A second-team match exposed all the problems that Chu Zhongtian had never cared about before, and the next step was to solve these problems.

After discussing with Fernandez, Coach Tadio adjusted Chu Zhongtian's training plan and became Chu Zhongtian's coach again. Chu Zhongtian has now started to practice with the first team. Now they practice once a day, but every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, Chu Zhongtian also comes to the training base to receive training classes specially prepared for him. If the team itself has a plan to practice twice a day, they will train with the team.

In addition, Chu Zhongtian will participate in every second team game. He is the only player in the first team who participates in every second team league. Other first team players only participate in the game for the purpose of adjusting their state, and Chu Zhongtian will use the second team league to adapt to the professional league as soon as possible.

In every game, Tadio will appear on the sidelines of the game, carefully observe and record Chu Zhongtian's performance in the game, and then organize it into a game report and hand it over to the first team head coach Jean Fernandez.

From these competition reports, those who are interested can see Chu Zhongtian’s growth trajectory.

But in fact, for Chu Zhongtian, the most intuitive change comes from his side. As his French proficiency continues to improve, and when he starts training with his teammates, he finally feels that the team is not so lonely.

It must be pointed out that Metz is very young, and every year the team will go to the second team to choose a group of players to supplement the first team. Many young people in the team, since they are young people, they do not have the tact and sophistication of so many old players. So when Chu Zhongtian got in deep contact with them, he found that this group of French and Senegal players were quite cute. Maybe some people looked down on his ability at the beginning, but when he slowly played in the reserve team, such prejudice gradually disappeared - at least if Chu Zhongtian was able to play in the reserve team, it proved that he was useless.

Many players like to play the live football series of games in the PS2 game console. Chu Zhongtian had never played this game much before. Although he had always heard of the name of this game, he had no conditions before, either because he had to study or because he had no money to buy a game console. When he always saw his teammates gathered together to play, he became addicted to it. Later, he simply took out his salary to buy a PS2 game console and put it in the apartment. Now he goes back to the apartment every day to train. If he doesn't learn language, he will play live football for a while.

Now he practices at home and then fights with his teammates, so that he will not lose too much and he will be unable to bear the various strange punishments.

Because everyone is a professional player, competition is everywhere. Even if the relationship is good, there is a competitive relationship between training and competition. Therefore, when playing a football game, you must introduce a competitive mechanism. Otherwise, it will be too boring. Those who lose the game must accept punishment. As for the content of the punishment, there are all kinds of things. From the least lethal buy things for those who win the game, to taking off their clothes and running naked in the locker room, what is even more amazing is that if you lose the game on the game console, you have to go on the court without wearing underwear in the official game... It's really impossible and unexpected.

Frank Ribery's scarface is the most playful person here, and he came up with many of the tricks. The comments in the media can no longer affect his mood. The media is not interested in continuing to criticize an unknown person. It would be too expensive. Ribery doesn't care about those voices anymore. Anyway, no matter what, Coach Fernandez still trusts him, and he has a good friend Chu Zhongtian - not his "fundamental", but his friend.

"Hey, Chu!" Ribery's strange pronunciation sounded again. Chu Zhongtian was changing clothes for today's training and looked up at Ribery.

"What's the matter, Frank?"

Ribery's pronunciation is very distinctive, but what is more distinctive is his grammatical habits that are full of errors. Chu Zhongtian's French teacher Miss Mathilde warned Chu Zhongtian many times: "Don't learn Ribery's French."

Chu Zhongtian looked at the teacher very seriously and felt strange - why did I have nothing to do to learn Ribery to speak French... "We are going to Marseille the day after tomorrow, Marseille! Haha, Marseille!" Ribery sang "March of Marseille" in the locker room. He was showing off to Chu Zhongtian that he could participate in the first team game, and Chu Zhongtian could only watch TV at home. At the same time, he would play a second team game in two days.

Chu Zhongtian had already figured out Ribery's temper. He just liked to joke, but he didn't have any malice. So he smiled and pushed Ribery. "You wait for Frank, you'd better go around me in the next team training match."

Chu Zhongtian's serious attitude during training has become famous in Metz. He treats every training as a practical battle, and never knows what "reservation" means. Just a week ago, he gave Ribery a warning in training, who likes to break through and show off his feet. He knocked Ribery to the ground for a long time before he recovered. He didn't deliberately hurt his competitors in training, but he just felt that he had no advantage at the moment. If he didn't work hard in training, he would probably never be able to gain the recognition of head coach Fernandez. However, his desperate posture made many teammates afraid of him on the court.

Ribery stuck out his tongue at him.

"I'm not afraid of you, Chu! I've learned another new trick recently. If you have the ability, come and try it!" He raised his thumb down. Then he raised his hands and shouted: "Okay, brothers! I made a bet with Chu. If he can defend me in the confrontation, I will play without wearing underwear in the match against Marseille!"

"Oh oh oh-!!" A group of young people shouted excitedly, and the older player shook his head helplessly, helplessly at the player the head coach liked.

