The Godfather of Football

When the final whistle sounded at the Arena Stadium, a stream of people rushed out of the home team's coaching seats. Some of them came from the staff seats, some from the bench, some from the coaching seats, and some were even the staff of the Arena Stadium. They all rushed into the stadium.

At this moment, the Ajax players in the stadium had gathered in groups of three or five to celebrate the team's victory. The Ajax fans in the stands were well prepared and threw out the colored shredded paper in their hands. With the colorful strips flying in the wind above the stadium, the entire Arena Stadium was filled with festive joy.

For this game, Ajax had been looking forward to it for a long time. This is the 29th league championship trophy in the history of Ajax, and it is also the second Eredivisie championship trophy won by Ajax led by Ye Qiu.

Although the result was already known, after all, Ajax won the Eredivisie championship two rounds in advance, but at this moment, the players and fans were still extremely happy. Many fans even stood in the stands and danced wildly, expressing their excitement and joy after the team won the championship.

The big red scoreboard showed the score between Ajax and Heerenveen, 3:0. Although Ajax did not give its all in this game, it still defeated Heerenveen cleanly at its home court, which also brought Ajax's final number of goals this season to 116.

This amazing goal record made Ye Qiu's Ajax the team with the most goals in a single season in the Eredivisie in recent decades. Many people were even amazed at so many goals, and they also lamented that it would be difficult for any team to surpass Ajax's goal record in the future.

Because of Ajax's huge number of goals, Ibrahimovic, the team's top scorer, has also risen with the tide. He has scored 37 goals this season, tying the single-season goal record in the history of the Eredivisie set by Van Basten, who is currently serving in the Ajax coaching staff.

Because of this, Ibrahimovic was hailed as the new Van Basten by the media. Even Van Basten himself felt that Ibrahimovic had unparalleled football skills and believed that if the Swede continued to maintain the current momentum, he would definitely be able to achieve more than him in the future.

Ibrahimovic's 37 league goals in a single season surpassed Kezman's 35 goals, becoming the top scorer in the Eredivisie and the winner of the European Golden Boot Award. Ajax also has many other scorers. Van der Vaart has scored 21 goals in the Eredivisie this season, and Robben, Huntelaar, and Van der Meyde have also scored more than double digits.

Ajax's outstanding offensive ability has frightened all opponents in the entire Dutch league. In terms of defense, even though PSV Eindhoven has steadily achieved an excellent result of conceding 20 goals this season, in front of Ajax's excellent defense of only conceding 18 goals, PSV Eindhoven's defense is still slightly inferior.

The strongest offense and the most solid defense have become Ajax's most powerful weapons in the Dutch football world.

Because of this, in this game, many huge photos of Ye Qiu were hung in the stands of the Arena Stadium. Every time the fans saw Ye Qiu in the game, they would cheer and applaud to show their love and support for the young head coach.

This scene also made Ye Changming and his wife, who were sitting in the stands watching the game, feel proud and proud.

At first, they didn't understand what these foreigners were shouting. Later, Huang Chu and Eliza told them that these people were shouting Ye Qiu, which surprised them and made them feel proud and proud.

As a parent, who doesn't want to see their children stand out?

As long as their children are promising, parents will also benefit from it and feel honored.

Especially when they saw Ye Qiu being carried into the stadium by Ajax players, in the middle of the stadium, like a king, accepting the deafening shouts from tens of thousands of fans in the stands, they felt supreme honor.

But when they saw the players throwing Ye Qiu into the air one by one, they were immediately scared. Zhang Yuxiu kept shouting to be careful, fearing that one of them would not catch Ye Qiu and let him fall directly to the ground, which would definitely be a heavy fall.

While Ajax was celebrating, the temporary podium was also being built quickly.

This time, the Dutch Football Association specially arranged for Ajax legend Rinus Michels and Dutch Football Association President Henk Kessler to jointly present the Eredivisie championship trophy to Ajax, while Ajax's captain, Edwin van der Sar, went on stage to receive the trophy on behalf of Ajax.

When the old captain Van der Sar received the trophy from Rinus Michels and Henk Kessler and held it high above his head, the whole Arena Stadium was once again filled with cheers, and confetti fell all over the sky, covering the sky above the stadium, allowing everyone in the stadium to feel the joy of the festival.

After that, Edwin Van der Sar and his teammates walked up to the podium together. They held the championship trophy above their heads, stood close together, and let the reporters on the scene take pictures. Each of them looked indescribably excited.

Ye Qiu stood in the distance, watching all this silently, with a smile on his face. He felt that for this moment, all the efforts he had made in the past and all the efforts he had paid were worth it and were rewarded.

He had lost, won, cried, and laughed. Only after experiencing it, did he really realize that only when you have made hard efforts and the rewards you get in the end will make you feel satisfied from the bottom of your heart, and will make you want to laugh every time you think of it.

