The warm-up match between China and Germany has actually attracted much attention in China. First of all, of course, it is because the German team is a world-class strong team, and with the appeal of the Chinese team, there is basically no such warm-up match opponent. In fact, this time the German team came to Shanghai to play against the Chinese team, which was not a football act, but a political act. It is a part of a Sino-German cultural exchange project between the Chinese government and the German government. Another reason is that Chu Zhongtian's success in the Bundesliga has added many fans who are interested in German football to China. The last reason is of course Chu Zhongtian's personal appeal. Everyone knows that Chu Zhongtian is a very powerful player, but in the past he could only watch his games on TV, but now he can watch the game on the spot and at close range, so he naturally has to look forward to it.

Apart from Chu Zhongtian, the new national football team is completely unable to attract the interest of Chinese audiences.

Before I didn't know if Chu Zhongtian would participate in the game, the ticket sales of this game were pretty good, but most people came for the German team stars. Because CCTV broadcasted the Bundesliga for more than ten years, it has cultivated a group of hard-core "German fans" in China.

From the moment they arrived in Shanghai, the German team received the pursuit of the media and countless fans. When they went to the 80,000 stadium in Shanghai to train, more than 2,000 Chinese fans went to cheer for them. When the German team players appeared on the court, the fans at the scene were in an uproar, screaming, cheering and even crying. Several girls wiping their tears while holding German slogans after seeing the idol. After seeing this scene, German team head coach Löw smiled, while the German team players were stunned by such enthusiastic Chinese fans.

In order to see their idol's training, these enthusiastic fans even spent 200 yuan to buy high-priced tickets from the scalpers. In order to thank these enthusiastic Chinese fans, the German team specially brought eight large cardboard boxes for football after the training. The players took out these footballs with the words "China" printed on them and kept kicking them into the stands... Such "people-friendly" measures made the fans excited, and there were another wave of screams on the scene, and some excited female fans cried again with joy, and some people shouted in German: "Love, let me marry you!!"

There were also two female fans fighting over the football kicked by German players... and caused a small riot.

But in short, in the last public training class before the game, the German team responded with a relaxed mood.

After the German team finished training, the Chinese team's training time was followed. Compared with the German team's relaxed opening, the Chinese team's new head coach Gao Hongbo obviously attaches great importance to his first game. He told reporters in advance that they were allowed to shoot for only ten minutes.

He is very strict with reporters and does not have such requirements for fans. But it is obvious that the Chinese team has a bad reputation in their own country, and this has not changed with Gao Hongbo's coming to power. Although Gao Hongbo said more than once that he wanted to "show the new atmosphere of the national football team" after taking over the national football team, the weather is still the same from this training.

The German team's open training came, and some fans even would rather buy scalper tickets for high prices to come to see. The Chinese team had just arrived, and the tide was receding in the stands, which was very lively, and most of the people were lost. In the end, there were about 200 fans still in the stands, and many of them were holding portraits, posters, and slogans of Chu Zhongtian, who were here to cheer for Chu Zhongtian. There were only seven or eight people who actually shouted "Come on the Chinese team"... This was originally a friendly exchange between China and Germany football, but judging from the various situations before the game, this game actually exceeded the nature of a "friendly match".

The Chinese German fans are so enthusiastic that the incompetence of Chinese football.

In such a deserted environment, the Chinese team played a group match and ended the training.

When they left, dozens of fans were waiting for them at the exit, and most of them came to support Chu Zhongtian. However, there were also national team jerseys holding other player numbers to find players to sign.

But most Chinese football players walked into the car without a glance, which disappointed the fans.

Chu Zhongtian had been signing his fans by his side, and when he turned around, he saw the disappointed expressions of the fans. So after signing the autograph, he turned around and took the initiative to sign them. At the same time, he also grabbed the two teammates who passed by him and planned to go back to the bus directly, signaling them to sign the fans. The two of them looked at Chu Zhongtian who asked them for this, and were embarrassed to give them face, so they lowered their heads and signed the autographs for the fans.

Gao Hongbo, who was sitting by the window at the bus door, saw this scene.

When they signed the autograph and returned to the car, the bus closed the door and slowly left. There were some hard-core Chinese fans outside waving to them and shouting: "Chinese team! Come on! Chinese team! Come on!"

They kept shouting until the bus was far away and could not hear it.

※※May 28th is the last training day before the game. This day is also the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. German star players received the Dragon Boat Festival gifts prepared by their fans - Zongzi.

