Chapter 226: In the League
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Hoffenheim were also praised in the media for playing a brave game away from home, losing just one goal against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu and scoring two goals against Real Madrid, which is already remarkable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Chu Zhongtian became the focus of attention in the major European media after the game, and he scored twice against Real Madrid, and there are not many people who can score twice at the Bernabeu.
And it is normal that after Chu Zhongtian once again attracted the attention of the entire European media, the transfer rumors about him also became very popular. Only this time, the destination of his transfer became Real Madrid.
Many articles have described how Real Madrid club president Florentino has a crush on Chu Zhongtian, and how Chu Zhongtian impressed Real Madrid's top management with his two goals, and his outstanding performance in this game was seen as a self-recommendation for Real Madrid. Real Madrid were very impressed with the player as a result.
And there are also reports that Mourinho was also impressed by Chu Zhongtian's excellent performance against his team for two consecutive seasons, and signed Chu Zhongtian to Florentino.
But the authors of these articles have forgotten that Real Madrid only brought in Khedira in the midfield position this season, and the German has done quite well and has already brought La Sena. Diarra and Gago, Mohammed. Diarra was firmly pressed to the bench. In addition, the role of his partner Alonso coincides with Chu Zhongtian, Alonso is currently a well-deserved core and assistant of Real Madrid, if Chu Zhongtian goes, who will be a substitute for whom? Chu Zhongtian is the main force? So put the main players of the world championship team on the bench? If Chu Zhongtian is allowed to be a substitute, then what is the point of introducing Chu Zhongtian? Is it just to add a high-caliber bench player and increase the depth of the bench?
So Chu Zhongtian disdains to refute these transfer rumors, as long as people with normal IQ know that this is impossible.
Florentino may have taken a fancy to Chu Zhongtian, and perhaps he also wants to use Chu Zhongtian to further develop the Chinese market. Florentino himself has a soft spot for the Chinese market, having led two teams to China the last time he was at the helm of the Galaxy. But now Real Madrid, he has delegated all his power. When it comes to transfers, manager Jose Mourinho has indisputable power and he can't interfere either.
The passionate scenes with Real Madrid at the Bernabeu are a thing of the past, and the Hoffenheim players have no time to think about the pain of losing, and they are immediately back in Sinsheim to face their next opponent in the Bundesliga, away to Kaiserslautern.
Away at Kaiserslautern, Rangnick rotated the line-up. Playing against each other at the Bernabeu is really physically demanding, and the players generally feel tired after playing, much more tired than playing ordinary opponents and ordinary games.
Therefore, Van Nistelrooy, Camper, Kolarov and Baker, as well as Quaresma and Salihovic did not appear in the starting line-up for this league. Obbasi replaced the Dutchman, Metzelder came on for Comper, Kolarov was replaced by Pogatts, right-back Upper Baker was replaced by Srna, Quaresma was replaced by Azavag and Salihovic was replaced by Khlosek.
The midfield duo of Chu Zhongtian and Sana did not move.
In the end, Hoffenheim, who had such a lineup, drew 2-2 away from Kaiserslautern. Chu Zhongtian has finally stopped his goal in all competitions in the new season - he has scored in the German Super Cup, the Bundesliga and the Champions League. He had a header over the crossbar against Kaiserslautern and it was the closest he came to finding the back of the net. Although he didn't score, he provided an assist to help his side equalise from behind.
Hoffenheim, who drew the game, relinquished top spot in the league and were replaced by Mainz, who have won four in a row so far this season.
Mainz have played four league games this season, and they are still playing strong teams, and they can win back-to-back. They beat Stuttgart 2-0 at home in the first round, Wolfsburg 4-3 away in the second, Kaiserslautern 2-1 at home in the third round and Werder Bremen 2-0 away in the fourth. Their performance surprised quite a few, with some even believing that they would be the biggest dark horse in the Bundesliga this season, as Hoffenheim did two seasons ago.
