The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 136 Are You Afraid?
With Ajax's performance getting better and better, the influence of the national team match day is also growing.

The current Ajax first-team players either participate in the national team training camp or participate in the national youth team competition. Although the Netherlands has lost its qualification for the World Cup in Korea and Japan, Van Gaal will also leave the national team because of this The position of the coach, but the training camp is still going on.

Although the Dutch Football Association has not yet selected Van Gaal's successor, it is obvious that the next Dutch national team will undergo a thorough youthful reform. Therefore, in the new round of national team training squads, Ajax There are many young players in the selection.

Van der Sar, Van der Vaart and Robben are already regular visitors to the national team. Van der Meyde has also been selected, but now even Sneijder and Heitinga have been selected for this year's Dutch national team. It can be seen that the new period The Dutch national team is bound to set off a wave of rejuvenation, and with Ajax's performance getting better and better, this group of players will play the main role earlier than Ye Qiu's previous life.

In addition, players such as Lucio, Gilberto Silva, Ibrahimovic, Keita, Toure Brothers, Kivu, etc. have all been selected for their national team's lineup, which directly led to Ajax's whole There was a period of more than a week in the training break.

After finally waiting for the players to return to De Tokmoster from the national team, Ye Qiu immediately asked Peter Brandt to conduct a physical examination on them. As a result, among the 20 first-team players, only 6 were physically qualified. The most outstanding is Abidal who has no national team game tasks.

Ye Qiu should really thank Lizarazu and Candela. If they hadn't performed so well on the left side of the French national team, maybe Abidal would have a chance to be selected for the national team.

When he got the fitness report, Ye Qiu wanted to kill someone.

"It's almost going to be tough battles!" Ye Qiu sighed, but hadn't thought of a solution to the problem yet.

After returning from the national team, the league will be ushered in immediately. In the middle of the week, we will challenge Boavista away. The weekend will be a key duel with Eindhoven. In the middle of next week, we will have a key match against Bayern Munich at home. Moreover, in order to compress the schedule and provide more preparation time for the Korea-Japan World Cup, the Eredivisie League also compressed before the winter break.

From November 11th to December 17nd, in just over a month, 12 rounds of the league were arranged. Ajax will also play two Champions League games and a Dutch Cup, which means they will play 22 games. On average, one game is played every 7 days. This kind of game intensity can almost be said to be jaw-dropping.

Bobby Harms nodded non-stop when he heard this, "To win the championship, now is the key. We are indeed working very hard, but our competitors are also having a hard time. Whoever can survive until the end will be able to win the championship." It is very important for us to gain a favorable advantage before the second half."

Ye Qiu was sitting on the office chair, facing the big window obliquely, looking at the football field of the second team in the distance, while the fingers of his right hand were tapping lightly on the desk, as if with some kind of rhythm. Qiu was thinking about something.

There is no doubt that this part of the schedule is very difficult for Ajax, Eindhoven, and Feyenoord. The key is to see who has more will and fighting spirit. The real test of whoever falls behind will undoubtedly fall out of the league championship.

You must know that winning the championship depends not only on strength, but also on morale. Falling behind at a critical moment will deal a terrible blow to morale, which is why Ye Qiu attaches so much importance to the next part of the schedule.

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In the afternoon, an hour before training, the players suddenly received a request and came to the tactical preparation room of the training building.

As soon as they walked in, they noticed that the coaches of the entire first team had all come. The battle surprised them all. Those who didn't know thought something serious happened, and all of them immediately sat upright and didn't dare to speak. Even breathing has become cautious, for fear of accidentally igniting the powder keg.

After everyone had arrived and sat down, Ye Qiu walked to the top podium.

All the players raised their heads, and their eyes and attention fell on their head coach. They were all very strange. What is the purpose of the head coach asking them to come to the meeting at this time?Is something serious?
"Does any of you remember how we lost the championship last season?" Ye Qiu asked with both hands on the podium.

The players started buzzing and discussing. They couldn't figure out why the head coach asked them such an inexplicable question when he asked them to come.

"Let me ask you again, do you know why PSV won the championship last season?"

The players were upset this time, and they all started talking about it, thinking that the head coach's question was a bit strange.

Ye Qiu intentionally let them discuss for more than ten seconds before he coughed heavily into the microphone twice. Soon, the meeting room became quiet again, so quiet that only the sound of breathing, and Microphone echo.

"Think about it, everyone!" Ye Qiu pointed to his temples, "Think about the last round of the league last season. After we beat Alkmaar at the Arena, we thought we had a chance to win. The championship is determined to be won, but at the last moment, we suddenly lost everything and became nothing."

