As in previous years, the warm-up matches for Premier League teams in the summer are scheduled and coordinated.

For example, this summer, Manchester and Chelsea went to North America, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Liverpool and other teams went to Asia, and among the teams that went to Asia, Tottenham Hotspur first went to the Middle East, then to China and Singapore, and Arsenal avoided Tottenham Hotspur, first to China and then to Malaysia, and then back to Europe.

Liverpool travelled to China after a gap of about a week between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, then to Malaysia, and then to India, then Norway, where Benitez's pre-season schedule was also very tight.

The purpose of this warm-up match for Premier League teams is actually to further develop overseas markets, especially the United States and Asian markets, and the key to the Asian market is undoubtedly China.

In addition to the warm-up matches of these giant teams, this year's Barclays Premier League Asian Cup of the Premier League was also held in Hong Kong, but Tottenham Hotspur and other giant teams did not participate in this event, but such a dense Asian trip of Premier League teams did cause a lot of repercussions in Asia, especially Ye Qiu's Tottenham Hotspur.

As early as the Premier League announced in May that the warm-up match plans for the Premier League teams were arranged, the media gradually broke some news, the most important of which is Tottenham Hotspur, which has been reported by the media that Tottenham Hotspur will form a strategic partnership with the famous Guangzhou Hengda Club in China.

The two parties will jointly form a football school, with Tottenham Hotspur responsible for arranging coaches to bring the most advanced training methods in the world to the football school, which will be operated and operated by Hengda Club.

This will undoubtedly be a very important event for Chinese football, because it represents a new cooperation model, but it has also caused a lot of controversy, many people think that this is purely a gimmick, a meaningless gimmick, and even caused many domestic football circles to blame and doubt.

But no amount of accusation or suspicion can stop the establishment of a football school.

After Tottenham Hotspur finished playing the Zhijie team in Hong Kong, he passed directly from Luohu, passed through Shenzhen and went directly to Guangzhou. Dugan and the others held a meeting at Yezi Technology's Shenzhen headquarters before rushing to Guangzhou to meet with the team.

The next day, the whole team of Tottenham Hotspur appeared in Qingyuan, participated in the groundbreaking ceremony of the football school, and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Guangzhou Hengda, the entire football school was funded by Hengda, Tottenham Hotspur provided technical support, and all coaches and training methods came from Tottenham Hotspur.

This is also where many people are controversial, thinking that Tottenham Hotspur's youth training method is aimed at English players, but English players are generally taller, but players in southern China are generally short and fast, which looks seriously inconsistent.

At the press conference for the signing of the strategic cooperation, Ye Qiu sneered and ridiculed such remarks.

"I would say that the person who would say that should leave football, he doesn't deserve to be a football coach at all, because he doesn't even know what the most important foundation of modern football is."

There were hundreds of domestic and foreign reporters below, they were all obviously frightened by Ye Qiu's words, and it was rare to see Ye Qiu make such a naked personal attack, which was simply a rhythm that wanted to completely suppress the person who spoke.

You must know that Ye Qiu's status in the Chinese football industry is even higher than that of Yao Ming, who played in the NBA, and almost the whole country regards him as a banner figure in Chinese football, and more importantly, Ye Qiu is not only a football head coach, he is also the owner of Ye Zi Technology, which has the highest market value in the world.

With such multiple identities, every word he says will cause huge repercussions at home and abroad.

"The foundation of modern football is skill, a solid foundation, this is the basic skill, you go to see, African players practice skills, German players have also begun to play skills, now even Denmark, Norway and other Nordic traditional force and quantity play teams, now pay attention to skills, England's youth training is now also focusing on skills."

"I don't deny that there will be differences between English players and domestic players in terms of physical fitness, but what you need to know is that all the basic skills of football are actually the same and are in the same vein, so are those people who say that, they are different from English players who play with their feet, they blow the ball with their mouths?"

The scene immediately resounded with a burst of enthusiastic cheers, and even many reporters cheered.

For some so-called brick scholars, some of their statements are indeed too bizarre, which makes them more and more unconvincing and difficult to be convinced.

"Of course, what I want to say is that we don't blindly tell the young players, or tell the domestic colleagues, how you should play, I don't think that's necessary or appropriate, if someone tells you how you should play, then I can tell you that he must be wrong, because no one can tell you that!"

"Looking at all the advanced football countries in the world, they have never learned by learning, they all rely on their own exploration, rely on their own long-term persistence, and finally find a way that suits them, the most suitable style for themselves, and they have today's achievements!"

"A lot of people like to chase Spain, but they don't know it, Spain before Aragonés won the European Cup, they haven't been involved in the European Cup for more than 40 years, they can't win the World Cup in their lifetime, and they didn't complete their wish until the World Cup in South Africa, but their results in the youth team are outstanding in Europe!"

