Super Marshal

As early as the end of 2007, the German Professional Football League held a meeting to study and discuss, and finally decided to cancel the 2008 German League Cup. As for whether to continue to organize it in the future, it depends on the situation.

According to the explanation given by the chairman of the professional league, it is believed that it was affected by the European Cup, resulting in no profit from the event.

But everyone knows that this cup competition has been losing money. If it cannot recruit sponsorship, it can only be cancelled.

Without the German League Cup, Bayern Munich's preparation time is much looser. There is only one German Super Cup match at the end of July, followed by the first round of the German Cup, and in mid-August, the Bundesliga will usher in.

Coupled with the impact of the European Cup, Bayern Munich, which has many international players, has scheduled its training camp to mid-July.

The purpose is to allow the international football players to have a good rest after playing the national team games in the summer.

It can be said that Bayern Munich handled this aspect very loosely.

Gao Han's management philosophy has always been trust.

But the premise is that the players can live up to his trust.

Facts have proved that when the team regrouped and Wolfat led the medical team to conduct a physical examination on each player after returning to the team, the report submitted to Gao Han showed that each player's physical condition was in good condition.

At least, there is no overweight phenomenon.

This also proves that this group of players is relatively restrained even if they are on vacation.

Kahn retired and Van Bommel went to AC Milan. On the first day of training, Gao Han announced in public that Lahm would be the captain of the team and Bastian Schweinsteiger would be the vice-captain. Share the responsibility of managing the locker room.

For this reason, he communicated with Bastian Schweinsteiger and Lahm respectively the day before the training camp. Especially with Bastian Schweinsteiger, he said that the reason why he made such a decision was think throughly.

Under Gao Han's training, he transformed into the team's defensive midfielder. Bastian Schweinsteiger ushered in a new development in his career. He admired Gao Han greatly. Although he couldn't help but feel a little regretful that he could not become the captain, but He also said very sincerely that he would effectively perform his duties as vice-captain and assist Ram in managing the locker room.

On the first day of training, Ram began to fulfill his duties as captain. He came to the locker room early, prepared everything, and took the initiative to lead his teammates to warm up before training, playing the role of a captain well.

After last season's running-in, Bayern Munich's overall tactical framework has basically taken shape. Although Van Bommel was sold, Vidal has adapted to the midfield role, and no one will worry about the midfield problem.

Especially with the new addition Sami Khedira.

For this German midfielder who is very close to Van Bommel in height, everyone inside and outside the team basically understands him as Van Bommel's successor, thinking that he will challenge Vidal in the defensive tasks of Bayern Munich's midfield.

But this judgment is only half correct.

Gao Han's positioning of Khedira is indeed a defensive midfielder, but he is not Van Bommel's successor. He and Van Bommel are two different types of players and there is no comparison.

This was quickly realized as preparations for the season began.

Vidal is not tall, relatively flexible, has excellent running ability, has a wide range of movement, and is good at pressing and intercepting. He is characterized by close entanglement and pressing. He has a large range of movement and can be very destructive in densely populated midfield areas. His advantages are obvious. .

But the shortcomings are not small, for example, it is easy to foul, and the success rate of passing and receiving needs to be improved.

Khedira's characteristics are different from Vidal. First of all, he has high tactical execution and excellent running ability, but he is not fast and is better at running at a constant speed. He is calmer, does not foul often, and just moves with positive movements. To fill the gaps in the team's defense.

From a statistical point of view, he is not outstanding, and is even a bit bad, but when reflected on the court, the effect is very satisfactory.

Moreover, his passing ability should be better, more stable, not easy to foul, and has strong offensive ability in the back row.

To put it simply, the characteristics of the two are suitable for playing against different teams. If they play against a team that is intensive in the middle, Vidal will be used, and if they are an offensive player on the wing, Khedira will be used.

Gao Han's use of these two players is also different from last season.

With the rise of Atletico Madrid, Chelsea and Inter Milan, as well as Barcelona last season, the post-organization has become the standard for Europe's top teams, especially in the Champions League. More and more teams are beginning to adopt this kind of strategy. style of play.

He hopes that when Vidal and Khedira are on the court, they can be like nails, firmly driving into the depths of the opponent's formation. The target is the organizational midfielder. Therefore, their position on the court will be higher than Schweins. Tiger and Modric are further forward.

In the past, players who played this position were often No. 9 and a half players with excellent speed and foot skills, or players like Kaká who had strong ability to attack from behind.

But now, Gao Han wants Vidal and Khedira to assume such a role and act as a barrier for the team's midfield. Coupled with Bastian Schweinsteiger and Modric behind him, he believes that the midfield defense will be better than It improved last season.

In his opinion, the new season's European Super Cup match against Barcelona will be a test of his own tactics.

The opponent is strong enough, and Gao Han also attaches great importance to it. When adjusting the team's tactics and rehearsing the formation, he is also very meticulous. He even stops the training at every turn and immediately points out the mistakes made by Vidal or Khedira. errors and correct them.

