As early as the end of 2007, the German Football Professional League held a meeting to study and discuss, and finally decided to cancel the 2008 German League Cup. As for whether to continue to prepare for the future, it depends on the situation.

According to the explanation given by the president of the Professional League, it is believed that it was affected by the European Cup, resulting in no profit in the game.

But everyone knows that this cup has been losing money at all, and it can only be cancelled if you cannot recruit sponsorship.

Without the German League Cup, Bayern Munich's preparation time is much easier, with only one German Super Cup match at the end of July, followed by the first round of the German Cup. By mid-August, the Bundesliga will usher in.

In addition, due to the influence of the European Cup, Bayern Munich, with many international players, has scheduled the training camp until mid-July.

The purpose is to allow international players to have a good rest after playing the national team in the summer.

It can be said that in this regard, Bayern Munich handled it very loosely.

Gao Han’s management philosophy has always been trust.

But the premise is that the player can live up to his trust.

It turns out that when the team gathered again and Walfat led the medical team to conduct a physical examination for each player, the report submitted to Gao Han showed that each player's physical condition was in good condition.

At least, no overweight occurs.

This proves that even if this group of players is on vacation, they are still relatively restrained.

Kahn retired and Van Bomel went to AC Milan. On the first day of the training camp, Gao Han announced in public that Ram would be the team's captain and Schweinsteiger would be the team's deputy captain. The two will jointly assume the responsibility of managing the locker room.

To this end, he communicated with Schweinsteiger and Ram the day before the training camp, especially with Schweinsteiger. He said that the reason he made such a decision was for comprehensive consideration.

Under Gao Han's training, he transformed into a midfielder of the team. Schweinsteiger ushered in a new development in his career. He admired Gao Han so much that he felt a little regretful. However, he also sincerely expressed that he would fulfill his duties as a deputy captain and assist Ram in managing the locker room.

On the first day of the training camp, Ram began to perform his captain duties, came to the locker room early, prepared everything, and took the initiative to lead his teammates to warm up before training, which played a good role as a captain.

After the running-in last season, Bayern Munich's overall tactical framework has basically taken shape. Although Van Bomel was sold, Vidal has adapted to the midfield role and no one will worry about the midfield issue.

Especially there is a new franchise, Sammy Khdira.

For this German midfielder who is very close to Van Bomel, the team basically understands him as Van Bomel's successor inside and outside, believing that he will provoke the defensive mission of Bayern Munich midfield with Vidal.

But this judgment is only half correct.

Gao Han's positioning against Khedira is indeed a defensive midfielder, but he is not Van Bomel's successor. He and Van Bomel are two different types of players, and there is no comparison.

This was quickly realized as the season preparation began.

Vidal is not tall, relatively flexible, has excellent running ability, has a wide range of activities, and is good at pressing and interception. It is characterized by close-fitting entanglement and pressing, and has a large range of activities. It will be very destructive in a densely populated midfielder with obvious advantages.

But the disadvantages are not small, such as it is easy to foul, and the success rate of passing and receiving needs to be improved.

Khedira's characteristics are different from Bidal. First of all, he has high tactical execution and excellent running ability, but he is not fast and is better at running at a constant speed. He is more calm and does not make frequent fouls. He just uses active movement to fill the gap in the team's defense.

Judging from the data, he is not outstanding, or even a little bad, but it is reflected on the court, but the effect is very satisfactory.

Moreover, his passing ability is better, his stability is stronger, he does not easily foul, and his offensive ability is very strong in the back row.

To put it simply, the characteristics of the two are suitable for playing against different teams. If you play in a dense middle-lane team, you will play in Vidal and a offensive player on the wing, you will play in Khedira.

Gao Han's use of these two players is also different from last season.

With the rise of Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Inter Milan, and Barcelona last season, organizational back-end has become the standard for top European teams, especially in the Champions League, where more and more teams have begun to adopt this style of play.

He hopes that Vidal and Khedira can be like a nail on the court, firmly hitting the opponent's formation, with the goal of being an organizational midfielder, so their position on the court will be higher than Schweiingsteiger and Modric.

In the past, players who played in this position were often No. 9 players, with excellent speed and foot skills, or like Kaka, they had strong ability to attack back and forth.

But now, Gao Han wants to make Vidal and Khedira take on such a role and act as a barrier to the team's midfield. With Schweinsteiger and Modric behind him, he believes that the midfield defense will improve compared to last season.

In his opinion, the European Super Cup in the new season will be a test of his own tactics.

The opponent is strong enough, Gao Han also attaches great importance to it. When he is running in the team's tactics and practicing formation style, he does it very carefully, and even stops training at any time, pointing out the mistakes made by Vidal or Khdira at the first time and correcting them.

