Godfather Of Champions

Dunn’s work was carried out very smoothly with the cooperation of the coaching staff and Tang. Several new players were personally selected by Dunn and persuaded them to join, so he has his own plans and arrangements for these people. . It was like a jigsaw puzzle. All the parts were placed, and there were only a few vacancies. Now he put the missing patterns on the table, and a complete picture appeared in front of everyone.

Those new players have already known the head coach who is about to work with them for four years. If they know each other, things will be easier.

The job of the coaching staff is to create new tactics for the team and train the team to adapt to them.

The addition of Van der Vaart and Van Nistelrooy provided new changes to the forest team's tactics. In the past, Nottingham Forest was dominated by quick counterattacks in sports warfare, but the arrival of these two Dutch players can strengthen the forest team's ability to fight short positions.

Van Nistelrooy is a center that meets Dunn's requirements very well. He not only has excellent scoring ability, but also good at running. He can hold the ball and pass the ball for his teammates. He can also use his running to open the opponent's defense. , To create offensive opportunities for those who intervened later, his sense of responsibility even made him willing to withdraw from defense-this is Dunn’s favorite of him, this professional player puts the interests of the team above personal interests .

Van der Vaart has a lot of freedom in the midfield. Dunn is right. In most cases, he doesn't need to think about defense at all. It feels especially obvious when he and his new teammate George Wood are partnered in the midfield. Wood's fierce tackle and excellent physical fitness can completely replace all the important tasks of midfield defense, so that Van der Vaart can attack unscrupulously in the midfield.

Just entering the team, in order to quickly integrate into this new team, Van der Vaart is more of a midfield organizer in training and warm-up matches. Dunn is very happy to see that he can take the initiative to do this. The team really needs an organizer closer to the opponent's goal. After all, Arteta is a central midfielder, not a midfielder.

Wood's mission remains the same. No matter who he is partnering with, his first job is always to protect his partner and ensure that they have no worries.

Of course, Albertini asked Wood to be more active in the offense, whether in training or in the game, not just as a bystander, cutting off the football in the backcourt and passing it to the front teammates. Even without the ball, he has to run up to catch it.

Albertini asked Wood to learn from his midfield partner at all times. They are the closest "teacher". Wood has partnered with different types of midfielders, Albertini, Arteta... Now it is Van der Vaart's turn. Albertini hopes that Wood can learn useful things from these different styles of teammates. He does not doubt Wood's learning ability at all, otherwise he could not have made such a big improvement.

As for Petrov, his position is fixed on the left. His speed and impact are very suitable for the Premier League. Dunn has always felt that whether he is in the Bundesliga or La Liga, he has not fully displayed the Bulgarian side assault. Real strength. The Premier League is a fast-paced league. The offense is fast, and the defensive retreat is also fast. No matter what you do, "fast" is the first element. Petrov also felt that this was just to his liking.

It turned out that only Frank Ribery was struggling on the left. God bless the past two seasons. He has no injuries or ups and downs. However, Dunn can’t guarantee the future. After Petrov came, It relieved Ribery's pressure and made the forest team's left more terrifying.

With the addition of Van Nistelrooy and Van der Vaart, the biggest feature of the Forest team-speed has not been weakened, but has been enhanced. I believe this is not good news for the coaches of the Premier League teams.

Perhaps someone would worry that after Anelka was refrigerated, the Forest team would lose the speed of counterattacking, but Dunn had already planned.

Without Anelka, although the speed of the striker has dropped across the board, the counterattack of Nottingham Forest is known for its speed before Anelka. The striker does not act as the arrow for the counterattack. The real counterattack weapon is the two wingers. Therefore, the presence or absence of Anelka has no effect on the team's counterattack speed.

Nottingham Forest’s wing players are all types with outstanding personal abilities. They are fast, good at breakthroughs, and can also shoot on their own. Except for Ashley Young who has a bit of "assist obsessive-compulsive disorder", everyone else can do that in counterattacks. "Arrow figures".

Therefore, in normal training, Dunn pays great attention to let the wing players practice shooting and maintain the shooting feeling. When they need to shoot again in the game, they will not disappoint the team and the fans.

