The match between Wimbledon and Dugin ended with a 2-0 win at home for Wimbledon. The team continues to lead the league table, as coach Eames said, their goal this season is still promotion, the eighth tier of the Ismien First Division is not their destination, they don't even want to stop for a while, just keep going.

Chu Zhongtian wished them good luck, and in a few years they would be able to hear the news of Wimbledon's promotion to the professional league league.

After meeting Boss John and meeting his teammates at Wimbledon, Chu Zhongtian went to visit his agent, Mr. Merry. It was the first time he had gone to Mr. Merry's house, and he had met Mr. Merry's wife, and his two beautiful daughters.

James. Merry naturally praised Chu Zhongtian's performance in the match against Paris Saint-Germain, telling him that as long as the momentum continues, he will not be far from playing in Metz.

In addition, Merry also thanked Chu Zhongtian for introducing Ribery to him, he had already seen Ribery's foreign potential, and in the near future, Ribery would earn him a lot of money. After scoring two goals against Paris Saint-Germain, Franck Ribery has become the focus of discussion in French football.

No one was optimistic about this "scarface" kid before, and now experts have jumped out to praise Ribery for his good skills and speed, and he is a promising star of hope.

Thanks to those experts, Ribery's fame grew. Merry told Chu Zhongtian that he had received calls from some clubs in the past few days, asking if he would be willing to let Ribery change the environment.

As soon as he heard this, Chu Zhongtian became nervous.

Seeing him like this, Merry smiled and told him that he had spoken to Ribery on the phone, and that Ribery had talked to him about it. At least until the end of the season, Ribery is not going anywhere.

"But what the future holds, I don't know, I don't think Mace can keep Frank. He wouldn't be willing to stay in a small team like Metz......"

Chu Zhongtian also knows that from the current point of view, Ribery is more promising than himself, plus he is a Frenchman and does not occupy non-EU places, which team can he go to.

"But your future will be bright, Chu!" Mr. Merry said to Chu Zhongtian again, "I'm not comforting you, Chu. I'm prophesying, haha! ”

※※※After spending the New Year with Mr. Charm's family in the UK, Chu Zhongtian returned to Metz. The team's first game of 2005 was the French Cup (coupe_de_france) on January 8, and they returned to training on the 2nd to take on their opponents Rodez.

The French Cup is as interesting in French football as the FA Cup in England, but it is not as important and concerned as the FA Cup, and in France, it is still the biggest in the league.

In addition to the French Cup, there is another cup competition in France - the French League Cup (coupe_de_la_ligue), which is the equivalent of the League Cup in England and only allows professional league teams to participate. The French Cup, on the other hand, allows amateur teams to participate in the competition on the basis of professional teams. So this cup has always been a hotbed of underdogs.

The attitude of the professional teams to the competition is also different, and those who hope to win the league and even play well in Europe do not care about a frivolous competition like the French Cup. And the underdogs who are too busy with relegation will not devote more energy to dealing with a domestic cup competition. Only the mid-table teams will take the competition seriously, as the cup winners can qualify for the UEFA Cup. This is a good opportunity for teams that are worried about relegation and have no hope of winning the championship, but it is a good opportunity to increase their income and expand their popularity.

Metz is aiming for relegation this season, and Coach Fernandes is not very concerned about this competition. His strategy was to form a mixed fleet of first-team players, second-tier players, plus a handful of youth team players, to compete in the French Cup.

There is good news and bad news about Leka, who was injured in the match against Paris Saint-Germain. The good news is that he doesn't need surgery, the bad news is that he needs to recuperate for two months, and if he does, he may have to rest until April.

Because Leka must be out of action for two months, Chu Zhongtian will sit in the main position of the team in these two months. This is not Chu Zhongtian's wishful thinking, but let. Coach Fernandes told him on the first day of his return to training in the New Year.