Fortunately, after a year of familiarity, Vidal is familiar with Gao Han’s tactical ideas and concepts. Khedira has a high ball quotient and quick understanding. The two players’ progress is very satisfactory.

The midfield began to develop combat effectiveness, but Lewandowski and Reus in the frontcourt still needed time.

Lewandowski is not very old and has no rich professional experience. He jumped directly from the Polish League Two to the Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich, which invisibly put a lot of pressure on him. Gao Han communicated with him many times, saying that he trusted him completely and would constantly give him opportunities, hoping that he would not be under pressure and concentrate on playing football.

As for Reus, he is young and has poor physical confrontation. He starts muscle strengthening training during training, but it also takes time.

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As early as early February, Bayern Munich had basically confirmed the warm-up match for the summer training camp.

A week after the team's training camp, the team headed to Lipstadt.

This place is the hometown of Rummenigge, and this year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Lipstadt, so they will invite Bayern Munich to the competition early as the finale of the celebration.

Bayern Munich's arrival was also warmly welcomed by Lipstadt fans. Everyone rushed to see Gao Han, the top coach in Europe, and the style of many stars in the team.

Before the competition began, Lipstadt also prepared a wonderful celebration performance.

But in the game, Bayern Munich showed no mercy and scored seven goals in one breath by kicking his head and feet. It was not until the end of the game that Lipstadt scored a goal.

In the end, the Bundesliga giants escaped 7-1 away.

But even the fans at the scene knew that the reason why Lipstadt was able to score a goal was due to Bayern Munich's mercy. The Bundesliga giants were not willing to embarrass Lipstadt on such an important festival.

The seven-to-one ending made both teams happy.

After playing Lipstadt, Bayern Munich returned to Munich to continue training, but soon set off for Nordlingen.

Nordlingen is the birthplace of Bayern Munich legend Ged Muller. In order to commemorate the great shooter, Nordlingen decided to name the city's park stadium as Ged Muller Stadium in the 100th anniversary of the team.

As a guest, Bayern Munich was invited to participate in this century-old celebration and name change ceremony, and will also hold a warm-up match with Nordlingen on the renamed stadium.

It was also before this game that Gao Han met this legendary shooter for the first time.

Ged Muller gave a very high evaluation of Gao Han's coaching performance last season, and praised Gao Han for being on the road to passing the legend, believing that Gao Han's team has reached a new peak in Bayern Munich in recent years, and continues to work hard and is fully capable of winning the Champions League.

Gao Han expressed his gratitude to Gad Muller for his appreciation, and also invited Gad Muller as the main guest to sit in the coach's seat and watch this friendly match specially for him.

There was no suspense in the game. Gao Han played the 433 formation in the first half, but tried the 343 formation in the second half, but the result was still an 8-1 victory. The home team Nordlingen scored a goal in an offense at the beginning of the second half.

But it is obvious that this is still caused by Bayern Munich's intentional release.

It is particularly worth mentioning that in the last thirty minutes of the game, Gao Han replaced Thomas Mueller.

This Bayern Munich youth training young player performed well last season and has always been known as the new Muller. In this game, he also performed very hard in front of his senior Ged Muller. After playing, he scored two goals with his head and foot.

In an interview with the media after the game, Gad Muller praised Bayern Munich's performance, believing that Gao Han could win everything with this team, including the Champions League championship.

And for Thomas Mueller, Ged Mueller said that he is not the new Mueller, he will become Thomas Mueller.

"He doesn't need to be anyone, he should try to be himself."

This is undoubtedly a great inspiration for Thomas Mueller.

Two days later, the team ushered in the third warm-up match, and the opponent was still the low-level league team Nabburg.

Although many fans in the outside world are always criticizing Bayern Munich's dominant advantage over the Bundesliga, which is a disaster for German football, in fact, after Gao Han came to Bayern Munich to coach, he was surprised to find that things were not that simple.

It's like these three warm-up matches this summer.

If the convention is that Bayern Munich not only charges a seven-digit appearance fee, but also needs to share the share in ticket revenue. However, considering that the three teams are all low-level league teams and their finances are not abundant, Bayern Munich not only does not charge the appearance fee, nor does it share the share in ticket revenue.

You should know that all three warm-up matches attracted at least 20,000 fans to watch the game. The ticket revenue in each game reached six figures, which is no longer a small amount, but Bayern Munich still gave all the income to the home team for free.

Not to mention other income such as competition investment and advertising sponsorship.

In the third warm-up match, Bayern Munich not only won without suspense, but even scored the highest score, 11-1.

Among them, Tony Cross scored a hat-trick, Robben scored twice, and other offensive players also scored goals.
Chapter completed!