mtl008 Chapter 330 The last piece of the puzzle
Chapter 330 The last piece of the puzzle
Chapter 330 The Last Piece of the Puzzle
After the No.13 round, there are still four league rounds before the winter break. This year, Dortmund's last game is against "Werder Bremen" on December 12, and then there will be a long winter break.
Now Dortmund has 25 points and ranks third in the standings, Bayern has 29 points and ranks first in the standings, and Wolfsburg has 27 points and ranks second.
Only 4 points away from the top of the list, Dortmund still has a chance to compete for the half-time championship of the league before the winter break. In the Bundesliga, more than 80% of the teams that won the half-time championship won the championship in the end.
In the next round of the league, Dortmund will challenge "Hoffenheim" in an away game. Li Qiao is not familiar with this team. That's because the area where Hoffenheim is located is just a small town with more than 2000 people.
Although the club is small, it almost created the "Kaiserslautern myth" when it was first promoted to the Bundesliga in 2008 (it won the championship in the year it was promoted from the second division to the first division). Later, because the club's head coach "Rangnick" and the big boss had different business philosophy and left the team, Huo Cun's performance declined.
After "Rangnick", who single-handedly brought the team to the first division, left, the team sold the big names in the team. Gustavo and Ibisevic left the team successively, but Huo Cun's youth training is very good. After selling the main force, the young people rose again. Therefore, in the Bundesliga, although they can no longer compete with Bayern, they can rank around 10 every year.
Klopp led the whole team to the city closest to Huo Village in the middle of the week. Soon the club received an invitation from Huo Village’s boss, Dietmar Hopp.
Hope invited Borussia Dortmund to visit his company. Of course, it would be too early for no profit. Hope is a shrewd businessman. He did this to promote himself. Another purpose is that he really wants to break into the football club management market.
Although some informatization has been introduced in the management of football clubs, most of the work is still in the traditional mode, that is, relying on the experience of the coaches, such as training plans, many coaches still rely on handwriting.
What Hope wants to occupy is this blank market. If the most influential clubs in Germany can use their own software, it will undoubtedly greatly expand the company's market.
After the Borussia Dortmund players came to the SAP headquarters, they had no interest in this kind of management software. The only thing they were interested in was the beautiful office building, delicious coffee, and good-looking female employees.
Hope tried his best to explain to Klopp how his software can help the team run better. Klopp thought to himself: "Our business is a typical master-apprentice model. I myself started as an assistant coach. Coaches and assistant coaches, players are used to face-to-face coaching. If they all become managed by software, then I will not adapt."
"This thing is good," Klopp gave a thumbs up.
But Hope is a well-known software genius. He saw at a glance that Klopp was not interested, so he smiled, "Then let me treat everyone to lunch."
Klopp thought to himself: "This is not bad, it is much better than the presentation software".
Hope thought: "It's not easy to invite Dortmund once, so you can't just let him go. Since he doesn't like watching software, then invite him to watch Hoffenheim's training."
Klopp readily accepted Hope's invitation, and in the afternoon a group of people took the bus to Hoffenheim's base.
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The base is very large, probably because there are open spaces around it. After Hoffenheim became famous, Hope bought hundreds of acres of open space around it and built it into a comprehensive training ground. Teams of all levels are here, from 8 years old to adult teams.
Hope and Klopp walked in front, and the others followed. Dortmund players are well-informed, but this is the first time I have seen such a large training base. After all, Dortmund is a big city, and every inch of land is precious. How could it be possible to build such a large training base.
As he was walking, Li Qiao was suddenly attracted by a figure not far away. Looking at the back, Li Qiao was sure that the person must be Stan, but he couldn't imagine why Stan would appear in this place. Could it be that he was recruited by Hoffenheim?
Li Qiao secretly left the team and walked towards the man.
"Stan...",
Turning around, it turned out to be Stan, but obviously Li Qiao's sudden sound scared Stan enough, and Stan clutched his heart.
"Scared me",
Stan saw question marks all over Li Qiao's face. It was indeed strange for Stan to appear in this place at this time.
"Better explain it to me," Li Qiao said.
"Fuck you, it's not big or small, I'm the head coach, why should I explain to you."
"You are the head coach of the Chinese national team, I have the duty to supervise you",
Stan was amused, he didn't explain, but pointed to the training field aside, and looked in the direction of his finger, Li Qiao saw a yellow-skinned Chinese on the field.
"It's so tall, he should be a striker," Li Qiao said.
"No, the midfielder," Stan said.
