The Godfather of Football

It’s my life

this is my life

It’snowever

Seize the moment, the opportunity is fleeting

Iain’t gonna live forever

I don't want eternal life

I just want to live while I’m alive.

I just want to live a serious life while I'm still alive.

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Bon Jovin's hoarse shouts came from the hotel room, spreading to every corner of the room. The explosive rock music kept shaking the eardrums, making people feel as if they were in a sea of ​​rock and roll, even in their hearts. They are all burning to their heart’s content.

This is a song Ye Qiu likes very much, Bon Jovi's "It's My Life", and every time he sings the climax of this section, he can't help but sing along. This is his favorite section. It's like singing your own heart.

Seize the moment, or say goodbye to the opportunity forever, this can also be seen as a portrayal of Ye Qiu at this moment.

The Champions League final is a rare stage for any professional head coach. He is now fortunate to lead this young Ajax team all the way to the Champions League final. For him, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, or Be successful and famous, or continue to be inferior to others and continue to be laughed at.

From the moment Ajax enters the hotel, the phones in the rooms where the head coach and players are located are set to refuse to answer. If anything happens, the hotel can directly contact the Ajax team leader or others, and they will respond according to the situation. If necessary, contact Ye Qiu and the players again.

Other than that, no outsider would be able to contact Ye Qiu and the players tonight.

Of course, Ye Qiu and the players have their own mobile phones, but usually Ye Qiu and the players have two mobile phone numbers, one is a private number and the other is for daily use. This private number is generally only owned by the closest people at home. It is just for the convenience of contacting you in case of emergency during the game, and the other number is usually turned off.

Only four people know Ye Qiu's private number, his parents, Huang Chu and Eliza.

Both mobile phones were lying quietly on the bedside table in the master bedroom, without any movement, because everyone who has Ye Qiu's private number knows that what Ye Qiu needs most now is quiet thinking. He needs to devote himself to the preparation for the game. , we must also think about tomorrow's tactics and consider the players' training status and psychological preparation this afternoon.

At the same time, he also needs to make an important decision.

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Ye Qiu was not free, so Huang Chu and Eliza acted as hosts and took Huang Jinsong and his wife, Ye Changming and his wife, and Chen Zhong around the hotel. Firstly, it was because there was really nothing fun and interesting to see in Manchester, and secondly, they didn’t want to After leaving the hotel, I was unfamiliar with the place. It would be dangerous if I met a Real Madrid fan and was recognized.

Today, the streets of the entire city are filled with two groups of people, Real Madrid fans and Ajax fans.

Because of this, the police are on alert as if they are facing a powerful enemy.

"Hi Bobby!"

In the hotel cafe, Huang Chu saw Bobby Harms, who was drinking coffee with Van Basten and Rick Link.

"Hi, Chu, Eliza!" Bobby Harms was also very familiar with Huang Chu and Eliza.

Tonight, those who can stay in this hotel are basically people related to Ajax, either family members of players and staff, or staff of the club.

"Why are they all here?" Chen Zhong recognized them. Aren't these three members of the coaching staff?

Eliza smiled leisurely, "Usually at this time, everything that should be prepared has been prepared, and they have nothing to do. But if you pay attention, they are actually very nervous, but no matter how nervous they are, they have to find something for themselves. Things to do, right?”

"What about Ye Qiu?" Zhang Yuxiu still cared most about her son.

Eliza curled her lips and said, "Lock her up!"

"Imprisonment?" Chu Yun frowned. There is a saying that goes well. The more the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she likes her son-in-law. She is also very concerned about Ye Qiu now. After all, in a while, Ye Qiu will become her son-in-law. .

Huang Chu smiled and said, "Mom, that was a joke. Ye Qiu should be in the room now, locking himself up and thinking about some things. Because he is a bit isolated from the world, he joked about being in confinement."

Huang Jinsong couldn't help but nod after hearing this, "Before the competition, as a coach, you must think a lot."

"The most important thing is pressure!" Eliza understands this better. "Normally, for such an important game, every team will prepare in many aspects, but when it comes to the game, what specific measures will be taken? This strategy has to be decided by the head coach, and any decision made by the head coach may affect the trend of tomorrow night's game."

Speaking of this, Eliza pointed to Bobby Harms and others nearby, "They look very relaxed, but actually they are not. They are also nervous, but almost most of the pressure is on Ye Qiu. They Just wait for the order.”

Chen Zhong is a fan and knows a little bit about this. "Yes, a decision worth hundreds of millions of euros and carrying the wishes of tens of millions of fans around the world is naturally very stressful." After finishing speaking, he couldn't help but sigh. tone.

Sometimes he thought that football matches were really cruel. It was really difficult to make such an important decision in such a short time. No wonder those head coaches either had heart problems or their hair turned white quickly.

Just as they were chatting, they heard Bobby Harms' phone ring nearby.

"Ye Qiu?"

As soon as they heard him calling Ye Qiu's name, everyone present suddenly quieted down and listened to what he said.

