August is usually the hottest month of the year in Amsterdam, but in September, the temperature varies greatly during the day. However, after the sun sets, you can experience the invasion of the cold current from Nordic Europe.

Especially after losing the first game led by ** in his life, Ye Qiu felt even colder.

To him, Amsterdam was a strange city, where a group of strangers gathered. From the training building to the gate of De Tok Most, all they saw were strange foreigners. They either had a gloating expression or looked unrelated to themselves. No one would come up and asked him with concern.

"Who said Ajax is full of humanity?" When Ye Qiu walked out of the door, he turned around and looked at the Ajax team logo next to the door. It seemed to be the avatar of an old man wearing a hat. This made Ye Qiu suddenly feel curious. Could this be the avatar of the founder of Ajax a hundred years ago?

Just as Ye Qiu looked at the huge team badge, there was no idea when there was an extra person beside him.

"Do you know who the person on the Ajax team badge is?"

After hearing the sound, Ye Qiu suddenly turned around and found that it was the club chairman Michael Van Prager.

This surprised him a little. How could he appear here?

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

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

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

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

"Does Achilles know?" After Ye Qiu nodded, Van Prag continued, "In the Trojan War, after Achilles died, the Trojans went crazy to snatch his body and wanted to take away his armor. At this critical moment, King Aes of Salamis waved his spear, repelled waves of enemies, guarded Achilles's body, and finally successfully drove the Trojans back to the city and sent Achilles' body back to Greece."

"Aes means Eagles in Greek, and his name is Ajax. The founder of our club is named after him and his avatar is used as the club's team logo. They have injected soul into this team since they founded this club, that is, no matter how bad the result is or how bad the environment is, we must have an extremely strong pursuit of victory**!"

When he said this, Van Prague stretched out his hand and gently wiped the team logo on the wall, as if he wanted to wipe away the dust that did not exist on it, but he was saying, "This is Ajax!"

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

From Yap Van Prag to Michael Van Prag, the Ajax spirit has been passed down from generation to generation.

"My father once told me that when he chose Michels, he never thought that he would succeed. But at that time, he believed that the revolution was destined to exchange for success through bloodshed, so Michels also experienced pain and failure in the early days of coaching, but later he succeeded, and everyone respected him as sacred!"

In the eyes of all footballers, Michels represents all attacks and defenses, and it represents sacredness and inviolability. But now, from Van Pragher's mouth, Michels turns out to be just an ordinary person.

History is like a rebellious and extreme child. When it likes a person, you cannot see his badness in history. On the other hand, when it hates a person, it will be difficult for you to dig out his goodness.

Ye Qiu was a little surprised. Why did Van Prager tell him this?

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

After a pause, he smiled again, "The reason I told you this is because at the meeting that morning, I suddenly felt that your courage and insight were very similar to that of a person."

"Who?" Ye Qiu asked strangely.

Van Prag suddenly burst into laughter, as if he heard Ye Qiu ask, the more he felt like he was.

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

This time, after saying that, he turned around and left Ye Qiu with a back.

"If you think I will be discouraged if I lose a game and need you to comfort me, then you will underestimate me too much!" Ye Qiu murmured to Van Prag's back in discontent.

But his heart added a little warmth.

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Losing a game, Ye Qiu took advantage of this opportunity to unify the players' ideas well, at least to make them no longer resist Ye Qiu's training, become more devoted, and have the attitude of fighting against the enemy.

A week later, at one of the stadiums in DeTok Most, Ajax B2 welcomed Groningen B2.

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

With two weeks of familiarity, the players of Ajax B2 team are more skilled in controlling the game, especially the rhythm and habit of running, connecting, passing in training they have developed more familiarity in the game.

Ye Qiu's training was originally very practical. Now in this youth team game, the opponent's pressure is not obvious. The players have gained a more relaxed environment and are more relaxed when using it. They have begun to show some power, but there are still many mistakes.

Ajax B2 team assisted the team's forward Rui in the first half, scored a leading goal, but in the second half, Alyan Robben made a continuous breakthrough on the left, then cut into the penalty area, using his personal ability to tie the score for Groningen. However, before the end, Sneider's goal exceeded the score again for Ajax.

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.

Ye Qiu was not surprised by such a result, and there was nothing to be happy about, because his opponent was not as strong as Ajax, but he still gave the players a high evaluation and praised them for their great progress in the game. He hoped that they would continue to work hard and never slacken in any way. They must continue to cheer.

However, Ajax did not respond much to this victory of B2 team, because someone stole the limelight from B2 team and pulled away all the attention.

Shame! Feyenoord defeated Ajax twice a day!

This news became the front page of the second day [Amsterdam Evening Post]. The whole city was furious by two losses in one day, especially in the fourth round of the league, Ajax lost 0:2 to Feyenoord at home, which made all Ajax fans in the city furious.

Relatively speaking, the news that Van Persie led Feyenoord's B1 team and defeated Ajax B1 team 1-0 at home was unlucky and became the foil of the first-team defeat, but Westhoff did not appear in the newspaper.

Relatively speaking, the Amsterdam Evening Post is still quite polite. Schulder Moso, a famous reporter from the [Kong Daily], one of the three major print media in the Netherlands, wrote a comment directly, believing that Ajax's three-game winning streak this season 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 Arena Stadium, they happily defeated champion Feyenoord 6:0, allowing this traditional strong team who just won the league championship to lower his high head at Arena Stadium, but four months later, Feyenoord saved his face with a perfect victory at Arena Stadium!"

