The Godfather of Football

"I'm sorry that we couldn't beat them at Wembley, but I don't think this game was bad because from our point of view it was always just a warm-up game and we were in this game I have to accept the embarrassing situation of missing many key players, so I think losing the game is nothing.”

At the post-match press conference, when Ferguson faced reporters, he expressed his evaluation of the game in a somewhat heavy tone. This time he did not blame the players, because if he wanted to blame, I am afraid the first The first person to be criticized was Gary Neville, the captain he relied on.

Sure enough, a reporter soon made it clear that he wanted to make Ferguson unhappy, "Excuse me Sir, Gareth Bale performed very well in this game and was elected the best player of the game, but Manchester United captain Gary? Neville can only be described as a disaster. Do you think that the reason for the disastrous defeat in this game has something to do with Gary Neville? "

A trace of anger flashed in Ferguson's eyes, but he took a deep breath, "Yes, I admit that the loss of the game has something to do with Gary, but it is not just him, it has something to do with all of us. Losing should not be the only one." Human responsibility, I think this defeat will tell us clearly where the problem lies.”

"Excuse me Sir, some people think that Manchester United's lineup and tactics rely too much on veterans, so in last season's Champions League final, Manchester United collapsed in the second half. This game also saw the opponent score two goals in the second half. What do you think?"

Ferguson was obviously angry at this moment, "I don't know who said this, but I know very well that veterans have rich game experience, and they know how to adjust themselves and the team better, which is something that young players don't have." Possessed.”

Ye Qiu sat aside and heard Ferguson's angry look, especially his flushed face. He sat upright, looking at his nose, his nose and his heart, and his heart at Duke Zhou, with a look of indifference on his face. His smile made people feel as if everything had nothing to do with him.

Perhaps seeing reporters besieging an old man like this, the host of the press conference felt too pitiful, so he helped Ferguson out and changed the topic to Ye Qiu. A reporter immediately wanted him to tell his thoughts about the game. view.

"I'm happy to win the Community Shield, no one is worried about winning, and I'm happy for the team to perform so well in the first game of the new season, but what I want to say is Yes, just performing well in one game does not mean anything at all, because if you want to win more championship trophies, you need to perform so well all season long. Therefore, I think this game is the most significant. It gives us a good start, that’s all.”

Later, Ye Qiu refused to comment on the performance of Manchester United players and refused to answer any questions about Manchester United.

This made Ye Qiu glance at Ferguson, with a look that was somewhat asking for credit, and Ferguson was so angry that he almost didn't slap him.

Damn, weren’t you the cause of everything? If you don’t beat me, will I be so embarrassed?

"Mr. Ye Qiu, we just got the data. In this game, Zygrinski is a rookie. He doesn't look like a player who has just participated in three training sessions with the team. He and Tuo Tenham was very in tune with Hotspur. He made 53 passes and made no mistakes. He made all the interceptions and one-on-one confrontations and made no mistakes. How do you evaluate his debut? "

This reporter from the Sun's question made many people present uproar. Zero mistakes, how rare is this for a central defender? So everyone had a feeling that the Ukrainians were going to be popular!

"As I just said, it was just a good debut in the first game. That's not what I wanted. I admit that Zyglinski's debut was perfect, but I hope he can use this game as a starting point. Starting from the starting point, continue to play steadily and persevere, and be able to show the performance and state of this game in every game, that is what I want in my heart.”

When a reporter asked whether he had considered such an outstanding performance when he introduced Zyglinski, Ye Qiu nodded in the affirmative without hesitation, "Otherwise, we would not have paid such a high transfer fee for him! "

This made many people present have the urge to laugh. You made more than 200 million euros by selling people in one season. Now you buy a player worth 7 million euros and say the transfer fee is high. How can you really spend all those 200 million euros? Burn the shredded paper?

Of course, there are more people laughing, but they all have to be convinced in their hearts. At least Tottenham Hotspur's reputation as a black club is firmly established, because for this game, Zygrin Ski's transfer fee will at least skyrocket!

Many reporters present did not know that several people such as Gareth Bale, David Silva, Cavani and Zyglinski who performed well in this game have been included in Tottenham Hotspur promotions Among the important list of marketing, they will be arranged by the club for interviews and activities in the future.

To give the simplest example, when they perform well, the club cooperates with the media to promote and even hype, but when their performance is sluggish and enters a trough, the club appropriately controls the media or uses the media to guide them, such as Find some reasons that fans can accept, such as too many games and fatigue.

Sometimes media hype and publicity are like this. Why do many big-name stars give people the impression that they always perform well? The reason is simple. When they perform poorly, they simply don't report it, or the media actively helps them find some reasons, so that fans have an impression that their poor performance is not a problem of strength.

This is only part of the team's publicity and promotion. There are more details and measures. Otherwise, why can Tottenham Hotspur sell players at such a high price? That is accumulated by the usual news marketing bit by bit!

