Chapter 120: The opening battle will be defeated
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On 28 July, Hoffenheim played their final pre-season match on their home turf. The result www.biquge.info Hoffenheim lost 1:2 to La Liga side Getafe.
After this game, Rangnick made the final adjustments to the team. The whole team is making the final push for the upcoming Bundesliga season.
On 5 August, the first round of the German Cup kicked off, with Hoffenheim beating Bremen Obernoirand 2-0 away at Gremen, a top-flight equivalent team.
Ibisevic started the game and was his first competitive appearance since groin surgery.
Although he did not score in the game, he assisted Obasi to score the first goal. In the 76th minute, Wellington, who replaced Ibisevic, volleyed from 20 meters away, and the football flew into the net against the left post, 2:0.
Ruud van Nistrooy is still recovering, so Rangnick did not risk the Dutch veteran on the field. If nothing else, Rangnick is planning to put Ruud van Nistelrooy on the pitch in the first round of the league.
Just as the league was about to start, the cleaning was going well. There were many teams interested in Gustavo, and in the end Gustavo chose to join FC Twente in the Netherlands for a transfer fee of 8 million euros. Hoffenheim only spent a million when they bought him out last season, and after a season, they made seven million.
In addition, the numbers of the players were also determined.
Teber wore the number 10 shirt last season, but this season he left the team and the number 10 shirt has no owner. It stands to reason that the No. 10 jersey symbolizes the core and should be favored by many people. But nowadays, everyone is not too superstitious about the so-called main number, and players only pick their favorite numbers, and they don't care whether it is the main number. Ten is not everyone's favorite number. At least in Hoffenheim, there is no preference for the number ten.
Although Chu Zhongtian did something similar to the number ten player, he liked the number eight because this number was the number he wore when he first played at Wimbledon, and he had feelings for this number. Whenever possible, he wears the number eight, even in the Chinese national team, he also wears the jersey of this number.
Saarihovic is also a regular in midfield, but he likes the number 23. Eduardo was number 33 last season, and he chose number seven as his number for the new season, a number that is legendary at Real Madrid and Manchester United but not popular at Hoffenheim, and was not used last season. Demba. After Ba left, the number nine was vacant and handed over to the new addition Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Sana, on the other hand, would have liked to wear the number 19 shirt, which he had in Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille. But the number 19 belongs to Ibisevic in Hoffenheim, he wears the number 19 in Metz, has feelings for the number 19, and must not give it to Sana.
So Rangnick asked Sana if he wanted to wear the number 10, and after some consideration, Sana decided to wear the number 10 shirt. In this way, Hoffenheim's midfield has the phenomenon of the number of the back to organize the attack, and the number of the front half is responsible for defense.
The other number that doesn't match the position is the number 11. The number was worn by new left-back Kolarov, who wore the number three at Lazio but had always wanted to wear the number 11. Serbian legend Mihajlovic (sinisa_mihajlovic), who wore the number 11 shirt at both Lazio and Inter Milan, was a centre-back who was as good at free-kicks as Kolarov.
Kolarov wore number eleven, apparently paying homage to his idol.
β»β»β» The German Cup has been played, and the next highlight is naturally the Bundesliga.
Hoffenheim's league schedule started with a strong start β the first three rounds were full of strong teams, with Bayern Munich at home in the first round, Bayer Leverkusen away in the second round and Schalke 04 at home in the third.
Bayern Munich and Schalke 04 were both opponents that Hoffenheim had beaten in the final two rounds of last season, and the two teams will surely get their revenge.
So after the schedule was released, the media paid great attention to these two games.
"If Bayern Munich had beaten Hoffenheim away in the penultimate round of last season, would Hoffenheim still be able to win the league title?"
"If Schalke 04 could stop Hoffenheim on their home turf in the final round of last season, would Hoffenheim still be so dazzling?"
"It's a pity that football doesn't have ifs, but they can get revenge now. The two teams that sacrificed themselves in the last two rounds of last season to complete Hoffenheim can use a win in the new season to wash away the shame they received last season......"
Everyone also paid attention to the new season of the Bundesliga in between trainings, and what the media said was naturally a topic of discussion.
"Look at what these media say, as if we really have a deep hatred with each other...... Eduardo is not very happy with the media's way of exaggerating the atmosphere of hatred between the two sides. He didn't want to be kicked and break his leg in a game full of red and yellow cards.
"There's hatred indeed." "We beat Schalke and as a result, Schalke won't be able to play any European games this season. As for Bayern...... Ha! β
Everyone laughed. The kind of "hatred" between Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim is actually a little more appropriate to say that it is competition. Of course, Bayern Munich will not admit that they will compete with a hillbilly team. The targets of their competition are all over Europe. The Bundesliga is their backyard and they can do whatever they want.
However, Hoffenheim's rise is bound to break this situation.
