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A grand celebration was held that evening at the Rhine-Neckar Stadium, which was able to accommodate 30,000 people, a figure that was essentially equal to the population of the entire city of Sinsheim. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info means that if everyone in the whole city of Sinsheim is a Hoffenheim fan, then when Hoffenheim has a home game, Sinsheim will be an empty city except for the Rhein-Neckar Stadium.

Of course, this is not possible, Hoffenheim does have a lot of local fans in Sinsheim, but there are also many fans in the surrounding areas, such as Mannheim and Heidelberg, there are now several Hoffenheim fan clubs.

This time, the celebration also came from many places, and Sinsheim has not yet reached the point of becoming an "empty city". Hoffenheim, the real home of the Hoffenheim football team, became an empty town, and everyone came to the Rhein-Neckar Stadium to participate in the team's celebrations. Each of them wore a "Ulla, our whole village is here!" The T-shirt is very conspicuous in the crowd.

The night was a very, very lively and successful celebration. When the players walked out with the championship plate in hand, the cheers and applause from the audience lasted for five minutes.

As the captain of the team, Chu Zhongtian, on behalf of the whole team, thanked the fans for their support this season, especially the fans from Mannheim, because in the first half of the season, Hoffenheim set a home unbeaten record at the Karl Benz Stadium in Mannheim, and Hoffenheim's craziest first half of the season won the support of many Hamm fans.

He also told the more than 30,000 fans in attendance that they can look forward to the team's performance in the Champions League next season.

"We will use our football to let the whole of Europe know where Hoffenheim and Sinsheim are!"

When he finished these last words, the audience resounded with a huge cheer.

Weiss jumped out and took the microphone and shouted to the fans: "Everyone shout with me - Hoffenheim!" Hoffenheim! Hofen, Hofen! Hoffenheim!! ”

The fans shouted along with Weiss: "Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim! Hofen, Hofen! Hoffenheim!! ”

Such shouts resounded in the sky.

In the end, the mayor of Sinsheim publicly promised that from this summer, the town hall would start construction of balconies, so that when Hoffenheim won the championship again, the team would have a place to enjoy with the people without having to trouble the Rhein-Neckar stadium.

He also joked: "This is the city's most important construction plan of the year." ”

※※※After all the celebrations in Sinsheim were over, the team announced that it was disbanded and on vacation.

2009 is not a big tournament year, there are no big continental events in international football, the World Cup is next year, the Olympic Games and the European Cup were just completed last year, and the Asian Cup and the Copa America will be held again in 2011. So this summer, everyone can take a good rest. Rangnick doesn't have to worry about frequent international matches taking down the fitness of his players.

Before announcing the disbandment of the team, Rangnick warned everyone: "Watch the weight of each of you, I don't want to spend three weeks on your precious pre-season training. ”

The Bundesliga starts in mid-August, so there is less time to prepare for the Bundesliga. They are in the same situation as the Premier League and Ligue 1, which have the earliest start in Europe's top five leagues – starting at the beginning of August each year. Serie A and La Liga, on the other hand, start in early September. Therefore, fans who like to watch the Bundesliga will enjoy half a month of wonderful football earlier than fans who like to watch Serie A and La Liga.

After a season, most of the players chose to go out for vacation, and Chu Zhongtian planned to go back to the United States with Emily to see his business in the United States, and by the way, to curry favor with his future mother-in-law if they were going to get married.

In addition, his parents are also in the United States, and he is going to visit them.

They arranged an itinerary to go shopping in Paris before flying to Los Angeles to meet their parents.

Just before they left Hoffenheim, Chu Zhongtian received a call from an unfamiliar number.

Most of the people who call him now know who it is. So in the face of this unfamiliar number, he hesitated for a moment before connecting.

A Chinese voice came over there. I want to ask Chu Zhongtian how he knew that the other party was Chinese, because the other party spoke fluent Chinese...... "Hello, Chu Zhongtian." I'm Gao Hongbo. The man on the phone introduced himself.