"Waters' arrangement of troops makes people unable to see his true intentions, especially his excessive leniency in the back line, which has given Feyenoord's frontcourt offense an extremely relaxed space. The tall and strong Argentine striker Cruise was willing to act in Ajax's penalty area, but Waters failed to take effective measures to contain the game."

"The poor Waters should thank Cruise. Fortunately, his ability to seize opportunities was too poor. He only scored a goal and created an assist. If he seized the opportunity better, Feyenoord would be able to give Ajax a 6:0 at Arena Stadium!"

"Perhaps, after this defeat, the management of Ajax who is eager for quick success will become more sober!"

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

This is the case in football matches. Victory and failure are just a line, but they are the gap between heaven and hell. The winners are kings and losers are bandits. This truth is vividly reflected in the world of football.

But because of this disastrous defeat of the first team, the entire Ajax became in panic, greatly diluting the previous bet between Ye Qiu and Westhoff.

But for Ye Qiu, this failure did not surprise him, it was just a matter of time. Besides, it had nothing to do with him. For him, the most urgent thing now is the bet two months later.

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Ye Qiu in his previous life was considered an otaku. Apart from work, he spent most of his time in a scattered house. He had never had a relationship since he was a child, so after traveling through time, he could also stay in the hotel room patiently and increase his value by himself.

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

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

After winning the first game of his life, completing a system task, and rewarding 5 reward points, Ye Qiu decided to go to the system store to buy a book and continue to improve his tactical literacy, because his wish was to become a head coach, without rich tactical literacy, it was impossible.

He put the remaining 4 reward points in 2 points to evaluate his strength and added 1 point to motivation. These are what he needs most at the moment. The last 1 point was added to his affinity. After all, no one would resist becoming a heartthrob, right?

After completing these, Ye Qiu's reward points were only 5 points left, so he went straight into the store.

There are many things sold in the store, but they are all closely related to the head coach. For example, some famous head coaches have unique insights into football, some comments on exciting tactical formations, and some classic tactical analysis of finals. These are of great benefit to improving a head coach's tactical literacy.

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

One is the [Detailed Explanation of Chain Defense] written by Ellenho Herrera, the founder of the Greater Inter Milan era, the other is the [Defense and Oppression on the Football Field] written by Sachy, and the last is the [On the Spear and Shield of Tactics] written by Beckenbauer.

Herrera's book is about defense. The system believes that as a historical coach who promotes chain defense, Herrera has some very unique insights into this defensive system, and has profoundly influenced all the head coaches later. The influence is far-reaching, and it is not much inferior to Michels's all-off and defense.

Sakchi's defense is based on Herrera's defensive system and adds more things. The system believes that he is one of the famous coaches who truly turns defense into an artistic style. At the same time, he also has his own set of attainments in tactical oppression.

"Football tactics are a game between individuals and the whole, and to some extent, Beckenbauer is the player who integrates individuals and the whole to the perfect ones. Later, he became a great head coach, so his understanding of football and tactics is worthy of any head coach's research and thinking!"

This is the comment given to Beckenbauer's book, but the specific content was not written out.

Ye Qiu pondered back and forth in the three books for a long time. All three books are good books, and they are good books that any head coach must carefully study, but there are early and late. Now for him, defense is not the most important thing, but 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.

When you enter the study room, open the book directly, and you will see that there are two sentences written on the title page of the book.

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

"The strongest link of the opponent is often the weakest weakness!"

The first sentence is a positioning of football tactics, while the second sentence is full of paradoxes.

If it were the past, Ye Qiu would have thought it was nonsense, but now he has a certain basic knowledge of football, he would know that this statement is definitely a classic and almost expounds all the contradictions on the football field.

Just like in the game between Ajax B2 and Groningen B2, Robben was the core player of the opponent, but his left side allowed Ajax to create two goals because he was creating offensive threats, and he was also causing trouble for the defensive end because he hardly participated in the defense.

So, sometimes, tactics are really difficult to be unfathomable.

"Everyone who is familiar with football rules knows that the length of the goal is three times his height, and the distance between the penalty point and the goal is 1.5 times the width of the goal. Through this set of data, we analyze it from a series of game data and we will find that the penalty goal rate is about 3/4. Isn't it very magical?"

"We also need to know that in addition to goalkeepers, a team can only arrange 10 players, but adding up the range of activities of these 10 players will not completely cover the entire field. Under any circumstances, any tactics adopted by any team will always leave some space that can be used by the opponent."

"It is precisely because of this that how to optimize the allocation of player resources has become the most important task of a head coach, which is what we have called tactical formation!"

Ye Qiu was directly attracted by the beginning of the article. Although he didn't have much tactical knowledge, he found that this sentence was very unique and incisive. It can be said that the core purpose of football tactics was to optimize the resource allocation of players on the court.

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

"When the middle road is too dense, more space will begin to become the main battlefield for the team's decisive battle; conversely, when the side road is too important, the middle road will become a place for military strategists to compete for; when all teams begin to pay attention to defense, gathering forces in the front court becomes a trend, and when all teams begin to gather forces in the front court, the back court will begin to play an important role."

As soon as he saw this, Ye Qiu suddenly felt that when he was watching some basic football textbooks, some of the doubts left in his mind suddenly became clear, because Beckenbauer's words pointed out the true meaning of the constant change of tactical formations.

Adding to the sentence "The strongest link of the opponent is often the weakest weakness" made Ye Qiu suddenly figure it out a lot, and he finally found the bargaining chip to compete with Westhoff!
Chapter completed!