How Is It Him Again?

After the match, Su Dong met with David Silva and the others.

Three days later, Spain still had a match to play, against the relatively weak Estonia. Since it was being held in Deportivo La Coruña in northwestern Spain, Su Dong had no interest in making a special trip to watch it.

So after spending a few days in Madrid, they returned directly to Munich.

Although he was on vacation, Su Dong still made time every day to train in the hotel gym and maintain his form.

After returning to Munich, Su Dong went to Säbener Straße to report in at the first opportunity.

As it happened, Heynckes and the Bayern coaching staff had also watched Spain's match against Belgium. They had all lavished praise on Spain's performance and were deeply impressed by the football played by the Spanish national team.

They had watched it on a live television broadcast, while Su Dong had seen it at the stadium and experienced it more directly.

For example, Su Dong believed that the strategy Heynckes and the others had envisioned—preventing Spain from passing through pressing and pressure—carried enormous risks. After all, people could never run faster than the ball, and the price of playing that way was an enormous expenditure of energy.

Only by watching the match in person could one discover just how fast the Spanish players moved the ball.

It was actually a very interesting question.

Take television and movies, for example.

Many people probably never realized that actors on television and in movies looked fatter than they did in real life.

In other words, actors who looked to be in great shape on television or in movies might actually be a whole lot thinner in person.

But the particularly interesting thing was that live sports broadcasts made athletes look