A grand celebration was held at the Rhine Neka Stadium that night. Rhine Neka can accommodate 30,000 people, which is basically equal to the population of Sinsheim. In other words, if everyone in Sinsheim is a Hoffenheim fan, then when Hoffenheim has a home game, Sinsheim will become an empty city except Rhine Neka Stadium.

Of course this is impossible. Hoffenheim does have many local fans in Sinsheim, but there are also many fans in the surrounding areas. For example, Mannheim and Heidelberg now have several Hoffenheim fan clubs.

This time, there were many celebrations from those places. Sinsheim has not yet reached the point of becoming an "empty city". However, Hoffenheim's real hometown of the Hoffenheim football team has become an empty town, and everyone came to the Rhine-Neka Stadium to participate in the team's celebration. Each of them wore a T-shirt with "Ula, the whole village is here!", which was very conspicuous in the crowd.

The celebrations of the night were very lively and successful. When the players walked out holding the championship prize plate, the cheers and applause from the audience lasted for a full five minutes.

As the captain of the team, Chu Zhongtian thanked the fans for their support this season on behalf of the whole team, and especially thanked the fans from Mannheim. Because Hoffenheim set a record of unbeaten at the Karl-Benz Stadium in Mannheim in the first half of the season, Hoffenheim won the support of many fans of Mannheim's fans.

He also told more than 30,000 fans present that next season, everyone can look forward to the team's performance in the Champions League.

"We will use our football to let the whole of Europe know where Hoffenheim and Sinsheim are!"

When he finished his last sentence, there were huge cheers.

Weiss jumped out and took the microphone and shouted to the fans in the audience: "Everyone shouted with me - Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim!!"

The fans at the scene followed Weiss and shouted: "Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim!!"

Such shouts resounded through the sky.

In the end, the mayor of Sinsheim promised in public that from this summer, the city hall would start building a balcony so that when Hoffenheim wins the championship again, the team will have a place to enjoy the people without having to bother with the Rhine-Neka Stadium.

He also joked: "This is the most important construction plan of the city this year."

※※※After all celebrations in Sinsheim, the team announced the disbandment and holiday.

2009 is not the year of major competitions, and there are no big intercontinental events in international football. The World Cup is next year. The Olympics and European Cup were just held last year. The Asian Cup and the Americas Cup will be held again. So this summer, everyone can have a good rest. Rangnick doesn’t have to worry that frequent national team competitions will drag down the players’ physical fitness.

Before announcing the dissolution of the team, Rangnick warned everyone: "Beware of each of you weight, I don't want the precious pre-season training to take three weeks to train you in physical fitness."

The Bundesliga starts in mid-August every season, so the preparation time for the Bundesliga is relatively small. The same situation is also the Premier League and Ligue 1. The French Ligue 1 starts among the five major European leagues - the game starts in early August every year. Serie A and La Liga start in early September. So fans who like to watch the Bundesliga will enjoy half a month of exciting football before fans who like to watch the Serie A and La Liga.

After a season of fighting, most of the players chose to go out for vacation during their holidays. Chu Zhongtian planned to go back to the United States with Emily to see his business in the United States, and to please his future mother-in-law if they plan to get married.

In addition, his parents are also in the United States, so he also wants to visit them.

Their schedule was to go shopping in Paris first, and then fly to Los Angeles to meet both parents.

Just before they left Hoffenheim, Chu Zhongtian received a call from an unfamiliar number.

Most of the people who called him now know who it was. So when faced with this strange number, he hesitated for a while before answering it.

A Chinese voice came from over there. I asked Chu Zhongtian how he knew that the other party was Chinese because he spoke authentic and fluent Chinese... "Hello, Chu Zhongtian. I am Gao Hongbo." The person on the phone introduced himself.

※※※Most of Chu Zhongtian’s memory of Gao Hongbo is that this person was once a famous striker in Beijing Guoan. At that time, he and Gao Feng formed the "double high" combination, one fast and the other agile, and he was the representative of agility. His physical fitness was not outstanding, but his good consciousness and agility made him unique in the Chinese football world at that time.

During the 1997 World Cup Asian qualifiers, he was re-selected to the national team of Qi Wusheng. He made him reappear in front of Chu Zhongtian. That was Gao Hongbo's last time played for the national team. That year, Jinzhou's tears made his last national team performance meaningless.

After the Asian Cup qualifiers ended, he faded out of people's sight again. Chu Zhongtian didn't even know when he retired.

For a long time afterwards, he never heard or saw the person's name again.

It was not until May this year that he was on the phone with Xu Xiaodi that he learned some latest news about the domestic football world. Gao Hongbo's name reappeared in his ears. Xu Xiaodi told him that Gao Hongbo was elected as the head coach of the new national team. He was a little surprised because he had never heard of Gao Hongbo's name among well-known head coaches in China before. He didn't quite understand why Gao Hongbo was the head coach. His first reaction was: This was another internal decision by the Football Association, and there must be insider trading!