"A lot of people wonder, how do Spain play like that? That is Spain's own style, if you let the Chinese team, let any other team in the world learn from Spain, there will be no good results, because that is the Spanish style of play, and it is also a kind of maturity and stereotype of the youth training style they have adhered to for many years, how can you learn it? ”

Ye Qiu's words once again won a round of warm applause from the audience.

"So, what I want to say the most is that if we want to develop our youth training, then don't blindly learn from any country, and do a solid job in the training of young players, so when Mr. Xu talked to our CEO, and then they talked to me, I said, we can provide the best and most advanced, but also the most scientific European training system."

"I know that there are some people who doubt football schools, think that centralized management has drawbacks, and think that England's regional youth training system should be emulated, but I want to say that England has now also relaxed regional restrictions, centralized management has its advantages and its disadvantages, we can't kill everything with a stick, we must see clearly where the problem is, give full play to its advantages, and find ways to make up for its shortcomings, this is the attitude of doing things, rather than blindly letting off empty cannons."

"The last thing I have to mention is that youth coaches play a very big role in a youth system, they are indispensable, they not only need to develop the skills of the players, but they also need to know how to develop the ability of players to think independently, and in Europe players generally have a strong independence.

"At Theobold, when you're 16 years old, you move out of the training base and go out to rent a house, buy a car, deal with all sorts of social and life things, and we think that independence is good for the players."

"So this time, our cooperation with Hengda is not only in the youth training, we have our own coach training courses, in the future, in each Tottenham Hotspur coach training course, there will be at least ten youth trainees selected by Hengda, they complete the training, after getting the certificate, will be recommended by us to various youth teams in Europe to intern, and even stay in our Tottenham Hotspur, until they have accumulated enough experience, and then return to China."

There was a burst of warm applause at the scene again, and it was obvious that Ye Qiu had opened his words today.

Tottenham Hotspur has also come to play in China before, but Ye Qiu has never said much, but this time he is obviously planning to make a move, at least he attaches great importance to the cooperation with Hengda.

"Mr. Ye Qiu!" After Ye Qiu finished speaking, a reporter at the scene stood up, "I am a reporter from Football Weekly, we all know that when you were coaching Chelsea, you once introduced Chinese player Sun Jihai, and then he went to Arsenal, and now he has returned to China, he told us that you are the most training-oriented coach he has ever met, and at the same time, he also said that your coaching style is not simply to tell the players what to do, but to let the players themselves understand what you want them to do." ”

"My question is, do you think China can't produce stars now, not to mention top stars, let's talk about stars who have a foothold in Europe's top leagues, and our other two opponents in East Asia, South Korea and Japan, have emerged with talent, what do you think is the difference?"

After Ye Qiu heard this, he first smiled, diluting the tense atmosphere caused by the bombardment just now, "This problem is a bit big!" ”

There was another burst of laughter, and the atmosphere became warm and relaxed.

"I think it's a multi-faceted gap, not by changing which aspect can be achieved, football has never been the kind of either/or game, I must say that there is no absolute in this world, only relative, so sometimes we can't look at the problem and simply think that South Korea and Japan have more stars than us, they must be better than us, which is wrong!"

"Do you know the truth? I used to have an ideal, that is, to find a set of the most perfect tactical system in the world, I want to build a strong team that is the best and most outstanding in the world, and can take out all opponents, but then I gradually found that when your team defeats all opponents, you are not invincible, your biggest enemy is yourself, you are defeated by yourself, and then other opponents begin to surpass you again. ”

"Can you understand what I mean? I mean, a person's greatest mistake, or the greatest obstacle to his success, is not his weakness or ignorance, but arrogance. ”

"Going back to your question, you asked me what the difference is, and I think the difference is that they recognize their weakness and ignorance, and they are trying to change their weakness and ignorance, but we obviously haven't seen this yet, and there are many reasons that prevent us from seeing this clearly, such as arrogance, or we are still groping and searching."

"Football is a game of feng shui in turns, they are strong now, but it does not mean that they will continue to be strong in the future, we are weak now, but it does not mean that we have no chance to be stronger than them, the key is whether we have such ideas and willingness, and whether we have such pursuit and self-confidence!"

There was an unprecedentedly warm applause at the scene this time, but Ye Qiu waved his hand again, obviously he hadn't finished speaking, "What I want to say is that there are no clever football tactics and concepts in this world, all tactics and concepts are neutral and equal, even if Spain and us China are equal at the tactical level, they are not better than us." ”

So what's the difference? Training, thinking, execution, and more. ”

"What I want to say is that we don't have to imitate other people's football, we just need to find our own football!"

"Good !!"

"Well said!!"

Many reporters at the scene even stood up excitedly, obviously moved by Ye Qiu's words.

