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In the early 1970s, Michels and Cruyff created the great "Total Attack and Total Defense" tactic, which made Dutch football popular all over the world. It was known as the Third Football Revolution!
Since then, Dutch football had established the development idea of tactical supremacy, which could be generally called the tactical stream.
Cruyff created the Barcelona Dream Team and Louis Van Gaal led the Ajax youth team to dominate Europe. These were all successful examples of the tactical stream in Dutch football. On the other hand, the battle for sword energy within Dutch football was a technical stream that no one cared about.
Take the representative Ajax as an example. The players played the 3-3-3 formation before the age of 12 and played the 4-3-3 formation after the age of 12. The essence of this was to let the players receive the training of tactical thinking from a young age and to cultivate flexibility.
But the technical stream in Dutch advocated that the players could not practice tactics before the age of 18! They could only practice techniques, such as turning, unloading, dribbling, shooting, ball sense, and so on.
The concept of the technical stream was that if a player's technical ability was extraordinary, then it did not matter what formation they played and what tactics they used.
It was hard to say who was right and who was wrong between the two streams. But within the Netherlands, because of Michels' great achievements, the tactical stream that he advocated had been deeply rooted in the Netherlands.
As for the technical stream's propaganda, geniuses could be cultivated!
This was very rare in the Dutch football world.
There were many talents in the Netherlands, but they were all talented people who had talent from a young age. They were not players who were unknown from a young age and trained hard day after day to become geniuses.
But the technical stream's emphasis on the cultivation of technical ability was definitely correct. For example, another Dutch genius, Robin van Persie, who was now playing for Feyenoord, paid a lot of attention to the training of personal technical ability under the guidance of Moniz, who advocated the technical stream.
In fact, there was no black and white contradiction between the tactical stream and the technical stream. The two certainly complemented each other. It was nothing more than a distinction between the primary and the secondary.
Just like South American football, which was mainly technical, free and romantic.
European football advocated the tactical stream and paid attention to unity and cooperation.
If one looked at the entire European football world, too many voices heard: What kind of tactics is this team playing? What is the core tactical idea?
From the powerhouses to the commoners, when the media paid attention to a team, there would always be such questions and discussions.
But in South America, such voices might be much weaker. Most people would pay attention to the performance of a certain technical player and how a certain core player would perform to determine the game.
That was the difference between the two styles of football.
Ajax was, of course, a tactical player, but his skills could not be ignored, especially Van Basten, who was a typical technical player.
Could he practice the dribbling breakthrough technique?
Of course.
It could even be described as a rigid routine: long-term persistence in practice was a way to break through others.
In the words of the technical "missionary" Teng Carter, "On the court, if you know one type of extraordinary move, you are a super player. If you know two types of extraordinary moves, you are a top player!" If you know three types of moves, you're a god!
Although Cruyff's idea of "simplicity is the most important" had a profound influence on Dutch football, and was even affecting Barcelona, a player like Van Basten had his own opinions.
In a football match, it was not really possible to win by relying on simple methods.
When your ability was outstanding, of course, you could win the match simply.
For example, Qin Xiong was able to send a mid-long distance pass to assist Ibrahimovic to break the goal when they were playing against AZ Alkmaar. But against AC Milan, any of Ajax's simple attacking methods could not pose a threat.
To deal with a complicated situation, a player's individual ability was needed to open up a gap and create a threat. It depended on skills.
Van Basten understood what Qin Xiong wanted him to teach. He did not give instructions immediately, but let the four First Team players leave first.
He would develop different strengthening training contents according to the individual technical characteristics of the four players, which would be beneficial for them to display their ability to cut and dribble in front of the penalty area and create a threat.
Of course, technical training had to be different from person to person. Although Qin Xiong and Van Der Vaart looked young, in fact, they had almost reached the end of their technical training. Real technical training would start at the age of ten, or even earlier, eight, six, and up to the age of twenty-three. Most players had their technical training finalized at around the age of twenty. In the future, they would only strengthen the technical moves they had mastered based on their competition experience and become more adept at playing.