German stars make jokes because they don’t know how to eat rice dumplings, which can occupy half of the page in the media, while the Chinese team is silent.

The Chinese team is a Dragon Boat Festival rice dumpling prepared by the hotel for them. Although Chu Zhongtian is there, it still cannot change the reality that this team is the most unpopular team in China. Many Chinese fans even worry that Chu Zhongtian joins this national football team will fall into the abyss when they are surveyed by various portals online, which will only make him a victim of factional struggles, or the head coach does not like him. We will see him sitting on the bench helplessly watching the team lose... Many fans think that Chu Zhongtian should have been developing abroad and never come back. Now that he is back, even if he is just participating in the national team game, it makes people worry about him.

Some people even think that Gao Hongbo recruited Chu Zhongtian to play an insignificant friendly match, which was a very stupid behavior. Because Chu Zhongtian had just ended a fierce season, he was very tired - so what they thought. At this time, what Chu Zhongtian needed was rest, vacation, not to risk being injured and played a friendly match for "national honor" - they also think about "national honor". This is the unreasonable system, this is the inhumanity of the system, and all this is the fault of the system. Chu Zhongtian was born in this country, how magical and bad this country is... and so on. They have risen from Chu Zhongtian's return to the team to participate in the game to the level of political demands, and there are still many supporters on the Internet.

Therefore, Gao Hongbo's national team is still the most unpopular group in the hearts of the Chinese. For example, there are not many hardcore fans who can still watch the national team training at the stadium and wait for export after the training to receive the signature of the national football player.

※※※In the end, after two days of training with the team, Chu Zhongtian was arranged to start in the game against the German team. During training, Chu Zhongtian could somewhat understand the difference between Gao Hongbo and his ex Zhu Suishin. At least he was willing to give himself more responsibility and space in training.

In the group confrontation, Chu Zhongtian and Zheng Zhi, who is also a returnee, were assigned to two different teams by Gao Hongbo, and then they were allowed to serve as the core of their respective teams to organize offense and defense.

The two have never been assigned together. The information Chu Zhongtian read from this arrangement is that Gao Hongbo is examining himself and Zheng Zhi, wanting to see who is more suitable for the team leader. Zheng Zhi is the core of the national team before, and he organizes the team's offense and defense. He has been doing this job in the club. Gao Hongbo obviously wants to see who is more suitable for his new national team.

In this way, is Gao Hongbo planning to make himself a leader in the national team, just like in a club? Chu Zhongtian has never enjoyed such treatment before in the national team under the guidance of Zhu Suishin... If this is true, his career in the national team is somewhat promising... Chu Zhongtian is not looking down on Zheng Zhi, but is confident that under the premise of fair competition, Zheng Zhi is not his opponent.

Judging from Gao Hongbo's starting list arrangement, it seems that he is more optimistic about Chu Zhongtian than Zheng Zhi.

Generally speaking, Chu Zhongtian will lead the team to the first half and then Zheng Zhi starts in the second half. Judging the performance of the two organizations' core performances from the team's first and second half.

After announcing the starting list, Gao Hongbo is preparing to announce the candidate for the captain of this game.

The captain of the national team has always been Zheng Zhi, and Zheng Zhi was Li Weifeng before. In this game, Zheng Zhi was a substitute, and Li Weifeng was never selected for Gao Hongbo's national team. Therefore, the captain's armband would be worn on whom the left arm has attracted much attention.

Gao Hongbo did not make a fool of himself, but announced the answer very simply.

"The captain of this game is Chu Zhongtian."

Everyone looked at Chu Zhongtian with attention. Chu Zhongtian said nothing, but just nodded.

He has been the captain of Metz and Hoffenheim. Although it was his first time as a captain of the national team, he did not feel any difference. He would not be overwhelmed and could not sleep at night. Anyway, in the past two days of the national team, what he did sometimes was actually what a captain should do.

※※※At 8:00 pm on May 29th, Beijing time, this Sino-German battle that attracted much attention - actually the German team - started at the 80,000-person stadium in Shanghai.

Chu Zhongtian's starting lineup made the commentator excited. Because to be honest, the only highlight of the Chinese team in this game was Chu Zhongtian, who had just won the Bundesliga champion. If Chu Zhongtian didn't play, everyone's interest in this game might have turned to the German team. Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian's starting lineup left some face for the Chinese team. They did not make them the visiting team to hold the competition in their own country.

