Chapter 34 The Friendship of Men
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Chu Zhongtian, who won the ball, was immersed in happy memories all day the next day. Although this was not his first victory, winning at home and winning away games were completely different. There were more fans at home, and the feelings he brought to him were even stronger. His football was so simple - he was happy if he won the game, but he was unhappy if he lost it.
But his good mood lasted only one day.
The away game against Ashu United on the 26th was Wimbledon's third game within six days, and it was only one day away from the previous game. With such a intensive schedule, even professional teams would complain, let alone amateur teams.
Many people in Wimbledon have poor physical fitness, and the two games within four days have completely dragged them down. If Eames doesn't rotate, he may not be able to get together in this game.
Except for Chu Zhongtian who still started, the starting lineup was basically replaced compared to the previous game. Russell was still sitting on the bench off the court and was about to be replaced in the second half.
Teams like Wimbledon cannot guarantee that the strength of both lineups is the same. Their main lineup is still in the running-in stage, let alone the substitute lineup.
As a result, although Chu Zhongtian worked hard throughout the game, he was helpless and could not play much role alone.
In fact, the Wimbledon team scored the first goal. They scored two goals in a row by captain Kevin Cooper in the 50th and 56th minutes to get the lead, which was a very good start.
But such a great start confused the Wimbledon players themselves, and they thought the game had been won.
Unexpectedly in the 69th minute, Keith Ward, who was left-back in this game, committed a foul in the penalty area and was sentenced to death. The team was awarded a penalty kick, and he himself was sent off with a red card.
This red card and this penalty kick became the turning point of the game. Ashe United, who played at home, was very energetic, while Wimbledon, who was missing, seemed at a loss on the court.
Ashu United used this penalty to score a goal, and then Eames adjusted his strategy and gave up his plan to replace Russell to continue the attack. Instead, he replaced defender Dave Fry to strengthen his defense.
In the next game, Wimbledon defended the entire line, and Chu Zhongtian became one of the busiest people. He kept running back and forth in the midfield to resist wave after wave of attacks from the opponent.
Despite this, in the 85th and 86th minutes, the team was still defeated by the opponent two consecutive games within these two minutes.
In the end, he lost the game 2:3.
In the last league game, Wimbledon completed the reversal at the last moment and won the first home win. In this game, his opponent scored two goals in a row at the last moment, becoming the team that was reversed. It's really "I'll have to pay it back sooner or later"...
Chu Zhongtian felt very depressed. He tried his best but did not stop the team from losing. These games made him suddenly have this idea - if I had the ability to help the team in offense, maybe there was no need to lose these games...
He began to desperately hope that he could play a role in the team's offense.
He is no longer willing to be a pure defender, even if that was one of the reasons why Coach Eames fell in love with him at the beginning.
I just don’t know, is this a good thing or a bad thing for him?
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His desire to change had to temporarily put aside and pulled out of the football.
It is the end of August. In a few days, the university he is going to attend will start (Author's note: Actually, the start date of the undergraduate degree at Wimbledon Art School is October, but I didn't notice this when I checked the information. As a result, after writing this plot, I found that something went wrong. I thought it was too much to change it. And I had submitted the manuscript, which was inconvenient to modify it, so I can only comment here. Let's just think that the novels are all fictional, and this detail is also fictional...). It reminded him that this matter was not the calendar, but one day when he finished working and returned to the apartment, he found that the lights were on in the next room that had been empty for three months, and his roommate Yang Yang came back.
"Is Lao Yang back?" He leaned forward and found a suitcase in the house. Yang Yang was busy cleaning. He had not lived in three months, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated.
"Da Chu, are you back from working?" Yang Yang turned around and looked at Chu Zhongtian, and continued to work hard on himself.
"Well." Chu Zhongtian put down his schoolbag and came in to help. During the year he was studying for preparatory courses, Yang Yang helped him a lot. His part-time job in Mike China was Yang Yang who helped him contact and recommend it. He came to the UK alone, and he was not familiar with the place at first, and Yang Yang enthusiastically invited him to share the rent and help him in life and study. Although the two people have different personalities, this did not prevent them from becoming friends with good relationships. Before meeting Emily and the others, Yang Yang was even the only person he could be considered a "friend" in the UK. "When did he arrive?"
"It's coming in the afternoon, but I went to London to see an old classmate before I came back."
