Chapter 274 Passing By

Whether it is the special training of the Dortmund team or Zhou Yi alone, they are all in progress.

Klopp issued a special gag order to all players and did not allow them to reveal the addition of such a training facility to the training base before the end of the two-leg match against Barcelona.

For him, this is the secret weapon against Barcelona. If it is leaked in advance, how can it be regarded as a "secret weapon"?

In this way, the entire Dortmund is secretly preparing for the game against Barcelona.

During this period, in the twenty-sixth round of the league, Dortmund defeated Werder Bremen 1:0 at home and continued to maintain their lead in the league standings.

March 25th, the twenty-seventh round of the league, was the last league game before the first leg against Barcelona.

Before this game, everyone thought that Klopp would definitely rotate in this game. He would replace most of the main players in preparation for the game against Barcelona.

Although everyone thinks Klopp's move is a bit in vain, Klopp will still do it.

Sure enough, in Dortmund's away game against Cologne, most of Dortmund's main players, including Zhou Yi, rested, and some were not even included in the game roster, such as Zhou Yi.

Dortmund, who replaced two-thirds of their main players, still defeated Cologne away from home, and surprisingly, their advantage was still very obvious.

In the first half, Cologne was able to maintain a 1:1 tie with Dortmund at home. However, in the second half, Dortmund suddenly showed strength and scored five goals in a row... and finally defeated Cologne with such a disparity of 6:1.

You must know that this is just a Dortmund team in which most of the main players have been rotated.

After this game, the German media exclaimed that Dortmund's dominance in the Bundesliga is astonishingly high. They have been able to slaughter their opponents with their bench lineup.

Some media believe that meeting Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals may be a good thing for Dortmund. Because once they are eliminated, they can completely concentrate on the league. By then, with their dominance and huge points advantage in the league, neither Bayern Munich nor Schalke 04 will be able to pose a threat to them.

The league championship this season is very likely to be theirs, and Dortmund will successfully defend the title!

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Ended the away game against Cologne,

The Dortmund team returned to their base camp and media reported that they began preparations for the game against Barcelona.

But in fact, Dortmund has already started preparations for the game against Barcelona.

Of course, no one knows Dortmund's secret weapon. Dortmund's players are tight-lipped. This fully demonstrates Klopp's prestige within this team.

As the Champions League game approaches, there are more and more reports about this game in the media.

Catalan media exposed the relationship between Zhouyi and Barcelona.

The Catalan reporter who was choked by Zhou Yi last time went back and devoted himself to digging up the story between Zhou Yi and Barcelona.

In fact, he dug it out quickly, but the reason why he didn't report it was because he couldn't believe the story, so he spent more time checking with various sources, hoping to prove that the story was false. It was the Chinese media. The product of self-obsession.

But unfortunately, after checking with many parties, he found that this was what really happened and was not a story made up by someone to attract attention.

Near the end of the reality show, the reality show team from China was scheduled to play another game with Barcelona's youth team La Masia U17. In the first match between the two sides, the La Masia youth team had an absolute advantage. They only defeated the Chinese football teenagers by 12 goals relatively politely.

It stands to reason that the result of this last game is without any suspense.

As a result, the La Masia youth team was defeated by the Chinese football teenagers in this game!

It was Zhou Yi who scored the winning goal for the Chinese team and defeated La Masia.

With his outstanding performance in the game, Zhou Yi deservedly won the favor of La Masia.

So far, it is an inspirational story about a young man who finally got favored by the goddess of luck through hard work.

Few people can resist the call from La Masia.

But Zhou Yi refused.

He really rejected La Masia's invitation, rather than La Masia looking down on him.

This is really not made up by the British media and the Chinese media.

This reporter interviewed Garcia, La Masia's technical director at the time, and he was the person responsible for recruiting Zhou Yi.

He told reporters in detail the "confrontation" between him and Zhou Yi at that time.

