The Godfather of Football

With the end of the league and all the games of Tottenham Hotspur, the team also entered the holiday period, and the players began to take a vacation, but the staff and employees of the club, as well as the members of the coaching staff and the staff of the training base did not have such benefits, and they had to continue to stay and work.

The distance from the Chigwell Training Base to the Theobald Training Base is not far, but the relocation work is expected to take up to a week to complete, because there are indeed a lot of equipment and instruments, and they must be handled with caution, and then they have to enter the debugging and preparation stage.

I believe that after this busy period, the training camp will almost start again, so don't think about taking a vacation this summer.

As soon as the UEFA Cup final was over, the Champions League final was put on the agenda, and this time the final was scheduled to be held at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, with Liverpool and AC Milan facing each other.

Before this game, AC Milan's core player Kaka specially called Ye Qiu and sent him several tickets for the final. He smiled and said that he hoped Ye Qiu could go to watch the game. What's interesting is that Benítez, who always has a sullen face, also sent Ye Qiu tickets. For a while, he had more tickets for the final.

But sometimes having too many tickets is also a trouble, because it's a pity to waste them, but if you don't waste them, how can you use them?

Huang Chu and his family don't like to go so far to watch the game. For Huang Chu, it's better to stay at home and take care of the two children than to watch a final that has nothing to do with him. Mauro Tassotti has someone to send him tickets, so he will definitely go to watch it, but he has to accompany his family.

If Ye Qiu and Mauro Tassotti are not there, Roland and Peter Brandt will definitely stay in London, so these two unlucky guys want to go but can't go. In the end, Ye Qiu has no choice but to keep three tickets and give away the rest.

The day before the final, Ye Qiu and Eliza accompanied their daughter Huang Rong to Greece. They first had a wonderful day in Athens, which amused the little girl so much that she forgot to leave. Then they went to the Olympic Stadium to watch the game.

In the end, AC Milan defeated Benitez's Liverpool with a score of 2:1 and successfully won the first UEFA Champions League trophy in the new century.

This night in Athens is destined to belong to red and black!

Ye Qiu and his friends booked the Hilton Hotel in Athens. With the arrival of the Champions League final, hotels are becoming more and more scarce, so Ye Qiu directly booked the hotel's luxury suite, which has two bedrooms and one living room, all of which are city view rooms, and the living room has a large balcony, from which you can overlook Athens in the middle of the night.

The cool breeze blew, and I don’t know if it was a little bit of acrophobia or a little bit of being cold at high places, but Ye Qiu actually felt a little cold.

Hearing the noise behind him, Ye Qiu knew it was Eliza without turning around, and asked casually: "Is little Huang Rong asleep?"

"She's sleeping like a cute pink pig!" Eliza came to his side, and the two sat across a small round table.

Eliza also loved Huang Rong very much. She was Huang Rong's godmother, and she doted on this girl very much. On the contrary, Huang Chu, as her biological mother, often scolded her with a frown, so her relationship with her godmother seemed to be closer.

Sometimes Ye Qiu felt that Huang Chu was also very aggrieved. The two elderly couples in the family basically spoiled the children. Ye Qiu himself was very busy and had no time to take care of them, so the matter of disciplining the children fell on Huang Chu, so this gentle and lovely beauty always had to put on a fierce face to teach the children.

Children are always ignorant. Don't think that little Huang Rong has a better relationship with her grandfather, grandparents and godmother, but in fact she likes to pester Huang Chu very much. I guess this is the so-called blood is thicker than water.

"I see you seem to be deeply touched by this game!" Eliza obviously took a shower, wearing a loose and thin nightgown, swaying in the breeze, revealing a pair of jade-like slender legs, which looked very dazzling under the dim light of the balcony, making people have an impulse to touch them secretly.

After Ye Qiu glanced at her legs, he looked at the night view of the city, and said with a calm mind: "Liverpool lost this game with honor. It seems that they lost, but in fact they did not lose in tactics or because the players did not work hard enough, but because the forwards did not seize the opportunities enough. At least three scoring opportunities were missed in the first half."