Before the game, when introducing the players from both sides, Ram, Schweinsteiger and Podolsky of the German team received the most cheers, and these three people were also the most familiar German players among the German team. It was time to introduce the players from the Chinese team. When the commentator reported Chu Zhongtian's name, his voice was obviously louder than when reporting the names of other players, and the fans also responded to the name with the biggest cheers in the whole audience so far.

From this detail, we can see Chu Zhongtian's reputation in the minds of Chinese fans. In 2009, when Chinese football made people feel desperate, at least there was Chu Zhongtian who played in the Bundesliga, which could make people feel a hint of light and warmth. The Chinese have an almost fanatical admiration for such heroes, so Chu Zhongtian received nearly 80,000 cheers in the 80,000 stadium that was not full.

"It turns out." Xu Xiaodi, who was standing in the stands watching the game, clapping with the people around him, and said.

"What did you prove?" Yang Yang next to him asked.

"Facts have proved that as long as you play well, have a serious attitude, and deserve the support given by the fans, the fans will treat you with more support. If you are worthy of them, they will deserve you. If you are sorry to them, they will also be sorry to you." Xu Xiaodi said as she looked off the court.

He turned his face and looked at Yang Yang and said, "Look, the rules in the football world are that simple."

"Yes, such a simple truth, why don't those who do Chinese football understand?" Yang Yang asked.

"Don't they understand?" Xu Xiaodi tilted her head and thought for a while, then said, "Maybe they understand but don't want to do that. Maybe they really don't understand, because they are stupid like pigs."

"Don't insult the pig." Yang Yang said seriously.

Xu Xiaodi burst into laughter.

※※※In the handshake between the two sides, Chu Zhongtian and many people in the German team knew each other, so everyone would pat his shoulder in front of him and say a few words in German. Chu Zhongtian also communicated with them in German with ease.

CCTV's commentator sighed: "Such confident expression is rare on the faces of Chinese players..."

When Schweiingensteiger shook hands with Chu Zhongtian, he patted his left arm wearing the captain's armband: "Hello, captain of the Chinese team." He had had dinner in Chu Zhongtian's restaurant and was with a group of Hoffenheim players. That experience made him unforgettable, and he also met Chu Zhongtian because of this.

"Hey, Xiaozhu. How does unpeeled rice dumplings taste like?" Chu Zhongtian also joked about his previous embarrassing incident. Before, a fan sent rice dumplings to Schweiingsteiger. Xiaozhu didn't know how to eat them, so he directly sent the rice dumplings without peeling leaves into his mouth, which made the reporters present laugh. This scene naturally became a Chinese media. How could Chu Zhongtian not know?

"Hey!" Schweinsteiger rolled his eyes: "It tastes good! Of course, I mean peeled."

Both of them laughed, and then patted each other on the shoulders.

Unlike Chu Zhongtian, other Chinese players are treated as shook hands with German players, and there are few intimate actions like patting their shoulders.

There seems to be another detail that can be said to be the extraordinary status of Minchu Zhongtian in this national team. At the press conference before the game, when Lov was asked by the Chinese media about his impression of the Chinese team, he said that the Chinese team is a very tenacious team, and if he wants to defeat this team, the German team must do his best. However, the Chinese team has a new head coach, and he does not know much about this team, but he knows Chu Zhongtian very well, who is a very powerful player. He is the target that the German team should take care of in the game.

If someone commented on a Chinese player a few years ago, it would be considered as a guest to give his host face. But now everyone thinks what Löw is right, because Chu Zhongtian is indeed very powerful, leading Hoffenheim to sweep the Bundesliga, knocked all his opponents down, and then won the league championship prize set. Such performance is really worthy of Löw's evaluations.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian's appearance was the first climax of this game.

The second climax of the game came very quickly.

After the game started, Chu Zhongtian wore the captain's armband on his left arm and performed actively. He raised his hand on the court many times to ask for the ball. This was not something that could be seen often in Zhu Suishin's national team. Moreover, after receiving the ball, he did not rely on his highest strength and dribble the ball on the court. He would always quickly pass the football to his teammates with the better position and cooperate with the players around him. In this way, the Chinese team's game suddenly became better from the scene.

