Fox in the Penalty Area

Principal Zhai was standing in the inner room of the school's honor room, which was a place with a completely different temperament from the honor room outside.

The outer hall is full of certificates of various honors and achievements Dongchuan Middle School has won, including educational and stylistic honors.

The hall is well-lit, spacious and bright. Various trophies, certificates, medals, and pennants placed on glass cabinets and shelves are very eye-catching under the light.

This is an honor room that is common in almost all schools. It is nothing unusual. As the best high school in Dongchuan City, it is normal to have these honors.

It's just that on the other side of this hall of honor, there is a double door, which is not the exit of the honor room, and after opening, it opens into a relatively dark inner room.

Stepping into this mostly dark room, there are two rows of cabinets connected to the wall to form an L shape, which are closed by transparent glass, and the light hits from the ceiling above the top of the cabinets, covering the contents of the cabinets. Make them look shiny.

They are the only bright areas in the room and are the most attractive arrangement.

"These are the champions of the Anton Cup." Principal Zhai said, looking back at the SLR camera displayed in the cabinet. The red light on the top of the camera was flashing repeatedly, indicating that the machine was working.

"They look different, because the shape of the championship trophy of the Anton Cup has undergone some changes. At first, it was not even a trophy, but a pennant..." The white-haired Principal Zhai pointed to the shooter closest to the door. A dull red pennant under the lamp reads in yellow italics:

Champion of the 5th Andong Province High School Football Championship · Dongchuan Middle School.

There is also a line of small characters on the left: 1989.04.19.

The edges of some fonts have been detached from the suede red pennant. Even under the strong light, the color of both the flag and the font looks dull. These are the traces left on it by the years. , after all, it was thirty years ago.

"Until 1994, our national football began to become professional, and a change took place in the Anton Cup. The silver-plated trophy replaced the shabby pennant." Principal Zhai walked past the four pennants with a SLR camera, and pointed to a small one. said the silver trophy.

The trophy is really small and can easily be held with one hand. There is a base under the silver trophy, and a metal plate on the base is inscribed with:

The 10th Anton Provincial High School Football Championship Anton Cup

champion

Dongchuan Middle School

1994.04.16

The shape of the trophy is ordinary, and it belongs to the shape of wholesale goods from a large-volume factory. Maybe the trophies of many competitions across the country look like this...

"This is the tenth Anton Cup we have won. This Anton Cup is very special, because from this year onwards, the Anton Cup competition time has been adjusted to the first semester of each year, rather than the second semester as before. This is also to not affect the college entrance examination in the next semester. Therefore, Dongchuan Middle School has won two Anton Cups within a year-the ninth Anton Cup champion in April in the first half of the year, and won the Anton Cup in December in the second half of the year. Tenth." Principal Zhai laughed as he spoke, and pointed to the camera the two adjacent trophies.

The camera moved up, and sure enough, the date on the base of the trophy on the left was April 1997, and the date on the base of the trophy on the right was December 1997.

"In the history of the Anton Cup, this is the only one. There is no one before, and I am afraid there will be no one in the future." Principal Zhai was a little proud when talking about this past event.

"After ten consecutive championships, Dongchuan Middle School has won two championships in the 21st century, but that was before 2005. From 2005 to 2018, for thirteen years, we and The Anton Cup champion was out of the question until... this year."

Having said that, Principal Zhai turned around, and the camera lens followed,

Turn to the center of the room. A light fell from the sky, illuminating the middle of the originally dark house, and an independent glass cabinet and the golden cup in the cabinet appeared in the shot.

"The champion of the 32nd Anton Cup in 2019." Principal Zhai said with a hint of pride in a flat tone, looking at the gold cup of the champion, which was shining from every angle under the lights.

The photographer used a hand-held gimbal to mount a SLR camera for shooting, walked slowly around the glass display case, and took a 360-degree shot of the golden cup without any dead ends.

In the end, he lifted the lens slightly, twisted the infinite focus ring, and from a lower angle, through the golden cup in the cabinet, he smoothly focused on the face of Principal Zhai standing opposite the cabinet from the golden cup itself .

On the display screen behind the camera, the flashing spots of Jinbei gradually turned into circular spots, and the figure of the old principal standing behind Jinbei became clear from blur.

In the real-time picture, he lowered his head slightly and stared at the championship trophy in front of him. The light reflected off the gold cup, illuminating the wrinkled face of the old headmaster and shining into his eyes.

The focus of the camera finally fell on Principal Zhai's eyes. The pair of brown pupils seemed to reflect the appearance of the golden cup, shining brightly in the lens, not at all like the eyes that an old man should have.

After the photographer held the frame for three seconds, he raised his hand and made an "OK" gesture.

Sun Yonggang, who had been following but didn't speak, said softly: "Okay, Principal Zhai, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to help us record, and thank you for your introduction..."

Principal Zhai glanced at the gold cup in the glass cabinet again, then looked away, and asked with a smile, "Is the effect of this recording okay?"

Sun Yonggang gave a thumbs up: "Okay, very good. It was done in one go! Principal Zhai, you were really full of emotions just now, especially the last shot of staring at the trophy...it's perfect! This is the expression of true feelings!"

Principal Zhai said with a smile: "The main reason is that this champion has waited too long."

"Then next, we are going to interview Coach Li..." When Sun Yonggang said this, the photographer next to him was packing up his equipment.

"Go, the school has already greeted Coach Li, you can just go to him directly. He should be in his office under the rostrum of the stadium at this time. I won't take you there..."

Sun Yonggang quickly said: "You are busy with your work, Principal Zhai, we can go by ourselves."