"What if he can't defend himself, Frank?" someone asked.

"That's when he competes without underwear during the 30th day of the game!"

Ribery looked back at Chu Zhongtian and laughed at him.

Chu Zhongtian didn't hear what Ribery said before, he only understood the word "bet". However, he was not afraid of betting, and he was still happy with this competitive game.

The last part of the training was a small-scale confrontation in the team. Ribery and Chu Zhongtian were divided into different teams, and they happened to be opponents. After seeing this grouping, everyone laughed. David Carre, the assistant coach in charge of the grouping, looked up at the grouping group in confusion, not understanding what was funny about this.

Behind him, Ribery was winking at Chu Zhongtian.

After the competition began, Ribery took the initiative to find Chu Zhongtian's trouble as soon as he got the ball.

Fernandez looked strangely below - when Ribery looked for Chu Zhongtian, no one from the players of Chu Zhongtian's team came forward to help defend, and the players of Ribery's team did not pull the run on the side. They were all watching the two fight one by one.

This is different from usual... "Do you want to suspend the game? Tell me?" Tadio also saw the problem and asked from the side.

Fernandez shook his head: "Observe it first."

After approaching Chu Zhongtian, Ribery slowed down his dribbling speed and turned his back to Chu Zhongtian.

Just when Chu Zhongtian thought he was reducing his speed for the purpose of controlling the ball and preparing to pass the ball, Ribery turned his back to him and gently knocked the ball behind him with his right foot, then turned around again. After finishing the support foot, he used the left foot to push the ball forward!

Chu Zhongtian didn't expect Ribery to turn around so quickly, and his movements were so well connected. He reacted slowly for a beat, but he rushed in a flash. Ribery had already skillfully crossed his body, caught up with the football, and completed the breakthrough!

Breaking through Chu Zhongtian is equivalent to forming a breakthrough in the middle. Ribery shot with a strong shot and the football flew into the goal from the right.

A group of young players whistle and applaud. These players who are only seventeen or eighteen years old are Ribery's "followers". The boss performs well, so he naturally has to support him.

Ribery, who scored the goal, ran to Chu Zhongtian and took off his pants. Then he stretched out his index finger and kept drawing circles. "Are you dizzy, Chu?"

"The game is not over yet, Frank." After being fooled by Ribery, Chu Zhongtian was ready to fight back.

※※※When Ribery took the ball to find Chu Zhongtian again, Chu Zhongtian was ready to prevent him from turning around and breaking through. He moved himself to Ribery's outside line in advance to prevent him from using his usual tricks and breaking through here. Unexpectedly, Ribery just swung a shot. Although he turned his back to Chu Zhongtian, he did not turn around with his right foot, but directly used his left foot to push the ball towards the middle road, and he rushed through the passage that Chu Zhongtian gave him.

After seeing these two one-on-one off the court, Fernandez had a rough idea of ​​what the two people on the court were doing.

He laughed.

He is not against the players doing such things that he has not arranged before in training. He even enjoys the success of this competitive competition.

"Don't worry, Francis. This is a small game between young people." He waved his hand.

Ribery, who passed Chu Zhongtian, completed another shot, but this time he shot high.

Ribery, who had hit the plane, was not upset about this. He turned around and stretched out two fingers to Chu Zhongtian: "It's 2:0, Chu! Come and cut off my ball, I can't wait! Ahha!"

Chu Zhongtian gradually put away the smile on his face, and he was about to get serious.

Although Ribery is his friend, this is not the reason why he can tolerate losing again and again. Even if you are the number one in the world, I don’t want to lose!

Be careful, my friend!

※※※Ribery brought the ball to fight again. This time, when Ribery slowed down and turned her back to him, he rushed forward and "put his chest on his back" with Ribery. When Ribery wanted to turn around, there was no room for him to do this, because Chu Zhongtian's feet had already hit his heels.

Ribery did not expect Chu Zhongtian to move forward so quickly. He planned to turn around forcibly, but the man fell to the ground and the football stayed at Chu Zhongtian's feet.

"Ah haha!" Some teammates who were not Ribery's "follower" laughed when they saw Ribery lying on the ground. "Who is this?"

"I think it was the Chinese boy who won. Mr. Carre didn't blow the whistle and he didn't foul!"

"It's 2:1! Frank!"

Chu Zhongtian, who had won Ribery once, smiled and pulled Ribery up.

"Hell..." Ribery muttered, turned around and ran away.

Soon, when Ribery's Red Team took the ball and attacked, he raised his hand in front to ask for the ball, "Transfer the ball to me, brother!"

After passing the ball to Ribery's teammate, he shouted: "Come on, kill him, boss!"

"It was just an accident last time!"

Ribery dribbled the ball and killed Chu Zhongtian for the fourth time.

This time he didn't plan to come to Chu Zhongtian by turning around and snatching the ball, because he couldn't see his movements when he turned his back to Chu Zhongtian. He planned to have a "head-on-head duel" with Chu Zhongtian.

One rides a bicycle, two rides a bicycle.

