Football: The immortal legend on the green field

Martins began to be confused about the struggle between Neeskens and Horst Jr. and other management. He received inside information that after returning from his trip, Neeskens had a long talk with Horst Sr. for some unknown reason. According to a senior executive of Horst Company with whom he was friendly, Horst Sr. was considering the possibility of selling part of the shares of Haarlem Athletic Club.

If this plan is implemented, Neeskens will no longer be an employed worker, but will become one of his own bosses. The possibility of him squeezing out Neeskens and taking the head coaching position through his previous efforts will no longer exist. Regardless of the final outcome of this matter, adjusting the relationship with Neeskens has become a problem he has to face now.

Needless to say, Martins hoped to use a tactful way to let Neeskens understand that Shen Bin might pose a threat to his dominance, which is something Neeskens does not want to see.

But Martins chose to use Cantona as an example.

Yes, Cantona ruined Manchester United in the 1994-1995 season. Before the Champions League semi-final, in the last four rounds of the Premier League against Liverpool, he couldn't stand the noise of a Liverpool reporter who was filming behind the goal, so he made a close contact with the reporter's head with his foot that was supposed to be kicking the ball.

Who would have known that this sports reporter was a retired athlete of the British national team's Chinese martial arts? Then tragedy struck. The reporter threw away his camera and used only Mei Chaofeng's "Nine Yin White Bone Claw" to leave five blood marks on Cantona's handsome face.

Then, when Cantona found himself being beaten up by others, his teammates just stood aside and watched, not helping him at all.

Cantona had a mental breakdown. After being dragged to the Manchester United lounge by the staff, he madly dismantled the Manchester United lounge. The morale was hit, and Manchester United was eliminated 2:0 at home by AC Milan despite having a 3:1 advantage away from home.

Manchester United's bad luck did not end there. In the following league games, they lost consecutively to Everton and rivals Blackburn Rovers, and eventually lost the league title by one point, going from a four-point lead.

Neeskens believes that Shen Bin is not an immature giant baby like the arrogant Cantona, nor does he think that he is a conspirator like Sir Alex Ferguson who has acted too much and used flattery to establish his prestige in order to control the locker room.

Neeskens is not that kind of person.

He believed that he would be able to convince Shen Bin sooner or later, so Martins' suggestion sounded absurd to him.

Although he has only played three league games and four cup games in the new season, Shen Bin has shown calmness and maturity beyond the average young player. His overflowing talent plus hard training are paying off on the court. He is not only the best performing post-85 player in the new season, but also the only pillar of Haarlem Athletic.

His talent is already like opening 50% of the winning lottery tickets. What can they get in return?

"He is not Cantona, and this is not Manchester United," Neeskens said with a firm look in his sapphire eyes, "and I am not Sir Alex Ferguson either."

"He may not be Cantona, but he has the potential to cause more damage than Cantona," Martins said. "Not only is he uncoachable, he also expresses his dissatisfaction on the bench, on the pitch and in front of the media regardless of the occasion, which has a clear negative impact on the reputation of the coaching staff and others."

"That's enough, you don't understand. All true geniuses are unruly, just like Maradona and Romario. You should be thankful that the boy is not a wimp like Rivaldo!"

Even after many years, Martins will still remember Neeskens' confidence and determination on that night, which was in stark contrast to a series of events that followed.

"He's not a wimp. He's willing to compete, which is a good thing! There aren't many young people like him now. As for the troubles he brings, they're temporary. I'll teach him a lesson." Neeskens said firmly, "If one day, we need to trade Shen Bin to solve the problems he brings, it only means that we have completely failed. I can fail, but I won't give up. Trading him now is a choice of self-abandonment. Do you understand?"

Martins felt very disappointed. He did not believe what Neeskens said, but he could not continue.

Neeskens has already used his "personal ability" as a guarantee. If Martins continues to be stubborn, he is questioning Neeskens, although he has always thought so in his heart.

Neeskens doesn't like being questioned.

So Martins wouldn't question him outwardly.

