Chapter 498 Final Preparation

Located in the east of the Ruhr district, Dortmund is the seventh largest city in Germany and the largest canal seaport in Europe. Steel, beer and football are the symbols of Dortmund. Compared with the pillar industries beer and steel, Dortmund is most famous for their football.

Dortmund Club is not as famous as Bayern Munich, but no fan will mention that Dortmund does not know that this is a football club. In 1974, it took over the World Cup. In 1997, it defeated Juventus to win the Champions League and made its home stadium, Westerlandfa a world football team. In the past two years, due to economic problems, Dortmund's performance has declined rapidly and has faded out of the mainstream media. However, because of the UEFA Cup final, Dortmund and Westerland Stadium have once again become the focus of fans.

Before the most popular team in Europe, Inter Milan, and the most tenacious team, Liverpool, have not yet come to Dortmund, the German police are already enemies, because the fans of these two clubs are not fuel-efficient.

In the Hassel tragedy created by Liverpool fans in 1985, the bones of 39 Italian fans have been cold, but the reputation of British football hooligans is even louder. Sixteen years later, Liverpool once again reached the final of the European club competition, and the opponent is still the Italian team, which has already made UEFA and the German Football Association. I'm worried about sleeping with the German police.

Of course, Inter Milan's fans are by no means good people. Because they have been suppressed by the same city's sworn enemy AC Milan for a long time, the anger of the Neira Zuri has accumulated. This season, under the stimulation of the magical Jiang Mu, Inter Milan has turned hostility into courage. The team has been magically undefeated so far, and the fans have become extremely arrogant. In the last round of the league against Atlanta, extreme fans actually threw the opponent's fan's motorcycle off the stands. As a result, they were banned from two home games by the Football Association.

If the Dortmund government doesn't pay attention to these two clubs, they will really have a lot of belly.

Of course, the rigorous Germans will not make the stupid mistakes of the Belgians. During the ticketing, Liverpool and Inter Milan fans were completely isolated by neutral fans. To be on the safe side, the Dortmund Police Department sent 2,000 police officers to help manage the order inside and outside the field the day before the game. They fought It is regarded as a preview of the security work of the 2006 World Cup.

On Tuesday, all the players and coaches of the Reds Liverpool arrived at Dortmund first, accompanied by nearly 20,000 Reds fans, but this was only their advance force. According to the German Immigration Bureau, more than 60,000 English fans came to Dortmund to support their team this time.

After getting off the plane, they heard the familiar song of "You will never walk alone" and saw a red tide. Liverpool's generals did not feel like they came to a long-distance away game, which made them very happy.

Coach Hollior gave a brief interview to the reporter when the players signed a group photo for the fans. In the interview, Holliar continued to keep a low profile and continue to praise Inter Milan.

"Until now, I haven't determined the starting lineup, so I can't tell you who will be at Westernfa. Owen has a magical performance against Arsenal, and he can give us hope. Owen has made significant progress in header and left foot skills this season. If you look at his lively appearance, you will know that we will definitely win, but Husky and Fowler are also excellent. Inter Milan is a great team. In many ways, it can be seen that they are stronger than us. I must be careful, even if It's really like playing Barcelona, I think it's understandable, because this is the final of the UEFA Cup. So far, no English team has won three Cup titles in a season.

Holier is very cunning and old. He not only continues to carry out arrogant tactics against Inter Milan, but also uses three German players in his team to win the support of German fans.

"Although Inter Milan is stronger than ours, we also have our own advantages, that is, our impact is stronger. There are also some experienced veterans in our team, such as Babel, Harman and Sieg, three German players who once played for Bayern Munich in the 1996 league. In the cup final, they defeated Bordeaux to become the champion of this event. Their experience is very helpful to us. In addition, they returned to Germany to play, and I believe we will get more support from German fans.

Two hours after Liverpool, Inter Milan's soldiers also arrived at Dortmund.

Compared with Liverpool, Inter Milan has a bigger star brand and a better record. Their arrival has also caused a greater sensation. Not only thousands of Italian fans picked up, but also two or three hundred reporters came to Dortmund Airport.

Fighting in a foreign country, although the players of Inter Milan were a little tired after a long journey, Jiang Mu stayed at the airport for a short time, signed a photo for the fans, and said a few words with the reporters.

Jiang Mu is not as smooth as Hollier, but he is more popular with reporters than Hollier. In addition to Jiang Mu's young and handsome star, he also because of his sharp words, which can stimulate and attract the attention of fans.

At the beginning of the plane, Jiang Mu said to the reporter in the first sentence: "The last time I led Alkmaar to only one draw here, but we finally won the Champions League. This time, I hope to take advantage of the good luck brought to me by Westerland Stadium to win a League Cup championship."

