The media's attention to this game is far more than that of the average Super Cup. As they said, both teams have been installed with many things outside the game, such as old nobles and new forces, such as traditions and newcomers, such as persistence and breakthroughs... and so on.

Even the players on both sides began a routine battle of words.

Now Hoffenheim players are no longer rookies like they were two years ago. They can treat Bayern with a normal mind when facing Bayern's war of words and psychological warfare. Thinking about the time, in the face of Bayern's repeated provocations, even the old captain Teber, who has always been low-key, stood up to fight, let alone others.

And now?

Ribery said in an interview that Bayern would not be afraid of teams like Hoffenheim, and the media comparison between Bayern and Hoffenheim made him bored. "We will fight back on the court!"

Ribery performed mediocrely at the South African World Cup this summer, completely losing the amazing glory that was four years ago. But when he returned to Bayern, he was still the core. His words can represent the ideas of many Bayern players.

In recent years, the media have always talked about Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim. Even some things that have nothing to do with each other will be brought up. This can be said to be "not only lying down, sitting, hiding, and being shot." When talking about Hoffenheim, everyone will talk more or less about how Bayern Munich was like in the past. When talking about Bayern Munich, they will also say "Compared to Bayern, Hoffenheim is like how Hoffenheim is."

This argument has been talked about for two seasons, which has made Bayern Munich's players very annoyed. As a result, every time facing Hoffenheim, Bayern Munich is full of fighting spirit and can't wait to tear Hoffenheim apart. Not only in this game, but in all future games, they want to sweep Hoffenheim, so that the media realize that these two teams have no comparison at all. It is extremely stupid to put them together and talk about it. I hope that after doing this, the media can close their annoying mouths and let the Bayern Munich's players get peace in their ears.

The two sides met for the second time in the league last season, Bayern Munich defeated Hoffenheim 2:1 at home, but that was not enough. Because in the four matches of the two teams, Hoffenheim won two wins, one draw and one loss, and had an advantage in record.

If Bayern wants to completely get rid of the "Hoffenheim shadow", they are afraid that they will have hope to turn this record in reverse.

So the Super Cup is a good opportunity. As long as you can defeat Hoffenheim, you can not only win the Super Cup, but also equalize the results of both sides, killing two birds with one stone.

As the captain of Hoffenheim, Chu Zhongtian also made a counterattack against the remarks of Ribery and other Bayern players. Although he and Ribery are good friends in private, they are unrecognizable to each other on the court. Both sides have a strong desire to win and fighting spirit, so it is not feasible to them to talk about brotherhood on the court.

"We lost the Super Cup last year and will win it back this year no matter what!" Chu Zhongtian expressed his confidence in winning. "I don't care who my opponent is, I only look at the championship."

A reporter asked him how he reacted to the remarks of Ribery and others, and he smiled and said, "Two seasons ago, if someone told us that we could be compared with Bayern Munich, we would definitely think that was incredible. Now I think this is good, and I enjoy this comparison."

We have to do everything that the enemy hates. This is one of the laws of struggle. Since Bayern Munich players hate the media to compare them with Hoffenheim, as opponents, we must strongly support and agree with this approach, which will make the opponent anxious and anxious, and lose calm. Hoffenheim's goal is achieved.

Bayern Munich once used the media to launch psychological warfare, and now Hoffenheim has learned to do so.

Don’t you hate comparing with us? We still insist on comparing with you!

※※※In the Super Cup starting lineup that Rangnick decided for the team, there were not many new players. Gago, Hlosek, Serner and Quaresma were all on the bench, and the only starting goalkeeper Nyema Hildebran left, and Nyema naturally took the position of the team's main goalkeeper.

In addition to Nyema, Hoffenheim's starting lineup is still the same as last season. Left-back Kolarov, right-back Baker, center-back Simonic and Metzelder, midfielder Sana and Chu Zhongtian, left-back Salihovic, right-back Weiss, and forwards are Ibissevic and Obasi.

This is far from the starting lineup predicted by everyone before the game. The media thought that Rangnick would send all new players in one go, because judging from the warm-up match before the season, the running-in between the new players and the team is good, especially Quaresma, who scored goals and assists in the warm-up match. Can't such an outstanding performance win him a starting position?

Everyone was wrong. Quaresma sat on the bench and watched his teammates line up on the court to shake hands with Bayern Munich's players.

At Augsburg Pulse Arena, 30,000 fans from both sides will witness another peak showdown between the two sides.

In fact, although it was the German Super Cup, it was not until this season that it was recognized by the German Football Association. In the past fourteen years, the German Cup was either suspended or not recognized by the German Football Association, and has been in a relatively embarrassing position.

Before the start of the season of other national leagues, there was a match between the Cup champion and the League champion. It was already under management. However, the Super Cup of the German Football League first appeared in 1977. This was spontaneously organized by the club and was not recognized by the German Football Association.

