The Godfather of Football

"They are exhausted!"

Ricklink stood beside Ye Qiu at some point. He was also concentrating on the game. He obviously noticed that the physical strength of Feyenoord players was declining rapidly, which made the intervals between their reorganization of the offensive longer and longer, proving that they needed a rest.

"I know!" Ye Qiu nodded and looked up at the electronic scoreboard at the Philips Stadium. The time shown on it was 77 minutes and 32 seconds. He shook his head and said, "Wait a minute!"

But he quickly made the latest adjustments to the team. Except for Van der Vaart, everyone else stepped up their pressing.

Feyenoord slowed down their offensive, which clearly meant they wanted to rest. Ajax II's defense had finally worn away the opponent's physical strength. How could they make up for it so easily?

From Huntelaar to Sneijder to De Jong, Maduro, to the five defenders, all began to actively press, forcing Feyenoord, who wanted to slow down the pace, to keep the ball running at a fast rate.

De Wischer replaced Bosvelt, and Van Goebel replaced Geyang. Feyenoord was still looking for opportunities to attack, and the most obvious thing was that they wanted to further use the right side.

Abidal and Kivu had a better and better understanding of each other. Their ideas were more mature and their strengths were fixed. Abidal's tactical literacy was not high before, and he often made mistakes. But with Kivu's supervision and command, Abidal seemed much more stable. With De Jong's help in the front, Ajax II's left defense was watertight.

Feyenoord tried to create an offensive channel from the left side of Ajax II several times, but it didn't work in the end.

Time passed by, but Ye Qiu never made any more substitutions, because he knew very well that this was the strongest lineup he could show. If even this group of players couldn't withstand Feyenoord's pressure in the game, then there was no hope for others.

He had even made up his mind that if he couldn't beat Feyenoord in the 90-minute game, he would continue to defend without hesitation in the stoppage time and drag the draw into a penalty shootout.

But even if he had already made up his mind, he still kept cheering for the team on the sidelines, constantly telling his players that there must be a chance and they must not give up.

Perhaps because Feyenoord attacked too fiercely before, many players in the team began to have physical problems, and the rhythm could not be slowed down. Several players in the team were affected by this. During an offensive advancement, when the ball was passed to Thomason's feet, the Dane's technical movements were a bit out of shape when he stopped the ball.

Maduro got stuck behind Thomason in advance. The midfielder had been very cautious since he came on the court, fearing that he would make a mistake accidentally, so he didn't dare to defend Thomason too actively. But this time, he saw that Thomason stopped the ball too far, and the ball actually ran not far in front of him. How could he be polite at this time?

Maduro poked the ball forward, and Sneijder realized that he had successfully intercepted the ball, so he ran forward quickly and kicked the ball to the right before Thomason who was chasing back.

Van der Rue rushed forward quickly. He was very fast. After getting the ball, he quickly dribbled along the right side and soon passed the center line and approached Zonsa. At the same time, Van der Vaart left the right side and quickly cut into the center.

Everyone thought that Ajax II was going to give the right side to Van der Rue, so Zonsa did not go to guard against De Vaart, but looked at Van der Rue. But just when Van der Rue seemed to be forcing a speed breakthrough to the right bottom line, he suddenly stopped, dribbled, and changed direction, and took the ball to the center.

All the people in Feyenoord were returning to defense, and Van Gastel also returned to the position as soon as possible. Seeing that he and Zonsa were about to double-team Van der Rue, he saw Van der Rue knock the ball to the center.

Sneijder also rushed forward quickly at this time, facing Van der Vaart's cross-kick, and passed the ball directly without stopping.

Van der Vaart had moved to the middle at this time, and the two central defenders of Feyenoord were chasing back. De Haan looked at Huntelaar who ran to the left, and Van Onderen immediately stuck to Van der Vaart.

Van Onderen's right foot was facing Van der Vaart's left foot, which was in a very unfavorable situation in defense. Because Van der Vaart was facing the left side and facing the goal, he stopped Sneijder's straight pass with his left foot, but it was difficult for Van Onderen to destroy him with his usual right foot.

Now it was at the front of the penalty area. Once a foul was committed, it would be a very threatening direct free kick, so Van Onderen's experience told him that it was best to block his kicking angle and block it between Van der Vaart and the goal.

In fact, he did so.

But as soon as Van der Vaart stopped the ball, he immediately pretended to bring it back, causing Van Onderen to shift his center of gravity, but he quickly kicked the ball to the left and increased his speed in an instant.

