Football: The immortal legend on the green field

Neeskens hadn't seen Ali Han for two years. He was surprised to see that the other party's eyes were no longer full of confidence. The blond, charming middle-aged handsome man looked much older than two years ago. He was stunned for a long time before he laughed and hugged Ali Han into his arms. He had to smile against his will: "Haha! Han, you are more energetic!"

"You too, haven't changed at all, still so passionate...you hug me so hard it hurts!"

"Long time no see, of course I have to use more force! It's been so long since you came to see an old friend like me!" Neskens let go of Ali Han.

"Aren't I here?" Ali Han rubbed his nose.

Neeskens' eyes were filled with endless concern. "You are still the same. Even this little move hasn't changed. What happened in the East? I think you must have lost a lot compared to two years ago. The sharp-witted Ali Han seems to have disappeared."

"Hehe!" Ali Han laughed.

"To be honest, I see you are accompanied by several Orientals. I know why you came, but you are a Dutchman after all. You should first consider the interests of the Netherlands. I believe you can distinguish clearly and try to prevent the Orientals from taking Shen Bin away. The biggest regret of our generation of football players is that we were unable to bring the World Cup back to the Netherlands, but now I see hope again,"

Ali Han nodded: "I know where your confidence comes from, but do you really think that those arrogant local players will listen to an Oriental?"

"It's not about listening to him, but everyone has to listen to me." Neskens' arrogance was once again revealed.

"What do you think of them?" Neeskens asked him with a smile.

"I'm surprised. I didn't expect that China would have such an outstanding player. John, you have dug up a great treasure for the Horst family!"

Hearing the compliment, Neeskens smiled even more happily.

But when I think of little Horst, who is now in power in the club and would give his soul to the devil for money, I feel sick as if I had eaten a fly.

"After so many years, the fight between the Dutch natives and outsiders has never stopped. I am tired of this kind of infighting. However, I am interested in your new tactics. I want to stay in Haarlem for a while. I don't want a salary. My contract with the Chinese national team has not been terminated. Although they have announced that I will be relieved of my position as head coach, my working relationship is still with the Chinese Football Association."

"Ali, you underestimate me!" Neeskens laughed heartily. He had made it to the last 16 in the cup competition and won two consecutive league games. Everything seemed to be going well. He was in a good mood today. "But it's better if you come. I will be much more relaxed if you, who used to be Van Gaal's assistant, come to help me!"

Neeskens was talking about something that happened ten years ago. In the 1989-90 season, Van Gaal was the head coach of the Ajax youth team. At that time, his assistant was this former teammate in front of him. At that time, he was 39 years old. The following year, they won the Dutch Youth League championship. If you know that this achievement was achieved when the performance of the Ajax first team declined, you will know how difficult it was.

In that Ajax youth team, Davis and the De Boer brothers were the core of the team, while Seedorf, Kluivert, and Rezger were still training in the youth team and were often selected to participate in the youth team. The current main goalkeeper of the Dutch national team, Van der Sar, who is known as the greatest goalkeeper in Dutch history, was recruited by Haan from an amateur club participating in the "Saturday League".

Later, in the 91-92 season, Van Gaal was promoted to head coach of Ajax's first team. He wanted to keep Ali Haan to coach the Ajax youth team, but Ali Haan insisted on leaving. He said to Van Gaal: "I still want to coach an adult team. I want to learn." Then he packed his bags and left Ajax.

Ali Han then came to Belgium and became a revival coach, rescuing Anderlecht Football Club from the brink of relegation. With four rounds left in the league and 5 points behind its competitors, the club achieved three wins and one loss and successfully avoided relegation.

The following year he led Anderlecht to win the Belgian Football League Championship.

His success attracted the attention of many European clubs. In the 94-95 season, he coached the German Stuttgart Football Club and won the second place in the Bundesliga that year, successfully squeezing the powerful Hornets Werder Bremen to the third place and directly qualifying for the Champions League that year. (The number of places in the Bundesliga Champions League that year was 2+2, and the third and fourth places had to pass the qualifiers to participate in the official Champions League)

In the 96-97 season, he returned to China to coach the Dutch Feyenoord Football Club, and beat old rivals Ajax and PSV Eindhoven to achieve three consecutive Dutch league titles.

