Legendary Road

"... Dortmund fans took to the streets in an organized way, appealing to the general public, companies and officials to lend a helping hand to Dortmund in distress, so that this nearly century-old club can continue to exist. The initiator of this event Simander said that Borussia Dortmund is not just a football club, people put their beliefs and expectations in it, and the Ruhr area..."

Behind the female reporter on the TV screen was a row of Dortmund fans with slogans. Yan Jing glanced at him, and he even saw his landlady Aotelia in the crowd, but this did not surprise him. Trija's support and love for Dortmund has always been unconditional.

The time for the team's summer training camp is approaching, and Dortmund's transfer operation is also over-Rosicky joined Arsenal for 1400 million euros, Otto Addo joined Mainz for 600 million euros, Guy Medel was free to terminate his contract, sell The lost players brought Dortmund 2000 million euros in revenue.

In terms of signings, although there will be a total of 3 players joining, the total cost is only 60 euros-Suarez is free, Coentrao is a product of the youth training, and only the transfer from Dynamo Moscow Jago Silva made the club pay some change.

Although the fans were worried about whether these three young and abnormal new players were capable of replacing the original players, they did not complain or blame the club for the lack of signings, because they all knew that Dortmund urgently needed a lot of liquidity.

On July 2005, 7, Yan Jing came to the training ground early, but he found that even if he was two hours earlier, there were still people who came earlier than him.

"Yan, are you enjoying your vacation?"

The young Connie Nafel has a very strong sense of responsibility for his work, and his meticulous and rigorous attitude in the U18 team is another important reason why Yan Jing chose him.

Yan Jing smiled and nodded to Nafier: "Yes, a relaxing and pleasant trip."

Nafel also smiled and said: "That's really enviable. The handover work of the U18 team on my side makes it impossible for me to spare time to travel."

"Perhaps the lads will be willing to share with you the adventures during the journey?" Yan Jing and Nafel walked to the door of the head coach's office. He took out the key and unlocked the door. "Maybe it was an adventure?"

Nafer looked serious: "Oh, that's not important, let them go to the medical examination room first."

Hearing this, Yan Jing's smile added a layer of shadow: "If they seriously exceed the standard again, should we send them a devil's adventure in the training ground?"

There was a smile on Nafier's serious face: "umm, good proposal, I promise it will impress them."

A bunch of players who were coming to the club from all directions couldn't help but suddenly shuddered. They seemed to have felt the malice from their head coach.

However, what made Yan Jing "disappointed" was that perhaps it was the situation of Dortmund last season that made the players dare not completely relax themselves. Shortly after driving all the players who arrived on time to the medical examination room, the report showed that everyone's body The fat content index did not exceed the standard, which made a lot of punishment measures he just thought of useless.

"It seems that you have not forgotten that you are a professional player during the holidays. Your medical examination reports have all passed." Yan Jing did not smile miserably in front of the players. He never thought that putting on a cold face to the players would be enough. Establish prestige, "I am very satisfied that you have done what you should do. This also means that we don't need to spend too much time doing pre-season recovery training, but can directly enter high-intensity preparation training."

Yan Jing paused, and glanced at the players below. Although the newly joined Suarez and Thiago could not understand German, they seemed to have become members of the team—Dede, who is also a Brazilian, was giving Thiago translated, while the Argentine Fernandez enthusiastically explained Yan Jing's speech in Spanish for Suarez.

This is what Yan Jing is happy to see. He clapped his hands with a smile: "You also know that we have introduced three players this summer. Before the team starts training, let them introduce themselves first."

Coentrao was the first to run out of the team voluntarily. In fact, everyone in the team was familiar with him, but this had no effect on the excited little golden retriever.

"I'm Fabio Coentrao! Although I'm Portuguese, as you can hear, my German is already very fluent... Oh, it seems a bit off topic." Coentrao realized that he said something irrelevant I scratched my head and continued, "I usually play as a left back, but occasionally I can play as a full-back and midfielder... In short, my goal is to become a world-class star, I mean like Carlos, Zida like that!"

There was good-natured laughter in the team. Coentrao's immodest statement was quite appetizing to them, and Suarez and Thiago, who were still a little nervous, also laughed. All speculations were finally dispelled.

