The next afternoon, at Dietma Hope Stadium, Metz and the local home team Hoffenheim played a warm-up match of 1899.

The Dietma Hope Stadium, which can only accommodate 6,350 people, is the home stadium of this team. This stadium is so small that it surprised Mets' professional players - their own home stadium, the Saint Mountain Forian Stadium is considered a small stadium, while the Dietma Hope Stadium is even smaller. This small stadium makes Chu Zhongtian feel a little intimate, because this stadium reminds him of the home stadium of Wimbledon Athletics - Kings Ranch, which is now also called the Fan Stadium.

The stadium is named after the club's owner Dietmar Hopp. He is also one of the founders of the famous European software company SAP, with a net worth of 2 billion. He was born in Hoffenheim and played in Hoffenheim when he was young, with a center position.

Dietma Hope did not have any talent in football, and fortunately he did not have any talent. He later founded the famous enterprise management software company SAP, which gave him money to invest in the team in his hometown.

Currently, Hoffenheim is still in the Southern Regional League, which is what Chu Zhongtian and others think of as the League C. The league level is equivalent to the Class C. In fact, the real name is the "German Southern Regional League". There is a North Regional League with the same level as the Southern Regional League. This is very easy to understand for Chu Zhongtian, who has experienced the English professional league system. The top two leagues in the South and North Regions advanced to the German Second Division. This season, Hoffenheim's goal is to advance to the League Two, but their goal has basically been shattered. The league is about to end, and they rank fourth, which is quite a big gap from the second division.

The level of the North and South Leagues is equivalent to the amateur level. The teams participating in the league are also amateur teams. Only after they are promoted to the Second Division can they be considered professional teams.

Therefore, Mess' opponent in this game is actually an amateur team.

Chu Zhongtian found that he was really destined to be with amateur football... Although Hoffenheim's boss was rich enough to make the boss Metz jealous, the strength of the two teams was not proportional to the assets of their respective bosses. As the most outstanding upstart in the Ligue 1 this season, Metz's strength is far beyond Hoffenheim's amateur team.

In the end, at Dietma Hope Stadium, Metz defeated the German amateur team 5:1 with one lineup in the first and second half.

In the first half, Fernandez brought out the main lineup, which was also to test the status of this lineup, because they will challenge Paris Saint-Germain at the French Stadium three days later. After the second half, ten people were replaced by eleven people on the court, and even the goalkeeper was replaced by substitutes, but Chu Zhongtian still played the whole game.

The scores in the first and second half were 2:0 and 3:1 respectively. The substitute lineup had a more desire to win and perform than the main lineup. The main players were worried about being injured and missing the French Cup final, so they retained their strength in the game. The substitute players scored three goals from Hoffenheim under the leadership of Chu Zhongtian.

This was a very ordinary warm-up match, and it did not cause any response except for the several local media reporters present. However, there was a special guest watching the game on the sidelines.

He is the head coach Ralf_rangnick who was just fired by Schalke 04. He was invited to watch this game because Hoffenheim's management was in contact with him and hoped that he could coach the team. Hope was a little dissatisfied with the team's not being promoted to the second division this season, so he was planning to fire the team's current head coach Flick. He originally signed with the coach until 2010, but he has been in the Southern Regional League for five consecutive seasons. Even if Hope's patience is good, he can't stand it.

For this reason, he invited Rangnick to visit the club to let him know what ambitions this amateur club has, and then take a look at this warm-up match, which gave him an intuitive impression of the team's strength.

Rangnick quickly shifted his attention from Hoffenheim to their opponent Metz.

Then he focused his attention on Metz's No. 8 player.

After watching for a while, he nodded and praised Metz Eight's performance.

But he soon realized that he was invited to watch Hoffenheim's performance rather than inspecting Metz's players. So he turned his attention to Hoffenheim.

At that time, Hoffenheim was besieged by Metz, and the person who connected everyone in the team was No. 8 Chu Zhongtian. He used his pass and running to connect the whole team. He not only could pass a threatening ball, assist his teammates in shooting, but also control the rhythm of the team. Under his command, Metz sometimes slowed down his rhythm, returned to his feet, and sometimes suddenly exerted force and accelerated violently, making Hoffenheim unable to resist.

Because it was a warm-up match, there was no other information on the back of the jersey except the number. He didn't know what the No. 8 player was named, and he didn't even know which country he was from.

The attention was unconsciously shifted to Metz-8 again... This was really helpless.

Rangnick shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Hope thought Rangnick was dissatisfied with the team's performance. In fact, Hoffenheim's performance in this game was OK. At least they scored a goal when facing the professional team Metz.

"I will moderately increase my investment in the team. At the same time, if you join the team, I promise to give you a long time, enough for you to plan for long-term plans. I am not a person like Abramovich. I invest in Hoffenheim because I love this hometown team. So I hope this team can achieve lasting development, not just because the team has a rich boss. I hope that even if I am gone one day, this team can continue to run..."

