The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 554

The 10-0 defeat of Roberto Martinez's Wigan Athletic made Tottenham Hotspur completely popular, especially the team's top superstar Leo Messi who staged a five-star streak, was once again received Media hype.

Tottenham Hotspur are also happy to push behind the scenes to help Messi get this year's World Footballer of the Year.

Three days later, Tottenham Hotspur played in the fifth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage with a lineup of all substitutes and young players. They defeated Standard Liege 2-0 at home. In the No.14 round of the Premier League, in the away game against Aston Villa, Aston Villa was defeated 2-0 without any suspense, and continued to maintain an unbeaten record.

That is, after the end of this round of competition, the French Football Magazine took the lead in announcing a list of the top ten superstars shortlisted for the European Ballon d'Or, among which La Liga includes Real Madrid's Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo , Barcelona's Harvey and Van Persie; Serie A only Inter Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic; while the Premier League has Chelsea's Didier Drogba, Liverpool's Gerrard, and Tottenham Hotspur's Messi, Riley Berri and Fabregas.

Tottenham Hotspur should be regarded as the biggest winner of this list, because in addition to the current three superstars in the team, and more importantly, Van Persie was also shortlisted for the wonderful performance of Tottenham Hotspur. From this list, it is not difficult to see Tottenham Hotspur's star-making strength and level.

On the contrary, Manchester United, after sending away Cristiano Ronaldo, although Rooney was introduced, the Red Devils Manchester United did not have a player shortlisted, which is indeed a bit embarrassing. It's gone, but Ferguson scoffed at it.

On December 12, after several days of continuous and intensive hype, Messi was printed on the cover of the French Football Magazine, which almost proved one thing to everyone, that is this year's French Football Magazine's European The Ballon d'Or already belongs to the Argentine.

In this magazine, in addition to disclosing the process of accepting the award, there is also the announcement of the results of the selection. Messi did his part to secure the top spot, while Cristiano Ronaldo and Harvey ranked second and Harvey respectively. The third place is also in line with outside speculation.

With the advent of the information age, the media has become more and more developed, and it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain a sense of mystery, and it can even be said to be impossible. Almost all fans have already handed over the European Ballon d'Or to Messi Well, announcing the award is just a formality.

Tottenham Hotspur's first game in December is against Manchester United. The quarter-finals of the League Cup will be held at White Hart Lane. Ferguson will include Brown, Anderson, Gibson, Obertain, Welbeck Waiting for the young players to start, it is clear that they need to use the cup to train.

Ye Qiu also did not arrange the main lineup to play, but arranged for Varane, Nastasic, Ramsey, Hazzard, Kyle Walker, Pogba, Phil Jones and other young players to start. Directly compete with Manchester United for the strength of the second team.

In the end, Tottenham Hotspur, which had a better defense, defeated Manchester United 2-0. With the trident composed of Macheda, Obertain and Welbeck, Varane, Nastasic, Phil Jones In front of the leading defensive lineup, there were almost no good opportunities. In the end, they were defeated at White Hart Lane and returned to Manchester, and were eliminated from the League Cup by Tottenham Hotspur.

In particular, the central defender combination of Nastasic and Varane has withstood the test of Manchester United's young ball attackers in this game, and it is very stable to ensure that the goal is not lost, especially the excellent physical condition and excellent physical condition of the Serbian central defender. The ability to dominate the air is impressive, and he won the title of Vidic II after the game.

French central defender Varane is also a young central defender recently introduced by Ye Qiu. His physical fitness is excellent, his speed and explosive power are not short boards, and his skills are also solid and stable. He looks a lot like Ziglinski of the first team, or Barcelona's Pique.

But the most impressive thing about this game was the midfield combination of Phil Jones, Pogba and Ramsey.

Although they are all young players, Tottenham Hotspur's midfielder forcefully crushed Manchester United's midfielder composed of Park Ji-sung, Anderson and Gibson. Under the pressure of the Tottenham midfielder, almost the entire game failed to find the state and rhythm.

Phil Jones was as passionate and fierce as ever, while Pogba broke through Manchester United's goal with a sudden and powerful volley from the back of his foot, winning the recognition of the outside world and being unrecognized after the game. Some media call it Yaya Toure II, who has also started to rotate in the first team this season.

The victory of this game also made the outside media pay great attention to Tottenham Hotspur's youth training camp again, especially the many young players who emerged from the team, all showed impressive performances. Strength, but you must know that in the past few years, Tottenham Hotspur has cultivated Gareth Bale, Hazard, Ramsey and other outstanding players.

Compared with Manchester United's young people, they are basically eighteen, nineteen, or even 20 years old. Tottenham Hotspur's Pogba, Nastasic and Varane are only 16 years old, while the 19-year-old Lahm Sergey's Eden Hazard has already gained a firm foothold in the first team, which is in stark contrast to Manchester United's youth training policy.

