During the Christmas period, with the exception of the Premier League, the European leagues were completely suspended, but the big news in European football is still endless.

First of all, Zidane defeated his national team teammate Thierry Henry and club teammate Ronaldo with an absolute advantage, and was successfully elected World Footballer of the Year, which 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, and the French superstar surprised everyone including Yang Yang by saying in an interview that he would retire at the age of 33.

Although he is thirty-one years old, Zidane is still in the ascendant today, and the Real Madrid he plays for is full of superstars, known as the strongest team in today's football, and can dominate European football for a few more years, how can he now make it clear that he wants to retire in two or three years?

After Zidane announced his retirement, the media around the world were shocked, and many media began to look for the next Zidane, and selected the top ten new midfielders in European football who are most likely to replace Zidane.

At the top of the list is, of course, Ronaldinho, who has just joined Barcelona this summer, and at the age of 23, he is widely regarded as a superstar in the world, and everyone thinks he will become the top superstar.

But his team-mate in the Brazilian national team, AC Milan's supernova Kaka, who has been the brightest rising star in European football this season and is only 21 years old, is also the focus of all expectations.

In addition, the new Pele Diego, who plays for the Santos team in Brazil and is only 18 years old, is also very much expected by everyone, and even many people think that he is better than Kaka and has more potential.

In addition to the three Brazilian stars, Argentina's Da Lisandro and Aimar, England's Frank Lampard, Italy's Cassano and Andrea Pirlo, etc., are all highly anticipated young talents in European football and have been included in the list of Zidane's replacements.

Also on this list is Rafael van der Vaart, who plays for Ajax.

Van der Vaart, the youngest captain of Ajax, has left the left winger to play in the middle of midfield, but everyone thinks he has what it takes to be one of Europe's best stars, and his talent and potential are enough to make him a top superstar, provided he needs to move away from Ajax.

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

Yang Yang doesn't know 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, so there is no need to say much about his strength.

Through this list, Yang Yang also clearly felt that the status of the Eredivisie 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 Zinedine Zidane won the World Footballer of the Year, the French football magazine also announced the selection of the European Footballer of the Year, and the Czech star Nedved, who plays for Juventus, beat Thierry Henry, Maldini and Shevchenko to be elected the new European Footballer of the Year, and Zidane only finished fifth in the list.

Yang Yang's idol Ronaldo slipped to eleventh place.

Among the top 10 players on the list, Real Madrid has scored a total of four, namely Zidane, Raul, Carlos and Beckham, plus Ronaldo in 11th place, Real Madrid can be said to occupy half of the country.

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

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

It's on the 4th of February.

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

The second half of the Dutch league kicks off on January 24, with the Dutch Cup coming after two rounds of league play, and the knockout round of 16 of the Champions League in late February.

After the results of the draw for the Dutch Cup were released, the draw for the knockout round of 16 of the Champions League was also released.

As Ajax qualified as second in the group, they will face one of the seven other group winners except AC Milan.

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

As a result, Ajax had bad luck in drawing the Gunners Arsenal.

This has immersed the entire Dutch football scene in a deep pessimistic mood, because this season's Arsenal has shown super dominance in the Premier League, with 13 wins and 6 draws in 19 rounds, and has maintained an unbeaten record so far, but due to more draws, it is one point behind old rivals Manchester United in the league and second in the standings.

In the Champions League group stage, Arsenal played very badly in the first three rounds, first losing 0-3 at home to Inter Milan, then drawing 0-0 away to Lokomotiv Moscow, and losing 1-2 away to Dynamo Kyiv.

However, Arsene Wenger's side quickly adjusted, beating Dynamo Kyiv 1-0 at home, Inter Milan 5-1 away and Lokomotiv Moscow 2-0 at home.

After the draw came out, the whole Dutch football world despaired of 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.

And this sentiment naturally affected the team as well.

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Entering 2014, Ajax regrouped at Detokmost.

The players returned to the squad on time after the Christmas break.

Yang Yang also met friends such as Ibrahimovic, Vermaelen and Maxwell who had returned to China for Christmas, but the overall atmosphere of De Tokmoste was obviously a little depressing.

No one will like the feeling of being doomed.

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

Before the holiday, he told 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 ate and drank with Helena all day?" Yang Yang asked curiously.

Ibrahimovic was very proud when he heard this, and raised his eyebrows, "Hehe, I was born with this kind of body, you can't envy it." ”

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

But don't say it, listening to Ibrahimovich's bragging, it feels especially warm.

"I guess he's been with Helena for a long time, nothing." Maxwell laughed.

Yang Yang and the others were all men, of course they understood the meaning of these words, and they laughed out loud.

The Swedish center reached out to grab the Brazilian, "Maxwell, if you want to die, say it early, I will fulfill you." ”

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

Due to the fact that during Christmas, Yang Yang insisted on training every day, so his physical examination passed smoothly, but the coaching staff still gave Yang Yang a schedule for additional training, mainly for physical reserves and physical strength confrontation, which are Yang Yang's current weaknesses and need to be strengthened.

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

After the medical examination, Ronald Coman severely reprimanded several players in the team who seriously exceeded the medical standard, believing that this was the result of their indulgence during the Christmas holiday, and also demanded that all the players who exceeded the standard must adjust their bodies during the training camp in Portugal, otherwise, no one would want to play.

Ronald Koeman has always been strict with the army, and everyone in the team is also very in awe of him, so naturally he does not dare to be careless.

On the first day of the training camp, the team was more focused on adjustment and recovery, with the aim of allowing everyone to gradually enter the state of training and preparation.

Ajax played well in the first half, with a generally satisfactory record in the Champions League, Eredivisie and Dutch Cup, and the management looking to keep the first-team squad stable, so they will not consider a transfer during the winter break.

In addition, Van Gaal has reached a consensus with Trabelsi, Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart and other key stars in the team, and they have also promised to focus on playing for Ajax before the end of the season, so there will be basically no players sold throughout the winter break.

This consistency was also reflected in the mood and mentality of the players on the first day of the team's assembly.

It is worth mentioning that this time the team went to Portugal for winter training, and players from the second team such as Babel, De Moor, Maduro and Lindgren were also selected, and they will be trained with the team throughout the whole process and inspected by 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 running line, and Babbel was even ahead of Yang Yang, but who would have thought that half a month later, 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 had always looked at Yang Yang unpleasantly, 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 Fulham for 600,000 euros.

The 18-year-old African-Dutch striker made a name for himself early in the season, breaking the Eredivisie's record for the youngest goalscorer to score until the end of the year, and he caught Fulham's attention with nine goals in the first half of the season.

With his contract with FC Twente still under the Academy, Fulham were able to buy the Eredivisie's most famous hopeful for a relatively low price.

After Collins John, many media outlets have also shifted their attention to Yang Yang.

The former Collins John has transferred, but what about Yang Yang, who emerged in the final stages of the first half?