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Chu Zhongtian's goal dealt a heavy blow to Leeds United, who were so poor in the rest of the game that the home fans booed sporadically for their poor performance – and of course, more boos were given to the visitors Wimbledon. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But no one at Wimbledon cared about the boos, they were the ones who won anyway.

In the end, Wimbledon Athletic won 2-1 away at Leeds United, ending an embarrassing history against Leeds United that they had never won since their inception.

After the game, the media were praising Chu Zhongtian's decisive performance, but this time there were also many media who fully affirmed the other players of Wimbledon, after all, they took the lead away from home without Chu Zhongtian's help, and if there was no goal for them, Chu Zhongtian's goal would have just helped the team draw.

The media also said that the victory in this game allowed Russell to successfully overcome a crisis of confidence, and after scoring three points in this game and beating the top of the league, he can continue to coach the team.

Although the club's hierarchy never said they would sack Russell after this game defeat, everyone believed it was true, including Russell himself.

Leeds United manager Donald was criticized by the media after the game, believing that his performance after Chu Zhongtian came on was too bad. As Chu Zhongtian thought in the game, Donald's recycling defensive strategy did not win the game for him, but instead turned him into a coward at home, and not only the media criticized him, but Leeds United fans also scolded him for being a coward. Leeds United fans believe that if the team insists on attacking and putting pressure on the Wimbledon penalty area, Chu Zhongtian will never be able to control the ball so calmly in the midfield, and Leeds United can score another goal and win. Well, now a cowardly choice has conceded victory and made Leeds United a laughing stock.

Many media are laughing at the whole Leeds United team for being frightened after seeing Chu Zhongtian, they only know that they are huddled in their own restricted area, like a cat that has seen a tiger, trembling all over, and they don't know how to resist at all.

The media in London trumpeted Chu's deterrent power ............ He's just playing, he's not doing anything, and Leeds don't know what to do......"

"That's Chu's ability, he doesn't belong in the Championship at all, he should have played in the Premier League if it wasn't for Wimbledon promotion. So as long as Wimbledon uses him well, upgrading shouldn't be a problem! ”

"To be honest, I now feel that Chu is like a nuclear weapon at Wimbledon, even if it is not used there, it has a deterrent effect......"

The game also became a watershed moment.

Since this game, the whole Wimbledon team seems to have opened up, and the performance has become more and more consistent and better.

It's not like every game can be won, but the number of games lost has decreased. What's more, what the team showed in the game was exactly the style that Chu Zhongtian and Russell were pursuing.

With such an impactful style of football, Wimbledon Athletic's results began to gradually improve.

At the end of November, Wimbledon manager Russell was voted the league's manager of the month, and Chu Zhongtian was named the best player, and in the seven games of the month, Wimbledon Athletic endured three double-match matches in a week, and in those seven league games, they have won five and drawn two in those seven league games, and have risen to eighth place in the league.

Heading into December, Wimbledon Athletic are also on good momentum, winning their first game to make it three wins in a row.

Although they lost the game, the morale of the team was not affected and the media received a very positive evaluation.

The team is generally on the upswing.

Everyone firmly believes that it will not be difficult to play like this and eventually upgrade.

Many Wimbledon fans are even starting to look forward to what they will do after promotion to the Premier League.

“…… The team needs to buy people! We need to invest more! We need to buy more star players! ”

“…… I'm going to go wild at Old Trafford, haha! ”

"Let the idiots of Milton Keynes regret it! We are the most orthodox representatives of Wimbledon! ”

"I think we should re-apply to the FA to carry on the Wimbledon history to us so that we are complete!"

Everyone is optimistic.

The same is true within Wimbledon Athletic. Although the schedule of the team is very dense during the Christmas period, there are even three games to be played in five days. The players didn't think it was a big deal.

But just then, Russell received a transatlantic phone call.

※※※ On December 17, Russell was on the training ground to explain to all the players what the tactics they were going to practice in this class were and what specific requirements they had.

At that moment, the phone he was carrying in his pocket vibrate.

Russell, who was speaking, paused, apparently feeling the vibration of his phone.

He was going to finish his speech every time, but the phone in his pocket kept vibrating and was very tenacious, as if he had to ask Russell to pick it up.

Russell wondered, who would call him at this time? Reporter? They all knew it was training time and he wouldn't answer the phone. Parents? The jet lag is wrong. The top of the club, like Samuelson, an old man? Don't they know to come directly to themselves, why do they have to call their mobile phones?

The phone vibrated all the time, and the sound it made was audible to everyone else.

Just when Russell was hesitating, Chu Zhongtian said: "Boss, go pick it up, we can wait for you." ”

Other players agreed.

Russell apologized to everyone, then pulled out his phone and connected it as he walked out.

