The third "Great China" restaurant is open in Times Square, the most prosperous area in New York. It is thanks to Emily's influence and the efforts of the professional team they hired. The Greater China restaurant is decorated with magnificent magnificent, and the carvings of dragons and phoenixes on the beams and pillars. Although it is a bit vulgar, it can remind foreigners of the distant mysterious and rich East when they see this style, which caters to the psychology of the Americans.

The legal representative of the Greater China Restaurant is still Chu Zhongtian’s father Chu Zuosheng. On the opening day, Chu Zuosheng dressed formally to welcome the invited guests. Standing with him was Emily’s mother Miranda. She smiled brightly and greeted all the celebrities who came to support her.

Chu Zhongtian hid in the restaurant and talked about his lovesickness with Emily.

Greater China's business is doing well and is currently in a stage of rapid development. Benefiting from this, Chu Zhongtian's personal assets are also growing at a geometric multiple. The fourth branch in Chicago has been in the plan, and it is estimated that it will be possible to start preparing for the opening in another half a year. Miranda and Chu Zuosheng discussed and decided to establish a China Co., Ltd. and then strive to go public. The company is based on food and uses Miranda and Emily's resources to enter the film and television cultural industry.

Chu Zuosheng's experience in business was put into use, and Miranda also experienced the life of a strong woman. She no longer had to rely on seducing a successful person to pave the way for her daughter. Emily's current road is smooth and she has already entered the formal world. She, a mother, has also begun to pursue her own pursuit.

In the evening, Chu Zhongtian personally welcomed Hoffenheim teammates who came to the banquet outside the Greater China restaurant. The first day of Greater China's opening was naturally an important news in New York City. The reporters have been here since noon and saw many celebrities and stars from the film and television industry coming to support this restaurant that is said to be jointly opened by Emily and Chu Zhongtian. And in the evening, they saw a large group of football stars... What surprised Chu Zhongtian was that among Hoffenheim's teammates, he also unexpectedly saw Bayern star "Piggy" Schweinsteiger.

"We went to Madison Square Garden to watch the Knicks' game and met him there," Weiss introduced. "He was very interested in what we were going to do next, so we called him together!"

Schweinsteiger is Bayern Munich's main midfielder, but at this time he looks just an ordinary person dressed in fashion. Schweinsteiger stretched out his hand to Chu Zhongtian: "I hope I didn't disturb you, Chu."

"Ha! How could it be? Just an extra pair of chopsticks!" Chu Zhongtian said in his native language. Then he explained to Schweiingsteiger: "For Chinese people, one more guest is just adding a pair of tableware on the dining table, which is not troublesome."

As soon as a group of people walked into the hall of Greater China, they looked up at the ceiling like artworks on the top and exclaimed. The Greater China Restaurant has two floors, and the ceilings on each floor are painted and reliefs. It is completely Chinese style and is very eye-catching.

The players took out their cell phones and took photos of digital cameras. Some people took photos in front of the screen engraved with the partial screen of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" - this is what almost every diner who comes to a Greater Chinese restaurant for a meal will do.

Currently, there are three Greater Chinese restaurants in the United States. Each of them has a part of the screens that enter the door, but each part is different. When did Chu Zhongtian plan to put together the screens of the "Qingming River" into a complete "Qingming River"? He doesn't have to open a branch anymore - he doesn't plan to open Greater China into McDonald's and KFCs that can be seen everywhere all over the world.

Sitting in the private room, the group of people had not yet come back to their senses from the shock.

"I think the money you earn without playing football is enough for you to spend, Chu!"

"If you don't play football, you may earn more if you focus on your business..."

"No, if Chu didn't play football, we wouldn't know him anymore. There is no way to have such a free meal here!"

Chu Zhongtian smiled but said nothing about everyone's praise.

Chu Zhongtian's business is getting bigger and bigger, and criticism has never disappeared. Some people always say that he has devoted himself to how to do business, and playing football has become a side job. These people are used to talking lies with their eyes open, and Chu Zhongtian never argues with them. He uses his performance on the court to prove how dedicated he is a player.

Emily came over to greet Chu Zhongtian's friends, but she didn't expect Schweiingsteiger stood up with a digital camera: "Can I take a picture with you? I like your movie very much!"

Everyone looked at each other and then laughed. The world is really interesting. Emily laughed too, and then nodded generously: "No problem."

Everyone was very happy to eat this meal. The teammates finally had authentic Chinese cuisine - these dishes and even the seasonings were imported from China's origin. Chinese chefs cooked them for their guests according to the most authentic way. Among them, Sichuan cuisine is the most popular. In the cold winter, eating spicy food made everyone excited.

Of course, Chinese pastries with different shapes also make them love them. Some people simply hold them up and can't bear to eat them.

