August is usually the hottest month of the year in Amsterdam, but in September, there is little difference in daytime temperatures, but once the sun goes down, you can feel the cold snap from northern Europe.

Especially after just losing the first game of his life, Ye Qiu's heart felt even colder.

For him, Amsterdam is a strange city, where a group of strange people gather, from the training building to the gate of Detokmost, all he sees along the way are strange foreigners, they either have a gloating expression, or they just have a look of concern, no one will come up to him and ask him a few words with concern.

"Who said Ajax is full of human touches?" When Ye Qiu walked out of the gate, he didn't forget to look back at the Ajax team emblem next to the gate, which seemed to be the head of an old man wearing a hat, which made Ye Qiu suddenly have a curiosity, could it be that this is the head of the founder of Ajax a hundred years ago?

Just when Ye Qiu was looking at this huge team emblem, he didn't know when there was an extra person beside him.

"Do you know who is on the Ajax crest?"

After Ye Qiu heard the voice, he turned around sharply and found that it was Michael, the chairman of the club? Van Praag.

This surprised him a little, how could he be here?

Shaking his head, "Isn't it the profile picture of someone in the club's history?" ”

Van Praag was slightly stunned at first, then smiled, 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 Praag asked again, "Do you know about the Trojan War?" ”

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

"Achilles knows what to say, right?" After Ye Qiu nodded, Van Praag continued, "In the Trojan War, after Achilles died, the Trojans frantically snatched his corpse to strip him of his armor, and at this critical juncture, King Ajax of Salamis, wielded a spear, repelled waves of enemies, guarded Achilles' corpse, and finally succeeded in driving the Trojans back to the city and sending Achilles' corpse back to Greece. ”

"Ajax means eagle in Greek, his name is Ajax, the founder of our club is named after him, and his avatar is used as the club's emblem, and they have injected soul into this team since the founding of this club, that is, no matter how bad the result is, how bad the environment is, we must have an extremely strong desire to win**!"

As he said this, Van Praag's hand reached out and gently wiped the team badge on the wall, as if to wipe away the dust that didn't exist on it, but his mouth said, "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 Yaap? Van Praag to Michael? Van Praag, the spirit of Ajax has been passed down from generation to generation.

"My father once told me that when he chose Michels, he didn't expect to succeed, but at that time he believed that the revolution was destined to be exchanged for success through bloodshed, so Michels also experienced labor pains and failures in the early days of coaching, but he succeeded later, and everyone respected him as sacred!"

In the eyes of all football people, Michels represents all offense and defense, and it represents sacrosanctity, but now, from Van Praag's mouth, Michels turned out to be just an ordinary person.

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

Ye Qiu was a little strange, why did Van Praag tell him this?

As if seeing through Ye Qiu's thoughts, Van Praag smiled, "You don't have to guess, I pass by here every day after your training, I like to walk in the unmanned Detokmost, I like that feeling." ”

After a pause, he smiled again, "The reason I tell you this is because I was in the meeting that morning, and suddenly I felt that you were very bold and knowledgeable. ”

"Who?" Ye Qiu asked strangely.

Van Praag suddenly laughed, as if he heard Ye Qiu ask this, the more he felt like that.

"A person I also love and hate, but ......" After a moment of silence, he changed his words, "I will tell you slowly when I have a chance in the future!" Then he sighed deeply, "Young man, you are only 25 years old, and you still need to learn more, such as learning to accept failure, learning to bravely meet challenges, and learning to grasp opportunities in adversity!" ”

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

"If you think that I will be discouraged if I lose a game, and I need you to comfort me, then you are underestimating me!" Ye Qiu was unconvinced and muttered to Van Praag's back.

But his heart has added a little warmth.

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lost a game, but Ye Qiu took advantage of this opportunity to unify the players' ideas very well, at least let them no longer resist Ye Qiu's kind of training, become more dedicated, and have a great tendency to fight against the water.

