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Chapter 32 Ten Years

The story of this article is purely fiction. Please do not take it in the right way. If there are any similarities, it will definitely be a coincidence.

Qiu Suhui quickly got into the role. He was dedicated to the position of assistant coach, which saved Adrians a lot of worry. Stell is a very diligent assistant. He can faithfully complete the tasks you assigned well, but he has no things of his own. Qiu Suhui is different. He can bring a lot of good things. He also knows that he uses different methods to teach according to his aptitude. He is a person who is diligent in thinking.

The ten years of study were finally not in vain, and Adrians was also happy for him.

But what made Adrianse happiest was Qiu Suhui's nationality. Because both Chinese, Qiu Suhui could speak fluent Chinese. There was no communication barrier between him and Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, so he could give them more help and guidance. Adrianse has privately handed over Zhang Jun and Yang Pan to Qiu Suhui for responsibility. You should know that from Ajax, not only excellent players, but also excellent coaches, and Qiu Suhui is the famous brand product with the seal of "Excellent products, allowed to leave the factory".

Zhang Jun and Yang Pan are also very welcome to this compatriot coach, almost always staying away from each other. During training, they are always treated with special care from Qiu Suhui - very strict requirements.

"Coach, go to our place for dinner?" Yang Pan put on his coat and invited Qiu Suhui who accompanied them from the training ground.

"Me?" Qiu Suhui was a little surprised.

"Yes! Wang's Chinese food is delicious. You have been in Europe for so long, so you must have not eaten any hometown dishes, right?" Zhang Jun said.

Qiu Suhui rubbed his nose. In fact, Chinese restaurants have long been spread all over Europe. As long as there are Chinese places, there are Chinese restaurants. If he wants to eat Chinese food, he can solve the problem by finding a Chinese restaurant. He is not a foodie who wanders around the world. But the affection between the two children and Mr. Wang is difficult to refuse others' invitations. Therefore, he nodded: "Okay!"

Qiu Suhui soon discovered that having supper was just an excuse. In fact, the two children were interested in his experience and hoped that he would tell them. He himself was really happy to tell them about this experience. He felt that allowing them to get in touch with football styles everywhere and increase their knowledge would be very useful for their future development.

So, on the dining table, plates of steaming and fragrant food became supporting roles. However, the chef did not care at all about it, and he was also very interested in Qiu Suhui's experience.

Speaking of the name Qiu Suhui, he is not unfamiliar with the older generation of Chinese fans. In the early and mid-1980s, he was another way of writing "genius". Just think about it, at the second World Youth Championship in 1983, he was named one of the six "Hope Stars" in the world by FIFA. He was as famous as Van Basten and Bebeto, and was selected as the best football team in the world (this is the highest honor that Chinese football players have won in the world), and you will know what kind of character he is.

Before 1994, Chinese football had not yet been professionalized, there were already two world-class players: one was Rong Zhixing, the Chinese football king who was once called the most world-class star in the Chinese team by Pele. In September 1977, the New York Space Team, which was gathered in September 1977, came to China, and they played two games in Beijing and Shanghai. In the first game, the two sides tied 1:1. In the second game, the Universe team lost 1:2. The Football King Pele praised the Chinese team No. 11: "His dribbling, shooting and organizational skills are really outstanding!" After the game, he took the initiative to exchange jerseys with No. 11. At that time, the Chinese team No. 11 was Rong Zhixing, who had the title of "China King of Football".

The other one is Qiu Suhui, who is sitting in front of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan now.

In 1983, the Chinese Youth Team led by Zhang Zhicheng in the World Youth Championships historically entered the top eight. A group of main players in the team, such as Qiu Suhui, Jarry, and Liu Haitao, became the leading players of Chinese football in the future. Qiu Suhui was named the world's "Six Stars of Hope" by FIFA, along with Dutch star Van Basten. As a right winger, he is extremely fast and is called a "fast horse". He has excellent shooting and crossing, flexible movements, and is good at capturing fighter jets.

