The fencing club where Mr. Matthias Bell is located is called the "Tauberbisshofsheim Fencing Club". It trains fencing players of various professions and provides teaching services for amateur players who love fencing.

Mr. Bell is specialized in training professional fencing athletes. He has trained more than a dozen fencing athletes for Germany. He is always stern and meticulous in technical movements. He looks down on amateur enthusiasts and naturally he is too lazy to guide them.

But Chu Zhongtian, an amateur, is an exception.

When Chu Zhongtian walked into the training venue with his fencing bag, he saw Mr. Bell guiding his students to train. He nodded and greeted Mr. Bell, and went straight to the locker room to change his clothes.

After he changed, Mr. Bell had sent his students to practice independently.

"I watched yesterday's game." Mr. Bell said as soon as he saw Chu Zhongtian. "You performed well."

Chu Zhongtian was very happy to be praised by Mr. Bell.

"Thank you, Mr. Bell."

"Tell me what achievements has brought to you by practicing fencing during this period?" Mr. Bell was not in a hurry to let Chu Zhongtian practice, but asked with interest.

"I feel... when dealing with the ball in a small range during the game, my steps are more flexible." Chu Zhongtian had thought about this result a lot of times. As soon as the game against Dortmund was over, he began to consider this issue. In the end, he concluded that his outstanding performance in the game against Dortmund was related to fencing practice.

"Very good." Mr. Bell nodded, "But I hope you don't focus all your energy on pace training in practice. What you are here to practice is fencing, not social dance."

Chu Zhongtian smiled. This serious old man also had his humorous side. He would know after he had been in contact with him for a long time.

"Start practice now."

After talking to Chu Zhongtian, Mr. Bale asked him to practice, and he provided guidance on Chu Zhongtian's technical movements. The other athletes who came to the fencing hall, whether professional or amateur, were envious of this Hoffenheim's main midfielder. He was able to get one-on-one training from Mr. Bale, but Chu Zhongtian could get what they dreamed of every time he came.

"This is the benefit of celebrities..." someone said sourly.

"I think he does have the talent for fencing, but unfortunately he is a football player."

"You have to be glad he is a football player, otherwise you will have one more enemy, haha!"

"I also like football. I watched yesterday's game and his performance was very exciting. Do you know what the TV commentator said? 'Chu is a model of the core of the midfield'! This evaluation is really high!"

"A game doesn't tell anything..."

"You're right, a game doesn't tell anything. So I decided to watch every game of Hoffenheim from now on!"

"You actually watch Hoffenheim's game? That's a nouveau riche team..."

"What's there? I'm watching football they play, not how much money their boss has. To me, their football looks good, has an offensive spirit, is positive and fast-paced, is the kind of football I'm ideal."

When the coach couldn't see it, a group of people gathered together and whispered, discussing this special "student" in the training hall.

However, not all Hoffenheim fans are fans. Taoberbischowsheim does not have his own top professional football team, and the people here have not raised football to the point of religion.

Hoffenheim is attracting more and more attention because of their beautiful style of playing and offensive football style, and their fans are gradually increasing. This 4:1 game shocked a lot against German fans. If the previous ranking first in the league was just to let the fans know that there was such a new team this season, then the game against Dortmund completely made many fans have a strong interest in this team, just like some people in the fencing hall, who had the idea of ​​going to see other Hoffenheim games.

These people are Hoffenheim's future fans and one of Chu Zhongtian's goals. There are many such people. After the game, the German fan forum was full of discussions about Hoffenheim, and many people changed their previous views. They were influenced by the media and some other fans who hated Hoffenheim, thinking that Hoffenheim is an ugly team. Now it seems that Hoffenheim plays a football that is completely different from most German teams, full of youthful vitality and exciting.

This is exactly what they like.

They don't care whether this team has historical heritage, they don't care how many of the players in the team are local German players, and some of them are searched from all over the country at a high price. They don't care how valuable the club's boss is, and they don't care whether this team was playing football in the regional amateur league 18 years ago... They only care about one thing - whether Hoffenheim's football can make them feel pleasant from watching the game.

Judging from their match against Dortmund, it is indeed a pleasure for everyone.

No one likes watching the game where both sides have no chance to threaten the opponent's goal in 90 minutes and ends with 0:0.

Hoffenheim's style of playing football destined that they could not play such a game, either winning vigorously or losing vigorously. There are two games that can tell the problem, one is that they lost 2:5 to Leverkusen, and the other is that they won 4:1 to Dortmund.

As long as Rangnick can control the number of losses the team loses, this team will definitely hope to stir up huge waves in the stagnant German Football League.

※※※Fritz Abel was very happy all Sunday because the team he liked won the ball, and the winning team was a team like Dortmund, and it also won very beautifully. He was in a state of joy throughout the ninety minutes, and was not willing to lose the team he liked.