"...We came a step late, and he had already reached an agreement with Dortmund. Despite this, I still tried hard to convince him, but he insisted on abiding by the previous agreement with Dortmund...Seeing his performance in Dortmund now , sometimes I still regret not being able to sign him. He is the player closest to Harvey's successor in my mind..."

Garcia gave Zhou Yi a very high evaluation.

This surprised the reporter.

Barcelona's media and fans have always been worried about who will be Barcelona's midfield brain after Xavi retires.

There is probably no other player in the world who can play like Xavi.

But La Masia's technical director believes that Zhou Yi can be Xavi's perfect successor.

It's a pity that this perfect successor is now in Dortmund...

After he published this past incident, it quickly attracted more attention.

During the previous match between Dortmund and Arsenal, media reported that Zhou Yi had attracted interest from Arsenal and Barcelona, ​​but he ultimately chose Dortmund.

Because it was reported by the English media at the time, the focus of the report was naturally on Zhou Yi's rejection of Arsenal. As for the story of Zhou Yi and Barcelona, ​​it was not described in detail and was only briefly touched upon.

Now through this report, everyone finally knows the details of Zhou Yi's rejection of Barcelona.

For people who didn't know much about this before, it was an eye-opener.

Everyone knows that the La Masia Youth Academy’s status in football youth training is no exaggeration. It may be more important than Barcelona’s status in world football.

If a teenager can be spotted by La Masia, it will be a major event worthy of his country's media, and this player will immediately be dubbed a "genius".

Being trained at La Masia is the highest dream of almost every football kid in the world. No one can refuse this invitation.

But Zhou Yi refused.

And he refused very firmly.

If it had been at that time, many people would have thought Zhou Yi was crazy. He would have regretted it for the rest of his life if he rejected this invitation from La Masia.

But now, such words cannot be said.

Looking at Zhou Yi's achievements in Dortmund, he has just turned 20 and is already the core of Dortmund's midfield. In the entire European football world, his performance can be ranked among the top ten midfield players.

If he had chosen La Masia, could he have pushed Xavi to the bench in Barcelona's first team?

No matter how you look at it, this is almost impossible.

So no one can say that Zhou Yi's choice to join Dortmund was a failure.

His experience once again proves an unbreakable truth, that is, "Once you enter a wealthy club, it is as deep as the sea." Barcelona's youth training camp La Masia is a paradise for football geniuses, but Barcelona's first team may not be.

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Guardiola is studying their opponents in the Champions League quarter-finals, something he has been doing for some time now.

Although the outside world believes that with Barcelona's current strength, they can completely compete in Europe. No one can stop them. The only person who can stop them from defending the title is probably God.

But Guardiola doesn't think so. There are too many uncertainties in football matches. Even if Barcelona's current strength is higher, it doesn't mean anything. This is not a guarantee of winning.

Last season, Dortmund participated in the Champions League for the first time in many years. Before the game, everyone thought that Dortmund came to experience the atmosphere of the Champions League, but who knew that they would reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League in the end.

Those teams that underestimated them have become their victims.

Guardiola dare not underestimate this team.

The most important player of this team is of course their core Zhou Yi. This young midfield talent is the driving force behind Dortmund.

After observing and analyzing Zhouyi, Guardiola discovered that this kid is really similar to Xavi...

Especially the way he keeps shaking his head to observe when playing football is exactly the same as Xavi!

At this time, Guardiola learned that Barcelona had even passed Zhou Yi...

Guardiola found it incredible when he saw reports in the Catalan local media about Zhou Yi's rejection of Barcelona's invitation.

We actually almost got Zhou Yi?

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Ps, I'm sorry to inform you that the constant hesitation about the European Cup has caused abnormal work and rest, and my body is a little unable to bear it, and I can't concentrate, so my manuscripts have dropped sharply. Now there are only eight chapters left in the archived manuscript, less than ten. I have to start the rhythm of one update a day again.

I'm really sorry, I will restore the number of saved manuscripts as soon as possible... (To be continued ~^~)