Zidane has been in a good mood these days, and he has finally laughed out loud in his bet with Mourinho.

Because of Alonso's injury, Chu Zhongtian will become the core of Real Madrid in the next month. Zidane believes that with Chu Zhongtian's strength, as long as he sits in the core position, he will never be able to pull him down again.

Xavi Alonso is very good, but he is still a bit worse than Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian is the most suitable for Real Madrid.

Now he saw Mourinho's face smiling. What else could Mourinho do besides rolling his eyes?

※※※"Alonso is injured!" Emily's tone is a little excited.

Chu Zhongtian coughed, and she quickly whispered: "Ah, it's a pity...but! You have a chance to start, right, Chu?"

Chu Zhongtian thought about it and it seemed that the same was true. Real Madrid only had three real midfielders. Now that Alonso is injured, he will be his partner with Khedira.

"My relationship with Harvey is pretty good, Amy. He speaks English and we chat a lot, so his injury makes me sad..."

Emily curled her lips on the other end of the phone: "Xingxing, Chu. You are not being interviewed now. I am your wife, not the reporter who comes to interview you."

"Yes, yes...yes, but I feel really sad. He is my teammate...and even if he is not injured, I can still play as the starter."

"That's it!" Emily suddenly shouted, "That's it!"

"When will you come back, Amy?" Chu Zhongtian ignored Emily and asked back.

"This...it's another week..."

Chu Zhongtian thought for a while: "I was no longer in Madrid at that time."

"What?"

"On the national team match day... Gao Hongbo called me. I have to participate in this game."

The qualifiers for the 2014 Brazil World Cup started on June 29 this year. The Chinese team's opponent is Mongolia, which is very weak, so Chu Zhongtian was not called into the team at all. At that time, he was just preparing to return to Hoffenheim. The first round of the Asian Cup qualifiers was thirty-eight teams fighting against each other, with two rounds at home and away. The final winning team advanced to the second round. The nineteen teams that advanced to the second round were ranked according to the results of the previous qualifiers. The top eleven directly advanced to the top 20 in the third round, and the remaining eight teams fought against each other, and the winner was still in the home and away two rounds. The winner advanced and the loser eliminated. Because the Chinese team's total score in the last World Cup Asian qualifiers was 16th, so the top five teams directly advanced to the first-class team in the third round of the 20th. As long as the Chinese team can pass the first round of the first round, they will directly advance to the top 20.

In fact, the Chinese team's World Cup journey really began from this moment.

The Chinese team without Chu Zhongtian took Deng Zhuoxiang as the core and defeated Mongolia without bloodshed in the first round. In the first round, they won 7:0 at home in their home court. On July 3rd, they also scored five goals away from home. In the final total score, the Mongolian team that played soy sauce was eliminated 12:0.

In the second round, the Chinese team was bye and directly advanced to the top 20 in the third round. Chu Zhongtian happened to participate in Real Madrid's pre-season training camp, so he didn't have to return to China to participate in the game, so he would not have to go back to China to avoid the problem of running-in with the new team.

After the second round of the game, all the twenty teams participating in the top 20 matches were born, and then the group draws for the top 20 matches were drawn. The Chinese team, as the third-level team, was divided into a group with North Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Turkmenistan.

Judging from this grouping, the Chinese team avoided the strongest opponent. North Korea is the first-class team, but in fact, North Korean football is now on the decline. The Chinese team has Chu Zhongtian, so it should not be a problem to defeat them. The second level is the UAE and the fourth level Turkmenistan. In this group, as long as the Chinese team performs normally and Chu Zhongtian is not absent, it should not be a problem to advance to the top ten.

Chinese fans can finally look forward to the Chinese team playing in the top ten games - the Chinese team was eliminated without even the top ten games in the last two World Cups. It is really tragic.

This time, with Chu Zhongtian, Chinese fans can also look forward to the game in the World Cup finals. If the Chinese team successfully enters the World Cup, Chinese fans can continue to look forward to whether the Chinese team can achieve a zero breakthrough in the World Cup - scoring a goal, getting a point, and winning a game.

These three goals were proposed ten years ago, but failed to achieve them. Now they have fallen on Chu Zhongtian.

Now there are three years left to the 2014 Brazil World Cup. Chu Zhongtian is exactly 30 years old, and his official last golden age. In another four years, he will be 34 years old. It is hard to say whether he can still maintain his condition. At the age of 30, he will be a great time to make a contribution. So the expectations of Chinese fans make sense.

Although the qualifiers for the Asian region of the World Cup have already begun. But this time he was recruited to go back to play in the qualifiers. The third round of qualifiers will not start until November. This is a warm-up match, because the top 20 games will begin in November. In order to allow the team to get along, Gao Hongbo has almost never played any game with all his main players since the Asian Cup. Gao Hongbo found a large group of young people and marginal figures of the national team to train with Mongolia.

After listening to Chu Zhongtian's explanation, Emily felt a little disappointed. She missed Chu Zhongtian very much, but she had finally returned to Madrid, but she still couldn't see her husband.