This kind of good mood continued until he went to school, and was not affected when he saw the classmates who often laughed at him.

Not everyone in this school is a fan. The fans of Munich 1860 and Bayern Munich are not the vast majority. But everyone can bully Abel, which has nothing to do with whether they are fans or not. The students of the entire Munich Rutner Vocational Preparatory Middle School know that there is such a coward in the school. If you scold or joke or bully, he will not resist. It is like the best sandbag.

So teasing Abel every day has become a regular program for many people.

"Hey, little Abel, look at your smile so brightly, are you finally not wet the bed?"

"Oh, look at who is coming, coward Abel! What the hell are you giggling? Are you very upset with my new hairstyle?"

Although everyone still mocked him and mocked him, insulting him with his timidity and fear.

But he didn't care at all, and his left ear came in and his right ear came out.

If the team you like wins the ball, there will be no more important things in this world, so it is worth it even if you are scolded and laughed at.

So today's Abel gives people a particularly weird feeling - no matter how others scold him, he smiles.

And when there was no one, he would dance for a while when he recalled the goal from Hoffenheim.

For this timid and fearful ordinary boy, football is his only spiritual sustenance.

※※※On Monday, the team resumed training and Chu Zhongtian came to take the training ground one and a half hours in advance. He has been like this since joining Hoffenheim. Most players come to the team to report half an hour before the training start time. Some of the more active ones are only 45 minutes to an hour in advance. There are no people like Chu Zhongtian who come so early.

Chu Zhongtian came so early not to show his training attitude to the head coach. He really has a reason.

First of all, you can prepare calmly and adjust your physical and mood conditions, and you have reached the most appropriate level. Training is not a war, so you don’t have to be so nervous that you can marches for a day and a night before entering the battle immediately. Being calm has many benefits, and at least it can effectively reduce the chance of injury during training.

Then after coming an hour and a half in advance, he usually chats with everyone. As the captain, he must know his teammates, know what they are doing recently, what they are interested in, and increase their relationship with his teammates, so that everyone can gradually accept his leadership. If you come to the training ground to participate in training at the point every day and leave as soon as the training is over, such teammates have almost zero presence in the team. What's the use of?

Another reason why he came one and a half hours in advance was the head coach. Sometimes Rangnick would chat with Chu Zhongtian alone before training. The two of them had a wide range of chats, but they were always able to hook up with football. Sometimes Rangnick would ask Chu Zhongtian about his experience in practicing fencing, and would discuss tactics with Chu Zhongtian, listen to Chu Zhongtian’s opinions and ideas on the work he was doing, and then make adjustments during training and competitions.

From this point of view, Chu Zhongtian can feel how fanatical Rangnick is a workaholic who loves football. He has worked with many coaches. Eames is his head coach at Wimbledon Athletics, and Metz is his head coach Fernandez, and he has had a long-term cooperation with coach Tadio. Among the coaches he has come into contact with, Rangnick is the most fanatical about work. Chu Zhongtian even feels that this man is probably not pretending to be anything but football. I heard that he once went to see Zeman training team on vacation, and treats work as a vacation, which is probably rare in the world... Of course, Rangnick will not only communicate with Chu Zhongtian, but he will also talk to other players alone. But Chu Zhongtian comes the earliest and has the most time, so the two of them communicate the longest time. After such three months of contact, Chu Zhongtian knows his new head coach very well, and Rangnick knows Chu Zhongtian better.

When he arrived at the training ground today, Rangnick was waiting for him again.

"Good morning, Chu."

"Good morning, Ralph."

After two people have been in contact for a long time, they will not be so polite. Chu Zhongtian can directly call the head coach's name, which makes him look closer.

“How was my practice yesterday?”

Rangnick didn't say anything about practice, but Chu Zhongtian knew that he was referring to fencing.

He nodded and said, "It's pretty good. Mr. Bell told me that he hoped my pace frequency would be faster, but now I'm not able to master the stability of my upper body when I get up, and I'm still practicing."

"Go faster to step frequency?" Rangnick thought for a while and understood. In football games, step frequency is very important. If you have faster foot frequency than others, you will have the lead everywhere. Imagine when everyone has a chance to play a ball, your foot is faster. If you stab the ball before the opponent, but the opponent kicks it in a short time, it is obvious that you have the advantage.

Especially when you are besieged by multiple people, you have to deal with not just one person, but two to three people. You are not facing one foot or two feet, but four and six. If you move slowly under your feet, even if you can turn the football back from this person, you may be snatched away by others who are guarding the side. If your feet move faster, you can quickly control the ball in the cracks, so that the opponent's steals will be lost.

This is a good direction for training... When he was thinking, Chu Zhongtian stood beside him. When he came to his senses and saw Chu Zhongtian still standing in front of him, he remembered something. His purpose of coming to Chu Zhongtian was not to chat with Chu Zhongtian.

