Everyone should introduce themselves so that new teammates can understand themselves.

As the captain, Chu Zhongtian was of course the first to do it. He had just spoken and before he could speak, Sana interrupted him and said, "You don't need to introduce it."

Ibissevic next to him laughed out loud. Everyone looked at him in confusion. Ibissevic quickly explained: "They are old acquaintances in a sense? They have fought many times when they were still in Ligue 1."

Chu Zhongtian also pointed to Sana and introduced to everyone: "Lorik Sana. My first opponent in the first real Ligue 1 game. I was very impressed by it. He played a player in our team at that time."

Sana smiled and said, "Now you have to thank me, Chu. If it weren't for his injury, you wouldn't have a chance to come."

Chu Zhongtian shrugged: "You are right..."

"Okay, let me introduce myself first." Sana was not afraid of being a child at all, and introduced generously in front of everyone. After all, he was also a captain in Marseille, and such a scene was nothing to him. "My name is Lorik Sana. You can call me Lorik or Sana, as you like." After that, he looked at Chu Zhongtian, "Is there any?"

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Enough. As for where you play, your style of play...that is what Coach Ranick is interested in."

"Chu is right, we only care about how you are, ha!" Weiss shouted.

"I'm a human? I'm a very good person!" Sana grinned.

"I heard you're a butcher?" Not everyone among the players knew nothing about this new teammate.

"That's me on the court." Sana spread her hands. "Of course, I am a serious person to football. I will look a little more fierce on the court..."

Someone laughed again: "Then you and Tobias can definitely become good friends, haha!"

So everyone laughed.

The person Sana is most familiar with in the team is Chu Zhongtian. He asked Chu Zhongtian: "Who is Tobias?"

Chu Zhongtian pointed to the short man who was talking at first: "The one who is very abstract."

"Hey! Chu!" Weiss waved his fist in dissatisfaction.

But everyone laughed even more happily. Since his girlfriend found out about Weiss looking for a mistress outside and was exposed to the media, Weiss has been often teased by everyone. Although he is very fierce on the court, he is actually a very fun young man in life.

"Ahha." Sana also laughed. He thought Chu Zhongtian's description was really appropriate. Weiss's appearance, a nicer statement was "abstract"... In fact, Chu Zhongtian had imagined before how they would get along with each other if Sana came. Although in the French Ligue 1, he and the other party were not the kind of enemy who often spitted through the media, every time he met on the court, it was definitely like Mars hitting the earth, and no one was willing to admit defeat. This relationship was definitely not friendly, right?

But now it seems that Sana is really a good person to get along with under the court.

It is said that when Liverpool was interested in Sana, Benitez went to find the Dutch old Liang Cenden who had played for Liverpool and now played in Marseille, and asked him to consult him in detail about the reputation and popularity of Sana in the team and his character.

Chu Zhongtian obviously didn't know what Cenden said to Benitez, because it was not said in the news. But from now on, being able to be the captain of the wealthy family in Marseille, especially as a former Paris Saint-Germain player in Marseille, shows that he has a high prestige in the minds of his teammates and is also very popular.

I just don’t know if such a player who is the captain of the rich Marseille would be willing to come to Hoffenheim to attack him... It took a long time to come, Sana to know Chu Zhongtian’s original doubts. He only said one sentence to Chu Zhongtian’s doubts: “I am a professional player.” Chu Zhongtian had nothing to say, because this was the best and most appropriate answer.

In short, the atmosphere of the first meeting between Sana and the whole team was very harmonious. Sana was not the kind of person who was vicious on the court and looked like a villain off the court. In addition, he and Chu Zhongtian also knew each other. With Chu Zhongtian as an interpreter for him, it was not a big problem to communicate. Sana is the captain of the Albanian national team, but he is a Kosovo from the former Yugoslavia. As an Eastern European player, he has some connection with Germany, so it is not a problem for him to learn German, so there is no need to worry about language barriers.

After knowing everyone, Sana has officially become a member of the Hoffenheim team.

※※※As the captain of the French Ligue 1 giants Marseille, Lorik Sana does not need to prove anything to the German media and the world, so his joining did not arouse widespread doubts from the German media like Chu Zhongtian's joining. Ten million is not much for Hoffenheim. Since they can spend 7 million euros for an old central defender who is already thirty-one, it is reasonable to pay 10 million for a Marseille captain in his year of playing. The media is just worried that if Sana will take too many cards after coming. You should know that Gustavo was abandoned by Rangnick because the ball dealer was not good enough and he always acted in a habitual way on the court. He took a red card at the most important time at the end of last season.

After buying Sana, Hoffenheim has spent 40.6 million euros this summer. Although it has not broken the record of last season, they are the most expensive club in the Bundesliga this summer, second only to Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich signed multiple transfer agreements just after the end of the season, buying the captain of St. Petersburg Zenit and midfielder Anatoliy_tymoshchuk (anatoliy_tymoshchuk) of Stuttgart for another 30 million, and buying Stuttgart's leading scorer Mario Gomez, basically confirmed the identity of the transfer bell this season.

