i want to be king

Chapter 601

As early as last season's winter break, the German Football Association announced the suspension of the [-] German League Cup.

The reason is that because of the European Cup, the schedule of the League Cup has been affected.

But in fact, everyone knows that this is just a lame excuse.

The Bundesliga Cup adopts a knockout system. There are a total of six teams, including the champions of the Bundesliga Bundesliga, the cup champions and the top four teams of the Bundesliga.

In the final analysis, professional football is still mainly commercial, and games without commercial value are often not sustainable.

What's more, the participating teams have always regarded the League Cup as a warm-up event, and they don't care at all.

In this case, the suspension of the League Cup did not cause too much controversy.

On the contrary, at the beginning of this year, Bayern took the initiative to launch an initiative, hoping to resume the German Super Cup.

Like the Super Cups in other countries, the competition system is a single match between the league champion and the cup champion, which is undoubtedly more suspenseful and commercially valuable than the lengthy League Cup.

At least it can be seen from the fact that the Super Cups in other countries can continue to be held for so many years.

As a result, Bayern's initiative was supported by other teams in the Bundesliga, especially after Bayern won the Triple Crown, when Bayern played the Super Cup with Dortmund, it attracted the support of many sponsors.

Although Dortmund only ranked No.13 in the league last season, as one of the most brilliant teams in Bundesliga history, Dortmund still has a very good fan influence.

Bayern against Dortmund, such a Super Cup itself is very interesting, and sponsors are also flocking to it.

The German Football Association did not agree, but acquiesced to Bayern and Dortmund to organize it on their own.

The time was set at the end of July, and the venue was chosen to be Dortmund's home stadium, the Signal Iduna Park Stadium.

Although this event has not yet been officially named by the Football Association, everyone knows that this is actually the German Super Cup.

It is worth mentioning that after Dortmund's poor performance last season, they decided to change coaches and chose Mainz coach Klopp, who failed to lead the team to upgrade in the Bundesliga.

And this 40-year-old German marshal was once a candidate for Bayern's head coach and was favored by Hoeness.

But unfortunately, for the sake of safety, Bayern chose the old coach Heynckes, which made the young coach switch to Dortmund.

This will also be Klopp's first official game in charge of Dortmund.

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Before the team headed north to Borussia Dortmund, Bayern held a dressing room meeting at the training center on Sebenastrasse to make a crucial decision, which was to choose the captain.

After Kahn retired, the captain's vacancy came out, and the vice-captain Sagnol currently played less time, so in some warm-up matches, the captain's armband was worn on Lahm's arm.

In fact, there are many stars in the Bayern team who used to be the captains of their respective teams, such as Van Bommel, but in Bayern, Van Bommel's current position is still a rotation role, especially when Tymoshchuk joins and Modric shines in the European Cup, Van Bommel's situation will be even more embarrassing.

The Dutch have strength, but Schweinsteiger and Modric both acted more aggressively.

After changing his position, Xiaozhu is not only Bayern's dual-core midfielder, but also performed very well in the German national team.

Not to mention Modric, one of the best players in this European Cup.

In this case, it is difficult for Van Bommel to compete against them.

According to the usual practice, after the captain retires, the vice-captain is the most powerful contender, but Sagnol's current situation is not very good.

After the serious injury, Sagnol lost his main position, and even made a fuss about leaving the team. Now he is staying, but he still can't grab the position, after all, his age is there.

Su Dong was originally very competitive. Many Bayern players and management, including Kahn, believed that if he came out to be selected, there would basically be no suspense.

But before the election, Su Dong took the initiative to clarify in the locker room, saying that he would not stand for the election. He has no interest in this aspect, and he hopes to concentrate all his energy on training and competition, and does not want to be distracted by other affairs.

Some people are keen to be the captain and hold a certain amount of power, but Su Dong doesn't need it.

Firstly, he doesn't have this kind of personality, and secondly, he doesn't need this power, because his current privilege itself is above the whole team. Whoever is the captain, or even the head coach, has to treat him like an uncle?

It's better to be polite to each other. Who provoked Su Dong and made him unhappy? The captain and the head coach can do a long job?
Therefore, when Su Dong withdrew, he seemed grand.

The final result was that Lahm was unanimously elected as Bayern's new captain.

This is also very interesting. Lahm and Ribery are tied for the shortest players in the team. In the end, Lahm became the captain. He has to go ahead in everything and stand up for his teammates. It is quite funny to think about it.

However, in terms of serving his teammates, Ram still did a very good job.

The vice-captain selected three, Sagnol, Lucio and Schweinsteiger.

Although Sagnol lost his main position, he is the club's meritorious service after all, and it is understandable to retain his vice-captain position.

