The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 142 Invitation Letter
After playing Eindhoven, Ajax ushered in Ronald Koeman's Twente.

In the first half, Koeman's team obviously performed better, and once broke through Ajax's goal and took the lead, but in the second half, Ye Qiu adjusted the team's tactics, and finally relied on Van der Meyde, Huntelaar and Yaya Toure's three goals reversed Twente 3:1.

Over the weekend, Ajax challenged Den Bosch in an away game. Although Den Bosch has been sluggish this season and is currently mired in relegation, this team is still at home for Ajax, whose physical fitness and state are not ideal. Cox caused huge trouble, and it was Huntelaar's goal in the end that helped Ajax beat this team 1-0.

Three days later, Ajax welcomed Bayern Munich.

After more than three months, we met again. Bayern Munich is no longer the Bayern team that was in a state of adjustment at the beginning of the season.

Although Ye Qiu's team has undergone a rotation, Bayern is obviously more experienced, and Hitzfeld has better adjusted the players' state, which led to them controlling the game for most of the time in the Arena The advantages.

But the final score was 1:1. With Elber's goal in the second half, Bayern Munich drew away with Ajax.

The home team's goal came in the 7th minute of the first half. After a skilful dribble from the left, the Belarusian teenager Hleb went straight into the penalty area. Zlatan Ibrahimovic knocked the ball back to Van der Vaart , the latter hit a curveball with his left foot.

In this way, after the two rounds of Group A, Manchester United defeated Boavista 3-0 at Old Trafford in the second round, and finally scored 1 win, 1 tie, scored 4 goals and conceded 1 goal. At the top of the group list, Ajax also ranked second in the group with one win and one draw, Bayern Munich ranked third in the group with two draws in two games, and Boavista did not get points at the bottom.

By the way, after the match against Bayern Munich, Hleb took the initiative to find Ye Qiu, and the two sides had an in-depth conversation. I am also pleased with my state and encouraged the Belarusians to make persistent efforts and strive for better performance.

After playing Bayern Munich, the team ushered in Waiters at the Arena Stadium.

The biggest contributor to victory in this game is Van der Vaart.

The Dutch genius who just saved the team with a goal at the Arenal Stadium has recently shown an outstanding state.

At the beginning of the game, he played very actively on the right side, coupled with the non-stop delivery of shells behind him by Sneijder who returned from injury, he made the first opener for Ajax in just 12 minutes of the game. record.

But less than 5 minutes after van der Vaart's goal, Waiters took advantage of a mistake made by Kolo Toure and Heitinga in the Ajax defense to equalize the score.

But soon, in the 25th minute, van der Vaart once again used the right-sided cut and kicked to hit the goal, pierced Waiters' goal again, and once again exceeded the score, and in the 29th minute, he was on the right again. After the breakthrough, it was passed to Keita, who went straight behind him. Hleb dribbled the ball from the left and then made a pass. Huntelaar made a point in front of the goal, 3:1.

In the 47th minute, Gilberto Silva took advantage of an opportunity to set the ball in the frontcourt and scored Sneijder's fast free kick into Waiters' goal from a long distance, rewriting the score to 4:1.

After scoring consecutive goals, the morale of Ajax was like a rainbow, especially van der Vaart. After the young player scored twice, his state was still not satisfied, and his desire to score goals was still very strong. At that time, he took the initiative to ask Ye Qiu to play the whole game in the second half.

In the end, in the 72nd minute, Van der Vaart forcibly advanced from the right side of Maicon and then knocked back. After penetrating into the penalty area, he passed the Waiters central defender and hit a low shot with his left foot, which was also the first time in Van der Vaart's life. hat trick.

5:1 victory over Waiters, Ajax showed an overwhelming strength advantage in this game. Although everyone can see that Ajax is not in the best state, it still relies on the overall tyranny The strength of the team overwhelmed the opponent and won a big victory, which also gave everyone a deeper understanding of Ajax.

Waiters is not a weak team. This team is currently ranked fourth in the Eredivisie, second only to Ajax, Feyenoord and Eindhoven. It has the same points as Heerenveen, but a team in poor form Ajax was able to beat their opponents 4:5, which shows that Ajax's overall strength has steadily surpassed their opponents.

But when Ye Qiu was interviewed by the media after the game, he repeatedly said that Ajax's big victory was somewhat lucky.

Since this round of Eindhoven and Feyenoord also won big victories, many professionals believe that the strength of the Eredivisie this season is very different. Ajax, Feyenoord and Eindhoven The overall strength of the traditional top three headed by Huo Wen is relatively obvious. Although the difference in points is not large, it is more caused by the multi-line battle of the powerful.

"If there is no accident, this season's Eredivisie champion will be born among these three teams, and Ajax is undoubtedly the biggest favorite!"

On December 12th, Ajax played against Rosendal of the Dutch second league at home.

Ye Qiu originally wanted to use this game to adjust the players' state, but he didn't expect that Rosendahl would take the lead, and Ajax, who was tired from playing at the beginning of the game, was caught off guard.

