Chapter 31 Emily is here
As the media said, youth has no failure.
After losing to Bremen, Hoffenheim players are still worried about what punitive training programs the head coach will develop. The first time was fencing, the last time was yoga, will there be a triathlon this time?
During Monday's training class, Rangnick did not introduce them to a coach they had never seen before. In fact, those who stood in front of them were the coaches in the team. Rangnick said to everyone: "I won't punish you today because I don't think you failed in the last round of the league."
The players breathed a sigh of relief.
Rangnick said this at a press conference just after the game. He said that his players' performance on the court was impeccable. Even Per Nilsson, who had hit the top in the last moment, led to Bremen's fifth goal, did not criticize him, but said that Nilsson was not lucky.
Rangnick is not protecting his players. He does think that the players perform very well. Even Rangnick himself did not expect that he can still perform so tenaciously when facing strong opponents.
So he doesn't intend to punish these players after the game.
Although he lost to Bremen, Rangnick strengthened his confidence in the new tactic of 433.
433 makes Hoffenheim's already fierce offensive more sharp, and this crazy attack makes it difficult for the opponents to resist.
The newly promoted team has a disadvantage. After attracting the attention of others with their momentum, they are easily studied thoroughly by their opponents. And if Rangnick wants to avoid this, he doesn't want the team to perform well in the early stages of the league, and then it plummets.
In order not to let the opponent study his team so easily, he prepared two sets of tactics for the team, and did not rule out more sets of tactics in the future. First, it is naturally a balanced 442, and then this more aggressive 433, which often receives miraculous effects when used at different times.
When you need to attack, use 433, and when you consider more balance, use 442. But no matter what, Rangnick will not consider defending the dead, so the 10-0-0 formation will not appear on the Hoffenheim head coach's tactical board.
Rangnick's plan is to continue to strengthen the team's familiarity with the 433 formation in the next training, and everything he requires must be presented one by one during the game.
※※※ Losing to Bremen made the team's ranking fall from second to sixth, but this did not affect the mood of Hoffenheim fans at all. They began to be eager to look forward to the start of the next round of the league.
The next round of the league is Hoffenheim's home match against Frankfurt. This game has been determined as "China Day". There will be many activities before this game. There have been confirmed performances of the Chinese Dragon Dance Team. In addition, before the game, it will not only be sold outside the Carl Mercedes-Benz stadium, but also many delicious food from China. While enjoying Chinese food, cheering for Hoffenheim in the Chinese language I just learned. This will be something Hoffenheim fans can enjoy in the next round of the league.
Posters with photos of Chu Zhongtian have been printed in other German cities, and have been received by universities and Chinese gathering areas. Chinese communities in many cities have publicly stated that they will form a group to watch the game in Mannheim.
These are good news for the Hoffenheim club, which is eager to expand its influence.
There is another news that is good news for them - Chu Zhongtian's girlfriend, the well-known Hollywood movie star Emily Stan, also came to Sinsheim, and would definitely go to watch her boyfriend's game at that time. Recently, German entertainment media reported this incident, which is equivalent to invisibly expanding publicity for Hoffenheim Club. At least some people in the United States will know that there is such a team in Germany... When Emily arrived in Sinsheim, Chu Zhongtian had just finished training in Hoffenheim and received a call from Emily after getting off the training ground. Emily told him on the other end of the phone that he had arrived home and asked him to go back quickly after training.
Chu Zhongtian was very happy. Although Xia Tian had been in Sichuan with Emily, he always felt that he had been separated from Emily for a long time. This time Emily was very happy that they could come. They had a week to get tired of being together.
Chu Zhongtian's life is actually quite simple. Apart from competitions and training, he just learns fencing and plays games online at home for nothing. It's almost no different from an ordinary otakus. He basically doesn't go shopping alone, goes to the supermarket, and goes home after buying things. There is really no need to go shopping alone.
Teammates all know that Chu Zhongtian has a Hollywood movie star girlfriend. In fact, celebrity girlfriends and even wives are not uncommon among the players, but most of them appear in big clubs, such as the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich, who have many wives, whose girlfriends are models, TV artists, movie stars, and beauty pageants. However, this kind of thing is not common in Hoffenheim, a team that no one has heard of before. Chu Zhongtian is the only one. Salihovic, Ibisevic, Eduardo... etc., are either single nobles, or their girlfriends are ordinary people and have no reputation.
Only Chu Zhongtian has such a dazzling girlfriend. Just like his position in the football team, he is the captain, he is the core, he is the best in everything, and even his girlfriend is the best in the team.
When everyone heard his girlfriend coming, they joked: "Hey, Chu! Stay at night, we are still training the next day!"
Chu Zhongtian grimaced at them and hurried out with his bag on his back.
※※※ Chu Zhongtian deliberately tried to slightly when he opened the door. He wanted to see what Emily was doing. He found that the living room had some changes before he left today, but no one was there. He heard the sound of the vacuum cleaner working, and tiptoed over to follow the sound, and found Emily cleaning in the bedroom.
