Tianjiao midfielder

Chapter 185 Christmas

From Ingolstadt back to Sinsheim, after getting off the car, the players almost disappeared without saying a word. Those who went to get the car went home, and those who wanted to go directly to the mall to buy gifts for Christmas left to buy gifts. Within almost 5 minutes, there were no members of the first-team players in the club.Even Chen Feng left the club early this time and went back to his residence to rest. The Christmas holiday plus the offseason holiday, this is really an exciting long vacation.

Christmas (Christmas), also known as Christmas, is translated as "Christ's Mass". It originated from the Saturnalia Festival when the ancient Romans greeted the New Year, and has nothing to do with Christianity.After Christianity prevailed in the Roman Empire, the Holy See followed suit and incorporated this folk festival into the Christian system, and at the same time celebrated the birth of Jesus.But Christmas is not the birthday of Jesus, because the "Bible" does not record the specific day of Jesus' birth, nor does it mention such a festival, which is the result of Christianity absorbing ancient Roman mythology.Christmas is a Christian holiday which Christians formulate to commemorate and celebrate the birth of Jesus.It is said that Jesus was born in the stables of the hotel in Bethlehem in 12 BC, but it is impossible to verify the real date of Jesus' birth, so why is it set on December 25? December 12th is the day when the Roman Empire commemorates the birthday of the sun god, and in the interpretation of Christianity, the birth of Christ Jesus is believed to symbolize the light of the world, so the early Christians set the Christmas celebration of the birth of Jesus as December 25th!
Christmas has developed to the point where there are different celebrations, and there are related activities all over the world. It has long been separated from the small-scale celebrations that only Christians participate in.Most Catholic churches will first hold midnight mass on Christmas Eve, December 12th, that is, in the early morning of December 24th, while some Christian churches will hold the Good News, and then celebrate Christmas on December 12th;Christmas is also a public holiday in the western world and many other regions, such as Hong Kong and Macau, Malaysia and Singapore in Asia.

The Christmas atmosphere in China has gradually become stronger in the past two years, because merchants like to use holiday gimmicks and links with specific products to form a sales strategy, so that people will come to consume their products. Christmas, as the largest festival in the West, will naturally not escape the evil hands of merchants. In the past two years, there will be various Christmas decorations on almost all streets and alleys in China, and then recommend you to buy their specific products and packages.

And more importantly, Chen Feng didn't have anyone to spend the biggest holiday in the West with. Unlike his teammates, who had already arranged the formation, Amiri wanted to make up for the regret that he didn't accompany his girlfriend to play in the previous summer. He went to Spain to have a good time around Christmas, and Geiger also went to accompany his family back to his old home and visit his other family members. He wanted to prepare a big family to spend this Christmas together.Counting in a big circle, almost all teammates have already made their Christmas arrangements, but Chen Feng has no idea how to spend this Christmas.

But you can make some Christmas dinners yourself, buy some Christmas decorations, set up the atmosphere, or go directly to some nearby Christmas-themed restaurants or bars. If you want, it’s actually very simple to spend a holiday without being alone.

"Just like we have New Year's Eve dinner together during the Spring Festival, Europeans and Americans like to get together with their families during Christmas, sitting around under the Christmas tree and having a festive meal together.

The custom of eating turkey for Christmas dinner began in 1620 and flourished in the United States. The roasting process of turkey is complicated and the taste is delicious and lasting.The British Christmas dinner is not turkey.But roast goose.Australians like to invite relatives and friends to restaurants in groups to have a Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. Among them, turkey, bacon, roasted cowboy and pork leg are indispensable, accompanied by famous wine, which makes everyone happy. "Chen Feng read some articles about turkey. He wanted to try what would be the process of making the turkey by himself, but Chen Feng found a very serious problem, that is, after reading several articles, these articles explained very little about the process of making turkey. How can he make a turkey? Is it all done by brain power?
Soon Chen Feng gave up such an idea. "If you can't do it, you should buy it. At least you can eat it. Don't cook turkey by yourself. Not only will you not be able to cook it, but you will be sent to the hospital if you taste it yourself. And will there be any doctors on duty in the hospital on Christmas? I'm afraid most of them are private doctors..." Chen Feng kept talking to himself.