Fernandez believes that the only person in the team who can be qualified for this position is Chu Zhongtian, because he can attack and retreat, he has excellent physical fitness and strong body, and the whole team can no longer find a person who is so versatile as him. A couple of home games, either attacking well and not defending, or only defending and not attacking.

Chu Zhongtian told Xu Xiaodi, who had been waiting for the news, and the Chinese journalist could finally breathe a sigh of relief. He immediately reported to the company that he would stay in Metz for at least the next two months. After two months, it will depend on Chu Zhongtian's performance in these two months, if he performs well, he is likely to occupy a stable opportunity to play, if he does not perform well, then I'm sorry, where did he come from, where did he go back - let's go to the reserve league.

He sent this back home as a piece of good news, which caused a lot of attention from domestic fans about Ligue 1. Soon he will be able to see a number of Chinese journalists like himself around the Holy Mountain Furien training base in Metz, and they are growing and have become the largest group of Chinese journalists here outside of France.

He had heard that after 1 January, the newspaper, which had only been established for four years, officially announced that it would cease publication indefinitely, and that the people who had belonged to the daily newspaper would go back to work, while the external reporters were all laid off and went to find work on their own.

Now he is very glad that he ran in time, and even more glad that he was able to catch up with Chu Zhongtian at the beginning and have a good relationship. Otherwise, he would now be one of a dozen unemployed colleagues.

With more journalists, the competition is fiercer, and there is always something new. He soon found out that during the interval of Chu Zhongtian's training, he would chat with a little Chinese girl, who had a camera on her chest and a camera bag on her back, and looked quite professional, he initially thought it was a Chinese reporter, and then he was jealous for no reason - he was the reporter with the best relationship with Chu Zhongtian, where did a newcomer pop up? Is it true that beautiful women have an advantage?

※※※ Lin Beiyao is now the "official foreign correspondent" of the website "We All Love Lin Danda", and her name is very loud, but in fact, it is just a casual name. But she did it seriously. After each training, he would pull Chu Zhongtian to ask some questions, then record them and post them on the website.

It really looks like a normal reporter. But unlike other journalists, she doesn't have a press card or press card.

Chu Zhongtian didn't see her as a reporter, he felt that Lin Beiyao was more like a friend of his. If you are a friend, you don't have to be wary everywhere, and you have to be cautious about those reporters, even if they are reporters like Xu Xiaodi.

"How were you doing in Marseille and Cannes?" Chu Zhongtian leaned on the railing and asked Lin Beiyao.

"Not bad, I took a lot of nice pictures." Lin Beiyao said with a smile. "What about you, how are you in England?"

"I went to meet some old friends and had a good time relaxing, and I felt that I benefited a lot."

"Oh?"

"I think I can now face the upcoming competition with a very relaxed mindset, ha!" Chu Zhongtian laughed. The "Crazy Gang" is the source of his strength, and when he returns to the "Crazy Gang" at a critical moment, he is full of power again.

"That's good, come on! They all want you to start back-to-back games! Lin Beiyao clenched her fists, and a smile appeared on her lovely face. Her face looked very young, as if she was only sixteen or seventeen years old, but in fact she was nineteen years old, but she was born with a baby face.

"What about you?" Chu Zhongtian asked.

"Me? Of course I hope you play well......" Lin Beiyao smiled a little embarrassedly. "I'm about to become your fan, too."

"Can I sign for you, then? I've been practicing for a long time. As soon as Chu Zhongtian saw Lin Beiyao's cute appearance, he couldn't help but tease her.

As soon as Lin Beiyao heard this, she remembered the situation when she and Chu Zhongtian met for the first time, and couldn't help laughing.

※※※When the training was over, Chu Zhongtian put on his coat and signed autographs for those fans. Now, among the people looking for him to sign an autograph, there are finally his real supporters, and they didn't come to him for autographs and photos because Chu Zhongtian trained hard and never refused the fans' requests. They would all pat Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder and praise him for his performance in the match against Paris Saint-Germain.