Among them, Chu Zhongtian specially prepared Chinese Roujiamo for everyone. Salihovic was most interested in this. When he saw Roujiamo, his eyes shone and became interested. "There are doeners in China?" he asked strangely.

Chu Zhongtian explained to him: "This is a Chinese doener, Roujiamo."

"doener" is a food that Turks like very much. To put it bluntly, it is a big cake with meat, including beef, lamb, chicken and turkey. It is cut from a large piece of compressed and hot roasted meat, and then served with lettuce, onions, tomato slices and other vegetables. It is very similar to Chinese Roujiamo. However, there are no tomato slices and onions in Chinese Roujiamo... "doener" is Salihovic's favorite food. He lived a difficult life when he was a child. He fled from Bosnia to Berlin at the age of seven. At that time, his motherland was fighting the Balkan War. He joined the youth team of Hertha Berlin in Berlin, but he rarely got the chance to play when playing football in Hertha.

At that time, Salihovic and the Boateng brothers (Jerome Boateng and Kevin Prinz Boateng), as well as ashkan dejagah, often went to dance together, and Turkey's "doener" and curry sausage were their favorites. They often rushed to train after having sex all night.

Although Salihovic is now living a better life and earns an annual salary of 2 million, doener is still his favorite. So he is still very excited to see foods that look like doener here.

Salihovic alone destroyed almost one-third of the Roujiamo. The Roujiamo in Greater China is made very small, and Salihovic tastes very delicious.

Not only him, but others too.

Before leaving, Schweiingsteiger was still a little unsatisfied. He patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder and said, "Why are there no 'Great China' in Munich?"

"Hoffenheim is not. Well, Hoffenheim is just a small place, but you can open a dim sum shop there. I promise to visit after every training, Chu!" said teammate Eduardo.

※※※Hoffenheim's teammates will continue to stay in New York after a full meal in "Great China" to conduct their American bloody trip. Chu Zhongtian did not go with them, so he chose to spend this holiday with Emily. On December 31, on New Year's Eve in the West, he and Emily spent a million people at Times Square at the same time. When the color ball fell down with everyone's countdown and the colorful tapes bloomed, the square became a sea of ​​joy.

In the crowd, Chu Zhongtian hugged his girlfriend Emily and kissed her passionately. No one cared about them, because everyone around him was the same.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian, who spent the New Year in New York, contacted ten teammates, and eleven returned to Germany together. However, Schweiingsteiger no longer had fun with them.

After returning to Sinsheim on January 2, Chu Zhongtian didn't go anywhere and rested in the apartment for a while.

After lunch the next day, he drove to Hoffenheim to prepare for the team's training.

The Christmas holiday has ended, and the second half of the 2008-2009 season was the most important half-time game. In order to cope with the hard game, the team started training from No. 3. After Mannheim participated in the third Hard Thirteen Cup indoor futsal, the team will set off to the warm Spanish Namanga training camp for training.

On the third day, Chu Zhongtian arrived at Hoffenheim in advance because he had to communicate with head coach Rangnick first, and then introduce his new teammate Hildebran to the team. As the captain, this is his duty, and two other captains, Per Nilsson and Selim Teber, were with him.

In the office of head coach Rangnick, Chu Zhongtian met the goalkeeper who still holds the longest record of goal-concession in the Bundesliga. He was once called Kahn's successor and was highly expected. Later, he won the Bundesliga championship that season for Stuttgart, and then he transferred to Valencia, hoping to make a fortune in Spain. In fact, he didn't make it, otherwise he wouldn't have transferred back.

If it weren't for Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic, Hildebran might be the biggest star in the team, because he had won the Bundesliga championship.

He is relatively low-key and does not show off his once glorious airs. Perhaps he knows that this is not Stuttgart, Hoffenheim was very successful in the first half of the season, and the people here have all seen big scenes, and they are not worse than him.

He put his position very well. A player who has not played a game for four months is really not qualified to be crazy in front of today's Hoffenheim players.

This is Hoffenheim's first training after the Christmas holiday. More than 1,200 fans came on the scene, many of whom welcomed his joining with the slogan "Welcome to Timmer". In the first half of the season, the team conceded many goals, and if it weren't for too many goals, it would be impossible to rank first. The performance of the two goalkeepers in the front and back was unsatisfactory, which made the fans have high expectations for the new Hildebrand, hoping that his arrival can reduce the number of goals conceded by the team. You must know that in front of them, the goalkeeper who still maintains the longest record of not losing goals in the Bundesliga... As the first captain, Chu Zhongtian introduced Hildebrand to his teammates who were missing during the holiday. Everyone was very friendly and welcomed Hildebrand's joining.

