Fox in the Penalty Area

"... Hu Lai, the youngest player selected for the U22 training team recently, caused an uproar on the Internet, so what did he say? He said that his dream is to lead the Chinese team to win the World Cup. Just such a sentence was After posting it on the Internet, it attracted a lot of people's cynicism. Some self-media said he was arrogant, and some people thought he was grandstanding..."

"Arrogance is a fart! A fart is grandstanding!"

In the locker room under the stands of Qingyang Yigao Stadium, Zhou Zijing was yelling curses with his mobile phone.

"Those marketing accounts know nothing!"

"Team Zhou, pay attention... there are your fans outside..." The teammates in the locker room winked at Zhou Zijing.

"What's the matter with fans?" Zhou Zijing ignored the female fans waiting outside the locker room, but pointed to the "Goal" website news on his mobile phone and said to his teammates, "Tell me, are those people all fans?" Is it a group of idiots? Our own players, if they say they want to win the World Cup, isn’t that a sign of ambition? How did they become arrogant and grandstanding in the eyes of these dark guys?”

"Hey, Team Zhou, who told us that our national team doesn't even know where the door of the World Cup is going? In fact, they are not scolding Hu Lai, but Chinese football. Competitive sports, weakness is the original sin..."

"You can't say that, you have to be reasonable. Don't they want Chinese football to be good?" Zhou Zijing frowned.

"Maybe people really don't want Chinese football to be good. Chinese football is good, and they can't just scold them. Isn't it that they have lost a channel to vent?" Someone sneered.

Hearing what his teammates said, Zhou Zijing was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head helplessly: "What do they think of Chinese football?"

"What? As a spittoon."

Zhou Zijing looked down at the photo of Hu Lai on his phone. He was already wearing the training uniform of the Chinese team, with a bright five-star red flag on his chest.

How can there be such a beautiful spittoon?

"Okay, I've decided, I'm going to play football in this spittoon in the future!" Zhou Zijing said, pointing at the phone screen.

The locker room was quiet for two seconds, and then everyone applauded: "Team Zhou, come on!"

"If Team Zhou is yours, then there must be no problem!"

"Team Zhou has lofty goals and great ambitions! It is worthy of being Team Zhou!"

Zhou Zijing was amused by his teammates' rainbow farts: "Let's set a small goal first, and come back with a national championship!"

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When Luo Kai came out of the gym, his whole body was as if he had just been fished out of the water. Every time he took a step, there was a wet footprint under his feet. Sweat flowed down from his forehead to his chin like a waterfall. Pointed, falling down. It flowed down his arm, to his fingertips, and was thrown everywhere with his arm swings.

From the gym to the door of the locker room, he heard his teammates discussing the name he was very familiar with.

"Hu Lai, is this kid floating?"

"Fuck, just entered a training team, and the tail is up to the sky... You can say things like the World Cup..."

"It's not necessarily floating. Didn't you see that everyone is discussing him now? He is considered popular. Maybe he did it on purpose,

Just to be famous? "The one who said this was Liao Tinghui, the midfielder of the Nanhai team. In the 32nd round of the Chinese League One last season, Shining Star challenged Nanhai away. He was responsible for defending Zhang Qinghuan during the game.

Under his defense, Zhang Qinghuan was almost powerless to fight back.

As a result, Hu Lai's top two got mixed up, and he could only restrain himself in defense.

And he was almost overwhelmed by Hu Lai.

So until now he was deeply impressed by Hu Lai's cunning.

Others may think that Hu Lai's words are arrogant and arrogant, but he thinks that Hu Lai is just trying to please the public.

At this moment, Luo Kai walked into the locker room.

Everyone was shocked when they saw him again: "Luo Kai, did you go swimming?"

"Swimming doesn't mean getting wet all over your clothes and pants, right?"

Luo Kai explained to everyone: "I trained in a raincoat."

A group of people stared at him dumbfounded.

Everyone knows the concept of training in a raincoat.

If you don’t know, imagine that in a hot room with doors and windows closed in summer, you are asked to run on a treadmill, and it won’t take long for sweat to spread all over your body.

And the feeling of exercising in a raincoat is ten times this stuffy feeling.

Because raincoats are generally not breathable, wearing them is equivalent to wearing a plastic bag. The heat emitted by the body cannot be discharged, and more sweat will be produced. This training method places high demands on the cardiorespiratory load.

"Luo Kai, I remember you were injured before?" Captain Wang Yiru stood up, "You should take it easy? Don't practice too hard, that will increase the chance of getting injured again."

Luo Kai nodded: "Thank you Team Wang, I will pay attention."

Then he walked to the shower in the locker room and took a shower.

After the sound of rushing water inside, the South China Sea players looked at each other and said in a low voice, "I remember that Luo Kai and Hu Lai used to be in the same team?"

"It is said that he entered the professional team earlier than Hu Lai..."

"Must be stimulated."

"Thinking about it, he entered the professional team a year earlier than Hu Lai, but now everyone is going to the National Olympics, but he is on loan from the Chinese Super League to the Chinese Premier League..."

"I think it's a good thing for our team. With such a high-spirited Luo Kai, we might have a chance to be promoted this season..."

Captain Wang Yiru shook his head: "Promotion doesn't depend on any one person, it depends on the hard work of the whole team. I'm more worried that if he continues to practice like this, his body will not be able to bear it..."

Letting the hot water shower him from head to toe under the nozzle, Luo Kai didn't rush to apply shower gel on his body, just stood in the water with his head down and hands down.

When he was still trying to achieve zero goals in the professional league, Hu Lai had already scored eleven goals in half a season in the league.

But when he decided to join the South China Sea team on loan to get more opportunities to play, Hu Lai had already been selected into the Olympic training team.

