Semester assessment is a traditional feature of Ajax youth training. Two assessment tests are organized every year, with the purpose of evaluating the players' competitive status and strength improvement. The five players with the worst assessment results in each age group will be eliminated and new players will be added when the new semester is reorganized.

Strict assessment standards, cruel elimination rate, and the stimulus brought by metabolism have made Ajax all ages full of fierce competition. Every player must work hard to improve himself and meet the requirements of the team.

Even after layers of screening and elimination, only one of the six people can sign a professional contract with the club, enter the second team of Ajax, and get a two-year inspection period. If you cannot meet the first-team requirements within two years, you will be forced to leave the team.

It is precisely under this almost cruel competition mechanism that Ajax has a very high success rate. Ninety-five percent of players who pass the echelon assessment will eventually become professional players, but they may not play for Ajax.

Almele learned and drew on Ajax's entire youth training mechanism, including semester assessment, but due to the degree of perfection of the youth team and the difficulty of supplementing players, he only arranged one assessment test every year, and only three players will be eliminated.

But even so, it has already made everyone in the team feel very stressed.

In the past, Yang Yang was the best candidate to be eliminated in everyone's mind, but in the past month, with Yang Yang's outstanding performance, especially his performance in the past four games, he has become an indispensable and important member of the youth team. It is not uncommon to pass the assessment.

There was even news in the team that it is said that first-team head coach John Rep intends to transfer several outstanding students such as Yang Yang and Henk Dimmel into the first team in the new semester to participate in training and competitions with the team.

Yang Yang saved himself, but it also intensified the competition within the team. The number of eliminations increased from the original two to three, and any player with risks began to become in danger.

Since the usual training is also included in the assessment results, everyone tries their best in the training ground, and sometimes even the movements are a bit too big. Even when training, it is filled with a competitive atmosphere of bayonets all the time.

John Rep and Dick Vanpur watched the training on the court silently on the sidelines, neither of them stopped them.

In their opinion, the team's training atmosphere in the past was too loose. Now, this kind of real swords and guns are called training.

"From the performance over the past period of time, Yang Yang has no problem passing the assessment." Dick Vanpur said with satisfaction.

In the past four games, Bakken Academy won three wins and one loss, only losing to his city rival Omnibas. Yang Yang performed very well in the next three games, with assists in every game. He was the hero of the team's three consecutive victories, which made him, the head coach very happy.

"He is the best in the team in the cultural course. Even at Bakken Academy, he is a top student. Speed, flexibility, explosive power and endurance are not a problem. One-on-one offense and defense are also the best in the team, and there will be no problems in psychological quality."

Dick Vanpur didn't know it, but he suddenly realized that Yang Yang had many advantages that he could dedicate.

"The biggest problem at the moment is his basic skills, such as shooting, passing and crossing."

The assessment is divided into three parts. The daily training and game records are evaluated by the coaching team, and the final test is also scored by the coaching team for the related items of each player. The items and scoring standards are all drawn from Ajax, with a total of twenty small items.

After each small event is scored, the coaching team will summarize and evaluate it, and finally get the assessment score, and then combine the records of daily training and competitions to give a total score.

The three leading players in total scores were rewarded to represent Almere in the Ajax talent day selection, while the three players with the bottom scores would be forced to leave Almere youth team.

After listening to Vanpur's report, John Repp nodded slightly, which was similar to his recent assessment.

As a well-known European right winger, he is becoming more and more interested in Yang Yang, who also plays on the right winger position, mainly because his progress over the past month is too fast and too amazing.

Even now, his basic skills are still not good, barely reaching the passing line of the youth team, but his pendulum is more and more skillful in using his pendulum. In the past few inter-school competitions, no one can defend him.

This surprised John Rep, but he also clearly saw Yang Yang's potential.

After all, he is only sixteen years old. With his current momentum of progress and his enthusiasm for hard training, it may really surprise people.

"How many days are there before the assessment, you must prepare well." John Rep reminded carefully.

"This time, in addition to the Almele Municipal Government and some people who cooperate with the club on weekdays, I also specially invited a world-class celebrity to visit. He is not easy to invite, but this time he actually agreed. With his influence in the Netherlands and Ajax, we will definitely show our youth training results at that time."