In 2000, he resigned as head coach of Feyenoord and came to Germany to serve as sports director of Stuttgart Kickers Football Club.

Ali Han's impressive resume soon attracted the attention of the Chinese Football Association. On December 2002, 12, Ali Han became the head coach of the Chinese national men's football team.

During his two years as coach of the Chinese national team, he led the team to third place in the 2003 East Asian Four Finals and runner-up in the 2004 China Asian Cup. (So far, the best performance of the Chinese national team in Asia.)

On November 2004, 11, the Chinese team was eliminated in the group stage of the 17 World Cup in Germany Asian qualifiers, and Ali Han resigned as head coach of the Chinese national team.

This was also the first failure in his coaching career. Afterwards, he reflected on his coaching experience during this period. He finally concluded that this defeat had nothing to do with him. It was entirely the result of the misbehavior of some people in the Chinese Football Association.

As the head coach, he does not have the right to select the players. Look at the players selected for him by the Football Association:

Goalkeepers: Li Leilei, Li Shuai, Sun Shoubo;

Guards: Du Wei, Zhang Yaokun, Li Weifeng, Ji Mingyi, Zhang Yonghai;

Midfielders: Li Tie, Tao Wei, Cao Yang, Zhao Junzhe, Zou Jie, Li Yan, Wang Liang, Shao Jiayi

Forwards: Dong Fangzhuo, Li Yi, Han Peng, Shi Jun.

Looking at this list, even a fool can see that there are problems. The defensive line does not include Sun Jihai, China's top defender at the time and who played for Manchester City. The midfield does not include Zheng Zhi, the soul of the Chinese team. The forward line does not include Li Jinyu, the league's top scorer for two consecutive years.

What's even more ridiculous is that Li Weifeng, the captain of the national team at the time, suddenly disappeared the day before the game. Fortunately, he returned to the team two hours before the game. Li Weifeng's performance in that game was extremely bad. He was sleepwalking throughout the whole game. Ali Han had to replace him in the second half.

After the game, Ali Han found out that Li Weifeng was asked by the club owner to take the blame. The club's expenses have been increasing in recent years, and the investing owner has long been unable to make ends meet. He owed a large sum of money to a man named Chen Jinhui, who was said to have a red background.

The club owner didn't dare to meet the Beijing boss himself, so he asked Li Weifeng, who was always loyal to his friends, to accompany him.

When he arrived at the scene and saw a row of people in black suits and white shirts, and two guns on the table, Li Weifeng's legs went weak. Fortunately, Chen Jinhui did not make things too difficult for them and released them after one day.

As the captain of the national team is like this, it can be seen that Chinese football is deeply involved in organized crime.

Alihan is a persistent and proud person, but he is not like Neeskens. Although he is persistent, he is not an egomaniac.

He doesn't want to fail, he wants to start over again and stand up from where he fell.

God seemed to have given him a chance, an opportunity he had worked hard for, even at the cost of losing some money.

He saw more hope. After seeing Shen Bin in the last game of Haarlem Athletic, he had a vague idea. After careful consideration, he decided to give it a try.

So there was a reunion of two old teammates, and Arie Haan didn't want to talk too much with Neeskens. If Neeskens knew that Arie Haan was going against his plan, he would definitely kick him out of the office.

But he would not take the initiative to ruin Neeskens' "good deed". Everything would be decided by the owner of the event. He believed that the Chinese Football Association would be the final winner.

No wonder Neeskens was so happy to have the opportunity to work together. He never expected that he had found a traitor.

"Follow me!" Neeskens pulled Ali Han and walked towards the training ground.

After defeating Helmend in the away game and winning two consecutive league games, Neeskens can now hold his head high in front of Horst, who is corrupted by money. The contract states that he has the right to quote players and recruit coaches in the team, so let the little capitalist who knows nothing go to hell! From today, Aly Haan will become the assistant coach of Haarlem SC.

Shen Bin looked at Ali Han, who looked familiar. This was the man he had seen at the gate of the training base when he arrived there early in the morning.

But Deng Zhuoxiang was a little excited. He touched Shen Bin and said, "National team coach Ali Han!"

