God-level goalkeeper

347 Tradition
12 month 19 day.

On a special day, 40 years ago, the curtain call of the magnificent scene of mankind, the end of the Apollo moon landing program, but the end here is not the real end, the end here represents the beginning of a new era.

Today, 40 years later, although most people don't know what kind of commemorative significance it has for the past, but for the present, they all know that this is a big day in Jena.

In the third round of the DFB-Pokal, the match between Jena and Hannover 96 began.

The whole city of Jena seemed to be in motion. Everyone rushed to the Ernst Abbe Stadium after dinner. At 8 o'clock in the evening, everyone kept this time firmly in their hearts, for fear of delaying the time. A little time to watch the game.

So as early as 7 o'clock, the stadium was basically full.

The flags all over the sky began to dance in the stands of the Ernst Abbe Stadium, and the excited fans also raised their long scarves and began to sing Jena's team anthem.

The game has not yet started, and the stadium is already full of jubilation.

It’s just that the silence in the locker room corresponds to the outside. Except for Haike’s strategy review, basically few people spoke. At this moment, I still couldn't help being a little nervous.

One step forward is a higher sky. The quarter-finals means that Jena will become the top eight team in Germany. Although the German Cup is not taken seriously by some Bundesliga teams, it is a historical event for Jena. .

Heike could see the nervousness of the players, so he didn't say much. He just nodded and asked after a simple tactical review.

"Are you all ready?"

"Ready"

"Let's go then"

The entry of the Jena players immediately caused a huge commotion among the fans in the stadium. The cheers were so loud that no other sound could be heard at all. Even the host Bob had to scream at the top of his throat, but he himself At this time, it is estimated that no one listened to his introduction of players, everyone was crazy, and Ye Xin was the last one to come out of the player tunnel.

The environment that made Bob feel so noisy just now is completely whispering compared to the present. The Ernst Abbe Stadium seems to have exploded at this moment, but the cheers that were still scattered just now are now Very tidy.

"Ye Xin! Ye Xin! Ye Xin!"

"Ye Xin! Ye Xin! Ye Xin!"

Ye Xin, who was startled by the huge cheers, looked up immediately, and saw that everyone in the stands was yelling his name crazily. Now Ye Xin is no longer the Ye Xin who just focused on playing football back then. He still has his own response to the enthusiastic cheers of the fans.

He raised his hand and waved at the big guy. Unexpectedly, this ignited the enthusiasm of the fans. This kind of interaction with fans on the field is rare in Ye Xin.

"Hey, Ye, to be honest, I'm really going to be jealous of you." Niels, who was standing in front of Ye Xin, turned around.

"What? What did you say?" The sound at the scene really exploded. Although there were only more than 1 fans in the stands, their voices completely overwhelmed any noise on the field, so Ye Xin only saw Niels Turning his head and moving his mouth a few times, he couldn't hear what Niels was saying at all.

"I said, I'm going to be jealous of you!!"

"Forehead……"

……

The sound at the scene really startled the players in Jena, but after they recovered, they no longer felt any tension in their hearts. The shouts of the fans were the driving force for them to move forward crazily. This is Ernst Abbe.

Their home ground, their lair.

On the other hand, Hannover 96, the whole team was frightened by the horrible home atmosphere. Although their home AWD arena has [-] seats, which is several times the size of Jena, their fans are definitely not so crazy. Before the game started, they started to go crazy. Will they still shout afterward?
It's just that what the players saw was the madness of the fans, and what their head coach Slomka saw was something deeper.

Now Jena is forming their own football tradition, although it is only a prototype, but Slomka is sure that as long as Jena continues like this, they will have their own culture and tradition.

culture and tradition?
Those who don't know may be full of doubts about this kind of mysterious question, but Slomka's 20 years of coaching career told him that these two things are the foundation of a strong team, even though football has gradually entered the golden dollar football in this era. Times, but they are still the most important cornerstone.

A team without culture and tradition can't survive for many years on money alone, and those strong teams that are burning money now all want to get this kind of thing after burning money.

A team with its own culture and traditions, no matter how ups and downs the team's career is, but as long as these two things exist, no matter how bad the team's performance is, the fans will not give up on their team. Sooner or later, the team will climb out of the abyss and regain its glory.

Unexpectedly, a dark horse that climbed out of the third division would have such a prototype in just two years, which made Slomka have to marvel at it.

The experience of Hannover 96 is actually a long history of Jena. Slomka remembers that when he first worked in Hannover 96, although he was only the coach of the youth team, he also witnessed the glorious beginning and fall of Hannover 96.

The same is the team in the Bundesliga Bundesliga. At that moment, Hannover 96 was even more legendary than the current Jena. They not only eliminated Dortmund, but even eliminated Werder Bremen and Borussia Mönchengladbach all the way. At the time, the giants who were in charge of the wind and rain finally won the German Cup.

It's just that the glory lasted only a few years. Due to the problems of player status and transfer problems, repeated failures made Hannover 96 slip all the way to the third division.

Fortunately, in the past few years, Hannover 96 has also accumulated a large number of fans, forming its own unique fan culture and team tradition. The development of players, and finally Hannover stood up again.

From the Bundesliga in 98 to the Bundesliga in 2002, they regained their glory.

But now, they were about to face a dark horse like their own back then, and at this moment, Slomka suddenly felt a little emotional in his heart.

What a vibrant team, almost the same as Hannover back then.

only……

How far can you go?
(End of this chapter)