Immediately afterwards, Suarez and Thiago also came up one after another to introduce themselves in German. Although their German was stuttering and not fluent, and they also had a strong regional accent, it was obviously better than a decent sentence when they first came to Dortmund. Nor can German say that it has improved much since then.

"You should understand that Dortmund is not a super rich club." Yan Jing intends to make it clear from the beginning, "I know that some of you may yearn to play in teams like Manchester United and Real Madrid... I I never think that this kind of thinking is disloyalty or betrayal. It may be your childhood dreams. It is not my hobby to kill the vision of dreams. In other words, only by setting higher goals can people have the motivation to continue to work hard. "

Uh... what does this mean?Encourage us to play football for the giants?The players looked at Yan Jing, not quite understanding the meaning of his words.

Yan Jing paused and continued: "But it's not now, and it doesn't mean it won't be in the future. Although the club's current financial situation is not ideal, Dortmund has never been a team that thinks that as long as it is relegation, it will be fine and pass by. He was a Champions League champion!"

Speaking of this, most of the players couldn't help but cast their eyes on Lars Ricken standing in the team, because he was the only one in the whole team who experienced the most glorious days of Dortmund, and he was still in the Champions League final. Scored a goal.

"We have the best and most passionate fans in the world. If you haven't played in Westfalen, you won't understand what Dortmund means to them." Yan Jing was as impassioned as a speech , "We have the ability to become the best team in the world! This is not a fantasy!"

The players below were a little surprised. Yan Jing's opening remarks did not emphasize the authority of the head coach in the team like most coaches did, but directly set out a goal that seemed out of reach - to become the best player in the world team.

Yan Jing smiled and looked at the surprised players below: "Are you ready to play for the best team in the world in the future?"

No matter what these players' impressions of Dortmund were before, now they all have an intuitive impression, and at least at this time, they are looking forward to the future.

So Yan Jing got a uniform answer from the team members - "Of course!"

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Dortmund's schedule for the new season has been posted in the locker room early, and the most conspicuous of them are the two dates circled in red pen on August 8 and August 21, which are the match days of the Champions League play-offs.

This year's summer training Dortmund did not choose overseas training, nor did they invite foreign teams to participate. They chose three Bundesliga teams and one Bundesliga team.

These warm-up matches did not limit the number of substitutions. In order to examine the players' status and position them more clearly in the team, Yan Jing basically used one lineup in the first half and another in the second half.

After four games, Dortmund had two wins, one draw and one loss. Among the three newly joined players, Coentrao's performance was the most eye-catching. Quite quickly, also contributed an assist.

What disappointed the media and the fans was the Uruguayan teenager Suarez. He played a total of 220 minutes in four games, and he gave ten shots within the range of the goal frame four times and zero goals.

Although there are constant criticisms, Yan Jing knows in his heart that Suarez just hasn't adapted to the style of German football for the time being.

For this reason, he specifically talked to Suarez. Suarez also admitted that he, who was used to playing "talented football" in Uruguay, felt uncomfortable with the team's rigorous and abnormal tactical system, and sometimes thought of Yan Jing's running position on the court. Requirements will be restrained, and one cannot fully exert one's own strength.

"Yan, how is the roster for the first game of the new season going?"

Two days later, on August 8, Dortmund's first match day in the Bundesliga, their opponent is Wolfsburg.

"It has been decided." Yan Jing raised his head from a pile of documents and looked at Nafel who was asking him a question, "Basically the same lineup as the fourth warm-up match, but I want to win Coentrao and Suarez .”

"Oh?" Nafer was a little surprised. Coentrao and Suarez are too young. It's really unreliable to let them appear in the starting lineup directly, but they are not even allowed in the squad? "To be honest, Yan, I don't quite understand your approach."

"They used to be geniuses in their respective teams. To put it bluntly, they need to be suppressed." Yan Jing explained calmly. A player who can play the absolute main force without any effort."

"In other words, you are protecting them, aren't you? Try to reduce their exposure in the media before they adapt to the German football environment." Nafier immediately understood Yan Jing's meaning, he was half-joking and half-serious He asked eagerly, "But what if they still can't understand your intentions? You know, geniuses are always conceited."

"I will explain to them first that if they still resist after this, then it's a pity - I will not allow franchise players to appear on a team where the overall interest is first."

"Yan, has your style always been this tough?"

"Oh, don't say that, in fact, the soft policy is sometimes very useful."