Chapter 525: Defending the Title

"To all the fans in front of the TV, congratulations, you have witnessed the birth of a wealthy team!"

"That's Tottenham Hotspur!"

The on-site commentator's words were broadcast live to fans in all countries around the world that use English to commentate on this game. However, he did not look as excited as he should have been at all, but looked very calm.

Regarding Tottenham Hotspur's defeat of Barcelona, ​​they actually scored two goals in three minutes of the first half. Everyone knew that Tottenham Hotspur was going to win. In fact, throughout the second half, Barcelona only Able to defend passively, although there were one or two threatening counterattacks, overall, it was difficult to shake Tottenham's advantage.

"This is not a wonderful game that all fans expected before the game, because it is the Champions League final, a very important final with hundreds of millions of euros at stake, just like all finals in football in the past, we It’s impossible to ask for it to be beautiful and exciting, that’s unrealistic!”

Before the game, quite a few fans felt that this would be a wonderful match, representing the highest level of football today. However, in fact, this game started after Tottenham Hotspur scored two goals in the first half. , the suspense was basically lost. Later, Barcelona lacked strength, Tottenham Hotspur lacked aggressiveness, and the game almost turned into garbage time.

"Many fans in front of the TV may be disappointed with this game because they did not see the flood of offensives, the wonderful battles, and the dazzling goals, but I think Say, this is football!”

"Football has never been like other sports such as basketball. In my opinion, although this game lacked passion and was a bit uneven, it also contained classic scenes, that is, in the first half, especially the first thirty minutes. Here, Tottenham Hotspur’s entire tactical layout and ability to control the game reflect the charm of football!”

"Ye Qiu didn't attack or defend at the beginning, but let Barcelona take the lead. So Guardiola attacked, and Tottenham resisted, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. The two sides went back and forth, although the fight was not very good. It was intense, but suspenseful, and it made people nervous for them because all of us, including the fans in front of the TV, were waiting for the goal to come.”

"But we can never guess when the goal will come!"

"So, all of a sudden, Alves accelerated the ball from the right and broke through Barcelona's defense. Robin van Persie stopped the ball and assisted Ribery to score. The whole process was very short, as if it was completed in an instant, and it might even have happened. The fans diverted their attention to a late-night snack and it was over."

"This is football, it makes you never guess, you never know what it is all about!"

“But throughout the first half, I felt that we were never out of Tottenham Hotspur’s control and out of Ye Qiu’s design. So we saw that after Tottenham Hotspur scored, Ye Qiu changed his previous safe approach. The tactics boldly required everyone to press forward and attack, so we saw the fastest and most fascinating three minutes.”

"In those three minutes, Tottenham Hotspur thoroughly demonstrated its most powerful offensive power and took advantage of Barcelona's unsteady footing after conceding the goal to score another goal."

"Perhaps, if we want to complain, we can only complain that Tottenham Hotspur's offensive power is too strong, because if the second goal comes later, Tottenham Hotspur's offensive football will last longer. It took a little longer, but because they scored the second goal quickly, Ye Qiu rationally adopted a safe tactic. But even so, they still dominated Barcelona in the second half, which showed the comprehensive strength of their strong European team. ”

"It's not a great offensive battle, but it's a great game!"

In fact, in the second half, UEFA President Platini had already stepped down from the rostrum early and was waiting on the sidelines early because there was no suspense in the game and it was difficult for Barcelona to threaten Tottenham Hotspur. With their goal, can they still be expected to reverse Tottenham Hotspur at the last moment like Manchester United did in 1999?

A miracle is a miracle because it can only happen once and never again!

"Congratulations, Ye Qiu!" Platini walked towards Ye Qiu with a smile after the game.

Behind him are the senior officials of UEFA, as well as the senior officials of both opposing clubs, as well as some famous football players, such as Cruyff, Beckenbauer and others, who are all in Platini's team. They will all appear on the podium later, but now they are waiting on the sidelines to set up the podium.

"Thank you!" Ye Qiu stretched out his hand to shake hands with Platini. He had not been worried about this game from beginning to end. It could be said that there was no danger. And the reason for this result was that he himself really Not expected.

Of course, he is not saying that it is not good to have no surprises. As the head coach of Tottenham Hotspur, he certainly hopes that his team can defeat the opponent without any surprises, instead of performing Luzhniki in every game. A miracle, right?

But Barcelona did not show its due strength in this game, which is also Ye Qiu's feeling.

A very important reason is that Guardiola is too young.

Looking at this season, Barcelona can win La Liga and the Copa del Rey. This can only be said that Real Madrid itself is too disappointing. In the Champions League, Barcelona has indeed not encountered strong opponents, Lyon and Bayern Munich. The current The overall strength is far behind the top teams in Europe. Barcelona won both games very surely, but they didn't gain much advantage.