Hope said that Rangnick took him back from being distracted, and he smiled at Hope: "I don't doubt this at all, Mr. Hope."

After the game, Rangnick also left Hoffenheim Club. Before leaving, he did not make any decision. He just promised Hope to consider it. As the coach who brought Schalke 04 to the third place in the league, the get out of class was dismissed because he had a tense relationship with the big-name stars in the team, not a problem of ability, and he had no worries about not being able to find a job at all. Therefore, he needed to consider many aspects.

And just in these few days, China from the far east is also contacting him, hoping that he will coach the Chinese National Olympic Team. Because the 2008 Olympic Games were held in China, the Chinese Football Association attaches great importance to this Olympic Games held in the local area, and hopes that the national Olympic team can achieve good results at home.

Rangnick is still undecided, so he decided to wait.

※※※Not mentioning Rangnick, just Mess.

The game was successfully won, and no one was injured, which made many people breathe a sigh of relief. After the game, Metz's team finished the meal and rushed to Sinsheim in a car, where he went to Mannheim, and then to Frankfurt to fly back to Paris.

After arriving in Paris, the team will not return to Metz, but will directly train in Paris to prepare for the French Cup final that will be coming soon.

Hoffenheim's trip was very short and it left nothing worth remembering for Metz's players. No one would miss this small village with more than 3,000 people.

Their hearts had already flown to the French Stadium.

If you have any topics on the way back, you will definitely be inseparable from the French Cup final and their opponents.

"It's Paris Saint-Germain again, it's great. I want to take revenge! I'll avenge that we lost to them in the first game of the new season!"

"This team has made me have great memories..." Ribery said imitating the emphasis on Lyon before the game. "Is it, Chu?" He touched Chu Zhongtian's arm.

Chu Zhongtian laughed.

His mind had already arrived in Paris one step earlier than the plane he was on.

※※When Emily was surfing the Internet with her laptop in her arms, her mother thought she must be messing with her personal blog again.

But in fact, her daughter is buying tickets online and buying tickets for this season's French Cup final.

On the evening of April 29, the final of the French Cup will be held at the French Stadium. As early as four days ago, Emily had already purchased tickets through the Internet.

What she has to do now is to continue booking hotel rooms online and plan her travel time and route.

She hasn't done such a thing for a long time, because whenever she goes out, the plan has been arranged long ago, and she doesn't have to worry about the route and accommodation. Her mother and agent has already helped to take care of everything.

But this time it was different because she didn't plan to tell her mother that she was going to Paris, far away, and not to go there to do publicity or attend any commercial endorsement event, but just to watch a football game!

Simply put, she plans to run away from home secretly. She put all the announcements of the program that had been booked before. If you have any trouble, let your mother deal with it!

Who asked you to arrange those program announcements for me? I don’t like those mean and annoying hosts. Since you like it so much, mom, then go there!

Although Emily has had times when she was willful since she was a child, for example, her mother did not let her go to football games, but she insisted on going. But this is the first time she is so willful like this time. She not only did her mother against her, but also threw the work aside, just because of Chu Zhongtian's previous words.

The first time to plan such a thrilling action, Emily must be careful not to let her mother discover it, and at the same time, she cannot recognize her crazy fans all over the world, so she must be prepared and have a thorough plan.

This was a completely confidential operation, and no one knew about it except herself. Even Chu Zhongtian didn't know that she was going to watch the game. She wanted to give Chu Zhongtian a surprise after the game, and I believe he must like it very much.

Emily was in a nervous and exciting and expectant mood for her plan to run away from home from beginning to end. Although she is still in Los Angeles, her heart has flown to Paris, France.

※※Miranda knew nothing about the actions her daughter was planning. She was still arranging work for her daughter step by step, going to which TV station will go to the exclusive interview tomorrow, going to which crew's producer the day after tomorrow to talk about role issues with which TV station's 10 o'clock interview program the night after tomorrow... At this time, her daughter was hiding in her room to pack her backpack.

There were several sets of coats, several sets of underwear, and T-shirts, shirts, short skirts and shoes... Before Emily started stuffing toiletries, she had already discovered that the large lv suitcase she pulled out was stuffed.

She carried the box and found that it was very troublesome to move and easily bumpy. She had to run away from home in the middle of the night, and with such a large box, it was difficult to move. People could not even want to run away from home, but it was like traveling to Hawaii.

Emily took out the clothes again and spread them on the bed one by one. Of course, she wanted to appear in front of Chu Zhongtian in the most beautiful posture and give him a big surprise. In her eyes, so many beautiful clothes were really hard to choose.

But if you take them all away, it is unrealistic, and you should run away with light clothes. How could you prepare so many things?

