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Chapter 483 Volume [-] Storm Welcome to Amsterdam

With the full cooperation of the coaching staff and Tang En, Tang En's work went very smoothly. Tang En personally selected several new players and persuaded them to join, so he had his own plans and arrangements for these people in his heart. .It's like a jigsaw puzzle. All the parts are placed, and there are only a few vacancies. Now he puts the missing pieces in the right place, and a complete picture appears in front of everyone.

Those new players have already known the head coach who will be working with them for four years. Once they are familiar with each other, things will be easy to handle.

The job of the coaching staff is to create new tactics for the team and train the team to adapt to them.

The addition of Van der Vaart and Ruud van Nistelrooy provided new changes to Forest's tactics.In the past, Nottingham Forest mainly focused on quick counterattacks in sports games, but the arrival of these two Dutch players can strengthen the Forest team's usual short-board positional warfare capabilities.

Ruud van Nistelrooy is a center forward that perfectly meets Twain's requirements. Not only does he have an excellent scoring ability, but he is also good at running. He can hold the ball and pass the ball to his teammates, and he can also use his running to tear apart the opponent's defense. , to create offensive opportunities for those who come in behind, and his sense of responsibility even makes him willing to retreat to defend - this is what Tang En likes most about him. This professional player puts the interests of the team above his own interests. .

Van der Vaart had a lot of freedom in the midfield. Dunn was right. In most cases, he didn't need to think about defense at all. When he partnered with his new teammate George Wood in the midfield, the feeling was especially obvious.Wood's fierce tackles and excellent physical fitness can completely replace all the defensive tasks in the midfield, so that Van der Vaart can attack unscrupulously in the midfield.

Having just joined the team, in order to integrate into this new group more quickly, Van der Vaart took on more responsibility as a midfield organizer during training and warm-up matches. Dunn was very happy to see him take the initiative to do this kind of thing.The team really needs an organizer who is closer to the opponent's goal. After all, Arteta is still a central midfielder, not a midfielder.

Wood's mission remains the same. No matter who he partners with, his first job will always be to protect his partner and ensure that they have no worries.

Of course, Albertini asked Wood to participate more actively in the offense, whether in training or in the game. He could not just be a bystander, cut off the football in the backcourt, and pass it to the teammates in front of him.Even without the ball, he has to run up to catch it.

Albertini asked Wood to learn from his midfield partner at all times, they are the closest "teachers".Wood has played with different types of midfielders, Albertini, Arteta... now Van der Vaart.Albertini hopes that Wood can learn useful things from these teammates with different styles. He does not doubt Wood's learning ability at all, otherwise he would not have made such great progress.

As for Petrov, his position is fixed on the left. His speed and impact are very suitable for the Premier League. Dunn has always felt that whether in the Bundesliga or La Liga, he has not fully utilized the Bulgarian winger. real strength.The Premier League is a fast-paced league. The offense is fast, and the defense is also fast. No matter what you do, "fast" is the first element.Petrov also felt that this was to his liking.

It turned out that Frank Ribery was the only one on the left who was struggling to support him. God bless him for the past two seasons. He didn't have any injuries or ups and downs. However, Tang En couldn't guarantee the future. It relieved the pressure on Ribery and made the Forest team's left wing even more terrifying.

After the addition of positional warfare masters like Ruud van Nistelrooy and van der Vaart, the biggest feature of the Forest team-speed has not been weakened, but has been enhanced.I believe that this is not good news for the head coaches of the Premier League teams.

Some people might be worried that after freezing Anelka, the Forest team would lose the speed to counterattack, but Twain had already made plans.

Without Anelka, although the striker's speed has dropped overall, Nottingham Forest's counterattack was known for its speed before Anelka was absent.The striker does not serve as the arrow of the counterattack. The real counterattack weapon is the two wings.So with or without Anelka, it has no effect on the team's counterattack speed.

Nottingham Forest's wide players are all very capable. They are fast, good at breaking through, and can score goals by themselves. Except for Ashley Young who has a bit of "assist obsessive-compulsive disorder", everyone else can do that in the counterattack "Arrow Figures".

Therefore, in normal training, Twain pays great attention to let the side players practice shooting and maintain the feeling of shooting, so that they will not disappoint the team and fans when they need to shoot and score in the game.

