Chapter 1301 Superstar's Advantage

Back to Ajax?

Yang Yang really didn't think about it, and for a long time, he thought so.

In European football there is a tradition called falling leaves returning to their roots.

Many big-name players like to return to their home team to retire, and Ajax is Yang Yang's home team.

Therefore, for a long time in the past, Yang Yang really thought that if he could no longer play in the top European leagues, he would go back to Ajax to retire. I believe that Ajax will definitely welcome him.

Of course, the premise is that he has to make huge concessions in terms of salary, otherwise, with his current salary, Ajax can't afford it.

But gradually, this kind of thought faded away, and he really didn't think about it carefully.

But now, Van der Sar suddenly mentioned that Yang Yang missed his green years at Ajax.

His love with Su Ye started in Ajax, and his deep friendship with Ibrahimovic, Sneijder, Vermaelen and others also started in Ajax, and his football career is still Starting at Ajax...

For him, this team has too many wonderful memories.

But if he really wants to go back, can he go back?

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Van der Sar didn't know that his remarks caused a huge wave in Yang Yang's heart, and he didn't think about what Yang Yang would promise or promise. He was more of a wish.

If Yang Yang is willing to return to Ajax, it will definitely revive the Ajax football market, rekindle the passion of Ajax fans, and make the city of Amsterdam go crazy for Ajax again.

Only Yang Yang has such appeal and influence!

“In the past few years, we have experienced many ups and downs, the management, the coaching staff and the team are all turbulent, and the results are also ups and downs. Until the last few years, we have been painstakingly, and then we have made up our minds to reform and reorganize, and began to hire people from the previous The successful players who went out on the team are coming back."

"We all hope to help Ajax rise again and stand on the top of Europe again, we all miss those years, although we all know that this is impossible, but that is our beauty. Memories."

Van der Sar's words were sincere and heartfelt, which also resonated with Yang Yang.

He is nostalgic for those years, so why not Van der Sar and others?

Over the years, many famous players have returned to Ajax, from Ronald Koeman and Van Basten to De Boer, Bergkamp, ​​Overmars, David and Van der Sar, among others.

Today's Ajax is basically run and operated by these former stars, De Boer is the team's head coach, Bergkamp is the assistant coach, Overmars, Davies and Van der Sar All are members of the management technical team.

"To be honest," Van der Sar looked at Yang Yang deeply, "We are really surprised and happy to learn that you have been appointed as the chief assistant coach of Real Madrid. This is a very good opportunity to exercise, but it is also an adventure."

Yang Yang couldn't stop nodding, "Yes, I was hesitant, but Zidane and the management were both enthusiastic and I decided to give it a try."

"This is very good." Van der Sar laughed, "Whether it is successful or not, it will be a valuable wealth of experience. If you think about being your own in the future, you can consider Ajax. This is for you. , would be a very suitable platform, wouldn't it?"

Yang Yang nodded in affirmation.

Whether it's a player or a manager, Ajax is really a very suitable platform.

It is a giant and is famous all over the world, but it is difficult to say it is a giant now. The key is that it has a certain advantage in the strength of the Eredivisie, and faces PSV, even Feyenoord and other teams. In competition, I can often play in the Champions League. The pressure of coaching is not too big, but it is not too small. It is very valuable for training.

It can be said that such a team is really suitable for starting.

Especially for someone like Yang Yang.

Of course, for Yang Yang, Ajax is suitable to start, but for countless people who are interested in coaching, Ajax's coaching position is likely to be their lifelong pursuit and desire.

This is the advantage of a legendary superstar like Yang Yang.

"When I play for a few more years and retire in the future, I will consider it very seriously." Yang Yang nodded.

Van der Sar is also a straightforward person, and at the same time he is unlikely to make any commitments, because hiring a head coach is always a very rigorous thing, even a legendary superstar like Yang Yang must not be hasty.

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Yang Yang's conversation with Van der Sar did not attract anyone's attention.

At the Grimalti Convention Centre, people like them talking abound, not to mention they all have Ajax backgrounds.

Even Yang Yang didn't take it to heart. Although he was about to be twenty-nine years old, he didn't know how many years he would have to play, maybe two or three years, maybe more. Who knows what will happen in the future. Woolen cloth?

Soon, with the start of the draw and award ceremony, everyone forgot what had happened before and focused on the draw for the Champions League group stage.