Dick Vanpur nodded solemnly, but was very curious.

Given John Rep's status in Ajax and the Netherlands, even he found it difficult to ask for help. What is the origin of it?

However, the head coach does not intend to announce it in advance, so he doesn't have to ask more questions.

"After training, you tell them that the three best performers will not only get the chance to go to Ajax for Genius Day, but the club will also formally sign a professional contract with them to enter the first team in the new season."

Almele is currently at a critical moment of rushing to B. If he succeeds in rushing to B, then entering the first team will be like having a chance to compete in the Dutch League. This is a great temptation for any player.

Even if the club unfortunately fails to compete in the third-level league in the new season, it will be a great improvement for them.

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Sure enough, after Dick Vanpur conveyed the head coach's promise after training, the atmosphere inside the team was even more intense.

Especially the best players led by Henk Dimmel, who are already the best players in the team on weekdays. Now that the head coach has promised such an attractive reward, why don’t they fight to the death?

Yang Yang was also attracted, and he wanted to get one of the places.

Not only for professional contracts and first-team qualifications, but also for meeting your idol Van Basten.

Since he saw the magnificent Amsterdam Athletic Stadium with his own eyes, he dreamed of meeting Van Basten, and wanted to compete with Ajax and other peers, even the talented stars of the first team.

He really wants to know how big the gap is between himself and the best peers in the world.

If you see the gap clearly, he will be more motivated.

In the next few days, there were no competitions at Baken School, and Yang Yang devoted himself to training day and night. He didn't even have to help with restaurants except to go to school every day. Uncle Shen Ming knew that his semester assessment was about to be held, so he ordered him to concentrate on training.

During the day, he entered the super training ground at night. Yang Yang kept practicing the basic movements that others had been extremely skilled before he was ten years old, and did not dare to slack off at all.

In a blink of an eye, it was the morning of the assessment and test.

This is a rare sunny sky, with clear sky and cloudless, as if it had just been dyed.

At Lao Bing's suggestion, Yang Yang, who was still energetic after a night of hard training, in order to maintain his condition, his training volume in the skateboard park in the morning was greatly reduced. After calculating the time, he trotted and rushed to the training ground.

The atmosphere in the locker room was obviously more boring than usual. Everyone was tidying up their jerseys and boots, and no one spoke. Even after Yang Yang came in, everyone just looked up at him. Many people's eyes seemed very complicated, only Henk Dimmel and others nodded at him friendly.

It is obvious that they are all aiming at the top three and do not feel the threat from Yang Yang.

Yang Yang was recognized as the bottom person by everyone more than a month ago. No matter how he was reborn, he would not be able to make a rapid progress in more than a month or even enter the top three.

Basic skills are about progressing step by step. The progress rate of Yang Yang is already very fast, but it is impossible to catch up with players such as Henk Dimmel who have been practicing hard for nearly ten years in just over a month.

Yang Yang is also very self-aware of this, but he is still willing to do his best to do his best.

Yang Yang felt the unwillingness, envy and even resentment in their eyes for some other teammates who might have been eliminated. He couldn't help feeling sad, but he knew very well that survival of the fittest was the foundation for a team to maintain competitiveness.

Even if head coach John Rep is soft-hearted and keeps them, he will only lose the team's pace in the future.

The same goes for myself.

After changing into the jersey and putting on the boots, when Yang Yang walked out of the locker room, he saw Dick Vanpur encouraging the players who came out one by one outside the goal. When it was Yang Yang's turn, he not only encouraged him, but also gave him a few more words of advice.

"Mr. Rep asked me to tell you, work hard and show your best side, and he believes you will be able to stay."

"Well, thank you Mr. Rep."

"He also said that as long as you pass the assessment, as long as you continue to work hard and maintain the current progress momentum, the team will sign a professional contract with you in the new season, and he will also select the opportunity to transfer him to the first team. Don't let him down."

"I understand." Yang Yang nodded.

He could feel that although John Rep and Dick Vanpur were optimistic about him, he still felt that it would be difficult for him to stand out in the assessment, otherwise there would be no need to make such a promise in advance.

But the more this happens, the more he wants to fight.
Chapter completed!