Christmas Eve is coming soon, the more pedestrians on the street walk together, the more lonely Chen Feng is. Except for buying some daily necessities when necessary, Chen Feng has reduced his normal running and fitness training for the past two days, and instead increased training in his room. The original [-] sit-ups and push-ups were changed to [-] in three groups to balance the amount of daily training.

And his agent Edward will also go to the Netherlands. Before Edward kept calling him and asking him to be responsible for creating an image and updating information on social media, he always felt very annoying. Now Chen Feng really wants someone to bother him.

At this time, Chen Feng received a WeChat message on his cell phone. For some reason, Chen Feng suddenly thought of the only friend in WeChat other than his family——Li Xijing, because his family members rarely used WeChat, and they would call Chen Feng directly if they wanted to find Chen Feng. Moreover, Chen Feng called his family two days ago and told them that he was on vacation recently.

The next day, Chen Feng sat on the bench in Sinsheim Park in a nervous mood. Today was Christmas, and he was waiting for Li Xijing. Li Xijing said that she would spend this Christmas with him. Chen Feng was looking forward to it. He thought he would spend this Christmas alone, but he never thought that someone would come to spend it with him. Maybe this is a Christmas gift from God, right?
The weather was very cold, Li Xijing covered her ears with gloved hands, the pink knitted hat on her head was full of a girlish feeling, and the white down jacket was full of youthfulness and walked over, Chen Feng had already seen her from a long distance away.

"Li Xijing!" Chen Feng, who was wearing a big red coat, was waving to Li Xijing not far away. With a bright smile on his face, he shook Li Xijing's eyes. Although Chen Feng is not the kind of boy who looks handsome at first glance, as a football player, Chen Feng is not ugly in appearance, even very good-looking.

"Chen Feng!" Seeing someone coming, Li Xijing happily ran over and took Chen Feng's arm, "Go, go shopping with me! Huh, this Christmas my brother actually abandoned me and went to spend the holidays with other girls, and I had to prepare such a good thing for him. I wanted to invite some friends to celebrate Christmas together! Now it's all right, he just ran away by himself. I didn't know how to spend this Christmas. I just wanted to ask you if you are free, but I didn't expect you to agree soon, are you the same as me?"

Chen Feng let Li Xijing pull him forward, and listened to Li Xijing's question, Chen Feng nodded: "Yes, most of my friends and teammates have plans for Christmas in advance, so I haven't been able to find someone to spend it with me, and it doesn't feel good to bother others temporarily. I'm already ready to spend the holiday alone, but I didn't expect you to come to me on WeChat."

The bustling and noisy night market is full of festive atmosphere. In China, many people are opposed to celebrating foreign festivals too grandly, but young people like to join in the fun. Christmas is indeed very lively in Germany. There are festive scenes everywhere. Everyone’s face is filled with such joy, and they are all intoxicated by this Christmas. This is a Christmas atmosphere that has never existed in China. They played from stall to stall, and soon got a lot of Christmas gifts. Behind him, Chen Feng worked tirelessly to give Li Xijing the gifts she won from playing a small game, or a certain item that she directly fell in love with.

"Chen Feng, thank you, I had a great time today!" On the way back, the smile on Li Xijing's face never stopped. Tonight, she felt happy. She once imagined that there was such a person who was willing to pamper you unconditionally. He may not be a very handsome person, or he may not be a very rich person, but it is enough to be able to do all these things. In her eyes, this feeling is what all girls dream of, and she is no exception.Today's Chen Feng gave her this feeling, but she and Chen Feng had only met five times, so how could she suddenly have this feeling?The more Li Xijing thought about it, the more she blushed and continued to think wildly, and when she was walking, she unconsciously lowered her head and held Chen Feng's cuff and walked all the way.

When walking to the stall, it was Li Xijing who pulled Chen Feng and led him away, but now when she left the stall, it was Li Xijing who was holding Chen Feng's sleeves, letting Chen Feng lead her away.

Chen Feng looked at Li Xijing with a smile, but was stopped by Li Xijing from walking forward.

"What's wrong?" Li Xijing looked at Chen Feng suspiciously, why didn't she leave all of a sudden?
"Look over there." Chen Feng pointed not far away.

As soon as Li Xijing turned her head, she saw fireworks all over the sky, dazzling. It turned out that the time had already reached twelve o'clock without knowing it. This was the beginning of a new day. For Westerners, it was already the beginning of a new year. This kind of important festival would be celebrated with fireworks no matter where it was, and it was no surprise in Germany. Although Sinsheim is only a small city, there were still fireworks shows in the city.

