The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 164 Don't play wild on my territory!
In the past two years, with the improvement of Ajax's situation and returning to the ranks of European strong teams, the Amsterdam Cup Invitational has also become a major warm-up event before the season, but its influence has always been limited.

But it is obvious that this year's Amsterdam Cup Invitational Tournament has attracted much attention, and it can even be said that the whole world has followed suit.

Naturally, it is impossible for Ajax to have such influence. It is the other three teams, or only two, that attract the attention of fans and media all over the world. Lippi’s Juventus has not changed much this season, but Barcelona has. Just experienced a coaching change, Van Gaal entered the palace for the second time, and Manchester United made heavy signings, all of which are the protagonists in the transfer market.

Manchester United has just announced that it has introduced England defender Rio Ferdinand from Leeds United at an astonishing price of 4727 million U.S. dollars. The football world is looking sideways.

Compared with Manchester United, Barcelona's hand is not light at all. First, it introduced Seydu Keita from Ajax at a high price, and then introduced the much-watched Argentine talent Riquel from Boca Juniors at a high price of 1050 million euros. plum.

Although it is said that Riquelme's transfer fee is close to Seydoux Keita's, or even inferior to Seydoux Keita's, the sensation caused is far from what Seydou Keita can match. The value lies in the practicality, but Riquelme has become the hope of the future of Argentine football.

And all the professional media are thinking in their hearts that Manchester United and Barcelona are spending a lot of money to introduce big-name stars. Whether it is Ferdinand or Riquelme, they will not miss the opportunity to directly play against strong teams in the Amsterdam Cup. Gall and Ferguson must also hope that the newly joined players can pass the test of a strong team.

In other words, the Amsterdam Cup will be the first appearance of these stars for the new club.

So, in Amsterdam, as the invitational game approached, and as the three invited teams arrived in Amsterdam one after another, countless reporters gathered here, and all the media immediately hyped this event like a festival. All kinds of events, as well as various news between teams.

Not only the reporters and fans, but even the players themselves are full of expectations for such a strong dialogue. Regardless of winning or losing, everyone hopes to better experience their own strength through the contest with the strong Where do you rank among the European stars, and you have a better estimate of your own strength and potential.

But in this festive atmosphere, some people don't think so.

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From three exercises a day to two exercises a day, the second training session ends at 19:[-] in the evening.

It was slightly dark, but the heat in the air did not abate at all.

On the training ground, the staff has already started to take care of the turf. Watering and tidying must be done as soon as possible. In such hot weather, if the turf is not taken care of properly, it will easily wither and die.

Also because of this, those players who want to practice more now generally arrange the time for extra training in the morning or at noon. After the training session in the afternoon, they go home directly, and the entire first team training base becomes very empty and quiet.

Ye Qiu was in the office with the air conditioner blowing on, with his feet comfortably up on the desk, looking at the ceiling, thinking about the warm-up match against Barcelona tomorrow. He doesn't pay much attention to winning or losing, but he does pay attention to the process.

Strictly speaking, this will be Ajax's first appearance at the Arena after the reorganization. Whether the midfield combination of Arteta and Sneijder can play its due strength? The key to Ye Qiu's lack of confidence was that the three warm-up matches during the trip to China were played too easily and did not achieve the desired effect of the warm-up match.

Barcelona let Rivaldo go this season and rented Mendieta, but no one knows whether this Spanish star, who performed poorly in Lazio, can regain his form in Barcelona.

Sometimes, it’s hard to say about status. Just like Mendieta, originally in Valencia, his entire career should have shown a rapid upward trend. If he could transfer to a team that suits him when he transferred in 2001 , and can help him further improve the team, then he can become the top superstar.

But suddenly he went to Lazio, didn't adapt to Serie A, didn't adapt to Lazio, and suddenly, the entire upward momentum was completely cut off, and it was still declining at an extremely fast speed. For Mendieta, it was like a game. nightmare.

It is not an easy task to break free from the nightmare.

There is also Riquelme, sometimes Ye Qiu really feels that Riquelme and Van Gaal are like a pair of incompatible contradictions, their styles really do not match, so he has no feelings for Riquelme Too many expectations, but Sedu? Keita.

This player is definitely the kind of player who can harden Barcelona's waist if used well, and he knows Ye Qiu's Ajax very well, and he also knows very well how to play against Ajax, I don't know if Van Gaal will ask him for some advice.

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu let out a soft breath, stood up from the office chair, turned off the computer and air conditioner, packed up his things, turned off the lights and walked out of his office, ready to go home.

Sometimes there is no need to think too much before the game, because it is not very useful. The most important thing is to find one's own direction, then move forward in this direction, and try your best to win the game. Even if you lose, you can feel at ease.