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When Nottingham Forest was training in China, they played two warm-up matches against both Championship teams. The Forest team won one and drew one in the two games.As always, Tang En didn't value the result of this kind of warm-up match, what he cared about was the process.

The teams in these two warm-up matches made large-scale substitutions in the first and second half, so the results of the game are of no reference value at all.

In the first warm-up match, Twain focused on investigating the recovery of the players' physical fitness and state after a holiday. The results were mixed.Some people are as stable and excellent as ever, such as the monster George Wood, while others are much worse, such as Ashley Young.The result of this game was a draw, and the team and Wolves drew 2:2.

After another week of running-in in the second game, the state of the players has recovered, and the cooperation between the new players and the team has gradually taken shape.This time the Forest team won an away game against Sunderland, which had relegated to the English Championship, 3:1. Tang En was very happy to see Ruud van Nistelrooy score in the game.

As the core of the team, Van der Vaart needs to get in touch with the whole team, so his performance in these two warm-up matches was very average.

Petrov has shown great adaptability.As Twain thought, his style and the Premier League's style simply complemented each other.It is only here that he can perform well.His breakthrough on the wing even Ribery has to bow down, because he is different from Ribery, Ribery has better dribbling skills, and speed is only one way.On the other hand, Petrov relies on speed, which is so fast that people can't defend against it. Although the unreasonable rush is the simplest, it is the most effective for dealing with the full-backs who go straight up and down in the Premier League.

In the Bundesliga, the media once commented on Petrov in this way-"For defenders, keeping half a body distance from Martin Petrov means that they have been passed."

It vividly illustrates the characteristics of this Bulgarian - fast speed.

Tang En also didn't ask Petrov to follow other people to learn how to sway left and right, Marseille turn, ox tail... These skills, he asked Petrov to be very simple: take the ball and resolutely go to the bottom, and there is an interception in front?Rely on the speed to rush hard!

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Time flies, and the day of the Amsterdam Invitational is getting closer, and the team is also preparing to leave for the training ground in Volendam, a small town in the northeast of the Netherlands.

Anelka's transfer prospects are unclear, and his two brothers are working hard to help him find a club that meets his requirements, but the situation is not simple.

There are quite a few teams that want Anelka, but either Anelka looks down on him, like Bolton and his like... or those clubs cannot afford £500 million.A club that can afford to pay 500 million yuan is not willing to pay so much money for a striker with an eccentric personality.

As a result, Anelka was suspended in the air, unable to get up or down.

Once, his two agent brothers thought that Tang En's threshold of 500 million pounds was intimidating, and persuaded a team to offer 500 million pounds to the Forest team to buy Anelka, but Tang En refused without saying a word.

Later, his two elder brothers began to let Anelka use late or early leave behaviors to passively confront in training, and publicized the conflict between the two through the media.The results of it?Dunn simply ignored these small gestures.

If you, Anelka, are late, you will be late, if you are early, you will leave early, and I will deduct this fine from your salary.He is even less afraid of media propaganda, he already has a way of dealing with the media, and he hopes that the media will continue to hype, the bigger the hype, the better.In that way, more teams will come to ask for the price, and maybe there will be someone who can afford to pay... He even really wants to encourage Anelka's two agent brothers to make persistent efforts.

The two former golden partners are now strangers.

This is somewhat sad, but Twain is the one and only boss in the team, and he is the only big boss here.Now Anelka is going to openly challenge Tang En's authority, and with Tang En's character, he will not give in. It is not surprising that the two of them met in this way...

Conflicts are conflicts. Tang En firmly believes that as long as a person has a little use value, then he should make full use of it.So in the list for the Netherlands, the media saw Nicolas Anelka's name.

After a month of trouble, Anelka also seemed to know that he had hit a monolith this time.From top to bottom, the club has firmly supported Twain. It is too difficult for him to turn the world upside down by himself.If the head coach doesn't let himself go, then he can't go.

Today's Anelka is no longer the young and frivolous Anelka in Real Madrid. He knows how to restrain himself.Tang En didn't exclude him from the squad. In his opinion, it gave him a step down. The smartest thing to do is to take this opportunity to ease the tense relationship with the head coach.

Tony Twain is enjoying the glory now, and the odds of winning against him are too small.

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The Amsterdam Invitational is a traditional pre-season warm-up match for European teams. It is held in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, in early August every year. Ajax convenes three teams from all over the world to participate.

