The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 565 Life lies in battle
"I firmly believe that the most glorious moment in life and the greatest practice of self-belief is to go all out for a goal, fight hard on the battlefield until exhausted, and win the final victory - Vincent Lombardi! "

"I don't know what to say. In 3 minutes, it will be the most critical battle of my career. Just watch today!"

"If we don't fight together, we will be slaughtered by our opponents, inch by inch, gear after gear, until the end of the game!"

"We are in hell, believe me, but standing in hell, we can choose to be slaughtered, or we can choose to fight back with all our strength and fight bloody battles. We can leave this hell step by step."

"It's a part of life when you're getting old and everything is going to leave you, it's a part of life until you start to lose it, you'll find that life is also accumulating, just like American football, whether it's life or American football, allow There is very little room for error, half a step too early or too late is a failure, and half a second too late or too fast will fail to catch the ball.”

"The ground is actually around us. Every minute and every second of every game will appear. Our team will work together to score every minute and every inch. We will do everything possible to overcome all difficulties and score every inch. We grit our teeth. , because we know that every inch of the capture is the important difference between victory and defeat, and the key to life and death."

"I tell you that in any battle, only those who are willing to die can win every inch of the battlefield. The reason why I support me to live is because I am still willing to fight for that inch of the battlefield, because this is the true meaning of life. You have to Attack the battlefield six inches in front of you."

"Look in his eyes and you see a guy who is willing to fight for the ground, you see a guy who is willing to sacrifice for the team because he knows that when the time comes, you will do the same for him, that's the team cooperate!"

"If we don't unite and fight together, we will be slaughtered one by one. This is American football!"

In the meeting room of the first-team training building at Theobald Training Base, all the windows were drawn with thick curtains, making the huge meeting room completely dark, coupled with a huge projection screen, and The exciting sound effect makes the environment here not lose to the cinema.

All the players of the Tottenham Hotspur first team were arranged to watch a movie here, from the famous Hollywood director Oliver Stone's "Challenge Sunday".

This is not a well-known movie, because relatively speaking, sports movies are unpopular in Hollywood. Even though this movie is about football, which is very popular in the United States, it still suffered from Waterloo at the box office. At the box office of 350 million U.S. dollars, the global gross was only 500 million U.S. dollars, but his investment reached 500 million U.S. dollars.

But this is definitely an excellent movie, and what it expresses is definitely not just American football, but also philosophy of life.

This is also the best competitive movie Ye Qiu has ever seen. Although he also likes movies such as [One Goal to Fame], [Weakness], and [Moneyball], he still feels that [Challenge Sunday] is not only entertaining but also Artistry, even thought-provoking, surpasses other films of this genre.

The game scenes are very shocking and live, and Al Pacino's Tony is also a very rich and soulful character, and Oliver Stone conveyed through Tony's mouth that he wants to be in this movie. ideas expressed.

Ye Qiu has watched this movie many times, but every time he sees it, he has a very special feeling, because he is trying his best to realize his own belief and strive for a goal, and he also believes that , everyone can have some resonance from this movie.

Ye Qiu has always felt that all people living in this world are like an earthworm buried deep in the dark soil, unable to see direction or light. In such an environment, despair becomes very easy. Hope is very difficult, but when people are alive, they should have a hope, just like an earthworm, with a hope, in the dark soil where no light can be seen, creeping forward inch by inch, inch by inch Drilling forward, hoping to get his head out of the dirt one day.

This is a person's life, and this world is dirt!

As professional players, Tottenham Hotspur's first-team players undoubtedly have a deeper impression and experience of everything in this movie than others, because they are real people who live on the field. They rely on playing football to support themselves and their families, so they can understand the ideas and thoughts conveyed in the movie better than anyone else.

Willie finally chose to work as a team, and finally helped the Miami Sharks beat the Cavaliers. When all the Tottenham Hotspur players saw this scene, they all stood up from their seats and applauded vigorously. Everyone was obviously excited by the movie.

After a long period of preparation and brewing, the movie reached its climax in the final battle, coupled with Al Pacino's inspiring speech before the game, completely made this movie a classic, and also It deeply infected every Tottenham Hotspur player present.

Applause and even tears represent the players' recognition and affirmation of this movie!
Especially in the last battle of the movie, both Ronnie and Willie are interpreting and embodying the truth that no matter how good a star is, he must have the full support and protection of his teammates around him to play his best role. A star without the support of his teammates is useless!
But this movie is also revealing a cruel fact, that is, competitive sports are full of dangers, the players of the Cavaliers dropped their eyeballs because of the collision, and the old shark, the core of the Sharks' defense, died for a defense. He fell to the ground and fell into a coma, which made people's whole heart tugging while watching the movie.

