Chapter 32 Welcome back, Chu!(1/2)
There is no change in Kings Ranch from half a year ago, but there is an additional nameplate at the gate, which carved the new name of the stadium - Fans Stadium (fans_stadium). This is the new name given by Wimbledon Athletic Club after it acquired the stadium. It represents the club, and this team and even this stadium have lost to the fans.
Seeing this new name, Chu Zhongtian's memory could not be suppressed and returned to the sunny morning two years ago.
He and Emily lined up outside the gate to board the plane. After a while of struggling, he finally decided to agree to Emily to participate in the trial of the newly formed team. Here, looking at the enthusiastic trialists, Emily said to him proudly: "This is our own team."
This is our own team!
It's really nostalgic...※※Boss John and Chu Zhongtian walked into the stadium together, and the players from both sides had already warmed up on the stadium. Chu Zhongtian saw Joe Xilin at a glance, and then he found Gavin Borger and Andy Sullivan.
"Our stand is still there, Chu." Jackson patted Chu Zhongtian and pointed to the stand behind the goal.
"Well, you guys go up first. I'll say hello to them." Chu Zhongtian said with a smile.
"Ah?" Jackson didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to do such a thing.
"Okay, go." Boss John was not surprised at all.
※※※Joe Xilin was warming up the shooting, and the people entering and leaving the stadium gate could not attract his attention at all. But this time, he missed the ball. The football flew over to the corner flag.
"Oh! Death Jeep, your feet are so smelly!" Gavin Borger shrew him beside him.
"Shut up, blog!" Xilin also felt embarrassed. The corner kick was too out of standard.
Amid the unbridled ridicule of the blog, Xilin was about to pick up the ball.
He had just run a few steps when he saw the football he had played fell to the feet of a man. The man did not kick the football back, but picked up the ball and then flipped it as if no one was around.
After several rounds, he passed the football to Qiao Xilin. But Xilin did not take it, but stood there blankly and let the football fly past him.
He once thought that the person would never appear in front of him again, but he didn't expect that in just half a year... "Damn it, my eyes are not blurred, right?" He rubbed his eyes.
"Hey, Jeep, what are you doing?" Gavin Borger's voice sounded behind him. "Are you going to be lazy again..."
Borge and Shilin looked at the man outside the court with one expression.
"What kind of expression do you have? Did you see a ghost?" Chu Zhongtian walked onto the stadium and smiled at them.
"Fuck!" the two of them cursed in unison. "We're fucking seeing the ghost! Why did you show up here?" They left the ongoing warm-up and went up to meet them.
Chu Zhongtian opened his arms and prepared to hug them, but each of them punched him in the stomach.
"Wow!" Chu Zhongtian shouted exaggeratedly.
"I'm on vacation," he said to both of them, covering his stomach.
"Are you going to a rainy place like London for a vacation?"
"To be precise, it's coming to Wimbledon for vacation." Chu Zhongtian smiled at the two of them.
The scene of the three of them gathering together to chat was soon seen by the serious and responsible assistant coach Ingrich.
He found that neither Joe Shilin nor Gavin Borger were in his position, but left the court without authorization, ran to the sidelines, and was talking to someone.
These two bastards! Are warm-ups before the game considered a joke? Let’s see how I teach you a lesson!
He blew the whistle in his mouth quickly and the players on the field heard it. Whether it was from the team or the opponent, everyone turned their attention to him.
I saw him blew the whistle and ran towards the three people.
Chu Zhongtian, Xilin, and Borger obviously heard the whistle of Ingrich. The latter two knew that they had been caught, but they were not worried.
"It seems that more people will know about this when you come back, ha!" Qiao Xilin also patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder.
"Joe Xilin! Gavin Borger! You two..." Chu Zhongtian heard the angry voice of coach Ingrich, but the sound suddenly braked after seeing him.
Shilin and Borger saw the wonderful expressions on Ingrich's face, and they worked very hard to hold back their smiles.
"Chu?" Ingrich asked hesitantly. He was not sure if the person in front of him was Chu Zhongtian who had left the team for half a season. You should know that Chu Zhongtian now looks more capable than when he left the team, and he has lost a little weight.
