During this trial experience, Rosen deeply realized the significant gap between amateur players at the county level in China and youth players of the Dutch giants, as well as the essential difference between amateur and professional.
During the trial at Ajax, Rosen failed to perform as expected and was eliminated after only half a training match.
Despite his outstanding physical fitness, due to lack of professional training and being over 16 years old, Ajax's youth training coach did not see his development potential.
It is obviously unrealistic to join the U7 team and start from scratch. This is not only unacceptable to Rosen himself, but also does not meet Ajax's expectations.
In view of this, Song Zhicheng decided to lead Rosen to the amateur team in Amsterdam for trial training.
However, even in the amateur field, there is a clear gap compared to players participating in regular amateur leagues in the Netherlands.
Song Zhicheng led Rosen to try out with six or seven amateur teams, and finally, relying on his personal relationship with Van der No, he successfully joined the Purmes football team.
Although the Dutch amateur league has a higher intensity and technical and tactical level than the friendly amateur matches that Rosen participated in at home, Rosen did not adapt immediately.
In the more than two months since joining Pulmes, he has played in four or five games but failed to score or assist. This performance is obviously not satisfactory.
However, Rosen was not discouraged.
In a recent game, he finally scored his first goal in Pulmes, helping the team lead the opponent Helleburg 1-0.
This goal not only made Rosen relieved, but also won the respect of his teammates and opponents.
The defenders of Helleburg began to pay attention to him, which made it difficult for him to get better shooting opportunities in subsequent games.
Despite this, Rosen still learned valuable experience from it and realized that the improvement of shooting skills is only the basis for improving shooting accuracy, and scoring also needs to consider the interference ability of the opponent's defensive players.
In the match between Pulmes and Helleburg, Henik took advantage of the Helleburg defender's lax defense against Rosen and successfully counterattacked to score a goal, helping the team to finally beat the opponent 2-0.
After the game, Rosen received the upgrade information and rewards prompted by the system, which encouraged him.
At the same time, he also received encouragement and recognition from captain Jonathan and other teammates.
After the game, Rosen received a salary of 120 euros from the coach as a part-time player.
This is the highest income he has ever earned since he started playing football, although it is still low compared to the cost of living in the capital of the Netherlands, a developed country in Europe.
But for Rosen, this is already a high income like pie in the sky.
After all, he once became a homeless beggar.
After receiving the salary, Rosen said goodbye to his coach and teammates and returned to the restaurant where he worked.
As a part-time player, he trained with the team and participated in competitions in his spare time, and his main job was to work in a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown.
This experience not only made Rosen deeply understand the hardships and challenges of professional football, but also made him cherish every opportunity to play and every penny of income.
It was the generosity of the Chinese restaurant owner Song Zhicheng that provided Rosen with a valuable job opportunity and enthusiastically recommended him to the coach of the Pulmes team, Van Deno.
Otherwise, Rosen might face the dilemma of wandering and begging or even being deported back to his country.
After the game, Rosen used the transparent system interface to check the system information while walking.
After today's game, Rosen's system level was upgraded to level 1, the experience value reached 120/200, and the attribute point balance increased to 12 points.
Then, he opened the level gift package and successfully triggered the lottery wheel.
This time, the lottery opportunity was random and skills could not be specified.
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Rosen stared at the skill options on the wheel, silently praying that he could draw a skill suitable for the striker position and apply it immediately.
After clicking the red button, the turntable began to rotate, and after a few seconds it slowly stopped, with the pointer pointing to the "off-ball running" skill.
The system prompt sounded immediately: "Congratulations to the host for unlocking the off-ball running skill, and you can use attribute points to add points."
Faced with this unfamiliar skill name, Rosen was a little confused for a while.
In the football world of 2007, the concept of off-ball running had not yet been popularized worldwide.
Although professional coaches, sports journalists and veteran fans in Europe may have begun to pay attention to and study this skill in depth because of the player Inzaghi, ordinary fans know little about it.
For Rosen, a young man from a rural area in China with poor information and an average family background, off-ball running is a completely new and unfamiliar concept.
He didn't even know whether this was a striker's skill and what its specific role was.
Therefore, after checking the skill interface and finding that the off-ball running value was 7, he was not in a hurry to add points.
In order to understand the practical application of this skill, Rosen decided to ask his boss Song Zhicheng to decide whether to use attribute points to add points.
After walking two kilometers along the road outside the football field, Rosen returned to the restaurant in Chinatown and entered from the back door.
Most of the staff in the restaurant's kitchen are Chinese, and they are very caring towards Rosen.