Oliver Stone is using this method to express a concept to everyone at the same time, especially in the hearts of young players like Tottenham Hotspur. They will all involuntarily resonate, that is, as professional athletes, they are currently Everything they have is so fragile, because they may completely interrupt their careers due to an injury at any time, just like the player of the Cavaliers, or the old shark of the Sharks .

In this heart-wrenching mood, they will all become more appreciative of everything they currently have, the environment they have, and the achievements they have made!
The team spirit of unity, selflessness, and dedication described in this movie is undoubtedly what Ye Qiu has asked of everyone in Tottenham Hotspur for a long time in the past, and what this movie tells This kind of self-improvement, never-say-die spirit and fighting spirit is what Ye Qiu hopes that all Tottenham Hotspur players have.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, the core theme of this movie is very vulgar, nothing more than emphasizing unity, and if someone simply watches the part of Al Pacino's speech, they will definitely feel disgusted and even repelled, thinking that This is absolutely treating all players as idiots, and no one will be moved by such vulgar preaching.

However, if you let go of the repulsion and prejudice in your heart, and you slowly watch this movie from the beginning, you will be deeply infected, and you will find that his theme may be a bit vulgar and there is nothing new, but Oliver? However, Stone is able to take an unbearably vulgar theme very well, and he insists on talking about it to make your blood boil and make you deeply infected.

This is the skill of the director and the success of this movie!

And it also completely conquered all the players in Tottenham Hotspur, so it was able to get their applause and even tears!
After watching the movie, Ye Qiu walked out of the conference room with the coaching staff without saying a word, because he believed that the players had already felt what he wanted to say and expressed, and I believe they all understood Ye Qiu's encouragement to them.

Life is a never-ending battle!

Some people may say that Tottenham Hotspur's fate is really tough, and some people will definitely say that Ye Qiu got shit luck.

Because at the most difficult time for Tottenham Hotspur, that is, when the team faced the first test this season, Tottenham Hotspur ushered in Wigan Athletic, Ye Qiu's ball Even in the away game, the team still defeated Roberto Martinez's Wigan Athletic 3-0 cleanly.

The last match between the two sides reached double-digit goals, so many people felt that Ye Qiu was really lucky to be able to meet such a team when they lost consecutively and encountered difficulties one after another.

Ye Qiu dismissed this statement, but he did not refute it, because he saw that the team had come out of adversity very well.

In the middle of the week, it ushered in the make-up match of the 4th knockout round of the FA Cup. Tottenham Hotspur played at home and beat the visiting Bolton team 0-[-]. Cavani scored twice to help the team defeat the opponent and successfully advance to the next round.

In the No.20 eight-round match of the Premier League on the weekend, Tottenham Hotspur relied on the goals of Falcao and Messi to take the lead 2:0, and even if Everton performed well in the second half Things got better and scored a face-saving goal, but in the end they still couldn't challenge Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane.

The three consecutive victories completely dissipated all the rumors about the possible collapse of Tottenham Hotspur that had been rumored by the media before, and everyone turned to hype that Tottenham Hotspur still maintains a strong Competitiveness.

You know, Moyes' Everton is the hottest team in the Premier League this February. Except for their unexpected 0:1 loss to Benitez's Liverpool in Liverpool's intra-city derby, in other In the two matchups, they defeated Ancelotti's Chelsea and Ferguson's Manchester United respectively. In February, which can be called the devil's schedule, they performed very well.

Because of this, when Tottenham Hotspur faced Everton, many people were worried that Toffee, who was doing well recently, was likely to continue to play a wealthy killer and be upset again.

But in the end Tottenham Hotspur saved a home victory without any risk, and did not allow Everton to take a little bit of advantage from their own hands, which also defended their league lead once again.

Three days after Everton, Tottenham traveled to Manchester's City Stadium to take on Mancini's City.

This is undoubtedly a tough battle. After Mancini took over Manchester City halfway, what he did best was to build Manchester City's defensive system, which greatly improved the defense of this Manchester team. The tired Tottenham Hotspur have brought huge problems, and Manchester City's offensive ability is not weak at all.

With the two sides playing hard to separate, Ribery and Messi stood up at the critical moment. Messi broke through the double-teaming of the two players after getting the ball in the middle, and passed through the penalty area to Ribery. Scarface of France made the final decision, helping Tottenham Hotspur scored the winning goal and took away three points from the away game.

The weekend ushered in the FA Cup quarter-finals knockout match. The opponent was Fulham. Tottenham Hotspur lost 0:1 to their city rivals in the away game and were eliminated from the FA Cup. Fulham defeated Tottenham Hotspur, which is dominated by young players, successfully advanced to the semi-finals, and Chelsea, Aston Villa and Portsmouth also advanced to the semi-finals.

