"Congratulations, Congratulations, German Footballer of the Year, right...... Is there an indication?"

"Don, you kid is really elected as the German Footballer of the Year, I don't care, you have to have a treat!"

"If you don't invite guests, you won't cooperate with you! If you don't cooperate with you, you won't be able to perform! If you don't perform well, you will be laid off......

“……”

Tang Zheng's 2010-2011 German Footballer of the Year award was no surprise, as his teammates congratulated him the next day before training began. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this regard, Tang Zheng gave a fierce wink.

Where are these guys congratulating?

It's obviously using this gimmick to 'blackmail'!

Subsequently, the coaching staff led by Klopp also expressed their congratulations, fully demonstrating the brotherhood between the coach and the players.

However, with the new season just around the corner, Jurgen Klopp's attention will be on preparing for the league campaign, where the defending champions will play their 2011-2012 Bundesliga opener at home.

The much-watched opening game must naturally be well performed, otherwise the media's out-of-context writing skills are not a joke.

Moreover, the sooner the coexistence of Tang Zheng and Pirlo is resolved, the better, otherwise the impact on the team will be even greater once the Champions League comes next month.

In fact, in Klopp's heart, Tang Zheng's comprehensiveness cannot be buried.

Pirlo's organisational and scheduling skills are also not negligible, which means that there is a lack of a bridge between the two.

Dortmund's high pressing last season cannot be lost, and in the event that Pirlo's fitness is in jeopardy, the other two players in the middle will have to have a strong physical reserve.

The Chinese New Year's Eve is in good physical condition and also has Sven Bender and Gundogan on the bench, both young and strong lads who ran nearly 12,000 kilometers per game last season, second only to Tang Zheng.

With the addition of young players such as Grosskreutz, Kuba and Gotze, it is also possible to repeat last season's glory......

What worries Klopp is the team's ability to score goals in the new season, with Barrios, who was playing in Paraguay in the Copa America final this summer, strained a torn muscle in his inner thigh in the Copa America final.

For Barrios, this is not the first time he has suffered a strain in this position, so Klopp is concerned about whether he will have another muscle strain after his return.

After all, a situation like a muscle strain can easily recur and affect the player's condition.

Dortmund in the 2011-2012 season is going to play in the more influential Champions League, and if the former main center forward can't guarantee his form, then Klopp should take the lead.

It's just that the team's current financial situation is not ideal, and it is unrealistic to want to buy a strong center......

So in Klopp's tactics, Tang Zheng's role has become more important.

With 34 goals and 35 assists in all competitions last season, he believes Tang Zheng can also get amazing numbers this season if his form is out of order, and he has a superhero like Andrea Pirlo behind him.

Of course, all tactics still exist only in theory, and the specific implementation needs to wait for training to make up for it, otherwise everything is empty talk.

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In Klopp's heart, Tang Zheng's absolute core position is unshakable, and he is worried that Pirlo will be dissatisfied.

However, as Klopp noticed that Tang Zheng and Pirlo often practiced together, this worry gradually became a little redundant.

After two training sessions a day, Klopp stopped Pirlo: "Andre, I have something to talk to you about. ”

In fact, Pirlo also guessed a little bit of manager Jurgen Klopp's intentions.

Since returning to training last month, Jurgen Klopp's tactical style of play has felt a bit awkward, especially with a player as experienced as Andrea Pirlo.

Tang Zheng has comprehensive abilities, and he is the kind of existence that is outstanding in all aspects, and even sometimes he will be a little envious and jealous.

However, the current Pirlo is no longer the Pirlo of a few years ago, his heart has grown a lot, and after changing to the back midfield, he also realized that serving teammates is the king, and the so-called absolute core position is floating clouds, otherwise he would not have made up his mind when Klopp promised the main position.

Because he needs a main position, not an absolute core position.

Moreover, at his current age, it will be somewhat incapable of playing the absolute core in Dortmund.

Recently, he has been working on physical enhancement in order to be able to keep up with the overall rhythm of the team as soon as possible.

So when Klopp took the initiative to talk to Pirlo about the core position, it was very surprising that Pirlo did not mean to be the absolute core.

Klopp was speechless for a while.