A week later, Ajax B2 welcomed Groningen B2 at one of Detokmost's stadiums.

Although it was only a youth team game, Ye Qiu learned the lessons of the previous game this time, he took a special look at the situation of the B2 team in Groningen before the game, and found that Arjan? Robben is impressively in this team, and what's worse is that this guy is still the star of this team, and he has to play as a starter.

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

Ye Qiu's set of training originally had a strong practical nature, and now in this kind of youth team game, the opponent's pressure is not obvious, and the players have been given a more relaxed environment, and they are more relaxed to use, and they have begun to show some power, but there are still a lot of mistakes.

Ajax B2 scored the lead in the first half through Sneijder assisting striker Rui, but in the second half, Aljan? Arjen Robben made a series of runs down the left before cutting into the box and using his individual ability to equalise for Groningen, but just before the end it was Sneijder's goal that gave Ajax another lead.

The score of 2:1 was 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 happy about, because the opponent's strength was not as good as Ajax, but he still gave the players a high evaluation, praised them for showing considerable progress in the game, and hoped that they would continue to work hard, and they must not slack off, and they must continue to work hard.

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

Disgrace! Feyenoord defeated Ajax twice in one day!

This news made the front page of the Amsterdam Evening Post the next day, and the whole city was outraged by two defeats in one day, especially for the fourth round of the league, Ajax's 0-2 home defeat to Feyenoord, which made all Ajax fans in the city angry.

Comparatively speaking, the news that Van Persie led Feyenoord B1 to a narrow 1-0 home win over Ajax B1 was unfortunate to be the foil for the first-team defeat, but Westerhoff did not appear in the newspapers.

Relatively speaking, the approach of the Amsterdam Corriere della Sera is quite polite, and the famous reporter Schulder of Kyodo Daily, one of the three major print media in the Netherlands? Mosso wrote a direct comment, arguing that Ajax's three-game winning streak this season was full of coincidences and accidents, but it confused everyone's eyes.

"All Ajax people must remember that in the 31st round of last season, at the Arena Stadium, they beat the champion Feyenoord 6-0, allowing the traditional powerhouse that had just won the league title to bow his head at the Arena Stadium, but four months later, Feyenoord saved face with a perfect victory at the Arena Stadium!"

"Waters' line-up makes it unclear what his true intentions are, especially the over-support of the backline, which gives Feyenoord an incomparably loose space in the front line, and the tall and strong Argentine striker Cruise wantonly runs wild in the Ajax penalty area, but Waters has not been able to come up with effective containment means throughout the game."

"Poor Waters should be thankful to Kros, fortunately he was too poor to take advantage of the opportunity, just scored a goal for Feyenoord and created an assist, if he took the opportunity a little better, Feyenoord was more than capable of giving Ajax a 6-0 at the Arena Stadium!"

"Perhaps, after this defeat, Ajax's management can become more sober!"

The almost overwhelming pressure from the media and fans suddenly made De Tokmoste feel a sense of urgency up and down.

Football is like this, victory and defeat are just a line, but it is the gap between heaven and hell, the winner is the prince and the loser, this truth is more vividly reflected in the world of football.

But also because of this fiasco of the first team, the entire Ajax became a rumor, which greatly diluted the previous bet between Ye Qiu and Westerhoff.

But for Ye Qiu, this defeat is not a surprise to him, it is just a matter of time, and it has nothing to do with him at all, for him, the most urgent thing now is the bet in two months.

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In his previous life, Ye Qiu was an otaku, except for work, he spent most of his time in the snail house, and he had never been in love in Dalian since he was a child, so after crossing over, he could also stay in the hotel room patiently and increase his self-appreciation.

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

At a perfect score of 100, 13 is still bad, but the progress is very gratifying.

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

Put the remaining 4 reward points, put 2 points in the evaluation of strength, 1 point added to the incentive, these are the most urgent needs of him at the moment, and the last 1 point is added by him to affinity, after all, no one will resist becoming a heartthrob, isn't it?