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When Nottingham Forest was training in the country, it played two warm-up matches. The opponents were the British championship teams. The Forest team won and tied the two games. Dunn, as always, does not value the results of this warm-up match, he cares about the process.

In these two warm-up matches, the teams have carried out large-scale substitutions in the first and second half, so the results of the game have no reference value at all.

In the first warm-up match, Dunn focused on investigating the recovery of the players' physical fitness and state after a holiday, with mixed results. Some people are as stable and excellent as ever, such as the monster George Wood, while others are much worse, such as Ashley Young. The result of this game was a tie, and the team and Wolves were tied 2:2.

After another week of running-in in the second game, the players' state was restored, and the cooperation between the newly added players and the team gradually took shape. This time the Forest team won an away game against Sunderland, who had returned to the British championship, 3:1. Dunn was very happy to see Van Nistelrooy scored in the game.

As the core of the team, Van der Vaart needs to work in with the whole team, so his performance in these two warm-up matches is very average.

Petrov showed great adaptability. As Dunn thinks, his style and the style of the Premier League complement each other perfectly. Only here can he perform well. His breakthrough on the flank even Ribery has to bow down, because he is different from Ribery, Ribery has better dribbling skills and speed is just one way. Petrov relies on speed, so fast that people can't prevent it. Although the unreasonable hurricane is the simplest, it is the most effective against the full-backs in the Premier League.

In the Bundesliga, the media once commented on Petrov-"For defenders, keeping a half-length distance from Martin Petrov means that they have been passed."

It vividly illustrates the characteristic of this Bulgarian-fast.

Dunn didn't ask Petrov to follow others to learn about swaying, Marseille's turn, bull tail...These skills, he required Petrov very simple: take the ball resolutely to the bottom, there is a block in front? Rely on speed!

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Time flies quickly, and the days of the Amsterdam Invitational are getting closer, and the team is also preparing to leave for the training camp in the small town of Volendam in the northeast of the Netherlands.

Anelka's transfer prospects are unclear. His two brothers are working hard to find a club that meets his requirements, but the situation is not simple.

There are many teams that want Anelka, but either Anelka himself looks down upon it, such as Bolton and his like... or those clubs can't afford £25 million. A club that can afford 25 million dollars, and didn't intend to pay so much money for a strange striker.

As a result, Anelka was hung in the air, unable to get up or down.

Two of his agent brothers once thought Dunn’s 25 million pounds threshold was a frightening one. He persuaded a team to buy Anelka from the Forest team for 15 million. Dunn refused without saying a word. Up.

Later, his two older brothers began to let Anelka use late or early departure behaviors to passively confront each other during training, and promoted their conflicts through the media. The results of it? Dunn ignored these small movements at all.

You Anelka will be late if you want to be late, or leave early if you want to leave early. I will deduct this fine from your salary. He is no longer afraid of media publicity. He has already had a plan to deal with the media, and he is anxious that the media will continue to speculate. The bigger the speculation, the better. That way, more teams will ask for prices, and maybe there will be people who can afford the money... He even really wants to encourage Anelka's two agent brothers to continue their efforts.

The two former golden partners have now become strange enemies.

This is somewhat sad, but Dunn is the best boss in the team, and he is the only boss here. Now Anelka is going to openly challenge Dunn’s authority. With Dunn’s character, he will not be subdued. It’s not surprising that the two of them met in this way...

To make contradictions go to contradictions, Dunn firmly believes that as long as a person has a trace of use value, he must make full use of it. So in the list to the Netherlands, the media saw the name of Nicolas Anelka.

After a month of trouble, Anelka seemed to know that he had hit an iron plate this time. The club has a firm supportive attitude towards Dunn from the beginning to the young age. It is too difficult to want to turn the sky on his own. If the coach doesn't let himself go, then he can't go.

Today's Anelka is no longer the one who was frivolous when he was young and frivolous at Real Madrid. He knows to converge. Dunn did not exclude him from the big list. In his opinion, he was given a step down. The smartest way is to take this opportunity to ease the tension with the coach.

Tony Dunn is enjoying the scene now, and the odds of winning against him are too small.