If he had known this, he should have communicated with Pirlo earlier.

If there had been an exchange, the German Super Cup would not have been Bayer Leverkusen's......

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At 7:40 p.m. local time on August 5, the 2011-2012 Bundesliga season kicked off.

Defending champions Borussia Dortmund take on veteran Hamburg at home to the Westphalad Arena in the opening match of the 2011-2012 season.

Before the game, there was a little excitement in the Korean media.

South Korea's post-90s youngster Son Heung-min will likely start the 2011-2012 Bundesliga opener, as he played 13 league games for Hamburg in the past 2010-2011 season, scoring three goals.

At the age of nineteen this year, he is favored by the Korean media, who believe that Son Heung-min is a super player who has only been produced in 50 years of Korean football, and his future achievements may not only surpass the legendary Korean star Park Ji-sung, but also very likely to replace Tang Zheng as the first star in Asia!

In fact?

Son Heung-min was not included in the 18-man squad for Hamburg, so the South Korean media who came to Dortmund were ridiculed by the Chinese media, who thought they knew all about the bragging.

A young player who can't even make the squad for the game, can still replace Tang Zheng's position?

What international jokes?

Borussia Dortmund, who are in Westfali, field their strongest squad available, goalkeeper Weidenfeller, defenders Schmelzer, Santana, Hummmels and Piszczek.

The duo of Pirlo and Sven Bender was paired with Tang Zheng up front.

On either side were Gotze and Grosskreutz, with Lewandowski at the top.

It is worth mentioning that before the start of the game, the editor-in-chief of Kicker magazine, Rainer Holzschu, presented the trophy symbolizing the 2010-2011 German Footballer of the Year to Tang Zheng, the captain of Dortmund in this game.

"Whew-"

More than 70,000 Dortmund fans in attendance cheered Tang Zheng for his selection, in recognition of his contribution to the club.

Although Klopp's tactics were not yet perfect, Dortmund still beat Hamburg 3:1 with the help of Lidmund at home and won the first victory at the beginning of the season.

Tang Zheng did not score, but had an assist, and the penalty opportunity that should have belonged to him was ceded to Pirlo, who joined the team, and Pirlo scored his first goal at Borussia Dortmund.

The next day, the 2011-2012 Bundesliga season kicked off.

Surprisingly, there were two upsets, with Mainz, the biggest dark horse in the early stages of last season's league, beating Bayer Leverkusen, runners-up in last season's Bundesliga, 2-0 at home.

Another upset was Bayern Munich's 1-0 home defeat to Borussia Mönchengladbach, who remained in the Bundesliga last season by virtue of relegation.

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With Borussia Dortmund's win at home to Hamburg, they have extended their unbeaten run in the league to 39 games, surpassing Real Sociedad's record of 38 unbeaten matches set between April 1979 and May 1980 and moving them into third place in Europe's top five leagues, behind AC Milan with 58 league games and Arsenal with 49 league games.

Borussia Dortmund's first-round win over Hamburg gave many media and fans the illusion that Dortmund would be as strong as last season.

As a result, they were beaten in the second round of the league away to Hoffenheim!

In the eighth minute of the game, Pirlo moved slightly slower and knocked down Brazilian teenager Roberto Firmino, who had completed the breakthrough.

Salihovic's direct free-kick from a set-piece went straight into the top left corner of the net, and goalkeeper Weidenfeller couldn't reach it.

And this goal was also the only goal of the game.

As last season's league champions, Borussia Dortmund's unbeaten streak in the league ended with an away defeat to Hoffenheim, and many media outlets came out to pick on them.

Andrea Pirlo, who delivered a direct free-kick, was the most immediate victim, followed by Jurgen Klopp.

Of course, Klopp, as the head coach, is the first to bear the brunt.

In his regular press conference after the game, Klopp once again took the initiative to take all the pressure, saying: "It is my responsibility to lose the game, it has nothing to do with the players, the Hoffenheim players performed great, and the victory was well deserved......

Although the pressure of losing the game was on Pirlo and manager Jurgen Klopp, Tang Zheng himself also had some pressure, he failed to connect the midfield attack when Pirlo was restricted, so that the team could not organize an effective attack from defense to attack.

