The last round of the 2002-2003 mixed county league was May 5th, only one day before they won the game. Chu Zhongtian did not skip classes to participate in this game. It was Monday and he had to attend classes. Anyway, the team had no hope of upgrading and no other pursuits, so it doesn't matter whether he went or not. It happened that in the last month, he quickly reviewed his homework, made up for the homework that was delayed by playing football, and prepared for the final exam - he also wanted to win the award for this semester.

As for scholarships. As long as he gets excellent grades, he can get a scholarship of 500 pounds. This is not a small amount. With this money, his life will be much more relaxed, and he doesn't have to work so hard, and he can free up more time to participate in training. In fact, he felt that his energy could no longer keep up. Studying, social practice, working, and playing football made him unable to do anything. He began to consider whether he would give up his order assignment work in Mike China. Recently, this idea has become increasingly strong.

Chu Zhongtian has been resentful of this season. He hopes to make up for this regret next season. Then he has to work harder next season and will inevitably take up a part of the time. Obtaining a scholarship is a good way to reduce this burden.

Fortunately, he usually takes time to review his homework in the bar, and as a senior in the same department, Lao Yang can also help him in his homework. Chu Zhongtian didn't feel that it was too difficult.

Wimbledon's last league game this season attracted more than 4,550 fans to watch the game at Kings Ranch. Emily skipped classes again, and Borger also skipped classes to participate. Only Chu Zhongtian returned to normal life. Although the team failed to upgrade, it did not disappoint or angry. Their support for the team was as always, and even more - they were using practical actions to interpret what the saying "If you win, you love you, if you lose, you love you."

According to Emily's later description, the score of that game was 5:1. Wimbledon did not lose his fighting spirit because he lost his qualification to upgrade. Instead, they vented all their dissatisfaction with not being able to upgrade to their poor opponents. This is also the only thing the team can repay to the fans after the upgrade failed.

Why can fans of a team "love you when they win, and love you when they lose", because the performance of the team they support is worthy of respect and worthy of the fans "win, love to lose, and love to lose". On the other hand, why do fans scold and make trouble after losing? Isn't it because the performance of Chinese football is not worthy of making fans "love to lose, and love to lose"?

Although he was unable to upgrade, this exciting victory brought Wimbledon's first season to a perfect end. For a team that has only been established for a year, ranking third in the league in the final is already a very good result.

Before the season, few people could have thought that their team would achieve such results. Most people thought that this team would have to run into the season for a season, so don’t expect results in the first season, just don’t relegate to the 10th League.

Unexpectedly, this dynamic team gave all Wimbledon fans a big surprise.

Now everyone has this vision - will next season be better? Is our goal to return to the top league not that far?

The season is over, and the team gathered again on Saturday. Eames announced the performance of the players of this season, and Chu Zhongtian ranked among the top. The coaching staff commented to him: "The defense is extremely excellent, the fighting spirit is tenacious, the hard work, and the rescue of the dangers many times at critical moments is a trustworthy backbone of defense."

Players who perform well will not receive any material rewards, nor will they receive more bonuses, but this is a recognition and reward for a player's performance in a season. For this group of simply kickers, this is enough to make them feel fulfilled.

After announcing the list of outstanding players, the coaching staff told the team that they would start holidays from now until the end of June to resume training. They would participate in more games next season. In addition to the normal league, there were also the FA Cup and FA bottles, as well as other messy cup matches. Chu Zhongtian couldn't remember the names. He didn't need to remember them. Anyway, his task was to play games, and he would just play games one after another. Finally, he would see what kind of future it would be.

Head coach Eames hopes that everyone will not forget to exercise during the holidays and maintain their condition so as to better integrate into the team's preparations for the new season. He also emphasized that the main players of this season may not necessarily be the main players next season, and everything depends on your condition.

"We will expand the strength of the team. Don't think that we can still do this next season when we sit on the bench or stands. I hope that when you sit on the bench or on the stands, don't regret drinking too much in the summer. Let me tell you that our goals will be very clear from the beginning of next season. I'm no longer satisfied and will continue to stay in this ninth league! Our only goal and ultimate goal next season is..." He raised his hand.

The players shouted in unison as his hand fell: "Advanced!!"

"Very good." Eames showed a rare smile on his face: "Then the team will be disbanded, I wish you a good time on the holiday! See you next season, guys!"

※※※The season is over, Emily and Bolger no longer skip classes, and everyone has entered the final stage of the exam.

