Chapter 3 An Opportunity

Ten days later

Jiang Mu sat on the World War II Monument Square in Amsterdam and lit a cigarette. His sharp eyes were dim. There was vicissitudes of s on his bright face. The joy of rebirth disappeared and was replaced by fatigue.

The square is opposite the famous red light district of Amsterdam. When you look up, you can see the kitchen window girl wearing a three-point style and a miniskirt. When they first came here, Jiang Mu and Zhao Guangming were deeply shocked by the openness and silver swing of Amsterdam, but now he is not even interested in taking a look. .

In 17 days, he has run more than half of the professional teams of League One and League Two. No club is willing to ask for him, and even the idle position of scouting is unwilling to be offered to him. Although there are more than 4,000 football clubs and more than 50,000 teams in the Netherlands, the amateur league in the Netherlands is not like the amateur league in England. If you play well, you can slowly be promoted to the professional league. The amateur league in the Netherlands is the amateur league. Unless you encounter a bankrupt club in the second division, you will find a replacement from the amateur first division team, otherwise it can only be an amateur team, so Jiang Mu does not plan to find a coaching job in the amateur team in the Netherlands.

He didn't even find a scout job in 17 days, which really made Jiang Mu sad and angry. He was a reborn person. In the later fantasy novels, no reborn person was as miserable as him.

Although the money is saving money, there is little left. I can only live in the slum near the red light district with Zhao Guangming. If Zhao Guangming can't find a job, the two of them may sleep on the street.

Jiang Mu is not a pessimistic and disappointed boy who encounters a little setback. After a short period of depression, his heart is full of courage and confidence. With the memory of rebirth, he is still full of confidence in making money. Just buying a football lottery is enough for him to make a small fortune.

If you can't be a coach, just be a chairman. Anyway, making money is an extremely simple thing for him.

Out of the shackles of the heart, everything around him becomes lively and lively. Wandering artists who sit in the corner and play as they want; performance artists dressed up as marble statues or heroic figures in thick clothes; screams caused by groups of acrobatic performers, bustling like weaving. People, even the gloomy weather in Amsterdam in May, have become bright and lovely.

Jiang Mu groped for the strange ring worn on his middle finger. He suspected that the sound in his mind that day was related to the ring, because except for the ring, there was nothing abnormality after his rebirth. Since the sentence "Insufficient energy, no self-examination, need to replenish energy?" appeared in his mind. After that, that voice did not appear again, but Jiang Mu didn't want to delve into it now. He believed that since this thing lived on himself, he would sooner or later figure out where it was sacred.

At this time, a street artist sat down with a newspaper spread on the cement floor beside Jiang Mu, and then began to sing with a guitar in his arms. Although he could not be compared with professionals, he was more beautiful than the singers' pretentious show.

"It plays very well." Jiang Mu smiled and applauded. He took out five Dutch guilders from his pocket and put them in the box in front of the Dutch "Shary Brother".

The Dutch "Sharp Brother" looked at Jiang Mu in surprise. He just thought that Jiang Mu was his colleague.

"Fuck you, the five Dutch guilders is more than 20 yuan. How much money do we have? Wood? After starving to death, you can go to the 18th floor of hell, and you don't have to go to the 19th floor."

Zhao Guangming's voice came from Jiang Mu's ear. They met in Monument Square on the phone half an hour ago.

"Guangming, you must have found a job."

Seeing Zhao Guangming's red face, Jiang Mu guessed that he had found a job. This guy was like this, and everything was on his face.

"Let you slap it, haha, I found a job. As a contemporary teacher in a private school, we don't have to sleep on the street, and we don't have to look at the fat pig face of the Dutch landlady." Zhao Guangming danced and was a little complacent.

"Oh, I'm a little thirsty. Can I have a beer?"

"No, the money for drinking has long been given to the benevolous Mr. Jiang to give alms."

"Light, doing good deeds can accumulate virtue. If I don't give these five Dutch shields, maybe you can't find a job."

"Damn it, you still have credit. Well, let's drink and celebrate. I have paid half a month's salary in advance. We don't have to worry about the rent for meals."

Jiang Mu and Zhao Guangming went to an open-air bar in the west of the square and asked for two glasses of beer and chatted happily.

Suddenly, the mobile phone in Jiang Mudou rang.

Jiang Mu took out his mobile phone. This new Nokia mobile phone cost Jiang Mu half a month's salary. The mobile phone number is very strange. It is a local mobile phone number in the Netherlands.

"Hello, who are you?"

A strange voice came from the mobile phone, which said Jiang Mu's most familiar Chinese, "Are you the coach Jiang Mu of Sangao Football Club?"

"Yes, I'm Jiang Mu."

"Oh, great, I finally found you. I'm Li Wei, the chairman of the Oriental Dragon Club. Where are you? I have something to talk to you about. Can you spare some time to meet me?"

When he met his compatriots, Jiang Mu was not very excited, but hesitated for a moment. He had never heard of the names Li Wei and the Oriental Dragon Club. He was worried that it was a liar, but he immediately laughed. He was basically penniless and could lie to himself. He said, "My monument in Amsterdam. The open-air coffee bar across the square.

"Okay, please wait a moment. I'll be there in half an hour."

Jiang Mu hung up his mobile phone, and Zhao Guangming asked, "Who called? It's not a friend, is it?"

"My friend is you."

"Then I'm a top and you're a little."

"Explosion you**." Jiang Mu raised a middle finger to Zhao Guangming, and then said seriously, "Guangming, there is a chairman of an amateur football club called Oriental Dragon who wants to see me. He is a Chinese. Do you think he will be a liar?"

