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The third "Greater China" restaurant opened in Times Square (times_square), one of New York's busiest districts. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info was able to open the restaurant here thanks to Emily's influence and the efforts of the professional team they employ. The decoration of the Great China Restaurant is resplendent and the dragons and phoenixes are carved on the beams and pillars, although it is a bit vulgar, but it can make foreigners think of the distant mysterious and rich Orient when they see this style, which caters to the psychology of the old beauties.

On the day of the opening, Chu Zuosheng dressed formally to greet the invited VIPs, and standing with him was Emily's mother Miranda, who smiled brightly and greeted the celebrities who came to cheer.

Chu Zhongtian hid in the restaurant and talked to Emily about his lovesickness.

The business of Greater China is doing very well and is currently in a stage of rapid development, benefiting from this, Chu Zhongtian's personal assets are also growing in geometric multiples. The fourth store in Chicago is already on the road, and it is estimated that preparations for opening will begin in another six months. Miranda discussed with Chu Zuosheng and decided to set up a China Co., Ltd. and then strive to go public. Based on food, the company also uses the resources of Miranda and Emily to get involved in the film and television cultural industry.

Chu Zuosheng's experience in doing business back then has come to use, and Miranda has also experienced the life of a strong woman, and she no longer has to rely on hooking up with a successful person to pave the way for her daughter. Emily is currently on a smooth star road, and she has embarked on a regular path, and she, a mother, has also begun to pursue her own pursuit.

In the evening, Chu Zhongtian personally greeted the Hoffenheim teammates who had come to the banquet outside the Great China Restaurant. On the first day of the opening of Greater China, it was also an important news story in New York City, where reporters stayed here from noon and saw many celebrities and stars in the film and television industry come to cheer for the restaurant, which is said to be a partnership between Emily and Chu Zhongtian. And in the evening, they saw a large group of football stars...... To Chu Zhongtian's surprise, among Hoffenheim's teammates, he also unexpectedly saw Bayern star "Little Pig" Schweinsteiger.

"We went to Madison Square Garden to watch the Knicks play and ended up running into him there." Weiss introduced. "He was interested in what we were going to do next, so we called him along!"

Schweinsteiger is Bayern Munich's main midfielder, but at this time he looks like an ordinary person dressed stylishly. Schweinsteiger stretched out his hand to Chu Zhongtian: "I hope I didn't disturb you, Chu." ”

"Hah! How so? Just one more pair of chopsticks! Chu Zhongtian said in his native language. He then explained to Schweinsteiger: "For Chinese, one more guest is just an extra pair of cutlery on the table, and it is not troublesome." ”

As soon as a group of people walked into the hall of Greater China, they all looked up at the art-like ceiling above and exclaimed. The Great Chinese Restaurant has two floors, and the ceiling on each floor is painted and embossed, completely in Chinese style, which is very eye-catching.

The players took out their mobile phones and digital cameras to take pictures. Others posed for a photo in front of a screen engraved with portions of "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" – something that almost every diner who comes to a Great China restaurant does.

At present, there are three Great Chinese restaurants in the United States, and each of them has a part of the "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" on the screen at the entrance, but each part is different. Chu Zhongtian's plan is that when this screen of "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" is put together as a complete "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", he will not need to open any more branches - he does not plan to open Greater China into McDonald's and KFC that can be seen everywhere in the world.

Sitting in the box, the group of people had not yet recovered from the shock.

"I think the money you make without playing football is enough for you to spend, Chu!"

"If you don't play football, you might make more money by concentrating on business......"

"No, if Chu doesn't play, we won't know him. There's no way to eat such a free meal here! ”

For everyone's praise, Chu Zhongtian smiled and said nothing.

Chu Zhongtian's business is getting bigger and bigger, and the voice of criticism has never disappeared. There are always people who say that he has put all his energy into how to do business, and playing football has become a side hustle. These people are used to opening their eyes and talking nonsense, and Chu Zhongtian never argues with them. He proved with his performances on the pitch what a dedicated player he is.

Emily came over to greet Chu Zhongtian's friends, but she didn't expect Schweinsteiger to stand up with a digital camera: "Can I take a photo with you?" I love your movies! ”

Everyone looked at each other and burst out laughing. It's a fun world. Emily smiled too, and then nodded generously, "No problem." ”

Everyone was delighted to have the meal, and the teammates finally had authentic Chinese food - these dishes and condiments were specially imported from the Chinese origin and the Chinese chefs cooked for the guests according to the most authentic methods. Among them, Sichuan cuisine is the most popular, and in the cold winter, eating spicy things makes everyone addicted.

Of course, they also love Chinese pastries with different shapes. Some people are reluctant to eat it even if they pick it up.

Among them, Chu Zhongtian specially prepared Chinese meat sandwich buns for everyone, and Salikhovic was most interested in this, and his eyes lit up at the first sight of the meat sandwich buns, and he was interested. "China also has a doener?" He asked curiously.

