Chapter 4 Do you want to be beautiful or win?

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"Nordic Venice" Amsterdam is 30 kilometers to the northwest and the North Sea levee is 10 kilometers to the south. The North Holland Canal stretches through a beautiful small city, which is Alkmaar, the largest cheese market in the Netherlands. A 15-minute walk north from Alkmaar is the stadium of the Oriental Dragon Club. The stadium is surrounded by a forest, and the sound of birds can be heard everywhere. Naturally, there are few fans, and the environment is very quiet.

There are no stands around the stadium like the domestic amateur stadium, but the training ground is very standard, with a total of three pieces, all of which are artificial turf that does not need special maintenance. On the north side of the stadium, there are seven or eight houses, changing rooms, bathrooms, coffee and beverage rooms, warehouses and so on. The ownership of the house and site belongs to a local church, and the annual rent is only a symbolic guilder. The Oriental Club has been rented for ten years, but it can be rented indefinitely, and the church will never be taken back halfway. When Jiang Mu came to the base of the Oriental Dragon Club on Saturday, it was already 10 o'clock in the morning. The players of the Oriental Dragon Club were training in groups on the field. Most of the players were Chinese and a small number of foreigners, ranging in their teens to 40s.

Li Wei proudly introduced: "We are the first Chinese amateur club. It has been almost 20 years since its establishment. We have reached the quarter-finals of the All-Dutch Football Immigration Cup. Have you seen the two best strikers? Ke Ming Ke Liang. They are my friend's sons, twins. They have been here since they were teenagers. Li plays football. Up to now, he is the father of two children, and he still plays amateur football here.

Jiang Mu is not in a hurry to meet the players, but carefully observes these future subordinates on the training ground. Naturally, the skills of these people are not comparable to Ajax's professional players, but the Chinese amateur team is really not comparable to them. Their personal skills are very solid, and their cooperation also has certain rules. At first glance, it is no worse than the team in China League One. It is no accident that the Netherlands, with such a small place and such a small population, can become a football country.

"Where do you come from? How much is the annual expenditure? Is there any income? What subsidies does the government have? Can you buy someone?"

Jiang Mu asked, as a coach, funding is his concern. After all, as a person who has surpassed this era for nearly 30 years, Jiang Mu's understanding of football has been digitalized, commercialized and scientific, rather than as extensive and vague as this era.

"I have two companies, tourism and vegetable wholesale in Amsterdam. Part of the competition funds come from my company's income, and part of it is to collect donations from the Chinese business community. I spend 10,000 guilders a year. There is no subsidy for amateur club government like us, and I don't buy or sell players. Except To pay a little money is to run errands. Li Wei said modestly.

Ten thousand Dutch guilders, Jiang Mu is speechless. The exchange of ten thousand Dutch guilders into RMB is more than 40,000 yuan. This expenditure is not enough to buy a famous dog, but thinking that this is the sixth league, and there is no one to come, those little demons in my memory don't have to think about it at all.

Soon the confrontation training was over. Li Wei shouted, "Come here, everyone. I have invited a good coach for you. We Chinese are Jiang Mu, who you defended and cheered for him on the Internet. He is a professional and a physical education teacher. He has obtained the Dutch senior football coach certificate."

The players came lazily. Jiang Mu was too young. At first, they thought that Jiang Mu was invited as a foreign aid. They didn't expect that they would be their coach, and their expressions were a little disapproving.

"Coach Jiang, let me introduce you. This is our captain Liu Chao, this is our striker Ke Ming, this is Ke Liang, this is our midfielder William..."

Li Wei briefly introduced the club's players to Jiang Mu. The players applauded politely, and the applause was weak. It sounded that they were dealing with it.

"Hope everyone, I'm Jiang Mu. I'm very happy to cooperate with you. I hope we can achieve good results in the Immigration Cup. In addition, I am proficient in Chinese, English, Dutch, French and Italian, and you can communicate with me directly.

After Jiang Mu repeated the last sentence four times in five languages, the players' expression changed a little. Because they are proficient in five languages at such a young age, they are definitely a language genius, and genius cannot be measured by age.

Only Liu Chao, the captain and central defender of the team, was a little disapproving and whispered to Ke Ming beside him, "If you can speak eight languages, you may not be a good coach."

Ke Ming nodded and laughed, "This only shows that he is suitable to be a translator."

"I heard that he did work as a part-time translator." Forward Chen Xiongdao.

"... The Immigration Cup competition is about to start, so we won't waste time. Let's go straight to the topic. On the way, Manager Li Wei introduced me to everyone's basic situation. I just watched everyone's training. It's very good, the cooperation is very beautiful, and it is more beautiful than our domestic second-level professional team. However, if you play against them, you will definitely not win..."

