The Godfather of Football

Sometimes, the biggest test for players on both sides of a football match is not just tactics and technology, but more importantly, the mental will, which is also an argument that Sacchi and Cruyff have always advocated.

Technology will be deformed as physical fitness declines, and tactics will lose their effectiveness as opponents contain them, but only mental will can ensure that a team wins a game, so almost all head coaches regard mental strength as the foundation of building a team.

Of course, this kind of power is usually hard to see, because it must wait until some specific situations to appear.

Just like Manchester United, the Red Devils' lineup is probably not ranked in the top four in the current Premier League, but Ferguson's team can always reach the top four of the league, even when facing strong teams such as Manchester City, Liverpool, and even Tottenham Hotspur, which have stronger lineups than them, Manchester United can show their own strength.

Is this just a technical and tactical level?

Wrong, this is because Manchester United has accumulated a lot of dominance and confidence in the Premier League for a long time!

There are also teams like Manchester City. Judging from the lineup, this team can definitely make a difference in the Champions League, but why does this team always stop in the group stage? So far this season, Manchester City has played three rounds of the Champions League group stage, with one draw and two losses, and has not won. Why is this?

Head coach Mancini does have shortcomings in the European war, but there is another very important reason, which is that Manchester City lacks a spiritual power. They have a large lineup, but they have not been able to work together, which has led to their team's inability to exert their strongest strength. In this case, no matter how good the head coach is, it is useless.

There are teams like Manchester City, such as Real Madrid. The player configuration of this team can basically ensure that they will win the Champions League, but why do they always disappoint people?

In Ye Qiu's previous life, even though Ye Qiu, as a fan, did not appreciate Mourinho's style and some of his practices, he had to admit that he integrated Real Madrid well as a whole, giving the team a holistic spiritual power.

If Mancini's biggest shortcoming is to be said, it must not be tactics, but the integration and shaping of the team's spiritual power.

Dortmund's mental strength is also quite outstanding. Klopp plays a huge role in this. The reason is very simple. Without strong mental strength as support, Dortmund's players cannot accept and endure such boring tactics, because this tactic requires every player to keep running, pressing and oppressing in the game. This is a great test of the players' physical fitness and their willpower to execute tactics.

I still remember that when Ye Qiu learned to swim for the first time in the Netherlands, he swam well later, but he found a very interesting phenomenon, that is, when you swim to the first 100 meters, your body has already begun to tell you to take a break, stop, take a breath and continue.

When you swim to the 200th meter, this signal will be stronger, 300 meters, 400 meters, 500 meters, the longer you swim, the stronger this signal will be, and you need to use your mental will to overcome it, otherwise, when you swim 100 meters, you will choose to dock, rest, and take a breath.

The same is true for football matches. Many fans often feel when watching live broadcasts, wow, why doesn't a certain player run? It's like walking, how can they play?

But if they have really played a full-court football game, they will easily feel that when you sprint back and forth on the court, you are actually breathing heavily and sweating, but the game has just started. If you don't have enough willpower, you will start to want to relax.

Willpower determines how much strength a player can exert on the court. All those outstanding superstars have excellent mental willpower. Even Ronaldo, do you really think that running on the court with a big belly is comfortable? Is it easy?

Some people may say that no matter how much money they make, if you give me such a high salary, I can definitely do it.

This concept itself is wrong. First of all, it is because they did it first that the club is willing to give them such a high salary.

Imagine if Ronaldo always had a big belly and ran a lap on the court and then panted and shouted that he couldn't do it, would Real Madrid still consider introducing him? Would AC Milan want to get him?

As Ye Qiu often told the players, they played not only for the club and the fans, but more importantly for themselves, because every game they played increased their bargaining chips in future negotiations, whether to stay in the team or switch to another team.

Wouldn't other teams observe his games in his old club when they wanted to introduce a player? Wouldn't their casual attitude cause concerns among the teams that were interested in him? Wouldn't his actions in his old club make his new club wary of him?

The reason why many professional players like to make trouble is actually because they don't understand some of the most basic and most superficial truths. That's because they have been making a living by playing football since they were young. Many of them don't have much culture, and even many of them have not received much education. In addition, if they are unfortunate enough to meet an agent who can't help them in this regard, it is easy for this group of young people in their teens and twenties who have not yet formed a basic understanding of this society and the world to easily lose their direction and lose the ability to judge right and wrong.

Why are children the easiest to give up? And adults know how to persist better?

Therefore, Ye Qiu resolutely promotes cultural education in Theobald. All youth training players must participate in the cultural courses of St. Mary's School, and their grades must meet the requirements. In addition, he also encourages first-team players to listen to more courses, read more books, learn more about things, and understand some of the most basic and superficial truths. He also often communicates with players.