"It's me, Mr. Ingrich. I'll come back to see everyone. I'm sorry to bother you..." Chu Zhongtian actually knew that it was not good to meet everyone before the game, because if the team couldn't complete the warm-up, they wouldn't be able to perform at the right level during the game.
But when he saw the stadium and his former teammates, he couldn't suppress his urgent mood and wanted to meet them immediately and tell them to come back to see them.
"I really didn't expect you to come back..." Ingrich was surprised.
"I happened to be on vacation, so I wanted to go back to Wimbledon to see everyone."
While the two of them were greeting, the other Wimbledon athletics players also saw it.
"Look, who is that?"
"It seems... it's Chu? It's Chu!"
"It's that boy! He's actually back? What's wrong?"
"Whatever he is? Long time no see, I have to say hello! Ha!"
“What to do if you warm up…”
"Now, that one?"
New players who have just joined the team this summer are obviously confused and puzzled by the sudden enthusiasm of the old players, but it doesn't matter. An enthusiastic teammate immediately told them the legend that they had been told many times: "It was a long time ago... no, in fact, just last season, we entered the third round of the FA Cup and met our archenemy Milton Keynes. We didn't call this name at that time. At that time, they were still wearing the 'Wimbled' cloak, and a hero appeared in this game..."
More Wimbledon athletic players rushed up and surrounded Chu Zhongtian in the middle. They greeted Chu Zhongtian enthusiastically.
"Long time no see, Chu!"
"Do you still remember me, Chu?"
"I heard you are in Metz, France? How about you there?"
...Captain Kevin Cooper squeezed in, and then extended his hand to Chu Zhongtian on behalf of the team: "I heard you are back for vacation? Welcome back, Chu!"
Chu Zhongtian shook hands with him a little embarrassedly: "Have you disturbed your warm-up?"
The players looked at assistant coach Nicky Ingrich.
Ingrich smiled and waved his hand: "It's okay, the game will be postponed for half an hour!"
Amateur leagues are so casual, and no one is surprised.
When the group saw that the coach allowed it, they shouted even more happily.
※※After Boss John and his group walked into the stands, they happened to see Chu Zhongtian surrounded by Wimbledon's teammates.
"Chu Zhen is so popular..." Jackson sighed.
Boss John laughed: "It will be more popular."
There were already many people around him asking: "Who is the person who came in with you? I'm far away from here and I don't see clearly..."
"Why do everyone run over? Is it a big shot?"
Phil happily announced loudly: "That's Chu!"
Everyone was shocked: "Chu? Isn't it possible? Isn't he playing football in France? Why did he come here?"
"It seems...it's really Chu!"
"It's him? Long live! I actually saw him again!"
With the stand where Boss John and others were at the center, the news of Chu Zhongtian's return spreading out like ripples. Soon the entire Kings Ranch fans knew that their heroes from last season were back!
There was a commotion in the stands.
Boss John was very satisfied with their reaction, and he rubbed his hands: "I said guys, how long has it been since we sang that song again? Do you still remember the lyrics?"
Everyone looked at each other and knew what song Uncle John was talking about. They nodded one after another: "It's impossible to forget!"
"So well, let's sing it again, this is a gift for Chu: Welcome home, Chu!!"
※※※ Chu Zhongtian was greeting and chatting with his teammates who had not seen each other for half a year, and suddenly he heard a vague sound of singing coming from the stands.
The lyrics soon became clear, because more people joined the chorus, and the melody was very familiar and the lyrics were definitely not unfamiliar.
That was a heroic hymn to him, a song he had heard in the game against Chelsea and when he left Wimbledon.
"...This is not a song for the cowards, because the object we praise is not the cowards..."
"...He is different from those all living beings! You will hear his name... Let's shout out loud-"
The voice suddenly became louder.
“its_my_chu—!!”
"Now he is our hero!"
"He will never stop running!"
"He made all opponents frightened!"
“its_my_chu—!!”
"When he sprinted, it was like a fire chariot!"
"Don't try to easily cross in front of him!"
"Because he is our Chu!!"
The teammates also heard the song and they applauded.
Ingrich patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder: "Don't just talk to us, go and say hello to them." He pointed to the stands.
Chu Zhongtian nodded.
To be continued...