Emily has delayed a lot of homework due to filming movies and advertising this school year, but passing the exam should not be a problem. As for Borger, it seems that there is a little problem, but seeing that he looks indifferent, he does not take his studies to heart.

With the help of Yang Yang, Chu Zhongtian quickly made up for the homework he had lost due to playing football. In the final exam, he felt very good. However, he couldn't know his grades for a while, and whether he could get the scholarship would not be announced next semester.

It was June 10th after the exam. Yang Yang flew back to China again, while Chu Zhongtian decided to stay here. Although he did not go home last summer vacation. On the one hand, he did not want to waste air tickets, so he would go there for less than 20 days and fly back. It was only 7,000 yuan to save a little. In addition, last season, Chu Zhongtian deeply realized his shortcomings in many aspects. He needed time to practice and improve, and it was definitely impossible to return to China. Staying in the UK, there are many free football fields and park green spaces, and he can practice alone.

He now feels that he is quite incompetent. If his contribution to offense could be greater, then the team might have been promoted successfully? So he must work hard to improve his passing, especially long passes, and his ability in shooting.

Passing is a regular weapon. In the past, he always used to handing over the other teammates around him to handle the next step after breaking the ball. However, this was a waste of time. If the ball was cut off when the opponent made a large attack, it was a good opportunity to counterattack, but he had to pass the football to his teammates first and then to the front. With one more procedure, he wasted some more time. In the ever-changing football game, that little time could become a watershed between failure and victory. There is another problem. If the people around him are not good at passing, then there is no way to launch a quick counterattack. After Russell left the team, this problem would become very prominent. Chu Zhongtian felt that instead of putting the eggs in someone else's basket, it would be better to get it yourself.

Therefore, passing must be practiced well.

The shooting is for emergency needs. During the game, he has to defend his full-time defense and will not have too many opportunities to participate in the offense. However, if the team cannot open the situation, he needs to rush up and shoot cold ones for a few long shots. This is a powerful weapon to break the dense defense and break the deadlock.

Since he is the only one, the practice plan and method need to be adjusted. When practicing passing, no one will wait for his passing in a designated area. He decided to find something to draw a piece of the area on the field, and then send the football there from a distance to imitate the training scene. The only trouble is that every time he plays, he needs to run over and pick up the football back - he doesn't have so many backup footballs. He is not afraid of consuming physical strength, but he feels a bit of a waste of time.

As for shooting, it's very simple. Just go to the parking lot of Kings Ranch and shoot at the exterior wall of the tall main stand.

As long as it is not the game day, there are not many cars there, and there is no need to worry about the football bounces over and breaking the car after a strong shot.

As for training time, it is quite sufficient. Because the door of the Duns Bar is open at 11:30 in the morning, he only needs to get there to clean at 11:00. So he has a lot of time to train in the morning, and he can continue training during the afternoon closing time. Anyway, he just takes the opportunity to make a move. Time is like a woman's cleavage, and there is always a squeeze.

In order to make the training more efficient and not be blindly disordered or disorderly, Chu Zhongtian also specially formulated a self-training plan for a summer vacation. If conditions permit, he will persist until the start of school.

In the plan, he specified in detail what to train every day, what results to achieve, and what training mistakes should be avoided. Because there is no coach around him to supervise and correct them at any time, he can only pay more attention to it by himself.

In addition to daily goals, there are also overall goals. What level will he reach in these three months?

The goal that Chu Zhongtian set for himself was to at least be able to deliver the ball to the target teammates accurately in training, which is no more than five meters. As for the game... He doesn't have the conditions to add a sparring training to interfere with him, so he can only take it slowly - learn to walk first, and then learn to run.

The goal of shooting is to have at least five shots in each set of ten shots within the range of the goal frame, and you must not shoot high. As for interference, you can only take it slowly and cannot force it.

After the plan was formulated, Chu Zhongtian called his family and told his parents that they would not come back this summer vacation, that they would work in the UK to make money, and that they would prepare courses for the next school year. His mother missed him very much and wanted him to come back. He insisted on staying in the UK and also gave a lot of high-sounding reasons to reassure his mother. As for her father, she didn't say anything, and she respected her son's decision.

Chu Zhongtian did not mention his football in the UK on the phone. He knew that his mother did not want him to play football. If he told his mother that he stayed in the UK because he wanted to practice football, then his mother would definitely scold him as an unfilial son on the phone and would have to return to China no matter what he said.

