After the match against Schalke 04, the first half of the Bundesliga ended, but Hoffenheim did not disband immediately.

The team continued to train until December 17, when Hope booked a premium hotel in Mannheim that night, which will host a grand Christmas party for all members of the Hoffenheim Club.

Before that, the team will hold a press conference to announce the joining of Hildebrand. The goalkeeper, who still holds the longest record of goal-consuming in the German league, chose to return to his motherland after making a bad trip to La Liga. He signed with Hoffenheim for a year and a half. His main purpose is to recover and catch up with the South African World Cup.

But he did not meet his new teammates. He left after attending the press conference. During the Christmas holiday, he will train with Frankfurt goalkeeper Andreas Mendel (andreas_menger) and Stuttgart's young goalkeeper Sven Ulrich (sven_ulreich), both of whom are his friends.

It seems that in order to recover as soon as possible and catch up with the South African World Cup, Hildebran really fought hard.

On the night of the 17th, the Christmas party in Hoffenheim was held in a hotel in Mannheim. The red carpet went outside from the hotel lobby. Everyone drove to bring their female companions. The reporters gathered on both sides of the red carpet, scrambling to shoot and interview the players who came to attend the party. All this was like an Oscar ceremony. A year ago, the players could not have thought that they would have such treatment... Whether they were married or unmarried, whether they had a girlfriend or had no girlfriend, they brought a female companion this night, with Chu Zhongtian exception. His girlfriend is far away in the United States, and there are a lot of work waiting for her. In order to be able to spend a Christmas holiday with Chu Zhongtian, she had to work hard before Christmas.

As a result, Chu Zhongtian, who was single, was unanimously "mocked" by everyone.

"Chu, where is your Hollywood movie star?"

"Have you two had a conflict, Chu? Haha!"

"Have you been single again? Single! Chu! Go wherever you want and do whatever you want! Even if you take ten women home to sleep in one breath, no one will give you a look! Haha!"

"Why didn't you say it earlier? I can introduce you to a few, and I guarantee that they are all beauties!" Weiss also came up to join in the fun.

"Come on, Weiss, I don't want to be like you." Chu Zhongtian quickly raised his hand and refused. "...Look at the female companion you brought today, I don't look like your girlfriend Elena, no matter how hard I look?"

"Uh...this..." Weiss looked embarrassed and slipped away and whispered with his new female companion.

When Chu Zhongtian and other teammates saw him like this, they could only shake their heads helplessly. Although Weiss's approach was not very kind, it was their freedom. Everyone has the freedom to fall in love and the freedom to cheat. Others would not be able to control them if they were not his girlfriend.

How do you say Weiss looks like... It should be said that he is ugly. His girlfriend Elena is not pretty, but she is definitely not ugly. She is an ordinary girl who has been with Weiss for many years. When he was an amateur player, the two of them got together. It can be said that they really like Weiss. So everyone thinks that Elena is a good girl. Unexpectedly, as soon as Weiss became famous today, there are signs of kicking his girlfriend who has always been with him... I guess everyone will inevitably use this matter to clean up Weiss in the future.

※※※Although they brought their female companions, not everyone would kiss me and me like Weiss. The players’ female companions knew each other in private. They got together and had endless discussions about women’s topics, such as where the products were discounted, which brand of cosmetics were the best, and they were also secretly competing to see who looked the best makeup today, who wore the best look, who wore the best jewelry, and whose jewelry was the most expensive... and so on, men were not interested in such circles. Fortunately, Emily didn’t come today, otherwise, I wouldn’t know what women would think... Women talked about their topics together, while men gathered together to discuss holiday arrangements.

"Hey, I said guys, are you planning to go where to play this Christmas?" Demba, who loves to play, asked first.

"My wife and I made an appointment to accompany her back to visit her parents..."

"I have to accompany my children..."

“My girlfriend and I plan to go on vacation in Spain.”

"We'll go to London..."

The person with arrangements said.

The rest of the people who didn't say anything were not arranged. Most of the people who didn't make arrangements were still single or unmarried young people.

"Hey, I have an idea. Otherwise, we will go to the United States to see NBA?" Demba suggested to those who did not arrange it.

"Watch basketball?" Someone was quite surprised.

"I'm not interested in basketball..."

"It doesn't matter if you're not interested, we can also go shopping!"