"Is this the firework show in Sinsheim? It doesn't seem as good as the one in Mainz?" Li Xijing looked at the dazzling fireworks in the sky and said softly to Chen Feng.

"Can I think that your words really invite me to go to Mainz to enjoy their Christmas fireworks next time?" Chen Feng glanced at Li Xijing, put his mouth next to Li Xijing's ear and said softly.

At this time, several children ran over, stuffed a handful of fireworks to Li Xijing who was blushing, and ran away again. The cheerful appearance infected Li Xijing, and Li Xijing also lit the fireworks in her hand, playing happily.

Chen Feng could only shake his head and sigh inwardly that children are just ignorant!
After a handful of fireworks were lit, Chen Feng walked over and put a crystal Santa in Li Xijing's hands. This was a gift he had carefully selected before he came. Although it was not very precious, and Chen Feng didn't know what to give to girls in this kind of festival, so he had to ask the clerk in the gift shop. Seeing Chen Feng's incomprehension, the clerk in the gift shop naturally would not miss this opportunity and madly sold this crystal Santa Claus to Chen Feng, saying that it was actually sold in their shop. The best gift is not only beautiful, but also has a meaning, and you can make a wish!Every year, many young people come to buy it and make a wish. When they come back to buy it the next year, they also say that it is very effective, so they want to buy it again, or even come to buy it every year.

But something Chen Feng never thought about, if this crystal Santa Claus is really in demand as the clerk in the gift shop said, how could there be a chance for him to buy it on Christmas Day?But this is not important to Li Xijing, when she faced Chen Feng and whispered to her: "Li Xijing, Merry Christmas!", she felt the happiest thing.

The fireworks in the sky are still going off, and under the gorgeous fireworks, the two young people stand together quietly, youthful and beautiful.

It's just that no matter how gorgeous the fireworks are, there is an end. It was too good at the beginning, and it is even more difficult to accept when it is lost. If you have never had it, you are not afraid of losing it. lost again.

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After celebrating Christmas, Chen Feng sent Li Xijing back to Mainz in the middle of the night. Although Li Xijing laughed and said that Chen Feng didn't even have an EU driver's license, after he sent her back to Mainz's residence, how would he go back to Sinsheim?In the middle of Christmas night, there was no car to take him back, but Chen Feng still insisted on taking Li Xijing to her home, and then left without looking back.

When leaving, Chen Feng could clearly hear Li Xijing say from behind the door: "Oh, man, I really don't understand the style!"

This made Chen Feng very innocent, he didn't know what he did wrong.

……

Although it was indeed difficult to hail a taxi in the middle of the night, Chen Feng still did. The taxi that Chen Feng took from Hoffenheim to Sinsheim before, although the driver was driving so fast that Chen Feng was full of a sense of crisis, but Chen Feng had to admit that the driver's skills were good, so he asked for a business card before leaving, and now he had room to use it.At the beginning, the driver was not willing to come. The distance from Sinsheim to Mainz is quite long, and the time and fuel consumption wasted a lot. The driver kept repeating this sentence. Chen Feng also knew what the driver meant, so he paid a high price for the driver to come to Mainz and take him back to Sinsheim.

Even though the driver showed his speed again, it was still in the morning that Chen Feng returned to Sinsheim and his residence. As soon as he arrived at the door, Chen Feng saw Mr. Edward who should have returned to Holland.

"Mr. Edward? Good morning, why did you come back so soon? Shouldn't you be spending Christmas in Holland? Why?" Chen Feng asked suspiciously.

"You came just in time. I just wanted to find you." Edward saw Chen Feng and pulled Chen Feng and started to walk downstairs, not giving Chen Feng any chance to speak or struggle. It was not until downstairs that Edward let go of Chen Feng's hand, and Chen Feng found that there was a very obvious red handprint on his grasped arm. If he didn't really know that Mr. Edward was over 60 years old, Chen Feng really couldn't imagine how an old man in his 60s would have such strength to drag him from five to five years old. Lou pulled all the way to the first floor, neither blushing nor out of breath.

"I'm going to introduce you to a coach today, but he's not a football coach, but a running coach." Edward continued to talk to Chen Feng.

"Running coach?" Chen Feng didn't quite understand what Edward meant.

