Frank Paglesdorf is a man with a story.

Although he is only forty-nine years old, he was once a famous figure in German football.

His career was not brilliant. He debuted at Bielfield, reached its peak in Dortmund, and then went to Hannover to 96, and retired early at the age of 31.

But he did not leave professional football.

In 1992, at the age of 34, he served as the head coach of the Berlin League. He led the team for two years and had good results.

After the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the merger of East and West Germany, the East German team was almost a complete defeat in front of West German teams. Rostock, who won the last league championship of Democratic Germany, was relegated to the bottom in his first season of participating in the German League One after the merger.

In 1994, the East German team, which had been in the Bundesliga for two seasons, found Paglesdorf, and the latter was not disappointing. They led the team to the Bundesliga championship in their first season and led the team back to the Bundesliga. In their debut season, they even won the sixth place in the league, which was the best dark horse of the season.

That year, Paglesdorf appeared in the sight of German fans for the first time.

Although the team's performance declined in his third season in coaching Rostock, Paglesdorf still led the team to relegation successfully, and in the summer of 1997, he changed jobs to the Bundesliga giants, Peking King Hamburg.

Hamburg had just experienced a downturn at that time and had a sluggish performance for many years. The club invited legendary superstar Uveschler to serve as chairman, and the latter invited Paglesdorf to take charge of Hamburg.

Paglesdorf could not refuse invitations from his childhood idol. He not only coached Hamburg, but also signed a weird clause with the club, that is, once Uvi Schiller stepped down as chairman, he would leave the team freely.

This also caused a huge response in Germany at that time.

But unexpectedly, not long after he led the team, Uve Schiller was forced to resign due to financial issues. Although it was later proved that it had nothing to do with Schiller, it was difficult for him to return to the team.

However, Paglesdorf did not leave the team because of this. Instead, he led the team's performance to improve year by year. After two seasons of accumulation, the ninth and seventh, he reached the peak of his coaching career in the 99 to 00 seasons, and the third in the league.

That was also the best league result in Hamburg in the past few years.

The good times did not last long. A year later, Hamburg's performance declined again, and Paglesdorf was forced to leave the team. Later, he coached teams such as Osnabrüh and Dubai's Vasr, but the results were not particularly ideal.

Until the summer of 2005, Rostock was relegated from the Bundesliga again, but suffered two consecutive losses at the start of the Bundesliga, one of which was even a 1-4 away game to Munich 1860, and the management re-invigorated Paglesdorf.

This time, Paglesdorf took two seasons to finally bring Rostock back to the Bundesliga.

At the age of 49 and over ten years of coaching experience, Paglesdorf deeply felt that he was at the crossroads of his career. If he could lead Rostock to reappear his dark horse journey, he would usher in the second spring of his coaching career. Conversely, if Rostock fails to relegate, his coaching career in the Bundesliga will end.

If you want to play the dark horse again, the first round of the league against Bayern Munich is crucial.

He still clearly remembers that in August 1999, it was also home in Bayern Munich. At that time, the Bundesliga giants were still at the Olympic Stadium, and the head coach was still Heathfield. Paglesdorf led his Hamburger at the home court of his arch-rivaled king, almost overturning the giant ship Bayern Munich.

That was the most memorable game in his coaching career and the most proud game he is.

Although his team was away, it caused considerable trouble for the home team, especially the attack that turned away, which made Bayern Munich very uncomfortable. It was not until the 33rd minute of the first half that Marcus Babel scored the first record for Bayern Munich.

But just two minutes later, Kovac equalized the score for Hamburg.

After that, both sides played very stalemate. With Hamburg's tenacious defense and sharp attack, Bayern Munich could not find a chance to attack. Instead, in the 82nd minute of the second half, he made another mistake and was caught by Hamburg and scored a goal.

The 2-1 score has been maintained until the stoppage time, and everyone even thought that Hamburg would win Bayern Munich away, but in the end, at the last moment, Elber's key goal helped the King of South escape.

In the end, the two teams shook hands two to two and made peace.

But for Hamburg, who plays away, such a good start is undoubtedly a victory.

It was also affected by this game that Hamburg's morale was greatly boosted. In the next three games, they defeated Stuttgart three-to-zero respectively, and won Schalke 04 away from home, defeated Hertha Berlin five-to-one at home, and achieved an amazing start with three consecutive victories and unbeaten in four rounds.

As time goes by, Paglesdorf still misses his masterpiece back then.

The mature and steady Heathfield became Gao Han, who was more adventurous, but Paglesdorf was still full of desire and expectation for victory, because he expected how Gao Han would fight, just as he decided that Heathfield would fight.

As for what Gao Han said in an interview with the media the day before the game that Bayern Munich would play the role of Germany's flag on the European arena and become the pioneer of German football reform, he did not care at all, nor did he care whether this could be achieved.

