When Dick led the Dortmund team to Japan, it was already December 13th. Two days later, they will face the South American champion Boca Juniors at the Yokohama Comprehensive International Arena - Boca Juniors - Boca Juniors in recent years.
Youth is almost the last conscience of South American teams. They have competed with European teams for two consecutive years, and their results of one win and one loss are not embarrassing at all.
In last season's Toyota Cup, Atletico Madrid lost miserably to Olympiakos Paraguay 0-2, which made the South American team once again surpass the European team in the number of Toyota Cup wins. Di, who has to compete for everything,
For Croatia, he does not want his team to lose to the opponent and the South American team to leave the European team behind.
For Dortmund's young players, this is their first time participating in such a competition, so they don't have the pretentiousness of ordinary European champion teams. They feel that this kind of competition is useless. After coming to Japan, they did not care.
Despite the fatigue of the journey, I quickly entered the state of competition.
One advantage Dortmund has is that the Bundesliga schedule is relatively loose, so the players are not overdrafted too much, and they still have more than a month of winter break, so they are not worried about physical problems.
However, for the organizing committee, the European championship team coming to Japan this time seems to be lacking in star quality...
If it was Dortmund last year, there would be no problem. Rivaldo's fame alone would be enough, but now? The most popular person in Dortmund is the Russian Arshavin who joined this season. After all, he was in the first half of the season.
His outstanding performance has made him one of the first-line stars, while the influence of others is much lower.
Dick didn't care about this kind of worry. He was not a member of the organizing committee, so would he still be afraid that the event would not be influential enough?
Although Dortmund's strength has dropped a lot compared to last season, with the momentum of these young players and the confidence and fighting spirit they have accumulated over the past half season, they will not be much worse off if they really want to perform on the court.
Nor will they finally qualify in a death group and perform well in the league. What's more, the current Dortmund is not the same as last season, and the current Boca Juniors are not the same as they were in the past few seasons.
This team makes Real Madrid, Bayern and other teams very afraid of the powerful South American team. Although the head coach is still Bianchi, Palermo and Riquelme are not here. Without these two soul-level figures in the midfield and frontcourt, Boca
The strength of young people is also much worse than in previous years.
What Dick didn't expect was that as the head coach of Dortmund, he would become the team's most popular person in Japan - although he is a standard Chinese, his achievements in Europe seem to be different from those of the Japanese.
They all admired him. Although in the interview before the League Cup, Dick offended two Asian internationals playing in Europe in one breath, this cannon-like approach did not seem to damage his popularity.
In addition, there are many Chinese students who have become the most die-hard supporters of Dick and Dortmund - it is relatively early to broadcast the Bundesliga in China, and Dortmund's popularity among Chinese fans is not weak, so
On the day of the game, the entire Yokohama International Arena almost became Dortmund's home team!
Most of the stands echoed with shouts of support for Dortmund, and the only ones supporting Boca Youth were the more than a thousand Boca Youth fans who came from afar - if it had been in the past, Boca Youth supporters
There will be more, because Palermo and Riquelme are also very popular in Japan. However, now that these two popular stars are no longer here, the feelings of local fans are naturally more biased towards Dortmund.
Dick didn't hold anything back in this game. Except for Metzelder, who returned from injury, he was still on the bench. All the other main players played - goalkeeper Weidenfeller, defender Dede, and Alves.
Dick's strategy is to play fast and use fast back and forth rhythm to deal with Boca Juniors. In terms of foot skills, Boca Juniors players are very good. Dortmund is at a disadvantage in this regard. However, despite Dortmund's horsemanship
Laodun still has some advantages in terms of physical fitness. He has advantages, so he must make full use of them.
This kind of back-and-forth attack is not about who makes fewer mistakes, but who is better at seizing opportunities. Both teams are relatively young, so some flaws will naturally be exposed in the back-and-forth offense.
The important thing is that Dortmund is more accustomed to playing in such situations. This season, in addition to playing more securely in the Champions League, in the league, Dortmund competes with the opponent to see who can catch the opponent's mistakes better.
This gave them the upper hand at the beginning of the game.
In the first three minutes, Klinger sent a long pass from 40 meters away in the midfield. Gomez knocked the ball out while running. Arshavin followed up and hit the ball 20 meters away from the goal.
He took a volley shot directly and the ball went over the crossbar.
An attack was completed so quickly, which fully illustrates Dortmund's offensive strategy in this game.
It's not that Bianchi couldn't see this, but he couldn't let the team control the midfield - after Riquelme left, Boca Juniors' midfield control ability has dropped by several levels.
