The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 679 The Tortoise and the Hare Race
Football is a very interesting subject, especially when you understand it more deeply and become more familiar with it, you will find that in fact, you can't understand it more and more, because it is very vast and profound.

This is true of all industries and all disciplines in the world.

Just like mathematics, one plus one equals two, simple, right?But it is as profound as Goldbach's conjecture, but countless mathematicians all over the world cannot prove it. Do you think mathematics is simple or profound?

Easy to learn but difficult to master, this is a typical feature of all learning in the world.

Sometimes, Ye Qiu thought, perhaps, the history of modern football over the past 100 years, to put it bluntly, might just be to tell everyone a truth, how to achieve a balance between the individual and the team.

And if this problem is magnified, for a country, or even the whole world, individualism and collectivism are also two opposite ideas, so whether you are pursuing individualism or advocating collectivism, you There is no way to say that he is wrong. In the final analysis, social harmony and world peace are to find a balance point between individualism and collectivism, mutual compromise and mutual harmony.

The same is true of football. Its development history is a spiral history, full of struggles between individualism and teamism, and countless superstars have been born, such as Pele and Maradona. But soon, when people discovered When individuals alone cannot limit these superstars, teamism revives, and when teamism develops to a certain extent, it will definitely lead to the rise of even more outstanding individualism.

This is a cycle of football!
Back to reality, countless reporters, media and fans are saying that Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi are the two greatest superstars on the planet, and their level exceeds any player in the world. West relies on his unparalleled football skills and inspiration, while Cristiano Ronaldo relies on his tyrannical and excellent body.

The confrontation between two super geniuses is the confrontation of technology and strength.

It can be said that Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo can be regarded as the crystallization and achievement of star tactics developed to the extreme since the 90s. They represent the two most outstanding concepts in the football world, and they also represent the modern football training level. Ultimate, they are the most outstanding works of art that modern football has trained.

But teamism has always been unwilling to be outdone. The miracles of Denmark, Greece, Valencia, and even Real Madrid's two Champions Leagues at the turn of the century can be seen as the recovery of teamism and the strong return of overall football. This trend is almost obvious now.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who represent individualism, have reached the limit. Their development has encountered a bottleneck. Because of the level of technology and training, they have not made a major breakthrough in a short period of time, and their personal abilities have also reached the extreme. So they can score like a tide, they can be invincible, but it is difficult for them to lead a team forward by one person like in the Maradona era.

The reason is simple, the overall football that represents teamwork is back!

So, how will the future development of football go?
If it is said that Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo represent the highest level of football training, then overall football will gradually popularize this highest level of training in the next few years, allowing more and more professional players to enjoy this kind of training. The level of training, and there will be more and more high-level players.

Of course, in this process, you never have to worry about not having any stars, because there will always be differences between people.

The development of teamwork cannot be without bottlenecks. However, with the development of teamwork, with the advancement of technology and the improvement of training levels, individualism will make a breakthrough, so elite special training will create several super geniuses , Their appearance once again broke the balance brought by teamism. He will re-enact the miracle of Maradona, let the whole team build tactics around him, give full play to his tactical value and strength advantages, and then achieve success.

Thus, a new round of recovery of individualism, followed by a recovery of teamism, repeats itself.

Sometimes Ye Qiu felt that the ideas of those ancestors in the motherland were really interesting. Thousands of years ago, they put forward the theory that a single yin does not grow, a single yang does not grow, and that one yin and one yang are called Tao.

The truth here is actually a kind of balance.

When it comes to a person, everyone has two sides, good and bad, good and evil, it depends on how you balance these two personalities.

In a team, superstars and players, individualism and teamwork, how to coordinate development?
Putting it into a country, how to balance and integrate the individual and the collective, the family and the country?

Everything in this world is relative and has two sides. If you always only use one side to look at and think about problems, then you will always go astray and go astray.

Just like Ye Qiu, although he graduated from the Cologne Institute of Physical Education, he was not a professional player. Many people would think, ah, this guy is a layman, but is that really the case?
Throughout the history of the world, the decision makers of all the great wars are not the generals who are the best at fighting!
In World War II, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. government and opposition were shocked. The situation was critical. Roosevelt decided to bomb Tokyo. Almost all the generals in the United States thought it was an impossible task and it was not cost-effective. As a result, Roosevelt stood up from his wheelchair, Tell them if I can stand up, you can.

Everyone knows the final result. The United States successfully bombed Tokyo and changed the trend of World War II.

