ps, there are four updates today! April has only just started for three days, so it's still time to ask for guaranteed monthly tickets!

Also, starting tomorrow, please allow me to slow down the pace of updates a bit to accumulate more manuscripts for the future, so that there will be more updates. So tomorrow there won't be four updates, but three, which is also an update, a small update, no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat!

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When Chen Hero reappeared in the training ground through meditation, he saw Van Basten standing in front of him at a glance.

Now forty-seven years old, Van Basten has embarked on the path of coaching, but as a coach, his achievements are not very brilliant. However, in front of Chen Hero is Basten in his prime, that is, Basten at the 1988 European Championship.

He scored that zero-angle volley in the final against the Soviet Union, helping the Dutch team win their first major tournament trophy.

Total Football in the Netherlands finally achieved its goal.

Seeing the legendary star in front of him, Chen Hero was not very excited, because he was neither a fan of AC Milan nor an admirer of Basten, otherwise he wouldn't have thought about this person all night last night...

In addition, through this copy, he has seen many stars who shouldn't have appeared in front of him, such as Dalglish and Maradona, so he no longer has any sense of surprise.

"Hi, Mark!" Chen Hero greeted him calmly.

"Hi, Hero. Nice to meet you." Basten took the initiative to extend his hand and shook hands with Chen Hero.

"I'm also very happy to meet you..."

Of course, this means he can become a disciple!

"Can I ask you to be my teacher?" Chen Hero didn't waste any time with Basten on pleasantries, or say something like "Basten-dada, I admire you so much" "I'm your loyal fan" "Give me an autograph" and so on.

He directly made his request.

Basten nodded, but what he said stunned Chen Hero: "Becoming a disciple is fine, but what are you going to learn from me, Hero?"

What to learn from Basten?

Of course, it's learning...

Eh?

What to learn?

What am I going to learn from Basten?

I want to improve my ability to score with my feet, I hope to get rid of my dependence on headers... but what exactly am I going to learn from Basten?

He was stunned on the spot, not knowing how to answer this question.

He really wasn't familiar with Basten at all. Does Basten have any distinctive strengths like Inzaghi or Juninho?

He couldn't think of any.

He considered it, it's best to see what Basten is good at first...

So he said to Basten, "Sorry, I'll log off first..."

After speaking, he returned to his room.

He turned on the computer, opened the search engine directly, and then entered Basten's name in the search bar, followed by a space, and then entered "characteristics."

"Good footwork, superb technique, standard and elegant movements... delicate footwork, super shooting skills... unsurpassed header skills... fast speed, strong impact; abundant physical strength; extremely agile body. Keen awareness, good sense of position, large range of activity, always able to appear where needed most... broad vision, accurate passing... solid basic skills, can continuously run at high speed for forty-five minutes without stopping, and complete various technical movements such as stopping, dribbling, passing, and shooting at a high level while running... first-class assist ability, strong team cooperation awareness and ability... has the ability to break the equilibrium state maintained by the opponent's non-ball players, and create opportunities for teammates with speed, varied skills, and unparalleled football awareness... Damn!" After reading it, Chen Hero pushed the computer away, "Why do I feel like there's nothing he can't do? Isn't this an all-around center forward?"

Chen Hero's exclamation was actually right.

If many fans who like Van Basten were asked about Van Basten's characteristics, they would definitely tell you a lot and a lot, and those words could be used to describe any excellent forward.

In other words, any word that can describe a forward can be put on Van Basten.

Cruyff once had a very pertinent comment on Van Basten, saying that Van Basten "is truly a goal grocery store!"

Left and right foot volleys, pushing into an empty goal after shaking past the defender and goalkeeper, nutmegging the goalkeeper in a one-on-one situation, diving headers—even diving headers from outside the penalty area—bicycle kicks... Van Basten's goal styles are endless, and his inspiration seems inexhaustible. Taking his breakout performance at the 1988 European Championship as an example, five goals in five locations in five different ways, making him impossible to defend against.

There are really a variety of styles, but if you want to say that he has any particularly outstanding ability, Chen Hero can't find it. There are no similar comments online, such as "His header is very good, but his footwork is slightly poor" "His footwork is great, but he is not good at heading" "His shooting is good, but he can't dribble" "He can dribble, but he can't pass" "His technique is excellent, but his physical confrontation ability is not very good"...

It seems that I haven't heard that Basten has any particularly outstanding ability, and I haven't heard that he has any particularly poor ability.

