Fox in the Penalty Area

Lin Xueyi looked at the furnishings in the office, and his eyes were naturally attracted by the framed jerseys hanging on the wall.

Hu Lai's, Li Qingqing's, Luo Kai's and Xia Xiaoyu's jerseys for the national team, the Olympic team and the club team lined up in a row, almost covering both walls of the office, which was very spectacular.

"These jerseys... are proof of your success," he marveled.

Unexpectedly, Li Ziqiang objected to his statement: "This is not my success."

"Ah?" Lin Xueyi originally wanted to give a compliment, and then bring the relationship between the interviewees closer so that he can get to the point.

Generally, in this case, the person who is praised will be very happy, and then open his heart, and the interview will go smoothly.

Unexpectedly, Li Ziqiang didn't play his cards normally, which stunned Lin Xueyi.

But Lin Xueyi soon realized that perhaps he could start the interview just like this, because perhaps such an unexpected scene is more valuable to record than a formulaic interview with topics set in advance.

So he took advantage of the situation and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Hu Lai and Luo Kai were already at the school before I came to the football team of Dongchuan Middle School. So it's not so much that I cultivated them, it's better to say that I was lucky enough to meet them."

"But you recruited Hu Lai into the team, and you also gave him a lot of rigorous training. Before that, Hu Lai didn't even receive systematic professional football training..."

"I just arranged some basic training for him, which is completely inconsistent with what he has achieved today. So his success today has little to do with me. Any football coach can do such basic training." Li Ziqiang shook his head, "Xia Xiaoyu's situation is the same. Before he came to Dongchuan Middle School, he was already a very good seedling in junior high school. Dongchuan Middle School just gave him a platform to play, and he can't be regarded as my cultivation. Yes. Li Qingqing is the only one I trained."

"She's your daughter..."

"Yes, she is my daughter, so I can always be by her side when she grows up. Whether it is Hu Lai, Luo Kai or Xia Xiaoyu, they don't get much guidance from me. I can't say that I am How much role did they play in their growth..."

"But high school football is actually a key stage in the transition from youth training to professional football. Now more and more high school players have entered professional football." Lin Xueyi retorted slightly.

"Of course, I'm not denying the importance of high school football education. I'm just saying,

I didn't do much to help them grow. The training of players is very particular about continuity. I can say that the players who have gone out of Dongchuan Middle School have accepted my training. Because in these years of work, we have also summed up a set of training methods and concepts suitable for the football team of Dongchuan Middle School... If other jerseys of other international football teams can be hung on this wall in the future, then it can be called Dongchuan Middle School football team. Thanks to the Sichuan Middle School football team. Now..." Li Ziqiang shook his head. "I hang these jerseys here to motivate ourselves and to give those players a goal. "

Hearing this, Lin Xueyi suddenly understood why for so many years, Li Ziqiang seldom claimed to be a "Master Hu Lai" in front of the public and promoted himself.

He always thought that Li Ziqiang was Hu Lai's mentor, which was a well-known fact, and there was no need to re-argument. Li Ziqiang rarely mentioned his relationship with Hu Lai...

"Speaking of continuity... I went to interview and film the work directed by Hu Lixin some time ago. In training, he will not simply and directly tell the young players how to handle this ball and how to handle that ball, but tell them to Observe more and make your own decisions... And today I was in your locker room after the game, and I heard you repeatedly emphasize the importance of observation. I wonder if this is a continuity?"

"Of course it is." Li Ziqiang nodded and said, "Did you notice that Rong Yi today?"

"noticed."

"What do you think of him?"

"Well... how should I put it? She is very agile and dares to make moves in the competition."

"Not only that. In the unsuccessful counterattack, he observed the space in advance, and started it first, and got stuck on the inside, which created a space for receiving the ball. But Zhang Shicong did not pass the football In the past..." Li Ziqiang said. "Rongyi Primary School is played in Nancheng Primary School."

Lin Xueyi was not surprised by this, because he knew it a long time ago. When Hu Lixin knew that he was coming to Dongchuan Middle School for an interview, he told him about it.

"In fact, he was only a student of our Dongchuan Middle School in September this year, but he has already been admitted by Dongchuan Middle School, so he will train with us in advance." Li Ziqiang continued to introduce. "He has not been training with us for a long time and is not very familiar with him, but he performed very well in the game, and he can cooperate with the team most of the time. It all depends on his observation and decision-making ability .”

Lin Xueyi nodded in approval. He saw it all in the game.

"However, when Rong Yi was in the fifth grade of elementary school, Lao Hu only went to Nancheng Primary School to teach. He also only received two years of training from Lao Hu, and Lao Hu's football philosophy was not formed in a day...Rong Yi He has only played under Lao Hu for two years. His biggest gain is actually his self-confidence. Lao Hu allows the players to play freely on the field. Even if they make mistakes, he will not scold them, but always encourage them to do it next time. Better. So the players he teaches will appear more confident than their peers, and they will dare to make moves on the court, even if they make mistakes, they will not be afraid."

"So I feel that he is a little different from other players on the field, because of this?" Just after Lin Xueyi asked this question, he realized that he said this, as if he was saying that other people in Dongchuan Middle School were not good.