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The Amsterdam Invitational is a traditional pre-season warm-up match for European teams. It is held in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, at the beginning of August. Ajax convenes three teams from all over the world to participate.

Of course, although this competition is a warm-up competition, not all cats and dogs can participate. Ajax invites teams that have strong team strength and certain influence in world football, such as Manchester United, Arsenal, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona... and other giants have a record of being invited. . From another perspective, being able to get a team invited to participate in the Amsterdam Invitational is itself a recognition of strength and status.

At the beginning of this season, Nottingham Forest, the most popular in European football last season, was invited by Ajax. They will compete with Portuguese league champion Porto, Italian league champion Inter Milan, and host Ajax for the final championship.

Dunn doesn't value the championship trophy. What he values ​​is the quality of the warm-up match, the champions of two leagues and the runner-ups of the two leagues. This can be described as a Champions League level event. And the participating teams will attach great importance to this game, and there will be no situation where there is no effort. By playing against such an opponent, both the team and the players can get adequate exercise.

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"Amsterdam..." Ashley Young murmured while looking at the city outside the window on the bus. "Heaven..."

Eastwood and Ribery, sitting next to him, laughed loudly at the same time.

The teammates who heard the laughter turned back to look at the back seats of the car, and some curiously asked: "What's the matter, what's the matter?"

Bendtner, who was sitting in the row in front of Ashley Young, turned his head and said solemnly to Ashley Young: "Hey, Yang, I think it would be better if you used vibrato in your last sentence."

Then Eastwood stood up, learned Ashley Young’s expression and tone, coupled with rich body movements, and said with a trembling voice: "Amsterdam, heaven..."

Now the whole car burst into laughter.

Ashley Young was a little annoyed by the smile. He stood up and explained seriously: "Don't you think so? What a wonderful city!"

Van der Vaart, who has spent more than a decade in Amsterdam, smiled and asked him: "Do you mean Amsterdam only from the old railway station to the canal area?" This section is where the famous Amsterdam Red Light District is located.

The Dutch people who are familiar with Holland and Amsterdam all laughed.

"Ah, it was there..."

Yang suddenly realized the expression made everyone laugh happier.

It is impossible for the coaching staff sitting in the front row to hear such a big movement.

Hearing the conversation of these players, Tang glanced at Tang En. Dunn shrugged to him: "Don't let them go for fun, you can't even let them talk. It's better to have an addiction than to do it with a real sword..."

Ashley Young has started this matter, and there was a lively discussion in the somewhat dull carriage just now because of the exhaustion of the journey. Of course, the topic was around the city they were in, the red light district.

Van der Vaart, who had just left the city, became everyone's guide. He pointed to the block the car was passing by and introduced them. For Amsterdam, no one on the team is more familiar than him.

When the car passed by the canal, he pointed to a row of two-story buildings across the river and said, "That is Yang's paradise."

Everyone laughed again.

"But there is nothing to see during the day, and there will be lively at night." He explained to everyone in English, which he is not good at, mixed with Dutch. "It's best to go to a place like that, not alone."

"Are prostitutes still in groups?" Wes Morgan whistled.

Van der Vaart smiled: "It would be a little trouble to go there alone."

Van Nistelrooy suddenly wanted to make a joke about the national teammate: "Hey, Raphael, I hear you so familiar, do you often go there?"

"Luther, that place is familiar to everyone in Amsterdam, and I know if I don't go." Van der Vaart shrugged.

Seeing everyone discussing more and more directly, Dunn got up from his seat.

The players closed their mouths when the head coach suddenly stood up.

"Yeah, I'm glad to see you have such energy after traveling." He said, "Amsterdam is a nice city, heaven..."

There was a burst of laughter in the car.

Dunn smiled a little, Ashley Young: "However, I still want to remind you: We are not here for tourism, but for training and competition. So I don’t want to see you in groups at night. That kind of place-you know what kind of place I'm talking about, right?"

Although Dun En said with a smile on his face, no one dared to take his words as a joke.

The cabin was quiet again, and Dunn sat back to his position.

The bus turned over a bridge and left this area that would be lively in the evening, leaving the "European capital" Amsterdam to the small town of Volendam where their training camp was located. (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit WWW.QIDIAN.COM, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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