It's hard to imagine that one person, or two people, can drive a whole city crazy!
But when a somewhat outdated Volkswagen sedan stopped steadily at the entrance of the Tillingham training base behind Fritz-Walter-Stadion, and the two white-haired old men got out of the car, everyone's attention was focused on them. Even the security guard at the training ground stared blankly at the two people in front of him, forgetting to open the door.
Two elderly men supported each other as they slowly walked into the Tübingen training base under the watchful and concerned eyes of all club staff.
At this time, even a clever employee ran to the team office of Fritz-Walter-Stadion, apparently to inform Fredrik, Werner Melzer and other members of the board.
Two slightly stooping elderly men came to the outside of the training ground, shivering with cold, when Yang Cheng and everyone on the training ground looked over at them.
The old man who was always coughing slowly raised his right hand, revealing a faint smile, and waved at them.
It was just an action, but it moved everyone present, and some people almost cried.
"It's Mr. Fritz Walter and Ottmar Walter!" Bremer exclaimed.
At this time, Frederick and others also chased from the office, running directly to the side of the training ground.
"Mr. Walter, how did you come?" Frederick asked with a surprised face.
These western guests were the noble guests whom he had tried every means to invite but could not come. They were all creators of the Bern miracle in the past, and they were also legendary superstars of Kaiserslautern. However, it is unknown from what time on that they have all disappeared from Kaiserslautern. Even Fritz Walter has always lived in Enkenbach-Alsenborn east of Kaiserslautern.
"There's nothing, we just came to take a look at the team training!" Otter von Walter said with a smile.
His physical condition seemed better than his brother's, so he supported Fritz Walter and the two stood at the edge of the training ground, smiling at each other.
Yang Cheng looked deeply at Fritz Walter, and then at his brother Ottmar Walter beside him. He could naturally guess it. These two legendary figures of the past would not come to Tübingen for no reason.
This is the third time Yang Cheng has met Fritz Walter, the first was in Isola Bella. The second was when he took the initiative to find Yang Cheng and persuaded him to stay with the team. Now this time is the third.
The reason is self-evident and must be that they hope to appear at critical moments, bringing support and encouragement to the team.
"What's going on?" Yang Cheng thought of this and turned around, shouting: "Continue training!"
Currently, many players from other cities and countries have joined the team, but they have also been here for a considerable amount of time, so they naturally know about the relationship between Bern's miracle and Kaiserslautern, and they are also very familiar with the Walter brothers' connection to the club.
Whether you like or are engaged in football, you must have heard of the Bern miracle, otherwise you will be sprayed as ignorant, because he almost represents the most legendary game in football history, a reversal, a spirit and will!
Even many people say that the Miracle of Bern represents the spiritual will and motivation for Germany to walk out of the shadow of post-war!
Fritz Walter is thus dubbed as the father of the three major frameworks of German target, he laid the spiritual foundation for the German small beauty text war chariot!
It was two people like that, they didn't say a word, just smiled and stood in the snowy ground, silently watching the team train for more than an hour.
Yang Cheng waited until the team's training was over before leading the players out of the training ground to greet them.
"Hello, Fritz!" Yang Cheng respectfully extended his hand.
Fritz Walter looked at Yang Cheng with a satisfied smile and nodded, "He is my brother Ottmar, Ottmar. He is Yang Cheng!"
Otto Walter had been sizing up Yang Cheng deeply, as if unwilling to let go of every cell on his body. After his brother's introduction, he smiled and nodded: "Indeed, good stuff!"
Braemer and the other players also came to welcome, they haven't seen Fritz Walter brothers in the team for many years, didn't expect them to come today.
"I came today mainly to extend an invitation, inviting you to attend a charity dinner hosted by the Siegfried Helberg Foundation, which will take place just before Christmas. Will you accept?" Fritz Walter asked Yang Cheng with a smile.
The latter nodded and said, "Okay, I guarantee it!"
The Sepp Herberger Foundation was established by the coach of the Bern miracle, West Germany's head coach at the time, Sepp Herberger. The foundation is used to help prisoners reintegrate into society and is a very meaningful charity.
Since 1976, Fritz Walter has been committed to the promotion and running of this foundation, but it was the first time he invited Kaiser Franz to attend a cocktail party hosted by the foundation.
No one knew why before, and I believe no one will know in the future either!
"Alright, I've arranged for the wine to be delivered to Mannheim, so next time I'll stay here. The day after tomorrow, I'll personally go to the stadium's stands to watch your match, do a good job, young men!" After finishing speaking, Fritz Walter patted Yang Cheng's shoulder encouragingly, then left Tübingen with Ottmar's support and followed by Freiburger and others.
From head to toe, he never said a word that was even slightly affirmative or praising, but for some reason, his appearance seemed to give the entire team, the entire city of Tübingen, and even the entire city of Kaiserslautern, direction and warmth in the vast white snow.