In the final analysis, the run-in brought by the new signings is not enough.

However, in Tang Zheng's heart, this is the direct reason why his strength is not strong enough.

Pirlo, who didn't perform well enough, also took a chance and wanted to prove himself in the next round of the league!

Jurgen Klopp knows what the team's problems are through this game.

Pirlo's style of play is on the soft side, and his pace increases slowly with age, so the team should take precautions before he is pressed, and he should be assigned a bodyguard and a receiver in the tactics to solve the problems exposed by the soft style and slow pace of the game.

In this way, Tang Zheng's coverage area has become wider and his responsibilities are greater.

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A week later, the third round of the 2011-2012 Bundesliga season kicked off at the Westphalad Stadium, with Borussia Dortmund hosting Nuremberg, who are currently ninth in the league.

Although Dortmund lost to Hoffenheim in the last round to end the winning streak, the media is quite optimistic about the defending champions, and the three major European bookmakers also offer the odds of one and a half goals for a win, 1:1.28 for a win, 1:4.89 for a home draw, and 1:9.41 for a home loss.

This shows how optimistic Dortmund is.

The final result also proved how good their vision was, as defending champions Borussia Dortmund beat Nuremberg 3-0 at home after 90 minutes, with Tang Zheng scoring his first goal of the season from a corner kick and providing an assist.

After three league games, defending champions Borussia Dortmund have not been at the top of the table from the start as they did last season, and they are now sixth in the league with two wins and one defeat from three games.

Nuremberg will be hoping to replicate Hoffenheim's success, but manager Jurgen Klopp is prepared to add a bodyguard and point of contact alongside the softer Andrea Pirlo.

In the attack, coupled with Tang Zheng's retreat, an iron triangle combination of Pirlo, Kyle and Tang Zheng was formed, making it difficult for Nuremberg's defensive system to play a limiting role.

Gotze and Lewandowski, who responded to the retreat, have certain organizational skills, especially the native Dortmund Personality, whose organizational skills are enough to cope with the organizational and offensive pressure brought by Tang Zheng's retreat.

Once Tang Zheng stepped forward to participate in the attack, Dortmund's offensive was devastating and unguardable.

In the end, Dortmund beat Nuremberg at home.

Next, according to the schedule, Dortmund should play Bayer Leverkusen away to Bayer Arena in the next round, but due to the UEFA Super Cup, they postponed the next round of the league to prepare for the UEFA Super Cup against 2010-2011 Champions League winner Barcelona.

Thinking of Barcelona, Tang Zheng naturally clenched his fists.

Barcelona are rightly known as the Cosmos team, having set a number of La Liga records last season, the longest winning streak, the most away goals in La Liga, and a five-goal home win over Real Madrid to win the Champions League for the second time in three years......

With two days to go before the UEFA Super Cup, Borussia Dortmund flew to Monaco to prepare for the UEFA Super Cup.

Prior to the UEFA Super Cup, the draw for the 2011-2012 Champions League group was held at the Monaco International Exhibition and Convention Centre.

Borussia Dortmund were the champions of the Bundesliga in 2010-2011, but they have been separated from the Champions League for nine years, and even after winning the Europa League last season, they have limited European points and the team is in the fourth tier.

Some media said before the game that if you count AC Milan in the second tier and Manchester City in the third tier, it is very likely that this season's Champions League will form a super group of death.

Of course, this is very unlikely.

Because once the draw results are based on this situation, the group stage is certainly good, but the elimination of two teams with Champions League title contenders will affect the excitement of the knockout stage, so this possibility is very small.

Captain Kyle had some minor injuries and did not come to Monaco with the team, so the second captain Tang Zheng followed coach Jurgen Klopp to the Monaco International Convention and Exhibition Center to participate in the 2011-2012 Champions League group draw.

In the 2011-2012 Champions League group draw ceremony, defending champions Barcelona were undoubtedly the brightest of the day, taking most of the prizes.

In the subsequent group draw, Dortmund did not draw into the Super Death group, but drew the ordinary Death Group.

Borussia Dortmund were drawn in Group F with Arsenal, Marseille and Olympiacos.

In addition to Olympiacos, Arsenal, Marseille and Borussia Dortmund are all likely to qualify......