[Football] Crown of Thorns

At the end of the Super Bowl final, Gamarra wiped the sweat off his face with his jersey, looked up and saw the laughing backs of his teammates, and turned his head to look at the group of players in blue over there.

The Schalke 04 players who lost the ball scattered around the court in twos and threes. Raul, with his iconic black curly hair and beard, hugged his young teammates one by one, and seemed to be comforting his young teammates.

Standing on the sidelines of the court, Dortmund's teammates have already left the field first, going to take a shower and change clothes to prepare for the awards ceremony.

Gama stared at Raul on the other side, and suddenly thought that since he came to Germany to play football, except for successfully changing jerseys with Bala Xiong, he tried to change jerseys several times but failed. Thinking of this, Gama hesitated After a while, Raul ran over to Raul who had already entered the player channel.

Gama, who was chasing after him, ran behind Raul in one breath, and after a short pause, he said, "Mr. Gonzalez!"

Raul on the front side didn't seem to realize that it was calling him at first, he continued to walk two steps forward before he stopped and turned his head to look over.

Originally, I wanted to call Raul directly, but for some reason, I used the official name of Mr. Gonzalez.

Raul, who turned his head, was slightly surprised, then the bearded man laughed, "You can just call me Raul."

The embarrassed Gama hesitated for a moment before grinning, "Mr. Raul."

"No, no, just Raul."

With a wrinkled smile on his face, Raul waved his hand.

Gama licked his lower lip, "That, Raul," he bit his lower lip again very embarrassed, "Can I change the jersey with you?"

Raul, who had expected it for a long time, smiled happily, "Yes."

Hearing that Raul agreed to his request so happily, Gama smiled shyly and took off his jersey and handed it over.

"Thank you!"

Raul took off his blue jersey with a smile, "You played very well."

"That, thank you!"

Gama still felt very embarrassed.

Raul took the jersey from Gama's hand, seeing the young player's shy expression, he looked at the young man in front of him with great interest.

He knows that this player is a player who has performed outstandingly in Portugal in the past two years. He is a teammate of the national team with his teammate Cristiano Ronaldo in Real Madrid. Judging from this game, Gama's performance can be described as very good. Professionals are hailed as a new generation of midfield masters.

"Gama," Raul raised his eyebrows, "are you interested in going to La Liga in the future?"

Hearing Raul's question, Gama froze for a moment, then shook his head, "I'm fine in Dortmund."

The young man's answer made Raul laugh again, "Do your best!"

After all, he waved his hand and turned away.

Looking at his back, Gama thought for a while, shook his head and smiled, and quickly ran back to the locker room. After taking a shower, he changed into a championship commemorative T-shirt. No matter what the future holds, now he can celebrate the victory with his teammates to his heart's content.

A week after the Super Cup, Dortmund will also play the German Cup in the new season. Of course, before that, the players will also carry out a series of public activities such as club advertising for the new season, new jerseys and charity activities.

First, introduce the new transfer players.

Newly transferred players this season include: Julian Koch and Leitner who returned from Duisburg and Augsburg due to the expiration of the loan period, midfielder Gundogan who transferred from Nuremberg for 400 million euros, Chris Lewe, who was transferred from Chemnitz for 20 euros, Ivan Perisic, who was worth 500 million euros from the Croatian Club Bruges, and Bakalotz, who was dug into the second team.

Excluding players who have been transferred or loaned out, there are a total of 26 players in Dortmund's first-team roster for the new season:

Goalkeepers: No. 1 Weidenfeller (Germany), No. 20 Langerak (Australia), No. 41 Fucher (Germany);

后卫：2号科赫（德国）、4号苏博蒂奇（塞尔维亚）、15号胡梅尔斯（德国）、26号皮什切克（波兰）、27号桑塔纳（巴西）、29号施梅尔策（德国）；

Back midfielder: No. 5 Kyle (captain, Germany), No. 6 Klinger (Germany), No. 22 Svenbender (Germany);

Front midfielder: No. 7 Leitner (Germany), No. 8 Gama (Portugal), No. 11 Gotze (Germany), No. 23 Kagawa Shinji (Japan);

前卫：16号库巴（波兰）、17号达席尔瓦（巴西）、21号京多安（德国）、24号勒夫（德国）、25号奥沃莫耶拉（德国）、31号巴卡洛茨（德国）；

Forwards: No. 9 Lewandowski (Poland), No. 14 Perisic (Croatia), No. 18 Barrios (Paraguay), No. 19 Gross Kreuz (Germany).

球队年纪最小的球员是7号雷特纳（18岁）和格策（19岁），年纪最大的是同为31岁的队长凯尔副费勒以及25号奥沃莫耶拉。

It can be said that Dortmund's first team as a whole is a youth storm dominated by young players.

