In the first round, or the second round of La Liga in the new season, the strength and weakness situation are already obvious.

Real Madrid beat Zaragoza 6:0 away, which undoubtedly completely sounded the clarion call for winning the La Liga championship. Zaragoza is not a weak team. This team is a La Liga powerhouse for many years. Its strength itself is not weak and it is also a home game. Real Madrid can beat Zaragoza 6:0, and there is no need to say much about its strength.

Valencia narrowly defeated Atletico Santander 4:3 at home, Atletico Madrid tied Osasuna 0:0 at home, and Falcao, who was highly expected by Manzano, failed to save the bed sheet army, Sevilla reversed Malaga 2:1, and Barcelona defeated Villarrel 2:0 at home.

After this round of matches, Real Madrid ranked first in La Liga with a big victory. Although Barcelona ranked second, the game against Villarrel was very thrilling, and to some extent, it was a narrow victory.

Everyone also predicted that Real Madrid is still the biggest favorite for La Liga champions this season.

If Real Madrid wins the championship again this season, then it will successfully complete six consecutive dominances in La Liga, which is undoubtedly a great feat that has never been seen in La Liga history. In addition, three consecutive championships in the Champions League will undoubtedly make Real Madrid the most powerful team in Spain, or even the history of football, and may not even be used.

After the second round of La Liga, Yang Cheng took his coaching staff to Germany.

After a round of rectification, Yang Cheng's German national team has made great progress in discipline. As the European Cup approaches, the advantages of the qualifiers are obvious, and Yang Cheng has also gradually entered the preparation stage.

As early as the end of August, Yang Cheng asked Paul Bayer to announce the new national team roster on the official website of the German Football Association, and asked Paul Bayer to call the players separately. It can be said that from now on, Yang Cheng will enter the selection stage of the European Cup lineup, so his training list this time has also attracted much attention.

The three goalkeepers are Neuer, Adler and Vizer, which is not much suspense. Neuer has completely gained a foothold in the national team. He also transferred to Bayern Munich this summer. He became a member of the national team's Bayern gang and is a veritable number one goalkeeper in the national team.

Yang Cheng also has high hopes for Neuer. Deepalma also attaches great importance to this new German goalkeeper with standard goalkeeper and no obvious flaws. In Deepalma's view, Neuer and Adler will be the most powerful and potential goalkeepers among the new German goalkeepers, and they are enough to shoulder the heavy responsibility in the future.

There are also some old faces on the defense line, Ram, Jerome Boateng, Badstuber, Tresch, Mertsacker, Hummels, Kyle and Schmelzer. Dortmund's left-back is a player that Yang Cheng summoned to the team to focus on. He wants to try more full-back candidates.

The German team does not have the tactics similar to Real Madrid. The defense line cannot be pushed too far. Otherwise, the flaw of turning slowly will be enough to completely collapse the German defense line. Therefore, in Yang Cheng's plan, the German team must pay attention to the full-back participation in the offensive strength.

The midfielders are Schweinsteiger, Ozil, Tony Klos, Gotze, Deisler, Sven Bend, and Lars Bend. The most eye-catching thing is that Khedira is re-selected in the national team training list. This is after Khedira was kicked out of the roster by Yang Cheng. After more than half a year of absence, he was re-selected in the national team training camp.

Yang Cheng always attaches great importance to Khedira, because in his opinion, Khedira is a player with both obvious advantages and disadvantages. The key is to see how to use it and whether he can change his shortcomings.

There was no suspense on the front line. Klose, Gomez, Thomas Muller and Podolski, all four players were once again selected for the national team.

By the way, Barack, who was injured, announced to the public through the official website of Kaiserslautern. After the end of this season, he will retire from football, but this time, Yang Cheng still brought him to the national team, but not the training list, but as his assistant.

Media around the world praised the friendship between Yang Cheng and Barack because Barack was promoted by Yang Cheng. The first group of players under Yang Cheng's leadership was Barack, who entered the professional football world under Yang Cheng's leadership.

Now more than ten years have passed, but Barack and Yang Cheng announced that they would retire at the same time. This is somewhat sad, but isn’t it a beautiful story?

However, unlike Barack's retirement, Yang Cheng only retired from the professional league. He will devote himself fully to the work of the head coach of the German national team. Yang Cheng undoubtedly hopes that Barack can continue to stay in the German national team.

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The German national team has always had a little-known tradition, which is similar to Liverpool's boot room culture.

From Neilz to becoming the first head coach in German team history in 1926, Herberg was later an assistant to Neilz. Herberg's assistant Shoun inherited Herberg's position, and later Deval, Beckenbauer and Fogtz, they were all of the same boot room culture.

Either he is the assistant of the former coach or the former international player, these are two major sources of the head coach of the German national team. Among them, there are even former stars like Woller who have just retired and have never coached a formal game and have directly jumped to the head coach of the national team.

