Coaching legend

Grand Slam, a real Grand Slam.

George has won all the championships that can be won in the club. George has won the English domestic league championship, FA Cup championship, League Cup championship, and Community Shield championship. Among them, he has won two league championships and two League Cup championships.

Of course, the FA Cup was won when George was at Burnley, which was nearly five years ago.

In addition to the English domestic championship, there are also the League Cup championship, the Champions League championship, the European Super Cup championship, and the Toyota Cup championship. Of course, if the Cup Winners' Cup had not been merged into the League Cup, George might have missed the Cup Winners' Cup in his life.

But it is precisely because the Cup Winners' Cup and the League Cup were merged, and George's League Cup championship happened to be the first championship after the merger of the two major cups.

Therefore, George is a real Grand Slam coach.

As the game ended, even Blanco and Carl next to him came up to congratulate George.

Grand Slam coach, it sounds very comfortable.

George is very proud.

At the age of 34, many coaches have just started their coaching career. But George has already achieved all the achievements that a club coach can achieve.

After the game, George was warmly welcomed.

Toyota Cup is nothing? No matter what, it is not as good as the Champions League and Premier League. But it is this last championship that is very important to George. Because it is the last championship that can fill George's honor gap.

With the Toyota Cup championship, George has become a rare Grand Slam coach in European football.

Of course, more importantly, George is still young. Now it is only his eighth season as a club coach, but he has already won so many honors.

Therefore, after the game, the European football media paid the most attention to only two things.

The first thing is that European teams finally surpassed South American teams in the Toyota Cup, surpassing South America's eleven championships with twelve championships.

In recent years, European football and South American football have been competing secretly, and there is even a wrestling between UEFA and FIFA. Now European football has completely overwhelmed South American football with its strong financial capabilities.

So many European media are very happy.

The second thing is George's Grand Slam.

In European football, the number of Grand Slam coaches can be counted on a few fingers. And there are even fewer coaches who are still in the position of head coach. Let's talk about Bosque, who was fired from Real Madrid. He didn't win the Grand Slam in Real Madrid.

In English football, except for Ferguson, including Wenger, Graham, Dalglish, Bobby Robson, Kevin Keegan, which of these famous coaches has won the Grand Slam? None.

Even Capello, who was once the head coach of the Milan dynasty, is not a Grand Slam. He lacks domestic cup championships and Toyota Cup championships.

Think about it, even famous coaches like Capello, Wenger, Dalglish, Robson, and Bosque have not won the Grand Slam, so you can know how difficult it is to win the Grand Slam. But George, at the age of 34, became a Grand Slam head coach in world football. How can we not be shocked?

Therefore, the Toyota Cup itself was completely ignored by the media.

The media are reporting these two things. Among them, George, as a Grand Slam head coach, has the most media coverage. All media are praising the emergence of such a young Grand Slam head coach in European football.

George read these newspapers on the plane.

Because George has no time to delay in Japan, he will go to the Netherlands soon.

The second game of the second round of the Champions League group stage is about to begin. Blackburn will challenge Ajax away.

There is no need to count the glory of Ajax's history. Just look at their four big-ear cups to know what position Ajax has in European football.

Moreover, the all-out attack and defense tactics that have swept the world and made countless coaches study and carry forward started from Ajax. There are many superstars in the history of Ajax. Their names, like bright stars, illuminate the world of football.

The last time Ajax shined was when they defeated Milan to win the Champions League.

At that time, Ajax was full of geniuses, but the damn Bosman Act made Ajax only watch their players leave one by one. But soon Ajax adjusted the development of the team, and now Ajax is full of geniuses again.

The current Ajax players, if they were put in the future, would be players who could shock the European football world.

Pienaar, a South African international. He is the core of South Africa's midfield.

Trabelsi, the biggest football star in Tunisia. He is also the only Tunisian player who has been on the list of 50 European Footballer of the Year.

De Jong, later the main defensive midfielder of the Netherlands team and Manchester City. The midfield butcher is just starting to make his mark in Ajax.

Chivu, the main left back of Roma and the main left back of Inter Milan during the triple crown period, is another world-class star in Romania.

Van der Meyde, at this time, is more dazzling than Ibrahimovic and Sneijder. Only Van der Vaart can compare with him in Ajax.

