As a result, Ribery did not play in underwear against Marseille, which is not a lie. Because the shorts are very thin, if you usually wear underwear, when the players are moving, you can clearly see the outline of the underwear on the pants. But in the match against Marseille, Chu Zhongtian could clearly see that there was no outline of underwear under Ribery's pants...... Fortunately, Metz's jersey is dark red, and if it is white like Marseille, you might be able to see the swarthy mess inside through the white pants...... So when Chu Zhongtian was watching the game in front of the TV, he pointed at Ribery's ass and laughed.

Perhaps because he lost to Chu Zhongtian in training, Ribery was particularly energetic in this game, even in the face of Marseille, the former French football hegemon, he was not stage frightened.

Ribery has used his sharp breakthroughs to play with Marseille's backline again and again, and an experienced veteran like Lizarazu has to sigh in front of him the ruthlessness of time and the horror of the younger generation.

Not only that, but he also started passing the ball more to his team-mates, and a Ribery who was slowly integrating into the team was terrifying. Chu Zhongtian, who has fought Ribery many times in training, is convinced of this.

Originally, the strength of Metz and Marseille was not on the same level at all, Marseille once won the Champions Cup, and Metz's best result was only the French Cup. Still, the result came as a surprise to many, with Metz beating Marseille 3-1 away and Franck Ribery providing an assist.

The TV commentator also had to admit that it was Ribery's best game since joining Metz, but ...... "Who knows if this was the beginning of a consistent performance, or if it was an accident? 'They still don't believe there is a future for a player like Franck Ribery.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian's life has not changed, he is still training in the first team and going to the reserve team to play. Occasionally meet with Wang Hao and Jiang Ran, and ask about the recent situation. Jiang Ran has already scored in the junior team, but he is suffering from injuries. Wang Hao has already shown his talent in the junior team and is considered one of the most promising hopefuls.

French continues to be learned, but the weekly French class has changed from six classes a week to two classes a week. When Miss Mathilde came to class, she was always dressed as dirty and scum. In order to increase Chu Zhongtian's French proficiency, she would bring some famous books by French writers to Chu Zhongtian to read, but Chu Zhongtian was only most interested in the football magazines he bought from the streets. Seeing that he did not move the famous book he brought, but concentrated on reading football magazines, Mathilde was a little helpless and disappointed.

At first, Chu Zhongtian could only look at the pictures, and the text content was incomprehensible, but then slowly, even those who guessed could understand the general meaning, and in those magazines he could learn about the latest information of French football. This is Chu Zhongtian's purpose.

In fact, the quality of the second-tier league is also quite high, and Chu Zhongtian slowly felt this.

After nearly a month of adjusting training, Chu Zhongtian no longer has the feeling of being too strong to use but still very tired in the competition. His physical adaptability is amazing, and both Pinault and Tadio are amazed.

It's just that in the game he is more of a defensive midfielder.

He is more comfortable defensively than he is at playmaking. After all, you need to know the team very well to be able to do well, and everyone has to listen to you. Defending is much simpler, you just have to make a tackle and give the ball to your teammates.

When Chu Zhongtian was able to lead the team at Wimbledon, it was after he stayed in that team for a season and a half. If he is going to be the core of the playmaking attack as soon as he goes, it will definitely not have any good effect.

To be the core of the organization? Let's play first and get to know your teammates.

When he saw Chu Zhongtian jumping high in the penalty area, he grabbed the football in front of the opposing player and pushed the football out. Pinault told Tadio off the field: "Actually, I think it's better to develop him as a full-time defensive midfielder, I think he is almost finished in this position, and with a little processing, he can play." ”

'But it's not just the defence that makes Mr Fernandes look out for him, it's his attacking performance against Chelsea.' Tadio said.

"It's a shame......" Nopitt muttered.

Xu Xiaodi watched Chu Zhongtian's performance on the sidelines, and his heart was full of contradictions. On the one hand, I felt happy to see Chu Zhongtian play his level normally in defense; On the other hand, Chu Zhongtian played as a midfielder in several consecutive games, rather than his central midfielder in the last half of Wimbledon's season.

