Chapter 100: Gambling
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The joy of winning Bayern Munich spread throughout Sinsheim and even radiated to the surrounding Heidelberg and other areas. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 This is a special event in the history of the club and should be written in the history of the club.
However, within the team, Rangnick did not give the players a holiday because of this, not only did he not take a holiday, but after the victory over Bayern Munich, he also asked the team to train normally the next day.
He knows better than the elated media and fans that the league is not over yet, and that just because Hoffenheim are top of the league doesn't mean they can win the league title. Because their opponent in the last round was Schalke 04, such an opponent is not of the level of Ketbus. So now is not the time to celebrate with beer.
The manager's thoughts, as the players, are very clear. They also know that the final round of the league is actually the test, and the victory over Bayern Munich only guarantees their qualification for the league title in the final round of the league. So no one got carried away after the win over Bayern Munich.
On May 17, the team trained normally. When Chu Zhongtian drove to the training ground, he found that there were several buckets of paint in front of Cornelia's house at the entrance of the training base, and Cornelia and her husband were busy moving the paint home.
He laughed and greeted them, "Are you more sure than we are that we will win, Aunt Cornelia?" ”
After hearing Chu Zhongtian's voice, Cornelia put down the paint bucket and waved to him: "If the fans of a team don't believe in their team anymore, this team must be a failure!" ”
"Come on, Chu!" Her husband, Uncle Cohen, was beside Chu Zhongtian to greet him.
"I will, Uncle Cohen! Good bye! Chu Zhongtian waved goodbye to them and drove into the training base.
※※※ Fritz. Abel was in a good mood, although he had only been taught a hard lesson by his mother the previous night, when he bowed his head and admitted his mistakes, but his heart was as sweet as drinking honey.
It's Sunday, so he doesn't have to go to school, and he's out to see if there's any media coverage about yesterday's battle in focus.
Around the corner, he meets Daniel and his companions. They didn't look good, and it was clear that the result of yesterday's game had made them very depressed.
Seeing Abel appear, one of the thin men screamed, "Coward Abel! You seem to be in a good mood, don't you? ”
A group of people came to Abel's side, and Daniel was among them.
The usual Abel saw these people, and could only lower his head and let them taunt. But today's Abel suddenly remembered the moment he bowed his head. Bommel and Demichelis didn't fall for consecutive fouls, and he felt that as a Hoffenheim fan, being weak was not okay. That team is so strong, and as fans who like them, they should be strong too.
So he looked up again, and although his eyes were still a little flickering, he was trying to make eye contact with the other man.
Something is wrong with Abel today, and those people are aware of it.
Then one person reacted: "It looks like yesterday's victory for that hillbilly team made our cowards rampant." Don't be complacent, Abel. Even so, I'm willing to bet the Hillbillies won't win the league and they'll definitely lose to Schalke next weekend! ”
"No...... This, this can't be ......" Abel, who had never dared to resist in the face of other people's ridicule and mockery, suddenly retorted, although his voice was still a little trembling and very small.
This took quite a few people by surprise.
"Did I just hear something?"
"yes, there seems to be a voice saying 'this can't be'?"
"Did I get my ear wrong? How dare the coward Abel contradict my words? ”
Everyone glared at Abel.
Looking at those vicious expressions, Abel wanted to habitually shrink his eggs again. But Chu Zhongtian's figure of stumbling and not falling to the ground resurfaced in his mind, so he puffed up his chest again and said a little louder: "Huo and Hoffenheim will not lose to Schalke, they will win the league championship." ”
Everyone laughed: "This is the funniest joke I've ever heard, haha!" Even those hillbillies want to win the league championship too? It's really a hillbilly, and only a hillbilly who has never seen the world can have such an idiotic idea! It's just wishful thinking! ”
"Yes...... But we're top ...... the league now," Daniel was upset when he saw people laughing at his favourite team. Obviously, the first place in the league is Hoffenheim, why do you still say that Hoffenheim wants to win the league championship is wishful thinking? "If we are delusional, then, that...... Is Bayern's desire to play in next season's Champions League delusional? ”
"Shut up!!"
The children, who had been laughing at Hoffenheim just a moment ago, yelled angrily.
Abel poked them where they hurt the most.
After losing to Hoffenheim, Bayern Munich temporarily dropped to fourth in the table, while Stuttgart won at home to Cottage Cottage and they were third in the league. Judging from this ranking, Bayern Munich still has suspense to qualify for next season's Champions League, at least the possibility of success is no greater than Hoffenheim's winning the league title.
So Abel's words are simply a slap in the face to them, can they not be angry? Some even rolled up their sleeves, wanting to give Abel a little hardship.