The Oriental Club is an amateur club. Everyone gathers together to play football at will, and there is no discipline. Before Jiang Mu finished his words, let's talk about it again.

"We are an amateur team. It's a strange thing to play with a professional team and not lose."

"Not necessarily. Domestic football is so bad."

"It's almost the same for domestic professional teams to bully us. Playing the fourth-level amateur team may not win."

Jiang Mu said seriously, "If you train and play according to my method, you may not lose..."

"Dizzy, you think you are a god."

"This is a little blown."

"It's too arrogant. No wonder the Dutch don't like him."

The discussion at the bottom is more lively.

"Don't say any more."

Seeing that the players said more and more outrageous, Li Wei, as the president of the club, was a little embarrassed. He was worried that Jiang Mu would be angry, so he raised his hand to signal the players to silence.

"It's nothing, Chairman Li. Let the players say it's nothing." Jiang Mu then shouted to the players, "You don't believe it, because our football thinking is different, but the facts will prove that you are wrong."

Jiang Mu didn't care about these satirical comments. Although he did not coach independently for a day, he worked as an assistant coach and translator for more than ten years. This reaction is really common. He has also seen the miracle of players collectively releasing the head coach on the first day.

Ke Ming, one of the twin brothers just introduced by Li Wei, said, "You'd better talk about what ability you have to make an amateur team like us compete with a professional team. Although I'm Chinese, I don't believe that Chinese coaches are more advanced than those in the Netherlands."

Jiang Mu is looking for an opportunity to instill his coaching ideas in these players. Now the opportunity is just coming. He smiled and said, "The whole Netherlands is playing 433 formation, full attack and full defense. The Dutch professional team can play full attack and full defense, and can achieve good results. Amateur Players can't win, because the tactics and formation are completed by people. 433 has extremely high technical and physical requirements for players. Even ordinary professional players are difficult to achieve, and it is naturally even more impossible for you to win, so it is certain that a tiger can't be a dog. If you fight according to my tactics and defend and counterattack, Defeating China's second-level professional team is not an impossible task. In fact, Dutch football will soon fall into the trough, because they play good-looking football, and winning football is now popular in the world.

Dutch player William is the main back of the Oriental Dragon. His wife is a Chinese student. She was invited to the Oriental Dragon Club by Li Wei. Seeing Jiang Mu belittling down on Dutch football, he said annoidly, "Don't forget that this is in the Netherlands. If you want to fight back against the defense, go to Italy. Even if you win here, you will be criticized by the fans. Drowning to death."

Jiang Mu said, "It's funny. Must the defensive counterattack be ugly? 451 and 361 are not necessarily worse than 433 and 343. It mainly depends on who will fight. Talent is the key. Even if it is an ugly win, it is a hundred times better than a good lose. No matter how good you play, you lose seven or eight goals in a game. Let's see who the fans drown.

William opened his mouth and stopped talking. He had nothing to say. If he lost a goal, he could say that it was glorious to lose. If he lost more than three, no one had the face to say anything about beautiful football.

Jiang Mu continued: "My football is victory football. It is to pursue beauty in the context of victory, not to pursue victory under the premise of playing beautifully, let alone to pursue beauty at the cost of losing. That's what I want to tell you today.

The scene was speechless, including Chairman Li Wei, because most of these people grew up under the influence of Dutch football, believing that full attack and defense and 433 are the truth, and they will not consider defensive counterattacks at all. If Jiang Mu really trains like this, it will simply overthrow the club's tradition. It's hard for them to accept.

Jiang Mu knew that these people were difficult to accept, but he didn't want to compromise and said, "If you want beautiful football, then I'll go. If you want the championship, then I'm your best choice."

Silence, the players of all ages on the court are still silent.

After a while, Li Wei, the president of the club, chose to support Jiang Mu and said, "I think the champion is more important. If you want the champion, come here."

This is another Ke Liang among the twin brothers, and said, "Can't you play beautifully and win the championship?"

Jiang Mu said seriously, "That's my ideal. If our opponent is weaker or comparable to us, we can naturally play beautifully and win."

"Okay, I support you."

Ke Liang walked over, and his brother Ke Ming also followed him. Then everyone stood over except William, the Dutchman. In fact, for a team that has never won any championship, making such a choice is very simple, just like taking a piece of bread and a beautiful dress to a person who has been hungry for a week, you want Bread still needs beautiful clothes. There is no doubt that he will choose what.