If you want to say that he is fast, there are many stars in the history of world football who are famous for their speed, but Van Basten's name is definitely not there. Want to say he is good at dribbling? By the same token, his name is not often heard among those people. Want to say he is good at heading? But in the 1988 European Championship, he scored five goals, none of which were headers. Want to say he is good at scoring from close range, but he doesn't take scoring to the extreme like Inzaghi.

So what is he good at?

Chen Hero still couldn't find the answer.

When you ask someone to be your teacher, you always have to choose something to learn, right? How can you not know what to learn? But right now, he really is in a state where he doesn't know what to learn.

Learn to head from him? I'm already very awesome myself, okay? Learn to score from close range? I've already learned from Inzaghi, and maybe in that respect alone, Basten is not as good as Inzaghi... Learn to dribble? Then I might as well learn directly from Maradona next to me.

Chen Hero suddenly regretted it. Why was he so excited in the first place? At the very least, he should have investigated what Basten was good at. As a result, he only heard this thunderous name, and rushed to spend 30 million experience points to buy it.

Now he realizes that Basten is not suitable for him.

But the money... uh, the experience points have all been wasted.

This made Chen Hero want to vomit blood.

There's no bigger fool than me!

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was being stupid today. He was too impulsive. Sure enough, impulsiveness is the devil.

So what about Van Basten? Just throw him somewhere to be an ordinary teammate?

Chen Hero was always unwilling.

He felt that he should still go up and ask what's going on, after all, these characteristics of Basten were said by others, and Basten himself never said that he had any specialties.

That's right, ask him in person!

Chen Hero slapped his forehead, and the next second, he appeared in the copy.

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"Hi, Mark." Chen Hero walked towards Basten and called him out alone. He wanted to have a good talk with Basten.

"Have you figured out what you want to learn, Hero?" Basten asked again when he saw Chen Hero.

Chen Hero was just about to ask him, so he continued along with what he said: "I want to ask you first, what good do you have to teach me?"

"If you're talking about a specific skill, I'm afraid I don't have anything to teach you, Hero." Van Basten shrugged and spread his hands.

"Your header is better than my header, your free kick is better than my free kick, your off-ball movement is not bad, your body is even stronger than my body, your back-to-goal ball control comes from Dalglish, and it's also very powerful... um, I don't know what else I can teach you..."

Hearing Basten say this himself, Chen Hero felt disappointed.

It seemed that these 30 million Aurora Coins were going to be wasted.

Seeing Chen Hero looking dejected, Basten smiled: "Why are you planning to become my disciple in the first place?"

"I... I don't plan to continue to rely on my headers, so I want to open up a second battlefield... I hope that I can score a lot of goals without relying on headers, I think I can only work hard on my feet. And you are also a famous striker, about the same height as me, and you are not particularly good at headers... I thought maybe I could learn something from you..."

Chen Hero told Van Basten his reasons in detail.

Basten found it strange: "So, in the end, you just want to score more goals, but not with your head. Am I right?"

Chen Hero thought about it, and that was indeed what he meant. He nodded: "Your summary is very accurate."

"Then isn't it very simple? Just use your feet to kick the football into the goal, no matter what way. You know how to shoot from long range, so try to shoot from long range when you have the opportunity. You know how to score from close range, so try to find opportunities in front of the goal. You know how to take free kicks, so don't let others take the free kick if you have the opportunity. Anyway, when you get to the field, just try every possible way to shoot the football into the goal, no matter how far away, no matter where, no matter what method you use."

"I know what you're saying, but I just don't know how to do it. I'm a center forward, I don't have many opportunities to pull out of the penalty area to try long-range shots, and I often have to face away from the goal. In addition, free kicks are not always accurate, and scoring from close range depends on whether my teammates are strong enough..." Chen Hero told Van Basten his troubles, and then he saw Basten smiling at him.

He suddenly realized something. Didn't Basten say before, "If you're talking about a specific skill, I'm afraid I don't have anything to teach you"?

Did that sentence mean that if it wasn't some specific skill, he could teach himself?

That's right, apprenticeship is apprenticeship. Who said that you must learn a certain skill from the teacher?

I can also learn other things...

Thinking of this, Chen Hero suddenly said to Basten, who was already smiling quite obviously: "I want to become your disciple, Mark!"

"Are you sure?" Basten asked back.

"Definitely, certainly, absolutely!"

"But I'm afraid I can't teach you any skills..." Basten spread his hands.

"You don't need to teach me any skills, because what I want to learn is not any skill at all!"