Green Journey

Chapter 68

For the next ten or so days, apart from going back to his hometown to visit his grandparents, Chu Zheng would either stay at home or help out in the store.

But since the CCT5 interview, Chu Zheng's reputation in China has increased a lot.

The most obvious manifestation is that Chu Zheng is walking on the domestic streets, and occasionally fans will come over to ask for autographs.

But his fame is still very limited, far from reaching the level of being embraced by some stars.

During the period, I also had a phone call with Mario.

Related to Chelsea, Mourinho personally found Mario and wanted to bring Chu Zheng back to Stamford Bridge.

But Chu Zheng refused. On this point, he and Mario agreed very much.

That is that Chelsea is not suitable for him now. He is probably a water dispenser administrator when he goes there, and he cannot play games.

After New Year's Day, at 1 am on January 5, Chu Zheng's family appeared at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport.

In fact, Chu Zheng received the summoning order for winter training from Wolfsburg on the 2nd, but he just found an excuse to catch a cold and stay at home for a few more days.

"Take care of yourself outside!"

"Don't work so hard during the game, learn to love yourself!"

"I know, Mom!"

"..."

Listening to Su Ping's soft-spoken advice, Chu Zheng also felt his mother's reluctance.

Chu Zheng also wanted to stay for the New Year, but the Bundesliga games waited for no one.

And the opening game of the second half of the league is Wolfsburg's home game against the Bundesliga overlord Bayern Munich.

Winning or losing this game is likely to play a decisive role in the ownership of the Bundesliga champion this season.

Not long after, the airport announced that passengers flying from Chengdu to Berlin, Germany were ready to board the plane, so Chu Zheng walked towards the security checkpoint with his suitcase.

"Uncle!! I'll wait for you to get fat!!"

Lin Mengmeng was held in Chu Ling's arms, and she was desperately shaking her chubby little hand towards Chu Zheng.

"Okay!" Chu Zheng turned around and shook his hand.

After passing through the security check, Chu Zheng entered the waiting room, and the phone rang before his butt was warmed up.

Taking out the mobile phone from the pocket of the black coat, Chu Zheng connected it with a swipe of his finger, and asked with a smile, "How does it feel to change to a new environment?
Niu Benben returned to Germany at the end of December.

This guy is not as leisurely as Chu Zheng. He is going to transfer to Leipzig Red Bull in the winter window, and there are a lot of things waiting for him, such as a medical examination and signing a contract.

"Hey, you have also been in Germany for half a year, and you still don't know the character of these German guys. They almost only play with their friends!"

"Don't worry, it won't be long before they fall under my sugar-coated shells, and they all have to kneel and call daddy!"

"Bah, I didn't ask you to talk about this, I told you something!"

"It's like this. My dad called me just now, and he said that someone took your mobile phone number from him. It must be some messy request!"

"My dad said that he can help if he can, and make a good relationship. If he can't help you, just hide!" Niu Benben said in a warning tone, "The water here is a bit deep!"

"Hehe!" Chu Zheng grinned, "Isn't Zhang Xizhe!"

"Pujie, can you guess this?!" Niubenben's exclamation came from the microphone.

"Nonsense, I've already called!" Chu Zheng said with a smile, "Don't worry, I know how to deal with it!"

"Okay! As long as you know what's in your mind!"

"..."

After a while, Chu Zheng hung up the phone and fell into deep thought.

There were two people who called him yesterday, one was Zhang Xizhe, they hadn't talked for long, and most of them seemed to know each other.

The other was a small leader of the Football Association. Chu Zheng didn't know him, and that guy had an official accent.

If you go out, you need to unite and help each other. You are all the hope of Chinese football and so on.

On the surface, it sounded like he didn't mention any request, but both inside and outside the words hinted that Chu Zheng would do more to help Zhang Xizhe gain a foothold in Wolfsburg.

Chu Zheng neither agreed nor refused.

As a compatriot, Chu Zheng will definitely help Zhang Xizhe integrate into the team, establish a friendly relationship with his teammates, and prevent him from being completely isolated due to language and personality.

But that's about it.

As a teammate, Chu Zheng can't do anything, can't do anything, let alone help.

He had just gained a firm foothold in Wolfsburg, and Chu Zheng thought he didn't have that ability.

There can only be 11 players in a football match, but the first team of a professional club often has more than 20 players.

How to do!
compete!

Everything is based on strength and status.

Zhang Xizhe played as an attacking midfielder and attacking midfielder.

And Wolfsburg just now has no shortage of attacking midfielders.

To be honest, even if Chu Zheng doesn't know that Zhang Xizhe will eventually return to China because he has no ball to play, he is still not optimistic about Zhang Xizhe's prospects in Wolfsburg.

Because he knows how strong De Bruyne and Perisic are. These are two players who are fully capable of occupying an absolute main position in a wealthy club, and they are now on the rise.

And Arnold, Hundt, Caligiuri, and Vierinia are not good at it.

But Zhang Xizhe wanted to compete with them.

So in the eyes of Chu Zheng, who knew Zhang Xizhe a little bit, this was simply a hell-level opening.

In addition, before returning to China, Dieter Heijin asked him to get to know Zhang Xizhe, so Chu Zheng knew an insider information.

