In Europe, Germany is also a big country in terms of territorial area. Stuttgart is more than 500 kilometers away from Hamburg, an hour's flight away.
Chen Zhuo was not familiar with Europe, and his knowledge of Stuttgart was purely because of the Bundesliga and this football team. On the plane, he read some English-German bilingual travel magazines and realized that this city also has a long and rich historical heritage.
Stuttgart is located in the Neckar Valley in the central part of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, close to the Black Forest where Snow White and Cinderella lived in Grimm's fairy tales. Stuttgart's original meaning is "Garden of Beauty", which was founded in about 950 AD.
It was built by Duke Rudolf, the son of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, as a cavalry stud for Otto the Great, so the city emblem of Stuttgart is a black horse leaping on a golden field.
Hey, isn't this logo the familiar Ferrari logo?
Oh! According to Stuttgart, Ferrari cars were originally born here, and the Italians later made up a bunch of stories, saying that there was an outstanding Italian pilot in World War I, and this leaping horse was the symbol on his fighter plane.
Later, at the suggestion of the pilot's parents, Ferrari printed the leaping horse on the car. In order to commemorate the passing of the pilot, the color of the horse was changed to black, and the golden color was the canary, the mascot animal of Modena, where the Ferrari company is located.
The colors are the same, with the Italian flag on the top as the sky and the Ferrari abbreviation on the bottom as the ground...
There is a reason why Stuttgart believes that Ferrari is plagiarized, because Stuttgart itself is a car city, the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz Car Company is in Stuttgart, and the two founders of Mercedes-Benz are also the inventors of motorcycles, Gottlieb Dai.
Muller and Wilhelm Maybach were both born here. Among the car tycoons born in the city of Stuttgart were the inventor of the car, Karl Benz, and the founder of Porsche, Ferdinand Porsche.
So it is not surprising that the home stadium of the Stuttgart football team is called the "Mercedes-Benz" Stadium.
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The goalkeeper of Stuttgart is still Lehmann, the German national goalkeeper in the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Cup. His strength cannot be underestimated, but he is already old. Lehmann is now 41 years old.
"Enter the Bundesliga at the age of )? As a goalkeeper, it's not bad." Faced with reporters' questions, Lehmann expressed his disdain frankly and without hesitation.
The hot spot of media attention for this match turned out to be Chen Zhuo! This was something that no one expected or figured out. Just like a few years later, no one could figure out why Uncle Psy and Gangnam Stale became popular overnight.
"Chinese missiles and partner Ruud Ruud van Nistelrooy make their debut in the Bundesliga, the first stop is Stuttgart, Lehmann, be careful!"
When Chen Zhuo saw this report, he glanced at Fan Ni with embarrassment. Fan Ni laughed and said, "You have never enjoyed this kind of treatment. Enjoy it. You will be annoyed after a while!"
"China's Missile Words Hidden Daggers, Saying Lehmann Should Have Retired Long Time"
"***, how shameless! When did I say that!" Chen Zhuo was furious.
At the airport, a group of reporters surrounded Chen Zhuo and asked him what he thought of Lehmann. Chen Zhuo thought for a while and said that he admired Lehmann and thought it was not easy for him to be able to compete in the Bundesliga at the age of 41. He hoped that he
You can maintain such an economic status at this age... This has something to do with the hidden knife in the words!
Lehmann obviously saw this too. When reporters asked him about his attitude towards the Chinese player, Lehmann was naturally not angry.
"These reporters! I am a defender, what does a defender have to do with the opponent's goalkeeper!" Chen Zhuo threw the newspaper aside helplessly. Sometimes it would be better if he couldn't understand a word.
"In the evening's public training, Patton, you play as an attacking midfielder and wear the vest of the main lineup, haha..." Labbadia winked at Chen Zhuo and made a face. Those reporters want to hype, can you stop them? Then
Let's just use the trick. Chen Zhuo can't play in this position anyway.
Petrich readily took off his jersey to Chen Zhuo and said, "Haha, I'll lend it to you for one night so you can try out what it's like to be the main player!"
Tonight is just about getting used to the venue, and I won’t be practicing too many real things!
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"Weipeng, are you on board?" Jia Yien, the owner of Hengtian Club, called and asked.
Guo Weipeng asked in confusion: "Come on? What news, boss, I don't know yet."
Jia Yien said: "Several bosses called me to wish me New Year's greetings, saying that we had made a good deal and kept it secret. I took a look and it seems that Chen Zhuo is really from our team!"
