Volume 1 Chapter 156 Double Crown

After returning from the defeat in the European Champions League, everyone began to worry a little about whether Ajax would not be able to withstand the defeat in the Champions League, and finally lost the league title that had been held in their arms to PSV Eindhoven in the final round of the league.

But obviously, such worries are indeed unnecessary.

In this league game at the Nijmehende Geffit Stadium, the home team did create a lot of trouble for Ajax at one time, and the tenacious defense made Ajax a little unable to open the situation, and even many people, even the on-site commentators felt that Ajax could play a very, very difficult game.

But after more than half an hour of the game, Ajax opened the scoring for Ajax in the 38th minute when Robben took the lead in scoring for Nijmegen.

But just five minutes later, Huntelaar's goal managed to extend the score.

Because Ibrahimovic brutally abused Ye Qiu in the Pro Evolution Football game, the Ajax coach announced a personal vendetta and directly pressed the Swede to the bench, and Huntelaar started, and the Dutch center forward also lived up to expectations, and before the end of the first half, he scored another goal for Ajax.

Of course, this is an interesting fact published on the official website of Ajax, and the real reason is that Ibrahimovic is not physically fit, while Huntelaar is more physical, and Ye Qiu is considering rotation.

Truth be told, the mentality is relaxed, Nijmegen is no match for Ajax at all, even if it is playing away.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides again, but Ajax sounded the horn of attack on NEC Nijmegen from the beginning, and Huntelaar scored a brace in the 50th minute to help Ajax extend the score to 3-0.

In the 56th minute, substitute Hleb cut inside with the ball on the left side and crossed diagonally to the right, and Van der Meyde cut in and fired a powerful shot.

In the 83rd minute, Yaya? Toure stepped in, Van der Meyde broke through on the right and knocked back, and the Ivorian volleyed hard in the penalty area to break through the NEC Nijmegen goal again, 5-0.

At this point, Ajax ended the last game of the season with a score of 5:0.

PSV Eindhoven, the tournament rival from Graafschap, was knocked out in a crucial match.

Before the game, PSV Eindhoven was exposed to the news that Gretz would be sacked, which obviously affected the morale and fighting spirit of the PSV players to some extent, and after the opening, Graafschap launched a series of attacks on PSV Eindhoven, and scored two goals in the 10th and 29th minutes to take the lead.

At half-time, Greets adjusted their team's tactics and Romerdal and Kezman equalised in the 59th and 63rd minutes of the second half, but neither side could find the back of the net again after that, and PSV Eindhoven ended up in a draw.

This also made Gretz criticized by many Dutch media after the game, believing that in such a key game, Gretz obviously did not show the determination to break the boat, Eindhoven was distracted, which led to the team's first half behind, and after the equalizer, because Ajax was far ahead, they lost motivation.

"The poor performance in the last game made it difficult for PSV Eindhoven to win sympathy points in the second half of the season, although they chased from eight points behind to only two points, but in the most crucial round, they lost the determination and courage to win."

"This is Gretz's third season in charge of PSV Eindhoven, and we have to say that it has been a very disappointing season, and it can be said that Gretz's team has been getting worse and worse every year, on the other hand, Ajax's results have been climbing in the past two years under Ye Qiu's management, and although they lost the league title at the last moment last season, Ajax has won everyone's respect."

"The first year to win the League Cup, the second year to reach the Champions League semi-finals, we have absolutely reason to believe that under the leadership of Ye Qiu, this Ajax will perform better and better, and this season Ajax also reached the Dutch Cup final, very hopeful of winning the double, and if it wins the championship again, it will also be Ajax's third consecutive championship in the Dutch Cup!"

The three consecutive championships mentioned in the comments are obviously the Dutch Cup of the Ajax second team is also counted on Ajax, but according to the records of the Dutch Football Association, the Dutch Cup is counted on the Ajax second team, which has also become a unique landscape in the history of the Dutch Cup and the history of Dutch football.

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12 May 2002, Dekuip Stadium, Rotterdam.

Ajax, who had won the league trophy in Nijmegen just a week earlier, showed their strength in the Dutch Cup final, but Utrecht put on a defensive position in this one.

Obviously, Utrecht is very aware of their situation and can't beat Ajax by hard hits, so they adopt defensive counter-attacking tactics, hoping to take advantage of Ajax's impetuousness that has not been able to attack for a long time, sneak attack, and it is best to win the cup smoothly.

According to the regulations of the Dutch Football Association, because Ajax has won the league championship and successfully entered the group stage of the UEFA Champions League next season, no matter how the final is won or lost, Utrecht can qualify for the next season's UEFA Cup by reaching the final of the Dutch Cup.