Playing with the car keys in his hand, when he walked downstairs, Ye Qiu saw a person sitting under the light in the distance of the corridor on the first floor.

Very casual, sitting directly on the ground by the corridor, looking at the brightly lit training ground in the distance, the staff were busy back and forth, as if in a daze.

"Hey, Mikel, why don't you go back to rest?" Ye Qiu walked over from a distance.

"Oh, I'll be back soon." That's what he said, but he didn't mean to move his butt at all.

Ye Qiu walked up to him, followed his gaze, and smiled, "Is there anything to see?"

Arteta turned his head sideways, looked at the curious head coach, and shook his head, "I don't know, do they have to be so busy every day?"

"Yes!" Ye Qiu nodded, "Is it strange?"

"No, it's just..." Arteta shook his head, "I didn't know it before."

Ye Qiu was a little surprised by the Spaniard's thinking, he didn't know, so he just stared in a daze, seeing that he didn't go back now, what kind of logic should this be?Is it nice?
"Playing football is our job, which brings us high salaries, the reputation and status highly respected by the media and fans, and it is their job to take care of the training ground, but their salaries are lower, and the media and fans never Pay attention to them, not only that, they come to the training ground earlier than us, leave later than us, and sometimes we may even complain that the turf is not good enough, what do you think they will think?"

Ye Qiu was confused and didn't quite understand what the Spaniard wanted to say.

"I don't know, why don't you ask yourself." After speaking, Ye Qiu shouted into the distance, "Demi!"

A person in the distance should be the team leader, and after hearing Ye Qiu's shout, he ran over quickly, "What do you want me to do?"

"Demi, our new player thinks you are working hard, and is wondering, what do you think of this job?"

Demi is a middle-aged Dutch man. He is not very tall, but he is not small. After listening to it, he laughed, "Is it hard work? It must be a little hard work, but the guys are used to it. It doesn't matter if you come early and leave late. It makes everyone happy to think that our Ajax players are training and preparing for games on the training ground that we have taken care of."

"Don't you think it's unfair?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile.

Demi laughed, "Boss, are you going to help us apply for a salary increase?"

This summer, before the end of the season, Ye Qiu once put forward a suggestion, that is to give the club's employees from top to bottom an appropriate salary increase to reward them for their outstanding work performance in the past year.

"There is nothing fair or unfair. Everyone has a different division of labor. Many of us came out of De Tokmoorst before. We couldn't play football, so we could only choose to work in the end. Working in De Tokomoor is at least better than working in De Tokmoor. It makes more sense to work outside, at least here, we can be with the Ajax players every day and watch them play and train."

"Working here makes us feel at all times that everything Ajax achieves has something to do with us."

From Demi's arrival to his departure, the whole process was very short. Basically, Ye Qiu was talking to him. Arteta never said a word from the beginning to the end, but he listened very carefully.

"Actually, they are very ordinary, very ordinary, but without them, there would be no Ajax results!" Ye Qiu waited until Demi left before expressing his views on these training ground workers. This is why he proposed to give the staff a raise in salary.

"Think about it, without them coming to take care of the training ground earlier, the grass is dead in summer, and the whole training ground is frozen in winter, and the turf is full of potholes. Would you still be able to play well?"

"The success of any team, from Michels' Ajax dynasty to Sacchi's Milan dynasty, their success seems to be the success of stars, but in fact behind the stars, there is a large group Ordinary people who are unknown and not valued by others, their contribution is also an important part of a team's success."

But Ye Qiu shook his head again, "However, there is no need to exaggerate their contributions too much, and make them seem to be unknown heroes who have created great feats. They are not, because they are just a very ordinary group of people. Just doing a normal job that you may or may not like, that's all."

"Sometimes there is no need to deliberately search for meaning, because the extraordinary is always accumulated and transformed from the ordinary!"

After Arteta heard it, he seemed to understand a little bit, but Ye Qiu didn't know what he understood.

In fact, the Spaniard has been troubled by one thing recently, and that is the difference between himself and Riquelme.

They are all midfielders. Why is he always unpopular in Barcelona? He was either loaned to Ligue [-] or abandoned to Eredivisie. Riquelme has never proved himself in the European arena. Why did he come here? To be expected by Barcelona fans as if they were the savior?

But after hearing Ye Qiu's words, Arteta understood a little bit.

We all live in this world, no one is more noble than anyone else, and no one is more important than anyone else, the earth will continue to rotate when anyone dies, no matter how ordinary or ordinary people are, they all play an irreplaceable role in this social chain Without the role of this group of ordinary people, those who think they are stepping on top of others, can they survive?
The same is true on the football field. If superstars want to play well, they have to rely on the foil and assistance of ordinary players, and if players want to play well, they have to rely on a group of ordinary staff in the club. , no one is more important than the other, more irreplaceable.