In this ultra-short distance sprint, the player's explosive power at the moment of starting is tested more. In this regard, the tall and strong Van Onderen could not catch up with Van der Vaart, who was known for his speed, and was easily thrown out.

Because it was a counterattack by the opponent, and because there were no offensive and defensive players in the penalty area, Dudek's position was a little outside.

Van der Vaart had noticed this before he shook off Van Onderen, so as soon as he pulled out the space, he lifted the ball with his left foot and shot a very fast lob.

The ball flew high, passed over Dudek's head, and fell quickly, almost touching the crossbar, and went into the goal behind Dudek. Dudek turned around and chased, but in the end he could only watch helplessly as the ball hit the net.

The referee's whistle for the goal was effective sounded in an instant, unusually crisp and unusually pleasant!

The fans of both teams in the game could not accept this sudden change, especially the fans of Feyenoord, because in the past for such a long time, they had completely controlled the situation, but suddenly, the opponent counterattacked and penetrated Feyenoord's goal again. What on earth was going on?

But soon, Ajax fans cheered wildly, and they were even more excited than picking up gold. They watched the goal scorer Van der Vaart pull up his jersey, wave his arms excitedly, and rush out of the stadium at the fastest speed, and they couldn't help shouting his name.

"Van der Vaart!!!"

No one can understand how much the Ajax fans expect of him, and no one can understand how much surprise and excitement the Ajax fans feel at this moment, because they have never experienced despair!

Cruyff, Rijkaard, Van Basten, Seedorf, Kluivert, Overmars... One by one, the players trained by Ajax chose to leave Ajax, which made all Ajax fans feel very uncomfortable. They can only choose to pin their hopes on newcomers to have some hope.

But this season, Grünshall wants to leave, Hershey wants to leave, Brian Laudrup wants to leave, and the players who were once highly expected by the fans want to leave and escape from Amsterdam, which makes them sad, but helpless.

So, they always hope in their hearts that someone can stand up and bring them hope again, so that they can proudly and bravely say to those who want to leave, "You can leave if you want to, we don't need you, because we are Ajax!"

Now, Van der Vaart has become that person!

The madness of the goal soon swept the whole stadium. Not only the Ajax players celebrated crazily on the court, the Ajax fans celebrated in the stands, and the Ajax bench and coaching staff also congratulated on the sidelines.

Finally, another goal was scored, and the score was surpassed again!

"It was a very, very, very difficult goal!"

"I dare say that Van der Vaart is definitely the most talented young rookie I have seen in the Dutch football world in recent years. This game was almost determined by his personal ability!"

"Of course, the most important thing is that we have to admire the courage of Ye Qiu, the head coach of Ajax II. Without his trust and his counterattack around Van der Vaart, Van der Vaart's performance would not be so outstanding, especially the interesting arrangement of Van der Vaart on the right, allowing him to cut from the right to the middle and play his left-footed advantage. Ye Qiu's deployment of troops is really admirable!"

Cruyff also looked very excited. At least he felt that the two factors that really determined the trend of this game were Ye Qiu's use of Van der Vaart and Ajax II's defense.

In the second half, the team used extremely meticulous defense to not give Feyenoord any favorable opportunities. They did not even make a big mistake, which led to Feyenoord's attack looking fierce and dangerous, but they could not break through Ajax II's goal.

"The game is almost over!" Cruyff shook his head.

Ajax II once again surpassed the score, which was a great blow to Feyenoord's morale. More importantly, there were only 4 minutes left, and even with the extra time, it was at most 7 minutes. What could Feyenoord do?

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After the game resumed, Feyenoord launched a crazy counterattack, and even their defenders pressed forward directly.

But such an offensive was not necessarily effective for Ajax II. Instead, in the 88th minute, Kivu made a long pass from the backcourt, directly passed Feyenoord's defense line, landed on the right, and found Van der Vaart. After the latter successfully countered the offside, he cut in from the right and passed the ball to the front of the penalty area. Sneijder, who came in from behind, made a powerful shot, which was slightly off target.

If this counterattack was successful again, Feyenoord would be completely finished.

In the 89th minute, the referee gave 2 minutes of extra time.

As soon as the extra time came out, Ye Qiu immediately arranged a substitution, and he substituted two places in a row.

"He now has the idea of ​​using substitutions to delay the game time!" Cruyff said with a smile.

This is also a common tactic used by a head coach. Two substitutions are made separately, and then a little more time is delayed when making substitutions. It is not illegal to make reasonable use of the rules.