"Guys, please think about it. At that time, did your hearts hurt? Are you sad? Are you unwilling? Are you resentful?"

After hearing Ye Qiu's words, many people present couldn't help showing their thoughts.

Time is the best medicine to heal wounds. Everyone is forgetful, and it is often easy to forget the unforgettable pain not long ago, because no one will live in the past forever.

"I remember very clearly that I wanted to go crazy at that moment!" Ye Qiu's magnetic voice sounded in the conference room, as if he was saying next to the players' ears, "If at that moment, there really was a God If it is, I will definitely pull him down from heaven, give him a hard punch, and then ask him, why did you play me like this?"

"If at that moment, someone told me that the world is fair, I would beat him without hesitation, then spit on him, and tell him that the world is not fucking fair!"

This is indeed a portrayal of Ye Qiu's mood at that time. Even after half a year, he still firmly remembers his emotions at that moment. He has never been so useless in his life. To him, it was an absolute shame, an unacceptable shame!

At this moment, his emotion obviously infected the players present.

"I was very calm and thought about it rationally, why did we lose?" After mobilizing the players' emotions, Ye Qiu began to slow down his tone, "If we don't understand why we lost, then we will never know how to win .”

"We lost not because PSV were lucky, but because they really deserved the title, they lost two or three games all season, and we? We dropped too many points, we In some games where there was no need to lose points, we lost points that should have been our winning chips."

"Who can we blame? Eindhoven? Our opponent?" Ye Qiu shook his head, "No, if we want to blame, we can only blame ourselves!"

"It's us who lost those points. It's also us who lost some games that shouldn't be lost, and tied some games that shouldn't be tied. Is it because we're not good enough?" Ye Qiu swept across the group of players, and spoke again Question: "Answer me, guys, answer my question, are you not strong enough to beat your opponent?"

"No!" Lucio was the first to stand up. He was one of the two major culprits in the media's summary of Ajax's mistakes last season. This made him feel the deepest after hearing Ye Qiu's words, " Absolutely not!"

"Yes, even Bayern Munich, we can beat them to the ground, who are we afraid of in the Eredivisie?" Abidal also stood up, and he looked very righteous.

"Those who said that our strength is not enough, we have all killed them!" Ibrahimovic also shouted from his seat.

"Who dares to say that we are not strong enough?"

"If you say we can't do it, just do it with real knives and guns, fuck it!"

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Ye Qiu spread his arms, and he ignited the anger of the players. This is what he wanted.

The following devil's schedule is definitely a torture for Ajax, whether it is physical or mental, it is a torture. Only through it can Ajax be qualified to talk about winning the championship. The past, that is, repeating the tragedy of last season, nothing more.

"It's useless to sit here and grin with me, and it's useless to grin with me. There is only one way to prove our strength, and that is to beat our opponents on the court, kill them in the league championship battle, or even On the stage of the European competition, kill the opponent!"

The emotions of the players have been mobilized by Ye Qiu. After hearing Ye Qiu's words at this moment, they all nodded heavily. Maybe they will quickly calm down the passion in their hearts, but with today's Once they encounter difficulties and setbacks, they will remember everything about today.

Everyone has invincible spiritual power, the key depends on how you stimulate him.

"The next part of the schedule will be very difficult, because we have to play a game every three days on average, and we have to go all out in every game to the end, so I need 20 of you here, Answer my question seriously!" Ye Qiu raised his index finger, extremely serious.

"Are you afraid?"

The players all looked at each other for a while, and saw the captain Van der Sar standing up first, and laughed, "As a professional player, what is there to be afraid of, as a professional player, who regards fighting for honor as his life? What is there to be afraid of?"

"Isn't it just a few games to get together? Whoever is afraid of who is a fucking coward!"

"Yes, we have to play so many games, and our opponents also have to play these games. What are we afraid of?"

"Who is afraid of whom? If we are afraid, our opponents are afraid. What are we afraid of?"

"Proud Ajax players are never afraid!"

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Whether the mobilization meeting was effective or not, Ye Qiu didn't know, and he didn't know what to do, but it was obvious that after the announcement on the official website, Ye Qiu was interviewed by the Amsterdam Corriere Post, expressing that he and the players had enough confidence Being able to survive this most intensive devil's schedule.

Ajax fans are reassured and very pleased with the assurances from the manager.

On the same night, at the Arenal Stadium, Ajax slaughtered the visiting Breda 6-0. This time, he replaced Ibrahimovic in the starting lineup. The Belarusian teenager Hleb also performed well on the left, coupled with Van der Meer who also scored twice on the right, Ajax's trident showed a strong attack power.