The two games against Chelsea were 0:0 and 1:1 respectively, which was equally unconvincing, especially the away game against Chelsea. Barcelona had been lagging behind for a long time, but at the end, Iniesta's shot Scored Chelsea's goal and ultimately saved Barcelona.

It can be said that Barcelona's promotion process was full of luck and luck. Of course, this does not mean that Barcelona does not have strength, but that their strength is not enough to support them to the Champions League. At least in Ye Qiu's view, if we talk about overall strength , Ferguson's Manchester United and Hiddink's Chelsea are both more qualified to enter the final than Barcelona.

On the other hand, Tottenham Hotspur also had good luck in the Champions League this season. They met Bayern Munich in the group stage and the team played smoothly. In the knockout round, they first encountered Real Madrid, who had poor defense, and then met the best team in the quarterfinals. Against the weak Sporting Lisbon, the four-round match between these two opponents allowed Tottenham Hotspur to build up their energy.

Then they played Manchester United, which were the two most valuable games, especially the away game at Old Trafford. Ye Qiu felt that that game was even the key to Tottenham Hotspur winning the championship this season. The battle was more crucial than playing Barcelona in the final, and it was worthy of him sacrificing a league game for it.

"He is indeed the king of the cup!" Cruyff also walked up to Ye Qiu with a smile and took the initiative to extend his hand to celebrate Ye Qiu leading Tottenham Hotspur to win the championship again.

Ye Qiu also laughed and held Cruyff's hand, "Thank you also for the gift you gave me before the Barcelona game. Ever since I received that gift, I have been thinking about how I should repay it. So, how are you feeling now? "Are you satisfied?"

Of course, Cruyff knew what Ye Qiu meant, and his smile was a little stiff. He had no objection to Bacchi's secret meeting with Jorge Messi, but what he didn't like was the way some people in Barcelona did this. The secret meeting was leaked privately to reporters and made public, which was clearly a lack of grace.

Although Cruyff did not instruct such behavior, he could not refute some of Ye Qiu's words, because to a certain extent, many people knew that Cruyff was like the emperor of Barcelona.

"No matter what, I still want to congratulate you!" Cruyff felt that if he didn't take the initiative, he might lose a friend.

He doesn't have many friends, especially those he likes. Even Laporta, Guardiola and others find it difficult to become his friends, but Ye Qiu is one of the few he likes. , and they are pretty good friends with him. Their friendship started when they were at Ajax.

Sometimes Cruyff looks back and thinks about it, things in the world are really elusive. If he could have persisted a little longer and put more pressure on Laporta, then I believe that Ye Qiu should be Barcelona's Head coach.

But if that were really the case, would there still be the current Ye Qiu?

"Thank you!" Ye Qiu was a little surprised. He began to vaguely realize that although Bach was Cruyff's most trusted assistant, Cruyff might not be aware of what he was doing, or perhaps he was not aware of it. support.

"Come to London when you have time, and I'll treat you to a drink!" Ye Qiu added casually with a smile, "Ferguson's wine is not available outside!" This could be regarded as showing his kindness to Cruyff.

After Cruyff heard this, he burst into laughter and said, "You must try that old guy's wine when you have time!"

In the home team's coaching bench not far away, Guardiola had a calm face. Through the side of the translucent coaching bench, he saw the proud Ye Qiu, and saw Ye Qiu accepting congratulations from more and more people, including Many of them are still big bosses of UEFA.

Although in the past period, many people have speculated that a key reason why Tottenham Hotspur has been able to perform so well is the relationship between Ye Qiu and Platini and other UEFA bosses. It's very good, and Ye Qiu's sports service company has a lot of business cooperation with UEFA and even the football associations of other countries.

But everyone can't deny that Tottenham Hotspur has indeed shown a level of strength higher than others on the court.

"Look at the president!" Vilanova, who was sitting next to Guardiola, pointed not far away.

I saw the president of Barcelona congratulating and talking to players such as Fabregas, Messi, David Silva, Franck Ribery, and Robin van Persie in the stadium. Among these people, Fabregas, Messi, Alves, David Silva and Robin van Persie are all Barcelona's coveted targets. Just to get one of them, Barcelona will have to spend a lot of blood.

"It wouldn't be a bad idea to poach a few of his stars to grieve the loss of the Champions League!" Vilanova said with a smile.

This strategy of poaching you if I can’t beat you is not uncommon in football history. The most famous ones are Berlusconi’s AC Milan and Real Madrid’s Mendoza in the 1990s. , In addition, Bayern Munich does this kind of thing in the Bundesliga.

Guardiola couldn't help laughing at the assistant's words. He stood up and sighed deeply, "Let's go. This place belongs to the winner. We should avoid it!" After that, Guardiola walked towards the player's tunnel.

Just as he was about to walk in, he found a small figure suddenly rushed out from inside. Because he ran too fast, he didn't pay attention and directly bumped into Guardiola's arms.