"Who? Chen Zhuo? What's wrong? Who did he sign before the transfer window closed? This guy didn't even mention this when he sent me a message yesterday!" Guo Weipeng really doesn't know. He has too many New Year greeting messages, and so does he.
Send a reply to the group.
"Okay, it seems I'm not the last one to know. Go check it out, Bundesliga, Hamburger SV! Well, I wish you a happy Spring Festival. Help me congratulate that guy and wish him a bright future. I don't have his mobile phone.
"After that, Jia Yien hung up the phone.
"Chen Zhuo? Bundesliga?" Coach Guo Weipeng opened the site in confusion and entered.
Ding ding ding... the phone rang again. If nothing else, I asked about Chen Zhuo. This Chen Zhuo! What kind of plane is this? It's so mysterious!
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Hamburg does not have an official Chinatown. Hitler's racial policies also affected the Chinese during World War II, and Chinatown was destroyed at that time.
Although there is no Chinatown, there are more than 300 Chinese restaurants with a strong festive atmosphere. All Chinese who stay in Germany choose to have dinner in Chinese restaurants on the traditional New Year's Eve. Some Chinese have settled here, but most of them are alone.
Whenever I go to a Chinese restaurant for dinner during the festive season, I won’t feel so lonely.
This New Year's Eve, Chinese restaurants in Hamburg are particularly busy, especially yesterday's "Hamburger Sport" published another headline, confirming that Chinese players will officially debut in the Bundesliga and challenge the German national team on New Year's Eve... Of course it is hype, but for those who are far away from home
For the Chinese, this is like adding another dish to the New Year’s Eve reunion banquet.
The competition was held at 7 pm German time on February 13th, which happened to be dinner time. Customers called to make reservations one after another. According to their request to eat while watching TV, the restaurant panicked. How could there be so many TVs?
Not a bar...
The bottom half of the front page of the "Hamburg Sport" headline was a promotional advertisement for a home appliance store. It seemed that they had calculated it correctly.
Not only Chinese restaurants, but also more than 400 Chinese-funded companies. Many Chinese-funded companies here have staff canteens. They also have needs. They used to watch the Spring Festival Gala, but this time they want to watch the German Bundesliga. There are also
Those ethnic Chinese who have settled here took advantage of the sales to replace their TV sets with larger ones!
"Hamburg Sport" also had news the next day. On New Year's Eve, all the TV sets in the home appliance mall where they advertised were sold out. How much stock could they prepare? As a result, the Chinese began to rush to buy. On this day, all the TV sets in Hamburg were sold out.
All TVs with large and small screens in home appliance stores, department stores and supermarkets were sold out, which was several times greater than the sales during Christmas! According to statistics, more than 4,000 TV sets were sold in Hamburg that day, and one company bought it all at once
100 units, said to be used as gifts in a lottery...
"How many? 4,000 units? God, the Chinese are so scary!" the editor-in-chief shouted in surprise when he heard Walker's phone call. He wondered whether tomorrow's newspaper would have to print an additional 10,000 to 20,000 copies.
Someone will buy hundreds of copies all at once and give them away...
Also sparking a buying craze are fan supplies, trumpets, Hamburg team jerseys, and of course, the Chinese flag, as well as a large number of firecrackers and fireworks. The Hamburg municipal government has notified fire officers and soldiers to be on standby 24 hours a day. The firecrackers and fireworks bought by the Chinese
The tonnage of fireworks is basically enough to blow up half of the city of Hamburg...
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Equally astonished, of course, was Hoffman. He hesitated whether he needed to have a phone call with Labbadia. Anyway, let the Chinese player play for just a few minutes or ten. The commercial value was really considerable.
!But the Chinese are really terrible!
After hesitating for a long time, Hoffman finally decided to wait. The players on the TV had already walked out of the game tunnel. Chen Zhuo was on the roster. The bench gave him a 5-second shot.
Hoffman seemed to hear the cheers of the Chinese people when Chen Zhuo's footage appeared on the TV, although most of them were not fans.
"Why is he a substitute? Really! The coach has such no vision!"
"Come on! You guys, come on, come on, we have Chinese players for the Hamburg team, let's do it!"
"Do it!" "Do it!"
"Ding, ding, ding!" the cook jingled the food-passing bell and shouted: "Where are the people! Pass the food up quickly! What are you doing standing there? Come on, come on, take a look, you can understand.