Two minutes into the game, the German team cooperated on the left. No. 6 Schalke 04 defender Fisher and his teammate made a wonderful cooperation, and then made a cross from the bottom. The football was taken by the goalkeeper Yang Zhi, who was attacking. He threw the ball and launched an attack. After a series of cooperation with several teammates in the midfield, Chu Zhongtian sent a straight pass. The football rolled over from the German central defender Fredrich, which made Fredrich very uncomfortable. Because it passed very quickly, he had no time to make moves and could only watch the football roll over. Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian seemed to have not cooperated with the forward teammates. Gao Lin did not expect that Chu Zhongtian's ball could really pass to the opponent's foot, so he didn't run at the beginning. When the ball was started to chase the ball, it was too late. The football was cut off by Ram, who quickly returned to defend and made up for the position.

Although the attack was not successful, the Chinese fans in the stands still burst into cheers when they saw the Chinese team showing this forward momentum and aggressive attitude.

Then the Chinese team was not timid when facing Germany, but kept passing the ball forward under the leadership of Chu Zhongtian, looking for the gap in the opponent's defense line. The forward consciousness was learned by Chu Zhongtian at Hoffenheim. Now he brought this to the Chinese team, so the Chinese team's game suddenly looked much better. In the past, the Chinese team's most impressive team was to fall down, fall down in the frontcourt, fall down in the backcourt, fall from the left side of the field to the right, and then fall back from the right side back to the left. The coach also called it "finding opportunities and creating gaps". But in fact, this was completely blank in his mind. He didn't know what to do in the face of the game - because he didn't know how to pass the ball, he could only pass the ball to his teammates he could see. Everyone did this, so naturally he fell back and forth.

Now this Chinese team has a very obvious intention to move forward, all of which were brought by Chu Zhongtian.

After seeing this scene off the scene, Gao Hongbo buried his head in his notebook and wrote and recorded something.

In the fourth minute of the game, the Chinese team got an out-of-bounds ball on the edge of the German team's penalty area. After the football was thrown out, the two players sought cooperation on the wing, but the Germans' defense line was arranged very rigorously and there was no good opportunity.

At this time, Zhao Peng, who was taking the ball from Jianye, Henan, suddenly found Chu Zhongtian out of the corner of his eyes. He did not follow him, but hung behind him. A German player was defending him around, but not very close. So he chose to pass the football to Chu Zhongtian.

Just as he passed the ball, Hao Junmin, who was originally waiting for his teammates to pass the ball on the right, suddenly cut inward horizontally.

This is a move that wing players are used to - if there is no chance on the wing, they cut in. He does not see too obvious gaps, but his cut in can definitely create opportunities.

Chu Zhongtian watched Zhao Peng pass the football over and saw Hao Junmin's change inward cut. He didn't need to think about it, he knew that this was an opportunity. So when Schweinsteig of the German team rushed towards him, he did not stop the ball, but rubbed the ball from Zhao Peng directly into the penalty area with his inner instep. The football passed Schweinsteig and passed it directly to the penalty area. There was no one there at that time on the running route of Hao Junmin!

This was an opportunity for a moment. Although Chu Zhongtian was passing the ball, he did not accelerate or swivel after the football landed, but instead allowed Hao Junmin to stop steadily.

Then facing Hu Te's defense, Hao Junmin swayed the angle on the bicycle, and shot directly at the shortest angle. The football flew into the goal from the inside of Enke's body!

The 80,000-person stadium made a huge cheer when Chu Zhongtian kicked a penetrating wonderful pass. At the same time as Hao Junmin scored, the cheer reached its peak.

Enke, who did not stop Hao Junmin from scoring the goal, jumped up and waved his arms in great annoyance, and then he shouted at his teammates: "Keep Chu!"

Schweinsteiger seemed helpless - he did pay attention. When he saw the opponent's fullback pass the football to Chu Zhongtian, he forced him up. Unexpectedly, Chu Zhongtian did not stop the ball and control the ball at all, but directly passed the football again. He could do nothing... The 80,000-person stadium was called the 80,000-person stadium when it was built. This stadium with huge capacity was deserted when it was trained by the Chinese team. Some fans even said when they followed the German team to leave: "The Chinese team is here, run!"

But at this moment, the fans who had previously sarcastic and disdained to support the national team still chose to cheer for the teams of their motherland. The home team and the away team who were reversed before the game finally returned to their normal identities at this moment.

There were people like this cheering around Xu Xiaodi.

He continued to applaud and said, "It has proved again that as long as you play well, fans will naturally cheer for you."

Yang Yang didn't hear anything he said. He was clenching his fists and shouting like the people around him: "Good ball! Good ball!! Beautiful in!"
Chapter completed!