Chapter 100 Gambling
The joy of winning Bayern Munich spread throughout Sinsheim and even radiated to surrounding Heidelberg and other areas. This is a big book in the history of the club, and it should be written in the history of the team.
However, within the team, Rangnick did not give the players a leave. Not only did he not take the leave, but after defeating Bayern Munich, he also asked the team to train normally the next day.
He knew better than the cheerful media and fans that the league was not over yet. Although Hoffenheim is ranked first in the league now, it does not mean that they can win the league championship. Because their opponent in the last round was Schalke 04, such an opponent is not of the level of Cottbus. So it is not the time to celebrate with beer.
As players, the head coaches are very clear about the idea. They also know that the last round of the league is actually a test. The victory over Bayern Munich only ensures that they have the qualification to compete for the league championship in the last round of the league. So no one was so proud after winning Bayern Munich.
On May 17, the team was training normally. When Chu Zhongtian drove to the training ground, he found that there were several buckets of paint at the door of Koniriya's house at the entrance of the training base, and Koniriya and her husband were busy moving the paint home.
He laughed and greeted them: "Are you more sure than us, Aunt Koniriya?"
After hearing Chu Zhongtian's voice, Ke Nilia put down the paint bucket and waved to him: "If a team's fans don't believe their team anymore, this team must be a failure!"
"Come on, Chu!" Her husband, Uncle Cohen, greeted Chu Zhongtian next to her.
"I will, Uncle Cohen! Goodbye!" Chu Zhongtian waved goodbye to them and drove into the training base.
※※※Fritz Abel was in a good mood. Although he was only taught a lesson by his mother last night, he bowed his head to admit his mistake, but his heart was as sweet as drinking honey.
Today is Sunday, so he doesn't have to go to school. He comes out to see if there are any media reports about the focus battle yesterday.
At the corner, he met Daniel and his companions again. Each of them looked very good, obviously the result of yesterday's game made them very depressed.
Seeing Abel appear, one of the skinny men screamed: "Coward Abel! You look in a good mood, are you?"
A group of people came to Abel, and Daniel was among them.
When Abel saw these people, he could only lower his head and let them ridicule them. But when Abel bowed his head today, he suddenly remembered the figure who was fouled by Van Bomel and Demikelis for consecutive fouls. He felt that as a Hoffenheim fan, it was impossible to be weak. That team is so strong that as a fan who likes them, he should also be strong.
So he raised his head again, and although his eyes were still a little flashing, he was trying to look at the other party.
Something was wrong with Abel today, and those people realized this.
Then one person reacted: "It seems that the victory of the country bumpkin team yesterday made our cowards rampant. Don't be proud, Abel. Even so, I bet that the country bumpkins won't win the league title, and they will definitely lose to Schalke next weekend!"
"No...this, this is impossible..." Abel, who had never dared to resist in the face of other people's ridicule and mocking, suddenly retorted, although his voice was still a little trembling and very small.
This surprised many people.
"Did I hear something just now?"
"Yes, there seems to be a voice saying 'This is impossible'?"
"Have my ears gone wrong? How dare the coward Abel refute me?"
Everyone stared at Abel.
Looking at those vicious expressions, Abel wanted to habitually shrink his eggs. But Chu Zhongtian's figure that was stumbled but did not fall to the ground appeared in his mind again, so he raised his chest again and said a little louder: "Haw, Hoffenheim will not lose to Schalke, they will win the league championship."
Everyone laughed: "This is the funnyest joke I have ever heard, haha! Those country bumpkins want to win the league championship? They are really worthy of being country bumpkins. Only country bumpkins who have never seen the world have such idiotic ideas! It's simply a delusion!"
"Yes...but we are the first in the league now..." Daniel was deeply indignant when he saw those people laughing at his favorite team. It was obvious that Hoffenheim was the first in the league, so why did he say that Hoffenheim wanted to win the league championship? "If we were the most delusional, then... Is it a delusional... Bayern wants to participate in the Champions League next season?"
"Shut up!!"
The children who were laughing at Hoffenheim just now shouted angrily.
Abel poked their most painful place.
After losing to Hoffenheim, Bayern Munich's ranking temporarily fell to fourth place, and Stuttgart defeated Cottbus at home, and they were third in the league. Judging from this ranking, there is still suspense for Bayern Munich to qualify for the Champions League next season. At least the possibility of success is not greater than that of Hoffenheim's league championship.
So Abel's words were like slapping them hard. How could they not be angry? Some people even rolled up their sleeves and wanted to give Abel a little bitterness.
Abel knew that he had stabbed a hornet's nest, but he was a little happy while being afraid, because he felt a little accomplished when he saw these people who had ridiculed him before.
