Chu Zhongtian and Delphin Mathilde's first meeting was after dinner that day. Because at noon Merry felt Chu Zhongtian's urgent need for learning language, he agreed with Mathilde in the afternoon to start teaching directly from the evening. The class arrangement was as long as Mathilde had time, he could come to the hotel to teach in the evening, and the rewards also satisfy Mathilde.

When Chu Zhongtian finished training and returned to the hotel in the afternoon, he once again told his agent Mr. Meri about language problems. He practiced his skills with coach Tadio in the afternoon, but due to language barriers, it was difficult to communicate. He was very unhappy in learning and could only copy it. If he did something wrong, Tadio kept saying something, but he didn't know where the mistake was... After the afternoon passed, Chu Zhongtian felt that he had no progress in technology.

If this is the case with every day's training, he feels unbearable. He should learn French well whenever he says anything, even if he learns some professional football terms first.

Meili told him not to worry, and a teacher will come to teach him tonight.

When Mathilde came to the hotel to teach on time, Chu Zhongtian glanced at the rustic and scumbag girl and focused on the French textbooks she held. In his eyes, Emily was a noble white swan, while Mathilde was an absolute ugly duckling. He was really not interested.

It is more important to learn French well.

After a brief introduction, Chu Zhongtian couldn't wait to sit down: "Let's start!"

Mathilde was a little surprised. She didn't expect that her student was actually a... Chinese. Mr. Merry didn't tell her this before, and she had never learned Chinese. Later she realized that her worries were redundant. This Chinese named "Chu Zhongtian" had a very high English level and communication was not a problem at all.

This is easy to solve the problem. Delphin Mathilde can speak English and French, and Chu Zhongtian can speak English. The communication between the two is very smooth. If Chu Zhongtian doesn't understand anything while studying, he can ask questions in English, while Mathilde can answer them in English.

Mathilde also intends to gradually increase the French weight in daily conversations and learning. From the beginning, 80% of the previous class was spoken in English, and later it gradually increased to half of the English and French.

But Chu Zhongtian did not feel any inconvenience of this increase.

In the first week of my arrival at Metz, Chu Zhongtian's life was very, very simple. In addition to going to the club to participate in training every day, he was learning French with Teacher Mathilde. In order to understand what coach Tadio said more during daily training as soon as possible, Chu Zhongtian first wrote down those football terms in English, and then handed them over to Mathilde. Mathilde then translated them into French and taught Chu Zhongtian to recite.

Then on the way to the end of training and training every day, Chu Zhongtian ran while memorizing the French words.

After just one week like this, he was able to barely understand most of the coach's meaning during training.

In addition, he can also have some simple conversations with his teammates, such as "The weather is good today, it is quite sunny", "Your clothes are beautiful", "You are amazing". Of course, he still can't understand what "Scarface" said. No matter how Chu Zhongtian listened carefully, he couldn't hear what "Scarface" was saying. He even suspected that "Scarface" was not French at all, maybe German?

In order to understand this problem, he secretly recorded a recording of "Scarface" talking to him on his mobile phone and took it back to his French teacher, Miss Mathilde.

After listening to it, Mathilde told Chu Zhongtian that this is also French, but it is just a dialect, a northern French dialect called "ch'ti". It is a mixture of French and Flanders. Flandre is an old regional name published before, located in northwest France, facing the Strait of Calais. The famous "Hundred Years' War" between Britain and France was the two sides to compete for Flanders.

Because Flanders is a very vast area, and with various historical reasons, the area close to the North Sea now speaks Flanders. For example, the official languages ​​of Belgium are French and Flanders. There are people who speak this language in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and northern France, with a total of about six million people.

"Your 'Scarface' teammate should be from the province of Calais." Miss Mathilde said after the explanation.

"So what exactly is he talking about?"

"He said...'My name is franck_ribéry, and I'm glad to know you'."

Chu Zhongtian was stunned for a moment, thinking that there was still something else to say, but Mathilde did not continue talking.

"It's over?" Chu Zhongtian asked in surprise. Why did he feel that the guy who called himself "Frank Ribery" had said a lot of words? Why did he have only these two sentences left when he arrived at Miss Mathilde?

"That's the general idea, there's some nonsense in it, and I haven't translated it."