Xiao Chu finally showed a little talent in the offense, if he was just a blue-collar worker, it would be too wasteful, and his offensive talent might also be degraded because he was useless, and finally became an ordinary midfield player who could only defend and do nothing.

What is the future of a player who can only defend but can't run? World football is becoming more and more about the diversity of players, and a player must at least be multi-skilled, outstanding in one aspect, but at the same time have multiple characteristics to cope with different positions and needs. Only such players can be more favored by the head coach and have more opportunities.

Standing next to Xu Xiaodi are Wang Hao and Jiang Ran, two young players from the Metz junior team, and if they are free, they will come to the stadium to watch Brother Chu's reserve team play. Jiang Ran is recovering from an injury and Wang Hao is already making a name for himself, but in their eyes, Chu Zhongcai, who has the opportunity to play in Ligue 1, is the most successful Chinese player in Metz.

"What a great jumping ability!" Wang Hao couldn't help but exclaim when he saw Chu Zhongtian overpowering the crowd to compete for the top.

Then he looked at his slightly emaciated body. His skills are outstanding among his peers, but he has always believed that the biggest factor restricting his development is his thin body, because of his lack of confrontation ability, his performance in the junior team is not as conspicuous as Jiang Ran before the injury.

The coaches also noticed this problem, although his body was not yet fully developed, but he still added strength training to Wang Hao in training.

Therefore, Wang Hao was very envious of Chu Zhongtian's body. In his opinion, if he has the body of Chu Zhongtian, it is not impossible to become a player like Zidane.

In fact, because Chu Zhongtian has paid attention to controlling his diet, his body is thinner than before, but the fat content is less, and it is all muscle. This not only did not make him lose part of his strength, but made him more powerful and more capable of confrontation.

Physically, he's becoming more and more like a pro.

It's just that mentally he's trying to adapt to professional football.

For example, in the game, he paid attention to his sense of speed and rhythm, and minimized the number of times he was cut off by the opponent. And every time he looked up after receiving the ball, Coach Tadio would yell off the field: "Observe in advance, observe in advance!" ”

Next time, Chu Zhongtian will turn his head around to observe the surrounding situation before receiving the ball, but when he does this at the beginning, he will always take care of one or the other - when he looks up to observe, he will forget how to catch the ball, not just run and observe but not pay attention to the timing of the football, miss the opportunity to catch the ball, and let the football leak through his feet; Either he stopped the ball in a hurry, and it took more experience to readjust, and when he adjusted, the position of his teammates and opponents was different from what he had observed.

Compared with physical adaptation, the change in thinking is the most important and the most painful.

In order for himself to become a professional footballer completely, he has to cross this hurdle. Many of the bad problems developed by playing amateur football that do not meet the professional requirements must be corrected by Coach Tadio and Fernandez Coach Fernandes.

Coach Fernandez usually arranges two or three teammates to defend Chu Zhongtian during training, and he must play the ball as soon as possible in this situation, and he will be punished if he does not finish.

Over time, everyone found that their head coach Fernandes was very attentive to Chu, who had not played in an official first-team game, and even had some special care. It's like he took care of Ribery.

Even Ribery joked to Chu Zhongtian in the locker room: "Hey, Chu." Our instructors love you. I thought he only liked me, ha! ”

"You don't want me to play." Chu Zhongtian didn't believe it was true. It's September now, and he's pretty much able to communicate freely with Ribery.

"I want to be soon." Ribery nodded, "I can't wait, I'm always playing against you, I want to enjoy being teammates with you." ”

Chu Zhongtian just took off his clothes, and he shivered with his upper body. "Why do I think you're so insensitive, Frank?"

"Aha!" Ribery laughed triumphantly.

His smile made Chu Zhongtian even more convinced that it was just a joke by Ribery - when he was in the reserve team to play in the second-tier league, the head coach Mr. Fernandez did not go to the scene once, if he really valued himself, why not come to the scene to see his game?

So don't be delusional, keep working hard, maybe when you have a consistent performance in the second-tier league, the first-team game will find you.

※※※Xu Xiaodi is very distressed now, he now has a feeling of being more patient with the domestic society. Sport Weekly is a for-profit newspaper, they are not a charity, and if they don't get any valuable news on Metz's side, then they can't guarantee that they will be in a safe place.

