Fox in the Penalty Area

"Chen Xingyi cuts inside! Beautiful! He dribbles laterally...passes Tongxin! Passes the ball to Hu Lai... Zhang Qinghuan! Passes it back to Hu Lai! Hu Lai!! Hu Lai - beautiful!! beautiful !!Pretty!!!"

The commentator on the TV was roaring at the top of his lungs.

Xie Lan in front of the TV also jumped up from the sofa, screamed, and raised her hands to her husband.

Seeing this, Hu Lixin had no choice but to get up from his seat, raised his hands and gave his wife a high-five.

"Haha!" Xie Lan smiled happily after high-fiving, "Our son scored a goal for the Chinese Super League team!"

Hu Lixin ignored her, and sat back on the sofa, staring at the figure on the TV in a trance.

His son ran towards the camera, and then made a gesture of reciting his name and number with his fingers against the camera lens.

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This action was far less beautiful than his signature celebration action before, but it made Hu Lixin's heart beat violently.

Lao Hu vaguely recalled that when he was still as old as his son, he also imagined how to introduce himself to the fans.

At that time, there was already a wave of professional football in the land of China. Every game was crowded with stands, lively TV broadcasts, flowers, cheers, fame, money... All young people who love football are looking forward to the best. future.

They have great ambitions, and they all believe that they will be the outstanding talents on the football field and can help Chinese football achieve the ultimate goal of that decades-to enter the World Cup finals!

He is also one of those young people with big ambitions.

But that was a long, long time ago.

So long that in the long years, he completely forgot that he used to be self-sufficient, and copied some famous sayings, "One can be a master through hardships", "The sharp edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold" and posted them on Walls in the team dorms, to cheer yourself up.

I think that all the hardships and injuries in training games are the only way to success.

I firmly believe that football is fair, as long as you put in the effort and sweat, you will definitely gain something. The more you give, the more you gain.

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The wife twirled and jumped beside her, clapping her hands and laughing.

The commentator on the TV was screaming his son's name with all his strength.

The cheers from the Andong Provincial Sports Center more than 100 kilometers away reached his ears through the TV signal.

The TV screen was trembling slightly, and the Provincial Sports Center seemed to be experiencing a small earthquake.

This should have been a happy moment, but for some reason, Hu Lixin only felt bitter in his mouth.

He lowered his head to look for a cigarette on the coffee table, but first saw himself reflected in the dark glass of the coffee table.

With a sad face, the deep nasolabial folds are pulled down by the drooping corner of the mouth, almost separating the entire chin from the face.

Like a dog, an old Shar Pei.

Where is there still a little bit of the young man with great ambitions?

Those pretentious days...

In the flow of people commuting to and from get off work, in the wine glass, on the payroll... slowly disappearing in the vortex of reality. (Note 1)

Hu Lixin grabbed the cigarette case, shook out a cigarette, lit it for himself, and took a deep breath.

The curl of smoke spewed out by him rose slowly, as if it had transformed into a big bird, flapping its wings vigorously, circling and flying to a high place.

In Lao Hu's sight, he flew higher and higher, and flew higher and higher.

Until it completely merged into the "sky" under the ceiling.

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The Anton Provincial Sports Center was full of voices. Although the players of both sides had already returned to their respective halfs and took their positions, the cheers of the fans were not over yet.

Before the game, almost everyone was not optimistic about Flash Star. After all, they are a Chinese Premier League team, and their opponent is a veteran Chinese Super League team.

But there will still be some flash star fans who are not convinced-doesn't it mean that football is round? How come it's the turn of this game, and it is said that Flashing Star will lose? Why? Just rely on those data and analysis? If everything depends on these things to decide the outcome,

What else do you want to do in the actual game? Wouldn't it be nice to directly compare whose data is better, and play a game of big and small?

Now Shining Star took the lead in the home game against Haihe Shuanggang, making these Flashing Star fans feel as happy as drinking a bottle of cold beer in the dog days!

Amid the shouts of the Flash Star fans, the Haihe Shuanggang players were a little dazed.

They really didn't think that they would fall behind in this game. They felt that as long as they were a little more serious, winning a Chinese team would be easy?

As a result, they were first scored by the Chinese A team in the game!

Captain Tong Xin was clapping his hands vigorously, shouting at the top of his voice, "Cheer up! Be serious!!"

The other Haihe Shuanggang players who heard his words came back to their senses.

Yeah, we can still beat them if we get serious.

Before, it was mainly because we were not serious enough...

It's okay, from now on, we have to be serious!

Let you see how scary the Chinese Super League team is when they get serious!

Just then, the referee blew the kick-off whistle.

"Beep—!"

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"Anton Shining Star's offense is back!"

CCTV commentator He Feng roared.

The national live broadcast of the China League One game relies on online video platforms such as Tengfei Video.

The Football Association Cup will be broadcast live on CCTV nationwide.

He Feng is the commentator for this match.

Like Shen Lang, he saw Hu Lai again in the live broadcast commentary of the game, which made him feel like "I haven't seen an old acquaintance for a long time".

He was also very excited to see Hu Lai break the goal of the Super League team.

Compared with the East Asian Cup, Hu Lai has grown again!

The Provincial Sports Center cheered thunderously and shouted loudly, cheering for the flashing stars advancing to the Haihe Shuanggang restricted area.

Hu Lai ran into the penalty area, turned around and stood still.

Fan Hongpeng posted it immediately, constantly exerting pressure on him with his body.

Even though Hu Lai has undergone several sessions of special training in terms of physical strength, it is still difficult to compete with this mountainous central defender.