Chu Zhongtian explained to him: "This is China's doener, meat sandwich bun. ”

"Doener" is a very popular food in Turkey, and it is a flatbread with beef, lamb, chicken, turkey, etc., cut from a large piece of meat that is tightly grilled and served with lettuce, onions, tomato slices and other vegetables, and baked to a crunchy mask. It's actually very similar to the Chinese meat bun. But there are no tomatoes or onions in Chinese buns...... "doener" is Salihovic's favorite food, and he fled from Bosnia to Berlin with his parents when he was seven years old, when his country was fighting the Balkan War. He joined Hertha Berlin's junior team in Berlin, but he was rarely able to play while playing for Hertha.

At that time the brothers Salikhovich and Boateng (Jérôme. Boateng jerome_boateng and Kevin Plins. Boateng Kevin-prince_boateng), and Deyaga (ashkan_dejagah) often go to Bundi together, and Turkish meat buns "doener" and currywurst are their favorites. They often rush to training after an all-night hiatus.

Although Salihovic is now living a better life, with an annual salary of two million, Douener is still his favorite. So he was thrilled to see the food that looked like a doener here.

Salikhovic alone wiped out almost a third of the buns. The meat buns in Greater China are very small, and Salihovich eats them one by one, and they are very refreshing.

It's not just him, it's everyone else.

Before leaving, Schweinsteiger was still a little unsatisfied, he patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder and said, "Why is there no 'Greater China' in Munich?" ”

"Hoffenheim didn't either. Okay, Hoffenheim is just a small place, but you can open a dim sum shop there, I promise to visit after every training session, Chu! Teammate Eduardo said.

※※※The Hoffenheim teammates will continue to stay in New York for their shopping trip to the United States after a hearty meal at "Greater China". And Chu Zhongtian didn't go with them, he chose to spend this holiday with Emily. On December 31, Chinese New Year's Eve in the West, he and Emily spent time in Times Square with a million people at the same time. When the colored balls fall and bloom with everyone's countdown, the square becomes a sea of joy.

In the crowd, Chu Zhongtian hugged his girlfriend Emily tightly and kissed passionately. No one cares about them, because so do the people around them.

※※※Chu Zhongtian, who spent the New Year in New York, contacted ten teammates, and eleven of them returned to Germany together. But Schweinsteiger was no longer happy with them.

After returning to Sinsheim on January 2, Chu Zhongtian didn't go anywhere, and rested in the apartment for a while.

The next day after lunch, he drove to Hoffenheim to prepare for the team's training.

The Christmas holidays are over, and the second half of the 2008-2009 season kicks off with the most important half of the race. In order to cope with the tough game, the team started training on the third day. After taking part in the third Harder 13 Cup futsal tournament in Mannheim, the team will head to the warm training camp in Namanga (la_manga), Spain.

On the third day, Chu Zhongtian arrived at Hoffenheim ahead of schedule, because he had to communicate with head coach Rangnick first, and then introduce his new teammate Hildebrand to the team. As captain, this is his duty, and he is accompanied by two other captains, Pell Captain. Nelson and Selim. Tebel.

In the office of head coach Rangnick, Chu Zhongtian met the goalkeeper who still holds the record for the longest clean sheet in the Bundesliga. He was once known as Karn's successor and was expected to be high. He went on to win the Bundesliga title for Stuttgart that season, and then moved to Valencia to make his mark in Spain. In fact, he didn't break out, otherwise he wouldn't have moved back.

Without Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic, Hildebrand might have been the biggest star in the team, as he had won the Bundesliga title.

He was relatively low-key, and he didn't put on a show of what he once was. Maybe he knows that this is not Stuttgart, Hoffenheim had a successful first half of the season, and the people here are all people who have seen big scenes, no worse than him.

He's putting himself in the right position, and a player who hasn't played a game in four months really doesn't have the right to be crazy in front of the current Hoffenheim players.

It was Hoffenheim's first training session after the Christmas holidays, and more than 1,200 fans were present, many of whom welcomed him with slogans such as "Welcome Timmer". In the first half of the season, the team conceded a lot of goals, and if it weren't for the number of goals, it would not have been possible to rank first. The unsatisfactory performances of the two goalkeepers in front and behind have led fans to expect high hopes from the new arrival, Hildebrand, in the hope that his arrival will reduce the number of goals conceded by the team. You know, in front of them is the goalkeeper who still holds the record for the longest time without conceding a goal in the Bundesliga...... Chu Zhongtian, as the first captain, introduced Hildebrand to a teammate who had not seen him during the holiday, and everyone was very friendly and welcomed Hildebrand's joining.