With his fame in the World Youth Championship, he was selected into the national team at the age of 20, which was a very good result in the Chinese football world at that time. In 1984, he came to the Netherlands with the Chinese team to conduct friendly visiting competitions. Later, he was recommended by the national team coach to stay at the Zvaruru Club in the Netherlands for two months. At that time, Adriansé was the one who coached at the Zvaruru Club in the Netherlands.

Later, due to system reasons, there was no example of Chinese players playing football abroad, so Qiu Suhui only studied and trained and could not play. Two months later, he was summoned back by the Chinese Football Association.

Although Qiu Suhui only stayed in the Netherlands for two months before returning home, he was already deeply fascinated by Dutch football and European football. European attitude towards football made him feel that it was a football paradise, the paradise he deeply yearned for...

But the sad thing about genius is that he is a genius. Qiu Suhui has excellent skills and has been influenced by European football in the Netherlands. He has improved his consciousness in a comprehensive way. He is naturally the most troublesome person for his opponents in domestic games. Therefore, in order to win, many teams have adopted killing tactics. As long as Qiu Suhui takes the ball, the defenders often use all means, including fouls, to stop him. At that time, the punishment for flying shovels and shoveling people behind him was far less severe than today. Therefore, he was always scarred in every game. Because of frequent invasions by his opponents, Qiu Suhui has been injured continuously, and there are not many games that can play, but as long as he is on the court, he will definitely pose a threat to his opponent. No matter how fierce the opponent's invasion is, he defended a motto of his senior Rong Zhixing with practical actions: "The best way to retaliate against the opponent's invasion is to kick the football into their goal."

I believe there are still many Chinese footballers who will never forget the unforgettable "May 19 Incident", which is the most unforgettable and painful experience of Chinese football. On May 19, 1985, the national team coached by Zeng Xuelin went to the World Cup again. At that time, the Chinese team was the runner-up of the Asian Cup, with Asian-level stars such as Jiali, Gu Ming, and Liu Haitao. The last game of the Chinese team in the group was to qualify for the weak Hong Kong team at home, and they could tie the team, but public opinion and fans generally held the Chinese team.

The radical view that it would not be considered a win if you don't win over two goals in Hong Kong. However, the result was enough to shock anyone. The powerful Chinese team lost 1:2 to the small Hong Kong team while having the advantage of the game. The fans cried bitterly for this. They surrounded the players on both sides, smashed public facilities, attacked foreigners, and demanded dialogue with the leaders of the Football Association, which led to a sensational "May 19 Incident". Afterwards, Zeng Xuelin took the initiative to take responsibility and resigned from the position of head coach of the Chinese team.

That battle also made Qiu Suhui unforgettable. Before that, he was recuperated due to injury and was not selected for the national team, so he could not represent the national team in the World Cup qualifiers. So he watched the Chinese team lose 1:2 to the weak Hong Kong in front of the TV, watching the fans cry, and watching the old coach Zeng Xuelin resign from the position of head coach of the Chinese team with tears... All this has nothing to do with him. He just watched, watched, did nothing, could do nothing...

Perhaps many people still remember San Siro on August 17, 1995. "I have made a decision and I will terminate my football career." This short sentence shattered everyone's expectations and dreams. More than 80,000 people bid farewell to their hero Marco Van Basten with tears in their eyes. This greatest center in the 1980s and 1990s was due to defenders.

The frequent invasion and the ankle was covered with scars. After two unsuccessful surgeries, he had to say goodbye to football at the age of 31, when the striker could have continued to create glory, bid farewell to Luyin, and bid farewell to fans who loved him. Qiu Suhui's injured part was the same as Basten, but he didn't even have the chance to wave goodbye to fans on the court. He heard the death sentence for his football life in the best orthopedic hospital in Beijing.

Due to severe injuries, Qiu Suhui, who was only 27 years old, shone out his most dazzling light in the night sky like a meteor, and was swallowed by endless darkness.