※※※ For Gao Hongbo, most of Chu Zhongtian's memory is that this person used to be a famous striker in Beijing Guoan, and at that time he and Gao Feng formed a "double high" combination, one fast, one dexterous, he is the representative of dexterity. His physical fitness was not outstanding, but his good consciousness and agility made him unique in Chinese football at that time.

In the 1997 World Cup Asian qualifiers, he was re-selected for Qi Wusheng's national team. Let him reappear in front of Chu Zhongtian's eyes. That was Gao Hongbo's last time playing for the national team. That year, Golden State's tears made his last national team appearance meaningless.

After the Asian Cup qualifiers, he faded out of people's field of vision again, and Chu Zhongtian didn't even know when he would retire.

For a long time, he did not hear or see the man's name again.

It wasn't until May this year that when I was on the phone with Xu Xiaodi, I learned some of the latest news in domestic football. Gao Hongbo's name reappeared in his ears. Xu Xiaodi told him that Gao Hongbo was elected as the head coach of the new national team. He was a little surprised, because he had never heard of Gao Hongbo's name among the well-known head coaches in China before, and he didn't quite understand why he let Gao Hongbo be the head coach, his first reaction was: This is the Football Association's internal decision, there must be insider trading!

After listening to Xu Xiaodi's shady scenes of Chinese football, he knew that although the Chinese team had bad results and a bad reputation, it was still a springboard for many players and coaches to rise. Therefore, he believes that Gao Hongbo must have bribed the bigwigs of the Football Association through some improper means, and then decided the head coach's seat. What is he capable of? Where did he coach before? Has he ever received any honors?

Chu Zhongtian is too far away from domestic football, and there are few ways to understand domestic football, and it basically doesn't matter. Fortunately, Xu Xiaodi is not that kind of person, he told Chu Zhongtian that Du Zhenyu, who robbed Chu Zhongtian of the Chinese Footballer in 2007, came from Changchun Yatai, the Chinese Super League champion that year, and the head coach of Changchun Yatai at that time was Gao Hongbo.

Only then did Chu Zhongtian understand that Gao Hongbo was not useless, at least he led the team to win the championship of the Chinese Super League. He was quite surprised to know that Changchun Yatai won the championship, and he always thought that the Chinese Super League championship could only be produced between four teams: Beijing Guoan, Shanghai Shenhua, Dalian Shide and Shandong Luneng. Changchun Yatai? It feels like Botbus in the Bundesliga, it would be nice to be relegated...... Although he knew that Gao Hongbo had led Changchun Yatai to win the league championship, Chu Zhongtian still had prejudices against this small-eyed man who was not well-known as a coach.

He always felt that there must be something shady about it. And he also learned from Xu Xiaodi that although Gao Hongbo led the team to win the championship of the Chinese Super League, he was fired by the club in the second season because of a bad relationship with his teammates. Since he has a bad relationship with his teammates in a small Changchun Yataidu, how will he deal with the relationship with those international players whose footwork is big enough in the Chinese team, but who are very big? From this point of view, he is really skeptical that Gao Hongbo can bring anything positive to the dark Chinese national football team.

Anyway, he doesn't have any expectations for his career in the national team, the general environment of Chinese football is not good, and it is even more difficult for the national team to come up with results, and the head coach can't, and he may really only be able to brush up the appearance data in the national team...... Zhu Suishen has never used himself well, he doesn't think that Gao Hongbo can use himself well.

He was a little surprised when he suddenly received a call from Gao Hongbo today.

"First of all, congratulations on winning the Bundesliga, Chu Zhongtian." Gao Hongbo said on the other end of the phone.

"Ah...... Ah, thank you! Thank you Gao for your guidance. Although he has prejudices against Gao Hongbo, he still needs to be polite on his face.

"Secondly, I called you to talk to you...... What do you think about Chinese football. ”

This question was greatly unexpected by Chu Zhongtian.