"Okay, training one and a half hours earlier, right?" Bobby Harms asked in confirmation.

After Bobby Harms hung up the phone, he told Ricklink and Van Basten: "Tomorrow evening, enter the field for training one and a half hours earlier. It seems that this time it will be the same as usual!" After saying that, he laughed.

Van Basten and Ricklink nodded solemnly, stood up one by one, greeted Huang Chu and Eliza, and went about their business.

From their bodies and words and deeds, Huang Chu and others could feel the responsibility and pressure on them.

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When Ajax entered Old Trafford for training and warming up, the time was exactly 18:00, and there was still 1 hour and 45 minutes before the game kicked off. At this time, many fans had gathered in the stands of Old Trafford, and more fans were entering one after another.

Although Ye Qiu brought all the first-team players to Manchester for this game, in fact, only 18 people could be included in the big list, including two goalkeepers, Van der Sar and Stekelenburg. The former is the main goalkeeper of Ajax, and the latter actually has few opportunities to play, and is more of a substitute.

There is no way to do this. After all, Van der Sar is in a very stable state. After returning to the Netherlands, Ye Qiu gave him more freedom, which allowed him to completely walk out of the shadow of the Juventus period and perform very well.

The players of Ajax have become accustomed to Ye Qiu's arrangements. Usually, Ye Qiu would ask the team to come to the training ground in advance, usually one hour, but this time he asked for an hour and a half in advance, and the team even came in advance by 1 hour and 45 minutes. It can be seen that the coaching staff also attaches great importance to warm-up training before the game.

Ajax was training on their side, and all of them were some warm-up and physical exercise training programs that Ye Qiu had bought from the Godfather Development System in the past few years, such as wall-hitting games, monkey-walking, and some ball-related training games, which could help players better exercise their bodies.

I heard that Ye Qiu asked the team to warm up an hour and a half in advance. Everyone knew his decision for this game, which was to attack, and to attack from the beginning. This was also one of the strategies that Ye Qiu had analyzed before when playing Real Madrid, that is, to attack, play fast, and disrupt Real Madrid's rhythm from the beginning, which required entering the game faster than the opponent.

Real Madrid is a ball-control flow, and they are not good at fast pace. The core of the team is a classic front midfielder like Zidane, and the overall style of Real Madrid tends to control the ball. Therefore, Ajax either defends or attacks. Only by going to extremes can there be a way out, and Ye Qiu is obviously not going to defend, so he can only attack.

Relatively speaking, Real Madrid has more experience in the Champions League final. Many players in the team have played in the Champions League finals in 2000 and 2002. They are more experienced than the young people of Ajax, so they came to the training ground an hour in advance.

When Real Madrid arrived at the training ground, many Ajax players had already completed their warm-up and were doing some simple training to adapt to the venue and find team tacit understanding.

Compared with the appearance of Ajax players who were all facing a great enemy, Real Madrid looked very relaxed, even a little lazy. This group of superstars did not seem to be stage-frightened at all, and they were already familiar with such a big game.

No wonder, for this group of Ajax players, the Champions League final may not come again in their lifetime, but they are different. They came last year, this year, and maybe next year or the year after. Who makes Real Madrid the strongest team in Europe today?

The players of the two teams were training in their own half, but the fans in the stands had already started to compete directly.

Interestingly, in this game, Real Madrid wore the white jerseys they wore when they won the Champions League last season, while Ajax wore the black away jerseys they wore when Van Gaal led the team to win the Champions League in the 94/95 season. This also directly led to the fact that the fans of both sides in the stands were clearly black and white, which was particularly clear and obvious.

The players were still training, but the fans had already begun to cheer for the team they supported, which made Old Trafford seem to have become a sea of ​​people with clear black and white. The shouts and slogans of the fans of both sides were mixed together and blurred into a ball. They could no longer be distinguished or understood.

In such an important game, no one was willing to give up easily, including the head coach, the players, and the fans.

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In the away team's locker room, the Ajax players were all nervously making the final preparations before the game.

The masseur was helping the group of players who had just come down from the training ground to relax their muscles, and Peter Brandt was doing various tests for some players, which would become auxiliary data handed over to Ye Qiu in the game.

There is also Bobby Haarms, the most experienced coach in the Ajax team, who is now reducing pressure on the players.

But even so, all the players still glanced at the door of the locker room from time to time. Their eyes were full of nervous anticipation. They were waiting for Ye Qiu's arrival. Only when they saw Ye Qiu could they Let go of the tension in your heart.

Ye Qiu was not a big star, so he didn't keep them waiting for too long. He directly opened the door of the dressing room and walked in.

Ye Qiu also dressed up specially today, wearing black trousers, a white shirt, and a pair of well-polished leather shoes. His cuffs were rolled up to his elbows, revealing the Hamilton watch he was carrying and a notepad in his hand. After walking in, he casually put the notepad on the tactical table, turned his back to the tactical board, and looked at the group of players who all raised their heads to look at him.

