Biography and the life story of Frenkie De Jong "Frenkie honed individual abilities, techniques, tactics and mentality in playing football"

Frenkie De Jong was born on May 12, 1997 in Arkel, a small village in the south of the Netherlands. This small village alone is only inhabited by around 3,000 residents. Frenkie was born into a family of athletes, his father and mother were soccer players. In addition, the grandfather also had a career as an amateur footballer.

Frenkie has a younger brother named Youri who also has a career as a footballer by strengthening the ASV club. Armed with that all Frenkie grew not far from the hustle and bustle of soccer. Little Frenkie had learned to cultivate the round skin in his native land club, ASV Arkel.

At a relatively early age, Frenkie's ability to play football was very good. His father once revealed that at the age of five there was already a football talent guide who glanced at Frenkie.

Little Frenkie idolizes the catalan club, FC Barcelona. At the age of 7 years, the blonde-haired boy was considered his father to start football competitively.

Also, be aware that the entire Frenkie family were Feyenoord fans and when the Rotterdam club came to call him, it seemed to be a dream for him. However, Frenkie was allowed to make his own decision and the Willem II club seemed to be the one that caught Frenkie's attention.

Despite the fact that Roterdam is much closer than his home than Tilburg, the club town of Willem II. In 2004, Frenkie decided to join the Tilburg club. That choice proved right because in the long run Frenkie received serious attention from Dutch football.

Together with the Willem II academy, Frenkie honed individual abilities, techniques, tactics and mentality in playing football. Besides that, Frenkie also learned things from the most difficult things to look easy.

Frenkie grew rapidly and his performance was impressive in the Willem II youth team at all levels, it made the coaching team of the team praise him. Especially when on the U-15 team, the coach Jos Borgers considers Frenkie to have extraordinary natural talent.

After playing with the young team of Willem II, Frenkie signed his first professional contract with the club in 2013. The young Frenkie was a Lionel Messi idol and shaped his game by seeing the actions of the idol.

Frenkie's game made him stand out and he then made his first team debut against ADO Den Haag at the end of the 2014/15 season or precisely May 10 2015, just days after his 18th birthday.

His debut ended beautifully because his team was able to conquer ADO Deen Haag with a score of 1-0 at home.

After making a brilliant debut, Frenkie was targeted by several clubs including PSV and AJax Amsterdam. But in the summer of 2015, it was Ajax who got the services of the player who was then 18 years old. Ajax bought Frenkie at a cost of 300 thousand euros, or around Rp. 4.8 billion and signed it for four years.

Together with the strongest Dutch team, Frenkie first played in the Jonx Ajax team. His brilliant game with the AJax reserve team made him make his first team debut in 2016. On the other hand, Frenkie also still often defends Jonx Ajax in the Erste division in the 2016/17 season.

In that season, Frenkie was also awarded the Talent of the Season Eerste Division award. Frenkie made 31 appearances for the Jonx ajax team and played as a central and defensive midfielder. Frenkie scored six goals, made eight assists, and received two yellow cards.

Entering the 2017/18 season, the name Frenkie De Jong began to often decorate the Ajax Amsterdam first team squad. Aged 20, Frenkie made 26 senior team appearances. In several matches Frenkie also appeared as a center back, along with teammate Matthijs de Ligt.

In the 2018/19 season, Frenkie was able to show his light, he became the main choice in the AJax midfield lineup. In the champions league, Frenkie starred in Ajax's 1-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur in the first leg of the semifinals. In that season, Frenkie notched 52 appearances and scored 4 goals.

In that season, Frenkie also helped Ajax win two trophies namely the Eredivisie Title and the Dutch Cup. Thanks to his neat performance, the title of the best eredivisie player also leads to him.

His impressive appearance made many European clubs eyeing him, but it was Barcelona who managed to bring him at a cost of 75 million euros, or around Rp 1.2 trillion in the summer of 2019. Frenkie then made his competitive debut against Athletic Bilbao on La Liga.

At the international level, during his young career, Frenkie performed 22 times with various age groups of the Dutch junior team. On July 10, 2015, he made his international debut for the Netherlands U19 team against Germany U19.

On September 6, 2018, Frenkie made his senior international debut in a friendly victory against Peru. After that his name often entered and became a regular starter for the Netherlands, he appeared in almost every Euro 2020 qualifying match and the UEFA Nations League. In the UEFA Nation League Frenkie was chosen as the best young player.

In the game, Frenkie likes to pass the opponent. The ball will always stick to his feet. When he passes the opponent, we seem to see the defender's version of Messi. Just like Messi, Frenkie passed the opposing player by varying the dribble speed. In addition to changing speed, it can stop, then turn or change its dribble suddenly.

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