The team's first day in Dortmund was destined to be uneventful.

Nowadays, many of the major European leagues have ended, and the European Champions Cup final has not yet ignited the fire, in this period of interval, the League Cup has undoubtedly attracted more people's attention, especially before the League Cup, Ajax broke the shocking news of a sudden change of coach, which is indeed a very eye-catching thing.

Many reporters from all over the world are curious about Ajax's decision to change the coach, and they are all eager to know what is the reason for the Ajax management to decide to change the coach.

Isn't Ye Qiu good enough?

Or is Advocaat better?

Van Praag's clarification seems even more weak, more interpreted as an attitude and compromise that has to be made in order to stabilize the current situation, and many people even wonder if Köllner would dare to do this without Van Praag's instructions.

Obviously, not everyone is clear about the current structure of Ajax's club power, and they can't distinguish the contradictions and disputes between the board of directors and the management, so they can easily adopt a conspiracy theory tone to look at this matter, that is, Ye Qiu must be out of class!

The Dutch media is divided into two factions, one is to support Ye Qiu's resignation, and the other is to support Ye Qiu's retention, and it is very interesting that the faction that supports Ye Qiu's resignation is almost all the media that were previously anti-Ajax, while those who support Ye Qiu's retention include the Amsterdam Evening Post, Kyodo Daily and many other more pro-Ajax media.

The two factions wrote articles attacking each other and competed with each other, and there was no excitement, but neither could convince anyone.

These reporters are all playing with the pen, if they attack and debate face-to-face, they may not be powerful, but they can write articles and debate, that is their food guy, is their strong point, will they lose?

Perhaps considering that there was too much interference from the outside world, after Ye Qiu arrived in Dortmund, except for going to the Westphalian Stadium at Dortmund's home stadium in the afternoon to have a warm-up training session familiar with the venue, the rest of the time, Ajax stayed in the hotel to rest.

On the hotel floor where Ajax is staying, all visitors, including journalists and relatives of the players, will be escorted from Amsterdam to Dortmund on the day of the game, and then meet with the team after the game, but they are not allowed to be in the team's hotel before the game.

Some media have given understanding to Ajax's arrangement, which is similar to martial law, but some media think that Ajax is too nervous, and Ye Qiu's actions are a bit dictatorial, which may cause disgust among the players.

Ye Qiu himself was not worried about the players' disgust, because in the hotel, he arranged a series of activities to keep the players from being too bored, and even let them watch movies together as a pastime.

On the morning of the game, the club's management came to Dortmund, Van Praag brought several senior executives to the hotel to visit the players, appease the players, and in front of the players, said in person, Ajax management always trusts Ye Qiu, and firmly believes that Ye Qiu will be sitting in the Ajax manager's seat next season.

After watching the players, Van Praag and Ye Qiu met privately, but he didn't visit Ye Qiu, nor did he mention Eliza's words in an interview with the media, but repeatedly said to Ye Qiu that he would give Ye Qiu a new contract after the season to completely reassure people.

"You can rest assured that you will coach at Ajax, and I will leave the rest to me, and next season, I will give you a stable environment, and I promise that the same thing will never happen again!" Van Praag gave a strong guarantee after that.

Maybe some people will feel that Van Praag has little say now, and they will feel that he may be kicked out of Ajax at any time, but Ye Qiu does not see it that way, because Van Praag has been the chairman of Ajax for more than ten years and has extensive contacts in Dutch football and Europe.

Such a man who was once regarded as a savior by Ajax fans would be ousted by a group of people who only know money?

Ye Qiu absolutely didn't believe it, so he called Eliza at noon.

Maintain communication with Eliza, so as to ensure that Ye Qiu's side is well-founded.

"Do you really believe in Van Praag's promise?" Eliza asked with a smile on the other end of the phone, she was a little skeptical.

Not to mention anything else, a year ago, when he came to invite Ye Qiu to coach Ajax, he had already promised that he would give him a stable environment, but in the past year, such an environment has never appeared, and Ye Qiu has always been accompanied by controversy and opposition, so from Ye Qiu's point of view, Eliza's promise is not of much value.

Ye Qiu smiled, "If you want to talk about the rest, you are better than me, but when it comes to playing tricks and people's hearts, you can't see it as thoroughly as me!" ”

"What do you mean?" Eliza didn't quite understand.

"Didn't you notice? Has Amsterdam recently had an extra fan group? ”

"You mean......" Eliza remembered, there was indeed an extra fan group, and it was in the newspapers.

"Yes, it's the radical fan group that claims to raise money to buy back the club's shares from the directors!"

