super storm

Chapter 1301 Superstar's Advantage

Back to Ajax?
It's not that Yang Yang has never thought about it, and he has always thought about it for a long time.

There is a tradition in European football called falling leaves returning to their roots.

Many big-name players like to return to their home team to retire, and Ajax is Yang Yang's home team.

Therefore, for a long time in the past, Yang Yang really thought that if he could not continue to play in the top European leagues, he would go back to Ajax to retire. I believe Ajax will definitely welcome him.

Of course, the premise is that he has to make a huge concession in terms of salary, otherwise, with his current salary, Ajax can't afford it.

But gradually, this kind of thinking faded away, and he really didn't think about why it faded.

But now, Van der Sar suddenly mentioned it, and Yang Yang somewhat missed his youthful years in Ajax.

His love with Su Ye started in Ajax, his deep friendship with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sneijder, Vermaelen and others also started in Ajax, and his football career still started in Ajax...

For him, this team really has too many wonderful memories.

But if he really wants to go back, can he go back?
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Van der Sar didn't know that what he said caused huge waves in Yang Yang's heart, and he didn't think about what Yang Yang would promise or promise. He was more expressing a wish.

If Yang Yang is willing to return to Ajax, it will definitely revive the Ajax football market, rekindle the enthusiasm of Ajax fans, and make the city of Amsterdam crazy for Ajax again.

Only Yang Yang has such appeal and influence!
"In the past few years, we have experienced a lot of ups and downs. The management, coaching staff and the team are all turbulent, and the results are also ups and downs. Until the last few years, we have learned from the pain, and then we made up our minds to reform and reorganize, and began to hire successful players who had gone out of the team to return."

"We all hope to help Ajax rise again and stand on the top of Europe again. We all miss those years, even though we all know that this is impossible, but those are our good memories."

Van der Sar's words were sincere and sincere, which resonated with Yang Yang.

He is nostalgic for those years, so why not Van der Sar and others?
Over the years, many celebrities have returned to Ajax, from Ronald Koeman and Van Basten back then, to De Boer, Bergkamp, ​​Overmars, Davis and Van der Sar later.

Today's Ajax is basically operated and operated by these former stars. De Boer is the team's head coach, Bergkamp is the assistant coach, Overmars, Davis and Van der Sar are all members of the management technical team.

"To be honest," Van der Sar looked deeply at Yang Yang, "We were really surprised and happy to learn that you were the chief assistant coach of Real Madrid. This is a very good training opportunity, but it is also an adventure."

Yang Yang kept nodding, "Yes, I was hesitant too, but Zidane and the management are very kind, so I decided to give it a try."

"That's very good." Van der Sar laughed. "Whether you succeed or not, it will be a valuable wealth of experience. If you consider yourself in the future, you can consider Ajax. This will be a very suitable platform for you, isn't it?"

Yang Yang nodded in affirmation.

Whether it's a player or a head coach, Ajax is really a very suitable platform.

It is a giant, famous all over the world, but it is hard to call it a giant now. The key is that it has a certain advantage in the strength of the Eredivisie, and it faces competition from PSV Eindhoven and even Feyenoord.

It can be said that such a team is really suitable for starting.

Especially for people like Yang Yang.

Of course, for Yang Yang, Ajax is suitable for starting, but for countless people who aspire to coach, Ajax's coaching position is likely to be their lifelong pursuit and wish.

This is the advantage of a legendary superstar like Yang Yang.

"When I play for a few more years and retire in the future, I will seriously consider it." Yang Yang nodded.

Van der Sar is also a straightforward person. At the same time, it is impossible for him to make any promises, because hiring a head coach has always been a very rigorous matter. Even a legendary superstar like Yang Yang must not be hasty.

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Yang Yang's conversation with Van der Sar did not attract anyone's attention.

In the Grimaldi Conference Centre, people talking like them abound, not to mention all of them have Ajax background.

Even Yang Yang himself didn't take it seriously. Although he will be 29 soon, he doesn't know how many more years he will play, maybe two or three years, maybe more, who knows what will happen in the future?

Soon, with the start of the drawing ceremony and the awards ceremony, everyone put all the things that happened before behind their heads, and all their attention was put on the draw of the UEFA Champions League group stage.