For the first time, Luo Kai had this thought——will I never be able to catch up with him?

He clenched his fists tightly, his body trembling slightly in the hot water.

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"...To be honest, at the beginning, when I heard Hu Lai's words, I also reflexively thought that he was arrogant or grandstanding. But when I brought a big news When I was excited to return to the editorial department, I met my senior Sun Yonggang, Mr. Sun, who told me an old story about Hu Lai...

"At that time, Hu Lai was only a freshman in senior high school. He participated in the national competition for the first time with the Dongchuan Middle School football team. At that time, Hu Lai was under the shadow of Luo Kai, and no one cared about him. It was under such circumstances that Mr. Sun noticed that Hu Lai was practicing extra celebrations on the training ground!"

"It's true. I was at the scene at the time." Yan Yan said to his roommates with a serious face while holding his mobile phone, "You can't imagine why Hu Lai had this idea at all—to run to practice more celebration moves .It seems that he knew from that time that he would use this set of celebrations often in the future... In fact, he did use it often. So I always say that he is the chosen one! I even think that the coach was putting Hu When Lai was recruited into the school team, it was destined that the Dongchuan Middle School football team would win the national championship! The coach had a unique vision, and Hu Lai lived up to expectations, it was a match made in heaven!"

His roommates listened intently to Yan Yan's story about Hu Lai's past, with focused expressions.

"He has a kind of mysterious self-confidence, which seems to be a kind of intuition and prophecy. He just firmly believes that he will do it. Now I think it may be because he believes so firmly and works hard for this goal that he can finally achieve it in others. It seems unbelievable. Don’t listen to the nonsense of those online marketing accounts from the media. None of them usually watch a game. Even some of the Chinese team don’t know. As soon as they hear the word “national football”, they have an intracranial orgasm. It’s a huge leap, and all the shit are here to catch the heat! Anyone who engages in overseas purchasing can come and laugh at Hu Lai, and they deserve it too? Wait to be slapped in the face!”

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"Many people believe that the celebratory moves that Hu Lai practiced at that time have already seen it. Yes, it is Hu Lai's signature celebratory moves... and who would have thought that he practiced this set of celebratory moves on the training ground at the beginning. Seven or eight out of ten times he was unsuccessful during the moves? But just as he practiced extra celebratory moves that are incomprehensible, it is also incomprehensible for him to say that he wants to win the World Cup.

"What was incomprehensible was his answer when he was interviewed by Mr. Sun. Mr. Sun asked him what his vision for the future was. In fact, he just wanted to ask him what he thought about the next national competition. But guess what happened to Hu Lai? The answer to this question? By the way, he said he was going to be a professional player.

"Look, isn't it very similar to today? A substitute who couldn't even make a start in the middle school team said solemnly to the media that he wanted to become a professional player. A rookie who was selected for the first time in the Olympic training team let go To win the World Cup... Two future prospects, the same question, different answers, but the same taste. So everyone, when you scolded this young man for being arrogant and grandstanding, did you ever think that he was just genuine? He just spoke his mind.

"That's obviously true, why don't you believe it? Maybe it's because we have long been accustomed to wearing masks and playing our own roles in this society. This role is what others want to see and is beneficial to us. But it’s not the real self. When everyone is used to talking nonsense and hiding their true thoughts, someone suddenly expressed his inner thoughts, even if the truth is so sincere and worthy of respect, but The first reaction of most people is probably to laugh at him, scold him, belittle him, besiege him...

"Are they irritated by this young man's 'arrogance'? No, they are just stabbed by his 'sincerity'. It's like a human being who has lived in a dark cave for a long time and sees the sun for the first time. The reaction was not joy, but fear.

"Young people's lofty ambitions, or even nonsense...what's the crime? People are so criticized? We...everyone in Chinese football, have they been sinking and fearing for too long? , cowering for too long, crawling in the dark cave for too long... so that I forgot what the sun looks like? When I encounter something beyond my own knowledge, I only have dark thoughts in my heart, and I can't tolerate the slightest light...

"In this case, let this young man bring light to everyone!"

(Reporter: Zhang Chao)

Li Ziqiang finished reading this article, put down his phone, and turned to look at the window.

The curtains were opened, and the morning sunlight poured in from the glass window, shone on the phone, and was reflected on the ceiling by the phone screen.

The house he rented near Dongchuan Middle School, because it is an elevator apartment, has a higher floor, and the lighting is much better than the old house before. That's why he now especially likes to open the curtains every morning after waking up to let the sun shine in, making every corner of the room bright.

He didn't close the curtains until he got back from get off work, when the last rays of sunset light had disappeared over the mountains to the west.

Now he is looking at the city under the bright sun.

Under the sunlight, the glass windows of the buildings in the distance shone brightly.

Under the sunshine, the bougainvillea on the balcony of the opposite residential building blooms more colorfully.

Under the sunshine, every corner of the city becomes lively.

The song that was placed at the beginning of this article on the official account of "Goal" is still playing in a loop, through the speaker of the mobile phone.

"...Woo oo oo Woo oo oo...open the curtains. A lot of emotions. Lucky son. Like a new life..."

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Li Qingqing stopped swiping the phone screen, so the content on the screen stayed at the last few paragraphs of the article.

She kept staring at the last sentence of the article.

The soundtrack of the official account was continuously transmitted to her ears through the earphones.

"...Look at your young self, full of youthful breath... Life belongs to you, don't care about their reasons, say what you want to say, do what you want to do..." (Note 1)

She shook her head lightly, moved her lips to the music, and repeated silently in her heart:

Say what you want to say, do what you want to do, and don't care what they say, Holly.

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Note 1: This song is the band's "New Life".

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