That is Zhang Xizhe's transfer. As the head coach of Wolfsburg, Dieter Heiking did not participate in the whole process.

The Wolfsburg executives didn't even ask Dieter Heiking what his opinion was, if he wanted this player, he just signed the contract and stuffed him in.

Wolfsburg now really needs a central midfielder to strengthen the depth of the bench, so as to cope with the fierce European war and the league in the second half, but there is absolutely no need for another attacking midfielder to add icing on the cake.

From beginning to end, this was a transfer born of commercial cooperation.

Maybe Zhang Xizhe had no choice at all, Chu Zheng thought so.

So no matter how you look at it, Chu Zheng didn't think Zhang Xizhe's decision to come to Wolfsburg was the right one.

But if he can help, he will definitely help!

On January 1, Chu Zheng did not show up at the Wolfsburg club until 6 am.

Compared with the past, Chu Zheng got up two hours later today.

There is no way, the winter in Germany is too cold, this cold weather and environment will increase the risk of training injuries.

Chu Zheng himself didn't dare to act recklessly. If he got frostbite or strained and lost his position as the main force, he wouldn't even cry.

This is also the reason why the major clubs of the Bundesliga go abroad for winter training every year.

No club dares to stay in Germany for winter training, otherwise they will wait for the camp to be full of wounded soldiers.

In a few days, Chu Zheng will go to Cape Town, South Africa with the team for a week-long winter training.

Even for the warm-up match, two local teams were selected.

After changing clothes from the locker room, Chu Zheng didn't go to the training ground for training with the ball, but plunged into the gym. He needed to warm up his body.

But when he came to the gym, he realized that he was not the first person.

Chu Zheng pushed the door open and entered, and saw a slightly thin body, topless, who was concentrating on doing back and back training.

Seeing Zhang Xizhe, Chu Zheng didn't immediately go up to say hello, but silently doing some stretching movements.

Seven or eight minutes later, Chu Zheng saw Zhang Xizhe stop, so he walked over with a bottle of water.

Zhang Xizhe heard the footsteps, looked back, his eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on his face, and said, "Chu Zheng!"

"Brother Zhang!" Chu Zheng smiled and handed over the water, "How do you feel these days?"

"It's kind of bad!" Zhang Xizhe took the water with a bitter smile, "It's very different from what I imagined."

"Take it easy! I was the same at the beginning, and I need a process of getting used to it." Chu Zheng didn't know what the difference Zhang Xizhe was talking about, so he could only comfort him in this way.

However, when Zhang Xizhe talked about the experience of training with the team in the past few days, Chu Zheng realized the seriousness of the problem.

After slowly expressing his feelings for the past few days, Zhang Xizhe was full of disappointment, and said, "Isn't it a little ridiculous for you to say that!"

Before coming to Germany, although Zhang Xizhe was not full of confidence, he was a little confident.

But the reality is cruel.

The first training session in Wolfsburg made Zhang Xizhe feel absurd that he couldn't play football.

In the next few days, this feeling became more and more intense.

So much so that he occasionally couldn't help wondering if he really couldn't play football.

In domestic training from childhood to adulthood, the coach will tell him how to run, how to pass, and how to cooperate with his teammates.

But when he came to Wolfsburg, no one told him how to play.

So much so that he has no idea what he should do on the court, and sometimes he can't even keep up with his teammates.

And the personal skills he has always been proud of are basically useless in this fast-paced and high-intensity game.

This huge sense of gap made him extremely at a loss.

Chu Zheng was also a little dazed, never expecting the problem to be so serious.

But he probably knew where Zhang Xizhe's problem was.

It comes from the youth training model at home and abroad.

Although Chu Zheng has never participated in domestic youth training, he knows something about it.

Many domestic youth trainings teach fixed routines.

But this is not the case abroad, especially for youth teams, the most fearful thing is that the players' thinking is rigid.

So when Chu Zheng was training at Chelsea, he needed to use his own brain to think about how to run on the field.

Want the coach to hold your hand and teach you how to move, how to pass the ball, and how to cooperate with teammates?
Want to eat fart!

What they want is the player's thinking, what they want is the player's understanding of the game, and learn to think for themselves.

There is also tactical training, which was so complicated that Chu Zheng, who had just arrived in England, thought of quitting training.

It's so complex, it's astoundingly detailed.

Sometimes a simple goal kick has countless tactical changes.

Another point is that foreign youth training has a lot of games to play.

Chu Zheng had to play games every week in the past, and he was trained in this comprehensive environment.

Later, Chu Zheng understood the purpose of the England echelon's large number of matches.

The purpose is to allow young players to seamlessly connect step by step.

A player who has come out of such a sophisticated youth training system, when he really sets foot on the professional field, you will find that you can't tell that he is a young player who has just come out of the youth training camp.

Thinking of this, Chu Zheng didn't know how to comfort Zhang Xizhe.

This is a collision of two different youth training systems.

There is no other way but to rely on Zhang Xizhe to adapt and integrate as soon as possible.

On January 1, the Wolfsburg team flew to Cape Town, the second largest city in South Africa, to start a week-long winter training.

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