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Alai. Russell still remembers May 21, 2011 vividly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

On that day, Wimbledon Athletic beat Luton on penalties in Manchester to win the promotion play-off final and also qualify for promotion to the English Second Division.

Since then, Wimbledon Athletic have gone from being a team that has worked hard in the English amateur league to being a member of the English professional league, and they have officially stepped into the professional league.

On that day, the entire Wimbledon alley was crowded at the King's Ranch Stadium to celebrate the team's promotion.

Just nine years ago in May, Wimbledon Athletic was founded in the Wimbledon community. Stewart shouted the slogan "Let Wimbledon go where it needs to be, go to the top flight, get back to South West London".

Wimbledon has always been working towards this goal.

So when they finally made it to the professional league, you can imagine how excited everyone was.

There are only two leagues left before Wimbledon complete their ultimate goal of returning to the top flight, and as long as they can make it past League One and Championship, they will be able to do so.

Things don't always go smoothly though, and Wimbledon luck is good enough. In the 2011-2012 season, Wimbledon Athletic managed to stay in League Two and complete the relegation plan.

In the 2012-2013 season, Wimbledon Athletic was promoted to League One this time.

Promotion to League One Wimbledon is another big celebration, and apart from bringing them one step closer to the top flight, promotion also means that their arch-rivals Milton Keynes Keynes are also in League One and now they can battle Milton Keynes Keynes in League One.

Every time two teams collide, it's a spark. While Wimbledon haven't really returned to the top flight, they already have a rival to keep up with for a hundred years.

In 2013-2014, their main goal was to stay in League One and not be kicked back into League Two in their first season - a strategy that has always been consistent with Wimbledon, and when they are promoted to the new league, the goal is definitely relegation, rather than the arrogant desire to continue to promote and complete the "feat" of consecutive jumps.

After a season to get used to this new league and then try to forge ahead.

In the 2014-2015 season, Wimbledon relied on this steady strategy to break into the promotion play-offs, and if they can beat their opponents in the play-offs and win, they can be promoted to the Championship.

Wimbledon lost in the final promotion play-offs and unfortunately remained in League One.

But the hard work paid off, and after one season, Wimbledon finally promoted to the Championship through the play-offs!

They are only one step away from the top flight!

The 2016-2017 season was Wimbledon's first season in the Championship, and it was a tough season for Wimbledon.

Although they have received a lot of new sponsorships, including big names such as Mercedes-Benz and Umbro, their financial situation is indeed the worst among all 24 teams in the Championship, not that Wimbledon Athletic is on the verge of bankruptcy, but they insist on prioritizing the development of training grounds and training facilities and echelons, and put more money into it, naturally lacking more money to buy players and attract those famous and powerful stars with high salaries.

Since promotion to League One, Wimbledon have used bank loans and money from sponsors to find an empty space in the Wimbledon community and start building their training base – the team can't always train at the King's Ranch? It's their playing field.

Even the King's Ranch has been expanded twice to accommodate the different leagues at all levels – some of which require a home attendance for the participating teams, just as Hoffenheim did in the Bundesliga.

A lot of money was spent on this hardware, resulting in Wimbledon running out of money to build the team. Now Wimbledon can only try to expand their squad by using young players from their own ranks and on loan from other teams or looking for those free players to join.

As a result, Wimbledon Athletic was almost relegated in the 2016-2017 season, and halfway through the league, the club sacked the meritorious coach who led the team to the Championship. Brown made his assistant coach Alay. Russell took over temporarily. Terry. Brown is really the team's meritorious head coach, when he was in charge of the team, he led Wimbledon Athletic to successive promotions, and it can be said that Wimbledon's promotion path is almost Terry. Brown created it single-handedly.

However, after being promoted to the Championship, due to conflicts with the club's management, he had different opinions on the management of the club, and the contradictions between the two sides became irreconcilable, coupled with the fact that the performance of the team led by Brown in the Championship was indeed quite bad, and he was sacked.

Alai. Russell is interim head coach and no one has been optimistic about him before, given his young age and no previous experience as a first-team manager.

Unexpectedly, in the end, Russell led this young team to success in the Championship relegation, which was very, very thrilling, and it was not until the last game that Wimbledon Athletic completed the relegation cause.

This result also allowed Russell to stay with the team, going from interim head coach to full head coach.

After relegation in the English Championship, Russell began to try to stay in the league at this level - promotion or something, Russell didn't want to do it lately, he was more sober, until the team was in Terry. It is already remarkable that Brown can rush to the Championship under the leadership of Brown, and if they continue to overtake, let alone whether they can rush up, even if they do, the only result is to be beaten down again. Russell doesn't want his team to become a lift, and he intends to lay a solid foundation in the Championship before aiming for the Premier League.