But Li Ziqiang nodded in agreement, and at the same time told Lin Xueyi: "A few years ago, we had a very good player from Dongchuan Middle School. He scored a total of 38 goals in the three Anton Cup junior high school competitions. Ball is known as the trump card of their school. It also attracted the attention of many schools including Jiaxiang High School. In the end, he chose to come to our Dongchuan Middle School. But he didn’t play well with me. He has been playing for three years in high school since the second year of high school. It's hard to even make a match..."

"Why?" Lin Xueyi asked curiously.

"He is very fast. He himself said that he had chosen back and forth between sprinting and football, and finally he chose football. Although he is fast, his technique is very single and not very good. The offensive method is basically to put The football goes out and then speeds up to chase. His ability to score so many goals in junior high school has a lot to do with his speed advantage. But in high school, there are many fast people, and the difficulty of physical confrontation has also increased... His technical skills A single weakness is exposed. And his personal characteristics are incompatible with our team's tactical style..."

Li Ziqiang continued:

"It is said that his junior high school coach didn't let him practice skills, and he used his speed advantage to the extreme in tactics. With his speed and defensive counterattack, the junior high school team performed quite well in the Anton Cup junior high school group. Everyone thinks that he is an excellent coach. So when he didn't play well with me, his parents even came to me to make a fuss, saying that I deliberately suppressed their son..."

Having said that, Li Ziqiang laughed.

"I asked him to practice his skills, don't just rely on speed to play football, but he told me that as long as he can score goals, he also used Hu Lai as an example, saying that Hu Lai can only score goals, but he made goals. He has reached the extreme, so he is also a world superstar. His speed is faster than Hu Lai, why can't he do better?"

Hearing this, Lin Xueyi showed an expression of "an old man on the subway looking at his mobile phone".

Li Ziqiang spread his hands, shook his head and said: "Hu Lai is indeed good at scoring goals, but the problem is that he is not really good at scoring goals. He just takes advantage of his speed and takes advantage of the opponent's physical immaturity. That's all. His shooting skills are not superb, his dribbling skills are also average-because he is too fast, he is too fast to control the ball-and he is not good at finding space in the opponent's defense, and his off-ball movement is almost... …Only relying on speed, what goals does he score? He really should have gone to practice track and field, maybe now he can participate in the National Games..."

Listening to Li Ziqiang's narration, Lin Xueyi remembered the scene he saw in the competition between Nancheng Primary School and Huayuan Road Primary School.

Primary and secondary school players have not grown physically, lack strength, and are not fast. So as long as you have a tall, strong or fast player in your team, you can often sweep one side.

In the face of such an absolute advantage, any sophisticated tactical arrangements are useless.

"It's really hard for me to do anything when I receive players like this from those junior high schools. But if the seedlings who enter Dongchuan Middle School in the future are all players trained by Lao Hu, then I will feel a lot more at ease. I even I will let it out, if it is a player who has trained under Hu Lixin, it is relatively advantageous to enter Dongchuan Middle School."

Lin Xueyi sighed: "You two are like cooperating on an assembly line..."

"We are indeed cooperating." Li Ziqiang did not deny it. "We hope that Dongchuan's campus football can have a unified style, so that from Lao Hu's elementary school to my high school, the concept of football can be well continued."

Lin Xueyi recalled the debate among the photographers in the car that day, so he said: "After we came out of the interview at Nancheng Primary School, we were also thinking about this issue. Hu's philosophy sounds reasonable, but the reality is that sticking to his It’s really hard to win a set. If you can’t win, how can you promote it?”

"This is what Dongchuan Middle School is going to do. In the second half of this year's Anton Cup, we will strive to get the right to participate in the national competition, and then achieve good enough results in the national competition next year. If not next year, then the next year , anyway, we must stick to this matter.”

"So in the end, the results still have to speak?"

Li Ziqiang nodded first, then shook his head: "In high school, it really depends on grades. But although winning is important, it is more important to know how to win. I believe that players trained according to Lao Hu's philosophy can not only win, but also know how to win. .From high school onwards, the physical gap between players has been getting smaller and smaller, and the mental gap has been getting bigger and bigger. Dongchuan Middle School will definitely win the national championship again.”

Seven dazzling years have passed since Hu Lai won the national competition, and Dongchuan Middle School has never won the national competition again.

But now listening to Li Ziqiang's words, he is very confident.

Lin Xueyi was thoughtful: "So after the game is over, and you obviously won, you still have to focus on the parts of the players who did not perform well... and hope they know how to win?"

Li Ziqiang nodded.

At the end of the interview, Lin Xueyi asked the photographer to take many close-up shots of the row of jerseys on the wall.

Although Li Ziqiang said that Hu Lai's success was not due to him, Lin Xueyi thought that Director Li was too modest.

In any case, Hu Lai, Luo Kai, and Xia Xiaoyu all entered everyone's field of vision under Li Ziqiang's command.

The person who lays the foundation for the building is important, but isn't the ferryman important?

Whether it is Li Ziqiang or Hu Lixin, there is no distinction between their work, they are all contributing to the future of Chinese football.

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ps, there are some things the author wants to say, but there are too many words, so I will not put them at the end of the chapter. I will open another single chapter and send it later.

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