"Okay, it's only one week." Chu Zhongtian comforted her on the other end of the phone. "If you come back, go and see what the new house is going to be decorated. I haven't been there these days."

Chu Zhongtian was busy, so he couldn't take care of the decoration of the new house.

He was busy because of Alonso's injury and he was about to take office.

※※Murinho considered that if he simply replaced Alonso with Chu Zhongtian, his tactics and other things would be as they did before, and it was not impossible, but it seemed that he could not fully exert Chu Zhongtian's full abilities, which was a bit wasteful. It was like a car clearly had five gears, but you were running in only one gear.

Rangnik made Chu Zhongtian a free man, which means that in order to exert 100% of his abilities, he must redevelop tactics with him as the core. However, Real Madrid's metronome is Alonso, but the core is C. Ronaldo.

Chu Zhongtian’s position is quite awkward... What should I do?

Even if you want to re-establish the tactics around Chu Zhongtian, it is impossible in a short period of time. At least it is unrealistic to have the team complete such a transformation within this month.

Mourinho was wondering what would happen if he didn't assign any tasks to Chu Zhongtian and let him choose to play freely on the court... He was shocked by his own thoughts - no one had ever tried this before, allowing an organizational midfielder to completely ignore tactical requirements and choose freely. Barcelona's Messi is also very free, but he is just a assaulter and not the core of the organization, so there is no problem with his free movement, but it will increase the threat. But Chu Zhongtian is the commander, he needs to cooperate with the whole team, and the whole team also needs to cooperate with him. If he moves freely, what should others do? Will his teammates feel at a loss?

※※※ Chu Zhongtian, like his teammates, flew away from the Spanish capital Madrid. He will be the farthest one, including Argentina and Brazilian players, because Argentina and Brazil chose Europe for two warm-up matches.

Mourinho had previously been very dissatisfied with Gao Hongbo's recruitment of Chu Zhongtian to participate in an irrelevant warm-up match because he was worried that this would cause Chu Zhongtian's physical fitness to have problems. Unfortunately, this is an international A-level match day. The club must let the players go back to the game on this day, otherwise the national team can sue the club to FIFA, and the club will not take any attention.

Chu Zhongtian returned to China in a hurry, and his return greatly increased the attention of the national team. This was the first time he had returned to the national team since joining Real Madrid.

From the airport to the training station, Chu Zhongtian's car followed more than a dozen vehicles from various media, chasing and intercepting them, taking photos and videos. This scene made a reporter feel later that Chu Zhongtian was the only superstar in Chinese football and even the only superstar in Chinese sports.

In the national team, Chu Zhongtian is naturally very popular. Because he comes from Real Madrid, the players of the national team are obviously particularly interested in the daily life training of Real Madrid superstars, and they all want to inquire about what the training life of Real Madrid looks like. For example, I heard that C. Ronaldo is a table tennis expert, so how good is he playing? Is Kaka's wife really beautiful? What kind of person is Mourinho? Did Chu Zhongtian ask for Zidane's signature?

Chu Zhongtian always tries his best to answer his teammates' questions. As long as he does not involve too much privacy, he is happy to tell his national teammates.

Of course, he returned home this time not to spread gossip to his teammates, but the game was still the top priority. Chu Zhongtian, who had not practiced with the national team for a long time, joined the training without even falling off the jet lag. This made Gao Hongbo very satisfied.

The opponent of the Chinese team in this warm-up match is the Canadian team from North America. Canadian ice hockey is very famous, but their football is tragic. In FIFA's latest ranking, it is not as high as the Chinese team.

In the end, Chu Zhongtian led his national teammates to win with a score of 3:1. He did not score in the game, but he assisted twice, which made Gao Hongbo very satisfied on the court. It turned out that not practicing with the team for a long time did not affect his feeling, and his cooperation with other teammates was still very tacit. As long as he could maintain this state, Gao Hongbo was very confident in the Chinese team's top 20 matches, and the final final match was only in the top ten matches.

After the warm-up match of the Chinese team, Chu Zhongtian left China and returned to Spain.

Here he met his wife Emily Stan whom he had been thinking about day and night.

Life has returned to normal...※※※After the training, Chu Zhongtian practiced routinely. This time he did not practice shooting, but practiced long passes. Alonso's injury caused the team to lose an excellent long pass master on the court, and he had to make up for the losses in this regard, so he had to practice long passes. In fact, Chu Zhongtian's long passes were already very good, but he believed in one principle, that is, no matter how skilled the skills were, if he did not contact him for a long time, he would regress.

After practicing long passes, he practiced a set of shots for himself, and then returned to the locker room.

After taking a shower and changing clothes, Chu Zhongtian walked out of the locker room with his backpack on his backpack, and ran into Mourinho at the door.

This surprised him a little.

"I saw your car was still in the parking lot." Mourinho said after seeing him.

"Ah...I was training just now..."

"Don't mind if you delayed for a few minutes?" Mourinho asked.

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Don't mind."

He was a little surprised. This was the first time Mourinho talked to him alone. Although he had communicated during training, it was the first time he met and chatted alone in private.