The bed sheets and quilt covers have been changed, and the ones that have been replaced are piled on the ground.
He smiled when he saw Emily's concentrating back, then rushed in like a cheetah, and hugged Emily from behind.
This action scared Emily torture. When she turned her head back, she saw Chu Zhongtian's smirking face.
"You scared me to death!" Emily said angrily.
Chu Zhongtian laughed loudly.
"Let me go quickly, be careful I will aim this at you..." Emily was waving the vacuum cleaner head in her hand, and suddenly she felt something on her butt being hard against her. "...it is aimed at the dishonest thing below you."
Chu Zhongtian quickly let go of his hand: "Look, it misses you." He pointed down and said to Emily: "Come and say hello."
Emily pointed the vacuum cleaner's head at the raised object below Chu Zhongtian, and was so scared that Chu Zhongtian covered his hands. Emily smiled proudly when she saw him like that.
"It seems you didn't go out with me on your back!" Emily said.
"How do you know?"
"Look at how energetic your brother is, I will know." Emily said and continued to work. Chu Zhongtian stepped forward to help. He carried the changed bed cover to the bathroom and threw it into the washing machine.
"To be honest, Chu. Your house is so dirty, I can only clean you this little..." Emily complained while doing it.
"This is the result of no women at home." Chu Zhongtian spread his hands.
Emily stopped and looked back at Chu Zhongtian. "I'm not your nanny."
"But the house is not so messy." He pointed to the living room: "As soon as I came in, I felt that the living room was different from before, and it was cleaner than before. To be honest, Emily, I really miss you very much. But you are not by my side."
When this young couple meets, they naturally have to express their longing for each other.
Chu Zhongtian's words made Emily not know how to answer for a while. Of course, she knew that Chu Zhongtian missed her very much, because she also missed Chu Zhongtian very much, but for their respective careers, they could not get together for a long time.
It is really hard to endure such long-term separation even though you are in love.
Seeing Emily silent, Chu Zhongtian knew that he had also talked about Emily's pain. He quickly smiled and said, "Okay, I'm joking. I know you are very busy, and I am very busy too. Tell me about you, how about your mother?"
"She is still angry that you chose to join Hoffenheim, my dear." Emily curled her lips.
Although she explained it to her mother, her mother couldn't listen at all. She said that Chu Zhongtian's interfaces were not decent reasons at all. A player who was in the rising period of his career joined a new team, regardless of the impact of competition. She only knew that people's interest in Chu Zhongtian would immediately decrease. This would indirectly affect her daughter.
"She thinks your choice is very financially failed."
Chu Zhongtian nodded: "What your mother said makes sense. James told me that since I joined the Bundesliga, those sponsors have become cold to me. Have you not seen that I have not had any new advertisements during this period? I have also appeared in entertainment magazines much less."
"Of course I saw it."
Chu Zhongtian smiled: "But I don't care."
"But, Chu...If you want to repair your relationship with my mother, I think you must care about this. Besides... playing football and making money are both good, right?" Emily frowned. She hopes that Chu Zhongtian and her mother have a good relationship, because only in this way can she not be stuck in the middle and make a dilemma. She loves Chu Zhongtian, but she cannot abandon her mother. The best solution is to restore the relationship between the two.
Chu Zhongtian sat down on the sofa and smiled bitterly: "I know too. But this world is very realistic. If I didn't do anything here, the sponsors wouldn't be interested in me. So even if I want to repair it, I'm afraid I'll have to wait a while..."
Mr. Meili has introduced some sponsors to Chu Zhongtian during this period, but they are all endorsements of small things, such as endorsements of peanut butter, endorsements of certain brand of biscuits, etc. Chu Zhongtian has accepted all these things. Anyway, he has no new endorsements now, but even if he accepts all of them, he will not make much money.
Previously, Peugeot was interested in him and wanted to ask him to serve as the image spokesperson in China. If he signed a contract, he would immediately get a brand new logo car. As a result, as soon as he transferred to Hoffenheim, a team that no one had heard of before, the matter would be ruined. No matter how much James asked, the other party had no further information. Chu Zhongtian himself knew that this was impossible, so he bought an Audi himself.
Sponsors are very realistic. If you don’t achieve anything, then those big companies will definitely not look down on you. All you can earn is small money like biscuits and peanut butter.
Because of Chu Zhongtian's transfer choice, the commercial development around him was also hindered. Chu Zhongtian had already asked his agent team in China to focus all his energy on the construction of the school in New Beichuan. The operation of his and Emily's charitable foundation was handed over to the professional manager team that Emily found for them. Originally, this team was responsible for the commercial development of the two people in North America, but now the plan was put on hold. The Americans were not interested in a core player of a rural Bundesliga team. Naturally, this team could only be used to manage the foundation.
Emily saw that Chu Zhongtian was not in a very high mood and hurriedly said, "But the good news is that the Greater China restaurant in Los Angeles is doing well and the branch is ready to open in Houston."
