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 was still in an endless stream.
First, Zidane defeated the national team teammate Henry and the club teammate Ronaldo with an absolute advantage, and was successfully elected as the world footballer. This is also the third time that the French superstar has become the world footballer.
Yang Yang watched the live TV broadcast of the award 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. The Real Madrid star he plays for is swarmed with superstars and is known as the strongest team in football today. He can completely dominate European football for a few years. How can you make it clear now that you want to retire in two or three years?
After Zidane announced his retirement time, the media around 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 promising to replace Zidane in European football. .
The number one is of course Ronaldinho, who just joined Barcelona this summer. At only 23 years old, he is a world-recognized super genius. Everyone thinks that he will become the top superstar.
But his teammate in the Brazilian national team, AC Milan's superstar Kaka, is also the focus of everyone's expectations. He is the brightest star in European football this season, and he is only 21 years old.
In addition, playing for the domestic Santos team in Brazil, the 18-year-old new Pele Diego also makes everyone look forward to it, and even many people think that he is better than Kaka and has more potential.
In addition to the three Brazilian stars, Argentina's Dali Sandro, Aimar, England's Lampard, Italy's Cassano and Pirlo, etc., are all young rookies that European football is looking forward to, and are included in the list. List of Zidane's replacements.
Also on the list is Rafael van der Vaart, who plays for Ajax.
As the youngest captain of Ajax, Van der Vaart has left the left wing and switched to midfield, but everyone thinks he has the strength of a first-class European star, and his talent and potential are enough to make him He became a top star if he needed to move away from Ajax.
Today's Eredivisie League is no longer a decade ago, and Ajax is not the original European powerhouse. Only by leaving Ajax and joining a giant team can Van der Vaart get a better platform to express himself.
Yang Yang doesn't know much about the rest of 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 much about his strength.
Through this list, Yang Yang also clearly felt that the position of the Eredivisie League in European football has been completely reduced to second-rate, and Ajax has long been out of the mainstream media and fans' attention.
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After Zidane won the World Footballer of the Year, the French Football Magazine also quickly announced the selection of the European Footballer of the Year. The Czech star Nedved, who played for Juventus, beat Henry, Maldini and Shevchenko. Elected as the new European footballer, Zidane only got fifth place in the list.
Yang Yang's idol, Ronaldo, slipped to 11th place.
Among the top ten players on the list, Real Madrid has entered a total of four, namely Zidane, Raul, Carlos and Beckham, plus Ronaldo in eleventh place, Real Madrid can be said to occupy half of the country. .
The selection of World Footballer and European Footballer 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 turned to the draw.
The results of the draw for the Dutch Cup quarter-finals will be announced soon, with Ajax taking on Feyenoord at home.
The time is February 4th.
This will also be the first strong dialogue between the Dutch giants that Yang Yang will usher in after landing.
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 stage of the Champions League round of 16 will be ushered in. The schedule is very intensive.
After the Dutch Cup draw results were released, the draw results for the Champions League round of 16 knockout rounds also came out.
Since Ajax qualified second in the group, they will face one of the seven other first-place teams in the group except AC Milan.
Lyon, Chelsea, Juventus, Manchester United, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Monaco…
As a result, Ajax was lucky to draw the Gunners Arsenal.
This has immersed the entire Dutch football world in a deep pessimism, because Arsenal this season has shown super dominance in the Premier League, with 19 rounds of 13 wins and 6 draws, and has maintained an unbeaten record so far. , but due to more draws, it is one point behind the 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 0-3 at home to Inter Milan, then drew 0-0 away with Lokomotiv Moscow and lost 1-2 away to Dynamo Kyiv.
But Wenger's team quickly adjusted, beating Dynamo Kyiv 1-0 at home, beating Inter Milan 5-1 away, and defeating Lokomotiv Moscow 2-0 at home, both in terms of strength and form, they were obviously outstanding.