At the end of the press conference, many reporters asked Ye Qiu whether the tablet used by the Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff during the game was the tablet that Yezi Technology was about to launch on the market. Ye Qiu gave a positive answer.

This is the first step of Yezi Technology's publicity and promotion. Ye Qiu took a few engineering prototypes to the club for the coaching staff to use. As a result, these guys were fascinated and scrambled for it. Moreover, its advantage is that it can directly install the player database, OPTA real-time database, and Ye Qiu's coaching system.

With it, Roland completely abandoned the laptop that had been with him for many years!

With the 3:0 victory over Manchester United in the Community Shield, Gareth Bale is completely on fire!

Relatively speaking, as a central defender, Zieglinski, who replaced last season's defensive stalwart Brad Hangeland, did indeed cause the media to marvel at his zero mistakes, especially his passing and defense, which were very amazing, but he is a central defender after all, and it is difficult to cause a huge market response.

But Gareth Bale is different. He turned Gary Neville into a sieve and completely blew up Manchester United's defense. Such performance is enough to attract the attention of the world, and the media is digging deep into the news about Gareth Bale. Although the Welsh teenager is not handsome, he is also very distinctive.

So, after this game, everyone regarded Gareth Bale as a future top star, and started a round of overwhelming hype. Many reporters even said that with Gareth Bale's outstanding performance, even if Ribery returned, it would be difficult to compete with him for the main position.

It was in this overwhelming hype that Ribery underwent a second operation at Wellington Hospital and successfully removed the steel nail that had been implanted in his left ankle. What he needs to do next is to recover from the injury, then do recovery training, and finally return to the training ground and the field.

According to experts at Wellington Hospital and Peter Brandt's preliminary estimate, Ribery's comeback will have to wait at least two months, that is, around October, and no one knows whether he can return to his peak state after his comeback.

This cruel fact also tells everyone one thing, that the Frenchman can no longer compete for the annual individual award.

With Ribery's withdrawal due to injury, Cristiano Ronaldo has become the biggest favorite for this individual award, but Tottenham Hotspur has another equally outstanding player, that is Messi, who is currently performing very well in the BJ Olympics, but it is probably difficult to impact Cristiano Ronaldo.

As the Community Shield Cup came to an end, the curtain of the new Premier League season is about to open, but at the same time, various Premier League summits are also being carried out one after another, such as the summit of the 20 Premier League club owners and the chairman and CEO of the Premier League in the new season, as well as the summit of the head coaches and senior management of the English Football Association, the Premier League, and the English professional clubs.

In the original practice, the Premier League boss summit was often held, but such a large-scale meeting of head coaches and management was relatively rare. The main purpose of this time was to discuss a topic that has been raised for nearly two years, that is, to relax the regional restrictions on youth training selection and reform the youth training clauses.

Sometimes Ye Qiu really felt that the British people's rigidity and dogmatism had even reached an outrageous level, especially in such an information age, they actually still cling to a youth training clause that should have been abandoned and reformed long ago for so many years.

As the head coach of the Premier League and the initiator of this youth training reform, Ye Qiu, Ferguson, Wenger, Benitez and others bluntly criticized England's youth training clauses at the meeting. Among them, Ye Qiu's remarks were the most reasonable and powerful.

"First of all, I don't know who formulated the regional restriction clause, and I don't know if anyone can give me the most reasonable reason to convince me what the regional restriction is for. In my opinion, it is useless. Its existence has created a very awkward vicious cycle!"

"On the one hand, big clubs have enough financial resources and willingness to invest in youth training, but they can't recruit talents, and small teams have problems surviving, let alone youth training. This is obviously a huge waste. In order to strengthen the team's youth training system, big teams have to introduce some high-level young players from outside England, but this will become evidence for others to attack the team for not paying attention to local youth training in the future!"

Ye Qiu's words were supported and responded by Ferguson, Wenger, Benitez and others present.

"Take Tottenham Hotspur as an example. In our Theobald training base, we have established a youth team from small to large. We have dormitories and special tutors. Next door to us is the famous St. Mary's School. We are fully capable of training young players from the UK and around the world."

"My reasoning is very simple. Our youth training camp must provide enough talent reserves for the first team. Either they are selected from England or imported from abroad. This is normal. What about now? U14 to U16, we are limited to 90 minutes by car, and U14 and below are limited to 60 minutes by car! "

After a pause, Ye Qiu smiled coldly, "If we encounter traffic jams in London, we can probably only choose in Tottenham. Who can give me a data on how many children are born in Tottenham every year? "

Everyone also smiled knowingly. This clause has been attacked for many years, especially in the past two years. Ye Qiu, Ferguson, Wenger and Benitez have been bombarding this clause, but the FA seems to be unmoved.

