Fox in the Penalty Area

When the referee blew the whistle to end the game in the fourth minute of stoppage time, some players from Jiaxiang High School collapsed to the ground.

The players from Dongchuan Middle School couldn't hold back their excitement, they rushed onto the field and their teammates at the same time as the whistle sounded.

They defeated the overlord Jiaxiang High School 2:1 in the final of the Anton Cup, and they won the right to participate in the national competition for the first time!

There were not many cheers at the scene, because after all, this is half of Jiaxiang High School's home court. Apart from Jiaxiang High School's own cheerleaders, most of those who can come here to watch the game are from Jincheng. Of course, they cannot support Dongchuan's team. It's school, no matter how much they usually like Dongchuan's special snacks...

Xia Wu in the stands looked ashen. He originally wanted to bring his cousin to see the demeanor of the football overlord of Anton Provincial High School, so as to strengthen his determination to study in Jiaxiang High School.

Who would have thought that the car would overturn in the end.

"Xiaoyu, will you still come to Jiaxiang next year?" He asked unwillingly.

Xia Xiaoyu kept smiling: "You know, cousin, I haven't thought about it yet."

Hearing what my cousin said, my elder brother's face became even uglier.

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When the whistle sounded, Li Ziqiang did not celebrate the victory, but turned around and walked towards the coach bench of Jiaxiang High School. When he was five or six meters away from Feng Yuanchang, he had already stretched out his hand and strode forward with a smile on his face.

Although Feng Yuanchang's face was very ugly, at this time he still cheered up and shook hands with Li Ziqiang, and said politely: "Congratulations Coach Li, this time you will represent us Anton to the national competition."

"Thank you Feng Zhi, we will try our best not to embarrass Anton High School football."

It stands to reason that the polite conversation between the two parties should end here, but after Feng Yuanchang withdrew his hand, he suddenly asked again: "By the way, Coach Li. I have a doubt..."

"Ah, Feng refers to you." Li Ziqiang was younger than Feng Yuanchang, and he assumed the attitude of a junior.

"Number 14, we also checked his information a little bit, and found that he had no football-related records in junior high school. Do you understand what I mean? It means that he has never participated in Anton, who was in the junior high school group. Cup...is he transferred from other provinces?"

Feng Yuanchang said it very euphemistically. He actually suspected that Hu Lai was brought over by Li Ziqiang from the Quanshun Football School, which was in other provinces. If a student who attended a professional football school came to a regular high school and joined the school team, it would explain why he performed well but was unknown before that.

According to Feng Yuanchang's understanding: Since a player of Hu Lai's level has no record of playing in the Anton Cup in the junior high school group, it can only mean that he did not attend a school in Anton Province in junior high school.

Li Ziqiang showed a stunned expression after listening: "Ah, you said Hu Lai. This is true, Feng Zhi. Before joining our school team, he was a rookie with no football foundation at all."

Hearing what Li Ziqiang said, Feng Yuanchang's eyes widened, and his round eyes fixed on Li Ziqiang, as if he wanted to see through his surface and look directly into his heart.

Seeing Feng Yuanchang's expression, Li Ziqiang spread his hands and said helplessly: "I know this is unbelievable, Feng Zhi. But what I said is true. Why did he only record these two appearances in the entire Anton Cup? Because he has no I can't meet the playing requirements of the Dongchuan Middle School football team."

After he finished speaking, he saw that Feng Yuanchang was still standing there, staring at him blankly, but didn't speak, so he said, "Feng Zhi, if there's nothing else, I'll go first, and I have to..." He pointed to the side The players of Dongchuan Middle School who were having a carnival in the stadium.

But Feng Yuanchang still didn't respond to him, so Li Ziqiang had to shake his head and leave on his own.

The assistant coach standing behind Feng Yuanchang came forward at this time, stared at Li Ziqiang's back indignantly and said: "This Li Ziqiang is too much,

You still have to humiliate us like this after winning the ball! How could a football rookie with zero foundation score under Wang Guangwei's inseparable defense? ! The game is over, we have lost, why should we keep it a secret from us? "

Feng Yuanchang did not answer his doubts, but stared at the thin figure in a daze. The back of this old man seemed to be a little more stooped than usual...

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"Okay, come on, everyone squeeze in the middle, forming an arc shape, and stand forward on both sides... Hey, yes, that's it..." The official photographer of the competition is holding a SLR camera and directing the students from Dongchuan Middle School. The players take their positions.

