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Not long after the Bundesliga restarted, 1860 Munich ushered in the UEFA Cup.

The UEFA Cup, as a club event second only to the European Champions Cup, also has qualifying matches, play-offs and group matches before the knockout rounds, but the group stage of the UEFA Europa League consists of forty teams divided into eight groups, each group The top three will qualify, and the 24 teams will enter the knockout round together with No.3 of the eight UEFA Champions League group stages, competing for the place in the top sixteen.

The UEFA Europa League round of 8 is a home and away elimination system. The rules are basically the same as the UEFA Champions League. The 1 No.8 teams in the Europa League group stage and the 3 No.[-] teams in the UEFA Champions League group stage will play at home first, and the second round will be played. And vice versa.

The opponent of Munich 1860 draw was Blackburn Rovers. The Lions played at home at the right time and place. They easily defeated the Premier League team with a score of 2:0 at Allianz.

The Blackburn players never seemed to have thought that they could take the victory away from the Allianz Arena. After the loss, their expressions were calm and not very sad. Instead, they approached Beckham shyly after the referee blew the whistle. And Irving and others wanted to exchange jerseys-Beckham finally gave away four jerseys, and Irving gave away three, depleting their reserves in the locker room of the stadium.

A week later, 1860 Munich drew 1-1 with Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park to advance to the last [-] of the UEFA Cup.

Blackburn Football Club is located in Blackburn, Lancashire, which is adjacent to Greater Manchester in the south of Lancashire, and it is very convenient to go to Manchester from here.

Despite the rush, Carl caught up with Ronaldo before boarding the plane, with whom he shared an invitation to the Cheltenham Racing Festival.

The Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival and the Royal Ascot Horse Racing Festival are the two most grand events in the British horse racing industry. The former is held in mid-March every year, and the latter is held in July every year, because there is a "Ladies' Day". "For celebrities to dress up to compete with each other, the princesses of England wear carefully selected hats to attend almost every year, so they have been favored by nobles since their inception. These two horse racing festivals held in different months, one is a symbol of The beginning of the social season, a symbol of the coming to an end of the social season.

Ferguson has high hopes for this year's Champions League, but at the same time he doesn't want to give up the league. Ronaldo, who is the core of the team, can't even think of taking a leave of absence during the season to attend such a grand event, so he sourly gave the invitation to Carl, and Tell him: "Show me more pictures of Andorinia's majestic race that day, I signed it up for the George V obstacle course - don't take pictures of other people, especially the weird ladies. The hat is simply ugly."

Carl agreed very readily, and promised to attend the Royal Ascot Horse Racing Festival in July this year with the other party.

The Europa League and Champions League schedules are almost in sync. While Munich 1860 won the top 4 seats in the Europa League, the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals also came to an end. Bayern Munich scored 4:[-] on aggregate and had an advantage of one more away goal Real Madrid was eliminated, making the Galacticos hopeless again.

After the game, the media commented one after another: "Real Madrid once again interpreted what it means to have 11 men in offense, and only Casillas is left in defense." With such a magical defense team, I don't know which season it will be. Only the Galacticos can win another place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League." The irony is self-evident.

Although most people think that Real Madrid's performance in the quarter-finals is not even as good as in the group stage, but it is an indisputable fact that the Bundesliga giants eliminated the La Liga giants. Heathfield, who has just returned to the team for less than a month, also because of this After two games, the position of head coach was completely secured.

After returning to China, the reporter of "Munich Daily" asked Hitzfeld to comment on which Bayern players performed the best against Real Madrid. After Hitzfeld praised Roy Mackay, Schweinsteiger and other players, But the subject changed, and suddenly talked about Bayern Munich's city rivals.

"With the current strength of Munich 1860, it is a pity to play in the UEFA Cup." Hitzfeld said calmly in the reporter's extremely surprised expression: "Germany has produced a large number of young rookies in the past two years, and the most shining few of them All the stars of hope have been won over to the team by Oston, which makes me salivate after seeing it-for example, Lambert Koch, I am very optimistic about him taking over the country in the 08 European Cup or the World Cup in South Africa. The team’s No. 1 jersey; Mertesacker, Dante, Ogo, and Hummels are still players in the national youth team, but they are not far from being selected for the national team; Lars Bender, Sven Bender, Ozil, Khedira, not to mention, the future midfielders of the German national team will be full of talents...Combined with stars such as Beckham, Portillo, Owen, I am optimistic that 1860 Munich can play in this Going far enough in the UEFA Cup this season..."

