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The warm-up match between China and Germany has actually attracted much attention in China, first of all, of course, because the German team is a world-class team, and with the appeal of the Chinese team, it is basically impossible to find such a warm-up opponent. In fact www.biquge.info this time the German team came to Shanghai to play against the Chinese team, which was not a football act, but a political act. It is part of a Sino-German cultural exchange project between the Chinese government and the German government. Another reason is that Chu Zhongtian's success in the Bundesliga has increased many fans interested in German football in China. The last reason is, of course, Chu Zhongtian's personal appeal, everyone knows that Chu Zhongtian is a very powerful player, but in the past, he could only watch his games on TV, but now he can watch the game on the spot and at close range, so naturally he has more expectations.

Except for Chu Zhongtian, the new national football team has been completely unable to attract the interest of Chinese audiences.

Before I knew whether Chu Zhongtian would participate in the game, the ticket sales for this game were not bad, but most of them came for the stars of the German team. Because CCTV has broadcast the Bundesliga for more than ten years, it has cultivated a group of hardcore "German fans" in China.

From the moment the German team arrived in Shanghai, it was well received by the media and countless fans. When they went to the 80,000-person stadium in Shanghai to train, more than 2,000 Chinese fans were there to cheer them on. When the German players appeared on the pitch, the fans exploded, screaming, cheering and even crying, and several girls wiped their tears while bouncing with German slogans after seeing their idols. Germany's head coach Loew smiled when he saw this, while the German players were stunned by the enthusiastic Chinese fans.

And these enthusiastic fans even spend 200 yuan to buy high-priced tickets from scalpers in order to be able to see their idols in training. In order to thank these enthusiastic Chinese fans, the German team brought eight large cardboard boxes dedicated to football after training, and the players took out these footballs printed with the word "China" and kept kicking them to the stands...... Such a "people-friendly" move made the fans addicted, and another wave of screams rang out at the scene, while some excited female fans cried with joy again, and some chanted in German: "Loew, let me marry you!!" ”

There were also two female fans fighting over the soccer ball played by the German players...... A small commotion was caused.

But all in all, in the last open training session before the game, the Germans were in a relaxed mood.

After the German team finished training, it was followed by the training time of the Chinese team. Compared with the relaxed openness of the German team, the new head coach of the Chinese team, Gao Hongbo, obviously values his first game, and he told reporters in advance that he was only allowed to shoot for ten minutes.

It's strict with journalists, but not with fans. But it is clear that the Chinese team has a bad reputation in their own country, and this has not changed with Gao Hongbo's rise to power. Although Gao Hongbo said more than once after taking over the national football team that he wanted to "show the new atmosphere of the national football team", judging from this training, the weather is still the same.

More than 2,000 fans came to the German team's open training, and some fans even preferred to pay a high price for scalper tickets to watch. As soon as the Chinese team arrived, the stands that were still very lively just now suddenly seemed to ebb and flow, and most of the people were lost. In the end, there were about 200 fans still in the stands, and many of them were holding portraits, posters, and slogans of Chu Zhongtian, who came to cheer for Chu Zhongtian, and there were only seven or eight people who really chanted "Come on the Chinese team...... This was originally a friendly exchange between China and Germany, but judging from the various circumstances before the game, this game has long been beyond the nature of "friendly match".

The fanaticism of Chinese German fans reflects the incompetence of Chinese football.

In such a deserted environment, the Chinese team played a group match and ended this training.

When they left, there were dozens of fans waiting for them at the exit, and most of them were of course also here to cheer for Chu Zhongtian. However, there are also those who hold the national team jerseys of other players and ask the players to sign them.

But most of the national football players ignored it and went straight to the bus, much to the disappointment of those fans.

Chu Zhongtian had been signing autographs for his fans on the side, and when he turned around, he saw the disappointed expressions of those fans. So after signing the name, he turned around and took the initiative to sign for them, and at the same time, he also grabbed the two teammates who passed by him and planned to go directly back to the bus, and motioned for them to sign for the fans. The two of them saw that it was Chu Zhongtian who asked them so much, and they were embarrassed not to give face, so they lowered their heads and honestly signed autographs for the fans.

This scene, Gao Hongbo, who was sitting by the window at the door of the bus, saw it in his eyes.

When they signed and returned to the bus, the bus closed the door and slowly left. There were also some die-hard Chinese fans waving at them and chanting: "Chinese team! Come on! China! Come on! ”

They kept shouting until the bus was far away, and they couldn't hear it.

※※※May 28 is the last training day before the competition. This day is also the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. Germany's star players received a Dragon Boat Festival gift from their fans - zongzi.

