Chapter 23 Lovely People
Zhou Yi has been back to Dortmund with the team for four days. During these four days, during training, Zhou Yi can clearly feel the changes brought to him by the attention of domestic media. ≤,
For example, after the training, a Chinese fan stopped him, asked him for autographs, and took a group photo!
"I studied in Düsseldorf. After reading domestic news, I came here to support you!"
"I am also an international student. I came from Cologne. I also paid special attention to your post bar. This time I came here to say to you: Come on, you have given me some hope for Chinese football!"
"I came from Munich. Although I am a Bayern Munich fan, as long as Dortmund doesn't face Bayern Munich, I will support you, Zhou Yi!"
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These Chinese fans are basically international students studying in Germany. They are all young and enthusiastic. After seeing this, they all have a happy and excited expression on their faces.
And there was a female fan in the middle, the Bayern Munich fan who came from Munich, which really surprised Zhou Yi!
So he gave priority to meeting the female fans' photo requirements, although the female fans were not very outstanding.
These fans should have never known each other before, but while waiting for Zhou Yi, they have become a temporary small group. You help me take photos of Zhou Yi and I help you take photos of Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi stood there, keeping a smile, and letting the group photo partners beside him change.
Finally, when saying goodbye, the female fan asked Zhou Yi a little shyly: "Can I hug you?"
She seemed to feel that her request was a bit too much, and she seemed embarrassed, and her voice was a little weaker.
But unexpectedly, what surprised her was that Zhou Yi generously agreed to her request: "Okay!"
The girl looked at him unexpectedly and happily: "Really?"
"Of course." Zhou Yi had already spread his arms.
Seeing that Zhou Yi was so proactive, the boys next to him were also itchy: "We want to hug you too!"
"Lady first!" Zhou Yi made serious statement to them that he was a gentleman.
"Well!" the boys cheered.
The girl also laughed and no longer felt embarrassed. She took the initiative to go up and hug Zhou Yi, and put her side face on Zhou Yi's chest, closed her eyes, and fully enjoyed the moment.
Next, other fans also came up to hug Zhou Yi in turn.
After finishing the hug, they happily bid farewell to Zhou Yi: "Come on, Zhou Yi! We will watch your game! Will you play in the first round of the league?"
Zhou Yi shook his head and answered truthfully: "I don't know. I'll fight for it. Goodbye, be careful on the way back and be careful!"
"Don't worry! We will come to see you!" The young people waved to Zhou Yi and left together.
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"Wow! It's so lucky, big star!" Groschloitz's voice sounded behind Zhou Yi. He turned around and saw Groschloitz looking at the fans' backs. "How about it, what's the feeling of being surrounded by fans?"
"It's not bad." Zhou Yi smiled.
Seeing Zhou Yi's smile, Groschloitz pointed at him and said, "Young man, I'm a little proud!"
"How is that possible, Kevin? Don't you know I'm Chinese?"
"What's wrong with the Chinese? I don't discriminate..." Groschloitz was a little confused.
"The traditional virtue of the Chinese is modesty." Zhou Yi said with his head high.
"But I don't think you are humble at all, Zhou Yi." How could Groschloitz not hear Zhou Yi's subtext? "Let's go, hurry back and take a shower, and the coach knows it and wants to scold you."
The coaching staff has rules. After the training is over, all players must go back to the locker room to take a bath as soon as possible to avoid catching a cold. This is a hard rule. If any player does not comply, he will be scolded by the assistant coach or head coach.
So everyone is very careful. Even if the fans' autographed photo requirements are met after the training, they must return to the locker room as soon as possible after the training is over.
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As Zhou Yi and Groschloitz walked towards the locker room, several young Chinese fans also walked out while discussing enthusiastically.
"I don't think he has any airs at all. As the Internet says, he doesn't look like a star at all, but more like my high school classmate..."
"After all, he is a player who became a monk halfway through the road. He didn't have time to get into the bad habits of the national football team, right?"
"He is really super cute!" The female fan couldn't help laughing when she thought of embracing Zhou Yi. "It seems that he is very proactive, but in fact, when I pressed it on his chest, I clearly heard his heart beating very fast!"
"Really?"
"Of course!"
"Then he looks as if nothing is wrong..."
"Don't you know there is a word called 'forced calm'?"