The golden championship trophy was placed in the very center of the formation. Captain Chu Yifan and vice-captain Yan Yan were behind the trophy, separated on the left and right. The others were divided into three rows and lined up one after the other, in the shape of many stars surrounding the moon, enclosing the trophy in the innermost part.

The head coach Li Ziqiang and the team leader teacher stood at the outermost ends of the team respectively.

Just after everyone was in position, the photographer picked up the camera and was about to press the shutter, but Chu Yifan suddenly raised his hand: "Wait a minute!"

He turned around and looked around. He first saw that Luo Kai was in the second row behind them, in the very center of the team, in the middle of the center.

Then he found Hu Lai on the left side of the third row. He got up and waved to Hu Lai: "Hu Lai, come here!"

In the eyes of everyone, Hu Lai walked around from behind, and was pulled by Chu Yifan to his side, the first row, next to the trophy.

Then Chu Yifan said to the photographer: "Okay."

Everyone saw this scene, and they all knew why their captain did this, but no one voiced any objection.

No matter how much they looked down on, couldn't get used to, and didn't like Hu Lai before, everyone saw Hu Lai's performance today.

Things about football are complicated to say, but simple to say.

As long as you show enough strength, no matter what kind of personality you usually have, you will win respect.

Just like Luo Kai, in fact he is cold-tempered and somewhat arrogant, and he doesn't have many friends in the school team, but everyone just believes in him and passes him the ball when he goes on the court. Is it because Luo Kai knows how to be a human being?

No, Luo Kai is strong, and he has proved his strength, so everyone is willing to believe him.

And what about Holly?

Before this game, he didn't show his convincing strength at all-many people thought that the barb in the special training was another piece of shit luck, and it had nothing to do with his strength-of course, many people thought of him ratings are quite low.

After all, they didn't know Hu Lai before, so they could only judge how he was from his football level. If his strength was not good, he would not be valued and respected.

But after this final, everything was different.

Because Hu Lai proved his strength with his actual actions.

It is completely different from the lucky goal in the quarter-finals. This time he scored the goal to help the team overtake the score under the close marking of Wang Guangwei.

It is of great significance, and it also fully embodies his strength.

Now when the captain Chu Yifan pulled him into the middle of the team, everyone acquiesced to this arrangement.

If someone does not open their eyes and wants to express dissent, then others will ask: "Can you also kill Jiaxiang High School under Wang Guangwei's close marking?"

If it is possible, it is only natural to stand in the C position.

If you can't, then shut up.

Through the viewfinder frame of the SLR camera, the photographer found that many people were not looking at the camera, but looked at the No. 14 player who had just been pulled to the middle from different angles. He had to remind everyone: "Everyone is looking at the camera Ah, look at the camera, with a brighter smile on your face, let me tell you, this photo is going to be on the homepage of our Anton Cup official website, it occupies half of the page!"

Under his persuasive guidance, everyone looked at the camera and showed the happiest smiles.

Then he pressed the shutter just in time.

"Okay! That's it! Another one! Okay! Perfect! Beautiful!"

Accompanied by the continuous shutter sound, the picture of all Dongchuan Middle School football teams surrounded by the Andong Cup was frozen.

When these photos were taken, the players and cheerleaders of Jiaxiang High School had all left, so the scene was a little deserted.

But the players from Dongchuan Middle School didn't care at all.

They broke Jiaxiang High School's five-year monopoly on the Anton Cup, which is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that they will represent the high school football team of Anton Province in March next year and go to Lingnan City to participate in the 6th National High School Football Championship.

This is their first appearance in a national competition.

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Hu Lixin was sitting on the sofa, and he didn't know how many times he glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

"What time is it, and you haven't come back yet?" There was dissatisfaction in his tone.

"Didn't you say you were going to celebrate your classmate's birthday?" Xie Lan said casually while swiping her phone.

"Happy birthday?"

"Maybe I went to sing after dinner? Young people. Anyway, I don't go to school tomorrow, what are you so concerned about? Besides, don't be so strict with boys. Be careful that he will shrink back and dare not do anything in the future." Do."

Facing his wife's words, Hu Lixin did not refute. He just sat on the sofa and continued to stare at the clock on the wall.

After a while, he suddenly asked: "You said that our son will not hide anything from us?"