Because he had only one goal, he escaped from the Allianz Stadium.

For this reason, he even arranged a lineup of six defenders.

He wants to use this game to remind the entire German football world of his name.

Frank Paglesdorf.

“The atmosphere at Allianz Stadium is really good!”

Although he had walked into the Allianz Stadium many times before, it was Gao Han's first time to appear here as the head coach of Bayern Munich. The treatment he was shouted in unison by the fans of the audience as soon as he appeared was shocked.

The stadium has not been too much capacity, with more than 60,000 people, which is not much better than the Camp Nou in Barcelona, ​​the Bernabeu in Real Madrid, Manchester United's Old Trafford and Inter Milan's Meachado, but the atmosphere is obviously better than these giant teams.

The fanatical home fans dyed the stands around the stadium into red and white colors symbolizing Bayern Munich, and the two semi-circular stands were even arranged by the fans as huge Bayern Munich team logos.

The only difference from usual is that in the South Billiards fan area, which symbolizes Bayern Munich's loyalty, a huge portrait of Gao Han was pulled up by the fans, covering almost the entire South Balcony stand. In conjunction with everyone on the scene, everyone was shouting Gao Han in unison. The enthusiasm of the fans on the scene directly infected Gao Han.

Especially when standing on the sidelines, behind him was the slanting stand next to the turf, with people rushing over it, creating an extremely shocking visual effect, which even made Gao Han feel a sense of pressure when he thought of him turning his back to these fans to direct the game.

Of course, if you think from another perspective, these people support themselves, then they will feel the motivation.

"It is said that when the Allianz Stadium was built, the designers deliberately designed the stands as a slope and combined with the ceiling, on the one hand, it will help to make the stands surge down and sweep the entire stadium, and on the other hand, it can also create an extremely shocking visual effect." Tuchel explained with a smile.

It was also the first time he appeared at Allianz Stadium as a coach, and he was also shocked.

That feeling was really great.

"It's just the beginning. Munich 1860 has sold 50% of their shares in Allianz Stadium to us, and has given up the power of repurchase. Some people even heard that their attendance here is very low, and they are unable to make ends meet, and they intend to leave Allianz Stadium. Therefore, in the near future, it will definitely be further expanded and the atmosphere will be stronger."

Gao Han nodded, stood on the sidelines and looked back, and the entire inclined surface of the stands full of fans was condescending, very imposing.

"When I plan to build a new stadium, I will definitely ask someone to design it like this." Gao Han murmured enviously.

This is the most dreamy football stadium in Europe right now.

But Thomas Tuchel and others didn't hear clearly what he was saying and began to be busy preparing for the pre-match.

Cantalero came over from a distance and handed over a piece of paper.

"This is Rostock's lineup in this game, with six defenders."

Gao Han took it and saw that his name was very strange. The entire Rostock team did not even have first-tier stars, but the more dangerous such a team was, the more it should not be underestimated, because they usually played more holisticly.

If you can enter the Bundesliga, there is often no insurmountable gap between the strength of professional players and the overall strength of professional teams, which is why some weak teams have the opportunity to defeat the giants in an upset manner.

"New players such as Aurestes, Bartes, Wester and Manga have all entered the lineup."

This summer, Rostock spent 500,000 euros to sign Aurestes from the Portuguese Super League and forward Kat from Osnabrück. The two players spent 250,000 euros each, but sold midfielder Mueller, earning one million euros.

But the biggest signing in the team was to introduce goalkeeper Wester from Hamburg. This player was a free transfer and was decided entirely by head coach Paglesdorf based on his personal relationship.

Whether in terms of the overall strength of the team or the signings, it is difficult for Rostock to compete with Bayern Munich, but in this game, Paglesdorf dispatched six defenders, two midfielders and two forwards.

"Does he want to hold on to the death?" Tuchel asked with a frown.

If the six defenders were to be strictly guarded, they would be really an iron barrel formation.

Gao Han glanced at the chubby figure in front of the coach's seat of the visiting team in the distance. After retiring, the 49-year-old head coach had completely become wider, but he didn't look like the kind of person who defended his life without playing in the game.

"Defense is not something that depends on the number of people."

"you mean"

"He should still play 442, but the players have changed."

With the same formation, different types of players can fully play different tactical styles.

Not only Gao Han knew it, but many head coaches also knew that facing Gao Han, sticking to the death is equivalent to chronic suicide.

Of course, some head coaches have the courage to come out, but some head coaches choose to passively defend and wait for Gao Han’s team to make mistakes.

It is hard to say which one is better, but Gao Han thinks that with Paglesdorf's coaching style and characteristics, he should choose the former.

"I didn't expect that there were many tough guys in German football and I met one in the first game."

Gao Han smiled and praised, but his eyes were filled with fierce murderous intent.
Chapter completed!