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When Chu Zhongtian returned home, the first thing he did was to go to the online Chahofenheim club. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He had looked at Hoffenheim's results last season and didn't have a detailed understanding of what kind of team it was.

I still can't find a detailed description of Hoffenheim FC in Chinese, so I can only search in English. However, even the English search did not provide more details. Apart from some news about Hoffenheim's promotion to the First Division, there was nothing else.

Chu Zhongtian smiled bitterly, this team is really unknown in world football. In the English-speaking world, nothing is known about this team, and it seems that you can only go to the official website to take a look.

If you only look at the name of the club, it will make Chu Zhongtian think that Hoffenheim has a longer history than Bayern Munich. "tsg_1899_hoffenheim", Bayern Munich was founded in 1900. However, in fact, Hoffenheim's predecessor was the "Hoffenheim Gymnastics Club" founded in 1899 and the "Hoffenheim Football Club" founded in 1921, and the two societies merged in 1945 to form the current "Hoffenheim 1899 Gymnastics and Sports League".

Until 1989, Hoffenheim was a small club that entertained itself. In this year, Hoffenheim, who were mixed in the seventh division of Germany, were relegated. The youth team of Hope Stadium was trained by one of the founders of the famous European software company SAP. Hope (dietmar_hopp) began to invest in the club's football business.

When Chu Zhongtian saw this, he thought that Hoffenheim would definitely start to develop rapidly after the investment of this tycoon. But that's not the case.

Hoffenheim's new owner is not an upstart who doesn't understand football, he understands football and loves the club dearly. He was reluctant to make Hoffenheim an upstart team, so he spent two decades laying the groundwork, building various infrastructures, improving Hoffenheim's hardware, building teams of all ages, developing talent through an extensive pool of players, building two competition venues and other training facilities. Hoffenheim has a cyclical and gradual upgrade process.

In 1991, the team returned to the regional league in Sinsheim. In 1992, Hoffenheim were promoted to the Rhine-Neckar regional league. Over the next eight years, Hoffenheim FC progressively increased its level of participation. In the 2000-2001 season, Hoffenheim was promoted to the southern German regional league, just one step away from the professional Bundesliga.

After entering the Southern Regional League, Hoffenheim's pace of promotion began to slow down. However, between 2002 and 2005, the club won the Baden Regional Cup year after year. In the 2003-2004 season, they also reached the German Cup, beating Bundesliga powerhouse Bayer Leverkusen 3-2 in the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals, they lost 1-0 to Lübeck (vfb_luebeck).

In 2005, Hope began planning to bring the excitement of professional football to the Rhine-Neckar region. To this end, Hoppe initially proposed to merge Hoffenheim and Waldorf (fc_astoria_walldorf) and Sandhausen (sv_sandhausen) to form a "Heidelberg 06 Club (fc_heidelberg_06)" and to finance the construction of a modern stadium in Heidelberg. However, due to the fact that Waldorf and Sandhausen could not agree on the location of the new stadium, Hoffenheim was the only club to fight alone.

After the failure of Plan A, Hope, eager to create a Bundesliga team, built a new stadium in Sinsheim to serve as Hoffenheim's home stadium after its success. The new stadium, funded by the Hope Foundation, is called the "Rhine-Neckar Stadium" and has a standard capacity of 30,500 people and is scheduled to open in January 2009.

At the same time, Hope sacked his former head coach Flick, who is now an assistant coach of the German national team, due to consecutive failed promotions to the second division. In the 2006-07 season, Ralph. Rangnick (ralf_rangnick) takes over Hoffenheim. Under Rangnick's leadership, the team was successfully promoted to the second division in the 06-07 season. Then Hope invested 19 million euros for the team to bring in reinforcements, and Hoffenheim, who had been greatly enhanced, was not successful at the beginning of the season because of the team's run-in problems, and the performance was up and down, until the second half of the league, the team that had passed the run-in period began to exert its strength, and finally was promoted to the first division with the second place in the league.

That's what the club is about.

After reading it, Chu Zhongtian had a basic understanding of Hoffenheim: first of all, this is a small team with a little-known name, and secondly, although this team has been unknown for decades, it has a very rich and rich owner. Thirdly, the team's hardware facilities are very good, although the sparrows are small, they have all kinds of organs. Fourthly, the owner of this team is a person who really understands football and loves the club. Fifth, this team is ambitious and has forward momentum.

From these things, Chu Zhongtian can also be further analyzed.

The owner who has money and loves the club determines that the team's financial situation should not be in trouble for a short period of time, which means that the team can afford to pay in the transfer market, and can also pay the player's salary and bonus. The well-developed hardware means that the training level of the team is good, and the strength of the team has the most basic guarantee - a team that even the training ground is in tatters, you can hardly expect them to perform well on the field. Ambitious teams have the goal of pursuing victory, at least such teams will not be willing to fight in the relegation circle every season, they will definitely have higher pursuits. It doesn't matter if it's a championship or a European qualification.