After sending the two "Goal" players out of the dim room of honor, Principal Zhai didn't follow him, but turned around and walked to the first pennant that appeared on the screen, and then he was facing the camera as if just now As described, walk through this room of honor from the beginning.

His eyes lingered for a long time on the trophies and flags that symbolized the Dongchuan Middle School football team's 30 years of glory.

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"It can be regarded as the end of the interview, oh my god, this coach Li feels old and strict."

After packing up the equipment and following Sun Yonggang out of Li Ziqiang's office, the photographer let out a sigh of relief.

Sun Yonggang also felt the same. During the interview, he always felt that the atmosphere in the office was a bit depressing. Coach Li Ziqiang kept a straight face from the beginning to the end, and he was serious. Even if he, a reporter, wanted to talk about some light topics, he couldn't make the other party laugh.

"But maybe it is this kind of strictness that can make Dongchuan Middle School the champion team of Anton Province in only three months." Sun Yonggang said. "Actually, many of their professional football coaches have this temperament. They are not easy to deal with, speak harshly, and beat and scold players when they disagree with each other..."

"Is it so exaggerated?" The photographer who just entered the industry not long ago said in shock.

Sun Yonggang nodded and said: "Well, this is especially true for the older generation of coaches. When I first entered the industry, I followed a reporter teacher to interview an old coach at that time. This coach is quite famous in our country and has trained many outstanding coaches. He is a professional player. Later, after retiring from the front line, he set up a football school by himself and worked on the training of youth football. The results were very good, so we went to interview him. We interviewed him at the training ground, and he was interviewing us. Focus on training on the field. Guess what?"

"What's wrong?"

"A young player made a mistake during training. Without saying a word, he went up and kicked the young player to the ground, and then he scolded him so badly... I can't tell you. Then The child was so scolded that he didn't dare to say a word, and he didn't even dare to stand up, so he could only continue to lie on the ground. After being scolded, he was kicked by the old coach before he got up and continued to train. During the whole process, I and that A reporter teacher stood by and watched, I was dumbfounded, but the reporter teacher seemed to be used to it, and his expression even looked like he was watching a play..."

Seeing the unbelievable expression of the young photographer, Sun Yonggang smiled: "Of course, this situation has improved a lot now, after all, society is improving. You see, corporal punishment is not even allowed in schools now—— When we were in school, it was not uncommon for poor students to be beaten and scolded by teachers."

The photographer nodded thoughtfully. Although he has not received professional football training, he is also a student and is no stranger to school life.

"There is also a reason for those coaches' simple and rude methods. Many of the children who learned to play football in the past were not of high cultural quality, and their levels were uneven-think about the so-called 'poor students' who played football in the past. The way to go? Instead of being a bosom friend with the players, the coach might as well just kick him over... If the coach tries to be friends with his players, he may end up being ignored by the players. This matter It’s very contradictory, it’s not good to be rough, but it doesn’t seem to be effective if it’s not rough...Actually, it’s not just our country, if you look abroad, most of the older coaches have a bad temper..." Sun Yonggang continued to the photographer .

"Of course, football is now being introduced into campuses, and campus football is being vigorously developed. There is still a shortage of coaches who specialize in campus football. That's why coaches from various former professional teams have become campus football coaches, and they naturally Bring the work style and habits of the professional team to the campus. In fact, campus football is different from professional football. There are many differences in details. It needs to be adapted, and our coaches need to change their work concepts and styles... …There is also a process of mutual adjustment. When campus football was just started, football coaches used to punish students corporal punishment. It has only gotten better in the past one or two years... Forget it, I won’t talk about this, because the topic is too big. let's go?"

The photographer picked up the camera and pointed at the empty stadium: "Wait a minute, Mr. Sun, I will take a few more empty shots for material."

"Okay." Sun Yonggang stood beside him, quietly waiting for the photographer to finish his work.

"Hey, Mr. Sun. I discovered something when I was shooting Coach Li just now..." The photographer was chatting with him while working.

"What discovery?"

"When you asked him, as the elite coach of Quanshun Football School, he had worked in Quanshun Football School for so many years, but why he suddenly resigned and left to teach in this ordinary high school... I noticed that his eyes were absent for about two seconds — I happened to be tweeting his eyes, so I could see them clearly.”

Sun Yonggang remembered that when he asked this question, Li Ziqiang seemed to be in some mood suddenly, he didn't answer himself immediately, but after a few seconds he gave an answer that didn't surprise him.

He said that because the country is now strongly supporting the development of campus football, he believes that the future of Chinese football lies in ordinary middle schools with a larger foundation, not in high-level football schools, so he resolutely resigned from the Quanshun Football School with a bright future. After working, he returned to his former alma mater, and wanted to contribute to China's campus football.

This is a very official and correct answer, the content of the answer is impeccable, and the attitude of the answerer is also impeccable.

But Sun Yonggang always felt that the real reason might not be as high-sounding as this unsmiling coach said.

There might be something hidden behind those two seconds of absence...

But what does that have to do with me? I'm just here to comprehensively report on Dongchuan Middle School, the new team in next year's national competition, not to dig out a coach's personal privacy.

So he said to the photographer: "Maybe I'm a little tired from being interviewed. Is the filming over? We're going to eat."

He saw a person appearing at the entrance of the stadium. The teacher they had seen before was a teacher who was responsible for the school's publicity work, and he was looking at them.

"Okay, okay." The photographer put away the machine.

The two walked towards the teacher.

Behind them, the door of the football team coach's office was opened, and Li Ziqiang appeared at the door, looking at the backs of the two without saying a word.