While other teammates were taking a short vacation, Shen Bin was still dreaming at night of representing Ajax in the 73-74 Dutch Eredivisie and the European Champions League that year as Neeskens. He would get up early every morning and practice with Deng Zhuoxiang, Chen Tao and Tiote. The torture of three training sessions a day made the three of them miserable. Seeing other teammates constantly sharing photos of beautiful women and luxury cars on Facebook, the three of them kept complaining in Shen Bin's ear.

This Thursday is the national team match day stipulated by FIFA. More than 06 countries and regions in the world are fighting desperately for the qualifying places for the World Cup. Haarlem has only one international player, Gural, who will represent the Netherlands for the first time in the Balkans to challenge Macedonia.

Since Macedonia is the weakest opponent in the group, the Dutch head coach Van Basten brought two young players who were only 18 years old to experience the atmosphere of the competition. They are Gural of Haarlem and Huntelaar of Ajax.

In the Dutch team, midfielders Van Bommel, Schneider, Van der Vaart and Maduro are the main force, and the forward line includes Van Nistelrooy, Van Persie, Robben and Kuyt. The four are competing for the main force to the point of being incompatible. Then there is still a place for Gural. Huntelaar is better off. He was recruited into the national team as a midfielder and was included in the 18-man roster for this game. But Gural is miserable. He was plan B prepared by head coach Van Basten in case Robben was injured and unable to play. But after some consideration, this plan B became plan C. There is no need to use speed against a weakling like Macedonia.

As long as they adopted a positional warfare methodically, their defense line could be easily torn apart, and Gular could only go to the water dispenser.

Tiote is in the same situation as him. Unlike Shen Bin and Gular, African blacks have no sense of national honor at all. What they care about is whether being selected for the national team can increase their fame and benefits.

When he learned from a phone call with Ivory Coast head coach Frenchman Michel that he was the fourth choice for Ivory Coast's defensive midfielder, he decisively rejected the call from the Ivory Coast national team.

Because of this, Tiote was teased by Shen Bin, "You go when I tell you to go. If you still want to play, you will have to wait until the world's top midfielders, Yaya Toure and Api Toure, get old and can't play anymore before you have a chance to play. But that will take more than ten years."

"At worst I can join another national team. I can't wait for ten years." In front of the powerful Yaya Toure, Tiote had no confidence to become a liberated serf.

However, he regretted it a day later, not because he failed to represent the Ivory Coast national team, but because Shen Bin rushed him to the training base like a duck early on Sunday morning, which was even more painful than the long journey back to Africa.

While the football elites were fighting for national honor, Shen Bin and his friends were preparing for the next league game in advance.

The good news is that until the winter break, Hallam Athletic will play a game a week, and the FA Cup round of 16 will not resume until the second half of the season. During this period, many players from top league teams not only have to participate in their national team's World Cup qualifiers from time to time, but the European Champions League and UEFA Cup will officially start in October. They are fighting on three fronts, so the football associations of various countries have to sacrifice the most useless FA Cup.

This is exactly what Shen Bin wants. His 17-year-old body is just right for this kind of game intensity.

In the fourth round of the league, Haarlem will face their fourth opponent, Ajax, at home.

If this team is the well-known Ajax, Shen Bin would still give him three points. How dare he call it Ajax? Fortunately, there are more young people behind Ajax. He is allergic to the name Ajax recently.

On September 9, what was supposed to happen happened. In the last group match of the World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese national team and Kuwait competed for a qualifying spot. The two games were played at the same time. The two teams had the same points and the same win-loss record. In the competition of goal difference, the Chinese team had two fewer goals!

Kuwait eventually beat Malaysia 6-1, but our game ended 5 minutes late. At that time, the Chinese team was leading Hong Kong 7-0. At that time, although our goal difference was the same as our opponent, we had one goal less!

The Chinese bishops and media personnel all said that 7-0 was enough.

Neeskens' teammate, China's head coach Ali Han stamped his feet anxiously. He kept shouting on the sidelines, "It's not enough, score one more goal quickly, otherwise we will be eliminated." But the players on the field had already given up, they seemed to think they had qualified.

