Chapter 679 The Tortoise and the Hare

Football is a very interesting subject, especially when you understand it more deeply and become more familiar with it, you will find that you can’t understand it more and more, because it is very vast and profound.

All industries and subjects in the world are like this.

Just like mathematics, one plus one equals two, simple, right? But as profound as the Goldbach conjecture, countless mathematicians around the world cannot prove it. Do you think mathematics is simple or profound?

Easy to get started, difficult to master, this is the typical feature of all subjects in the world.

Sometimes, Ye Qiu thought, perhaps, the history of modern football over the past 100 years, to be frank, may just be to tell everyone a truth, how to achieve a balance between individuals and teams.

If we magnify this issue, for a country, or even the whole world, individualism and collectivism are also two opposing ideas. So whether it is the pursuit of individualism or the advocacy of collectivism, you can't say it is wrong. In the final analysis, social harmony and world peace are to find a balance between individualism and collectivism, compromise with each other, and get along with each other.

The same is true for football. Its development history is a spiral history, full of struggles between individualism and teamism, and countless superstars, such as Pele and Maradona, were born. But soon, when people found that individuals alone could not limit these superstars, teamism revived, and when teamism developed to a certain extent, it would definitely lead to the rise of more outstanding individualism.

This is a cycle of football!

Back to reality, countless reporters, media and fans are saying that Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi are the two greatest superstars on the planet, and their level exceeds any player in the world. Messi relies on his unparalleled football skills and inspiration, while Cristiano Ronaldo relies on his powerful and invincible body.

The confrontation between the two super geniuses is a confrontation between technology and strength.

It can be said that Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the crystallization and results of the development of star tactics to the extreme since the 1990s. They represent the two most outstanding concepts in the current football world, and they also represent the extreme level of modern football training. They are the most outstanding works of art trained by modern football.

But teamism has always been unwilling to be outdone. The Danish miracle, the Greek miracle, the Valencia miracle, and even Real Madrid's two Champions Leagues at the turn of the century can all be seen as the revival of teamism and the strong return of overall football. This trend is now almost very obvious.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who represent individualism, have reached their limit. Their development has encountered bottlenecks because the level of technology and training has not made major breakthroughs in a short period of time, and their personal abilities have reached the extreme. Therefore, they can score goals like a tide and they can be invincible, but it is difficult for them to lead a team forward by one person like in the Maradona era.

The reason is simple. The overall football representing teamwork has returned!

So, how will football develop in the future?

If Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo represent the highest level of football training, then overall football will gradually popularize this highest level of training in the next few years, so that more and more professional players can enjoy this level of training, and there will be more and more high-level players.

Of course, in this process, you never have to worry about not having stars, because there are always differences between people.

The development of teamism is also impossible without bottlenecks, but at the same time as teamism develops, with the advancement of technology and the improvement of training level, individualism will achieve a breakthrough, so elite special training will create several super talents, and their appearance will once again break the balance brought by teamism. He will re-enact the Maradona miracle, let the whole team build tactics around him, play his tactical value and strength advantages, and then achieve success.

So, a new round of individualism revival, followed by the revival of teamism, repeating over and over again.

Sometimes Ye Qiu feels that the ideas of the ancestors of the motherland are really interesting. They proposed the theory that solitary yin cannot be born, solitary yang cannot grow, and one yin and one yang are the way thousands of years ago.

The truth mentioned here is actually a kind of balance.

When it comes to a person, everyone has two sides, good and bad, good and evil, it depends on how you balance these two personalities.

When it comes to a team, how can superstars and players, individualism and teamism develop in a coordinated manner?

When it comes to a country, how can individuals and collectives, families and countries be balanced and integrated?

Everything in this world is relative and has two sides. If you only look at and think about problems from one side, you will always go astray and take the wrong path.

Just like Ye Qiu, although he graduated from the Cologne Sports Academy in Germany, he is not a professional player. If many people hear this, they will think, ah, this guy is a layman, is it true?

Throughout the history of the world, the decision makers of all great wars are not the generals who are best at fighting!

In World War II, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and the American government and the public were shocked. The situation was critical. Roosevelt decided to bomb Tokyo. Almost all generals in the United States thought it was an impossible task and not cost-effective. As a result, Roosevelt stood up from his wheelchair and told them that if I could stand up, you could do it.