Two days later, the team went back to Mannheim to play. This time they did not participate in the Bundesliga, but participated in the 13th Bundesliga Cup, an indoor five-a-side football match. It was held in the SAP Arena in Mannheim, sponsored by Hoffenheim boss Dietma Hope's company SAP, and this year it is the third session. It is also a way for the Bundesliga team to recover in the winter break training. There are six teams participating in this cup, including three Bundesliga teams - this season's Bundesliga Winter Champion Hoffenheim, the last Hard 13th Cup Champion Karlsruhe, and Frankfurt. The other three are Kaiserslautern, currently ranked second in the Bundesliga, Mannheim, and the leader of the Danish Premier League.

Hoffenheim sent Eduardo, Wellington, Chu Zhongtian, Baker and Hildebran as the starting lineup.

According to the rules of futsal football, the six teams are divided into two groups: a and b. Hoffenheim, Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt were assigned to group B together. Each game played ten minutes in the first and second half and had three minutes off at halftime. The group order was determined according to the points. The top two teams were crossed semi-finals, the winners competed for the championship, and the first and second half of the finals were twelve minutes each.

This five-a-side competition attracted 12,000 people to watch the game.

In the end, Hoffenheim defeated Kaiserslautern in Group B, but lost to Frankfurt, advanced as the second in the group, and lost to the host Mannheim in the semi-finals. Hoffenheim led the lead, but was chased by Mannheim twice in a row at the last moment, setting the score to 3:3. In the penalty shootout, Baker's penalty was saved and the team lost the opportunity to compete for the championship.

Although he did not win the championship, Wellington won the top scorer of this Cup, scoring a total of six goals. Eduardo was named the best player.

The five-a-side football field is small and pays more attention to the players' personal skills and cooperation. In this regard, the Brazilians' advantages are fully demonstrated, while the Germans are slightly worse in this regard.

However, Hoffenheim players are not unfamiliar with five-a-side football, because such training content in Rangnick's daily training is a compulsory course. In order to strengthen the team's ability to pass and cut quickly in a narrow range, Rangnick has always insisted on conducting offensive drills in a small field. Everyone takes the ball in a very small area and faces the opponent's fierce pressing, they must make a decision as soon as possible and make precise moves to ensure that the ball will not be lost.

Chu Zhongtian's outstanding performance in the Bundesliga is inseparable from the head coach's training. Chu Zhongtian, who plays football at Metz, is slower, while his speed increases a lot when playing football at Hoffenheim. This does not mean running speed and dribbling speed, but refers to fast pace.

Metz's slowness and Hoffenheim's fastness are on him at the same time, and it has a profound impact on him. It also allows him to adapt to the game situation in different situations. Whether it is slow or fast, he can always find a way. He is not the kind of midfielder who can only play the organizational ability in defensive counterattacks, nor is he a specialist in positional battle who can only take the ball slowly and then gradually advance. He is becoming more and more versatile.

※※After the end of the five-a-side football match in Mannheim, the entire Hoffenheim team boarded a flight to Spain. They will go to Namanga, located in the Spanish province of Murcia, and conduct winter training at the Namanga training base in Europe.

Generally speaking, whether it is the winter break or summer, European professional football teams like to go to training camps in a certain place, and they will not stay at home as long as the finances are not tight. On the one hand, going to the training camps can find a brand new training environment for the team that integrates training and leisure. The training camps are generally built in beautiful places, training places, and resorts. On the other hand, they can get more opportunities for international competitions, because there are usually not only one team here to train, and often multiple teams share a training camp, so it is much more convenient for everyone to contact each other to play games. Go directly to the other head coach next door for negotiation to solve the problem of warm-up matches. The third reason is that it is convenient for your own team to inspect the players of other teams. If you can find excellent players, you can also get the moon first. While everyone is training together, you will set the transfer goal.

Because of the above three reasons, training is a tradition for European teams.

The Namanga training base covering an area of ​​1,400 acres is also a world-famous sports and leisure resort. It is unanimously recognized as the best football training base and tournament venue in Europe. It is the first choice for many top European clubs before the season football training camps, such as Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Newcastle, Southampton, etc. Now Hoffenheim is also joining it.

Because it is close to the Mediterranean Sea, it has a Mediterranean climate and is warm and comfortable. Even in winter, the average temperature remains at 16 degrees Celsius. It is full of sunshine all year round, making it very suitable for outdoor training.

At this time, the whole of Germany was shrouded in the cold rain and snow of winter. It is the favorite of many German teams to come to the warm Spain for training.

While the team is training here, the club's senior executives cannot be idle for a moment. They have to supplement their strength. Since the team's goal is to win the league championship this season, they must make up for it.

But the problem is that the winter break is not a good time for players to transfer. It is often difficult to find a suitable player during the winter break. If you just buy it to put out a fire, you have to re-plan it in the summer. Players who have just bought half a season may never be able to play again. Even if Hope's money is too much, it cannot be wasted like this...
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