On July 7, Magath gathered the players he had bought this summer. There was a reception and a meeting ceremony for the football fans.

The former Bayern Munich head coach stood in the middle. On the left hand side are last season's Bundesliga Golden Boot Yang Fan, Cartbus duo Radu and 'Monten' Tainu, 'Bo' and Black 'goalscorer' Dzeko, and midfielder Boateng who transferred from Hertha Berlin. To his right are former Netherlands international Mar Kay, Portuguese defender Ricardo Costa, Marcelinho who has returned to the Bundesliga from Turkey, Schaefer from Munich, De Jaha from Hertha Berlin on a free transfer, young goalkeeper De Melander who has been promoted to the first team from the second team, and young defender Rachel.

Among these people. There are experienced veterans like Marquet and Marcelinho, who have even won numerous titles. There are also powerful stars like Ricardo Costa who are in their playing years. There are also young people like Boateng and Dzeko who represent the future and hope. Of course, the most important thing is that there is Yang Fan, a young man who is already a Bundesliga Golden Boot before he is nineteen years old!

Yang Fan, like these teammates, wore their new jerseys and faced the cameras held up by the reporters. He grinned happily under the flickering lights of the spotlight.

What caught the attention of reporters is the jersey number worn by these players, and if there is no accident, the jersey number that was unveiled in public this time is their football friend number in the new season.

Yang Fan wears the No. 10 jersey!

The departure of Hank, along with Sarpe and Klimowitz and Hristov, has left Wolfsburg free for several important shirt numbers, Hank wore the number nine shirt when he was at Wolfsburg, Klimowitz was the number 10 shirt and Hristov was the number seven shirt.

Yang Fan, as the team's de facto number one star now, naturally has the right of first choice, and among the No. 7, No. 9, and No. 10 jerseys, he chose the No. 10 jersey!

This choice surprised Magath slightly, he originally thought that Yang Fan would choose the No. 9 jersey that was more in line with the identity of the striker. didn't expect Yang Fan to choose the No. 10 jersey.

What Magath doesn't know is that in the hearts of Chinese children, the No. 10 jersey is worn by the most powerful players, and every child has had the dream of wearing the No. 10 jersey in a team.

The first great number was Pele, and the legendary performance of the king of the ball also passed on this number, and he influenced many people after him, and in Brazil, the number is still the absolute heart of the attack. Most teams in the world have a tradition of trumpeting, and after the Brazilian champion, the charm of the Argentine king Maradona has improved a lot, and it has gradually become a culture.

However, there are also quite a few team numbers that traditionally have their own set. For example, the number of Manchester United and Real Madrid, the number of Spain, and in Argentina, the number is the core of the organization on the field. Behind the different number inheritances, there is a great player. The German horn has been passed down from Gerd Müller to today's Barak. And, of course, Cruyff's.

Player numbers have become part of the football culture, so important numbers have a lot of weight in the minds of clubs and players, and they have become a status symbol, especially numbers. The reason why the number is huge, because, in football, the attack and goal are the most exciting, crazy and crazy, and the horn of the horn "color" is the core of the attack, generally the number is to play the front position, this position is also the highest requirements for a player's offensive organization ability and technical requirements, can pass can 'shoot', and to play beautifully, to be able to delight the audience, good number, in addition to helping the team win, there is also a task is to give the ball 'fans' visual enjoyment.

Yang Fan is a 'shooter', not the core of the offensive organization, in a sense, maybe the No. 9 jersey is more suitable for him, but since he asked to wear the No. 10 jersey, Magath naturally can't refuse his request.

After Yang Fan picked the No. 10 shirt, Marcelliño was a little depressed, the Brazilian veteran was eager to wear the No. 10 shirt, he felt that he should be the core of Wolfsburg's midfield organization, and the No. 10 shirt was well deserved on his body. You are a 'shooter', what are you doing wearing the number 10!However, Marcelinho could only accept it in frustration, and then, he could only settle for the number seven shirt.

As for the No. 9 jersey, it was taken away by the Dutch veteran Mackay, and with the qualifications of the Dutch veteran, wearing the No. 9 jersey is also deserved.

Dzeko, the former Golden Boot of the Czech First Division, opted for the number 11 shirt.

After this collective debut, in the Wolfsburg store, Yang Fan's No. 10 jersey also began to be put on sale, Wolfsburg's football "fans" really like Yang Fan too much, which once caused a rush to buy "tide", in the franchise store of the Volkswagen Arena, only 500 pieces of Yang Fan's new number jerseys were put on the shelves on the first day, and these 500 jerseys were sold out in less than two hours by the Wolfsburg football "fans", and the order for the jersey has even been scheduled for a week later.