"Hope proved with practical actions that he does have ambitions and that he really wants his team to go further in the Champions League." German "Kickers" magazine commented.

After buying the person he wanted, Rangnick focused on polishing new tactics for the team at Leogan. Next season, the team will not play the seriously unbalanced offense and defense. The team's tactics will be formulated around Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian has absolute autonomy on the court, which is also reflected in training - he is the only player who can discuss tactics with the coaching staff.

This is also Rangnick's idea. He believes that letting Chu Zhongtian participate in the team's tactics can help him understand the team's tactics better. At the same time, the team's coaching staff can also understand his ideas and integrate the two sides to achieve the most perfect and tacit understanding.

As for Lorik Sana, he just came to the team to report for two days and participated in a warm-up match with the team.

Hoffenheim played against Turkish powerhouse Fenerbahce. In the pre-season warm-up match last season, Hoffenheim also played against a Turkish powerhouse, who defeated Galatasaray 2:1 at home.

This time, they beat Fenerbahce with the same score.

The last time he scored a goal in the last moment, the forward star Tracino scored another goal in this game.

Fenerbahce scored the first goal. In the 70th minute, Eduardo passed the ball from the edge of the penalty area. The post-90s young player Tracino scored in front of the goal and tied the score.

Six minutes later, Ibisekic, who had just come on the bench, took a long shot from 24 meters away to overtake the score!

This is also the first goal Hoffenheim scored in the game after returning from injury.

After he scored, everyone came over to hug him and celebrated, congratulating him on finally scoring. Especially such a beautiful goal proved that the injury did not reduce his level, and everyone was happy for him. Ibisekic's successful comeback was tantamount to the team adding another strong aid, and Rangnick was also very happy.

In this game, Sana started and Chu Zhongtian started. Before the game, Rangnick explained it very simply: "Protect space when defending, and protect football when attacking."

Sana's accomplishment is pretty good. Considering that he has just joined the team for two days and has only been training for one day, it is already very good to have such a performance. Because he does not have enough coordination with the team, his role is mainly reflected in midfield defense. He has used fierce tackles and tireless running many times to set up a barrier in front of the back line.

Rangnick was very satisfied with his other things, but he felt that he had too many tackle movements, which made it easy to get the cards.

So after the game, he called Sana alone: ​​"Lorick, you have a bit of a lot of tackles. Are you considering reducing such fierce moves? I don't want you to spend the whole season in the stands."

Sana nodded: "I will pay attention, coach. Actually, I don't have many tackles in a game. I often just kick off more, and I pay attention to it later."

Rangnick wondered: "Why is this?"

"Coach, are you watching basketball?" Sana did not answer Rangnick's question, but asked back.

"I? It's okay... I don't watch it often."

"Does Bill Russell (bill_russell) know?"

Rangnick nodded: "I've heard of his name."

“He is a well-known defensive master in Nab history. He has a lot of comments on him, but I like this one the most: ‘Russell’s role is not to block every ball, but to make every shot think he will block the ball.’” After that, Sana smiled at his new head coach. “Same goes for me.”

Rangnick was stunned for a moment, then remembered the video of Sana's game he had watched and the performance of today's game. It was indeed like this. He was always extremely fierce after the opening, and there were many movements that made people feel that his legs would be kicked off. However, after more than ten minutes, his performance began to gradually become "gentle" - this kind of gentleness is of course aimed at his initial ferocity. In fact, even if he was gentle, he was also a strong player in the eyes of most people. Most of the time, his defense did not rely on fierce tackles and rude collisions, but reasonable positioning and predictions, as well as... some proactive mistakes that his opponent made after seeing him.

Lyon's Juninho once said that the opponent he least wants to encounter in the entire Ligue 1 is this "killing machine". In fact, he has had several tackles that were fierce enough to ruin Juninho's career, which scared the Brazilians.

Sana's strengths are not these threatening tackles against the opponent's knees and ankles, but his fighting spirit, his fighting spirit, and his spirit of not giving up until the last moment. As the captain of Marseille, he relies on not tackles over his opponent, but on these precious qualities.

Rangnick smiled helplessly and said, "Okay, but you still have to pay attention to your actions. Even if you are just to threaten your opponent, if you leave the referee with the impression that you are a dangerous person, you will be finished."

Sana nodded and accepted: "I know, coach."

After solving this problem, Rangnick asked again: "What do you think of Chu?"

"Very good." Sana replied.

"I heard you were once opponents?"

"The opponent on the football field..." Sana smiled. Actually, he looked pretty good when he smiled. If he shaved his beard, he would be a handsome guy with a pretty face. "Well, he is a good opponent. He is very awesome."

Sana's evaluation of Chu Zhongtian was so high that if Chu Zhongtian knew, he would have been surprised.

"My tactics actually require you no less than that for him, because most of the time you have to ensure safety in front of the back line."

