The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 6 Defeat Westerhof

August is usually the hottest month of the year in Amsterdam, but in September, there is not much difference in daytime temperature, but after the sun sets, you can experience the invasion of the cold current coming down from Northern Europe.

Especially after losing the first match in his life as an independent leader, Ye Qiu felt even colder in his heart.

For him, Amsterdam is a strange city, where a group of strange people gather, from the training building to the gate of De Tokmorst, all he sees along the way are strange foreigners, they either bring A gloating expression, or a face that has nothing to do with him, no one will come up and ask him a few words of concern.

"Who said Ajax is full of humanity?" When Ye Qiu walked out of the gate, he didn't forget to look back at the Ajax team logo next to the gate. It seemed to be the head of an old man wearing a hat. Ye Qiu suddenly had a curiosity, could this be the head portrait of the founder of Ajax 100 years ago?
While Ye Qiu was looking at the huge team badge, there was an extra person beside him.

"Do you know who's on the Ajax badge?"

When Ye Qiu heard the voice, he suddenly turned around and found that it was the club chairman Michael Van Prager.

This surprised him a bit, why did he appear here?

Shaking his head, "Isn't it the avatar of someone in the history of the club?"

Van Prager was stunned at first, then chuckled, shook his head and said, "This is indeed a portrait of a person, but it does not belong to the club, but to Greek mythology."

Just when Ye Qiu was full of surprise and curiosity, Van Prager asked again: "Do you know about the Trojan War?"

"Of course!" Ye Qiu must have heard of it.

"Achilles knows?" After Ye Qiu nodded, Van Prager continued, "During the Trojan War, after Achilles died, the Trojans frantically went to snatch his body and strip him of his armor. At this critical juncture, King Ajax of Salamis waved his spear, repelled wave after wave of enemies, guarded Achilles' body, and finally succeeded in driving the Trojans back. city, and bring Achilles' body back to Greece."

"Ajax means eagle in Greek, and his name is Ajax. The founders of our club are named after him and use his head as the club's team logo. They started from the founding of this club. , to inject soul into this team, that is, no matter how bad the result is or how bad the environment is, we must have an extremely strong desire to win!"

When he said this, Van Prager stretched out his hand and gently wiped the team emblem on the wall, as if to wipe off the dust that did not exist on it, but he said in his mouth, "This is Ajax!"

Ye Qiu was silent. He knew that every giant team has its own historical heritage. Obviously, this is the heritage of Ajax, and it is also the spiritual inheritance in the hearts of countless Ajax people.

From Jaap van Prager to Michael van Prager, the spirit of Ajax has been passed down from generation to generation.

"My father once told me that when he chose Michels, he never thought he would be successful, but at that time he believed that the revolution was destined to be exchanged for success through bloodshed, so Michels' coaching He was also experiencing labor pains and failures at the beginning, but when he succeeds later, everyone respects him as sacred!"

In the eyes of all football players, Michels represents total defense and sacrosanct, but now, from Van Prager's mouth, Michels turned out to be nothing more than an ordinary person.

History is like a rebellious and extreme child. When it likes a person, you can't see his badness in history. Conversely, when it hates a person, it is difficult for you to dig out his goodness. .

Ye Qiu was a little strange, why did Van Prager tell him this?
As if seeing through Ye Qiu's thoughts, Van Prager chuckled, "You don't have to guess, I pass by here every day after your training is over. I like that feeling."

After a pause, he smiled again, "The reason why I told you this is because at the meeting that morning, I suddenly felt that your courage and insight are very much like a person."

"Who?" Ye Qiu asked strangely.

Van Prager suddenly burst out laughing, as if hearing Ye Qiu's question made him feel more like it.

"A person who I love and hate at the same time, but..." After a moment of silence, he changed the topic, "I will tell you slowly when I have a chance in the future!" Then he sighed deeply Tone, "Young man, you are only 25 years old, you still need to learn more, such as learning to accept failure, learning to face challenges bravely, and learning to seize opportunities in adversity!"

This time, after finishing speaking, he turned around and left, leaving Ye Qiu with a back.

"If you think I will be discouraged after losing a game and need you to comfort me, then you underestimate me too!" Ye Qiu murmured to Van Prager's back in disbelief. road.

But in his heart, there was a bit of warmth added.

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Lost a game, but Ye Qiu used this opportunity to unify the players' thinking, at least let them no longer resist this kind of training from Ye Qiu, become more devoted, and have the potential to fight to the death Stance.

A week later, Ajax B2 welcomed Groningen B2 at one of the stadiums in De Tokmoorster.