"Before announcing the starting list, I want to say a few words!" Ye Qiu's starting list has been handed over, but the players don't know it yet, and he is about to announce the starting list now, but there are some things he thinks he should say .

"I want to tell all of you that the team has been able to get to where it is today because of the joint efforts of everyone. It is the reward of the unity of everyone on our team, whether you are starting or not, and even those few Those who didn’t make it to the roster, those who didn’t make it to this locker room, are all part of us!”

"I also want to tell the starting 11 players, please remember that you are not just playing for yourself, you are also playing for those of you who are sitting on the bench and sitting in the stands. People who have no chance to participate in the game play football. You definitely have no reason to let down your guard and do your best. Otherwise, you are not worthy of becoming an Ajax player and becoming one of us!”

Ye Qiu's words made everyone present involuntarily nod. In the past three years, the team has relied on such a united and upward morale to get to where it is today. It was impossible for them to give up at this moment.

After finishing speaking, Ye Qiu didn't even need to look at the notepad. Everything was recorded clearly and deeply in his mind.

"Goalkeeper, Van der Sar!"

Following Ye Qiu's words, Van der Sar stood up silently, clenched his fists and nodded towards his teammates, as if to make a promise.

I promise that I will do my best, and that even if I am lying on the court, I will do my best to keep the goal.

"Left back, Abidal!"

The Frenchman also stood up and, like Van der Sar, clenched his fists to reassure his teammates.

"Left center back, Kifu!"

"Right centre-back, Lucio!"

"Right back, Maicon!"

"Drawing deep into the left midfield, Yaya Toure!"

"Drawing deep into the right midfield, Mascherano!"

"Midfield, Sneijder!"

"Left winger, Robben!"

"Right winger, Van der Vaart!"

"Center, Ibrahimovic!"

With every shout Ye Qiu made, the players whose names he called stood up one by one and pledged their support to their teammates.

This may be a bit cliche, but it can make everyone present feel that they are not alone, and they are not fighting alone. They work hard to compete, not only for themselves, but also for this group of people who have worked together for many years. Teammates who have passed, fought hard, and fought hard.

It's fictitious to say they are fans, but they are real teammates. They train and compete together almost every day.

Ye Qiu made appropriate adjustments to his tactical arrangements for this game. Arteta came on the bench and Yaya Toure started. The midfielder obviously wanted to adopt a stronger pressing style. After all, Yaya Toure was running. In terms of movement and defense, he is better than Arteta.

The Spaniard's specialty is ball control and organization, but in this game Ajax did not want to control the ball or organize.

To be honest, playing against Real Madrid, playing with possession and organization, is just lighting up the toilet and seeking death.

"I still remember that a year ago, when we lost at the Santiago Bernabeu, there was a Spanish reporter. I still remember his name clearly, Luis Cano from Marca. He pointed at me and asked, you Didn’t you say we were going to capture the Bernabeu? Has it been successful now?”

The entire locker room was so quiet that only Ye Qiu's voice was left. The other staff members all left, because the last few minutes belonged to Ye Qiu and his players, and they were one.

"Even now, I can still remember clearly that his tone at that time was extremely arrogant, as if he was stepping on top of my head, pointing at me with great contempt, and his tone was full of sarcasm and full of arrogance. I was very angry at the time, but I couldn’t refute it because we lost, so I had no choice but to leave the game, and behind me, there were sneers everywhere!”

"I still don't understand, their ridicule, their disdain, their cynicism, why? Just because they are Real Madrid? Are they a wealthy family? Should they be high up and overlook all living beings? Or should they be born with the royal emblem? , nobler than others? "

Ye Qiu paused and softened his tone, "We Chinese, more than two thousand years ago, a commoner said that princes, generals, and ministers would rather be born with their own kind? It means that no one is born noble. , no one is born to respect, and this person eventually led to the destruction of an extremely powerful empire. "

"No one is born to be superior, and no one can win forever. All of this needs to be created by one's own efforts, so I believe very much that today, Real Madrid is a powerful empire, and we are just an insignificant minion under their noses."

"But today, I, a minion, just can't accept them. I just can't accept why they can stand above us. Aren't they noble? Aren't they respected? Then I will overthrow their nobility and respect, step on them under our feet, and trample on them unscrupulously!"

"This is not a football game, guys!" Ye Qiu pointed at the group of players and shouted with almost all his strength, "This is a game about our dignity, our honor and disgrace. war, I believe that there will be countless fans around the world standing by our side, and I believe even more that there is a great miracle waiting for us to create! "

Ye Qiu swept across everyone present, his eyes bloodshot, "We will not forget today, and we will never forget this war. As long as we beat Real Madrid and win this game, we will create a miracle, and all of you will be recorded in the history of football because of this!"

"Today, your feelings, your passion, your every move, will become tomorrow or even later, the memories and images that all fans relish, and will remain in this world forever, in everyone's memory!"

"Let's put down all the baggage and fight with all our strength, brave Ajax warriors!"

The competition is coming, brothers, go all out to smash the monthly ticket!!!!