Similarly, in the history of football development, it is often those head coaches whose careers are not brilliant, or even those who have no career experience at all, who have made outstanding contributions to the development of football. The reason is the same as war. The real decision makers should not be those generals who are good at fighting, but a group of strategists with a broader vision and foresight.

In Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu played the role of a strategist. Although he is not good at training, he is no longer putting a lot of energy into targeted tactics like in the past, but he is more Instead, he was thinking about how the team should go in the future.

Because Tottenham Hotspur have developed to this level, especially at the football level, their strongest enemy is no longer their opponents on the pitch, but themselves!

In Tottenham Hotspur, there are five very good tactical analysts in the back seats of each game, each of them is enough to be called a tactical master, they use computers to use various Ways to analyze every change and adjustment of opponents on the court, and give professional advice to the head coach and coaching staff.

If they are chosen by anyone, they are all second to none, and their tactical theories and ideas are very outstanding. If you want to debate with them, they can make you speechless, but the problem is that they can only be tactical analysts. , because they can always only serve as part of the head coach's resources to integrate the team.

Ye Qiu is not good at sculpting players, but Mauro Tassotti is a great right back and the best tactician, Meulensteen and Moniz are the best technical sculptors in the world, Frans? Hawke is the best goalkeeper coach in the world. In addition to the team's entire research center and tactical analysis team, etc., the professionalism of Tottenham Hotspur's entire logistics team is second to none in football. , no matter in terms of professionalism or advancement, they are all superb.

This is the super strong team that Ye Qiu has created in the past five years!

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Sitting on the office chair, swinging the butt from side to side, the office chair is shaking silently and almost without any resistance.

However, Ye Qiu's attention was always on the training field downstairs, where the first team's training sessions are currently taking place, and the team's chief assistant coach Mauro Tassotti is in charge.

At this moment, Mauro Tassotti was calling a timeout, walked into the training ground, and explained his mistake to the young player Luca Shaw, who was promoted to the first team. Obviously, he was telling him that the defense just now What mistakes did he make when he was Messi and what was wrong with his defensive position.

He was born as a defender and has been immersed in defense for decades in Serie A. He has his own very unique understanding of defense, and he is very good at carving defensive players, such as Thiago Silva and Kompany. Carved out of his hands, like Kyle Walker, although the England right back is only 21 years old, Mauro Tassotti is very optimistic about him.

After all, he was a professional player. Mauro Tassotti demonstrated in person after he left the field. He asked Messi and other offensive players to also take the ball to his side, and then he personally demonstrated to the players how to move reasonably in the retreat. .

This is not only teaching defensive players, but also telling offensive players how to deal with high-level defense.

Mauro Tassotti's training always has a lot of details, and his level makes all players have to admire. After all, he is the best right back in the history of AC Milan, and he has been in AC Milan for the past ten years. Working in Milan, having experienced the influence of so many head coaches, the ability is indeed very strong.

Ye Qiu asked himself, he was far inferior to Mauro Tassotti in terms of details, especially in terms of sculpting and training players, but in terms of strategy, Mauro Tassotti was not as good as him. This is why Ye Qiu hoped that Mauro Tassotti Tassotti was promoted, so he recommended to Mauro Tassotti many related books, including a lot of Chinese classics such as "Sun Tzu's Art of War".

After the training session was over, Ye Qiu turned around, left his office, went directly downstairs, and went to the players' locker room. The players who had already been notified by the coaching staff also returned to the locker room one after another. room.

"First of all, I have to congratulate everyone here!" Ye Qiu swept everyone with a smile, "Your names will be recorded in the annals of history along with the team, and you should be proud of the glorious achievements you made yesterday. So proud and proud!"

Unbeaten in 59 games, this is a brand new historical record. Even now, fans throughout the UK and even the world are still amazed by Tottenham Hotspur's achievement.

"Secondly, I want to tell everyone that we must change our concept!"

Speaking of this, Ye Qiu shook his head and smiled, "Yes, many people say that the undefeated record is a heavy pressure. I have two undefeated records for a long time. The first time was when we were at Chelsea. I have a 56-game undefeated record, and the other time I was with you, the two undefeated records gave me a very different feeling!"

"I did feel the pressure last time, but when I look back afterwards, I think I was so stupid, why should there be pressure? Our ability to remain unbeaten for such a long time has proved everything. We don't need to have pressure, on the contrary, we should have a motivation, a motivation to challenge the limit!"