Seeing that Chu Zhongtian didn't answer for a long time, Gao Hongbo said, "I know that this may be a little sudden...... So, change the subject. I'm the head coach of the national team now and I want to build a whole new national team. The national team has a warm-up game on May 29 and I know you have just finished a season and need to rest. But I still hope you can participate, just play half the game. I'd like to ask for your opinion. ”

The head coach of a national team has such a low profile, and when recruiting a player, he has to call specifically to ask for the player's opinion. Somewhat surprised Chu Zhongtian, he suddenly asked boldly: "If I say that I am not in good health, will I not be recruited?" ”

Gao Hongbo didn't seem to expect Chu Zhongtian to say such an answer, he was stunned for a moment and said, "Yes." If the players don't get back in shape, then I won't call them up. ”

Chu Zhongtian smiled: "I'm joking, Director Gao." I'm definitely coming, it's all right at half-time, I'm very physical. Also, who will be our opponent then? ”

"You must be familiar with it, Germany."

Chu Zhongtian opened his mouth, not knowing what kind of expression he should have. He suddenly thought it was too much fun. When I played for Metz in Ligue 1, the second game I played for the national team was a warm-up match against the French national team. And he switched to Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga, and the first game he played for the new national football team was against the German team...... It's really that which league I transfer to, I will play with the national team of which league...... "Okay senior coach, when will you gather?" Chu Zhongtian came back to his senses and asked.

"You've just finished the season, so you can just go back to the team on May 27."

The game will be played on May 29 and the team will return on the 27th, which will be two days of training, and the time difference will have to be adjusted...... It seems that this warm-up match is also an ordinary game for the new head coach of the national team to inspect the players. Chu Zhongtian could guess that he would see a lot of familiar faces who had been in the national team at that time, and in the face of this new coach, everyone would have to re-express themselves...... "No problem." ”

After ending the call with Gao Hongbo, Chu Zhongtian walked out of the room and saw Emily watching TV on the sofa in the living room. He tossed his phone in his hand and lay down on Emily's snow-white lap.

"We've got to change our itinerary, Amy." He looked up, half obstructed by Emily's erect twin peaks.

Emily looked down at him. "Whose phone number?"

"The head coach of the national team, the new one. On May 29 there was a friendly match for the national team and I had to go to it. In order to beat the jet lag - I don't want to show fatigue in front of a new manager - we have to go straight to China, rest for a few days and report to the national team. ”

Emily. Stan is disappointed to hear him say this. They had planned to spend a few days in Paris and then fly to the United States to meet her mother. It's not that she thinks she can't play, she's just worried that she had already told her mother that she was going back at the beginning, and now that she said that she was going to China, would her mother be even more dissatisfied with Chu Zhongtian...... "A warm-up game, do you have to go?" ”

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "The first game of the new head coach, in order not to be worn in the national team in the future, it is better to go." ”

In fact, in the first warm-up game, the head coach usually inspects the players, but Chu Zhongtian has an idea, he also wants to investigate how the new head coach is. I used to always hear others say, after all, I was not as impressed and accurate as I saw with my own eyes.

Emily sighed, "Okay. Let's go to China. After saying that, she took out her mobile phone and called to book a plane ticket.

"Thank you, Amy." Chu Zhongtian kissed Emily on the lips to show his gratitude for her understanding and support.

"I still feel like you need to rest, and I've been playing for a whole season...... Emily said to Chu Zhongtian as she waited for the phone to connect.

Chu Zhongtian jumped down and posed in front of Emily as a bodybuilder: "No problem, my physical fitness is very good." Actually, I didn't feel tired at all. ”

"yes, you're a monster who runs four miles before every training session and race, and another four miles after the race and training." Emily said helplessly.

Chu Zhongtian smirked.

※※※In this way, Chu Zhongtian and Emily temporarily changed their itinerary, in order to seize the time to adjust the time difference, they flew back to China directly from Munich, did not stop in Beijing, and then returned to Chengdu, Sichuan.