Now that the 2017-2018 season has been played a third of the way, the team's results have always been in turmoil. The situation has not fundamentally improved. Originally, Russell hoped that his team could at least stabilize in the middle of the table, but he didn't expect that this season, like last season, would still have to fight for relegation from beginning to end...... The Championship is unlike anything they've experienced before, and it's almost close to the level of the Premier League, and even more difficult to play against in some places, such as in the Championship, where players move a lot and the chances of injury are greatly increased. The players are also much more physical than their previous league players, and Wimbledon no longer have much of an advantage in terms of physical confrontation.

The team needs fresh blood and stars who can change the situation on their own. But the team's transfer budget and salary budget are very low, which is really unattractive. Many of the players who can play in the Championship are even stars from the Premier League, and they don't look down on Wimbledon, a promoted team.

Russell can understand Brown's mood at the beginning - most of the club's money is invested in hardware construction, because the Premier League has requirements for the hardware facilities of participating clubs, if you don't meet the standards, even if you are promoted to the super, you can't pass the league registration, or you have to be relegated to the Championship. The King's Ranch Stadium has been expanded twice and initially accommodated only 4,600 fans, many of whom are still standing. After two expansions, the team barely reached the standard of 8,000 seats, but such a small stadium was clearly not suitable for the requirements of the Premier League. But there was no room for expansion of the King's Ranch. Wimbledon now have to think about building a stadium of their own, or buying an on-site ...... The same Wimbledon team had moved once before - because their original Prau Lane stadium was too small to meet the requirements of the English Premier League, Wimbledon Athletic moved to Shechhurst Park, sharing a stadium with Crystal Palace and paying an annual rent to the club.

If Wimbledon were to use the King's Ranch stadium, it would be clear that they would have to move again. It must be said that Terry. Wimbledon Brown's team has been promoted like crazy, and the team has been promoted much faster than the team has developed, which is why they lack a big enough stadium right now...... This problem has also been the case with Hoffenheim. However, Hoffenheim had a wealthy owner who paid for a new stadium for the club. Wimbledon don't have such a wealthy owner, and questions about the pitch will continue to haunt them.

The team's new training base is almost finished, and now the club's operation is focused on how to make money to build a new stadium. But money is not so easy to come by, and it costs no less to build a ball court than a training base - all you need is a few flat fields, turf, and a few two-story houses.

※※※ Alai. Russell came to the team he played for in the 2009-2010 season.

He's been largely forgotten since he left England injured, so when he came back to the team, those who still knew him were surprised.

He started as an ordinary teenager coach here, and slowly grew up to be the director of the entire Wimbledon Academy and an assistant coach of the Wimbledon first team. By the middle of last season, he had succeeded the team's decorated manager, Terry. Brown became the head coach of Wimbledon.

In his first season in charge of the team, or "half a season", he finally led the team to relegation without being favored, proving his coaching ability.

His next goal is to keep the team in the Championship consistent. However, this step was more difficult than all the previous journeys combined, and he felt it clearly now.

In the end, his goal this season was to avoid relegation, and he did everything he could to keep the team in the Championship in the end.

He has decided to send a message to the president of the club, Eric. Mr Samuelson had a good idea of how the team would go, and that it was necessary to reduce the investment in hardware and give some money to the first team. Let's not talk about promotion to the Premier League, just stay in the Championship, if they want to stay in the Championship, they must buy players with enough quality, and not just rely on young people from the academy and those free agents who are cheap and cheap, and loan players who are not all the way to Wimbledon. Although if you don't upgrade the stadium, you will not be eligible to participate in the Premier League, but now it is not a matter of whether you can qualify to stay in the Premier League, but whether you can have the strength to stay in the Championship...... But now, he has to lead the team to play well at the weekend and in the league at Comcast. The team has been hovering between League One and Championship for several seasons and is a regular in both the Championship and League One.

When he thinks about the future of the team, he, as a head coach, feels a lot of pressure on his shoulders.

But he's having fun, he's being able to do what he likes in his favorite team, he's a happy person. When he said goodbye to football due to a serious injury, he had no idea that he would one day return to Wimbledon and become the head coach of the team.

He wasn't able to contribute to the team's development as a player, but now he can lead the team to his unfinished business as a manager.

He enjoys the process, no matter how stressful it is.

While Russell was still enjoying his years at Wimbledon, the Spanish capital Madrid was bustling with people at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, a match of the 2017-2018 season of the Spanish Primera Division.

Real Madrid host Villarreal at their home stadium.

"Chu gets the ball in midfield...... He tried to break through...... Oh! This is really a ferocious tackle!! The narrator suddenly exclaimed.

The foul Villarreal players were immediately surrounded by Real Madrid players, it was a bad foul, and they had to ask the other side for an explanation.

Villarreal's players, fearing that their teammates would suffer, also rushed to help. The two sides were entangled next to Chu Zhongtian.

The referee hurriedly blew the whistle to signal everyone to calm down.

Chu Zhongtian collapsed on the ground, his hand clenching the toes of his right foot, where he had been shoveled, his face was pale, obviously very painful.