Losing the first place in the league, the whole Hoffenheim team didn't pay attention to it, anyway, they have already won the league title, this season their focus is still on the Champions League, the domestic league, and they can guarantee the top three. Judging from the team's performance last season, the top three in the league can still be obtained. This season, the team has recruited and added some players to enhance the strength, as long as the performance is normal, the top three in the league should be able to win.
※※※After the match against Kaiserslautern, the team began to prepare for the fifth round of the league against Bayern Munich.
Every time we play against Bayern Munich, it's a big game for Hoffenheim. In addition, next week will be a double week, just after the match against Kaiserslautern on Saturday 18 September, the match against Bayern Munich on Tuesday 21 September, followed by the sixth round of the league against Cologne on Friday 24 September, and the second opponent in the Champions League group stage on Tuesday 28 September, AC Milan.
Therefore, after the Kaiserslautern game, Rangnick did not give the team a holiday, but started training directly on Sunday, and he had to field the full squad for the midweek game against Bayern Munich.
Although the team has a psychological advantage in playing Bayern Munich, it should not be taken lightly.
During this period, Chu Zhongtian received a call from Xu Xiaodi from China, telling him that the Pujiang base in Dalian was selling it for 35 million yuan. He felt that Dalian was too dark, and he only spent 38 million when he bought it, even if it is inflationary now, the money is worthless, but the training base has not been well taken care of in recent years, and there will not be so much money after depreciation, is the depreciation cost only 3 million?
Chu Zhongtian said to Xu Xiaodi to buy, don't bargain, that's the price, buy it. He didn't want to make a fuss, and he didn't want to waste time by pestering the other party over such a small amount of money. Next March is the start of a new season for Chinese football, and the new Sichuan Football Team must get everything done before then, the home stadium, the training base, the players, etc...... The problems that can be solved with money are not a problem, compared with the training base, next season's home stadium and where the players are are are the big things that need Xu Xiaodi to have a headache at that time.
The match against Bayern Munich takes place on Tuesday evening at the Rhein-Neckar Stadium, which continues its tradition of being built to full capacity every home match day.
In this game, Rangnick continued the team's tactics and momentum at the Bernabeu, and used fast and sharp attacks to disturb Bayern Munich's backline.
And Bayern Munich, who are winless in three rounds, seem to be in trouble. Many of their main players participated in the summer World Cup and clearly suffered from World Cup syndrome. The feeling of reaching the Champions League final last season was not found, and with the increasing number of injuries in the team, Bayern Munich has not had a smooth start to the new season. Bayern Munich, which came to the Rhein-Neckar Stadium this time, may be a Bayern Munich that has been untidy in two seasons, and many of the main players, including Arjen Robben and Ribery, have been absent due to injury. Arjen Robben is an old injury in the World Cup, while Ribery was forced to play in the German Super Cup before that injury was even clear, which aggravated the injury, and the league started four rounds, and he has been sitting in the stands without playing a minute.
Facing such an uneven lineup of Bayern Munich, Hoffenheim defeated their opponents 2-1 at home to further extend the lead in the history of the two teams. Three wins, one draw and one loss in five games.
In the game, Chu Zhongtian, Bayern's nemesis, did not continue to score, and after the game with Real Madrid, he seemed to pour out all the passion for scoring accumulated some time ago, and did not score in two consecutive rounds of the league. Not only did he not score, he did not have an assist. But his performance in this game was decisive, and commentators and commentators alike agreed that without Chu Zhongtian's response and organization in the midfield, Hoffenheim would never have had a chance to beat Bayern Munich, and even such a Bayern Munich team should be happy if they could only get one point. It's not that Hoffenheim's other players aren't good enough, whether it's Salihovic or Ibisevic, or Quaresma, Srna, Sana, Simunic, Kolarov...... These guys are very good players and they are all at the main level in other teams. But a bunch of excellent parts piled together is not equal to a top race car, no matter how good the engine, no matter how good the tires, no matter how good the control system, if you don't know how to operate, hitting the wall is a pile of scrap iron. Only a good driver can get the most out of a car.
Chu Zhongtian's role in Hoffenheim is similar to this. If Hoffenheim is a racing car, Chu Zhongtian is the driver, and only under his control can the car continue to break lap records and keep winning victories, otherwise it will just be parked in the garage and dusted.
