amazing coach

Chapter 4 To be beautiful or to win()

The "Venice of Northern Europe" is 30 kilometers northwest of Amsterdam and ten kilometers south of the North Sea Embankment. The North Holland Canal stretches through a beautiful small town. This small town is Alkmaar, the largest cheese market in the Netherlands. It is a 15-minute walk north from Alkmaar.

, we arrived at the stadium of Oriental Dragon Club. The stadium is surrounded by a forest, and the chirping of birds can be heard everywhere. Naturally, there are not many fans, and the environment is very quiet.

There are no stands around the stadium like domestic amateur stadiums, but the training ground is very standard. There are three artificial turfs that do not require special maintenance. There are seven or eight rooms on the north side of the stadium, changing rooms, bathrooms, and coffee and beverage rooms.

, warehouses, etc. are all available. The ownership of the house and grounds belongs to a local church, and the annual rent is only a symbolic three Dutch guilders. The Oriental Club has been renting for ten years, but it can be rented without restrictions. The church will never

It was taken back midway. When Jiang Mu arrived at the Oriental Dragon Club's base on Saturday, it was already 10 o'clock in the morning. The Oriental Dragon Club players were conducting group training on the field. Most of the players were Chinese, with a small number of foreigners.

People, ranging in age from teens to forties.

Li Wei proudly introduced: "We are the first Chinese amateur club. It has been established for almost 20 years. We have reached the quarterfinals of the Dutch Football Immigration Cup and saw the two most skilled forwards.

No, Ke Ming Ke Liang, they are the sons of my friend, twins. They have been playing football here since they were teenagers. Now they are the father of two children and they are still playing amateur football here."

Jiang Mu was not in a hurry to meet the players, but carefully observed these future subordinates on the training ground. The skills of these people were naturally incomparable to those of Ajax's professional players, but China's amateur teams were also really

There is no way to compare with them. Their personal skills are very solid and their cooperation has certain rules. At first glance, they are not worse than the teams in the Chinese League. It is by no means that the Netherlands, a small place with such a small population, can become a big football country.

By chance.

"Where does your funding come from? How much is your annual expenditure, and is there any income? What subsidies does the government provide? Can you buy people?"

Jiang Mu asked, as a coach, funding is an issue he is more concerned about. After all, as a person who has transcended this era for nearly 30 years, Jiang Mu’s understanding of football has been digitalized, commercialized and scientific, rather than as extensive and vague as in this era.

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"I own two travel and vegetable wholesale companies in Amsterdam. Part of the competition funds come from the income of my company, and part of it is raised from donations from the Chinese business community. The annual expenditure is about 10,000 Dutch guilders. For an amateur club like ours

The government doesn't provide any subsidies, and it doesn't buy or sell players. Apart from providing a small amount of money, I just do errands." Li Wei said very modestly.

Jiang Mu was speechless at 10,000 Dutch guilders. Converted into RMB, 10,000 Dutch guilders is more than 40,000 yuan. This expenditure is not enough to buy a famous dog. But think about it, this is the sixth level league. No one will come if you have money.

, there is no need to think about those little monsters in my memory.

Soon the confrontation training was over, and Li Wei shouted: "Come here, everyone, I hired a good coach for you. We Chinese, that is Jiang Mu, who you defended and cheered for him on the Internet. He has a professional background and is also a physical education teacher.

Obtained the Dutch senior football coaching certificate.”

The players came over lazily. Jiang Mu was too young. They thought Jiang Mu was a foreign aid at first, but they didn't expect that he was actually their coach. Their expressions were a little disapproving.

"Coach Jiang, let me introduce to you, this is our captain Liu Chao, this is our forward Ke Ming, this is Ke Liang, this is our midfielder William..."

Li Wei briefly introduced the club's players to Jiang Mu, and the players clapped politely. The applause was weak, and it sounded like they were coping.

"Hello everyone, my name is Jiang Mu. I am very happy to be able to work with you. I hope we can achieve good results in the Immigration Cup. In addition, I am proficient in Chinese, English, Dutch, French, and Italian. You can communicate with me directly."

After Jiang Mu repeated the last sentence four times in five languages, the expressions of the players changed slightly, because being proficient in five languages ​​at such a young age is definitely a language genius, and genius cannot be measured by age.

Only the team's captain and center back Liu Chao disapproved and whispered to Ke Ming beside him: "You may not be a good coach if you speak eight languages."

Ke Ming nodded and laughed: "This only shows that he is suitable to be a translator."

"I heard that he did work as a part-time translator," forward Chen Xiong said.

"The Immigration Cup competition will start soon. Let's not waste time and get straight to the topic. On the way, manager Li Wei introduced everyone's basic situation to me. I just watched everyone's training. It's very good and the cooperation is beautiful.

