The poet Heine once said of our nation, "The German nation is not a reckless nation, and once he has embarked on any road, then he will persevere in carrying it to the end." ”

In the past ten years, German football has been in a state of decline, even in the last two major tournaments, they have reached the finals, but all the German fans who support this team will not think that German football has been revived, they will always say that this German team is on the road to revival.

Some people blame the decline of German football on technology, arguing that the skills of German players are clearly not keeping up with the times and lagging behind other European teams; Others put the reason down to tactics, believing that the Germans had clearly fallen behind in their old tactics.

But in my understanding, even at the height of German football, we are still inferior to our opponents in terms of technology and tactics, but why have we been able to beat our opponents again and again to win championships and glory?

I think Yang Cheng is right, football is never just a contest at the technical and tactical level, players are people, not robots without emotion, no emotions and no fluctuations, they are living people, they have their own thoughts, their own feelings, their own ideas, they are independent individuals.

How do you unite these individual individuals into a single force?

By technology? By tactics?

Far from enough!

History tells us that the most powerful fighting weapon in German football has never been technology or tactics, but on the basis of technology and tactics, relying on a relentless pursuit of victory, fighting until the last minute of the game will never give up the spiritual force, it is this force that condenses all our players into a fighting force, condenses into a whole, a powerful whole!

I've interviewed a lot of people over the years, and I've asked Summer. I asked Mateus, I asked Netzer, and I had the opportunity to ask Fritz? Walter, when they told me about German football. have said a very similar sentence one after another, that is, the power of the German players is gone!

I could feel the deep disappointment in their eyes, in their expressions, and even in their sighs, not because the world of football doesn't need this power. It's because we chose to give up this power when we needed it most!

I asked Klinsmann if the traditional spirit of the team was important, or was it the technical tactics that mattered? His answer to me was the spirit of tradition!

I also asked Loew whether the traditional spirit of the team is important, or is the technique and tactics important? His answer to me was technical and tactical!

I also asked Yang Cheng with the same question, is the traditional spirit of the team important, or is the technique and tactics important?

His answer to me was that both are equally important!

I wondered. Why was Yang Cheng's answer so unexpected?

After thinking about it for a long time, I went to read his book, and I think he believed a little. People are animals governed by feelings, thoughts, and emotions, so he believes that the most basic thing for the birth of any strong team is the soul of the team, and a team without a soul cannot become a strong team.

So, what exactly is the soul?

It's spirit! It's a team spirit that all the players in the team recognize!

This kind of team spirit does not have to be present when a player joins the team, it can be influenced by ears and eyes, and it can also be passed on by word and deed. But he must make all the players recognize it, accept it, and want to do everything in it to maintain it.

Therefore, after Yang Cheng took office, he said that he should do his best to cultivate the team's team spirit on the basis of ensuring the team's skills and tactics, so that all players can regain the traditional spirit of German football. Let German football learn to challenge and defeat their opponents with their most important and powerful weapon. …,

After Germany's defeat to Spain, Netzer called him and he was ecstatic and asked me, "Hey, Gran, have you watched the first game of the group stage of the European Championship?" Have you read it?

I was at the Lviv Stadium, I was standing in the middle of the crowd, I was silently in the crowd, watching the players on the pitch desperate for their lives, and I stopped clapping because I answered the phone, and I believe Netzer was there at the time, because we all heard the same applause from each other's phones.

When Barak came out of the bench and was the first to applaud, I knew it completely.

I understand why Yang Cheng insisted on keeping Barak despite public opinion; I also understand why Yang Cheng insisted on leading a team to visit Auschwitz when he caused such a big turmoil; I finally understood why Yang Cheng said that traditional spirit is as important as technique and tactics.

Because from this game, I believe that all fans should understand that technology is never the best, and tactics are always mutually reinforcing, but only the spirit in the bones is the key source to maintain the combat effectiveness of a strong team.

At the moment when Ballack's applause rang out, I saw the revival of the German spirit, and for the first time I really felt that we have a chance, we have hope, so that this European Championship belongs to us Germans!

Because, we have finally found our spirit!

So, I nodded my head without hesitation when Netzer's apparently out-of-control rage that this was the most combative game he had seen in recent years, and I told him that I would like to tell all the German fans through this column that you don't give up your faith and support for the team because of this defeat.

This will be our conquest of Europe and the conquest of world football!

And we will witness this great historical moment!