Yang Cheng looked at the players beside him, one by one, with a mixture of respect and admiration for Fritz Walter in his heart. He also hoped that he could win everyone's respect like Walter did today.
Ye Wen, one of the most famous journalists from the Capital Television Station, was also extremely shocked. He was exceptionally allowed by Yang Cheng to attend the team's morning training session today to take pictures, but he never expected that he would run into Fritz Walter and Ottmar Walter visiting at the Tbilisi Training Grounds, which is absolutely huge news.
"Have you taken all the pictures?" Ye Wen asked excitedly and trembled.
The crew members beside him nodded immediately, "We've got it all on camera, not a single word was missed!"
Ye Wen nodded in satisfaction, looking at Yang Cheng. He couldn't help but have a new understanding of Yang Cheng's influence in this city, at least he could mobilize Fritzwalter, a legendary figure of this level.
This further confirms one thing, that is, the outside rumor that Yang Cheng's contract extension with Kaiserslautern in the summer was the result of Fritz Walter's advice. Now it seems that this should be true.
"He's really becoming more and more astonishing!" Ye Wen looked at Yang Cheng with admiration.
Night falls. After a day of intense training, the players have finished their baths and meals, and are now lounging lazily in the conference room of the training building, so comfortable that they all want to fall asleep.
At 6 o'clock, Yang Cheng appeared at the door of the conference room, followed by Paul Bier, Tim Hanks and others. They walked into the conference room one after another, and the coaching staff sat in the first row, while Yang Cheng came directly to the front of the podium and stood still.
All the players suddenly woke up from their laziness, and one by one they focused their attention on the Chinese man with a solemn face in front of the rostrum, who looked as serious as a tightly stretched rubber band.
"First light, the first question, have you all considered it?" Yang Cheng spoke up after waiting for everyone to look over.
The players nodded in unison, with most of them looking very determined.
"Alright, so you tell me, do you want to attack or defend?"
As soon as Yang Cheng's voice fell, a roar immediately erupted in the conference room, "Attack!"
"Does everyone want to attack?" Yang Cheng asked again.
No one dared to look away, everyone was staring at Yang Cheng with a serious face, looking at the head coach who was worthy of their trust and dependence. The answer was self-evident!
"Good, very good!" Yang Cheng nodded incessantly. A smile rose to the corners of his mouth, and under the bright lights of the conference room, it was dazzling. "I'm delighted, comrades. You chose to be with me, which proves that we are still a whole, you didn't let me down!"
The players listened and suddenly felt a wave of joy.
"Although they all say that Bayern Munich is very strong, in my opinion, we will not lose to them. In fact, to some extent, we are stronger than them. Because we know better how to control the game and win the game!"
Yang Chengcai turned around and brushed a tactical formation diagram on the blackboard behind him.
"Tomorrow in this match we need to make some adjustments, I'm sorry, Pashour will be suspended, without him in midfield, it will definitely have an impact, so this requires our starting players tomorrow. Every single one of them must work harder than usual, run more and pass more!"
Nai De heard this, a hint of bitter smile appeared on his face, "I'm also very sorry, Head, but I'll be in the stands tomorrow, fighting shoulder to shoulder with everyone. I firmly believe that we will win!"
Yang Cheng smiled and said, "Well said, Pavel! Don't worry, we've prepared a celebration for you!"
The players all burst out laughing at once.
Unified with a common goal, the players seemed to have returned to their pre-match state, and the previous match against Buick Renault was as if it had added a few points of motivation to defeat their opponents.
"Tomorrow we will add a new striker, replacing Pavel's position, Henrik!" Yang Cheng pointed to Larsson.
The tactical board was immediately filled with Larsen's name, and he took the tactical chess piece representing Larsen and drew a circle around it with chalk.
"Henrik, you'll have more freedom on the right side tomorrow, make some runs behind their defense, combine with Schneider, Van Nistelrooy and Barak, focus on attacking Bayern's left flank, we must suffocate them, launch disorganized attacks!"
Larson nodded silently.
"Dai Mai, tomorrow your position will be a bit to the left. Your responsibility is to make runs and support the offense, if necessary you'll be the striker, in the penalty area!" Yang Cheng decisively pushed the piece representing Barak into Bayern's penalty area, then gave it a heavy slap.
"Ludwig's task is also very heavy, keeping the distance with the team, disturbing the defense after the counter-attack, and entering the restricted area at the right time. Once you enter the restricted area, your responsibility is only one, to score a goal, to turn opportunities into goals, but before getting the opportunity, you should run more, especially to increase the disturbance of Bayern's back defense!"
Van nodded heavily, he was already used to the series of tasks arranged by Yang Cheng.
"Our left flank is given to Sune Nilsson, to suppress Bayern's right flank, it depends on you!"
