The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 537 North American Storm
Goalkeepers: Petr Cech, Joe Hart
Defenders: Daniel Alves, Kyle Walker, Marcelo, Fabio Coentrao, Thiago Silva, Vincent Kompany, Ziglinski
Midfielders: Yaya Toure, Fabregas, David Silva, Beckham, Aaron Ramsey, Phil Jones
Frontcourt: Ribery, Messi, Hazard, Cavani, Falcao

Team players: Neymar, Lucas Jr., Varane, Coutinho, Nastasic, Pogba and Eriksson.

A team of 27 Tottenham Hotspur players, together with the coaching staff, chefs, team doctors, and some staff and employees of the team, the whole team looks like a huge tour group. The next day, I took a connecting Boeing 777 airliner prepared by Qatar Airways and flew from London to Los Angeles on the west coast of the United States.

This time Tottenham Hotspur's pre-season training will be arranged in the training center of the University of California, and then they will play four warm-up games in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York respectively, against the Los Angeles Galaxy , Chivas Regal Mexico, AC Milan and Barcelona.

Last summer's trip to China made Tottenham Hotspur famous. When Ye Qiu returned to his homeland, Tottenham Hotspur quickly stirred up a wave. This time, Tottenham Hotspur The American tour, unlike the Chinese tour, is mainly aimed at business development, so Peter Kenyon, the club's CEO, personally led the business team to the United States.

Many people have analyzed that Tottenham Hotspur's trip to the United States came at the right time, because the US national team just shined in the Confederations Cup not long ago, eliminated Spain and reached the final of the Confederations Cup. It is a pity that they lost to Brazil, but they won the unanimous affirmation of the fans in the United States, which ignited the football enthusiasm of the Americans.

In this case, Tottenham Hotspur arrived in the United States and arranged the training camp in the United States, coupled with Ye Qiu's influence in the United States, it made Tottenham Hotspur start from the day they arrived in Los Angeles. It is destined to become the focus of praise and attention of major media in the United States.

The United States, which is always in a hurry with other teams, will not work. Tottenham Hotspur's trip to the United States this time is well prepared.

For example, they have already started an activity on the Internet half a year ago, calling on more American fans to put videos and videos of themselves playing football on the Internet, allowing netizens from the United States to vote and choose the The best five fans, so that they can follow Tottenham Hotspur's pre-season training.

This event has attracted a lot of attention among young people in the United States. After all, Tottenham Hotspur will stay in the United States for two and a half weeks, that is to say, if they get to participate in Tottenham For the training camp of Tottenham, in the next half a month, they will bring this group of top superstars together and accept Ye Qiu's guidance.

A total of more than [-] American fans posted their own videos and videos. After more than three months of online voting, Tottenham Hotspur selected five fans to train with the team based on public opinion, and when the team arrived After Los Angeles, he entered UCLA at the same time as the Fed Cup internationals and checked into the Tottenham Hotspur hotel.

This matter has also attracted the attention and reports of the media all over the United States, and Tottenham Hotspur have also shown their professional side under the attention of the media, that is, they are not just coping to help the five The fans joined the training, but gave them professional advice, and one of the fans was strictly required to lose some fat.

The coaching staff also tailored a set of short-term technical strengthening training for these players based on the observations in the first few days. Although it is impossible for them to greatly improve their technical level, it can help them more reasonably. The use of technology, so in front of the media, they play football one by one, and they all seem to look the same.

In addition, Tottenham Hotspur is also showing its image to all walks of life in the United States in various aspects. It opens a training session to the public every day, and every day Ye Qiu will take different players to be interviewed by media reporters. Mu Hotspur soon caused a huge repercussions in the United States.

Not only Tottenham Hotspur, in fact, since the team successfully defended the Champions League in Rome, major sponsors have all regarded the summer trip to the United States as the focus of key publicity and promotion.

Needless to say, Qatar Airways has long regarded Tottenham Hotspur as a key signboard for their North American promotion, and Tottenham Hotspur’s jersey sponsor Adidas hopes to use Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham's limelight has swept the North American market.

The strong spending power of American fans was fully reflected after Tottenham Hotspur arrived in North America.

After more than a month of preparation and promotion, Adidas has launched Tottenham Hotspur's new season jerseys and training uniforms at almost all stores in North America, especially in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York In major cities such as the United States, almost all of them are sold out, and the out-of-stock signs are hung high.

And even the store on Tottenham Hotspur's official website has also received a large number of orders from the United States. A Tottenham Hotspur jersey with a price of [-] dollars is always in short supply, and Adidas is even more so. Urge from the manufacturing factory in China.

