This is how Chu Zhongtian's holiday began.

The first two days they got home, Saturday and Sunday, they didn't go anywhere, they stayed at home, the phone line was unplugged, and the mobile phone was turned off. Enjoy a rare moment of tranquility to the fullest.

Chu Zhongtian showed his parents the albums he brought back from the UK, which were all filmed for him by his Emily, Lao Yang, Boss John, Philip and Kenny, and some British media reports. Tell them about their experience playing in England. Anyway, his mother has now agreed to let him play football, and he is not afraid that his mother will be impatient when he shares this time of playing football with his mother.

However, when the mother is more interested in Emily, because this blonde girl appears in many photos.

After hearing that this girl turned out to be an actress, Zhou Xiaoxiang smacked her lips and said, "No wonder it's so beautiful......"

Then she asked very gossipy: "What is your relationship with her?" ”

Chu Zhongtian was drinking water, and he was choked and coughed, and it took a long time to recover.

"What's wrong?" When the mother looked confused.

Chu Zhongtian could only say: "What's wrong...... It's a friend, a classmate. ”

"Hmm......" Zhou Xiaoxiang tilted his head to look at the photo of Emily and Chu Zhongtian, they were standing in front of a group of Britons, Chu Zhongtian was wearing a blue and yellow jersey, and Emily was holding Chu Zhongtian's arm and leaning on him. She slowly frowned. "It's so close, it doesn't look like a friend...... It's that kind of 'friend', right? ”

"Hey, are foreigners open......" This time, without waiting for Chu Zhongtian to explain, Chu Zuosheng said. He is not interested in this girl, just like looking at the photo of his son playing football below, but his wife always stares at the photo of the blonde girl and does not turn the page, so he can't see it.

Chu Zhongtian nodded.

He said in his heart that he had kissed Emily, and if he wanted his mother to know, would he think that the two of them were playing friends? In the Sichuan dialect, "playing friends" means to fall in love.

But I'm not in a relationship with Emily...... Thinking of Emily, Chu Zhongtian suddenly lost his mind and returned to China, there was no Emily by his side, it has only been two days now, I don't know if he will be a little uncomfortable in the future?

※※※ As soon as the past two days have passed, Chu Zhongtian has been open to interviews with reporters, he is not hiding, if someone wants to interview him, he will accept it as long as the time is arranged, it is not that he wants to be famous, but his tone is silent and makes others suspicious, it is better to say it generously.

Gao Jie came to the house for an hour-long interview.

And he also brought good news. What he said in the car has already been reported in the newspaper, and I believe it won't be long before everyone knows what that football school is.

A long, long time later, Chu Zhongtian heard the name of the coach in Xu Xiaodi's mouth again, and that time was a complete tragedy - he kicked a sixteen-year-old player to death several times in a training session, which ruined a family and imprisoned him at the same time. That coach got what he wanted, and finally became famous nationally, but he was criticized and denounced as a negative example, and he even caused another round of criticism of Chinese football in the Chinese media, which made Chinese football even worse fall into a cold snap again...... That's for later.

The current Chu Zhongtian didn't expect so much, anyway, making that coach and that football school uncomfortable made him feel very good.

After spending the first two days, he resumed his physical exercise program. Every morning and evening, I went to my mother's school to run and practice.

As a well-known professional footballer, his appearance aroused great interest among the school's middle school students. Every time he runs laps and practices on the court alone, there will be a lot of onlookers. The bold and outgoing ones took the initiative to talk to him, ask him for autographs, and take photos with him.

Therefore, there was also a post on the Internet of "Chu Zhongtian's summer vacation training plan live broadcast", an enthusiastic student fan used a digital camera to take photos of Chu Zhongtian's exercise and practice every day, and then posted it to a very influential forum, coupled with a text commentary, which attracted a lot of fans who paid attention to Chu Zhongtian to click and comment, and this student reporter even became a figure in the forum.

