Chapter 59 What It's Like to Start in Westphalia

Klopp is used to announcing the starting lineup in the dressing room of the stadium, so before that, no one knows who will start.

The time for football coaches to announce the starting lineup is different. Some people, like Klopp, do not announce until the last minute. Some coaches are used to telling the players who he will start the game one day in advance.

These two approaches have advantages and disadvantages, but each has its own reasons. So there is no meaning of which approach is better.

Although it is a home game, the players still have to stay at the hotel one day in advance. It's easier to manage - who knows what they'll be doing at night if they're all staying home?

This is bad for management, especially abstinence management. Even if these players stay at home honestly and don't go out to clubs, but if they have a few more rounds with their wives and girlfriends at night, tomorrow's game may become a hollow carrot and their feet will be weak.

On the day of the game, the players called the bus and rushed to the game field collectively.

The fans of Dortmund went earlier than the players. They were going to decorate the stadium, and those huge banners and banners needed to be installed in advance.

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When "Daddy" Bruno led his men to the South Stand, they hung a banner on the site of their "Black Gold" fan organization.

A huge line of words was written on this banner: "Zhouyi! Children from the South Stand!"

They came not only to cheer for Dortmund in this game, but also to cheer for Zhou Yi.

Mark's parents are also helping with Mark.

After doing all this, the players from both sides began to warm up.

"Look! He's out!"

With sharp eyes, Mark first spotted his friend Zhou Yi.

"Well... I was still looking around during the warm-up, and I didn't seem nervous at all!" Mark's mother, Mrs. Wagner, praised.

"Mom, he's the one who came off the bench to help the team win the game. Why be so nervous about warming up?" Mark felt that what his mother said was strange.

"What do you know, boy? Where is this? This is Westfalen! Is playing here the same as playing in that country?" Mrs. Wagner taught her son.

"Daddy" Bruno said on the side: "Your mother is right, Mark. Playing in Westfalen is definitely a different experience. But..." He changed the subject. "I don't think Zhou Yi will feel nervous even if he plays here. Because he is also a different person."

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Zhou Yi was indeed looking around when he was warming up on the court. His eyes scanned Westphalia into his mind. The stands were not full yet, but the momentum had already taken shape.

Especially the South Stand, where the fans are densest.

Zhou Yi thought that he could only stand there and watch the game before, but now he is standing in the stadium and being watched by the people there.

He set his sights on the area where he had stood before—the fourteenth row. It is slightly higher than the 16-meter-high barbed wire wall in front of the South Stand, and has an excellent view.

Sure enough, he saw a group of people there, it was "Papa" and the others!

Because Dortmund was warming up in this half of the stadium under the south stand, so the distance is very close, and Zhou Yi can even see the expressions on their faces clearly.

they are all here,

very nice.

After warming up, Zhou Yi followed his teammates back to the locker room, but he was stopped by someone on the way.

Zhou Yi also knew the person who stopped him. It was Norbert Dickel, the live broadcaster of the Westfalenstadion.

"Hi, Zhou Yi." Dicole called Zhou Yi to the side of the passage, not disturbing the passage of others. "I have a question I want to ask you."

"Speak, Mr. Dicole."

"Nobby. You can just call me Nobby, ha! You know, I'm going to read the player list later, but I've never read Chinese names before, so I want to ask you, according to our traditional habits It is customary for the first name to come before the surname. For example, I am Norbert Decole. Norbert is my first name and Decole is my last name. I will say Norbert first, and then the fans will call Decole. .But Chinese people are not like us...I call you 'Zhou Yi', but Zhou is not your name, right?"

"Yes." Zhou Yi nodded.

"Then should I read 'Yi Zhou' backwards according to our habit, or?"

"Well, I'm called 'Yi Zhou'. I always feel like I'm calling someone else. Nobi, you can just call me like you are doing now." Zhou Yi said.

"That is to say, follow your Chinese traditional habits?" Dicole confirmed.

"Yes, I'm used to it." Zhou Yi said.

"Oh, yes!" Decole nodded repeatedly.

"By the way, Nobby. Does this mean that I'm in the starting lineup?" Zhou Yi asked suddenly, and Dicole was caught off guard. He looked at Zhou Yi in surprise, and then shook his head quickly.

"No, you're overthinking, Zhou Yi. I just do my homework just in case. I'm a very serious broadcaster, haha!"

Although Zhou Yi was not able to find out from Dicole whether he was a starter, Zhou Yi also knew that he would know the answer to this question soon.

Because after warming up and returning to the locker room, Klopp is about to announce the starting lineup.

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Zhou Jianliang and Li Cuiyun sat in front of the TV, with two cups of tea on the coffee table.

The TV has been turned on, and the picture has been cut from the Westfalenstadion to the back studio in Beijing.

The commentator Duan Xin and the guest Tao Wei smiled at each other, and then Duan Xin said: "I think it's time for everyone to care about the starting list! Yes, we have already got the starting list of both sides for this game."

Zhou Jianliang straightened his back.

"Here we come!" He looked very excited.

"I can tell everyone first that Zhou Yi is the one everyone cares about the most..." Duan Xin paused, "It's starting!"

"Yeah!" Zhou Jianliang clenched his fist and waved it.

"What's so exciting about this?" Li Cuiyun complained about her own tactics, "He performed so well in the last game, shouldn't he be the starter?"