When Chu Zhongtian played in Mace's second-tier team game before, he also sent a report back to China, and later found that domestic readers were not interested in a second-tier team league at all.

Domestic readers only care about when Chu Zhongtian will play in the French league, when he will score in the game against a strong team, and when he will become a blockbuster, and then cause countless European giants to scramble...... But how is this possible? With Xu Xiaodi's understanding here, he found that Chu Zhongtian still has a long way to go if he wants to reach the kind of state that readers want, and his most realistic goal is not to make a splash and attract the attention of major European giants, but to play in the middle and lower reaches of this Ligue 1 team.

For this reason, he wrote an analysis article and sent it back to China and published it in the newspaper, but there was little response.

Some people even think that Xu Xiaodi has made a good excuse for Chu Zhongtian's possible failure in Mace.

In fact, the enthusiasm of most fans is limited, and when the stars they support cannot continue to appear in their field of vision, they will gradually lose their attention to the stars. There are many real-world examples of this.

Chu Zhongtian's fans are the same, to sum up, more than half a year has passed so far, and the only time he really shines and excites fans is his performance in the FA Cup and signing for Chelsea. Most of the rest of the time he was unknown. But the game at Chelsea was too sensational, creating an illusion for fans that "Chu Zhongtian is going to be popular", and the expectations were a little high for a while, but the reality was cruel, Chu Zhongtian was not popular, although he became a professional player, he was still fighting for a place to play.

In fact, this is the reality of most Chinese foreign players - maybe they are very talented in China, maybe they are expected to be high, but when they come abroad, they still need to work hard to play, as for what becomes the main player, it all depends on time, Sun Jihai has played in Manchester City for several seasons, and he can't be said to be the main player, Li Tie has completely lost his position in Everton, what about Yang Chen? After returning to China, Xie Hui struggled for a position in the German Second Division...... Only Dong Fangzhuo's condition is a little better.

It is too whimsical to ask Chu Zhongtian to play well when he arrives in Metz and quickly become the absolute main force of the team, and then after playing a few league games, the news that Metz head coach Fernandez appointed Chu Zhongtian as the core is too whimsical...... It's just that Xu Xiaodi knows that this is a fact, it is a matter of course, and it is in line with the law of the development of things, but he can't combine it calmly. You must know that his future is closely related to Chu Zhongtian.

When the time entered October, Chu Zhongtian still did not have the slightest sign of playing in the French league, and Xu Xiaodi's boss finally lost patience, thinking that it was not worth sending a reporter to be stationed for a long time for a young player who couldn't even play games, so he transferred Xu Xiaodi to the United Kingdom to assist Li Liangcai in the work of the London reporter station.

After going around and going back again, Xu Xiaodi felt that fate had made a big joke with him and Chu Zhongtian.

He actually didn't want to go, but Chu Zhongtian didn't have any performance worth reporting, and he didn't have the confidence to continue to stay in Mace.

Before leaving, he went to say goodbye to Chu Zhongtian.

"Mr. Xu is leaving?" Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised.

Xu Xiaodi nodded: "Well, the work adjustment ......" It was inconvenient for him to tell Chu Zhongtian that the reason for his transfer was that he couldn't play in the first team for a long time.

But the clever Chu Zhongtian guessed: "Is it because there has been no valuable news about me during this time?" ”

Xu Xiaodi's face was a little embarrassed, and finally nodded: "But it doesn't matter, there is too much pressure from the country, don't mind." Anyway, you develop well here, take your time, and don't care about what happens at home. They can't affect you. ”

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "I know, Mr. Xu." ”

In fact, the once popular Baidu Tieba "Chu Zhongtian Bar" gradually became deserted as he fell silent in Metz, and the number of posts gradually decreased, and the first page was still the same posts that appeared on his FA Cup blockbuster and Chelsea signing.

Tieba is just a microcosm, and many fan QQ groups and personal websites built for him by fans have gradually become cold because of the disappearance of enthusiasm.

Some even suspect that Chu Zhongtian's choice to be loaned to Metz was a mistake, and that he will become a typical example of countless "hours, big may not be good" Chinese players and slowly sink, and the final result may only be to return to China to play.

