Football: I am only 16 years old, and you want me to retire and make a comeback?

Chapter 4 Training match, Ten Hag observes from the sidelines

"Eric!"

Tang Ye extended his right hand to Ten Hag. As a substitute player of the second team, he must know Ten Hag, the coach of the first team.

Ten Hahe took a quick look at Tang Ye: "How tall are you, about 1 meters?"

"1 meters"

Tang Ye answered, and Ten Hag patted him on the shoulder: "It's okay, you're still growing at 16, keep going!"

After saying goodbye to Ten Hag, Tang Ye came to the training ground of the second team. When Tang Ye arrived, his teammates had already started warming up under the command of assistant coach Karen.

"Don, you're late again!"

Tang Ye appeared on the training ground, and Melente's voice came the next second. Tang Ye hurried to the locker room to change his shoes.

"This is your 15th time late this month. Do you know what day it is today? The 19th!"

Melente looked at Tang Ye with anger, and the latter touched his head: "Sir, doesn't this mean that I haven't been late for 4 days?"

“Those 4 days are holidays!”

Melente slapped Tang Ye on the butt: "Hurry up and warm up, there is something important today! Mr. Eric from the first team is coming to the second team to observe!"

"Eric?"

Tang Ye's eyes lit up, so he found Xhaka who was warming up on the side and asked, "What's going on? Why did Eric come to watch our training?"

"The new season is about to start and the first team lacks midfielders"

Xhaka explained that not only does the second team lack a midfielder, but Utrecht's first team is now also facing a gap in the midfield.

"I heard Milner is likely to join the first team"

As Xhaka spoke, he pointed his mouth in the direction of Milner, who is currently the midfielder most likely to be selected by Ten Hag.

"But I think you have a chance too!"

Zhaka smiled and raised his eyebrows at Tang Ye, but was met with a cold eye from the latter: "I overthink you."

Beep!
After the warm-up, the 29 players of the second team were divided into two teams under the arrangement of Melente, and 2 starting players were selected from the 29 people.

Originally, Tang Ye had no chance of making the starting lineup, but Ten Hag required all midfielders to play in this training match. Tang Ye took advantage of this and successfully put on the green vest representing Team B.

After assistant coach Karen blew the whistle, the 30-minute team training match began.

Merent and Ten Hag sat together and chatted. In fact, Ten Hag had already been determined who would enter the first team. The existence of this training match just made the process look more fair.

"Oh, that number 99, yes, that's the Asian guy."

Ten Hag pointed at Tang Ye, who was wearing a green vest on the court and said, "That guy, is he in poor health?"

"Well, why do you say that?"

"The race has already started for 5 minutes and he hasn't run yet"

"..."

Melente stood up from his chair: "Fuck, Tang, run for me, if you don't run, get off!"

Merent's words were still very useful. As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Ye ran out and came to the ball-holding player of Team A, that is, Xhaka.

Although Tang Ye started running, he just looked at Xhaka in front of him and did not make any defensive moves.

Could this be the legendary...

Eye defense?

"Snapped!"

Tang Ye failed to complete the steal, Xhaka seized the opportunity and passed the ball to Milner, who dribbled forward.

Seeing Milner holding the ball, Merent is now a little nervous.

Ten Hag came to the second team to pick players. If he takes away the best midfielder of the second team, Utrecht II will face difficulties next season and be beaten by other Eredivisie teams!
"Eric"

Merent thought about it carefully, and then said to Ten Hag next to him: "Although Milner has good advancing ability, he is actually a very unstable player, and... to be honest, Milner's defensive ability is average."

Ten Hag raised his eyebrows, a little surprised by what Merent said: "Isn't this okay? I feel that No. 20 (Milner) should be the best midfielder of your second team. He is at the level of a substitute in the Eredivisie!"

Damn it! Melente thought to himself that this was not good.

It's because Milner is the best that you can't take him away!

The head coach of the first team cannot understand the pain of the second team!

"That's true, but this is a team training match, so you often see the best side of the players."

Merent had his own explanation. Just at this moment, Milner, who was dribbling the ball, encountered defense. Ten Hag signaled Merent to calm down and watch Milner's operation first.

At the top of the arc for Team B, Milner faced two defensive midfielders who were trying to steal the ball. He first looked left and right. Xhaka on the right was in a very good position. Logically, Milner should have passed the ball to the wing at this time.

But Milner chose not to do that.

Sitting outside the stadium is the head coach of the first team!
Under the watchful eyes of two head coaches, Milner chose to force his way to the top of the arc, and the end result was that he lost possession of the ball.

"You see, this is what I said, Milner is a player with very obvious shortcomings!"

Ten Hag didn't say anything. He had also seen from the previous operation that Milner is a player who likes to show himself.

He can play alone, but Milner does not have the ability to support his lone wolf style of play.

What's more, this guy is a midfielder. How can a midfielder not pass the ball!
Considering that Melente is the head coach of the second team and is most familiar with the players of the second team, Ten Hag turned his head and asked a very serious question: "Who do you think is more suitable for the first team?"

Melente stretched out his right hand and pointed at No. 99 on the court: "Him!"

"You mean Tang?"

Ten Hag’s eyes widened: “No, no, no, his attitude towards the game is too negative. Unless he can keep making passes like he did yesterday, it will be very difficult for him to play in the Eredivisie!”

After watching the training match for more than 10 minutes, Ten Hag had a general understanding of Tang Ye's situation.

Not to mention that he was out of breath after running a few steps, just based on his attitude of not even running, Ten Hag would never let Tang Ye play in the Eredivisie.

"Besides, he is too young!"

"This is not a problem!"

Melent said seriously, then looked at Ten Hag mysteriously, motioning the Dutchman to put his ear closer.

"That outside-of-the-foot pass by Don was a real talent. He can still make passes of that level in the game!"

!!!

Melente's heart was beating wildly when he said this, but he kept suppressing his emotions.

Can't blush.

Don't blush at this time!
"Are you serious?"

"One hundred percent serious!"

Melent gave a thumbs up with a confident smile on his face.

Just at this time Tang Ye got the ball, and Melente's confident smile suddenly disappeared.

Damn it, I'm about to succeed, hurry up and give the ball away!
Tang Ye didn't know what was going on outside the court, and he didn't care who was watching him. The first thing he saw when he looked up was Isa Caron who was running in the front.

Snapped!
With a kick from the outside of his foot, the ball landed at Caron's feet.

This is another one-on-one shot, a standard one-on-one shot!
Caron received the ball very comfortably. He only needed to wrap the ball with the arch of his foot and then follow up with a push shot to score.

"Well!"

clap clap clap!
Ten Hag applauded Tang Ye on the field: "Merente, you have a good vision!"

"Merlente, huh?"

Melente hadn't said anything, so Ten Hag turned his head and found that Melente, the head coach of the second team, was staring at Tang Ye on the field in amazement.

"cough cough"

"Well, Eric, listen to me, Tang actually has many shortcomings. Don't be in a hurry to send him to the first team!"

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(End of this chapter)