It is said that when Adriansai in the Netherlands heard the news that Qiu Suhui had retired early due to injury, he was stunned for a long time before finally muttering: "The angel with broken wings is not a paradise, he shouldn't go back..."

Due to the backward management system, football concept, low-level league system, and comprehensive factors of injury, the name Qiu Suhui disappeared from the Chinese football world since then.

After retiring, Qiu Suhui was depressed for a while and wanted to find a job to live the life of an ordinary person. However, in the end he still found that he could not leave football, could not become a player, and could still be a coach. However, he would not be a coach in China, and he understood too much about Chinese football. He eventually came to the Netherlands, a country that fascinated him at the beginning.

He found his mentor Adriansey, who followed him to learn the basic training of coaches, and also participated in the youth football coach training class organized by the Dutch Football Association. Half a year later, he graduated with excellent results, bid farewell to his mentor again, and started his wandering journey. A year later, he met Van Gaal in Amsterdam. Van Gaal was very interested in him, the star of hope in the former World Youth Championship, and took him to Ajax. The two of them volunteered to become coaches of the Ajax Youth Team, and in just one year they turned their Ajax Youth Team.

The team took the All-Dutch Youth League championship throne, and since then, Ajax ushered in the second glory of this long-standing club in the early to mid-1990s. In 1995, Kluivert, Davids, Seedorf and DeBoer led Ajax to the European Championship Cup, creating another great glory of Ajax. The hero behind the scenes was Qiu Suhui and Van Gaal, who had become Ajax's first-team coach at the time.

Van Gaal, who created this glory, was promoted to the head coach of the first team that year. He wanted to keep Qiu Suhui in the youth team and make him become a regular. However, after a year of training, Qiu Suhui found that he was still far from being a head coach. Therefore, he politely declined Van Gaal's retention and said to him: "I am still very young, I want to learn." He put his bag on his back and left Amsterdam.

In the following decade, Qiu Suhui's footprints were almost spread throughout Europe. The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, France, England, Spain, Italy, Portugal... Even in Yugoslavia, which was sanctioned by the international community, he studied training for young players alone.

In Yugoslavia, it was a very touching experience for Qiu Suhui. On the one hand, he lamented that the output of football genius seedlings on that land was huge, and many young players were best even in European competitions. On the other hand, he was very sad about the current situation of this country. Due to the long-term sanctions by the international community, the lives of the people are very problematic, let alone systematically cultivating young players. Many teams cannot even guarantee their own survival. Even the national team has been unable to participate in the competition for several years due to FIFA sanctions. In this case, who can still care about those young players?

For those young players who are emerging in large numbers, their future is only one way to die. Their parents cannot afford the high training costs and daily nutrition expenses, and the club is unable to take care of them.

Whenever he saw a young player who had just emerged, Qiu Suhui's old friend Petervic in Yugoslavia was not happy, but worried pain and helplessness: "Another dead..." Qiu Suhui could never forget the murmuring of the poor Yugoslav old man.

The rich experience not only allowed Qiu Suhui to learn various coaching methods, but also integrated them in daily practice and turned them into his own use, and gradually formed his own coaching style, methods and football concepts. He was always seeing, hearing, and then thinking.

Everyone is all human beings and all of them are peers, why are the differences so big? When he was still in China, he also met many talented peers. Dalian is a city with a good football atmosphere, but what about other places? Is it only Dalian that has geniuses? But why are only Dalian players more successful? They are just bad luck? They were not born in Dalian?

It is indeed important for a player to meet excellent coaches from his youth to his growth in a superstar period. But excellent coaches can only be a minority after all, and they cannot save the majority. Yugoslavia does not lack good seedlings or good coaches, but they lack a stable environment so that they can work with peace of mind.