Ye Qiu knows very well that the club's listing itself is a deformed freak, except for Manchester United, no club can still make money after being listed, basically as soon as it is listed, the stock plummets, and even some teams fall so much that even his grandmother doesn't recognize it.

Ajax's shares are also falling, but for those directors who really hold a lot of Ajax shares, the value of the shares is not important, they want face, they want the Ajax signboard, so they don't care about the value, they always hold it in their hands.

But now the fans are gone, they feel that you have overstepped your powers, and you are too much to deal with things that should not be in your hands, and Lao Tzu will raise money to buy back some of the stocks that have fallen to the bottom in your hands at a much cheaper price than the price you bought at the beginning, and you bastards will get me out of Ajax in the future.

That's how Van Praag counters back!

Of course, there will still be some people who don't want to sell, but it doesn't matter, you don't have to sell, but I'm going to reorganize the power of the club, and in the future you will be your director, you will be the director, you will come to the meeting, there will be games for you to watch, there will be celebrations, you will be the master, this is okay, but on weekdays you will fart less for me, less fingering at the team.

Listening to Ye Qiu's words, Eliza was a little surprised, she really didn't expect that Van Praag would play with his means, and he would be so powerful, and he hit the nail on the head.

"Why do you think Van Praag is behind all this?" Eliza wasn't convinced.

Ye Qiu smiled, he also knew that this girl had a hard mouth, "I don't know what to say, guess, but I don't believe it, for no reason, the time is so coincidental, there is a group of fans who stand up against the board!" ”

Eliza listened and sighed softly over there, "Anyway, I don't understand these things about you!" ”

"Still, you have to tell me if you still want to stay at Ajax?"

Ye Qiu was slightly stunned after hearing this, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

In the past two years, he has invested a lot of effort and energy in Ajax, and the progress and growth of every player in Ajax are inseparable from his promotion and hard work behind the scenes.

Ye Qiu can say with great certainty that as long as he is given another two or three years, he will be able to bring this Ajax to the height that is not lost to the Van Gaal period, because he has completely made the overall framework of the current Ajax team, and the rest is to keep improving and adjusting the parts and details.

As long as he is given another two or three years of accumulation, this team will become a force to be reckoned with in the Europa League.

But Ye Qiu also knew very well that there was actually a lot of trouble in front of him.

The first is from the board of directors, the management trusts him, but the board doesn't trust him at all.

Also, in the next two or three years, will his group of players be poached by the outside world and leave?

All of these are things he needs to consider, and they are the risks of his success.

But if Ye Qiu gives up Ajax now, he has no shortage of next family, but the problem is that he has to give up everything he has paid and invested in Ajax in the past two years and start again, which makes him hesitate.

Because he's so eager to prove himself!

"I know, don't worry, I'll help you get it!" Eliza didn't hear him answer, but she understood what he was thinking.

"Thank you!" Ye Qiu smiled and thanked her, she was a very smart woman on the other side of the microphone, and she knew Ye Qiu very well.

"It's time, Achu and I are going to the airport, let's see you in the evening!"

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The capacity of the Westphalian Stadium was 68,600 after the second expansion, but because UEFA required all seats in the final venue to be seats, the management of the Westphalian Stadium temporarily modified the South Stand to expand the seating capacity to 52,000, while the standing seats were all vacant.

But when you walk into the Westphalen Stadium and look up, the black pressure is full of people, and the deafening noise wafts through the whole stadium, which makes it easy to have a kind of irritability and the urge to vent loudly.

Human beings are such strange creatures that can act in two completely different ways when one person or when there are few people, and when there are many people and emotions are turbulent.

The players warmed up on the field, and Ajax basically did not choose new training in this kind of open training, but adopted some more traditional training that other teams know well, such as monkeys, or some triangle pass coordination, etc., these are Ajax's traditional training methods, and they are not afraid of leaks.

The number of fans in Ajax and Barcelona is the same, and they are divided between the north and south sides of the Westphalia Stadium, while UEFA occupies the chairman's stand and some other neutral stands, separating the fans of the two teams, for fear of accidentally having fan conflicts, after all, fan conflicts in the Europa League are not uncommon now, especially in the Premier League.

Today, the Ajax players will wear their classic red and white jerseys, while Barcelona will wear their red and blue jerseys, which also leads to fans of both teams wearing their respective team's jerseys in the stands, which is very neat and spectacular.

Barcelona's results in La Liga this season are not ideal, and the outside world is very vocal about Ferrer's resignation, he is now desperate for a League Cup to do his best, and Ye Qiu is eager to win a League Cup to prove himself.