After listening to Xu Xiaodi's Chinese football shady scenes, he knew that although the Chinese team had a bad record and a bad reputation, it was still a springboard for many players and coaches. Once he was selected for the national team and coached the national team, his value would increase. Therefore, he believed that Gao Hongbo must have bribed the big players of the Football Association through some improper means and then appointed this head coaching seat. What are his abilities? Where did he coach before? Did he receive any honors?

Chu Zhongtian is too far from domestic football, and there are few ways to get to know domestic football, and it is basically unrelated to it. Fortunately, Xu Xiaodi is not that kind of person. He told Chu Zhongtian that Du Zhenyu, who snatched Chu Zhongtian's Chinese Footballer in 2007, came from the Chinese Super League champion Changchun Yatai that year. At that time, Changchun Yatai's head coach was Gao Hongbo.

Chu Zhongtian then realized that Gao Hongbo was not useless. At least he led the team to win the championship in the Super League. He was quite surprised when he knew that Changchun Yatai won the championship. He always thought that the championship in the Super League could only be produced between the four teams of Beijing Guoan, Shanghai Shenhua, Dalian Shide and Shandong Luneng. Changchun Yatai? It feels like Kotbus in the Bundesliga, it would be good to be able to relegate... Although he knew that Gao Hongbo once led Changchun Yatai to win the league championship, Chu Zhongtian still had prejudice against this little-eyed man who was not famous as a coach.

He always felt that there must be a dark story. He also learned from Xu Xiaodi that although Gao Hongbo led the team to win the Chinese Super League championship, he was fired by the club in the second season because he had a bad relationship with his teammates. Since Yatai in Changchun was not good, then when he met the Chinese teammates, how should he deal with the relationship with those international players with big footwork but big styles? From this point of view, he is really skeptical about what positive things Gao Hongbo can bring to the dark Chinese national football team.

Anyway, he has no expectations for his career in the national team. The overall environment of Chinese football is not good, and it is even more difficult for the national team to find results. If the head coach is not good, he may really have to make a play data in the national team... Zhu Suishin has never used himself well, and he doesn't think that Gao Hongbo can use himself well.

He was a little surprised when he suddenly received a call from Gao Hongbo today.

"First of all, congratulations to you on winning the Bundesliga championship, Chu Zhongtian." Gao Hongbo said on the other end of the phone.

"Ah...ah, thank you! Thank you, Director Gao." Although he had prejudice against Gao Hongbo, he still had to be polite in appearance.

"Secondly, I called you to talk to you...What do you think of Chinese football?"

This problem was far beyond Chu Zhongtian's expectations.

Seeing that Chu Zhongtian had not answered for a long time, Gao Hongbo said: "I know this might be a bit sudden... Let's change the topic. I am the head coach of the national team now, and I want to form a brand new national team. The national team will have a warm-up match on May 29. I know you have just finished a season and need a rest. But I still hope you can participate and play halftime. I want to ask your opinions."

A national team head coach has such a low posture and has to call a player to ask for opinions. Some of Chu Zhongtian was surprised, and he suddenly asked boldly: "If I say I am in poor health, will I not recruit me?"

Gao Hongbo didn't seem to expect Chu Zhongtian to give such an answer. He was stunned and said, "Yes. If the player's physical condition has not recovered, then I will not call him."

Chu Zhongtian smiled: "I'm kidding, coach Gao. I will definitely come. There is no problem in the whole game in half. I have good physical strength. Also, who will our opponent then?"

"You must be very familiar with the German team."

Chu Zhongtian opened his mouth, not knowing what expression he should have. He suddenly felt that this was too interesting. When he was playing football in Ligue 1 Metz, his second game for the national team was a warm-up match with the French national team. When he switched to Hoffenheim in Bundesliga, his first game for the new national team was a German team... He really played with the national team of which league he transferred to... "Okay high coach, when will he gather?" Chu Zhongtian came back to his senses and asked.

"You just finished the season and just return to the team to practice together on May 27th."

The game on May 29th and the team will return to the team on the 27th. There will be only two days of training, and the jet lag needs to be adjusted... It seems that this warm-up match is an ordinary game for the new head coach of the national team to inspect the players. Chu Zhongtian can guess that at that time he will see many familiar faces who were once in the national team. Facing this new coach, everyone must re-express themselves... "No problem."

After finishing the call with Gao Hongbo, Chu Zhongtian walked out of the room and saw Emily watching TV on the sofa in the living room. He threw away his phone and lay on Emily's snow-white thighs.

"Our itinerary needs to be changed, Amy." He looked up, his vision halfway blocked by Emily's straight peaks.

Emily looked down at him. "Whose phone number?"

"The head coach of the national team, the new one. There is a friendly match for the national team on May 29, and I have to participate. In order to make the jet lag - I don't want to show my fatigue in front of the new head coach - we have to go directly to China, take a few days off and then report to the national team."

Emily Stein was a little disappointed when she heard him say this. They originally planned to have fun in Paris for a few days, and then flew to the United States to meet her mother. She didn't think she could not play anymore, she was just worried that she had already agreed to go back to her mother at the beginning, but now she said she wanted to go to China. Will her mother be even more dissatisfied with Chu Zhongtian... "Does it have to be done in a warm-up match?"