Of course, although this competition is a warm-up match, not all cats and dogs can participate.Ajax must invite teams with strong team strength and certain influence in world football, such as Manchester United, Arsenal, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona... and other giants have a record of being invited .From another point of view, being able to get a team invited to participate in the Amsterdam Invitational is itself a recognition of strength and status.

At the beginning of this season, Nottingham Forest, the most popular player in European football last season, received an invitation from Ajax. They will compete with Porto, the champion of the Portuguese league, and Inter Milan, the champion of the Italian league, and host Ajax for the final championship.

Twain didn't pay much attention to the championship trophy. What he valued was the quality of the warm-up match. Two league champions and two league runners-up. This could be called a Champions League level event.And the participating teams will attach great importance to this game, and there will be no situation where they don't work hard.Playing against such an opponent, both the team and the players can get full exercise.

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"Amsterdam..." Ashley Yang murmured while looking at the city outside the window on the bus. "Heaven..."

Sitting next to him, Eastwood and Ribery laughed loudly at the same time.

The teammates who heard the laughter turned their heads to look at the rear seats of the car, and some asked curiously: "What's the matter, what's the matter?"

Bendtner, who was sitting in the row in front of Ashley Yang, turned his head and said to Ashley Yang solemnly: "Hey, Yang, I think if you used trill in the last sentence just now, the effect would be better."

Then Eastwood stood up, imitating Ashley Yang's expression and tone, coupled with rich body movements, and said in a trembling voice: "Amsterdam, heaven..."

Now the whole car burst into laughter.

Ashley Yang was a little annoyed by the laughter. He stood up and explained seriously: "Don't you think so? What a wonderful city this is!"

Van der Vaart, who has stayed in Amsterdam for more than ten years, asked him with a smile: "Are you referring to the section from the old railway station to the Canal District in Amsterdam?" This section is where the famous Amsterdam Red Light District is located.

The Dutch who are familiar with the Netherlands and Amsterdam all laughed.

"Ah, so there..."

Yang's suddenly enlightened expression made everyone laugh even more happily.

It is impossible for the coaching staff sitting in the front row not to hear such a big commotion.

Hearing the conversation of these team members, Tang glanced at Tang En.Tang En shrugged at him: "If you don't let them have fun, you can't even let them talk about it. It's better to have a sex addiction than to go straight to the real thing..."

The matter of Ashley Yang started. Just now, there was a heated discussion in the carriage which was a bit dull due to the fatigue of the journey. Of course, the topic revolved around the city they were in, the red light district.

Van der Vaart, who had just left the city, became everyone's guide.He pointed to the neighborhood the car passed by and introduced them to them.For Amsterdam, I am afraid that no one in the team is more familiar with him.

When the car passed by the canal, he pointed to a row of two-story buildings across the river and said, "That's Yang's paradise."

Everyone laughed again.

"But there is nothing to see during the day, and it will be lively at night." He explained to everyone in English, which he is not good at, mixed with Dutch. "It's best to go to that kind of place with a company, not alone."

"Are there still groups of prostitutes?" Wes Morgan whistled.

Van der Vaart smiled: "It will be a little troublesome to go there alone."

Ruud van Nistelrooy suddenly wanted to make a joke of his national teammate: "Hey, Rafael, I hear you are so familiar, do you often go there?"

"Luther, that place is familiar to everyone in Amsterdam, and I'll know it if I don't go." Van der Vaart shrugged.

Seeing that everyone's discussion became more straightforward, Tang En stood up from his seat.

Seeing the head coach standing up suddenly, the players all shut up.

"Hmm, I'm glad to see that you're still so energetic after traveling." He said, "Amsterdam is a nice city, heaven..."

There was a burst of laughter in the car.

Tang En smiled and nodded at Ashley Yang: "However, I still want to remind you: we are not here for tourism, but for training and competition. So I don't want to see you appearing in groups at night That kind of place—you know what kind of place I'm talking about, don't you?"

Although Tang En said it with a smile on his face, no one dared to take his words as a joke.

The carriage became quiet again, and Tang En sat back in his seat.

The bus turned over a bridge and headed north to leave this area that would be lively at night, leaving the "European Sex Capital" Amsterdam and heading for Volendam, the small town where their training camp is located. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please visit www.QIDIAN.COM, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)
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