, more beautiful than our domestic second-level professional teams. However, if you play against them, you will definitely not win."

The Oriental Club is an amateur club. Everyone gathers together casually to play football without any discipline. Before Jiang Mu finished speaking, the discussion started again.

"We are an amateur team and we are playing against a professional team. It would be strange not to lose."

"Not necessarily, domestic football is so bad." "The domestic professional teams bully us, and we may not win when playing against the fourth-level amateur teams." Jiang Mu said seriously: "If you train according to my method

If you compete with someone, you won't necessarily lose."

"Halo, you think you are a god."

"This is a bit exaggerated."

"Too arrogant. No wonder the Dutch don't like him."

The discussion below became even more lively.

"Stop talking."

Seeing that the players were getting more and more outrageous, Li Wei, as the club chairman, felt a little embarrassed and worried that Jiang Mu would be angry, so he raised his hand to signal the players to be silent.

"It's nothing, Chairman Li, let the players say it's nothing." Jiang Mu then loudly said to the players: "You don't believe it because our football thinking is different, but the facts will prove you are wrong."

Jiang Mu didn't pay attention to these sarcastic comments. Although he had never coached independently for a day, he had worked as an assistant coach and translator for more than ten years. This kind of reaction was really common. He had also seen players gather together on their first day.

The miracle of releasing the head coach's pigeons.

Ke Ming, one of the twin brothers Li Wei just introduced, said: "You should first tell me what skills you have that can allow an amateur team like ours to compete with a professional team. Although I am Chinese, I don't believe that Chinese coaches are better than Dutch coaches.

It’s still advanced.”

Jiang Mu was looking for an opportunity to instill his coaching ideas into these players, and now the opportunity just came to his door. He smiled and said: "The entire Netherlands plays a 433 formation, total offense and total defense. The Dutch professional team can play total offense and total defense."

, can achieve good results, but amateur players cannot achieve victory because tactics and formations are completed by people. 433 has extremely high technical and physical requirements for players, which even ordinary professional players are difficult to achieve. Naturally, you are more

It’s impossible, so it’s certain that you can’t imitate a tiger by imitating a dog. And if you follow my tactics, defend and counterattack, it is not an impossible task to defeat China’s second-level professional team. In fact, Dutch football will soon

It's down because they play good football and winning football is popular in this world."

Dutch player Willian is the main defensive midfielder of the Oriental Dragons. His wife is a Chinese student studying abroad. She was invited to the Oriental Dragons Club by Li Wei. When he saw Jiang Mu belittling Dutch football, he said angrily: "Don't forget that this is the Netherlands. If you want to play,

For defensive counterattacks, go to Italy. Even if you win here, you will be drowned in the saliva of the fans."

Jiang Mu said: "It's funny. Does a defensive counterattack have to be ugly? 451 and 361 are not necessarily uglier than 433 and 343. It mainly depends on who will fight. Talent is the key. Even an ugly win is better than a good loss.

A hundred times. No matter how good you play, if you lose seven or eight goals in a game, let's see who the fans drown in their saliva."

William opened his mouth and stopped talking. He had nothing to say. Losing one goal can still say that it is an honor to lose, but if we lose more than three goals, no one will have the shame to talk about beautiful football.

Jiang Mu continued: "My football is victory football. I pursue beauty when I win, not when I play well, and I can't pursue beauty at the expense of losing. This is what I want to do today.

I told everyone."

The scene was silent, including Chairman Li Wei, because most of these people grew up under the influence of Dutch football. They believed that total offense, total defense and 433 were the truth, and would not consider defensive counterattacks at all. If Jiang Mu really

Training like this and playing like this is simply overturning the club's tradition, and it's hard for them to accept it.

Jiang Mu knew that it was difficult for these people to accept it, but he did not want to compromise and said: "If you want beautiful football, then I will go. If you want a championship, then I am your best choice."

Silence, all the players on the court, big and small, old and young, are still silent.

After a while, club chairman Li Wei chose to support Jiang Mu, saying: "I think the championship is more important. Those who want the championship come here." This is the other twin brother Ke Liang said: "Can't we fight?

Can you be so beautiful and win the championship?" Jiang Mu said seriously: "That is my ideal. If our opponents are worse than us or equal to us, we can naturally play well and win."

"Okay, I support you."

Ke Liang walked over, and his brother Ke Ming also followed. Then everyone except the Dutchman William stood over. In fact, for a team that has never won any championship, making such a choice is very simple.

Just like taking a piece of bread and a beautiful dress and telling a person who has been hungry for a week, do you want bread or beautiful clothes, there is no doubt what he will choose.