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"There are still three hours before the start of the game, but there are already crowds of people outside the Anton Provincial Sports Center. This stadium has had such a grand scene many times, but today must be the most special!"

Wang Shanshan stood in front of the camera lens, with the outer wall of the Provincial Sports Center and the turbulent red crowd behind her. She was holding a microphone with an excited smile on her face, and was broadcasting the scene.

"Today, for the fans of Jincheng, it is the first time that they can watch Hu Lai's game in this stadium after nearly a year. Hu Lai, the top scorer who used to be a flash star, left today after being transferred to the Chinese national team. Team players returned to the Anton Provincial Sports Center... and these fans came to welcome their heroes!"

Many fans in the camera are wearing the red jerseys of the Chinese team and Shining Star, and the numbers behind them are all 14.

This number was once cursed in Chinese football, but no one has mentioned it for a long time now.

What cursed number?

The strongest striker in the history of Chinese football wears this number!

Some fans saw the footage of the camera, and raised their arms behind Wang Shanshan and shouted: "Hu Lai! Hu Lai!!"

"Come on Chinese team!"

"Stand up!"

Full of languages ​​from all over the world - it's not just Jincheng fans who come to the scene of this game, they are just close to the water.

There are also many fans who come from all over the country.

They not only came to see Hu Lai, but also came to cheer for the Chinese team, hoping to help the Chinese team beat the South Korean team at home.

Not just to preserve hope of reaching the World Cup finals, but also to keep pesky South Koreans from swaggering and celebrating on their home turf.

The grievances between China, Japan and South Korea extend from other fields to football, and each has its own reasons why it cannot lose to its opponent.

There is a national hatred between China and Japan.

The relationship between China and South Korea is simply that the old "father" doesn't want to see his "son" shy in front of him now.

Occasionally, there were a few Korean fans in the crowd, and they kept their heads low-key, not daring to stay in the crowd for a while, as if they were afraid of being caught and asked "what are you looking at" after just taking a look.

Although they may all be able to strike hard on the Internet, in real life, on the Chinese team's territory,

They all know the truth of being a human being with their tails between their legs.

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Zhao Kangming and Dong Wen appeared on the rostrum together, and shook hands with the general managers of other clubs one by one.

Not only fans from all over the country, but even the general managers of all Chinese Super League clubs in the country came from all over the country to watch the game live. In a sense, it can be regarded as "on-site supervisory team"...

These inextricable and disgraced general managers who fought in the Chinese Super League are like a family at this time, smiling and greeting each other, shaking hands and patting shoulders.

"Oh, Mr. Wang, your Luo Kai has performed really well this season..."

"Where is it, I'm overwhelmed... Is Xia Xiaoyu of your flashing star improving so fast?"

"Hahaha!" Dong Wen and Wang Shoude looked at each other, and then burst out laughing at the same time.

Xue Chaoyu, the general manager of Dashun Golden Arrow, took Zhao Kangming's hand and shook it lightly: "Director Zhao, I really want to thank you... Chen Xingyi has made great progress in the two seasons of Shining Star, and Coach Dillon praised him You've lived up to your reputation with young players!"

Zhao Kangming shook his head modestly: "Mr. Xue, you are serious. It is Chen Xingyi who is willing to work hard, otherwise it will be useless if any coach comes... I am also very happy that he can continue to maintain the momentum of progress after returning to the Golden Arrowhead. See With his performance at the Golden Arrows, I have nothing to worry about..."

Besides them, the general managers of other clubs also got together to chat with each other.

This may be one of the rare times when they can put aside their usual intrigue and become so united...

"Mr. Lu heard that your South China Tigers have prepared a very generous winning award for the national football team this time?"

"To win glory for the country, the players are glorious, and our club is also glorious. In fact, there are not many, I just want to express the attitude of our South China Tigers club..."

"Mr. Lu is right. It doesn't matter if you have more money or less money. The important thing is to have this attitude. Our club has also prepared a winning award. As long as the national team can beat South Korea, our Tenglong international players will have bonuses. It doesn't matter whether you play or not!"

"President Lin is particular about it!" Someone gave a thumbs up.

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When the players from both sides came out of the locker room to warm up, the entire stadium was almost full.

Except for some areas of the stands that had to be set aside as safe spaces, the stadium was completely covered in red.

The game management of the national team is stricter than that of the Super League, so it is destined to be impossible to reproduce the grand occasion of the last round of the Super League last year.

But even so, the scene in front of him was amazing enough.

A huge five-star red flag unfolded from the top of the stadium stands, occupying the entire south stand.

It happened to be facing the warm-up goal of the South Korean players.

They warmed up under this huge Chinese flag, and they could feel the existence of this flag in all directions without blind spots even without deliberately looking up.

The flag began to "flow" along the stands under the joint efforts of all the fans in the stands.

During this process, the live radio played the song.

Before every game, whether it is a national team game or a club game, there is a link to play songs, in order to heat up the atmosphere and warm up the fans.

Most of the time, popular songs are played on the arena, because these songs are highly sung, and everyone can hum along with them, which is convenient for creating a chorus effect.

Since we want to warm up the atmosphere, of course we can't play songs that are not popular with the public, no matter how high the artistic achievement is, it's useless. After all, you are not here to enjoy the concert.

