The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 102 Who is the King of Europe?

The first day the team arrived in Dortmund was not destined to be peaceful.

Nowadays, many major European leagues have ended, and the European Champions Cup final has not yet ignited the war. During this period of intermission, the UEFA Cup will undoubtedly attract more people's attention, especially before the UEFA Cup. It is indeed a very eye-catching thing that Kex broke out such a shocking news of a sudden coaching change.

Many reporters from all over the world are curious about Ajax's decision to change coaches, and they really want to know what is the reason for Ajax's management to decide to change coaches?

Is Ye Qiu not good enough?

Or is Advocaat better?
Van Prager's clarification seemed weaker and weaker, and was interpreted more as an attitude and compromise that had to be made in order to stabilize the current situation. Many people even doubted that without Van Prager Under the instruction of Korner, does Korna dare to do this?

Obviously, not everyone is aware of the structure of Ajax's current club power. They can't distinguish the contradictions and disputes between the board of directors and the management, so they can easily adopt a tone of conspiracy theory. Looking at this matter, Ye Qiu must dismiss get out of class!
The Dutch media is divided into two factions, one faction supports Ye Qiu’s resignation, and the other faction supports Ye Qiu’s resignation. Interestingly, the faction that supports Ye Qiu’s resignation is almost all the media that used to be anti-Ajax, while Ye Qiu’s resignation is supported. The most pro-Ajax media include the Amsterdam Corriere della Sera, the Common Daily and many other media.

The two factions wrote articles attacking each other and competed with each other, and there was no excitement, but neither could convince the other.

These journalists are all writers. If they attack and debate face-to-face, they may not be very good, but writing articles and debates is the guy they eat and their strength. Will they lose?

Perhaps it was because of too much interference from the outside world. After Ye Qiu arrived in Dortmund, apart from going to Dortmund's home stadium Westfalenstadion for a warm-up training in the afternoon, the rest of the time, Ajak Stella stayed in the hotel to rest.

On the hotel floor where Ajax stayed, all visitors, including reporters and relatives of the players, were declined. They will be on the day of the game, and the club will be responsible for helping them come to Dortmund from Amsterdam, and then gather with the team after the game , but before the game, they were not allowed to appear in the team's hotel.

For Ajax's arrangement similar to martial law, some media gave understanding, but some media thought that Ajax was too nervous, and Ye Qiu's behavior was a bit authoritarian, which might arouse the disgust of the players.

Ye Qiu himself wasn't worried about the players' resentment, because in the hotel, he arranged a series of activities to keep the players from getting too bored, and even let them watch movies together as a pastime.

On the morning of the game, the club’s management came to Dortmund together. Van Prager brought several high-level executives to the hotel to visit the players, appease the players, and personally stated his position in front of the players. Ajax The management has always trusted Ye Qiu, and firmly believes that next season Ajax's head coach will still be Ye Qiu.

After watching the players, Van Prager and Ye Qiu met in private. He did not visit Ye Qiu, nor did he mention what Elisa said in the interview with the media. He just told Ye Qiu repeatedly that he After the end of the season, Ye Qiu will be given a brand new contract to completely reassure people.

"You can rest assured to coach at Ajax, and leave the rest to me. Next season, I will give you a stable environment. I promise, the same thing will not happen again!" Van Prager Finally, a full-fledged guarantee was given.

Perhaps some people will feel that Van Prager has no right to speak now, and that he may be kicked out of Ajax at any time, but Ye Qiu doesn't think so, because Van Prager is already in the Ajax has been the chairman for more than ten years and has extensive contacts in Dutch football and Europe.

Such a person who was once regarded as a savior by Ajax fans, will he be removed by a group of people who only understand money?
Ye Qiu absolutely didn't believe it, so he called Eliza at noon.

Keep in touch with Eliza, so as to ensure that Ye Qiu's advances and retreats are well-founded.

"Do you really believe in Van Prager's promise?" Eliza asked with a smile on the phone, she was a little skeptical.

Not much else to say, when he invited Ye Qiu to coach Ajax a year ago, he had promised to give him a stable environment, but in the past year, such an environment has never appeared. Ye Qiu has always been accompanied by controversy and opposition. Therefore, from Ye Qiu's point of view, Elisa's promise is not worth much.

Ye Qiu smiled, "You are worse than me when it comes to other things, but when it comes to playing tricks and people's hearts, you are not as thorough as I am!"

"What do you mean?" Eliza didn't quite understand.

"Didn't you find out? Has there been an extra fan organization in Amsterdam recently?"

"You mean..." Eliza remembered that there was indeed an extra fan organization, and it was even published in the newspaper.

"Yes, it's the radical fan organization that claims to raise funds from the directors to buy back the club's shares!"

