super storm

Chapter 100 The Desperate Draw

During the Christmas period, except for the Premier League, the European leagues were completely suspended, but the heavy news of European football is still in an endless stream.

First, Zidane defeated national team teammate Henry and club teammate Ronaldo with an absolute advantage, and was successfully elected as the World Footballer of the Year. This is also the third time that the French superstar has become the World Footballer of the Year.

Yang Yang watched the TV live broadcast of the awards ceremony. The French superstar said in an interview on the spot that he would retire at the age of 33, which surprised everyone including Yang Yang.

Although he is 31 years old, Zidane is still in full swing today. He plays for Real Madrid, which is full of superstars and is known as the most powerful team in football today.
After Zidane announced his retirement time, the media all over the world were shocked. At the same time, many media began to look for the next Zidane, and selected the top ten new midfielders who are most likely to replace Zidane in European football.

The first place is of course Ronaldinho, who just joined Barcelona this summer. At the age of 23, he is a universally recognized super talent, and everyone thinks that he will become the top superstar.

But his teammate in the Brazilian national team, AC Milan's supernova Kaka is also the focus of everyone's expectations. He is the most eye-catching new star in European football this season, and he is only 21 years old.

In addition, playing for the domestic Santos team in Brazil, the young Pele Diego also makes everyone look forward to it. Many people even think that he is better than Kaka and has more potential.

In addition to the three Brazilian stars, Argentina's Dalisandro and Aimar, England's Lampard, Italy's Cassano and Pirlo, etc., are all young rookies that European football is looking forward to and have been included in the list of Zidane's replacements.

Also making the list is Ajax's Rafael van der Vaart.

As the youngest captain of Ajax, Van der Vaart has left the position of left winger and played in the middle of the midfield, but everyone believes that he already has the strength of a top European star, and his talent and potential are enough.

Today's Eredivisie league is not ten years ago, and Ajax is not the European powerhouse it was at the time. Van der Vaart can only get a better platform to express himself if he leaves Ajax and joins a wealthy team.

Yang Yang doesn't know much about other players on the list, but he knows Kaka. This Brazilian player is indeed quite powerful, and Ajax's Van der Vaart is his teammate. There is no need to say more about his strength.

Through this list, Yang Yang also clearly felt that the status of the Eredivisie League in European football has been completely reduced to the second-rate, and Ajax has long been out of the sight of the mainstream media and fans.

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After Zidane won the World Footballer of the Year, the French Football Magazine also announced the selection of the European Footballer of the Year. The Czech star Nedved, who played for Juventus, defeated Henry, Maldini and Shevchenko and was elected as the new European Footballer of the Year. Zidane only ranked fifth in the list.

Yang Yang's idol Ronaldo even dropped to No.11.

Among the top ten players on the list, Real Madrid scored a total of four, namely Zidane, Raul, Carlos and Beckham, plus No.11 Ronaldo, Real Madrid can be said to have occupied half of the country.

The selection of World Footballer of the Year and European Footballer of the Year quickly aroused heated discussions among the media and fans. They began to pay more attention to whose selection was more authoritative, but Yang Yang's attention quickly shifted to the draw.

The results of the draw for the quarter-finals of the Dutch Cup will be announced soon, with Ajax hosting Feyenoord.

The time is February [-]th.

This will also be the first strong dialogue between the Dutch giants after Yang Yang lands.

The second half of the Dutch league will start on January 24. After two rounds of the league, the Dutch Cup will be ushered in. In late February, the knockout round of the Champions League round of [-] will be ushered in. Ajax has a very intensive schedule throughout February.

After the results of the Dutch Cup draw were released, the results of the draw for the knockout round of the UEFA Champions League also came out.

Since Ajax qualified as No.2 in the group, they will face one of the No.1 teams in the other seven groups except AC Milan.

Lyon, Chelsea, Juventus, Manchester United, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Monaco...

As a result, Ajax was unlucky to draw the Gunners Arsenal.

This has immersed the entire Dutch football world in deep pessimism, because Arsenal has shown super dominance in the Premier League this season, with [-] wins and [-] draws in the [-] rounds, and has maintained an unbeaten record so far. However, due to many draws, it is one point behind its old rival Manchester United in the league and ranks second in the standings.

In the Champions League group stage, Arsenal played very badly in the first three rounds. First, they lost [-]-[-] at home to Inter Milan, then drew [-]-[-] away with Lokomotiv Moscow, and lost [-]-[-] away to Dynamo Kiev.