It is hard to break an earthen pot away from the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle.

The cup has always been a hotbed of unpopularity. Ye Qiu led the second team of Ajax to create a miracle before. This also made many Dutch coaches pay attention to the Dutch Cup. They all hope to make themselves famous and become Ye Autumn II.

It should be said that Rosendahl almost succeeded. They took a 2:1 lead in the first half, but they couldn't tell the situation clearly in the second half. They blindly continued to stick to the tactics of the first half instead of following the situation. , adopt a more conservative defensive tactics, otherwise, the exhausted Ajax will definitely be dragged to death.

But in the end, with the goals of Robben and Van der Meyde who came off the bench, Ajax reversed Rosendahl 3:2 and successfully advanced to the top 16 from the top 8 of the Dutch Cup. This time Ajax met It was Groningen in the Eredivisie League, an old enemy, and the game time was after the winter break.

Three days later, Ajax came to Kerkrade in the south of the Netherlands and challenged Roda JC at the Limburg Park Stadium. Although Ajax scored the first goal, Roda JC was more physically fit and used a counterattack in the second half , equalized the score, and finally a 1:1 draw.

Another focus of this round, Feyenoord drew 0:0 with PSV Eindhoven at home.

With Ajax's leading edge, neither Feyenoord nor PSV would like to lose points in such a strong dialogue. Not looking for goals, but looking for clean sheets, so the two sides played a poor game at the de Kuyp Stadium.

But no one thought that a week later, Eindhoven beat Groningen 8-0 at their home court.

Although Gretz's twin-tower combination did not perform well in this game, Swedish midfielder Vogel scored a hat-trick. In addition, Oyer, Bauma, Romedal, Van Bommel and others scored relatively few goals on weekdays. Even the players who didn't score a goal, all of them were off the hook in this game.

Feyenoord, ranked second in the league, also beat their opponents 5:0.

Ye Qiu's team escaped two crises. After a week of rest, everyone thought that Ajax would have a better performance in the last game before the winter break. After all, the most difficult schedule It's all gone, and Ajax have performed very well in the intensive schedule.

But no one expected that in the last game against Utrecht, Ajax's overall state was sluggish, and they were beaten 2:1 by Utrecht. Ye Qiu's team ended up with a loss. Ended all competitions throughout the first half of the season.

As a result, Feyenoord successfully chased Ajax's lead to 3 points this time, while Eindhoven was 4 points behind Ajax. There is suspense.

According to the Eredivisie schedule, the 20th round will start on January 1, so Ajax's training will also start in mid-January, and the two-week winter break training will be arranged in Mallorca, Spain.

After finishing this intensive schedule, Ye Qiu can finally take a breather. No matter whether he wins or loses the game, he has only been able to relax a little bit until now. At least from now on, for three weeks, he will not need to fight for the second place. After a day of training and competition, he can really relax.

What's even more rare is that Huang Chu can finally take a vacation and return to his home in Amsterdam, and he and Eliza, two big foodies, can finally taste Huang Chu's handicraft again.

But at this moment, an invitation letter was sent from Zurich to Ye Qiu in Amsterdam.

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The invitation letter itself is nothing special, except that the FIFA logo is clearly engraved on the jacket, and it is not light in the hand. It seems that it is specially made by UEFA, and it must be for special guests.

"I heard that all shortlisted candidates will receive such invitation letters, and other guests will receive different styles." Eliza is well-informed, and she speaks clearly about things that even Ye Qiu doesn't know.

"Shortlist? Coach?" Huang Chu was sitting next to Ye Qiu, holding his hand, with a look of affection as sweet as honey.

"Probably so!" Eliza replied.

Ye Qiu was not very surprised by this. As early as the beginning of the season, he had already been shortlisted for UEFA's list of candidates for the best coach of the season, but he lost to Heathfield in the end. He is the center of the altar, so it is not surprising that he was shortlisted for the best coach of the year again.

"Can I win the prize?" Huang Chu looked at Ye Qiu with concern. If she had to choose, she would definitely choose Ye Qiu.

"It's probably enough!" Ye Qiu was already mentally prepared. The only thing he could win was the UEFA Cup, but Heathfield had the European Champions Cup in his hands, and later won the Toyota Cup. A champion, UEFA Cup champion, Dutch Cup champion, Dutch Cruyff Cup champion, and UEFA Super Cup champion are jokingly called five crown champions by many people, but in fact, how much weight these five champions have, Ye Qiu himself I know it well.

The Eredivisie championship itself has no weight at all to FIFA, because the Eredivisie league is only a second-tier league in Europe. As for the Dutch Cup and the Cruyff Cup, let alone the Netherlands, they play at home. Can the competitions be tossed to European and world football?
The only ones that can be compared are the UEFA Cup champion and the European Super Cup champion, but the competitors are equally fierce. Needless to say, Heathfield, Capello's Roma won the championship last season, and now the momentum is very high. Bianchi's Bo Card youth won the Copa Libertadores, while Houllier won the FA Cup, League Cup and Charity Shield. In addition, Ferguson, as well as the head coach Del Neri of Serie A's dark horse Chievo, are all strong contenders.