The fans were very satisfied with the team's performance in this game. Not only that, but before the game started, they pulled out all kinds of banners at the Arena Stadium, shouting all kinds of slogans to support The team, I hope that the head coach and all the players can work together to win the league championship.

Ye Qiu told the media after the game that he was very satisfied with this game and believed that the team had made a good start for the devil's schedule through this game, and he also firmly believed that the team has enough ability to overcome Get through this time.

"Yes, many people think that we are young and worry that we will not be able to handle the pressure, but I think such worries are completely unnecessary. Our opponents Eindhoven and Feyenoord players are human beings. The responsibilities that can be taken, the pressure that can be endured, I believe that my players can also do it, and they can even do better than them!"

"We don't have any retreat now. Even if there is a dangerous mountain in front of us, we have to cross it. We will definitely defeat all the enemies standing in front of us and reach the end of victory!"

But just three days later, the team went to Portugal to challenge Boavista away.

At the Bessa Stadium, Ajax turned away from home from the beginning and started a round of aggressive offensive horns. In the 17th minute of the opening, Sneijder assisted Ibrahimovic to score the first goal and broke the field. impasse.

Falling behind at home, Boavista began a crazy counterattack.

Jaime Pacheco's team has always been known for their fierce defense. Their defense is very solid and fierce, so they fell behind Ajax after the start and let Boavista go to the head coach , Down to the players, everyone felt very angry, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and their defensive actions against Ajax were getting bigger and bigger.

Ye Qiu and Ajax players frequently put pressure on the referee for Boavista's ferocious actions, but this is Boavista's home game after all, and Ajax is playing away games. Here, there is a home game. With tens of thousands of fans helping to exert pressure, the referee's enforcement will inevitably be somewhat biased.

Before the end of the first half, Sneijder fell to the ground in a fight with the opponent's midfielder Armando Petit. The team doctor confirmed that the right leg was sprained and he could no longer continue the game. Ye Qiu immediately used the substitute De Jong replaced Sneijder on the pitch.

In the second half, Boavista still broke the goal of Ajax, but it was Keita. With the support of De Jong and Gilberto Silva behind him, Keita's position was even higher. He scored in the second half. Taking advantage of a long-range shot, he almost pierced Boavista's goal again.

But soon, in a wing defense, Robben was tripped by the opponent's right player Bosingwa and walked off the field with a limp. Although Bosingwa got a yellow card for this, Ajax However, Sri Lanka had to suffer the loss of staff reduction.

Fortunately, in the end, Ajax still kept the score of 1:0 and retreated from the Bessa Stadium.

At the press conference after the game, Ye Qiu was angry at Boavista's rough autumn wind.

"I have reminded the fourth official of the game, I believe that UEFA can look at what happened in this game fairly, because we have two players who have to leave the pitch for a while, I believe that UEFA The Football Federation certainly does not want to make brutality a major attraction in a competition of this level in the Champions League!"

Boavista's head coach Jaime Pacheco denied Ye Qiu's reprimand.

"I don't understand why Mr. Ye Qiu has such a sense of masochism. Maybe this is his own problem. I always tell my players that they should win the game like a man, and we are indeed like this. Maybe in the process, there will inevitably be some collisions, and some people will suffer some injuries that could have been avoided, but this cannot be used as a reason to accuse us of using violence, can it?"

Whether it was intentional or not, this kind of thing can't be said, anyway, every head coach knows what's going on.

But on the second day after the end of this game, the Portuguese media published the Leiria head coach Jose Mourinho's attack on Jaime Pacheco.

The Portuguese head coach had a deep grudge against Jaime Pacheco in the league before. This time he publicly stood up and affirmed Ajax's performance in this game. He thought that Ye Qiu's The team played more tactically and technically, but Pacheco's team was far inferior to Ajax.

"When you are always thinking about fouls in the game, it is hard for me to imagine how players can still play well!"

Jaime Pacheco quickly counterattacked, thinking that Jose Mourinho attacked himself because he couldn't afford to lose, and Boavista will soon be in the Portuguese Cup He encountered Leiria, so he believes that Mourinho is now actively causing a war of words to distract himself.

Many people may not know that Jose Mourinho, the head coach who will become popular in the European continent in the next few years, is now known for his aggressive offensive football in Leiria, and he just had a 3 :0 to win the opponent's game, and there is a record of 7:0 victory before.

You know, Leiria is not a strong team in the Portuguese Super League.

But just like Ye Qiu's previous life, this Jose Mourinho is also known for his fondness for spats and provoking opponents.

Therefore, when Ye Qiu read the news, he felt even more regretful. He would never have imagined that the first meeting between himself and Jose Mourinho would be because of Jaime Mourinho. Pacheco!
(End of this chapter)