Chapter 9 Dutch coach Derby ()

Before he knew it, Tang Feng had been traveling here for more than a week.

Tang Feng has completely adapted to his new life. In fact, this new life after traveling through time is quite comfortable for Tang Feng.

When the team is not playing, Tang Feng’s working hours are the same as those of the players and coaches. Basically, it is two hours in the morning and afternoon.

Moreover, during training, players need to consume a lot of physical fitness. The coach has to carry out a lot of mental activities. All Tang Feng needs to do is to allow smooth communication between players and coaches, which is relatively easier.

Of course, in terms of income, Tang Feng cannot compare with the players and Hiddink.

However, compared to Tang Feng before traveling through time, he was still in the sky and underground.

Before traveling through time, Tang Feng was a floppy football writer. To put it nicely, he was a writer and writer, but in fact, according to Tang Feng's input-output ratio, he was just a cheap code worker. Moreover, this kind of profession is not favored by others even if he speaks it out.

Nowadays, translation is a high-end profession at least, and its income and benefits are also at the level of white-collar workers according to domestic sayings.

In addition to being relatively easy to work and having a good income, being able to engage in football-related jobs he likes is also something that makes him happy!

Tang Feng cherishes this time he worked with Hiddink because he knew that once the season ended, if the team could not relegate, Hiddink would leave would be a foregone conclusion. His temporary translator, he could not follow him everywhere. Besides, Tang Feng is not a guy who is willing to be a lie. If he had the chance, he would definitely be more willing to work alone than be someone else's assistant.

During training and competition, since Hiddink's tactical ideas need to be conveyed to the players through language expression, Tang Feng naturally learned a lot after hearing and hearing.

The last time Tang Feng proposed to replace high center Oli in the game against Valencia, it was proved very correct after the game.

Although Tang Feng expected Hiddink to favor him, it still did not happen that he promoted himself as a young translator to become his assistant coach. However, Tang Feng could still feel that Hiddink's attitude towards him had undergone some subtle changes.

Tang Feng knew that if he wanted to impress a world-renowned coach like Hiddink, he could not rely on an occasional flash of inspiration. Instead, he needed to persist in showing his strength.

In daily training, Tang Feng was diligently completing his translation work and learning from Hiddink. He also did not forget to take advantage of his position and "revenge his private revenge" against Alfonso if he had any problems.

In fact, Tang Feng wanted to use his happy accomplice Finidi George last time. However, this Nigerian played in Ajax for several seasons before, so he could basically understand Hiddink's Dutch language. Tang Feng naturally found it difficult to use language to play with him.

Tang Feng is a person who holds revenge. Although he cannot "take revenge" for the time being, he believes that there will always be a chance in the future!

As the weekend approaches, the 30th round of the La Liga is about to begin.

The disaster of Betis is obviously not over yet, because their opponent in this round is the top European giant, Barcelona, ​​who has completed two consecutive championships in the league in the previous two seasons!

When the league schedule was three quarters past, Barcelona still lags behind La Coruna in the standings. This is very unacceptable for the proud Catalans.

Therefore, on the weekend, Barcelona can be said to be determined to win against Real Betis, who is trapped in the relegation zone!

Logically speaking, the dialogue between a championship team and a relegation team should not attract too much attention.

However, this time the match between Barcelona and Real Betis became the focus of this round because of the coaches of the two teams.

Barcelona coach Van Gaal and Betis coach Hiddink are both famous Dutch coaches, so this game is also called the "Dutch coach derby" by the media.

Speaking of which, there are really many connections between these two Dutch coaches who are the most famous in European football today.

Hiddink debuted in Eindhoven. In the late 1980s, he led Eindhoven to achieve an unprecedented triple-championship in Dutch football and created a dynasty belonging to Eindhoven.

Van Gaal debuted as Eindhoven's archenemy Ajax. However, when he became the team's head coach, Hiddink had already gone to the Turkish League. So, at that time, the two had no chance to fight directly.

After taking over Ajax, Van Gaal also led Ajax to the top of Europe and created an Ajax dynasty.

