The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 72 Pride and Prejudice

The first round match of the Eredivisie League in the 00/01 season at the Arena Arena in Amsterdam was not only the first professional league match of the 25-year-old Ye Qiu's coaching career, but also the first professional league match of the 36-year-old Henk Dutt. The first official professional game in the coaching career.

Henk Dutt, who once played for Feyenoord and Fortuna Sittard, did not have a brilliant career, but as the local media introduced, in the Netherlands, quite a few head coaches have lackluster careers. But the coaching resume is very successful.

After announcing his retirement in 92, Dutt worked directly in the youth training camp and coaching staff of Fortuna Sittard. decline.

After leaving the main central defender Kevin Hovland, although he failed to get even a penny in the transfer fee, Dutt got the support of the board of directors and vigorously introduced a group of good and experienced players, including The 31-year-old midfielder Van Haast was introduced from Ajax.

The veteran player who was kicked out by Ye Qiu received full trust and affirmation from Dutt, who believed that Van Haast would play a key role in Fortuna Sittard's away game against Ajax, while His team is bound to take advantage of the momentum of their outstanding performance in the warm-up match to crush Ajax in one go.

But it was obvious that Ye Qiu's team gave him a big blow from the very beginning.

Without Kevin Hovland, Fortuna Sittard's defense is missing the most important piece of the puzzle.

When the game just started, Ajax launched an attack from the right. Van der Vaart and Maicon played a two-for-one cooperation. When the Brazilian right back picked up the penalty area, Ibrahimovic used his body to suppress Fortuna Germany's central defender turned around and volleyed suddenly after stopping the ball. The ball went slightly wide and almost pierced through Fortuna Sittard's goal.

This shot also made Fortuna Sittard break out in a cold sweat.

But this was just the beginning. After that, Ajax successfully pushed forward the defense line, resolutely implemented Ye Qiu's defensive strategy of besieging the city and attacking the city, and then used the offensive convenience brought by the high position defense to launch a new attack on Fortuna Sittard. A round of fierce attack was launched.

In the 8th minute, after Sneijder got the ball from the midfielder, he saw van der Vaart running in from the right, and immediately passed the ball straight to his feet, and the latter stopped the ball at the top right of the penalty area. , took advantage of the situation and entered the penalty area. Before the opponent's central defender intercepted, a low shot with his left foot really pierced through the goal guarded by former Barcelona goalkeeper Luther Hesper, 1:0!

Van der Vaart's goal completely ignited the passion of the Ajax game, especially the Ajax fans who came to the scene from the stands were stimulated by Van der Vaart's goal, and they all cheered loudly.

After breaking the deadlock on the field, Ajax began to slow down the attack appropriately, but Ye Qiu's team still launched a strong pressure on Fortuna Sittard with a high defense, and in the 26th minute, the left Robben on the road made a quick one-on-one breakthrough to the bottom line and then stopped and knocked back. Keita made a reshoot from the front of the penalty area and once again penetrated the goal of Fortuna Sittard, rewriting the score to 2:0!

Leading by 2 goals boosted Ajax's morale, but the visiting team has never been able to find an effective way to contain Ajax. They can only adopt a defensive counterattack strategy, first stabilize the defense line, and then slowly plan a counterattack.

After locking the 30-meter area in Fortuna Sittard, Ajax still created a lot of opportunities, but it was still a little bit worse, especially the Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic missed several good opportunities to score.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Ye Qiu saw that Ibrahimovic still failed to improve. In the 55th minute, Van der Meyde replaced Ibrahimovic. .

This adjustment made Ajax's front trident completely revitalized.

First, in the 61st minute, Van der Vaart took the ball back and assisted Robben to enter the penalty area from the left and then hit a low shot. Afterwards, Van der Vaart himself also got a cross from Van der Meyde in the 74th minute, past the opponent's central defender. After breaking through Hesper's goal again, Maicon assisted Van der Meyde to score the fifth goal of the game for the team.

5:0, Ajax's new season debut at the Arena Stadium completely suppressed Fortuna Sittard and won a hearty victory, which made all the more than 3 people who came to watch the game Ajax fans are completely crazy and boiling.

Defeated Eindhoven, won the Dutch Super Cup, beat Fortuna Sittard 5-0 in the first round of the new season, two consecutive games, Ajax's performance made everyone who loves this team feel happy Unbelievable, all praises.

No one would have thought that the team with the youngest average age in the Eredivisie could perform so well.

At the same time, Eindhoven, who had just been defeated by Ajax 2-0 in the Dutch Super Cup, was accidentally sniped by Graf Sharp in the first game of the league and suffered a 0-2 The defeat, Gretz's team obviously has not been able to get out of the shadow of the Dutch Super Cup defeat.

Although Feyenoord defeated Alkmaar 2:0, this does not prevent Ajax, which won a 5:0 victory in the first round, from successfully ascending to the top of the Eredivisie league leader. The media and newspapers all gave praise and praise to Ajax's first-round performance without hesitation.