Everyone in Feyenoord was so angry that they almost exploded. When Van Marwijk saw Rui, who came on as a substitute for Ajax II, slowly preparing to come on the field but deliberately delaying time, he was so angry that he kept cursing on the sidelines and complained that the referee did not urge him.

But immediately, Ye Qiu made another substitution, directly replacing the exhausted Van der Vaart with a defender, who was still slow and spent, as if he was laughing at Van Marwijk, I'm ahead, I did it on purpose, you bite me?

After two substitutions, there was only 1 minute left.

Almost all of Feyenoord rushed forward, and Dudek rushed directly across the half court, waving his arms constantly, asking his teammates to press forward, preferably into the penalty area of ​​Ajax II, because everyone knew that this was the last attack.

Because he was too hasty, when a long pass was passed into the penalty area, Cruz made a foul when competing for the header. He pressed down Van Duyn's shoulder with his arm, which was judged as a foul by the referee.

Ajax II quickly kicked the goal kick and prepared to counterattack directly, which scared Dudek and Feyenoord's players to quickly return to defense, but when Feyenoord returned to their position, they found that Ajax II did not come up at all.

Just when they were so angry that they were ready to kill the opponent, the referee blew the whistle to end the game.

"The game is over!!!"

"It is very surprising that Ajax II defeated Feyenoord with a score of 2:1!"

"This is a dark horse, a dark horse that cannot be darker. They also created Dutch football history. They became the first youth team in history to win the Dutch Cup. This has never happened in Dutch football history, and it is very rare in the history of football all over the world!"

"Let us congratulate this group of young players from Ajax II. They defeated Feyenoord with their tenacity, their fighting spirit, and their never-give-up fighting spirit!"

"We believe that many people will regret Feyenoord's defeat because they are in an absolute advantage in strength, but we should know that football will never win a game just by strength. The charm of football lies more in its uncertainty."

"Yes, that's right!" Cruyff also took the opportunity to join the topic of post-match summary.

"This is a very impressive team. As a youth team, they entered the Dutch Cup and eliminated traditional Dutch teams such as PSV Eindhoven, Utrecht, Heerenveen and Feyenoord. This is an incredible miracle in itself, but more importantly, the fighting spirit shown by this team gives all of us fans who love Ajax enough confidence to say that our proud and brave Ajax is finally back!"

"Here, as a fan who loves Ajax and Dutch football, I want to thank the Ajax II team led by Ye Qiu. He has given us hope for the revival of Ajax and the hope of Dutch football!"

"Let all of us remember their names seriously, Rafael? Rafael van der Vaart, Wesley Sneijder, Klaas Jan Huntelaar, Nigel de Jong, Hedwigs Maduro, John Heitinga, Eric Abidal, Christian Kivu, and our goalkeeper, Maarten Stekelenburg. "

"Seeing them, we seem to have seen Ajax and the hope of Dutch football. We have every reason to believe that this team, given time, will surely bring us hope of revival in Dutch football, in European football, and even on the stage of world football."

"Thank you Ye Qiu, thank you Ajax!"

When Cruyff shouted these words loudly, all the players of Ajax II in the stadium were in chaos. They rushed into the stadium one by one and celebrated wildly.

This group of young guys never thought that they would be able to have today. When they came to this day, looking back, they all found that it was their head coach Ye Qiu who had been constantly instilling confidence and faith in them, leading them step by step to today and defeating one powerful enemy after another.

After the celebration, they all ran to Ye Qiu and surrounded the head coach.

The Ajax first team has experienced painful turmoil this season. From Waters to Westhoff, they have never been able to bring about a change in the team. On the contrary, in the second team, under the leadership of Ye Qiu, this Ajax second team has shown amazing and amazing fighting power.

While the Ajax second team was celebrating, the group of Feyenoord stars all hung their heads and walked into the player tunnel in disgrace, because they lost to this group of people they have always looked down on, which made them feel ashamed and embarrassed.

Especially Van Onderen, who lost to Ajax again, especially to Ajax B, and was fooled by Van der Vaart, all these made him extremely angry, but he could do nothing because they lost.

All the Ajax fans in the stadium were shouting Ye Qiu and the names of the players.

They are the heroes of the team and the hope of Ajax's revival!

Now, all Ajax fans can stand up bravely and proudly say to Eindhoven, Feyenoord, and all the teams that look down on Ajax: You wait, sooner or later we will pull you all down from the league standings, because we have a group of proud B-team players, and you are all defeated by them!

However, when everyone was excited, Ajax's chairman, Van Praag, felt a little more uneasy and worried in his heart.

Because there were some things that only he knew!