As a result, Ribery really did not wear underwear in the match against Marseille, and this is not fake. Because the shorts are very thin, when the players usually wear underwear, the outline of the underwear can be clearly seen on the shorts. However, in the match against Marseille, Chu Zhongtian could clearly see that Ribery's shorts had no outline of the underwear underneath... Fortunately, Metz's jersey was dark red. If it was white like Marseille, maybe you could see the dark ball inside directly through the white pants... So Chu Zhongtian was watching this game in front of the TV, pointing at Ribery's butt and laughing.

Perhaps because he lost to Chu Zhongtian in training, Ribery was particularly excited in this game. Even when facing the former French football overlord Marseille, he was not at all nervous.

Ribery used his sharp breakthroughs to play with Marseille's defense line again and again. In front of him, an experienced veteran like Lizarazu had to sigh at the ruthlessness of time and the terror of the younger generation.

Not only that, he also began to pass more balls to his teammates. Ribery, who is slowly integrating into the team, is terrible. Chu Zhongtian, who has fought with Ribery many times during training, believes this.

Originally, Metz and Marseille were not on the same level as they were. Marseille had won the Champions League, and Metz's best result was just the French Cup. Despite this, the final result still surprised many people - Metz defeated Marseille 3-1 away, and Ribery had an assist.

The TV commentator also had to admit that this was the best game Ribery had since joined Metz, but... "Who knew it was the beginning of a stable performance, or a chance?" They still didn't believe that players like Ribery could have any future.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian's life has not changed much. He is still training in the first team and playing in the reserve team. Occasionally, he meets Wang Hao, Jiang Ran and others to ask about his recent situation. Jiang Ran has already scored in the youth team's game, but he is suffering from injuries. Wang Hao has already shown his talent in the youth team and is considered one of the most promising hope stars.

French continues to learn, but the French class every week has changed from the first Saturday classes to two. Every time Miss Delphin Mathilde comes to class, she always dresses up like a rustic and disgraceful dress. In order to increase Chu Zhongtian's French proficiency, she would bring some literary masterpieces from French writers to Chu Zhongtian, but Chu Zhongtian was only most interested in the football magazines he bought from the street. Seeing that he did not move about the classics he brought, he focused on reading football magazines, Mathilde was a little helpless and disappointed.

At first, Chu Zhongtian could only read pictures, but he couldn't understand the text content. Later, slowly, even guessing and confusing could understand the general meaning. In those magazines, he could learn about the latest news about French football. This was Chu Zhongtian's purpose.

In fact, the quality of the second team league is quite high, and Chu Zhongtian slowly felt this.

After nearly a month of adjustment training, Chu Zhongtian no longer felt that powerful but still tired during the game. His physical adaptability was amazing, which surprised both Pinot and Tadio.

But in the game, he is still a defensive midfielder.

Compared to the job of organizing offense, he is more at ease in defense. After all, organizing offense requires a very good understanding of the team in order to do a good job, and everyone must listen to you. Defence is much simpler, you only need to steal and hand over the snatched ball to your teammates.

When Chu Zhongtian was able to lead the team at Wimbledon Athletics, he was the one who stayed in that team for a season and a half. If he had to be the core of the organizational offensive as soon as he went, there would definitely be no good results.

Want to be the core of the organization? Let’s play the game first and get familiar with your teammates.

When he saw Chu Zhongtian jumping high in the penalty area and pushing the football out in front of the opponent's player, Pinot said to Tadio off the court: "Actually, I think it's better to train him into a full-time defensive midfielder. I think he has almost become a finished product in this position. With a little processing, he can play."

"But the reason why Mr. Fernandez values ​​him is not just defense, but his offensive performance in the game against Chelsea," Tadio said.

"What a pity..." Nopet murmured.

Xu Xiaodi was watching Chu Zhongtian's performance on the sidelines, and his heart was full of contradictions. On the one hand, he was happy to see Chu Zhongtian perform his level normally in defense; on the other hand, Chu Zhongtian played against the midfielder in several consecutive games, rather than the central defender he had in the last half of the season at Wimbledon. Does Messe want to use Chu Zhongtian as a pure defender?

Xiao Chu finally showed some talent in the offense. If he was just a blue-collar worker, it would be a waste. Moreover, his offensive talent might degenerate because he had no use, and eventually became an ordinary midfielder who could only defend and do nothing.