Heathfield talked continuously for seven or eight minutes before stopping the topic.

The reporter of the "Munich Daily" was dumbfounded. If it weren't for the recorder to testify, he really couldn't believe that Hitzfeld would crack so many good things about Munich 1860 like a machine gun.

When this report was published, it caused a lot of waves in German football: Who can imagine that the head coach of Bayern Munich praised their rivals in the same city so much?Who has ever seen the head coach of Bayern Munich praise their city rivals so much!

Isn't Bayern Munich the proud southern star?Don't they claim to be invincible in the Bundesliga, the only Bundesliga giants, and the German Super League team?Even the former coach Felix Magath, everyone knows that he admires Karl Oston and Munich 1860, but he has never flattered his opponents in front of the public camera!

But now, Hitzfeld has done so!

Bayern Munich's most outstanding meritorious coach since this century, when he talked about his biggest future competitor, he was so inspired that he said good things for nearly half of the page as if he didn't want money!

It's just like flattering!

Abnormal is a demon.

While other media fans were still shocked by Heathfield's words and trying to figure out the other party's original intention, Karl already felt that this attitude was a bit wrong.

Hitzfeld is showing favor to Munich 1860, and wants to turn Bayern and the Lions, the rivals in the same city, into brothers in the same city-this is the final result of the "Munich Daily" and "Bild".

But, no.

As long as Bayern and the Lions are fighting in the same city and in the same league, there will be comparisons, competitions, and confrontations.

Two top league teams in a city cannot be like a family no matter what.

Hitzfeld's praise of Munich 1860 must have had other purposes as well.

Is it trying to use constant praise to make the Lions players become arrogant and then underestimate the enemy in the game?

But now there are still two months before the next Munich Derby, and it seems that there is no need to start using psychological tactics at this time.

Although he can't guess the other party's thoughts for the time being, Karl has this intuition: Heathfeld is a very powerful opponent, and he seems to be prepared.

……

In early March, the newly built Jewish Museum in Munich officially opened to the public, and Mayor Christian Ude personally cut the ribbon for the museum.

At the same time, the unveiling ceremony of the Jewish fans monument jointly donated by Bayern Munich and Munich 1860 was also held. A total of more than 300 guests, including board members, coaches and players of the two clubs, used Jewish traditional way of mourning the dead.

Black clothes, serious expressions, and a black Israeli yarmulke on everyone's head.

The board members stand at the front, the coaches stand in the middle, and the players from both teams are at the bottom.

When the eternal flame symbolizing the souls of the victims was lit, an elder wearing a thick black felt hat in the Jewish community in Munich recited Lamentations of Jeremiah in front of the monument.

The old man's voice was solemn and mournful, which made everyone feel a little depressed.

Carl's hands were clasped in front of him, his head was slightly lowered, but his spine was straight.

He is not religious, and even less familiar with these Old Testament poems, but this does not prevent him from being infected by the atmosphere around him.

Sporadic drizzle gradually fell from the gray sky, hitting people's cheeks with coolness.

The rain became heavier and heavier, from imperceptible drizzle to soybean-like raindrops, which soon wet the ground.

There was some commotion in the crowd at the back. Karl glanced back, and the players immediately fell silent, using sneaky movements to hold up the umbrellas in their hands.

Carl didn't have an umbrella, so he didn't move.

But after ten seconds, he felt that the rain on his head had stopped.

No, it wasn't that the rain stopped, but someone held an umbrella for him from behind.

Carl turned his head and saw Koch in a black windbreaker holding a black umbrella diagonally behind him with his right hand wearing a lambskin glove.

The other party's expression was calm. Seeing Carl's gaze, he just nodded at him naturally, without moving a single bit of his body.

This stop lasted for nearly half an hour, until the reading of Lamentations and Mayor Ude's speech was finished.

Standing next to Karl were several shareholders of the club, their coats were almost completely soaked by the rain. When the mayor was speaking, the shareholders turned their heads to Karl frequently, with envy and jealousy on their faces. Zhuang Zhong can't talk casually, maybe the other party will come to borrow an umbrella.

The lengthy ceremony finally came to an end, the crowd moved forward, took a small souvenir from the bamboo basket placed in front of the monument, and left.