"I know you understand some of your problems on the court. The most obvious one is your speed. Your speed limits your defense and participation in offense. This is very serious, but speed is natural. If you are too slow, there is no way to change it, but explosive power can be changed. Football does not need much long-distance speed, but short-distance explosive speed. So I hope you will relearn your running style and strengthen your explosive power in the first few steps with the coach during this vacation. If you improve these problems, you You don’t have to worry about the speed problem and some offensive players take advantage of your speed to beat you.” Edward analyzed Chen Feng’s problems to prove the importance of his coach to Chen Feng.

"Okay, no problem, I will try my best to learn from the coach." Chen Feng actually planned to strengthen his explosive power to make up for the slow speed, but he did not expect that Edward would solve this problem for Chen Feng so quickly.

The first thing the running coach asked Chen Feng to do after seeing Chen Feng was to run five kilometers around the field. Although Chen Feng didn't understand the intention of the running coach, five kilometers was really not a problem for Chen Feng, so he just ran five kilometers around the field before returning.There was no big gasp. After running, Chen Feng saw that the running coach wrote a lot of things on a piece of paper, but Chen Feng couldn't see clearly, nor could he understand what was written on it.

"Chen, isn't it? Let me ask you, for a runner, should you practice speed or endurance first?" After Chen Feng finished running, the running coach suddenly asked Chen Feng this question.

How did Chen Feng know this? After thinking for a long time, he could only choose one at random to try to get away with it: "Probably requires endurance. After all, if you don't have endurance, you will..."

After hearing Chen Feng's answer, the coach immediately interrupted Chen Feng's words: "Practice speed first or endurance first? Generally, people who ask this kind of question are beginners in running. However, for beginners, neither speed practice nor endurance practice is suitable. If you don't have the foundation of running volume, it is a bit empty to talk about speed and endurance. Seeing that many beautiful and handsome men are anxious to practice speed and endurance, I really want to tell them: Handsome beauties, you run so hard, but the method is actually wrong! It's just useless work, and this sentence also applies to you."

Chen Feng was so reprimanded that he didn't dare to speak, and kept listening to the coach's words and nodding like a chicken pecking rice.

"Many runners think that running depends on the legs, and as long as the lower body strength is exercised, there will be no problem with running. However, the general senior runners understand the importance of core strength to running. Therefore, the training of core strength should not be neglected while exercising lower body strength. You may ask: what is needed for running is running power, what is the use of exercising core strength? The main driving force for running comes from the lower body, but almost all sports require sufficient core strength. Keep your body balanced under the circumstances. Can you understand me when I say that?" Although the coach asked a question, the coach didn't really intend to wait for Chen Feng's answer and continued to explain directly.

"So what is core training? How do you train it? Any training that works the abdominals, hips, or even the stabilizers of the scapula-thoracic wall can be considered core training. "Core" is a broad term and refers to all the muscles in the central part of the body. These muscles are an important link between upper body strength and lower body strength. Muscles and joints play a comprehensive role together, then the burden of supporting the whole body will fall on the bones, joints and skin, and it is easy to lack physical strength and muscle damage during running.”

After finishing speaking, the coach listed a set of movements for Chen Feng that Chen Feng should insist on training every day, including Russian twists, planks, bicycle crunches and other training movements.

"Then coach, when will I start practicing the explosive power of running?" Chen Feng looked at a series of training programs, and couldn't help swallowing a big mouthful of saliva. This set will take at least an hour or two, plus rest time. If he is still making sure that he can keep up with the daily football training programs, then he will have to spend all his time on these training programs in a day.

"Practice the explosive power of running? When you can easily complete twice the training volume of this training program, I will start teaching you the correct running posture and how to strengthen the explosive power of running." The coach passed by Chen Feng with a sneer, and then picked up the timer and said to Chen Feng: "Now you can start preparing for each of your training, and I will time it here for you."

"Ah? But..." But I haven't rested yet, I still want to go back to sleep!Chen Feng thought helplessly in his heart, but the movement of his body has already begun to automatically perform the first step of the Russian twist according to the planned project.

Although Chen Feng was exhausted every day since adding this set of running core training methods every day, after a week of training, Chen Feng could clearly feel that his steps were much lighter when he was running, as if he had changed from a fat man weighing nearly 150 catties to a fat man weighing [-] catties. Feng now feels like a little fat man. Although his speed is still relatively slow, it is obvious that compared with him before, his speed is much faster.