He believed that as long as you are willing to work hard and pay, you are not afraid of losing, because losing is just one of the processes for you to win.

"What do you feel?" Michels didn't know when he walked to Ye Qiu's side.

As a person from Ajax, he was happy that his home team could have today.

"No special feeling, we won the championship trophy last year!" Ye Qiu pointed at the group of guys scrambling for the trophy, and he seemed to be laughing. Damn, we won it last year, is it still worth it for you to scramble for it? You have never seen the world!

Michels couldn't help laughing when he saw Ye Qiu's expression and heard his tone. He was in a good mood today.

Recently, his health has been getting worse year by year. He was upset when he heard the news about Ajax's decline. Then he heard the news about Ye Qiu, especially some comments from Cruyff, which made him full of hope for Ye Qiu's team. Now this team has finally played the style of the Ajax that dominated Europe in the past.

To a certain extent, Ye Qiu's technical and tactical concepts are further improved from the traditional Ajax technical and tactical concepts, and targeted adjustments have been made. Many new things have made this old man shine, especially the fact that he can dig so many players who meet his tactical requirements from all directions, which is even more admirable.

The average age is less than 22 years old. If it weren't for the old Van der Sar, the average age of this team would drop to 21 years old. Even so, Ajax is still one of the youngest teams to win the Eredivisie this season, second only to the record set last season. If they can win in the Champions League, they should be the youngest champion in the history of the Champions League.

"In the past few years, both Dutch football and European football have changed a lot. In the past, Dutch teams attached great importance to local and youth training, but now they are internationalized. Ajax couldn't keep up with PSV Eindhoven in the pace of internationalization, which eventually led to being suppressed by PSV Eindhoven for a long time."

"Things change, and now Ajax has also become internationalized, and immediately suppressed PSV Eindhoven. Football has always been like this. There is no dynasty that will last forever, and there is no team that will always win. Some are only a moment of brilliance, but they will always remain in the memory of fans!"

Michels' words made Ye Qiu a little confused, but he didn't say much. He patted Ye Qiu's shoulder with praise and encouragement, and walked away slowly with heavy steps. For his age, participating in Ajax's championship celebration is already a very difficult thing.

Looking at Michels' back, Ye Qiu couldn't help but recall the resume of this legendary Dutch coach.

Everyone always remembers his glory in Ajax, his all-out attack and defense in the Dutch national team, and even his championship in Barcelona, ​​but few people remember his failed seasons and resume.

So, history is so partial. When it likes someone, it does not allow his bad side to appear.

When many people mention Michels, they often think that he coached Ajax during its most glorious triple crown period. In fact, he won the first of Ajax's three consecutive Champions League titles, which was also the first in Ajax's history. After that, he resolutely chose to retreat to Barcelona.

But because Michels's aura was too strong, many people attributed the two Champions League titles won by Stefan Kovacs to Michels. After all, Stefan Kovacs did not make much change and contribution to Ajax. On the contrary, after the team won the championships one after another, the discipline of the entire team became very lax, which eventually led to Ajax's decline.

In addition to his well-known experiences in Ajax and the Dutch national team, in other teams, such as Barcelona, ​​he only won one La Liga championship in four years, and his results were not ideal. In the United States, Cologne and Leverkusen in Germany, he also failed to prove his strength as a world-famous coach.

In other words, Michels' success is limited to the Dutch national team and Ajax.

Of course, Ye Qiu thought so much, not because he looked down on Michels and thought he was undeserved. On the contrary, Ye Qiu admired Michels very much. In any case, the concept of all-out attack and defense is a great innovation to change football tactics. Michels' achievement is absolutely unquestionable.

Ye Qiu was just thinking that perhaps what made Michels successful, in addition to his all-out attack and defense, was his retreat at the peak of his career. From Ajax winning the Champions League to the Netherlands winning the European Cup, Michels chose to retreat at the peak of his career without any regrets.

As he said, he left the brilliant light of a moment in the memory of the fans forever.

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu couldn't help but raise his head, close his eyes, and listen to the deafening cheers from tens of thousands of Ajax fans in the stands of Arena Stadium. He longed to keep all of this forever.

He couldn't stop time, couldn't create glory forever, so he could only choose to completely cut off the connection between himself and Ajax at this moment, so that all fans would remember that his Ajax dynasty came to an abrupt end at this moment!

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If you look from mid-air, the city of Amsterdam is crisscrossed by countless rivers, cut into small areas, each of which is connected by bridges. These crisscrossing rivers seem to weave a spider web-like city of Amsterdam.

Because of this, the city of Amsterdam is full of densely packed buildings, there are no large squares and gardens at all, and even the roads seem very crowded. Therefore, every time Ajax wins the championship, the team will take an open-top bus and parade around the city with the championship trophy, and they will walk very slowly.

During the parade around the city, passing by Leidse Square, they will have a series of interactions with fans here.

