I still remember that once, while playing for Ajax, Yaya Toure met Bobby Hams, an old man who had been working in Ajax far away from his birth, and perhaps even before his father was born.

At that time, he practiced more on the court, which was a habit he had always developed, because he came from the neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, which was full of barbaric competition and cruel survival of the fittest, so he had to work harder than others to ensure that he could make a name for himself one day.

Bobby Hams asked him, what does a player’s greatest luck mean?

Yaya Toure said a lot, such as staying away from injuries, otherworldly talents, such as omnipotent football skills, but these were denied by Bobby Hams. He said that a professional player, especially a professional player who wants to play in the top European leagues, is the greatest luck of meeting a head coach who understands him and trusts him.

At first, Yaya Toure didn't understand it very much, but then he thought about it himself and slowly, and then he understood it.

Long before he came to Ajax, he played for the Abidjan Mimosa in the home country of Côte d'Ivoire, a team established by colonists, and was later taken over by a Frenchman named Mark Giu, a good friend of Arsenal head coach Wenger. He was also a former professional player and was responsible for finding talents for some European teams in Côte d'Ivoire.

Although compared with the hardware facilities of some European teams, the hardware of Abidjan Mimosa can be described as extremely simple, it is the most luxurious in Africa, especially in Côte d'Ivoire, so it has attracted a lot of young players who are interested in playing professional football in Europe.

Perhaps, during the period of Abidjan Mimosa, the Yaya Toure brothers came into contact with more formal professional football, but more importantly, they learned the cruelty of professional football here, which is a kind of emotional and cold cruelty. Even, it will not treat you as a person at all, but treat you as an object.

In the year he joined Ajax, Mark Giu acquired Beverren in Belgium, a Belgium team that was already in a financial crisis. Mark Giu acquired shares in the team with the support of Wenger and Arsenal, and then sent Abidjan Mimosa players to Belgium to play football, and then sold them after making a name for themselves, earning a huge difference.

Yaya Toure is one of the players who are quite favored by Mark Giu, and he himself is not resistant to this, because he heard some compatriots who played in Beverren and had the opportunity to play there and play in other European leagues, and he could get a salary of about 300 euros every week.

This was a sky-high wealth for the young men of Côte d'Ivoire who were only sixteen, seventeen or eighteen years old at the time, so they would not resist all this. On the contrary, they all flocked to take the shuttle bus to Belgium, hoping to make their own name in Beverend.

At that time, young people had idols, some worship Zidane, some worship Ronaldo, and some worship Vieira.

When Yaya Toure was young, he had a small face and was very thin. No one would say that he looked like Vieira like now, but when he played in the midfield, he told himself in his heart that Vieira, who is also a player of African blood, was his goal in the Premier League.

But then another thing happened, which completely collapsed his goal, that was that Ajax got him.

For Yaya Toure, Ajax is a European giant. He never dared to imagine that he could play in a giant team. He never dared to even think that his first salary after coming to Europe was several times higher than the weekly salary of 300 euros he dreamed of in the past.

He came to Ajax, met Ye Qiu, met Bobby Hams, and met many people. They tested his body and handled some injuries left by his past. They helped him tailor a set of physical strengthening training, allowing him to have more muscles and become stronger and stronger.

They found a house for him and his brother, arranged hourly workers, arranged tutors for them, and provided them with a complete education and football training program, but they were also very strict. When the two brothers, like other African players, like to hide in the dormitory and eat some junk food, they would give the most severe punishment, but they would never fine them, but they would punish others.

Because they all know that a lot of money the brothers earned had to be sent back to Côte d'Ivoire to their families, which was an important source of income to help them improve their family environment, so they would not be fined.

Both Yaya Toure brothers knew very well that all this was because of one person.

Ye Qiu, Ajax's head coach, said when they joined the team that one day, the two brothers will become the best players in Europe. When communicating privately, he did not hide his appreciation for Yaya Toure, and told him that Vieira, Davis and others should be the target and the object of learning.

He left Ajax early and joined Arsenal in the Premier League. He played well and played well. He has seen more worlds and experienced more, but he always told Yaya Toure that Ye Qiu is one of the few head coaches he has seen, who really cares about the players and really wants to help the players.

In the past few years, Yaya Toure has experienced a lot and gained knowledge, especially after coming to Ajax and Tottenham Hotspur, he has seen more of the cruelty of professional football, and has also experienced more, and has learned more.

He knew his personality very well. On the surface, he looked very introverted, but in fact he really wanted to be valued deep down. This was related to the fact that there was a big brother above him and a younger brother below him, because just like the personality of all the three brothers or the middle one in the middle of the three sisters, he was not valued since childhood and was desperately trying to show up to attract the attention of his parents.