The reason why Qin Xiong brought Van Der Vaart and the other two to Van Basten was because Comain had established a new tactical system. Qin Xiong's position in the team had also been clearly recognized. He believed that in the new tactical system, the attacking team should make more use of dribbling and cutting from the flanks to create a threat. Ajax had given up on a winger who was purely a speed type who could pass from the bottom. The attacking style of the flanks had to be more flexible and rich.
Snede, Van Der Vaart, and Pinar did not have any objections. They would only wait for Van Basten to develop a strengthening training plan, and then they would implement it.
The day after the double defeat by AC Milan, Qin Xiong at least felt that Comain had done a good job. He had not let everyone be immersed in the shadow of the defeat, and had quickly come up with a reform plan in an attempt to improve the strength of the team. This was more practical than any consolation or encouragement!
Qin Xiong began to think again.
In fact, he was not familiar with Pinar. In the new tactical system, the swapping of positions between him and Pinar in the middle, including the swapping of positions between Pinar and the winger, could give rise to unimaginable changes.
This made Qin Xiong recall Pinar's technical characteristics on the way home, at dinner, and before bed. He already knew the playing characteristics and habits of Snede, Van Der Vaart, and Ibrahimovic like the back of his hand.
As the brain of the team and the last piece of the puzzle of the new tactical system, Qin Xiong needed to interact more with Pinar in the future.
The next morning, Qin Xiong was excited. He could not wait to test out the new tactics that Comain had described. Coupled with the fact that he was thinking about Pinar, he was a little distracted from waking up.
He even forgot to eat breakfast and walked to Ajax's training ground.
Dekoiz was sitting outside the restaurant, chatting with Peter while holding the morning paper. He and Peter were a little surprised to see Qin Xiong walk past with a thoughtful look on his face.
After spending almost two months with Qin Xiong, they discovered that Qin Xiong had a "bad habit."
Zoning out!
At least from their point of view, Qin Xiong's mind was zoning out, and he would delay things. Sometimes, it would make people feel helpless, because once he fell into that state, he would automatically ignore everything in the outside world.
Sylvia's part-time job was coming to an end, so she became more diligent. She came to open Dekoiz's restaurant at dawn.
She walked to Dekoiz's table and turned her head to look at Qin Xiong's back as he turned the corner. She asked curiously, "Has he eaten breakfast?"
Dekoiz put down the newspaper and followed Sylvia's gaze to the corner of the street, but did not see anything. He thought about it and knew who Sylvia was talking about.
He rolled his eyes and showed a worried look. "Probably not. Sigh, losing the Champions League was too big of a blow for him. He's a strong lad. I can see that he's very obsessed with winning and losing football games."
He was "talking nonsense," but he also pointed out the difference between a fan and a player.
As a die-hard Ajax fan, Dekoiz had supported Ajax for most of his life. He was the same as Peter and Ruttmanson. They had seen too many games and were already used to the ups and downs of the team's results. The team could fall into a trough, but it could also reach the peak. Their mentality was quite a state of being at ease with the situation.
Ajax losing the Champions League?
They could only silently accept it. Then what? They would wake up and continue to live. Their mentality would still be stable, because the experience of the past few decades made them understand that there was a rainbow after the storm. As long as they waited quietly and silently supported, Ajax would not let them down.
Sylvia frowned. She listened to Dekoiz's words, but she did not quite understand. Yesterday, when she went to karaoke with Qin Xiong, she felt that Qin Xiong had already walked out of the shadow of losing the game.
Why did his state change?
She turned and walked quickly into the small restaurant. She packed breakfast and then trotted out of the restaurant to chase after Qin Xiong.
She had just left when Dekoiz opened the newspaper again and browsed through it. A pair of small curved eyes were covered by the newspaper. Peter rolled his eyes at him. There was no need to guess. The fatty was definitely snickering.
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