But today the Andong Provincial Sports Center's broadcast is not a popular song, but it is better than a popular song.

Because this song is probably more popular than any current pop song.

In the sound of music, all the fans sang loudly: "My motherland and I! Can't be separated for a moment—!!"

"Wherever I go, there is a song of praise!!"

As the fans sang in unison, the huge five-star red flag slowly floated across the stands and circled the field for a circle, as if it was really flying in the air.

The distinguished guests on the rostrum took out their mobile phones one after another, or took pictures or videos, and recorded this shocking scene.

During the singing, the players on both sides who were warming up couldn't help being attracted.

Assistant coach Li Zhifei was yelling loudly: "Don't be distracted! Warm up seriously!"

The players of the Chinese team lowered their heads one after another and continued to warm up. But in the depths of their hearts, there is already an emotion growing and spreading, impacting their hearts, as if a seed is sprouting.

For the South Korean players, their coaching staff also loudly reminded the players not to be disturbed and to focus on warming up.

But with such a loud singing voice and such a big red flag surrounding them, can they not hear it if they don’t hear it, and can’t see it if they don’t see it?

They warmed up with thunderous singing, but felt as if they were training in the pouring rain. After practicing for a long time, their bodies did not heat up at all, but the more they practiced, the colder they became...

Park Guixian cursed in his heart.

This feeling reminded him of the AFC Champions League group match in March last year.

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The stand where Xie Lan and Hu Lixin are located is just above the South Korean team's warm-up goal, and the position is very good.

She sang loudly in the crowd.

I hope to spread the singing to the ears of the South Korean players as much as possible.

Give them a blow.

Before the game, the official social network account of the Korean media posted a cartoon in which the players of the Chinese team stood on both sides of the center line, applauding and welcoming the South Korean team.

The accompanying text said: "It is recommended that the AFC promote this kind of ceremony. After all, the qualifying teams in the World Cup are all going to win glory for Asia and fight for rights and interests. It is only natural to show respect to the qualifying teams in this way!"

This cartoon has attracted the attention and forwarding of many people on Korean social media, and many fans have forwarded it and expressed their suggestions to them @亚FC. This matter was also spread to the Internet in China.

Of course, the AFC will not pay attention to such a boring suggestion. The Korean media and fans are actually just trying to disgust the Chinese fans.

Xie Lan belonged to the disgusted person.

Because her son stood at the first place in the queue of Chinese players who lined up to welcome him, and he was also the most serious, most realistic, and realistically portrayed by cartoonists, making it obvious that it was Hu Lai.

Moreover, Hu Lai in the comics smiled very obsequiously when facing the South Korean players who entered the field with their heads held high, a full-fledged clown character.

This made Xie Lan very upset.

She came to watch the game today, one is to visit her son, and the other is to personally greet the 18th generation of Korean ancestors.

After the song "My Motherland and Me" was sung, the next song "Red Flag Fluttering" was played on the stadium radio.

Taking advantage of the gap between the two songs, Xie Lan stuffed a throat lozenge into his mouth, and continued to sing along:

"It's a rainbow plucked from the rising sun, and there's no one who doesn't love your color—"

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After warming up, players from both sides left the court and returned to the locker room one after another.

Many Korean players breathed a sigh of relief—during their warm-up, the Chinese fans sang non-stop, one after another, as if they were in a large-scale singing competition.

Park Guixian really replaced Park Suntae in this game and became the starter. But during the whole warm-up, he completely ignored being happy for his starting game. On the contrary, the atmosphere at the scene brought him many bad memories.

Now that the door is closed, he can't hear the noise outside, and his heart has settled down again.

At the same time, I keep reminding myself in my heart:

This isn't that game anymore, and I'm not who I was!

I must seize this opportunity...Park Guixian, you can do it!

Next year's World Cup, you will surprise the whole world!

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Shi Wuyin said to his players in the locker room of the home team: "I don't need to repeatedly emphasize to you how important this game is, right? I don't need me to mobilize you before the battle, right? You believe in it when you are warming up You should have seen the national flag and know what it means. Just think about how you felt when you saw this scene, and then take this feeling on the court to fight against the South Korean team!"

Following Shi Wuyin's words, many people recalled the warm-up scene just now.

When the national flag floated slowly in front of their eyes, many people were so shocked that they almost forgot to warm up.

what do you feel?

I just want to go up and kill the stick now!

"Remember this is our home court, so from the very beginning of the game we have to play our momentum! Be proactive and press up, don't be afraid of conceding the ball, they should be afraid of conceding the ball! As long as we can score first, we can Completely disrupt their pre-match arrangements and plans. Then...they will mess themselves up amidst the singing of our fans! You must trust the fans here on this point."

Everyone nodded at the same time. When warming up, they felt like they had heard a red song concert.

To say that the fans in this game are their biggest backer, the real twelfth man on the field, no one in the Chinese team doubts.

In fact, there are many football stadiums in domestic cities that can accommodate 60,000 people, but there are not many games that can completely seat 60,000 people.

Today, the stands of the Anton Provincial Sports Center are all red as far as the eye can see.

This is their confidence in fighting the South Korean team today!

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PS, three shifts tomorrow, three shifts the day after tomorrow, and three shifts the day after tomorrow!

For three consecutive days and three shifts, ask everyone for a monthly pass!