From Klinsmann to Loew, they still maintained the boot room culture to the greatest extent, but it was obvious that when it came to Yang Cheng, there were drastic changes in the German football world.

First of all, Yang Cheng is the first non-German head coach, and he is neither a former star nor a former assistant, but he is the most influential head coach in Germany in recent decades. He has fully promoted the reform of Germany's youth training system and played an important role in international football. He is known as the godfather of German football.

Because of this series of reasons, all German fans affirmed and recognized Yang Cheng's coach of the German national team, and no one would doubt the loss of boot room culture. On the contrary, they all had high hopes for Yang Cheng, hoping that he could revive the spirit and style of the German national team and let the soft German team coached by Loew return to tradition.

Loew's contribution to the German national team is worthy of recognition, but the problem is that he has never been able to lead the current German team to complete the transformation. His coaching style and personality make him destined to be a tragic figure forever, and the reason why he cannot control the German team's locker room is that he is afraid.

He is afraid of personality, afraid of thorns, and afraid of resistance. In the world of Loew, he hopes that everyone in the entire German team will be very obedient and mediocre, preferably without personality, are all weirdly obedient and get along well. Therefore, he cannot tolerate a player like Barack and Flins.

Grannak once said in his column that the German team under Loeve cannot get Beckenbauer!

Why?

The reason is very simple, personality!

Look at how awesome the football emperor was back then. Head coach Shaoen didn't trust him to play free agents, so he tried his best to persuade Shaoen to agree that in the 1974 World Cup, he lost to East Germany in the group stage. Beckenbauer directly deprived the head coach Shaoen of command. He denounced his teammates' performance, formulated his own tactics and starting lineup, and then went on TV to explain all this to the public.

At that time, both inside and outside the national team gave great doubts and even opposition to Beckenbauer's actions. But in the end, he led the team to win the championship and won the Hercules Cup, which was the role of the leader at the critical moment!

Let’s look at Mattus, Klinsman, Bremer, Effenberg, Kahn, and now Barack, who are all big-name figures with one word, but all of this has completely disappeared after Barack was slapped!

In Germany, football is faith and war. Players are soldiers, and captains are officers. The duty of soldiers is to obey orders. It is an extraordinary event for soldiers to resist officers. However, Löw easily downplayed the matter, resulting in the complete collapse of German locker room culture and the captain's status and authority plummeted.

There is a saying that goes very well, destruction is always simpler and faster than construction.

Yang Cheng wants to reorganize the German team's locker room culture and revitalize the team's playing style. This is destined to be a long-term battle, and it cannot be achieved overnight. Therefore, he hopes to retain Barack not only for the current national team, but also for the future.

So, on the first day of arriving at the German national team training camp, when Yang Cheng saw Barak, he asked Barak straight to the point, "What are you planning to do after you retire?"

The latter was obviously confused. His agent once advised him to go to the United States, China, or Qatar to retire, but he didn't want to be so mediocre and play football for money, so he rejected this proposal, but he really felt unsure of what he wanted to do.

He has been playing football for more than ten years and suddenly retired. He is a little scared and confused, and doesn't know what to do.

"Do you want to go over to receive coaching training and take a coaching certificate?" Yang Cheng asked with a smile.

"Me?" Barack was startled, then laughed, "Boss, don't tease me, can it work with my personality?"

Yang Cheng smiled slightly, "Personality has always been a double-edged sword. The key is to see if you control it or it controls you!"

"Besides, I have always believed that all outstanding talents must be very individual. Anyone with outstanding personal charm has extraordinary personalities, because only those with strong personalities can infect the people around you and lead a team with personality!"

Löff was afraid of personality because the personalities of Barack and others made him feel pressured, making him feel that his head coach lacked the right to speak in the locker room, but Yang Cheng was not afraid. Barack was brought out by him, and he had enough confidence to control this fierce horse and control the entire locker room.

"After the European Cup, retire, leave the stadium, put on a suit and sportswear, and go to the coach's seat to help me manage the locker room!" Yang Cheng walked to Barack and instigated with a smile.

Barack looked up and looked at the serious Yang Cheng. He knew that the boss was not joking today. He had some thoughts in his mind. After all, entering the national team's locker room may not be a good way out.

Now that he has retired, he doesn't need to worry about money, but he can't do anything. In his current situation, he either goes to the TV station to work as a commentator, writes columns, or works in the Kaiserslautern Club, but these are not what he wants.

The suggestions made by Yang Cheng are very suitable for his taste. They will not be very hard without football, and they can learn things under Yang Cheng's hands. This is really a good choice for Barack.

"Don't reply to me so quickly. I'll give you enough time to think about it!" Yang Cheng said with a smile.

