After the team's return to Germany from Tigne, everyone could feel the pressure of the Euros approaching.

The players themselves are well aware that the two warm-up games before the European Championship are the last chance to decide whether some fringe internationals can be included in the 23-man squad for the European Championship, and if they can prove themselves with excellent performances, it may have a chance to break Yang Cheng's position in their hearts.

Playing Switzerland, the German team suffered a defeat, 0:1 to Heathfeld's Switzerland, which was the first time the German team lost to Switzerland in 56 years, although it was only a warm-up game, but this was enough to make countless people doubt Yang Cheng's national team, because this team was skeptical from the beginning.

After the defeat to Switzerland, Der Spiegel published a number of issues on its own front page.

"Why do you want to go to Tigne for a high-intensity physical reserve training just after the end of the season?"

"Why do you want to keep the veterans like Ballack, Kyle and Deisler in the national team?"

"Why is it that Bayern Munich had so many internationals, but Borussia Dortmund had so few internationals, the two teams that had the best performances in the Bundesliga last season? Is there Yang Cheng's personal likes and dislikes at work? ”

The three questions point to the root of the contradiction, that is, Yang Cheng is the chick of the national team, strictly speaking, this is his first time as a head coach, preparing for a major tournament system, before he led the team to play in the South Africa World Cup, but the pre-game preparation was done by Loew, Yang Cheng took over halfway, as for the qualifiers after that, it is actually equivalent to the league.

Sakihana Masaya, a Japanese, was interviewed by a number of newspapers during Yang Cheng's trip to Tigne, and he talked about the difference between the preparation of the German national team and the previous one, for example, Yang Cheng took an almost military training style to lead the team to train intensively, which is very different from the free and equal happy football that Loew advocates.

But most importantly. The Japanese used a lot of jargon to explain one thing, which was that it was unnecessary to lead the team to Tigne for a high-intensity physical reserve training in the run-up to the tournament. That's the kind of preparation that only happens at the beginning of the league, and the rest of the teams are more about recovering and adjusting.

"Trust me, it's a team that can only play three games!" Sakika Masayi confidently predicted in an interview with Der Spiegel.

The so-called three games are actually predictions that Yang Cheng's German national team will be eliminated directly from the group.

The defeat to Switzerland for the first time in 56 years was a bit unexpected, but Heathfield's Switzerland was no fuel-efficient lamp. They beat Spain 1-0 in their opening game at the World Cup in South Africa, and now Germany's loss to this team in the warm-up game due to poor form is actually nothing new.

But then, the German team drew 1:1 with Israel in the second warm-up match in Leipzig, which immediately attracted a lot of attention, and Der Spiegel even published the cover headline. A humiliating draw to vent their frustration with this match.

"Against Israel, who are ranked outside the top 60 in the world, the German team has not been able to achieve the slightest overwhelming advantage from start to finish. It's a very worrying situation because the game is about to start, this time we have Israel in the warm-up game, but in the group stage we have Spain, Portugal and France, and it will be very bad. ”

"Our reporter interviewed Klinsmann and Loew's national team fitness training experts, who were previously expelled from the national team by Yang Cheng because of different opinions on preparation, and he told our reporter that the German team wants to recover after such a high-intensity physical reserve training. It will take at least 2-3 weeks. ”…,

"Obviously, Yang Cheng hopes that the team can cope with the situation after qualifying from the group with more physical fitness, but he forgot that if the group can't qualify, then what is the use of being physically energetic?"

"We all admit it. In the field of clubs, Yang Cheng is an absolute expert, and Caesar's prestige cannot be questioned by anyone, but in the field of the national team, he has never been able to prove himself, even in the World Cup in South Africa, many people praise him for his success in fighting fires, but all insiders know very well that Yang Cheng's success is actually a blessing for Loew. ”

"According to a national team who did not want to be named, the locker room has been very dissatisfied with Yang Cheng's preparation, thinking that this arrogant Chinese is imposing his will on the team, and he seems to be an arrogant tyrant!"

"We also got the news through an internal senior executive of the national team, and the Football Association also had a lot of doubts about Yang Cheng's coaching, but because of his fame, Nilsbach's ascension to the presidency is closely related to him, so in any case, he will definitely lead the team to play this European Cup, and after the European Cup, our Caesar will be at home!"

In addition to this series of reports, Der Spiegel also published a number of similar reports, which were obviously articles about the poor performance of Yang Cheng and the national team in the two warm-up games, which caused quite a reaction in Germany, because all the fans had high hopes for the national team this year.

Who is Yang Cheng?

