Chapter 44: Declaration of War
Chu Zhongtian has recently received attention from many media, and this time it has nothing to do with whether he is suspicious of revenge on his opponent in the game. It is related to Bayern Munich. Of course, Chu Zhongtian is just a green leaf in this wave of attention, in order to set off the red flower Ibisekic.
He is not the only one who is paying attention to the media. Ibisekvic always mentions him. Because they are players who just played against Bayern Munich last season, they attracted much attention before this game. Ibisekvic scored 18 goals in 15 rounds and led the Bundesliga scorer list, and his bumpy life experience - he was once a refugee - has attracted more attention.
Only on the Chinese media side, Ibissevic will become the green leaf of Chu Zhongtian, the red flower. On the German media side, they think Ibissevic is a key figure in Hoffenheim in this game. Because his current condition is really good.
Even Bayern Munich attaches great importance to Ibisevic.
Ibicevic scored more goals per man than the five Bundesliga teams of Cologne, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bielefeld, Cottbus and Karlsruhe. The forward in such a state of courage cannot not attract the attention of Bayern. Klinsmann's coaching staff began to prepare for the video analysis. Henke, who was specifically responsible for video analysis, appeared at Hoffenheim's home game against Bielefeld last weekend. His focus of work in recent times is to find out how to deal with Ibicevic.
When Bayern Munich players were interviewed, they were asked which Hoffenheim player they were most impressed, and most people would blurt out: "Their forward, the one who scored eighteen goals." Only Ribery would say: "Of course it's Chu. Because we are good friends."
Bayern players all know Ibissevic, but they may not all have positive reactions.
Klose said in an interview: "I have played in the league for ten years and have seen more and more storms. I have had strikers like Hashmian who can make a storm in a while, but the important thing is to maintain efficiency for a long time. Only by doing this can you be called a successful real shooter."
But no matter whether Ibissevic can maintain such crazy performance in the future, at least Klose and his team must face this crazy Ibissevic in the weekend game.
Some reporters also came to interview Chu Zhongtian and asked him what he thought about this game. These reporters have done their homework and they will mention the scene when Chu Zhongtian led Metz to eliminate Bayern Munich when he was at Metz last season.
The media want to find clues about Hoffenheim's possible victory from past games.
"Chu, Ibisevic will be the key figure in Hoffenheim's possible victory!" The French team also expressed concern for this game and focused on the two stars who came out of the Ligue 1.
Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic were also interviewed by a French TV station after training.
During the interview, Chu Zhongtian asked the other party: "Do you also pay attention to this game in France?"
The French reporter laughed and said, "Of course, there are three players who have been branded in Ligue 1 in this game." He pointed to Chu Zhongtian and Ibicevic and said, "You and Frank Ribery, this game is still very popular in France."
Chu Zhongtian said oh, thinking in his heart that Metz can see it too. I wonder if Metz's fans, such as Belmont, Legov, and his teammates at Metz, can see their performance in the Bundesliga?
※※※ Outside the Charles de Gaulle Square at Metz Railway Station, there are a row of taxis waiting for customers. When there is no business, taxi drivers will gather together to chat. However, the taxi driver Belmont is not among them. He is sitting in his car, driving loud music, holding a freshly baked "Lorraine Republic". The page he opened has three large photos, and the people in the photos are all familiar faces, with Ibisevic on the left, Chu Zhongtian in the middle, and Ribery on the right.
The main title on the photo is: "Germany's Century War, Made in Metz!"
One is the current top scorer in the Bundesliga, the other is the captain core of the team ranked first in the Bundesliga, and the other is the double top players in the Bundesliga and Bayern Munich. These three are the focus of this game, and all three are from Metz.
As a Metz fan, this is something that is very proud of. Although many Metz fans and Ribery have fallen out now... Metz's performance this season is not very good and is on the verge of relegation. Menez has just recovered not long after undergoing surgery in Xiatian and is in no state. Pianic's performance in replacing Chu Zhongtian is quite outstanding, but due to the overall strength of the team. The team's poor performance makes fans miss Chu Zhongtian and others who have left. Metz's most glorious period was created by these three people, but now they will fight each other on another court.
Someone knocked on the car window, and Belmont glanced at the man who wanted to take the car, so he put the newspaper away and put it aside.
After the visitor got into the car, Belmont turned around and grinned at him, "Welcome to Metz, please fasten your seat belt!"
※※※Fritz Abel plans to go to the Hoffenheim fan club he belongs to, "Bavaria Hoffenheim", which is the only Hoffenheim fan club in Munich, with a small number of people. The representative colors of this city are red and blue. Of course, red is Bayern Munich, but blue does not refer to Hoffenheim, but Munich 1860.
Abel rarely goes to the fan club because it is a bit far from his home.