Although it was only a match for the youth team, Ye Qiu learned the lessons of the previous match this time. Before the match, he took a look at the situation of the Groningen B2 team and found that Aryan Robben was impressively in this team. What's more, this guy is still the star of this team, and he has to start.

Playing at home, coupled with two weeks of familiarization, the players of the Ajax B2 team are more skilled in controlling the game, especially the rhythm of running, receiving and passing that they have developed in training. Habits are even more familiar in the game.

Ye Qiu's set of training was originally very practical, but now in this kind of youth team competition, the oppression of the opponent is not obvious, and the players have a more relaxed environment, so they can use it more calmly. It began to show some power, but there were still many mistakes.

In the first half, Ajax B2 team was assisted by Sneijder to score the leading goal in the team. However, in the second half, Arjen Robben made consecutive breakthroughs on the left and then cut into the penalty area. Groningen leveled the score, but before the end, Sneijder's goal put Ajax in the lead again.

The score of 2:1 was finally maintained until the end of the game, and Ye Qiu won the first victory of his coaching career.

For such a result, Ye Qiu was not surprised, and there was nothing to be very happy about, because the opponent's strength was not as good as Ajax, but he still spoke highly of the players and praised them for their performance in the game. Considerable progress has been made, I hope they will continue to work hard, must not slack off, and must continue to work hard.

However, for this victory of the B2 team, there was not much reaction within Ajax, because someone stole the limelight from the B2 team and took away all the attention.

shame!Feyenoord beat Ajax twice in one day!
This news became the headline of the [Amsterdam Evening Post] the next day. The whole city was shocked by the two losses in one day, especially for the fourth round of the league. Ajax lost 0:2 at home. The game against Feyenoord made all the Ajax fans in the city furious.

Relatively speaking, the news that Van Persie led Feyenoord B1 team and beat Ajax B1 team 0-1 at home was unlucky to become the foil for the fiasco of the first team, but Westhoff did not appear in the news. in the newspaper.

Relatively speaking, the Amsterdam Corriere della Sera is quite polite. Schulder Mosso, a well-known reporter from the Common Daily News, one of the three major Dutch paper media, directly wrote a commentary that Ajax this season The three-game winning streak is full of coincidences and accidents, but it confuses everyone's eyes.

"All Ajax people must still remember that in the 31st round of last season, at the Arenal Stadium, they beat the champion Feyenoord 6-0 heartily, making this traditional team that has just won the league championship The strong team lowered his high head at the Arena, but 4 months later Feyenoord saved face with a perfect victory at the Arena!"

"Waters' formation makes it difficult to see his true intentions, especially the excessive support of the defense line, which allows Feyenoord's frontcourt offense to have an extremely loose space. The tall and strong Argentine striker Kroos was wanton in Ajax's penalty area, but Waters failed to come up with effective containment methods."

"The clumsy Waters should thank Kroos. Fortunately, his ability to seize opportunities is too poor. He just scored a goal and created an assist for Feyenoord. If he seized the opportunity better, Feyenoord De is fully capable of giving Ajax a 6-0 at the Arena!"

"Perhaps, after this defeat, Ajax's management, which is eager for quick success, will become more sober!"

The almost overwhelming pressure from the media and fans immediately made De Tokmost feel a sense of urgency.

Football games are like this. There is only a thin line between victory and defeat, but it is the gap between heaven and hell. Winners are princes and losers are villains. This truth is most vividly reflected in the football world.

But also because of this disastrous defeat of the first team, the entire Ajax became jittery, which greatly diluted the previous bet between Ye Qiu and Westerhoff.

But for Ye Qiu, this loss was not a surprise, it was just a matter of time, and it had nothing to do with him at all. Bet about.

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In his previous life, Ye Qiu was considered an otaku. Apart from work, he spent most of his time in a dwelling. He had never dated in Dalian since he was a child. So after time travelling, he could stay in the hotel room patiently. Self-enhancement.

In the past half a month, he has browsed through a lot of football-related books and materials, plus he paid to buy two masterpieces by Michels and Cruyff from the system store. , which raised his tactical knowledge to 13 points.

With a full score of 100 points, 13 points is really bad, but the progress is very gratifying.

After winning the first game in his life, completing a system task, and rewarding him with 5 reward points, Ye Qiu decided to go to the system store to buy another book, and continue to improve his tactical literacy, because his wish is to become a A head coach without rich tactical literacy, this is simply impossible.