Niya was completely unable to control the ball in Dortmund's fast and fierce pressing, and positional attack was not good for Boca Juniors. After Palermo left, they lacked a deterrent center.
Therefore, Bianchi could only go downhill. With such a fast attack, Boca Juniors may not lose. After all, Dortmund's experience is not particularly rich.
The two sides began to attack back and forth, and the rhythm of the transition between offense and defense was very fast. At the same time... there were quite a lot of fouls on the field...
Within twenty minutes, both sides received two yellow cards each. Dortmund received cards from Borowski and Arshavin, while Boca Juniors received cards from midfielder Battaglia and defense lineman Rodri.
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In the 24th minute, Dortmund finally took the lead to seize the opportunity. Klinger advanced to score the ball from the front of the penalty area. Arshavin picked up the ball on the right side of the penalty area and passed a low pass to the front of the penalty area. Gomez made a running move to get the ball.
, attracted Burdisso's defense, but cleverly gave the ball away. Olic, who inserted in the back row, received the ball from Gomez in the penalty area and shot ten meters away from the goal.
, the ball flew between the legs of goalkeeper Abangdan Cherry and then flew into the goal!
Dortmund leads 1-0!
After scoring the goal, Olic ran around the field excitedly. He has scored quite a lot of goals this season. Although he is not as good as Gomez in the league, he is Dortmund's top scorer in the Champions League. This is also
It increased his fame a lot...
Dick waved his fist off the court, and being able to score the first goal in such a back-and-forth proved that the tactics he arranged were appropriate. He is also very interested in the Toyota Cup champion - after all, this Toyota Cup
After that, there was only one Toyota Cup left, and it was replaced by the World Club Cup.
Dick has almost confirmed that he will go to Inter Milan next season. Obviously, he will not be able to participate in the last Toyota Cup. In other words, if he wants to win the Toyota Cup championship, this is the last chance -
-For Dick, who is already a bit obsessed with collecting championships, he is bound to win this championship. He has not even used a goal card since the beginning of this season, and he used three of them in one go in this game.
Zhang, just plans to win the Toyota Cup this time!
In the face of such strong desire and unnatural means, although Bianchi is a top head coach, he is still at an absolute disadvantage...
Dortmund's running never stopped throughout the game. Once a player started to run unable to move, Dick would immediately choose to make substitutions. He first replaced Borov, who had declined in physical fitness, in the 53rd minute.
Ski, replaced Ricken to continue to strengthen the attack, and then replaced Olic with Donovan in the 61st minute, who opened the scoring, and finally replaced Alvey in the 82nd minute, whose physical fitness also began to decline.
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Through such substitutions, Dortmund firmly controlled the situation throughout the game and did not give Boca Juniors any chance to control the midfield and launch an attack.
Although Dortmund once relied on midfielder Donnet's goal to equalize the score in the first half, in the second half, they still paid the price for the holes in their defense. Arshavin once again gave Dortmund the lead in the 52nd minute.
In the 71st minute, Ismail's header helped Dortmund seal the victory!
When Dick stood up from the coaching bench with his arms spread wide, everyone knew that Dick had won another championship that he had never won before!
"Dick's performance is really amazing! Let me count how many championships he has won... In the short half of the season when he was fighting the fire, he won a Copa del Rey, the next year he won the Spanish Super Cup, La Liga
Champion and UEFA Cup champion. In the third year he won the Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup, La Liga Championship and Champions League Championship. Last year he won the Bundesliga Championship and Champions League Championship. This season he has already won the German League Cup Championship. European
The Super Cup championship, plus the current Toyota Cup... He has already won thirteen championships in less than four years since his debut! For most head coaches, this is an honor that takes a lifetime to strive for.
, but he is still under twenty-five years old and has already won so many championships. Now I have a question - in the next time, will Dick still have the motivation to compete for other championships? "
The commentator's words were ironic, but many people had the same question - indeed, when he has won so many championships, will he really still have motivation in the future?
However, for Dick, this is not a problem at all. For Dick, who is now strolling onto the podium, shaking hands with the organizing committee members and preparing to lift the trophy, he still has a long way to go in the future -
—The long-term goal is to defeat all Western coaches. The mid-term goal is to take over Atletico Madrid and become the savior of Atletico Madrid. The short-term goal is to come to Meazza with an extremely brilliant aura and create miracles one after another!
At least for now, Dick will not lack any motivation. No matter what the circumstances, no matter how many championships he wins, he just thinks that he has created another record, and next, there are still many records to be beaten.
He's going to break it.
If Dick had heard such a sigh, perhaps he would have responded with a famous advertising slogan: "Success? I've just started."
