big mouth ball king

Chapter 91 Royal Blue

In the 97-98 season, Kaiserslautern won the Bundesliga championship in the second season as the Bundesliga champion, becoming the first team in the world to win the top league championship in the next season.

Since then, the Kaiserslautern myth and its creator, Otto Rehagel, have become world-class myths. Later, as long as any civilian team counterattacks, everyone will associate it with Kaiserslautern.

"Kicker" comprehensively reported Cologne's dark horse trip in the German Cup this season. The analysis is mainly due to three reasons.

The ability of the head coach, Stevens is a capable head coach.

Podolski is ahead of the Bundesliga level and he is simply the best player in Germany.

The other is Tang Zhenglong.

"Kicker" defines Tang Zhenglong as a magical player, an atypical striker, a striker who can always score goals but is incomprehensible.

However, "Kicker" also emphasized that in general, Tang Zhenglong is still a player at the level of the German Second Division. After the team is promoted next season, Tang Zhenglong is likely to be dissatisfied. In the face of stronger opponents, good luck will often disappear.

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Schalke 04.

The Bundesliga strong team is known as the cradle of German youth training. The youth training of this team is very good. In addition, their performance in the Bundesliga in recent years is also very good, especially in 2001. They are only 20 seconds away from the championship.

Here's the thing.

In the 2000-2001 season, Schalke performed well throughout the season, becoming the team with the most goals and the fewest goals conceded in the Bundesliga.

In the last round, Schalke also defeated their opponents. At the same time, Bayern Munich played against Hamburg. Hamburg still led 1-0 until stoppage time.

But in the 94th minute, the referee gave Bayern a free kick in the penalty area. Anderson's goal tied the score. Bayern smashed Schalke 63's dream of winning the championship with 04 points.

Every time Schalke fans think of 2001, they feel very uncomfortable. That is the closest they came to the Bundesliga title.

The worst thing is that this scene has been ridiculed by Dortmund, the arch-rival in the same city.

Want to win the Bundesliga title?Go dreaming, this is Dortmund's merciless mockery of Schalke.

The biggest dream of the fans is that the team can enter the German Cup final this season, so that they can face Bayern Munich.

At least most people think that it should be no problem for Bayern to beat St. Pauli in the other half and reach the German Cup final.

Only by stepping on Bayern Munich in the final of the DFB-Pokal will Schalke fans feel better.

Head coach Rangnick has reduced the intensity of training in the last week, allowing the team to face the German Cup with a relaxed attitude. He believes that the reason why Cologne can become a dark horse is mainly because barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes.

In a word, it is a mentality problem, so he has to adjust his team's game mentality.

Rangnick is a very low-key head coach, with a pair of glasses, he looks like a college teacher.

And Schalke's manager, Aschauer, is a veritable big mouth. Every time Schalke plays, Aschauer always wears sunglasses and watches the game from the bench with a cigar in his mouth, just like the boss of the team.

And as long as someone dares to say bad things about Schalke, he will immediately fight back, especially Dortmund, which is basically his biggest enemy.

While the team was training, Asauer walked over slowly, and Rangnick said hello.

Ashor took out a cigar and put it in his mouth, but didn't light it, because Rangnick didn't smoke, and he hated smokers.

"Ralph, you should know what the team needs most now?"

"I know, Champion."

Aschauer nodded, "But it's not enough. We have two sworn enemies in Germany, one is Dortmund and the other is Bayern Munich."

"We have the chance to play Bayern in the DFB-Pokal final, are you confident of beating them?"

Rangnick was taken aback, what a joke, the semi-finals are not over yet, how do you know that we will definitely advance, this mentality is the reason why Dortmund lost to Cologne, arrogance! !

"Mr. Manager, I think we should focus on the match against Cologne first. The final is on April 4."

Ashor smiled, "Academics like you are the most troublesome."

Rangnick, like Mourinho, is an academic coach. He is not the kind of player who was all-powerful when he was young, and then transformed into a coach after retiring.

"What is Cologne? I have watched their previous games, and it was all luck. The game against Leverkusen was a controversial penalty."

"In the semi-finals, strength is more important." Ashaoer stretched out his fist.

Rangnick doesn't like this attitude very much. No matter what level the opponent is, respect comes first, but the arrogant Asauer obviously doesn't know this, and what's worse is that Asauer doesn't even respect the head coach.

As we all know, in the European football circle, the rights of the manager and the head coach are strictly separated. A notable feature is that the manager does not sit on the bench.

But Schalke is an exception. Aschau sits generously in the most honored position on the bench every game, which makes Rangnick very embarrassing.

"Mr. Manager, I think arrogance is a team's worst enemy."

Ashor simply lit the cigar and took a deep breath, "It's cool."

"Ralph, you don't smoke or drink like this, what fun is there in life." After finishing speaking, Ashor laughed.

Asauer went straight to the players and began his impassioned speech.

"Guys, I have prepared a bonus of 500 million euros, do you want to take it?"

"of course."

"Well, just beat Bayern for me in the final, then the money will be yours. Find a girl and go to the island for a good vacation."

The players were all happy.

"But we haven't made it to the final yet." The one who said this was the slightly honest Asamoah, an immigrant from Ghana who later became a German citizen.

Ashao laughed, "Gerald, let me tell you, a successful person must be arrogant, otherwise you don't deserve to enjoy everything in this world."

Rangnick was so angry, this idiot, if football is as simple as shouting slogans, then a lunatic is the most suitable head coach.

In the end, Asauer felt that Cologne should be mentioned, so he said with a smile: "Cologne, let's beat them 3-0, don't make them too embarrassing."

"Hahaha." The players laughed again.

After Asauer finished speaking, he left, and Rangnick followed quickly. He said, "Mr. Manager, you can say anything within the team, but please don't say that in front of the media. We will be very passive."

Ashor smiled and patted Rangnick, "I still say the same thing, learn to smoke and drink, life will be much more fun, you just live too rigidly."

(End of this chapter)