On May 13, Lin Kedi arrived at the training base of the first team.

This place is indeed completely different from the second team and the youth echelon.

More luxurious and more professional.

Yesterday, Ajax advanced to the 2016-17 Europa League finals by relying on away goals after losing the second leg.

On the plane back to the Netherlands, Boss directly announced the news on the 13th that center Lin Kedi, a second-team player, would be promoted to the first-team.

Everyone in the first team seemed very surprised. After all, there were only two games left at the end of the season. At this time, a center player was promoted to the first team.

And when everyone in the first team returned to the Netherlands, they discovered that this Lin Kedi was actually a player who had not played a single game in the second team.

Everyone was talking about it.

"Frankie, haven't you been in the second team? What kind of player is he?"

"Lin is a very nice person and very talented. He also scored goals in training matches and has good shooting skills, but he has no chance to play."

"You can't tell anything from this."

"It's okay. We'll know when we get to the team."

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When Lin Kedi met with the first-team members, there was no such thing as the captain introducing his teammates.

After all, Lin Kedi was just a player who was promoted from the second team, so everyone didn’t have much enthusiasm for Lin Kedi.

However, De Jong is different.

"Lin, you finally made it to the first team!"

"Frankie, I thought it would be a long time before I see you next time, but I didn't expect to see you so soon."

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while.

Then, the morning training began.

I want to ask Lin Kedi how the training intensity of the first team compares with the second team.

It can only be said that the intensity is higher and the professionalism is stronger.

After a whole morning, Lin Kedi was almost dead from exhaustion.

When it was time for lunch, De Jong and Lin Kedi sat at the same table.

At this time, Dericht came over.

"Matthew."

"Frankie, and Lin."

Looking at De Ligt’s back as he goes to get his meal.

De Jong and Lin Kedi started chatting.

"Matheis is the team's main central defender and the team's third captain. It is no surprise that he will be the next captain."

"Frankie, how many people are there in our first team?"

"Together with you, there are 24. There are 3 goalkeepers. The main goalkeeper is Andre Onana, the backup goalkeeper is Didric Boll, and the third goalkeeper is Cedric Boll. These two Bolls

They are not brothers, they are just named Boer."

"There are seven defenders, Jairo Riedewald, Matthijs de Ligt, Davinson Sanchez, Kenny Tate, Joel Feltman, Nick Filgever, Hai

Co-Westerman."

"There are seven midfielders, Hakim Ziyech, Lasse Schone, captain David Klaassen, Amin Younis, Doni van de Beek, Abdelhakim Nou

Here, there is me, Frenkie de Jong."

"There are seven forward players, Bertrand Traore, Kasper Dolberg, David Neres, Justin Kluivert, Mateo Casiera

, Vaclav Cherny, plus you, Lin defeated the enemy."

"Some of them we met in the second team."

"Yes, if you can't play in the first team, you can go to the second team to gain experience. That's it. But they are all first team players."

Lin Kedi followed De Jong's guidance and recognized the faces and names again.

"I think you have a good chance."

"How come, there are 7 forwards now."

"It doesn't count like that. Most of them are wingers. Even Dolberg, even though he is 1.87 meters tall, he is more suitable and good at playing on the left wing. Traore is 1.81 meters tall, but he is also a winger.

Not to mention Kluivert, who also plays as a winger. In many games of the first team, the midfielder Younes is used as a center forward."

"No front formation?"

"Yes, Younes is a bit like Cesc Fabregas of the Spanish team at that time. So, I think the boss must have his reasons for wanting you to be promoted to the first team. After all, you are a pure center, and your shooting skills

You are indeed very good. You also have the ability that a center forward should have in receiving passes. I think this is why the boss is interested in you."

"You call the coach your boss?"

"Yes, it depends on each coach's habits. You can call him boss, boss, coach, whatever."

"Then I'd better call you boss like you."

"By the way, I want to tell you about the situation in the team. In fact, our first team as a whole is very harmonious. It is completely different from the locker rooms of those wealthy clubs. There are no gangs and no power here. Because everyone is generally young.

, there aren’t many old players, so it’s quite easy to get along with them.”

"That's really good."

"Right. I also want to tell you that the team's performance in recent years is indeed not very good. In addition, this season has not won the Eredivisie championship for three seasons. There is also the Dutch Cup this season.

It has been 7 seasons without a championship. This season the Champions League also fell behind in the qualifying round.

In terms of play-offs, last season’s Champions League failed in the third qualifying round. The 2014-15 season was not bad. It entered the Champions League main draw, but was third in the group and entered the Europa League. In short, this season, it entered the Europa League.

The final was really good, even though the opponent was Manchester United."

"Wait a minute, Frankie, does Ajax still need to play qualifying rounds to participate in the Champions League? I see in the past few years, we have been second in the league at worst."

"The Eredivisie only has two Champions League places. Moreover, the Eredivisie's European Cup standings have always been 12 or 13 in the past few years, so even the league champions have to participate in the qualifying rounds and start slowly from the first qualifying round.

, and in the past few years, Eredivisie teams have participated 11 times

In the Champions League qualifying round, we have only been able to advance to the main match once. So this is a vicious cycle, and the Eredivisie's European points are getting lower and lower. Fortunately, this season we reached the Europa League final, which stopped it.

This has prevented the Eredivisie’s European war points from continuing to decline.”

"So other Eredivisie teams have to thank us."

"PSV and Feyenoord won't thank us."

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After the afternoon training, Peter Bos left Lin Kedi behind.

"This is our first face-to-face chat."

"It seems so."

"How's it going? It's your first day in the first team. Are you still getting used to it?"

"It's okay, the atmosphere here is very good, I like it very much."

"That's good. Tomorrow is our penultimate game of the entire season and the last league game. After this game ends tomorrow, we will start preparing for the Europa League final. I will promote you to the first team, right?

You must be important, and I hope you understand that."

Lin Kedi naturally nodded in agreement.

And this conversation ended just like that.

Lin Kedi also knows a saying.

"Don't look at what others say, but look at what they do."
Chapter completed!