Many people in the industry even joked that coach Klopp led a boy scout and youth army.

Dortmund won the league championship last season, and won the Super Cup and Telecom Cup this summer. It can be called a triple crown. Listen...

"Tch, let's watch this season!"

When taking a family portrait for the new season, Gotze, who was standing next to Gama, curled his lips—he completely disapproved of the two championships, the Telecom Cup and the Super Cup—because in Gotze’s opinion, these two championships are really water too much.

"Then how do you say it's a success?"

Jia Ma seemed to have a straight face, but he was actually pretending to be serious.

"Except for the league championship, how can you say that winning the Champions League is considered a success."

Gotze said seriously.

"Hmm, that makes sense."

Sven, who stroked his hair up on the other side, nodded in agreement.

In front, the photographer was directing there, and here they gathered together and muttered endlessly, until Klopp, who was sitting in the front row, couldn't bear it and turned around and yelled, they quickly stood up, pretending Look carefully into the camera.

With a click, the images of this group of young people were frozen in front of the camera, and their age at this moment was also frozen at this moment.

The players who took photos on this day cannot be disbanded. They will also be entrusted by the club to participate in community volunteer activities, visit orphanages or go to some welfare organizations to do charity activities. Gama was assigned to a church welfare organization to do charity Active tasks.

After arriving at the site of the church welfare agency, Gama and Hummels, who was assigned to a group, were told by the person in charge that their job today was to distribute meals.

The food distribution work here is mainly the work of distributing free meals to homeless people.

So the two put on pullovers with the slogan "Love Has Everything" and stood at the daily food distribution address at the door of the church, handing the prepared set meal boxes to those who came to receive free meals.

At the beginning, there were not many people, but gradually more and more people, it seems that the two stars were also recognized by people passing by, so besides the people who came to receive the meal, many fans also stayed here, Looking forward to their photo signing after work.

Later, in addition to the club staff and photographers, reporters from local radio stations, TV stations, and newspapers also gathered here.

Gama heard not only the voices of the crowd, but also the flashes of reporters taking pictures and the sound of people taking pictures with their mobile phones.

Fortunately, they wear masks because they share meals, so it is no problem to speak softly.

Last season, because Jia Ma was a rookie, he was not allowed to come to these activities. After that, Jia Ma was not sent here for various public welfare activities during the season, so he was very uncomfortable.

"Mats, have you done this activity before?"

Gama asked Hummelme in a low voice.

The handsome young man standing next to Jia Ma raised the corners of his mouth under the mask, "Yes! Have you never done it before?"

Hearing the words he deliberately emphasized, Jia Ma turned his head and raised his head speechlessly, "...I really misjudged you."

"What's wrong?"

Hummels deftly passed the lunch box while talking to Gama with his head bowed.

Gama turned his head to the side and rolled his eyes at him, but because the other party was six centimeters taller than him, his eyes were aimed at Hummels' ears.

Hummels' low smile came to his ears, and Gama thought indignantly: Although he and Matz don't have much contact with each other, he used to think that this young central defender was a steady and thoughtful person. The image of the authentic German in the legend, it turned out today... Hehe, all of you Germans are boring, serious and serious!

The meal delivery work lasted for two hours, and Gama felt that he was tired of standing all the time, but when the event ended, they were surrounded by fans waiting here again.

After another hour of signing autographs, Gama felt that not only his feet, but also his wrists were about to break.

"I heard that you have never liked attending events in the past."

Finally able to sit on the sofa and rest, Gama sat down slumped and gulped a few mouthfuls of water, hearing Hummels' teasing laughter.

"I participated in all the work arranged by the agent."

Gama gasped.

I don't know which point of Hummels' joke this sentence of Gama caught, he laughed again.

“Very hungry~~”

Although the church also said that they could pick up something to eat, both Gama and Hummels declined the invitation. After saying goodbye to the staff here, Gama quietly put the cash on his body into the donation box, and then walked out , Said to Hummels standing outside.

"Well, let's go get something to eat!"

Hummels said.

Jia Ma looked at the assistant who was following him, and waved his hand, "You still have activities to do next!"

Hummels nodded.

Jia Ma smiled, "You can do your work, Chris and I went to eat."

Hummels nodded, said "goodbye" and left first.

Stretching, Jia Ma glanced at Mr. Bodyguard who had been silently following him, "You're hungry too!"

"I don't eat while I'm working."

Mr. Bodyguard, who has been with Jia Ma for a month, grinned.

"Oh, oh, then you must be hungry!"

Gama smiled and got into the car.

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7月31日，2011-2012赛季德国杯赛程，多特蒙德首战中在客场作战的多特蒙德以3比0的比分轻松站胜了对手桑德豪森队，拿到首胜。

The next week will be the start of the new season!