The Bundesliga season 2013-2014 has come to an end.

In the end, Dortmund won the league championship and won the championship for four consecutive seasons.

What about Bayern Munich? They performed perfectly throughout the season, and there were three games, and Dortmund seized the opportunity. Now they can only accept such a result.

Schalke 04 defeated Nuremberg 4-1 at home in the last round and ended the season with a victory. They finally ranked third in the league and won the right to participate in the Champions League next season.

Wolfsburg defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach 3:1 at home. In this way, although Leverkusen defeated Werder Bremen 2:1 at home, he still could not surpass Wolfsburg. So Wolfsburg got a bargain at the last moment and qualified for the Champions League.

Leverkusen can only participate in the Europa League with regret.

Borussia Mönchengladbach ranked sixth and also qualified for the UEFA Cup next season.

In terms of personal honors, Zhou Yi became the Bundesliga assist king with twenty-five assists.

Mark Wagner won the Bundesliga top scorer with twenty-two goals.

Dortmund achieved a great harvest.

However, for Bayern Munich and Dortmund, the season is not over yet.

On May 17, Bayern Munich will also participate in the German Cup final, and their opponent is Wolfsburg.

This is the only game where Bayern Munich can win honor, avoiding their squandering game this season.

Dortmund will participate in the Champions League final on May 24, and their opponent is Real Madrid.

Real Madrid did not perform well in La Liga this season, but they reached the Champions League and reached the final.

Many people are not optimistic about Dortmund.

I think it's already very good for them to reach the Champions League final. Judging from the team's current uneven staff, it's very difficult to defeat Real Madrid.

The most important thing is that since the reform of the Champions League, no team has been able to defend the title successfully, which is basically like a curse.

There were no defending champions who reached the finals before.

Before the reform of the Champions League, there were twelve successful defending titles. However, since the reform, there has never been such a good thing again.

Four champion teams entered the Champions League final again in the second year, respectively AC Milan in 1995, but lost to the then youth guard Ajax in the final. Cruivit became famous in one battle and then transferred to AC Milan.

In 1996, the second year, Ajax also reached the Champions League final as the defending champion. They lost to Juventus in the final penalty shootout and missed the chance to defend the champion.

Another year later, in 1997, this time it was the defending champion Juventus who had the chance to defend his title successfully. They met Dortmund in the final. As a result, the final resulted in the super substitute Ricken's final, helping Dortmund defeat Juventus 3:1.

Dortmund won the first Champions League title in their club history, while Juventus lost the opportunity to defend the title.

From 1995 to 1997, three Champions League finals were all the last champions who reached the finals, but they were all defeated. The same thing happened three times in a row. The curse of not being able to defend the title after the reform of the Champions League appeared.

After that, there was no defending champion to reach the finals for many years, and they were always eliminated before the finals.

It was not until 2009 that last season's Champions League champion Manchester United finally reached the final again. Their opponent was Barcelona led by Guardiola. Manchester United lost 0:2 to Barcelona in that game.

Guardiola has since created the era of Dream Team 3. That year, he led Barcelona to win six championships, unprecedented and no one to come.

Of course, such awesome "cosmic team" cannot break the curse of defending the Champions League title.

The following year, they were blocked by Mourinho's Inter Milan in the semi-finals - many Barcelona fans were still looking forward to them going to the Bernabeu to win the Champions League trophy and slap Real Madrid in the face...

In the football world, many times you analyze and analyze may not be more convincing than a "curse".

Football is round, so the possibility of various "superstitious" situations is also higher.

Superstitions like "curse" are always more marketable in football projects.

Sometimes it really makes people have to think about the "curse" aspect, because the elimination of some defending champions is really hard to understand.

In 1991, if AC Milan won the Champions League title again, they would win three consecutive Champions League titles - AC Milan last season was the last team to successfully defend the Champions League title.

They met Marseille in the quarterfinals.

The first leg of the game between the two sides ended with a score of 1:1 at San Siro Stadium. In the second leg, AC Milan used a very slight tactic but failed to save the situation and could not resist Chris Wadel's goal. Wadel even had a little concussion in a confrontation before, but he still helped Marcel take the lead 2:1 after recovering.

This score remains until injury time, AC Milan is not without hope. As long as they score another goal, they will equalize the overall score and eliminate Marseille by the advantage of away goals. But at this time, several lighting at the Verodlom Stadium at Marseille home court suddenly had problems.