In fact, the original words mean "My name is Frank Ribery. You'd better remember my name. Don't call it wrong. If it's wrong, I won't pay attention to you. Do you still can't speak French? It's so miserable, tsk. I'll say it to you every day from now on to see when you can react!" Mathilde felt that such words were meaningless, just a little joke.

Chu Zhongtian didn't know what these omitted words were. He just thought to himself that the other party expressed his friendship with him. Fortunately, every time he faced this teammate who looked fierce and evil, he always smiled. Otherwise, it might cause some misunderstanding.

In the event of language barriers, nothing is more suitable than smiling to replace language.

When Chu Zhongtian was training, he would occasionally observe the training of the large army. He found that the "Scarface" - oh, now he should be called Frank Ribery - was fast and flexible. He looked like an excellent player, and the head coach Jean Fernandez also took good care of him.

As for his training life... I have been practicing skills for a week, and I don't know how long it will take to practice. Because of the language barrier, he hardly communicates with coach Tadio and Fernandez, but he just practices hard. But where is the only way to practice? The new Ligue 1 game started early and started in August. When will he be able to play for Metz?

He knew that he was an amateur player and shouldn't have been in a hurry to play. But now he is full of longing for high-level games and wants to go on the game the next day to play in the league. Regardless of whether he can do it or not, let's talk about it first. If he doesn't play, how can he know if it doesn't work? If he plays, at least he can know where it's not possible... Practical combat is the only way to test true knowledge... If he says it wrong, it is practice, and it's the same anyway.

Chu Zhongtian wants to fight for a real battle now.

The team also has confrontational games in training, but even such a game is not as good as Chu Zhongtian. He can only watch from the side. Fernandez told him that watching the ball is also a kind of training, and he must pay attention to the performance of the players on the court.

Speaking of head coach Jean Fernandez, he is actually a very famous figure. Chu Zhongtian didn't know it at first, but later he slowly learned about the coach's past experience from Mr. Merry.

He used to be a professional player, and his last stop in his career was the Cannes Club in Ligue 1. After retiring, he became a coach, and his first stop in his coaching was also the Cannes Club in Ligue 1.

When he started coaching the team it was in 1985. From 1985 to 1990, he served as the youth training coach and first-team head coach at Cannes.

Zinedine Zinedine Zinedine Zinedine Zinedine was attracted by Cannes scout Jean Varraud (jean_varraud) in the French Ligue 1 rookie training camp in 1986. The person who decided to sign him was Jean Fernandez, who was a little bald.

Later, when he was promoted to the head coach of the first team, Zidane, who was only seventeen years old, had the opportunity to participate in the Ligue 1 for the first time. In that game, Cannes' opponent was Nantes, while Zidane's opponent was Marcel_desailly.

Later, Fernandez coached several teams, and even coached in the leagues between Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.

He came to Metz in 2002 to help Metz, who was still in the B League at the time, advance to Class A as the champion of the B League. In the absence of recruitment funds, he almost relied on the original team of the B League and supplementing some young players in the youth team. He led Metz to successfully relegate last season.

However, his most successful masterpiece was obviously to contribute to French football and even world football. Zidane was not trained by him alone, but he discovered and dedicated to the world. The first coach Zidane came into contact with when he was in Cannes was Gilles Rampillon, the general manager of the training center and head coach of the third team of the Cannes Club. After Ronbyon, he was Guy Laconbu. In addition, Fernandez's successor was Gilles Rampillon.

Boro Primorac (boro_primorac) has also helped Zidane very much. This gentleman is Wenger's left arm and right arm at Arsenal. If you look at Arsenal's current style of playing football, you can know what Zidane learned from him... One of Fernandez's greatest contributions is to give the young Zidane the opportunity to play for the first team, which is very important for young people. Zidane was a little shy and lacked confidence when he was young, and it was Fernandez who gave him such confidence.

When Fernandez is optimistic about a player, he always tries to create opportunities for him, set up a stage, and let him perform in full swing.

After Chu Zhongtian learned about their head coach's experience, he sometimes wondered - will the other party give him such a chance?

※※After a week of arrival at Metz, Chu Zhongtian finally moved out of the hotel and moved into his new home - a two-bedroom and one-living suite in a four-story apartment. However, this time it was a bit far from the club. It took fifteen minutes to take a bus, and more than half an hour to run. It was equivalent to the distance from Wimbledon to Kings Ranch.