Only Ye Qiu, when interviewed by reporters and media after the game, said that the team's performance was not as good as the outside world made it out to be. It was a bit of luck to get such a victory, but he also admitted that the players worked hard to show Be the best version of yourself.

A week later, Ajax played at home to Sparta Rotterdam.

In the case of a big victory in the first game, Ajax lost 0:1 to Van Hanegen's team in the away game.

This head coach who was familiar to Ye Qiu because he entered the national team coaching list, had a special exchange with Ye Qiu before the game, talking about Ajax's outstanding performance in the first round, but in the game, he Ajax's team suffered a lot and was defeated by a counter-attack from the opponent.

After this game, the Dutch Daily Telegraph published a comment that Ajax died of its own old problems.

"In the field of professional coaching, Ye Qiu is a complete rookie. He led the second team to win the Holland Cup miraculously, but he has never noticed that the guarantee for leading the team to win the championship is steel-like defense. And after taking charge of the Ajax first team, his ambitions have skyrocketed, he wants more, not just wins, but also praise."

"In order to pursue victory, he always pushes the defense forward blindly, but once the offense is contained and resisted, the high risk behind their defense will become more deadly than ever. The goal conceded by Sparta Rotterdam in this game was born in this situation."

"The 5-0 victory over Fortuna Sittard in the first round covered up a lot of problems, and also made Ye Qiu and his Ajax a little lost. Some blindly thought that their strength was enough to challenge everything. Rotterdam This defeat undoubtedly gave him a wake-up call and told him a cruel fact: you are still young, young Chinese!"

And in a program about the Eredivisie League recorded on the Rotterdam regional TV station, the impression of Ye Qiu, the head coach who led the team to defeat Feyenoord last season and win the Dutch Cup, was also very bad. , they even made a special short film.

In the clip, Ye Qiu was blowing up a balloon, but Van Haneghen walked over, picked up a golf club, and swung it hard, blowing up the ball and knocking Ye Qiu's face off. , while the host of the show was laughing, sarcastic and making fun of Ye Qiu.

"Maybe you are very ambitious and know how to blow up balloons, but it's useless. After arriving in Rotterdam, there was a bang and it exploded!"

"But we have to congratulate Ye Qiu, because he is the most outstanding football player in Chinese history, because he once occupied the leading position in the Eredivisie standings, even if it was only 7 days, it is already a miracle!"

"And we can also tell him that you will never have the same opportunity in the future!"

Because, after the end of the second round of the league, Ajax, with one win and one loss, quickly dropped to sixth place, while Feyenoord in Rotterdam firmly occupied the league leader with two consecutive victories. Location.

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"They... are too much!"

When Huang Chu saw the newspaper report and saw the TV program dedicated to sarcasm and ridicule Ye Qiu, he was very angry for Ye Qiu. Eindhoven TV even selected Ye Qiu as the most miserable player in the second round of the league. The figure, on the grounds that he lost the league leader's position.

These are all with unscrupulous jokes and entertainment attitudes that Western media are good at, but what is deeper is their irony and disdain for Ye Qiu, because they never believed that a 25-year-old Chinese could lead Aja Kex made a difference.

Prejudice and discrimination, it's obvious.

When he came to the Netherlands, Huang Chu knew in his heart that here, there are many people who appear to be kind, without prejudice or discrimination, but deep down, they still have the arrogance unique to Europeans, as well as their attitude towards people of color. Racial discrimination and disdain, especially in sports and football.

Just take a look at this point, how many head coaches of colored people are coaching in European football!
"I expected it!" Ye Qiu, on the other hand, looked very calm and didn't feel angry or angry at all.

Huang Chu was a little worried for him, but seeing that he was so calm, as if nothing happened, he didn't know what to do for a while, "Aren't you angry at all?"

"Angry?" Ye Qiu nodded, "Of course, I'm very angry, but I know why they did this."

After a pause, Ye Qiu smiled slightly, "They and even their government use Allochtoon and Atuochtoon to distinguish between foreigners and pure Dutch people, as long as you and your ancestors have even one bloodline that does not belong to the Netherlands, You belong to Allochtoon, and those Atuochtoons can always look down on you from above!"

"They take it for granted that they are the best, and all Allochtoons are inferior to them. This is a deep-rooted prejudice, and there is no way to eliminate it. Therefore, many people have proposed to ask the government to abolish these two words, but after the abolition What? They will find other words with the same derogatory meaning to replace it, will it work?"

Huang Chu is silent. Although many people think that studying and living in the Netherlands does not encounter too much discrimination or prejudice, it is based on the fact that you have not touched the interests and pain of some people. But once you have Without this ability, they will attack you without hesitation.

Just like Ye Qiu, who defeated PSV, Feyenoord, won the Dutch Cup and the Dutch Super Cup, if he were a white Dutchman, there would be no problem, and he might even be praised As the star of hope, but Ye Qiu is a Chinese, this is not acceptable, and many people cannot accept it.