After completing this, Ye Qiu's reward points were exactly 5 points left, and he went directly into the store.

There are a lot of things sold in the store, but all of them are closely related to the manager, such as the football insights of some famous managers, the comments of some wonderful tactical formations, and the analysis of some classic tactical matchups, which are all of great benefits for improving the tactical literacy of a manager.

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

One is Elenho, the founder of the era of the Great Inter? Herrera's "Detailed Explanation of Chain Defense" is "Defense and Pressing on the Football Field" written by Sacchi, and the last book is "On the Spear and Shield of Tactics" written by Beckenbauer.

Herrera's book is about defense, and the system believes that as a historical coach who carried forward the chain defense, Herrera has some very unique insights on this defensive system, and has profoundly influenced all subsequent head coaches, and the impact is far-reaching, not much inferior to Michels's full offense and defense.

Sacchi's defense is based on Herrera's defensive system, adding more things, and the system believes that he is one of the famous coaches who has truly turned defense into an art, and at the same time, he has his own set of skills for tactical pressing.

"Football tactics are, in a way, a game between the individual and the whole, and Beckenbauer, to a certain extent, is a player who integrates the individual and the whole as the closest to perfection, and later he became a great manager, so his understanding of football and tactics is worth studying and thinking about by any manager!"

This is a systematic review of Beckenbauer's book, but the specifics are not written.

Ye Qiu pondered back and forth in the three books for a long time, all three of them are good books, all of which are good books that any head coach must study carefully, but there are early and late, and now for him, defense is not the most important thing, but how to arrange the troops.

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

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu directly bought this book.

When I entered the study room and opened this book directly, I saw two sentences written on the title page of this book.

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

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

The former sentence is a positioning of football tactics, and the latter is full of paradoxes.

If it was before, Ye Qiu would definitely feel, but now that he has a certain basic knowledge of football, he knows that this is absolutely a classic, and it explains almost all the contradictions on the football field.

For example, in the match between Ajax B2 and FC Groningen, Robben was the core player of the opposing team, but his left side allowed Ajax to produce two goals, because when he created a threat in attack, he also caused problems in the defensive end, because he was hardly involved in defence.

So, sometimes, tactics are really hard to fathom.

"Everyone who is familiar with the rules of football knows that the length of the goal is three times his height and the distance between the penalty spot and the goal is one of the width of the goal. 5 times, through this set of data, we will analyze from a series of match data, we will find that the goal rate of penalty kicks is about 3/4, isn't it very magical? ”

"We also need to know that apart from the goalkeeper, a team can only have 10 players, but the range of activities of these 10 players cannot completely cover the entire field, and in any case, any tactics adopted by any team will always leave some room for the opponent to use."

"It is precisely because of this that how to achieve the optimal allocation of player resources has become the most important job of a head coach, which is what we call a tactical formation!"

Ye Qiu was directly attracted by the beginning of the article, although he did not have much tactical knowledge, but found that this remark was very unique and incisive, and it can be said that the core purpose of football tactics was said at once, that is, to optimize the allocation of resources for players on the field.

"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 excavating space, full of incredible reincarnation!"

"The middle lane is too dense, and the side with more space starts to become the main battlefield of the team's decisive battle; Conversely, when the side lane is overly valued, the middle lane will become a battleground for soldiers; When all teams start to focus on defense, it becomes a trend to build up front, and when all teams start to focus on the front court, the backcourt starts to play a pivotal role again. ”

As soon as he saw this, Ye Qiu suddenly felt that some of the doubts left in his mind when he watched some basic football textbooks before suddenly became clear, because Beckenbauer's words were very concise and concise to point out the true meaning of the constant change of tactical formations.

Coupled with the sentence [The strongest link of the opponent is often the weakest weakness], Ye Qiu suddenly figured out a lot, and he finally found a 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!