It's May, and the temperature is gradually rising. Chu Zhongtian seemed to have returned to a year ago, when he was just an ordinary Chinese student who had just finished his preparatory course, had two part-time jobs, and was trying to earn living expenses for the next year. He never imagined that his study abroad career would suddenly become so colorful after a boring year. It's as if the era of black and white television has suddenly entered the era of color television.

I first joined this team because he still likes to play football, and even if he changes places, he hopes to continue playing. After all, now that he has been admitted to university, a major goal in life can be regarded as a fulfillment. He still feels a little itchy after not playing football for three years, and now that a big goal has been achieved, what is there to relax once in a while? After being forced to give up football, at first he forced himself not to play, and then because he was busy with his studies, he gradually had no time, no energy and no interest in playing football. You know, there were a lot of people waiting to see his jokes at that time.

Playing football is a great way to relax.

A year has passed, and he has fallen deeper and deeper into this quagmire of happiness, and today, he no longer sees this simple as an "after-school activity". Maybe it's because of his competitive personality and the spirit of serious hard work that doesn't give up are playing a role unconsciously, and no matter what comes to him, he can't just treat it as a "simple hobby".

Football is his earliest hobby, he didn't understand anything when he was a child, anyway, he can't kick the round things, and he can roll around on the ground, which is quite fun. But when he is sensible, his attitude towards football is not simply a hobby.

Since he was sent to the local sports school football class for professional training at the age of six, he has been involved in football.

The old coach said that the body is the most important, and he insisted on practicing his body for ten years, so he practiced such a perverted monster now. After going to football school and changing positions many times, the coach decided to fix him in a defensive position and let him practice defense, so he practiced for another seven or eight years to develop such a Wimbledon defensive core.

Now that I think about it, if he had met an enlightenment coach who paid attention to technical training and neglected physical training, and met a football coach who was determined to fix him on the offensive end and advocate attack, then he would have succeeded. As a result, he felt that he had no offensive talent and that he was not very good at his feet, perhaps because the coach he first met had little interest in getting him to practice both offensive and technical...... When he was playing football, because his mother felt that there was no future in playing football, she arranged for him to learn to paint, and planned to take the art route, and his score in the art class of the college entrance examination was relatively low. In order to let her son take the football route or the art route, mother and father have fought a lot before, and the final result is "grasp with both hands, both hands should be hard" - in fact, neither husband and wife want to let go, and in the end they can only compromise. It's just that Chu Zhongtian is a child, and his childhood was basically spent in football and painting. When other children grow up, they talk about how interesting their childhood is in their memories, such as Little Dragon, Journey to the West, and Saint Seiya and Slam Dunk, but what about him? Only football and drawing.

Originally, I was very tired from practicing playing football, and I had to go to the Children's Palace to learn to paint every weekend with a painting folder. Despite this, he still put a lot of effort into painting, so he was eventually able to go to Wimbledon Art School, and his ability to paint was a big plus for him. So he was able to please Emily with a hand-painted Christmas present. Others say that he has a talent for painting, but in fact, they don't see how much effort and sweat he puts into painting.

Halfway to high school, I only took a not-so-decent cultural class at a football school before, although nominally the academic qualifications are equivalent to junior high school, but compared with those serious junior high school students, the knowledge structure is very unreliable. Not to mention that you are admitted abroad, even if you are admitted to university, no one is optimistic about it. Most people who knew him thought that he was just a Chinese of high and a high level, and then went to find a vocational and technical school or something to learn a craft, and then went to find a job, and lived like this...... Even his parents' highest requirement for his "well-limbed" son is only to be admitted to a local university, of course, the undergraduate is good, but if it is too difficult to pass the exam, then the junior college is also OK, the key is to get such a diploma, and it is considered a university culture when it comes out, and it is easy to find a job in the future. If you can be admitted to the university that belongs to the "211 Project", it will be like smoke from the ancestral grave.

But he was stunned to do it, not only was he admitted to the university, but he was also directly admitted to the country and the United Kingdom! This grade is better than the "honor students" in the class who are not usually better than him, in fact, it is not that he is much smarter than those "top students", but that he is willing to work hard, pay and be sincere.

He didn't like to play cards because he played them badly - he hadn't realized that he could be so blind and that others had to gamble money when they played cards. But one night he was dragged by his roommates to play cards for entertainment - he lived in school and didn't live at home - and he agreed, but only if he didn't gamble.

