Four years ago Van de Ven was on the verge of leaving a Dutch second division team without playing a game. Now he's starring for the Premier League title challengers
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The arrival of a new coaching team with a fresh perspective and progressive way of thinking about the game based around the “Cruyff Plan” – a strategy to develop young talent using the late Johan Cruyff’sprinciples – was extremely timely for Van de Ven; his career, though still in its infancy was at a major crossroads.Volendam are now in the Eredivisie, but when Jonk took charge they were in “dire straits”, on course to finish 16th out of 20 clubs in the 2018-19 Eerste Divisie campaign.
“So when we got in charge the first thing we did is give him a contract because he didn’t have one and we moved him to the U23s straight away. After two months he was already way too good for the U23s so we promoted him to the first team and he never came back out.Van de Ven has ascended rapidly up football’s food chain ever since.
It wasn’t long before more wealthy clubs began circling with Wolfsburg eventually acquiring him for a Dutch second division record £3.15m after a legal wrangle involving the
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