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Chu Zhongtian showed his hand in the warm-up match against Blackburn, but he only had some influence in China. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info because first of all, there are not many German media present in this game, and secondly, Hoffenheim is a promoted horse after all, and it is better to pay attention to him than to pay attention to traditional strong teams such as Bayern Munich, Schalke 04 and Stuttgart.

In fact, when Chu Zhongtian joined Hoffenheim, because of his super high value, he had already attracted the attention of the media to this rural team. Since then, no news has come out, and the German media's interest in the team has slowly waned.

Although Hoffenheim can be considered the richest club in Germany because they have one of the richest people in Germany. Dietma. Hope's net worth of $6.3 billion is that SAP Software, which he founded, is one of the world's top three software companies, second only to Microsoft and Oracle. The boss is enthusiastic about charity and sports, and he donated a total of 1.25 billion euros just for charitable donations. He also actively invests in other sports, football, handball, ice hockey and golf. With his assets, he could have bought a Bayern Munich, but he chose Hoffenheim, his hometown team he played for 47 years ago. Over the course of 20 years, he invested 120 million euros in the team, perfecting the infrastructure for the original amateur team that led to Hoffenheim today. The Bundesliga promotion team currently has one of the best training bases and youth systems in Germany, with Hoffenheim's under-17 team having just won the German Youth Football Championship.

Despite this background, there was still a lack of interest in Hoffenheim in the German media. Because money does not equal wins and titles, for promoted horses, the key to determining whether they will be relegated this season is not how much money the club owners have, but how well their players play and the direction of the manager. That's the most important thing.

This is the reason why the media is not optimistic about Hoffenheim. From the player's point of view, although Hoffenheim spent 50 million euros this summer, more than half of it was spent on a very controversial player Chu Zhongtian, and other reinforcements did not see anything remarkable, only the defender Baker made the media shine, thinking that this may be the most worthwhile introduction of Hoffenheim this summer.

Only five players in the entire squad have Bundesliga experience.

Rangnick likes young players, but he has not proven himself in the Bundesliga, where he has managed Stuttgart, Hannover and Schalke 04 without satisfactory results.

However, in the Bundesliga, Rangnick has proven his ability more than once - he once led Hannover from the Bundesliga to the first division. As a result, some media believe that Rangnick is just a head coach at the Bundesliga level, and perhaps he can play a better role in the academy of the Bundesliga team.

In short, the media has set Hoffenheim's goal for the new season to be "relegation".

Rangnick and Hope, the club's behind-the-scenes owner, disagreed.

"I don't think it's going to be too much of a problem for us this season," Rangnick said. We're not here to stay in the First Division, we're going to try to win every game. ”

Hoppe's tone was even bigger: "In five years, Hoffenheim will be the new giants of the Bundesliga!" ”

This remark did not cause much reaction from the media, whose attitude was "dismissive". Wealthy families don't just have money. Chelsea have an Abramovich and do they now dare to call themselves giants? No, there are not enough championships and historical accumulation, and the giants are not called casually.

If it is just dismissive, the Germans have mixed feelings about this promoted team, and there are many people who are disgusted with Hoffenheim. Why? Because Hoffenheim has money, the high-sounding people will be worried that Hoffenheim's triple jump lift in the past two years has set a dangerous precedent for German football. Still others are simply jealous that Hoffenheim have money, believing that as long as their team has so much money, they can also succeed.

But in reality, these people ignore that it was Hope who worked on the team in obscurity for sixteen years before the triple jump two years ago. Without these sixteen years of silent dedication, Hoffenheim would never have been able to triple jump in two years, and neither would any other team.

So Hope never thought that Hoffenheim would succeed as long as he threw his money hard. It's only those who can't eat grapes who think so.

Hoffenheim's first Bundesliga season was destined to end in controversy.

On July 26, Hoffenheim played their last warm-up match against Rostock in Ogan, which won 2-0 and ended their training camp in Ogan, Austria, and returned to Germany.