After learning what kind of team Hoffenheim was, Chu Zhongtian began to think about whether he really wanted to go to such a team.

In terms of hardware, there are no problems with this team, his training facilities are even better than Metz, and the new stadium under construction is larger than the Holy Mountain Fortion Stadium. But what about software...... The software aspect is very idealistic, and there is no fixed standard for whether it is good or bad.

Chu Zhongtian decided to discuss it with the people around him.

The first person he looked for was his father, a veteran fan who had also watched football for decades, and his understanding of football was no worse than that of those professionals.

※※※Although Chu Zuosheng has watched football for decades, he only knew about Hoffenheim from his son in the last few days, and he didn't know anything about this team, so naturally he couldn't give him specific advice, such as telling him whether this team was good or bad.

"I think your analysis makes sense, son." Chu Zuosheng could only check Chu Zhongtian from the general direction. "A team with money, people and facilities can't just settle for relegation in the Bundesliga every season, although they will certainly say after promotion that the goal is relegation this season. Even if they are aiming for relegation this season, they will try to qualify for Europe after establishing themselves in the Bundesliga next season......"

"So it doesn't matter what the current situation of this team is, what matters is whether they will help you in your career and whether it will help you in your development in the future. Playing in such a team, is there room for development? ”

"Actually, playing football is the same as getting a job. When you go out to work and look for a unit, what you should pay more attention to is not the current treatment, but whether the unit can give you room for development, and whether you are willing to train you. Young people need to take a long-term view. If you are about to retire, you should find a company that is willing to give you high pay and benefits now...... But it's too early for you to retire. ”

Dad's opinion, Chu Zhongtian has already understood. He didn't explicitly tell himself whether he should move to Hoffenheim because he didn't know if Hoffenheim was really the right fit for him, but he gave a choice principle - more focus on the future rather than the current treatment.

Whether he chooses Hoffenheim or not, this principle must be upheld.

Then he called his girlfriend, Emily, who had returned to Los Angeles from Chengdu. Ask her what she thinks about it.

"From a business point of view, of course I want you to move to the big clubs...... Bayern can do the same, preferably with a team like Real Madrid or Manchester United...... But I know you don't want to. Emily laughed on the phone. No, my mom would prefer you to go to one of these teams. You know. ”

Chu Zhongtian did know. Emily's mother has always wanted to develop all the commercial value of Chu Zhongtian. Staying in Metz before made her very unhappy - since you are in love with my daughter, playing in a small team like Metz is really too inconsistent with my daughter's identity, right? It stands to reason that Chu Zhongtian is not ugly, his figure is straight, and his muscles are very strong, and it can be seen from the men's underwear advertisements he shot that his figure is very sexy.

Such excellent conditions, but because of the lack of exposure in a team like Metz, they have not been able to better develop commercially.

This left Ms. Miranda in her mind.

A year ago, when she heard that Chu Zhongtian planned to transfer this year, she often said consciously or unconsciously that she likes those big clubs, and her daughter also likes cities like Madrid and Manchester, of course, Milan is also good.

Chu Zhongtian knew what this woman was going to do, but he wouldn't allow Miranda to interfere in football, so he pretended not to understand Miranda's prompts.

"But what about me...... I don't think it matters what team you go to, it's about whether it helps your own career. I want you to go to a team that can win the championship. You're twenty-four years old, you're about to reach the prime of your career, and this transfer is the last one before the golden age, and if you go to the right place, your years won't be in vain, if you don't go to the right place...... You know what that was going on. I think any team can win the championship, in theory...... But the big team may win the championship even more, the small team...... What kind of team is Hoffenheim? I didn't know about it before, but now I hear from you, and I just listen to you. I don't have an intuitive understanding of this team. So I'm not going to give you any advice. I only say what I wish for. ”

Chu Zhongtian nodded and listened.

"I want you to win the title, I want you to make a name for yourself in football, I want you to be an amazing person, to be a great player. I hope that in many years' time, your name will still be present in world football, Chu. In short, I want my loved one to be a big hero. ”

After Chu Zhongtian heard Emily's words, the first thing that came to Chu Zhongtian's mind was the plans that Rangnick had told him.

Beckenbauer and Summerer must be regarded as big heroes who stand up to the sky...... ※※※After soliciting the opinions of these two people, Chu Zhongtian still had one person left without asking, and that person was his British agent James. Merry. Merry, who is in charge of his transfer, must have been in direct contact with Hoffenheim and he wanted to hear the professional's analysis.