Since he learned the truth that he was snubbed by the coach because the coach gambled on the ball and pressed their own team to lose, and he flew a header to the whiteboard coach for hundreds of thousands, he hated gambling - if it wasn't for gambling, how could he lose the opportunity to continue playing? So he doesn't gamble, and if he wants to gamble money, he doesn't play.

Everyone couldn't agree to him, but it wouldn't be interesting to play if there was no price at all, so one of the classmates contributed dozens of dime coins that he usually saved in the lower layer of the pencil case, used them as chips, and returned them to him after playing, so that it was not considered gambling money, because the bet had to be returned to others in the end.

As a result, the game was played from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., and he lost to the point where he repeatedly borrowed chips from the winner several times before he could continue playing. At one o'clock in the morning, the other three students yawned and wanted to sleep, but he grabbed the hands of the three and said, "No, I have to win once before I can sleep!" ”

Later, it was not until half past three in the morning that the three poor classmates, who could not afford to come at all, were allowed to go to bed, and they did not even take off their clothes, but fell directly on the bed and snored. And the reason why they were able to sleep was that Chu Zhongtian finally got his wish and won once - even if he was not good at playing cards for fun, he was very serious about winning.

In school, he was single-mindedly studying and did not care about the world, and he was dragged by the head teacher to participate in the school's track and field meeting on the grounds of "the honor of the class", and almost all the items that could be reported were reported to Chu Zhongtian. She heard that Chu Zhongtian had practiced in a sports school - this female head teacher didn't know the difference between a football school and a sports school, in her opinion, football is a sport, so the football school is naturally a sports school, since it is a sports school, then running and jumping or something must be no problem, right? It's all in the newspaper, anyway, it's "winning glory for the class"...... As a result, Chu Zhongtian won the first place in all the projects he participated in. To everyone's surprise, he, a student who had been in school for a year, suddenly became a popular figure on campus, pointing fingers everywhere he went, and girls had bold eyes, and he even received anonymous love letters...... In fact, the head teacher did not force him to win any nouns, or did not require him to get good rankings in all the competitions, but he worked hard to come back with a lot of championship certificates. "Either you don't do it in the first place, and since you choose to do it, you have to do it best." Chu Zhongtian believes in this sentence, and his life trajectory has been practicing this maxim so far.

With the above examples, it can be a good illustration of what kind of person our Chu Zhongtian is - he is a slight obsessive-compulsive patient with a bit of perfectionism.

Even if it's a game to play, he wants to be perfect, which is why he slams out on his temporary teammates who only have a one-sided relationship with him. Although in hindsight, he was a little too strict - he couldn't ask everyone to be as serious as him, and if he didn't change his temper, he probably wouldn't be able to mix it up in the real world. But if he can change it, he won't be called Chu Zhongtian.

But there is a good place where he can make the most of these "shortcomings" of his personality - the football field.

Here, perfectionists, obsessive-compulsive people, born to win stars, uncomfortable not to win, not awkward to die, paranoid, psychotic, crazy, monsters, crazy people...... There are many of them, there are not many of them Chu Zhongtian, and there are not many of them Chu Zhongtian.

Therefore, when Chu Zhongtian had a fierce physical contact with the players of the Reading Town team (reading_town), and both of them fell to the ground, instead of feeling pain, he felt a trace of male hormones to stimulate the refreshment. On such a desperate court, he is like a fish in water.

The ball was knocked into the feet of another Reading player who was holding the ball.

Chu Zhongtian got up from the ground and rushed towards the opponent's player with the ball. In his eyes, the player had already opened his leg and was about to shoot hard from distance.

His mind echoed what manager Eames had said to them before the game.

"We all know that there is no other way but to win, and if you want to keep a glimmer of hope for yourself, win this game! Not for me to win, but for yourselves! Don't think about the bullshit that our fate is in someone else's hands! During these ninety minutes, our fate is in our own hands! To win! Be sure to win! Be sure to win no matter what!! ”

At the roar of the boss, he flew over to block the opposition's shot, and the ball left a bright red mark on the outside of his thigh.

"Well done!!" Centre-back Sim. Johnston came up and patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder, that power definitely didn't look like he was praising people, but like he had a grudge against Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian helped him out of the siege once, and a dedicated defensive midfielder will always be the best partner of the central defenders, even better than their wives.

Fifty-seven minutes into the game, the score was 1-0, and the visiting Wimbledon took the lead. In the thirteenth minute, Joe. Schilling helped the team open the scoring, which was a good start, but it also made Chu Zhongtian and other defensive players under great pressure in the subsequent games.