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This is a commentary from Bild's column after the match in Spain. Nack, but at this moment he was curled up in a circle, and was tightly grasped by a slender arm, and the owner of the arm was at this moment in the crowd of people, raising his arm holding the newspaper and screaming.

"Germany! Germany!! Germany!!! ”

"Caesar! Caesar!! Caesar!!! ”

The 9-year-old fan shouted loudly, he was carried by his father on the shoulder, but his expression looked very excited, and his voice was a little hoarse, but he still shouted with everyone at the scene.

The scene took place at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, where more than 500,000 German fans gathered. There are big and young, old and young, but they all come here for one purpose, and that is to cheer for the team they support and love.

From the very beginning of the game. They were shouting, and until now, the shouting has not stopped from this road, they applauded, cheered, cheered for the team in an orderly manner, and even many fans waved the national flag in their hands vigorously. It's as if you're watching the game at the Lviv Stadium right now.

I heard that the referee on the big screen finally put the whistle in his mouth and looked at the watch in his hand, which made hundreds of thousands of fans on the scene jump with joy, and they all shouted higher, more excited, and more fanatical.

When the crazy whistle sounded crisply, it was quickly drowned out by the crazy roar of the scene. No one can remain calm in such a crowded exhilaration, no one can remain sane in such a time of extreme euphoria.

Losing to Spain, they thought it was over. They once thought that even Yang Cheng couldn't save this team, so they were all disappointed, but they still came here to cheer for the team, and they chose to believe in Gran? Nack's appeal and expectation, and surprisingly, Yang Cheng did not disappoint them. …,

With a 2-0 win over Portugal, Germany's qualification from the group became clear again, and all the fans rekindled the flame of hope, but they were still a little worried. Because of the final game against France, they were worried that the team would collapse again at the last goal, just like in the past when they kept losing to Spain.

But Yang Cheng is Yang Cheng, whether it is from the technical and tactical level, or from the mental outlook of leading the team, he completely defeated the French team. From the very beginning, he completely turned the French team into a piece of fat on his own board, to be slaughtered.

4:0, a bloody score, also created the largest gap in this European Cup so far.

This made the German fans in front of the Brandenburg Gate ecstatic one by one, and everyone kept shouting in their mouths, long live! Banzai!! Banzai!!!

They could never have imagined that what they thought would be a hard-fought match turned out to be such a complete victory, a big victory, an almost iconic one-sided victory!

This victory not only gave the German team the right to qualify from the group, but also rekindled the tireless pursuit of victory and title among all German fans, because they have been waiting for a title for more than ten years, and they are almost crazy about waiting for it.

With the referee's whistle, the dust finally settled.

But I believe that at the Brandenburg Gate, at the Lviv Stadium, and all over the world, there are still countless fans who can't believe it, because the team they supported defeated France, and it was a near-unwinnable victory.

Klose and Thomas? Muller scored twice, they became the heroes of the team's victory, and they became the heroes of all the fans, and they deserved the praise from the fans, they were good...... At the post-match press conference at the Lviv Stadium, Yang Cheng asked reporters what the future goals of the German team would be after winning this game and qualifying from the group, and he looked indescribably confident.

"I was very clear from the beginning that we would qualify from the group and we had only one goal, and that was to win! So no matter how difficult and frustrating we had in the group, my players and I never changed our goals and plans. ”

"Coming out of the group now strengthens our confidence and hope in the fight for the title, we will play game by game, we will beat opponent after opponent and at the end of the day, we will be at the top of European football, I am very confident in that, I believe that my players too!"

This is the first time that Yang Cheng has shouted so nakedly that he wants to compete for the championship in the European Cup, because in the current situation, the German team should definitely shout that he wants to compete for the championship and continue to maintain the good momentum of the team.

If the team's momentum is so good, the players are getting better and better, and they are working harder, you are still blindly conservative and blindly tolerant. In the end, it will only hurt the morale of the team and the motivation of the players, so it is better to simply set the goal a little more ambitious.

This also confirms the sentence. When setting goals, if you don't magnify your ambitions a little, when will they do so?

"Mr. Yang Cheng, the German team performed very well in this game, establishing the lead from the start, and you think the reason for this almost one-sided situation. What is it? A reporter raised his hand and asked.

Yang Cheng smiled slightly, won the ball, and his mood also improved.

