Chapter 23 Shaking hands and talking with the first champion(2/2)
The Wimbledon players on the bench were obviously more nervous and excited than their coach. They all stood on the sidelines and shouted inside: "Persis on for another five minutes and we will win!"
"Hold on, be sure to keep it!"
"Don't fucking the ball in the back! Get out for me!"
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"Now let's have a header." Braham brought two people to the goal. "I throw with my hands. Russell, you are responsible for the offense, Chu, you are responsible for the defense. Whether it's offense or defense, you are only allowed to use your head. Do you understand?"
"I understand, coach."
"Then let's get in place, I'm going to start."
After both of them were in place, Braham threw the ball in front of the goal. This time he was closer to Russell. Before Chu Zhongtian had time to go up, Russell jumped up and headed the ball without anyone's guard. However, these uninterrupted headers Russell actually flew directly.
Chu Zhongtian suddenly laughed out loud. Russell glared.
"Chu, why are you laughing? You should jump up and interfere. What are you doing when you are watching below?" Braham criticized Chu Zhongtian.
"Uh..." Chu Zhongtian didn't expect that he would be criticized.
This time it was Russell's turn to laugh at him in reverse. "Ha! Ha!"
Next time, Chu Zhongtian held up a lot of energy and rushed the ball in front of Russell. Not only that, he also knocked Russell who jumped over to the ground.
"Damn it, foul!" Russell, who was lying on the ground, raised his arm and shouted.
"Reasonable collision." Chu Zhongtian shook his finger at him. He was imitating the NBA star Mutombo. The African mountain would make such a move after every shot blocking the opponent, to tell the opponent: You can't.
The confrontational training aroused the two of them's competitive spirit. Although they had already shaken hands and made peace, it did not prevent them from wanting to defeat each other in football.
"Come again! I must push the ball in front of you!"
"dream!"
Braham looked at the two young men who were quarreling in the sunset, and his eyes narrowed into a slit.
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"Dou,Dou,Dou—" The referee finally blew the whistle at the end of the game.
Eames stood up and hugged Ingrich, and he finally won the first game he had since coached the team. It was not easy for ten games!
The players on the bench next to him had already rushed to the court, howling, and jumping towards their teammates. Although this is a friendly cup champion, it is still a champion. For a team that has just been established for more than a month and is basically composed of amateur and semi-professional players and has lost nine games in a row, even a champion of this level is enough for them to be excited.
Emily and her companions in the stands were applauding and clamoring Wimbledon's name.
"Wimbledon! Wimbledon! Wimbledon!!"
The shouting came as head coach Eames took the silver-shining small trophy from the event organizers and reached its climax.
Afterwards, Wimbledon's players took over the trophy and ran to the stands of away fans, applauding the fans who came to cheer for them away, thanking them for continuing to support the team after losing nine games in a row. Without their support, the champion might not be able to win.
At this time, Emily remembered Chu Zhongtian again. It would be great if he had his face among the people in front of her...
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ps, let me say a few words about the relationship between Russell and Chu.
Not everyone who fights the protagonist will die, especially he is actually very useful to the protagonist.
The club cannot say that they sell them, because even if they want to sell, there must be a team who wants to buy them. Of course, this problem does not exist for professional teams, but the situation of amateur teams in the ninth league is completely different from that of professional teams. They are not qualified to sell whoever they sell. They can fire one of Russell and Chu Zhong, but they have to lose money because both parties have signed labor contracts. It is not that simple to open just by saying it. For amateur teams, whether this is worthwhile or not is another matter. In addition, the two of them have a conflict, which is not a big deal for the club. Why should they be fired? If it affects the results? What qualifications are there for a team that has only been established for a month to expect results? Besides, they are warm-up matches that no longer focus on the scores only on the process...
The conflict between the two people is big - it is caused by the boy's unwillingness to admit defeat; it is small - it is snowing as they are each tempered. But in fact, it is not a great contradiction, but no one is willing to admit defeat first, so it becomes like this.
Imes wants them to realize their mistakes. It is not simply a few words to talk together, and then shake hands and even if they make up, it is too fake. Therefore, they have to use some means to make them realize what they are wrong and how stupid they are. Self-reflection is much more effective than others pointing out mistakes.
So he spent a month to intensify the conflict between the two, and then excluded both of them in the "important game" that needed to compete for the championship. The contrast caused by the act of adding fuel to the fire and throwing it into the freezer can calm down and reflect on everything they did - for a moment of anger, he forgot their original purpose of coming here: playing football.
The advantage of doing this is to be done once and for all, and there are no sequelae in total. It is much better than forcing them to reconcile and disobey them.
Some people say that a month was wasted. But it may not be. The running-in team is running-in, and it is not that there will be no one in the teams without them. To be fair, losing so many games is not a problem for Russell and Chu. AFC Wimbledon has just been established for a month and is almost all composed of fans. Before the physical fitness has been raised, he played nine games in a row. It is not surprising that they have all lost. After all, they have only been established for a month, and many players may not even remember the names of their teammates. After all, this team has a lineup of as many as 66 people, and it is very mobile. Maybe someone I often saw in the previous training classes has never been here again. Players who have played in the first game can never be included in the roster again.
This is all true.
In reality, AFC Wimbledon lost all nine warm-up matches before the first season. The score and opponent were exactly the same as in the novel. It was not something I deliberately did to highlight the conflict between the two. What does this mean? It means that no matter whether there are Russell and Chu or not, the team's strength is there, should we lose or lose.
In reality, Wimbledon's performance in the first half of his first season was ups and downs, but the second half was getting better. This shows that they have been working together throughout the first half of the season, seeking tacit understanding and suitable tactics and lineups.
Russell and Chu Zhongtian are now shaking hands and making peace because Russell will be a very, very important figure for Chu Zhongtian in the future, and even affects his future goals and overall development trajectory.
However, because he made the protagonist very unhappy, so some readers were also very unhappy, Russell's ending was not very good... Of course, he is also a very important character at the end of the novel and will appear again~~
The spoilers end here~
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Chapter completed!