Seeing him return, everyone greeted him and asked about the game.
Rosen smiled and responded: "Thank you for your concern. Today I finally scored the first goal, and the team also defeated Helleburg 2-0."
In fact, everyone is more concerned about whether Rosen scored a goal, rather than the victory or defeat of the Pulmes team.
Hearing the news that Rosen finally scored a goal, everyone was happy for him.
"Great, finally scored a goal!"
"This shows that Komori can gain a foothold in the Netherlands!"
"Although it is an amateur league, it is also a formal game, not a friendly match."
"Come on, Xiaosen, you will definitely become a big star in the future!"
After thanking everyone for their congratulations, Rosen went to the bathroom to take a shower, put his jersey in the washing machine, changed into a waiter uniform, and went to the second floor boss Song Zhicheng's office and knocked on the door.
"Dong Dong Dong..."
"Come in!" Song Zhicheng's voice came from inside.
Rosen pushed the door open and entered. Seeing the boss sitting behind the desk, he called him "Uncle Cheng".
Song Zhicheng was over 40 years old, so it was reasonable for Rosen to call him uncle.
Seeing Rosen walk in with a smile on his face, Song Zhicheng curiously said, "Is the game over? Goal?"
You know, when Rosen usually performs poorly, he will change clothes and start working directly after the game, and will not take the initiative to report to the office.
Rosen scratched his head, nodded and smiled, "Yeah."
Hearing that Rosen really scored a goal, Song Zhicheng was very happy. He stood up from behind the desk, asked Rosen to sit on the sofa, and sat opposite him.
Afterwards, Song Zhicheng asked about today's game and the process of scoring.
Rosen briefly described the game.
Of course, he did not mention the football wizard system he had obtained, but just said that he was lucky and instinctively raised his foot to shoot and score when he saw the ball flying.
Hearing that Rosen finally scored his first goal in the Dutch amateur league, he was very happy and praised Rosen a few words.
However, Song Zhicheng also reminded Rosen that the level of the fourth league was low, and hoped that he would continue to work hard and strive for the opportunity to participate in the professional league in the future.
Even the third league is much higher than the amateur fourth league.
Rosen is confident in his career prospects, but he did not reveal it to Song Zhicheng.
However, he still remembered the new skills he had just acquired.
So, Rosen pretended to ask casually: "By the way, Uncle Cheng, I accidentally heard my teammates mention a word, 'running without the ball', what does it mean?"
Song Zhicheng smiled and said: "Running without the ball? It means literally, running without the ball."
Rosen nodded and continued to ask: "What is the use of this ability? What's special about it?"
Song Zhicheng thought for a while and asked: "Have you heard of Inzaghi of AC Milan?"
Rosen nodded: "Yes, in the Champions League final last season, Inzaghi scored twice to help AC Milan defeat Liverpool and win the championship. His goal efficiency is very high."
Song Zhicheng nodded: "Then do you know how the media and fans evaluate him?"
Rosen replied: "Yes, many people say that he is a speculator and opportunist on the offside line."
Song Zhicheng shook his head and smiled: "This is an old saying. Now a considerable number of coaches, sports reporters and senior fans prefer to call Inzaghi a master of running without the ball."
Rosen said a little embarrassedly: "I don't quite understand what this means."
Song Zhicheng began to explain the role of running without the ball in detail.
With Song Zhicheng's patient explanation, Rosen finally understood the meaning of the skill of running without the ball.
In short, the ability of a striker to run without the ball is the ability to find a gap in the opponent's back line and achieve a fatal effect.
The reason why Inzaghi can achieve super high goal efficiency and today's achievements, although his physical and technical skills are not very good, is mainly due to his excellent ability to run without the ball.
Inzaghi is one of the most representative figures of running without the ball.
Of course, there is also the king of the small penalty area, Van Nistelrooy, who is also a super striker who is proficient in running without the ball. They can always find the gap in the opponent's back line.
If the teammates with the ball cooperate tacitly, understand each other, and can send a wonderful pass, they can easily score a goal without passing several people or shooting hard.
This way of scoring goals was not valued in the early years. People preferred Ronaldo's continuous dribbling and continuous passing to score goals.
Now, Inzaghi's off-ball running has attracted the attention of professionals.
Therefore, Song Zhicheng predicts that as the defense of professional football teams becomes increasingly tight, the future football world will pay more and more attention to and require the off-ball running ability of forwards and even midfielders.
Players with higher off-ball running ability will have stronger ability to find opportunities to break defense, and will naturally become more and more popular.