"I think it's an exaggeration to say that at least in the second half there was a lot of recovery for the French team, which caused us a lot of problems, and I think one of the important reasons for winning this game is that our players have a stronger desire to win and we are more physically fit in the game. Perform more hard-working. ”…,

When Yang Cheng said this, Blanco was obviously nodding his head from the hungry Blanco sitting next to him, at least from the game. Everyone in the German team is fighting, but the French team is not doing enough in this regard, and it can even be said that it is very poor.

The only one who was more desperate was Ribery, but Scarface couldn't lead the whole team alone.

"Mr. Yang Cheng, from the very beginning, many people have regarded Germany as the favourites to win the championship, so now you say that you want to compete for the title again, no one should have any objections, but if you meet Spain again in the final, do you have the confidence to break this nightmare? To know. In the three tournaments, the German team has met Spain three times, and all three times they have lost, and they have lost 1-0, which many people say is a curse. What do you think? ”

Yang Cheng nodded, "Spain is indeed the strongest national team in football today, and we have indeed lost to each other in the past three games, but I never think this is a curse, but because we are not as good as others, we are not good enough in many links, which leads to our loss." ”

"If we meet Spain again, I am confident that we will challenge this team, and I firmly believe that if we can meet Spain again, the team that will win the European Championship will definitely be our German team!"

Yang Chengcheng's heartfelt remarks also became the front page headlines of the larger media in Europe and the world the next day, and even covered up the limelight of Spain's 1-0 victory over Portugal again, because Yang Cheng's remarks were indeed a bit too big in the eyes of some people.

Of course, it's not that it's impossible.

According to the schedule, Spain won the group with three consecutive wins, and he was placed in the bottom half, but Germany were placed in the top half of the group as second in the group, and if the two teams want to meet again, it will only be in the final.

After the German team qualified from the group, the first opponent in the top 8 knockout round was the first team in Group A, that is, the Czech Republic, which was inferior to the German team in terms of overall strength, but it was not completely ineffective, so it should not be underestimated.

And with the hot battle of the European Championship in full swing, the matches of each group are gradually becoming clearer.

The other group in the top half of the table should also be Italy and England, with the winner facing the winner of Germany and the Czech Republic in the semi-finals.

Therefore, for the German team, playing the Czech Republic in the top 8 knockout round can be regarded as a relief for the team's tense nerves, at least they don't have to be like Italy and England, after finally qualifying from the group, they still have to have a hard fight.

However, their groups are obviously inferior to the group of death in which Germany is located, so the schedule is relatively fair for both sides, the only pity is Portugal and France, originally they were placed in other groups, they might have been able to qualify, but now they are placed in the group of death.

But it is precisely because of the group of death that the European Cup has entered from the group stage, especially the strong dialogues in Group B, which simply made fans all over the world addicted, especially the German team.

With a big win over France in the group stage, everyone is optimistic about the German team, believing that this team is becoming more and more champion-looking, more and more powerful, especially in defense, more and more stable.

With the excellent performance in the second game of the group, Hummels continued to play France in the third game, and the performance was still outstanding, allowing Benzema to even have only one chance to get off the pitch, but he didn't hit the right angle.

Ram, Kyle, Hummels and Jérôme? Boateng, the German team's back line can be said to be getting stronger and stronger, plus Bad Stuber came off the bench and performed well, Mertesacker's strength does not need to be doubted, there are Schweinsteiger and Sven in front? Bender is protected by Khedira, so the German team's defense is getting stronger and stronger.

This is also the most praised place for Yang Cheng by everyone, thinking that he can still organize such a solid defense line when he has not many cards in his hand, which is commendable, showing the level of a top coach, and no one will dare to say that Yang Cheng is not good at adjusting defense in the future.

What's even more rare is that in the case of a solid defense, the German team's offense has not fallen at all, and the open defensive counterattack tactics are becoming more and more skillful in the hands of Yang Cheng, and there are more and more changes, and the game against Portugal can only be said to be good, but when it comes to playing the French team, it is almost a sieve for the French team.

This also made everyone more and more optimistic about the German team, and the bookmaker's odds also climbed, and after qualifying from the group, they overtook Italy and England in one fell swoop and returned to second place, behind Spain.

In another speculation, everyone is also very optimistic that the German team will reach the final and meet Spain again.

However, Beckenbauer also issued a reminder, asking the German team to be careful of Italy, because since 1995, the German team has never beaten Italy, this team can be described as the German team's bitter master, have to guard!

When Yang Cheng was also interviewed, he kept calling on the team to be cautious, to play games one by one, to guard against arrogance and rashness in every game, and to do their best! (To be continued) RQ