In the past 17 years, he is definitely synonymous with victory, he has not lost, but he will never admit defeat, even if he loses, he will definitely be able to lose admirably, lose with dignity, and his team results have always been very stable, he can always think of ways to help the team, improve the team's combat effectiveness.

From the moment he became the head coach of the German national team, he became the supreme one in the hearts of German fans, and even the previous survey conducted by Bild showed that in Germany, Yang Cheng's influence was higher than that of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ranking first, which shows the appeal of the national team coach in Germany.

Therefore, when the article doubting Yang Cheng and his national team came out, it immediately caused a huge repercussion in Germany, and the vast majority of fans supported Yang Cheng and criticized this irresponsible and shadow-chasing report.

Bild, for example, reacted in the newspaper the next day, "The so-called people involved, the so-called insiders. Who are the so-called unnamed internationals, as well as the internal executives, and the families of the players? We don't know! ”

"Yang Cheng is an experienced head coach. But just because he is not German, he is unwilling to join the German nationality, so he has suffered some suspicion, some unnecessary malicious attacks, as for Sakihua Masaya, this Japanese was expelled from the national team by Yang Cheng, how much credibility does his words have. Go without saying! ”

The Kicker magazine was also quick to react, commenting that Yang Cheng's team was actually not as bad as the outside world feared, and it was difficult to say whether the physical reserves were good or not, because Rehhagel's Greece and Guus Hiddink's Russia all relied on abundant physical fitness and rigorous tactics to shine in the European Cup.

As the world's No. 1 coach, Yang Cheng considers the angle and direction of the problem. It must be different from us and the fans, otherwise, he would not be Yang Cheng. So there is no need to speculate at this stage about how effective his team is, we just need to calm down and wait and see and support this team, and that's enough. ”

But this matter has obviously caused a huge repercussion in Germany, so the president of the German Football Association also quickly held a press conference, and Nielsbach personally came forward to clarify, guaranteeing that no matter what the team's record is in this European Cup, Yang Cheng will stay until 2014. …,

'He's the best manager in football today and there's no need to doubt his quality. I believe he has his own ideas, and all we can do is support his ideas instead of doubting them! ”

Bierhoff, the leader of the national team, also stood up for the first time and was interviewed by Sports Bild, "The head coach has set strict rules for the team, which is Yang Cheng's personal characteristic. You can see it in all the teams he has coached, so he has set a whole bunch of different rules for this German team. ”

"Some of these rules are very different from before, for example, the national team used to allow drinking, but in moderation, but now Yang Cheng completely prohibited, he asked the players to strictly follow the coaching staff's diet to eat, he specially explained to the players, this is to ensure that the players' physical functions can be better adjusted, diet is a very important part."

"In the past, Loew allowed the wives to enter and leave the players' hotel freely, but Yang Cheng explicitly forbade it this time, all the players' families are not allowed to enter and leave the national team hotel at will, and the international players are not allowed to go out overnight, but he also gave a grace limit, that is, the family can enter the hotel to visit the day after the game."

"There are also some rules, such as no smoking, no Weibo on mobile phones, no divulging team secrets, and so on."

When he said this, Bierhoff laughed, "Since Sakika Masami bombarded Yang Cheng in an interview with Der Spiegel, I believe countless fans will wonder, why no one has stood up to speak for Yang Cheng? Is he really that unpopular? Or are all the internationals eager for him to leave? ”

"As the leader of the national team, I can guarantee that there is absolutely no such thing, and the reason why they refuse to be interviewed and express their opinions is because Yang Cheng has issued a gag order to the team, prohibiting anyone from giving interviews in private, and even the captains Ballack, Lahm and Schweinsteiger cannot talk about the internal affairs of the team in public."

"I don't know what the outside media thinks of this kind of thing, but in my opinion, it is just a proof of the harmony and unity of the atmosphere within the team, because all the players listen to their manager, which is undoubtedly the biggest counterattack to Masaya Sakihana, which is the most united and powerful national team I have seen in all these years."

Bierhoff's words answered a lot of previous questions, for example, many fans were surprised that no player defended Yang Cheng, and even the media used this to attack Yang Cheng, thinking that he had lost the hearts of the people, but as soon as Bierhoff said this, things took a turn for the worse, it turned out that Yang Cheng took the initiative to prohibit the player from being interviewed, and the situation was very different.

As for the rules, that's a matter of opinion.

There was a very interesting problem in the Bundesliga before, Bayern central defender Breno, who is known as the god of the Bundesliga, expressed his dissatisfaction with some of the club's practices on his Weibo, and took over the failure of Bayern's long-brewing online branding, and Breno also accepted the club's punishment, and caused dissatisfaction among fans.

