Fox in the Penalty Area

In the new week of training, Hu Lai once again participated in the team's offensive routine training instead of Lai Zekai.

Now everyone, including Lai Zekai himself, felt that Hu Lai would definitely start the next game.

Lai Zekai was deeply disturbed and exasperated by his situation.

He knew that Zhao Kangming was partial to Hu Lai, because the two of them were mentors and apprentices when they were in the Poseidon youth team. With this kind of human relationship, what would he use to compete with Hu Lai?

In his opinion, if he wanted to break the situation, he could only wait.

Waiting for Hu Lai to pass this "fresh period". Generally speaking, it is not unreasonable for folks to say that "changing hands is like changing knives". When you play a game and can't pass this level, changing to a new controller may feel overwhelming. Buddha.

Then when Flash Star's offense has not improved for a long time, replace a new forward of the team. Although he does not look like a person who can take on major responsibilities in all aspects, he may also perform well on the field and score goals. .

This is also reasonable.

But this kind of change brought about by novelty often does not last long.

Lai Zekai really didn't see Hu Lai's greater ability from the training. In his opinion, Hu Lai is just a young player with a little specialty and super luck. He picked the right opponent to play at the right time and just so happened to score a goal...

Maybe after a game, he will be beaten back to his original shape.

At that time, the head coach Zhao Kangming will definitely know who can be the main striker of this team.

After all, even if he can't score, he still has other functions on the front line, such as creating opportunities for his teammates, and sending assists to his teammates by passing the ball...

And what is the ability of that young man who can only grab points?

He decided to hibernate and wait patiently for chance and luck to return to him. After all, he is almost thirty years old, what kind of ups and downs has he never seen in his career?

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Shining Star's opponent in the next round is the Honglian Club from Youjiang Province.

This team is currently ranked second to last in the league and belongs to the relegation team.

If this ranking remains unchanged until the end of the league,

Youjiang Honglian will go to the relegation play-offs, and together with the penultimate team, will fight against the fourth and fifth teams in the second division, and finally decide whether they can continue to stay in the first division.

Although Flash Star has been promoted to twelfth place with the victory of the last game, it seems to be far away from the relegation zone.

But still not sloppy. Because the league has only played nineteen rounds, and there are still fifteen rounds left, everything is possible in these fifteen rounds.

Not to mention that they are still facing a red-eyed relegation team in this round of the league.

Anyone who knows a little about football knows that in the second half of the league, relegation teams are much more difficult to play than teams in the middle and upper reaches.

Regardless of home and away.

Because people are here to fight you hard.

Before this game, some people began to look forward to whether the young player named Hu Lai would appear on the court. Before that, almost no one cared about the name in the competition squad.

The roster for the competition was announced the day before the competition. It's no secret. It can be found on Flash Star's official website, official social media accounts, and China League One's official website.

Hu Lai, who scored the winning goal for the team in the last game, was indeed among them.

"Look, our son is coming out again!" Xie Lan waved the phone in front of her husband.

Hu Lixin turned around, not looking at his phone.

Xie Lan didn't care what her husband was like, she continued to say cheerfully: "This time it must be the first one!"

Hearing his wife's words, Hu Lixin finally couldn't hold back and hummed: "What do you know? You can start after scoring a goal? Do you know the difference between starting and coming off the bench!"

"What don't you know about this? The starting lineup is to play at the start of the game, and the substitute is to play after the game has started." Xie Lan said triumphantly.

"What's the difference!"

"What difference does that make?"

Hu Lixin opened his mouth to explain, but after seeing his wife's expression, he closed his mouth again.

"Hey, you man. You know you say it..."

Hu Lixin got up and left.

"Why are you going?"

"smokes!"

Seeing the back of her husband leaving in a hurry, Xie Lan pouted.

She originally wanted to use this method of letting her husband give her popular science football knowledge to let him enter the world of her son a little bit, and find out a little bit how he felt as a professional player back then. Through this common topic, she slowly resolved her husband's heart. of solid ice.

But now it seems that it may not be as easy as she imagined.

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"Hu Lai is on the big list!"

In a WeChat group called "Dongchuan Middle School Team Jincheng Branch", someone announced excitedly.

"Isn't this a matter of course? The important thing is not the big list, but the starting list!"

"There should be no suspense in starting the game, right? The substitute performance in the last game was so good, much better than the original starting forward Lai Zekai. If I were the head coach, I would definitely let Hu Lai start!"

