Champion’s Heart

When Zhou Yi and Mark went out to warm up, Mrs. Wagner yelled immediately: Mark! Mark! Look here! Here!

She stood up in the stands, flailing her arms and shouting to the field.

She wanted Mark to know where they were sitting so he wouldn't have to be distracted looking for them during the game.

Sure enough, after hearing her shout, Mark looked up and found his mother, father and sister in the stands, so he waved to them excitedly to show that he saw it.

And Zhou Yi who was next to him also greeted them.

Seeing that the two teenagers were greeting her, Mrs. Wagner sat down with satisfaction.

The task has been completed, and now the game begins.

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Zhou Yi looked around the stands while warming up. The Berlin Olympic Stadium, which can accommodate 75,000 people, seemed empty. After a visual inspection, the audience should not exceed 5,000 people.

Although he also saw cameras and broadcast equipment on the sidelines, Zhou Yi also felt that not many people would watch the live broadcast of the game in front of the TV.

The live TV broadcast is only to show the importance attached to the Youth German Cup final, but the audience can't control whether they watch the TV station or not.

Zhou Yi asked himself, he himself would not be interested in the German Youth Cup competition.

After the first team, everything will be fine.

How can I go to the first team?

It's simple, just perform well.

What counts as good performance?

Get the championship!

Isn't there a great opportunity in front of you?

No matter how difficult it is to win this youth German Cup champion, Zhou Yi does not intend to let it go.

This can be said to be his first stepping stone into the first team.

For this game, Zhou Yi has been preparing in the virtual system for more than a week. He didn't even take it so seriously in the first two Ruhr Derbys.

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Back in the locker room, coach Yebara's expression was quite serious.

The opponents are not weak. They were the champions of the U19 National League last season. But remember, you are also very strong! He encouraged the players.

None of the teams that can make it to the finals is a weak team, so if you think the opponent is strong, you may as well think about yourself, you are also very strong. We have been preparing for their tactics for a week. Everyone is working hard. I believe that as long as you can perform normally in the game and your performance in training, it is not impossible to beat the opponent.

Later, Yebala talked about the tactics of this game: ...their tactics are high-position presses, which we have already targeted in training. In short, one thing to remember. In this game , you must be more adventurous, dare to go forward, and cooperate with Zhouyi.

Having said that, Yebala set his sights on Zhouyi.

The core of Dortmund's U19 midfield is now Zhou Yi. Although Gotze is more famous, including Gotze, he has no objection to this arrangement.

Zhou Yi is responsible for using his passing to control the rhythm. If you want to be adventurous, then pass more directly.

But it's useless for Zhou Yi to make a direct pass alone, and the whole team needs to cooperate. Otherwise, he can only make one bad pass after another.

So whether to take risks or not is not a matter for one person, but a matter for the whole team.

Yebara wanted to bring it up specifically in this game, because if there was a situation where the cooperation was not tacit enough, the dire consequences of choosing to take risks would appear immediately.

You know, Freiburg's high pressing tactics determine how quickly they counterattack after grabbing the ball.

In this regard, Freiburg is an expert.

After reminding the players to pay attention to this point, Yebara relieved everyone again.

Of course, we don't have to worry too much. After all, we are the offensive side, as long as you can be yourself and play according to your own rhythm. Freiburg can only respond passively.

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Meanwhile, in the dressing room of the U19s in Freiburg, their coach Streich was also emphasizing the tactics of this game to his players.

According to our observation and analysis of their previous games, we can see that the real core of this team is not Gotze. It is him. Christian Streich pointed to the tactical board located on the The name of the position above the middle circle of the court said.

Zhou Yi. He is the core of Dortmund's team. Dortmund's passing organization relies on him. This is different from when we met them last season. This person is characterized by good short and medium distance passes. , good at spotting gaps and opportunities on the court, flexible in running positions, but his shortcomings are also obvious. His body looks very thin. So his physical confrontation ability is not strong, as long as you can stick to him in the game, use it If the body interferes with him, it can affect his performance.

That's all Streich has to say about his players about Dortmund's core.

Because there is really nothing to say. Zhou Yi's advantages are very prominent, but his shortcomings are also obvious, and it is very simple to deal with, just paste it.

But the next Gotze, he wants to say a little more.

Because Mario Gotze is more comprehensive than Zhou Yi, he can pass the ball like Zhou Yi. Of course, the passing in positional warfare may not be as good as Zhou Yi, but it is not bad. He can also dribble and drive, and he can score goals as well.

There is a reason why such a player can become a genius that attracts the attention of the whole of Germany.

Just last summer, Gotze also won the U17 European Cup with the German U17 youth team, which is enough to show his strength.

Unlike Zhouyi, who has distinct characteristics but is also easy to deal with, Getce is more comprehensive, and it is not easy to contain him easily.

So Streich almost talked about Gotze in the following time.

For Gotze, the Freiburg players obviously listened more seriously...

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Although this is a youth German Cup final that not many people pay attention to, the procedures that should be followed in a final must be followed.

The starting players of both sides must wait in the player tunnel, waiting for the referee team to take them out.

And when players from both sides are waiting to play in the tunnel, who is the most eye-catching?

Not Dortmund's talented player Mario Gotze, but... Zhou Yi standing behind Gotze.

As the only oriental face in the two teams, Zhou Yi can be said to have a high rate of return.

When any Freiburg player passes by him, he will think of the head coach telling them that this thin man is the core of Dortmund's midfielder, and he can't help but turn his head to look at him, wanting to see how this thin boy is. What is the secret in his body that can make him the core of Dortmund.

They have always believed that the core of Dortmund should be Gotze.

But when Dortmund broke into the final of the Youth German Cup and became their opponents, they knew for the first time that such an earth-shaking change had taken place in the Dortmund youth training camp-a Chinese replaced Gotze. , became the core of this team!

Gotze won't have any opinion on this?

Zhou Yi smiled at the beginning, but when someone looked at him later, he simply said in German: Do you want to take a group photo? It's not expensive, five euros a time. He even showed five fingers.

The other party showed expressions of Are you crazy?, and then walked away from him.

Hey, Zhou Yi, five euros is not cheap anymore. Gotze, who was standing in front of him, turned to him. It's less than one euro to go to a public toilet.

Mario, you think taking a photo with me is the same as going to the bathroom, don't you? Zhou Yi rolled his eyes.

That's not what I meant... Gotze argued. But if a fan asks me for a photo, I won't take money.

Zhou Yi patted Gotze on the shoulder, and said with an expression of a close sister: Mario, you can't do this, you are a genius boy in German football, you can't treat yourself like this...

Gotze looked confused: What's wrong?

If you're like this? Someone will say in the future: 'It's cheaper to take a photo with Mario than to go to the piss! Zhou Yi said seriously.

Hearing the conversation between these two people, the Dortmund U19 players around couldn't help laughing. The uneasiness and tension of participating in the final of the Youth German Cup for the first time more or less disappeared in the laughter.

The Freiburg player next to him looked confused-are these two really teammates? The finals haven't started yet, and the opponent seems to be fighting among themselves...

They suddenly thought of their previous speculation - it seems that Ge Ce is still brooding about Zhou Yi's robbing his core, and he can't let it go!

The only thing that puzzles them is why the other Dortmund players can still laugh when these two people are fighting among themselves?

Are they heartless!

Take a closer look at the expressions between Zhou Yi and Ge Ce, and see that the two of them don't seem to be joking...

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PS, during the period of double monthly tickets, continue to ask everyone for monthly tickets! ! (To be continued.)