The Chinese team returned home in the Asian Cup this summer, losing to Japan in the final, although the Japanese team won the championship by handball, but the failure of Chinese football is an indisputable fact. After the Asian Cup, China's domestic football enthusiasm also slowly cooled down, and a group of foreign players did not have a good news, and everyone's interest in football quickly faded like the ebbing tide of the sea.

Xu Xiaodi sighed, the cold winter of Chinese football seems to be quietly coming.

"I've got to go back to London, do you have anything to say to the people in the bar? I think I'll check it out when I have time. ”

Speaking of the Wimbles Bar, it evokes Chu Zhongtian's memory. Until now, he considers those two seasons at Wimbledon to be his happiest years. He shook his head: "There's nothing to bring, I'm not happy now, and I don't have the face to say anything to them, wait until I become famous in the future, ha!" ”

"I'm leaving, take care." Xu Xiaodi nodded, with reluctance in his tone. If he can make his own decision, he really doesn't want to leave, he knows that Chu Zhongtian will definitely succeed, he is different from those people in China who don't know the situation, he has observed Chu Zhongtian for so long, he feels that if such a person is not successful, the world should be destroyed, because heaven does not reward hard work.

He hoped that he could stay here and witness with his own eyes how Chu Zhongtian stepped towards the throne of success step by step.

Now, maybe when Chu Zhongtian succeeds, he will be remembered by the society and sent back to Mace, right?

Xu Xiaodi said goodbye to Chu Zhongtian, got into the taxi with his suitcase, and disappeared from Chu Zhongtian's sight.

※※※Although when Xu Xiaodi said goodbye to himself, Chu Zhongtian did not behave well. But when he is alone, he still feels a little lost and lonely.

When he got home, after dinner, he sat alone in a dark room, without turning on the lights, TV and computer. He doesn't care what domestic fans think, he thinks about whether his parents will worry about him?

If you can't play for a long time, your mother will be worried, right?

When there was a knock at the door, he came back from his deep thought and got up to open the door.

The dark room and Chu Zhongtian hidden in the darkness put Delphine standing at the door. Mathilde was so frightened that she didn't dare to go in - she was a girl, Chu Zhongtian was a male professional player, and professional players were often full of energy, and if they couldn't vent on the court, they would have to find other ways...... Chu Zhongtian saw that his French teacher had been standing outside with a hesitant face and refused to come in, and only then did he react - although he had never thought anything wrong about this French teacher who was not very good-looking and dressed very rustic, but after all, he was a lonely man and a widow.

He turned on the light and said to Mathilde again, "Please come in, teacher." ”

During the class, Mathilde found that Chu Zhongtian was always distracted, he was not like this before, Chu Zhongtian was almost the most serious student she had ever seen in learning French.

If you are distracted, the learning effect is very poor. Mathilde simply put down the book and asked Chu Zhongtian bluntly: "Are you too tired from training today, Chu?" ”

"Uh......" Chu Zhongtian came back to his senses and looked at Miss Mathilde with a serious face. Although he is his own teacher, he is actually a year younger than himself...... is a college student. "I'm sorry, teacher. It's not that I'm too tired, it's just that I saw off a friend today. I suddenly felt a little lost. ”

Mathilde realized that although she had been a French teacher for the Chinese boy for three months, she didn't know anything about the person in front of her.

She doesn't care if Chu Zhongtian plays in the game, she doesn't care about Chu Zhongtian's situation in the team, and she doesn't care about Chu Zhongtian's life. It can be said that she doesn't do anything else except teach every day, and they rarely even talk about topics unrelated to learning.

What a "pure" teacher...... In fact, she has never had a good impression of professional players, she thinks that those rich and famous professional players are of low quality, and there are many girls around her who like to fall in love with professional players, but in the end they are all the result of being abandoned. Professional players like the new and hate the old, and when they see something different, they will play with this girl and then play with the next girl. Because of this, she didn't have a good impression of Chu Zhongtian at first, if it wasn't for making money, she wouldn't have come to a professional player to take French lessons.

But after three months of contact, although the two did not talk, she was able to observe that this boy was different from those professional players, his life was not simply like a professional player, and even a high school boy's life was a hundred times more exciting than his.