This is the same truth, so his personality continues to the court, and he likes to show off.

But gradually, he also discovered that his personality had become the biggest obstacle between himself and the respected Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu once explained at an internal team meeting, what is a team and system?

He feels that the greatest role of a team and a system is not tactics, but psychology. With the existence of a team and a system, it is easier for all those who play football in this team and a system to play at a higher level. The reason is that the team and the people around you make you feel more at ease and trust more.

But the problem is that if one of them destroys this trust and this atmosphere, the team and the system will no longer exist.

When Yaya Toure was on the court and heard Ye Qiu shouting at him in anger, either standing at the sidelines, or selling him, he clearly realized that things were so serious that he had to make a choice.

When Ye Qiu sold Mascherano, he told him that he believed that he could take on Mascherano's responsibilities well, but it was obvious that he still did not take these things too seriously as before. He was still playing football with his own temperament. He completely lacked the sense of responsibility that the main midfielder should have for the team.

Ye Qiu told him many times that he saw the representative elements of modern football midfielder from him. He has the outstanding speed and explosive power of Africans, but he does not lack sensitivity. Moreover, he has the physical ability that is as tired as an electric motor, and has excellent coverage of large areas.

He has a strong body, excellent strength, long hands and long legs but very flexible, which gives him a great advantage in defense. His figure is the benchmark for the back midfielder, and he can both take into account both high defense and ground ball defense. He has very delicate foot skills, which can ensure that after he grabs the ball, it will be difficult for the opponent to intercept the ball from his feet. Moreover, his ball output ability is excellent, his ability to directly advance in depth, and his long-range shooting ability makes him a top-notch, almost perfect modern midfielder.

But Ye Qiu also said that his biggest problem is that he has countless mouth-watering strengths and talents, but he is not willing to spend any effort on it. He has never been willing to figure out what a midfielder should and what he should not. He is still very casual in his grasp of the timing and the situation and is not mature enough.

These are all because of his lack of willingness to play as a midfielder. He always acts casually and has no discipline. He does not know how to maintain contact and distance with the defense line anytime and anywhere. He always increases the distance between himself and the central defender to more than ten meters, or even more than twenty meters. As long as it exceeds ten meters, it is a loophole. If it exceeds twenty meters, it is difficult for the gods to save.

Suddenly, he was standing on the court and he felt scared.

He felt that Ye Qiu had full trust in him and knew him, but he was very scared. He didn't know whether Ye Qiu shouted at him like this, wanted to stimulate him, threaten him, and make him improve? Or had he really completely lost the minimum trust in him?

As many people in the team said, he and his teammates were satisfied that he could play under Ye Qiu's command, because in their opinion, Ye Qiu is one of the few head coaches in today's football, with ideals and pursuits, and also taking great care of his opponents, so he began to feel scared.

What should I do?

Yaya Toure's mind came to his mind that Ye Qiu had said to him and other players in the past

"Many of you have misunderstandings about the level of top players. I tell you, the real top player is not because he is running all the time, but because he knows when to stop and rest; a truly excellent player is not because he is fast, but because he knows when to slow down; a truly outstanding defender is not because he should come back to defend, but because he knows very well when he can go up.

"Learn when to insert the back midfielder is the top midfielder and the most perfect midfielder. If you can't learn it, then you should be a back midfielder who does his duty and don't insert it."

As a professional player, Yaya Toure clearly realized that Ye Qiu's simple words actually revealed the true meaning of professional players, and made many people realize why some are the top superstars, while others cannot even protect their professional contracts.

It's easy to run, but it's very difficult to rest; it's easy to be fast, but it's very difficult to be slow; it's very easy to stay behind to defend, but it's very difficult to plug in.

"Yaya, the ball is coming, what the hell are you stupid? Damn it?"

Thiago Silva roared behind her, awakening Yaya Toure, who immediately realized that he was in a whirlpool-like sound. Marseille was using the momentum created after the first goal to launch a fierce impact on Tottenham Hotspur.

I saw that they wanted to pass another pass, but this time Ziglinsky was prepared and headed the ball to clear the ball.

But the ball still fell at the feet of the Marseille team. Kana handed it to Benoit Sheru, who crossed the ball forward and was disturbed by Fabregas, and passed it back to Kana again. Then Kana gave it to Ben Alpha on the right, but the latter obviously did not find an opportunity to attack, and passed it back to the midfield and wanted to give it to Kana.