"Oh, I really didn't expect that Zhou Yi would have this side..."
A group of people laughed happily.
"I can't wait to go back and post this online... Hey, who did you take pictures? When I hugged me just now?"
"Uh..." Everyone looked at each other. Only then did they realize that when they hugged, they were just concerned about cheering for happiness, and they completely forgot to take photos as a souvenir...
"Oh! What a pity! This is a hug with Zhou Yi!" The girl was very upset.
"It's okay, we won't come again, let's come again next time..." A boy comforted her.
"You are close to you, I came from Munich. It's not easy to come here once..." the girl frowned and said regretfully.
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After the day of training, Zhou Yi returned to his residence not far from the training base. He still didn't buy a car because he couldn't drive at all and had no time to learn to drive, so he ran to train and ran home.
When I got home and opened the door, the room was still empty, and there was no one except him.
This has always been the case since he returned to Dortmund with the team.
Neither Hannah nor Cortana appeared.
But this is normal. People rent a house here because they go to school. It’s summer vacation now, so they will definitely not stay here. They all go back to their own houses or travel together.
But he was the only one left in this huge room, and he was still a little uncomfortable.
After making pasta and filling her stomach, Zhou Yi turned on the QQ on the computer.
During the training camp outside, he was exhausted every day and had no energy to surf the Internet at all. He only went to QQ once in the middle. Now he finally had time.
When I open QQ, the first thing that jumps out is my father’s message.
"Domestic media have reported that you stayed in the first team. We plan to go to the principal of your school when the school starts and ask him not to retain your student status for you. In addition, your mother has been happy these days. Although she didn't say anything, I can tell that she is happy for you too!"
Zhou Yi smiled, and he seemed to be able to imagine his mother's happy. As a son, he didn't seem to be very happy for his mother... Zhou Yi is quite accomplished when he can make his mother happy for himself.
"...I also checked it. Dortmund's first round of league is on the night of August 8. If you are on the roster, you must tell us in advance. The TV station will definitely broadcast the game live. Then your mother and I will wait for you to appear in front of the TV..."
Zhou Yi wiped his sweat and his father was so anxious. It was like seeing himself appearing in the first league game?
But in fact, Zhou Yi is very clear that he is unlikely to get a chance to play in the first round of the league, and maybe he can't even enter the roster. He has never thought about this himself. Head coach Klopp also told him clearly before that staying in the first team does not mean success. He still needs to go a long way to play in the first team.
After more than a month of training, Zhou Yi has now been tortured by the coaching staff and it is difficult to think about it.
He no longer thought about how long he would take to play in the first team. As long as he could stay in the first team, he would have a chance sooner or later.
The next thing is actually very simple, it is to train, train, work hard to improve yourself and meet the coach's requirements.
In fact, there is no shortcut to football, only hard training.
After explaining this to his father through a message on QQ, Zhou Yi suddenly thought of Yang Muge.
According to rumors within the team, before the league starts, the team should have a one to two days off and don’t have to go to training.
Although he and Yang Muge are very close, they have never seen each other before when they played away games.
Since there is a holiday, I might as well make an appointment to meet you, otherwise I would never meet you, which would be a big deal.
So he called Yang Muge.
After the phone was connected, he heard Yang Muge's slightly surprised voice: "Hey, Zhou Yi, do you actually have my phone number in Germany?"
"Oh, Lao Yang, sorry, I was so busy before... Isn't this the number you gave me at that time?"
Yang Muge laughed over there: "I'm not busy now?"
"Before the league starts, the team seems to be on vacation. Should we make an appointment to have a meal and have a good chat? We always say that we can have a good chat, but we always don't have the chance... Are you free at that time?"
"The youth team is not as busy as the first team, I still have it in half a day."
"That's good, that's good. Hey, how are you doing recently?" Zhou Yi asked about Yang Muge's recent situation. He really had no time to care about other people before, and he was fucked like a dog every day...
"I'm already in Schalke 04's Youth Team A."
"Awesome! I think it won't take long to see you in Schalke 04's first team!"
"You are the most powerful among us now, the first to be promoted to the first team."
"Hehe..." Zhou Yi smiled a little embarrassedly. "How are they?"
"This is a long story. Let's meet and talk to you." Yang Muge seemed to have a lot to talk to Zhou Yi.
Chapter completed!