"You’re getting more and more popular with the fans, kid!" Kael said, quite enviously.
As the captain, he was seriously "worried" that Wang Shuo was gradually surpassing his own status in the hearts of the Dortmund fans.
"Of course. Our Wang Shuo is handso!" Reus chid in.
"Hey, I’m serious, Marco, can you not be such a suck-up?" Foyelner looked at Reus with so "contempt."
’Is he seriously trying to steal my title as Wang Shuo’s number one fan?’
’The nerve of this guy!’
Reus, who was used to bickering with Foyelner, smugly slung an arm over Wang Shuo’s shoulder, with an expression that scread, "What are you going to do about it?"
’Hey, you little brat!’
’Back when Wang Shuo and I were fighting side-by-side and winning battles, you were still playing in the German Third Division!’
After everyone had finished interacting with the fans and returned to the bench, they all noticed the head coach was grinning from ear to ear.
’Was winning the ga all it took to make him this happy?’
’It’s more than that!’
"Mainz beat Bayern 2-1 at ho!" Peter Krawietz announced.
"What?"
Everyone was stunned. They looked at each other, unable to believe it.
Mainz actually took down Bayern?
That was freaking incredible!
In last season’s DFB-Pokal final, it had taken a monuntal effort for Klopp’s team to beat Bayern.
And now, Tuchel’s Mainz had managed to do it too.
"Life’s about to get even tougher for Van Gaal now," Buvac said with a chuckle.
Van Gaal had already been t with a storm of boos during their second-round ho ga.
And that was just for a draw.
Now they’d lost an away ga to Mainz.
You almost had to feel sorry for Van Gaal.
There was another impressive match as well.
After beating Dortmund 3-1 at ho in the last round, North King Hamburg had thrashed VfL Wolfsburg 4-2 in an away ga this round.
Labbadia was really on an unstoppable tear!
Bayer Leverkusen was incredible last season, and this season’s Hamburg was just as formidable.
However, Heynckes’ Bayer Leverkusen was no slouch either, crushing Freiburg 5-0 in their away ga this round.
With the three points from this round, Dortmund was now in 4th place in the Bundesliga with six points.
Currently, the team with the most points in the Bundesliga was Bayer Leverkusen, with seven.
Hamburg and Schalke 04 also had seven points.
...
「Three days later」
In the second leg of the UEFA Europa League’s fourth qualifying round, Dortmund hosted Lech Poznan.
Since they had already won the first leg 3-0 away from ho, and because it was another week with two matches, Klopp appropriately rotated the team’s lineup for the ho ga.
Wang Shuo and several other key players were placed on the bench.
The match ended in a 1-1 draw at ho against Lech Poznan, thanks to a goal from Foyelner.
The goal for the Polish team was scored by Lewandowski.
After receiving a pass from a teammate inside the box, the young Polish forward turned and smashed a shot past Weidenfeller.
The two goals were scored in the 62nd and 68th minutes, respectively.
In the end, Dortmund advanced smoothly to the UEFA Europa League group stage with a 4-1 aggregate score.
The group stage draw would be held in early September at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The draw at the Grimaldi Conference Center in Monaco was only for the Champions League group stage and had nothing to do with the UEFA Europa League.
...
Chen Dongfeng, 31, was a departnt manager at a shipyard in Singapore.
He was born in Singapore, educated there, and started working there after graduating from university.
He had never been back to China.
He only knew from his parents that he had an ancestral ho in China.
But he had no real concept of what that ant.
Just like any other Singaporean, he fell in love, got married, and had children.
His surna, Chen, and his Chinese ethnicity didn’t bring him any advantages. On the contrary, they often created obstacles at work.
For example, whenever a United States warship ca into the shipyard for repairs, no one of Chinese descent was allowed to board.
He spoke English in his daily life, browsed foreign websites and news, and chatted with colleagues and friends about events in Europe or the United States. He’d never had any desire to learn about the distant motherland and ancestral ho his parents spoke of, nor its culture.
Many of the young Singaporeans of Chinese descent around him were the sa.
They had only learned a little Chinese because their stubborn parents forced them to.
That was it.
But everything began to change this past August.
The One HD channel, owned by the Japanese company Sony, was a satellite TV station aid at Southeast Asia.
Starting in August, they began broadcasting the new Bundesliga season live.
It was available in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other Southeast Asian regions.
Oh, right, and also in Australia and other countries in Oceania.
Chen Dongfeng had always been a fan of the Premier League, but the Bundesliga’s broadcast tis were a better fit for his schedule.
Local ti was 2:30 PM.
Which was exactly 8:30 PM Singapore ti.
By the ti he got ho from work, finished dinner, cleaned up, and chatted with his wife and kids, it was just about ti for the broadcast.
Most importantly, One HD was broadcast for free!
Chen Dongfeng still clearly rembered the first match he watched: the opening round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund at ho against Cologne.
On that fateful night, he witnessed with his own eyes a Chinese player for Dortmund in the number 9 jersey—a player who, like him, had black hair, yellow skin, and dark eyes—score against Cologne.
He helped Dortmund beat Cologne 1-0!
In that mont, he truly couldn’t help but leap up from his sofa and cheer wildly, completely unable to control himself.
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