Ibrahimovic, this is needless to say. He has experienced Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, ​​Milan and many other giants as the main striker. Get Ibrahimovic, get the league.

Van der Vaart, the captain of Ajax. He is also one of the four little kings of the Netherlands and a very talented player. Although the future achievements are not as expected, it is definitely not due to strength. It is because of a lack of luck.

Sneijder, the core midfielder of Inter Milan's treble and the core midfielder of the World Cup runner-up. He was also one of the players with the highest voice for the Footballer of the Year. Although he failed to win the Footballer of the Year in the end, the Footballer of the Year selection that year was also considered by many to be the most controversial year.

Huntelaar, the future Bundesliga Golden Boot. In Schalke, Gomez, who beat Bayern, won the Bundesliga top scorer.

If you hear the names of these players, will you be scared?

Will you be surprised or timid? If you only hear these names, and these people are in the same club, even George will be surprised. If it is two or three years later, George may be very worried. Unfortunately, it is 2002 after all, and these people are just little ones.

The most famous people in this Ajax now are Van der Meyde, Van der Vaart, and Ibrahimovic.

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On December 12, 2002, Blackburn's bus arrived at the Amsterdam Stadium.

The Amsterdam Stadium is definitely one of the top and most luxurious stadiums in Europe. Even if you want to find a better stadium than the Amsterdam Stadium in England, you can't find many. There are definitely no more than ten stadiums in Europe that can rival the Amsterdam Stadium.

Very luxurious and beautiful.

The stadium was built in 1993 at a cost of more than 140 million. The stadium can accommodate 68,000 people. When George led the team into the stadium, he found that there were few empty seats.

George was very surprised. It turned out that the fans of the Dutch Eredivisie team were so enthusiastic.

In fact, what George didn't know was that Ajax usually had only about 50,000 fans at the Dutch Eredivisie. In other words, there would be nearly 20,000 empty seats in every game.

This time was an exception, not because of how important this game was. But because Ajax's opponent was Blackburn.

Ajax faced the defending champion of the Champions League this time. Ajax fans don't like Blackburn, or hate Blackburn. Ajax is a European giant, a real European giant. But the damn Bosman Act destroyed the survival foundation of the entire Dutch Eredivisie.

It is precisely because of this that Blackburn, a nouveau riche, won the Champions League.

Therefore, Ajax fans are very unhappy with Blackburn.

Now we finally meet Blackburn. In recent years, Ajax has shown signs of re-emergence because of the emergence of talented players. Since the talented players who won the Champions League last time left, Ajax finally saw the growth of another group of talented players.

So they hope that Ajax can defeat Blackburn and teach this upstart a lesson.

Therefore, there are many fans here today. The stadium with nearly 70,000 people is full.

George doesn't like to wear formal clothes in the stadium. But Koeman is obviously different from George. He wears very formal clothes and wears a red tie. When George came out, he shook hands with George very politely.

George is not unfamiliar with Koeman.

This is a defender who was a big name in European football in the 1980s and 1990s. Not only did he win the Champions League in Eindhoven, he was also the core figure of the Barcelona Dream Team at that time. He was one of the representative players of the Dutch all-out attack and defense.

Koeman is a famous superstar in European football.

But that was when he was a player.

Now he is a coach, and he is George's junior. He has been a coach for just over two years and has only won the Eredivisie.

Compared to George, who is in his eighth season and has won countless championships, Koeman still needs to learn a lot from George.

George's lineup is quite standard.

It is exactly the same as the last Toyota Cup game. Two defensive midfielders Alonso and Hargreaves were sent out, and Miku, Pires and Kaka were in the frontcourt. The single striker Klose was used in the front line.

Koeman's lineup is nothing new.

Almost all the players who can play in Ajax played.

Except for Huntelaar, this is still a child. He was not able to enter the main lineup, and he was not even found in the substitute list.

Others you can name, such as Van der Vaart, Sneijder, De Jong, Van Bommel, Ibrahimovic, and Chivu, are on the court. Looking at these people, even George is a little jealous. How great would it be if he could dig a few of them to Blackburn?

But George knew that Ajax was good at business.

Ajax would not sell them if they were not famous. When they became famous, their value would be tens of millions. It was unexpected that Van der Vaart went to Hamburg at such a low price.

With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.