In the past ten years, he has also returned to China several times to visit his parents and old friends. Although the environment of Chinese football has changed and he has established his own professional league, the professional team has gradually become standardized. However, the current situation of youth football is still worrying. Changing age is just the tip of the iceberg. Thinking about the glorious scenery and placing countless hopes from the Chinese people, the Jianlibao football team, which returned from studying in Brazil, was defeated by the Chinese football environment. A once extremely brilliant flower withered in the wind and rain. In China, no matter how many good seedlings are, good coaches are useless, they do not have the right to speak and cannot change their destiny. They do not lack a stable living environment, what they lack is a perfect football system and a standard football system, and what they lack is the culture that has become a part of life in Europe and South America.

The lag behind Chinese football in the world is not a draw that some people say, or a black three minutes, or someone else's calculations, nor is it an embarrassing result of conceding nine goals in three World Cups, no goals, and no points. What is behind is a hundred years, from the system, to the norm, and then to the overall backwardness of the cultural environment. The gap is like falling from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and falling into the Sichuan Basin. It is unacceptable, but it is a fact.

The closer he gets to those inside stories, the more he loses confidence in the future of Chinese football. He even doubts the role of an excellent coach, doubting whether the path he chose was right. He wants to be a coach or an excellent coach, but in the domestic environment, he cannot play at all. If you don’t play counterfeit football, you will be besieged and plotted; if you don’t change your age, you will be considered an alien; the team you have worked hard to train is defeated by a group of "adults" who have changed their age. This blow is not good.

What kind of impact will those hopeful children have? When the whole world is crazy, if you insist on maintaining normality, you are a real crazy. This is no longer a problem with football itself, but a problem with the entire society and the overall environment. And these are all the time, Qiu Suhui, a small coach, is powerless. He is really afraid that after returning to China, he will become Petervic, saying: "Another dead..." after he speaks all day long. In that case, it will be the end of the world for him and Chinese football.

If he stayed in Ajax, or any European club, ten years later, he would become a famous coach with reputation and money. But perhaps it was his inner inertia. On the one hand, he doubted his decision, but on the other hand, he was like an ascetic monk, searching for answers that might never be found. Ten years later, after walking around, he found himself back to the Netherlands, the starting point where he had set out without hesitation. Ten years have passed, except for more and more question marks and helplessness that he knew he might not do anything.

He was almost giving up. He had just received an invitation from the FC Barcelona club, where Van Gaal re-taken Camp Nou and once again sent an invitation to this former disciple and assistant. The invitation from Barcelona is very attractive to anyone, and Qiu Suhui must also seriously consider his future development.

At this moment, God allowed him to see the match between Eindhoven (PSV) and Warrendam. He saw Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, and also saw the shadow of himself in the past. So, he seemed to have regained his direction and purpose overnight. He once again politely rejected Van Gaal's invitation and came to Warrendam. It felt like the pilgrims he saw in Tibet. When those devout pilgrims bowed step by step, they finally came to the holy land in their hearts, they were as excited as he was at that time.

Although the journey was long and the wind and rain were still there, Qiu Suhui had already taken a pious step forward and knelt down. Because he found the holy mountain in his heart, he would die of exhaustion on the way to the holy mountain.

Of course, Qiu Suhui did not tell all of these to Zhang Jun and Yang Pan. If they really wanted to know those things, they would have a much smaller impact when they matured and then came into contact with them. They are still young and seem to be playing happily. If possible, Qiu Suhui really hopes that they can keep playing like this. He just told them the interesting experiences he had traveled to various countries and the football styles of various countries, which aroused their interest in a high-level league.

In people's impression, modern football was golden at the beginning, with stripes somewhat like today's volleyball. Later, with the acceleration of the commercialization of football, the appearance of football also undergoes various changes. The most classic one is the black and white ball. It consists of 12 black pentagons and 20 white hexagons. Commercialization, utilitarianism, results represent everything, and football under the rampant violence also produces more and more dark sides, just like that football, both white and black.

This is the football now. With happiness, there will be sadness; with light, there will be darkness.
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