"This idea is pretty good... If you go, you'll count me."

"Watch basketball? This is a good idea, I love basketball! Are we going to Los Angeles to watch football?"

“Go to New York!”

"New York is not bad too! I've wanted to go there for a long time!" Eduardo whistled. In the minds of many people, New York, the United States is a place that must be visited once in a lifetime. This is especially true for Eduardo, who was born as a poor child.

Chu Zhongtian kept listening to their conversation, and then he remembered something. Then he clapped his hands, just like in the locker room, which became his habit before he wanted to speak... Everyone was like in the locker room. When they heard their captain clapping hands, they stopped talking and looked at Chu Zhongtian. When he did this, there were not many people who birded him. Now it was different. He had long won everyone's trust and respect with his actual performance.

"Ha, our captain has something to say!" Demba Bayang said.

Everyone laughed because they all remembered that it wasn't in the team's locker room.

"I have an idea, guys." Chu Zhongtian also smiled at everyone, and then said, "If you are going to New York, I will go with you. Then I invite you all to have a meal in my restaurant. How about it? Authentic Chinese food!"

"Wow!"

"No, are you serious? Chu? Are you sure you are really serious?"

His words received a warm response from everyone. Everyone knows that Chu Zhongtian has an industry in the United States and is a Chinese restaurant, but it was in the United States. In Germany, they failed to eat the legendary Chinese food. After the last "China Day" competition, everyone ate some Chinese snacks in the locker room, including dumplings, buns, pot stickers, wontons, etc., which made everyone very happy.

After the game, food is prepared in the locker room and let players eat after playing games. This is the routine of almost all professional teams now. Because the ninety-minute game will consume a lot of physical energy and calories, if not replenished in time, it will be detrimental to the recovery of physical functions. Therefore, it is very important to replenish the calories in the muscles as quickly as possible after the game. However, in the past, people have confirmed that this is not a big deal.

When Rangnick was coaching in Stuttgart, he insisted on letting the players eat immediately after the game. For this reason, he had a conflict with the players who were eager to go home instead of looking for something to eat. Now in Hoffenheim, his approach has been upgraded. If there is a double game for a week, when the players return to the locker room after the game, they will find that the messy locker room has been arranged into a "food city" by the club staff. When they see a large table of delicious food, the players will also have a big appetite and eat some. This will be of great benefit to their physical recovery.

Chinese dim sum in "China Day" has been well received, but neither Mannheim nor Sinsheim have authentic Chinese restaurants. So everyone is more interested in the legendary Chinese cuisine.

Now, when I heard that Chu Zhongtian actually invited them to the United States for Chinese food, it really made a large group of people very excited.

"Haha! Of course I am serious." Chu Zhongtian said to everyone, "You are here, and I guarantee you can have the most authentic Chinese food!"

This is his third "Greater Chinese Chinese Restaurant" in the United States. The first two restaurants are open in Los Angeles and Houston respectively, and the business is surprisingly good. The one in Houston has completely compared the "Yao Restaurant". Many Chinese restaurants will change their flavors abroad. In order to adapt to foreign tastes, this is quite normal. Chongqing hot pot tastes different from Chongqing when they go to Chengdu, let alone those hot pots that go to Shanghai and Northeast... But Chu Zhongtian's restaurant is in the middle of balancing tastes.

After choosing a balance point, he will also make adjustments based on the local taste of the local area. But at the same time, he also makes authentic Chinese cuisine. He will give customers a choice. If you want to eat authentic ones, you can make authentic ones, and if you don’t want to eat local ones. In addition, he also makes American food in Chinese methods for them to taste fresh. In short, the business is diversified. In addition, those snacks and handicrafts with Chinese characteristics are also very popular, which is an important feature of their restaurants that do not agree with other Chinese restaurants.

This New York family plans to open the day before Christmas. It has been advertising for a long time. New York citizens are welcome to come to Chinese restaurants to eat Chinese food for Christmas and enjoy the exotic Christmas.

Chu Zhongtian took Hoffenheim players to eat Chinese food, which was also a disguised promotion of his hotel.

That's why he made such a proposal.

This proposal simply made his teammates unable to refuse. Everyone wants to eat Chinese food that is legendary as much as French food, not to mention that it is free!

