The vital young man trains with vital energy every day.

The team is also actively preparing for the new season.

After the German Super Cup, the Bundesliga is not far away.

Because there will be a World Cup next summer, the national team will have to train before the World Cup, so the league must leave enough time for the national team to train. Therefore, this season's league starts early and ends earlier, and the mid-season schedule is relatively intensive.

The Bundesliga season will kick off on August 9th, with the first game being defending champion Dortmund away against Augsburg.

The opponent is not very strong, but Dortmund is playing away. In addition, the first league game, it is still unknown what state the players can do.

However, since the Super Cup with Bayern Munich, Germany's suspicion and criticism of Dortmund have become much smaller. Only Munich's media are still insisting that the performance and results of such a useless event cannot explain any problem.

Before the Super Cup, these media believed that the victory of the Super Cup would indicate the different prospects of the two teams, Dortmund and Bayern Munich, this season...

However, Guardiola has admitted more than his media friends. After losing the Super Cup, he admitted in an interview with reporters that his team's performance was not as good as Dortmund, and it was normal to lose the game. At the same time, he also admitted that he was still understanding this brand new league and everything in this league.

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August 9th, the first round of the league.

Dortmund challenged Augsburg away.

The day before, Klopp announced the 18 players who were going to go with the team, and there was no Yan Min there. Although Chinese journalists and fans were very concerned about this issue and hoped that Yan Min could appear on the 18-man roster, Klopp still used cruel reality to tell the delusionary Chinese media and fans that they were thinking too much.

Zhou Yi was then surrounded by Chinese journalists and wanted to let him talk about what he thought about Yan Min's failure to be included in the 18-man list.

This time, Zhou Yi, who has always been polite to the media, criticized the media's bad mentality with ruthlessness: "... Yan Min has just arrived in Dortmund, and has not even been practicing with the team for two weeks. He has not played even a warm-up match for Dortmund, so isn't it normal for him to not be selected into the league's 18-man roster?"

"I don't think your attention is about the concern and support of the players, but it is more like a kind of pressure. It's like parents chanting in their children's ears all day long, 'If you don't study hard, you're sorry for our raising grace'. It's useless, or there's only a counter-effect. Which child have you seen who can learn well because parents chant such words all day long? Whether a player can play games has objective rules. Even if the training is in good condition, it depends on the coach's tactical arrangement. How can there be such an absolute thing? You can play when you say it?"

"I remember when I was in Dortmund's first team, you were the same? Is this time I came? Are you not afraid of arousing Klopp's disgust and rebellious mentality, and directly banned Yan Min? I don't think Yan Min can live in the spotlight and magnifying glass of the media and the public. If you really support Yan Min, you should give him more space and patience, don't worry about when he will be on the 18-man roster, when he will appear on the bench, and when he will start, these questions will come naturally. They will naturally appear when it is time to play, just like I did back then. I really don't want you to ask me and the coach in the future. Of course, don't ask Yan Min - I know what you want to do, Yan Min's temper, what you say is good material for you to hype. But doing that is not good for the players, it's very bad."

Zhou Yi's expression was very serious when he said this, and he was not smiling, which made the reporters a little uncomfortable and a little embarrassed - they really didn't expect that Zhou Yi could also scold people with a stern face.

But think about it again, with Zhou Yi's current status and achievements, it seems that he was scolded by him... nothing wrong with it.

After Dortmund lost Gotze and Lewandowski one after another, Zhou Yi's position in the team became more and more stable. To put it bluntly, if he was willing to be a football boss, he would probably get the support of the club's senior management.

After saying these words with a stern face, Zhou Yi returned to the familiar smile, and then said: "I'm talking to you so much today. I hope that the players and reporters can maintain good relationships in the future. We have worked well in foreign countries over the years. We have been staying abroad for a long time and we have worked very hard. If we can't do our job well, wouldn't it be a loss? You can log out all of my words, whether it's pressure from above or from fans, let them see if I'm right. When I was promoted to the first team,

There are also many people who are anxious about me and keep asking questions about when I can play the game to the coach. I know it is all for my own good, but I know very well that as a player, waiting is a compulsory homework. If you don’t have the patience, impetuousness will not help the players seize opportunities and succeed. You also interview Yang Muge. In my opinion, Lao Yang is an excellent representative of patience. As a result, he is now in Schalke 04, and he is the main force that cannot be defeated. No matter which coach he changes to, I believe he can gain a foothold in Schalke 04."

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Zhou Yi's words were really posted by the media, but some media published the original text without a word, and some media were excerpts. But no matter which method, they wrote comments based on Zhou Yi's words, reflected on their own practices, and the media had a bigger vision and thought of the current situation of Chinese football.

"...The Chinese domestic league is booming and has a trend of surpassing the Japanese and Korean leagues. We have money-burning players, and world-class stars who never dared to imagine before have come to invest, and the league attendance rate has been rising steadily, surpassing Asia... The Chinese national team has also reached the World Cup finals again historic, and the Olympic team won the Olympic gold medal... Everything looks very beautiful, like flowers and cooking oil in flames. But all these beautiful scenes seem to make us become impetuous and lose our normal heart and patience.

I think the results of Chinese football today are very accidental. Not to mention the league, just talk about the national team's results, Zhou Yi and the others' rise is like a meteor that suddenly appears in the night sky. Although it is dazzling, everyone knows that this cannot become eternal. Their "golden generation" appeared very suddenly. After their peak period is over, what is waiting for us? If we are only immersed in the dream brought by a group of genius players, then Chinese football will never get out of the bottom.

I think it's time to calm down and do some "planting trees and afforestation". Thanks to Zhou Yi and others, they have brought more attention to Chinese football, because Zhou Yi and others, the image and reputation of football in China are getting better, and there may be more parents willing to play football in the future. But by that time, are we football workers ready? Do we have more football fields? Do we have more principals who are willing to let football enter the school gate? Do we have more high-level football schools? Do we have more grassroots coaches who are willing to devote themselves to youth football training? Do we have football people like Xu Genbao who are willing to work hard on an island for ten years?

If there is no such thing, then Zhou Yi and the others are meteors. After crossing the sky, what is left for Chinese football is still the dark night sky. After enjoying the joy for a while, Chinese fans will endure endless pain again - this is a precedent. Think about our entry into the World Cup twelve years ago, when the whole country celebrated. Everyone thought that the spring of Chinese football has arrived, but the reality is cruel. Enjoy joy but not prepare, and that joy is destined to be temporary.

So I call on our footballers, not only journalists, fans, but also managers to take this opportunity to vigorously improve our domestic football environment, implement policies that are conducive to the development of football into primary and secondary schools, and to allow football culture to be rooted in this society. In this way, Chinese football can "rely rely on its strength to send me to the Qingyun..."

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Zhou Yi himself probably didn't expect that his words could lead to such a strategically high-level commentary article. Moreover, this article was not published in general media, but was published in the People's Daily, an article by the People's Daily commentator!

This specification is so high that it is not Zhou Yi's influence alone that can determine that the People's Daily does this.

Perhaps Zhou Yi is just an introduction, a medicine introduction, and behind the scenes, some people at the upper level want to take this opportunity to say something to try the domestic public opinion reaction and explore the way forward to push other new policies in the future.

After all, in China today, everyone knows that the new one likes football...
Chapter completed!