"Thank you for your sincere answer, Mr. Ye Qiu!" Another reporter stood up, "We all know that Sun Jihai is your old subordinate, and he has a high opinion of you, but I don't know what do you think is the difference between Sun Jihai and top players as a professional player?" ”

Ye Qiu thought for a while, "I think it's still that sentence, all-round, I have coached many players, Sun Jihai is a right-back, and the right-back in our current team is Alves, a Brazilian international, where do you think the gap between them is?" ”

"Aside from the technical level, I think the limitation of thinking is also one thing, Sun Jihai is more straight on the court, but Alves knows how to cut inside when attacking, knows how to pass diagonally, and he knows how to recycle when defending, of course, I'm not talking about being smart or stupid, I'm talking about thinking."

"In addition, I think Sun Jihai can do anything, both offensive and defensive, and even his hard work and diligence are very commendable, but he doesn't have his own characteristics, just like Alves, his characteristics are attack, and the forward assists are very good, of course, his defensive ability is also very strong, but offense is his label, his characteristics, and the introduction of him is for his offense!"

"A well-balanced player, unless he can reach a very high level in attack and defense like Zambrotta, it will be difficult to establish himself in the top team, and then he will not be a first-class star!"

Most of the reporters who came to the scene also applauded Ye Qiu's evaluation in affirmative.

"I'll ask you one more question, Mr. Ye Qiu!" Another reporter stood up, "You are a very successful head coach, do you think as a head coach, do you have any advice for domestic football coaches?" Or rather, what about the experience? ”

Ye Qiu smiled after listening to this, "When I was lecturing in the coach training class, someone also asked this question, I think there is a sentence to ask football coaches, in your opinion, what is the purpose of you embarking on the road of football coaching?" ”

'Don't think it's a big deal, it's important, you know, a current manager that I really admire is Marcelo? Bielsa, but he has barely had any decent results, and he has changed teams again and again, and there is one person I admire, my nemesis, Rafael Benitez, who is also a very stubborn manager. ”

"These two people have a characteristic, the theory is very solid, they have their own complete set of tactical ideas, and at the same time very advanced tactical ideas, they know almost everything, they desperately want to control everything, and they even want to turn the players into robots, and execute their tactics perfectly."

"Another is like Alex Ferguson, he doesn't know how to use a computer, he doesn't know how to use a smartphone, but he understands the rules of football, he knows how to choose his most suitable assistant, and he has his own unique understanding of tactics, and more importantly, he is a leader, he just needs to put what he wants, let his coaching staff, let his players, be able to understand and accept."

"The most important thing for a football manager is to be a good leader, to know how to pick and choose people, to know how to run a team efficiently, to be able to make all the players believe that you can lead them to victory, to be able to trust and even rely on you and the team you have assembled, this is a high-level manager."

"Or if I put it this way, Mourinho and Arsene Wenger, the two managers I am familiar with, if you judge purely by football professionalism, Wenger's tactical philosophy and thinking, and even the formation of his entire tactical structure, are far higher than Mourinho, but in terms of controlling the team and winning the trust and support of players, he lost a lot to Mourinho."

"Of course, in my opinion, Mourinho and Arsene Wenger are no one smarter than the other, even with all the managers in the country, even including the fans and ordinary people, I am not smarter than them, we are all equal, I may be exactly what you will not, but you will, it may be that I will not, can you say who is better than whom?"

"To answer the question just now, I think for the manager, you have to understand one thing first, what is the purpose of your coaching?"

"If you're here to be successful, to make a name for yourself, you should compromise more with reality; But if you feel that you have ideals and pursuits, and want to prove some ideas in your heart, then you should insist, but you can't be discouraged or complain because you have been frustrated and hit on this road, lost your fame, and lost the opportunity to coach, because the road is your choice! ”

"I think when Bielsa, when Benitez, when Wenger, when Van Gaal, in fact, there is their happiness, when Mourinho, when Ferguson, when Lippi, when Capello, there is also their own bitterness, the key is what you want!" "Or if I put it this way, Mourinho and Arsene Wenger, the two managers I am familiar with, if you judge purely by football professionalism, Wenger's tactical philosophy and thinking, and even the formation of his entire tactical structure, are far higher than Mourinho, but in terms of controlling the team and winning the trust and support of players, he lost a lot to Mourinho."

"Of course, in my opinion, Mourinho and Arsene Wenger are no one smarter than the other, even with all the managers in the country, even including the fans and ordinary people, I am not smarter than them, we are all equal, I may be exactly what you will not, but you will, it may be that I will not, can you say who is better than whom?"

"To answer the question just now, I think for the manager, you have to understand one thing first, what is the purpose of your coaching?"

"If you're here to be successful, to make a name for yourself, you should compromise more with reality; But if you feel that you have ideals and pursuits, and want to prove some ideas in your heart, then you should insist, but you can't be discouraged or complain because you have been frustrated and hit on this road, lost your fame, and lost the opportunity to coach, because the road is your choice! ”

"I think when Bielsa, when Benitez, when Wenger, when Van Gaal, in fact, there is their happiness, when Mourinho, when Ferguson, when Lippi, when Capello, there is also their own bitterness, the key is what you want!"