"First of all, personal treatment is very important, can Hoffenheim offer a contract that satisfies you and me? It is also a question of whether they are able and willing to pay you enough transfer fees to impress Metz. These two problems are solved, and then look at the others. I think there are advantages to going to a big team, but if it's really like what Rangnick said, then going to Hoffenheim is also a good option. I've done a little bit about this team, and their hardware is very good, and it's definitely not a team that is willing to be relegated every year. Hope is a man who does big things, his Hoffenheim has been silent for 20 years, and now that he has been promoted to the Bundesliga, he will certainly not be willing to continue to be silent. Do you know? Rangnick's predecessor was Flick, a coach who spent six years in the team and led the team from the amateur league to the Southern Regional League, which was very good, but Hope sacked him after he led the team to successive promotion failures, and then brought in Rangnick, who spent 19 million euros on the staff last season...... What does this mean? It shows that Hope can't wait to continue mixing in the lower leagues. He was an ambitious man. ”

Merry did not analyze the strength of the team, but started with the personal analysis of the team's owner, Hope. Hope is Hoffenheim's reborn parent, and his personal character often determines the character of this team as well.

"Hoffenheim has a foundation of 20 years, and their hardware facilities have been gradually improved in the past 20 years, and the echelon construction is also very perfect. I think it's time for the results. But this team has always taken the civilian route, so it lacks real stars. To achieve good results, you need not only blue-collar workers, but also gold-collar collars. I think Rangnick's positioning for you is such a golden collar, Chu. ”

"Of course, no matter how much I say, it's useless. The choice is yours, and I won't force you to make choices you don't want to. I don't know if Rangnick really had such a huge plan in store for you, or if he was just lying to you. All I know is that every transfer is a gamble for the players and the agent, sometimes we bet right and sometimes we bet wrong. We always try to choose the right bet, but who can know the outcome of the game when they place a bet? So...... Make up your own mind, Chu. Choose carefully. I'll help you keep in touch with the other teams. ”

After Chu Zhongtian ended the call with Merry, he already had a basic score in his heart.

As Merry said, every transfer is a gamble for the player himself, and there is no guarantee that the transfer will be successful, and no one knows that a move to a new team will continue to be successful.

But you seem to be good at gambling?

He pulled out a dollar coin.

Chrysanthemums are going to Hoffenheim, and the national emblem is not going.

Thrown five times in a row, four times are chrysanthemums.

Chu Zhongtian took the coin and fell into deep thought.

※※※ Of course, Rangnick hopes that Chu Zhongtian will give him an answer as soon as possible, but he knows that this is not a matter that can be decided immediately, this transfer may determine Chu Zhongtian's fate in the next four years, but it is not as simple as going around the corner to buy a pack of cigarettes.

He estimated that he would have to wait at least four days before he could receive a call from Chu Zhongtian.

In between, he didn't plan to go out to see the scenery of China. He stayed in the hotel room and made two preparations - if Chu Zhongtian agreed to the transfer, who would he buy in the transfer market next? If Chu Zhongtian doesn't come, how will he form a team.

Hoffenheim can triple jump in two seasons and move from Germany's Southern Regional League to the First Division, thanks to Bosnian midfielder Salihovic (sejad_salihovic), who has been transferred from Hertha Berlin for his excellent passing and free-kick skills. It was the heart of the team last two seasons.

However, Rangnick believes that Salihovic is not good enough in terms of control and rhythm, and if the team wants to achieve better results, Chu Zhongtian must join.

If Chu Zhongtian joins, Rangnick has already arranged his position for Salihovic - just play his best attacking forward to assist Chu Zhongtian. The two are not contradictory, after all, Chu Zhongtian needs to take care of both offense and defense, and it is unrealistic to hand over all the offensive tasks to Chu Zhongtian, with Salihovic, the team's offense can be more flexible and more threatening.

We also need a strong centre-forward, and Demba Ba (demba_ba) can play as a striker, but not as a centre-forward. It is not always possible to have Eduardo (carlos_eduardo) and Salihovic make cameos.

The team's current squad was built at a cost of 19 million last season, and everyone was hand-picked by him, and the quality of the players is not a problem, and he believes that this team has the quality to directly challenge the Bundesliga. But just like a powerful sports car, if you don't have a key to start the car, no matter how luxurious and good the sports car is, it is just a pile of scrap metal. And Chu Zhongtian is the key to him, the driver, and the key to starting the sports car. When the key is inserted into the lock hole, the car can be started, and when Chu Zhongtian joins the team, the team that has taken him two seasons of hard work and 20 years of hard work of the club's owner, Mr. Hope, is truly complete.

Just as Rangnick was lining up for Hoffenheim for the new season, his phone rang.

Chu Zhongtian's voice sounded on the other end.

"I've thought about it, Mr. Rangnick. I admit that I am attracted to your plan and the future you describe, and I would like to join in this plan and create that future together. ”

※※※ps, in fact, Chu Zhongtian's reason for choosing Hoffenheim has been said many times in the text, but I would like to summarize it here: a manager who knows him like Fernandes and supports him, a set of tactics suitable for him, a stable club environment, and most importantly, a huge temptation - to become a player like Beckenbauer and Summer, so that the once dominant "free man" can reappear in the rivers and lakes and gallop in the football world with another look! Become a legend alongside those giants who came before you.

How could an ambitious player turn down such a prospect? Therefore, Chu Zhongtian decided to gamble on the next four years to fight.

Of course, he can't predict the future, but he often chooses the right side in his gambling choices......

(To be continued)