Shen Bin suddenly remembered that when he was watching the World Cup Asian qualifiers a few days ago, this person was the one directing the Chinese national team on the sidelines.

"Everyone, this is the team's new assistant coach, Adrianus Hahn!" Neeskens introduced him to the players. "Although he had two years of failure in China, he has more than ten years of brilliant coaching experience in Europe, and he has a deep understanding of Dutch football in particular."

Gular on the other side also seemed very excited. He turned his head and whispered to Shen Bin: "It would be great if he could be the assistant coach!"

"why would you say so?"

"Can Van Gaal's assistant be bad?"

Shen Bin looked at Gulal with the same eyes as he looked at Deng Zhuoxiang.

Ali Han waved his hand and smiled: "Actually, I also listen to your coach. He is the leader of all of us!"

This sentence made all the team members laugh and also inadvertently brought the new assistant coach closer to the team members.

Today is Monday, and many European TV stations have summarized the leagues of various countries last week, which is equivalent to CCTV's Football Night. In the final top ten goals, both goals scored by Haarlem in the match between Haarlem and Helmend were successfully selected. The most influential British Sky TV station ranked Shen Bin's volley pass as the first of the top ten goals, and the goal scored by Haarlem through 37 feet ranked second.

However, there were also some people who suggested that the Spanish Radio and Television Network reverse the two goals, but no matter how they were ranked, most TV stations chose these two goals as the two points of their TV programs. A day later, Transfermarkt updated the transfer value of world stars. Shen Bin ranked ninth for the first time in the top ten of world star values ​​with 3500 million euros.

The top three are Kaka with 7000 million euros, Ronaldinho with 7000 million euros and Ibranovic with 6800 million euros.

In the ranking of the value of players under the age of 20, Shen Bin came in second place. In first place was 19-year-old Wayne Rooney, whose value was 5500 million euros, a cliff lead.

Just when Shen Bin's fame in Europe was skyrocketing, he could not wake up those people in China who were pretending to be asleep.

Yan Shiduo and Gao Haiyang did not meet with Shen Bin. They thought that Shen Bin and Deng Zhuoxiang no longer needed to waste their time. After watching another SBV Elite game on Saturday, they drove to Belgium. They also had to observe Dong Fangzhuo who played for the Antwerp Club. The national youth team's head coach Krauchen will meet up with them in Antwerp, and then the last stop will be Corinthians in France, because there is Hao Junmin, the only player of the national youth team who plays for the adult team in the top five leagues.

It's the weekend again. Shen Bin is standing in front of the window of the stadium lounge. It has been raining heavily since yesterday. Now the workers are cleaning the competition venue. Since the drainage function of the University Town Arena is not good, water will easily accumulate on the court.

The match was indeed difficult to play, the weather was bad, and we ran against Rodda JC, who was currently first in points. Just like what Fan Bingbing and I said the day before yesterday, we are on different tracks, pursuing different goals, and we need to pay different things on the road to success. In the entertainment industry, if you give your true feelings, you will be doomed soon.

This is how people in this industry have been through since ancient times. People's Artists are all shit. If it is art, why do they choose beautiful women? This is the business of showing off one's beauty, and what he pursues is the ultimate victory. As long as there is 1% hope, he will win no matter what. He doesn't want to prove anything, but he doesn't want to taste the taste of failure.

Seeing Shen Bin staring at the rain, Ali Han thought he was worried about the weather, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we are at home, and the opponent is also a technical team. I don't think they will be much better than us. On this rainy day..."

"We must win..."

"what?"

Shen Bin looked at the former head coach of the Chinese national football team and said with a smile: "We must win this game!" Then he ran to warm up. The autumn rain brought a chill, and he felt a little cold from standing in a daze just now.

Neeskens was still loudly arranging tactics in the locker room, and people who didn't understand Dutch would think he was loudly scolding a player.

"The weather conditions for this game are very bad, I hope everyone will be careful. Take care to protect yourself, after all, our goal is still to be promoted. Since I dug a big hole in the first three games, now we have to make up for it with our passion. We have 6 points less than our opponents, don't be misled by outside comments, they don't know anything!"

Roda JC's head coach Fandrich looked at the sky and frowned: "Damn weather!" The rain flowed into his eyes.