Many people expressed their opinions on the photos, and most of them praised Chu Zhongtian's success as not accidental, just look at his attitude of insisting on training every day to know why he was able to succeed.

There are also some female fans who are nymphomaniac: "Our family is the best!" The most handsome! The most manly! ”

In fact, Chu Zhongtian's holiday life is very simple, he doesn't go out to the streets much, because he doesn't have anything to buy. He doesn't have many friends, Lao Yang has been in Beijing, but he called him a few times, it is said that he is looking for a job there, and he will go to work in a media unit.

So in addition to staying at home with his parents, when his parents go to work, he goes to the school court to practice. The good thing about celebrities is that the plastic artificial turf field, which is not open to the public, is allowed to be open to him, and he can continue practicing alone in a corner even when other classes are in PE class.

His practice is simple, it's all basic, dribbling, shooting and passing, ball control. You can't practice anything that's too complicated by yourself. When he's not practicing, he's chatting with the teachers at school. Anyway, he is also a child of teachers in this school, and he still knows a lot of teachers.

But he could clearly feel that these teachers didn't see him the same way they used to. In the past, he was never looked at with an appreciative eye by the teachers, and when they looked at him, they always had some doubts about themselves - doubts that he would not study well, doubts that he would not be able to get into college at all, doubts about the purpose of his schooling.

Sure enough, if you're famous, you have privileges...... It's amazing that there are even fans among the teachers who used to look down on them.

I can be regarded as earning some face for my mother like this, right? You must know that her colleagues and teachers were not optimistic about herself, she didn't show anything on the surface, and privately swore that Teacher Zhou Xiaoxiang's son would not have any great success. At that time, his mother was so angry that she sulked at home.

Now it's okay. The son returned to his hometown with honor, returned to his hometown, and came to the school every day to look at them, and from time to time a few reporters came to interview him, so that those teachers were envious when they looked at him.

※※※In addition to practicing football, Chu Zhongtian has one more thing to be busy with - teaching his parents how to use computers and surf the Internet.

After getting the signing fee, in addition to paying it to Bill. In addition to Mr. Elliott's fifteen percent of the remuneration, the rest goes to himself. So a few days after returning home, I went to the computer city, bought myself an IBM laptop, and equipped my home with a high-configuration machine. In fact, they can't use it at all if the configuration is too high, and the computer he bought for his parents usually has only one function - that is, to chat. However, the high configuration can be used for a few more years...... Chu Zhongtian thought about it like this: If he wants to go abroad in the future, no matter where he goes to play football, it is estimated that he will not be able to get on TV so soon. Usually, if you just rely on phone calls with your parents, it's still not good if you don't see yourself. So I simply applied for a QQ for my parents, told them to learn video chat, and wherever they went in the future, as long as they had the Internet, they would not be afraid.

It's not a problem for parents to not be able to type, just install a camera for video chat. It's convenient and money-saving, which is much more saver than making a phone call.

So after going to Telecom to apply for the installation of broadband, every night is the class time of Mr. Chu Zhongtian, and he must teach his parents the most basic computer use and Internet access methods during this short vacation. At this time, Teacher Zhou Xiaoxiang, who usually teaches students from high on the podium, has become a well-behaved student who is open-minded and eager to learn - my mother is so attentive to studying because she has learned to use the computer and the Internet, and she can see her son often.

This task is very arduous, Chu Zhongtian has to start with the basic power on/off, he is usually very proficient in using computers, and he uses Yang Yang's laptop very smoothly, but once he started teaching others to use computers, he found that "being able to use" is not the same as "being able to teach", and this teacher is not something that everyone can do...... Fortunately, my parents were enthusiastic about learning, and my father went to Wenxuan Bookstore to buy several books that taught people to use computers.

Chu Zhongtian's life is so simple, when he is not interviewed by reporters, he returns home after practice, opens his laptop alone, connects to the Internet, and starts to surf the Internet, paying attention to the transfer trends in European football, especially Chelsea.

