40. Sappers who can only defend

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

"Bang Bang!"

Assistant coach John Van Tskip pasted a piece of printer paper on the wall of the tactical training room and slapped it three times with great solemnity. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He managed to attract the attention of all the players, and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up at the black and white paper.

The content on the printer paper is very simple, with only three lines of large bold and black letters:

"First leg, August 18, home;

Second leg, 26 August, away;

The opponent is Fiorentina! ”

"We've been away from Europe's top tournaments for too long, gentlemen."

Coach Van Basten's deep voice echoed through the room, the football legend who lifted the Champions League twice as a player was as calm as usual.

"I don't know how you feel, but I'm personally ashamed that a club like Ajax hasn't been able to play in the Champions League for three seasons, and AZ Alkmaar has almost stood on our heads......

"Yes! I can't accept such a shame! ”

Van Basten didn't rant through gritted teeth, but his emotions could be felt by all.

Their head coach is not an unknown guy, this middle-aged man has already stood at the top of the football world, and he deserves such a conceit.

"Don't tell me that the Eredivisie team should be weaker than the Serie A team," he waved his hand in an unmistakable tone, "this is the world of football, even the most invincible team will always have losing games, as long as everyone is with me, why can't we give the Italians a defeat?!" ”

"UEFA Champions League! That's the race we should be in! ”

It wasn't until the end that the Ajax boss raised his voice slightly.

The young Ajax players also had a twinkle in their eyes.

yes, who wouldn't want to compete at the highest level in Europe and in the world?

Who wouldn't want to be on the stage watched by hundreds of millions of fans?

The Eredivisie is so low that not many people will pay attention to it, and the Champions League is completely different!

As long as they can make a difference, those European giants will definitely wave huge cheques to pursue themselves!

Even if it is for their own future and money, they will not retain their strength at this time!

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Van Basten's mobilization had an immediate effect, and in the days that followed, all of Ajax's players were as excited and frenzied as drugs, with almost everyone adding to their training program after each day's training session, and the sound of players panting all the time wafted over the future training base.

It may be the equipment managers and turf maintainers who complain a little about the mess of turf and the scattered training equipment, but whether it's the manager, the club's hierarchy, or the die-hard fans who visit the training, they are all genuinely happy about the changes that have taken place in the team.

Not qualifying for the Champions League for three years in a row has made everyone hungry for this competition like never before, and they are desperate to get on this gorgeous and magnificent stage and fight with the top giants of European football!

Soaring values, big contracts offered by clubs, olive branches from the real giants of the European continent, huge commercial sponsorships, blind spotlights, luxury houses, luxury cars, and beautiful women everywhere...... These potential rewards are like the best aphrodisiac to induce players to bring out all the hormones in their bodies!

As a professional footballer, no one can resist the temptation to make a name for themselves!

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"That's it, little one! Take a break, take a break, right? ”

This is the second time Vancskip has walked into the training ground, and the second time he has said this to Ronshit, who is sweating and dribbling himself:

"Technique improvement is a slow process, no one will be refreshed overnight, and over-training will not only increase the load on the body, but also increase the risk of injury......"

But Long Shute was still unmoved, he just nodded slightly, and put aside the assistant coach who had tried to persuade him.

Fanckipp could only keep his mouth shut helplessly, watching as the young but stubborn young player returned to the starting point of the continuous corner cone once again and began to coil quickly with the football.

Fifteen triangular corner cones are placed in a straight line in the training area of less than 30 meters, and the distance between the two is less than 2 meters, this kind of small range of flashing and moving if it is Ronaldinho or Messi to do, it is almost something that can be done with his eyes closed, but for Long Shut, who has just finished a day of intensive training and shooting practice, and his body has shown fatigue, he needs to maintain a high degree of concentration, and once his attention is distracted, he may lose the ball.

Perhaps the Dutch TV commentator was right when it came to attacking, Ronshit didn't have much talent.

In both competition and training, his team's attacking performance was somewhat mediocre, and most of the time, his figure was very unremarkable - after all, it is not often that he can run 60 meters single-handedly, as he did before.

Perhaps because he has been used as a midfielder for several years, his timing and selection of positions are not excellent, which is in stark contrast to his sharp nose and accurate anticipation on the defensive end.

However, both Van Basten and his teammates have maintained enough tolerance and patience with him in this regard: after all, Lonshette is just a newcomer, he is the youngest in the first team and the one who has participated in the overall training for the shortest time, although the tactics of the youth team and the first team are in the same vein, but after all, there are still quite a few differences, and it is indeed unrealistic for a 19-year-old to fully integrate into the whole and perform amazingly at both offensive and defensive ends.

No one really puts the task of destroying the city on his shoulders, everyone thinks that his main job is to intercept and defend well in the midfield, and other than that, as long as he can threaten the opponent's attack with his speed on the rare occasions, he has done his job perfectly.

This Ajax team doesn't even need him to take on the work of tandem between the front and back, he is just a sapper.

Even Van Basten was no exception.

Although he would never let Lonshit just be a purely defensive midfielder, and he also taught Lonshit to shoot himself, the Dutch coach was not naΓ―ve enough to think that Lonshvet could become another self, at least for a short time.

Ronshette is perhaps the best aware of this.

He doesn't have Suarez's ghostly movement and precision shooting, he doesn't have Soleimani's possession and strength, and he doesn't have to pedal a hundred times in a row like Emmanuelsen to be unfazed, but he doesn't want to be a defensive midfielder forever.

In today's football world, even if you're a goalkeeper, you have to master one or two other positions, and a defender who can only defend is not a first-class player.

He was not willing to put a "only defensive" label on his body.

So he worked harder than anyone else.

At least he doesn't regret it.