In 2001, at the Bruch Road Stadium, the final round of the Bundesliga was underway, with three whistles blowing after 90 minutes.

At the end of the final round of the league in Mainz, the players fell to their knees after the game, regretting that they had failed to win the league for another year.

And among these people is an ordinary German defender - Jurgen Klopp.

He played for Mainz for 10 years but did not qualify for the Bundesliga with the team, and this season is his last, and he is retiring to end his playing career and start his years as a coach.

And the team he will coach is his parent team, Mainz.

Strange to say, Klopp was unknown as a player, but after changing coaching, Klopp slowly showed his talent, and two years ago in 2004, Klopp led Mainz to the Bundesliga.

What's even more amazing is that Mainz has been relegated for two consecutive years, which is their third season in the Bundesliga.

Perhaps it was the confidence that successive relegations bring, Jurgen Klopp said in an interview before the game that Mainz was more qualified to stay in the Bundesliga than Cologne, and he made it clear that Cologne is a direct rival of Mainz.

"The bottom 10 teams in the Bundesliga are our rivals, so we have to be very cautious against our direct rivals, we can lose to Bayern, but we can't lose to Cologne, it's as simple as that."

When asked what he thought of Cologne as the winner of the German Cup last season, Klopp smiled: "The cup is not the same as the league, the German Cup is not very valuable, and many teams play the German Cup with the second team. ”

This remark caused a lot of controversy, but Klopp didn't care, Uncle Scum's big mouth has been since the time of Mainz.

This is also a person who can say whatever he wants.

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"Take care of Don's mouth." The Cologne manager yelled at Stevens, "It's not the World Cup, he can't say whatever he wants!" ”

Stevens has a black face, it's not that he doesn't want to care, but Tang Zhenglong has his own cooperative media, and he doesn't speak through the club at all, how can he care?

"Boss, Tang Zhenglong is working directly with "Kicker", what can I do? Censor their journalists? ”

"We are promoted horses, and I don't want to be used as a target."

The Germans also understand this truth, Cologne was a little high-profile when he was in the Bundesliga, but when he came to the Bundesliga, Cologne was the last, and in this case it was so high-profile, it was really looking for death.

"I don't care, you have to take care of your players, you look at what is written in the Express."

Stevens looked at it, "I think there's actually some truth to it, although it's a bit of a brag." ”

A day earlier, Tang Zhenglong gave an interview to Claudia, and when talking about his first opponent, Tang Zhenglong said that Cologne is aiming for the top eight in the league.

"Mainz thinks we're a rival, I think that's wrong, they're going to be Frankfurt and Duisburg, not Cologne, because we're the German Cup winners."

"But Jurgen said that the German Cup has a lot of moisture?"

Tang Zhenglong shrugged, "Then let him have the ability to show me." ”

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"This is a snake mentality, if you can't get it, you will sour others, for example, someone can't get the German B Golden Boot, and then sour the one who got the German B Golden Boot, and don't let the captain's armband out, what kind of person do you say!"

Claudia knocked on the table, "Don, you know, it's impossible to make it into a manuscript. ”

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"Anyway, that's what I mean, it's easy to talk about it, and if you have the ability, you can really win the German Cup and show me."

"Don, Cologne's recruitment for the new season is very weak, they are all internal promotions, but the competition in the Bundesliga is completely different from the Bundesliga."

"Cologne's squad is too thin in my opinion."

Generally, after the team is promoted, they will buy some first-class veterans, these people are late in their careers, experienced, but cheap, and it won't take long, but for small clubs, they are cheap and good.

For example, Chievo in Serie A relies on collecting Serie A old birds, and the effect is still good, and it can gain a firm foothold in the team.

"Now that the transfer window hasn't closed, will the team consider continuing to bring in reinforcements?"

Tang Zhenglong laughed, "There's no need, I think Cologne only needs to keep the German B Golden Boot, it will be enough." ”

"Don, can you stop talking about the Bundesliga Golden Boot anymore."

"No way!"

"Don, if you don't brag, you'll die?"

Tang Zhenglong nodded.

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"Well, what else do you want to say in the end?"

"I want to take on a challenge."

"What challenge?"

"I'm going to score a hat-trick in the first round of the Bundesliga."

duang……

Claudia wondered if Tang Zhenglong's head had been smashed, this was crazy.

"I won't write it."

"Alright, I'll look for Meyer."

"Don, aren't you going to cause trouble?"

*****

"What? Don is really crazy. Meyer was happy when he received Claudia's call, "Mainz is not weaker than Cologne, three-ball?" Could it be that Don is Klopp's son. ”

Burst.

"I won't write it into the manuscript, or you will write it."

"What are you kidding, we're serious media."

Claudia was upset when she heard this, "What do you mean?" ”

"I don't send it anyway."

"I don't send it either."

However, this is not difficult for Tang Zhenglong, who also knows Sherlock of the tabloid "Cologne Courier".

On a big stage like the World Cup, there is not much chance for this kind of tabloid, but in Cologne, the Courier still has a lot of readers.

"Three in the first battle? Don, you're not kidding, are you? ”

"Of course not, just write like this, Tang Zhenglong wants to give Cologne fans a gift, a hat for the first game."

After the "Cologne Courier" was sent out, the Mainz fans fried the pot, blacked each other before the game, and the mouth cannons were normal, but the clamoring for three goals must be scored is too arrogant.

What if you really got into three? So is Mainz still going to mix in the Bundesliga?

So the Mainz fans scolded, some said that Tang Zhenglong would be abolished, and some said that Mainz was going to beat Cologne back to the German Second Division.

Klopp immediately gave his own response, "If Tang Zhenglong can really score a hat trick, then he will go to Cologne to be a cleaner for a week and sweep the ground for Cologne for a week." ”

"If you can't do it, then please keep your mouth shut up and down Cologne."

Cologne fans also began to get excited, but they didn't expect that in the first Bundesliga, Tang Zhenglong would have so much firepower, and the fan association shouted slogans in support of Tang Zhenglong.

On August 6, the battle at the Rheinland Energy Stadium was about to break out.

Klopp was full of confidence when he set foot on the land of Cologne, it was nothing more than a boring provocation of a clown who wanted to be famous, who cares!