What is the future of a player who only knows how to defend but cannot run? World football is increasingly paying attention to the diversity of players. A player must at least be professional and multi-tastic, outstanding in one aspect, but at the same time, it must have multiple characteristics that can cope with different positions and needs. Only such players can be more favored by the head coach and have more opportunities.

Standing next to Xu Xiaodi are two young players from the Metz youth team, Wang Hao and Jiang Ran. If they have time, they will come to the stadium to watch Brother Chu's reserve team game. Jiang Ran is recovering from his injuries, while Wang Hao has made his mark, but in their eyes, Chu Zhongtian, who has the opportunity to participate in the Ligue 1 league, is the most successful Chinese player in the Metz team.

"What a great bounce ability!" Wang Hao couldn't help but exclaim when he saw Chu Zhongtian overwhelming the heroes.

Then he looked at his slightly thin body. His skills were outstanding among his peers, but he always believed that the biggest factor restricting his development was his thin body. Because of his lack of confrontation, his performance in the youth team was not as eye-catching as Jiang Ran before he was injured.

The coaches also noticed this problem. Although his body has not yet fully developed, he still added strength training content to Wang Hao during training.

So Wang Hao envied Chu Zhongtian's body very much. In his opinion, if he had Chu Zhongtian's body, it would not be impossible to become a player like Zidane.

In fact, because Chu Zhongtian is paying attention to controlling his diet, his body is thinner than before, but his fat content is less and he is all muscle. This not only does not make him lose some of his strength, but instead makes him more powerful and more capable of confrontation.

Physically, he is becoming more and more like a professional player.

But in terms of thinking, he has to work hard to adapt to professional football.

For example, during the game, he paid attention to his sense of speed and rhythm, and tried to minimize the number of times he was intercepted by the opponent. Whenever he looked up and observed after receiving the ball, coach Tadio would yell off the court: "Observe in advance, observe in advance!"

Next time, Chu Zhongtian will turn his head around to observe the surrounding situation before receiving the ball, but at the beginning he will always miss the other - when he looks up and observes, he will forget how to catch the ball. He will not run and observe but not pay attention to the opportunity to catch the ball, miss the opportunity to catch the ball, and let the football leak through his feet; or he can't stop the ball well in a hurry, and it will take more experience to readjust. After he adjusts, the positions of his teammates and opponents will be different from the results he has observed before.

Compared with physical adaptation, the most important and painful change in thinking is the most important and most painful.

To make himself completely and completely become a professional player, he must overcome this hurdle. Many bad habits developed by playing amateur football that do not meet professional requirements have been changed by coach Tadio and Fernandez.

During normal training, Coach Fernandez will specially arrange two or three teammates to guard Chu Zhongtian. He must use the ball as soon as possible in this case, and will be punished if it is not completed.

Over time, everyone found that their head coach Fernandez was very concerned about Chu, who had never played in a formal first-team game, and even had some special care. Just like he took care of Ribery.

Even Ribery joked at Chu Zhongtian in the locker room, "Hey, Chu. Our coach likes you very much. I thought he only likes me, ha!"

"I didn't let me play if I like it." Chu Zhongtian didn't believe it was true. It's September now, and he can basically communicate freely with Ribery.

"I think it's almost done." Ribery nodded, "I can't wait to be an opponent of you. I want to enjoy the feeling of being a teammate with you."

Chu Zhongtian just took off his clothes, and he had a cold war with his upper body naked. "Why do I think your words are so stingy, Frank?"

"Ah haha!" Ribery laughed proudly.

His smile made Chu Zhongtian believe that this was just a joke from Ribery. When he was participating in the second team league in the reserve team, head coach Mr. Fernandez had never visited the scene once. If he really valued himself, why not come to see his game on site?

So don’t be foolish and keep practicing hard. Maybe you will only find yourself in the first team game when you have continuous and stable performance in the second team league.

※※※Xu Xiaodi is very distressed now. He feels like he is competing with his domestic society. "Sports Weekly" is a profit-oriented newspaper. They are not a charity. If he never gets any valuable news from Metz, he will not be able to ensure whether his position is stable.