Today he went to Hoffenheim Fan Club to try his luck.
He went to Allianz Stadium in the morning and planned to buy tickets for weekend games. But when he arrived at Allianz Stadium, he found that all the ticket windows had a sign hanging with the same sentence: "Tickets sold out."
There were many people standing outside every ticket gate. When they saw Abel walking towards the ticket window, they rushed forward, scaring Abel so much that he didn't dare to move forward any more.
"Are there any tickets? Man!"
"Are you here to refund the ticket? Don't refund it, I'll give you the money and sell it to me!"
"Is it a standing ticket or a seat?"
This sound suddenly rang.
Abel waved his hand quickly: "I'm here to buy tickets..."
When everyone saw him say this, their faces showed disappointment, and they waved their hands and walked back. Someone kindly reminded him: "Don't waste your time, young man. The tickets have been sold out long ago!"
"Ah?!" Abel was very surprised to hear this news. Although he is not a fan of Bayern Munich, as a fan living in the city of Munich, he still knows some things. When the tickets for the first half of the season started to be sold in early August, even non-Bayern members could buy tickets for a better position in the Allianz Stadium from the ticket window and formal sales channels on Sebenna Street. In the usual games, you could buy station tickets four days in advance. Why are all the tickets sold out now?
Seeing that he didn't believe it, the man shrugged: "Even Real Madrid hasn't been so crazy when they came here to play..." He muttered and walked away.
Abel stood alone in a daze, looking around the ticket windows with high-end battle-free signs, not knowing what to do.
All Abel saw was a microcosm.
In fact, I can't buy tickets from the week before the game. Now the people who are still waiting here are just looking forward to someone coming to refund the tickets - 69,000 tickets have been sold out long ago.
The phone number of Bayern Munich's ticketing department has long been blown up. Just like the last ticket to board the Titanic, thousands of fans were eager to enter and watch the game between Bayern and Hoffenheim. In the short meal time on Tuesday at noon, there were 650 calls and emails to request tickets, but there was only one reply: "Sorry, the tickets have been sold out!"
Just as Abel stood outside the stadium in a daze, Bayern ticket manager Oliver Methaler was interviewing a reporter. He expressed his surprise to the reporter: "If there are enough seats, we can sell 150,000 tickets in this game! I have never seen such a scene... With Hoffenheim's outstanding performance, the requirements for bookings have increased week after week... Everyone is crazy, and this is just a Bundesliga game... You have given too many other meanings to this game." He pointed to the reporter and said.
The reporter said: "But isn't this good, Mr. Mestale?"
“It’s not good for our security personnel.”
※※Abel decided to go to the local Hoffenheim fan club in Munich for help. Hoffenheim fans are not many in Munich. He thought that if he went there, he should get a ticket. He couldn't even care whether the location was good or not, as long as he could let him in and watch the game.
But when Abel rushed to the "Bavaria Hoffenheim" fan club, he heard bad news.
"After buying it, all the tickets I have sold." The head of the Fan Club said to him with a helpless look on his face. "Bayern Club has prepared 6,500 tickets for all of our Hoffenheim fans, but only 60 of them were assigned to me. I didn't expect so many people to ask me for tickets... I'm so sorry, you're late."
Abel stood at the door blankly, and he really didn't know what expression he should have. It was a good thing that the team he liked was so popular with Bayern Munich, but he was blocked from the gate of the Allianz Stadium and could only watch live TV at home, which was undoubtedly a bad thing.
As a supporter of Hoffenheim, it would be fine if he couldn't go to Hoffenheim to cheer for his favorite team. Now at his doorstep, he can only watch TV. What a tragedy... Thinking about it now, just three days ago, he was still happy that Hoffenheim defeated Bielefeld 3-0. But maybe it was that game that made his tickets a thing that others had.
The better Hoffenheim performed, the more painful he felt, because he could not go to the live game to watch the highly anticipated game. This made him feel as if he was abandoned by the whole world.
He didn't know how he got back, he just felt that everyone he met on the road seemed to have a ticket to show off to him in his eyes. This made him feel even more abandoned.
When he was about to walk home, he heard the voice he least wanted to hear at this moment.
"Ahhh! Little Abel, have you been bullied again? But this time it must be me, ahhh!"
The big fat man Daniel blocked him alone.
Abel didn't want to pay attention to him, and he could guess what he would get - it must be Daniel's ridicule. At this time, if Daniel did not mock him, he would not be Daniel, but an angel.
He took a step to the side, intending to bypass the other party. However, Daniel also moved one step and continued to stand in front of Abel.
"I'm not here to cause trouble for you, little Abel." Daniel's voice sounded again. "I know what trouble you are in, I'm here to help you."
Abel doesn't believe that Daniel will never be so kind.
