coach legend

Chapter 410

A grand slam, a real grand slam.

George has won everything he can at the club.England's domestic league champions, FA Cup champions, League Cup champions, Community Shield champions, George has won all four championships.Which won two league titles, two League Cup titles.

Of course, the FA Cup was won by George when he was at Burnley, that is, nearly five years ago.

In addition to England's domestic champions, it also includes UEFA Cup champions, Champions Cup champions, European Super Cup champions, and Toyota Cup champions.Of course, if the Cup Winners Cup is not merged into the UEFA Cup, then maybe George will miss the Cup Winners Cup in his life.

But it is precisely because the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup merged, and George's UEFA Cup championship happened to be the first championship after the merger of the two major cups.

So George is a true Grand Slam coach.

As the game ended, even Blanco and Karl who were next to him came up to congratulate George.

Grand Slam head coach, sounds very comfortable.

George is complacent.

At 34, many coaches are just beginning their coaching careers.But George has already achieved everything a club head coach can achieve.

After the game, George was hailed.

What is the Toyota Cup?No matter what, it can't compare with the Champions League and Premier League champions.But it is this last crown that is very important to George.Because this is the last championship that can fill the void in George's honor.

With the Toyota Cup championship, George became a rare Grand Slam head coach in European football.

Of course, more importantly, George is still young.It is only his eighth season in charge of the club, but he has already won so many honors.

Therefore, after the game, the European football media paid the most attention to only two things.

The first thing is that the European team finally surpassed the South American team in the Toyota Cup, surpassing the eleven champions of South America with twelve championships.

In recent years, European football and South American football have secretly competed, and there is even an arm wrestling between UEFA and FIFA.Now European football has completely overwhelmed South American football by virtue of its strong financial capabilities.

So many European media are very happy.

The second thing is George's Grand Slam.

In the European football Grand Slam head coach, he can count on a few fingers.And there are even fewer who are still in the position of head coach.Just talk about the Bosque who was dismissed from Real Madrid. He has never won a Grand Slam in Real Madrid.

There is also English football, in addition to Ferguson, including Wenger, Graham, Dalglish, Bobby Robson, Kevin Keegan, which of these famous coaches is a Grand Slam.not a single one.

Even Capello, who was once the coach of the Milan dynasty, is not a Grand Slam.He lacks a domestic cup winner and a Toyota Cup winner.

Think about it, even Capello, Arsene Wenger, Dalglish, Robson, and Del Bosque have failed to achieve a Grand Slam, so you know the difficulty of a Grand Slam.But George, at the age of 34, became the head coach of the World Football Grand Slam, how could he not be shocked.

So the Toyota Cup itself was completely ignored by the media.

The media is reporting on both of these things.Among them, George, as the head coach of the Grand Slam, received the most media coverage.All the media are praising the emergence of such a young Grand Slam head coach in European football.

George read these newspapers on the plane.

Because George had no time to delay in Japan, and was going to Holland soon.

The second game of the second round of the Champions League group stage is about to start.Blackburn are away to Ajax.

There is no need to count the glory of Ajax's history.Just by looking at their four big ear cups, you can know what status Ajax is in European football.

Moreover, the total attack and total defense tactics that are popular all over the world and have been studied and carried forward by countless coaches started from Ajax.In the history of Ajax, superstars are like clouds.Their names, like bright stars, shine on the world football.

The last time Ajax shined was when they beat Milan to win the Champions League.

At that time, Ajax was full of geniuses, but the damn Bosman Act made Ajax watch their players leave one by one.But soon Ajax adjusted the development of the team, and now Ajax is once again full of talents.

The current Ajax players, if they are placed in later generations, they will all be players who can shock European football.

Pienaar, the South African international.Is the core of the South African midfielder.

Trabelsi, Tunisia's biggest football star.He is also the only Tunisian player to have entered the 50-man European Footballer of the Year list.

De Jong, later the main midfielder of the Dutch team and Manchester City's main midfielder.The midfielder butcher is just starting out in Ajax.

Chivu, the main left-back of Rome, the main left-back of Inter Milan during the Triple Crown, and another world-class star in Romania.

Van der Meyde, at this time the stars are more dazzling than Ibrahimovic and Sneijder.At Ajax only Van der Vaart can compare with him.