Abel knew that he had stabbed the hornet's nest, but he felt a little happy in his fear, because he felt a sense of accomplishment when he saw the people who had laughed at him so angry.
Just as the men were about to use their fists to tell Abel what the consequences of provoking them would be, Daniel, who had been silent, spoke.
"Little Abel, do you dare to make a bet with me?"
Abel looked at Daniel in some surprise. Now Daniel is on the police department's blacklist, Bayern's home games he can't watch, and he is labeled a "football hooligan".
Abel felt responsible for this, but Daniel didn't seem to want to accept his apology, and every time he wanted to bring it up, Daniel would rudely interrupt him. Over time, he didn't dare to say it anymore.
"Just bet on Hoffenheim if they can win the league title, and if they can, I promise not to bully you in the future. If you can't, you're going to have to be beaten up by me!" ”
"Boss, what nonsense are you talking about with him, let's ...... now" Someone next to him was puzzled by Daniel's arrangement.
"Shut up!" Daniel glared at them fiercely, and after teaching his men a lesson, he turned to look at Abel, "Do you dare to make this bet with me?" ”
"I ......" Abel hesitated, if he won't be bullied, it's tempting, but if he loses, he will be beaten by Daniel, his body beating people is not an ordinary pain...... "He doesn't dare, boss." He's a coward, born to be! Someone next to him said disdainfully.
"yes, yes. Look at his hesitant look, it shows that he himself has no confidence in that hillbilly team, he is just talking big! ”
In the midst of the ridicule of these people, Abel thought about his performance in the stands. At that time, Hoffenheim was tied 2:2 by Bayern Munich, he was worried about the team, thinking that the team should choose a more conservative defensive counterattack, but he was educated by a middle-aged female fan next to him. He had no confidence, but Hoffenheim proved his mistake with practical actions, and it is their fans who have to have faith in them.
"Good, good...... I'll make this bet with you! Abel nodded and said loudly.
Daniel Peel didn't smile a little. "Great, I'm looking forward to next week's game, Abel Jr."
"I, I'm looking forward to it too!"
"Very well, you can go buy your newspapers and magazines now." Daniel waved his hand, motioning for everyone to get out of the way and let him go.
Abel let himself go when he saw them like this, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but on the surface he still walked over with his head held high. Hoffenheim was the winner in yesterday's game, and he, as a Hoffenheim fan, was also a winner in front of the Bayern Munich fans, and there is no reason for the winner to bow his head and cower past the underdog.
"Hoffenheim are just one round away from winning the first Bundesliga title in their club's history. It's been a fantastic season for them, they've had a fantastic start and don't know if they can get an even better ending......"
“…… If someone had told me before the season that Hoffenheim would be the league champions, I would have thought he was crazy. But now I have to admit I'm crazy...... Hoffenheim are very close to the league title as a promoted horse, and they can replicate the Kaiserslautern miracle! ”
"Anyone who has watched Hoffenheim will not be surprised, because they deserved to win the title – if they did win it. They have encountered a lot of difficulties this season, especially in the second half of the season, Wellington was seriously injured during the winter break and withdrew from the season, in the second half of the season there were consecutive winless streaks and drug bans, and in the sprint stage, the players were seriously injured and missed the rest of the game, the heaviest blow to them came from Ibisevic's groin surgery, his absence once made people doubt whether they could hold on to the end, but at this time Hoffenheim used their performance to make people believe that this team does have the strength to win the championship, Chu's outburst compensated for the impact of Ibisevic's absence. He's acting like a true leader now......"
"Hoffenheim, who plays for our player Chu Zhongtian, has now become the favorite team in German football, and everyone's eyes are on them. After their win over Bayern Munich, it seems that Schalke 04 will not be able to stop this young promoted team. Once again, we will see the 'Kaiserslautern miracle'. Maybe after this season, the miracle of the promoted horse winning the championship will be renamed 'Huocun Miracle'......"
The fandom's revelry paled in comparison to the excitement of the media, with both German and Chinese media reporting on the spotlight match against Bayern Munich. The Chinese media were particularly excited to witness a Chinese player lift the Bundesliga, one of Europe's top five leagues, as the heart of the team, a historic moment in the history of Chinese football.
The most important thing in the Chinese sports media these days is to focus on the final round of matches in Hoffenheim. Of course, this time they can't track and shoot Chu Zhongtian's training and life, because it will interfere with the training and preparation of the whole Hoffenheim team, so they don't have permission to shoot the team, they can only shoot outside the training ground for fifteen minutes like other media, and then go to interview people inside the club, interview local residents and fans, and interview high-level people in German football. Hear what they have to say about this miraculously rising country team, and finally on the day of the game, they moved into the home stadium of Schalke 04 to film the game from a different angle. Duan Bin will also come to Germany again to do on-site commentary, although his commentary level is not the best in CCTV, but who asked him to be responsible for commenting on the Bundesliga? He Ping, who originally commented on Chu Zhongtian's game, is now mainly in charge of La Liga, and Chu Zhongtian's game has nothing to do with him.