Therefore, when Ye Qiu and Ajax perform well, they will be silent, but once they perform poorly or encounter problems, they will jump out like ghosts and snakes, and do everything possible to disgust you and attack you with words you.

Of course, not all Dutch people are like this, but at least there are many people who appear in the newspapers that have such discrimination.

"In my opinion, let them say what they like, let them say what they like, let them do it, if they have the ability, they will go to the Amstelveen district to make trouble, and I will call the police and let the police arrest them. "

"A person's power is limited, so it's useless for you to reason and justify with them, because they have the so-called freedom of speech, and the best way to fight back against these people is to use absolute strength and hard facts Break them down and make them completely reflect and regret what they have done today."

When talking about this, Ye Qiu put on a mischievous expression, "I still remember that our ancestor Mencius said that people must humiliate themselves and others will humiliate them, so if you want to stop being looked down upon by others, you have to be self-improvement!"

Seeing that this annoying ghost still wanted to drop his book bag, Huang Chu couldn't help but glared at him fiercely, but after only a few seconds, he couldn't help giggling, feeling strange in his heart, why did he say such serious words? It fell into Ye Qiu's mouth, but became so unruly?
However, Huang Chu still admired and trusted Ye Qiu's unremitting self-improvement. She believed that Ye Qiu must have a way to solve the current predicament, but she herself did not know exactly what the confidence came from.

After sending Huang Chu away, Ye Qiu's smile gradually subsided, and he sighed deeply.

He did make a serious mistake before, that is, he underestimated the professional league and the abilities of those professional coaches.

Losing to Sparta Rotterdam, the problems exposed by Ajax are not new. The team's offense is still unfavorable, the midfield coverage area is too large, and the control is declining. Afterwards, the gap behind the forward defense line is blocked by the opponent. use.

Ye Qiu, Bobby Harms and others have been researching for a long time, but they have not been able to find an effective solution to the problem. Originally, after fighting Eindhoven, he fought Fortuna Sittard again, but In that game, Dutt's team aggressively confronted Ajax, resulting in a big victory.

This made Ye Qiu a little paralyzed, thinking that the team's problem had been covered up.

But who would have thought that against Sparta Rotterdam, Van Hanegen, a good-looking old guy, would cleverly take advantage of Ajax's problem and use it to arrange defensive counterattacks. Jax's loss.

"Professional coaches rely on this to make a living. All their energy is studying their opponents. How could they not notice?"

Ye Qiu laughed at himself with a wry smile. The problem was discovered by his opponent, but he still couldn't find an effective solution to the problem. This is indeed a bit sad, and now he only lost one game. The champion can still last for a while, if after a while, he still can't find a way, then the pressure he will bear will be ten times and a hundred times greater than now.

In the past period of time, Ye Qiu has read many professional books, and also read many works of past and future famous coaches. Many of them are about high defense, but none of them are suitable for the current situation. Ajax status quo.

In other words, the problems Ajax is currently facing, throughout the history of football, the only one!
However, it is not difficult to guess. The technical characteristics of the players are different, the football background is different, the team's tactical system is different, and the staffing and responsibility distribution are also different, which naturally causes the problems and solutions encountered by other teams. Difficult to adapt to the current Ajax problem.

And Ye Qiu finally figured it out. Everyone knows those football theories. Learning them is just the basis for becoming a head coach, and it cannot guarantee you to become a qualified professional head coach, especially if you want to be a head coach. To gain a foothold in the European League, it is even more necessary to have your own football knowledge and understanding.

Only in this way, when the team encounters a problem similar to what Ajax is currently encountering, these head coaches who have their own understanding of football and tactics can come up with effective solutions to the problem, and they must solve the problem in a timely manner. .

Once the league starts, there will be one game after another. It is impossible for you to have a lenient adjustment time, and it is impossible for you to think slowly and solve problems slowly. If you cannot find the most effective solution in the shortest time If there is no solution, then the team's performance is bound to be affected, and you are likely to be fired before you think of a solution.

When Ye Qiu was a fan in his previous life, he thought of the head coach too simply. When he saw some head coaches fired because of poor grades, he would naturally think that they were fake imports and his abilities were poor. But in fact, he may not be lacking in ability. , may just have encountered a problem that cannot be solved in a short time.

This also explains why there are so many head coaches who change teams, and their coaching performance varies greatly.

At the same time, this also made Ye Qiu re-examine the role of the godfather development system. It is more of an aid, and it cannot help a head coach from scratch to become a world famous coach. The key to getting to this point is You have to rely on yourself.

After thinking about this, Ye Qiu didn't care about how the outside world mocked and humiliated him, and threw himself into the study room with all his heart.

He decided not to read the works of those famous coaches, not to learn the methods of those famous coaches, but to reorganize Ajax's 433 high defensive system from beginning to end, hoping to be able to Find effective solutions to problems.

In the words of ***, it means, do it yourself, and have enough food and clothing!

(End of this chapter)