Lucio's vice-captain is a carrot hanging in front of him by Heynckes, so that the Brazilian central defender can continue to improve himself, and it is best to make himself more calm.

On the contrary, it is the piggy Schweinsteiger, who is regarded as the object of Bayern's praise.

The captain was elected, and the locker room also began to formulate some rules, which basically continued from the previous ones, and there was no problem.

But according to the usual practice, the new captain treats everyone in the team to a big meal, which is regarded as a meeting gift.

Subsequently, the club notified the selection of the locker room to the outside world, which was approved by Heynckes.

The media and fans are basically satisfied with this result, and more than [-]% of the fans agree with Lahm as the captain.

But what's interesting is that there are more fans who chose Su Dong as the captain than Ram, so that after the results came out, many fans still felt wronged for Su Dong, thinking why he wasn't the captain?

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Although he became the captain, due to participating in the European Cup final, Lahm returned to the team later, and the progress was not consistent with the team. Therefore, in the Super Cup against Dortmund, Sagnol was still allowed to start.

It is said to be the Super Bowl, but it is actually a more formal warm-up match.

I don't know if it was because of missing the captain, Sagnol was quite active at the beginning of this game.

In just 8 minutes, he instigated an offensive on the right. Robben picked a pass from the middle. Su Dong scored with a header from close range and broke through Dortmund's goal. Bayern opened the scoring for the first time, [-]-[-]!

Conceding the ball did not dampen the passion and desire of the Hornets players.

At home, Dortmund played very oppressively. The team adopted the tactics of pressing and oppressing the whole court, just like a crazy boxer, waving his fists constantly.

Bumblebee's chaotic punch, so that Bayern had to temporarily avoid the edge.

Until the No.207 minute, it was Sagnol's attack from the right again. After Robben dribbled the ball in, he sent a straight pass with his left foot. After Su Dong succeeded in countering offside, he dribbled the ball past the attacking goalkeeper Weidenfeller and easily pushed the empty goal, [-]-[-]!

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Ending the first half with a [-]-[-] score, Heynckes made a big substitution at halftime.

After all, this is not an official game, and there are no strict substitution restrictions, so Heynckes replaced seven main players in one go during the intermission. Obviously, he still hopes to use Dortmund to inspect the players.

With Su Dong and other main players leaving the field, Dortmund's tactical play gradually revealed its power. At the beginning of the second half, they scored two goals in a row and successfully equalized the score.

Su Dong was also dumbfounded watching from the sidelines.

After Hummels came off the bench, he obviously couldn't adapt to Dortmund's whirlwind rhythm.

Fortunately, in the No.703 minute, Autor launched a counterattack after stealing the ball and assisted Olic to score a goal.

In the end, Bayern narrowly beat Dortmund [-]-[-].

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After playing the Super Cup from Dortmund, Bayern returned to Munich for a short rest, and Bayern played a warm-up match with Cologne.

In the 18th minute of the opening game, Su Dong shot through Cologne's goal with a long shot, opening the scoring for Bayern.

After that, Bayern firmly controlled the game and did not leave Cologne with an opportunity to take advantage of.

Before the end of the first half, it was Sagnol from the right who went in from the back and played a two-on-one match with Robben, sending the ball in front of the goal.

After changing sides to fight again in the second half, Heynckes replaced all the starting players again, and replaced eleven players to play in the second half.

Bayern got off to a chaotic start in the second half, but improved quickly.

Unexpectedly, a sudden rainstorm disrupted the progress of the game and also prevented the performance of Bayern's players in the second half.

Especially in the last ten minutes, it ended hastily.

In the end, Bayern defeated Cologne with [-]-[-] in the first half.

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The warm-up match and the Super Cup have won consecutive victories, and Bayern Munich's strong strength has allowed them to be unanimously recognized by the media and fans.

Everyone believes that Bayern is the number one favorite for the Bundesliga title this season.

Heynckes also expressed confidence that he hopes to lead Bayern to win three consecutive championships.

In the history of the Bundesliga, only two teams have won three consecutive championships, namely Bayern and Monchengladbach.

Bayern has won three consecutive championships three times, namely Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller in the 70s, and in the 80s, as well as the century handover of Hitzfeld's coaching, all of which are the pinnacle dynasty in Bayern's history.

And after Beckenbauer led Bayern to win the first three consecutive Bundesliga championships in history, Borussia Mönchengladbach also quickly won a three-peat championship. At that time, Borussia Mönchengladbach's soul leader was the top scorer Heynckes.

Yes, it is the current Bayern coach Hai Laotou.

Therefore, the old man still has a complex about it.

But Bayern's challenge is not small. The first game of the new season is the North-South National Derby against Hamburg.

(End of this chapter)