Anyway, I've become a member of Chelsea, and it's normal to care about my club.

Now it seems that Chu Zhongtian's future at Chelsea after four years is still very bright, because there is no shortage of good players in the midfield position, but they are all veterans over 30 years old. French defender Petit is thirty-three years old, Makelele is thirty-one years old, and these two will leave the team four years later, when Chu Zhongtian was twenty-four years old, which was the year of play.

Although Chelsea have just signed Charlton Athletic's Scott Athletic in January this year. Parker (scott_parker), only 23 years old, is in the same position as Chu Zhongtian, and was the best newcomer in the Premier League last season. But Chu Zhongtian is not afraid of competition, and he believes that he is better than Parker in defense.

As long as he can get his labour certification and perform well, there is still a good chance that he will be able to compete for a place in the Chelsea first team.

In the summer, Chelsea sacked their former head coach Italian Claudio Ranieri and welcomed Portuguese Jose Mourinho, who had already shone in European football for the previous two seasons. Jose Mourinho led Porto to lift the Champions League with a win over Didier Deschamps' Monaco in the Champions League final.

Jose Mourinho made an arrogant declaration as soon as he arrived, and his personality has made Chelsea one of the clubs that have attracted the most media attention. Chu Zhongtian can often learn about Chelsea Football Club through various channels, and he also went to check the information of Cha Mourinho, at that time there was not a lot of information about the young Portuguese coach in China, most of them were official news. Chu Zhongtian went to the English website to browse the news about Mourinho. He wanted to see how the manager differed from Claudio Ranieri and how his appointment could affect his future at Chelsea Football Club.

Chu Zhongtian couldn't see it...... It can only be observed and observed.

He just wants Mourinho to be less of a superstitious big-name coach who is utilitarian at the same time...... In fact, what he should be worried about now is not his possible future manager, but his current boss, Roman Abramovich, is a very utilitarian chairman who admires stars. He invests £100 million a year in the team, not to burn and play, he wants to see the results, he wants to see the good games, he wants to see the best players in the world competing to vote.

Chu Zhongtian was obviously not in the scope of his consideration.

As a result, it didn't take long for the transfer market to see Thiago join Chelsea with Jose Mourinho from Benfica for £10 million. The Portuguese midfielder's position and role are exactly the same as Chu Zhongtian's, and he is more experienced, he is an EU player, and he does not have to worry about labor certification.

Thiago and Parker are both twenty-three years old, and four years later at twenty-seven, the prime age of a professional footballer, and both of them are strong rivals for Chu Zhongtian.

In addition to Thiago, Chelsea have also brought in a number of players in various other positions, but there is no direct competition with Chu Zhongtian.

9 million bought Czech Footballer of the Year goalkeeper Petr Cech from Rennes, 12 million bought Dutch "Peter Pan" Robben from PSV, 13 million bought the best right-back Ferreira in Europe in the 03-04 season from Porto, bought Serbian goalscorer Keserman from PSV 5.5 million, and brought Porto's champion central defender Carvalho from Porto 19.85 million. Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba, who moved from Marseille, became the most expensive player in English league history for $24 million (a record before the end of this summer's transfer window, which was recorded by Wayne Edward, who moved from Everton to Manchester United. Wayne Rooney is broken, and he's worth £27 million).

Seeing so many stars joining the team, Chu Zhongtian is happy for Chelsea's strength, but at the same time worried - the Russian owner seems to like to spend a lot of money to poach big stars, and lacks patience with the young players he has cultivated.

In addition, he keeps an eye on the official Chelsea website for information on the players in the development squad and youth squad to see if he can find any clues about his fate.

There is one more thing he has to worry about - as he becomes a professional footballer, he also needs an agent to help him negotiate with the club, manage his finances, help him with the chores of his daily life, develop his business value, and design his personal image...... In world football, there are many stars who like to use their fathers and brothers as their agents, Chu Zhongtian thought about it for a while, but couldn't find a suitable candidate. His father has done business, but not knowing English will make him suffer a lot in the role of an agent, and his father ...... Chu Zhongtian made money to let his parents enjoy Qingfu, and then dragged his father out to him as an agent, how can he enjoy Qingfu when he runs all over the world?