Yaya Toure has been dormant in the backcourt. He saw Marcelo heading for Ben Alpha, and the two forwards in the frontcourt didn't have time to pull the side to meet. Unless Ben Alpha chose to break through Marcelo personally, he would definitely knock back to Cana in the middle.

The Ivorians were a little surprised by their analytical ability because he found that if he carefully observed the game situation, observed his teammates' running and the opponent's offensive roadmap, he did not feel that it was difficult at all. He could easily judge the opponent's possible exit route because he had a heart as an offensive player.

After he made a prediction, he approached Kana quietly, but he remained silent. Instead, he was secretly calculating the distance between him and Kana and his speed. When Ben Alpha passed the ball back to Kana, Yaya Toure suddenly rushed out of the ambush like a cheetah.

The Ivorians have long legs and have the advantage when grabbing the ball. They directly grabbed Karna, poked the ball forward, poked the ball directly in front, and then bypassed Karna and quickly chased after it, forming a counterattack.

"Okay" everyone on the sidelines were applauding Yaya Toure's interception.

Ye Qiu also felt that the prediction of the interception was done well, but he was worried that Yaya Toure would press too far. If the attack failed, the opponent would fight back and face the defense line directly.

But just when he was about to walk to the sidelines and shout, he saw Yaya Toure pass the ball to David Silva, and then slowed down himself, obviously not going to attack, but he didn't plan to retreat. This was a clever decision.

David Silva took two steps forward and then distributed it to Gareth Bale who was pulled to the left of the penalty area. After the Welshman got the ball on the left, he saw Messi raising his hand to ask for it, and directly rubbed a high ball, landing on the right side of the front of the penalty area.

Messi stopped the ball in his chest, and after landing, the ball seemed to be stuck to his feet. Facing Taiwo who ran over to block him and entered the penalty area, he took two steps straight into the middle and then pulled his left foot and shot directly.

This shot made a beautiful arc ball. Although goalkeeper Mandanda was very prepared, he was still deceived by this arc ball. He did not expect that Messi would shoot directly twenty meters away from the goal, and the ball also had a strong rotation and arc.

Watching the ball drill into the upper right corner, this was almost a dead corner for Mandanda and powerless

Messi rushed out of the stadium excitedly, waved his arms, clenched his fists along the way, and swung his fists hard at the fans in the stands, turned around, and shouted excitedly at the teammates behind him, spread his arms, and hugged and celebrated with the teammates who were rushing over.

"A counterattack from Tottenham Hotspur, less than ten minutes after Marseille scored, Tottenham Hotspur quickly equalized the score. A beautiful long shot from Leo Messi, Mandanda was powerless to do anything about this shot."

After Tottenham Hotspur scored, the situation completely reversed.

The Marseille team, which had a strong attack before, was completely beaten by Tottenham Hotspur.

They have no advantage in strength and can still attack with one goal after scoring first. However, as soon as Tottenham Hotspur counterattacked, they immediately showed their true colors, especially after the team was equalized, they completely lost the confidence to counterattack.

On the contrary, Tottenham Hotspur's offensive momentum became stronger and stronger, and the players' confidence became stronger and stronger. They almost pushed the Marseille team to beat them all the way, and the home team was defeated step by step.

In the first minute of the first half, Marseille pushed forward with a long pass to Tottenham Hotspur’s defense line, but the ball was steadily controlled by Ziglinski, and was pressed and passed to Thiago Silva.

The captain of Tottenham Hotspurs got a glimpse of the opportunity, especially Van Persie in front had already ambushed, and immediately made a super long pass from the front of his penalty area, crossed most of the court, and landed in front of the opponent's penalty area.

Van Persie had already ambushed behind the opponent's central defender, rushed forward quickly, and grabbed the front of the penalty area. After the ball landed and rebounded, he stopped the ball into the penalty area with his chest, and the person quickly followed.

Central defender Zubar followed Van Persie, but he didn't dare to make moves. After all, he entered the penalty area. In addition, Van Persie had excellent ability to combine the ball, so he didn't give him a chance to kick. Once he couldn't grasp it, he would be a penalty kick.

Van Persie was very smart. After entering the penalty area, he dribbled the ball sideways, faced the goal, and faced Zubar. He stopped and made a series of fake moves with his feet, tricking Zubar into making his foot, and then suddenly hit the ball to the bottom line, and the person quickly chased after him, and directly looked for a point backwards.

Behind him, Messi rushed up from the right side, shook off the entanglement of defensive players such as Taivo. At the back point of the goal, he easily used his right foot to send Van Persie's pass to the bottom of the goal net.
Chapter completed!