing more.
At this time, as Van der Vaart's teammates, they couldn't say anything more.
Ever since Turin Sports Daily announced the creation of the European Golden Boy Award, the outside world has been listing the famous young rookies in European football, among which several Dutch rookies are the most outstanding.
Ajax's Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic, PSV Eindhoven's Robben are all outstanding players in Dutch football.
Among them, Van der Vaart is also a recognized super genius in Europe. He is known as the most talented genius in the Netherlands after Cruyff. Many people believe that he will become the new generation of superstar in the Netherlands.
After two years of rumors linking him with Barcelona, everyone agreed that it was only a matter of time before Van der Vaart joined Barcelona.
Because Barcelona has close ties with Dutch football, especially Ajax.
Although this season, Torres of Atletico Madrid and Eto'o of Real Mallorca have also performed well in La Liga, and Rooney has appeared in Everton in the Premier League, Van der Vaart is still the number one favorite.
Because he is Ajax's star player and the captain of the team!
With so many halos, Van der Vaart deserves to be elected the European Golden Boy Award.
But in recent times, Su Dong, who plays for Valencia, has become famous, as if he was riding a rocket, and has rushed into the mainstream vision of European football at an extremely fast speed.
This player from China, a football desert, made his debut in Sporting Lisbon in the third-rate Portuguese Super League, but helped Sporting Lisbon win the double championship for two consecutive seasons, especially the Portuguese Super League and UEFA Cup double championship last season, which made him stand out in European football.
But what is truly convincing is his performance in La Liga. He scored 20 goals in 18 league games. This performance even surpassed Ronaldo's in those days and brought a huge shock to the entire European football world.
Inter Milan, Barcelona, Juventus, Manchester United, Real Madrid... many top teams have been linked to him, because everyone knows that Valencia cannot accommodate such a talent.
Leaving the team and transferring is a matter of time.
A few days ago, in the Valencia derby, Su Dong performed a hat trick, which made him famous.
Now, Turin Sports Daily has announced the first winner of the 2003 European Golden Boy Award. Su Dong was elected with an overwhelming advantage, which made Van der Vaart, who was originally the most popular candidate, very depressed.
He has always claimed to be the best among his peers and a child of destiny, but now he has lost! Su Dong, when we meet on the court, I must defeat you with my own hands! Van der Vaart thought to himself with gritted teeth.
Behind him, Sneijder, De Jong, Heitinga and other Dutch players who supported Van der Vaart also showed indignant expressions, and were obviously dissatisfied with Su Dong's election.
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Interestingly, in the same locker room, in front of another row of lockers not far across from them, an unusually tall, long-haired player revealed a wicked smile.
"Zlatan, why are you so happy? Didn't you win any award?" Maxwell, the Brazilian left-back who also has long hair, asked puzzledly.
The Swedish center shrugged and said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter whether I win the award or not. The most important thing is that someone lost the award that he was determined to win. This makes me happiest."
The conflict between him and Van der Vaart is well known within the Ajax team and even in the entire Dutch football world.
In line with the spirit of "the opponent's opponent is a friend, er, no, a teammate", Ibrahimovic thinks it is quite good that Su Dong won the award.
Although he was also very unconvinced in his heart.
"Is that guy really that strong?" Maxwell was a little unconvinced.
Ibrahimovic raised his lips slightly, "Who knows? If we have a chance someday, we can try it out on the court and we'll know for sure."
"I heard that he is as tall and strong as you, has very good footwork skills, and is faster and more explosive than you."
Before Maxwell finished speaking, the expression on Ibrahimovic's face had changed from sunny to cloudy.
"That's bullshit! Have you ever seen anyone taller than me, stronger than me, and faster than me?"
"Never seen it." Maxwell shook his head.
"Right, this doesn't conform to that weird law of Dun at all. It's just unscientific!"
After finishing speaking, Ibrahimovic patted Maxwell on the shoulder and said earnestly: "Remember, Maxwell, we must believe in science!"
The Brazilian left-back nodded seriously.
He also feels that the media always exaggerates things.
For example, the friend next to him, he plays football well, but he is… not reliable at all! …………
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Su Dong didn't know that he was being targeted, nor did he know that a newly established award would bring him several potential rivals, but even if he knew, he certainly wouldn't care.
He has many opponents, a few more won't be too many, a few less won't be too few either.
On the afternoon of the day after the official announcement, Turin Sports Daily editor-in-chief Franchi personally went to the Paterna training base in Valencia, Spain to present the award to Su Dong.
After the 18th round of the game, Su Dong won several awards in succession, such as Marca's best team in the first half and best forward, but these awards are usually just announced in the newspaper, and some will be mailed as prizes.
But for a newspaper like Turin Sports, the editor-in-chief personally came to present the award. It can be seen that they still attach great importance to this award. After all, it has just been established. Who knows how many years they can continue to select awards? But no matter what, Su Dong was happy to win the award.
Although it is the first selection, Turin Sports Daily still has considerable influence in the European sports field. The awarding of the European Golden Boy Award to Su Dong is also a very important thing for Valencia. Therefore, not only did the club arrange for General Manager Subirat to be present, all the first-team players were also present to witness it, and even invited many media reporters and fans to the scene.
This made the entire award ceremony seem very realistic, except that it was not held at the Zurich Opera House.
When Su Dong received the award from Franky, he still felt the weight of the award, and his heart was filled with joy.
Afterwards, he gave an exclusive interview to Turin Sports Daily.
This is as it should be. After all, he came all the way from Turin to present the award, so it would be unreasonable not to give him an exclusive interview.
In the interview, Sudong attributed the credit for his goals to his teammates, especially mentioning teammates such as Aimar, Vicente, Baraja and Albelda, believing that it was their outstanding performance that contributed to Valencia's results this season.
"I'm just a lucky guy who got into this situation at the right time!"
If it was before, maybe some people would believe these words, but in the two rounds of games after losing to Su Dong, Valencia had one draw and one loss, with zero goals, which made everyone clearly feel the importance of Su Dong.
Su Dong also praised the team's head coach Benítez, saying that he learned a lot from Benítez, including how to become a better center forward.
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In addition to Su Dong's exclusive interview, reporters from Turin Sports also interviewed Valencia's general manager Subiraz, head coach Benítez, chief assistant coach Jesterdan, as well as other players of the club.
The topic of the interview undoubtedly revolved around Su Dong, and all parties gave high praise to Su Dong's performance.
Even Benítez, who is not good at praising people, said that Su Dong is the most diligent and hard-working professional player he has ever seen. He firmly believes that Su Dong still has huge potential that has not been tapped and will become the best star in European football in the future.
"I hope that after winning the Golden Boy Award, Su Dong will not be proud, but continue to work hard and make European Footballer of the Year and World Footballer of the Year his next goal. I believe he can do it!"
This is undoubtedly what Turin Sports Daily expects of the winner of the European Golden Boy Award.
His teammates also spoke highly of Sudong, including Aimar and Vicente, who all gave Sudong a lot of praise, which made Turin Sports Daily return home with a full load.
But after sending the outsiders away, Valencia's players all surrounded Su Dong.
At first, they all pretended to praise the trophy in Su Dong's hands and said some words of envy, but gradually, these guys showed their true colors and exposed their ulterior motives.
"Please eat! Otherwise, we will expose your dirty laundry!"
"Yes, now that I've won an award, my reputation is high and the media reporters are all scrambling to expose some of my dirty laundry!"
"One meal, no, at least three meals!"
“Plus a one-stop team building service!”
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Su Dong's face was full of black lines.
Is this a professional football team?
It's like a bandit's den!
(End of this chapter)
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