Xie Lan, who was swiping her phone, paused for a moment, but after that moment, she continued to scroll through Moments on her phone, without raising her head, and said: "Of course children nowadays have some privacy, if he really has something to hide We are also normal, maybe we are secretly in love."

"Nonsense." Hu Lixin frowned, but he didn't pursue this matter any further.

At this moment, there was the sound of the lock being unscrewed from the door, and their son opened the door and appeared at the door.

"Dad, Mom, why didn't you watch TV..." Hu Lai felt a little guilty when he saw the serious face of his father sitting on the sofa, and the volume of greetings was reduced by half.

"What are you doing?" Hu Lixin asked with a straight face.

"Here...Song Jiajia's birthday is here, Mom, didn't you tell Dad?" Hu Lai looked at his mother naturally when he said this, and he saw his mother behind his father making a V sign to him , he knew that his father didn't know what he really went out to do, so he was relieved.

"I told him that your dad was afraid that you would go crazy playing outside... How about it, did you have fun?" Xie Lan stood beside her husband calmly and said to her son.

"Happy!" Hu Lai smiled. "Song Jiajia invited a lot of people. We sang again after dinner. They were still singing, so I came back first..."

Hu Lixin looked his son up and down, then walked back to the bedroom without saying anything.

And Xie Lan mouthed to his son behind him and asked: Did you win?

Hu Lai made a "V" sign to her.

Xie Lan laughed, then bent down to pick up the mobile phone on the coffee table, and followed her husband into the bedroom.

Before closing the door, she did not forget to tell her son: "Remember to take a bath, you must be sweaty after playing crazy outside all day."

"Don't worry, Mom, just leave me alone." Standing in the living room, Hu Lai waved to her mother.

After the parents' bedroom door was completely closed, he pressed his heart and let out a long breath.

Then he turned a little tired and excited and walked towards his bedroom, twisting his buttocks and punching his fists as he walked.

On this day, he participated in the final of the Anton Cup and scored a goal in the final to help the team qualify for the national competition... It was fulfilling and perfect.

This new world, he really felt like he was part of it.

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When the downstairs door heard the door opening, Li Qingqing was browsing the official website of the Anton Cup on his mobile phone, and a newsletter just came out, broadcasting the results of the game three hours ago in short text:

Dongchuan Middle School football team defeated Jiaxiang High School 2:1 in the final and successfully qualified for next year's national competition.

The three goals were scored by three players. For Jiaxiang High School, striker Xu Gaofei scored the goal, and for Dongchuan Middle School, it was Luo Kai and Hu Lai.

When Li Qingqing saw the last name, she jumped up excitedly in her room.

Then she heard the door opening from downstairs, she didn't even bother to put on her shoes, so she rushed downstairs and saw her father who had already entered the door at the corner of the stairs.

"Dad, congratulations!" she shouted happily. "I've seen the news, you led the team to win the championship!"

But after shouting, she found that her father had a strange expression on his face, instead of the excitement and happiness after winning the championship, there was a trace of doubt.

And she noticed that there was a black sports bag in her father's hand. This sports bag made her look familiar...

"Dad, is that the trophy bag in your hand?"

Li Ziqiang looked down at the sports bag in his hand: "How could I get the trophy back? The team leader brought it back to school. This is Hu Lai's sports bag."

"Eh?" No wonder it looks familiar!

But what surprised her so much was how did this sports bag get into her father's hands? Isn't it usually handed over to Song Jiajia after the game? Even after an away game, Song Jiajia would go to the school gate and wait for the bags.

"He said he came back too late from the finals today, and his classmates couldn't help him with it, so he asked me if I could keep it for him temporarily." Li Ziqiang seemed to know what his daughter was wondering, and held up the sports bag in his hand , explained to her daughter.

The expression on Li Qingqing's face is hard to describe in words.

"He said that because his father did not allow him to touch football, he has been training and competing without telling his father, and nothing related to football is allowed at home..." Li Ziqiang looked away from the sports bag. Moved away, looked up at the daughter standing at the corner of the stairs, "Qingqing, you are his classmate, how much do you know about him?"

"Uh..." Li Qingqing scratched the hair on the back of his head, feeling a bit embarrassed, "I don't really know much about him... But I did hear about him, um, some things."

Beside the living room where the lights were not turned on, Li Ziqiang stood under the warm light of the entrance hall, raised his head and said, "Then Qingqing, tell me about him, what kind of person is he?"

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