"Then let's just say that, Chu!" Demba Klang was afraid that Chu Zhongtian would return, so he hurriedly signaled everyone to agree.

"That's right! We'll definitely go there then!"

"Ahhh! Let your chef prepare a little more, I'm afraid we'll eat up all your stock, Chu!"

"Hahaha!"

Everyone was yelling about what it was like to eat in Chu Zhongtian’s restaurant, and they heard Rangnick’s voice coming from the speaker: “Okay, everyone, calm down!”

Everyone stopped talking and turned their eyes to the head coach in front of them.

"Don't worry, I won't delay you for too long." He smiled.

The people below laughed.

"Christmas is coming soon, I have to wish you all Merry Christmas in advance. Because I know I will definitely not see you during Christmas."

Another burst of laughter.

"We are going to the United States!" Aubasi shouted.

Beside him, Dembaba and Eduardo were whistling hard.

"Okay, I wish you all a good time." Rangnik pointed at Denba and then signaled them to calm down. He continued, "We didn't have this for Christmas last year. Because we were only eight points from the relegation zone at that time."

The venue gradually became quiet, and this time it was really quiet. Because everyone remembered their situation a year ago as Rangnick said. It was really awkward at that time... At the beginning of the season, the media advocated as "Bergency Bundesliga Bayern" and was a big upgrade hotline for "can directly participate in the Bundesliga and defeat most Bundesliga teams". What was the result? Their first half of the season played extremely badly.

"But today is different. The whole year of 2008 is different! I don't want to repeat the achievements we have made. I just congratulate and thank you. Thank you for making me the best year! Thank you! I hope we can spend Christmas here like this at this time next year!"

Some people applauded and cheered, and some people whistled.

After a while, after the commotion subsided, Rangnick hooked up to Chu Zhongtian in the crowd: "Now, let us, the only bachelor today, come up and speak a few words on behalf of the players!"

As soon as he said this, everyone started to stir up. Because "the only bachelor today" was obviously talking about Chu Zhongtian... Chu Zhongtian shook his head and walked upstairs and took the microphone. Everyone calmed down again, but occasionally someone would whistle at him, and everyone looked at him with a smile.

Chu Zhongtian seemed to be thinking about something, but did not speak immediately. Then Ibisek shouted: "It's hard to clap your hands with a microphone, right? Chu!"

"Ah hahaha!"

The whole audience burst into laughter. The women gathered together didn't understand what their men were laughing at, but just looked at the group of men who were laughing with curiosity.

Chu Zhongtian glared at Ibisevic and finally said, "It's like this... When I chose to join Hoffenheim, many people scolded me and expressed their incomprehension of my choice..."

When he said this, the past seemed to be yesterday, and the scenes were still clearly visible.

In fact, choosing to join Hoffenheim at the beginning was also a kind of gambling and adventure. Just like when the United States was founded, so many people went to the west to hunt for gold. While choosing to pursue huge profits, they naturally had to bear the pressure of several times or dozens of times this profit.

Everyone calmed down completely and listened to him.

"Actually, this is a gambling, and I bet on my future. Because the road has not yet come to an end, I can't say whether I have bet right. But I'm very happy to know you and pursue victory with you. Thank you!"

He bowed to everyone, then returned the microphone to Rangnick and walked down.

Applause rang out in the hall, and Ibisevic patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder and took him back to the players' camp.

Everyone rushed to pat Chu Zhongtian's shoulders and head. This was a way for them to express their preferences.

Doing so means you are accepted.

"Okay, everyone can enjoy this night!!"

"oh--!!"

※※The party was open until three o'clock in the morning. Everyone drank a lot of wine, said a lot of words, and ate a lot of food. In the end, the club specially sent people to send them back one by one.

Rangnick finally stayed. He and the club's general manager Rothouse looked at the messy venue and shook their heads: "I'm so energetic..."

"Young man, haha!" Rothouse smiled. "If we don't have this energy, we wouldn't be ranked first in the Bundesliga. Do you think it's Ralph?"

Rangnick didn't answer this question, he just said to Rothouse: "I will hand over the list of players I want to Young the day after tomorrow." Young is the team's football director, Jan_schindelmeiser.

"Don't talk about work on such a day, Ralph..."

Rangnick pushed his glasses: "We don't have much time, Johen."

Rothouse spread his hands helplessly.
To be continued...