Only now did Arteta understand why one of Ye Qiu's locker room rules is that everyone must respect the club's staff, otherwise they will be severely punished.

By the same token, there is no need for him to demand that Barcelona treat himself and treat Riquelme with two completely different attitudes, because it is meaningless to explore this point, and it will only make him in the end. The team became more isolated.

Ye Qiu is quite right, the extraordinary is never created by individuals, only groups can create greatness, and individuals can only become part of the creation of greatness only when they integrate into the group.

At this moment, Arteta has a clear understanding in his heart, that is, he should integrate and become a part of Ajax, and help Ajax beat Barcelona to show his value. That's what he should do.

"Thank you, head!" Arteta said with a smile.

Even now, Ye Qiu still can't figure out what this sensitive Spaniard's thinking is, so he can only stand up with a wry smile, "By the way, have you found a house to live in?"

Arteta nodded, "I just moved in yesterday, and Ms. Moon helped find it."

Ye Qiu shook the car key in his hand, "Do you want to take a ride?"

Arteta immediately grinned from ear to ear. He had long been salivating over Ye Qiu's Ferrari. He jumped up from the ground and walked faster than Ye Qiu, as if wishing he could hold the steering wheel with his own hands and control it. Like this Ferrari.

Of course, it is impossible for Ye Qiu to give him such a chance, Ferrari is his treasure, how could he let him try it?

Not only that, Ye Qiu also ordered a Ferrari Enzo through Ferrari's agent in the Netherlands. This is the latest flagship supercar launched by Ferrari. In addition, Eliza brought him a lot of business income outside, so he didn't feel bad when spending money.

If Arteta knew, he would definitely feel even more unbalanced, because he doesn't have a car yet, but someone has two Ferraris, one is driving and the other is at home.

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In the first game of the Amsterdam Cup, Van Gaal played a very puzzling formation of 3421.

The goalkeeper is Bonano, the defense is Reziger, Frank de Boer and Puyol, the midfielder is Sedu Keita, Cocu, Roschenback and Mendieta, and the two midfielders are Sa Viola and Riquelme, the lone striker is Kluivert.

At first glance, Barcelona's starting lineup seems to have no authentic wide players, and the tactical system of three defenders has also been proved to be a weakening of the wide, but in terms of offense, Barcelona always attack from the wide , this is a puzzling puzzle.

The first is Sedu Keita and Mendieta. These two players are both offensive and defensive midfielders. They are arranged on the left and right sides. Not only that, Riquelme and Saviola are also required Going out more, receiving the ball from the side and then cutting to the middle.

Therefore, Barcelona's entire tactics seem to have no wings, but in fact, because Sedu? The road combination is not far from each other and maintains a close connection, so it is easy to form a strong suppression on the wing.

At the beginning of the game, they formed a strong pressure on Ajax's wing at the Arena Stadium. The four wide players repeatedly made breakthroughs on the left and right sides. They responded to each other and connected with each other, allowing Ajax It is very difficult for Sri Lanka's full-backs to adapt, and it is always easy to fall into the embarrassing situation of one-on-two.

Everyone knows that in a one-on-two situation, the full-backs are basically unable to form an effective defense.

So for a while, Barcelona's offensive appeared very imposing, surging towards Ajax's defense line and launched a violent impact, especially the two sides, which frequently formed breakthroughs and frequently created threats.

In the 16th minute, after Seydu Keita and Riquelme formed a cooperation on the left, Seydoux Keita made a pass from the bottom and Kluivert scored in front of the goal, 1:0.

No one thought that the Mali midfielder, who had just transferred from Ajax to Barcelona this season, would contribute a goal for his new club when he returned to the Arena for the first time, assassinating Own old club.

There were also some boos at the Arenal Stadium, but it was not obvious. Obviously, some fans were dissatisfied with Sedu Keita's counterattack, and even angry, but most of the fans still kept a A tolerant attitude, after all, the Mali have already put on the Barcelona jersey, so they should do their best for Barcelona.

Ye Qiu, on the sidelines, frequently signaled to the team to press forward, especially the team's midfielder, to form a strong pressure on Barcelona's midfielder, making Robben and van der Vaart on the left and right flanks sprint towards Barcelona frequently. sidewalk.

The disadvantage of the three defenders is the defense on the wing, and the use of Robben and van der Vaart's wing attack forced Keita and Mendieta to retreat to help the defense, and even Riquelme and Saviola To follow the retracement.

The sharp counterattack from Ajax quickly pushed back Barcelona, ​​which played smoothly after the opening, and forced Barcelona to put more troops into defense with a tough attitude, telling the Spaniard with tough strength.

Go, don't run wild on my land!
(End of this chapter)