Ye Qiu is very clear that the listing of a club is itself a deformed freak. Except for Manchester United, no club can make money after listing. Basically, the stock price plummets as soon as it goes public, and some teams even drop sharply. Even his grandmother didn't recognize it.

Ajax's stock is also falling, but for those directors who really hold a large number of Ajax stocks, the value of the stock is not important, what they want is face, and what they want is the Ajax brand , so they don't care about the value and always have it in their hands.

But now the fans quit. They feel that you, the directors, have exceeded your authority. You should not manage things that you should manage. You bought it back at a much lower price, you bastards will get the hell out of Ajax from now on.

This is the means of Van Prager's counterattack!

Of course, there will still be some people who don’t want to sell, but it’s okay, you don’t have to sell, but I want to reorganize the power of the club, and you will be your director in the future. It's okay for you to be the master of the celebration, but you should stop farting on me and point fingers at the team less on weekdays.

After hearing Ye Qiu's words, Eliza was a little taken aback. She really didn't expect that Van Prager would be so powerful when he played tricks. You know, if the shares were really sold, those directors would eat them. It's a big loss, but if you don't sell it, you will be intimidated by Van Prager and obedient.

"Why do you think that all of this is done by Van Prager behind the scenes?" Eliza couldn't believe it.

Ye Qiu smiled, and he also knew that this girl was very stubborn, "I don't know, I guessed, but I don't believe it, for no reason, and the timing is so coincidental, a group of fans stood up to oppose the board of directors!"

After hearing this, Eliza sighed softly, "Anyway, I don't understand these things about you!"

"However, you still have to tell me, do you still intend to stay in Ajax in your heart?"

Ye Qiu was slightly taken aback after hearing this, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

In the past two years, he has devoted a lot of effort and energy to Ajax. The progress and growth of every player in Ajax is inseparable from his promotion and hard work behind the scenes. It was easy to come up with such a lineup, and finally brought this group of players to today.

Ye Qiu can say with certainty that as long as he is given another two or three years, he will be able to bring this Ajax team to the level where they did not lose to Van Gaal back then, because he has completely transformed the current Ajax team. Max's overall framework has been worked out, and the rest is to constantly improve and adjust the parts and details.

As long as he is given another two or three years of accumulation, this team will become a powerful force that cannot be ignored in the European League.

But Ye Qiu is also very clear that there are still many troubles in front of him.

The first is from the board of directors. The management trusts him, but the board of directors does not trust him at all.

Also, in the next two or three years, will his group of players be poached by the outside world and leave?

All of these are things he needs to consider, and they are also risks to his success.

But if Ye Qiu gave up Ajax now, he would have no shortage of next homes, but the problem was that he had to give up everything he had put in and invested in Ajax in the past two years, and start over, which made him hesitate. .

Because he is too eager to prove himself!
"I see, don't worry, I will help you!" Eliza understood what he was thinking without hearing his answer.

"Thank you!" Ye Qiu thanked with a smile. There was a very smart woman on the microphone, and she knew Ye Qiu very well.

"It's time, Ah Chu and I are going to the airport, see you tonight!"

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The capacity of the Westfalenstadion after the second expansion has reached 68600 people, but because UEFA requires that all seats in the final venue must be seats, the management of the Westfalenstadion temporarily refitted the South Stand, The number of seats has been expanded to 52000, while the standing seats are all vacant.

But when you walk into the Westfalenstadion and look up, you can see that there are people in the dark, and the deafening noise wafts through the entire stadium, making it easy for people to feel agitated and have the urge to vent loudly.

Humans are such strange animals. They can act in two completely different ways when there are only one person or when there are few people, and when there are many people and the crowd is raging.

The players are doing warm-up training on the court. In this kind of open training, Ajax basically does not choose new training, but adopts some more traditional training that other teams know very well, such as sliding monkeys. , or some triangular pass coordination, etc., these are Ajax's traditional training methods, and they are not afraid of leaks.

The number of Ajax fans and Barcelona fans is the same, and they are divided into the north and south sides of the Westfalenstadion, while UEFA occupies the chairman's stand and some other neutral stands, separating the fans of the two teams , I am afraid that there will be fan conflicts if you are not careful. After all, fan conflicts in European leagues are not uncommon, especially in the Premier League.

Today, Ajax's players will wear their classic red and white jerseys, while Barcelona will wear their red and blue jerseys, which also led to fans of both teams appearing in the stands wearing their respective team's jerseys, very neat , very spectacular.

Barcelona's performance in La Liga this season is not satisfactory, and the outside world is calling for Ferrer's dismissal. He urgently needs a UEFA Cup to make his last effort, while Ye Qiu is eager to win a UEFA Cup to prove himself .