The best-selling jerseys have made Tottenham Hotspur arrive in Los Angeles. Almost every public training session will attract many fans wearing Tottenham Hotspur jerseys to UCLA. You can often see some fans wearing Tottenham Hotspur jerseys or training clothes.

In addition, some sponsors of Tottenham Hotspur, such as Budweiser, Versace, BMW, etc., also made a fuss about Tottenham Hotspur's trip to the United States.

In fact, it is impossible for Tottenham Hotspur alone to cause a huge sensation, but there are so many large networks, abundant resources, and at the same time, they are all backed by big sponsors with long-established publicity networks in the United States Support and fuel the flames, which made Tottenham Hotspur's American tour a strong storm from the very beginning, and became the hottest topic in North America in mid-July, and almost all Americans were discussing Tottenham Tottenham's landing.

Moreover, Peter Kenyon personally led the team to the United States this time, with the intention of further opening up the American market. At least for now, Tottenham Hotspur has received cooperation intentions from more than six sponsors, of which the sponsorship fee ranges from 200 It ranges from 1000 to more than [-] million euros. If all of them are settled, Tottenham Hotspur will make a lot of money.

But as a football club, and at the same time the defending champions of the Premier League and the Champions League, Tottenham Hotspur want to continue to win the support and affirmation of American fans, then they have to show that they are strong enough on the football field. Okay, after all, quite a few American fans choose to support Tottenham Hotspur because they are strong enough.

So Ye Qiu attached great importance to the warm-up match of the US tour, not only him, but also the club and the organizing committee.

The first warm-up game was not arranged at the Home Depot Stadium of the Los Angeles Galaxy, because the capacity there was too small, and it could only seat 7000 people, which could not meet the huge demand of the fans, so the first warm-up game was arranged in Los Angeles Rose Bowl Stadium.

Everyone may not be familiar with this stadium, but everyone should still remember that the lonely back of Baggio in the 1994 World Cup in the United States happened at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles.

Although the Rose Bowl stadium has only 9 seats, a total of more than 130 tickets have been sold before the game, and a considerable part of the tickets are standing tickets. The number reached [-], a figure that completely broke the record for the highest attendance in the history of the Rose Bowl.

After Tottenham Hotspur went through a week-long high-intensity training camp in North America, Ye Qiu also formed the strongest main lineup for this game. The goalkeeper is Peter Cech, and the defense line is Coentraang and Ziggins Key, Kompany and Kyle Walker, the midfielder is Beckham, Yaya Toure and Fabregas, and the front trident is Ribery, Cavani and Messi.

Among them, several Brazilian players who participated in the Confederations Cup final did not appear in the starting lineup. This is also because Ye Qiu considered them running back and forth, and then participated in the team's training camp non-stop, so he arranged for them to play as substitutes.

At the beginning of the game, Tottenham Hotspur played relatively steadily. After all, the team had just experienced a week of devil-like training, and their physical fitness was still at a serious stage of exhaustion. However, the American fans in the stands still burst out with amazing enthusiasm.

Ye Qiu, Beckham, Messi, Ribery, Tottenham Hotspur's star coaches and superstars have become the object of shouting and admiration from [-] American fans, and this game also attracted Not only basketball stars including the Lakers, but even some Hollywood superstars such as Tom Cruise and others also came to the scene to watch the game.

After a relatively dull start, Tottenham quickly took control of the game, and in the No.20 and No.401 minutes, Beckham and Messi each scored a goal for the team The goal established a 2:0 lead early on.

But in the second half, Ye Qiu adjusted the starting lineup according to the practice of all warm-up matches, replacing them with Falcao, Alves, David Silva, Marcelo, and Thiago Silva Waiting for the players, it turned out that Tottenham Hotspur played a very hearty offensive storm in the second half, directly pressing the Los Angeles Galaxy for a fat meal.

Tottenham Hotspur's fast-paced offensive football, simple and sharp passing and catching cooperation, made the American fans in the stands very addicted. The atmosphere in the Rose Bowl stadium was very hot, and it seemed that they were affected by this hot The excitement of the atmosphere, the Tottenham Hotspur players also performed very hard, especially Falcao, who scored a hat-trick with overhead kicks.

The Colombian center, who just switched from Ajax to Tottenham Hotspur this summer, has performed well in training. His scoring stability and efficiency are higher than Cavani's. Thorn's ability to create opportunities is very good, making Falcao's scoring efficiency always excellent.

And the hat-trick in the second half made the fans in the stands praise Tottenham Hotspur's new aid this season. What is especially commendable is that his three goals were from the head, right foot and left The feet scored from different positions inside and outside the penalty area, which shows the comprehensiveness of this Colombian center.