Everyone knows the final result. The United States successfully bombed Tokyo and changed the course of World War II.

Similarly, in the history of football development, it is often those coaches who have not had a brilliant career, or even those who have no career experience at all, who have made outstanding contributions to the development of football. The reason is the same as war. The real decision makers should not be those generals who are good at fighting, but a group of strategists with a broader vision and foresight.

In Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu plays the role of a strategist. Although he is not good at training, he is no longer putting a lot of energy on targeted tactics like in the past, but he is more thinking about how the team should go in the future.

Because of the development of Tottenham Hotspur to this extent, especially the football level, their most powerful enemy is no longer the opponent on the court, but themselves!

In Tottenham Hotspur, there are five excellent tactical analysts in the back seats of every game. Each of them is a tactical master. They use computers to analyze every change and adjustment of the opponent on the field in various ways, and give professional advice to the head coach and coaching staff.

Any one of them is second to none, and their tactical theories and ideas are very outstanding. If you want to debate with them, they can make you speechless, but the problem is that they can only be tactical analysts, because they can only be part of the head coach's integration of the team's resources.

Ye Qiu is not good at carving players, but Mauro Tassotti is a great right back and the best tactical master. Mullensteen and Moniz are the best technical carving masters in the world. Frans Hoke is the best goalkeeper coach in the world. In addition to the team's entire research center and tactical analysis team, the professionalism of Tottenham Hotspur's entire logistics team is second to none in the football world. Whether it is professionalism or advancement, it is superb.

This is the super team that Ye Qiu has built in the past five years!

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Sitting on the office chair, his buttocks swinging left and right, the office chair swayed silently and almost without any resistance.

Ye Qiu's attention was always on the training ground downstairs opposite, where the first-team training session was now underway, led by the team's chief assistant coach Mauro Tassotti.

At this moment, Mauro Tassotti was calling a timeout, walking into the training ground, explaining a mistake made by Luca Shaw, a young player who was promoted to the first team. It was obvious that he was telling him what mistake he made when defending Messi just now, and what was wrong with his defensive position.

He was born as a defender, and he has been immersed in defense in Serie A for decades. He has his own unique understanding of defense, and he is very good at carving defensive players. For example, Thiago Silva and Kompany were carved out by him. In addition, like Kyle Walker, although this English right-back is only 21 years old, Mauro Tassotti is very optimistic about him.

After all, he was a professional player. Mauro Tassotti demonstrated himself after leaving the field. He asked Messi and other offensive players to attack his side with the ball, and then he demonstrated to the players how to move properly while retreating.

This is not only about training defensive players, but also about telling offensive players how to deal with high-level defense.

Mauro Tassotti's training always has a lot of details, and his level makes all players have to admire him. After all, he is the best right back in AC Milan's history. In addition, he has worked in AC Milan for the past ten years and has been influenced by so many head coaches. His ability is indeed very strong.

Ye Qiu asked himself that in terms of details, especially in carving and training players, he is far inferior to Mauro Tassotti, but at the strategic level, Mauro Tassotti is not as good as him. This is also what Ye Qiu hopes Mauro Tassotti can improve, so he recommended many related books to Mauro Tassotti, including a lot of Chinese classics such as [The Art of War by Sun Tzu].

After the training session was over, Ye Qiu turned around, left his office, went downstairs, and went to the players' locker room. The players who had been notified by the coaching staff also returned to the locker room one after another.

"First of all, I must congratulate you all here!" Ye Qiu smiled at everyone, "Your names will be recorded in the history books with the team. You should be proud of your glorious achievements yesterday!"

Fifty-nine unbeaten games, this is a new historical record. Even now, fans all over the UK and even the world are still amazed by Tottenham Hotspur's achievement.

"Secondly, I want to tell everyone that we must change our mindset!"

Speaking of this, Ye Qiu shook his head and smiled, "Yes, many people say that an unbeaten record is a heavy pressure. I myself have had two long unbeaten records. One was when I was at Chelsea, we won 56 games unbeaten, and the other was with you. The two unbeaten records gave me very different feelings!"

"I did feel the pressure last time, but when I thought about it afterwards, I felt so stupid. Why should I have pressure? We can stay unbeaten for so long, which in itself proves everything. We don't need pressure. On the contrary, we should have a motivation, a motivation to challenge the limit!"