The home and training base of Metz Club are both on the Greater Solsey Island. The famous Moselle River flows quietly from both sides of the island. The hotel where Chu Zhongtian used to stay is on the west bank of the river, and it takes more than ten minutes to walk. Now, it is moving to the city center and you need to take a little further away.

However, life here is very convenient, unlike the previous hotel, which is a bit desolate.

The house has two bedrooms and a living room, mainly because James Merry often comes here and needs a place to stay. The rent is not high, and Chu Zhongtian can afford it.

In fact, after coming to Metz, he rented a house, looked for a teacher, and had three meals a day. Chu Zhongtian's expenses were quite large. His salary was just enough, so it was impossible to save.

This is the situation of a newcomer. If he wants to improve his financial situation, he has to work hard to play at Metz, and then attract more people to pay attention to him, get more appearance fees, goals, and assists, which will become the bargaining chips for him and Chelsea club to request improvement in contracts.

Both Chu Zhongtian and James Merry are not satisfied with the current income.

※※※Mess team had some friendly matches in July, but Chu Zhongtian didn't play in one game, and he was still continuing his training plan, and he seemed to be out of tune with the team. Sometimes Chu Zhongtian really doubted whether he was just temporarily leveraging Mess' training base to train. In fact, he was not a member of Mess, because it was almost a month since he had not played with this team. His teammates had played several warm-up games, and Frank Ribery played in every warm-up game, but his performance was not as good as Chu Zhongtian thought - he was too unique on the court, with too many dribbles and too few passes, and he didn't cooperate with his teammates. He often liked to fight alone, but as a result, two or three players on the other side were double-teamed and his ball was lost.

Coach Jean Fernandez often yelled at Ribery during training and games. Chu Zhongtian didn't understand what that meant, but he could see that Ribery's attitude was quite good. As a result, he continued to do his own thing when he went on the court - a personal breakthrough and did not pass the ball. One could pass one, two could pass two, three to four, and the goal was lost when he passed the fifth.

Coach Fernandez continued to yell at him, waving his arms constantly. He looked very angry. In front of the angry coach, Ribery continued to shrink his neck and lower his head, looking very obedient.

Every time Chu Zhongtian saw Ribery like this, he wanted to laugh - his image was so much like a pet dog scolded by his owner... After Chu Zhongtian knew that "Scarface" was Ribery, he also knew that coach Fernandez said that the club signed a low-level league player this summer, which was what he meant. Although he was an amateur player and had good skills, he was not aware of it, especially the cooperation and passing awareness did not meet the standards, so Coach Fernandez valued him very much. Even if he scolded him very much, he would let Ribery play in any game, and he could tolerate him playing alone on the court, making mistakes and losing the ball. He also handed over the "10" jersey, which symbolized the core, to this new player who played amateur football background.

Although Ribery had just transferred to the team this summer, he quickly became a group with the team's players. The speed of integrating into the team was beyond the reach of Chu Zhongtian.

He did his own thing on the court and liked to work alone. He had a very harmonious relationship with his teammates off the court. No one accused him of being a selfish person. He was not tall, but his shoulders were wide, he looked very handsome, he was helpful outside the court, and he was willing to help others with any difficulties. Moreover, he, a person who played wild football, was very intimidating among the good students trained in a group of youth training camps, and his temperament was completely different. If he was unhappy, he could let the other party know with one look. His complicated experience also gave him some admirers. Chu Zhongtian noticed that no matter where Ribery went, some "fellows" began to appear behind him - to have a meal in the restaurant. Ribery's appearance must be accompanied by several companions, and they must be behind Ribery's "boss"'s butt.

And he himself is like a marginal person, and he hasn't even recognized all his teammates in the team. He doesn't know when he can integrate into the team and really play on the game. He doesn't want to sit on the bench for a season or watch the game in the stands after he is loaned. That would be a failure.

Of course, it's not just bad news for nearly a month. The good news is that his French language has made rapid progress, which surprised his French teacher Delphine Mathilde and the people around him. James Merry was not surprised because he always thought that Chu Zhongtian had a strong learning ability. As long as he studied hard, there would be nothing he could not learn. You should know that in order to master this complex language as soon as possible, Chu Zhongtian spent all his time learning language except Xinqiu, and even while eating, he held French textbooks and memorized words. He also pasted all the items in his house on the Dharma.