So he didn't stop at this position, and started running to the next catch point.

Fan Hongpeng didn't follow because he had to keep his position, and he didn't have only one Hu Lai here.

Didn't Chen Xingyi run over?

When Hu Lai ran to the defense zone of another Haihe Shuanggang central defender Han Yan, he stopped, and at the same time Zhang Qinghuan also sent the pass.

Although Han Yan posted it quickly. But in Hu Lai's opinion, the strength of this central defender is far from that of Fan Hongpeng's. At least he can carry him to stop the ball, so that he won't lose his position.

It's just that he couldn't turn around and attack...

After Zhang Qinghuan passed the ball, he went forward, as if he wanted to get behind the defense line of Haihe Shuanggang.

His advance caught Tong Xin's attention, and he didn't dare to make the same mistake again, so he followed in decisively.

But Hu Lai didn't pass the ball to Zhang Qinghuan - Zhang Qinghuan was followed, so he still passed? Although he is not an organizer, he is not a fool either. He knows what balls can be passed and what balls cannot be passed.

He used his body to resist Han Yan, and then saw Lin Ge in the middle outside the penalty area.

Zhang Qinghuan pulled the opponent's waist away...

Without hesitation, Hu Lai passed the football back with one kick.

Seeing the football rolling towards him, Qin Lin quickly glanced at the goal in front of him, then adjusted his pace, and swung his right leg to meet the ball returned by Hu Lai!

"Qin Lin! Directly volley - oh good shot!!!"

Accompanied by He Feng's roar, the football was kicked towards the goal by Qin Lin.

The football did not soar into the air and fly towards the goal with amazing momentum, but stuck to the turf and slipped through the feet of the crowd in the penalty area!

For this kind of low-level long-range shot against the turf, the goalkeeper dislikes it the most, because the difficulty of saving is much higher than that of a long-range shot...

Goalkeeper Huang Anjie's sight was disturbed by the densely packed players from both sides in the penalty area. When he saw the football flying over, it was too late!

He hastily fell to the ground and jumped sideways, but the football got into the goal from the far corner before he could do it!

"Good goal! Great goal! Qin Lin! Unbelievable! Shining Star scored two cities in a row in six minutes! A Chinese Premier League team led the Chinese Super League team by two goals in a short period of time! This is really true for many people before the game I didn’t even think about it! So how about saying that football is round? Anything can happen, this is the charm of football game!”

Haihe Shuanggang, who was thinking of getting serious, was poured two balls by Shan Xing, who had already been serious!

Kuang Mingjian, the head coach of Haihe Shuanggang on the coaching bench of the visiting team, stood up suddenly from his seat, and the magnetic tactical board in his hand fell to his feet, and he didn't even notice it.

In front of the coaching bench of the home team next door, Zhao Kangming rushed out of his seat and punched the sky hard.

Chen Mo, who was behind him, jumped out directly, jumping continuously like a cheerful deer.

The excitement brought by the last goal to the Flash Star fans has not passed yet. Another goal came. The Flash Star fans in the Provincial Sports Center raised the volume again on the basis of the original cheers, and the cheers were thunderous. Rush to the sky!

After scoring the goal, Qin Lin turned and ran to the sidelines to celebrate the goal. After running to the sidelines, he turned around and pointed at Hu Lai, who was running towards his teammates, and turned his back again.

So when Hu Lai ran up to Brother Lin, he jumped up and jumped directly onto Qin Lin's back when he turned around.

With his hands in his pockets, Qin Lin carried Hu Lai on his back like this!

Hu Lai, who was lying on Qin Lin's body, straightened up and waved his fists at the cheering Flash Star fans in the stands.

"Ye—!!"

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"Qin Lin picked up Hu Lai! The last big man in Chinese football put the young Hu Lai on it... Oh!" The commentator of Anton Satellite TV's sports channel saw some metaphors in this celebration. "Football should be like this, the old brings the new, and our football can develop from generation to generation! Now the baton of Anton football has been handed over to Hu Lai by Qin Lin, come on Hu Lai, come on Shining Star, come on Anton football!"

In the end, the old commentator who had personally experienced the glory days of Anton football even cried a little.

Perhaps he also thought of the days when Anton football was once glorious and once declined.

The Anton fans who lined up outside the old sports center to buy tickets were able to circle the stadium three times!

Later this scene belonged to those fans who came to see the star's concert.

It belongs to fans who chase after variety stars.

As for the glorious years of Anton football, it just disappeared among the singing and dancing crowd, disappeared in the boiling red soup hot pot, disappeared in the bustling crowd of Senwei Road, and disappeared in the sound of mahjong ...

It seems that this once gold medal market no longer needs football.

But listen to the cheers of the Provincial Sports Center at this moment!

Take a look at the large expanses of red in the stands of the Provincial Sports Center!

Qin Lin, who was trained by Anton football, is back, and the enthusiastic Anton fans have returned to the stands. Anton's professional football team is thinking of attacking the top league, and now our team is in the FA Cup Two goals ahead of the Super League team...

As if everything came back.

This city, which is famous all over the country for its slow and leisurely pace of life, still has a throbbing and vibrant heart.

The thunder from the Provincial Sports Center is the pulse of the city!

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Note 1: This paragraph is adapted from "Honghuzhi" by Slap Band, the original lyrics are:

Big ambition Your lofty ambition is like a young and frivolous poem.

Those once pretentious days slowly disappeared in the flow of people commuting to and from get off work.

fading in your glass, fading on your sheets,

Slowly disappearing in your salary, slowly disappearing in the vortex of reality.