Fortunately, after a year of familiarity, Vidal is very familiar with Gao Han's tactical ideas and concepts. Khedira has a high golf quotient and quick comprehension. The progress of both players is very satisfactory.

The midfield is beginning to form a fighting force, but Lewandowski and Royce in the frontcourt still need time.

Lewandowski is young and has little professional experience. He jumped directly from the Polish second division to the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich. This invisibly put a lot of pressure on him, while Gao Han has repeatedly Communicate with him and express his complete trust in him and will continue to give him opportunities. I hope he will not feel pressure and concentrate on playing football.

As for Royce, he is younger and has poor physical confrontation. He started to perform muscle strengthening training during the training camp, but it also takes time.

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As early as early February, Bayern Munich had basically determined the warm-up matches for the summer training camp.

A week after the team training, the team went to Lippstadt.

This place is Rummenigge's hometown, and this year is the centenary celebration of Lipstadt's founding team, so they will invite Bayern Munich to the game early as the finale of the celebration.

The arrival of Bayern Munich was also warmly welcomed by Lipstadt fans. Everyone rushed to see Gao Han, the top coach in Europe, and the many stars in the team.

Before the game started, Lipstadt specially prepared a wonderful celebration performance.

But when it came to the actual game, Bayern Munich showed no mercy, scoring seven of Lipstadt's goals in one go. It wasn't until the final stage of the game that Lipstadt scored one goal.

In the end, the Bundesliga giants retreated 7-1 away from home.

But even the fans at the scene knew that the reason Lipstadt was able to score a goal was due to Bayern Munich's mercy. The Bundesliga giant was not willing to give Lipstadt a goal on such an important holiday. Especially embarrassing.

The outcome of 7-1 made both teams happy.

After playing Lippstadt, Bayern Munich returned to Munich to continue training, but soon left for Nördlingen.

Nördlingen is the birthplace of Bayern Munich star Gerd Muller. In order to commemorate this great shooter, Nördlingen decided to name the city's park stadium after the team's 100th anniversary. Mueller Stadium.

As a guest, Bayern Munich was invited to participate in this centenary celebration and the renaming ceremony. At the same time, Bayern Munich will also hold a warm-up match with Nördlingen in this renamed stadium.

Gao Han also met this legendary shooter for the first time before this game.

Gerd Muller spoke highly of Gao Han's coaching performance last season, appreciating that Gao Han is on the road to becoming a legend, and believes that Gao Han's team has reached a new peak for Bayern Munich in recent years and will continue to do so again. Energized, fully capable of winning the Champions League.

Gao Han expressed his gratitude to Gerd Muller for his appreciation, and also invited Gerd Muller as the chief guest to sit in the coaching bench and watch this friendly match specially held for him.

There was no suspense in the game. Gao Han played a 4-3-3 formation in the first half, but tried a 3-4-3 formation in the second half. The result was still an 8-1 victory. The home team Nördlingen scored in an attack at the beginning of the second half. One goal.

But it is obvious that this is still a deliberate release from Bayern Munich.

It is particularly worth mentioning that in the last thirty minutes of the game, Gao Han replaced Thomas Muller.

This youngster from Bayern Munich's youth training performed well last season and has been hailed as the new Muller. In this game, he also performed very hard in front of his senior Gerd Muller. After coming on the field, he scored with a head kick and a kick. Two goals.

In an interview with the media after the game, Gerd Muller was full of praise for Bayern Munich's performance and believed that Gao Han could win everything with this team, including the Champions League.

As for Thomas Muller, Gerd Muller said that he is not the new Muller, he will become Thomas Muller.

"He doesn't need to be anyone, he should try to be himself."

This is undoubtedly a great inspiration for Thomas Muller.

Two days later, the team ushered in the third warm-up match, and the opponent was still the low-level league team Nabburg.

Although many fans in the outside world always criticize Bayern Munich's dominance of the Bundesliga and it is a disaster for German football, in fact, after Gao Han came to coach Bayern Munich, he was surprised to find that things were not that simple.

Just like these three warm-up games this summer.

If we follow the usual practice, Bayern Munich will not only have to charge an appearance fee of more than seven figures, but also share the ticket revenue. However, considering that the three teams are all low-level league teams and their finances are not generous, so Not only did Bayern Munich not charge an appearance fee, they also did not share in the ticket revenue.

You know, the three warm-up games attracted at least 20,000 fans to watch the game. The ticket revenue for each game reached six figures, which is no longer a small sum. However, Bayern Munich still gave away all the revenue free of charge. To the home team.

Not to mention other income such as competition investment and advertising sponsorship.

In the third warm-up match, Bayern Munich not only won without any suspense, but even scored the highest score, 11 to 1.

Among them, Toni Kroos scored a hat trick, Robben scored twice, and other offensive players also scored.

Three warm-up matches were won, and although the opponents were all weak, Bayern Munich was obviously in good shape. This also made many people sympathize with Dortmund's experience in the upcoming German Super Cup.