Therefore, purely from the perspective of interests, this final does not have much to do with it, but it is related to a championship trophy.

Utrecht's defense is very solid, but Ye Qiu's Ajax is not ambiguous, Robben is on the left, Van der Vaart is on the right, the two wings are very active, especially the team frequently creates one-on-one opportunities on the wing, which causes Utrecht's defense on the side to be difficult.

Utrecht's head coach Frans? Adlar used to be a brilliant professional player, he was a teammate of the Dutch Three Musketeers and Koeman and other players in 88 to win the European Championship, and then also served as a team leader at Ajax for a time, and accumulated some coaching experience, and later went to coach alone, leading Utrecht's performance this season can only be regarded as okay.

Maybe it's because you see the flanks being tight, Frans? Adlar makes the midfielder Jane? Paul? Frenkie de Jong provided more support down the flanks, but the player was brave, first getting a yellow card for a foul on Van der Vaart when he cut inside, and then pulling a foul from behind after being thrown away by Sneijder.

The referee did have the courage to send two yellow cards in a row in the first half. De Jong was sent off, which also made the Utrecht fans at De Kuyp Stadium very unhappy, thinking that this was the referee's deliberate bias towards Ajax, but judging from the slow motion, Paul? De Jong's foul was very clear and the two yellow cards were not wronged at all.

With one man missing, Utrecht began to lose the ability to resist.

Towards the end of the first half, Van der Vaart cut inside on the right and played a one-two with Ibrahimovic to break into the box and shoot with his left foot from a tight angle to open the scoring for Ajax.

Returning to the locker room with a score of 1:0, Ye Qiu asked all players to continue to put pressure on Utrecht in the second half, and with one more person, Ajax could have adopted a more active and attacking style of play.

But Ye Qiu also reminded the players that Utrecht, who has one less person, will definitely play more conservatively.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the second half, Utrecht almost put the iron bucket formation at their doorstep, and in the face of Ajax's attack, they refused to press out and play, blindly putting out the iron bucket formation in front of the goal, and let Ajax attack.

In the 70th minute, after a long attack, Ajax finally pried open the goal of Utrecht again.

After the high school striker Ibrahimovic stopped the ball in the penalty area, he leaned on the defender with his back, turned and volleyed flexibly, and the ball hung directly at the bottom of the net, the whole process was hearty and indescribable, 2:0!

Ajax then continued their onslaught against Utrecht.

As the on-site commentator said, Ajax clearly vented their frustration and frustration in the Champions League on the hapless Dutch team, formerly NEC Nijmegen and now Utrecht, both of which ran into the muzzle of the gun when Ajax was depressed.

In the 83rd minute, Sneijder received a return pass from Ibrahimovic and sent a through ball to the left side, Robben reached into the penalty area, and once again extended the lead for Ajax, 3:0.

In the 91st minute of stoppage time, Van der Vaart used his personal ability and speed on the right side of the penalty area to continuously dribble through the arc ball after cutting inside, expanding the score to 4:0, and this goal also announced that Ajax became the double champion of the Eredivisie in the 01/02 season.

The players were all excited after the game, and although they were knocked out of the Champions League by Real Madrid, they won both the Eredivisie and the Dutch Cup, which was more or less a compensation for them.

Head coach Ye Qiu said in an interview with Dutch and Chinese media in the comprehensive interview area after the game, saying that all the team's honors are due to the players' hard work.

"I'm very proud to have such a group of outstanding players, they are the best and best players in the world in my heart, and I have always believed that we can succeed, and in fact, we have always been on the road to success, and I believe that we will go from strength to strength!"

A Dutch reporter asked with a smile, "Mr. Ye Qiu, winning the Dutch Cup for three consecutive years, will this make you lack the fun of winning the championship?" ”

Ye Qiu smiled and shook his head, "For me, every championship is worth being happy about, although many people think that the Dutch Cup is a chicken rib, but I don't see it that way at all, because every game in this cup is full of unknowns and challenges, and in this kind of decisive game, we need to be more committed than ever." ”

'I don't think it's any accident to be able to win the cup three years in a row in such a challenging and fortuitous cup competition, it just proves what I just said, we have a group of outstanding players and I'm so proud of them!'

Ye Qiu has always given all the credit to the players, this is because he knows very well in his heart that as the head coach of the team, any honor of the team must have Ye Qiu's indelible credit in it, since this is the case, then why should he fight for it? Wouldn't it be better to push it directly to the players?

"Mr. Ye Qiu, Eindhoven has not been doing well this season, general manager Frank? Arneson announced the departure of head coach Gretz, and according to outside speculation, the most likely to take over from PSV Eindhoven at the moment are Advocaat and Hiddink, what do you think about this? Another Dutch journalist asked.