Since he started to play football here, he never thought of telling his parents about this. Anyway, it was only three years in college, and when he graduated from college, he naturally couldn't play. If he didn't say it, how could parents far away in China know? It would only add to his worries. His mother was worried, and he was worried. Sometimes it was nothing to tell a kind lie.

After getting the family done, Chu Zhongtian no longer had any worries. He had to make good use of this summer vacation to further improve his level, and then help the team upgrade successfully in the new season.

You must not make any mistakes this time!

※※※Emily was very interested in Chu Zhongtian’s training plan, and she took the initiative to say that she wanted to participate.

"What are you going to do?" Chu Zhongtian felt strange. Is a girl going to see her at home to cheer for herself? But she doesn't need such things... "I'll be your training!"

"Study? You?" Chu Zhongtian glanced at Emily suspiciously.

"I just said you're a bit chauvinistic, Chu!" Emily pouted, "Don't underestimate me, I can hit fifty balls in a row without falling!"

Chu Zhongtian was even more surprised. He really didn't expect that the beautiful girl in front of him was so unbearable. Although her legs were very slender, it was obviously not for playing football... "Don't you believe it?" Emily suddenly stretched her feet and hooked the football from under Chu Zhongtian's feet, then put her right toe on the football, stepped down hard, and then picked up the football, and she picked it up.

Chu Zhongtian found that she was very skilled in this movement, and she was really not the kind of girl who couldn't play football.

After jumping up the ball, Emily began to change her feet and bump the ball back and forth. The penalty kick with her left foot and her right foot, and then her right foot, was the simplest and most common way to catch the ball. As long as Chu Zhongtian was willing, he could keep up hundreds of people without stopping. But he didn't expect a girl to be so skilled. In his opinion, those beautiful girls who like football are all star-chasers. Even if they really know football, they are just typical examples of "talking about it on paper". Just being able to say and not do it, but their actual level of playing football is very bad.

Although Emily was right, he was indeed a bit macho chauvinistic... Emily counted while counting. After counting fifty, she continued to flip until the seventy-seventh. She failed to control the football and let the football fall to the ground. It seemed that the continuous penalty kicks consumed their physical strength, which made her technical movements behind her a little distorted.

Emily, who had a red face, looked at Chu Zhongtian with a provocative look, and seemed to be asking: "How is it, are you convinced?"

What a strong girl.

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Well, I admit that you are better than the girls I thought."

When Emily heard Chu Zhongtian say this, she asked happily: "So, can I be your sparring training?"

But Chu Zhongtian still shook his head: "No."

"Why is this?!" Emily shouted, she was a little angry.

"I have been training for a long time and I have to persist every day. Can you accompany me every day throughout the summer vacation? No matter whether it is windy or rainy, or how hot the weather is, can you accompany me?" After saying this, Chu Zhongtian suddenly felt that this sentence was a bit like the pastor's questioning when he got married, so he lowered his head and felt a little embarrassed.

He didn't hear Emily's answer, so he calmed down and raised his head to Emily, "If you want to be my sparring training, it will take up almost all your time. Wouldn't you go out to play? Don't you go on a trip? And what about your job?"

Emily looked at Chu Zhongtian and did not answer.

Chu Zhongtian felt that she must have given up, and he was not exaggerating at all. No matter how bad the weather was, he would insist on training. Time was too precious to him. The summer vacation was less than three months, and he had to improve himself before the start of next season. He was no longer satisfied with just being a defensive core. He now wanted to control the game in his own hands.

If it rains, he can stare at the rain training. But is Emily okay? What should I do if I catch a cold? Now she is the star of tomorrow who will enter Hollywood in the future. Although she has never met Emily's family, he knows that such children are valued by parents and will never allow them to do something out of the ordinary. A beauty or a future big screen star, follow her to go crazy? Be her own training?

Chu Zhongtian dared not have such delusions.

That day, Emily left without giving him any answer. Chu Zhongtian did not feel regretful, he felt that this was the reasonable result.

Even if Emily likes football and has a deep friendship with her, she shouldn't be able to do such a thing with her. He has no position and is not qualified to ask Emily to do anything for her.

But when he ran to the school court with the ball at 8 o'clock the next morning, he saw a man sitting under the goal.

"Emily?" When Chu Zhongtian saw who this person was clearly, he was shocked.

Emily, wearing a blue Wimbledon jersey and shorts and a pair of sports shoes, stood up and looked at the unexpected Chu Zhongtian, very proud.

"I can't promise you to come every day, but I promise to be your sparring practice when I have nothing to do!"

Emily smiled brighter than today's sunshine.
Chapter completed!