The jokes made by German stars because they couldn't eat zongzi can occupy half of the page in the media, while the Chinese team is quiet.

On the Chinese team's side is the Dragon Boat Festival zongzi prepared by the hotel for them. Although Chu Zhongtian is there, it still can't change the reality that this team is the most unpopular team in China. There are even many Chinese fans who are worried that Chu Zhongtian has fallen into the abyss by joining the national football team when they are surveyed by various portals on the Internet, and will only make him a victim of factional struggles, or that the head coach does not like him, and we will see him again sitting on the bench helplessly watching the team lose...... There are many fans who think that Chu Zhongtian should always develop abroad and never come back. Now that he's back, even if it's just to play for the national team, people are worried about him.

Some people even think that Gao Hongbo's recruitment of Chu Zhongtian to play an inconsequential friendly match is a very brain-dead act. Because Chu Zhongtian had just finished a very competitive season, he was very tired - they thought so. At this time, what Chu Zhongtian needed was a rest, a vacation, not to risk injury and play a friendly match for some "national honor" - they also thought so about "national honor". This is the irrationality of the system, this is the inhumanity of the system, and all this is the fault of the system. How sad Chu Zhong was born in this country, how amazing and terrible this country is...... Yunyun. They returned from Chu Zhongtian to participate in the competition to the level of political demands, and there are still many supporters on the Internet.

Therefore, Gao Hongbo's national team is still the most unpopular collective in the hearts of Chinese. There aren't many die-hard fans who can go to the stadium to watch the national team train and wait at the exit after training to get an autograph from the national football player.

※※※ In the end, after two days of joint training with the team, Chu Zhongtian was arranged to start in the game against the German team. In training, Chu Zhongtian could somewhat understand the difference between Gao Hongbo and his predecessor Zhu Suishen. At the very least, he is willing to give himself more responsibility and space in training.

In the group confrontation, Chu Zhongtian and Zheng Zhi, who are also returnees, were divided into two different teams by Gao Hongbo, and then let them serve as the core of their respective teams to organize offense and defense.

The two were never grouped. The information that Chu Zhongtian read from this arrangement was that Gao Hongbo was examining himself and Zheng Zhi, wanting to see who was more suitable to be the leader of the team, himself or him. Zheng Zhi was the main core of the previous national team, and he organized the team's offense and defense. And I've been doing this job at the club. Gao Hongbo obviously wanted to see who was more suitable for his new national team, Chu Zhongtian and Zheng Zhi.

In this way, does Gao Hongbo plan to make himself a leader in the national team, just like in the club? This kind of treatment Chu Zhongtian has never enjoyed in the national team under Zhu Suishen's guidance before...... If that's the case, there's still some hope for my career in the national team...... Chu Zhongtian did not look down on Zheng Zhi, but was confident that under the premise of fair competition, Zheng Zhi was not his opponent.

Judging from Gao Hongbo's starting list arrangement, it seems that he is also more optimistic about Chu Zhongtian than Zheng Zhi.

Generally speaking, Chu Zhongtian will lead the team to play the first half, and then Zheng Zhi will start in the second half. Judging by the team's performance in the first and second halves, the performance of the two organizational cores is judged by the performance.

After announcing the starting list, Gao Hongbo is ready to announce the captain of the game.

The captain of the national team has always been Zheng Zhi, and Zheng Zhi was Li Weifeng before. In this game, Zheng Zhi was a substitute, and Li Weifeng was never selected for Gao Hongbo's national team at all. Therefore, the captain's armband will be worn on whose left arm has attracted much attention.

Gao Hongbo did not make a fuss, but announced the answer very simply.

"The captain of this game is Chu Zhongtian."

Everyone cast concerned glances at Chu Zhongtian, and Chu Zhongtian didn't say anything, just nodded.

He captained Metz and Hoffenheim, and although it was the first time he captained the national team, he didn't see any difference. I won't be overwhelmed with joy and can't sleep at night. Anyway, in the two days of the national team, there are times when he does what a captain should do.

※※※ At 8 p.m. Beijing time on May 29, the high-profile Sino-German battle between China and Germany, in fact, was the German team's high-profile match, and the 80,000-person stadium in Shanghai began.

Chu Zhongtian's starting appearance made the commentator excited. Because to be honest, the only highlight of the Chinese team in this game is Chu Zhongtian, who has just been crowned the champion of the Bundesliga. If Chu Zhongtian doesn't play, everyone's interest in this game will probably all turn to the German team's side. Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian started the game and saved some face for the Chinese team. Didn't make them an away team to host a tournament in their own country.