In recent years, the strength gap between the Champions League teams has obviously been gradually widening, not only between the rich and the non-rich, but even between the traditional giants, the gap in strength is also very obvious.

For example, the Milan duo in Serie A have obviously fallen sharply, Manchester United in the Premier League has also declined a lot, as well as Chelsea and Arsenal. These teams are good, but compared with teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich , the strength is still a lot worse.

So much so that the draw has not yet started, but everyone is reluctant to draw Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

Real Madrid's luck is not very good. They have drawn Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1, Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine and Malmo in Sweden. Malmo is Ibrahimovic's parent team, and the Swedish center is from here. The team debuted.

In this group, the real competitive pressure on Real Madrid is the French Paris Saint-Germain.

This Ligue 1 team, backed by the Qatari consortium, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, and its performance is also booming. Last season, it played a lot with Barcelona in the Champions League knockout rounds, and its overall strength is very daunting.

Shakhtar Donetsk is an old-fashioned monster team in the Champions League. In the past few years, there have been many talents. The farthest is Dario Srna, and most of the recent monsters are from Brazil, such as Manchester City's Fernan Dinho, Willian from Chelsea, and Douglas Costa, who just moved to Bayern Munich this summer.

Perhaps the loss of personnel has been very serious in recent years, and Shakhtar Donetsk has not been able to replenish reinforcements in time, and their overall strength has declined, but they have rich experience in European wars, and Real Madrid's visit to Ukraine is in At the end of November, it will be freezing cold weather, which is also very scary.

Therefore, in the face of such a team, Real Madrid cannot be careless in any case.

On the contrary, it is Malmo of Sweden. This team is probably difficult to pose a threat to Real Madrid. I believe that as long as Real Madrid plays normally, it is not difficult to win the opponent, but it is also not to be careless.

In general, this is a typical pattern of the Champions League group stage with two strong and two weak, and Real Madrid's signing is quite satisfactory.

For Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain is definitely a strong enemy. The two-round matchup must be won with all its strength. For Shakhtar Donetsk and Malmo, the biggest trouble is often the climate and long distance travel.

The Champions League is usually played in the middle of the week, whether it is Sweden or Ukraine, the distance is too long, which is a very unstable factor.

But no matter what, Real Madrid is still very confident in this group.

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Compared with Real Madrid, Barcelona's luck is much better. Leverkusen, Roma and Borisov are drawn. This is a typical single-player pattern. Leverkusen and Roma are comparable in strength. The teams in the league, but none of them can shake the status of Barcelona, ​​so Barcelona's signing is really quite good.

But the best is Chelsea. They have drawn Porto, Dynamo Kyiv and Maccabi Tel Aviv. None of the three teams can threaten the Blues. There is basically no suspense in Chelsea's group top.

As for the other groups, the draw results are basically the same, which is basically the same as the draw for the Champions League group stage in the past few years. Most of them are two strong and two weak. The real focus of competition is the competition for the top spot in the group and the third place in the group. , the former can have an advantage in the knockout rounds of the round of 16, and the latter can play the Europa League.

It is worth mentioning that in this year's Champions League group stage, there are a total of five teams in La Liga. In addition to the top four in the league, there is also Sevilla, the Europa League champion, which is the first time in the history of the Champions League. .

Moreover, all five teams made it to the group stage.

As for how many teams can stand out from the group stage, it depends on the competitiveness of La Liga teams.

In general, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico have no problems. Whether Sevilla and Valencia can qualify depends on their luck.

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After the draw is over, the process moves on to UEFA's Best of the Year awards ceremony.

The first was awarded the best save of the year, and the result was won by Ter Stegen from Barcelona.

In the semi-final against Bayern Munich, the German goalkeeper staged a wonderful two consecutive saves and performed very well, beating Courtois and Neuer to be voted the best save of the season.

In terms of the best goal of the Champions League season, two of the three shortlisted goals were nominated by Yang Yang. They were the last two goals in the Champions League final, one was a long-range shot, and the other was a direct free kick from 40 meters away. Another was for Messi, the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich.

In fact, many people think that Yang Yang could have won three nominations, but in the end he got one to Messi.

In the end, it was Yang Yang's final goal in the Champions League final, and a direct free kick from 40 meters away won the best goal of the season.

It can be said that this is also well deserved!

After Yang Yang took the stage to receive the award for the best goal of the season, the award ceremony also came to the final grand finale.

UEFA Player of the Year.