When it comes to football, Ye Qiu's mind stabilized and his thinking became focused.

"Why didn't Benitez play Crouch?" Eliza asked a question that everyone was puzzled about. Just at the beginning of the game, the commentator on the scene had been puzzled by this question. Why didn't Crouch play?

In this game, Liverpool still used 4231, but the forward became Kuyt, the two wings were Pennant and Zenden, and Gerrard played in the middle. This was obviously quite different from Liverpool's previous lineup, especially in the center position. Without Crouch, the team's frontcourt lost its support point.

Ye Qiu smiled after hearing this, "You all think too simply!"

After being said by Ye Qiu, Eliza seemed a little unconvinced. She curled her lips stubbornly and raised her chin, as if saying, simple? You tell me, simple!

Ye Qiu saw her cute and lovely appearance, and his heart was involuntarily moved, but he used a smile to cover it up, "Liverpool's strongest lineup is indeed to play Crouch. This has become a fixed pattern in the past few Champions League and league games, but Ancelotti also has a tactical play for this point."

"Crouch is indeed a good tactical fulcrum, but what is special about him is that he has good foot skills and his height is indeed an advantage, but his weakness is also obvious, and he is afraid of the strength of taller players. "His handling of high balls, especially when faced with intensive defense, has always been his weakness."

"In this game, AC Milan did not proactively press forward, but adopted a relatively compact ball-control style. Firstly, it can take advantage of the Italian team's defensive advantages, and secondly, it can also use passes to mobilize Liverpool. Consume the opponent’s physical energy.”

This is very similar to the tactics Ye Qiu drew up when he played Chelsea. The difference is that Chelsea has a powerful center Drogba, while Liverpool's Benitez simply gave up his established tactics in this game. Use surprise troops to attack.

The reason why a surprise weapon is a surprise weapon is because no one on either side knows the effect, and no one is sure that it will work.

Benitez chose to take the risk because he knew that against a Serie A team like AC Milan, Crouch would not play a big role. Instead, he would use players with excellent running and pressing abilities like Kuyt to pull the strings. and running, maybe it will be more effective.

From a tactical perspective, Benitez won, but from a results perspective, Ancelotti won.

That's how football is sometimes, you put in the effort, but you don't always get the reward.

Eliza has gained a deeper understanding of football over the years. After listening to Ye Qiu's words, she understood, but she still didn't understand. "Then why do you look a little worried?"

After hearing this, Ye Qiu smiled bitterly, "Because this game will definitely teach Liverpool a lesson. Benitez may have to adjust the team's forward line next."

In Ye Qiu's previous life, Benitez also introduced Torres this summer. However, after the introduction of Torres, problems appeared in Liverpool's defense and wing. As a result, Liverpool finally found a reliable striker. , but there was a problem in the midfield and backcourt.

To use the words used by some people in Ye Qiu's previous life to describe Benitez, this fat Spanish guy is a complete tragedy. Even though he seems to have a lot of people coming and going, the team has never been truly complete and balanced in any season, even if it is In the season when they won the Champions League, their forward lines were all weak points.

"But I don't think you will be afraid of their attack!" Eliza said with a giggle after hearing this.

Ye Qiu turned his head and took a glance, and found that her smile under the night sky was as beautiful as a muse under the moonlight. Her long golden hair was glowing with a faint light, and her smile was full of a heart-stirring beauty.

"What's wrong with you?" Eliza panicked for no reason when she saw Ye Qiu staring at her blankly, but her face turned red involuntarily, and her heartbeat accelerated.

Ye Qiu shook his head, "It's nothing!" After saying that, he stood up, "I'm going back to the room. When Xiao Huang Rong wakes up, if she comes to look for me, let her come to my room to sleep with me!"

Watching Ye Qiu sneak back into the room as if he were fleeing, Eliza's eyes revealed a mixture of joy and sorrow.