Many players still maintain close contact with Tottenham Hotspur even after leaving the team. When talking about Tottenham Hotspur, they are full of praise. For example, Yaya Toure, who transferred to Manchester City, mentioned more than once that he learned a lot from Ye Qiu in Tottenham Hotspur and hoped to have the opportunity to retire in Tottenham Hotspur.

The sense of belonging of Tottenham Hotspur players to the team is second to none in European football. It relies on the club's entire huge supporting system. From the daily life of the players to the cultural construction of the club and the self-value-added of the players, the club has made great efforts to build and strive to cultivate the players' sense of belonging and identity.

With this sense of belonging and identity, the players have feelings for the club, and with feelings, plus they have learned to persist, so they are willing to do their best for every game of the team!

This is because they know that it is not only a reflection of their feelings and loyalty to the club, but more importantly, it is also a reflection of their self-worth!

It is precisely this spiritual force that allows Tottenham Hotspur to always burst out with amazing willpower and fighting power when encountering difficulties. It is not just one person, but everyone!

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People soon found out in surprise that when the game entered the 65th minute, Dortmund became very passive on the field, while Tottenham Hotspur, which seemed to have better technical ability, was in turn suppressing Dortmund.

The defending champion of the Bundesliga was very embarrassed by Tottenham Hotspur. The whole scene seemed to be a replica of the first half, except that the roles of both sides were swapped.

As Ye Qiu said during the halftime break, Dortmund's positional warfare was actually very bad. Klopp really didn't have any good offensive tricks. There were only two tricks, one was to quickly counterattack after stealing the ball, and the other was to find Lewandowski and then attack the two ribs.

This is why everyone recognizes that Lewandowski is very important to this Dortmund team.

Tottenham Hotspur adopted a proper defensive contraction strategy, keeping the overall position and formation of the defense and midfield players compact, compressing the space of Dortmund's four front players, especially Lewandowski, and Ramsey and Vidal actively retreated to defend, which appropriately restricted Dortmund's back-up attack.

When Dortmund's attack was restricted, and as their physical strength declined rapidly, they gradually lost control of the game, Tottenham Hotspur's ball possession advantage became more and more obvious, especially Tottenham Hotspur's quick one-kick pass.

In the end, the game evolved into a situation where Dortmund was like a headless fly, completely unable to control the ball, bumping around blindly, and constantly pressing and oppressing Tottenham Hotspur, but Tottenham Hotspur used its own skillful and fast ball control to lead Dortmund away and force the opponent to reveal flaws.

Tottenham's tactics were not conservative either. They invested a lot in the offense and were very active because they gradually gained confidence. As long as the midfield and backcourt kept a compact position, it would be difficult for Dortmund's frontcourt offensive formation to launch a threatening attack, especially after pinching Lewandowski, Dortmund became a headless bumblebee.

As long as Dortmund was in chaos and exposed a flaw, Tottenham could immediately seize the opportunity.

Once again, Tottenham's attack failed to penetrate Dortmund's defense and was counterattacked by the defending champion of the Bundesliga. However, when Dortmund wanted to enter Tottenham's 30-meter area again, Gotze's ball was intercepted by Vidal, and Tottenham counterattacked the opponent's counterattack.

Dortmund's reaction speed was very fast, but Tottenham Hotspur also took a quick offensive. Ramsey made a diagonal pass to Messi on the right. The Argentine rushed forward quickly, and right back Kyle Walker also sprinted along the side at the fastest speed, actively cooperating with Messi's counterattack on the right.

When Messi entered the opponent's 30-meter area, he received Ramsey's diagonal pass, stopped the ball and faced Hummels. After completing a fake move in the blink of an eye, he kicked the ball to the bottom line and rushed forward quickly, passing through Hummels' defense area, but Subotic behind Hummels immediately assisted in defense, and his position was very good, always sticking to Messi.

The Argentinian rushed into the penalty area, but never found a chance to cut to the center, or take the ball directly to face the goal. Even if he saw Cavani in the middle of the penalty area had already rushed to the penalty spot, he waited for him to pass the ball. , but Subotic's position was so stuck that he had no chance at all. If he forced the ball to pass, he would definitely lose it.

But if there is no pass, Subotic and Hummels will immediately surround Messi.

Messi had no choice. He made an emergency stop before the baseline and passed the ball to the right. Kyle Walker rushed up quickly and got ahead of Schmelzer. He passed a low ball to the middle and went to find it near the penalty spot. Cavani.

At this time, in Dortmund's defense, both central defenders had gone to the right side of the penalty area. Schmelzer looked at Cavani immediately and stood between Cavani and the goal, while the defensive midfielder Sven ?Bender also actively defended.