"Seeing you crash into that Canna, I'm so relieved in the stands!"

"You've avenged Leka, well done, boy!"

"The assists are beautiful too, how did you see Ribery?"

The smile on Chu Zhongtian's face was finally more natural than before - these were the fans he wanted, supporting him because of his football, not because of his face, body or anything.

When signing autographs for these fans, Lin Beiyao would take pictures with other photographers on the side. Other reporters would squeeze up to ask questions, but Lin Beiyao didn't do that.

Xu Xiaodi didn't go up to join in the fun, he moved to Lin Beiyao's side, and suddenly said to her, "Hello." ”

Lin Beiyao was looking at Chu Zhongtian intently, and she was startled when someone greeted her. "Huh? Yes...... Hello. ”

After seeing this girl's appearance, Xu Xiaodi was a little surprised - she looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, she was too young. What media outlet would hire such a young journalist to go abroad for an interview?

"My name is Xu Xiaodi, and I'm a reporter for Sports Weekly." Xu Xiaodi stretched out his hand to the other party, "Where are you studying?" ”

"Me? I am...... I am a foreign correspondent of Chu Zhongtian's personal website, my name is Lin Beiyao, hehe. Lin Beiyao stuck out his tongue. It was the first time she had introduced herself like this, and she thought it was very novel and interesting.

"Personal website? Be...... Is that 'we all love the Ring'? Xu Xiaodi knew about this website, because Chu Zhongtian told him, and at that time he also said that he liked the nickname of "Lin Danda" very much.

"That's right, uncle, that's it."

When Xu Xiaodi heard a little girl teaching her uncle, she immediately had the urge to burst into tears - does she look so old? He's only thirty-five years old...... But now is not the time to care about how old you look, since it is a foreign correspondent on Chu Zhongtian's personal website, then it should not be an official reporter. Because as far as he knew, that website was all spontaneously established by Chu Zhongtian's supporters, and it was not commercialized, and they would not have the money to hire a reporter to come to Metz to interview Chu Zhongtian.

"You look so young, Lin Beiyao...... Younger sister? "My tone is really like a strange uncle...... Xu Xiaodi burst into tears again in his heart.

"Well, because I'm still a college student." Lin Beiyao nodded. "I'm a sophomore at the University of Metz."

Hearing that the other party was just a college student, the stone in Xu Xiaodi's heart completely fell - there was no threat to himself.

"Uncle, do you want to interview me?" Lin Beiyao looked at Xu Xiaodi, shining. Seems looking forward to being interviewed.

Xu Xiaodi originally wanted to say "no", but he suddenly thought that now so many reporters are coming to interview Chu Zhongtian, what news Chu Zhongtian has, everyone can see it, his advantage is not much, and if the report sent back is the same, it will not be easy to make a difference. Isn't there a good subject in front of you now?

Isn't it more interesting to show Chu Zhongtian's training life in Metz from the perspective of fans? Not only did he have to interview the little sister in front of him, but he also interviewed the founder of that website. With Lin Beiyao's matchmaking, this must not be too difficult. At the critical moment, you can also go to Chu Zhongtian and ask him to be a contact.

"yes, I'm going to interview you." Xu Xiaodi said pleasantly, and the more his expression became known, the strange uncle who was going to take little Lori to eat lollipops.

But no matter what, in order to be able to get this interview opportunity and break into this group of Chu Zhongtian's most core supporters, it doesn't matter if you sacrifice a little image!

"And, not just with you, I'm going to interview the webmaster of your site. I want to report on Chu Zhongtian from the perspective of the fans. ”

Lin Beiyao felt that this was an opportunity for the website to expand its popularity, and ordinary people had a desire to be famous, but it was just a matter of how much. Why refuse to be able to be interviewed by journalists and have your name appear in the newspaper? It's not something to be seen for.