Chu Zhongtian didn't care about the ball. He stared at Ribery's center of gravity. When he saw Ribery stopping and seemed to be about to dial the ball to the left, he also moved there. But as soon as he raised his foot, he saw Ribery pushing the ball to the completely opposite right side!

Chu Zhongtian immediately changed his movements and twisted his waist and rushed towards the direction of the football. At the same time, Ribery took a big step to catch up with the football. Seeing that he had not completely gotten rid of Chu Zhongtian, he stretched out his right foot and dunked the football back!

It was impossible for Chu Zhongtian to move in parallel again, so he could only turn around and circle to block Ribery.

After Ribery dunked the ball, he did not break through immediately, because in his previous fight with Chu Zhongtian, he already knew that the Chinese boy had a good explosive power and did not turn slowly. If he dribbled the ball in a straight line, he would hit Chu Zhongtian head-on.

After spiking, he saw Chu Zhongtian turn around and then turned the ball back to the right.

Continuous change of direction and spike, the opponent would have been dizzy under his combination of punches. But Chu Zhongtian did not.

When he turned around and turned his back to Ribery, he suddenly told him that Ribery did not break through as he expected, but pushed the ball back. So Chu Zhongtian turned halfway and twisted his body back... Ribery didn't expect that Chu Zhongtian found his movements after he turned halfway, and now he was killed together.

Relying on his physical advantage, Chu Zhongtian squeezed Ribery a little a little, stretched out his foot and pushed the football away.

"Wow!" After seeing this series of offense and defense off the court, coach Tadio couldn't help but exclaim. "So beautiful!"

The teammates watching the side also whistled and slapped their faces to cheer for the wonderful performances of the two.

But for Chu Zhongtian and Ribery in the duel, this showdown is not over yet.

Chu Zhongtian didn't want to lose anything, but Ribery didn't want to really not wear underwear to play the game... Ribery didn't stop after seeing the football being stabbed by Chu Zhongtian, but accelerated to chase after him. He saw a teammate in front of his running route, and quickly waved his hand to let him dodge.

Then he rushed over and stepped on the football and wiped his teammate's body to complete a beautiful Marseille turn.

Chu Zhongtian did not give up and chased after him. The two chased from the middle to the side, and the football was still under Ribery's control. It cannot be said that he failed.

Ribery suddenly became excited. This was the confrontation he wanted! He did not give up, and his opponent did not give up. Unless he was completely shaken down and broke through him, it would not end!

He had forgotten all the bets and everything, and now he just wanted to win.

His blood boiled.

He pulled the ball back two small steps, then hooked up at Chu Zhongtian: "Come on!"

Then he suddenly knocked the ball forward and broke forward against the sideline. Ribery was fast. In terms of speed alone, Chu Zhongtian could not compare with Ribery, but he had a position advantage. As long as he stuck in the inside line and ran, don't let Ribery go too far, and don't want to go around him with this scar face.

Ribery also found that he couldn't run like this and was about to reach the bottom line. Although it was OK to create a corner kick, at least it meant that he did not win the duel with Chu Zhongtian.

Except for completely passing him, I will not accept any results!

Ribery stopped suddenly, intending to throw Chu Zhongtian away.

Chu Zhongtian almost stopped in a sync with Ribery, and then turned around and got stuck at the same time.

Ribery didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to react so quickly. After hesitating, Chu Zhongtian was completely separated behind him, and the ball was naturally lost... The whistle and applause sounded again, and the two of them fought from the left to the middle, and then to the right, and finally decided the outcome.

Of course, Chu Zhongtian won.

※※※"Good job." Fernandez exclaimed after seeing Chu Zhongtian's performance.

"According to my observations in the second team league, this should be his true level in defense." Tadio said. He is the person who has been in contact with Chu Zhongtian for the longest time in the coaching staff, and the person who knows Chu Zhongtian the most.

"The defensive ability is really good, but..." Fernandez murmured, "It's just that defense is a waste of his talent... Let him continue to exercise in the second division for a while."

Tadio nodded.

※※※"2:2!" Chu Zhongtian raised two fingers to Ribery.

"Hey, you wait!" Ribery pointed at him and glared.

In the final match, Ribery lost to Chu Zhongtian 4:5 and also lost the bet. Ribery's skill is excellent and fast, but Chu Zhongtian's powerful intuition played a crucial role in this competition. Several times Chu Zhongtian predicted Ribery's movement route in advance, cut across and cut the ball off. It seemed very easy and had no technical content, but only professionals knew what Chu Zhongtian's easy interruption meant.

The teammates didn't care so much. As soon as the game ended, they clamored around the two of them and said, "Oh! Frank! You lost!"

Ribery raised his hand and said, "Okay, I'm willing to accept the loss. I won't wear underwear the day after tomorrow!"

"If you score, I'll take off your pants, Frank!"

The teammates burst into laughter.

Chu Zhongtian stood beside him and laughed with them. He felt that he was getting into the team bit by bit, and all this was thanks to the "Scarface" Frank Ribery...
Chapter completed!