A win in a game did not make all Wimbledon players a star who would cause traffic congestion when going out. However, Chu Zhongtian and Borger became celebrities in the school, especially Borger who scored a goal. There were also some Wimbledon fans at Wimbledon Art School, who all went to watch that game. Now, whenever Borger was on campus, no matter where he went, there would always be people greeting him enthusiastically, and even hugging him. The only thing that made him regret was that these classmates did not ask him for autographs, nor did they want to take photos with him.

This made him unable to show several poses he designed.

Chu Zhongtian became famous among Chinese students in his class. In the past, his compatriots knew about it when he played football at Wimbledon, but for many Chinese students who didn’t know football at all, they only knew that it was an amateur team and played an amateur league. How powerful can amateur be? It’s different now, the FA Cup! I haven’t eaten pork and I have ever seen pig run? I can easily get inquiries about the FA Cup in the UK, and they all know that it is a national competition. It is obviously unusual to be able to participate in such a competition.

Now those who had had conflicts with Chu Zhongtian knew that Chu Zhongtian had achieved such achievements did not know what to say. Chu Zhongtian did not come to the costume dance last year, and everyone avoided the embarrassment of meeting directly. Now on campus, they naturally try to avoid seeing each other. They are not sure whether Chu Zhongtian still holds a grudge. If he wants to come and laugh at him in person, he will not be able to come up with any good reasons to fight back.

Their worries were redundant. Chu Zhongtian now no longer remembers what those who once mocked him looked like or what their names were.

He still practices on the school court every day at noon. He used to be the only one, but now there are gradually more spectators. Most of them come to see him because of curiosity. After watching for a few days, he found that it was boring and repeated training, so he left. Only Borge comes to see him occasionally, and he must have different girls around him. After Russell left, he had the best relationship with Del's teammate, Chu Zhongtian.

Since Chu Zhongtian used a long pass to directly assist Borger in the game, he has fallen in love with this kind of assist feeling. Although he likes shooting, he cannot score in most games, but as a midfielder, he can use passing to contribute to the team. The most important point is that passing makes him feel that he has the game in his own hands, and the rhythm of the game is under his control, and everything is as he wishes. When he wants to attack, he launches a straight pass or a long pass. When he wants to control the rhythm, he passes back or a horizontal pass, and moves back and forth, and observes the position of the opponent and his own players, judges how the opponent will run next, where there will be a space to use, and then suddenly passes the ball out.

He likes this feeling. The goalkeeper and the defender are just passively defending, and welcoming various changes in the game. The forwards are waiting for their teammates to create opportunities for them. If they lack support from the midfield and backcourt, they will fall into the siege of the opponent and lose their role. Only the midfield is the most perfect, both defense and attacking, especially the midfielder, which is like a hub. The team's offense and defense must be transferred through their own place. Should they defend or attack, accelerate or slow down, and risk or conservative, these are all determined by the commander tower of the midfield.

The game has become his toy. He controls the trend of the game at will, just like the conductor of an orchestra, using his own passes to dispatch teammates to run, and even mobilize opponents.

From the first second of the game to the last second of the game, he was involved in the game and never became a spectator.

This feels great! He is the master of the game!

Chu Zhongtian began to feel that blind defense could no longer satisfy him. He longed to play a more important role on the court, gain a higher position, and have greater power. He hated failure, but whether he was a simple defender or a simple attacker, the victory or defeat of the game was often not something they could control. Only by being a midfielder who was both offensive and defensive can he have the ability to change the victory or defeat of the game, so that there were more victory, fewer failures, and fewer more.

This idea became stronger and stronger in Chu Zhongtian's mind, so when he was in school, he began to train his passing skills more hard, and not only long passes, but also practice mid-range passes and interceptions. There are many trees in the school, and he passes against the tree at mid-range and close distances to practice the accuracy of the pass. Then he increased the difficulty bit by bit, passed the football from the middle of the two trees, and then accurately hit the target tree in the back row. He kept changing the angle. The smaller the angle, the smaller the gap between the two trees. Use this method to imitate the changes in the opponent's back line in the game. Later, he even tried to make the football pass through the blocking of the two rows of trees and hit the number of targets in the third row, which is naturally a more complex defensive position.

He didn't think this kind of practice was boring. For a person who really likes football, playing football is fun, and any form of kicking is the same. He imagined those standing trees as opponents' defense lines that kept running in the game. He needed to find the pass channel in front of this messy and seemingly disorganized defense line and ensure that the ball was passed safely. In this way, every time he practiced, Chu Zhongtian was immersed in the game environment he imagined. If he could pass a ball directly to the target, he would be happy about it and cheer himself up. If the pass was not successful, it would be like wasting a chance to counterattack, holding his head in annoyed manner.