"Brothers, what do you think about our first round of the league against Bayern Munich?" Chu Zhongtian asked everyone.
Everyone looked at each other, and then Ibisevic understood Chu Zhongtian's intentions, and said: "If you can, of course, we will win them at our home stadium." β
"Is it okay......" Someone had just asked weakly, but more voices drowned out.
"Of course no problem!"
"We won them on this pitch last season and now we're stronger, so why can't we win?"
"It's not really a question of whether we can win or not." Chu Zhongtian said, everyone also quieted down and listened to the captain. "I think we should now develop a belief that we have to win, no matter how strong the opponent is, whether we can win or not. We're going to play in the Champions League, and the opponents there are much better than what we have faced in the Bundesliga. A team like Bayern Munich has a dozen in Europe, and more than that. β
"Chu is right!" Weiss was the first to shout.
"That's right!"
"That's it! It's not like we haven't won at Bayern! β
"Let's beat them at home! Get off to a good start to defending your title! β
"Oh oh! Defending champions! "Everybody's excited.
Van Nistelrooy watched his new teammates so excited that he didn't raise his fists and chant along with them. Having played for PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United and Real Madrid, all three of whom are giants in their respective leagues, he never seems to think about a situation where we would be intimidated by too strong an opposition. After coming to Hoffenheim, I saw a new world.
The players here are young and haven't seen much of the world. Before he came, Chu Zhongtian was Hoffenheim's most experienced player in the championship, and he was only twenty-five years old.
What a young team...... However, there is also an advantage to such a young team, that is, it is full of energy and fighting spirit, so that a player who is nearing the end of his career, he feels a little more fighting spirit after staying here for a long time.
The players who responded enthusiastically to Chu Zhongtian were basically still those old Hoffenheim players, and the new players were just watching from the sidelines, watching this group of young people who were enthusiastic before the game started, each with their own ideas.
Sana was also in the crowd of onlookers, and he felt that Chu Zhongtian's approach could only be used in a small team like Hoffenheim. The people here are quite simple...... When he returned to Hoffenheim for the first time, he was surprised to find that a barbed wire fence next to the training ground was actually a cowshed - what was the training ground of a German top league team? However, he soon discovered that although Hoffenheim's training ground was a neighbor to the cowshed, all kinds of hardware facilities were first-class, and they were not bad at all as Marseille.
Kolarov also experienced this very deeply. When he first arrived in Hoffenheim and gave an interview to the media, he excitedly declared that the training facilities here were much better than those of Lazio...... The result was furious among Lazio fans, who called Kolarov an ungrateful villain. But they actually don't have a position to scold like this, because Lazio also has something to be sorry for Kolarov - the annual salary of 200,000 euros a season is still before tax, which is indeed too little...... All the new Hoffenheim players this season were quickly blown away by Hoffenheim's professionalism and everything was different from what they thought it would be. Many people thought that the facilities of this small team must not be very good, but when they came, they realized that the facilities here are all the top in the Bundesliga, even compared with those giant clubs, they are not inferior.
As the opening match of the 2009-2010 Bundesliga, defending champions Hoffenheim host Bayern Munich and will be broadcast live to more than 140 countries. In the official promotional video for the new season produced by the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich are also the two most photographed teams, and the Bundesliga committee also made a teaser video for this game. In the video, the two teams met each other last season have made a condensed compilation to let everyone understand the grievances between the two teams.
Chu Zhongtian was the best player in these two games, and he naturally became the protagonist in the video.
First of all, his long-range shot to draw with Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena, followed by his brace at home to Bayern Munich, coupled with the passionate outburst of the on-site commentary, it looked really good. This video has also been widely circulated on the Internet in China, and when the Bundesliga has not yet started, everyone can only rely on watching this teaser video to satisfy their hunger.
ββ¦β¦ Woo oo In Fan. Under the close interference of Beaumel, he still shot a world-class long-range shot! Hoffenheim equalised! In the eighty-fourth minute, they equalized! β
βgooooooalοΌ 2:1οΌ Five minutes after the equaliser, Hoffenheim took the lead again! The man who scored the goal was ...... Clear! It's Chu! Nice header! β
"Fan. Beaumel's foul didn't stop Chu, and he stumbled on his feet, but he didn't fall...... Demichelis also failed! He confronts Lucio and ...... Shot? He shot! Ball...... The ball is in! The ball is in!! 3:2οΌ In the 88th minute of the game, Hoffenheim took the lead for the third time!! β
At the end of the video, Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich played the spotlight in the two meetings, Hoffenheim is of course their captain Chu Zhongtian, and Bayern Munich is Ribery.
However, Franck Ribery is already destined to miss the opening game of the new season, and the latest news says that he is injured and has missed training sessions with Bayern Munich, and the game will certainly not be available. Bayern Munich's new head coach Louis van Gaal also confirmed this in an interview with reporters, saying: "Yes, Frank has to rest, he can't play in the first round of the league. β
A reporter asked him if the absence of Ribery would affect the team's performance against Hoffenheim.