Zhao Guangming muttered: "Amsterdam is a mixed place. It is legal to take drugs to buy ** homosexuals. You can imagine how chaotic it is. Although this person is a Chinese, he is also unreliable. Fellow villagers, the probability of a shot in the cup behind him is much higher than that of a shot by a foreigner. "

"You can carry this shot for me."

"Get out of here, why did you make a bad friend?"

Half an hour later, a Chinese with obvious mixed-race traces stood in front of Jiang Mu. He was in his forties, tall, well-dressed, and elegant in his manners.

"You are Mr. Jiang Mu, right? I'm Li Wei."

"Hello, Chairman Li, this is my friend Zhao Guangming. What would you like to drink?" Jiang Mu saw that it was half mixed blood, and his desire for closeness was reduced by at least three points.

"Coffee."

The three of them sat down after shaking hands. Jiang Mu asked Li Wei for a cup of coffee and said bluntly, "It's the first time we've met. How did Chairman Li know my phone number?"

Li Wei smiled and said, "I heard about it from your three high football clubs."

Jiang Mu said curiously, "With all due respect, Chairman Li took the trouble to inquire about my mobile phone number?"

"Our Oriental Dragon Club is a Chinese-based club. This year, we are going to participate in the All-Dutch Immigration Championship. It happens that Wang Wentao, the coach and main defender of our club, has gone to Africa this time. There is a lack of a head coach. I would like to invite you to coach at our Oriental Dragon Club. Would you like to?"

Jiang Mu did not answer whether he was willing or not, and asked, "Chairman Li, how do you know me? How do you know that I can be a good coach?"

Li Wei looked at Jiang Mu in surprise and said with a smile, "It seems that you haven't surfed the Internet or read the news recently. If you read newspapers online during this period, you will understand that you are already a Dutch journalist. It's difficult for us to know whether you are also."

Damn it! Jiang Mu remembered that the news that he was looking for a coach in Ajax was posted on the Internet by their staff. Then the news that Feyenoord, Eindhoven and other clubs also wanted to coach these rich families. Then the Dutch website and fans on the Internet laughed at Jiang Mu's toad for wanting to eat swan meat and was too much. This incident also caused quarrels between locals in the Netherlands and the Chinese.

"Haha, wood, you are famous." Zhao Guangming gloated.

"It's better to remain obscured than obscurity." Jiang Mu replied to Zhao Guangming and said to Li Wei, "What kind of amateur team are you?"

VierdeKlasseie. We are a club dominated by Chinese immigrants and international students all over the Netherlands, mainly for self-entertainment.

When Li Wei said, he was a little embarrassed, because VierdeKlasse is an amateur fourth-tier league, which belongs to the sixth-level league in the whole Dutch football.

In the 1990s, the Dutch professional league only had the second division, and the third division was added in the 2010 season; under the professional league is the amateur league, which is divided into seven levels: the first level: the amateur first division (Hoofdklasse), which is equivalent to the national level.

Second level: Amateur League Two (EersteKlasse), which is equivalent to the regional level, such as North China and Northeast China.

TweedeKlasse, which is equivalent to the provincial level.

Level 4: Amateur D (TweedeKlasse), equivalent to the municipal level

Level 5: VierdeKlasse, equivalent to the district and county level.

Level 6: Vijfde Klasse, equivalent to the township level.

Level 7: ZesdeKlasse, this is the last level, about similar to the village level in China.

Jiang Mu stayed in the Netherlands for two years with the team, and he also played amateur league entertainment when he had nothing to do. He has a better understanding of the league mechanism in the Netherlands, and amateur teams are like churches. There is a church in every town in the Netherlands, and every town has an amateur team. These amateur teams, like professional teams, have their own playing fields, several training grounds, dressing rooms, etc. It is also divided into 1, 2 and 3 teams. Each team has a youth training system, which is not comparable to China's amateur league.

Amateur leagues at all levels in the Netherlands can be upgraded, but no matter how much the amateur team wins the championship, it will not become a professional team. Amateur and professional are completely separated. Amateur teams are also quite distinctive. They often sign training contracts with professional teams. Professional teams have the right to buy priority for amateur team players. Amateur teams can have the opportunity to play against these top teams or even train together.

Maybe he is worried that Jiang Mu is unwilling to come. Li Wei explained, "Although the level of our club is very low, we can play the Dutch Cup. In addition, Alkmaar of the Eerste Divisie has signed a training contract with us. If you are really good at it, we will recommend you to Alkmaar."

Jiang Mu smiled and said, "Chairman Li, do you believe me?"

Li Wei pointed to his head and said, "Of course, I believe that a person who dares to recommend himself to rich families such as Ajax, Feyenoord and Eindhoven must have a certain strength as long as there is no brain problem."

"Manager Li, don't believe him. He just has a brain problem." Zhao Guangming said with a smile.

Li Wei smiled and said, "Mr. Zhao is so humorous. I believe Mr. Jiang is a talent."

"Okay, Chairman Li, just for you, I'll do it in the Oriental Dragon." Jiang Mu immediately made a decision. Since he can't find a good job for the time being, let's practice with an amateur team.

"Good! Change the wine. Let's have a good drink. I'll talk to you about the subsidy and treatment. We are an amateur club. There is no salary, only a meager subsidy.

"I understand, Chairman Li, just follow the rules of the club. I won't ask too much. I'll look for a job tomorrow."

"I'll help you with the work. Now you can train at ease, and the game will start soon."

"Okay, thank you, Chairman."

"Don't call me Chairman Li. We are compatriots. How old am I? You two call me Brother Li."

Li Wei stretched out his hand, and the hands of the three people were tightly held together, and their fates were also linked from then on.