Negative, friend...... It seems that there is no suitable agent to be an agent, not to mention that if there is no accident in his career, he must be dealing with European clubs, Chu Zhongtian does not trust Chinese agents very much in this regard, and the more he knows the inside story of Chinese football, he knows that anyone who is involved with Chinese football is not clean.

Forget it, let's look for it in Europe. Bill. Mr. Elliott is good...... It's a pity that people seem to be too busy and not interested.

As a last resort, Chu Zhongtian doesn't like to choose a brokerage company. He always felt that those companies were more like vampires than individual brokers, and the big brokerage companies would always not pay attention to this kind of nobody, he needed to develop, and it was not okay if he didn't get attention.

It seems that he will have to wait until he returns to England and ask Mr. Merry to see if he has any good candidates to recommend.

With an agent, it's so convenient to talk to Chelsea...... ※※※Oh, there is one more thing for Chu Zhongtian - watching the European Cup at home.

2004 was a major tournament year, with the Cups of all three continents taking place, the European Cup in Portugal from 12 June to 4 July, the Copa America from 6 to 25 July, and the Asian Cup from 17 July to 7 August. For a Chinese football fan, although there is no World Cup this summer, it is just as happy.

The European Championship is clearly the top priority of the three major cup competitions. It's a great opportunity to learn, watch football at the highest level, experience the highest level of technique and tactics, and find something you can learn from.

Because of this, he stayed up late with his father to watch the game, and his mother didn't say anything anymore.

When watching the game, the father of the old fan will also analyze the performance of those players and the overall performance of the team with him, and then use the performance of the stars as a benchmark to measure Chu Zhongtian's own level, which aspects need to be improved, and which aspects are already good to maintain.

"You're not very skilled, son. But don't worry too much, I don't think you're the right player to be the kind of player who only relies on skill to win. As long as the technique can ensure that you can protect the football for a period of time under the attack of two or three people, and then find a way to pass it out, it is completely unnecessary to practice five people, you don't want to learn that little Luo in Portugal, the simpler your technique, the better. I think what you need to improve urgently is to be more precise and quick. You pass the ball a little slowly, and you always have to watch it repeatedly before you pass, which is a waste of time and exposes your intentions. ”

Chu Zhongtian nodded in acceptance.

"You have to learn to observe the movement of your teammates and opponents before receiving the ball, and make the next move directly after receiving the ball, which saves time and makes it difficult for ......the opponent to guard against you."

Every game, the two of them just watched the game and kept talking. Dad drank beer and boiled water because he was a professional footballer now. When you're hungry, eat some peanuts, beef jerky, and pig ears. Then continued to watch and chat, Chu Zhongtian felt that the two of them didn't need to commentate when watching the game, because Dad's commentary was much more professional than the commentary of the two CCTVs...... Chu Zhongtian liked this feeling, which made him feel very warm. There are many people who have complained that they have a generation gap with their parents and are unable to communicate. He considers himself lucky because he loves football as much as his father, and it is football that brings father and son closer, and it is football that makes there no generation gap between them, and he is grateful for football.

But it was his father who made him like football, and if it wasn't for his father throwing football to him, he probably wouldn't be where he is today...... Who is he most thankful for now? It's his dad.

"Dad......"

Chu Zuosheng was still talking endlessly, and Chu Zhongtian suddenly interjected.

"Huh?"

"When I'm stable and make a lot of money, you'll retire from the Education Bureau, right? Then I took my mom to travel around the world......"

Chu Zuosheng looked at his son with a serious expression and smiled.

"Good!"

He nodded.

"A word, huh?"

"It must be undecided."

Chu Zhongtian laughed.

(To be continued)