Sana said confidently: "This is not a problem, coach."

Since we have started talking, let’s talk more. Rangnick also wants to know about this new player who is very important in his tactical plan, and at the same time let Sana understand his tactical ideas.

"Last season, our team played 433, and our attack power was the strongest in the Bundesliga, but our defense was really inconsistent with the identity of the Bundesliga champion."

Rangnick was talking, and Sana nodded to say that he was listening. Of course he knew that Hoffenheim's defense was not very good, otherwise they would not come to him.

"There are two people who can really defend in the midfield, one is Chu and the other is Weiss. But Weiss wants to play on the wing, and most of the time he can only help defend on the wing, and he also has to attack. Chu's defense is very good, but if he is allowed to concentrate on defense, he has to sacrifice his offensive ability. In fact, the new season is similar, because Chu will attack most of the time, and defense depends mainly on you."

"No problem, coach."

"How are you going to finish it?" Rangnick asked.

"Like Bill Russell, coach," Sana said.

Rangnick thought to himself, this is the so-called deterrent... When the players in the entire league realize that Sana is a threatening butcher, he no longer uses those threatening defensive actions, and can still achieve a defensive effect.

He thought to himself that as the captain of Marseille, Sana has been a player in the professional league for so long, so he should not be as easy to be confused as the young Gustavo. Since he has his own way of playing football, let's wait and see what role it can play.

※※After the match with Fenerbahce, Hoffenheim ended their training camp in Leogan and returned to Germany. At his home court, they still have the last warm-up match, and their opponent is the La Liga team Getafe. After this game, Hoffenheim will not have any warm-up matches, and Rangnick will make final adjustments and corrections to the problems exposed in the warm-up matches, so that the team can adapt to new tactics and new styles of play. He doesn't have much time, because the Bundesliga will kick off in mid-August.

At the same time, the team's rosters for participating in the new season of the Champions League and Bundesliga have also been reported. If nothing unexpected happens, the name on the list will be Hoffenheim's full strength in the new season (attached at the end of the roster chapter). The players' numbers have also been reassigned.

On the other hand, because the team successfully won the Bundesliga championship last season, there were frequent big moves in the transfer market before this season, and they bought star players such as Simonic and Van Nisstrui, so the team's season ticket sales were very popular.

On July 26, Hoffenheim officially announced that all 20,000 season tickets had been sold out. In addition to some tickets that started selling before the game, the remaining 10,000 will be left to be distributed to the visiting team fans.

Such ticket sales results made the media sigh at Hoffenheim's current popularity.

"When Hope planned to build the Rhine Neckar Stadium, he felt that the capacity of 30,000 people was enough, because Sinsheim only had more than 30,000 people. But now he must regret why he didn't build a bigger one directly. As long as Hoffenheim continues to maintain this development momentum, it won't take long to expand the Rhine Neckar Stadium. Maybe Hope has to consider building another stadium - anyway, he has money, and Rhine Neckar Stadium will become the home court with the shortest lifespan..."

Although Europe has experienced a financial crisis, Hopp's assets have also shrunk. However, Hoffenheim's popularity in ticket sales and surrounding commodity sales can make Hopp feel at ease - the development of this team is moving towards the path of "even if Ditma Hopp goes bankrupt one day, or he is no longer interested in Hoffenheim and withdraws investment and stops playing, Hoffenheim can still manage it by himself."

After all, Hope is already sixty-one years old, and he will die one day, but Hoffenheim is already one hundred and ten years old, and she will continue to live for another hundred years.

In the office at the Hoffenheim training base, Ditma Hope is located in the office without any signs at the door. Next to the old black and white photo on the desk, another photo was added. It was the scene of Hoffenheim lifting the Bundesliga championship plate at the Aofuschalke Stadium last season. The person holding the plate was captain Chu Zhongtian, and behind him were many Hoffenheim players wearing white away jerseys, as well as the flying ribbons.

※※※Add to also attach the list of Hoffenheim's first team in the 2009-2010 season.

Goalkeeper:

No. 1 Haas (daniel_haas) No. 27 Ozjan (ramazan_ozcan) No. 28 Hildebrand No. 30 Gallar (jens_grahl) defender:

No. 2 Beck (andreas_beck) No. 3 Yaissle No. 4 christoph_metzelder No. 5 pper (pper) No. 6 emanuel_pogatetz No. 11 Aleksandar_kolarov No. 24 josip_simunic No. 37 Goulde midfielder:

No. 7 Eduardo No. 8 Chu Zhongtian No. 10 Lorik_cana No. 17 Tobias_weis No. 23 Sejad_salihovic No. 25 Isaac_vorsah No. 34 Boris_vukcevic No. 36 Franco_zuculini forward:

No. 9 van van nistelrooy No. 21 Tracino No. 18 Welington No. 19 Ibisevic No. 20 Obasi (chinedu_obasi) Note: The first captain Chu Zhongtian, the second captain Nielsson, and the third captain Simonic.
Chapter completed!