"Believe it or not." Daniel saw that Abel did not respond to his words, so he snorted, then took out something and put it in front of Abel.
Abel's eyes were suddenly widened, with his head down. What did he see? A ticket for Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim!
He raised his head suddenly and stared at Daniel through his thick glasses. He rarely dared to look at Daniel like this. It usually means he will eat his fists or be scolded, but today he ignores those things.
He was so surprised that Daniel had tickets, he was not surprised. This person was an avid Bayern Munich fan. What surprised him was that Daniel wanted to give himself tickets!
Seeing Abel's expression, Daniel smiled with satisfaction, but he drew the ticket back, and then spread his other hand and put it in front of Abel.
"Twenty-five euros, thank you."
Abel thought he had heard it wrong at first, but he quickly realized that although he was cowardly, he was not stupid - how could Daniel be kind to help him? It turned out to be to make money.
“The station ticket is only worth fifteen…”
He wanted to express his verbal protest.
But Daniel interrupted him: "Thirty euros, thank you."
Abel quickly shut up. He knew that as long as he continued to question, the price would rise. Can he not want this ticket? He can't, so in order to avoid the price being too high, he would better pay to buy it now.
Daniel took the money from Abel and smiled and said, "Smart choice. OK, now it's yours!"
He slapped the ticket into Abel's palm: "Don't lose it, if you lose it, just cry by yourself!"
After saying that, Daniel left with a smirk.
Daniel thought to himself how could I lose something so important? I lost myself and wouldn't lose the ticket!
Holding the ticket in his hand tightly, he felt that at this moment, the world had come back and he was not abandoned by the world. The dark clouds that had been shrouded in Munich were broken, and the bright sunshine poured down. He seemed to hear the song of heaven...※※※After the training, Chu Zhongtian was stopped by Rannick: "After taking a shower, I went to the press conference with me."
This is Hoffenheim's last regular press conference before his trip to Munich.
When the two of them came to the club's press conference, they found that it was already crowded. Usually, there were only about twenty reporters in this small house, but now more than fifty reporters have been squeezed in, crowding the room to pieces.
After seeing the two protagonists appear, the reporters stopped talking to each other and prepared to start an interview.
Although the game is getting closer and closer, the verbal battles still do not mean to stop. The two clubs use the media to spit on each other, making the bystanders very happy and climax after wave. So some shocking information can be found at every press conference.
At the last press conference, Rangnick made a tough response to Bayern Munich's provocation for the first time, and the response was great - onlookers did not want to see one-sided battles. If the provocative ones never responded, what else would it mean?
A reporter raised his hand to ask a question, hoping that Rangnick would reveal his game tactics slightly.
But Rangnick shrugged and said uncooperatively: "Maybe I will send four forwards, maybe I will let twelve or thirteen players play at the same time, and hope no one will find out, who knows?"
Hearing the head coach's words, Chu Zhongtian, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help laughing. It immediately attracted the attention of all the reporters. He did not hold back his laughter, but smiled calmly under everyone's gaze, and then said to everyone: "I'm sorry, you guys continue."
After being interrupted by him, how could he continue? A German reporter stood up and threw the problem at Chu Zhongtian: "What do you think about the media using 'David Challenge Goliath' to describe this game?"
"A good metaphor. Goliath is invincible. Just like Bayern, we don't have much pressure now and can play all our strength. Anyway, we won't be criticized if we lose. And Bayern is different. If they lose, they will be ridiculed by the whole of Germany. So we have the advantage of our mentality."
Chu Zhongtian said this without any politeness, but he expressed the heart problems of Bayern Munich players. They are under a lot of pressure now because they can't lose to Hoffenheim no matter what. The media hype and the continuous attention of fans have left them with no way out. This is like a Champions League final. Bayern players can't imagine what they would be scolded if they lose to Hoffenheim... Rangnick also seemed full of fighting spirit. He took Chu Zhongtian's words and said: "If you want to hear gorgeous words, please go to Munich. They have contributed a lot of classic quotes to us in the past two weeks. If you want to see gorgeous football, please come to Hoffenheim. We go to Munich not to exchange jerseys or visit the stadium. What we want is..." He paused here, then looked at Chu Zhongtian, and then said, "I'm sorry I use such words - their blood-haired scalp."
As soon as these words came out, they immediately caused an uproar in the whole game. This is the first time that a team dared to issue such a declaration of war to the Bundesliga overlord Bayern Munich, let alone the bloody words of a newly promoted team with only 15 Bundesliga experience. Some people will ask them why they say that, because they are currently ranked first in the league and beat Bayern. With Ibissevic's 18 goals in the 15-round league games.
Yes, this is a declaration of war, and the war is about to break out.
There are two days left before the war begins.
Chapter completed!