After a month of training, the team's tactics have basically been honed. In these warm-up games, Rangnick let the players gradually see Chu Zhongtian's level. There are very few people in the team who oppose Chu Zhongtian as the core of the team.

In the warm-up match with Rostock, Chu Zhongtian started the game, although there was no assist, but he sorted out the team's midfield in an orderly manner, whether it was offensive or defensive, it was clearly organized.

In this game, Chu Zhongtian played for 70 minutes and was then replaced. Although there were only a few hundred fans, he still heard applause from the stands.

He knows that his hard work has paid off and that he is gaining the trust of his fans and team-mates.

After returning to Germany, Hoffenheim played another warm-up match on 1 August. This is the first time Hoffenheim have played at the Carl-Benz-Stadion in Mannheim, where they will be playing for half of the upcoming season.

This time the opponent is stronger than Blackburn, Galatasaray, the champions of last season's Turkish Super League.

Turkish football and German football have always had a relationship, because there are many Turkish immigrants in Germany, so many Turkish players play in Germany, and there are also German players who go to the Turkish league to pan for gold. The Turkish national team's key player, Y?ld?ray_ba Turk, is a German-born Turk who didn't even speak Turkish when he joined the Turkish national team.

In this game, Rangnick met an acquaintance, and Chu Zhongtian also met him. Rangnick used to coach Stuttgart, and Galatasaray has just signed a new player, former Stuttgart captain Portugal Mela (fernando_meira), and the two of them chatted on the sidelines before the game. Mera congratulated Rangnick on leading the team to promotion, and Rangnick congratulated Mela on her outstanding performance in Turkey...... As for the acquaintance that Chu Zhongtian met, in fact, he was familiar with it or not, and he was familiar with it, but the two of them would definitely not stand on the sidelines and talk cordially like Rangnick and Mera. The "acquaintance" he met was former Bayer Leverkusen manager Skibe, who is now the manager of Galatasaray.

In the 06-07 season of the League Cup, Chu Zhongtian played two games with Metz and Bayer Leverkusen, and he wore the captain's armband in the first leg of the match between the two sides, which was the first time he wore the captain's armband. Bayer Leverkusen were the first big opponents Metz faced in the UEFA Cup that season, and from that game onwards, Metz began their journey to conquer Europe. Later, Metz won the League Cup, and Skibe also left after the end of the season, of course, his dismissal should have nothing to do with Metz and Chu Zhongtian.

The 27,000-seat Karl Benz Stadium came with 13,200 people, all Hoffenheim fans. That's the same number as the number of season tickets they've sold. Basically, this number is the entire live audience of Hoffenheim in the new season. Of course, if they do well and play well, they can continue to attract fans from the surrounding area. Because Mannheim, Sinsheim and other places only have Hoffenheim as a Bundesliga team.

Baden-Württemberg has a few notable teams: Stuttgart, the state capital, Karlsruhe, which produced Kahn, and Freiburg. Hoffenheim are the upstarts of the season, but they are far less famous than the first three. There are three teams in the Bundesliga this season: Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Hoffenheim, while Freiburg is still in the Bundesliga and is a regular in the Bundesliga.

Just ten minutes into the game, Hoffenheim conceded a goal and was beaten to the head by last season's Turkish Super League champions. Veteran centre-back Emre, who played in this summer's European Championships. Ashk (emre_asik) received Hassan. Sasse (hasan_sas) passes, headers score.

Galatasaray is ahead!

Hoffenheim soon launched a counter-attack and it wasn't long before they had a good chance for a free-kick, but Nelsson shot just wide. Salihovic sat on the bench and saw Nilsson shoot the free-kick high below, and he patted his thigh regretfully, as if he could have scored the goal if he had changed himself.

Although they did not score, Hoffenheim gained confidence from these attacks and became more and more energetic. Demba. After receiving a direct pass from Chu Zhongtian, Ba burst into the penalty area and almost equalized the score with a shot.