Just as these people were about to tell Abel with their fists what the consequences of angering them were, Daniel, who had been silent, spoke.
"Little Abel, do you dare to make a bet with me?"
Abel looked at Daniel in surprise. Daniel is now on the police station's blacklist. He can't even see Bayern's home game, and he is labeled as a "football hooligan".
Abel felt responsible for this matter, but Daniel didn't seem to want to accept his apology. Every time he wanted to mention this matter, he would always be rudely interrupted by Daniel. Over time, he would not dare to say it again.
"I bet on whether Hoffenheim can win the league championship. If possible, I promise not to bully you in the future. If not, you will have to be beaten up by me!"
"Boss, why are you talking nonsense to him? Let us now..." Someone next to him was puzzled by Daniel's arrangement.
"Shut up!" Daniel glared at them fiercely. After teaching his subordinates a lesson, he turned to look at Abel, "Do you dare to make this bet with me?"
"I..." Abel was a little hesitant. If he won, he would not be bullied. This was quite tempting, but if he lost, he would be beaten by Daniel. His body hitting people was not ordinary pain... "He dared not, boss. He is a coward, born!" Someone next to him said disdainfully.
"Yes, yes. Looking at his hesitation, it means he has no confidence in that country team. He is just talking big!"
Amid the ridicule of these people, Abel thought of his performance in the stands. At that time, Hoffenheim tied the score by Bayern Munich to 2:2. He was worried about the team and believed that the team should choose a more stable and conservative defensive counterattack, but he was educated by a middle-aged female fan next to him. He had no confidence, but Hoffenheim proved his mistake with practical actions. If it is their fans, they must have confidence in them.
"Okay, okay... I'll make this bet with you!" Abel nodded and said loudly.
Daniel smiled slightly and said nothing. "That's great, I'm looking forward to next week's game, Abel Jr."
"I, I look forward to it too!"
"Very good, you can buy your newspapers and magazines now." Daniel waved his hand and signaled everyone to make way and let him go.
Abel let him go when he saw them like this, and he breathed a sigh of relief, but on the surface he still walked over with his head and chest. Yesterday's game Hoffenheim was the winner. As a Hoffenheim fan, he was also the winner in front of Bayern Munich fans. The winner had no reason to bow his head and hunch his waist and pass by the loser timidly.
※※※"Hoffenheim is only one round left to their club's first Bundesliga championship. This season is like a dream for them. They have a wonderful start. I wonder if they can get a better ending..."
"... Before the season, if someone told me that Hoffenheim would become the league champion, I would definitely think he was crazy. But now I have to admit that I was crazy... Hoffenheim is a promoted player and is very close to the league champion. They can completely replicate the Kaiserslautern miracle!"
"All those who have watched Hoffenheim's game will not be surprised because their performance is worthy of the championship - if they really win the championship. They have encountered many difficulties this season, especially in the second half of the season, Wellington was seriously injured and withdrawn from the season. In the second half of the season, there were consecutive defeats and drug storms. When it came to the sprint stage, the players were seriously injured and missed the remaining games. The heaviest blow to them came from Ibissevic's groin surgery. His absence once made people wonder whether they could still stick to the end, but at this time, Hoffenheim used their performance to make people believe that this team is indeed capable of winning the championship. Chu's outbreak made up for the impact of Ibissevic's absence. He is now acting like a real leader..."
"Hoffenheim, who has Chinese player Chu Zhongtian, has now become a popular team in German football, and everyone has focused their attention on them. After they defeated Bayern Munich, Schalke 04 seems to be unable to stop this young promoted team. We will see the 'Kaisslautern Miracle' again. Perhaps after this season, the miracle of the promoted team winning the championship will be renamed 'Hocun Miracle'..."
The fan carnival is still relatively small compared to the excitement of the media. After the focus battle with Bayern Munich, the German and Chinese media have given a large amount of reports. The Chinese media are particularly excited. They are about to witness a Chinese player win the championship prize plate of one of the five major European leagues as the core of the team. This is definitely a historic moment worthy of a big book in the history of Chinese football studying abroad.
In the past few days, the most important thing in Chinese sports media is to pay attention to the last round of Hoffenheim's game. China's CCTV Sports Channel has specially sent two film crews to report the game in all aspects. Of course, they cannot track and shoot Chu Zhongtian's training and life this time, because this will interfere with the training and preparation of Hoffenheim's team, so they do not get permission to shoot the team. They can only think of other media, shoot for fifteen minutes outside the training ground, and then interview people inside the club.