When Chu Zhongtian played in Metz's second team game, he also posted reports back to China, but later found that domestic readers were not interested in a second team league at all.

Domestic readers only care about when Chu Zhongtian will play in the Ligue 1, when he scored goals in the game against strong teams, when he made a splash, and then caused countless European giants to snatch... But how is this possible? With Xu Xiaodi's understanding here, he found that Chu Zhongtian still has a long way to go to if he wants to reach the realm that readers hope for. His most realistic goal is not to make a splash and attract the attention of major European giants, but to play in the game in the mid- and lower-level teams of Ligue 1.

For this reason, he wrote a special analysis article and sent it back to China and published it in the newspaper, but he had few reactions.

Some people even think that Xu Xiaodi has made an excuse for Chu Zhongtian's possible failure in Metz.

In fact, most fans have limited enthusiasm. When the stars they support cannot continue to appear in their field of view, they will gradually lose their attention to the stars. There are many realistic examples of this.

The same is true for Chu Zhongtian's fans. In summary, it has been more than half a year since then. When he really shines and excited fans, he only has his performance in the FA Cup and signs with Chelsea. Most of the other times he is unknown. But the game at Chelsea was really sensational, giving fans the illusion that "Chu Zhongtian wants to be a big hit". The expectations have been a little high for a while, but the reality is cruel. Chu Zhongtian did not become a big hit. Although he became a professional player, he was still struggling for a place to play.

In fact, this is the real situation of most Chinese players studying abroad - maybe they are very talented at home, maybe they are highly expected, but when they come abroad, they still need to work hard to play. As for what they become main players, it is achieved through time. Sun Jihai has played in Manchester City for several seasons, but he cannot be said to be the main player. Li Tie has completely lost his position in Everton. Where is Yang Chen? He returned to China in disgrace, Xie Hui struggled for a position in the German second division... Only Dong Fangzhuo is in a better condition.

It is too whimsical to ask Chu Zhongtian to perform well when he arrives at Metz and quickly become the absolute main force of the team. Then, after playing a few league games, it is reported that Metz coach Fernandez has appointed Chu Zhongtian as the core. It is really too whimsical... However, Xu Xiaodi knew that this was a fact, it was natural, and it conforms to the laws of development of things, but he could not combine calmly. You must know that his future is closely related to Chu Zhongtian.

When October came, Chu Zhongtian showed no sign of playing in the French Ligue 1. Xu Xiaodi's boss finally lost his patience and thought it was not worth it for a young player who could not even play in the game to send a reporter to stay for a long time. So he ordered Xu Xiaodi to the UK to assist Li Liangcai in his work at the London Press Station.

After going around and back, Xu Xiaodi felt that fate and him also made a joke with Chu Zhongtian.

He actually didn't want to leave, but Chu Zhongtian had no performance worth reporting, and he didn't have the confidence to stay in Metz.

Before leaving, he went to Chu Zhongtian to say goodbye.

"Mr. Xu is leaving?" Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised.

Xu Xiaodi nodded: "Well, work adjustment..." He was inconvenient to tell Chu Zhongtian that the reason he was transferred was that he could not play the first team game for a long time.

But the clever Chu Zhongtian guessed: "It's because there has been no valuable news about me during this period, right?"

Xu Xiaodi looked a little embarrassed, and finally nodded: "But it doesn't matter. The country has put too much pressure on it, don't mind. Anyway, you can develop well here, take your time, don't worry about what's going on in China. They won't affect you."

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "I know, Mr. Xu."

In fact, the "Chu Zhongtian Bar" of Baidu Post Bar, which was once very popular, gradually became deserted as he returned to his silence at Mets, and the number of posts was decreasing. The posts on the first page were all the posts he made a big splash in the FA Cup and signed with Chelsea.

Tieba is just a microcosm. Many fans and fans have set up personal websites for him, but they have gradually faded away because of their enthusiasm.

Some people even suspect that Chu Zhongtian's choice to be loaned to Metz was a mistake. He will become a typical Chinese player who "has been in the middle of the hour, but not necessarily good" and slowly sinks. The final result may be that he will return to China to play football.

The Chinese team failed in the Asian Cup this summer and lost to Japan in the final. Although the Japanese team won the championship by handball, the failure of Chinese football is an indisputable fact. After the Asian Cup, China's domestic football enthusiasm gradually cooled down, and no good news came from a group of overseas players. Everyone's interest in football faded as quickly as the sea water was receding.