Cavani's kick didn't stop the ball well, but his physical confrontation ability was excellent. With Sven Bender's body, he blocked the defensive player with his body, protected the ball tightly, and saw the penalty area at the same time. Ribery on the left was unmarked, so after protecting the ball, his first touch was to poke the ball to the left.

Ribery bent over, waiting for Cavani's pass. He glanced at goalkeeper Weidenfeller. He noticed that Weidenfeller was following the movement of the ball and quickly moved to the left. Side, but this scene just swept past, and his attention was focused on Cavani's pass.

He calculated the speed, strength, spin, and even whether there were potholes in the turf along the way the ball passed. When the ball reached the position he had calculated, his originally bent waist quickly straightened up. The whole person was like a slingshot, with his left foot supporting him, his right foot quickly lifted up, and he directly hit the ball and shot an outside instep volley.

I saw the ball, driven by Ribery's volley, turn into a rapidly rotating arc and almost hit the upper right corner of the goal. This was a complete blind spot that made everyone quickly Weidenfeller, who moved to the left, didn't even have the time or reaction to make a save.

3:2! ! !

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"Ribery!! Frank? Ribery!!!!!"

After Ribery scored, he rushed out of the stadium like a bolt of lightning. Along the way, he quickly pushed aside Ramsey who was blocking the front, rushed to the corner stand where the Tottenham fans were, and came directly. He slid to his knees, clenched his hands into fists, and leaned back, causing the entire Tottenham Hotspur fans in the stands to let out a roar along with him.

"Hat-trick! Hat-trick from Franck Ribery!!!"

"3:2, Tottenham Hotspur reversed Dortmund!"

"A very, very wonderful comeback, so outstanding. We saw that Tottenham Hotspur were still not discouraged when they were 0:2 behind. They still showed the spirit and will of a top team. They used facts to , use their spiritual will to tell all fans that they not only rely on technology, they also have an invincible will!"

In distant China, the cheers of two commentators came from the CCTV live broadcast room. I believe that at this moment, countless Chinese fans are just like Ye Qiu standing in front of the visiting team's coaching area, cheering for this ball. The team cheered and applauded.

"This is Tottenham Hotspur, the great Tottenham Hotspur!!!" The CCTV commentator was a little carried away with excitement.

Director Zhang also kept laughing, "Yes, a very great team. They not only have technology and tactics, but they also have a very strong spiritual will. If it were another team, they would be two goals behind." , it’s an away game again, I’m afraid everyone has surrendered their weapons. Even if they don’t surrender their weapons, if they catch up to 2:2, they will feel relieved.”

"But they didn't. They had to reverse life or death. It was this energy that helped them reverse the situation!"

"Yes!" The CCTV commentator also looked excited, "We noticed that many foreign media reporters spoke very highly of Ye Qiu, saying that he is a great head coach, greater than all current head coaches. ”

After a pause, he perhaps felt that giving Ye Qiu such an evaluation on a platform like CCTV was not objective enough, and added: "Of course, we all know that greatness is a matter of opinion. Many people think Ferguson is great. But no one will deny that Ye Qiu has qualifications and influence comparable to Ferguson."

"That's right!" Director Zhang was also enjoying the replay of the goal. "Look, Franck Ribery, three goals and a hat trick. The strength of Tottenham Hotspur is that when the team encounters danger and danger, When times are difficult, someone will always stand up. This is the scary thing about this team. They are so strong, and the strength of the lineup and players are very, very good!”

"When I analyzed before the game, I said that when Messi starts, many people's defensive attention is focused on Messi, but the biggest tactical value of Messi as a player now is that when you all When guarding him, he passes the ball, and he has the ability to pass the ball in the crowd to the feet of teammates who are not guarding him. "

"This is too troublesome for the team defending Tottenham Hotspur. If you don't focus on Messi, it won't work, because Messi's ability may not be defended by two people. If you focus on Messi, you will definitely miss others, which is also not good. In addition, Cavani and Ribery's personal abilities are also quite outstanding, especially Ribery, who may not lose to Messi."

"Ribery was the top scorer in the Premier League back then!" The host said with a smile.

"Yes, Ribery is very capable. You can see that he shot three times, and he was very calm. When the opportunity came, he would not miss it. This is a top superstar!"

"Also, let's look at the combination of Ramsey and Vidal. They have skills and strength. They can run, pass, control, and grab. They can also press down and do some dirty work. Such players are too valuable. In addition, look at the bench of Tottenham Hotspur. Pogba, who has performed best this season, is also very good. There are also Phil Jones, Eriksson and Sandro, who are all very good players. They can form a top midfield that can attack and defend."

When he said this, Coach Zhang laughed again, "Ye Qiu probably figured out Dortmund's level in the second half. I guess Dortmund will be tested in the next round at White Hart Lane!"