Jiao: Because of the European Cup, Germany canceled the League Cup, and the Bundesliga team is still coming earlier than other countries, Bayern, Schalke and other four teams that have just changed their coaches started as early as the end of June, Hoffenheim played the most games last season, and this season will play the European Super Cup, so the practice started two weeks later than other teams,! However, because of the European Championship, it wasn't until Saviola's official move to Hoffenheim that Rangnick got together the players for the intra-team competition.

On the morning of the day, Dietma. Hope Field. A small player was playing in the corner of the pitch, Hoffenheim's players were generally tall, Eduardo was already shorter, but this player was much shorter than Eduardo. However, he is very familiar with the ball, although it is only a juggling ball, but it makes the fans who come to watch applaud from time to time, and this short player is none other than the Argentine star Saviola, nicknamed the rabbit. He had just arrived in Hoffenheim. I am not familiar with my teammates, and most of them practice silently after coming to the court in advance. The experience of two giants and two loans made this talented teenager a lot more low-key, and the age of the knife also made him understand the preciousness of time, and he came to the court early every day, hoping to win a main position for himself with diligence and seriousness. When Li Huan arrived at the court at the right time, Rangnick and the two assistant coaches were already waiting on the sidelines. Originally, the three coaches still had calm faces, but after seeing the core player of Hoffenheim, they all smiled and greeted Li Huan. Hundreds of fans outside the stadium also cheered at the same time when they saw Li Huan appear. kept shouting Li Huan's name.

Saviola saw this scene and sighed in his heart, when he went to Barcelona, the fans also welcomed him like this, when he wore the halo of the World Youth Championship Ballon d'Or, South American Footballer of the Year, but now he came to Hoffenheim is just an outdated star, and few fans don't even know him.

The time for practice had passed, and Gustavo and Eduardo came to the court shoulder to shoulder, and saw the coach standing on the sidelines with a gloomy face, and the two of them bowed their heads as if nothing happened.

But there was something later than the two of them, and it had been ten minutes since the practice had already begun, and Ibertsberg had driven from Mannheim. It turned out that his car had something wrong on the road and he couldn't arrive in time.

Rangnick's face became more and more ugly when he listened to Ibbotsberg's explanation, because he smelled a smell of alcohol from Ibbotsberg's body. Ibertsberg was clearly lying.

In recent times, such things have happened quite often. Last season, there were never players who were late for meetings or drills, but now they are starting to be late; Some players stop shaving because of the slightest muscle pain and go to the gym, which they used to grit their teeth and persevere; And when the group is in the group, some players are not happy to hear the coach's criticism, if it is Rangnick criticizing them, they bow their heads and pass, but if it is an assistant coach, some players may even directly ridicule each other.

Rangnick has never led a team to a championship, so he doesn't have a lot of experience in dealing with such situations, but he also understands that this arrogant mentality of a player is definitely not good for the team, if it continues. Hoffenheim are likely to follow the same path as Kaiserslautern and Stuttgart this season?

Today's three players in a row made Rangnick determined to stop the bad trend before the league began. Get the team back to last season's form as soon as possible.

The morning practice lasted only two hours, and then the team held a meeting in the conference room.

When everyone arrived, Rangnick didn't speak, just pulled out his laptop. On the screen, the team's records of lateness and absences from practice in recent times are played.

After reading the records, except for Beck, Timoshchuk, and Saviola, the players of the old Hoffenheim all bowed their heads, and no one dared to face Rangnick, because even Li Huan took a leave of absence during this time, and he did not come back because he was late because he participated in a business event.

Rangnick searched on the computer again, and then listed the weight of the players last season and the current weight, among which except for Li Huan and Strelf, who were officially promoted to the first team, the weight has basically not changed, and most of the other players have gained a lot of weight. Nelson actually gained five kilograms.

This time the players' heads were lowered even more, and Nelson's head even hung down on his own chest.

Rangnick said slowly, "I think you should know what the purpose of our meeting is by now. You are satisfied, you are proud. You guys think it's amazing to have the Triple Crown. You think it's time to sit down and take a break, and enjoy the cheers of the fans and the good life of the six I said yes The room was silent, everyone spoke, and no one dared to refute it, and the two sets of data listed by Rangnick proved it all very well. They did slack off.

'Maybe some players don't think that way, maybe they really happened because of an accident, but I think prevention is more important than treatment. I can't just because you've won three and I'm going to show mercy, I ask you to be more ambitious and more humble, that's the only way we can keep winning. Otherwise, Stuttgart is a lesson for us, as they were in the relegation zone last year. And before. They are the champions of the Bundesliga, the miracle of the Bundesliga."

Rangnick paused. Taking a sip of water is also to let these players have a good understanding of what he just said. At this point, assistant coach Marco walked up to the players and handed the prepared tickets to the players who were late and on leave. This meeting was decided by them in advance. Even if there are no three, players scratching late for practice, the meeting will go on as usual?

Rangnick continued, "Let me tell you a little secret. Li Huan, when he renewed his contract, he put forward a condition for the club, which was not a salary increase, but hoped that the team would buy powerful players and strive to play well in the Champions League. Otherwise, he chose to leave, and now I think you and I should understand Li Huan's intentions. He is just worried that everyone will be satisfied with past achievements and lose their fighting spirit and ambition. Now I can declare that our goal this season is the Champions League in addition to the league. We didn't go to the Champions League to exchange shirts with the big clubs, so why can't we make a difference in the Champions League when we can all put Bayern under our feet.

Defending the league title, the Champions League quarter-finals, that's what we're aiming for the new season, and although you've all been given new contracts, if anyone thinks we were good last season, leave Hoffenheim. Leave early, we still have time to bring in reinforcements. You can also find a good owner.

There was applause in the conference room, and it was Li Huan who took the lead in applauding, and he was very appreciative of Rangnick's speech today. The team has now fallen into a state of complacency and complacency, and it really needs a slap in the face to wake them up, and he is long live this year, he is in his prime, and he wants to win more trophies and create bigger miracles.

Instead of mixing in Hoffenheim with a high annual salary of 10,000.

Then the three new recruits also applauded with Li Huan, and finally the whole meeting broke out into applause, of course, some voluntarily and some followed.

After the meeting, Rangnick also made two decisions to punish the main players, one was to send Nelson to the second team, when his weight returned to normal, and when he returned to the first team. The second is that the penalty for late players will be increased from 100 euros to 500 euros, and after being late, they will have to run 20 laps around the court before participating in practice.

After Rangnick convened this rectification meeting, Hoffenheim's practice was much more active than before, and the situation of being late for no reason and avoiding practice was completely eliminated. Because the three signings have strong strength, the competition between the players is much more fierce than before. Even a head-to-head match is a game where every ball counts, and this change makes Rangnick very happy?

Although Bayern did not have the same large-scale bow as last season, their morale and fighting spirit were also very high after the new coach Klinsmann, who challenged Hoffenheim at a press conference at the beginning of his tenure. Klinsmann believes that the current Bayern team even has the strength to compete for the Champions League, and their goal in the new season is to use attacking football to win the treble and create a miracle even greater than Hoffenheim.

Maybe Klinsmann has lived in the United States for a long time, and his words are a bit American extroverted and exaggerated, but after the slump of the last season, the players and fans need such a slogan, perhaps a little exaggerated, to boost the morale of the players and regain the lost supremacy.

The German media is also cautiously optimistic about Hoffenheim's new season, because in the past two decades, except for giants like Bayern and Dortmund, no team has defended the Bundesliga title, so the reporter believes that other teams are more familiar with Hoffenheim's style of play this season, and Hoffenheim's difficulty in defending the title has greatly increased. The three major European bookmakers are setting odds for the Bundesliga winner. Are there two Bayern in front of Hoffenheim?

In the face of Bayern's challenge and media doubts, Hoffenheim's players have become scrappy and full of anticipation for the upcoming new season, hoping to create another miracle and continue to trample Bayern under their feet and let the German media slap themselves.

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