Ten years later, the German Football Association included this event in their management scope and recognized the official status of the Super Cup. However, ten years later, the German Football Association canceled the Super Cup and replaced it with the League Cup, which increased the number of participating teams. The effect was not good. It has always been the address of the club and lacks interest from fans. In 2008, the German Football Association suspended the event on the grounds of "making way for the European Championship."

The suspension of the League Cup means that a gap has appeared before the season. In order to make up for this regret and give the team a high-level warm-up match, people think of the Super Cup again. This time, the club is still spontaneously organized by the club. The "double champion" Bayern Munich faced the Cup runner-up Dortmund, which was nicknamed the "copycat version". As a result, young coach Klinsmann won the bitter fruit of failure in his first game on stage, and they were defeated 2:1 by Dortmund away.

Last year, the second year of the copycat version of the Super Cup, Hoffenheim, the champion of the new League, hosted the Cup champion Werder Bremen at his home court. In the game, Bremen continued to play the role of "Hocun Killer", defeating Hoffenheim again and winning the Super Cup. Including the league, the German FA Cup and the Super Cup, Hoffenheim has not yet won Werder Bremen, and he has no chance to draw, and has lost all five games. Werder Bremen is also their only team that has not won.

Just when everyone was busy hosting the Super Cup, the German Football Association came out to disrupt the situation. They were very dissatisfied with the club's approach to bypassing the Football Association's event, and passed an internal vote and unanimously opposed the recognition of the event. It was not until Bayern Munich and Dortmund gave 20% of the TV broadcast revenue to the Football Association that their dissatisfaction subsided.

Last year's Super Cup made Rhine Neka's stadium full and very popular. Perhaps it was because of seeing the special status and increasing influence of the Super Cup. Starting from the new season, the German Football Association has restarted the Main Board Super Cup.

This Super Cup, which was placed in the Augsburg Pulse Arena, is the 11th session of the Official Super Cup - including the first ten official Super Cups from 1987 to 1997.

For this new Super Cup, the German Football Association specially recast a trophy. This new trophy, which is 53 centimeters tall and weighs 5 and a half kilograms, is worth about 40,000 euros.

The Super Cup, which was recognized by the German Football Association, looks much more formal, with a pre-match kick-off ceremony. German Football Association Chairman Twinzig personally kicked the ball away, which was considered a kick-off.

The game was held on the afternoon of August 7th local time. The Pulse Arena in Augsburg was packed, and more than 30,000 people flocked to the stadium to cheer for the teams they supported.

August 8th the second day of the game is the birthday of Bayern Munich coach Van Gaal. Before the game, there was news that the Bayern players were going to present this new Super Cup to the head coach as a birthday gift.

However, the Hoffenheim players will definitely not agree.

Bayern is basically in a good position in this regard. Only Robben cannot play due to injury. Not only will he miss this Super Cup, he will also miss the league for two months. His injury was the injury before the World Cup. Although he caught up with the World Cup after emergency surgery, it has not been healed. The Dutch team finally entered the World Cup final, and Robben gritted his teeth and persevered to the final. He performed well in the World Cup and almost helped the team get rid of the hat of "uncrowned king". However, he paid the price of paying the club.

Before this World Cup, many famous stars withdrew due to injuries, and many of those who stayed behind were injured and persisted in the game. Obviously, the four-year World Cup is very important to them, especially those stars around the age of 28. This may be the last World Cup in their peak period.

Brazil's star Kaka had surgery after the World Cup because of a closed injection. He would miss the league for at least half a year. This caused great trouble to the Real Madrid club he played for, and he himself was criticized by public opinion. Many people think that he was holding Real Madrid's Hi-Tech, but he was not working hard. He only had the Brazilian national team in his mind. Now he wants Real Madrid to pay for his surgery and pay his salary during his recovery period. This is a very unprofessional behavior.

But Kaka is already twenty-eight years old. This is the last World Cup in his golden age. Although he has won the World Cup once, he has not been the core of the team. Four years ago, he was not the protagonist, and four years later, South Africa is the protagonist. Of course, he hopes to help the Brazilian national team win the World Cup for the sixth time. For this reason, even if he conceals the injury from the club and fights in a closed game, he is willing. Unfortunately, they unexpectedly collapsed in a good situation and lost to the Netherlands. Originally, as long as they could eliminate the Netherlands and make steady progress in the final, they might be able to stage a peak showdown in the world football with Spain in the final - the top two in FIFA. The two teams currently in the limelight will definitely make fans and the media excited.

Unfortunately, luck makes people. Kaka is so lucky that he won the exchange for it by gritting his teeth and insisting on being eliminated. Four years later, it is still unknown whether his motherland is 32 years old or not. With his football style, after he is 30 years old, his condition may plummet. Brazil's football is like Chinese table tennis, with many talented people emerging in China and the updates are very fast. No one can tell what happens four years later, so Kaka only wants to seize the present.

Chu Zhongtian has no worries in this regard. In fact, he really wants to have such worries... He is in a dilemma between the World Cup and the club, but he is not even qualified to be in a dilemma.