, interview local residents and fans, interview senior German football officials, and hear what they think of this miraculously rising rural team. Finally, on the day of the game, they entered Schalke 04's home court and filmed the game from another perspective. Duan Bin will also come to Germany again to give a live commentary. Although his commentary level is not the best in CCTV, who asked him to be responsible for commenting on the Bundesliga? He Ping, who initially commented on Chu Zhongtian's game, is now mainly responsible for La Liga, and Chu Zhongtian's game is nothing.
Chinese media have made a high-profile publicity and reporting on this game, and Chinese fans are also looking forward to it. The prize-winning activities of the website "We All Love Lindanda" are in full swing, and registered users and visits have surged. Yang Yang had to add a few more servers to the website, and at the same time, the system has been upgraded and upgraded.
In fact, the website is just a small fuss, and what Xu Xiaodi is doing is a major event that concerns Chu Zhongtian's income.
Chu Zhongtian's two goals in the match against Bayern have become his best advertisements. Now many brands that have been alienated from Chu Zhongtian's past because he joined the unknown Hoffenheim have come to him and want to talk about cooperation with Xu Xiaodi.
Nike also discovered Chu Zhongtian's huge potential - there is a Hollywood movie star girlfriend, with a huge market of 1.3 billion people behind her, with excellent skills, outstanding character and healthy image. After joining the team of the newly promoted team, this newly promoted team became a team with the strength to win the championship. Now Hoffenheim has such a result, who dares to say it is not Chu Zhongtian's credit? In addition, as an amateur player, he started to come into contact with professional football at the age of 20. He won the League Cup, the European Super Cup, and the French Cup in five years. Now he still has great hope of winning the Bundesliga championship prize plate. Such an experience is considered a legend.
Based on these factors, Nike plans to shoot an advertisement based on Chu Zhongtian. A few years ago, they filmed a football advertisement from the first person perspective. The protagonist in the film was a player playing football in a low-level league. Because of his outstanding performance in a certain game, Arsenal head coach Wenger took a chance on him and signed with Arsenal. After hard training, he became a star, had a beautiful girlfriend, participated in the Champions League, and was selected for the Dutch national team... Chu Zhongtian's experience is very similar to this advertisement. This time, Nike decided to shoot an equally inspirational advertisement with Chu Zhongtian as the protagonist, and initially decided to invite Emily Stan to make a guest appearance in the advertisement. I believe that she should have no problem with her boyfriend.
The plot is completely based on Chu Zhongtian's real experience, but some modifications are made to change the first-person perspective to the third-person perspective. At the same time, because Wimbledon's sponsor is Umbro, and Metz and Hoffenheim's sponsor are Puma, both of Nike's rivals, the advertisement only uses the color of the jersey to illustrate that these three teams Chu Zhongtian used to play with, namely, blue yellow, crimson red and blue white. When you look at the color of the jersey, you will know which teams these three teams are.
In the commercial, Chu Zhongtian plays himself, step by step from an amateur player to a professional player, and finally wins the Bundesliga championship. The advertisement ends abruptly until he participates in the Champions League, leaving a suspense tail for future sequels.
This commercial has entered the planning stage. When the season ends, Chu Zhongtian will start filming when he is on vacation, and then broadcasts it simultaneously around the world at the beginning of the new season. Considering that the league champion is not yet determined, the planners have prepared two plans. The first advertisement has a scene of winning the cup, meaning that Chu Zhongtian won the league championship, and the second one will directly enter the Champions League next season, which is prepared to prevent Hoffenheim from losing the league championship in the last round.
After listening to the story of Mr. Merry and Nike representatives, Chu Zhongtian was also very interesting to this commercial. He had not filmed an advertisement before, but this was the first time he filmed this advertisement with a storyline and three-minute long advertisement. To be honest, it was a bit of a test of his acting skills - Nike's first-person advertisement, the protagonist did not show his face from beginning to end, and the acting skills of supporting roles were tested. But he was also very excited because he could take this opportunity to come into contact with another brand new industry. In this regard, he believed that his girlfriend would become his guide. Emily's agent and her mother Miranda also agreed to his daughter to participate in the filming.
The name Nike named this commercial is "Kick out the Legend".
And if Hoffenheim won the league championship in the last round and Chu Zhongtian has such a good performance, it will be even more legendary.
The only thing that Nike is that the four teams Chu Zhongtian plays for are not sponsored by their company, otherwise it would be even better... Wimbledon is from Umbro, Mes and Hoffenheim are from Puma, while the Chinese national team is from Adidas... But looking at Chu Zhongtian's current performance, the one who is even more unhappy than them should be Adidas. When Chu Zhongtian was not very famous, his agent came to the door and wanted to negotiate with Adidas, but Adidas' offer was too low and he was unwilling to accept the continued negotiation. So Chu Zhongtian finally chose Nike...
Chapter completed!