As early as last season's winter break, the German Football Association announced the suspension of the 2008 German League Cup.
The reason is that the League Cup schedule has been affected due to the European Cup.
But in fact, everyone knows that this is just a lame excuse.
The German League Cup adopts a knockout system, with a total of six teams, including the champion of the Bundesliga 2, the cup champion and the top four teams of the Bundesliga. However, such a matchup does not actually have much appeal, especially since there is no way to attract sponsorship.
business.
In the final analysis, professional football is still based on business, and events without commercial value are often unsustainable.
What's more, the participating teams have always regarded the League Cup as a warm-up event and will not pay attention to it at all.
Under such circumstances, the suspension of the League Cup did not cause too much controversy.
On the contrary, at the beginning of this year, Bayern took the initiative to launch an initiative in the hope of re-hosting the German Super Cup.
Like the Super Cup in other countries, the competition format is a single-game showdown between the league champion and the cup champion, which is undoubtedly more suspenseful and more commercially valuable than the lengthy League Cup.
At least this can be seen from the fact that the Super Cup in other countries can continue to be held for so many years.
As a result, Bayern's initiative received support from other Bundesliga teams, especially after Bayern won the Triple Crown and it was Dortmund who played the Super Cup with Bayern, it attracted the support of many sponsors.
Even though Dortmund only ranked 13th in the league last season, as one of the most glorious teams in Bundesliga history, Dortmund still has very outstanding fan influence.
Bayern vs. Dortmund, such a Super Cup itself is full of spectacle, and sponsors are also flocking to it.
The German Football Association did not give its approval, but acquiesced to Bayern and Dortmund's hosting of the event.
The time is set at the end of July, and the location is Dortmund's home stadium, Signal Iduna Park.
Although this event has not been officially named by the Football Association, everyone knows that this is actually the German Super Cup.
It is worth mentioning that after Dortmund's poor performance last season, they decided to change coaches and chose Mainz coach Klopp, who failed to lead the team to promotion in the Bundesliga.
The 40-year-old German coach was once a candidate for Bayern's head coach and was favored by Hoeness.
But unfortunately, Bayern originally chose veteran coach Heynckes to be safe, which made the young coach switch to Dortmund.
This will also be Klopp's first official game as coach of Dortmund.
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Before the team traveled north to Dortmund, Bayern held a locker room meeting at its training center on Sebena Strasse to make a crucial decision, which was to choose a captain.
After Kahn retired, the captain's vacancy became available. Vice-captain Sagnol currently plays less time, so in some warm-up matches, the captain's armband is worn on Lahm's arm.
In fact, there are many stars in the Bayern team who were captains of their respective teams before, such as Van Bommel. However, at Bayern, Van Bommel's current position is still a rotation role, especially after Tymoschuk joined and Modric.
With his success in the European Cup, Van Bommel's situation will be even more embarrassing.
The Dutch have some strength, but they couldn't stand up to Bastian Schweinsteiger and Modric, who both showed a bit more aggressively.
After changing his position, Xiaozhu not only became Bayern's midfielder dual-core, but also performed very well in the German national team.
Not to mention Modric, one of the best players in this European Cup.
In this case, it would be difficult for Van Bommel to compete with them.
If we follow the usual practice, after the captain retires, the vice-captain is the most powerful contender, but Sagnol's current situation is not good.
After being seriously injured, Sagnol lost his main position and even made noises about leaving the team. Now he is staying, but he still can't grab the position. After all, his age is there.
Su Dong was originally very competitive. Many Bayern players and management, including Kahn, believed that if he came out for selection, there would basically be no suspense.
But before the campaign, Su Dong took the initiative to clarify in the locker room that he would not come forward to campaign. He had no interest in this aspect and hoped to concentrate all his energy on training and competition and did not want to be distracted by other matters.
Some people are keen to be the captain and hold a certain amount of power, but Su Dong has no need.
Firstly, he does not have this kind of character, and secondly, he does not need this power, because his current privilege itself is to override the entire team. Whoever becomes the captain or even the head coach must treat him as an uncle.
With?
It's better to be polite to each other. Who provoked Su Dong and made him unhappy? How long can this captain and this head coach stay?
Therefore, Su Dong's withdrawal seemed grand.
The final result was that Lahm was unanimously elected as Bayern's new captain.
This is also quite interesting. Lahm and Franck Ribery are tied as the shortest players in the team. As a result, Lahm became the captain. He has to be the first in everything and stand up for his teammates. It is quite funny to think about it.
However, Lahm still does a very good job in serving his teammates.
The vice-captain selected three, Sagnol, Lucio and Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Although Sagnol has lost his main position, he is a meritorious service to the club and there is nothing wrong with retaining his position as vice-captain.