Of course, Galatasaray was also the Turkish champions last season, and the team that will participate in the European Champions Cup this season is not willing to be passive on the pitch and be held to a draw by a promoted Polo team in the Bundesliga.

Yilmaz (aydin_yilmaz) fired a powerful shot that saved substitute goalkeeper Haas (daniel_haas), who had replaced the injured Ozjan.

Eduardo and Weiss both squandered good chances after that, and by the end of the first half, Hoffenheim were a goal behind at home.

At the beginning of the second half, neither of the two sides made any major changes to the lineup. Rangnick just replaced Weiss with Salihovic. Only five minutes into the second half, Chu Zhongtian launched an attack in the backfield, and the football reached the feet of Eduardo after continuous passes, and Eduardo passed Demba again. Ba, but Demba. Ba didn't kick the target and deflected the inevitable shot wide. Soon, Salihovic's free-kick from 18 yards out was again in vain.

Although they didn't score, Hoffenheim had completely dominated the field and it looked like it was only a matter of time before they scored. Rangnick is happy with his team's performance and he has no regrets even if he loses this game. Because the team showed a very high standard, the Turkish champion Galatasaray was tired to cope.

In the 60th minute of the game, the managers of both sides began to make frequent substitutions. However, Chu Zhongtian was still left on the court, and it seemed that Rangnick was going to let Chu Zhongtian play the whole game in this game.

The game came in the last 10 minutes, and in the 78th minute, after receiving a pass from Salihovic, Ibyševich turned and broke through the defender to score and equalize for his team.

When he scored, there was a huge cheer at the Karl Benz Stadium, with more than 13,000 Hoffenheim fans chanting the new signing's name in unison: "Ibi! Ibi! ”

Ibisevic happily hugged Salihovic.

Chu Zhongtian and the other players also ran over to join in the fun.

It stands to reason that this is a warm-up game, and you shouldn't be so excited after scoring a goal. But the team was 70 minutes behind and finally equalised, which was still exciting for them.

It is worth noting that before Salihovic's pass, he received an overhead pass from Chu Zhongtian. At that time, there were two Galatasaray players between him and Chu Zhongtian, and he did not run into the air, he had already looked forward to the passing route to Ibisevic, as long as the football could pass to his feet, he could immediately put the planned route into practice. But if he had been in position, the route would not have existed. So he waited in place, wanting to see if Chu Zhongtian had the ability to pass the football over when he was only fifteen meters away, but separated by two opposing players.

Chu Zhongtian did it. And the pass is very comfortable, although it is a short overhead pass, but there is no strong spin, so he does not need to make more adjustments after receiving the ball, as long as he passes the ball with his feet.

He had to be a little impressed by this new teammate who had robbed him of his core position...... Just two minutes later, Ibisevic almost scored twice, this time it was Chu Zhongtian who passed the ball to him, Chu Zhongtian made a long pass in the backfield, Ibisevic stopped the ball with his chest, turned and volleyed directly, the ball was saved by Galatasaray's Italian goalkeeper De Sanctis (man_de_sanctis).

In the 87th minute, German U17 international Strievler received a pass from Ibisevic and hit the goal with a header.

Until stoppage time, it looked like the game was going to end in a draw. Young rookie Marco, who came off the bench in the second half. Tracino staged a stunner scene. The Chelsea player was spotted on the edge of the box and fired a beautiful volley into the corner after receiving a pass from Teber. De Sanctis is really powerless in the face of such a world wave.

Hoffenheim completed the comeback in the last minute! 2:1！

Tracino looked excited after the goal, it was his first goal for Hoffenheim's first team, and although it was a warm-up game, the late comeback goal gave him a sense of accomplishment. The youngster, of Italian descent, is one of the best rising stars in Hoffenheim's youth squad and has a bright future.