Van Gaal showed his characteristic arrogance: "No. There is no impact, we are one and Bayern Munich are strong. Hoffenheim were champions last season and we respect them. But the absence of a Ribery doesn't make it impossible for us to beat Hoffenheim. β
He also spoke about why Bayern Munich didn't win the league title last season: "Bayern Munich didn't perform well last season. But I'm still happy that the team will qualify for the Champions League......"
The implication is that as long as Bayern Munich behaves normally, the league championship will not run. Although he didn't directly point the finger at Hoffenheim when he said this, as long as he was not a fool or a deaf person, he should know what it meant. Van Gaal, the always arrogant and stubborn manager, looks down on Hoffenheim.
Maybe it's because the media has been comparing Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich everywhere recently, which makes him feel bored, and I hope to make everyone stop a little bit in this way.
Rangnick also made his own response to Van Gaal's words: "We also hope that Bayern Munich's performance this season will be normal, Hoffenheim has never been afraid of competition. β
Hoffenheim's captain Chu Zhongtian said: "Football is not won by words, let's watch it when the game comes." β
On the evening of August 7, the 2009-2010 German Football League officially kicked off. There was a simple unveiling ceremony at the Rhine-Neckar Stadium.
The match filled the 30,000-seat Rhine-Neckar Stadium once again.
In fact, since the stadium was built, there has never been a time when it has not been full. Hoffenheim have won the hearts of many fans with their aggressive football and beautiful attacking play, so there are always so many people at their home stadium that everyone is like watching Hoffenheim play beautiful football.
In the stands of the Rhine-Neckar stadium there is a huge Hoffenheim logo moving, and on the other side is a flag, all blue and white. Almost the entire stadium became a sea of blue and white, and the Bayern Munich fans could only shrink into a corner.
Hoffenheim fans, who won the Bundesliga, are also more confident than last season, and they can also show the momentum of "defending champions" against Bayern fans.
Fritz. Abel was watching live TV at home when there was a knock on the door. He ran over to open the door and was surprised to find that it was Daniel.
Daniel saw Abel's expression of experience, and his face was a little embarrassed: "Uh...... Are you watching the ball? He heard the sound of a television coming from the living room.
"Ah, yes......"
The two men have seen each other a few times since the end of last season, and Daniel kept his promise and didn't continue to take pleasure in bullying him β he basically ignored Abel completely. Others bullied Abel, and he didn't care. However, Abel is not uncommon, Hoffenheim won the first Bundesliga trophy in the club's history, and Abel gained confidence and courage.
"Well, yes, that's ......"
Daniel stuttered a little, and Abel looked at the fat man who had shown a lack of confidence in front of him for the first time.
"My TV is broken...... I know you're going to watch the first league game, I want to say ...... yes, uh, can you let me go in and see it? I promise I won't make a noise to anyone. β
Daniel lowered his head after speaking, not daring to look at Abel. For him, begging Abel in such a low voice has never happened. But the situation was pressing, and he had to do it in order to see Bayern's first game of the new season. Besides, who made him unpopular on this street? His former companions, since he showed weakness to Abel, didn't pay much attention to him, and didn't treat him as the boss. Now that I think about it, the only person who might be able to help himself is Abel, the person he has bullied countless times.
To say that I like Daniel, that's impossible. It's good if he doesn't bully himself, and he still wants to like him? Abel definitely wouldn't be happy to have someone with him, especially someone like Daniel. But when you think about who made Daniel unable to go to the stadium and only watch the Bayern game in front of the TV? Isn't that exactly yourself?
So he stepped out of the way: "Please come in." β
"Ah...... Thank you. Daniel let out a sigh. Thank you, little ...... Uh, thank you Abel. β
He hurriedly got in, looked in the direction of the TV, and just saw the players from both sides playing.
He could also faintly hear the singing of the Hoffenheim fans, which he was familiar with, he had heard it at the Allianz Arena, and because of this song, he had a fight with someone, and as a result, he became a football hooligan recorded by the police, and was forbidden to go to any stadium to watch the game.
Sometimes he feels wronged, it's not himself who provokes the trouble, but those extreme Bayern Munich fans, and the fuse is the short Abel who sits next to him and watches the TV screen intently. But who is to blame? It's Hoffenheim!
If it weren't for Hoffenheim, his life would have been different. He's still the same Daniel who is the boss in the block. Adler, whether he is in a good mood or not, will take Abel to find fun. On every home matchday, he can also follow his buddies to the Allianz Arena to watch the game, and let off his mouth for 90 minutes.
Now, he can only watch the game with him in the home of the person he once despised the most.
You're fucked up in life......
(To be continued)