It's no wonder that Johnston was so excited after Chu Zhongtian blocked a long-range shot that looked very dangerous.

The game was getting to a fever pitch...... Emily stood in the humble stands, surrounded by her fellow Dons Bar friends, and a few laps wider, full of Wimbledon fans in blue Wimbledon jerseys. Everyone who supports and cares about this team knows what today's game means to them, so even if it is an away game, there are nearly 3,000 people cheering with the team.

At this time, they are all singing desperately, cheering up the team, hoping that the team can withstand the opponent's attack, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack, score one or two more goals, and completely stabilize the situation. This small stadium, which originally belonged to the Reading Town team, was occupied by the mad gang.

Under their mighty voice, the real owners, the Reading Town fans, couldn't make a sound. There are so few of them that even if they have the heart to resist these outsiders, there is no way to do it. The average attendance of the Ninth League is only 50 to 100 people all year round, and they have watched Reading Town games here for so many years, and how many times have they seen the scene of hula being used by thousands of people to cheer at once? Usually a hundred people can be considered a "big scene".

For the ninth-tier teams, many of the teams in the ninth tier are 'natives' of the league and have been mixed up here for many years, and for these aborigines, who were formed last summer by a group of fans of League One teams, and have a reputation for being strong players and financially far better than them, Wimbledon Athletic is a complete foreign invader, and they are strong. For such intruders, they look at them with dissatisfaction and fear.

The invaders are not very interested in this low-level amateur league, and they want to jump to the higher-level league as soon as possible, just like the slogan shouted from the beginning of the team: "Back to where you belong, back to the top league!" Go where to go, South West London! "The ambition of this team is beyond the comprehension of these low-league natives. What is the ambition of the bird?

So the Wimbledon Athletic team, the indigenous club, is basically not taken seriously. Analyze the tactics of both sides before the game? Familiar with the opposing team's main lineup? Two different sets of tactics for away and home? No need, no need, just stick to our style of play and run it all the way, and ten of them are all big wins.

It's just that fate plays tricks, and the invaders with higher hearts than the sky are now fighting for a place in the promotion play-offs and the natives they despise, and it is likely that "life is thinner than paper"...... Due to the schedule, the game time of Wimbledon in these rounds of the league is before the Warringford game. Otherwise, if Warringford play earlier than Wimbledon in this round of league games, then as long as they win, Wimbledon will also lose their meaning.

Thankfully, there is hope still alive among the Wimbledon fans and players.

※※※Kevin. As the captain of the team, Cooper always shows his importance in the crucial moments. In the sixty-third minute of the game, Kevin. Cooper received a message from Andy. After Sullivan's pass, he forced the ball into the penalty area, and then shot at the first time, the defenders and goalkeepers of the Reading Town team thought that he would continue to dribble the ball inside, but they couldn't react to this shot, and could only watch the football run into the net, 2:0!

The goal was a reassuring relief for all at Wimbledon...... The eldest family breathed a sigh of relief, regardless of what will happen to the next Wallingford game, at least this game Wimbledon should be considered to be won, and in these 90 minutes, their fate is still in their own hands.

The stands erupted in cheers from the Wimbledon fans again, and the cheers of this caliber had only sounded twice this time. Because Wimbledon has only scored two goals in total.

It was also a relief to all Wimbledon players – there has only been one time this season when a two-goal lead has been reversed. At that time, Wimbledon had just been formed, and the tacit understanding was not enough, and now they have experienced a whole season of baptism, which is much calmer than then, and that kind of thing must not be allowed to happen again, especially in such an important game. Therefore, there is no suspense about winning this game.

Chu Zhongtian is more combative than before the goal, because this is the time to show his value. As a defender, there is no way to rush into the opponent's penalty area to shoot and score, which directly helps the team to take the lead. But they can hold on to the lead for their team until the final victory. When the team is ahead, we defenders can also help the team win!

It's not just Chu Zhongtian, Sim. Johnston, Danny. Okins, Keith. Ward, Neil. Robertson, Lee. Sidwell, Andy. Bale, all the defensive players played well in this game, leaving the opponents helpless.

Defense, desperate defense. Go fight! Go for it! Go and run non-stop! Do the most tiring, dirty, and indispensable work! Although it is not as dazzling as the player who scores, it pins the hopes of all fans on this time. The humble roadbed will also shine one day!

Until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Wimbledon did not concede another goal. And that's all to the defensive players.

In the end, Wimbledon won the crucial match with a score of 2-0.

All they had to do was wait, wait for news from Wallingford that the game kicked off at the end of the game.

(To be continued)