Leidseplein is one of the few places in the center of Amsterdam that can hold large-scale celebrations. It is also the traditional place for Ajax to celebrate the championship in the past. Therefore, even though Ajax has moved the championship celebration venue to the area around Arena Stadium, there are still many people gathering here.

After waiting for the team's bus, we slowly followed the team to Arena Stadium.

Connecting Arena Park and Arena Avenue, the entire area was under martial law by the city government, and no vehicles were allowed to enter, which made it convenient for Ajax fans to celebrate the team's championship here.

And Ajax has also arranged a variety of celebrations, such as inviting some local bands to sing, inviting some well-known artists to help, etc., which have livened up the atmosphere of the celebration ceremony.

But as the protagonist of the celebration ceremony, the team did not stay in Arena Stadium for too long. After the parade around the city, they quickly gathered at De Tokmost. After the disbandment, they returned to rest and prepare for the Dutch Cup final with Utrecht three days later.

Ajax officials have already announced the next schedule and plan. After winning the league championship, a simple celebration ceremony will be held. After the Dutch Cup final, if the team wins the championship, there will be no celebration ceremony, because the team will keep a low profile in preparation for the Champions League final held at Old Trafford in Manchester.

But the club officials promised that if the team can achieve something at Old Trafford, a grand celebration ceremony will be held at Arena Stadium, so that the whole of Amsterdam can celebrate together. The city government also said that it will strongly support Ajax's celebration and hope that the team can continue to work hard in Manchester.

Fans generally understand the club's approach. After all, the Champions League is more important than anything else. Therefore, even if the players are not seen in the celebration ceremony early, they are not dissatisfied at all.

Many fan organizations have also received the support of Ajax, and they have organized their own fan members on the spot to strive to suppress Real Madrid fans at Old Trafford at that time, and this time, Ajax will provide free tickets.

This is also the tradition of the Champions League final. UEFA keeps a part of it, and the rest is divided equally between the two participating teams. Generally speaking, this kind of ticket is not for sale. It is given to sponsors, some club celebrities, etc. The rest are given to members who support the team on weekdays.

To be honest, reaching the Champions League final is a rare opportunity for any team. Who would care about the income of more than 20,000 tickets if they can reach the final?

Four days later, Ajax went to Rotterdam and welcomed Utrecht at De Kuip Stadium.

In order to save strength for the Champions League final three days later, Ye Qiu did not arrange the main lineup for this game. The only three main players were Van der Sar, Lucio and Arteta, but even so, Ajax still showed its strong fighting power.

In the 13th minute of the game, Huntelaar relied on Hleb's through ball after cutting in from the left, and broke the goal of Utrecht in the penalty area, opening the record for Ajax.

Before the end of the first half, in the 41st minute, Van der Meyde made a quick breakthrough on the right and passed the ball to Huntelaar, who headed the ball to Arteta who easily shot into the penalty area, 2:0.

After that, Utrecht launched a counterattack at the beginning of the second half and successfully equalized the score, but less than 5 minutes later, Lucio headed the ball to Van der Meyde, who stopped the ball and drove straight into the penalty area, and shot low, expanding the score again to 3:1!

After that, although Utrecht showed its tenacious side, Huntelaar still scored another goal for Ajax in the 78th minute, and finally successfully locked the score to 4:1!

In this way, Ajax successfully defeated Utrecht at the De Kuip Stadium in Rotterdam and won the Dutch Cup for the fourth consecutive year. This also made Ye Qiu once again confirmed the title of cup competition professional, because everyone found that he always seemed to have more advantages in cup competitions, and his team seemed to be better at playing cup competitions.

After winning the Dutch Cup and achieving the double championship, Ajax returned to Amsterdam and was welcomed by the fans. However, the team did not hold a high-profile trophy parade. Instead, the team conducted a low-key two-day secret training camp in De Tokmosten, and then flew to Manchester, England at noon on the day before the Champions League final.

Unlike Ajax, which won the Dutch Eredivisie and Dutch Cup titles in succession and became a double champion, the La Liga schedule will continue until the end of June, while the European Cup final will be in early June. Therefore, when the European Cup final starts, Real Madrid is at a critical moment to win the La Liga title.

In the 36th round of La Liga, Real Sociedad, which was 1 point ahead of Real Madrid, tied Valencia 1:1 at home. This was originally a great opportunity for Bosque's Real Madrid to reverse the situation, but Bosque's team tied Celta 1:1 at the Bernabeu Stadium. If it weren't for Raul's key goal to equalize the score, Real Madrid might not have been able to defeat the opponent.

This also made Real Madrid fans dissatisfied, because this was originally a godsend opportunity to reverse Real Sociedad, but they just let it go, and Bosque gave the reason that it was for the Champions League final!

Come on, come on, brothers, smash the monthly ticket! ! !