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017 Lower Saxony Derby

April 5, 2008, Wolfsburg.

At around nine o'clock in the morning, the first team players were already gathered at the Volkswagen Arena.

Because of the summer season switched six days ago, the players' schedules have not been completely switched this week. People like Marcelinho and Grafitte like to visit nightclubs after get off work are obviously a little sluggish.

Well, summer season is a system that some countries and regions in mid- and high latitudes prefer to implement. Because the difference between day and night in winter and summer is relatively large, summer season can better utilize the daytime light and save energy.

Germany began to implement the daylight saving time system in 1980. Specifically, the clock forward on the last Sunday of March was dialed for one hour (2:00 changed to 3:00), and the clock backward on the last Sunday of October was dialed for one hour (3:00 changed to 2:00).

China also implemented the daylight saving time from 1986 to 1991. However, most places in China are not at a high level, especially in the south where the economy developed first after the reform and opening up. This two-year jet lag, in addition to disrupting the long-term work and rest system, makes people often unable to sleep at night and drowsy during the day, and feel that it is not beneficial. In 1992, the country suspended the daylight saving time system.

Although Chen Qing, born in 1990, has experienced this summer time for the second time, he was still a baby who couldn't tell the difference between day and night last time, so this was also new to him.

Of course, it's just fresh.

For Chen Qing, who doesn’t like to visit nightclubs and is used to getting up early, this system does not cause any trouble to him.

At 9:30, Magath appeared on time and on the training ground as before.

Because there was a game in the afternoon, Magath did not arrange a large amount of training as before. He just asked the players to do some passing and receiving training after jogging for a lap.

Today is the 27th round of the Bundesliga, with Wolfsburg playing against Hannover at home 96.

Because they are all in Lower Saxony, this game can also be considered a derby in the same state. But the whole team of Wolfsburg does not feel like playing the derby.

In fact, Wolfsburg's mortal enemy is Brunswick, Lower Saxony.

But Brunswick has been relegated for a long time, and now they are participating in the third-level regional league in German football, in the North District.

Yes, it is the league where the Wolfsburg youth team is located.

Mam Lyon's first downgraded to the youth team was on December 8 last year, in the 21st round of the regional league, the Wolfsburg youth team against Brunswick first team.

Magat lowered the Senegal striker in order to please the fans and let him help him save face. But Mam Lyon was not lucky, and he didn't score a goal, and he even made an own goal while participating in corner kick defense.

Wolfsburg Youth Team lost the game 0:3.

Although the fans didn't care, Mam Lyon became a nail owner of the second team since then.

Of course, except for heading, Mam Lyon did not have many highlights and could not bring much help to the first team. This is the main reason why he has been deported.

Let's talk about Brunswick.

This is an old team founded in 1895 and has a history of hundreds of years. It is one of the founding members of the sixteen Bundesliga leagues. In the 1966-1967 season, it won the Bundesliga championship.

It just happened that the feng shui changed. In 1985, Brunswick was relegated and since then he fell into the second and third-level leagues, and has not returned until now.

Interestingly, Hannover 96's mortal enemy is also Brunswick.

Therefore, Wolfsburg and Hannover 96 are not deadly enemies. The fans of the two teams basically have no hatred and get along well at the club level.

Relatively speaking, it is more like a brother of Tongzhou than a mortal enemy of Tongzhou.

Hannover 96's biggest investment in reinforcement signing this season was the introduction of Wolfsburg's leading striker Mike Hank.

At 3 pm, the main players of Wolfsburg and Hannover 96 are already preparing to enter the court.

Hannover 96's team fans look like about 5,000. There should have been more people, but Wolfsburg's market has performed well recently, so the home team cannot even have too many tickets for the visiting fans.

The atmosphere in the stadium with 30,000 people was relatively harmonious and it didn't seem like a derby was going to be held.

Chen Qing held the caddie's hand and slowly walked into the stadium. He looked at Hannover's uniform and suddenly felt that his uniform was designed a bit ugly.

Hannover 96's away jersey is black, and the brand sponsor of the jersey is Italy's Diadona. Two gradient lines extend from the back of the shoulder to the bottom of the jersey. The team's team logo is placed in the middle of the chest. The team logo is Diadona's trademark above the team logo, and below is the English letter TUIfly of the main sponsor Tuyi Airways.

Wolfsburg's home jerseys are in half of the style of green and white, with white lapels and Volkswagen logos on the chest.

It really looks like some media complained about, like a factory team.

Well, it's not a good habit to complain.

In this game, Wolfsburg continued the previous starting lineup, and Magath was still the same coach Ma who was stable and overwhelming.

Hannover 96's head coach Diet Heijin is 42 years old this year. He is a young coach and prefers a 4-2-3-1 formation. So the same formation is also played today.

Goalkeeper: Robert Enke

Defenders: Michael Tanat, Vinicius Beganding, Frank Far (Harmony) Renhorst, Steven Cerendolo

Midfielders: Altin Lara, Hannor Barritz, Schobolz Husti, Arnold Brookinger, Sergio Pinto

Forward: Mike Hank

No. 1 Robert Enke of Hannover 96 is a very talented goalkeeper. Now that Kahn and Lehmann are getting older, Enke has gained the trust of the national team coach Löw and has become an alternative goalkeeper for the German national team.

However, Enke's career was not smooth. At the age of 22, he was firmly in the main player of Portugal's spawn Benfica. In 2002, he made a wrong choice, accepted Barcelona's invitation, and joined the La Liga giants as a libero, and signed for three years.

Just like most players who transfer to giants at a young age, Enke could only waste his youth on the bench in the first year of the transfer.

The following year, Barcelona rented Enke out to the Turkish strong team Fenerbahce, but Enke only played once. The final score of that game was 0:3, and Fenerbahce lost to a weak team. During the game, extreme fans threw rubber bottles and incendiary bombs at Enke. This scene made Enke wake up countless times in midnight, which was a fatal destruction for a goalkeeper. Enke suffered from depression during this period.

In the third year of the transfer, Enke sat on the bench in Barcelona for half a year and was lent to Tenerife, a small club in the Spanish League Two, and got some opportunities to play.

After the contract expired, Enke left Spain without hesitation and returned to Germany. Enke joined Hannover 96, which had been wandering in the middle and lower reaches of the Bundesliga, and regained his success here.
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