Advocaat is currently in the management of the club in the Soviet Super League, while Hiddink is the head coach of the national team in South Korea, and there is definite information that PSV Eindhoven's current number one manager candidate is Hiddink, because the Dutch coach has made it clear that he will not renew his contract with South Korea after the World Cup, and if Hius is unable to negotiate, Advocaat is an alternate.

For these two head coaches, Ye Qiu didn't have a very clear impression, so he didn't talk too much.

"I've always felt that whoever the head coach is Eindhoven is the most competitive team in the Eredivisie, but I always believe that whether it's Guus Hius or Advocaat, they will make PSV Eindhoven stronger, but that won't stop us from going on to win the league next season!"

"Mr. Ye Qiu!" Another reporter handed over the microphone, "There is news that there are currently teams in the four major European leagues that are very interested in you, what do you think about this?" ”

Ajax's performance in the Champions League this season has made the entire European football community truly recognize Ye Qiu, so it is true that several teams pay attention to Ye Qiu, and some teams call Eliza to ask if Ye Qiu is interested in coaching, including La Liga, Bundesliga and the Premier League, but Ye Qiu refused.

Today's Ajax team has built a strong framework and team, and now let him give up, isn't this tantamount to giving up halfway? He is absolutely confident that he can lead the team forward because he has found a way to further strengthen the team and help the team get past the bottleneck.

In this case, Ye Qiu did not plan to leave Ajax, because he was convinced that for the time being, there was no place more suitable for him than Ajax, he would go, but he would definitely choose the most suitable and most conducive time for his own development.

That must not be now!

"I won't clarify these rumours because there are so many similar rumors that I can't explain and clarify them one by one, but I can ask all Ajax fans here to rest assured that next season, in front of the coach of the Arenal Stadium, it will be me who will be sitting in front of the coach's box!" Ye Qiu replied with a smile.

The reporters at the scene were very interested in this young marshal, and the questions were one after another, and Ye Qiu had to give his compatriots some privileges after the most disadvantaged, so that two domestic media could ask questions, one of which was Chen Jun, whom he was more familiar with.

"Congratulations on winning the double crown, all our Chinese and Chinese are proud of you!" Chen Jun's opening remarks are very official, which is also his usual style, a bit serious.

"All the questions we wanted to ask before, Dutch and European colleagues have asked, I won't repeat them here, I just want to ask Ye Qiu, what do you want to do most after winning the championship?"

Ye Qiu thought about it, and suddenly remembered a movie he had seen in his previous life, and grinned, "Go home!" ”

"Home?" Chen Jun and the reporters present were a little surprised.

"I haven't been home for a year and I hope to be able to go back to see my parents sooner."

Chen Jun couldn't help but smile when he heard this, nodded and said, "I believe there will be many fans who will go to Xiamen to find you because of your words." ”

Ye Qiu smiled and didn't say anything, he didn't think that being a professional coach was a great thing at all, what a thing to be proud of, because he liked football and coaching, so he would never be satisfied with what he had achieved.

This has been the case, it is now, and it will be so in the future.

"Finally, we all know that Ajax will be going to China this summer, and we hope to have a face-to-face interview with you in Beijing, and I hope you will definitely find time at that time!" Chen Jun later made an invitation.

Ye Qiu nodded in agreement, saying that even if he didn't have time, he would definitely squeeze out time.

Ajax's Dutch Cup triumph at the De Kuip Stadium was thrilled by the excitement of the more than 30,000 Ajax fans who followed the team's bus from Rotterdam to Amsterdam along the A4 motorway.

When the team turned from Hoofdorp to Amstelveen, thousands of Amsterdam Ajax fans had already gathered outside the Olympic Stadium, Ajax's old stadium.

Ajax officials have been prepared for this, when they won the league championship a week ago, the team did not hold a celebration, and now that the double is in hand, they immediately set up a warm celebration ceremony in Detokmost, and at the same time let the players board the uncovered buses that have been prepared for a long time, with two championship trophies, parade around the city of Amsterdam, so that all Ajax fans in the whole city can feel the joy and excitement after winning the championship.

After more than two hours of marching, the procession did not return to the Arena Stadium until midnight, where the club held an all-night celebration ceremony to allow all the fans to share the joy of winning the championship with the team.

Ye Qiu did not participate in the team's parade around the city as usual, firstly, he did not like to participate in such activities, and secondly, he was in the conference room of the Arena Stadium, and Bobby? Harms, club president Van Praag, and technical director Rafael Leao? Ben Hack had a meeting.

The main discussion was about the summer trip to China and the team's summer transfer strategy.