After a few more days, the coach began to ask Chen Feng to add some other training. If he wanted to practice explosiveness, he mainly did squats with weights, slow squats and quick rises.Be sure to start at the fastest speed. Although these trainings only take less than half an hour for Chen Feng, they are the most painful for Chen Feng. After the first training, Chen Feng even felt that his legs lost feeling, and he didn't know how to walk at all.

After persisting in this kind of training for another week, the coach gave Chen Feng the last lesson. The coach asked Chen Feng to change the way he took the first step. When people run forward to accelerate, the first step is the dominant foot, so the start will be very stable, but the second step will not be fast after the non-dominant foot is not used, because the non-dominant foot cannot provide the power to accelerate. This is why the coach has always asked Chen Feng to train muscle strength.The coach asked Chen Feng to get used to the non-dominant foot first, that is, the left foot as the starting point during training.

The result of this training method is that Chen Feng even wondered if he had forgotten how to run when he first started training, because when he started with his non-dominant left foot in the first step, he often felt that his muscles could not exert strength.

This "can't run" problem troubled Chen Feng the week before he changed the way of starting. During the whole week, Chen Feng kept falling to the ground and then got up again.

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The day after tomorrow, Chen Feng will return to the base to gather. Chen Feng will stop the training of changing the starting method in the past two days, and start to resume his normal training method. After the training, Chen Feng turns on the news on his mobile phone to see what news he missed during this period. The most eye-catching thing in the offseason is of course the winter transfer window. If the Chinese Super League comes to support, there is no need to worry that there will be no news to watch.

The first thing that caught the eye was the news about Hoffenheim’s transfer. Almost when the transfer window just opened, Hamburg’s German midfielder Demi Beyer, the midfielder was regarded by Bild as Rudy’s replacement after he left. His super set ball, key pass and long-range shooting ability are very similar to Rudy’s.

Seeing this, Chen Feng couldn't help laughing again. It seems that the method of poaching your corner if you can't beat it is indeed common all over the world. You see, Demibel is just like Rupp because of his outstanding performance against Hoffenheim. Prices are often higher than this, right?
Chen Feng thought about it seriously, and thought that the possibility of why Demibel transferred back to Hoffenheim at such a low price might be because Demibel had one year or even half a year left on his contract, and Hoffenheim contacted Demirbel in advance, and settled Demirby and Demirbel's agent first, so that Demirby stood up and asked for a transfer when Hoffenheim's single-core Hamburg was negotiating the transfer fee.Then the Hamburg team can only choose to sell Demir Bayer to Hoffenheim at a low price. Otherwise, Chen Feng really can't figure out how it is possible to trade a young player with potential for only 170 million euros.

The No.2 player who had rumors with the Hoffenheim team and became a reality is the same 22-year-old young German player Schulz. He is still a young German defender who can be a central defender and a left defender. However, the central defender is not tall enough. , It is also necessary to add a full-back, and rumors with Schultz are also normal.

I just considered that Schulz's only transfer obstacle is that Schulz transferred from Hertha Berlin to Borussia Mönchengladbach, which was just defeated by Chen Feng, in Xia Chuang last season. Borussia is also relatively optimistic about Schulz's future. In terms of transfer fees, Schulz should be able to bring Schulz to the Neckar Arena with a small transfer fee. After all, Juber is not a real full-back.

When Chen Feng saw that Schulz's transfer fee was only 300 million euros, he was no longer surprised. You must know that Borussia spent 400 million euros to buy Schulz two seasons ago, but now they directly transferred back to Hoffenheim with a transfer fee of 300 million euros. This is definitely a super-valuable transfer method.And although Schulz played less time in Borussia Mönchengladbach, it was because of the excellent abilities of Borussia's two wide players rather than Schultz's lack of ability.

What can be used as a basis is that in the latest evaluation of full-backs by Kicker, it is believed that there are no world-class full-backs in the Bundesliga, and there is only the national team and Bayern Munich double-captain Lahm at the intercontinental level.

It's a pity that No.3 Grilic, who had a transfer rumor with Hoffenheim before, doesn't seem to have much transfer news with Hoffenheim. In terms of competition, based on Hoffenheim's transfer policy in the past two years, whether Hoffenheim will participate in the competition is still a question.

(End of this chapter)