"That's right, that Lai Zekai's football is not good, and the spectrum is getting bigger and bigger. Do you really think that Shining Star can't do without him? If you want me to say that the club is right not to renew his contract! How can such a person get a high salary? ?”

Everyone in the group was discussing in full swing, Yan Yan jumped out and asked, "Are you ready for tomorrow's game?"

He circled Tang Yuan at the same time.

Tang Yuan, who was circled, sent out a picture, which was a folded red banner, with large white characters on the back faintly visible.

"The banner has been made, Team Yan."

"Okay. Don't forget to put on your school team jersey tomorrow. Let Hu Lai see us in the stands at a glance!" Yan Yan reminded everyone.

The color of Flash Star's home jersey is mainly red, supplemented by white.

The Dongchuan Middle School football team's jersey is mainly yellow, supplemented by a few blue patterns.

There is still a big contrast in the stands-twenty or thirty fans wearing yellow jerseys suddenly appeared in a large pile of red, as if a skylight had been opened in the square of the home team fans, plus their banners , I believe it will definitely attract everyone's attention, and if Hu Lai can cast their gaze on them, then the goal will be achieved.

They just wanted to tell Hu Lai: All the teammates from the Dongchuan Middle School team are here to cheer for you!

This idea was first proposed by Yan Yan, hoping to let Hu Lai see them in such a way that it didn't fit in with the surrounding Flash Star fans—in order to surprise Hu Lai, they didn't tell Hu Lai in advance.

Of course, thanks to the fact that Youjiang Honglian's away jersey is not yellow or white, but dark green, otherwise, it will be bad if he is regarded as a fan of the visiting team...

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The night before the home game, according to the request of the head coach Zhao Kangming, all the Flash Star players who have been selected into the big roster must spend the night in the dormitory of the training base. , The situation that ultimately affects the morale and performance of the team appears.

This kind of situation is not uncommon in the early stage of professionalization of Chinese football. Even if the coaches strictly forbid this kind of behavior, they still cannot resist the temptation of the colorful world outside.

Many people simply climbed over the wall and left the base, ran away to be cool, and didn't come back until midnight.

Either get too drunk, or use up the energy you should be preparing for the game on the woman.

Of course, after decades of development and progress, as the concept of more professional European football was introduced into domestic football, this situation has become much less.

Most players know that doing this kind of thing before the game is not good for them at all.

"...Actually, everything has pros and cons. It's definitely wrong to go fooling around before a game, but the media and fans always hope that professional players like us are all puritans, and going to a bar and nightclub seems to be heinous... ...That's not right either." Qin Lin was telling Hu Lai, who lived in the same room with him, about the professional players.

The room arrangement for the group accommodation before the game was designated by the club at the beginning of the season, so Hu Lai, who transferred halfway through, lived in the same room with Qin Lin.

It's not the first time they've shared a room - they also shared a hotel room ahead of last week's away game.

What surprised Qin Lin was that although Hu Lai was a young man, he didn't seem to have any pressure when he was alone with him, which was completely different from how some other young players saw him.

He will take the initiative to chat with himself and ask himself many questions, as if he is very curious about himself...

"Except for the night before the game, I think any other time, as long as you manage your time, you can go to nightclubs, bars or whatever."

When Hu Lai heard Qin Lin, who is known as the most professional among Chinese players, say such words, he was a little surprised—he originally thought that Qin Lin would be a very rigid person, after all, a big boss, everyone gives the impression of this.

Who would have thought that the boss would say such a thing.

"The premise is that the amount is appropriate." Seeing Hu Lai's surprised expression, Qin Lin asked him with a smile: "You know that I am in the Xingcheng Youth Team of Andong, right?"

Holly nodded.

"At that time, Xingcheng's training base was the current training base of Shanxing. After so many years, except for the renovation, the location of the dormitory building has not changed." Qin Lin looked up at the ceiling of the dormitory room, "I am here When I was in the youth team, I lived here. At that time, we often trained together with the first team, and everyone knew each other very well. Every team will have some big brothers, and every big brother will be surrounded by a bunch of younger brothers. One of those little brothers."

It was hard for Hu Lai to imagine what it would be like for the last big man in Chinese football to be someone else's younger brother, but he didn't make a sound, but listened intently to Qin Lin talking about his youth.