Xu Xiaodi sighed, the cold winter of Chinese football seemed to be coming quietly.

"I have to go back to London. Do you have anything to bring to the people in the bar? I think I might go there if I have time."

Speaking of Wimbledon bars, Chu Zhongtian's memory was aroused. Until now, he still thinks that the two seasons at Wimbledon were his happiest time. He shook his head: "There is nothing to be done, and now he is not satisfied, and he has no shame to say anything to them. When I become famous in the future, ha!"

"I'm leaving, take care of you." Xu Xiaodi nodded, with a reluctance in his tone. If he could make a decision on his own, he really wouldn't want to leave. He knew that Chu Zhongtian would succeed. He was different from those in China who didn't understand the situation. After observing Chu Zhongtian for so long, he felt that if such a person did not succeed, the world should be destroyed, because the way of heaven does not reward hard work.

He hoped that he could stay here and witness with his own eyes how Chu Zhongtian moved towards the throne of success step by step.

Now, maybe after Chu Zhongtian succeeds, he will be remembered by the society and sent back to Metz?

Xu Xiaodi said goodbye to Chu Zhongtian, took the suitcase and disappeared from Chu Zhongtian's sight.

※※※Although Chu Zhongtian did not perform well when Xu Xiaodi said goodbye to him. But when he was alone, he still felt a little lost and lonely.

After returning home, he sat alone in a dark room with no lights on, no TV or computer on. He didn't care about the opinions of domestic fans. He was thinking about whether his parents would worry about him?

If you can't play the game for a long time, will your mother be worried?

When the knock sounded outside the door, he came back to his senses from his thoughts and got up to open the door.

The dark room and Chu Zhongtian hidden in the darkness scared Delphin Mathilde, who was standing at the door, so she didn't dare to go in - she was a girl, Chu Zhongtian was a male professional player, and professional players were often energetic. If they couldn't vent on the court, they had to seek other ways... Chu Zhongtian looked at his French teacher standing outside and hesitated and refused to come in, so he realized that although he had never had any inappropriate thoughts about this French teacher who was not very good and dressed very rustic, he was a lonely man and a widow after all.

He turned on the light and said to Mathilde again: "Please come in, teacher."

During class, Mathilde discovered that Chu Zhongtian was always distracted. He was not like this before. Chu Zhongtian was almost the most serious student she had ever seen to learn French.

If you are distracted, your learning effect is very poor. Mathilde simply put down the book and asked Chu Zhongtian directly: "Are you too tired of training today, Chu?"

"Uh..." Chu Zhongtian came to his senses and looked at Miss Mathilde with a serious face. Although he was his teacher, he was actually one year younger than him... he was a college student. "Sorry, the teacher. He was not too tired, he just sent a friend away today. He suddenly felt a little disappointed."

Only then did Mathilde realize that although she had been a French teacher for this Chinese boy for three months, she actually had no idea about the person in front of her.

She didn't care whether Chu Zhongtian played in the game, whether Chu Zhongtian's situation in the team, nor did she care about Chu Zhongtian's life. It can be said that she doesn't do anything else except teaching every day, and they rarely talk about topics that have nothing to do with learning.

She is really a "pure" teacher... In fact, she has never had a good impression of professional players. She feels that those rich and famous professional players are of low quality. Many girls around her like to fall in love with professional players, but in the end they are abandoned. Professional players are tired of the old and unrestrained, and play with this girl before playing with the next girl. Therefore, she initially had no good impression of Chu Zhongtian. If it weren't for making money, she wouldn't have come to a professional player to take French class.

But after three months of contact, although the two did not talk, she could observe that this boy was different from those professional players. His life was not as simple as a professional player, and even a high school boy's life was a hundred times more exciting than his.

Mathilde closed the book. "Okay, Chu. We won't have class today, come and chat."

Chu Zhongtian looked at the French teacher with black-framed glasses and a hairstyle that remained unchanged for thousands of years.

"Is there nothing to talk about?" Mathilde asked at Chu Zhongtian.

"No, it's just a little surprised... You said nothing except class. To be honest, don't be angry, teacher. I always thought you were a stubborn person..."
To be continued...