Chu Zhongtian noticed that after he had walked a few steps, he stood still, and then lowered his head.

After a while, Russell turned around and walked back, Chu Zhongtian noticed that his expression was not quite right, and tears even appeared in his eyes!

Chu Zhongtian thought to himself, something must have happened...... But before he could ask, Russell slapped his face: "Okay, let's move on......"

There was something wrong with his voice, but it was normal to hear it suddenly.

When he had said everything he had to say, he handed over the job to the assistant coach and hurried out of the training ground.

Chu Zhongtian felt more and more strange.

But he suppressed the doubts in his heart and still completed the training seriously.

Before the end of the session, Russell was back on the training ground.

He seemed to have washed his face and still had water stains on his hair.

Not too many people noticed that Russell had ever left the training ground, and there was certainly something about the manager's occasional departure during training and it wasn't worth paying too much attention to.

Although Russell came back, he didn't say anything, just asked the assistant coach to summarize the gains and losses in training, and then announced the disbandment. That's the end of this morning's training session. Players can choose to go home or simply dine in the cafeteria at the club's training base and wait for the afternoon training session.

Chu Zhongtian drove home every day, because he still had his wife and daughter at home.

But today he didn't do that, he went straight to knock on the manager's office door.

knocked three times, and Russell's voice sounded inside: "Please come in ......"

Chu Zhongtian pushed the door in and saw Russell sitting behind his desk in a trance.

"What happened?" Chu Zhongtian didn't talk nonsense with him much, and asked directly.

"Nothing......" Russell shook his head in denial.

"What's the relationship between the two of us, Alai? Do you need to hide it from me? Chu Zhongtian walked up to Russell's side, leaned over and stared at him and asked.

Under Chu Zhongtian's gaze, Russell lowered his head.

"You answered a phone call while you were training, that's it, who called that call?"

“…… My mother. Russell finally spoke.

Chu Zhongtian chuckled in his heart. The phone call from home, after receiving the call, I reacted like this, and it is easy to think of a not very good picture when these are put together...... Sure enough, Russell went on to tell the truth: "My dad was in a car accident......

Chu Zhongtian was shocked and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"Hospitalized, deep coma ......"

"Uh...... Don't worry, Alai, your dad will be fine, he will be fine, I can't tell you if he will wake up tomorrow? Chu Zhongtian tried to comfort Russell, no one would feel good when they encountered such a thing.

"I just called the hospital and they told me that the odds of being vegetative are high......"

Chu Zhongtian's other comforts that came to his lips could only be swallowed. The hospital said so...... "Maybe the hospital made a mistake?" He immediately thought of another reason.

"That's all I can think of......" Russell's tone didn't seem to believe the reason at all, and he knew in his heart that the possibility of the hospital's error was low. The doctors said that during the car accident, their father was hit on the head, and in fact the doctors were surprised that his father was still alive. The car that my father was driving was completely destroyed from the head to the driver's seat, but the impact on my father's head was not caused by the car that caused the accident, but by the airbag...... Chu Zhongtian patted Russell's shoulder as a sign of comfort.

Russell raised his head: "Don't worry, Chu." It won't affect the team's ......"

Chu Zhongtian frowned and interrupted him: "What are you talking about, Alai?" I'm not here to ask about the guilt. Actually......" His mind spun around, and a thought came to him in a hazy way. "I think you should go back, Alai."

"Go back?" Russell was a little surprised.

"Well, go home, go back to the United States. I think your mom must need you very much at this time, and your dad needs you too...... Yes, you have to go back. "The more Chu Zhongtian said that the thought in his mind became clearer, and the more sure he was that his idea was correct." You are the only child in your family, and if you don't go back, what will your mother do? She needs someone to take care of her, too. If it were something like this, I would fly back to be with my parents...... Well, that's right, that's it. ”

Chu Zhongtian nodded and said.

Russell's eyes widened: "Go back?" But the team is working hard for a living, and I'm the head coach, Chu. It's not an assistant coach, or a strength and conditioning coach...... The manager is gone, what happens to the team? ”

Chu Zhongtian was very serious and said, "Don't we still have Erwin?" ”

Alvin. Stonefield is the team's assistant coach and has been assisting Terry Murphy Murphy Brown. Brown, who later assisted Alle. Russell. Russell's ability to lead successfully at such a young age is not unrelated to Stonefield's help.

Actually in Terry. When Brown left class, some media thought that Stonefield would take over Brown's legacy and become the team's head coach. Unexpectedly, in the end, the head coach of Wimbledon Athletic was the young Russell, which surprised many people.