Lucio's vice-captain is a carrot that Heynckes dangles in front of him, allowing the Brazilian central defender to continue to improve himself, preferably to become more stable.
On the contrary, it is the little pig Bastian Schweinsteiger, who is regarded as the target of Bayern's support.
The captain was elected and the locker room began to formulate some rules. Basically, they are still the same as before, so there is no problem.
But as usual, the new captain treats everyone in the team to a big meal as a meeting gift.
Subsequently, the club notified the outside world of the locker room selection, and Heynckes approved it.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The media and fans are basically satisfied with this result, with more than 30% of fans agreeing with Lahm as captain.
But what's interesting is that more fans chose Su Dong as captain than Ram. So after the results came out, many fans still felt aggrieved for Su Dong and thought why he wasn't the captain?
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Although he became the captain, due to participating in the European Cup final, Lahm returned to the team later and the progress was not consistent with the team. Therefore, in the Super Cup against Dortmund, Sagnol was still allowed.
It is said to be the Super Bowl, but in fact it is just a more formal warm-up match.
I don't know if it was because of missing the captain, but Sagnol was very active at the beginning of this game.
In just eight minutes, he launched an offensive on the right. Robben passed the ball to the center. Su Dong headed the ball from close range, breaking Dortmund's goal and opening the scoring for Bayern, one to zero!
Conceding the ball did not dampen the passion and desire to win among the Hornets players.
At home, Dortmund played a very oppressive game. The team adopted a full-court press and pressure tactic, like a crazy boxer, constantly waving their fists.
This chaotic punch from the Hornet forced Bayern to temporarily avoid its edge.
Until the 27th minute, Sagnol launched another attack from the right. After Robben cut inside with the ball, he sent a direct pass with his left foot. After Su Dong succeeded in countering offside, he dribbled the ball past the attacker.
Goalkeeper Weidenfeller easily pushed the shot into the empty goal, 2-0!
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The first half ended with a score of 2-0, and Heynckes made major substitutions during the halftime break.
After all, this is not a formal game and there are no strict substitution restrictions, so Heynckes replaced seven main players at halftime. Obviously, he still hopes to use Dortmund to inspect the players.
With the main players such as Su Dong leaving the field, Dortmund's tactical play gradually showed its power. At the beginning of the second half, they scored two goals in a row and successfully equalized the score.
Su Dong looked on from the sidelines in shock.
After Hummels came on as a substitute, he obviously couldn't adapt to Dortmund's fast-paced whirlwind. He seemed a little overwhelmed and his performance was not ideal. Van Buyten was not much better either.
Fortunately, in the 73rd minute, Oter intercepted the ball and launched a counterattack, assisting Olic to score a goal.
In the end, Bayern narrowly defeated Dortmund 3-2.
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After playing the Super Cup in Dortmund, Bayern returned to Munich for a short rest, and then played a warm-up match against Cologne.
In the 18th minute of the opening, Su Dong used a long shot to penetrate the Cologne goal and open the scoring for Bayern.
After that, Bayern firmly controlled the game, leaving no opportunity for Cologne to take advantage of.
Before the end of the first half, Sagnol stepped in from the right again, played a one-two with Robben, and sent the ball to the goal. Su Dong rushed over and calmly pushed the ball from the front.
Hit, two to zero!
After the change of sides in the second half, Heynckes once again replaced all the players and replaced 11 players for the second half.
Bayern started the second half in a bit of a mess, but quickly picked up.
But what was unexpected was that a sudden heavy rain disrupted the progress of the game and prevented Bayern's players from performing in the second half.
Especially the last ten minutes, it ended hastily.
In the end, Bayern defeated Cologne with a score of 2-0 in the first half.
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With consecutive victories in the warm-up matches and the Super Cup, Bayern Munich's strong strength has won unanimous recognition from the media and fans.
Everyone believes that Bayern is the top favorite to win the Bundesliga championship this season.
Heynckes also expressed confidence that he hopes to lead Bayern to win three consecutive championships.
In the history of the Bundesliga, only two teams have won three consecutive championships, namely Bayern Munich and Monchengladbach.
Bayern has won three consecutive championships three times, in the 1970s under Beckenbauer and Gerd Müller, in the mid-1980s, and during the handover of the century coached by Hitzfeld, which were the peak dynasties in Bayern's history.
After Beckenbauer led Bayern to win three consecutive championships for the first time in Bundesliga history, Monchengladbach also quickly won three consecutive championships. At that time, Monchengladbach's soul leader was the top scorer.
Heynckes.
Yes, that’s the current Bayern coach Ebony.
Therefore, this old man still has quite a complex about this.
But Bayern's challenge is not small. The first game of the new season is the North-South El Clasico against Hamburg.