Relying on the star's first goal, Hoffenheim ended all of their warm-up matches leading up to the new season unbeaten and the team performed well in the warm-up games to give the fans confidence. There is also a lot of confidence in the players.

It was the first time to play the Bundesliga, and it was inevitable that I would be a little apprehensive. But the successive victories in the warm-up matches made everyone's nervousness disappear a lot. Now they are a little impatient for the new season of the Bundesliga.

They have one more game to play before the league.

On 8 August, they will play their first official match of the new season – the first round of the German Cup against Chemnitz.

On this day, the Olympic Games will also kick off in the background of China.

However, this has little to do with Chu Zhongtian, he pays more attention to how many gold medals China has won in the Olympic Games.

Oh, by the way, if he had time, he might have watched the Chinese Olympic team's games...... but on August 8, the Olympic Games officially opened, but due to the time difference, when Zhang Yimou's carefully planned opening ceremony unfolded with a series of footprints, the whole Hoffenheim team was preparing to go to Chemnitz's home stadium to play.

Germany is the East 1st Zone, and Beijing is the East 8th Zone in China, and the time difference between the two sides is seven hours. However, it is now summer, and in Germany daylight saving time, the time difference has become six hours. It's eight o'clock in Beijing and two o'clock in the afternoon in Germany.

The German Cup match was held in the afternoon, and Chu Zhongtian didn't have the eyes to see the opening ceremony, which was said to be very beautiful. However, the day before, he watched the first game of the national Olympic team in the Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese team and the New Zealand Olympic team, which is said to be the weakest in the group, played a 1:1 draw, and it was Dong Fangzhuo who was once compared to Chu Zhongtian who scored for the Chinese team. His header broke the embarrassing record of the Chinese team not scoring a goal at the Olympics and also made new history. However, the Chinese team was unable to get three points against what is said to be the weakest opponent in the group, and the prospects of qualifying from the group have dimmed.

If Chu Zhongtian had been selected for the National Olympic team, he would not have been able to train with Hoffenheim throughout July, which would have greatly affected his tacit understanding with the team and affected his time to adapt to the team. Then when the time comes, his reinforcement that cost Hoffenheim 30 million euros may really become a big parallel commodity.

Fortunately, the Chinese Football Association is very wise and open to consider the problem from Chu Zhongtian's point of view, and did not let him compete in the Olympics for his country, but gave him the green light to integrate with the new team. If Chu Zhongtian really succeeds in Hoffenheim in the future, he must not forget to thank the wise Chinese Football Association...... Another Hoffenheim goalscorer, Obasi, is now in Beijing with Nigeria as he prepares to compete in the Olympic football matches. He hasn't been able to train with the club team all summer, but he's not a newcomer to Hoffenheim anymore and it shouldn't be difficult to adapt to a team that hasn't changed much.

Hoffenheim is away from home in this game, because according to the rules of the German Football Association, when arranging home and away, the weak team will be placed at home.

Rangnick was looking to take every opportunity to break into the team before the league began, but Hoffenheim didn't pay much attention to their opponents. Even Chu Zhongtian didn't know anything about this team.

The opponent resorted to a stubborn defensive tactic.

It wasn't until the 77th minute that Hoffenheim organized a successful offensive. Ba receives the ball on the left flank and crosses it, Carlos. Eduardo stopped the ball down the middle and moved to the right, where the unguarded Ibisevic scored the only goal of the game with a right-footed effort from seven yards out from the onrushing goalkeeper, and his first goal in a competitive game for Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim have two of the most notable signings this summer, Chu Zhongtian and Ibiševic with 10 million, of whom Ibišević is the quickest player to show his value, as a striker, he only needs to score goals, he has been scoring in the warm-up games, and now he has scored another goal in the German Cup. No one doubts that he will be a parallel import.

And Chu Zhongtian, he gradually showed his strength in the final stage of the warm-up game, but if he wants to really impress the whole of Germany, I am afraid he will have to wait until the league officially starts......

(To be continued)