"Another point I want to say is that after I came to the Premier League, I saw a very, very, in my opinion, outrageous drawback of England's youth training, because they have been instilling a kind of idea, a concept, and a spiritual creed into the players since childhood."

"All youth training workers will tell players that if your clothes are still clean after 90 minutes, then you must be the worst player on the field. This is the most outrageous fallacy I have ever heard about youth training!"

"Everyone knows that falling to the ground and shoveling on the field is a double-edged sword. If you shovel it, you succeed, but if you can't shovel it, the opponent will pass you directly, and this kind of shovel is a very dangerous move, Eduardo da Silva The reason for the broken leg is that the Premier League's enforcement standards are too loose, and on the other hand, it is caused by this deformed youth training! "

"Anyone can ask, no need to ask others, just ask Ferdinand, ask Terry, ask those top English stars, ask them, who believes that if the clothes are clean after 90 minutes, the performance will be bad? On the contrary, I tell you, if the clothes are still clean after 90 minutes, there are only two situations, one is that you have not played football at all, and the other is that you performed very, very, very well!"

This time, Ye Qiu bombarded a youth training concept. He felt that it was simply wrong, but the English were so stubborn that they would not let it go. He just wanted to use this summit to speak freely.

"Let me show you another photo!" As Ye Qiu pointed his hand, the staff present immediately played a very strange photo on the big screen of the venue. In a standard football field, two children who looked only seven or eight years old were entangled in the penalty area, and in front of them, the goal looked so huge.

Even, maybe it was the angle of the photo, or maybe it was true, the ball under their feet was also very big.

This completely disproportion between big and small makes this photo give people a very weird feeling.

"This is England's youth training!" Ye Qiu said with a sneer, and sat down directly.

Ferguson and Wenger, who were sitting next to him, patted Ye Qiu on the shoulder one after another to show their praise. Ye Qiu's words and the evidence he brought out were very convincing.

Although Ye Qiu was bombarding the English Football Association for its inaction, the summit was supposed to be free to speak, so there would be no problem. If even such remarks were unacceptable, what freedom of speech could Britain call it?

Regarding the reform plan for youth training, they had already submitted it. Among them, Ye Qiu felt that it was unnecessary for Ferguson and others to reform the youth training time, so he did not mention it.

According to the current youth training standards in England, the total youth training time from ten to eighteen years old shall not exceed two thousand hours. If the study time and holidays are deducted, it is about one hour a day, which is similar to the 90-minute training mechanism promoted by Ye Qiu in Tottenham Hotspur, so he thinks this is not a problem.

Ajax and some youth trainings such as Barcelona and Real Madrid all adhere to the 90-minute training mechanism.

But in terms of youth training venues and selection range, Ye Qiu is very persistent. He himself promoted youth training on small venues in Tottenham Hotspur, and then gradually expanded the venue range as the age increased. For juniors, he even advocated using small balls for youth training, because this can increase the players' ball sense and ball control ability.

In addition, there are some youth team leagues at all levels, U21 youth team leagues, and some youth team cup competitions, which Ye Qiu supports, because relatively speaking, training is important, but the stimulation and encouragement of the game are equally important.

As for whether to train young players in technology, physical fitness and tactics at the same time, or to train technology first and then physical fitness and tactics, Ye Qiu did not insist, because he felt that this youth training concept was subjective and deeply rooted. The English Football Association and the Premier League officials only needed to give guidance, and each club could handle it on its own.

A one-size-fits-all approach that is too strong sometimes backfires!

Moreover, England is England and Spain is Spain. The two countries have different environments. If you force England to play like Spain, does it make sense? Is it possible?

Just like in Ye Qiu's previous life, Loew made Germany transform. In Ye Qiu's opinion, it was impossible to succeed!

For the opinions and suggestions raised by the Premier League head coaches and some English football legends at the summit, the English Football Association said that it would seriously consider and promised to give a reply in a short time.

However, the main purpose of this summit was to ask the Premier League teams to support the youth training of small and medium-sized teams, but this did not receive a positive response, because it was very simple. Who knows whether these small and medium-sized teams will use the Premier League funding for special purposes? And if it is given when introducing young players, then they have to pay training fees and liquidated damages. What else can be compensated?

The key goal of several Premier League teams including Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Arsenal, etc. this time is to overcome the regional restrictions on selection and allow Premier League teams to conduct national selection. As long as this goal is achieved, even if the English Football Association is unwilling to give in to other aspects, the clubs can find ways on their own. For example, the Premier League has agreed to Ye Qiu's initiative to increase the construction and organization of youth leagues of all ages of Premier League clubs, which is beyond the control of the English Football Association.

This summit before the start of the season caused a lot of smoke and controversy, but it was soon forgotten by the fans as the league started. Only the clubs continued to put pressure on the FA, hoping to bring about reforms as soon as possible.