"By the way, Mr. Hope wants to meet you, Chu."

"See me?"

Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised. Hope is not the chairman of the club. He was once and has now stepped down. In the column "Club Chairman", the name Peter Hoffmann is written, and Hope is the chairman of the board. However, the specific operation of the club is handed over to Hoffman to manage. He is more like a hardcore fan who is on duty. In addition to handling his own funds and industries, his biggest job every day is to sit in Hoffenheim's training base to watch the players' training, and then go to the scene to watch the game on the game day, like an ordinary Hoffenheim fan - if someone who doesn't know him, he will definitely think so.

Chu Zhongtian was surprised that he had never met the boss alone since he met the boss at the press conference of joining the team. Sometimes before or after the game, he would see the old man with gray hair dancing on the rostrum on the court... Of course, it must be after the team won the ball.

Most of the time, Hope's boss is very low-key, never appears on the training ground, never enters the players' locker room, even in the training base's locker room. He will not give orders to Rangnick, and everything about the team is left to the head coach Rangnick. He is not like those ordinary German head coaches, but more like a Premier League football manager.

The impression of this boss is probably as advertised by the media - he is rich, loves football and the Hoffenheim club, and then he is gone.

His role in the club seems to be only to sign checks when the team needs it.

But Chu Zhongtian respects this old man very much because he really loves his team very much. Everything he enjoys now is provided by this old man a few years ago and ten years ago. The team is now good and ranks second in the league, and it is inseparable from the old man’s financial support.

Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised that he would call for a name to see him.

"Now, Ralph?"

Rangnick smiled and nodded: "Yes, it's now. He happens to be in his office, you go find him." Looking at Chu Zhongtian's suspicious expression, he added: "Don't worry, it's a good thing."

Chu Zhongtian knocked on Boss Hope's door with doubts.

There are no signs outside the boss's office. It looks no different from an ordinary room, but in fact there is no difference between them, except that the people sitting there are different.

Hope was very happy to see Chu Zhongtian, so he got up from his seat, opened his arms, and walked around to the front to give Chu Zhongtian a big hug.

"Welcome, Chu. You must have met Ralph, right?"

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Yes, I saw him and even talked to him. Hello, Mr. Hope."

Hop pulled Chu Zhongtian and sat down on the sofa, and said to him: "The game against Dortmund was so beautiful. Thank you, Chu. I have dedicated such a wonderful game to me."

"It won't be possible to rely on me alone, boss."

Hope laughed: "But you are the director of this drama. It's not okay to have a movie without a director. Don't be humble. Also, I have to apologize to you for what happened that day. Those remarks really embarrass me."

Chu Zhongtian knew what he was referring to. "You are not the boss of Dortmund Club, so you don't need to apologize..."

"But I am a German, and those who scold you are also Germans. I just want to tell you that there are indeed some scum in Germany, but not all Germans are like that. Most Germans are still pretty good... They just lack some understanding of China." Hope clapped.

"Let's go back to the game. Your goal is so beautiful, extraordinary..." Speaking of excitement, Hope stood up and wanted to imitate Chu Zhongtian's move of knocking the ball with his heel. But he didn't do it, just waved his legs and twisted his butt. The meaning was that.

"You and Ibisevic are also very tacit in cooperation. To be honest, when Ralph strongly suggested that I buy you, I was still suspicious. Because Ralph said you very well, it seems that the entire German football world cannot produce such a number. But now, I don't know whether you can become the only person in German football world, but I'm sure that my 30 million is not in vain."

Hope patted Chu Zhongtian's shoulder and said this to him, which surprised Chu Zhongtian. It's too "reward" to say this to him or his player, right?

"You are a very good player, Chu. Actually, you can succeed in any team, but why did you choose us? Ralph told me privately that you can become the next 'Caesar' in football. Is that true?"

Chu Zhongtian knew who "Caesar" meant, but no matter how arrogant he was, it was difficult to directly admit such a thing. Whether he could become "Caesar II" depends not only on his own strength, but also on many other comprehensive factors, such as luck is essential.

He just smiled and said to the boss: "I know boss, you are an ambitious person, because you once said that Hoffenheim will become a new Bundesliga giant in five years. I just want to come here to create a big scene with you."

After hearing Chu Zhongtian say this, Hope was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "You speak very well and very nicely. I did say that, but many people think I am joking. The wealthy clubs require historical background. Hoffenheim is still far from the wealthy family, but why can't we start working hard now with the goal of the wealthy family? Start working hard now, maybe it can't be considered a wealthy family in five years, but it's hard to say in twenty years. Besides... they all think that Hoffenheim's dream of a wealthy family started this season, but for me, for many Hoffenheim residents..." He blinked at Chu Zhongtian and said naughtyly, "It started twenty years ago."
To be continued...