Fox in the Penalty Area

Not long after Luo Kai and Chu Yifan came, the sophomores and seniors also came together.

Finally, Li Ziqiang, the head coach of the school team, appeared in front of everyone.

He was wearing a neat sportswear, professional football shoes, a whistle around his neck, and a hard board under his arm.

The first impression is that this is a very professional and capable football coach.

Coupled with his unsmiling face, the voices of chatting with each other on the court gradually disappeared, and everyone looked at him in awe.

After Li Ziqiang silently looked around everyone, he lowered his head and stared at the hard board in his hand: "Now start the roll call."

Starting from the old players in the second and third year of high school, every player who is called will answer loudly: "Here!"

When it came to the new players, the new players shouted louder than the old players.

On the football field, one after another "come!"

After Luo Kai responded, there was a huge cheer from the sidelines.

The cheers were louder than when Chu Yifan arrived.

Li Qingqing turned a deaf ear to this voice, her eyes were always on Hu Lai.

Finally, her father pronounced Hu Lai's name.

"Cough cough cough!!"

Hu Lai puffed up his chest and raised his head and replied loudly, but because he yelled too loudly, he broke his voice and finally coughed uncontrollably.

This made everyone laugh, whether they were on the field or on the sidelines. The laughter spread across the football field, and even attracted curious and suspicious eyes from the basketball field—they didn’t understand what happened on the football field. , causing so many people to laugh at the same time.

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There were not many people who didn't make fun of Hu Lai, and Li Ziqiang was one of them. He glanced at Hu Lai and wondered if this kid was pretending to be a monster on purpose.

After the laughter faded away, he still had a stern face, focusing on the freshmen who had joined the team.

His expression also affected the players, their smiles disappeared, and instead they looked at their head coach in bewilderment.

"Congratulations on entering the team. As the head coach of the school team, I welcome you on behalf of the whole team." After everyone fell silent and looked at him, Li Ziqiang spoke. He said congratulations, but there was no joy on his face.

"But don't be too happy, entering the team doesn't mean you can sit back and relax."

Sure enough, what Li Ziqiang said next matched his expression very well.

"If your performance in training doesn't satisfy me, then I have no choice but to ask you to leave. So don't think that coming in is a victory, and entering the school team is just the beginning."

When he said this, his eyes were fixed on Hu Lai in the crowd.

But the person he was watching didn't seem to have any sense of crisis. He still had the smile on his face just now, as if he was very happy to finally be able to enter the school team.

After snorting in his heart, Li Ziqiang looked away, looked at the others and continued: "...Because of changing coaches and recruiting new ones, our preparation time has been greatly shortened, and the provincial qualifiers for the national competition will soon be over. It’s about to start. So the next training will be very intense, if someone can’t stand it, they can quit the team voluntarily, don’t worry, I won’t set any threshold for quitting the team.”

The new players who spoke these words looked at each other in blank dismay.

They are indeed very happy to be able to enter the school team, but they did not expect to face such a situation after entering the school team.

Intensive training? Get kicked out for unqualified performance? If you want to quit the team, no one will stop you?

Why does it feel like the coach doesn't welcome us?

Everyone didn't notice it when they were astonished. At the end, their coach took another look at where Hu Lai was.

This time, Li Ziqiang saw that the smile on Hu Lai's face finally disappeared,

Instead, a furrowed brow.

This made him feel a little better - this kid finally knows how to be afraid!

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In fact, Hu Lai didn't respond to such words as "the training intensity is very high", "you may be driven away", "you are welcome to leave the team voluntarily".

He is not afraid of the intensity of the training. Before he came to the team to report, he found a chance to go to the toilet and drink the [Smart Potion]. In the next thirty days, the higher the training intensity, the greater the improvement in his training effect.

As for such things as voluntary withdrawal from the team, he is not stupid, how could he do it?

Besides, a new coach is here, so he has to say something uplifting, right? These words sound scary, maybe they are used to scare...

At this moment, the emotionless voice suddenly sounded in his mind:

"Mission: In the next 30 days, successfully stay in the school team. Mission reward: Points × 3000."

this task...

Hu Lai couldn't help frowning when he saw this task.

He wasn't very surprised that a mission appeared at this time. The system will use some things that happened in reality to launch the task logically, and this is not the first time Hu Lai has seen it.

But the reward for this quest...

It's too perfunctory!

What the hell is just three thousand points? !

The previous missions also had physical rewards, either enhancement potions or wearable equipment.

Only this task is worth 3,000 points.

The last mission required him to complete a hat-trick in the team entry test. That mission reward, 3,000 points is just one of them, in addition to a bottle of [Marrow Cleansing Potion] and a bottle of [Smart Potion] .

It is too easy to spoil the task in advance, so the task reward is not high?

I was looking forward to hearing that there was a mission, but now it seems that the biggest reward for this mission is not the 3,000 points, but the fact of staying in the school team itself.

He pouted in his heart, well, even if there is no such task, I will stay here. Mission rewards should be regarded as windfall...

When you save more points, you don’t have to be too heartbroken about the “thank you for participating” when you draw a lottery.