Language tags, whenever he uses them, he can see those tags and know how these things are spoken in French. For a while, he even felt that he was not playing football at Metz, but dealing with the college entrance examination in China - even in the UK, he did not want to learn English so urgently. So it took him a year to master English, and now he hoped that he could communicate fluently with the French in a month... After listening to Chu Zhongtian's goal, Miss Mathilde widened her eyes and shook her head - for her, this was simply impossible.

He can now chat with his coach Tadio in some simple words. Although sometimes there are some words that are not meaningful and grammatical errors, but if you contact the context, you still understand the general meaning.

In terms of listening, he could barely understand what others said to him, but the premise was that he could not speak too quickly - after all, he lived in a French environment, and his ears were filled with French all day long. Of course, Chu Zhongtian still couldn't understand Ribery's French dialect with a strong accent and a lot of grammar errors, and his preface was inconsistent with the latter.

So every time Ribery came to train, he would change his clothes while telling Chu Zhongtian a big deal, and Chu Zhongtian could only respond with a smile.

Chu Zhongtian regarded trying hard to understand Ribery's French as a challenge, a goal other than football. For this reason, he secretly recorded Ribery's words on his mobile phone every day. When he was running, he put on his headphones and played them loop.

After seeing Chu Zhongtian's enthusiasm for learning French, Miss Delphine Mathilde sighed repeatedly, "This is crazy." She even felt that although one month is definitely not possible, maybe in three months, he can really speak like a Frenchman.

When Chu Zhongtian gradually became proficient in French, he also ended the pure technical training stage on the training ground. Coach Tadio finished his solo tutoring and returned to the team, and he was also allowed to train with the team.

If he could understand the French of his teammates earlier, he would have known that he had actually become the core of the players of this team from the very beginning.

Everyone expressed doubts about the coach paying half of his salary to rent a player, but only letting him train technically and not practicing anything else.

If you want to practice the basics, you should obviously go to the cascade team instead of doing this in the first team. But looking at the age of their new teammate, it is unrealistic to go to the youth team, the youth team and other training.

They didn't even know that this teammate who could not see any advantages in addition to being able to run would be of any help to the team. Did the club suddenly become interested in the Chinese market after they cooperated with the football training center in Chengdu?

"That Chinese boy is completely unfair... It turns out that his level of playing amateur football is just bad..." Someone among the players was talking about his teammate who had joined the new team.

Ribery glared at him: "I am also an amateur player, boy, are you going to let me pass you ten times in training?"

The person who said that just now didn't dare to say anything.

Ribery turned his head and looked at Chu Zhongtian in the distance, and didn't continue to say anything.

In fact, the players are very gossipy. In private, they will exchange a lot of news related to themselves and others. A well-informed person revealed that it is said that the decision to loan Chu was finally made by coach Fernandez. This is strange. Coach Fernandez is very high, especially with a very accurate view of people, and he has a good way to train players. Zidane, Pedreti and other stars are all from him. He is undoubtedly a famous coach in France. He once led the Marseille team to win the European Champions League. However, because the chairman of the Marseille club bribed his opponent to play counterfeit football, the championship was very unhappy. Of course, these have nothing to do with Fernandez now. Everyone does not understand why an old coach with a famous French football world is loaned to Chu Zhongtian.

The players of Metz can't understand it, and the Chinese media who are eagerly looking forward to Chu Zhongtian soaring into the sky again can't understand it very much.

It's almost a month since Chu Zhongtian is in the training ground every day to receive solo training. Except for the warm-up stage before training, he has never trained with his teammates. Xu Xiaodi once interviewed Chu Zhongtian and asked him how his relationship with his teammates was. Chu Zhongtian's answer was that it was not bad, but it was not good either, because they didn't understand it at all and had never communicated much. He could not speak a word a day.

The Chinese media, who were originally enthusiastic, saw that Chu Zhongtian had never integrated into the team, and did not even make the roster in every warm-up match, gradually lost their enthusiasm. The Chinese journalists who flocked to sign the contract left one after another, and in the end they were only Xu Xiaodi.

Xu Xiaodi chose to stay out of his understanding and confidence in Chu Zhongtian, but he was still worried. Many players could not play anymore after changing teams. A loan became a turning point in their career - they walked downhill. Will Chu Zhongtian be dissatisfied with the environment and finally leave Metz in disgrace?

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!