After being eliminated from the League Cup and the FA Cup one after another, and in the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur's recent performance has also been bumpy, which inevitably makes people full of doubts about the future of Tottenham Hotspur worry.

Especially after this FA Cup game, Tottenham Hotspur ushered in the second round of the UEFA Champions League round of sixteen knockout rounds in the middle of the week. After losing the first round away, Tottenham Hotspur Spurs must win Porto at home.

At the pre-match press conference when Porto went to London, coach Jesuardo Ferreira was very confident in his away game when he was interviewed by reporters. He firmly believed that Porto could bring back the promotion from the away game right.

"Maybe a lot of people will be full of doubts about our self-confidence and think it's unbelievable, but what I want to say is that after the first leg, we know very well how to beat Tottenham Hotspur. This team is far from being as strong as the outside world imagines, and they are not invincible."

"Of course, there will be some difficulties as a guest at White Hart Lane, and we are fully prepared for the upcoming difficulties. I firmly believe that my players can play at White Hart Lane without losing to the Dragon Stadium. Get a satisfactory result!"

However, perhaps in order to lower the tone, Jesuardo Ferreira also defended some of his remarks after the first round in an interview with the media, thinking that he did not mean to humiliate his opponent, but Tottenham Hotspur's performance in that game was indeed very unsatisfactory, but he once again emphasized that the feeling of beating Tottenham Hotspur was very enjoyable.

"You know, to be able to beat a team with Messi, Ribéry, Falcao, Fabregas, David Silva and other superstars is very addicting. I believe that all teams would like to have this opportunity, and we will try to taste this feeling again at White Hart Lane!"

Regarding Porto coach Jesuardo Ferreira's provocation, Ye Qiu took a low-key approach at the pre-match press conference. He said that the team did encounter some problems.

"In the past period of time, we played a lot of games, we didn't have a winter break, and at the same time traveled a long distance to play the Club World Cup, and then returned to England and continued to fight on multiple fronts, which led to the player's state. There were some ups and downs."

But soon, when asked by a reporter that Tottenham Hotspur did not seem to be affected by this aspect last season, Ye Qiu denied it, because the state of Tottenham Hotspur last season was also affected. Ups and downs, because it is impossible for a team to remain unbeaten for a long time.

"If anyone doubts our quality and thinks that our results this season are not ideal, then I think he should take a good look at what we have achieved so far. We have only lost one game in the Premier League, drawn three games, we With 25 victories, we are 2 points ahead of No. [-] Chelsea, I don’t even know, if such a result is bad, then, please, who can answer me, what is good?”

Facing Ye Qiu's question, none of the reporters present could give an answer, because they have always been like this. When you perform well, they will praise you to the sky, but once you lose a game, they will immediately start hyping up the so-called crisis.

Ye Qiu directly questioned the reporters so sharply that the few reporters present who had a good relationship with Tottenham Hotspur secretly applauded in their hearts, but they definitely couldn't do it regardless of the feelings of their peers.

Regarding the challenge from Porto, Ye Qiu did not intend to respond to the war of words, "I can only say that we will prove our strength through this game, and I want to tell everyone that we are Tottenham Tottenham, we will lose, but we will not lose to the same opponent in a row..”

"...twice!" Ye Qiu stood up from the rostrum, pointing two fingers at the reporter.

There was a flash of flashing lights at the scene, and all the reporters stood up one after another, taking pictures of Ye Qiu frantically. Obviously, this was Ye Qiu's counterattack. Although there was no direct counterattack, Jesuardo Ferre La's move obviously offended Ye Qiu, and the English media responded one after another.

"No matter how bad Tottenham Hotspur is, beating Porto is as easy as crushing an ant!"

"The arrogant Ferreira will definitely pay the worst price at White Hart Lane!"

"I seem to have seen Jesuardo Ferreira leaving White Hart Lane in a dismal defeat!"

As for the high-profile and self-confidence of the English media, the Portuguese media seemed a bit pessimistic, thinking that some of Jesuardo Ferreira's remarks were a bit too high-profile. After all, Tottenham Hotspur's strength lies there.

However, some media believe that the current situation of Jesuardo Ferreira's Porto is a bit similar to the situation when Jose Mourinho's Porto met Manchester United. Porto also defeated Manchester United 2:1 in the round. As a result, when everyone thought that Manchester United could beat Porto at Old Trafford, the score in the second round was 1:1. Porto equalized the score at the last moment and went smoothly. promotion.

Therefore, there are also many Porto fans. Even under the exaggeration and hype of the media all over the world, many Tottenham Hotspur fans are worried in their hearts. ?

(End of this chapter)