"What's the matter with this, there is also a 1 meter, hitting the lower back"?
"1 meters, he is indeed a midfielder, from Dalian, born in 90, named Wang Kong, came to Hoffenheim 1993 years ago, and now he is a player of the second team for the time being."
"No wonder I haven't seen him in the Bundesliga," Li Qiao said.
"Looks like you found a treasure again",
Stan chuckled, "The Asian Cup is about to start, and I'm going to start working."
"What goals did the Football Association give you this time?"
"No",
Li Qiao thought to himself: "How could there be no"?
Stein said: "What goal do you think the teams that enter the top 16 of the World Cup should set for the Asian Cup?"
Li Qiao chuckled, "It's really stupid for me to ask, besides winning the championship, what else can I aim for."
Li Qiao looked at "Wang Kong" in the distance, and he really looked like "Fellaini".
"How about you, Joe, how are you doing, have you contacted that Helen?"
"Teasing me, huh?"
Stan chuckled, "But I saw the picture, that girl is so beautiful, there is a picture of her in a bathing suit, she is so good."
"Hehe, you said you, you were honest when you were not married, but why did you turn lustful after you got married?"
"Hehe, fuck you, if it weren't for your scandal, I wouldn't bother to read it."
"Don't worry, I can't make any scandals."
"Okay, I'll watch it for a while, you go",
Li Qiao nodded, patted Stan and went to catch up with his teammates.
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On the day of the match, Stan did not come to the stadium to watch the football. Instead, he went to watch the match between Hoffenheim II and Stuttgart II in the German Amateur League.
Stan thinks that the physical condition of "Wang Kong" is really great, but the position of the midfielder needs to be honed over time. The midfielder is the hub of the team, connecting the past and the future. Without several years of training, good health alone is not enough.
"Maybe 2018 will come in handy," Stan thought.
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In the match between "Dortmund" and "Hoffenheim", Klopp made a rotation. "Royce" rested in the frontcourt, "Hummels" rested in the backcourt, and the midfielder "Gündogan" finally returned. Klopp did not let him start.
Next week is the last match against "Anderlecht" in the Champions League. Although the opponent is at the bottom of the group, Dortmund must score three points.
There are only two players left in Hoffenheim's golden generation in 08-the midfielder "Rudy" and the right back "Baker".
In addition, the young players trained by Huo Cun himself include "Folland", the main striker of the German national youth team, whose valuation in the transfer market can reach about 1000 million euros, and it is rumored that Schalke 04 is planning to acquire him.
In the Bundesliga, the reason why a team from a small place like Huo Village has a group of diehard fans is because of the team's aggressive football style. No matter whether the opponent is strong or weak, Hoffenheim will always have a 433 offensive formation.
After the start of the game, the two sides played very openly. Hoffenheim had "Volland" and Dortmund had "Li Qiao". Because the two teams basically did not defend, within 10 minutes of the first half, the two teams combined played a total of 6 times, and all of them were within the range of the goal frame.
At 15 minutes into the game, Dortmund scored first, and it was "Bender" who scored. This is rare. After Li Qiao attracted the defense, the midfielder Bender won the space, inserted in the back row, and scored the goal.
But soon Hoffenheim retaliated, and "Folland" shot directly from 30 meters away from the penalty area and scored into the dead corner to equalize the score.
Then Li Qiao assisted "Mkhitaryan" to score a goal, "Aubameyang" scored a goal after breaking through, the score became 3 to 1, and the first half ended with a score of 3 to 1.
At the beginning of the second half, Klopp replaced Li Qiao, replaced by Gundogan, replaced Aubameyang, replaced by Immobile, this is to prepare for the midweek Champions League.
Dortmund's firepower weakened a lot in the second half, and Hoffenheim took the opportunity to pull one back. In the end, the final score was 3 to 2. Dortmund won a thrilling away game.
After the game, Klopp praised his opponents, "Their offense is very exciting. Although this style of play is impossible to win the championship, it will definitely win the hearts of many fans."
Klopp is telling the truth, he is a person who likes to attack in his bones, which is why Klopp likes 433 so much.
Won the ball, but there is no time to celebrate, the team is about to prepare for the midweek Champions League.
In this chapter, all 8 people who I presupposed as the future pillars of the Chinese team appeared, namely Li Qiao, Zhou Dun, Wei Xiao, Qi Bing, Lin Zhijian, Ding Mu, Chen Fei, and Wang Kong.Stan's success in the world depends on these 8 backbones plus the rising young talents
(End of this chapter)