Ferguson has always emphasized that Manchester United attaches great importance to youth training, but in fact, in the past few years, it has been Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal who have promoted the most youth players. Don't do this, but Tottenham Hotspur actively promotes young players, and at the same time sells the stars in the team at an appropriate time in exchange for high transfer fees.

As for the attitude towards young players, Ye Qiu once said before that young people nowadays are getting more and more mature, and many players are no different psychologically from young people in their twenties when they arrive, so they will start to treat young players at this time. I have some requirements, such as playing in the first team, such as making more contributions to the team.

"We need to keep creating more opportunities and room for growth for these emerging young players!"

So Tottenham Hotspur are not stingy about selling any player in the team, because players will soon emerge in the echelon.

There is another reason why Ye Qiu didn't say it to the outside world, and that is that some semi-finished products imported from the outside world, such as Pogba, Nastasic and Varane, are often around. Without hope, they will start to appear eccentric, or even choose to leave the team.

The introduction of semi-finished youth training has huge benefits. First of all, because they have proven their strength and potential in some aspects, the success rate of this type of semi-finished youth training is very high. It can even be said that as long as you give proper guidance and help, They will be able to grow quickly with less risk.

But the disadvantage is that they often choose you because they think you can give them a chance. If you prevent them from seeing this opportunity, they will choose other teams and their loyalty will be relatively low.

Therefore, Ye Qiu's attitude is very clear. As long as the young rookies in the team show enough strength and potential, I will give you a chance. It doesn't matter whether you are 16 years old or not. , allowing you to enter the first team, participate in rotations and substitutes, and accumulate experience.

Of course, if you have enough ability to show the strength to be the main force in the substitute and rotation, such as Gareth Bale, or Falcao replacing Cavani this season, then I will let you Play the main force.

It should be said that this is the most sincere and effective talent promotion plan that Ye Qiu can offer.

But Ferguson obviously doesn't think so. He still prefers to enter the first-team rotation when young players are in their early 20s or even around 22 years old, because at this time the players are relatively mature and stable, and their technical and tactical styles have also taken shape. Also has not weak strength.

So whether it is Welbeck or Macheda, they have not yet performed in the league and the Champions League. However, this group of young people in Tottenham Hotspur, although they are only 16 years old, have already played in the league. With Tottenham Hotspur's outstanding performance in the Champions League, in the last round, which is the sixth round of the Champions League group stage, Ye Qiu has decided to arrange for them all to start.

Playing cup games at the age of 16 is already a huge temptation for young players. If they are arranged to play in the Champions League and the Premier League, the young players will definitely be more loyal.

Of course, young people should not be blindly tolerated or trusted. At the same time, they must be given some appropriate pressure. The biggest and most effective pressure is to make them feel the almost cruel competition of the first team.

After knocking out Manchester United and reaching the semi-finals of the League Cup, Tottenham Hotspur faced the star-studded Manchester City, but the two-legged semi-final was held in January 2010, so there is no need to think about it yet.

Back in the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur challenged Everton in an away game. The strong Tottenham Hotspur beat Everton 4:1 in an away game. Messi, who just won the European Golden Globe Scored twice, Ribery and Falcao scored a goal each.

In the middle of the week, the team traveled to Greece for an away game against Olympiacos.

Ye Qiu's game fulfilled the promise he made to the young players before playing Manchester United in the League Cup, that is, to arrange young players and substitute lineups to start, including Nastasic, Varane, Hazard, Ramsey, Bo Geba, Phil Jones and other players all won the starting lineup, and the team's vice-captain Beckham led the team.

But because there were too many young players, Tottenham Hotspur lost the away game, 0:1, and lost to Olympiacos.

Regarding this loss, Ye Qiu did not say too much. In an interview with the media after the game, he still told the evaluation of the group of young players in the team. The trust of young players will continue to give young players more opportunities to play and play in the future.

As for the mistakes made by the two young central defenders in the game, which caused the team to lose the ball, Ye Qiu also defended it, thinking that everyone should be responsible for the loss of the game, and it should not be just blamed on the young people.

In the final analysis, it is still not strong enough!

Ye Qiu knows very well that against opponents in the Champions League, especially away games, even if you encounter an opponent whose strength is obviously inferior to yours, the game will be difficult to play, let alone a group of completely inexperienced young players. Looking for draws.

But it must also be clearly seen that losing is actually a kind of experience. At least young players have played in the Champions League early. This experience and this lesson will make them more mature in the future, and at the same time urge them to continue. keep improving.

Back in the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur continued to maintain a strong scoring momentum. They defeated Wolves 4-0 cleanly at home and extended their unbeaten record to [-] games.

