Chapter 106: Preparing for the New Season
Most of the German media believe that as Dortmund matures, it will have a huge impact on the following 2010-2011 Bundesliga season. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past 2009-2010 season, Bayer Leverkusen and Schalke 04 have threatened Bayern's dominance in the Bundesliga.
Coupled with the strong rise of Dortmund and the steady performance of traditional powerhouses such as Werder Bremen, Hamburg, Wolfsburg and Stuttgart, the German media have enough reason to believe that the 2010-2011 Bundesliga season will be even more exciting.
Of these teams, most of the media are the most optimistic about Dortmund.
Last season's Borussia Dortmund not only remained unbeaten at home, but even defeated German hegemons Bayern Munich in the German Cup final and the German Super Cup this summer.
Especially with the tactical system of Tang Zheng's core team gradually taking shape, Dortmund in the new season is likely to bring huge surprises to fans, replacing Bayern Munich as one of the most favorable contenders for the Bundesliga title in the new season.
At the regular press conference after the German Super Cup, manager Jurgen Klopp expressed in an interview with the media that the goal of the new Bundesliga season is to be in the top three of the Bundesliga.
If you're lucky, you can challenge for the champion!
But the media has always liked to take things out of context, sell gimmicks, and like to package those content that is worth reporting, so the report that appeared in front of fans is that Jurgen Klopp's Dortmund will hit the league championship in the new season!
However, this kind of news report is common in the German media and some media in Europe, and it does not cause much dissatisfaction.
Just these news appeared in Gelsenkirchen and made Schalke fans unhappy, they thought that Schalke 04, who finished second in the league last season, had a chance to compete for the Bundesliga title in the new season, so as to win the team's first league title since the official establishment of the Bundesliga!
In particular, Schalke 04 has introduced powerful stars one after another this summer, and the overall strength of the team has increased significantly.
Schalke 04, who currently have the most players in the Bundesliga, is likely to sign Dutch striker Huntelaar before the summer transfer window closes to further strengthen the team's forward strength, according to the Spanish newspaper Marca.
If Huntelaar is signed, Schalke 04 will once again gain consistent scoring points after owning Raul.
This is very beneficial for their future third-line operations!
In this case, Schalke fans in Gelsenkirchen have every reason to believe that the 2010-2011 Bundesliga season will be the world of Schalke 04!
Although Rakitic's contract extension has not been agreed, Schalke fans have plenty of reason to believe it is only a matter of time.
The pursuit of professional players is nothing more than personal salary and glory, and now Schalke 04 has become the star team in the Bundesliga transfer market this year, as fans, they have unparalleled confidence that the team will surpass last season's results in the new season and win the league championship in the new season!
The local media in Dortmund noticed the pompous statements of the local media in Gelsenkirchen, who felt that the media and fans who supported Schalke 04 were too presumptuous.
You must know that last season's Bundesliga two-legged Dortmund defeated Schalke 04!
Against this backdrop, is it possible to win the league title?
The traditional hegemons are all pressed under Dortmund, not to mention Schalke 04, which still has some run-in problems in the new season?
In short, the local media in Gelsenkirchen poured chicken soup on Schalke 04, while the local media in Dortmund asked Schalke 04 fans to drink poisonous chicken soup......
Tang Zheng, who was preparing for the last warm-up match before the start of the new season, also noticed the war of words between the media in the two places, and thought of the quarrel between him and Raul using the media platform, so he said in an interview with Bild: "Schalke 04 wants to win the league championship in the new season?
After that, he added: "If the sun rises in the west, Schalke 04 has a good chance of winning the league title. ”
When Tang Zheng's remarks spread to the ears of Schalke 04 players and fans through media platforms, there was no doubt that both players and fans were fiercely judging Tang Zheng.
At this time, Real Madrid added another German international, Mesut Ozil, who plays for Werder Bremen, to transfer for 15 million euros.
The announcement of this transfer news is, to a certain extent, the liberation of Tang Zheng's hatred among the local media and fans in Gelsenkirchen.
Since the 2009-2010 Champions League final, Tang Zheng has been linked to Real Madrid, and President Florentino has expressed interest in Tang Zheng on several public occasions.
Real Madrid also offered 35 million euros for purchase this summer, which was full of sincerity, but Dortmund, who was looking forward to the revival, paid blood and kept Tang Zheng, so that Real Madrid had to choose German international Ozil......
For Mesut Ozil, the transfer to Real Madrid is undoubtedly the most glorious moment of his career, but the media revealed that Real Madrid chose him because of the failure to buy Tang Zheng, which made Ozil injured.