The Chinese media reported on the game in a high-profile manner, and Chinese fans were also very much looking forward to it, and the prize event on the "We All Love Lin Danda" website was in full swing, with a surge in registered users and visits, and Yang Yang had to add a few more servers to the website, and at the same time completely revamped and upgraded the system.
In fact, everything on the website is still a small fight, and what Xu Xiaodi is doing is a major matter related to Chu Zhongtian's income.
Chu Zhongtian's two goals in the game against Bayern became his best advertisement, and now many brands that were alienated from Chu Zhongtian because he joined the little-known Hoffenheim have taken the initiative to come to the door and want to talk to Xu Xiaodi about cooperation.
And Nike also discovered Chu Zhongtian's huge potential - there is a Hollywood movie star girlfriend, there is a huge market of 1.3 billion people behind him, excellent ball skills, outstanding character, healthy image, after joining the promoted polo team, it has made this promoted horse a team with the strength to win the championship, and now Hoffenheim has such results, who dares to say that it is not Chu Zhongtian's credit? In addition, as an amateur player, he only started professional football at the age of 20, and in five years he won the UEFA Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, the French Cup, and now has great hopes of lifting the Bundesliga trophy, which is already a legend.
Combining these factors, Nike intends to shoot a commercial film based on Chu Zhongtian. A few years ago, they filmed a first-person football commercial, in which the protagonist is a player who plays in the lower leagues, because of the excellent performance of a game, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger took a fancy to it, and then signed with Arsenal, after hard training, became a star, had a beautiful girlfriend, participated in the Champions League, and was selected for the Dutch national team...... Chu Zhongtian's experience is very similar to this commercial, this time Nike decided to shoot an equally inspirational commercial with Chu Zhongtian as the protagonist, and initially decided to invite Emily. Stan makes a cameo in the commercial, believing that she should have no problem helping her boyfriend.
The storyline is completely based on Chu Zhongtian's real experience, but with some modifications, the dizzy first-person perspective is replaced by a third-person perspective, and because Wimbledon Athletic's sponsor is Umbro, and the sponsor of Metz and Hoffenheim is Puma, both of which are Nike's opponents, only the color of the jersey is used in the advertisement to explain the three teams that Chu Zhongtian has played and is playing for, which are blue and yellow, dark red and blue and white. As soon as you look at the color of the jersey, you can tell what kind of teams these three are.
In the commercial, Chu Zhongtian played himself, upgrading from an amateur player to a professional player step by step, and finally won the Bundesliga championship.
This commercial has entered the planning stage, and when the season is over, Chu Zhongtian will start filming when he is on vacation, and then it will be broadcast simultaneously around the world at the beginning of the new season. Considering that the league championship is now undecided, the planners have prepared two sets of plans, the first plan has a cup scene in the advertising film, implying that Chu Zhongtian won the league championship, and the second set will directly enter the Champions League next season, which is to prevent Hoffenheim from losing the league championship in the last round.
After listening to Mr. Merry and the representative of Nike, Chu Zhongtian was also very interested in this commercial. It's not that he hasn't shot commercials before, but this kind of three-minute commercial with a storyline is the first time he has shot it, and to be honest, it's a bit of a test of his acting skills - Nike's first-person perspective commercial, the protagonist doesn't show his face from beginning to end, and the acting skills of the supporting characters are tested. However, he was also excited because he could take the opportunity to get in touch with a whole new industry, and he believed that his girlfriend would be his guide in this regard, and Emily's agent, her mother Miranda, also promised her daughter to participate in the filming.
Nike named the campaign "Kick Out Legends."
And if Hoffenheim wins the league championship in the final round, and Chu Zhongtian still has such a good performance, it will be even more legendary.
The only thing that Nike is unhappy about is that the four teams that Chu Zhongtian plays for are not sponsored by their company, otherwise it would be better...... Wimbledon is Umbro, Metz and Hoffenheim are Puma, and the Chinese national team is Adidas...... But looking at Chu Zhongtian's current performance, it should be Adidas who is more unhappy than them. When Chu Zhongtian was not very famous, his agent came to the door and wanted to talk to Adidas, but Adidas's offer was too low and he was unwilling to accept the continued negotiation. So Chu Zhongtian finally chose Nike......
(To be continued)