Chapter 897： Ferguson's Revenge

In fact, many people have underestimated Van der Sar’s historical status in the Netherlands and even in European football.

This is also normal. Whether it is the media or the fans, focusing too much on the goal, the offensive players naturally attract more attention, and the defensive players, especially the goalkeeper, are often easily overlooked.

The historical status is therefore greatly reduced.

But in professional circles, this is obviously not the case.

If you want to clarify the status of Van der Sar in the Netherlands, and even in European football, you have to mention Cruyff.

The greatness of the Barcelona godfather lies not only in Barcelona, ​​but also in Dutch football.

During his time at Ajax, Cruyff created a new goalkeeper concept. He adopted a three-four-three tactic and hoped that the goalkeeper will no longer be limited to goalkeeping, but can better serve the team. Keep service.

To do this, the goalkeeper needs to be able to read the game well, have an excellent overall view, and be able to pass and receive the ball easily, making them part of the team's offense and defense, and one of the most disruptive points is, Push the position of the goalkeeper forward outside the small restricted area.

Subversion is to better serve the team's overall tactics.

Former Ajax goalkeeper Stanley Menzo is considered a prototype of Cruyff’s experiment. At that time, in order to better help Menzo to change, Cruyff specially invited Frans Hawke, who was close to his philosophy. Tune Menzo.

The training of Menzo achieved good results, and was subsequently a great success on the younger Van der Sar.

Van Gaal and Cruyff are endless opponents, but some of their ideas are the same, including the requirements of the goalkeeper. Frans Hawke continued to use Cruyff's goalkeeper concept to train Van der Sar.

In 1992, FIFA formally adopted the rules of returning the ball, which greatly subverted the goalkeeper's training and training concept, especially the emphasis on the goalkeeper passing and receiving the ball, which shows the generations of Ajax. Van der Sar also shines in this environment, allowing the world to see the level of modern goalkeepers under the new rules.

Van Gaal, Van der Sar, Frans Hawke and Ajax walked to the top of Europe together, and Van Gaal and Frans Hawke also brought the Ajax philosophy to Spain. Brought to Barcelona.

Even now, Frans Hawke is still the authority of Spain’s goalkeeper coaches. Many teaching materials come from Frans Hawke, which has trained Spain like Casillas, Badels, Reina, etc. Generations of top goalkeepers.

And all of this is based on Van der Sar’s achievements in those years.

In other words, since the reform of the pass rules in 1992, Van der Sar has been the template for all goalkeepers and has set a benchmark.

As for the failure at Juventus, the sinking of Fulham, and the re-emergence of Manchester United later, all of this is just on this basis, further demonstrating Van der Sar’s personal charm.

As early as many years ago, everyone basically concluded that Van der Sar would be the first goalkeeper in Dutch history.

It is precisely because of this that Ajax also paid special attention to Van der Sar's farewell match.

Ajax fans also supported Van der Sar’s farewell match.

The entire stadium was packed, and more than 50,000 fans came to the scene to witness Van der Sar’s retirement.

Ajax and Manchester United are also very cooperative.

Beginning in the evening, first Ajax and Manchester United's youth team held a match, which lasted 30 minutes.

Both Van der Sar and the son of Manchester United assistant coach René Mulensteen play in this youth team.

Next came a friendly match between Ajax in 1995 and the Dutch team in 1998, which lasted 30 minutes.

In the end, the Ajax first team played a game with the World Stars team, and the time was also ninety minutes.

After that, all jerseys, gloves, boots and the like will be put on the Internet to auction tonight, and the auction proceeds and game income will be donated to charity organizations.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that whether it is Ajax, the Dutch Football Association, or Manchester United, Van der Sar is extremely valued, and it can even be said to be quite respectful.

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After Su Dong arrived in Amsterdam, he received a call from Ronnie.

Most of the players participating in the World Star Team this time are Van der Sar’s former teammates, with the exception of Su Dong. He was personally invited by Van der Sar. In an interview, Van der Sar said that Su Dong is his team. The scariest scorer ever encountered, so he sent out an invitation.

Finally, in the VIP room of the Amsterdam Arena, Su Dong met Ronnie, who had been missing for a long time.

The two haven't seen each other for a while, and when they met, it was a warm hug.

"How about those two beauties that night?" Su Dong asked with a smile.

Ronnie was depressed when he heard it, "Don't mention it, I had already talked about it before, but after I went back, I was listed first."

Su Dong looked at his gloomy appearance and smiled with joy.

"I don't care, I must rely on you for this matter anyway." Ronnie fell on it.

Su Dong is not afraid that he will rely on himself.