Today's Serie A is the No. [-] league in the world, so Capello and Del Neri are both very powerful. As for Ye Qiu... let's not talk about it.

"Maybe there is a chance of being upset!" Eliza said jokingly.

Huang Chu chuckled, and held Ye Qiu's hand even tighter, "Anyway, whether you hold it or not, it's the best!"

Ye Qiu nodded, but sighed again, "If you can't win an award, you still have to give them face. This kind of feeling of seeing someone else win an award is really unpleasant!"

Well, there is always only one award, and most people can only lose with regret, and only the lucky one can have the last laugh. Ye Qiu has long been used to this kind of cruel competition, but he still feels a little uneasy about it. taste.

The so-called best head coach of the year has set up two awards in total, namely the best club head coach of the year and the best national team head coach of the year. The head coach of the Chinese national team, Milutinovic, was also shortlisted for the national team head coach this time.

However, the possibility of Milu winning the award is very low, because his competitors include the Argentine national team coach Bielsa, the England national team coach Eriksson, and the French national team coach Le Maire. They are all team managers who performed very well in the World Cup qualifiers.

Relatively speaking, the possibility of Milutinovic getting the best national team head coach is far lower than Ye Qiu's chance of getting the best club head coach of the year. At least Ye Qiu won the UEFA Cup. Champion trophy.

"By the way, I heard that such a ceremony requires a female companion!" Ye Qiu frowned, and looked at Huang Chu as he spoke.

The latter immediately shook his head vigorously, "Don't look for me, I won't go if you kill me this time, I'd rather sleep at home and read a book."

Seeing Huang Chu's appearance, Eliza couldn't help giggling. Huang Chu never liked such occasions. If she really had a choice, she would definitely choose to read at home or go to the movies.

I still remember that the only time she accompanied Ye Qiu to participate in such an occasion, it should be dated back to when Ye Qiu led the second team to win the Holland Cup, but that time was because of the previous agreement to encourage Ye Qiu. It was impossible to live or die, and was finally dragged away by Eliza.

Nowadays, there are more and more occasions like this, Ye Qiu can go alone, but there are some occasions where it is really impossible to go alone, so Ye Qiu always takes Elisa as his female companion, which is still Huang Chu proposed.

The three of them live together, they are all about the same age, they are very close to each other, and they always get together, so there will not be any complicated fantasies. Besides, Huang Chu and Elisa are good sisters, so she has a good relationship with her. Ye Qiu and Eliza felt relieved.

"Let Elisa go with you!" Huang Chu really made such a proposal again.

Ye Qiu and Elisa glanced at each other, saw the joke in each other's eyes, and immediately laughed, laughing so much that Huang Chu felt a little embarrassed, so he twisted Ye Qiu's waist viciously. When he touched it, he grinned in pain.

"If you're going, you have to prepare your clothes quickly." Huang Chu quickly changed the subject.

Eliza nodded, "Leave this to me!"

Ye Qiu was still very relieved of Eliza, but he suddenly thought, didn't they worry about having nowhere to go throughout Christmas?
"Why don't we go skiing in Switzerland?"

"That's a good idea, let's go skiing!" Eliza was the most excited.

"Can you skate?" Huang Chu glanced at Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu lowered his head, shook it left and right, and said depressedly, "No!"

"Then it's just me and Eliza, you just watch from the sidelines!" Huang Chu finally found Ye Qiu's weakness.

The two best friends were obviously also very moved by Ye Qiu's proposal. When it came to going skiing, their chatter was like a river that had opened its gates. , and when it came to which ski resort to go to, I finally considered even food and lodging.

Ye Qiu was left on the sidelines, and could only smile wryly, because he had no skiing experience. However, he felt that skiing should not be difficult. His own motor cells are quite developed, so he should learn it soon, right?

However, if you decide to go skiing in Switzerland, then you may not be able to return to China. After all, Ajax’s winter break training this season will be earlier than before, and Huang Chu will start working again soon after Christmas. , so they finally discussed it and finally decided not to go back.

Originally, Ye Qiu thought that Europeans attached great importance to the concept of family reunion at Christmas, but what he didn't expect was that Eliza also planned not to go home. Both Ye Qiu and Ye Qiu planned to wait for her to go home after Christmas. She went to Switzerland, but she said she didn't plan to go home for Christmas, which surprised both Ye Qiu and Huang Chu.

Because after getting along for two years, they both found that Eliza had never been home, they all lived in Amsterdam, and no family members came to see her, and they had never heard her mention family members. It's a quick change of subject.

This made both Ye Qiu and Huang Chu think that Eliza probably had no family members, so they never talked about this topic.

The three young men did what they said, packed their bags the next day, and rushed to Switzerland.

(End of this chapter)