For the time being, all the progress of the national team is still smooth. At present, the little guys are being tossed by him. Schweinsteiger has gradually shown some sense of responsibility and responsibility. Ram has also assumed the responsibility of captaining the team, with these two players as the core, and currently there are many players in the team from Bayern, which makes everything for the national team develop in a good direction.

But as Saki said, there is still a long way to go before challenging Spain!

Yang Cheng must build this German team into shape as soon as possible in the remaining year. Otherwise, in next year's European Cup, the German team will continue to be sad and continue to live in the shadow of Spain!

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In the game against Austria, Yang Cheng continued to play with the entire main lineup.

The goalkeepers are Neuer. The defense lines are Ram, Kyle, Hummels and Jerome Boateng. The double midfielders are Schweinsteiger and Sven Bend. The attacking forwards are Thomas Muller, Ozil and Deisler, and the single forward is Klose. There are a total of 7 players from Bayern Munich.

Bayern Munich, trained by Pellegrini, advocates rapid offense, which is very close to Yang Cheng's request, which makes the current German team organized with Bayern Munich players as the team, making it much easier to get started. The players cooperate with each other more skillfully.

In the game against Austria, the German team easily defeated Austria 6:1 at home with its overall strength advantage, and then raised its head to advance from the group with an impressive record of 7 games and 7 wins, becoming the first team in Europe to enter the European Cup in Ukraine and Poland.

But three days later, the team challenged Belgium away. Germany, which had already advanced early, tied with Belgium 1:1 away. Although Gotze scored a winning goal for the German team, Belgium equalized the score in the second half, which made Yang Cheng very dissatisfied.

Yang Cheng rotated the central defender in the away game against Belgium. Badstuber and Hummels partnered with the central defender. Mertesak was not in good shape after being injured and failed to get a chance to play in two consecutive games.

Schmelzer and Tresch form full-backs, Khedira and Tony Klos form double midfielders, Lars Bend, Gotze and Podolski form attacking forwards, and Gomez occupy a single forward.

From the game, Gotze was eye-catching. The 19-year-old player showed excellent competitive state and personal strength. After Tony Klos got the ball from the midfield, he suddenly decided to drive the ball forward and penetrated it to the front of the penalty area. Gotze quickly stepped forward to the goal, rubbed it gently with his instep, and hit the ball into the Belgian goal.

This offense comes from the cooperation between the two young players. Yang Cheng praised Gotze and Tony Close's performance.

"Tony is the kind of player who is very talented. He can play as a front midfielder, midfielder or even a back midfielder. He will be the future leader of the German team. I believe this very much, but the key is whether he can maintain self-discipline and work hard to improve his strength and level."

"Getze is a very promising rookie. I watched his series of performances in the league and I am convinced that he will play an important role in the future German team."

But while Yang Cheng gave affirmation and encouragement, he also did not forget to give a big stick.

"Of the group of their peers, Tony Klos and Gotze are both outstanding, and there is no doubt that, but in two years and five years, we will look back and see if they can still maintain this momentum? This is the key!"

"Football has never lacked young geniuses, but not all young geniuses can eventually become talented. I hope that a large number of young players such as Tony Klos, Gotze, Thomas Muller can continue to maintain a good mentality and continue to improve. Then I believe that they will soon become the backbone of German football!"

However, Yang Cheng seemed not satisfied with the defense.

"I'm very grateful that we just lost a goal, and we were very lucky and didn't lose the game!"

Defence has obviously become a big problem for the German team!

Kyle is strong, but his injuries are beginning to increase, and he is not young anymore. Mertesacker suffered injuries after transferring to Arsenal and his condition has never recovered. Yang Cheng used the combination of Budstuber and Hummels, but the two of them have never formed enough tacit understanding.

In Friedrich, Metzeld and others gradually faded out of the national team. Yang Cheng is gradually promoting some players who meet their requirements to shoulder the heavy responsibility, and the metabolism of the national team's central defenders is also necessary, which undoubtedly becomes a major hidden danger.

Of course, the draw against Belgium has to some extent related to Yang Cheng's large rotation of the player lineup. He hopes to test the substitute lineup and bench thickness through this kind of game. The results also show that there are also players in the German team's bench lineup that have impacted the main lineup.

Gotze is still young and cannot compete with Ozil for the time being, but Podolski has been in good shape recently. He is in excellent form, both in the club and in the national team, and his scoring ability is stronger. In contrast, Desler has declined a lot in his condition recently. After all, he is indeed quite old. Once he gets more injuries, his condition will easily decline.

"The gains from this game are very rich. He told us the fact that before the European Cup, we still have a lot of important work and we must complete it!"

Therefore, after ending this European Cup qualifier, Yang Cheng did not choose to return to Madrid, but went straight to his alma mater, University of Leipzig!
Chapter completed!