"For a period of time, I had a problem with my thinking. I was sloppy in training, my belt was loose, and I couldn't cheer up. Then I was seen by the 'second brother' Xue Bowen of the first team. He knew why I was like this-at that time I didn't perform well in the youth team, and I couldn't even play in the youth team. I was a little bit confused about my future...Second brother is a very righteous person, with a warm heart, and he is willing to help us young children in the youth team. In order to let me Pull yourself together, and guess what he did?"

Hu Lai shook his head, this kind of gossip between players, especially in the "ancient times" - he had never heard of Xue Bowen's name before, but after time travel, when he inquired about the history of Chinese football and Anton football, he Knowing that this is a well-known figure in the history of Anton football and one of the representatives of Anton football-the gossip between players, let alone know.

"He took me to various dance halls and bars in Jincheng for three consecutive days to eat, drink and have fun after training."

Hu Lai opened his mouth wide.

Seeing Hu Lai like this, Qin Lin laughed: "That was the first time I went to a dance hall, the first time I went to a bar, and I took the second brother's Daben. When we got out of the car, we saw a group of people with heavy makeup. The woman came up to us and greeted us in a coquettish voice...I will never forget that scene in my life. For a boy of seventeen or eighteen, it was too impactful."

Hu Lai nodded again and again—he also went to the bar with his teammates when he was in the Poseidon youth team. Although it was not as exaggerated as Qin Lin said, it still opened his eyes.

They were all nobody at that time, and no one paid any attention to them. But Qin Lin went with "Second Brother" Xue Bowen back then, and he must have been the most beautiful boy on the field.

"I just played like this for three days, and I'm already a little addicted. I look forward to the second brother taking me there after the training is over every day... But the second brother suddenly doesn't take me there. He told me the reason why he took me Going to play is to tell me what a wonderful life I can live as a professional player and the main player of the first team. He hopes that I can take this as my goal and be serious in training. There is such a beautiful life waiting for me in the future Me. The second brother calls this method he invented himself 'self-wei'...Of course, I later learned that becoming a professional player will indeed lead a life like this, but if you want to make your career more successful , you must not indulge in such a life. Proper relaxation is good for your career, but indulging is not good.”

After listening to the boss's narration, Hu Lai couldn't complain anymore.

So taking young players to see the colorful world of feasting, feasting, luxury and gold fans is to make young players strive for this goal? This is really not afraid to lead young players into the ditch...

But if you think about it carefully, this kind of thing is really in line with the atmosphere of the early professionalization of Chinese football that Xue Bowen was in, and it is quite Xue Bowen's personal style.

It really deserves to be something that Xue Bowen can do. After all, Xue Bowen can be said to be planted in this area later on. His career achievements are far inferior to that of his younger brother Qin Lin who was taken care of by him at the beginning.

Does Xue Bowen regret living such a life?

Hu Lai didn't know, but he knew how many Chinese players could have the current professional vision and career planning in the era when the sports team had just changed from professionalization to professionalization? Not to mention players, fans and reporters themselves have no idea.

That was the golden age of Chinese football. The professional reform released the long-suppressed enthusiasm of fans, the market, the media, and the players, and sprayed it unscrupulously.

But that is also the most dangerous time for Chinese football, because what happens after the passion that has been accumulated for a long time is over? It is endless emptiness and chaos.

It's just that even the Football Association was in such a state of excitement at that time, how many people could realize this?

As a result, Chinese football missed the youth training in the most prosperous era of professionalization, and its savage growth also repeatedly broke the rules, scandals continued, and problems abound.

Had to make up for it later with a longer period of time.

In a sense, Hou Lai's ability to go pro from a high school player is part of that compensation.

There was a knock on the door, and Hu Lai jumped out of bed to open the door, only to find that it was Zhao Kangming, the head coach of the team.

After seeing Hu Lai, he looked at Qin Lin who was inside again, and said with a smile, "Are you all here? It's good. Go to bed early, don't make it too late."

Hu Lai said quickly: "Don't worry, Director Zhao, we'll wash up and go to sleep right away."

Zhao Kangming nodded in satisfaction, and at the same time, he didn't ask Hu Lai too much. With Qin Lin around, he was a million people at ease, and believed that Hu Lai would never mess around.

After checking the houses of Hu Lai and Qin Lin, he continued to check the rooms.

And Hu Lai closed the door, really going to wash and sleep.

The night before the match passed peacefully.

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