That's why the media praised Chu Zhongtian so much. Hoffenheim with him and without him are two teams at all.
Now there are also people who are worried about where Hoffenheim will go once Chu Zhongtian leaves the team? After all, his performance is getting more and more dazzling, and people will always worry that the small temple of Hoffenheim will not be able to keep the bigger and bigger Buddha. The rumors with Real Madrid are not enough to be believed, but what about with other teams? Hope said that he would not sell people for money, but Hoffenheim will not be able to rely on his blood transfusions in the future, and who will buy people from the team? Ticket and television revenues are mainly the club's operating expenses, and transfer fees are mainly based on sales to balance the income and expenditure.
Rangnick is now unconcerned by the media's claim that Hoffenheim suffers from "Chu Zhongtian dependence", and even has a posture of squeezing all of Chu Zhongtian's abilities out - everyone else rotates, but Chu Zhongtian does not rotate. Isn't he worried about the possibility of Chu Zhongtian leaving the team at all? Or is he secretly looking for a replacement? Will Gago? Quite a few people shook their heads.
"At the Rhein-Neckar Stadium, where Chugo is celebrated every home matchday, Hoffenheim fans are used to watching Chuck in action, cheering him on with every pass, shot and dribble. But they are also worried that one day Chu will leave them for a team that is bigger and closer to glory than Hoffenheim. Will their fears become a reality? ”
Such questions were also raised in the German press.
But Chu Zhongtian didn't care what other people would think of his future, for him, the important thing was not the future, but the present. Always looking at the future, that can only mean that you are not good now. Don't look at the present, but only look at the future, be careful of wrestling.
For him, he didn't know what the future would hold and didn't bother to think about. This season he just wants to do better at Hoffenheim, better than last season, better than last season, and go further in the Champions League. If possible, he hopes to reach the final and experience the pinnacle of European football at the great Wembley Stadium, not in the stands, but on the pitch, as a protagonist rather than a spectator. He didn't mention this dream to anyone, not even his wife, Emily. He buried this dream in his heart, worked silently and watered it, waiting for the moment when it would sprout.
So whenever the media and the fans and others ask him about the transfer, he always says: "I'm at Hoffenheim, I'm playing for Hoffenheim, I don't think about anything else." "But he never swore allegiance to Hoffenheim for life, just as he did not swear allegiance to Metz for life, and neither Metz nor Hoffenheim, for all their significance, was not the most special one. The most special one is still in the amateur league in England.
Because Mainz also won, Hoffenheim's ranking has not changed and it is still second in the league.
In the sixth round of the league against Cologne, Rangnick made another rotation adjustment. In order to avoid playing on two fronts, injuries in the team are too frequent, and the physical exertion is too great, Rangnick has been paying attention to rotation since then. The main reason why the media and celebrities criticized him before was that he was not good at leading the team to fight on two fronts - it was not the first time he led the team to play the Champions League, before Schalke 04, won a league runner-up, and played the Champions League in the second season, but he was not good at leading the team to fight on two fronts, he led Schalke 04 to collapse across the board, and lost the trust of the players, and finally got out of class under internal and external troubles, and came to Hoffenheim, which is still in the German regional league.
So from last season to this season, Rangnick has been mindful of rotation.
Of course, no matter how the team rotates, there is one person who will not be rotated, and this person is not goalkeeper Enyema, but Chu Zhongtian. If you want to build the team into a team with Chu Zhongtian as the core, you must ensure that their core is always there.
Anyway, Chu Zhongtian has good physical fitness, and he is not that kind of glass person, of course he can let him go.
In the game against Cologne, Chu Zhongtian continued to start and played a full 90 minutes.
In this game, he finally broke the "goal drought" of two consecutive rounds, scoring a goal in the game to help the team beat Cologne with "Prince Porti" Podolski 3-0 away. In addition to him, Ibisevic scored a goal and Ruud van Nistelrooy scored a goal.