The best luggage is actually a backpack... Emily opened her wardrobe again and searched. Finally, when she flipped over to a blue T-shirt, her hands stopped. After taking the blue T-shirt from the hanger, her eyes softened.

The blue T-shirt had a yellow "Wimbledon, I will never stop until death" printed on the chest. This was a piece of clothing she had been hanging in the closet for a long time and had not taken it out to wear. Because there was no chance.

When she saw this T-shirt, she remembered her days at Wimbledon, and went to watch the football with Chu Zhongtian, the Wimbledon players, and the Wimbledon bar partners, crying and laughing for football. That was really a simple period.

Emily compared the T-shirt on her chest, which was a little smaller, but she could still wear it, but she just turned into a navel-exposed suit. She didn't care about this, so she found a Nike pink backpack and stuffed the T-shirt in.

Emily decided to take the "nostalgic route" - not dressing up so beautifully, and she believed that it would be better before she became famous.

That being the case, it would be OK to bring another pair of denim shorts. She wouldn't stay in France for long, and she didn't need to bring too much.

Then she stuffed other messy things into her backpack, carefully checked whether the tickets were brought with her air tickets and passports. Then she pulled the zipper of her backpack, stuffed her backpack under the bed, then set the alarm clock, and lay down on the bed.

※※Belmont received a call, which was called by Delphin Mathilde. At first he didn't react - Mathilde? Which Mathilde? There is no such name among the girls I have ever picked up... But soon he thought it was Chu Zhongtian's language teacher.

Although he once gave the business card to the woman, the woman never called him, so he forgot that this woman would call him.

"What? Are you going to Paris? Which day? April 29th? What a coincidence! I'm going to Paris too!" Belmont laughed with the phone. "Let me guess what you are going to Paris? Are you going to visit the Champs Elysees? Obviously not... Then you must go to the French Stadium to watch the football! Haha! So is me!"

"No problem, no problem... I don't charge your car money, I don't want a single euro!... Don't worry, it's absolutely safe and highway. What else are you worried about when you make my car?"

"Let's make an appointment. When do you want to leave? I'll listen to you... OK, it's afternoon, we can still have dinner in Paris! OK, then that's it. I'll wait for you at your doorstep tomorrow at 2:00 in the afternoon. No problem!"

※※※At the same time, on the official website of Metz Club, a fan posted a post on the forum called "Go to Paris" to solicit fans who went to Paris to watch the game. In half a day, he collected a team of 200 people, and the team is still expanding.

"Go to Paris! Let's cheer for our team! Let's witness the glorious moment! Let's go to Paris! Let's fight with the team! Let's go to Paris!!"

"The Grand Stadium in Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris, is a Parisian territory. We must go to more people and cause enough trouble for them! We cannot let them underestimate us!"

"Where is our fan organization? I'm going to Paris to watch the football. I have the ticket. This is my phone number. If you have any activities, please contact me!"

The fan organization is also recruiting people. After leaving his phone number on the forum, the man quickly received a call from the head of the fan organization. After asking some questions, he included his name on the list of fans who went to the Stadium in France.

"Let's unite, Metz! The finals are not the players' business, this is the glorious moment for our Metz players! Let's go to Paris to turn the French Stadium into a crimson red!! The 'Crimson Red' fan organization is looking for like-minded friends to cheer for our own team together. If you have tickets and willingness, please call..."

The fan organization's slogans were aroused by a few inspiring words, which made people feel excited just by seeing them, so they immediately took out their mobile phones to sign up.

When Metz was training in the outskirts of Paris, the entire Metz city was mobilized. The media conservatively estimated that there would be more than 20,000 Metz fans to watch the game on site, or even more. Although they could not fill the Franci Stadium, which could accommodate 80,000 people, I believe that they would burst out with huge energy there, which would make Paris Saint-Germain dare not underestimate it.

※※※At 4:00 am on April 28, Western Time, the alarm clock in the quilt rang. Emily opened her eyes, put it in the quilt and groped and turned it off.

She looked at the time, then turned over and got out of bed, washed up briefly in the bedroom, put on her clothes, put on her backpack, and sneaked out of the quiet home.

The streets of Beverly Hills were quiet at 4 a.m., and this was the darkest time before dawn. Emily sneaked out without fear of being caught. That was why she chose the time at 4 a.m.

Standing outside her yard, Emily looked back at the dark villa. The window of the room where her mother was in was black and there was no light on. Her mother should be sleeping soundly.

"By bye, mom." Emily waved to the place, then tightly packed, and quickly disappeared at the end of the quiet street.

There was no one on the street, and there was nothing except the street lights. The villas were in the dense woods, except for the occasional barking of dogs, Beverly Hills was even quiet and terrifying at this time.

But Emily doesn't care about this at all. She only has one thought in her mind - to go to Paris!
Chapter completed!