Green Dragon

Chapter 41 The Fallen Two Heroes

"Marco, Marco, what do you think of Florence?"

"Mr. Van Basten, how sure are you about the upcoming fourth qualifying round of the Champions League?"

"Mr. Suarez, as far as I know, you have never played in the Champions League. Are you nervous about this unfamiliar competition?"

……

PSV coach Fred Rutten was as black as pig iron.

This is obviously the third round of the 2009-2010 Eredivisie season, and this is obviously PSV Eindhoven's home press conference. Ask questions like the team captain cannonball.

What's even more infuriating is that the questions raised by these reporters have nothing to do with tomorrow's game...!
"Beep beep beep! Puff puff puff!"

Suddenly, there was a piercing blasting sound in the fiery venue, and the reporters couldn't help but frowned.

Van Basten was slapping the microphone on the table continuously with his palm, and the sound came from the microphone.

"Gentlemen, this is the pre-match press conference for the third round of the Dutch Bundesliga, which has nothing to do with half a guilder (former currency of the Netherlands) for the fourth qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, so I refuse to answer these questions."

The Ajax coach put his arms around his chest, with a cold and arrogant expression.

For these media reporters, Van Basten didn't quite buy it.

He will not forget how these people advocated themselves three years ago when he led the Dutch national team with an unbeaten record of 10 wins and 2 draws from the European qualifiers of the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

"Punch Gullit, kick Rijkaard to ascend the throne! Marko is the head of the Dutch Three Musketeers!"

"The national team has the best coaching performance after World War II! The true story of artistic football! The savior of Dutch football!"

"Cruyff: My disciple is better than blue than blue!"

"Dare to talk back to the best coach today? Van Gaal's era is long over!"

"Even Rinus Michels (Dutch football legend, creator of Total Attack and Total Defense tactics) has to bow down!"

"When a player can win the golden ball, he is also invincible as a coach. He is more terrifying than Pele and Maradona!"

——Maybe that's how it feels.

However, when the Dutch team failed in the World Cup and the European Cup, these praises changed overnight.

"The stubborn and stupid head coach destroyed the golden generation of tulips!"

"Don't listen to people's words! Unchanging tactics! Slow command! The head coach is fully responsible!"

"Lack of respect for the predecessor Van Gaal, Van Basten died unjustly!"

"Van Basten stepped down from the altar! The strongest Netherlands was defeated by the weakest Portugal?!"

"The Dutch coach still needs to watch the black swan!"

"Want to surpass the legend? Van Basten wishful thinking!"

As a top player, he has long known the nature of these so-called "uncrowned kings". You can never expect to see a trace of integrity and morality in them.

"If you have no questions about tomorrow's league match, then I suggest that this press conference ends here."

Van Basten glanced at Lu Teng not far away, and stood up directly from his seat.

He didn't mind the attitude of those reporters towards him at all.

If he can win every opponent and hang medals around his neck after a season, even if he tramples the media under his feet every day, they will still continue to praise him, and even scramble to praise "this is a maverick man The charm of the king", "How can we mortals understand the world of the king".

And if he loses to his opponent, no matter how good his attitude is, he will be nothing more than an "amiable piece of trash" in the football world of winners and losers, and then he will become "who is a player who was brilliant in the player era, but switched careers to do it?" A regular guest in the quiz about coaching and getting nothing done" has become the laughing stock of everyone.

This world is so realistic.

The world is so cruel.

This world...is that simple.
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When Van Basten was pretending to be cool at the press conference before the game, Long Shute, who was traveling with the team, was playing with a handheld in the hotel alone.

Living with him is still Daley Blind, but the backup full-back is not in the room at the moment, he was called out by his father, Ajax sports director Blind Sr. …

"Eindhoven's lineup, what are these things..."

Looking at the screen of the game console, Long Shute carefully checked the list of opponents distributed by the coaching staff, and finally sighed.

PSV Eindhoven, who once walked out of countless superstars who shocked the football world and stood up to Ajax and Feyenoord, is now just a sick cat without minions.

In today's Eindhoven first team, no player can be called a star!

Even after a few years... not at all!

In the [History] system that Long Shute can see, only Ibrahim Afeilai in the Eindhoven team can barely enter the public's field of vision, but it is only through Barcelona, ​​Schalke 04. Olympiacos, a third-rate player in Stoke City, and his other teammates are even more miserable. Most of them can only be reduced to the lower-level nine-tier league than the Eredivisie.

It may be a bit strange, but with such a lineup without any big-name players, PSV has won the Eredivisie championship for four consecutive years, completed a four-season monopoly, and killed Ajax every year. It was not until the meritorious coach Ronald Koeman switched to La Liga last season that Alkmaar under Van Gaal won a stable championship.

Moreover, these Eindhoven players who can only hang out in the nine-tier league, in reality, on August 2009, 8, with a score of 16-4, they defeated the star-studded team who had just won two consecutive league victories. Ajax... kicked back to Amsterdam!
Long Shute looked at the specific data of the game provided by the system. Ajax played all the main players, and Suarez scored twice in the first half, helping the team to turn away.

But the situation changed suddenly 5 minutes after the opening of the second half. The home team scored two goals in 4 minutes to overtake the score, but Eindhoven could not be complacent for too long. Only 2 minutes later, Ajax's left side Avant-garde Emmanuelsen equalized again.

Then the time became a hand-to-hand battle between the two sides, fouls and yellow cards dominated the game.

In 90 minutes, a total of eight players from both sides received yellow cards. Among them, Ajax "won" five as the visiting team, and even striker Suarez was not spared.

In such an atmosphere, the players of the visiting team obviously couldn't concentrate on the offense, and the head coach could only replace those players who were dazzled by the blood, but... when Ajax's main attacker Suarez When Staud lost his composure, PSV's attack followed suit, and it was no surprise that they took the lead again.

The big score of [-] to [-] shows that this is a game that is extremely in line with the Dutch football offensive football style. Apart from contributing a few fouls, the defenses of both sides are useless most of the time.

Offensive waves, goal battles, fouls, yellow cards, anti-customers, overtaking, equalization, reversal...

With so many elements together, this should have been a classic battle in which the fans of both sides watched desperately to get close to myocardial infarction, the neutral audience was excited and hooked, and the TV broadcasters made a lot of money.

But now, Long Shute is here.

Van Basten put him in the starting XI.

The Chinese Dragon, who missed the last round, is now hungry and thirsty!
(End of this chapter)