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Flooded into Dortmund.
The venue for the UEFA Cup final is Dortmund's Westfalenstadion.
In terms of history, this stadium is completely inferior to Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium.
Stamford Bridge is a stadium with a century-old history. It has a very long history. Even if it is placed in the world, Stamford Bridge can be ranked at the top.
But the history of the Westfalenstadion is only about thirty years. This stadium was built by Dortmund in the 1960s.
Unfortunately, they have been short of money, so they have not been able to build it. They have been dilly-dallying for more than ten years without any solution.
Later I got lucky too.
When Germany hosted the World Cup in 1974, Cologne, the city originally scheduled to host the World Cup, withdrew from hosting the World Cup due to financial problems. This also made it easier for Dortmund.
Dortmund, as a reserve city, replaced Cologne as the other city to host the World Cup.
Therefore, a lot of funds originally planned to be invested in Cologne were transferred to Dortmund.
It was with this money that Dortmund built a stadium. When this stadium was built, although there were funds from the government, it was still very difficult to build a stadium.
So they had no choice but to abandon their original plan to build a modern stadium for 60,000 people and quickly built a stadium in one year.
Compared to the planned stadium, it can be said to be much worse.
But Dortmund finally built a stadium.
This is the Westfalenstadion.
Don't look at the short history of this stadium.
There are many memories of the stadium.
Just two years after its construction, the Westfalenstadion hosted the 1974 World Cup. Although the subsequent semi-finals and finals were not held in this stadium. As a stadium that was just built two years ago, it is still very proud to host the World Cup.
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Dortmund was even in the German second division at that time. Therefore, it was the only second-tier league stadium to host the World Cup that year.
The German team that year was very strong.
The German team led by football emperor Franck Beckenbauer defeated the Dutch team, which was in full swing, and became the World Cup champion.
Of course, the Westfalenstadion at that time could only accommodate more than 50,000 people.
If it were just like this, he wouldn't be as famous as he is now.
The Westfalenstadion was later expanded several times.
Up to now, the capacity of this stadium has reached 68,000, which of course includes seats and standing seats. Once an international competition is held, the entire south stand can be quickly (within two days) converted into seats, with a total capacity of
for 52,000 people.
After years of expansion, the appearance of the Westfalenstadion is very modern: the northern exterior wall of the stadium adopts an all-steel structural frame and an aluminum alloy glass curtain wall.
The current Westfalenstadion is a very luxurious stadium in Germany and even in European football.
Otherwise, the UEFA Cup final would not have been held at this stadium this time.
UEFA Cup final?
This is the first time Su Yun has entered the finals of a European level competition.
Su Yun has already won the League Cup and FA Cup this season. I am very happy.
But Su Yun had already won these two championships at Sunderland.
Su Yun's results in cup competitions have always been good.
One of the biggest reasons why Su Yun was favored by Sunderland from the English League Three was Su Yun's outstanding performance in domestic cup competitions. Just like Su Yun first entered the attention of English football people, it was because of his leadership
A League Three team defeated Manchester United at Old Trafford.
But these are limited to English domestic football.
Su Yun's goal is not to compete in a few cup competitions in England. Because there are many coaches like Su Yun in Europe.
In Germany, Italy, Spain and England, there have been countless head coaches who have won domestic cup championships in the past ten years, but quickly disappeared from the public eye. Su Yun does not want this.
It is for this reason that Su Yun originally liked Sunderland very much.
But for a higher goal, Su Yun chose to leave Sunderland and cooperate with Ken Bates, whom Su Yun didn't like very much.
The first season was a success.
Not only did they win two domestic cup championships in a row, they also entered the UEFA Cup final.
Su Yun was still very excited.
As long as he wins the UEFA Cup, he will be considered the number one coach in Europe.
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"Su, how does the beer taste?"
Clark looked at Su Yun putting a bottle of beer in the room and asked with a smile.
Not much attention is paid to Su Yun of Dortmund.
After all, the two teams are not in the same league. Moreover, Su Yun did not have the opportunity to compete in Europe before, so he did not have the opportunity to meet Dortmund. In the past, I only heard that Dortmund fans are crazy.
I heard the atmosphere at Dortmund's home ground is very good.
This is Su Yun’s first time in Dortmund.