As he was talking, Yang Yang took out a bag of plastic bags from his bag and threw them to Chu Zhongtian: "Try the specialty of my hometown."
Chu Zhongtian saw: Zhang Fei beef.
He laughed. Actually, this thing is not a specialty of Chengdu, but a specialty of Langzhong. However, Langzhong is also in Sichuan, so they are considered a specialty of Sichuan. Both of them are from Chengdu. If they are older, they are from Sichuan. Of course, they are specialty of Sichuan.
"How are you going back to China to have fun?" Chu Zhongtian put the vacuum-packed Zhang Fei beef aside.
"I went to Korea for a trip."
When he heard Yang Yang say that South Korea, Chu Zhongtian became interested: "Don't you hate Korea the most? When it comes to Korea, it's just 'bang' and 'bang'. Why are you traveling there?"
"To watch the World Cup."
Yang Yang, like Chu Zhongtian, is both a fan, otherwise he would not have served as the captain of the Chinese Student Football Team.
"It's great. I went to see it on the spot? How do you feel?" Chu Zhongtian was a little envious of the other party. Being able to watch the game on the World Cup was the biggest wish of many fans...
"Everything is great, except for the Chinese team."
After saying that, both of them laughed. The Chinese team lost all three games and was eliminated, of course it was not a good idea.
Yang Yang, who had already cleaned up, sat on the bed and looked at Chu Zhongtian: "What about you? How did you spend these three months... Did the trial of the new Wimbledon finally pass?" Before Eames came to find Chu Zhongtian, Yang Yang left, and he didn't know the final result.
"I have played more than a dozen games." Chu Zhongtian said.
"Wow!" Yang Yang exclaimed, "That's right, you're a foreign player, right?" He joked with Chu Zhongtian. "Our country's team performed poorly in the World Cup, and you're also a glory for the country. Hey! I'll notify me of the game, and I'll go and see it when I have time! I'll give you the entire guards or something..."
Chu Zhongtian laughed out loud. He remembered that he already had a personal guard.
"Emily will cheer me up every game." Speaking of this, he was quite proud. If there are beautiful fans, that is not something that everyone can enjoy.
"I heard that Emily is still single." Yang Yang nodded.
Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised, not because Emily was still single, but because why Lao Yang said this to him. He blurted out: "She has a high vision, it's quite normal. She majored in drama performance. After graduation, she was a star in film and television."
After hearing what he said, Yang Yang tilted his head and looked at Chu Zhongtian for a while. He only saw Chu Zhongtian for no reason.
"Is there anything on my face?"
Yang Yang shook his head, then stretched his waist and yawned. "I won't tell you anymore, I'm going to rest. I feel like I've been flying around in the sky all day... You should go take a shower too."
Chu Zhongtian then retreated from Yang Yang's room and returned to his room. He threw himself on the bed.
Why did the topic turn to Emily being single? What does it have to do with me whether she is single or not?
One China, one Britain, one ordinary person, and one may become a future film and television star. This gap is too big. Chu Zhongtian dared not think too much.
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The next day, Chu Zhongtian followed Yang Yang to school and reported in advance. As a result, he met Emily again on campus.
"Hi, Chu. What a coincidence, you chose to report today too?" Emily said hello to Chu Zhongtian first, then turned to Yang Yang, "Good morning, Yang. Haven't seen each other for a summer, are you doing well?"
Yang Yang pushed his glasses: "Very good. Where are you, Emily?"
"I'm pretty good too." Emily said and looked at Chu Zhongtian who was still saying nothing. "Will you go to the 31st game, Chu?"
When Yang Yang saw this, he knew that this was the common topic between them and he couldn't get into it. So he made a gesture to Chu Zhongtian as he was waiting for him in front of him, and said goodbye to Emily.
"It should be." As soon as Yang Yang left, Chu Zhongtian spoke. Even he himself didn't know why.
Emily smiled with her lips pursed and said, "That's good. Without the main midfielder, I will be worried about the team's performance."
"It's useless to have me, we still lost the ball." As soon as we talked about this result, Chu Zhongtian's mood became depressed, and then he directly reflected in his words.
"That's not your responsibility, Chu." Emily knew that Chu Zhongtian would feel depressed for one to two days after losing the game. She didn't blame her for seeing her in the previous warm-up match. She comforted her.