Denero nodded silently, he knew the importance of this game and Yang Cheng's expectations for it, so no matter what, he had to fight hard to help the team win!
"Schneider on the right needs to make a run into the middle, and Juan makes an overlapping run!" Yang Cheng arranged the chess pieces of the two players on the tactics board to show their interdependent attacking formation.
In the midfield, Bellon made a forward insertion and Schneider was in the middle, forming a double core in the front court. The characteristics of these two players are passing, Bellon is excellent at both long and short passes. Schneider's ability to hold the ball and make the final pass is also very good, and the two players can absolutely provide strong attacking firepower support for Kaiserslautern players up front.
Gattuso's task is heavier than usual, he not only gave the players who are going to disturb Bayern, but also protected Bellon and Schneider, he is a barrier in the midfield of the team, and also a powerful weapon for Yang Cheng's balanced midfield.
It can be said that if Gattuso didn't exist, Yang Cheng would never have dared to come up with such an attacking formation and tactics today. He firmly believes that Gattuso can intercept Bayern's counterattack.
In addition, he also gave Kartos a timely mission to intercept the enemy's vanguard!
While in the back defense, Kyle was ahead of "his position is closer to the back waist, responsible for guarding against non-back defense and combing midfield, Ji Heng and Lucio are behind Kyle. Two players were assigned as left and right center backs.
This is also a strategy developed by Yang Cheng based on the previous game, with the purpose of restraining Elber.
Although Brazilians joined Bayern Munich this season, he has now become a very key tactical piece under Trapattoni's account with outstanding performance and play, and it is difficult to suppress Bayern's counterattack if he cannot be controlled.
So Yang Cheng requires the team's defense to have layers and depth. He not only wants to compress the game as much as possible in the midfield area, but also requires the midfielders to retreat and defend together, using their numerical advantage and running ability to thoroughly cut off Bayern's counterattack opportunities.
"Guys, believe me, tomorrow's match will decide the championship of this season. As long as we defeat Bayern, we are essentially touching the trophy of the Bundesliga champion. I think Bayern also understands this point very well, so both teams must win!" Yang Cheng said excitedly after explaining the tactics.
"In any crucial match like this, strength and tactics are often not the real deciding factors in winning or losing. What really decides the outcome is which side has a stronger desire to win, which side has more tenacious fighting spirit, and which side can fight until the very last second!"
Yang Cheng paused for a moment, letting his violently heaving chest calm down a bit.
"From the start of the season until now, I didn't dare to mention winning the championship because I felt that the timing wasn't ripe yet. But now, I feel that the timing has ripened and we have become strong enough, strong enough to qualify for competing for the league championship!"
"So now, at this moment, I am telling each and every one of you solemnly that in the 97 season, we Kaiserslautern have a chance to compete for the championship of the Bundesliga, we have a chance to become the first team in Bundesliga history to win the championship as a newly promoted team, which will create an unprecedented history, create a miracle!"
Yang Chen appeared extremely excited, and his excitement had a profound impact on every player present.
"Do you know why Fritz Walter and Ottmar Walter, these two legendary soccer stars, chose to appear at this time? Do you think they just came to invite us to a party? Don't be silly, they are here to watch our game, to encourage us, to give us support, to strengthen our conviction!"
"They will be in Tübingen and they will also be on the stands of Fritz-Walter-Stadion tomorrow, not to see us lose against Bayern and give away the championship title this season, but to see our football, Kaiserslautern-style football, to see how we use our style to beat Bayern and take the initiative to win the Bundesliga title this season!"
As soon as these two legendary players of the past were mentioned, all the athletes suddenly showed respect and became spirited!
They don't even need to be mobilized and naturally become full of fighting spirit!
Maybe this is the charm of legendary soccer stars!
"Now everyone outside thinks we can't win because we just lost a crucial game 3 days ago, so they think the weak us will not be able to accept this result and be hit. And lose tomorrow's crucial game, are you willing to accept such shame? Can you tolerate such humiliation?"
"No, sir!" Bremer and others suddenly stood up at the same time.
Yang Cheng nodded, "I also can't, so we only have one way to go, that is to defeat Bayern, use this game's victory to prove to everyone, we are not soft eggs who are bullied by others, we lost a crucial game, but we can lose because we can win!"
"You guys must remember, in the beautiful world of football, if we want to win, we must first learn to lose. Only those who can afford to lose will be able to laugh last and win continuously! Because we are not afraid to lose, so we can become the ultimate winners!"
Yang Cheng's words immediately received a unanimous applause from all the players in the conference room, and they all had to agree with the head coach's remarks, while also being full of confidence for tomorrow's game.
They lost, but they got back up again with great tenacity. In their hearts, the fear and intimidation of losing had long since disappeared; they became fearless!
Only those who fear nothing are the strongest!