"Before 58 games, we were pursuers, chasing Chelsea, chasing AC Milan, we are running behind others, we have a goal, and it is a very clear goal, they are standing in front and waiting for us, just like the tortoise and the hare race, the hare runs fast, but it stops to sleep, the tortoise catches up, do you think the tortoise is capable? "

Ye Qiu shook his head vigorously, "No, I respect the tortoise's efforts and diligence, but I want to say that the tortoise is always a tortoise!"

Many players in the locker room, including some who were selected to participate in the first-team training, such as Luke Shaw, Nick Powell, Januzaj, Calum Chambers, Jedvic and Will Hughes, will all get the opportunity to participate in the cup or the European Youth Champions League.

At this moment, after listening to Ye Qiu's words, they all nodded.

Ye Qiu's meaning is very clear, the tortoise and the hare race cannot prove how outstanding and powerful the tortoise is, it can only be said that the hare handed over the victory to the tortoise, and it was the hare himself who was not motivated.

Back to this record, Ye Qiu's meaning is very clear. Other people's unbeaten records are stationary. It's nothing great if you catch up with them, because you are just a tortoise that keeps chasing. But when you surpass this record, you become the rabbit running in the front, and the other current and future chasers behind you become tortoises.

So, the question is, do you want to be a lazy rabbit? Or do you want to be a rabbit that keeps on being alert and vigilant and keeps rushing forward? This choice can only be made by each person!

"I want to tell you that I, a rabbit, have never felt satisfied. I will continue to run forward. I also hope that Tottenham Hotspur can run forward with me. This requires everyone here to be like me, never feel satisfied, and never be satisfied with the status quo!"

"I also want to tell you that we used to chase others on the road that others have walked, but now there is no road ahead of us, no object or goal to chase. Every step we take will become a road for others to chase, and you, everyone here, will leave your footprints on this road!"

Ye Qiu's words made many players present couldn't help but raise their heads, and their eyes clearly revealed a hunger.

Who doesn't want to leave a name in history?

What do players want to win the championship and the Champions League for?

Money? Not only that, but also fame!

"I want you to understand one more thing. From now on, in every game, you will not play for the fans or the team, but for yourself. How long you can keep the team's unbeaten record is up to you. I believe that if you can go all out in every game, no team can beat you, and you will continue to write this unbeaten history."

The players reacted strongly to Ye Qiu's words, and their emotions were obviously mobilized. Although they didn't speak, they all nodded.

"The third thing I want to announce today is what we said at the press conference before. The team will fully launch a new round of contract renewal negotiations. We will complete a new round of contract renewal in the next two years, and this contract renewal will be determined by your performance!"

Ye Qiu's words are not difficult to understand. That is, if you want to have higher salary and benefits when renewing the contract, you want better conditions and higher bonuses, then use your performance on the court to convince me and prove your value.

The head coach always keeps his word. At least Ye Qiu is a trustworthy person to the players. So when he said this, everyone present clearly understood what Ye Qiu meant and believed in his promise.

After more than five years of development, Tottenham Hotspur's players basically understood the team's salary structure. Even the outside media began to understand Tottenham Hotspur's treatment. Many media that previously criticized Messi and Ribery for their low salaries later turned their guns around because they found that the biggest part of Tottenham Hotspur's players' income was not their salary, but image rights and commercial income.

The tax rate for the latter part is very low in the UK, or even tax-free.

Therefore, many Premier League teams began to follow Tottenham Hotspur's practice. They began to convert some players' salaries into image rights income and commercial income, but in doing so, they faced investigations by the British Royal Revenue and Customs.

In this regard, Tottenham Hotspur can be said to be the most professional. The team has many different channels to help players reasonably avoid some taxes, or even exempt them from tax. Even for some unavoidable taxes, the tax rate can be reduced by operating companies and other means.

So, on the surface, the players of Tottenham Hotspur seem to have low salaries, while the stars of other teams seem to have high salaries, but the actual situation is completely the opposite. Tottenham Hotspur is called making a fortune in silence, while those teams and players who shout loudly are often the focus of the customs bureau.

Damn, you are all evading taxes one by one, and I have turned a blind eye to it, but you are still shouting loudly, do you really think I am dead? Or do you think evading taxes is not enough, and you want me to cause a social unrest?

As Franklin said, death and taxes are two inevitable things in a person's life.

It's just that different people have different ways to deal with them.