Two days later, the team returned to Mannheim to play a game, this time not in the Bundesliga, but in the Harder 13 Cup, an indoor futsal match. It was played at the SAP Arena in Mannheim and was led by Hoffenheim owner Dietmar. Hope's company, SAP, sponsored the event, and this year marks its third year. It is also a means for the Bundesliga teams to recover from the winter break, with six teams participating, including three Bundesliga teams – Hoffenheim, the winter champions of the Bundesliga this season, Karlsruhe, the winners of the last year's Harder 13 Cup, and Eintracht Frankfurt. The other three are Kaiserslautern, who are currently second in the Bundesliga, hosts Mannheim, and Danish Premier League leaders Brondby.

Hoffenheim fielded Eduardo, Wellington, Chu Zhongtian, Baker and Hildebrand as the starting line-up.

According to the rules of futsal, the six teams are divided into groups A and B, with Hoffenheim being placed in Group B along with Kaiserslautern and Eintracht Frankfurt. Each game is played for 10 minutes in each half and a three-minute break. The top two teams will play in the crossover semi-finals, with the winner competing for the title, with the first half of the final lasting 12 minutes each.

The five-a-side tournament attracted 12,000 spectators.

Hoffenheim defeated Kaiserslautern in Group B, but lost to Eintracht Frankfurt to finish second in the group and lose to hosts Mannheim in the semi-finals. Hoffenheim took the lead, but at the last moment, Mannheim chased two goals in a row to make the score 3:3. In the penalty shoot-out, Baker's penalty was saved and the team lost the chance to compete for the title.

Although they did not win the title, Wellington were the top scorer of the tournament, scoring a total of six goals. And Eduardo was named the best player.

Futsal has a small field and pays more attention to the individual skills and cooperation of the players. The advantage of the Brazilians is evident in this regard, while the Germans are slightly worse in this regard.

However, Hoffenheim's players are no strangers to futsal, as this is a compulsory part of Rangnick's daily training. In order to strengthen the team's ability to quickly pass and cut in a tight area, Rangnick has always insisted on conducting offensive drills on small courts. Everyone has the ball in a small area, and in the face of the opponent's fierce pressing, you have to make decisions as soon as possible and make precise movements to ensure that you don't concede the ball.

Chu Zhongtian's outstanding performance in the Bundesliga is inseparable from the coach's training. Chu Zhongtian, who played in Metz, had a slower pace, while at Hoffenheim, he improved a lot, not in terms of running speed and dribbling speed, but in terms of fast pace.

The slowness of Metz and the speed of Hoffenheim acted on him at the same time, and it had a profound effect on him. It also allows him to adapt to different situations, whether it's slow or fast, he always finds a way. He's not the kind of midfielder who can only play playmaking on the counter-attack, and he's not a positional specialist who can only take the ball slowly and push it step by step, he's becoming more and more versatile.

After a futsal match in Mannheim, the Hoffenheim team boarded a flight to Spain. They will go to Namanga, located in the province of Murcia, Spain, for a winter training camp at the Namanga training base, which is famous in Europe.

Generally speaking, whether it is a winter break or a summer, professional football teams in Europe like to go to a training camp somewhere for a training camp, and as long as they are not financially strained, they will not stay at home. On the one hand, the training camp can find a new training environment for the team that integrates training and leisure, and the training camp is generally built in a scenic place, which is a place for training and a resort. On the other hand, it is possible to get more opportunities for international competitions, because there is usually not only one team training here, often multiple teams share a training camp, so that it is much more convenient for everyone to contact each other to play games, and go directly to the next door to negotiate with the other coach to solve the problem of warm-up matches. The third reason is that it is convenient for your team to inspect the players of other teams, and if you can find excellent players, you can also get close to the water and get the first month, and take advantage of the time when everyone is training together to finalize the transfer target.

Because of the above three reasons, training camps are a tradition for teams in Europe.

The Namanga training base, which covers an area of 1,400 acres, is also a famous sports and leisure resort in the world, and is unanimously recognized as the best football training base and championship venue in Europe, and is the first choice for many top European clubs to pre-season football training camps, such as Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Newcastle, Southampton, etc. Now Hoffenheim is joining the action.

Due to its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea, it has a Mediterranean-like climate, with an average daytime temperature of 16 degrees Celsius even in winter, and plenty of sunshine all year round, making it ideal for outdoor training.

At this time, the whole territory of Germany is shrouded in the cold rain and snow of winter, and many German teams love to come to the warm Spain for training camps.

While the team is training here, the club's top management cannot sit idle, and they have to supplement the team. Since the team's goal is to win the league title this season, it is necessary to make up for it.

But the problem is that the winter break is not a good time for players to transfer, it is often difficult to find the right players during the winter break, if you just buy firefighting, then in the summer you have to replan, and the players who have just bought half a season are likely to never play again. No matter how much money Hope has, it can't be wasted like this......

(To be continued)