Mathilde closed the book. "Okay, Chu. We don't have classes today, so let's have a casual chat. ”

Chu Zhongtian looked at the French teacher with black-framed glasses and a hairstyle that had not changed for thousands of years.

"Nothing to talk about?" Mathilde looked at Chu Zhongtian and asked.

"No, just a bit of an accident...... You don't say anything but in class. Honestly, don't be angry, teacher. I always thought you were a rigid and stubborn person......"

Mathilde frowned when she heard such an assessment: "Thank you for your candor, would you like to hear what I think of a professional player like you?" "She's going to take a little revenge.

"Listen up."

"Professional players are representatives of unqualified people, and they can play with girls wantonly because they have money. Professional players can always be seen in nightclubs every night, drinking, fighting, and drag racing, almost all negative social news. Mathilde said in a very serious tone.

"Wow!" Chu Zhongtian was taken aback, he raised his hand, "I've never played with girls, and I don't have any money." And I've been in Metz for three months, and I don't even know where the nightclub in Metz is. I drink alcohol, but I don't drink heavily, and to be honest I haven't touched alcohol since I left the UK. And I still don't have a driver's license and I can't afford to buy ......a car."

Seeing Chu Zhongtian hurriedly defending herself, Mathilde finally didn't hold her face, she laughed violently.

The laughter of silver bells sounded in the small living room, the corners of the mouth that were usually drooping were raised high, and the eyes that were hidden by the lenses were curved like crescents outside the window.

Chu Zhongtian looked a little distracted, and it was the first time he found that this girl who was not good-looking also had a good-looking side.

Mathilde noticed that Chu Zhongtian was looking at her in a trance, and she asked suspiciously, "Is there anything on my face?" ”

"Uh...... Actually, you're pretty good-looking, I mean when you laugh, but you laugh less often......"

After hearing Chu Zhongtian say this, Mathilde straightened her face again: "Let's go to class now." ”

"Aren't you going to class today?"

"That's because you used to be distracted and didn't have a good mood. It's good now. Mathilde returned to her old self, opening her book and preparing for class.

"Okay, but I have a question, teacher. Why do you still call me 'you' and 'you' after we've been in contact for three months? "Since we talked about it today, Chu Zhongtian simply asked this question that has always existed in his heart, and I don't know if there will be such an opportunity next time.

In the first lesson, Mathilde explained the distinction between the second person in French like Chu Zhongtian. The distinction between "të" and "vous" is a headache for beginners, and is far more complicated than the distinction between "tü" and "vous" in Chinese. Generally speaking, people who are not familiar with people and bosses and elders who must be respected should be referred to as "you", Mathilde asked Chu Zhongtian to use "you" for his coach, and Chu Zhongtian drew inferences from each other, and even Mathilde called "you" together. "You" is used for juniors, animals, or to show affection and contempt. For example, the police always use "you" for thieves, and thieves always use "you" for police. But in fact, in French society, it will be found that the change of title is not such a simple thing, and the distinction between "you and you" is not a purely grammatical matter, but also an important and subtle social code and symbol. The transition from "you" to "you" in your dealings with the French means that you have entered their circle and the inner world as a symbol of "acceptance".

"We've known each other for three months, aren't we acquaintances?" Chu Zhongtian couldn't figure out this question, could it be that there were any other taboos in the use of this personal pronoun that he didn't know?

Mathilde was a little embarrassed, and she pushed the frame.

"We ...... It's just that the relationship between the teacher and the student naturally needs to be 'you'. ”

"Aren't you a friend?" Chu Zhongtian asked.

"Not yet......" Mathilde shook her head.

"Well, I just lost a friend, and I thought I could get a new one." Chu Zhongtian was a little regretful, he lowered his head and opened the book, ready to study.

This time it was Mathilde's turn to wander.

She looked at Chu Zhongtian, who lowered her head, and the disgust for professional players in her heart seemed to be a little shaken.

"Teacher, what's wrong with you?" Chu Zhongtian lowered his head and didn't see any movement for a long time, so he raised his head and asked.

"Nothing, let's get started." Mathilde shook her head, tossing the distractions aside.

(To be continued)