He thought this was related to Alonso's injury and absence.

"Well... how is life in Madrid?" Mourinho did not say what he wanted to say directly, but instead exchanged a few greetings first.

"fine."

"I heard that your new house is being renovated?"

"Yes, but I don't know how much the decoration has been. I haven't seen it for a while..." After throwing the house decoration to Emily, Chu Zhongtian simply stopped going.

"Well..." Mourinho pondered and asked. "Did Rangnick have any requirements for you when you were in Hoffenheim?"

Chu Zhongtian didn't expect Mourinho to ask such a question. He was stunned for a moment before answering: "No... He just told me that he wanted the team to attack or the team to defend..."

"What do you do if he wants the team to attack?"

Chu Zhongtian frowned and shook his head, "That has to be based on the actual situation..."

Mourinho nodded and waved to Chu Zhongtian: "Come with me."

Chu Zhongtian didn't quite understand where he was going, but he didn't ask, just following Mourinho, the two of them turned left and right, and finally walked into Mourinho's office... Mourinho didn't ask Chu Zhongtian to sit in, and went into the office and turned on the TV directly, then pressed the switch of the video recorder.

He actually wanted to watch the video with Chu Zhongtian!

When the game appears on the TV screen, he uses the remote control to fast forward and then freeze.

Chu Zhongtian discovered that this was actually a video of Real Madrid playing Osasuna away from home in the first round of La Liga... and Mourinho freezes the situation. Real Madrid's counterattack after falling behind. Chu Zhongtian still remembers that this counterattack was a completely inertial counterattack, which means that Real Madrid's players actually don't have any mature offensive methods in their minds. They just want to attack because they are angry because they are behind, and they are completely reflexive. So at that time, they seemed to find that Real Madrid's offense was very chaotic, and they always played wherever they think, lacking coordination and command. Facing Osasuna's iron barrel formation, they always thought that they could score goals by relying on the strength of a certain person.

Mourinho freezes the picture here and turns to look at Chu Zhongtian: "What if I want you to attack at this time?"

Chu Zhongtian understood, is this considered an exam?

"I'll just have a long shot."

Chu Zhongtian's answer was a little beyond Mourinho's expectations, and he asked strangely. "Far-range shot?"

"Well, high-quality long shot..." Chu Zhongtian pointed to the TV screen. It was Khedira who was taking the ball when Mourinho freezes. "If I were taking the ball at this position, I would shoot directly."

Mourinho glanced at the TV screen. Khdira was about thirty-four or five meters away from the goal.

He frowned: "It's a bit too far..."

Chu Zhongtian smiled and said, "That is my effective range."

Mourinho remembered that when he was coaching Inter Milan, Chu Zhongtian used long shots to blow open the goal of his team. His long shots were often not high, but they were fast and had a considerable power to shoot.

Is it a miracle to do a great job?

Mourinho thought for a while and said, "Do you want to score goals and recover your disadvantages by relying on your personal ability? I admit that your long-range shot is good, but such a good opportunity will not appear anytime and anywhere..." He refers to the fact that there is no one to guard the opponent more than 30 meters away.

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Yes. So I didn't expect to score a goal with this shot. I just felt that our people were a little panicked after falling behind, and the offense seemed to be incompetent. So I think the first thing a commander should do is to stabilize the morale of the army."

Mourinho stared at Chu Zhongtian's face for a long time, then turned his head to watch the TV screen: "Continue."

"In fact, it is not necessary to use long shots, but in this case, long shots are the most suitable. As long as one or two high-quality shots can restore the team's confidence and calm down. Then... hurry up." Chu Zhongtian said.

"quick?"

Fast is indeed a characteristic of Real Madrid. This is a new characteristic of Real Madrid that Mourinho has been working hard to create since becoming Real Madrid head coach. He wants to fully exert this characteristic of Real Madrid.

If it was just fast, he felt that this statement was uninnovative. Moreover, Real Madrid could not be fast at that time.

"Yes, hurry. I don't think there are teams in this world that can maintain their formation under continuous rapid impact. As long as their formation is dispersed by us, there will be many opportunities."

"So, how can you get faster?" Mourinho sat obliquely on the table and leaned over to ask Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian thought about it and said: "Accelerate the speed of passing and receiving in the midfield, reduce unnecessary dribbling and ball control. The two sides are ready to meet the midfield passes at any time, and the two back midfielders... get closer, minimize the passing of too long distances, and the best short passes. This can also attract the opponent's defense to move closer to the middle, and then make room for the side. At that time, just one transfer is used to pass..."

This set is actually Hoffenheim's usual tactics. After all, Chu Zhongtian is still the most familiar with Hoffenheim's tactics. Since everyone's characteristics are fast, why can't Hoffenheim's tactics be used on Real Madrid?

Of course, he just made a suggestion, and more work has to be done by Real Madrid's working group - first of all, they have to be willing to adopt this suggestion.

After listening to Chu Zhongtian's argument, Mourinho confirmed something - Chu Zhongtian, the midfield commander, may be the most special of his kind players he has ever seen.
Chapter completed!