With 46 wins, 34 wins and [-] draw, Tottenham Hotspur is far ahead of the Premier League standings with [-] points, while Chelsea is ranked second with [-] wins, [-] draw and [-] losses in [-] games. The Blues scored [-] points. points, as many as twelve points behind Tottenham Hotspur, which is also seen by the outside world as a basis for Tottenham Hotspur's chances of winning the Premier League championship.

Manchester United scored 31 points, while Arsenal scored only 28 points, followed by Aston Villa, Manchester City, Liverpool, West Ham United and Birmingham, the most surprising of which was Martin O'Neill's Aston Villa, this season's performance is indeed surprising, currently ranked fifth.

After the No.16 round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur will postpone the No.17 and No.18 Premier League rounds, because they will soon go to the United Arab Emirates to participate in the World Club Champions Cup. The two rounds of the league conflicted with the Club World Cup on the schedule, so it was temporarily postponed.

As the biggest giants in the Club World Cup, Tottenham Hotspur has received great attention from the outside world from the very beginning, and was forced by FIFA to send their main players to play, because this is the UEFA Champions League champion. fulfill the obligation.

The business department of Tottenham Hotspur also regards this trip to Abu Dhabi as an important attempt for the team to develop the commercial market in the Middle East, because the summer trip to the Middle East is not very effective, because It was more like a business competition, but this time it was different, this time it was a battle for the world championship.

Not only Tottenham Hotspur attaches great importance to it, Qatar Airways also attaches great importance to Tottenham Hotspur's trip to the Middle East, and has carried out a series of promotions and publicity with Tottenham Hotspur in the Middle East in advance , to warm up for the club's arrival.

In addition to all the players and coaching staff of the first team this time, the trip to the Middle East also included the important management of the club and the commercial team. Further develop the Middle East market, after all, the oil corps here are very rich.

After arriving in Abu Dhabi, senior government officials from the United Arab Emirates, FIFA executives, and even Al Fasim from the Abu Dhabi consortium entered the Tottenham Hotspur training camp one after another. A training session at Nam Tottenham, and at the same time had a round of exchanges with Ye Qiu, Peter Kenyon and others.

Among them, Alpha Sim asked Ye Qiu's opinion on the current problems of Manchester City.

Although they are rivals at the Premier League level, neither Ye Qiu nor Alphasim will play any tricks on this kind of matter. Ye Qiu also told Alphasim bluntly that the biggest problem for Manchester City at present is not the player lineup. It's about the head coach.

"An excellent and qualified head coach can integrate a team in the shortest time, even if the results are bad, but at least he can let everyone clearly see his intentions and tactical framework, but from last season Until now, I have not seen even a little bit of the whole from Manchester City, this is the responsibility of the head coach!"

Alfasim expressed his gratitude to Ye Qiu for his advice. He didn't say whether he would listen, but he politely wished Tottenham Hotspur a successful Club World Cup and continued to win more. champion.

In fact, in the first game of the Club World Cup, Tottenham beat Atlanta, the champion team of the Central American and Caribbean Champions Cup, 3-0. Oceania's champions, Auckland City, struggled to threaten Tottenham's goal in the semi-finals.

The disparity in strength made it easy for Tottenham Hotspur to win the first game, and in the final they met the La Plata University team led by Juan Veron. The Argentine team, the winner of the FA Cup, caused Tottenham Hotspur a lot of trouble in the game.

In the final analysis, it was the sequelae brought about by the long journey, and the strength of the University of La Plata team itself was not weak, so this game was very difficult, and Tottenham Hotspur was once in a passive situation on the scene , especially Veron, performed very well and eye-catching in this team.

But in the end, Cavani's goal helped Tottenham Hotspur beat the La Plata University team 2:1, successfully defending the Club World Cup, winning the championship trophy for two consecutive seasons, and becoming The first team in the history of the Club World Cup to successfully defend the title.

This honor allowed Tottenham Hotspur to be highly affirmed by FIFA President Blatter after the game. The latter made it clear that he was a fan of Messi, and for Messi in the Club World Cup final Blatter also took the initiative to give an explanation for his poor performance in the middle, thinking that it was mainly caused by fatigue.

With the support of Blatter himself on the platform, Messi, who just won the European Ballon d'Or, seems to be the number one favorite in the world's footballer. After all, in the past year, no matter in terms of honor or performance, Messi deserves the World Player of the Year award.

In order to support Messi, Ye Qiu also vigorously supported his lover in the interview, thinking that Messi should be awarded the World Player of the Year, because he was the best player in the past season and deserved to be recognized.

Not only that, all the players in the Tottenham Hotspur first team, plus Ye Qiu, Peter Kenyon, Ron Gurley and other high-level officials, all decided to fly directly from Abu Dhabi to Zurich to support May. Sina Award.

On the contrary, Messi himself seems to have encountered some troubles in front of the personal award!
(End of this chapter)