The referee thought that the game could continue, but AC Milan seemed to think it was a great opportunity. They could ask for a rematch under the pretext of lighting issues.

So the whole team retreated to the locker room and refused to return to the field.

The referee was not polite and directly refused AC Milan's request for a rematch. In the end, Marseille was awarded a 3-0 victory. AC Milan not only lost the opportunity to defend the title, but was even banned by UEFA from participating in next season's European competitions because of this willful rematch request.

So the extremely brilliant AC Milan bid farewell to the Champions League. In the season when they were not allowed to participate in the Champions League, Barcelona defeated Sampdoria and won the first Champions League trophy in their club history. The team led by Cruyff is also called the "Dream Team".

However, such a dream team lost 0:4 to AC Milan in the Champions League final two years later.

At the same time, AC Milan resumed the 1992-1993 season of the Champions League, and reached the Champions League final, but lost to Marseille. Of course, Marseille later exposed a fake ball scandal. Although it was not cancelled the Champions League title, it was cancelled to participate in the Toyota Cup. AC Milan replaced the Champions League championship in that year, which made people think that the Champions League championship was changed to AC Milan, but in fact it did not. The reason given by UEFA was that the appeal period was passed, so the Champions League championship still belonged to Marseille.

In the 2006-2007 season, defending champion Barcelona was eliminated by Liverpool in the quarterfinals. Liverpool, who eliminated them, had an internal strife before the game. At that time, Bellamy and Riser not only went to the bar to have a drink and party before the game, but also had a conflict because they drank too much. After returning to the hotel, Bellamy also took out a golf club to Riser's room and gave the latter a stick.

But that's it. In the next game, Liverpool defeated Barcelona 2-1 away, and the goals were Bellamy and Riser...

The Red Stars of Belgrade, which defeated Marcel in the final in 1991, had the opportunity to defend the champion. However, the Yugoslav civil war broke out, and many stars in the team left the team and went to Western Europe to seek development. The team was seriously injured. Coupled with the sanctions from the United Nations, Yugoslav team was banned from participating in the Champions League, and the national team could not participate in the European Cup. The extremely powerful Yugoslav football was ruined by the war...

In 2003, AC Milan defeated Juventus in a penalty shootout and won the Champions League again. However, the next year, when they defeated La Coruna 4:1 at home in the first leg of the quarter-finals, they inexplicably lost to La Coruna 0:4 in the second leg and were eliminated.

In 2010, Barcelona led by Guardiola was at its peak. Everyone thought that if a team could break the curse, it would be the "cosmic team" led by Guardiola. As a result, Barcelona was suffocated to death by Mourinho's bus in the semi-finals...

Of course, the most miserable defending champion was Chelsea. After defeating Bayern Munich at Allianz Stadium in 2012 and winning the first Champions League title in the club's history, he was eliminated in the second year without even making the group stage...

The above many examples fully demonstrate how powerful the curse of "the defending champion cannot defend the title" is.

I said so many reasons why Dortmund is difficult to win the Champions League championship, and it is more effective to say that "The Champions League championship is not defended without a title."

The odds offered by the bookmakers are obviously more optimistic about Real Madrid.

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After winning the league, Klopp gave the team a whole day off and gave them a good rest and recovery.

After the day's rest, Dortmund's players returned to Bracker's training base and began preparing for the Champions League final.

A reporter blocked the door of the training base and asked Zhou Yi what he thought about the curse of the defending champion being unable to defend his title.

Zhou Yi waved his hand with a smile: "I believe in science, but not superstitious."

The reporter said: "But you have said before that Real Madrid cannot win the German team away from home is a curse..."

Zhou Yi spread his hands: "When did I say this? I said it was Murphy's Law, it was science, it was not superstition."

The reporter seemed to have known that Zhou Yi would say this for a long time, and asked proudly: "But Real Madrid beat Schalke 6:1 away this season 04, 4:0 against Bayern Munich, both German teams..."

Zhou Yi nodded: "Yes. So Real Madrid has proved with practical actions that there has never been any curse, right?"

The reporter who asked the question was dumbfounded and could not speak.

He really didn't expect that Zhou Yi's face could be so thick and that he could change his face so quickly...
Chapter completed!