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "In order to avoid being worn in the national team in the future, it is best to go."

In fact, the first warm-up match was usually the head coach to inspect the players, but Chu Zhongtian had an idea, and he also wanted to examine how the new head coach was. He used to hear others say that, but after all, he was not as impressed with himself.

Emily sighed: "Okay. Let's go to China." After that, she took out her cell phone and called to book a plane ticket.

"Thank you, Amy." Chu Zhongtian kissed Emily's lips to show her gratitude, thanking her for her understanding and support.

"I still think you need a rest. I played for a whole season..." Emily said to Chu Zhongtian while waiting for the phone call to answer.

Chu Zhongtian jumped down and put on a bodybuilder's look in front of Emily: "No problem, I'm in good physical condition. Actually, I don't feel tired at all."

"Yes, you are a monster who runs four miles before every training and competition, and you run four miles after the competition and training." Emily said helplessly.

Chu Zhongtian smiled foolishly.

※※※In this way, Chu Zhongtian and Emily temporarily changed their itinerary. In order to hurry up and adjust the time difference, they flew back to China from Munich and did not stay in Beijing. Then they returned to Chengdu, Sichuan.

His parents were not at home for a long time, so they could not stay at home for the time being. They opened a room in the hotel, and Chu Zhongtian slept well for a day. After adjusting for the jet lag, he did not take Emily to play, but returned home and invited someone to clean the room and clean it. After tidying up both houses, he moved home to rest.

When Chu Zhongtian and Emily appeared at the Capital International Airport, it caused a sensation. But then they disappeared from the media. It was not that the media did not want to report, but that there was no place to report. It was not until Chu Zhongtian and Emily flew to Shanghai again and went to the national team to report, but they were caught by reporters and asked this question. Everyone was concerned about what he would do after returning to China.

After all, everyone has a hobby of exploring the privacy of celebrities, but Chu Zhongtian's confused answer made everyone feel like hell - "I'm sleeping."

Fortunately, smart Chinese media can always associate a lot of what they want based on your sentence and word. So Chu Zhongtian's sentence "Walk to sleep" becomes "Chu Zhongtian complains that he doesn't have enough rest" and "Chu Zhongtian is in poor health and may not be able to play against the German team"... As a result, Gao Hongbo's first question when he saw Chu Zhongtian outside the training ground was: "How is your physical condition?"

"I'm fine." Chu Zhongtian replied.

"I saw some media say that you are in poor health and have not had enough rest..."

Chu Zhongtian smiled: "I went home to make the jet lag, so of course I have to go to bed. Media words...ha!"

He should be cautious in his words without communicating with a head coach. Because when he talks with the club's head coach Rangnick, he calls him "Ralph". He also talks casually and does not think he is talking to someone who has a higher status than his status. So when he talks to coach Gao Hongbo, it is natural.

Gao Hongbo seems to have no objection to this.

He nodded: "Then I'll feel relieved."

※※※As similar to what Chu Zhongtian expected, Gao Hongbo's first national team training personnel were not much different from the previous national team. Basically, they were old faces that he often saw in the national team. Many people were old national players. But despite this, Chu Zhongtian is still the most popular player in the team. For the Chinese team, which lacks real stars, he is the only star. When the national team was training, the media outside the court basically came for him. There were also many fans watching the national team's training, and the purpose was to get Chu Zhongtian's signature after the training and take a photo with him.

In the team, he just won the Bundesliga championship prize set, which made his teammates envious. In this national team, there are not many players who have gone abroad to study abroad. Chu Zhongtian is the leader among overseas players, and his achievements are something that many overseas players have never had the chance to win in their entire career.

Chu Zhongtian became the number one star in the national team. He changed his cautious attitude when he was first selected for the national team and began to give orders in the team. He did not mean to do this on purpose, but he was used to being the captain of Hoffenheim and said something involuntarily.

His dazzling resume and achievements made ordinary national team players have nothing to say. They always feel that they have won so many championships, and they always make sense. Although there are many factional struggles in the national team, the situation of seniority is very serious. It seems difficult for foreign players to make a name for themselves. But at that time, for ordinary players, a player who has won the French Cup, the UEFA Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, and the Bundesliga championship. Even if he has no foundation in China, these reputations and fame are his greatest capital, enough to compete with those inherent factions. Therefore, Chu Zhongtian's status in the national team is based on these championship honors and huge fame, and is still solid. Just like no matter how crazy a national team player is in his own club, when he is in the national team, when facing those big-name stars in international competitions, he always feels that he is shorter than his opponent.

The current situation is similar. After seeing Chu Zhongtian, the teammates of the national team will involuntarily look up to Chu Zhongtian when they think of his honors.

This is actually a good thing for Chu Zhongtian.

Gao Hongbo has not announced the candidate for the new team's captain, but in fact, Chu Zhongtian has become a captain who does not wear armbands in the team.
Chapter completed!