Before the game, when introducing the players of both sides, the German team's Lahm, Schweinsteiger and Podolski received the most cheers, and these three people are also the most familiar German players among Chinese fans in the German team. When it was the turn of the commentator to announce Chu Zhongtian's name, his voice was clearly louder than when he reported the names of other players, and the fans responded with the biggest cheers in the stadium so far.

From this detail, it can be seen that Chu Zhongtian's prestige in the minds of Chinese fans. In 2009, when Chinese football made people feel hopeless, at least there was Chu Zhongtian, who played in the Bundesliga, who could make people feel a glimmer of light and warmth. The Chinese have an almost fanatical worship of such heroes, so Chu Zhongtian received nearly 80,000 cheers at the unfilled 80,000 stadium.

"It turns out." Xu Xiaodi, who was standing in the stands to watch the game, said while applauding with the people around him.

"Proof what?" Yang Yang next to him asked.

"It turns out that as long as you play well, have a serious attitude and are worthy of the support that the fans give you, the fans will treat you with more support. If you are worthy of them, they will be worthy of you. If you are sorry for them, they will be sorry for you. Xu Xiaodi looked at the audience and said.

He turned his face to look at Yang Yang and said, "You see, the rules of the football world are so simple. ”

"Yes, such a simple truth, why don't those who are engaged in Chinese football understand it?" Yang Yang asked.

"Don't they understand?" Xu Xiaodi tilted his head and thought about it, and then said, "Maybe they understand but don't want to do that, maybe they really don't understand, because they are stupid like pigs." ”

"Don't insult the pigs." Yang Yang is serious.

Xu Xiaodi laughed.

※※※ In the handshake between the two sides, Chu Zhongtian and many people in the German team knew each other, so everyone would pat him on the shoulder in front of him and say a few words in German, and Chu Zhongtian was also very comfortable communicating with them in German.

The CCTV commentator sighed: "Such a confident expression is rare on the faces of Chinese players......"

Schweinsteiger specially patted his left arm wearing the captain's armband when he shook hands with Chu Zhongtian: "Hello, captain of the Chinese team." He once ate in Chu Zhongtian's restaurant and was with a group of Hoffenheim players, and that experience was unforgettable for him, and he met Chu Zhongtian because of this.

"Hi, Piggy. How does it feel to eat unpeeled rice dumplings? Chu Zhongtian also joked about his previous troubles. Some fans sent zongzi to Schweinsteiger before, but the little pig didn't know how to eat it, so he directly sent the zongzi without peeling the leaves to his mouth, which made the reporters present laugh, and this scene naturally went to the Chinese media. How could Chu Zhongtian not know?

"Hey!" Schweinsteiger rolled his eyes: "It tastes good!" Of course, I mean skinned. ”

Both men laughed, then patted each other on the shoulder.

Unlike Chu Zhongtian, the treatment of other Chinese players is just to shake hands with German players, and there is rarely such an intimate gesture as patting on the shoulder.

There seems to be another detail that can be said about Minchu Zhongtian's extraordinary status in this national team. At the pre-match press conference, when asked by the Chinese media about his impression of the Chinese team, Loew said that the Chinese team is a very tenacious team, and to win against this team, the German team must go all out. But the Chinese team has a new head coach, and he doesn't know much about this team, but he knows Chu Zhongtian very well, and he is a very powerful player. It is the object that the German team will focus on in the competition.

If a few years ago, someone commented on a Chinese player like this, it would definitely be regarded as a guest giving face to the host. But now everyone thinks that Loew is right, because Chu Zhongtian is really good, leading Hoffenheim to sweep the Bundesliga, picking all opponents off, and then lifting the league championship trophy, this kind of performance is really worthy of Loew's evaluation.

※※※Chu Zhongtian's appearance is the first ** of this game.

And the second ** of the game came quickly.

After the start of the game, Chu Zhongtian wore the captain's armband on his left arm and was active. Repeatedly raised his hand on the field to ask for the ball. This is not a phenomenon that can be seen often in Zhu Suishen's national team before. And after he received the ball, he didn't rely on his highest strength, just bury his head on the field and dribble the ball, he would always quickly pass the football to his teammates in a better position, and take the players around him to cooperate. In this way, the Chinese team's game suddenly became better from the scene.