"Oh!" Guardiola was fine, but the little girl bounced and sat on the ground.

Guardiola saw that it was a little girl with black hair and yellow skin. She looked very cute, especially with two braids, rubbing her white jade nose, and the corners of her mouth slightly pouting because of pain. She looked very cute.

"Are you okay?" Guardiola came up and pulled her up with a smile.

"Ah?" The little girl obviously didn't understand. Was he speaking English?

"Are you okay?" Guardiola said it again slowly, a very simple sentence.

This time she understood and shook her head and said, "It's okay, very good. Next time you walk carefully, don't rush around like that!" She looked like a little adult lecturing someone, as if it was her fault just now because she ran too fast?

Guardiola and Vilanova looked at her and couldn't help laughing.

The little girl seemed to know that she was wrong, and her face was red from their laughter, which made her even more cute.

"Sister!" At this time, another child ran out of the elevator of the stadium.

The two little ghosts stood together, and their appearance was vaguely similar, especially the little boy, whose whole outline was very similar to Ye Qiu, but he looked more handsome and delicate than Ye Qiu.

"Sister, what's the matter?" The little boy came over and stood beside his sister, staring at the two adults with a little wariness.

"It's okay, I was knocked down by two fools!" Little Huang Rong said angrily to her brother Ye Chen in Chinese.

"Oh!" Ye Chen was fine after hearing that everything was fine, "Let's go, sister, let's go find dad, I finally managed to sneak down!"

The two little brats, one four years old and the other less than three years old, held hands and ran towards the stadium passage.

"These two children should be Ye Qiu's children, right?" Guardiola thought that these two pink little kids were very cute, and their skin and hair color were very similar to Ye Qiu.

"It should be!" Vilanova also thought so.

If they knew that Xiao Huang Rong called them fools just now, I wonder if they would still think these two little ghosts are cute, maybe they would be so angry that they want to explode their lungs.

On the contrary, Ye Qiu was talking to the coaching staff in the stadium, and suddenly his legs were hugged by someone. He looked down and found that his son Ye Chen ran down at some point, while Xiao Huang Rong was hiding behind the fat uncle Roland and making faces.

The noise at the scene was too loud, probably because he was shouting and he didn't hear it.

Ye Qiu picked up his son, but the boy stretched out his hands to scratch his face, just like every time Ye Qiu went home, he liked to tease his father like this, and when little Huang Rong saw that her father was not angry, she ran out to act like a spoiled child. Finally, Ye Qiu put Ye Chen on his neck, let him hold his head, picked up little Huang Rong again, and walked to the stands.

It was not until they saw the three of them appear that Huang Chu and Eliza Moon and others in the stands realized that the two little naughty ghosts had run into the stadium without knowing when. They were really angry and funny. They were angry because they were too messy. There were so many people, what if they got lost? What was funny was that these two little ghosts didn't seem to be too stupid!

When the team had many dinners, Ye Qiu would bring his wife and two children to attend, so the players were familiar with the two little ghosts, especially the little Huang Rong. This little girl was eloquent and spoke English, Chinese, and French very well. She learned English in London, Chinese at home, and French from Eliza.

Of course, she is only proficient in speaking and communication, and certainly not in reading and writing.

But this did not hinder her popularity among the players. She was soon taken away from Ye Qiu's arms by Ribery and played with the players on the court. Soon, even Ye Chen rushed up, because he couldn't stay idle when he saw his sister playing.

On weekdays, Ye Qiu hid his family, especially the two children, as his sweethearts, for fear that the media would harass and pay attention to them. Now he appeared in the court so openly. The group of reporters didn't just take a good photo, so the two children became the most eye-catching characters on the court.

When Tottenham Hotspur celebrated the team's defense of the Champions League, the organizing committee quickly built the podium. Not long after, Barcelona also changed their clothes and returned to the court one by one. It was obvious that they had come out of the pain of losing one after another and took turns to congratulate Tottenham Hotspur on their defense.

There are currently many of Ye Qiu's former players or Tottenham Hotspur's old players in the Barcelona team. Although they all lost the game, they are also happy for Tottenham Hotspur's performance and achievements today.

When Guardiola met Ye Qiu, he first praised his two children, and then issued a challenge. He firmly believed that he would be able to appear on the stage of the Champions League final again next year, because just now in front of the locker room, Laporta had promised him personally that Barcelona would spend a lot of money to recruit players in this summer's transfer, and must fill this shortcoming and deficiency in the team's offensive system.

With this promise from the club chairman, coupled with Barcelona's operations in the past period of time, Guardiola was full of confidence, and Ye Qiu did not show any weakness, and smiled and said that any opponent was welcome to challenge!

But what he did not expect was that behind Guardiola's words, Barcelona had already reached into Tottenham Hotspur's pockets to poach players.