Chapter Seventy-Seven: The End of the Halfway

Ibrahimovic is also very ambitious, he is hungry for success, but who defines success is not himself, but the golden championship trophy, the golden Ballon d'Or, the golden World Footballer of the Year trophy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the beginning of Ajax, he deliberately intensified the contradiction with Van der Vaart, yes, he deliberately intensified, the contradiction between him and Van der Vaart existed earlier, everyone wants to be a brother on the front line, there will definitely be a conflict, but it will definitely not make a fuss.

However, Ibrahimovic deliberately made the conflict public at the behest of Raiola, so that in the end Ajax had to sell him to Juventus, which was in full swing in Europe at the time.

It's a pity that Ibrahimovic didn't get anything at Juventus, the league title was deprived, and he didn't win the Champions League.

After Juventus was relegated, he would not stay there and waste his time, so he chose to join Inter Milan, which was actually a very competitive team on the continent at that time, and it should be said that Raiola and Ibrahimovic were right.

However, in the past few years since Inter Milan, the league title has been soft, but the Champions League has never been successful, and Ibrahimovic thinks that he must not be considered a success now, because he has not won the Champions League trophy and has not won the Ballon d'Or, so far he is a complete failure.

Zhang Yuan's words had to make him think that Inter Milan may not be really strong, it was all blown out by the outside world, and he worked so hard, but it was still difficult to make a difference in the Champions League, and everyone blamed me, thinking that I was a soft-footed shrimp playing in Europe.

He's it, I'm not a soft-footed shrimp, it's because my teammates around me don't give it a good shot, okay?!

Get out of here, find a team that matches my strengths?

The thought suddenly and irrepressibly crept through Ibrahimovic's mind, and until the end of the party, Ibrahimovic seemed a little distracted.

At the end of the Champions League group stage, Zhang Yuan has completed all the games in the first half of the season, and Schalke 04 has one game left, which is to challenge the league leader Hoffenheim away.

Because Zhang Yuan will not participate in this game, and the time is approaching the winter break, the club asked Zhang Yuan not to train in the first team anymore, anyway, you will not participate in the competition in the next few days, it is better to simply go to the youth team to mingle, which means that I hope Zhang Yuan will go to the youth team to inspire those young people.

Zhang Yuan was noncommittal, but Buskens and Mulder agreed, they thought it was a good idea, anyway, it was to give Zhang Yuan an early holiday, and the training intensity of the youth team was much lower than that of the first team.

So the media on the second day had an additional theme "Zhang Yuan was sent to the youth team?", fortunately, this article does not say that Zhang Yuan was really sent to the reserve team, but that Zhang Yuan trained with the youth team according to the club's arrangement, the reason is not clear, but it is certainly not really decentralized.

Schalke 04's youth team training ground is also in this base, and the youth team is also divided into many echelons, the club intends to make good use of Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan himself does not know that he is very popular in the youth team and is the idol of many young players.

It's really embarrassing to say, a few of them are a little older than Zhang Yuan, some of these players have been teammates with Zhang Yuan for a period of time during the summer training camp, and Zhang Yuan didn't feel embarrassed to meet, but those few were a little embarrassed, but soon everyone let go, after all, they are all young people.

Zhang Yuan's arrival really lifted the spirits of the young players, the training ground between the youth team and the senior team is only separated by a shrub green wall, but the intersection between the two teams is very little, the first team is so heavy how can the players have time to go to the youth team to spin.

Aside from the possibility of a pre-season training camp where the youth team may be selected to play games, there is really not much interaction between the two teams.

Zhang Yuan usually focuses on his own training, and has hardly been to the youth team, so it is not surprising that he is admired by his teammates in the youth team as the most popular golden boy.

The motivation in training is also much higher, and youth coach Thomas Waldoch is eager to let Zhang Yuan put down roots here.

Zhang Yuanxia is not only an incentive, but also a good example of how to handle the ball in the internal competition.

That's what Waldoch wants, and when it comes to these players they are still young, and sometimes they make mistakes over and over again, but there are the same young people there who face the common problems they face and make different choices, and their experience is definitely much more important than what Waldoch said.

Draxler was honored to meet Zhang Yuan again, he could observe Zhang Yuan's handling of the ball up close, and he liked to ask Zhang Yuan questions.

In the final analysis, the problem of dealing with the ball is a multiple-choice question, and Zhang Yuan will patiently explain to him what he thinks and why he does it, and as for whether the choice is correct or not, Draxler can only tell by himself.