He doesn't know whether he can play in the World Cup in his career, and no one can tell what the future will be. He just wants to seize the present. So the Champions League is very important to him. He has won the domestic cup championship, domestic league championship, European Super Cup championship, and UEFA Cup championship. The only thing that has not been conquered is the Champions League.

The Champions League is the highest-level event in the world today, surpassing the World Cup. Although it still cannot be compared with the World Cup every four years. But Chu Zhongtian retreated and since he could not participate in the World Cup, he should regard the Champions League as his own World Cup.

Ukrainian star Sepchenko once said similar things. Before the Champions League final, he said that the Champions League final was his World Cup final. After winning the Champions League AC Milan in 2003, Sepchenko returned to Ukraine with the Champions League trophy and was treated like a hero. Later, he took the Champions League trophy to pay tribute to his mentor Lobanovsky's cemetery. When he left Dynamo Kiev four years ago, he promised his coach Lobanovsky that he would bring him a Champions League trophy. Unexpectedly, his mentor had passed away before that moment, but Sepchenko still kept his promise and brought the trophy to his mentor's grave.

There are many superstars who cannot participate in the World Cup, in addition to Shepchenko, there is also the hero of Wales, Giggs. He is the world's top left winger at Manchester United, but he is trapped by the strength of the national team and has never participated in the World Cup. But this does not prevent him from becoming a world-class player and a legend of his generation.

Chu Zhongtian's goal is to make players like Giggs.

This season's Champions League, he is ambitious and hopes to go further. However, the Champions League is a matter of the future. The first step of the season must start with this Super Cup.

Chu Zhongtian stood on the court with Hoffenheim captain's armband and wearing a blue Hoffenheim jersey. Opposite him were Bayern Munich players wearing red and white jerseys, and his old friend Ribery was also on the court.

Ribery was injured before and was in the recovery period, but he actually started in this game, which shows how strong his desire to fight was.

He doesn't want to lose to his good brother Chu Zhongtian.

Every collision between Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim is also a battle between Ribery and Chu Zhongtian.

※※※ German Football Association Chairman Tswanziger kicked the football out. After completing the kick-off ceremony, he raised his hands and walked off the court. The players on both sides of the court applauded and gave him a look.

After this show, everyone returned to the court and stood according to their own formations.

This highly anticipated game is about to begin.

Bayern's unnamed German internationals who participated in the World Cup started all the starters, including Ram, Schweinsteiger, Klose, Thomas Muller, and Badstuber. Captain Van Bomel and injured Robben, Van Biden were not on the roster. The main goalkeeper Butt sat on the bench, and the 22-year-old Craft guarded the goalkeeper for Bayern's first team for the first time in the official match.

The referee whistle sounded and the game began!

※※This game has another meaning beyond winning the championship for Hoffenheim. Rangnick requires the team to play Hoffenheim's style in the game. They practiced for a summer to make the concept of fast football deeply rooted in people's hearts. Therefore, Hoffenheim must also adhere to their fast playing style in this game.

Hoffenheim was the first to kick off the ball, which of course was another benefit that Chu Zhongtian won in the sidelines... Using this kickoff, Hoffenheim would play a fast break.

During the whole summer of pre-season training, Rangnick and the coaching staff worked hard to keep up with Chu Zhongtian's rhythm, not only physical rhythm, but also mental rhythm.

Chu Zhongtian added his improvisational performance at will in training, and the coaching staff had a special person responsible for recording his improvisational performance and then recording it in the book. Then everyone held a meeting to discuss whether this improvisational performance had the possibility of transforming it into a tactic that could be reused. Not all improvisational performance could occupy a place in the tactical manual. For example, Chu Zhongtian could not do some movements afterwards, and he didn't know what he thought about at that time.

Those improvisational performances that cannot be adapted into fixed tactics are abandoned, while those that can be changed into tactics are carefully studied and analyzed, and then sorted into tactics for team training and learning, and must be used in the game.

Chu Zhongtian kept improvising on the court, and his teammates who watched him perform or benefited from his performance became more and more impressed by his captain. Watching him play football became a pleasure.

Obasi quickly passed the football to Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian did not directly look for teammates on the sidelines. Fast attack does not mean that this simple method is always organized. If the timing is wrong, such a rash long pass is just to hand over the ball to the opponent. After Chu Zhongtian controlled the football, Bayern Munich strikers Klose and Hamid Altendop rushed up. They ignored them and grabbed the ball under Chu Zhongtian's feet.

After these two seasons of confrontation, all Bayern Munich players knew that Hoffenheim was only one real threat. Chu Zhongtian was restricted, and if this ball was lost, it would be over.

Facing the two aggressive people, Chu Zhongtian did not bring the football to the side to avoid the opponent's press. He inserted his right foot into the turf under the football, and then picked it up!

The football was pressed against his outer instep and was taken up by him. Then he shook his toes and flew over the heads of Klose and Altotop!

The pass immediately made Hoffenheim fans in the stands cheer.

"Wow! Chu had such a beautiful pass action at the beginning of the game! He was so relaxed on the court!"

This first action made Chu Zhongtian understand that he was in great condition today!

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!