For a long time, Argentine strikers have been more adaptable to the European professional football environment than Brazilian strikers. The reason is simple. They are more efficient and less stable than Brazilian strikers, because Argentina will focus on the basic shooting skills when training strikers The sculpting of the ball is more inclined to allow players to adopt more solid shooting skills rather than fancy moves.

Therefore, among the Brazilian forwards, there are very few players with high scoring efficiency. Ronaldo in his peak period was only formed after being refined by Eindhoven. In addition, he is like Romario, but the Argentine forward may not be as talented as the Brazilian forward at first glance. As talented, but they are more effective, such as Batistuta, Crespo, Diego? Milito, Higuain, etc., are very efficient scorers.

Although Falcao is a Colombian striker, he is a striker cultivated by the River Plate team. He established his high-efficiency scorer characteristics as early as in River Plate, so his growth path has always been very clear.

In the words of Peter Dewissel, he believes that in the current European football, Falcao is one of the players with the best shooting skills and the most comprehensive and solid basic shooting skills. Three, and although he is short, his awareness and anticipation are quite good, and his explosive power is also good, so he can become a top powerful center forward.

With a 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy, Tottenham Hotspur won the first game of the American tour, which completely ignited the passion of the North American football market and became the headlines of the major newspapers the next day, especially It was the performance of Tottenham Hotspur's superstars at the Rose Bowl Stadium that won the recognition and admiration of American fans.

And three days later, the team traveled from Los Angeles to San Francisco to face the Mexican giants Chivas at the Park Stadium in San Francisco.

The number of fans in this game reached 7, which once again broke the record in the history of San Francisco Park. This stadium, which was originally the home of the strong football team San Francisco 49ers, had a record of 200 in history. [-] people, but now they were easily broken by Tottenham Hotspur.

The difference from the first game is that Ye Qiu made appropriate adjustments this time. Falcao replaced Cavani as the main center forward, while Alves, Thiago Silva, Marcelo The other players also returned to the starting lineup one after another, but Beckham, who has always had a huge influence and appeal in the North American market, still got the starting lineup, forming a midfield duo with David Silva.

At the San Francisco Park Stadium, Tottenham Hotspur did not hold back at all. In the first half, with Falcao's brace and Messi and Ribery's successive goals, Tottenham took a 4-0 lead over Chivas in Mexico. , so that all the fans who came to the scene cheered almost crazily.

In the second half, although Chivas scored a goal for them by virtue of Mexican forward Javier Hernandez, the Brazilian teenager Neymar, who came off the bench in the second half, assisted Cavani to make another victory. Marr himself also scored the last goal, helping Tottenham Hotspur beat Chivas Mexico 6:1, winning two consecutive warm-up matches.

In two consecutive warm-up matches, he scored [-] goals and conceded [-] goal. This kind of report card has spread not only in the United States, but also to the whole world. Colombian striker Romedal Falcao, who scored five goals, became even more popular.

After Huntelaar switched to Real Madrid, the Colombian striker who quickly became Ajax's main scorer performed very well in Ajax, scoring very efficiently, and was affirmed by many professionals, but After switching to Tottenham Hotspur, with the support of Tottenham Hotspur's strong creative team, the scoring efficiency has been rising, which has the momentum to suppress Messi and Ribery.

You know, both Messi and Ribery are the top stars and scorers in the Tottenham Hotspur team, but Falcao has become the most dazzling star in the first two games of the warm-up match. The pressure was brought by these two superstars.

However, Falcao himself is relatively modest. When interviewed by the media, he said with a smile that two of his five goals were assists from Messi, and one was a pass from Ribery. I feel that I should thank my two teammates for being able to score so many goals.

In his speech, he repeatedly said that Messi and Ribery are Tottenham Hotspur's well-deserved number one superstars. He has just arrived and there are still many things to learn from the two teammates. Tottenham Hotspur contributed his own strength, and he also spoke highly of his rival Cavani.

Regarding the strong competitive atmosphere in the team, Ye Qiu said with a smile that he didn't think there was a problem at all, because competition can promote everyone's progress. He has repeatedly said that whoever is in good condition will win. You must rely on your performance on the field to convince yourself to arrange him to start.

Messi, Ribery, Cavani and other players also expressed in interviews that they are confident that they can get a starting position, especially Ribery, who has not performed very well after his comeback due to serious injuries last season , This summer, he has devoted himself to preparations and training with all his strength. The purpose is to hope that in the new season, he can show his strength again and return to his peak state.

Judging from the two warm-up matches before the season, Ribery's state has recovered very well.

The two warm-up matches all broke the historical attendance records of the two stadiums. Tottenham Hotspur detonated the American football market. There is no suspense. The United States, known as the football desert, will become a green land because of Tottenham Hotspur.

(End of this chapter)