"Hell! Doctor! Doctor! C. Ronaldo did not participate in the conflict, he rushed up and saw Chu Zhongtian's appearance, he knew that he was injured, and hurriedly made gestures and shouted to the audience.

"Chu seems to be injured...... The team doctor went up, and so did the stretcher...... But he refused to be carried off the field......"

Chu Zhongtian raised his head and saw the team doctor and the stretcher standing behind him, and struggled to get up from the ground: "I...... I'm fine. ”

"No, you're going to have something." The team doctor shook his head and disagreed with Chu Zhongtian's statement.

"I can still run, I can jump ......," Chu Zhongtian defended.

"Chu ......" The team doctor sighed helplessly, "You are almost thirty-four years old, and you still think that you are a strong guy at the age of twenty-seven or eight?" ”

Chu Zhongtian also knew that he might not be able to hold on to the game, and he had to be replaced. But ...... "Okay, I'll go down with you, but let this thing go first, I don't need to be carried off." Chu Zhongtian pointed to the staff carrying the stretcher who was following the team doctor. I've never been lifted off the field once in my career, not even when I'm unconscious from an injury. ”

The expression on Chu Zhongtian's face was very proud when he said this, which was something he could be proud of. It's really remarkable for a player to never be stretchered off the pitch, no matter how badly injured. Compared to those who didn't suffer any injuries, but pretended to be in pain, and just got off the field on a stretcher, he was a model of a tough guy.

The team doctor looked at the stretcher, then at the stubborn and proud Chu Zhongtian, and nodded in agreement. He stepped forward and pulled Chu Zhongtian's arm and put him on his shoulder.

"Hold on, I'll carry you down."

Chu Zhongtian limped off the field with the team doctor, and then sat on the sidelines and asked the team doctor to take off his shoes and socks for examination.

After being busy, the team doctor raised his head: "I think I may have to go to the hospital to take a film, the situation is not good, Chu ......"

"Are you broken?" Chu Zhongtian asked.

"I don't know, I'm not sure, I've got to go to the hospital and take pictures......"

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "I listen to you." ”

Real Madrid then made a substitution. Shahin replaced Chu Zhongtian.

"It seems that Chu can't hold on to the game, and he must be injured a lot. You must know that ordinary minor injuries will not end up at all, and injuries are not a problem for him at all! But it was a very serious foul! I think the referee only gave a yellow card, which is too light! ”

Chu Zhongtian didn't stay on the sidelines for long before he was sent to the hospital by ambulance to take pictures.

He watched the next game in the hospital, and Real Madrid won the game with Nouri. Goals from Shaheen and Mesut Ozil secured top spot in the league with a 2-0 home win over Villarreal.

Not long after the game, the team's head coach Hiddink and the team doctor came to the hospital, they came to visit Chu Zhongtian and see the results of the filming.

"Metatarsal fractures, more than one place." The doctor who took the film pointed to a few X-ray pictures and said to the group. "Here, here, and here. In addition, we checked his ankle and knee and found that there were also abrasion injuries, and the ligaments on his ankle and knee had been worn out and deformed. ”

Looking at this X-ray picture, the group was silent.

The situation is more serious than they think. Since joining Real Madrid, Chu Zhongtian has suffered some minor injuries, but those injuries are not serious, and at most he needs to rest for a week or two before returning. Like now, the phalanges of three toes were fractured. In fact, phalange fractures are very common and relatively easy to heal. What worries everyone the most is the wear and tear of the ankle and knee ligaments. They had never heard of any problems with Chu Zhongtian's ankles and knees, but now these X-rays told them that Chu Zhongtian had a serious hidden danger in his ankle, which was enough to lead to the end of his career at the age of thirty-four.

He has been fighting on the court like an iron man for so many years, no matter what kind of difficulties can not bother him, and at the age of thirty-four, he is still like a young man and those young players are fearless on the field. No one has ever seen him frown at the injury, just as he is proud of his insistence that he will never be stretchered off the field no matter what he suffers. He is the best portrayal of Real Madrid's never-give-up spirit, and some Real Madrid fans even call him "the Juanito of the 21st century", which is a very high courtesy for him.

But now everyone understands that behind his desperate efforts is his already scarred body. Everyone has always believed that Chu Zhongtian is a monster from an alien planet, and his body will never degenerate. But now the facts are in front of everyone, the veil of myth has been lifted, he is still an ordinary earthling, he is called a "monster", not because of his physical fitness, but because his spirit is as strong as iron.

In fact, he only discovered these hidden dangers at the age of thirty-four, which is already very remarkable, many players were frequently injured in their twenties, especially for players like Chu Zhongtian who need to constantly have physical contact with opponents on the field and are cut off and violated, his career is almost a history of injuries...... Head coach Hiddink sighed: "Okay, now let's go and tell him the news......"

(To be continued)