"Before 58 games, we were chasers, chasing Chelsea, chasing AC Milan, we were running behind other people's asses, we had a goal, and it was a very clear goal, they stood in front of us and stopped still waiting for us , just like the tortoise and the hare race, the rabbit runs fast, but it stops to sleep, and the tortoise catches up, do you think the tortoise is capable?"

Ye Qiu shook his head vigorously, "No, I respect the efforts and diligence of the tortoise, but I want to say that the tortoise will always be a tortoise!"

A lot of players in the dressing room, including some drawn to the first team for training, such as Luke Shaw, Nick Powell, Januzaj, Callum Chambers, Jedwich and Will Hughes Waiting for the teenagers, they will all have the opportunity to participate in the cup or the European Youth Champions League.

At this moment, after hearing Ye Qiu's words, they all nodded their heads.

Ye Qiu's meaning is very clear, the tortoise and the hare can't prove how good the tortoise is, how powerful it is, it can only be said that the hare handed over the victory to the tortoise, because the hare didn't live up to it.

Going back to this record, what Ye Qiu meant was obvious. Others' undefeated records are unstoppable. It's nothing special if you catch up, because you're just a tortoise that keeps chasing, but when you exceed this After a record, you become the rabbit running at the forefront, and some chasers behind you, now and in the future, become tortoises.

So, here comes the question, do you want to be a lazy sleeping rabbit?Or keep vigilant and vigilant, a rabbit that keeps rushing forward?This choice can only be made by each individual!
"I want to tell everyone that when I am a rabbit who is never satisfied, I will continue to run forward. I also hope that Tottenham Hotspur can run forward with me. This requires your presence. Everyone is like me, never satisfied, never satisfied with the status quo!"

"I also want to tell everyone that we used to chase others on the road that others walked, but now, there is no road ahead of us, no object or goal to chase, and every step we take in the future will become The road that others are chasing, and you, everyone present, will leave your footprints on this road!"

Ye Qiu's words made many players couldn't help raising their heads, their eyes clearly showed hunger.

Who doesn't want to be famous in history?
Players are eager to win the championship, eager to win the Champions League, for what?
money?Not only that, but also famous!

"I want you to understand one more truth. From now on, in every game in the future, you will not play for the fans or the team, but for yourself. You can play the ball. How long the team's unbeaten record can be maintained is up to you. I believe that if you can go all out in every game, no team can beat you, and you will continue this undefeated history. Write ahead."

The players reacted strongly to Ye Qiu's words, and their emotions were obviously mobilized. Although they didn't speak, they all nodded.

"The third thing I want to announce today is what we said at the press conference before. The team will start a new round of contract renewal negotiations in an all-round way. We will complete a new round of contract renewal within the next two years. Contract, and this contract renewal will be based on your performance to determine everything!"

Ye Qiu’s words are not difficult to understand, that is, if you want to have higher salaries, better conditions, and higher bonuses when you renew your contract, then use your performance on the court to convince me , to prove their worth.

The head coach always keeps his word, at least Ye Qiu is worthy of the players' trust, so when he said that, everyone present clearly understood Ye Qiu's meaning and believed in Ye Qiu's promise.

After more than five years of building, Tottenham Hotspur's players basically have a clear understanding of the team's salary structure, and even the outside media have begun to figure out Tottenham Hotspur's treatment. The media that complained about the low salaries of superstars such as Messi and Ribery later turned their guns around because they discovered that the biggest part of Tottenham Hotspur players' income is not their salary, but portrait rights and commercial income.

As for the latter part, the tax rate in the UK is very low, or even tax-free.

Therefore, many Premier League teams have begun to follow Tottenham Hotspur's approach. They have begun to convert some players' salaries into income from portrait rights and commercial income. investigation.

In this regard, Tottenham Hotspur can be said to be the most professional. The team has many different channels to help players reasonably avoid some taxes, or even tax exemptions, and even some unavoidable taxes, It is also possible to reduce the tax rate by operating a company and so on.

Therefore, on the surface, it seems that the salaries of Tottenham Hotspur players are not high, while the stars of other teams seem to have high salaries, but the actual situation is completely opposite. It's called making a fortune with a low voice, but those teams and players who shout loudly often become the focus of the customs bureau.

Damn, you are all avoiding and evading taxes one by one, I turned a blind eye and closed one eye, but you are still shouting loudly, are you really thinking that I am dead?Or do you feel that tax avoidance and evasion are not fun, and you still want to cause me a big social turmoil?

As Franklin said, death and taxes are two inevitable things in a person's life.

It's just that different people have different ways of dealing with them.

(End of this chapter)