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Li Qingqing was standing in the stands. She couldn't hear what her father said to the players in the distance. She was still worried about Hu Lai's fate after joining the school team.

She knew her dad was a demanding coach, and it showed in herself and the players he had coached.

Li Qingqing really doesn't know if Hu Lai can meet his father's strict requirements.

While she was in a trance, she suddenly heard Song Jiajia next to her say in surprise, "Hey, why didn't they let Hu Lai train with him?"

Only then did Li Qingqing come back to her senses, and found that new changes had taken place in the stadium below.

All the members of the school team have completed the warm-up under the leadership of her father, and now it seems that they are assigning specific training tasks.

Some people have already started training in groups.

Hu Lai was not in any of those groups, and he stood alone on the edge of the field.

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When Mao Xiao went to training with his teammates, he couldn't help but glanced in Hu Lai's direction several times.

He was puzzled, everyone was assigned training tasks, why Hu Lai didn't.

The coach seemed to have forgotten that there was another person. After assigning the training task, he blew the whistle vigorously: "Training has begun! Don't be lazy! Your principal didn't invite me to play games with you!"

After speaking, he was going to the training area.

Hu Lai was a little confused before, and didn't understand what was going on. Why do other people have training tasks, but I don't.

Now seeing that the head coach simply left, he came back to his senses——Have you forgotten me, coach?

So he raised his hand and shouted, "Coach!"

Li Ziqiang stopped after hearing Hu Lai's shout, then looked back at him without saying a word.

Hu Lai pointed at himself: "Not... the coach, what about me? What about my training content?"

Li Ziqiang turned around, walked up to Hu Lai step by step, and looked at him condescendingly: "What's your name?"

"Hu Lai, first year of high school..."

"Oh, Hu Lai, right?" Li Ziqiang nodded before letting Hu Lai finish speaking, with his hands behind his back, swinging the whistle tied to his wrist. "Are you the one who scored three goals by luck in the Test match?"

Hu Lai puffed up her chest and said seriously: "Coach, I'm not lucky..."

"If your skills are not so bad, maybe I will believe your words." Li Ziqiang interrupted Hu Lai again, and he pointed to the players who had already started training. "Your training content is different from theirs."

"no the same?"

"You have to start with the basic skills."

"Ah? Basic skills? Coach, I'm actually good at basic skills. I want to train with everyone..." Hu Lai was a little anxious, because he knew that it was not long before the start of the qualifiers. If he practiced from basic skills now, then he would When can we play the game?

"Are you good at basic skills? Come on, first catch my pass." Li Ziqiang looked up and down, pulled a football over with his feet, and then waved Hu Lai back ten meters. After Hu Lai stood still, he exerted great force Kicked the football over.

Hu Lai raised his leg to stop the ball almost reflexively. The football hit the inside of his slightly upturned foot. Instead of being stopped, it was bounced upwards, and then it hit Hu Lai's chin firmly. superior……

With a bang, Hu Lai looked like he had been punched with an uppercut, and his head was thrown back. Fortunately, he stabilized, and he didn't just fall back and fell to the ground, but he also looked very embarrassed.

A burst of laughter exploded on the football field, and everyone was amused, whether it was the onlookers on the sidelines or the players training on the field.

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Song Jiajia heard Li Zhiqun's gloating laughter in the distance: "Ha... ha... don't be too happy... it's just... self-defeating... hahaha!"

He put down his hands covering his face, and turned his head to stare angrily. But Li Zhiqun didn't notice at all, he covered his stomach with one hand, pointed at Hu Lai in the field with the other, and almost couldn't stand still with his smile.

Even among the laughing crowd, his appearance was a bit exaggerated.

Li Qingqing didn't smile, she stared at her father's figure, pursed her lips, and frowned.

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"I can tell you directly that if you don't obey my order, you will leave the team. But I'm afraid you will think I'm unreasonable." Li Ziqiang looked at the thin figure ten meters away with his hands covering his chin and mouth, and said calmly, "So it's my way of reminding you that this is what you're going to catch in the game. Do you still feel like your fundamentals are good now?"

He didn't get an answer, because Hu Lai was so painful that he couldn't speak - he bit the tip of his tongue just now, and tears flowed out from the pain.

"Go to training honestly. I have the final say on when you can practice together. Of course, if you don't want to practice, you can leave."

After throwing down these words, Li Ziqiang turned and walked towards the team, and then waved to the crowd: "Yan Yan, come and teach him basic skills! Start with the most basic basic skills!"

Yan Yan ran over, and then looked at Hu Lai who was still covering his mouth and couldn't speak.

To be honest, he couldn't understand why the coach would give this person the spot on the school team. Say he has talent? Maybe there is, but looking at the basic skills, this ability is too far behind, right?

Well, since he's been recruited, this kid might have been lucky enough to get into the team.

But he just joined the school team, and he made a fool of himself in front of so many people, and became the laughing stock of everyone. Does he regret that he joined the school team?

After sighing in his heart, Yan Yan said to the person in front of him: "Let's start with juggling the ball, don't dawdle."