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Chapter 459 Chapter 457: The controversy caused by the theory of "luck"!
The Dutch team went on vacation in The Hague for a week. At this time, other powerful players have already started training and even started playing warm-up matches.

This made the reporters of the Dutch media worried. Did the Netherlands come here for vacation, or did they come to train for the World Cup?
Criticisms began to emerge.

"Van Marwijk is too relaxed, the Dutch team should start training earlier."

"Damn Van Marwijk for betraying our trust!"

"God, the Dutch team spent a week on the beach in The Hague, are they adapting to the hot climate in South Africa?"

Amidst the criticism of reporters and fans, the Dutch team set off back to Amsterdam to start training for the upcoming World Cup in South Africa.

This made the fans slightly relieved, but the reporter did not let go of the Dutch coach.

Amsterdam International Airport, as soon as the Dutch team appeared, Van Marwijk was surrounded by reporters.

"Mr. van Marwijk, don't you think a week at The Hague is too long?"

"Mr. Van Marwijk, Italy already played a warm-up match yesterday, and will play another warm-up match three days later. How many warm-up matches have the Dutch team arranged? Who are the opponents?"

"Mr. Van Marwijk, what is the goal of the Dutch team in this World Cup?"

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Numerous shells were thrown at the Dutch coach.

Van Marwijk took off his sunglasses, his face bronzed by this week's rays, and his features more defined.

"The players have just come off a tough season and they need time to adjust and I think a holiday by the sea is a great way to do that."

Van Marwijk stubbornly believes that he is not wrong: "As for the warm-up match, I don't think it should be too much. What we have to do now is mainly to recover, not to enter the state as soon as possible."

"As for the goal of the World Cup, we must at least reach the semi-finals, and if possible, we will fight for the championship."

Into the semi-finals?

God, we're the Dutch team, where's your ambition?
The reporters were even more dissatisfied. A young reporter asked: "Everyone knows that this Dutch team is the most talented team in the past 20 years. Dutch fans hope that this Dutch team can realize the World Cup dream of generations of Dutch footballers in South Africa."

"Just the goal of the semi-finals, it is difficult to satisfy the Dutch fans!"

Van Marwijk shook his head and said: "The competition in the World Cup is not only about strength. After entering the knockout rounds, in matches with equal strength, the winning side is often the team with better luck."

"Competing for the Hercules Cup is the ultimate goal of every player and every team, but I don't want to put too much burden on my players."

"As long as we work hard and do our best, whether the fans are satisfied or not, we are worthy of ourselves."

The reporters were in an uproar, since Van Marwijk attributed the outcome to "luck"!
In the following period of time, not only the Dutch media bombarded Van Marwijk's "luck theory", even the media in other countries also criticized him.

Gazzetta dello Sport commented: attribute the outcome of a game of comparable strength to "luck", and Van Marwijk is now making excuses for the failure of the World Cup.

When they failed, he could have said: "We tried our best, but the other side had better luck than us, so it wasn't us who won."

God, as the head coach of a national team, as the head coach of a favorite to win the championship, he doesn't think about how to match the lineup and stimulate the competitive state of each player, but attributes the victory or defeat to luck.

Except for Van Marwijk, there is no one else in this world...

The Telegraph, the largest print media of the Dutch team, severely criticized Van Marwijk: Although we know that at this moment, what the Dutch team needs is more encouragement.

But how do we encourage going to a team that spends a week on the beach, a manager who is down to luck?
The outcome of a game depends first on the comparison of the strengths of the two sides, followed by the state of the players, the tactical arrangements of the coach, the competitive state of the opponent, and finally luck.

But I didn't expect that Van Marwijk would rank luck ahead of the players' status and the coach's tactical arrangements!
We hope that Mr. Van Marwijk can soberly re-understand the laws of football games, abandon the nonsense "luck theory", and let the players recover as soon as possible.

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Van Marwijk laughed off the criticism, knowing that grades are the last word, and when you succeed, the criticism fades away.

Once you fail on the field, no matter how much the media and fans support you and praise you before that, they will attack you after the failure.

Just like Van Basten, in the European Cup in 08, the group stage appeared with a record of victory, and the media and fans praised the Netherlands for its gorgeous attack.

But when the Dutch team stopped the first round of the knockout round, the previous praise disappeared instantly, and Van Basten was met with overwhelming criticism.

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On the 27th, the Dutch team had its first training session after the training camp at the Ajax training base.

Reporters gathered outside the training ground.

On the training ground, the players laughed, as if they were not affected by media criticism at all.

When Chen Fan revisited the old place, he had a different feeling.

When he walked into the training base, he took the initiative to warmly hug Johnson, the goalkeeper of the base.

Johnson pointed to the Cruyff statue not far away and said, "Chen, keep working hard, let your statue stand there in the future!"

Chen Fan waved his fist in response: "Okay! I will work hard!"

When he stepped onto the training turf, he looked at the familiar plants and trees. He was still training here with his Ajax teammates last year, fighting for a miracle.

Now he is going to fight for the Hercules Cup with his Dutch team-mates.

During training, Van Marwijk only arranged some recovery training, and did not arrange any confrontation content.

The atmosphere on the training field is good. Perhaps a week of vacation has relieved the fatigue of the players. Under the leadership of the assistant coach, they jog, speed up, and run back and forth seriously...

The one-and-a-half-hour training ended quickly, and the players had just stepped out of the court when they were surrounded by reporters outside.

"What do you think of Van Marwijk's 'luck'? Is it true that in a close game, luck really affects the result?"

Almost every Dutch player has to face such questions from reporters.

Robben ignored the reporter's tricky question and said: "Today's weather is good, we are recovering quickly, and when we arrive in South Africa, we will return to our best condition!"

Van Persie returned: "Mr. Van Marwijk has brought great changes to the Dutch team. These changes are conducive to our good results. I support him!"

These two didn't directly answer the reporter's question, Chen Fan didn't evade, and said, "Don't you need luck in a close match?"

"I remember when I was at Ajax last season, my few goals, including the zero-degree goal, you can say at the time, I was unlucky!"

"Have you forgotten what you once said?"

(End of this chapter)