On 3 August 2007, Hoffenheim celebrated the first official race of the new season. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, this is not a Bundesliga game. The German Cup, which opened early, took the lead in the first shot of the 2007~2008 season.

However, it is almost the warm-up of the Bundesliga, because Hoffenheim's opponent is Augsburg, which is also from the Bundesliga.

Augsburg can now be said to be a strong team in the Bundesliga, they finished seventh last season and beat Munich 1860 by one head.

According to the rules of the German Cup, all professional teams, regardless of the Bundesliga and the German Second Division, are required to participate in the first round of matches. However, the draw was divided into two groups!

The 18 Bundesliga teams and 14 Bundesliga teams are numbered in the first group, while the 24 amateur teams, the four Bundesliga promoted teams and the four Bundesliga relegated teams are numbered in the second group.

Hoffenheim are promoted from the Bundesliga and are in the second group with the amateur teams, so their opponents are either Bundesliga or Bundesliga.

For the opponent is Augsburg, not a strong team in the Bundesliga, Rangnick feels very lucky!

Because in July, Hoffenheim played three warm-up matches, against Schalke in the Bundesliga, Carl Zeiss Jena in the Bundesliga, and a team in the Norwegian Super League.

Although the warm-up games were mainly to get the players who hadn't played in a few months back to the game, Hoffenheim, who had a big change in the main lineup, did not perform well in the warm-up games.

Only one of the three games was won.

The defeat to Schalke was expected, but the defeat to Jena, a weak team in the Bundesliga, who were almost relegated last season, did not stop being questioned in the media!

You must know that Hoffenheim, who frequently makes moves in the transfer market and is willing to spend millions or millions of euros on transfer fees, can almost be said to be a wonderful flower among the Bundesliga teams.

The dark clouds of the financial crisis are overwhelming, and everyone else is struggling into their belts to live, you are a small German B promotion horse, and you are so big-hearted?

"Five million euros to the Gunners and Tottenham, Professor Arsene Wenger's promising Nigerian star Chinedu Obasi has been brought back to Hoffenheim by Rangnick."

This news shocked the whole of Europe!

Before that, who knew who Hoffenheim was?

After that, everyone knew that a village team in Germany actually snatched Wenger's favored player!

However, the news of Obasi has not yet cooled down, and Sinsheim Sport has detonated the summer transfer market in the Bundesliga.

"Seven million transfer fees! Brazilian boy Carlos Eduardo joins the new German giants Hoffenheim! ”

The new giants are the boast of the Sinsheim Sports Newspaper, but seeing this big news like putting satellites, people viciously put a label on Hoffenheim as a "local tyrant" in their hearts!

This label is, of course, derogatory, and now seeing that Hoffenheim can't even play in the warm-up game, the envious and jealous Bundesliga media have fallen into the ground.

"Hoffenheim's 10 million investment is only a joke."

"Hoffenheim be careful if you step too big and fall into!"

'Rangnick is too whimsical and maybe he's better suited to coach Chelsea.'

Hoffenheim didn't respond too much to this, and with Rangnick's character, he was more willing to respond with victory than just talking.

Only the Sinsheim sports newspaper said stupidly: "The current Hoffenheim squad is not neat, and the failure theory is too early!" When our new signings arrive, Hoffenheim will definitely show you how good we are! ”

Eduardo, Obasi and even Demba Ba, who has three million euros, will not be able to come to Germany until the end of August for a medical check-up due to club competitions or the competition of their respective national youth teams.

In other words, although Hoffenheim has spent more than 18 million in the summer window, more than 10 million of them are temporarily useless.

Despite the lack of reinforcements and the lack of personnel, the game still has to be played. Hoffenheim were ready early and they were at home to their opponents in the first round of the German Cup.

Coming from Bavaria, the Augsburg players were accustomed to the luxury of the Bundesliga team's home stadium, and pouted disdainfully when they saw this "small stadium" with a capacity of only a few thousand.

"I have the money to spend tens of millions of euros to buy players, and I am not willing to repair this stadium!" Benjamin Kern shook his beard and opened the rusty wardrobe of the visitors' dressing room, buttoned it up heavily and said dissatisfiedly.

Benschneider, a tall two-metre-tall but Germanic centre-back with eyebrows, smiled and said, "I heard they've built a new football stadium in the city. ”

"New soccer stadium?" Helinka leaned over, and he said with some envy, "There is a big boss, and the Hoffenheim people really have some money. ”

"I don't know when it will be completed, but it is said to have been built to the standards of the Bundesliga." Ben Schneider knew a lot, he spread his hands and said with a smile, "Everyone is going to move, how can I fix the visiting team's locker room for you?" ”

"Humph!" Kern exhaled through his nostrils unconvinced, and said, "A promoted horse, who has not stood firm in the German Second Division, is so crazy!" ”

Helinka smiled ill-intentionedly and said: "I'm afraid I didn't play well this season, I was relegated, and the transfer fee of more than 20 million yuan was almost lost." Go back and find out that this Bundesliga-level stadium is going to be used to play in the regional league! ”

Herlinka's words tickled Kern's itch, and they looked at each other and laughed.

It's as if you've seen Hoffenheim's predicament!

What is happening in the away team's dressing room is unknown to the more than 2,000 Huocun fans and Hoffenheim players who are arriving one after another.

Rangnick was in the home team's dressing room, talking about the starting line-up and tactical arrangements for this game.

"Today we used the second lineup, 4231." Rangnick attaches small magnets to the magnetic tactical board.

"It's Ibisevic who plays as a lone striker." Everyone's eyes focused on the young man with a shy smile sitting in the middle of the room.

Vedad Ibisevic, a 22-year-old Bosnian who spent €1 million this summer to bring him back from Aachen, also a veteran Bundesliga powerhouse.

In the first three warm-up games, Ibisevic was still a substitute in two games, but he didn't expect him to start for Hoffenheim in the official game so soon!

Beta also looked at his good friend with some mixed feelings, but Marić was very frank, and he smiled at Beta, but he meant to comfort Beta.

"Kopado is the shadow striker, and Kohler and Paldjic are the two strikers."

Copado himself is in the position of a substitute striker, with a height of 1.71 meters, and he used to suffer a little as a striker.

After Rangnick read it, he looked at Beta, his eyes fluctuated a little, and said, "Beta, you and Nelson play at central defense." ”

In the first game of the new season, is Beta going back from midfield to centre-back?