Not only do I not know much about Dortmund Football Club, I also don’t know much about Su Yun, the city of Dortmund.
At most, we know that Dortmund is a powerful team in German football and won the Champions League just a few years ago.
So after knowing that the final was held at the Westfalenstadion, I briefly looked at the history of Dortmund. Then I realized that steel and beer are Dortmund's traditional industries. Beer still occupies a very important position in Dortmund.
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Su Yun was also curious. After all, when you arrive at a place, you should take a look and try its specialties. So he asked for a bottle of beer to try.
I want to see what’s different about Dortmund’s beer.
Isn’t it much better than domestic beer?
But after tasting it, I realized that beers all over the world are similar.
Definitely not as good as white wine.
"It's just so so. I don't think it's anything delicious. I don't know why so many people like beer?"
Su Yun didn't quite understand.
I haven't had a love for beer since I was a child. Su Yun still likes to drink liquor. After drinking liquor, it will have a mellow aroma.
"Me too. I don't like beer either, I prefer liquor."
Su Yun smiled.
There are basically no players in England who don't like drinking.
This is especially true for players of Clark's generation. There were countless drunkards among players of their generation. Some players even got drunk during halftime, and then played the second half.
Just like Adams at Arsenal now.
If you just look at his current performance, you would think he is so self-disciplined.
In fact, he was also an alcoholic when he was young.
In his autobiography, he stated that he was dying at the time and was on the verge of retirement. It was only because of Wenger's arrival that he helped him quit drinking, and Adams achieved so many years of glory.
"Haha. How are you? What's your impression of Dortmund?"
Su Yun shrugged.
"I didn't look carefully, so I can't tell anything." Because time was tight, I flew to Germany the day after the FA Cup final. But it was just to take a rest and get familiar with the Westfalenstadion.
It's past.
"By the way, Steve. Are you familiar with German football?".
There was still some time before the game, so Su Yun asked Clark just to kill some time.
Although Su Yun has been in Europe for six years, his understanding of German football is definitely not as good as that of Clark and the others. This is because Su Yun has spent half of his time in low-level leagues for so many years.
After arriving in the Premier League, he was also busy working hard in the Premier League.
There is simply no opportunity to understand the development of football in other countries.
It can be said that sometimes professional coaches like Su Yun are far less knowledgeable about some foreign clubs than some fans. This is the reality.
"You can't even speak of understanding. You should know that German football pays attention to discipline. But there is one thing that may be similar to English football. Some people say that the German lower-level league is a track and field competition. From the beginning of the game, they know how to move forward.
, forward, forward. Run, run, run.”
Clark saw that Su Yun still had time to talk to him about such things, and knew that Su Yun was in a relatively relaxed mood now.
Therefore, he also smiled and chatted with Su Yun.
"And the same is true for some weak Bundesliga teams. They just knew how to run and keep running forward throughout the game."
Su Yun nodded as he listened.
It has some similarities with English football.
Of course, this was just Su Yun having nothing to do and the two of them were sitting together bragging.
time flies.
The UEFA Cup final is scheduled for 7:30 pm local time in Germany.
With two hours left before the game, Su Yun had already led the team to the Westfalenstadion.
It is indeed more luxurious than Stamford Bridge.
Just like the FA Cup match, the stadium was already filled with clearly differentiated fans of the two teams. This time the Westfalenstadion only sold 50,000 tickets.
Because Germany is relatively nervous about security issues.
In the game three days ago, although there was no conflict, there was an incident where the head coach of one team entered the hospital.
Who knows what the fans think?
Some extreme Chelsea fans even ridiculed Houllier online.
This also made many Liverpool fans dissatisfied.
Conflicts between fans online are serious.
For security reasons, Dortmund strictly controls tickets.
Chelsea's bus arrived at the stadium first.
Thousands of Chelsea fans were waiting for the team's arrival. After seeing the Chelsea bus, they quickly gathered around.
It was still Su Yun who walked down first.
When the door of the bus opened and Su Yun stepped off, Chelsea fans burst into loud cheers. Su Yun is definitely a coach who can leave a mark in Chelsea history.
In Chelsea's century-old history, they have only had one top-level championship, two FA Cups, and two League Cups in domestic honors.
In Su Yun's first season as coach, he won an FA Cup championship and a League Cup championship for Chelsea.