In the opening two minutes, the German team cooperated on the left side, and the No. 6 Schalke 04 defender Fisher and his teammates made a wonderful combination and then crossed the ball, and the football was held by the attacking goalkeeper Yang Zhi. Immediately after him, he threw the ball and attacked. After Chu Zhongtian made a series of cooperation with several teammates in the midfield, he sent a through ball, and the football rolled past the side of the German central defender Friedrich, which made Friedrich very uncomfortable, because the pass was so fast, he had no time to make a move, and could only watch the football roll over. Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian didn't seem to have too much tacit cooperation with his striker teammates, Gao Lin didn't expect Chu Zhongtian's ball to really stick to the opponent's feet, so he didn't run at first, and when he started chasing the ball again, it was too late, and the football was cut off by Ram, who quickly returned to the defense to fill the position.

Although the attack did not succeed, the Chinese fans in the stands still burst into cheers when they saw the Chinese team showing this forward momentum and positive attitude.

Then the Chinese team was not timid at all in the face of Germany, but kept passing the ball forward under the leadership of Chu Zhongtian, looking for the space in the opponent's backline. The forward consciousness was learned by Chu Zhongtian in Hoffenheim, and now he has brought this to the Chinese team, so the Chinese team's game suddenly looks much better. In the past, the most impressive thing about the Chinese team was that they fell on their feet, fell in the front court, fell in the back court, fell from the left side of the field to the right, and then fell back to the left from the right. The coach also called it "looking for opportunities and creating gaps". But in fact, this is a completely blank in the mind, and the conditioned reflex behavior of not knowing what to do in the face of the game - because I don't know how to pass the ball, I can only pass the ball to my teammates who can see it, and everyone does this, so naturally they are back and forth.

Now this Chinese team has obvious intentions to move forward, which is all brought by Chu Zhongtian.

And after Gao Hongbo saw this scene in the audience, he buried his head in writing and drawing in his notebook, recording something.

In the fourth minute of the game, the Chinese team won a throw-in on the edge of the German team's penalty area, and after the football was thrown, the two players sought to cooperate on the wing, but the Germans' defense was very well arranged, and there were no good chances.

At this time, it was Zhao Peng from Henan Jianye who was holding the ball, and the corner of his eye suddenly found Chu Zhongtian, he did not follow, but hung behind, surrounded by a German player defending him, but not very closely. So he chose to pass the football to Chu Zhongtian.

At the same time as he passed, Hao Junmin, who was waiting for his teammate to pass the ball on the right side, suddenly cut in laterally.

It's a manoeuvre that wide players are used to – cutting inside if the wing doesn't have a chance. He doesn't see too much of a gap, but his in-cut can certainly create chances.

Chu Zhongtian watched Zhao Peng pass the football over, and also saw Hao Junmin's change of direction and inward cutting, he didn't need to think, he knew that this was an opportunity. So when the German team's Schweinsteiger pounced on him, he didn't stop the ball, but rubbed the ball from Zhao Peng directly into the penalty area with the instep of his foot, and the football passed over Schweinsteiger and directly into the penalty area.

This is a momentary opportunity, although Chu Zhongtian is rubbing the pass, but after the football landed, it did not accelerate or spin, but let Hao Junmin stop steadily.

Then in the face of Hut's defense, Hao Junmin stepped on his bicycle and suddenly shook off the angle, and then directly volleyed when the angle was not large, and the football flew into the goal from the inside of Enke's body who attacked!

The 80,000-person stadium erupted in a huge cheer when Chu Zhongtian kicked a penetrating pass, and this cheer reached its peak at the same time as Hao Junmin scored.

Enke, who didn't stop Hao Junmin from scoring, jumped up and waved his arms in annoyance, and then he yelled at his teammates: "Pay attention! ”

Schweinsteiger looked very helpless - he did pay attention, and when he saw the opposing fullback passing the football to Chu Zhongtian, he forced it up, but he didn't think that Chu Zhongtian didn't stop the ball at all, but directly passed the football again, and he couldn't do anything...... The 80,000-person stadium is called the 80,000-person stadium because it could accommodate 80,000 people when it was first built. This stadium with huge capacity was deserted when the Chinese team was training, and there were even fans who said when they left with the German team: "The Chinese team is coming, run!" ”

But at this moment, the fans who had previously been cynical and disdainful of the national team still chose to cheer for the team in their home country. The home and away teams, which had been upside down before the game, are now back to their normal identities.

Xu Xiaodi was surrounded by such cheering people.

He continued to applaud and then said: "It turns out once again that as long as you play well, the fans will naturally cheer for you. ”

Yang Yang didn't hear him say anything, he was clenching his fists and shouting like the people around him: "Good ball!" Strike!! Pretty to enter! ”

(To be continued)