Midfielder Ruler

"The Gutman spell?"

When Hummels put the latest issue of "Bild" in front of Tang Zheng, Tang Zheng said with a strange expression: "What the hell?"

"You'll know it when you look at it."

After spending five minutes, Tang Zheng understood what the 'Gutman's Curse' was like.

As an atheist, Tang Zheng naturally wouldn't foolishly believe that Benfica's defeat in the past five Champions League finals and one UEFA Cup was due to the 'Gutman Curse'.

The so-called "Gutman's Curse" should be that the Benfica team at the time was too conceited. After all, they defeated the flourishing Real Madrid and Barcelona defending Champions League champions, so they naturally didn't care about the "curse" that the head coach said before leaving the team.

So in the UEFA Champions League final for the third consecutive season, there will naturally be some neglect, and the loss to AC Milan in the final will become reasonable.

At that time, Benfica led by Eusebio was in full swing, stronger than AC Milan led by Altafini, and the game process made many fans feel that this was the "Gutman curse" that played a role-Eusebio broke In the stalemate, Altafini scored twice to reverse the main victory.

The subsequent 1964-1965 season and the 1967-1968 UEFA Champions League finals had certain contingencies. The 1964-1965 season was the "Great Inter Milan Era", and the final venue was held at the Meazza Stadium.

The 1967-1968 UEFA Champions League final was somewhat similar to the 1964-1965 UEFA Champions League final. The final venue was held at the old Wembley Stadium, which was equivalent to half of Manchester United's home court. At that time, Manchester United had geniuses George Best and Bobby Charlton. , The overall strength of Benfica, where Eusebio is located, is stronger.

As for the detailed report that follows, Tang Zheng no longer has the desire to read on.

By the end of the 1980s, the level of Portuguese football had declined severely. It was reasonable to fail to win the Champions League, and it had nothing to do with the "Gutmann Curse".

"It's boring." Tang Zheng put the "Bild" in his hand on the table, and continued to deal with the delicious food in front of him.

"Don't you think we have a chance of winning?" Hummels was surprised by Tang Zheng's reaction.

Tang Zheng rested his hands on the dining room table, and looked at Hummels with a serious face: "I said Maer, you can't pay too much attention to the so-called curse, serious competition is the kingly way, and your carelessness will cause the team to lose. If you lose the final, I will not let you go."

"Is it necessary to be so serious?"

Hummels' expression was a little unnatural.

"The final is very rigorous. We lost Lucas and Kevin in the final, and Mario can only serve as a substitute. If you, as the main central defender, put too much attention on the sidelines, we will only suffer. ,do you know?"

Listening to Tang Zheng's analysis, Hummels nodded half understanding.

With half a day left before the match, Tang Zheng focused on the delicious food in front of him when he saw Hummels nodding naturally.

Of course, this delicacy is to be put in quotation marks.

The food of professional players has always been highly nutritious, and they don't pay attention to the taste.

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The venue for the 2010-2011 UEFA Europa League final was the Dublin Stadium in the capital of Ireland. Speaking of which, this stadium is quite interesting. The Irish media called it the most morally unfinished project in history.

In 2007, three-quarters of the stadium was built and suddenly ran out of money, more amateur than amateur.

Moreover, there were some problems in the design. In order to ensure the lighting of the residential buildings separated by a road from the stadium, the height of the north stand of the stadium was much shorter than that of the other three stands.

However, this stadium is very good. It is the only five-star European football stadium in Ireland. It is the home of the Irish national football team and rugby team and can accommodate 50,000 fans.

More than two hours before the game time, a large number of fans gathered in the square outside the stadium-Dortmund fans, Benfica fans and neutral fans.

Among the fans here, Dortmund fans are the most.

Dortmund under Klopp's coaching style is good-looking, very aggressive and entertaining. Many neutral fans like to watch Dortmund's games.

At this time, many media also came to the outside of the Dublin Stadium to take pictures in advance and interview fans from all over the world.

Zhao Lina is tall and naturally beautiful, even wearing a pair of sunglasses that can cover the entire face is hard to hide, and He Mengdi, who is walking side by side, is not wearing sunglasses. She is petite and cute and attracts countless passers-by Fans pay attention.