Being together almost every day, she could see Ye Qiu's thoughts. She dared to conclude that Ye Qiu also understood her thoughts. It was just that there was Huang Chu and his family between the two of them, and Ye Qiu was another A person who has a strong sense of family, which can be seen from his attitude towards his family and his filial piety towards his parents and father-in-law.

"Before you gave birth to me, I gave birth to you. You are already old. You hate that I was born late. I hate that you were born early. Before you gave birth to me, I gave birth to you. You are already old. I hate that I was born at the same time. I am good to you every day. I was born Before you were born, I was already old, and I was far away from you, but you were separated from me by the sea. Before I was born, you were born, and I was already old. I turned into a butterfly to look for flowers, and roosted on the grass every night.”

Eliza read out this unknown ancient poem in very standard Chinese. She saw it when she was reading a Chinese book. She was very impressed because she had been influenced by Ye Qiu and Huang Chu over the years. , also developed a strong interest in Chinese culture. Not only did he learn Chinese, he also liked to read Chinese books.

And all along, she felt that this poem really seemed to be about her.

After reading the poem, she smiled again. She is a very strong, even a little proud woman. There is no way she would do anything to hurt her best friend, let alone break up her best friend's family.

Therefore, sometimes when you give love, you don’t necessarily have to force commitment and repayment. This is true love!

I don’t know if it’s because Liverpool lost the Champions League, but the old guy Ferguson is in a particularly good mood.

As soon as Ye Qiu returned to London, he called the next day and said that he would go south to treat Ye Qiu to a drink. As a result, he rushed to Ye Qiu's house in the evening of the same day. For such a rare guest, Ye Qiu went out to greet him. .

Ferguson's grandchildren are already older than Ye Qiu's children, but I really didn't notice that this old guy was quite attentive. When he arrived at Ye Qiu's house, he even brought two gifts for the two children. This made people aside. Ye Qiu was a little stunned.

As the saying goes, if you show courtesy for nothing, you are either committing adultery or stealing.

But this time Ye Qiu really misunderstood him. Ferguson was holding three bottles of wine in his hand and looked like his darling. He then said unceremoniously that he wanted to try Mrs. Ye’s cooking for tonight’s meal because Ye Qiu had When Qiu was at Chelsea, many media revealed that Huang Chu had superb cooking skills, and when he arrived at Tottenham Hotspur, many players also praised Huang Chu.

When a rare guest came, Huang Chu was of course obligated to cook it himself. In order to match the red wine in Ferguson's hand, he specially made steak, but the taste was richer, which is also a feature of Chinese cuisine.

This old guy seemed to be a foodie. As soon as he smelled the aroma of meat, he praised Mrs. Ye, and then urged Ye Qiu to call Wenger. Ye Qiu really guessed it. On the one hand, this old guy was To fulfill the promise, on the other hand, to show off in front of Wenger, who left Arsenal empty-handed this season?

"Pattus from the 1961 vintage!" Ferguson proudly took out the red wine he brought and put it on the table on the balcony on the second floor, ready to start it to sober up while waiting for Wenger.

Ye Qiu didn't know much about wine. He didn't like drinking, so he said in a disgusting way, "It's the same to me. I'll get a bigger cup later so I can enjoy the drink!"

When Ferguson heard this, he almost hit him on the head with the red wine he had just opened. This was a treasure that he had treasured for many years.

Red wine, horse racing and football, these are Ferguson's three obsessions in life. Among them, football and red wine are his lifelong loves, while horse racing is what he became obsessed with later. And he likes horse racing more because he likes to soothe himself through horse racing, because football brings Come nervous.

"I should just stab you to death!" Ferguson regretted that he had brought such expensive wine to taste wine with this ignorant guy. In Chinese terms, isn't this just playing the harp to a cow?

Ye Qiu just laughed at this. Of course he had heard of Patus and knew that the wine was expensive, but he just deliberately disgusted the old guy like this to save him from having to show off all day long and get a cheap shot at the championship. , I really thought I was omnipotent.