Of the remaining 4 reward points, 2 points are used to evaluate strength, 1 point is added to encouragement, these are what he needs most urgently at present, and the last point is added by him to affinity, after all, no one will Resist yourself being a heartthrob, no?
After finishing all of these, Ye Qiu had exactly 5 reward points left, so he went straight into the store.

There are a lot of things sold in the store, but all of them are closely related to the head coach, such as some famous head coaches' unique football insights, comments on some wonderful tactical formations, and some analysis of classic tactical matchups. The tactical literacy of a head coach has great benefits.

Ye Qiu wandered around in the store, and finally he fell in love with three books.

One is [Detailed Explanation of Chain Defense] written by Helenio Herrera, the founder of the great Inter Milan era, one is [Defense and Oppression on the Football Field] written by Sacchi, and the last one is Bacon "On the Spear and Shield of Tactics" by Bauer.

Herrera's book is about defense. The system believes that as a famous historical coach who carried forward the chain defense, Herrera has some very unique insights into this defensive system, and it has profoundly influenced all subsequent ones. The head coach has far-reaching influence, not much inferior to Michels' Total Attack and Total Defense.

Sacchi's defense is based on Herrera's defensive system, adding more things. The system believes that he is one of the famous coaches who have truly turned defense into an art. At the same time, he He also has his own set of attainments for tactical oppression.

"Football tactics are, in a way, a game between the individual and the whole, and Beckenbauer is, to a certain extent, the player who has the most perfect integration of the individual and the whole, and later he became a A great head coach, so his understanding of football and tactics is worth studying and thinking about for any head coach!"

This is the systematic review given to Beckenbauer's book, but the specific content has not been written.

Ye Qiu deliberated back and forth among the three books for a long time. All three books are good books, and they are all good books that any head coach must study carefully. The most important thing is how to arrange troops.

From this point of view, Beckenbauer's book is more suitable for his needs now.

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu bought the book directly.

Enter the study room, open this book directly, and see two sentences written on the title page of this book.

"There is no winning tactic in this world, but a good tactic can help the head coach grasp the probability of winning!"

"The opponent's strongest link is often also the weakest weakness!"

The former sentence can be regarded as a positioning of football tactics, while the latter sentence is full of paradoxes.

If it was in the past, Ye Qiu would definitely think it was nonsense, but now that he has a certain basic knowledge of football, he knows that these words are definitely classics, explaining almost all the contradictions on the football field.

Just like the match between Ajax B2 and Groningen B2, Robben was the opponent's core player, but his left wing allowed Ajax to create two goals because he was creating When the offensive end is a threat, it is also causing trouble on the defensive end, because he hardly participates in the defense.

So, sometimes, things like tactics are really hard to fathom.

"Everyone who is familiar with the rules of football knows that the length of the goal is 3 times its height, and the distance between the penalty spot and the goal is 1 times the width of the goal. Through this set of data, we can learn from a series of games. If you analyze the data, you will find that the scoring rate of penalty kicks is about 5/4, isn’t it amazing?”

"We also need to know that, except for the goalkeeper, a team can only arrange 10 players, but adding up the range of activities of these 10 players, it is impossible to completely cover the entire field. With any tactic the team adopts, there will always be some space left that can be exploited by the opponent."

"Precisely because of this, how to optimize the allocation of player resources has become the most important job of a head coach, which is what we call the tactical formation in the common saying!"

Ye Qiu was directly attracted by the beginning of the article. Although he didn't have much tactical knowledge, he found that this statement was very unique and incisive. It could be said that the core purpose of football tactics was explained in one go, which is to Players on the field optimize the allocation of resources.

"Many people like to make up some history and some origins for football tactics, but in my opinion, the history of football tactics is a history of digging space, full of incredible reincarnation!"

"The middle lane is too dense, and the side lane with more space will become the main battlefield for the team's decisive battle; conversely, when the side lane is overemphasized, the middle lane will become a battleground for strategists; when all teams start to Emphasis on defense, gathering troops in the frontcourt has become a trend, and when all teams start to gather troops in the frontcourt, the backcourt will start to play a pivotal role.”

Seeing this, Ye Qiu suddenly felt that some of the doubts left in his mind when he was watching some basic football textbooks before suddenly became clear, because what Beckenbauer said was very clear. It succinctly pointed out the true meaning of the constant change of tactical formation.

Coupled with the sentence [an opponent's strongest link is often also the weakest weakness], Ye Qiu suddenly figured out a lot, and he finally found the bargaining chip to compete with Westerhoff!
This is also the first time that he is truly confident that he can beat Westerhoff in the field of professional football tactics!
(End of this chapter)