In addition to spending time in the youth team, Zhang Yuan was also invited by the club to Schalke 04's football school, which has its own football school and cooperates with many local primary and secondary schools, which send seedlings to Schalke 04.

Zhang Yuan met Joseph here, Joseph was previously sent to Schalke 04's football school by Hoffmann, where he received more professional training, of course, his learning will definitely be affected to a certain extent, overall speaking, there is no big problem, about whether Joseph is playing football, Zhang Yuan can not see through the future.

Maybe just like him and Gu Lin, Gu Lin came into contact with football earlier than him, but he stayed abroad, but Gu Lin didn't, he didn't feel that his original level was much higher than Gu Lin.

Looking at Joseph now, he thinks that Joseph is much stronger than when he was twelve or thirteen years old, maybe Joseph can become a professional player one day, Zhang Yuan thought.

Schalke 04 vs. Hoffenheim game held as scheduled, Schalke 04 stubbornly drew Hoffenheim away from home, don't try not to know, try to be scared, Hoffenheim depends on survival is not defense but attack, they have scored 41 goals before the halfway point, which is a remarkable number, is the team with the most goals in the Bundesliga half of the way, more than Bayern Munich, and it is not by chance that the first place is ranked.

Demba Ba, Obasi, Ibisevic's front-court trident, under Rangnick's tutelage, played a huge power, Ibisevic plus this game scored 18 goals in the half, throwing off Zhang Yuan, Grafit, Hermes, Dzeko and a group of other people, dominant, many bookmakers have adjusted Ibisevic's scorer odds to the minimum, no way, there has not been such a high goal efficiency shooter for many years.

Kuranyi finally broke the goal drought with this game, he received a pass from Farfan in this game and scored the equalizer goal, earning three points for Schalke 04, but this goal is insignificant, the previous goal drought not only made Buskens and Mulder unhappy with him, even the fans called on him to leave quickly!

Zhang Yuan will get out of the ban in the second half of the season, and he will definitely return to the bench, which is something that everyone knows.

At the halfway point, Schalke 04 achieved 8 wins, 6 draws and 3 losses, accumulating 30 points and ranking sixth, Hoffenheim ranked first with 35 points, followed by Hertha Berlin with 33 points, Hamburg with 33 points, Bayern Munich with 32 points, and Bayer Leverkusen with 32 points.

Schalke 04 were fortunate to hold back arch-rivals Borussia Dortmund, with 29 points at halfway through, just one point less than Schalke 04.

The end of the half-marathon means that everyone is going to have a holiday again, to be honest, this half-way is really too tired, very tired for the main players, and everyone is just slowing down when the winter break comes.

The Bundesliga's winter break is probably the longest of the major leagues, and the holiday season is naturally a little longer, thanks to the fact that they only have 18 teams.

The Bundesliga has always been talking about expansion, because the other major leagues are 20 teams, but this idea has been opposed by the strong teams led by Bayern Munich, why should they object, there should be more income for a few more games, which is a good thing.

But this is not the case, the number of teams and the increase of uncertain factors are not conducive to the establishment of advantages in the league, teams like Bayern Munich naturally hope that the domestic league is as easy as possible, so that their players can rest well, so that the club can focus on the European competition, and the Champions League is better than anything else.

This is the theory of strong teams, everyone wants to increase the team, only the middle and lower teams want to increase the team in the Bundesliga, some because there are more games and more income, and some are because there are more weak teams themselves do not have to work hard to be relegated every season, and so on.

But the arm can never twist the thigh, and the Bundesliga is still 18 teams!

Before the holiday, Schalke 04 Club held a dinner, which can bring family members, Zhang Yuan has no family, Mai Xuewen has also left, Zhang Yuan and Di Gan are alone to participate in this Christmas dinner.

Schalke 04's management this season is very chaotic, the previous season general manager Muller had a lot of say, but with the defeat of Luten Maicheng, his position is in jeopardy, and the current acting head coach Buskens and Mulder actually have a lot to do with him, and the three were once teammates of Schalke 04.

These two people were a little unlucky after taking office, Zhang Yuan was banned for 5 games, and Lu Teng led the team Schalke to draw too many games and the Champions League was hanging by a thread, so they got out of class, and now these two Schalke want to say how much the results have improved, and no, they can only say that there are fewer draws, but they have lost 2 games, and Lu Teng has only lost 2 games, and the standings are similar to Lu Teng when he was in office.

The only good thing is that they finally led Schalke 04 out of the group stage and qualified smoothly, and it is difficult to say whether Buskens and Mulder will continue to lead the team in the second half of the season. (To be continued.) )