Only Russell knew the inside story - the club board did look for Stonefield, but Stonefield recommended himself to the club board. His reasoning is said to be that "Alai is much younger than me and can serve the team for many years, I can't, I'm too old." ”

Stonefield, who is sixty-three years old this year, is indeed not young, but it is not enough to say that the old man cannot do this position.

"We can have Erwin as interim head coach until you come back." Chu Zhongtian said.

When he talked about Alvin, Russell was indeed a little tempted - he felt that what Chu Zhongtian said was feasible, and if it was Erwin, he could rest assured. In the whole of Wimbledon, there is no one who can compare to him. He has been with the club since he arrived in 2006.

"I can help a little bit else." Chu Zhongtian smiled at Russell. "So you have nothing to worry about, just go back like this, don't worry, we will wait for you. Your father will wake up soon, too, and when you're back, maybe the season isn't over yet. We can also upgrade together! ”

※※※ Russell finally accepted Chu Zhongtian's suggestion and decided to ask the club for leave to go back to accompany his mother, hoping that his father would wake up.

There was no reason to refuse such a thing, and the club's board of directors was very reasonable in agreeing to Russell's request. During this period, as the team's results improved and stabilized, the relationship between the club and Russell also entered the honeymoon period again.

However, before Russell left, the board asked him to recommend an interim head coach, and Russell recommended Alvin. Stonefield.

Once the interim head coach is confirmed, Russell will have to hand over the job and then take a leave of absence to go home. In fact, there is nothing to hand over, as he said, Stonefield is the person who knows the team best in the whole club, and if it is to hand over the work to him, in fact, there is no need to hand over at all, he knows everything.

But just two days after Russell submitted a replacement to the club's board of directors, the club's president, Samuelson, approached Chu.

"Let me be the interim head coach?" Chu Zhongtian was surprised.

When he came up with this idea to Russell, Chu Zhongtian really didn't expect that the position of interim head coach would fall on his head.

"That's right...... Russell had recommended Stonefield, but Stonefield recommended you to us......" Samuelson explained with some embarrassment.

Samuelson still respects the opinion of the person who knows the team best, otherwise he wouldn't have asked Chu Zhongtian if he wanted to be the interim head coach of this team, and just went to someone else - he would definitely take Stonefield's words as a crazy idea, a coward shirking responsibility.

But Samuelson has worked in the club for more than ten years and knows very well what kind of person Stonefield is, so he came to ask Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian was even more surprised: "Alvin recommended me?" ”

"Well, he thinks you're more suitable than him to be the interim acting head coach...... "To be honest, Samuelson doesn't know why Chu Zhongtian is more suitable than Stonefield, you must know that Stonefield knows the team very well, and he feels that the whole club can't find a more suitable person to be the acting head coach than him, but he didn't expect this "best fit" to recommend another person...... Chu Zhongtian didn't know if he should accept this task, but he knew one thing - before making this decision, he had to have a good chat with Stonefield and ask why he recommended him...... He still has some clouds and fog now, and he can't figure out the situation...... it's easy for Chu Zhongtian to find Stonefield, because both of them are Russell's assistant coaches, and they can see each other every day.

Stonefield smiled when he saw Chu Zhongtian coming over: "I know what you want to ask." ”

"Why did you recommend me, Elwin?"

"Then why did you recommend me to Alai?" Stonefield asked rhetorically.

"Your level of knowledge of the team is unmatched in the whole team, and you have worked in the club for many years and have enough ......prestige," Chu Zhongtian said his reason.

Stonefield waited patiently for him to finish his reasoning, then shook his head, "I don't agree with you, Chu." I do know the team better than all of you, but that's what an assistant coach should do, and the manager doesn't have to know the team because the assistant coach can help him. It's not what you have to be a manager. As for the prestige of the dressing room...... Hehe, I think you're more prestigious than I am. ”

Chu Zhongtian grinned.

'You have a very clear purpose, you have a lot of motivation, you can lead your team-mates to win on the pitch, why can't you lead them to win off the pitch as well?' Alvin. Stonefield stretched out his hand and asked Chu Zhongtian. "I don't know what you're going to do first when you retire, Chu. But I think you can try to be a manager. I'm an assistant coach, I've been an assistant coach all my life, at Wimbledon, at other teams, I've worked with a lot of managers. One thing I found to be successful among them is that they all have a very clear purpose and know what they want. I don't have that, but you do, and you were born with it. ”

"But I'm a player......"

"Who says players can't be head coaches at the same time? There are a lot of things about those players being coaches, and it's not uncommon for them to be managers. Why can't you just do it? Or do you feel that your burden is too heavy and the challenge is too difficult, so ......"

Chu Zhongtian immediately shook his head: "No, I never had such an idea. ”

Stonefield smiled: "That's fine, you will be the acting head coach, and I will also be the assistant coach for you." ”

(To be continued)