Legendary Road

On February 2005, 2, Bayern fans were immersed in ecstasy, and the score on the huge screen in the Allianz Arena was shocking.

5-0, the home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

Even so, looking at the small piece of yellow and black surrounded by bright red on the visiting team's stand area, you still can't see any fans who left the field early. The singing of HejaBVB is still high, and the yellow and black flag still stands on it.

If it weren't for the unwavering support of the fans who came to Munich with the team, the Dortmund players on the field might not even have the intention to insist on playing the entire game.

Van Marwijk on the bench looked ashen, and he seemed to be muttering something, Yan Jing beside him couldn't understand it, but he was sure that it would definitely not be a pleasant word.

Watzke, who is in Dortmund, is also in a bad mood. Yesterday, he was asked by Bayern's finance department to return the 200 million euros and high interest that the previous chairman borrowed from Bayern. Today, Bayern gave him a 5-0 .

As soon as the game was over, Van Marwijk hurried back to the dressing room. In the player tunnel, he began to doubt his original choice-maybe it was a mistake for him to take over the Dortmund team in distress from the beginning.

Looking back and listening to the indulgent cheers in the Allianz Arena, Van Marwijk started his team speech in a trance.

Yan Jing noticed that Van Marwijk, who was talking to the players, had a different expression, but when he remembered that he had just lost five goals, he didn't think much about it, he just thought it was the other party who was in a bad mood.

But the next afternoon, he received a call that surprised him.

"Van Marwijk has handed us his resignation, and Hans and I have agreed."

"What?" Zorke spoke clearly, not allowing Yan Jing to question his ears, "When did it happen?"

"Just 10 minutes ago." Zork smiled wryly, "So you should understand why I called you?"

The head coach resigned suddenly in the middle of the season, and it was not easy to find a replacement immediately, not to mention that Dortmund is a mess now, and not many head coaches are willing to come.Generally speaking, in this case, the club usually allows the assistant coach to exercise the rights of the head coach until the club finds a suitable successor.

"...Yes, Mr. Zorke." Yan Jing felt that his hand holding the phone was trembling slightly, and he was sure that he was not afraid, but excited.

"Can you come to the club right now? We sign a new interim contract and then in the evening we will have a press conference about it and you will have to attend as interim manager."

Yan Jing quickly took a taxi to the club, and Zorke was already waiting for him in the office.

“Yan, I’m sorry that this happened suddenly.”

Seeing Zorke's worried face, Yan Jing shook his head: "Mr. Zorke, you don't need to feel sorry for this, it's not your responsibility."

Zorke forced a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Forget it, let's not talk about it. Have a look at the contract?"

Yan Jing picked up the contract on the desktop and browsed through it. Generally speaking, there was nothing wrong with it. The validity period of this contract is until Dortmund finds a new head coach. Before that, Yan Jing has all the powers that the head coach can implement.

"I don't have a big problem." But he didn't understand when he saw the salary amount during his tenure as head coach, "but double the salary...?"

Zork thought it was Yan Jing who thought he was short of money. After all, even if Yan Jing's current salary doubled, it was still far from Van Marwijk's. Just when he was about to explain, Yan Jing said again.

"Mr. Zorc, I know that the club's financial operations are very difficult now, so there is no need to double my salary." Yan Jing understands the current dilemma of the club, "To be honest, I don't even know the weekly salary of 2000 euros for assistant coaches. How to spend it can only be deposited in the bank."

Zorc froze for a moment and rejected Yan Jing's initiative to ask for a salary cut: "No, Yan, you deserve it. Even 4000 euros per week is quite little for a head coach in the top league. Yes, since you've done more, you deserve more."

Yan Jing couldn't resist Zorke who insisted on this, so he could only sign his name on the contract with a weekly salary of 4000 euros.

After that, he immediately fell into a busy life. The team will have to train later, and there will be a press conference to attend in the evening. Before that, he made an appointment with Gotze to play with him.

The news that Dortmund will hold a press conference at night quickly spread among the major media. Dortmund only lost 0-5 to Bayern yesterday. There must be a lot of news about the press conference held today. How could they miss it?

Newspapers rushed to send reporters to Dortmund one after another, and Zhang Li immediately took the high-speed train to Dortmund after learning about it. He had an indescribable feeling that this sudden press conference would surprise him.

While reporters from all walks of life rushed towards Dortmund, Yan Jing started a new round of training for the team.

He entered the training ground long in advance, and watched silently as the players came out of the locker room one after another. First, Captain Metzelder, followed by Kyle and Rickon, and then Rosicky and Jan Kohler...