As a result, in the eyes of many people, he was like a lunatic, and he was excited and upset about this woods by himself.

Later, Chu Zhongtian called Philip and Kenny to help him. One ran in the woods and asked Chu Zhongtian to pass the ball to him, while the other was responsible for interfering with Chu Zhongtian's side, preventing him from passing the ball easily, or not allowing him to pass the ball accurately.

Seeing this scene, even Borger had to sigh at Chu Zhongtian's madness. At the same time, he understood why his best friend did not place his ideals on him, but instead entrusts it to this Chinese boy who had laughed at him.

He does have a trait that makes people believe that he can succeed. This trait has appeared in many successful people - serious, diligent, persistent, and brain-willing. It can be seen from the fact that he found this "grove practice method" himself.

※※※When Chu Zhongtian was still working hard to improve his passing ability in complex games, Wimbledon's second round of the FA Cup match was also released. This time they drew a good draw, the opponent was hinckley_united from the conference_national. The National League is the fifth division, two levels lower than the League Two. Hinckley United's strength is far inferior to Nords. They were able to advance because their opponents in the first round were weaker, from the amateur league.

After eliminating Nords, Wimbledon went on TV. Their game highlights were played by BBC, and Chu Zhongtian also showed a little face on TV. The news media paid a lot of attention for a while, but compared with those Premier League and League One teams, they are still not famous enough. Although the team in the Ninth League defeated the League Three teams, it is not a great thing. More sensational news is common in the FA Cup 130 years of history. Unless Wimbledon can overturn the League One or even Premier League teams, they will be completely successful.

What’s going on now is that the local media is more concerned about this local team.

Therefore, when the new opponent was released, the local media sent many reporters to Kings Ranch for interviews. This time, James Merry, who didn't need to go, volunteered to interview Wimbledon. However, the club did not agree with his request. Although the four major slams this year have all ended, there are other tennis events that need to be paid attention to... Merry ignored so much and insisted on going to interview. The news of other events was not paid attention to by their local tabloids at all. At most, some news was reprinted from other places. Does he still need to do such things?

In fact, after Merry knew that Wimbledon had eliminated Nords, he had such an idea. He wanted to go and see the team that had just become unpopular. At the same time, he also wanted to apologize to the polite Chinese boy because the interview report about him did not end up in the tight newspaper, which must have disappointed him, although he had already said that the decision to enter the newspaper was not on him.

As soon as the new opponent came out, the media flocked to it, and the Wimbledon players were familiar with this scene. They were happy to see so many media on the training ground, which made them feel that they had become celebrities. In this way, when they drink in any Wimbledon tavern, they would probably get free treatment.

As a reward for the team, Eames gave 30 minutes of free interview time, so that reporters can choose which player to interview, or even himself. These thirty minutes must be made up during training, which means that their training will end half an hour later than usual.

James Merry met his old friend, the short and fat Abel in the crowd interviewed again. As a well-known reporter, this guy has a keen sense of news. Although Wimbledon had just made the first round, Abel was ready to follow up and report. He firmly believed that this team would be able to leave something different in this year's FA Cup. He will seize the initiative in this news battle and laugh to the end.

"Don't compete with me, James. That Chinese belongs to you, but the whole team belongs to me!" Abel pointed at James Merry and said.

"I'm not interested in your plan." Meili shrugged. He doesn't have that high status in his newspaper, and can decide which article can be published and which one cannot be published. Even if he wants to follow up the report, he can't do anything without the support of the club. This time he came to interview Chu Zhongtian on his own initiative, but he still doesn't know if he can let the report be published.

"Good luck, man." The short and fat man waved his hand to say goodbye to his classmates from college, turned around and strode towards the Wimbledon players.

James Merry walked in the opposite direction of him, heading towards the Chinese boy who was still sitting on the periphery to rest.

"Hey, Chu. Are you okay?" After greeting Chu Zhongtian enthusiastically but not hypocritically, Meili sat down cross-legged.

"Hello, Mr. Meili. I'm fine, where are you?" Chu Zhongtian looked up and saw that he was an acquaintance, and replied with a smile.

"It's not bad. I'm so sorry that the interview was not reported in the end." Merry shrugged.

"It's okay, you have your difficulties."

Merry nodded. "I really like talking to you like this. I feel very tacit. We don't need to say so much polite nonsense. I'll be here to interview you this time, but I promise you will appear in our newspaper this time. I even thought of the name for you - "Chinese Playing Football at Wimbledon", uh..." Merry suddenly found that she had gone too far. This time she came to interview privately and wanted the report to be published. It was very difficult. But the big talk was already said. Did she immediately change her words and say, "No, I was joking with you just now, Chu. In fact, the reports about you are impossible to go to the newspaper"? This is simply even more unforgivable than talking big talk.

