Chapter 157 Busy Holidays (There Is 1 More Chapter Tonight)

The UEFA Champions League draw is just an episode for the players. Although the media all over Europe are focusing on several strong dialogues in the lower half, with the arrival of the seventeenth round of the Bundesliga, the whole team's attention is on the last match. round against Mainz.

This is the final game of the first half and the last game of Schalke 04 in 2009. Magath made it very clear in training: "I don't want the Champions League draw to distract you. This is not something you should consider. You just need to win our last opponent this year—if you want winter training to be less painful..."

For the current Schalke players, there is no doubt that these words definitely have a full motivational effect. The devil training that lasted for 20 days in the summer still makes many people have lingering fears.

In the game against Mainz, Schalke faced the opponent's iron barrel formation and only relied on Zhou Tiancheng's long-range shot after a long-distance attack in the first half to win a small 1-0 victory. From the perspective of strength comparison, it is not beautiful . The opponent even missed a single-handed shot.

Back in the locker room, the players were a little trembling, wondering if the result would satisfy Magath. They were afraid of hearing from Magath, "I am not satisfied with your performance, boys, get ready." In this case. That way the mood of the holiday may be affected.

But Magath did not make any comments on the game, but only emphasized that he must return to the team to start winter training before January 7, and also emphasized on maintaining physical condition during the holiday.

Magath knew in his heart that this was tantamount to talking in vain. These players basically spent every day of the season training and playing, and they only expected to indulge themselves during the holidays. It was basically impossible for them to maintain self-control.

Only for Zhou Tiancheng, Magath was relatively relieved - after the game, Zhou Tiancheng directly asked for leave and left the team. Most of the players were about to enjoy the holiday, but he was very busy for the first half month.

The first is the game mission. Although the club's game mission was over, Zhou Tiancheng received a notice from the national team. There is also a warm-up with Jordan in December as part of preparations for the Asian Cup in Qatar.

This time Zhou Tiancheng went to the national team for training, Gao Hongbo intentionally arranged him and the main right midfielder Hao Junmin in the same room, Zhou Tiancheng didn't care, and later he found out that this was intentional by the coaching staff, Hao Junmin Will join Schalke 04, because Tianjin TEDA Club does not want to let go of their main core, but Hao Junmin's idea of ​​studying abroad is very firm. As the defending champion of the Bundesliga, he has two national team teammates, which is very attractive no matter how you look at it Li...and the Tianjin TEDA Club hopes to give Hao Junmin a contract extension to ensure that he will choose TEDA first when he returns to the Super League in the future. In fact, he also wants to collect a transfer fee. Tianjin TEDA is one of the top teams in the Chinese Super League. They don't want to let go of a main force for nothing. The two sides are deadlocked on this issue. A person like Tian Cheng who has been out of touch with domestic football for a long time is ignorant of this.

However, he heard about this when he went to the national team, and he must be happy to see Hao Junmin learning German by himself after training. The team will have another compatriot, which is a good thing anyway.

Hao Junmin also seized this opportunity and asked Zhou Tiancheng to talk about Schalke 04 whenever he was free in the room at night, from teammates, coaches, to the current situation of the Bundesliga, and finally to Gelsenkirchen. Xing, of course, can't help but talk about the Ruhr Derby, which is the first lesson every newcomer who joins Schalke 04 must learn. Zhou Tiancheng also came from this stage.

In two or three nights, Hao Junmin already had a more detailed understanding of Schalke 04, including a lot of what Zhou Tiancheng saw, heard and felt, which were pure dry goods that could not be found on the Internet. In addition, he asked Zhou Tiancheng to teach him some German. According to him, "Self-study is worse than a teacher."

Zhou Tiancheng appreciates his energy, he really wants to gain a firm foothold in Schalke, in this case,

Of course he would like to help. Although Hao Junmin's language talent is not very good, he is also a player who plays football with his brain, and his understanding is definitely not bad. In a few days, he learned simple polite expressions such as "hello" and "thank you" for seven days. Seven or eight, Zhou Tiancheng also told him not to worry: "Just wait for you to stay in Germany for a few months. Language is something you can learn quickly if you use it frequently. With your comprehension, you don't have to worry about it at all."

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Zhou Tiancheng's last game this year was during the Christmas holiday. The Chinese team faced the West Asian team Jordan and won easily 2:0. A perfect end to the year. But what is more worth reporting than this victory is that the player who scored the first goal for the Chinese team came from the China League One, which is the second domestic league, Zhang Linpeng, the right back of Shanghai East Asia Club in China League One. A second-tier league international, which is rare in the national team. In fact, Zhou Tiancheng was a little surprised when he saw him for the first time. His muscle density and explosive power were not weaker than that of Jiang Hao beside him.

Although as a newcomer to the national team, Zhang Linpeng was a little cautious when facing him, but on the court, Zhou Tiancheng realized that this is a fierce man who can fight just like himself. His goals reflect that. Jiang Hao took the ball near the penalty area and was double-teamed and picked a pass. Zhang Linpeng inserted into the penalty area from the right back position and volleyed sideways to score the goal.

Such a goal not only attracted praise from the commentator, even Zhou Tiancheng couldn't help but stop looking at him. A player with this talent is actually playing in the domestic second-tier league...

The national team's game mission is over, and Zhou Tiancheng rushed back to Beijing from Kunming, where he played. He didn't go home, but participated in endorsement activities.

Usually there is no time, Zhou Tiancheng can only move the off-field activities to the league window period. Adidas has won the main sponsorship right of the World Cup in South Africa, so Zhou Tiancheng, in addition to promoting new products of Adidas, also has to promote the World Cup in South Africa. Build momentum.

Of course, using new media will be more effective - Sina Weibo also chose to release the previously shot promotional video when the new year is approaching, and version 1.0.0 of the "Chinese version of Twitter" began to go live.

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After Zhou Tiancheng finished all these things, it was almost New Year's Day, but he was relieved that he didn't delay the matter until next year.

After all this work, Zhou Tiancheng finally had time to go back to his home in Beijing to relax a little bit. During this period, he made a phone call with Chu Yunling. Chu Yunling didn't blame him, but she was a little unhappy: "I haven't seen any other players. You are so busy."

It's really difficult for Zhou Tiancheng to answer, and he doesn't want to run around like this. He now feels like a trapeze man. He trains and endorses for at least 300 days a year, either on the plane or on the way to catch the plane. .

But there is no way to do this. At the beginning, I was determined to become a high-level professional player. The more famous I will be, the busier I will be. This is the price of being a celebrity.

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