But Wenger's team quickly adjusted, beating Dynamo Kiev [-]-[-] at home, defeating Inter Milan [-]-[-] away, beating Lokomotiv Moscow [-]-[-] at home, both in terms of strength and form were obviously excellent.

After the result of the draw came out, the entire Dutch football world was desperate for Ajax's Champions League prospects. After all, Arsenal is a giant in the Premier League, and it is difficult for Ajax to compete with such a giant team.

And this sentiment naturally affected the team as well.

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Entering [-], Ajax regrouped in De Tokmoster.

After the players finished the Christmas break, they all returned to the team on time.

Yang Yang also saw friends such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Vermaelen and Maxwell who had returned to China for Christmas again, but the overall atmosphere in De Tokmorst was obviously a bit depressed.

No one likes the feeling of being doomed.

Captain van der Vaart led all his teammates to undergo a detailed physical examination by the team doctor. The physical data of many players in the team exceeded the standard, which also made the head coach Ronald Koeman's face not particularly good-looking.

Before the holiday, he urged everyone not to slack off.

To Yang Yang's surprise, the Swedish center's physical data was actually very good, not exceeding the standard, which was obviously unreasonable.

"Didn't you say that you eat and drink with Helena all day?" Yang Yang asked curiously.

Ibrahimovic was very proud when he heard this, and raised his brows, "Hey, I was born with this kind of body, you guys can't envy me."

"Will you die if you don't brag?" Yang Yang smiled wryly and shook his head.

But don't say it, listening to Ibrahimovic bragging, I feel very warm.

"I guess he should have been with Helena for a long time, it's not true." Maxwell laughed.

Yang Yang and the others are all men, so of course they understood the meaning of these words, and immediately burst out laughing.

The Swedish center reached out to catch the Brazilian, "Maxwell, if you miss, tell me earlier, I will help you."

Yang Yang was funny again, but he still felt very familiar when he heard the hearty laughter of his teammates.

Since Yang Yang insisted on training every day during the Christmas period, he passed the physical examination smoothly, but the coaching staff still gave Yang Yang an additional training schedule, mainly for physical reserve and physical strength confrontation. These are Yang Yang's current weaknesses and need to be strengthened.

Although this means that Yang Yang's entire winter break training will be particularly difficult, but in turn it also means that the coaching staff headed by Ronald Koeman has begun to place higher expectations and requirements on him. I believe he will still be an important member of the team in the second half of the season.

After the physical examination, Ronald Koeman severely reprimanded several players in the team whose physical examinations seriously exceeded the standard, thinking that this was the consequence of their indulgence during the Christmas holiday.

Ronald Koeman has always managed the army strictly, and everyone in the team is in awe of him, so naturally he dare not be careless.

On the first day of the training camp, the team focused more on adjustment and recovery, with the purpose of getting everyone into a state of training and preparation gradually.

Since Ajax played well in the first half, the results of the Champions League, Eredivisie and Dutch Cup are basically satisfactory, and the management also hopes to maintain the stability of the first team lineup, so they will not consider transfers during the winter break.

In addition, Van Gaal has reached a consensus with the core stars of the team such as Trabelsi, Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart before, and they all promised to concentrate on playing for Ajax before the end of the season, so basically no players will be sold during the winter break.

This stability is also reflected in the emotions and mentality of the players on the first day of the team's assembly.

It is worth mentioning that Babel, Demur, Maduro, Lindgren and other players from the second team are also included in the list of the team going to Portugal for winter training. They will all train with the team and accept the inspection of the first-team coaching staff.

These players were obviously a little embarrassed when they met Yang Yang. Half a month ago, they were all teammates on the same starting line. Babel was even ahead of Yang Yang. But who would have thought that after half a month, Yang Yang had entered the first team and gained a firm foothold, and at the same time became famous in Dutch football.

This made Babel, who always disliked Yang Yang, very depressed.

The day before the Ajax training camp, the Dutch media broke the news that Collins John, who played for Twente, officially transferred to the Fulham team, worth 60 euros.

The young African-Dutch striker made his name at the beginning of the season, breaking the youngest scoring record in the Eredivisie, and was not refreshed by Yang Yang until the end of the year. He scored nine goals in the first half of the [-]th round of the league and performed very well, which attracted the attention of Fulham.

Since the contract between him and Twente is still the original youth training camp, Fulham was able to buy this well-known star of hope in the Eredivisie at a relatively low price.

After Collins John, many media also diverted their attention and paid attention to Yang Yang.

The predecessor Collins John has already transferred, but what about Yang Yang who emerged at the end of the first half?

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