So in an interview with the local media in Madrid after the successful transfer to Real Madrid, he said: "I admit that Don is better than me at the moment, but who knows that I will not surpass him in the future?"
Mesut Ozil is an active German international, and the German media are naturally happy to hear Ozil's remarks and are very optimistic.
Especially at this year's World Cup in South Africa, Germany was able to reach the semi-finals because of Mesut Ozil's excellent attacking organisation in central midfield and the ability to create multiple chances in every game.
And the Chinese media now have the confidence to scoff at Ozil's statement, believing that his joining Real Madrid is first of all Tang Zheng's reluctance to go to the Bernabeu, and secondly, he is not the main player, and it is completely Real Madrid to play a substitute for the above-mentioned recovering Kaka.
When Kaka returns from injury, Ozil, who has a €15 million transfer to Real Madrid, will be swept away.
As one of the parties involved, Tang Zheng was like a nobody, ignoring what was going on outside the window and concentrating on preparing for the new season.
But this is not the case with the media and fans who support Ozil and Tang Zheng, and their war of words is full of joy.
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Before the 2010-2011 Bundesliga season, Borussia Dortmund have a warm-up game ahead of them, where they will take on North Rhine-Westphalia capital side Fortuna Dusseldorf.
Unlike many of Germany's capital teams, Fortuna Dusseldorf is not strong, having struggled in the Bundesliga in recent seasons, and is the kind of team that has no prospect of promotion and relegation, but teams from smaller cities such as Stuttgart, Borussia Dortmund, and Gelsenkirchen are more well-known.
With a capacity of more than 51,000 fans, the North Rhine-Westphalun friendly was an unexpectedly popular and sold-out match.
Dusseldorf fans in red home jerseys occupy most of the stadium, but there are also Dortmund fans from more than 90 kilometres away, who even rely on tacit chanting to dominate the Esprit Arena.
Borussia Dortmund is a Bundesliga team and Fortuna Dusseldorf is a Bundesliga team, and there is no comparison between the two, but the coaches of both sides are looking at the state of the players with the mentality of preparing for the new season, so the game is a bit intense.
In addition to the players who are determined to play the main team, those who are between the semi-main and the substitutes want to show their best in front of the manager in order to get more opportunities in the new season.
Tang Zheng, as the most outstanding player in Dortmund, is the Dortmund player who has been violated the most by Dusseldorf players.
Originally, Tang Zheng felt that it was normal to foul once or twice, and he didn't care about the other party.
But again and again deliberately kicking supporting feet, knees on thighs, and elbow strikes, Tang Zheng was difficult to bear.
As a modern midfielder who came out of the Arab League, Tang Zheng learned a lot of small actions that European players don't know.
In the way of the other, give back to the other.
Therefore, the Dusseldorf players who defended Tang Zheng had many arguments and physical conflicts with Tang Zheng.
And Tang Zheng's status within Dortmund is very high, and many players have a very good relationship with him, so they naturally will not sit idly by.
Moreover, the Dusseldorf players in this game moved a lot, and they could feel it, so they were very unhappy in the face of the arrogant Dusseldorf players.
Young people are always a little impulsive.
This is the time to test the referee's ability.
Fortunately, the level of the referee on duty was still okay, but it did not let the emotions of the players on both sides be overly involved in physical conflicts.
Despite this, there were two red cards in the game.
Borussia Dortmund eventually beat the home team Fortuna Dusseldorf 3-1 away, but neither manager was very happy with the game, Klopp complained that the Dusseldorf players moved too much, resulting in an overly intense game, and if it wasn't for the referee's ability to control the situation, the game could have gone in a direction that neither side wanted to see.
The home team's head coach Cramer disagrees, believing that intense physical confrontation is an essential part of the game of football and that there is no need to look at it with a magnifying glass.
Of course, Klopp only complained, and did not criticize Kramer's response accordingly.
His eyes are on the upcoming first round of the 2010-2011 Bundesliga season, where they will travel to Bayer Leverkusen, who finished third in the league last season.
The German media has also slowly turned their attention to the first round of the Bundesliga season as time passed.
Last season's Bayer Leverkusen performed well in the early and middle stages, topping the league table with an unbeaten record, but in the middle and late stages, the team failed to stay at the top of the table due to some minor problems, and even had no chance to qualify for the 2010-2011 Champions League qualifiers.
Dortmund happened to be the opposite, the performance was not particularly good in the early stage due to the run-in, and in the middle and late stages, the tactical system with Tang Zheng as the core gradually perfected, and the results also followed.
If it weren't for Borussia Dortmund's lack of goal difference, Bayer Leverkusen would have had to go to the Europa League.
So no matter how you look at it, this game is very interesting. (To be continued.) )