Chapter 018: Cold Heart
"Mainz are not as strong as Aachen, they finished 14th last season and were just one place shy of relegation."
"They also changed the head coach, the team has just started to run in, and the strength is definitely not outstanding."
"The guy named Jurgen Klopp has just become a coach and his standard is definitely not high."
"Klopp? The former knife guard in Mainz? He's very good, but being a coach is different from being a player. "Mitchell and Bryce are very good, but Hui is even better than them!"
"Lammerman, Diane and Marcus are also worth looking forward to!"
"Let's hope Tierry and Bernd can do well, they are Aachen's children and our future!"
"Come on Aachen, Aachen will win!"
At 3 p.m. on July 29, 2001, the first round of the new season in Aachen officially began.
Before the season, Aachen made a lot of reinforcements, and even brought in Marcus Dawn from Bundesliga powerhouse Bayer Leverkusen.
Of course, the most reassuring thing for Aachen fans is the yellow-skinned and black-haired figure.
In just two seasons, Xie Hui has become the core of the Aachen team with his own strength.
Xie Hui's strength is not only recognized by Aachen fans, but also by the media.
In the media's ranking of forward strength, Xie Hui's position ranks second, second only to Bielefeld's Artur. Vikhnyarek.
The latter won the Bundesliga Golden Boot last season when Xie Hui overtook Xie Hui in the scorer list in the last six games he missed due to national team matches.
However, in the hearts of Aachen fans, Xie Hui's strength is stronger than Artur!
Even among the three teams relegated from the Bundesliga, no striker is stronger than Xie Hui!
With such confidence, the Aachen fans were full of confidence when they faced Mainz at home in the first round of the league.
The Tivoli Stadium, which can accommodate 22,500 people, is almost crammed with people, and the entire city of Aachen is only about 200,000 people!
The enthusiasm of the fans is evident.
China has a good start, and a good start is half the battle.
Germany does not have this proverb, but it has a similar saying, and it is natural that the first round of the league is extremely important.
Fans want to see the team thrive and complete their desire to be promoted to the Bundesliga!
Unfortunately, the man who sat in the coach position in Mainz was far better than they could have imagined.
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"It's dirty!" Mark wearing the number 4 jersey. Spanier couldn't help but say.
He was the team's main defender, and head coach Hag felt it was time to work on the defensive qualities of the other players before putting him on the bench.
"How many yellow cards did they all get? The referee should send them off! Bernd, who was wearing number 22, chimed in.
He was an Academy graduate in Aachen and had been selected for the first team in the first two years, but he has been on the bench.
"I feel like their coaching is pretty good." Zhuo Cunzhi, who was wearing No. 19, expressed a different opinion.
Zhuo Cunzhi, who performed well, officially entered the first team, but only as a marginal person, when he will be able to play for the first time, even Zhuo Cunzhi himself does not know.
Even so, he was envied by Joao half to death.
"They just played dirty, and we definitely had better quality and coordination than them." Bernd said unhappily.
"They're really dirty, but they're not getting a single one off now, are they?" Zhuo Cunzhi insisted on his opinion.
'Those who received the yellow cards have restrained a bit, and the others have been defending at a standard of judgement and not being judged, but they have kept our attack at bay.
"Indeed." Krelim wearing the No. 2 jersey. Bashi looked at it carefully and agreed with Zhuo Cunzhi's opinion.
He is 31 years old this year, and he is a veteran of Aachen, and Bernd has no problem refuting Zhuo Cunzhi's words, but it is not easy to refute Klilim's words at will.
"Hui they scored a goal, Mainz will definitely not be able to stop it." As an Aachen academy, Bernd is naturally still on Aachen's side.
Zhuo Cunzhi was stunned, opened his mouth to say something, but couldn't say it.
Xie Hui's state doesn't seem to be very good, it should be said that it is very poor!
He himself didn't say such a question, but Zhuo Cunzhi did see it.
On the other side, Mark and Krilim's faces were quite solemn.
They are all veterans in their thirties, and they naturally have a lot of experience in the game, Xie Hui's state is not excellent, they can see it at a glance.
They also knew that what affected Xie Hui's state was the time spent on the plane.
The top 10 match of the Huaguo team is coming, and it is natural for Xie Hui to go back to training.
But the problem is that firstly, the head coach of the Huaguo team has already explained that Xie Hui is not the main force, and secondly, when Huaguo comes to Huaguo, whether it is a friendly match or a training match, he has to call Xie Hui back.
As a result, Xie Hui had to fly back and forth between Germany and China many times.
It takes a good form to be a good player, especially as a striker!
Xie Hui is really difficult to perform well in this situation.
Even Africans with the best physical fitness can hardly withstand this level of toss-up.
Not to mention, the overall physical fitness of Chinese or Asians is not excellent.
Head coach Hag sat next to the substitutes, his face was also quite ugly.
Xie Hui is a very important part of his plan.
As a stump-type center forward, Xie Hui's importance to players is definitely not as simple as scoring goals.
His greater role is to stick a nail in the opponent's penalty area, containing the opponent's defensive strength.
On the other hand, Xie Hui will also pass the ball to other teammates by ferrying the ball with a header.
It is not appropriate to say that Xie Hui is the core of Aachen, after all, Xie Hui is a center forward, and the core of the team's operation is generally a midfielder.
However, Xie Hui's role for Aachen, or for Hach, may be more important than the core!
Out of trust in Xie Hui's ability, Hag did not change much about the team's offense, and put most of his mind on adjusting the defense.
What he never expected was that the Chinese national team would cheat him so much, a player in Europe who is not reused, they actually asked the players to come and go as soon as they were called!
Isn't it also an honor for China that the players have performed well in Europe?
Japan and South Korea, which are also in East Asia, for example, do not easily call on players who play in Europe.
Because their improvement is also a role model for the rest of the country, and they also need these players to perform well in big tournaments like the Asian Cup and the World Cup.
In this way, they naturally hold these players for fear that their decisions will ruin their hopes.
Hahe originally thought that the Chinese National Congress was the same as South Korea and Japan, and this was also a normal way of thinking, but the frequent summoning of the Chinese national team these days really made Hahe doubt his three views.
Isn't it important for the Chinese to improve the level of football in Europe?
From incomprehension to anger, from criticism to helplessness, Hahe could only hold on to luck, hoping that Xie Hui's level would not decline because of this.
And the scene in front of him almost made him desperate!
Last season, Xie Hui was Aachen's top scorer, scoring 14 goals, but the second scorer in the interior only scored 7 goals!
Who else can you rely on?
At this moment, Hach's heart was cold.