In recent years, the strength gap between the Champions League teams has obviously been gradually widening. Not only between rich and non-rich, even among traditional giants, the gap in strength is also very large and obvious.

For example, the strength of the Milan duo in Serie A has obviously declined significantly, and the strength of Manchester United in the Premier League has also declined a lot. There are also Chelsea and Arsenal. These teams are good in strength, but compared with Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

So much so that the draw has not yet started, but everyone is unwilling to draw Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

Real Madrid's luck was not good. They drew Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue [-], Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine and Malmo in Sweden. Malmo is Ibrahimovic's home team, and the Swedish center made his debut from this team.

In this group, Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue [-] is the one that can really put a competitive pressure on Real Madrid.

This Ligue [-] team backed by the Qatar consortium has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, and its performance is also thriving. Last season, it played back and forth with Barcelona in the Champions League knockout round, and its overall strength is very daunting.

Shakhtar Donetsk is a veteran club in the UEFA Champions League. Over the past few years, there have been many talents, the farthest being Dario Srna, and most of the recently produced monsters are from Brazil, such as Manchester City's Fernandinho, Chelsea's William, and Douglas Costa who just moved to Bayern Munich this summer.

Perhaps it is due to the serious loss of personnel in recent years, Shakhtar Donetsk has not been able to make up for reinforcements in time, and the overall strength has declined, but they have rich experience in European wars. At the same time, Real Madrid's guest game in Ukraine will be at the end of November, and the weather will be icy and snowy, which is also very scary.

Therefore, facing such a team, Real Madrid can't be careless anyway.

On the contrary, it is Malmö in Sweden. It may be difficult for this team to pose a threat to Real Madrid. I believe that as long as Real Madrid performs normally, it will not be difficult to win the opponent, but it also cannot be careless.

In general, this is a typical pattern of the Champions League group stage with two strong and two weak, and Real Madrid's signings are quite satisfactory.

For Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain is definitely a strong enemy. The two rounds of duels must be won with all their strength. For Shakhtar Donetsk and Malmo, the biggest troubles are often the climate and long distances.

The Champions League is usually held in the middle of the week. Whether it is Sweden or Ukraine, the journey is too far away, which is a very unstable factor.

But no matter what, Real Madrid is still very confident in this group.

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Compared with Real Madrid, Barcelona's luck is much better. Leverkusen, Roma and Borisov were drawn.

But the best is Chelsea, who have drawn Porto, Dynamo Kiev and Maccabi Tel Aviv. None of the three teams can threaten the Blues. There is basically no suspense for Chelsea to qualify for the top spot in the group.

As for the other groups, the results of the draws are basically the same. This is basically the same as the draws for the UEFA Champions League group stage in the past few years. Most of them are two strong and two weak. The real focus of competition is still the competition for the top spot in the group and the third place in the group.

It is worth mentioning that in this year's Champions League group stage, La Liga has a total of five teams participating. In addition to the top four in the league, there is also the Europa League champion Sevilla. This is the first time in the history of the Champions League.

Moreover, these five teams have all reached the group stage.

As for how many teams can stand out from the group stage, it depends on the competitiveness of the La Liga teams.

In general, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have no problem. Whether Sevilla and Valencia can qualify depends on their fortunes.

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After the draw, the process moved on to UEFA's best of the year award ceremony.

The first to be awarded was the best save of the year, and the result was Ter Stegen from Barcelona.

The German goalkeeper staged a wonderful two-game save in the semi-final against Bayern Munich. He performed very well and beat Courtois and Neuer to be elected the best save of the season.

In terms of the best goal of the Champions League season, two of the three shortlisted goals were nominated by Yang Yang. They were the last two goals of the Champions League final, one was a long-range shot, the other was a direct free kick from 40 meters away, and one was given to Messi in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich.

In fact, many people believed that Yang Yang could have won all three nominations, but in the end he gave Messi one.

In the end, it was Yang Yang's finale goal in the Champions League final. A direct free kick from 40 meters away won the best goal of the season.

It can be said that this is also well deserved!

After Yang Yang took the stage to receive the award for the best goal of the season, the awards ceremony also came to the final grand prize.

UEFA Player of the Year.

(End of this chapter)