It can be said that both of them have brilliant records in the Netherlands, and they are both European champion coaches.

But after leaving the Netherlands, the situations of both sides were completely different.

After leaving Eindhoven, Hiddink once moved to Türkiye and then came to Spain, coaching Valencia and Real Madrid one after another. However, the results of these coaching experiences are not considered successful.

Van Gaal's first stop when he left the Netherlands was the Barcelona team he coached now. With a large number of Dutch players he dug up from his old club, he quickly achieved success in Spain.

In his first season at Barcelona, ​​Van Gaal led the team to win the double championship record in the league and the Copa del Rey. In the following season, Barcelona even finished a reversal in the standings while falling behind half a day!

In that season, Van Gaal's opponent was Hiddink, who coached Real Madrid.

It can be said that Van Gaal is the "culprit" who was dismissed from the get out of class early after being dismissed from coaching at Real Madrid for one season.

Because it was in the national derby that Van Gaal led Barcelona to sweep Hiddink 3-0 to Real Madrid coached by Hiddink, and pushed Hiddink to the edge of the cliff.

In the end, after Real Madrid lost the possibility of winning the championship early, his dismissal became a natural thing.

After the media analyzed the relationship between the two, they also set another highlight for this game, that is, "Hiddink's Battle of Revenge"!

Of course, although the media is hyping this highlight, not many people are optimistic that Hiddink can rely on Betis to complete his revenge against Van Gaal and Barcelona.

Real Madrid, which led the superstars last season, was able to get 0-3 by Barcelona. Now, leading a group of players with low morale because the team is in the relegation zone, it seems that it is even more difficult to defeat Barcelona.

Before the game started, the Catalan media "World Sports" said that Barcelona had already locked a three-pointer in advance. Now they are more concerned about the "dark horse battle" between La Coruna and Zaragoza in the same round of the game. Whether the small dark horse, Zaragoza, ranked fourth in the league, can bring the top-ranked dark horse La Coruna down, thus helping Barcelona take the opportunity to narrow the points gap.

In fact, even the local media in Seville are not optimistic about Betis.

Sevilla's Daily Sports newspaper only wishes Betis good luck in this home game. Of course, they also reminded Betis that the direct dialogue with the relegation opponents is a smarter choice than fighting against the giant Barcelona in the next few games.

Faced with the media's dissatisfaction and even ignorance, Hiddink was as calm as ever in an interview before the game: "The battle of revenge? I think there is no hatred between me and Luis. This is just an ordinary La Liga match. We are fighting for relegation, while they are fighting for the championship. It is certainly not a lucky thing to meet a strong enemy like Barcelona on the road to relegation. But at this point, we can only play this home game with all our might!"

Although Hiddink spoke easily in his tone, privately, Betis’ preparations for the game during this period were very difficult!

Just as Hiddink said after the last round of the game, for Betis, the last nine rounds of this season are no longer worth losing. So, even though he knew that Barcelona is very strong, Hiddink is still unwilling to give up easily!

Tang Feng, who was in the team, could obviously also clearly feel the tension in the team.

However, he was looking forward to the weekend game.

Before the time travel, although Tang Feng was not a Barcelona fan, he had to admit that Barcelona played very passionately during the Van Gaal period, and they were also full of superstars and almost had two world-class lineups. No wonder many Spanish media can't wait to use the title of "Dream Two" to express their appreciation for Barcelona's performance in recent seasons.

Of course, as a veteran, Tang Feng knew that Van Gaal was unable to establish a dynasty in Barcelona in the end. Moreover, because this Barcelona lacked the Champions League trophy that symbolized the highest honor in European football, the call of "Dream Team 2" gradually calmed down and was not aroused again until the Rijkaard period!

Rivaldo, Cruyvert, Figo, Guardiola, Enrique, Koku... In this Barcelona lineup, Tang Feng saw familiar superstar names.

Tang Feng felt particularly excited when he thought of watching these superstars play football on the court on the weekend!
Chapter completed!