When they were queuing up to enter the arena with their tickets, they met a middle-aged reporter holding a "Sports Weekly" logo microphone for interviews.

New Wolf Sports reporter tried to say in Chinese: "Chinese?"

"Well, yes." Before Zhao Lina could speak, He Mengdi who came with her spoke first.

"Are you here to cheer Tang Zheng on?"

"Of course." He Mengdi pulled Zhao Lina to turn around Miaoman's figure, and turned to the staff wearing Dortmund's No. 10 jersey, "We are both."

Actually, this question is redundant.

As long as the Chinese fans came to the Dublin Stadium, it was all to support Tang Zheng and witness him get the first European championship trophy in his career.

Although He Mengdi is young and beautiful, with a graceful figure, the reporter of "Sports Weekly" has seen the world, so he didn't pay too much attention. Instead, he turned his head and asked Zhao Lina, who was taller than ordinary Chinese men: " It's a bit presumptuous, I want to ask, have we met before?"

"Uncle, your routine is outdated."

The middle-aged reporter was embarrassed, but Zhao Lina took off her sunglasses and said with a smile, "Uncle Xu, don't you remember me?"

Seeing Zhao Lina's true face, Xu Wei slapped his forehead suddenly: "I just said why is it so familiar, so it's you."

This season, Zhao Lina has become the No. 2 goalkeeper in the Frankfurt women's football team. She mainly plays in cup matches and occasionally has the opportunity to play in the league. Xu Wei, who is in charge of the international football section, interviewed this season.

Both the domestic media and the German media have reported on the scandal between Tang Zheng and Zhao Lina, so Xu Wei gave a meaningful look: "Did you come here to cheer Tang Zheng on purpose?"

"En." Zhao Lina instantly understood Xu Wei's expression and nodded embarrassedly.

"Aww-"

At this moment, loud cheers sounded from the side near the main road outside the square.

It turned out that Dortmund arrived at the stadium by bus.

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Hearing the cheers from outside the bus, Tang Zheng who was sitting by the window opened the curtains and looked out of the car through the glass.

A large number of Dortmund fans in yellow and black jerseys held up banners, slogans and fan scarves, standing outside the bus and shouting hysterically.

"Tannnnnnnnnnnnnng—"

Maybe it was the sharp-eyed Dortmund fans shouting crazily when they saw Tang Zheng who opened the curtains.

"Champion champion!!"

"We need champions!"

Tang Zheng had seen this kind of scene countless times, but every time he was very moved, so he gave a thumbs up to the Dortmund fans outside the glass window to show his response.

His action caused even louder cheers from the fans.

Hearing the shouts almost like a tsunami, Tang Zheng naturally clenched his fists, raised his head slightly, looked at the very beautiful Dublin Stadium, and encouraged himself in his heart: "We must take away the championship trophy!"

Not half a minute after Dortmund drove in on the bus, Benfica also drove in on the bus, Dortmund fans

Gaitan, who was sitting by the window, looked out of the stadium through the glass window, and what imprinted in his eyes was the crowd of Dortmund fans, which was simply a sea of ​​yellow and black.

At the same time, there are still a lot of high-pitched voices entering the ears.

The most conspicuous thing was that countless Dortmund fans held up a huge poster of Tang Zheng, so Gaitan frowned.

"Damn it! The champion must be ours!"

"Hey, Nicholas, it's only the Europa League final, don't be nervous." The Argentine fellow Aimar sitting on the left patted Gaitan's shoulder and covered his mouth.

"Ah?" Gaitan immediately realized that the big brother Aimar might feel nervous because his body was slightly trembling, his frown instantly relaxed, and he said with a smile: "No, I'm really excited!"

"That's good." Aimar nodded, closed his eyes again, and recharged his batteries.

The Europa League final is not very attractive to Aimar. During his time in Valencia, he won the UEFA Cup, the predecessor of the Europa League, and even won the La Liga Championship and the European Super Cup. He also played in the Champions League final when he joined Valencia.

It can be said that Aimar, who has entered his thirties, has experienced many battles and has perfect emotional control. He knows that the most important thing before the game is to cultivate his spirit.