When all the team members arrived, Yan Jing stood up and coughed twice to silence the scene: "Guys, good afternoon."

"Hi, Yan." The relationship between Kyle and Yan Jing is very good, and he greeted him familiarly, "Where is the sir? It's time to start training soon."

"That's what I'm going to talk about today."

When Yan Jing opened his mouth, all the team members immediately noticed something unusual, and they all pricked up their ears to listen to Yan Jing's speech.

"Not long ago, Mr. Van Marwijk submitted his resignation letter to the board of directors, and the above also agreed." Yan Jing looked calm, "So until the club finds the next suitable head coach candidate, I will temporarily take over as head coach this job."

"..." In the past, many team members cursed Van Marwijk to dismiss get out of class in a fit of anger, but when this day really came, most of them still couldn't react immediately, and some couldn't believe Yan Jing's words.

As the leader of the first team, Metzelder was the first to come back to his senses: "...Sir, did he really resign?"

"That's right, if you don't believe me, the club will hold a press conference on this tonight."

Yan Jing can't tolerate the team members being in such a stupefied state during training all afternoon. The entire training session this afternoon is open to the media. He can't let the regret of yesterday's big loss to Bayern Munich stay with the players on them.

"Anyway, guys, cheer up!" Yan Jing clapped his hands vigorously, "There are still 5 rounds before the end of the season, but we are only 6 points away from the European theater and [-] points away from the Champions League! Do you think this is a score that can never be made up?!"

Most of the players were still brooding over yesterday's disastrous defeat, and didn't even have time to notice that the gap between him and their opponents in the standings was gradually narrowing.

In the first half of the season, they didn't see the shadow of the European theater at all, but Yan Jing reminded them now that they suddenly realized that they were only 5 points away from the sixth Hamburger, and they were only 4 points away from qualifying for the Champions League play-offs. The No.6 Leverkusen is only [-] points away, the difference between the two games!

Bayern Munich and Schalke 44, who are at the top of the standings with 04 points, have opened up the gap of 11 points behind Dortmund. It is a dream to win the championship, but it is not a fantasy to squeeze into the Champions League. .

They still have a head-to-head confrontation with Hamburg, Leverkusen and other direct competitors. If they can get enough points from these two teams, then the yellow and black figures are very likely to appear in the UEFA Champions League next season. .

Thinking of this, at least the team members are no longer so downcast. Yan Jing's goal blueprint for them has already appeared in front of his eyes, and what he should think about now is how to strive to turn the goal into reality.

"Those reporters standing outside are about to enter the arena. Hold your heads up and devote yourself to training." Yan Jing asked the team members to start jogging to warm up, "I don't think you would like to see yourself in the newspapers in a distraught state and be seen by others." Sarcasm?"

When the reporters entered the training field, they quickly noticed something strange. They looked left and right, but they didn't find the Dutchman who should have been on the field.

Yesterday's disastrous defeat to Bayern, Van Marwijk didn't come to today's training session?Dortmund have a press conference tonight?

Zhang Li, who arrived in a hurry, smelled a strange smell. He looked at Yan Jing calmly directing the players' training on the training ground, and his brain gradually took shape-for some reason, Van Marwijk may not be able to lead the team recently. Dortmund is playing, so it's up to assistant coach Yan Jing...

On a deeper level, it’s not that he didn’t expect it, but Van Marwijk’s team leadership performance has generally begun to show signs of recovery from the slump in the first half of the season, and the Dortmund club has no money to fire the employer’s coach because of the financial crisis. Everyone knows the matter, and it seems unlikely that the head coach will dismiss get out of class at this time.

The press conference was scheduled to start at [-] o'clock in the evening, and before that, Yan Jing was going to teach Gotze how not to suffer in physical confrontation.

Gotze and Royce have both been promoted to the Dortmund U16 echelon not long ago, and Gotze always suffers from physical problems when playing among a group of boys a few years older than him. Being able to lean on an opponent while being pushed to the ground every time made him a little frustrated.

In the training ground, Yan Jing noticed that the reporters from all walks of life started to move around again. In order to avoid being caught in the face after the training, he deliberately changed his clothes and lowered the brim of the peaked cap with the "BVB09" logo to cover half of it. face, and got out through the back door.

Gotze was waiting for Yan Jing around the Dortmund training ground. He curiously watched more and more reporters coming from all directions, and he couldn't help being curious.

Any big news for Dortmund?