Golden Greenery

Thirty-one-year-old Santi Oliseh is known as the most loss-making deal in Juventus history.

In 1999, Juventus spent US$12 million to buy the popular Oliseh from Ajax, and sold it to Dortmund for US$7 million after one season. In fact, even if you calculate the money, you didn't lose much, but for a club like Juventus that has always been shrewd, this is a rare mistake.

Oliseh became famous because of his zero-angle volley in the 1998 World Cup in France that directly ended the legendary Spanish goalkeeper Zubizarreta's national team career. The strange thing about that ball was that it showed a certain An upward arc that violates the laws of physics.

It was this goal that made people think Oliseh was a heavy attacker, but in fact, his true identity is a technical midfielder. Different from the traditional African black and hard midfielder, Oliseh took a purely technical route. In the 1994 World Cup group match, he faced the world champion Maradona in the whole match, and he did not fall behind in technique.

His failure at Juventus was purely a matter of style, and the Old Lady was in a double defensive midfield position with 'Wild Boar' Davis and Conte in their prime. Yes, that is the Conte who will coach the Italian national team and Chelsea in the future. The substitute behind these two great masters was Tachinadi, known as the 'Son of Juventus'. At the time, Juventus coach Carlo Ancelotti himself was a standard Italian top midfielder, and he looked down on Oliseh's blind running. Of course.

Oliseh was born at the wrong time in the Bianconeri. Regardless of offense or defense, he did not squeeze out the strength of Davis, Conte, Tachinadi, or even Zidane in front.

After leaving Juventus and coming to Dortmund, Oliseh's competitive level declined rapidly, and he became weak and old at the age of 25 or 26. No one knows why.

Let me say that this is caused by the common age change of African players. If you add seven or eight years to him, he is already thirty-four or five years old and he is still not old. That is really crazy.

Coupled with being eliminated from the brutal Serie A, a plummeting decline became inevitable. Serie A is really a touchstone. After being polished by Serie A, many players have either soared to great heights or completely showed their timidity. Their confidence has been damaged and they have become extremely mediocre.

There were a large number of technical monsters in Oliseh's Nigerian national team, and he was not the best among them. Okocha, whom Ronaldinho respected as "Master", was the well-deserved number one.

Jeje Okocha is the pioneer of integrating fancy gameplay into competition in modern football. Once he starts playing tricks on the court, even his teammates will applaud him for his beauty. Maradona and him He is a power player in one comparison.

Ten years ago, in the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Zhuoyang went to the audio-visual education resource room in the compound to play. The children in the compound all liked to search for foreign war movies that were only circulated within the army.

That day, Zhuo Yang accidentally discovered a video tape recording the personal highlights of a black player in Frankfurt in the Bundesliga for four seasons in the sports film library.

The video commentary is bilingual in English and German, but Zhuo Yang can understand it. This is a Nigerian player named Okocha. His agent created it to promote him in order to sell him for a high price. No one knows how this videotape traveled thousands of miles across the ocean and appeared in China, where it appeared in the database of a military academy.

Maybe, this is God's will.

This video opened a new door to football to ten-year-old Zhuoyang: It turns out that football can be played so dazzlingly and coquettishly!

Zhuoyang watched the video over and over in the electronics classroom for two whole days. Even the administrator's volunteers, Pony and Ma, couldn't drive him away. Finally, after hearing the news, his mother, Yang Hong, came and took Zhuoyang home by grabbing his ears.

During those two days, Zhuoyang's super brain firmly memorized every shot and every detail in the videotape. His genius learning ability allowed him to imitate Okocha's technical movements from imitation to proficiency and then to analogy at the age when he was best at learning.

In the end, he became a unique technical monster in the world of football.

Do you think Zhuoyang's superb football skills were brought out of his mother's womb? In fact, it fell from the sky, okay?

The world says that Zhuoyang and Ronaldinho have very similar technical styles, but they don’t know that both of them actually studied under Okocha.

At that time, the immature Ronaldinho first arrived in Europe from Brazil and arrived at Paris Saint-Germain. His fancy skills were not suitable for the cruel confrontation and competition of European football. It was at that time that Okocha, the core of Paris Saint-Germain's midfielder, was in charge. He taught Ronaldinho how to combine dazzling skills with confrontation. Therefore, Ronaldinho has always respected Master Okocha throughout his life.

However, as the saying goes, a disciple starves his master to death, Ronaldinho later took away Okocha's core midfield position. Of course, Okocha's aging was the main reason. The buck-toothed king who is currently at the top of his game in Barcelona would never have thought that in a few years he would be pushed out of the spotlight by his own disciples.

As for Okocha, I don’t know why. He swore that he would never play for a wealthy club. No matter how he tried to persuade him, his agent was so angry that he couldn’t do anything about it. He simply stopped talking to him after the expiration of his agency contract. The large package of video tapes produced to promote him disappeared and no one paid any attention to it.

At this time in 2005, the 33-year-old Okocha was wasting his time in the Premier League Bolton Wanderers, pacing slowly on the field, but he was still the main starting player who played 60 minutes in every game.

Zhuoyang didn't know that the agent who made the tape for Okocha was Milo Raiola.

Let’s go a step further and let’s talk about the game and Oliseh.

In his first two seasons at Dortmund, Oliveira often impressed from time to time, but he has since been loaned to Bochum. He performed quite convincingly in Bochum, and the Bochum club has planned to acquire him outright from Dortmund. But no one expected that because of a passing problem during the game, Oliseh had a quarrel with his Iranian teammate Hashemian, and almost killed Hashemian with a headbutt.

The Bochum club immediately terminated the work contract with Oliseh.

Perhaps it was a painful experience. After Olisekh sat on the bench for half a season in Dortmund, suddenly new flowers bloomed on the old tree, and he suddenly showed a usable state. This coincided with the team's poor performance and the intention of head coach Van Markville to make adjustments. lineup, Oliseh once again took the field and entrusted him with important tasks.

Oliseh's technical defensive style also complements Kyle, who combines fierceness and elegance. After all, he was the one who fought against the world champion in the World Cup and never fell behind. In the last round of away game against Wolfsburg, Oliseh even caused the successor of the football champion, "Big Head" D'Alessandro, to disappear from the field without a trace. After the game, he and Rosicky were arrested. Together they were rated the best on the spot.

It seems that Oliseh has found the key to the return of glory, so he is coming to open Zhuoyang's door today.