The overhead umbrella moved with Carl's steps until they were clear of the crowd.

"Thank you for your hard work." Karl finally had the opportunity to turn around and thank his disciples.His gaze scanned Koch's whole body, and he found that the other's left shoulder had been exposed to the air, and the rainwater and the water droplets from the umbrella surface had all fallen on it. The woolen material must be soaked with water, maybe even the inside was soaked. up.

But Koch's expression was the same as usual, as if he didn't feel uncomfortable when the wet and cold rain in early spring touched his body.

"I'm not tired," Koch said, shaking his head.It's just that his eyes glanced in other directions, and he didn't meet Karl's eyes.

"Let's go back to the club together." Karl wanted to take the umbrella from Koch.

Koch stubbornly insisted on holding it by himself: "Just let me hold the umbrella for you, boss."

Before the two had spoken a few words, the car of the club chairman Orr slowly passed by, then stopped, the window was rolled down, revealing Orr's round ruddy face: "Get in the car, Carl, a little I have to discuss it with you."

Carl is torn between two things.

Koch helped him open the car door: "You go first, boss, I will go back with other teammates."

Al called him twice more.

"Be careful on the road." Carl had no choice but to nod to Koch, and then sat on it.

Koch watched the car leave.

……

There were about a hundred people standing at the stop sign at the crossing. Few of them had umbrellas. Most of them let the rain pour over their heads in a fearless spirit. A small number of people dragged their coats to cover their heads with annoyance. .

Ozil, Lars, and Sven huddled under an umbrella, and when they saw Koch approaching, they all showed bitter faces.

Koch stood beside them: "I saw the driver just went to the garage, and I guess the bus will come over in a while."

Ozil dared not speak out against Koch, and would only grumble and complain: "Give the boss an umbrella, just open an umbrella, I brought two umbrellas when I knew it, and you took the biggest one away Oh, the three of us are squeezed in this one, I almost become the piece of meat in the middle of the hamburger..."

Koch knows how to reassure people: "Go back and buy you lunch."

The faces of the three of them immediately changed from cloudy to sunny.

The club's bus drove over quickly, and when getting on the bus, Koch's cell phone suddenly dinged in his pocket.

He took it out to read the text message, but without replying, he threw the phone back into his pocket.

In the next 5 minutes, the phone rang several times one after another.

Russ asked him, "You don't text back?"

Koch didn't hide: "It's Lena Carver, asking me to dinner."

Lena Carver is the host of a German football program "Linna Watches Football". This program does not have any technical content, just beautiful guests chatting with the audience about football fun.But because Lena Carver is beautiful and good-looking (she became famous as the best football baby in the World Cup in Germany), and the guests invited by the show are often new football stars, so the ratings are always good.

The reason why Koch knew Lena Carver was because he just appeared on this episode last month. Since then, Lena Carver has managed to get his mobile phone number and launched an offensive from time to time to stage a female chase Male drama code.

Sven and Ozil let out a long "oh-oh" from the back seat.

Lars also booed: "Such a good opportunity, hurry up and agree!"

Koch was thinking.

His friends are all envious of his good luck, but they don't know that he can publish a book "The Troubles of Young Koch" because of his thoughts.

Why doesn't the boss have a girlfriend?Why would he live in the same room as his male friend?Is the boss straight or curved?

Thinking of the back in the rain just now, Koch's mood is a little complicated.

Why did Linna feel a little reluctant to go when she made an appointment with herself?Why do I like to pay attention to the private life of my boss so much?I am obviously a man, why do I always think about these messy things... I think that apart from competitions and exercises, almost all of my private life is occupied by these things...

Even when life at home was the most difficult and his future was the bleakest, Koch never had such a heavy heart.

Lars and the others saw that Koch seemed to be wandering away, and they put their heads together and muttered: "What is Lambert worrying about these days?"

"Could it be that you are too innocent and afraid that you will be cheated by a bad woman for the first time?"

"If I had gone to Linna's date a long time ago! It won't hurt to try."

"Yes! Try to know if you like it or not. If you don't like it, break up."

With a movement in Koch's heart, a little inspiration suddenly came to his drowsy mind.

It's okay to go on a date with Lena Carver. Although she is a bit brainless, she is pretty enough. Maybe she can help him get out of the quagmire of life now... If he can't get out, he will die.