After the results 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 affects the team.
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Entering 2004, Ajax regrouped at De Tokmost.
The players returned to the team on time after the Christmas break.
Yang Yang also saw friends like Ibrahimovic, Fermaelen and Maxwell who had returned to China for Christmas again, but the overall atmosphere of De Tokmost was obviously a little depressing.
Nobody likes the feeling of being doomed to be eliminated.
Captain Van der Vaart led all his teammates to undergo a detailed medical examination by the team doctor. Many players in the team had exceeded the physical data, which also made the face of coach Ronald Koeman 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 turned out to be very good and did not exceed the standard, which is obviously unreasonable.
"Didn't you say that you eat and drink with Helena all day?" Yang Yang asked curiously.
Ibrahimovic was very proud after hearing it, and raised his brows, "Hey, I was born with this body, you can't envy it."
"Will you die if you don't brag?" Yang Yang shook his head with a wry smile.
But don't say it, listening to Zlatan Ibrahimovic bragging is very warm.
"I guess he should have been with Helena for a long time, false." Maxwell laughed.
Yang Yang and the others were 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, say it earlier, and I will make it for you."
Yang Yang laughed again, but when he heard the hearty laughter of his teammates, he still felt very familiar.
During the Christmas period, Yang Yang insisted on training every day, so he passed the physical examination smoothly, but the coaching staff still gave Yang Yang a schedule for additional training, mainly for physical reserve and physical strength. These are Yang Yang's current weakness and need to be strengthened.
This certainly 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 in the second half of the season. Still an important member of the team.
After the physical examination, Ronald Koeman severely reprimanded several players in the team who had seriously exceeded the physical examination, believing that this was the result of their indulgence during the Christmas holidays, and also put forward a requirement for all players who exceeded the standard to be in Portugal during the training camp, Adjust your body, otherwise, no one will want to play the game.
Ronald Koeman has always ruled the army strictly, and everyone in the team is in awe of him, naturally he dare not be careless.
On the first day of the training camp, the team mainly focused on adjustment and recovery. The purpose was to let everyone gradually enter the state of training and preparation.
Since Ajax played well in the first half, the results of the Champions League, Eredivisie and Dutch Cup are basically satisfactory. The management also hopes to maintain the stability of the first-team lineup, so it will not consider transferring during the winter break. aid.
In addition, Van Gaal and Trabelsi, Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart and other core stars in the team have reached a consensus before, and they have also promised to concentrate on playing for Ajax before the end of the season. , so the entire winter break will basically not sell players.
This stability is also reflected in the mood and mentality of the players on the first day of the team's assembly.
It is worth mentioning that players such as Babel, De Moor, Maduro and Lindgren from the second team were also selected in the team's roster for the winter training camp in Portugal, and they will all accompany the team for training. , to accept the inspection of the first team coaching staff.
These players were obviously a little embarrassed when they met with Yang Yang. They were teammates on the same starting line two weeks ago. Babel was even ahead of Yang Yang, but who would have thought that half a month later, Yang Yang had already entered the first line. The team has gained a firm foothold, and at the same time has become famous in Dutch football.
This made Babel, who had always been unpleasant to Yang Yang, very depressed.
On the day before the Ajax training camp, the Dutch media broke the news that Collins John, who played for Twente, officially transferred to Fulham, worth 600,000 euros.
The 18-year-old African-Dutch striker made his name at the beginning of the season, breaking the record for the youngest goal in the Eredivisie. It was not refreshed by Yang Yang until the end of the year, and he was in the first half. Scored nine goals in 18 rounds of the league and performed so well that it caught Fulham's attention.
Since he and Twente are still under the original academy contract, Fulham was able to buy the famous Eredivisie hopeful at a relatively low price.
After Collins John, many media also turned their attention to Yang Yang.
The former Collins John has all transferred, what about Yang Yang who appeared in the final stage of the first half?
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