"You can't say that, Emily. As long as you lose the ball, you will be inseparable from the players on the court." Chu Zhongtian said seriously.
"But you are just a midfielder, your task is defense. The reason why we lost the game is because of our poor offense..." Emily didn't think so, or she just wanted to comfort Chu Zhongtian.
Unexpectedly, Chu Zhongtian nodded: "So these days I have been thinking that if I can help the team in offense, that result might be avoided..."
"I remember you told me with certainty that you were not an offensive material?" Emily was a little surprised when she heard Chu Zhongtian say this.
"I changed my mind again and wanted to try it." Chu Zhongtian spread his hands.
Emily snapped her fingers and said, "Good idea! I support you! But what should I do?"
Her question has stolen Chu Zhongtian. Yes, he didn't focus much on offensive training when he was a child. Now he has forgotten what the coach said. Now he has to practice alone and can only practice shooting... The question is how should these system training be done? Although the team also conducts offensive training, that little training volume is of no use. Chu Zhongtian hopes to improve his abilities in a short period of time through some special training.
"Hi, Emily!" A familiar voice suddenly came from behind the two.
When they looked back, they realized that the people who were greeting were Russell and Borger.
Emily's eyes suddenly lit up when she saw Russell standing in front of them.
Russell was a little surprised to find that Emily saw her eyes change. "Hey, Emily, why are you looking at me like this? Do you like me..."
"Hey! What nonsense!" Emily was very angry.
"Uh, this is just a joke, but you react so much..." Russell muttered. Seeing him being scolded by Emily, Chu Zhongtian was very happy to see him next to him.
Emily smiled at him again and stopped talking about the topic: "Alai, I heard you are the best player in Wimbledon's skill?"
Speaking of technology, that is Russell's strength. He nodded proudly: "It's totally correct. There is no one in Wimbledon who is better than me. If it weren't for not being able to stand the chain musical instrument merchant, I would definitely be able to play the Wimbledon reserve team this year..."
In fact, this is not the case... He was swept out by Wimbledon Professional Football Club just because his physical fitness was not up to standard. He said so just because a proud person was used to finding ways for himself.
He wanted to boast about his brilliant record in the professional team, and Emily was not interested in it. She pointed at Chu and said, "Are you interested in bringing an apprentice?"
Chu Zhongtian didn't expect Emily to ask Russell for help. He was surprised and pointed at himself: "Me?"
"He?" Russell and Borger were also surprised.
"Yes! Chu!" Emily nodded vigorously, and the smile on her face became even brighter.
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"This is how it looks - Chu hopes to improve his foot skills so that he can contribute more to the team in the offense, but he doesn't know how to practice. The team's training... is too little time, and once school starts, we don't have much time to train. So, obviously you are the best candidate!"
Emily explained the whole story to Russell and Bolger clearly. Then she saw whether the other party agreed or not. She was optimistic that this was not a problem, because Chu and Russell had already reconciled, and they were both classmates, and Russell would not refuse anyway.
After hearing this, Russell did not express his opinion immediately, but just glanced at Chu Zhongtian: "Why did you, a guy who is useless except to run, suddenly have such an idea?"
"When you can't play because you are physically exhausted and the team loses the game." Russell's mouth was mean, and Chu Zhongtian was not showing any weakness.
The relationship between these two people is quite strange. They have clearly reconciled, but they always have to find opportunities to mock each other in front of outsiders and let them suffer a little.
When Emily saw that the two of them suddenly became tense again, she felt very strange and nervous - how did these two people turn against each other again? Russell would not refuse his proposal, right? Will Chu dislike his own initiative and ask Russell to teach him?
But Borge stood aside, smiling and wrapped his arms around his chest to watch the show, without any concern that the two of them would turn against each other on the spot.
"Dare you dare to say that?" Russell pointed at Chu Zhongtian, "Then you are ready to be destroyed by me in training. Coach Eames's punishment is aimed at both of us, and mine is only aimed at you!"
"I'm afraid you can't teach me if you don't have any skills." Chu Zhongtian continued to stimulate Russell.
"You will know soon if I have the ability, Chinese boy!" Russell said viciously. He was eager to start special training immediately. Then he wanted to torture Chu Zhongtian in training to make life worse than death, so that he could know how stupid it was to anger himself.
Hearing this, Emily realized that Russell had agreed to her request. She curled her lips: "Men's friendship is really strange..."
Chapter completed!