"Wow, if you want to interview him, I'll get you in touch!"

Xu Xiaodi said "yes" in his heart, it is really killing two birds with one stone...... Oh, no, it's a double win.

"Let's interview you first. Sister Lin, can I tell me how you became a part-time reporter who came to take pictures of Chu Zhongtian? ”

"This is a long story, and I have to start with my high school tablemate Kang Jianbo......

※※※ Chu Zhongtian found that Xu Xiaodi didn't come up to ask questions today, he glanced at it, and just saw Xu Xiaodi chatting with Lin Beiyao, so he laughed. It seems that this uncle has found new material. Then you won't bother them.

After answering the questions of the Chinese reporters, Chu Zhongtian walked to the locker room.

"Hey, Chu. Wait for me. "Frank. Ribery's voice came from behind.

Chu Zhongtian looked back at him, got rid of those enthusiastic French reporters, and ran towards him.

Now in the Metz team, the two most popular are Chu Zhongtian and Ribery. However, Chu Zhongtian is popular with the Chinese, while Ribery is more favored by the French media. The French media were indifferent to Chu Zhongtian, while the Chinese media ignored Ribery.

Although Chu Zhongtian once introduced Ribery's strength to Xu Xiaodi, Xu Xiaodi was also lacking in interest, because in a team like Metz. On the basis that everyone is not famous, domestic fans are obviously more inclined to know about their own people's situation over there, as for Ribery, maybe he is very good, but before he is famous, who cares about him?

The different attitudes of the media in different countries towards them will not affect the relationship between the two people. They walked side by side to the locker room.

"Do you participate in the Cup?" Chu Zhongtian asked Ribery.

Ribery shook his head: "I don't know, maybe let me rest?" ”

Chu Zhongtian sighed. He still likes to cooperate with Ribery, and it feels good that the two of them have a good understanding.

He himself was already determined to play in that cup game. Because he has played a little less games before, in order to stabilize his form and adapt to the rhythm of the game, Fernandes has informed him in advance that as long as he has not been injured before the game, he will start the French Cup. This will be his first start for Metz.

"I said, Chu. French teacher or this little Chinese sister, which one is your girlfriend? "Rather than whether he can play in the French Cup, Ribery is obviously more concerned about Chu Zhongtian's gossip.

"None of them!" Chu Zhongtian is not ambiguous about this problem, and many messages appear because of the ambiguous attitude of the parties, so it is necessary to stifle the rumors that may appear in infancy.

"Really?" Ribery looked at him and smiled: "After I went home with Vahiba that day, where did you and your French teacher go, Chu?" ”

"We just walked around the river, and when she sobered up, I sent her back." Chu Zhongtian told the truth, the so-called gentleman is frank, and the villain hides **. He has nothing to hide.

"Didn't you do anything but take a walk?" Ribery asked.

Chu Zhongtian wanted to answer dryly: "Yes." But in his mind, he inexplicably crossed the scene where he took the initiative to hug Mathilde.

"Oh? Seems to have something hidden? Ribery laughed.

"In addition to walking, of course we talked." Chu Zhongtian replied expressionlessly.

This disappointed Ribery a little.

"A rare world for two...... You're really uninteresting, Chu! "He has a kind of hatred that iron doesn't make steel.

Chu Zhongtian shrugged, is it normal for a man and a woman to do something when they are alone? If the relationship is not to that point, how can you easily kiss each other? Maybe for a warm and open Frenchman, this is quite normal, but he is a Chinese after all, and he can't do it.

"But ......," Ribery said suddenly, "that little Chinese girl is not bad, and it is normal for you to hesitate......"

Chu Zhongtian rolled his eyes, daring to love this kid thinking that he wanted to step on two boats...... He didn't bother to explain it to Ribery.

Teacher Mathilde was coming to teach him in the evening, and this was the first time they had seen each other since that night.

Well, should I call her Marty, or teacher?

(To be continued)