When the reporter asked Jiang Mu if Ronaldo, who played a hat-trick in the last game, would start this time, Jiang Mu replied, "In such an important game, I must send the best player. If Ronaldo performs well in training, of course he will get a chance to start."

"Isn't Ronaldo in a good state? There are only four players in the Milan derby who have a hat-trick. The reporter couldn't help asking.

"Of course, Ronaldo in the Milan derby is excellent, but now Ronaldo needs to compete with other players for this starting position. We have enough excellent strikers."

Of course, Jiang Mu will not punish Ronaldo himself, and he will definitely not reveal the news of starting in this final. With Hollior's personality, he will definitely think that Ronaldo must start in this game. It is Jiang Mu's favorite thing to make a little trouble for the opponent's preparation.

After returning to the scheduled hotel for lunch, Jiang Mu held a short meeting for the players, mainly to reiterate the team's record of going out and let the players pay attention to their words and deeds and not violate discipline. Then let the players take a lunch break to prepare for the afternoon's adaptive training.

As soon as Jiang Mu returned to his room after the meeting, he received a call from Yang Chen.

Yang Chen is the first Chinese player to land in the five major leagues. He performed very well in Frankfurt. He is the first Chinese foreign players, and Jiang Mu is the only coach to stay abroad. The two met during the Chinese friendship during the Spring Festival, but they did not have a deep friendship.

Yang Chen is also a professional player. He knew that Jiang Mu was not in the mood to talk to his fellow villagers at this time. He called mainly to cheer for Jiang Mu. He made an appointment in advance to invite Jiang Mu to dinner after the game and get together with his fellow villagers playing in Europe.

Everyone is in the same circle, and there may be opportunities for cooperation in the future. Jiang Mu did not refute Yang Chen's face and promised to stay in Dortmund for a day after the game and then return to Italy.

The Weaslumfa Stadium was originally built for the 1974 World Cup. Eight 62-meter-high yellow pillars have become the eye-catching feature of the stadium and become the gorgeous symbol of the city of Dortmund. Dortmund Club uses this stadium as its home court. The capacity of seats and standing seats in the domestic league is 81,264. When the international competition is held, the full seats can accommodate 67,000 people. The length and width of the court, the length of the turf and the number of fans are not much different from Meacha. The players feel very comfortable when training on it, and they can even find a sense of home.

At the end of Inter Milan's training, Liverpool's players also adapted to the training under the leadership of Houllier. Jiang Mu saw the champion's opponent coming. He not only did not avoid it, but took the players to sit in the stands to watch Liverpool's training. He also commented, which made Liverpool very angry. There was such a The opponents were watching. Of course, they couldn't take out real things to train, so they had to do things hastily. However, when they left, Holier and his disciples were still scolding Jiang Mu for having no demeanor and did not deserve to be the head coach of a rich family like Inter Milan.

Jiang Mu held a team meeting again in the evening. Since he came to Inter Milan, there have been more meetings in the team, which has been criticized by Inter Milan's players, because Jiang Mu's meeting sometimes takes up some of the players' time, but the effect of the meeting is also obvious, that is, the players are more united and more energetic. There is more communication with the coach's teammates.

At this meeting, Jiang Mu focused on some Liverpool's marginal players such as Harman, Babel and McAllister. Although they are not as famous as Owen, Gerard, Haipire, Husky and Fowler, their strength should not be underestimated. They often decide to play when the strength of the two sides is similar. The process is full of small people.

Jiang Mu emphasized this time that the player is the oldest of the 36 players from both sides who came to Dortmund. The Scottish veteran is 36 years old this year. When he transferred in the summer, he used the Bosman Act to come to Liverpool with zero transfer fee. At that time, he was also questioned by the media and Liverpool's senior management, because McAulister is 35 years old and should have retired long ago. What's the use of a rich family like Liverpool to have such a player? Anfield is not a nursing home.

However, McAllister repelled doubts from the outside world with excellent performance. In the League Cup final against Birmingham City, he made up after the second half of the game. Until overtime, the two sides still tied 1-1. He scored the first goal for Liverpool in the penalty shootout stage. Assist the team to advance with a score of 5-4. In the home game in the second round of the top four of the UEFA Cup, McAllister scored a penalty to help Liverpool beat Barcellone and successfully reach the final. In the last round of the league, in Liverpool's Merseysideshire derby against Everton, McCallister defeated his opponent with a free kick 44 yards away in 94 minutes. In the just-concluded FA final against Arsenal, McCallister was a substitute, but it was one of his free kicks to help Owen make up for the shot, and finally Reversing Arsenal to win the championship.

McAllister is not well-known, very old, and often plays as a substitute, but his role is very large. Jiang Mu repeatedly stressed that he must deal with this veteran seriously if he appears on the court.

Although the players of Inter Milan don't care about Jiang Mu's small questions, since Jiang Mu emphasized it so much, they still hastily studied McLister to prepare for this old man to play.