As early as before the game, the managers of the two teams had already taken the initiative to fight a war of words, Ferrer said that Barcelona's victory over Ajax before the season gave Barcelona more confidence, so he believes that his team will be able to beat Ye Qiu's Ajax.

But Ye Qiu said in an interview that he and his Ajax will definitely be in the game, using facts to prove that the gap between Ajax and Barcelona is not big, and can even beat Barcelona.

The smell of gunpowder before the game obviously continued into the game, at least Ye Qiu and Ferrer except for politely shaking hands and greetings, the rest of the time, both of them were in front of their coaches' seats, watching the players in the stadium warm up.

"This is UEFA President Johansen, and CEO Olsen, this is German football emperor Beckenbauer, and Cruyff from the Netherlands, Barcelona president Gaspart, Ajax president Van Praag, etc., as well as Spanish and Dutch football association officials, they all appeared on the rostrum at the Westphalen Stadium."

"Everybody believes it's going to be a battle of the best, because both teams are facing a huge managerial crisis and they both desperately need a big trophy to prove themselves, so neither of them will give up this UEFA Cup title easily!"

The live TV camera swept over the rostrum, came to the side of the stadium, saw the Barcelona coach Ferrer as the home team, and immediately typed an introduction subtitle, "Ferrer's team's attack this season is indeed very good, but the results are not very ideal, which also leads to the possibility and demand for him to leave Barcelona after the season!" ”

The camera swept again and fell on Ye Qiu's body.

Today, Ye Qiu's dress of black trousers and casual white shirt comes from Eliza's handwriting, half an inch head, and the only jewelry on his body is the Hamilton watch on his left wrist.

"This is the youngest manager in the history of the UEFA Cup final, from China, only 26-year-old Ajax coach Ye Qiu, this manager is young, but the strength is extraordinary, last season led Ajax II team to create Dutch football history, won the Dutch Cup!"

"After taking over the first team and making drastic reforms, many people were shocked by his massive purge of the star of his playing year before the season, thinking that Ajax would be relegated by him, but a season later, he finished runners-up in the Eredivisie and even came close to reversing PSV Eindhoven to win the title.

"Successfully defending the Dutch Cup title, Ye Qiu spent a year telling everyone how wise his decision to purge that group of veterans and stars before the season was, and now Ajax has become a well-known youth guard in European football, playing a youth storm, winning the appreciation and affirmation of fans all over the world."

"But it's clear that the young team led by the young manager is not just satisfied with the Netherlands, they are aiming for Europe and are launching a new attack on the UEFA Cup, and in front of them is the traditional European giants Barcelona."

"This game is not only a contest between Barcelona and Ajax, but also a strong collision between the old giants and the new powerhouses, and it is also a direct challenge for the young Ye Qiu to Ferrer, who is the king of Europe!"

After the on-site commentators introduced this round and mobilized the enthusiasm of the fans, they got the starting lists for the two sides.

"Barcelona's starting list for this game, the goalkeeper is a young player promoted from the academy Reina, there is news that Ye Qiu once fell in love with this goalkeeper before, but then it was gone; The backline from left to right is Sergi, Frank? De Boer, Rezig and Puyol. ”

'The back two is a regular combination of Pep Guardiola and Cocu, with the three attackers from left to right: Overmars, Rivaldo and Luiz? Enrique, the single striker is Kluivert! ”

"In Barcelona's 11-man starting lineup, there are fully 4 players from Ajax, and Ferrer's tactics are also born from Van Gaal, a descendant of Ajax, which makes many people feel that this game will be a direct dialogue between Ajax's traditionalists and reformists led by Ye Qiu!"

Ye Qiu also arranged Ajax's strongest lineup in this game, the goalkeeper is Grim, the back line from left to right are Abidal, Kivo, Lucio and McConn, and the three players in the midfield are Keita and Gilberto? Silva and Sneijder, while the front trident is Arjen Robben, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Donny van der Meyde. ”

"Ajax's 433 tactics have undoubtedly changed in the hands of Ye Qiu, especially the adjustment and change of the midfield configuration, and there are frequent clever moves, how three players with different styles can be reorganized in the midfield, how to suppress Barcelona's midfield, which is undoubtedly a major crisis faced by Ajax in this game."

"And we should see, Overmars and Luis? Enrique, who plays a very obvious role on the two wings, is the most dangerous area for Barcelona's attack, while Rivaldo's combination of Kluivert in the middle has also repeatedly proven his strength in La Liga, plus the double back of Cocu and Pep Guardiola. ”

"We have absolutely reason to believe that Barcelona's attack in this game will pose a huge threat to Ajax, and the key to winning or losing the game is likely to be whether Ajax is capable enough to withstand Barcelona's attack!"