"Oh, you don't understand. Football is not that simple..." Zhou Jianliang didn't know how to explain it to his wife, and couldn't understand a few sentences.

"You just like to think too complicated!" Li Cuiyun countered.

Zhou Jianliang opened his mouth, but didn't speak, because after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be true. Just like buying football lottery, when he, a professional fan, thinks too much, he often can't buy it at all...

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Today is a game day, not just the Bundesliga, but the entire European football world is the day when the league is in full swing. Barcelona's first-team match is also today.

So this afternoon, La Masia did not arrange any training. Young players can go home and watch Barcelona's away game against Deportivo on TV.

He Ying was watching the game in the dormitory. But he didn't watch the Barcelona game, but watched the Dortmund and Nuremberg league games.

He didn't get to see the last Zhouyi competition, but he didn't want to miss it this time. Just listening to what Zhou Yi said was still not intuitive enough. He wanted to see how Zhou Yi played the game with his own eyes, so as to give himself a reference.

In Schalke, Germany, Yang Muge was not selected for the Schalke 04U19 match squad, and he stayed at home. Julian Draxler also felt sorry for Yang Muge. But Yang Muge comforted Draxler in turn, saying that he should also take a break after starting several games in a row.

In fact, the real reason why he has no regrets is that this way he can watch the Bundesliga game live at home, instead of listening to the radio on the way back like the last game.

The game he is concerned about is naturally not Schalke 04's home game against Hertha Berlin, but Dortmund's home game against Nuremberg.

At the same time, in London, England, and in Milan, Italy, everyone was staring at the match between Dortmund and Nuremberg on the TV...

Zhou Yi's game affected not only his parents and domestic fans, but also his companions in Europe.

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In the dressing room, Klopp also announced the starting lineup to his players.

Zhou Yi was indeed among them.

In fact, the teammates were not surprised that Zhou Yi would start. After all, everyone saw his performance in the last game. Since Shaheen was injured, why couldn't Zhou Yi start?

It would be strange if Zhou Yi didn't start.

Gross Kreutz touched Zhou Yi and winked at him.

And Gotze, who also entered the squad, failed to start...

After announcing the starting list, Klopp put forward the requirements for the game to the team.

"...I don't want to see another game like the last game, where we took the lead very early and then fell into a passive situation. This time we are fighting at home, don't give the opponent any chance to breathe! We must firmly control situation, no matter what the score is!"

When he said this, he glanced at Zhou Yi.

Controlling the situation is actually for Zhou Yi to listen to, because this is Zhou Yi's responsibility.

In this game, Shaheen was unable to play, and Zhou Yi, who replaced him, was an attacking midfielder, so Klopp made some adjustments to the team.

Sven Bender and captain Kyle served as the defensive midfielders for this game. Zhou Yi, Gross Kreutz, and Kuba lined up in front of them. Zhou Yi was in the middle, and the other two were separated to the left and right.

And the person at the top is Barrios.

Zidan was placed on the bench in this game and failed to start. Instead, the Egyptian became a victim of Zhou Yi's starting lineup - Klopp had always played 442 before. In this game, because Zhou Yi was going to start, he changed to 4231.

This is also because Zhou Yi's defensive ability is insufficient, and the defensive hardness of the midfield must be guaranteed.

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When the game was about to start, Zhou Yi and his teammates stood in the tunnel, waiting for the referee to take them out.

At this time, in the stadium outside, the live broadcaster Norbert Dicole was leading the fans to read the starting roster for the game aloud.

"Roman—!" he shouted in a drawn out voice.

Then the fans went on to shout: "Weidenfeller!!"

At the same time, information such as Weidenfeller's photo, number, location and name were also displayed on the big screen.

Just report them one by one.

When reporting to Bender, "Father" Bruno and the others excitedly said, "Hurry up!"

Sure enough, next, Norbert Dicole shouted: "Zhou——!!"

"easy!!!"

Bruno, Mark's parents, and Mark shouted at the top of their voices, almost hoarse.

The shouts of the fans were also clearly transmitted to the player channel.

The frenzied cry of "Zhouyi!" made Zhou Yi feel that all the pores in his body were opened, as if a burst of electric current rushed up from the ground through his feet, and finally rose to the top of his head, making his scalp numb!

He couldn't help but swayed.

Just one feeling - cool!

This is what it's like to play at the Westfalenstadion!

Even though he hasn't kicked yet...

But he couldn't wait to get the game started.

He feels that his dream is being realized step by step, and in the process of realizing it, there are always many memories worth cherishing for a lifetime.

Such as this first appearance in Westphalia.

This is the first time worth celebrating and commemorating!

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When the singing of "You will never walk alone" in the South Stand faded away, players from both sides came out.

Zhou Yi followed Gross Kreutz and moved forward with the large group. Ten seconds later, he finally stepped onto the turf of the Westfalenstadion.

"Look! It's our son!" Zhou Jianliang in front of the TV excitedly pointed at the TV screen.

At the same time, in front of countless TVs and computer screens in China, countless fans were as excited as Zhou Jianliang.

Finally, Zhouyi is starting!

And it's still starting at the Westfalenstadion!

For those Chinese fans who are also Dortmund fans, this is really a very happy moment. (To be continued) [This text is provided by Qihang Update Team x-on:冰山berg123]