God of Green

On April 2, Alkmaar resumed daily training.

A day later, on the morning of April 4, Van Gaal was called off the court by an office call.

After a while, Jiang Xiaolin also received a call from General Manager Anselm, asking him to go to Anselm's office.

After Jiang Xiaolin changed his clothes and went to Anselm's office, he found Van Gaal there.

After greeting the two, Jiang Xiaolin found a seat and sat down.

Then, Anselm told the story. It turned out that Jiang Xiaolin was called up by the National Olympic Team. The Chinese National Olympic Team called the Alkmaar Club, hoping that the club would support the National Olympic Team's call for Jiang Xiaolin.

From the bottom of their hearts, Anselm and Van Gaal naturally did not want Jiang Xiaolin to be called up.

Now Jiang Xiaolin is the team's thigh and the top scorer. The efficiency of 12 goals in 7 games is not only the best in the Alkmaar team, but also the best in the entire Eredivisie.

After losing Jiang Xiaolin, the team's offensive power will definitely drop by more than one level.

However, the club and the players are interdependent. Players need to rely on the club to pay their salaries, and the club also needs players to work hard on the court to achieve good results.

If the players want to go to the national team themselves, and the club does not let them go, it is inevitable that the players will not work hard on the court in the future, and there will even be negative public opinion that some clubs prevent players from playing for the country.

This will have a significant negative impact on the club's image and future recruitment work.

Everyone knows that after your club prevents players from playing for the country, who will dare to easily join your team if they have hope and want to enter the national team?

Especially Jiang Xiaolin, a super striker who scores a lot of goals, has a greater impact on the club's performance.

What's more, Alkmaar still wants to renew and modify the contract with Jiang Xiaolin, and dare not offend Jiang Xiaolin easily.

What if Jiang Xiaolin insists on not renewing the contract, which team will use the liquidated damages to take him away?

Therefore, Anselm did not immediately agree to the Chinese Olympic team, but perfunctorily said that he would call back later, and then after hanging up the phone, he went to discuss with Van Gaal.

The information given by the Chinese Olympic team is that the list of the Olympic team training camp will be announced on April 10, and they will gather in China on April 13, and fly to Serbia, the hometown of the Olympic team coach Dujkovic, on April 14.

After arriving in Europe, the Chinese Olympic team will train at the training base of the Serbian super giant Belgrade Red Star Club, which has won the Champions League. During the period, two friendly matches will be held. The training camp will end on April 25, and the players will return to their respective clubs.

If Jiang Xiaolin is allowed to participate in the Olympic team training camp, he will definitely miss the last round of the Eredivisie, Alkmaar's home game against Rotterdam Sparta on April 20.

And as it happens, Alkmaar will have a penultimate round match against SBV Elite on April 13, and may also be affected by Jiang Xiaolin's absence.

There are three rounds left in this season's Eredivisie, namely the 32nd round of the Eredivisie on April 6, the 33rd round of the Eredivisie on April 13, and the 34th round of the Eredivisie on April 20.

If Jiang Xiaolin is allowed to participate in the training camp of the National Olympic Team, Jiang Xiaolin will definitely participate in the game on April 6, but will definitely not participate in the game on April 20.

Now, Anselm and Van Gaal are discussing the game on April 13.

After repeated discussions between the two, it was determined that if Jiang Xiaolin asked to participate in the National Olympic Team, they would negotiate with the Chinese National Olympic Team to let Jiang Xiaolin stay until April 13 to participate in the 33rd round of the Eredivisie, and then Jiang Xiaolin would participate in the training camp.

Because the location of this training camp is in Europe and Serbia, Jiang Xiaolin does not have to gather on April 13 like those players in China, and then fly to Serbia on April 14.

Jiang Xiaolin could have played in the match against SBV Elite on April 13, and then flew to Serbia alone on April 14 to join the National Olympic Team.

Flying back to China from the Netherlands and then flying to Serbia with domestic players is completely unnecessary.

Both of them felt that this plan should work and could convince the officials of the Chinese National Olympic Team.

Now it depends on whether Jiang Xiaolin himself wants to participate in the training camp of the Chinese National Olympic Team. If Jiang Xiaolin himself is not willing, they will naturally find a reason to shirk.

Anyway, the National Olympic Team is not the national team, and the daily training is not an international match day stipulated by FIFA. There is no mandatory requirement for the club to release him, so it is reasonable for them not to let Jiang Xiaolin leave.

After the two discussed it, they called Jiang Xiaolin and relayed the request of the Chinese National Olympic Team.After that, Anselm said: "Jiang, you know that you are very important to the team. There are three rounds left in the league. We must strive to win all the last three rounds to ensure that we stay in the League Cup play-off zone, and we must try our best to improve our ranking." "And your Chinese Olympic team's training camp is not the national team's international match day competition, you don't have to participate." "To be honest, the level of your national Olympic team may not be as high as our Alkmaar youth team. It's a waste of time for you to participate in their training camp." "Therefore, from our point of view, we hope that you will not participate in this Olympic team training camp. On the one hand, it will not help your skills, and on the other hand, the team needs you to lead everyone to win the last three league games." "If you don't want to participate, we can find a reason to turn down this call-up. Van Gaal and I have the same opinion." After hearing Anselm's words, Van Gaal next to him also said a few words, which roughly meant that the team really needs Jiang Xiaolin and hopes that Jiang Xiaolin will stay to play the last three league games. But how could Jiang Xiaolin listen to them?

As a Chinese football player, although the image of Chinese football has long collapsed in everyone's mind, who would be willing to refuse the call-up of the national team?

Unless he is not Chinese.

What's more, this year's Olympics will be held in China, and Jiang Xiaolin doesn't want to miss it.

Training is not only about improving Jiang Xiaolin's skills, but more about letting Jiang Xiaolin get to know his teammates in the National Olympic Team, improving everyone's cooperation and tacit understanding, and preparing for the Olympics.

For the Olympics held in their own country, what does a few league games in the club count for?

According to the current points form and the strength and morale of the team, even without Jiang Xiaolin, Alkmaar will not fall out of the top ten of the standings.

As long as he is guaranteed to enter the top ten, the date of the UEFA Cup play-offs will be after he has participated in the National Olympic Team training, and then he can naturally come back and compete with his teammates for a place in the UEFA Cup.