Champion’s Heart

The half-time champion is not really an honor, even a trophy medal, it is just an important reference about the probability of league champions.

So although everyone is very happy, this kind of happiness cannot last long.

Next, they still have a game to play.

The media were a little longer excited than the Dortmund team. Dortmund's local media touted their team, claiming that Dortmund was unstoppable.

From the tenth round of the league, Klopp's Dortmund has maintained a winning record in all competitions. The league has six consecutive victories and two Champions League victories. A total of eight games have won.

It is not entirely unreasonable to say that they are unstoppable.

But then, Dortmund ended their winning streak in the final round of the UEFA Champions League group match against Twente. They played 3:3 against the opponent on the road.

In this game, Zhou Yi didn't even go away, and it wasn't just him. Goetze, Kagawa Shinji and others did not appear in the game roster. Klopp almost rotated half of the team, so in the end it was a 3:3 draw with Twente, which is not too incredible.

Anyway, Dortmund has already qualified as the group's first in advance, and it doesn't matter what the final game was.

At the press conference after the game, Klopp was also asked about the winning streak.

"I don’t think it’s a pity that the winning streak is terminated. Keeping winning will be a burden for my team. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose in this match. If you lose this group match, you can change If we come to the Champions League, then I will lose the game without hesitation."

Then a Chinese reporter asked: "After a period of time, Zhou Yi will leave the team and go back to participate in the Asian Cup. Will this affect the team?"

Klopp frowned when he heard the question. It wasn't that he was dissatisfied with the question, but that it did cause him a headache.

Zhou Yi wants to leave the team to participate in the Asian Cup...

When the team is in good condition, there is a lack of a midfielder core. When I insisted that Zhou Yi be the single core, why didn't I think of the Asian Cup, the Rush Cup?

And the Asian Cup is the same as the African Cup. It was not arranged in summer. But in winter!

Even if the Africa Cup, they are the southern hemisphere, the winter in the northern hemisphere is the summer in their southern hemisphere, they should be playing football.

And Asia is in the northern hemisphere. What's going on?

Klopp apparently forgot that although Qatar is in the northern hemisphere, the temperature there is more than forty degrees in the summer. Not suitable for football...so it can only be arranged in winter.

And in the future Qatar World Cup, there is a great possibility that it will be held in the winter. By then, it will not be Klopp alone. It’s the entire European League...

"Yes, the Chinese Football Association has already negotiated with us. We will let Zhou Yi to participate in the Asian Cup, lacking an important main player, to say that it has no impact on the team. That is impossible. But Dortmund is One team, one whole. Our other players also have the ability to make up for the vacancy left by Zhou Yi... In short, we will..."

After Klopp answered the questions of the Chinese journalists, some Japanese journalists raised their hands to ask: "Will you return to the Asian Cup for Shinji Kagawa..."

Klopp really wanted to lift the table.

Yup. There is also Kagawa Shinji!

Oh shit!

Suddenly two main players are missing!

Klopp, who was obviously impatient, told the Japanese reporter the answer he had just answered to the Chinese reporter. He just changed the name of the player. The fool can see his perfunctory attitude.

The Asian Cup is indeed a very unfavorable thing for Dortmund.

The 2011 Qatar Asian Cup started on January 7 and has been playing until January 29, which is almost a month.

Although the Bundesliga has a winter break, it can't be taken until February. Moreover, even if the truce can be suspended until February, the Asian Cup will also affect the two players Zhou Yi and Kagawa Shinji to participate in the team training preparations.

The second half of the Bundesliga this season started on January 14th. In the eighteenth round of the league, Dortmund challenged Leverkusen away. This game is the first game of the second half of the Bundesliga.

Judging from the schedule of the Asian Cup, even the group stage was not finished.

This is indeed a headache for Klopp.

However, he has to let people go. For a game like the Asian Cup, FIFA requires clubs to let people go, otherwise the national team can sue the club to FIFA and demand compensation.

This is one of the reasons why Klopp's team is rushing to score points during this time.

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After playing the away UEFA Champions League group stage, Dortmund returned to Germany, and they had two more league games before the winter break.

In the sixteenth round of the league, Dortmund returned to the home to play against Werder Bremen.

Zhou Yi, Goetze and Kagawa Shinji, who did not go away in the UEFA Champions League group stage, all returned to the starting lineup, helping Dortmund defeated Werder Bremen 2:0 at home and the league won seven consecutive victories.

A week later, Dortmund will go away to challenge Frankfurt, after playing this game, the Bundesliga will enter the winter break, the players will get a half-month vacation. Most players will choose to accompany their family to a warm and picturesque holiday in Southern Europe.

While Zhou Yi and Kagawa Shinji will leave the team and return to their respective countries to participate in the preparations for the Asian Cup.

Regarding questions about the Asian Cup, the reporters not only asked Klopp but also Zhou Yi and Kagawa Shinji.

Strictly speaking, today's Chinese football and Japanese football are not on the same level. Chinese football lags far behind Japanese football, but everyone is still very interested in the confrontation between Chinese and Japanese football. Both Chinese and Japanese reporters are interested. .

Especially when there are two players from China and Japan in a team, and these two players are still the stars in their respective national teams.

Zhou Yi will not say it, although young, it is the absolute main force of the Chinese national team.

And Shin Kagawa?

Half a year ago, there was no way to be selected into the twenty-three list of the World Cup in Japan, but now with his outstanding performance in Dortmund, he is already the main force of the Japanese nation to fight against thunder. This can be seen from his jersey number in the Japanese national team-number ten, which represents the core and main number.

And for Shin Kagawa, there is good news-because of the excellent performance in Dortmund this half season, he also won the honor of the best player in the Bundesliga half.

Not surprisingly, both men will become high-profile stars in the Asian Cup.

"Me and Kagawa?" Zhou Yi, surrounded by Chinese and Japanese reporters, was surprised that they would ask the Asian Cup questions in advance. "The Asian Cup hasn't started yet?"

"Has it opened in more than half a month? The Chinese team is in Group A and the Japanese team is in Group B. According to the knockout rules, Group A will play against Group B and Group A will play against Group B. First in the group..."

"Well, wouldn't it be the end to take the group first?" Zhou Yi said.

If you take the first place in the group, if you still meet, you have to wait until the final...

"If you meet, do you think the Chinese team can beat the Japanese team?" This question was not asked by a Japanese reporter, but a Chinese reporter.

"As long as you go all out, nothing is impossible." Zhou Yi replied, neither overbearing nor overbearing, neither arrogant and arrogant said he would definitely win, nor did he feel inferior that he would definitely not win.

Kagawa Kaji also faces the same problem as Zhou Yi.

It was also surrounded by Japanese journalists and Chinese journalists.

Japanese reporters don’t seem to care much about whether the two teams can meet and who will win, but a little more gossip: "Kagawa, you have a good relationship with Zhou Sang?"

"Yes, we communicate more privately, which is a very good relationship." Shinji Kagawa nodded and admitted.

"So what problems do you often communicate with?"

"I will talk about any topic. Zhou Sang is the same as ordinary young people..."

Chinese journalists still care about the topic of Sino-Japanese football confrontation: "If you want to meet Zhou Yi, either in the first round of the knockout or in the final..."

Kagawa Masao smiled and waved, "I don't want to meet him before the final!"

This is what Chinese reporters love to listen to ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ because Kagawa Shinji thinks Zhou Yi is a powerful opponent who makes him trouble and doesn't want to meet.

However, some Chinese reporters also want to get to the bottom and ask some questions: "So if you meet him, who do you think will win?"

"Although I have a good relationship with Zhou Sang, if I meet in the game, I will not lose to him." Masagawa Kagawa said seriously. "I will try my best to defeat him."

He also showed the qualities a professional player should have.

"Do you have any agreement on the Asian Cup?" This Japanese question was asked by the reporter.

"Uh, it doesn't seem to be." Shinji Kagawa frowned and thought about it.

Facing this problem, Zhou Yi shook his head directly: "No."

This really disappoints the media-there is no agreement, how is this hype? (To be continued.) Activate new URL