During the Loew period, some international players announced on the Internet in advance that they had left the team due to injury, and the coaching staff had not even made a decision on this at that time, which caused the team to deal with it very passively.

But in the team that Yang Cheng coached in the past. Obviously, none of these problems have arisen.

Yang Cheng's Weibo fans are the number one in the world, and he also has a lot of player fans, and they often interact with each other on the Internet, and even ridicule and tease each other. But they all have a clear distinction between what to say and what not to say, what can be done and what cannot be done, and no one will cross that bottom line. …,

And the reason why it can achieve such good results is simple. They know the rules!

Some people say that banning the players from using Weibo and the Internet is restricting their freedom and distrusting them. Nack reprinted Yang Cheng's words from the past in his column and fought back.

"Trust is a mutual feeling, not that I let you go online. If you let you do whatever you want, it means that I trust you, maybe the opposite. That's because I've been completely disappointed in you, so I'll let you go free. ”

"I can understand the current players, they are a new generation, they have grown up with the Internet, they are used to communicating through the Internet, they take pictures and upload them to the Internet, they tell everyone what they think through Weibo and other things, and I understand this very well and agree with it, because I do it myself a lot."

"But isn't that how you can be unscrupulous? Can there be no rules? ”

"I've always felt like that. The so-called freedom is premised on the rules, and you must first abide by the rules before you are eligible to enjoy freedom, because the rules can let you know what is called moderation, so. Freedom under the rules is worth advocating and affirming, but freedom without rules often represents chaos and disorder. ”

Also in this column, Glen? Nacker is a very certain guess that the three veterans of Ballack, Deisler and Kyle will definitely be in the squad, and they will play a vital role in this team.

"Yang Cheng knows the preciousness of veteran players better than anyone else, so he has always trusted Ballack, Deisler and Kyle very much, because he knows very well that only when these three veterans are in charge, he can really rest assured about this team."

Also, Gran? Nack said he has accepted UEFA's offer to conduct an interview with Yang Cheng in Leipzig before the team travels to Poland, and he hopes fans will post some questions of interest to him on Weibo and personal websites, and if appropriate, he will ask Yang Cheng in person and publish the answers in the newspaper.

This is a UEFA event, to be before the European Cup, the managers of 16 teams are interviewed in a series of interviews, Yang Cheng is one of the number one superstars, of course, is indispensable, and this interview will also be filmed for the promotion and publicity of the next European Cup.

As if in response to Gran? Nack's speculation, Yang Cheng soon announced the 23-man squad on the official website of the German Football Association, and the three veterans of Balak, Deisler and Kyle are really on the list.

The goalkeepers are Neuer, Adler, Wiese, among the three goalkeepers, Neuer is the absolute main force, Bayern goalkeeper whether in the national team or in the club, the performance is undoubted, worthy of affirmation, is the number one goalkeeper of the German national team.

There was some turmoil in the back eight, Lahm, Jérôme? Boateng, Mertesacker, Bad Stuber, Kyle, Hummels, none of the six players were selected to make a fuss, but Borussia Dortmund's left-back Schmelzer was also selected, and Schalke 04's defender Hevedes was also selected.

On the contrary, the versatile Teresch and right-back Baker, who were frequently called into the team by Yang Cheng before, were not selected for the final list of the national team this time, which also disappointed many fans who supported these two players.

In midfield, Ballack, Schweinsteiger, Mesut Ozil, Khedira, Toney? Cross, Gotze, Deisler, and Sven? Bender has been selected for this year's national team midfield, but Kaiserslautern's main midfielder Lars? Bender, Reuss, Schurrle and other youngsters failed to make the 23-man squad at the last moment, which is also a very regrettable thing.

And on the front line, Klose, Gomez, Thomas? Muller and Podolski, four were selected.

After the list was announced, Lars? Speaking to a reporter from Bild, Bender regretted his omission, but he also said he was confident that he would be selected for the national team again in the future.

"Mr. Yang Cheng told me that this time I was not selected because of my lack of ability, but because he could only bring 23 people, which he regretted very much, but he did not want me to be discouraged because he was very sure of my future in the team, and he said that as long as I continue to perform and improve as before, I will definitely be able to enter the national team list again."

Reus also spoke to reporters and regretted that he was not selected for the European Championships, "I hope all my team-mates can work harder because they are lucky and they really deserve to stay in the team, I will work harder to improve myself, and I hope to be in the squad again after the European Championships." ”

Schurrle said that although he was not able to enter the squad this time, this period of intensive training has helped and stimulated him a lot, "Mr. Yang Cheng said that he is not only to help us improve our performance on the court, but also to help us grow and learn how to live. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )