Although media fans didn't know that Zhou Yi had retreated and became a midfielder at first.

In terms of training, Klopp can keep it confidential.

But he can't keep the warm-up match completely closed, right?

Some less important warm-up matches, such as matches with local low-level league teams, may not be open to the public.

However, some slightly more formal warm-up matches cannot prevent fans from entering the court.

Some pre-season warm-up matches even have live TV.

Therefore, the fact that Zhou Yi plays as a midfielder cannot be hidden after all. Klopp cannot let Zhou Yi continue to play as a midfielder in the game, so the meaning of the warm-up match will be gone.

The purpose of the pre-season warm-up match is to allow teams to use actual combat to test what they practice in training.

Zhou Yi is doing very well in training now, but that is training after all, and there is a big gap between training and actual combat.

Although the warm-up match cannot be compared with the real league, it is at least more practical than training.

So in the pre-season warm-up match, Zhou Yi appeared in the midfielder position.

In the first warm-up match that was open to the public, everyone discovered that Zhou Yi's position had changed.

It's not the front midfielder, but the back midfielder.

This can be clearly seen from the position when kicking off.

Zhou Yi and Sven Bend stood on the line and in front of the back line.

This discovery surprised Chinese journalists. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi's position was moved backward. Was this because of the concessions made by Shinji Kagawa's arrival?

After the Japanese reporters who were also in the media table discovered this, they were very excited. Does this mean that Kagawa has a chance?

However, as the competition progressed, the excitement of Japanese reporters gradually cooled down and disappeared.

Judging from the game, the core of the team is still Zhou Yi. Although Kagawa appears, it cannot replace Zhou Yi.

The Chinese journalists' anxious hearts gradually calmed down.

They found that Zhou Yi performed well in the midfielder position and did not adapt to it. Moreover, his range of activities is large and he will not be fixed in the backcourt. He will actively forward and participate in the offense, and sometimes even occupy the position of the offensive players in the frontcourt.

This shows that Zhou Yi is still the leader of this team. He controls the offense and defense rhythm on the court.

Although he was far away from the goal, his organizational mission was not weakened.

Because the Zhou Yi meeting they saw... has been passed on for a long time!

Although I don’t know when Zhou Yi came to it, at least I was indeed using the long pass.

And from the actual effect, the accuracy is not too bad.

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Zhou Yi's performance in the warm-up match gave Chinese journalists and fans a reassurance, and also made the Japanese reporters understand that what Shinji Kagawa said was indeed the truth.

Game after game, although Zhou Yi did not play the warm-up match for the whole game, no one could play the whole game. The quality of Zhou Yi showed greatly shocked the Japanese reporters.

Japanese journalists have always believed that Japanese football is the strongest in Asia, especially in the midfield, where they have produced many European-level players in succession.

The first famous Hidesu Nakada is also the most successful one.

Behind them are Shunsuke Nakamura, Makoto Hasegawa, etc.

In the midfield, Japanese football has always been very strong. In the past, their weaker ones were forwards.

At that time, there was a widely circulated view among Chinese domestic fans, that is, the Chinese team is not short of excellent forwards, Yang Chen, Hao Dong, Song Maozhen, Li Bin, and Li Jinyu, these are all excellent forwards. The Japanese national team has a good midfielder, but there is no forward who can attack the city and the village.

Now, Japan's forwards have caught up and surpassed China, while Japan's midfielder is still a traditional advantage.

But now, they feel that in the midfield position, in addition to South Korea's Park Ji-sung, China also has another Zhou Yi...

As the German media said, the shortcomings of Zhou Yi they observed were prominent, but they were a little more prominent.

Moreover, his shortcomings are concentrated in physical and technical aspects, but these can be practiced and improved, and they can gradually get better.

What makes Zhou Yi strong is his outstanding vision and football awareness.

Japanese football reporters are all knowledgeable people, and you can tell at a glance that this is the quality that determines the upper limit of a player's talent.

Even if they are unwilling to give up, they have to admit that in this regard, Zhou Yi is better than Shinji Kagawa.

Of course, Shinji Kagawa and Zhou Yi play football are not the same type, and there is no direct comparison.

However, if you want to be the core of Dortmund, Shinji Kagawa may find it difficult to compete with Zhou Yi.

So after a few warm-up matches, Chinese journalists discovered a new situation. That is, they were outside the training ground in Dortmund. When they met Japanese journalists, the other party would take the initiative to mention Zhou Yi to them and then give them a thumbs up: "Zhou Sang, Spalasi!!"

This sentence made Chinese journalists feel like they drank a bottle of cold beer in the summer, and they felt good from the inside to the outside.

Everyone knows that the Japanese advocate the strong, and they are willing to praise Zhou Yi like this. Naturally, they are conquered by Zhou Yi's performance.

This greatly satisfyes the national self-esteem and vanity of Chinese journalists.

In the past twenty years, in the field of football, China needs to look up to Japan. The Japanese people's attention is not even in Asia, but in Europe. There were rumors that the Japanese Football Association was planning to leave the AFC, apply to join UEFA, and go to Europe to participate in competitions, thereby improving its own level...

Therefore, it is not easy for Chinese football to get praise from Japanese football.

But now this is happening.

Because Zhou Yi performed well, these Chinese journalists also felt "with honor".

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On August 10, after the training camp in Austria, Dortmund's entire team returned to Germany to prepare for the new season of the Bundesliga.

The first round of the Bundesliga will start on August 20th, and the opening match will be last season's league champion Bayern Munich's home match against Wolfsburg.

Dortmund's game was the last game of the first round, facing Leverkusen at home.

After returning to Germany, Zhou Yi received his first personal award in his career last season's Bundesliga Best Rookie Award at Bracker Training Base.

When Chinese journalists looked at Zhou Yi through the camera, they found that Zhou Yi in the camera was holding the trophy, smiling with a cracked mouth, and the sunlight hit his face and the trophy, and his cheeks and the trophy were shining brightly in the sun.

After Zhou Yi won the Best Newcomer Award, it also caused a wave of discussion in the country.

In fact, it is not surprising that Zhou Yi won this award, because everyone saw Zhou Yi's performance in the team last season. You should know that after only 21 games in the league, he won the assist king last season with fourteen assists!

Such results are not to mention the best newcomer, but are qualified to compete for the best player or the best foreign player.

Therefore, Zhou Yi deserves his reputation for winning the best newcomer, and it can be said that there is no competitor that can match it.

However, Zhou Yi won this award, which greatly satisfied the vanity of domestic fans.

This is also the highest honorary individual award that Chinese players have won in overseas study.

In the sluggish situation of Chinese football, Zhou Yi was like a shot of a heart-boosting shot, causing the dead hearts of many Chinese fans to be beating again.

Now everyone is no longer worried about whether Zhou Yi can still stay in the first team like he did a season ago.

The problem they are considering is that Zhou Yi can firmly take the core position of the team.

Judging from the pre-season warm-up match, Zhou Yi performed well in his new position, and he should be the core of Dortmund in the new season.

After becoming the core of Dortmund, Zhou Yi can lead the team forward to what extent it is probably the topic that everyone is more concerned about.

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Chinese fans and reporters are caring about Zhou Yi's future in Dortmund, while Zhou Yi himself is caring about Mark's future.

Judging from the pre-season warm-up match, Mark seemed not very adaptable at the beginning, but he was improving little by little. By the time of the last two warm-up matches, he was able to perform very well and scored beautiful goals, and more than one.

Mark's performance has also attracted the attention of the media and some Dortmund fans.

After a whole summer of training, Mark seemed to be no longer the young boy who had just been transferred to the first team.

Zhou Yi believes that Mark will definitely stay in the first team in the end!

Of course, staying in the first team is just the first step in the Long March. We need to continue working hard to play.

But if you can't even stay in the first team, let alone appear on behalf of the first team.

Zhou Yi was still very happy about Mark's progress and performance.

You should know that Mark's goal in the first team warm-up match was not his own assist, because he and Mark had not played at the same time in the warm-up match. When he was on the court, Mark was a substitute, and Mark only appeared after he was replaced.

So the two of them never cooperated.
Chapter completed!