Greater China Restaurant has nothing to do with Chu Zhongtian’s personal image. As long as the business is good, the funds are abundant, and there is market demand, you can open a branch.
Chu Zhongtian smiled: "That's not bad."
Then he patted his thigh and signaled Emily to sit on: "Sanitation, something, I'll talk about it later. Now let me hug you, Amy."
Emily put down the vacuum cleaner in her hand, then put down her coiled hair, walked over obediently, sat on Chu Zhongtian's lap, and asked Chu Zhongtian to hug her from the side.
Chu Zhongtian buried his head in the middle of Emily's plump breasts, and then greedily took a breath of the fragrance on Emily's body.
Then he did not change his posture and just held Emily until the sun set.
※※※Emily came back, of course, not to discuss business development with Chu Zhongtian to make things difficult for him. She came on vacation and also came to accompany her boyfriend. The two of them prefer to communicate in bed rather than sitting seriously and making it like a negotiation.
Although he had sex with Emily at night, Chu Zhongtian did not show any discomfort on the training ground the next day. He now felt that what Romario said might not be wrong, at least his own sexual behavior may not really affect the game the next day.
During the day, Chu Zhongtian went to train, and Emily went shopping. Sinsheim was not a big city, it could even be said to be just a town with more than 35,000 people. If Emily wanted to go to the big shopping mall, she had to go to nearby Mannheim, which had a population of 300,000, which could be considered a prosperous city.
But if Emily likes shopping to Ribery's wife Vahiba, I'm afraid she won't be satisfied if she goes to Munich. Fortunately, Emily is not that kind of person. She just goes out to shop and buys some necessities for daily necessities. If she wants to go shopping, she will go to Paris, not to Sinsheim.
During this week, she had to concentrate on taking care of Chu Zhongtian. When she was not around, Chu Zhongtian ate like this - after training every day, he would have lunch in the team's restaurant. If this day was not practiced twice a day, he would only cook at home in the afternoon. Because professional players have many taboos in terms of eating, the meal he cooks is also very simple and does not take much time.
Now Emily is back. Even if she practices twice a day, Chu Zhongtian will drive home for dinner at noon. In the afternoon, she will go to Hoffenheim to train. Anyway, the distance is not far. It is only four kilometers from Hoffenheim to Sinsheim. It will be within a dozen minutes of driving.
If it was a day of practice, Chu Zhongtian would accompany Emily to Mannheim to go shopping in the afternoon. After hearing that Emily came to Germany, Ribery had called Chu Zhongtian and asked him to take Emily to Munich after the game with Frankfurt, which would be hosted by Ribery and his wife.
The match with Frankfurt was Saturday afternoon. If you win, Chu Zhongtian would be able to go to Munich with Emily that night. Bayern Munich's home match with Bochum was also on the same afternoon, so the two families had plenty of time to get together on Sunday.
This is the first time Chu Zhongtian has seen Ribery since transferring to Hoffenheim.
※※※As the game with Frankfurt approached, Chu Zhongtian became busy. He not only had to train and accompany Emily, but also had to accept interviews from some media, most of which were from German media, including Deutsche Radio, Premiere TV, which fully broadcasts the Bundesliga, German TV One, as well as the Kickers Magazine and local German Chinese newspapers.
Chu Zhongtian performed well in the game against Bremen and scored a goal himself, which further improved his popularity in Germany. There are not many famous German stars, and they are concentrated in several traditional strong teams, so it is much faster to become famous in Germany than in other countries. Chu Zhongtian can understand and speak fluent German, which is one of the reasons why he is popular with the German media.
Chu Zhongtian is now much more mature in dealing with the media than before, let alone a more skilled Emily behind him who is giving him advice. He has long been able to deal with various traps and questions from the media.
This week, Chu Zhongtian's image and exciting scenes of the last game appeared in various German media many times, and the media are gradually changing their prejudice against him before the season.
Is there anyone questioning that he is not worth 30 million euros? Some, but it is already insignificant.
Now no one will listen to those people's voices. They only know that this player is Hoffenheim's number one hero in the six league rounds, and after constantly assisting his teammates to score, he also began to score goals in two consecutive rounds in the league.
Someone once worried that Chu Zhongtian could adapt to this league that was completely different from the French Ligue 1 style. Now it is a worry. Chu Zhongtian showed no discomfort at all. He integrated into the team at the first time and adapted to the German football style, and was like fish in water here.
Some media have called him the second Yang Chen, which has successfully attracted the attention of Chinese fans to the Bundesliga.
But the Chinese media did not agree, even Yang Chen himself disagreed. He felt that Chu Zhongtian would do better than him, because he is not a striker who needs support from his teammates. He is now controlling the offensive and defensive hub of Hoffenheim's entire team. Once such a person succeeds, he will be a great success.
From the current perspective, Chu Zhongtian has shown signs of success.
Chapter completed!