Chapter 207: "China Derby" (Part I)
With Ni Tu's outstanding performances in recent games, Kaiserslautern fans have begun to take the Chinese player seriously, and his contract extension is a happy thing for many club supporters.
People in the bar are also talking about Ni Tu's contract extension, and the team's star hopeful has a clear tendency to become an important player in the first team.
"Hey, have a beer! Man, our Chinese boy in the team has renewed his contract, which is really good news! A fan who had just ordered a drink was chatting with the person next to him, and it was obvious that the team's renewal of a good potential stock made the old man quite happy, and he unconsciously asked for a few more glasses of wine. The area was full of Kaiserslautern fans, and he was just like anyone else, and he was just shouting like that.
The person next to him naturally took over the conversation: "The club should be with such a hard-working young person, and the more the better, unlike some people, who just have a little achievement and want to climb the high branches!" He was obviously satirizing the team's main player last season, Jandrisek, the team's goalscorer king, whose contract with Lauten was running out little by little, and the contract renewal negotiations were almost about to declare bankruptcy.
Jandriesek seems to have entered the countdown to leaving, and many fans have been speculating about the team's striker selection recently, because in addition to Ni Tu's successful contract extension, there is also a news that makes Kaiserslautern extremely happy is their almighty Srjan, Rakic has returned from injury, which is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for Lautten, who is determined to move forward!
Originally, the team's main forward configuration should have gone to Rakic and Janderidgek, but with Rakic's injury and Janderichk's contract problems, the team's forward match was not stable for a long time.
Kaiser has played a full 10 games in the new season plus the league and the German Cup, and the starting line-up of Kaiserslautern is basically fixed, except for the two positions in the forward line, so far they have tried many players including Jane Derisek, Hesse, Nemaker, Yakham and Ni Tu, Kurz seems to be not satisfied with the existing forward combination.
"Who do you think will be the starting striker for our team after Srjan recovers from injury?" Someone took a sip of wine and began to ask questions.
The next reply he received was varied, but there were two main ones, one was the fixed "golden combination" of Rakic and Jandridgek, after all, the Slovak strength is really difficult to find in a place like Kaiserslautern, but given the latter's delicate relationship with the team, there is also a marketable view, that is, Rakic and Ni Tu are partnered.
Regardless, Croatian Srjan Rakic was included in the starting striker, and it is clear that Kaiser fans are very fond of this player, who made 25 appearances for the team last season, scoring 12 goals and providing three assists. Although Rakic doesn't score the most goals, he is definitely a relatively defensive player.
So it's no surprise that fans like him, and there's reason to believe he could have fared better had it not been for last season's co-op Janderidge who always had a moth affecting him.
Ni Tu has yet to experience what it is like to partner with this player, and since he has been promoted to the first team, Rakic has been injured and his team-mates are full of praise for him, and Ni Tu is eager to experience what it is like to partner with this player.
Since everyone is optimistic about him, he must be a person who can bring victory to the team, and Ni Tu likes such teammates.
He didn't think about it at all, Rakic's injury recovery is likely to compress his own playing time, Jandridgek and this Rakic are known as the "golden combination" within the team, the two have contributed 26 goals to the team, Ni Tu wants to break this combination can perform well, in the eyes of many people, he can't completely replace Jandridgek at least so far, at least in terms of ability.
In the next game, Ni Tu and his teammates will challenge Ketbus away, when Rakic will officially return to the game as a substitute, and the starting striker has changed a little bit, due to participating in several games in a row, Jane Driskek "suddenly" felt unwell in training, so he withdrew from the list of players in the game, and Ni Tu started with Nemek.
For Ni Tu, more precisely, for those who care about his identity, this game everyone is not only concerned about Ni Tu's status when the team's forward line ushers in a change, but many people are more concerned about the word "Chinese Derby".
Because the German audience is likely to see the "two pandas" performance of the home and away teams, the home team Ketbus is represented by Shao Jiayi, and the away team Kaiserslautern is Ni Tu.
Although Ni Tu does not care about this gimmick, this does not prevent many media from taking this interesting story to say, there are few Chinese who originally played in Europe, and it is quite rare to see such a one, if there is a Chinese player in the two teams fighting at once, it can only be said that the probability is not generally low!
Well, while many German fans wouldn't care about this little anecdote if the media didn't hype it, who made the media live for sales and money? The wind can come from the ground, and if there is a wind and grass, they will definitely make up a wonderful story.
It is worth noting that the German "Der Spiegel" published an article with pictures, in which two yellow-skinned people squinted and shook hands with each other and bowed, and the two cartoon characters were smiling, but their left hands were pinned behind their backs, and they were holding daggers that emitted Xie Hanguang!
Obviously, "Der Spiegel", which has always been "upright", often wears heavy glasses when dealing with Chinese problems, and a good league duel is said to be a sinister back-the-back move by stabbing each other, although there is nothing to say on the surface, but the whole picture reveals a very unfriendly element, as if to show that the entire Chinese group is like a sinister villain......
However, most of the media still focused on sports and the gossip derived from it, and did not play on the topic like "Der Spiegel".
Like an editorial published in Kicker Magazine, it is the most orthodox:
With the pace of time, there is a growing need for Chinese players to face the fact that their opportunities to "show up" in Europe, the center of the football world, have become less and less, and the Chinese players in the European professional leagues seem to have mastered their skills...... But then we seem to be facing a very interesting thing, the 9th round of the German Football Second Division, a match between Ivbus and Kaiserslautern will be a little different, they both have a player from China, if purely from the perspective of the audience, we would love to see this once-in-a-decade "Chinese derby"!