Soon, Su and Dong saw this group of famous Ajax and Holland, as well as Manchester United stars, as well as some of Van der Sar’s former teammates, all of whom were old acquaintances.

Especially Su Dong's head coach Rijkaard at Ajax.

"Hey, Frank, long time no see." Su Dong walked over and hugged Rijkaard directly.

Since leaving Barcelona as a coach, Rijkaard has also coached in Turkey, but his results are not satisfactory, and he is basically unable to come out now. With his historical status and achievements, he basically has no worries about food and clothing, and he does not need to be a head coach. Hard work.

Rijkaard had long heard that Su Dong would participate, and he had been mentally prepared.

Su Dong nowadays is no longer the Su Dong when he played for Barcelona. He is now the number one player in world football. More importantly, he will be only 27 years old in September. In the words of the media, At least five years of peak period.

It makes people feel terrible to think about it.

Su Dong is now not only the peak is high enough, the key is still very long.

Van Gaal and Hiddink were also invited to participate. Su Dong and the two world-famous coaches also knew each other. They exchanged greetings and said a few words. In addition, there were some other former teammates, such as Ma Kai, Kluivert, Van Bronckhorst and the like.

Among the Dutch players, one of Sudong's favorite attackers is Daniel Bergkamp.

Su Dong took the initiative to greet the ice prince, and he did not deny that he had watched Bergkamp’s video, learned to stop the ball and some football skills, and really benefited from it.

"I think your current stopping and ball handling skills have not lost to me back then, and even surpassed me." Bergkamp's admiration for Su Dong was also very much appreciated, and he praised it in return.

"I think that in today's world football, only Messi can compare with you in this respect."

Su Dong was also very happy with the praise from Prince Ice, and thanked him constantly.

Later, when Su Dong was chatting with old acquaintances such as Piero, Vidic, Rooney and Ronnie, he happened to see not far away, the Belgian goalkeeper Courtois, who was usually unruly and rebellious, looked like this time. A shy little fan, begging Van der Sar for autographs and taking photos, and chatting vigorously over there at the same time.

Van Gaalley's assistant coach Frans Hawke quickly joined in.

This was specially arranged by Su Dong. He had greeted Van der Sar and Frans Hawk before. They all knew Su Dong's intention to bring this teammate to Amsterdam, and he didn't mind helping.

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Said it was a competition, but it was actually an event, a show.

The youth team's game was tied with two to two. Van der Sar’s son Joey made a mistake, but received enthusiastic applause from the fans.

The subsequent confrontation between the two classic teams won a full house of applause.

Especially when the two sides entered the field, the live broadcast did not introduce a player. The fans on the scene would wave their flags and shout, and the atmosphere was quite enthusiastic. In the end, it was Ajax in 1995 with Ovimas’s goal. A one-to-zero victory over Hiddink led the Dutch national team in 1998.

One of the more interesting parts is that Cocu had a direct free kick but was hugged by Van der Sar, and Ma Kai also had a header and hit the post.

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After the two warm-up games were played, tonight's event also came to the finale of the focus of the game.

Ajax played against the world star team.

Although Ajax’s situation has not been ideal in recent years, there are still many players with good potential, such as central defender Feltonghen and Aldweirelder. Van der Weer, the defender, as well as Simon De Jong, Eriksson, Rodney Sneijder, etc., are all very good players.

The head coach of the world star team is Ferguson.

To everyone's surprise, this disrespectful old Scottish man actually took this opportunity to retaliate, and when he was arranging troops, he directly sent Su Dong to the central defender.

"Leo hasn't come, we happen to be missing a central defender, you see, of all the people on the scene, you are the tallest and the strongest, so..." Ferguson had an expression that I didn't want to do, but his eyes were obviously hidden. Glee of mischief.

There was a burst of laughter from everyone around.

"Jazz, I'm very sure now, you are avenging your personal revenge." Su Dong was also happy.

"No, mainly because I think you are too comprehensive. Since you can play as a free agent in the frontcourt, you can definitely play as a free agent in the backcourt. So, don't have pressure, you can definitely do it." Ferguson smiled "heartedly". road.

Isn't this an explicit revenge for the massacre last season?

"Sir, the Community Shield is about to come, are you sure you want to do that?" Su Dong "intimidated".

Ferguson nodded with a look that I was not afraid of you.

Everyone thought it was funny.

In fact, this is a show, Ferguson took the opportunity to "report private revenge", but made everyone find it interesting.

So far since his debut, Su Dong has been playing center. I don't know the effect of playing center back?

Su Dong looked at Vidic again, the Manchester United central defender must have listened to the coach, "I am looking forward to partnering with you central defender."

Every time I saw Su Dong, I was tortured miserably, but now he is better and he has become a central defender's partner.

This feels pretty good.