Later, Arihan recalled: "It is hard for me to understand. For such an important match, the Chinese Football Association and Chinese football media personnel did not learn math well! They did not even understand the rules for qualifying for the World Cup qualifiers. In this case, they should have expected such a score before the game!" (Goal difference is the same as the number of goals)

If you say that Chinese people have not learned mathematics well, then there is no nation in the world that can learn mathematics well. The Chinese Football Association is just cooperating with the Asian Football Confederation to put on a show. This is all to pay off the debt for the 02 World Cup qualifiers.

Should we tell that unlucky guy Ali Han that we can't qualify even if we score 10,000 goals?

Then there was a nationwide condemnation, but Yuan Li, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, spoke the truth. This statement, "Chinese football is a second-rate team in Asia," hurt the nerves of people across the country. Under constant attacks from the media and fans, a month later, Yuan Li was forced to resign as vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association and left safely at No. 9 Tiyu Road, Yanjing City. Yuan Weimin, Zhang Jilong and Fei Qimin also left with him.

Half of the six chairmen left, and three of the seven standing committee members left. Nan Yong and Yang Yimin's voice in the Football Association is unprecedentedly high, especially Nan Yong, who is becoming the most influential person in the Football Association. Yan Shiduo, the real leader of the Football Association, is almost marginalized.

Chinese football has once again fallen into a trough. If there is any impact on Shen Bin, it is a positive one. Shen Bin has finally gotten rid of the attention of the media and fans. This truly meets Shen Bin's expectations. He can easily lie down and develop.

Even the gossip about him and Fan Bingbing disappeared from newspapers and magazines. Shen Bin was satisfied, but the elder sister was not satisfied. She called Shen Bin and asked him to create more topics. According to her, the media didn't pay much attention to her now. She felt a little disappointed. Even the paparazzi disappeared from her side. "How about I talk to the crew of "Tang Paradise" and ask them to take a few days off to accompany you in Holland, and then create some gossip topics!"

"This woman doesn't look like a good person!" Shen Bin was shocked and quickly refused.

On the afternoon of September 9, Shen Bin led Deng Zhuoxiang and four others to the University Town Arena. After arriving at the destination, Gular, the water dispenser manager who had returned from the national team, began to practice cross-field passes to find the feeling. Shen Bin walked around and then met Jeremyn Bissett, who was promoted to the first team from the U22 youth team together with Huntelaar.

Huntelaar was considered a standout in Ajax's youth training camp, standing out from hundreds of talented players from all over the world. He was a success in any way, but his fate was different. Huntelaar stayed in the first team and became a starter. He made his national team debut in the match against Macedonia a few days ago.

However, Bissette only stayed in the Ajax adult team for one day before being demoted to the reserve team, which is the Ajax youth team.

Seeing Bisit holding a bunch of snacks, Shen Bin teased, "Thank you for going to Ajax for me, otherwise I would be the one doing the dirty work."

If you were to name a few people that Bisett hates the most, Shen Bin would definitely be one of them. He would probably be ranked only after Huntelaar, or even ahead of Gural.

After the start of the new season, the turmoil Shen Bin caused in European football was in stark contrast to his mediocrity. Both Ajax fans and coaches were resentful that the club failed to keep Shen Bin.

Who could have thought that Shen Bin, who was almost disabled, could turn things around and trample Huntelaar and other Ajax rookies under his feet?

As a result, within less than a month, Shen Bin was able to get large pages in newspapers in every game, while he could only be a substitute in the Ajax reserve team, played for only 5 minutes in three league games, and had only one touch of the ball in total.

Every day, Sai Te lives in the hell of having to be compared with Shen Bin, which is also the nightmare of all young players in European national teams or clubs.

“The person who starts first may not be the one to finish!” This is a philosophical statement from the competition master.

That's true, but are you, someone who doesn't even have a chance to start, qualified to say such things?

"Hehe, if thinking this way makes you feel better, I won't object." Shen Bin waved goodbye to the match, "Work hard, I hope to see you strike back on the court tonight."

Comparing age with old teammates, current situation with down-and-out classmates, and foul mouth with civilized people, this is Shen Bin's "win, win, win" philosophy of life. Although Shen Bin does not often show it on the surface, he always uses these to build up confidence in secret.