In the eyes of the Chinese media and football fans, the No. 10 jersey is the soul of a team, and Yang Fan's ability to wear the No. 10 jersey shows his core position in this team!

In fact, with Yang Fan's jersey for Wolfsburg last season, he is the most important jersey for Wolfsburg, which no longer needs to be proved by wearing a number of jerseys, to put it mildly, even if Yang Fan is wearing a jersey, he is still the core player of Wolfsburg!

Wolfsburg then faced the first match of the summer camp on the training ground of the training base, against a German regional league team, Wolfsburg won 2-1. Yang Fan only played 30 minutes in the game and did not score.

Three days later, in a warm-up match against Mainz in the Bundesliga, Wolfsburg drew 2-2 with their opponents, and Yang Fan opened the scoring for Wolfsburg.

In the following half month, Wolfsburg played two more warm-up matches, with one win and one loss. The opponents were Munich and Real Sociedad from La Liga.

Overall, Wolfsburg did not have a good record in the warm-up games, with two wins, one draw and one defeat in four warm-up games, considering that they were also against teams from the German regional league. That's not a good record.

However, Magath does not care about the result at this time. The warm-up game is not set up for the pursuit of victory, for the coaches, the results of the warm-up game are not the first, and the warm-up game before the new season, as long as it is not the kind of big score fiasco, the head coach can accept it. The warm-up game at this time is the accumulation of the team in the new season, and it is also the time for the team to run in. Especially after the holiday, the manager has to look at the condition of the players after a holiday, mainly to observe the competitive condition and fitness of the players. If you find a problem, you can solve it in time.

In addition, the Wolfsburg team has undergone a major change this summer, and it can be said that it is a new team, and the run-in problem of new and old players in the team is a problem that Magath must now solve as much as possible, and he also needs to continue to try some of the team's tactical play in the warm-up games to find the most suitable tactical play that the team needs in various situations.

The essence of the warm-up game is that the process is more important than the result. Magath also has to keep an eye on new players such as Dzeko, Boateng, Radu, 'Mon' Taiyanu, Ricardo Costa and many more. VfL Wolfsburg qualified for the UEFA Cup and will play in Europe, but although it is a multi-front battle, Magath does not plan to use the rotation system, this is a coach who focuses on stability, and he will need to determine the main squad for the new season through the guò warm-up games, and then fine-tune on this.

Yang Fan scored two goals for Wolfsburg in these four warm-up games, and to be honest, it's not a good example given Yang Fan's crazy goalscoring form last season.

Some German media also began to say in their newspapers that Yang Fan was in trouble, and their opinion is that after Yang Fan went through last season, he is no longer a stranger to all opponents, and many teams are studying how to defend Yang Fan, and now, Yang Fan wants to score goals, which will be much more difficult than before. Anyway, in a word, that is, in the new season, it is difficult for Yang Fan to call the wind and rain in the Bundesliga like last season.

As if to confirm the claims of these media outlets, Wolfsburg lost 3-1 to Manchester City from the Premier League in the final warm-up match of the new season on July 31.

Yang Fan did not score in the game, and was replaced by Radu at the end of the 70th minute of the game. When Yang Fan left the field, the score on the field was 0-3. And Radu, who came off the bench, scored a face-saving goal for Wolfsburg.

In this game, Yang Fan's 'mediocre' table was also amplified by some media, before they said that Wolfsburg dared to 'spend' 20 million euros to sign Yang Fan in time It was a wise move, but now, they have begun to say that Wolfsburg's 20 million euros 'spending' is too imprudent, and it is very likely to be lost, and even some media alarmists said that Yang Fan's 'color' table last season will be gone forever.

Some of the media were making noise, and even Wolfsburg's opponents were starting to bounce.

On August 4th, Wolfsburg will play the first game of the new season, and they will face the German football regional league team Zburg away in the German Cup, and the head coach of this regional league team, Mr. Hendry, even said in a big way: "Wolfsburg won 2-1 against Kasselhesse, but let's not forget that we won 3-0 away at Kasselhesse last year." Therefore, in this game, we are not afraid of Wolfsburg, nor are we afraid of Yang Fan!"

Kassel Hesse was Wolfsburg's opponent in the German regional league in the first warm-up game of the season, and Wolfsburg only won 2-1 in that game, Yang Fan played for half an hour and did not score.

Perhaps, the situation of this warm-up game gave this Mr. Hendry great courage to say this!

This is really arrogant!

(End of chapter)