His parents were not at home for a long time, so the family could not live for the time being, they opened a room in the hotel, Chu Zhongtian slept well for a day, and after adjusting to the jet lag, he did not take Emily to play, but returned home and invited someone to clean up the room and clean up. After packing up both houses, I moved back home to rest.

When Chu Zhongtian and Emily appeared at the Capital International Airport, they also caused a sensation. But then they disappeared from the media page. It's not that the media doesn't want to report it, it's that there's no place to report it. It wasn't until Chu Zhongtian and Emily flew to Shanghai again that he went to report on the national team and was caught by a reporter asking this question, and everyone was concerned about what he would do after returning to China.

After all, everyone has a hobby of spying on celebrities, but Chu Zhongtian's blank answer made everyone overwhelmed - "I'm sleeping." ”

Fortunately, smart Chinese media can always think of a lot of things they want based on your sentence and word. Therefore, Chu Zhongtian's sentence "sleeping" has become "Chu Zhongtian complains about not resting enough" and "Chu Zhongtian is not in good health and may not be able to play in the game against the German team"...... As a result, the first question Gao Hongbo asked when he saw Chu Zhongtian outside the training ground was: "How is your physical condition?" ”

"I'm fine." Chu Zhongtian replied.

"I see that some media say that you are not in good physical condition and have not rested enough......"

Chu Zhongtian smiled: "I went home with jet lag, of course I have to sleep." What the media are saying...... Ha! ”

He didn't have the awareness that he should be careful with his words when talking to a manager. Because when he talked to the club's head coach Rangnick, he called him "Ralph" directly, and he was very casual when he talked, and he didn't feel that he was talking to someone with a higher status than himself. So when I spoke to Coach Gao Hongbo, it was naturally like this.

Gao Hongbo doesn't seem to have a problem with this.

He nodded: "Then I'll be relieved." ”

※※※ As Chu Zhongtian expected, Gao Hongbo's first national team training staff is not much different from the previous national football team, basically the old faces he can often see in the national team. A lot of them are old internationals. But despite this, Chu Zhongtian is still the most high-profile player in the team, and he is the only star for the Chinese team, which lacks real stars. When the national team trains, the media outside the stadium basically comes to him. There are also many fans who came to watch the training of the national team, and the purpose was to get Chu Zhongtian's autograph after the training and take a photo with him.

And in the team, he just lifted the Bundesliga championship trophy, and he is also the envy of his teammates. In this national team, there are not many players who go abroad to study abroad, Chu Zhongtian is the leader among foreign players, and his achievements are not the opportunity for many foreign players to get in their entire careers.

Chu Zhongtian became the number one star in the national team. And he also changed his cautious attitude when he was first selected for the national team, and began to take the initiative to give orders in the team. He didn't mean to do this, but he was used to being captain at Hoffenheim, and some things were said involuntarily.

And his dazzling resume and achievements make the average national team player have nothing to say, and he always feels that people have won so many championships, and what he says always seems to make sense. Don't look at the fact that there are many factional struggles in the national team, the situation of seniority is very serious. It seems that it is not easy for foreign players to mix up. But at that time, for the average player, a player who has won the French Cup, the UEFA Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, and the Bundesliga, even if he has no roots in the country, these prestige and fame are his biggest assets, enough to compete with those inherent factions. Therefore, Chu Zhongtian's status in the national team is based on these championship honors and huge fame, which is quite solid. It's like no matter how crazy a national team player is in his club, but when he comes to the national team, when facing those big stars in international competitions, he is timid, and he always feels that he is a head shorter than his opponent.

The current situation is similar, the teammates of the national team, after seeing Chu Zhongtian, when they think of his honors, they can't help but look up to Chu Zhongtian.

This is actually a good thing for Chu Zhongtian.

Gao Hongbo has not yet announced the captain of the new team, but in fact, Chu Zhongtian has become a captain without armbands in the team.

(To be continued)