Godfather of national football

Chapter 332 The Black History of the Past
The next day, Klopp brought Lee over to the team's home stadium, the Westfa`lun Stadium, which is a terrifying home stadium that makes the whole of Europe terrified.

But Li Guo was a little unhappy, "Jurgen, you are planning to fool me, this is for tourists to visit, I want to see the real thing."

Klopp chuckled, "Don't worry, I promise I won't lie to you, you'll know after you visit."

After finishing speaking, Klopp introduced a beautiful woman to Li Guo, "Anna, our club is in charge of the reception work, Li Guo, you follow her and come to the training ground to find me in the afternoon, I guarantee that your trip will be worthwhile."

After Klopp left, the beautiful Anna took Li Guo to visit. First of all, tourists would like to see it. The team's honor corridor, Champions League, Bundesliga, and German Cup trophies tell the club's past glory.

Then Anna brought Li Guo to the meeting room of the Dortmund club. It is said that Lars Ricken, the youth training director of the team, will come later, and then Anna left. Li Guo thought she was going to pour coffee. Unexpectedly, when she came back, she was holding a stack of manuals with yellow and black covers in her hand.

"Here, Mr. Li."

Li Guo took it and put it in his hand. He thought that this chick should pour coffee for herself next time, but after waiting for a long time, Anna never came back. Bored, Li Guo opened the manual, unexpectedly, the first page shocked Li Guo.

"1: Expensive success: The club achieved a major success in 1997 and reached the Champions League in 1997, but this took the club's operations out of reality, lost all insight and vision, and carried a debt of up to 1 million euros.

2: A big club with rich heritage is in trouble.

3: The management has injected fresh blood. Watzke, Tresch and Dr. Raubal have served as the club director and president respectively.

4: March 2005, 3: Borussia Dortmund emerges from bankruptcy at the last minute. "

There is a saying in China that family ugliness should not be publicized, but Dortmund actually published the darkest period in the club's history on the front page of the club's brochure, which immediately attracted Li Guo.

Li Guo was in the Bundesliga at that time, and he knew that Dortmund did not go bankrupt because of a loan of 200 million euros from Bayern Munich.

"I don't know if this paragraph has been written in?" Li Guo thought to himself.

So he flipped through the manual quickly, and Li Guo found that this paragraph was also written in the manual, and expressed his gratitude to Bayern. You must know that the two teams are sworn enemies.

Then I mentioned the history of the team's resurgence, which of course is due to the team's youth training.

Just when Li Guo was about to take a good look at it, Lars Ricken, the team's youth training director, came.

"Hello, Li Guo, Jurgen asked me to come to you."

Li Guo stood up and stretched out his hand, holding it in the opponent's hand. Rikken is a hero to Dortmund. It was his lob shot in the 1997 Champions League final that helped the team defeat Juventus and win the club's first Champions League title in history.

"Okay, then I'll hand myself over to you."

The two were walking in the corridor, and Li Guo raised his own question, "Why are the youth training of the two teams in the Ruhr area so successful? Is it because there are more immigrants here?"

Li Guo refers to Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund in the Ruhr area. These two teams can be said to be the most successful youth training in Germany. Schalke has cultivated Ozil, Rakitic, Neuer and other stars, while Dortmund has cultivated German internationals such as Gotze and Reus.

Ricken smiled and said: "Li Guo, you are too smart. This is a very important reason. Football must be an international sport. You can go to Bayern's youth training to see. Most of them are native Germans, but we are different. Our players come from all over Europe."

This is true, Li Guo thought about Bayern's youth training products, Schweinsteiger, Müller, Badstuber, Kimisi and others.

Of course, Bayern also has non-white stars like Alaba, but they are a minority after all. Li Guo continued to ask: "Is this related to history?"

"Of course, the Ruhr area is an industrial area that requires a large number of workers, and Germany has a shortage of manpower, so it can only attract people from other European countries to work."

Li Guo nodded, "I have learned a lot from this visit, which is what Chinese football lacks most," Li Guo thought.

For example, Chinese football is not willing to mention its past history. Chinese football players are generally reluctant to mention such black history as fear of Korea, black 3 minutes, so Li Guo has made up his mind.

Second, Chinese football still has to learn from its opponents in Asia. For example, Iranian football has a lot to learn from.

As we walked, a white man approached, and Ricken called him Mark. Li Guo took it for granted that the man was German, so he greeted him in German, but unexpectedly, the man's German was poor.

Ricken said: "Mark is the American coach who is now in charge of the U10s at Dortmund and he is the father of Christian Pulisic."

Li Guo knew that Pulisic would become Dortmund's main midfielder in the future, but Li Guo was even more surprised that Germany, a football powerhouse, would have an American coach. You must know that Americans themselves call themselves football deserts.

This is the same reason as if the Chinese table tennis team has found an Indian head coach. It can only be said that Dortmund is really open-minded in terms of football thinking.

"Mark is American, so if the club lacks English-speaking guides, Mark will come to help," Riken said with a smile.

"Well, I can only say that what I see now is all nonsense, as if there is nothing that can be called a secret," Li Guo said bluntly.

Mark liked Li Guo's character very much. He said: "The secrets are all in the Brakel training base."

Ricken took up the conversation, "We Dortmund have some innovative training methods, but what is more important is the hard training day after day. I don't think there are any shortcuts in football."

Li Guo nodded, "I know that."

After an in-depth study of the club's history, the beautiful Anna reappears, and Rickon asks her to take Li over for lunch.

There is a saying in China that beauty can be eaten. Looking at the beautiful Anna, Li Guo was a little dreamy, "Okay, beauty, then let me treat you to dinner."

But the Germans seem to have no humor gene. Anna said embarrassedly: "Jurgen said it, so he invited you."

Li Guo chuckled, thinking that he really lost to this beauty, Rickon and Mark on the side seemed to be watching a joke, Li Guo scratched his head and said, "Okay, then you lead the way, beauty."

(End of this chapter)