Ibrahimovic, needless to say.Experienced Juventus, Inter Milan.The main striker of many giants in Barcelona and Milan.Get Ibrahimovic, get the league.

Van der Vaart, captain of Ajax.He is also one of the four little kings of the Netherlands and a very talented player.Although the future achievements are not as expected, it is definitely not due to strength.It's because of a lack of luck.

Sneijder, the core midfielder of Inter Milan's triple crown and the core midfielder of the World Cup runner-up.He was also one of the players with the highest calls for Mr. Football back then.Although he was not able to win the Footballer of the Year in the end, the selection of the Footballer of the Year was considered by many people to be the most controversial year.

Huntelaar, the future Bundesliga Golden Boot.In Schalke, Gomez, who beat Bayern, won the Bundesliga's top scorer.

Would you freak out if you heard the names of these players?

Will you be surprised, will you be timid.If you just listen to these names, and these people are in a club, even George will be surprised.If it is two or three years later, George may be very worried.It's a pity that it's 2002 after all, and these people are just little ones.

Now this Ajax team, the most famous are Van der Meyde, Van der Vaart, and Ibrahimovic.

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On December 2002, 12, Blackburn's bus arrived at the Amsterdam Stadium.

The Amsterdam Stadium is definitely one of the top and most luxurious stadiums in Europe. Even if you want to find a better stadium than the Amsterdam Stadium in England, you can't find a few.There are absolutely no more than ten stadiums in Europe that can rival the Amsterdam Stadium.

It's luxurious and beautiful.

The stadium built in 1993 cost more than 4000 million at that time.The stadium can accommodate 8000 people. When George led the team into the stadium, he found that he couldn't find a few empty seats.

George was very surprised.It turns out that the fans of the Eredivisie team are so enthusiastic.

In fact, what George doesn't know is that Ajax usually has only about 5 fans in the Eredivisie.In other words, there will be nearly 2 empty seats for each game.

The exception this time is not because of how important this game is.But because Ajax's opponent is Blackburn.

This time Ajax is facing the defending champions of the Champions League.Ajax fans don't like Blackburn, or hate Blackburn.Ajax is a European giant, a real European giant.But the damn Bosman Act destroyed the survival foundation of the entire Eredivisie.

It is precisely because of this that an upstart like Blackburn won the Champions League.

Therefore, Ajax fans are very unhappy to see Blackburn.

Now finally met Blackburn.And in recent years, Ajax has shown signs of resurgence, because of the emergence of talented players.After the talented players who won the Champions League last time left, Ajax finally saw the growth of another batch of talented players.

So they hope that Ajax's victory over Blackburn can also teach this upstart a lesson.

So there are a lot of fans here today.It turned out that the stadium with nearly 7 people was full.

George doesn't really like to wear formal clothes on the court.But Koman is obviously different from George. He is very formal and wears a red tie.After George came out, he shook hands with George very politely.

George is no stranger to Koeman.

This is the 90s, the all-powerful defender in European football.Not only won the Champions League in Eindhoven, but also the core figure of the Barcelona Dream Team.He was one of the representative players of Holland's total defense.

Koeman is a well-known superstar in European football.

But that was when he was a player.

Now as a coach, he is a junior to George.He has only been a coach for a little over two years now, and he has only won the Eredivisie championship.

Compared with George, who is already coaching for the eighth season and has won countless championships, Koeman has to learn a lot from George.

George's formation was quite satisfactory.

The lineup is exactly the same as in the last Toyota Cup match.Two defensive midfielders Alonso and Hargreaves were sent, and Micoud, Pires and Kaka were sent in the midfield.The striker is a single striker Klose.

Koeman's formation was nothing new either.

Ajax played almost everything they could play.

Except for Huntelaar, which is a little kid.He failed to enter the main lineup, and he couldn't even find this person in the substitute list.

Others you can name Van der Vaart, Sneijder, De Jong, Van Bommel, Ibrahimovic, Chivu are all on the court.Looking at these people, even George was a little jealous.Wouldn't it be great if we could lure some of them to Blackburn?

But George knew that Ajax was good at doing business.

They are not famous, Ajax will not sell.When they become famous, each of them is worth tens of millions.It was a surprise that Van der Vaart went to Hamburg so cheaply.

With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.

(End of this chapter)