As early as before the game, the head coaches of the two teams had taken the initiative to fight a war of words. Ferrer said that Barcelona's victory over Ajax before the season brought more confidence to Barcelona, ​​so he believed in him. His team will definitely be able to beat Ye Qiu's Ajax.

But Ye Qiu said in an interview that he and his Ajax will definitely compete in the game, using facts to prove that the gap between Ajax and Barcelona is not that big, and they can even beat Barcelona.

The smell of gunpowder before the game obviously continued into the game. At least Ye Qiu and Ferrer, apart from politely shaking hands and greetings, the rest of the time, the two of them were in front of their coaches' benches, watching the players on the court warm up.

"This is UEFA President Johansen, and CEO Olsen, and German football emperor Beckenbauer, and Johan Cruyff from the Netherlands, Barcelona's President Gaspart, Ajax Chairman Van Prager, etc., as well as Spanish and Dutch Football Association officials, they all appeared on the rostrum of the Westfalenstadion."

"Everyone believes that this will be a battle between dragons and tigers, because the head coaches of the two teams are currently facing a huge coaching crisis, and they both urgently need a weighty championship trophy to prove themselves. Therefore, which of them They will not give up this UEFA Cup easily!"

The live TV footage swept across the rostrum, came to the side of the court, and saw the Barcelona coach Ferrer as the home team, and immediately typed an introduction subtitle, "Ferrer's team's offense this season is indeed very good. , but the results are not very satisfactory, which also leads to the possibility and calls for him to leave Barcelona after the season!"

The camera swiped again and landed on Ye Qiu.

Today, Ye Qiu's outfit of black trousers and casual white shirt was written by Eliza, with a half-inch haircut, and the only accessory on his whole body is the Hamilton watch on his left wrist.

"This is the youngest head coach in the history of the UEFA Cup final. From China, Ajax coach Ye Qiu is only 26 years old. Although this head coach is young, he has extraordinary strength. He led Ajax last season. The second team of Ax made history in Dutch football and won the Dutch Cup!"

"After that, he took over the first team and carried out drastic reforms. Before the season, many people were shocked by his large-scale purge of the stars in his prime, thinking that Ajax would be relegated by him, but after one season After that, he won the Eredivisie runner-up, and even almost reversed PSV Eindhoven to win the championship."

"Successfully defending the Holland Cup champion, Ye Qiu spent a year telling everyone how wise his decision to purge the veterans and stars before the season was, and now Ajax has become a European football team. The well-known youth guards played a youthful storm and won the appreciation and affirmation of fans all over the world."

"But it is obvious that the young team led by the young coach is not only satisfied with the Netherlands. They have set their sights on Europe and are launching a new impact on the UEFA Cup. What stands in their way is European traditional giants Barcelona."

"This game is not only a contest between Barcelona and Ajax, but also a strong collision between the old giants and the new powerhouses, and it is also a direct challenge from the young Ye Qiu to the young Ferrer. , see who is the king of Europe!"

After this round of introductions by the on-site commentator and mobilizing the enthusiastic speeches of the fans, they got the starting list of both sides.

"Barcelona's starting lineup for this game, the goalkeeper is Reina who was promoted from the youth training camp. It is reported that Ye Qiu once took a fancy to this goalkeeper before, but then nothing happened; From left to right are Sergi, Frank de Boer, Reziger and Puyol."

"The double defensive midfielder is a fixed combination of Guardiola and Cocu. The three attackers from left to right are Overmars, Rivaldo and Luis Enrique. The single striker is Kluivert!"

"In Barcelona's 11-man starting lineup, there are four players from Ajax, and Ferrer's tactics are also born out of Ajax's direct lineup, which makes many people think , this game will be a direct dialogue between Ajax's traditionalists and the reformers headed by Ye Qiu!"

"Ye Qiu also arranged the strongest lineup for Ajax in this game. The goalkeeper is Grimm, and the defense line from left to right is Abidal, Kivu, Lucio and Maicon. The three players are Keita, Gilberto Silva and Sneijder, and the front trident is Robben, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Van der Meyde."

"Ajax's 433 tactic has undoubtedly changed in the hands of Ye Qiu, especially the adjustment and change of the midfield configuration, and there are frequent masters. How can the three players with different styles achieve reorganization in the midfield? Suppressing Barcelona's midfield is undoubtedly a major crisis for Ajax in this game."

"And we should see that Overmars and Luis Enrique play a very obvious role on the two wings and are the most threatening area for Barcelona's offense, while the combination of Rivaldo and Kluivert in the center, He has repeatedly proved his strength in La Liga, and behind him is the double midfielder composed of Cocu and Guardiola."

"We have every reason to believe that Barcelona's offense will pose a huge threat to Ajax in this game, and the key to the victory of the game is likely to be whether Ajax has enough ability to withstand Barcelona's offense. !"

(End of this chapter)