Seeing him like this, Ferguson had no choice. Privately, he still liked to show off, so he smiled and said: "Let me tell you this, Mido, Graff, Saint-Emilion and Baobaolong are high-quality Bordeaux red wines." Among the four major production areas, Baobulong is the least famous and smallest.”

Without waiting for Ye Qiu to react, Ferguson continued: "Baobolong does not have a great reputation or a glorious history, but the wine produced here is the most expensive among the four major production areas and is known as the Bordeaux red wine. The brightest pearl in the world, it is also the favorite of Buckingham Palace and the White House, and the June 1st vintage is recognized as the best vintage of Patrus, completely destroying the streets of Lafite.”

Perhaps because he was worried that Ye Qiu would have no idea if he said this, Ferguson picked up another unopened bottle of red wine, "A bottle like this is currently on the market for at least 30,000 euros, so you may not be able to buy it!"

After saying this, Ye Qiu was really surprised. He didn't expect that this guy would come as a guest and immediately take out a gift worth nearly 100,000 euros. And more importantly, this was his treasure.

Perhaps he was very satisfied with Ye Qiu's surprise. Ferguson smiled again and said with a bit of complacency: "I still have a few boxes of 2005 Patous in the wine cellar at home. Southwest France was very dry that year. The temperature is very high and it is called the perfect summer for wine, so the wine produced is also called the best wine in the past century, and the price of a bottle at that time was nearly 10,000 euros.”

After Ye Qiu heard this, he smiled for a while. He was not very interested in wine, but seeing Ferguson chatting so enthusiastically, he couldn't disturb others' interest. Besides, Ferguson was a guest, and he was the host. Family must take care of his emotions, right?

"You have to wait for more than ten years before you can drink it, right? Won't the price be ridiculously high by then?" Ye Qiu said casually.

If you want to mix in the upper class abroad, you must know something about these things, otherwise you will have nothing in common with others, so Ye Qiu also has a wide range of interests, and he also understands that Ferguson probably spent all his salary I used it to buy wine. Only a wine geek like him could afford such expensive wine.

When Ferguson heard this, he immediately felt a little proud. He kept saying that he wanted to keep it and drink it himself, and that he could not sell it. He also said that when it matured, he would definitely invite Ye Qiu to have a good drink.

Sometimes Ye Qiu feels that Ferguson is also a very interesting old man in private. He is not much different from other old people. He also likes to be praised, valued and affirmed by others.

The two chatted happily on the balcony, and soon Wenger came. Although he was opposite Ye Qiu's house, he arrived late. Ye Qiu estimated that if the caller was not himself but Ferguson, It is estimated that even if I beat him to death, he would not be able to come.

As soon as the two rivals met, it was no surprise that they were going over the bull. Wenger, a guy from France, actually criticized Ferguson's wine as useless. Ferguson was so angry that he almost slammed the table on the spot, and then started sarcastic and sarcastic. A dig at Wenger for being empty-handed and unable to even reach the Champions League.

This time it was Wenger who became angry.

Of course, the two of them were just talking to each other verbally. In fact, everyone knew in their hearts that it was not the case at all.

Sometimes it was just a matter of bickering and enjoying oneself. No one would really hold a grudge. If he really held a grudge, Ye Qiu would invite eight carriages to invite him, but they might not be willing to come.

Huang Chu's steak stopped the two guys' argument, and then the three of them sipped red wine on the balcony, ate the steak, praised Huang Chu's cooking skills, and argued about the merits of the red wine, all in one meal. So lively.

I don’t know if it was because they were in a good mood, but the three of them finished three bottles of red wine. Ferguson was so distressed that he kept saying that he regretted drinking Patus with a group of people who didn’t know how to taste wine, while Wenger mocked his wine for being so bad.

After eating and drinking, the three of them moved on and went downstairs to take a walk in Ye Qiu’s garden.

Only then did they really get to the point.