So he pretended to cough twice and covered up, "What do you think of this name? It's simple and straightforward!"

"I think it's good, Mr. Merry." Chu Zhongtian didn't know the inner struggle of James Merry just now, and he nodded according to the other party's wishes.

"Tell me about that game." James Merry decided to change the topic and not continue to get involved with Chu on the issue of "Although it has been a week, I believe you will still remember it fresh? By the way, I personally think that long pass with a foot of forty yards is really beautiful! It is completely professional!" James Merry gave Chu Zhongtian a thumbs up.

"Thank you." Chu Zhongtian knew that everyone here was not humble, so he happily accepted Meili's praise.

"How did you think of passing that ball as soon as you kick off?"

"It was all of us's opinion. After getting the kick-off, Xilin proposed to use this kick-off to give Nords a warning. We didn't expect to score at first, but just wanted to tell Nords that although we are the Ninth League team, it's not easy to mess with." Since we had known James Merry, Chu Zhongtian was not reserved and he talked freely.

"So who will make this last pass has been agreed upon?"

“I recommended myself.”

"You're so confident?" Merri smiled.

Chu Zhongtian felt that the person in front of him was not as annoying as other reporters who were determined to watch them laugh at him, and he asked without any malicious intentions.

"I practiced passing for three months during the summer vacation, hoping to use it in such a place."

"It's amazing..."

※※※James Merry chatted with Chu Zhongtian for half an hour, but he didn't go to find anyone else, and he was determined to report about this Chinese student. People are always curious about things they don't know, and curiosity will let them read it. Merry hopes to seize this psychology and make his report attract more attention.

When Eames blew the whistle that the training was about to begin, Merry and Chu Zhongtian stood up from the ground, patted the soil and grass on their butts, and shook hands and said goodbye.

"I'm glad you've been interviewed by me, Chu. If I leave, I'll send you a sample report. Where is the best place to find you? King's Ranch or your school or bar?"

Chu Zhongtian thought for a while: "Bar. The place where I work is the Wimbledon bar." Then he reported the address of the Wimbledon bar, and Merry wrote it down and left.

When the reporters left, head coach Eames gathered the team together, standing in the middle and said to everyone: "Before we start today's training, I have a few words to say to everyone - does anyone think our opponent is too weak?"

Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what the boss meant.

"I'm very happy with our game against Nords, because I didn't see any fear in you, you seemed very confident. But now I have to worry about whether you will be too confident. Hinckley United is a team in the fifth division, which is much weaker than Nords, but in terms of absolute strength, we still have to be stronger than us. We can't think that the team is invincible just now because we just eliminated Nords. I'm worried about this - are you a little proud and underestimated now? The scene where the reporters surrounded you and asked questions made you feel happy?"

To be honest, there are indeed many people in the players who have this idea - we even won Nos County, what is a small Hinckley United?

Seeing the players' expressions, Eames knew that he had hit it.

"Fortunately I discovered it early. If you deal with training and competitions with this mentality, I would bet that our FA Cup journey will end here. Are you satisfied?"

"No, boss, no one is satisfied!" Captain Kevin Cooper stood up on behalf of the players.

"Yes, we still want to be on TV! It is obviously impossible to broadcast live nationwide for a game like Hinckley United..."

"I found that even if we beat Nords, we didn't become a celebrity. So it seems that we can only become famous after we win higher-level teams! The sunglasses I prepared can come in handy!"

"So you have to go to the third round! That way you can meet a strong enough opponent!"

A group of people shouted.

Eames smiled very rarely on his face: "Great, guys. I'm so happy to see you so motivated! So now I'll start training, and I have to warm up first..."

※※※When Chu Zhongtian felt in the bar, the boss John had just put down the phone.

"What a pity, Chu Emily just called, but it's a pity that you are not here. I wanted her to wait a while before calling you, but it sounds like she's very busy." Boss John said, shook her head.

Chu Zhongtian heard that it was Emily who called, but he missed it, and it felt a pity. He and Emily had a single line connection, that is, when Emily was free, she would call the bar, and if he was there, she would receive it. I heard that Emily was very busy there, not only filming, but also studying, so that she would not be able to graduate from school at that time. So there were not many opportunities for the two to talk, but she missed it today... Seeing Chu Zhongtian's face showing a disappointed look, Boss John smiled even more clearly: "She asked me to tell you that if everything goes well, she will come back around December 20 to attend the premiere of the movie in London. As for inviting you to participate in such a thing, I won't transfer it. Let her tell you by herself. At that time, be more handsome."

Boss John patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder and left with a smile.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!