Chu Zhongtian, who has now scored six goals, is the team's top scorer, Ibisevic is second with five, followed by Salihovic with three goals, and Ruud van Nistelrooy and Obasi with two goals each.
After six rounds of league matches, Hoffenheim is temporarily second, only two points away from the first-place Mainz, and the gap is not big. They were in first place last year, but the league standings didn't mean much.
After the league game against Cologne, the Hoffenheim team will adjust their focus to the Champions League.
Next week, they will host AC Milan, the group's second-strongest opponents, at their home turf.
※※※In addition to football, another focus of Chu Zhongtian's life is to invest in Sichuan football. Xu Xiaodi now calls him every day to report on the latest developments. After the successful acquisition of the Pujiang training base, the new Chuanzu has a fixed training base, they no longer have to look around for college stadium training, and the training base provides food and lodging, which can save expenses, and the initial players have no money and can live in the base for free.
After the training base was implemented, the new Sichuan Quanxing Football Club began to recruit from the society. This recruitment is divided into two parts, the first part is to recruit club staff. It may sound unreliable to recruit from the society, but Chu Zhongtian wants these unreliable people, because his Sichuan Quanxing is also very unreliable in Chinese football. In German football, for example, many Bundesliga football clubs have a marketing background in management. For example, the president of the Hamburg club, Bernd . Hoffmann (bernd_hoffmann) is the founder of Stuttgart's largest sports television agency, SportFive, the largest sports television agency in Europe. Stott (erwin_staudt) was previously Managing Director of IBM Germany. Hans-joachim_watzke, the head of administration in Dortmund, is the heir of a family business that specializes in firefighting clothing. None of them are football professionals, but that doesn't stop them from running their football clubs in an orderly manner.
Chu Zhongtian doesn't think that running a club must find people from the football circle, such as poaching people from other clubs. He feels that there are many bad habits in Chinese football that are spread in the circle, and no one in this circle is cleaner than the other. His Sichuan Quanxing is a brand new clean team, and he doesn't want those people to get his kids dirty. For this reason, he didn't even leave a few of the original managers of the Sichuan Football Club, and old people like Yu Dongfeng and Wei Qun gave them a decent departure without making too much trouble. Chu Zhongtian just wants to start from scratch and build a club that is incompatible with Chinese football.
After the basic staff is recruited, it is time to recruit players between the ages of 11 and 28 from the whole society. It is estimated that this is the first time in Chinese football to recruit players from the whole society. The master is in the people, Chu Zhongtian hopes that through such a recruitment activity, some football seedlings that have been buried but can still be rescued can be discovered. Whether it is a professionally trained student or an ordinary student who is playing in school, or even an office worker, a migrant worker, or a migrant worker, as long as they can play football and have talent, they all want it.
Of course, it does not mean that the players of this team are all composed of amateur players who play wild football, and the previous Sichuan football players must also have a choice to keep some players, and also contact Ma Mingyu's Mingyu Football School and football schools all over China to see if they can buy some potential players.
This is a very large project, and it is not something that can be done with money -- you always have to look at the people you choose, and sometimes you have to gamble on your luck. Therefore, Chu Zhongtian said that the problems that can be solved with money are not a problem.
At the same time, the search for a home stadium for next season will also be underway, as well as contacting various sponsors. Although Chu Zhongtian has money, he can't cover it all, he has to do it if he can draw funds from other places. He doesn't want Sichuan Quanxing to become a club that can't move an inch without his own money, just like Hope, and the highest goal is to make Hoffenheim a club that can survive without him and live well.
His highest goal is not to change Chinese football, that is God's job. His highest goal is to keep Sichuan Quanxing alive in 100 years, even if Chinese football is still bad, Sichuan fans can be proud - we have a football team to be proud of, and we have a football culture that is completely different from the whole of China!
Arsene Wenger's Arsenal can't win the title, the fans still love her, they still support her, and new fans are still born around the world. In the future, Sichuan Quanxing will also be like this, even if you can't win any championship, but you are full of passion and take football seriously, then there will be no shortage of fans.
Being able to do this for his community and his hometown football, Chu Zhongtian is very satisfied.
(To be continued)