Gaitan's attention was once again outside the window, he looked at Tang Zheng's huge poster and clenched his fists again, and whispered in a voice only he heard: "The champion is mine!"

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Although Tang Zheng is only 21 and a half years old this year, he has already experienced three finals - the South American Libertadores Cup final (home and away), the German Cup final.

This is the third final of his career.

In the past three finals, Tang Zheng won the championship through his own efforts.

So he believes the same is true for the Europa League final at the Dublin Stadium.

The bus is parked at the entrance of the special channel of the Dublin Stadium, which is specially used for the entry of players from both sides and is not open to the public.

Fans gathered outside the security barrier to enter the stadium, most of them were fans without tickets, in order to see their favorite players in person before the game started, cheering and cheering by the way.

Because after the players enter the field, they can only watch through the large LCD screen specially set up in the square outside the stadium. This is their last chance to cheer for the players.

In addition, there are a large number of media waiting here.

When Dortmund just stopped on the bus, the flashing lights kept flashing.

The first one to get off was Klopp. He smiled and waved to a large number of fans and media reporters, but Klopp did not stop, but went straight to the dedicated passage.

The same goes for other coaches and players.

From time to time, outside the human wall surrounded by security personnel, reporters stretched out their microphones to greet coaches and players for interviews.

However, most people shook their heads with serious expressions and chose to go straight into the arena.

The Europa League final, they have been looking forward to for a long time.

In the Dortmund team, no player has experience in the Europa League final, only Kyle and a few players with rich experience in the game can refuse to interview reporters with a smile.

Among the many Dortmund fans, Tang Zheng was the one who shouted the most besides the head coach Klopp.

Mr. Key Dortmund, the treatment is extraordinary.

Shaxin, who was following Tang Zheng, felt a little unbalanced, and there was a trace of determination between his brows.

He always felt that his contribution to the team this season was no less than that of Tang Zheng, especially when Klopp pushed Tang Zheng into the front midfielder during the game.

In many games, he has to do both dirty work and fine work of threading needles.

Human energy is limited after all, so the number of goals and assists is naturally not as good as Tang Zheng.

But in the context of such a huge effort, his agent tried to negotiate a contract extension with the club, and the requirements were not high, second only to Tang Zheng and Kyle's annual salary of 2.5 million euros.

But the club executives refused, saying that they were only willing to pay 1.5 million euros at most.

Whether it is the agent or Shaheen, they are not satisfied with the club's contract renewal conditions.

Just at this time, Real Madrid took the initiative to contact Shaheen's agent and promised to give him an annual salary of three million euros.

Thinking of the golden signboard of Real Madrid and his good personal income, Shaheen was a little moved.

However, Dortmund has always been kind to Shaheen. He is not the kind of ungrateful professional player. If the conditions are the same, he would definitely prefer to stay in Westfalen, even if the annual salary is slightly lower.

It's just that the club's attitude is a bit negligent, and the two sides have great differences.

How could Tang Zheng get an annual salary of nearly four million euros?

And recently, the media broke the news that after the end of this season, the club is planning to renew the contract with Tang Zheng and improve the salary. It is said that it will reach the top five million euros in the Bundesliga.

With the team losing Barrios and Grosco Royce one after another, the fans only had Tang Zheng, as did the head coach and the club.

Shaheen had had enough. He decided to leave Dortmund this summer and join Real Madrid to challenge a new career path.

The players who came to the locker room did not immediately change their jerseys and go out to warm up, because there are still nearly two hours before the start of the game. Consume energy early.

At this time, players can do what they want, such as chatting, playing with mobile phones, and even arranging their hairstyles.

Like Hummels, Tang Zheng came to the locker and took out the hairspray to arrange his hairstyle.

Young people always care about their personal appearance.

In addition, Tang Zheng and Hummels are rare handsome guys on the football field, making myself more handsome and confident before the game is beneficial to the game and not harmful.

With about 90 minutes left before the game, head coach Klopp and assistant coaches Zeliko Buvac and Peter Kravitz are still discussing tactics for the next game.

Fitness coach Oliver Bartlett slapped his hands hard and shouted in his loud voice: "Guys, it's time to go out and warm up!"